Chapter 440 Mission 043

Fu Shao is a person with no great ambitions. If his parents in this life had not placed great expectations on him, he would not even want to take the imperial examination.

Now that he has passed the imperial examination with the help of his golden finger, he just wants to stay in the Hanlin Academy as an idle official and be careful in what he says and does. After all, with his honest character, he is really no match for those old foxes. He is really afraid that if he makes a mistake, his whole family will have a bad end.

So Fu Shao plans to be a good scholar in the Hanlin Academy, thinking that he will strive to stay in the academy after three years, and then he can basically consider retirement after climbing from the position of editor to the position of bachelor.

As for scheming for promotion and holding real power, he has never thought about it. With his little ability, he can only be an encyclopedia with a golden finger. Being a big official is harmful to others and himself.

Fu Shao, who is reading books in the Hanlin Academy and recording these rare books in the library in his mind, never dreamed that he would be summoned by His Majesty the Emperor!

He is still just a small scholar! Even though he ranked fourth in the last palace examination, there are many top scorers in the Hanlin Academy. Why was he summoned by His Majesty?

His colleagues in the Hanlin Academy looked at him with envy and hatred, but Fu Shao was nervous.

He did not dare to look up to see what the emperor looked like during the palace examination. He only took a glance when he was saluting. He remembered that he was a young emperor, but he was very powerful.

Although he was a time traveler, he did not have the kind of big heart that regarded the emperor as equal to everyone else. He was scared when he met the emperor, and kept wondering why the emperor wanted to see him.

As a result, he came to the Panlong Palace and met the young emperor of the Dagan Dynasty. Fu Shao unexpectedly found that the emperor he met privately this time was quite gentle to him. He did not speak harshly, but just asked him some questions, and the answers to these questions happened to be found in the rare books he had been reading in the Hanlin Academy recently.

Fu Shao was very happy in his heart, and did not dare to relax his vigilance at all. He looked up books in his mind and answered the emperor's wide-ranging questions in detail.

He could see that after he answered all the questions, the emperor looked at him with a satisfied look, and smiled: "You are very good. As the rumors say, you like reading and are well-informed."

Fu Shao said modestly: "Your Majesty, you are too kind."

The young emperor smiled gently and said kindly: "Read books carefully. I am short of a book bag by my side. It depends on your performance."

Fu Shao's heart tightened. Although he didn't know how his reputation of being well-informed and well-informed spread to the emperor's ears, the emperor just wanted him to be a consultant. With the golden finger of the library, he was confident that he could do it, so he honestly accepted the task: "Thank you, Your Majesty! I will study hard and read books, and will never disappoint Your Majesty's expectations."

After that, Fu Shao withdrew. He was relieved. His Majesty didn't ask him for anything important, but just promoted him to be a consultant.

In fact, although he didn't know who mentioned him in front of His Majesty and gave him this opportunity to perform, he had to say that he was happy in his heart.

Because the people in the Hanlin Academy who are qualified to directly advise the emperor are all Hanlin scholars, officials of the third rank, and Fu Shao's ultimate dream.

Although he has not been promoted now, he often appears in front of the emperor and does the work of a third-rank Hanlin scholar. How can he not have a future?

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After Fu Shao left, Xiao Ying summoned the president of the Hanlin Academy and asked him to take care of Fu Shao. It was rare to find an honest man among the time travelers. He should be isolated, no, he should be taken care of.

Afterwards, Xiao Ying devoted his energy to the reform of the country. If you want to develop a country into prosperity and wealth, you can't rely on agriculture alone. Moreover, the Dagan Dynasty is now peaceful and prosperous, but in fact there are still civilians who don't have enough food. After a long time, the population increases, and the land annexation is serious, and conflicts will break out sooner or later.

Xiao Ying decided to slowly carry out reforms, so that Dagan, a big agricultural country, could gradually move towards an industrial power.

This will be a long process, but Xiao Ying has already decided to stay in this world for a longer time, live a long life, and see the reform succeed before leaving this world.

And the only ones who can keep up with his reform are those smart people with innovative thinking and those who have the vision of the future.

So Xiao Ying did not kill all the travelers with a stick, but selected those who can be promoted and trained to prepare for the reform.

Too radical reforms are a disaster for the country. Xiao Ying plans to take it slowly. Anyway, he can live as long as he wants, and he is not afraid of dying early.

Starting with increasing agricultural production, Xiao Ying sent people to recruit talents who are very good at agriculture, and let these people study hybrid rice. Not to mention the yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu, it would be a great merit to increase the yield per mu a little.

Xiao Ying took two approaches at the same time, and sent people to find those high-yield crops on the other side.

These reforms were carried out secretly and did not cause any shock in the court.

