After the war in the Western Regions is over, it needs to be built and restored, as well as to distribute the benefits of all parties.

Sun Kewang divided the pastures of the Khiva Khanate to Xiao Yuz, and Xiao Yuz set aside a large piece of pasture in the Ural River valley and gave it to the Jungar Department to recuperate and use as an outpost to defend against the Rakshasas.

Tens of thousands of nomadic Turks were relocated to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, near the Yibohai (Lake Balkhash and the Ili River) in the west of the Junggar Basin, to prevent the Rakshasas from moving south from the north, and to guard against the Huite Mongols, who had not yet submitted to the Jin State.

After the distribution of benefits, Sun Kewang moved the Anxi Royal Mansion from the closed Shache to Qiuci, where the Western Regions Protectorate was also located, and sent a chapter to Chang'an, requesting the relocation of a thousand rich families to Qiuci, so that Qiuci could quickly grow into a heavy city.

In addition, Sun Kewang asked for the establishment of four towns in Anxi, the four generals of Anxi, and asked for a certain right to bargain for the four generals.

Because the Western Regions are not as good as the Han land, and there are aliens all around, military and political affairs must be decided by the town generals, and they are given certain privileges, and they cannot be restricted like the army and generals in Guanzhong.

These four towns, Sun Kewang has also thought about setting up a town in Khotan, at the northern foot of Kunlun Mountain, and ordered one person to be the chief military officer to guard against Wusizang; Set up a town in Hami, the outlet of the Hexi Corridor, to ensure the connection between the Western Regions and Guanzhong; At the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the former site of the Tang Beiting Protectorate, Tingzhou was rebuilt, and a town was set up to control the Jungar Basin to facilitate trade with Mongolia; To the west of Atami and to the east of Kulan City, rebuild Shattered Leaf Castle and set up a town to control the three Yuzi and Jungar Tribes.

If these four towns can be established, then the Jin State's control over the Western Regions is not nominal control, but a real military and administrative system to control the Western Regions and Central Asia.

At the same time, Sun Kewang also made some provisions and reached some consensus on the subjugated tribes and vassal states.

One of the most critical ones, and one that is in everyone's interest, is to protect the Silk Road.

The Silk Road was long, and the Jin State did not have the strength to protect it, so Sun Kewang divided the Silk Road into several sections, each vassal or trade alliance within the territory of each section, and the tax rate was determined according to factors such as the length of the road.

For each section of the Silk Road, the Anxi Governorate only gave one family the power to collect taxes, but after this family collected taxes, it was obliged to maintain the smooth flow of the Silk Road and crack down on bandits along the way.

If it is not competent, the Anxi Governor's Office will send troops to help solve the problem, but the cost of sending troops and grain and grass must be deducted from the customs duties of this section of the Silk Road.

As a result, the vassals and trading allies had no choice but to maintain the smooth flow of trade routes in order to preserve the ability to collect customs duties.

In the past, the goods of the Jin Kingdom went from Guanzhong to the Western Regions, and then to Central Asia through Samarkand into the northern Mughals, because of the robbery of the tribes along the way, or the indiscriminate collection of customs duties and heavy taxes in various places, so that a good cotton cloth would cost two or three taels of taxes on the way, but now the toll tax may only be one tael, or less.

In this way, the safety of the trade routes, coupled with the sound tax system, to prevent the indiscriminate collection of taxes and increase the cost of transportation, then the competitiveness of the goods of the Golden Kingdom will be greatly improved, and they can be transported to farther places, and the trade routes will be smooth, and after the unified provisions of tariffs, the merchants and goods on the trade routes will also increase, and for the various forces along the way, the income may not be less than before, or even more.

Of course, if some countries, seeing that there are more merchants and goods, become greedy, insist on collecting more taxes, and do not follow the rules of the Jin country, then the Jin country can only send troops to attack and solve the problem by force.

This time, Sun Kewang's internal affairs ability was reflected in one time, his goals and intentions were very obvious, and his execution ability was also very strong.

