The influx of merchants, examiners, and a large number of foreign guests made Chengdu extremely lively. Liu Zhang and his entourage rode to Xicheng, where the venue for the Four Imperial Examinations was located.
Liu Zhang did this intentionally, firstly to let those experimenters take a look at the assembly line workshop, and secondly to promote the prosperity of Xicheng.
Three days later is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people have already begun to buy items for the festival. The streets are overcrowded, and there are hawker stalls everywhere. The government officials do not have the support of the urban management, so it is very crowded. It took Liu Zhang and his party a long time to get out of the East City and to the West City.
At that time, the crowd finally became relatively thin.
Fazheng was riding on the horse and smiled and said: "Xu Shao once said that Cao Cao was a capable minister in the world and a traitor in troubled times. I think he is a frog in the well. I have never seen a lord with great talents and great strategies. In a few months, Chengdu has been completely transformed. If it were
To govern the world, your lord should be the prime minister."
"What about troubled times?" Liu Zhang asked with a smile.
"My lord, you should ask yourself this question."
"With a letter worth a million yuan across Wei, we will immediately ride to Taihang to meet Hu Feng." Liu Zhang laughed loudly, whipped his horse, and dozens of people in his group left in the dust.
The old man and the young man on the street were none other than Zhou Bujie and Zhang Zhongjing. Zhou Bujiu said with suspicion: "I have raised a million-dollar letter and immediately traveled to Taihang to meet Hu Feng... As expected, I am so ambitious that I am afraid my back will be broken in the process."
"What do you mean?" Zhang Zhongjing asked.
"Being self-willed, like Jiangdong Sun Ce, will not last long, and Liu Zhang is trying to transform the world on his own. Unless a miracle comes from heaven, he will inevitably fall into the sand."
"But I just saw in Dongcheng that the people in Chengdu live and work in peace and contentment, the market is prosperous, and there are many novel things. It shows that Yizhou Mu is still aware of people's sentiments and cares about people's livelihood. He is a rare and good official."
"Good official, good official, talking about the world with you is really a good conversation." Zhou Buyi looked down on Zhang Zhongjing very much,
"Ouch." He suddenly shouted while holding his stomach: "Old man, I'm so hungry. Let's leave quickly and see if we can get some food in the examination room."
Zhang Zhongjing glanced at Zhou Buji, who was half shorter than himself, and thought to himself: "You are terrible. You have the world in your chest and a soldier in your belly. Why don't you still need to eat?"
Liu Zhang arrived at the examination room. There were already many candidates wandering around the examination room. Some were in rich clothes and some were half-clothed. Naturally, there were two groups of people. Some people from Xicheng came to watch the excitement. Seeing Liu Zhang's arrival, many people were excited.
Shouted.
These people cheered from the bottom of their hearts. All government-run workshops were opened in Xicheng. People in Xicheng earned money by working. Many people were able to eat meat that they usually only eat once a year. They finally had money to buy tiles to cover their leaky houses.
There was an endless stream of merchants coming to buy goods. Many people in Xicheng opened restaurants and set up street stalls, and they gradually had hope for life.
The people would be grateful to anyone who was kind to him. When they saw Liu Zhang arriving, they were naturally excited.
Wang Fu and others who organized the exam saw Liu Zhang and immediately came up to him. Liu Zhang asked, "How are you preparing for the exam?"
Wang Fu replied: "It's going quite smoothly. There are only some minor problems. Some scholars don't want to live in the rooms we arranged. They are petitioning together and have conflicts with the craftsmen and warriors."
While inspecting the examination room, Liu Zhang said: "Conflicts should be resolved properly without taking sides, especially those craftsmen. It is not easy for them to have the courage to take the examination. Pay attention to protecting them. As for those scholars who do not want to live in simple rooms, you can tell them to get out.
If such a person becomes an official, he is also a corrupt official."
"yes."
"Well?" Liu Zhang came to the craftsman examination venue, glanced around the examination room, and said coldly: "Didn't I say that every examination venue has banners? Why aren't they here?"