But later, Xiao Ying got a complete set of children's enlightenment books from Fu Shao, including the Chinese Pinyin multiplication formulas, and then proposed in the court to establish schools in various places to encourage people to send their children to school, and the enlightenment books were used as textbooks for primary schools.

This matter caused a great shock in the court. Although some people opposed Xiao Ying's behavior on the pretext that it was a waste of money and labor, he knew that these people represented the interests of the aristocratic families and did not want the children of poor families to have more opportunities to advance, so he was forcibly suppressed.

Although the original owner ascended the throne at a young age, he was smart and wise, and held great power. Xiao Ying had killed many corrupt officials in the past few years since he traveled through time, and he had established absolute authority and monopolized power.

If Xiao Ying did not want to pay attention to the opposition of the court officials, he could forcefully suppress it with the authority of the emperor. As for the trouble caused by those people in secret afterwards, it depends on the ability of Xiao Ying's confidants to do things.

After the policy of establishing primary schools in towns and villages was implemented, it was followed by the establishment of junior high schools, high schools and universities, which were more cumbersome and more difficult to promote.

Because in this peaceful and prosperous era, Xiao Ying wanted to reform the imperial examination system, which simply cut off the way for those scholars who had read the books of sages and had their brains stiff. Basically, most of the court officials were opposed.

Xiao Ying was also very clear about the difficulties of this reform, so he did not force it to be promoted like the promotion of the enlightenment primary school, but slowly worked with these people. Sooner or later, it would develop as he hoped. He just wanted to make this reform period pass smoothly without turmoil.

Although the middle school and university system was stopped, the news that Xiao Ying planned to establish a middle school and university was also spread, which immediately confused those time travelers from the future.

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After leaving the court, Xiao Ying received a request for an audience from the eldest princess and her husband. If it was before, he would definitely fight back and not meet Ning Xuantian, but at this juncture, Xiao Ying also wanted to see what Ning Xuantian wanted to do after seeing him.

So Xiao Ying summoned Ning Xuantian to see him.

After Ning Xuantian saw Xiao Ying, he looked at him with a complicated expression, his eyes were suspicious, and he even felt reluctant when he saluted.

Xiao Ying didn't care. He knew very well what Ning Xuantian was thinking. He just suspected that he, the emperor, was also a time traveler, so he felt unbalanced and jealous that he had to kneel down to another time traveler as a time traveler.

But he didn't intend to admit that he was a time traveler in front of these people.

So when Ning Xuantian said some ‘inexplicable’ words to test him, Xiao Ying pretended to be confused and scolded: “What nonsense are you talking about, Prince Consort? If you are in the mood to talk nonsense in front of me, you might as well go back and deal with your messy backyard!”

Ning Xuantian saw that Xiao Ying had no reaction to the modern popular words he said, and his previous guess in his heart was shaken: “Isn’t the emperor my fellow villager?”

Ning Xuantian quickly apologized to Xiao Ying, and then carefully inquired about who proposed the system of elementary school, junior high school, high school and university.

Xiao Ying looked at him coldly and said dissatisfiedly: “Why? One by one, you are asking me in a roundabout way what the people who gave me suggestions are thinking? Get out of here!”

Xiao Ying did not give Ning Xuantian the opportunity to continue to inquire, but pretended to inadvertently reveal a lot of information.

Ning Xuantian, who was tricked by Xiao Ying, was indeed trapped. When he left, he was still worried: "Is there another time traveler like me who came to test the emperor? Sure enough, I am not the only time traveler in this world? Then my high-profile behavior before was..."

This is not the end. Ning Xuantian left, Xiao Ying returned to the harem. From Concubine Qi and Concubine Ru to Li Chuqing, who was just a tea-serving maid, they all suspected that he was a time traveler. However, Xiao Ying pretended that someone was giving him advice behind his back, which cleared the doubts. After all, his performance was indeed that of a native emperor.

As for the fact that there are other time travelers in this world, except for Ning Xuantian, a high-profile time traveler, other time travelers basically know that they are not the only one who has traveled through time as long as they know Ning Xuantian.

Xiao Ying promoted the system of further education, and the native scholars opposed it, but the time travelers all excitedly supported him.

Especially Ning Xuantian, who had worked so hard to pass the exam and was overwhelmed by the Four Books and Five Classics, missed the familiar subjects of Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, politics, history, geography, and biology, and was the first to jump out to support Xiao Ying.

This made Xiao Ying, who used to dislike him, think he was much cuter.

Especially when Ning Xuantian unexpectedly showed an excellent level of physics and chemistry, Xiao Ying realized that this time traveler who relied on the system to pretend to be a genius was actually a top student in science! What a pleasant surprise!