The establishment of four towns is a threat of force from the guarantee country, which can deter the Western Regions, give military guarantees, and give the Western Regions a stable environment, while the planning of the Silk Road is to connect the interests of the Western Regions to the ministry.

He is a big stick in one hand and sugar in the other, and he uses interests to screw the various parts together.

While Sun Kewang was trying to build a complete administrative and ruling system in the Western Regions and plan his trade routes, the Ming Dynasty ushered in another autumn.

Since the Jiashen National Disaster, the time of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty has been relatively chaotic.

When it was beaten to the southwest by the Qing Dynasty, in order to compete with the Manchu Qing Dynasty for talents, the Ming Dynasty did not stop the imperial examination when it fled, on the contrary, it was relatively peaceful.

After the recovery of Nanjing, in order to celebrate the whole world and make up for the lack of officials, Enke was also opened, and since then, the imperial examination has basically resumed the normal rhythm of once every three years.

After the second imperial examination of the Gongzhi Dynasty was held in the fourth year of the Gongzhi Dynasty, it was the time of the autumn period of the seven years of co-governance.

Since the beginning of August, the talents of the provinces have rushed to the provincial capital, ready to take the exam, if they are successful, they can take a boat to Nanjing, to participate in the spring boudoir of the coming year.

It was August 7, and there were only two days left before an exam on the 9th, and most of the talents who rushed to take the exam in Nanzhili had already arrived in Nanjing.

The land south of the Yangtze River, the cultural context is prosperous, and the already prosperous city of Nanjing is immediately overcrowded, and all inns and restaurants are full of scholars who come to take the exam.

Generally, most of the wealthy scholars chose the best inns by themselves, and the unmotivated even lived in the flower boats on the Qinhuai River.

Those scholars born in poverty also have a place to go, and Su Song or Nanzhi have already established many hometown associations for them.

China's social structure is a circle one by one, the innermost core is the father and son, the outer circle is the blood relatives and the same clan, and the outside is the township party.

These circles were grouped together and surrounded the central government to become such a big circle as the Ming Dynasty, but the small circles within the big circle also had their own interests and competition.

Autumn is a great event for the provinces, with the current political ecology of the Ming Dynasty, which province has more lifters, which province will be able to share more benefits in the imperial court in the future, so the merchants of Nanzhili can be said to take great care of the scholars of Nanzhi, and all kinds of restaurants and shops give certain preferential treatment to the scholars.

Some businessmen even set aside some money to support the poor scholars and make political investments.

At this time, when the exam was approaching, many scholars gave up studying, either to meet the teacher, or to eat and relax in groups to find out about the exam.

For a time, they were in various restaurants, and they could be heard talking on the street, which made the whole city of Nanjing particularly lively.

In a good restaurant in the west of Nanjing, because it is close to Taixue, the business inside is very hot, and before the evening, it is already full of many scholars.

Wang Yan sat in a private room when he heard the voices of the scholars talking from the two rooms.

"Brother Zhang, the imperial court has changed every three years in the imperial examination, from not taking the eight shares, to joining the arrow and shooting, and now what are the political tests and the affairs test. You are the son of an official eunuch, do you know what is the difference between this political test and the affairs test? ”

Another voice came, and said with a smile: "A few brothers don't need to be nervous, at the beginning, the imperial court said that it would not take the eight shares, how many people objected, worried that the scholars would not be able to adapt and would affect the imperial examination, and later the imperial court joined the archery art, and how many people said that it was insulting, but what do you think now?" Haven't everyone gotten used to it? In fact, this political test and the matter test are the same, I know something from my father, in fact, it is also simple, that is, the political test comes out, and the official position he holds in the future may be mainly government affairs, and the test is good at one thing, such as river management, such as shipbuilding and artillery construction of the Ministry of Industry, etc., to implement a certain thing. ”

"In this way, this test will definitely test some miscellaneous studies and the like!"

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