Wang Fu asked the attendants behind him and replied: "I am reporting to my lord that the official responsible for drafting the banner refused to write for the craftsman, saying that the craftsman had no couplets to write."
"This is unreasonable." Liu Zhang was furious: "Call the official responsible for drawing the banner."
After a while, a lively and upright official came forward and bowed respectfully to Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang asked in a deep voice: "Why is there no banner here?"
The official bowed and said: "To repay my lord, I am a scholar. I paid homage to Confucius, wrote letters to heaven and earth, and wrote about ministers' work. However, I never wrote about the three religions and nine streams. However, in order to obey the order of my lord, I dare not do it. However, warriors have been spilled with blood in ancient times."
, doctors have hanging pots to help the world, and all can write, but masons have no pens to write, so there are no banners here."
Liu Zhang glanced at the official and sneered: "He talks all the time, he is a talented man, but...didn't you hear my order clearly? There are banners in every examination room, and the banner in this examination room was
Have you got a meal yet?"
Liu Zhang yelled the last two words and also used swear words. The officials behind him were shocked and secretly ashamed. Wang Lei frowned, Fazheng smiled slightly, and the craftsmen watching the field nearby heard the movement and gathered around.
Hearing Liu Zhang's foul language was particularly cordial.
The officials were so frightened that they fell into silence. Liu Zhang impatiently said to Wang Fu: "I don't want to see this person. Let's become an official."
"Yes." Wang Fu replied, and the official's face suddenly turned pale.
The craftsmen around them were whispering, and they were all surprised. In their hearts, it was natural for them to be inferior to these officials and scholars, and they deserved to be treated unfairly. However, they did not expect that the state pastor would stand up for them, and they were all excited.
A young man in the crowd looked at Liu Zhang talking with the officials, nodded and said: "It seems that my journey of thousands of miles has not been in vain."
Liu Zhang looked at the craftsman's examination venue and said to Wang Fu: "There cannot be no banners here. Except for the examination content, the four examination rooms cannot be any different."
Fazheng smiled and said: "Then let me show my ugliness for once."
Wang Fu immediately asked his entourage to write, and Fa Zhengyi said: "Putting up wells and railings into the sky to power thousands of cities, erecting roof beams to protect me from wind and rain, and protecting China, my contribution is overwhelming to heaven and earth."
"What a great momentum. If there were no ladders, who could conquer the several-foot-high wall?" an official praised.
"One war, one civil administration, accurately summarizes the outstanding contribution of craftsmen to society."
"Wonderful, wonderful."
The surrounding officials praised him, and Wang Fu asked Liu Zhang, "Are you going to hang up like this?"
Liu Zhang nodded and said: "Yes, but I also want to show off my ugliness. I have little talent and little knowledge, so I will imitate someone who is filial and upright."
Wang Fu and the surrounding officials looked at each other. They really didn't know that Liu Zhang could write couplets. They looked at Liu Zhang in surprise. Liu Zhang coughed and said: "Form Jiuding to hold the capital of the country and hide the world. Sharpen your sword and go out of Qinchuan to kill all the owl. Who can
Compete with us."
Fazheng, Wang Lei and others were all surprised, and a group of officials were dumbfounded. At the beginning, Liu Zhang was mediocre. How had he ever seen him show his talent? A great talent can be awakened, but can such a literary talent be cultivated in a short time?
After a while, Wang Fu exclaimed: "My lord is so talented. This couplet is full of energy, which hides my lord's ambition. Wang Fu is impressed."
Fazheng smiled and said: "Although this couplet imitates my first couplet, the level is even higher."
Other officials also praised, whispered to each other, and marveled, but only the craftsmen were blinded when they heard it.
At this moment, a childlike voice came from the crowd: "Three-foot saw, I still know how to bend the wood to break the wood, and kill the sword, but I don't know how to return the sheath to cover the edge, I am trapped in Xichuan, I can't reach the Central Plains, but I can cut it with the road."