Rubber, whether it is clean and hygienic is much stronger than the stone ground, there is a certain waterproof effect, rubber alone is impossible to meet Yuan Fang's requirements, but this is not difficult Yuan Fang, those rubber farmers have rich experience, after adding a variety of strange materials, although the effect is still a little less ideal, but it is barely enough, Yuan Fang will naturally not be so easy to satisfy, when leaving let those rubber farmers continue to research, and strive to make better products as soon as possible.

After the meal, Yuan Fang and Yang Xing came to Zuo's study, the little eunuch returned to the door after bringing tea, and stared at Guan Xiaoyun with big eyes, as for Yu Jingqiu, a few of them ran to catch up with the female soldiers of the guards who stayed in the palace.

After taking a sip of tea, Yang Xing looked at Yuan Fang, with a look of embarrassment and didn't know how to speak, Yuan Fang had already been mentally prepared: "If you have anything to say, I will do my best." ”

Yang Xing grinned, leaned over to Yuan Fang and sat down, and said with a hippie smile: "The boss still understands me, then I won't be polite to you." ”

Yuan Fang rolled his eyes and said, "When have you been polite, I said that you kid is now the emperor, why are you still so stubborn, can't you show some of the majesty of the emperor?" ”

Yang Xing pouted and said: "Mao's majesty, Mao's demeanor, boss, didn't you say that those are all floating clouds, I think what you said is very reasonable, rather than pretending to be like something, it is better to be happy as you like." ”

Yuan Fang was full of black lines, he didn't expect his words to have such a big impact on this kid: "Could it be that you usually do the same when you deal with government affairs?" Those old stubborns didn't bother you? ”

Yang Xing pouted and said with disdain: "They dare, now I am the rightful emperor, if those old guys dare to talk nonsense, it will be unpleasant for themselves, if they force me to be anxious, they will all be thrown into prison." ”

Yuan Fang smiled: "You can't do it so absolutely, just give them small shoes, if you really lock them up, the empire is estimated to be chaotic, Yang Xing, the concentration of power is a good thing for the empire and you, the emperor, but you are just a person, you can't do everything yourself, knowing people and making good use of them is the royal way." ”

Yang Xing said as a matter of course: "I know, no, if there is something that can't be solved, I'll ask the boss for help." ”

Yuan Fang almost didn't vomit blood, waved his hand weakly and said, "You just don't say anything, just say it, what's the matter." ”

Yang Xing sorted out his thoughts, and said with a sad face: "The main problems of the empire now are two aspects, no money and no one. ”

These, as Yuan Fang expected: "What about the specifics? ”

Yang Xing put down the teacup and said: "Boss, you also know how much silver the treasury had when I first took over the empire, and then you got a three-day tour of the palace from those local tyrants and rich businessmen to get a lot of silver, but a crusade to the east, that money was spent not counted, and I also owed a lot of silver to the Chamber of Commerce, it is winter now, and the people in many places are still not full of food and clothing, the empire has to take out a part of the silver relief every year, and the army is expanded so much, and the military salary is also a lot of expenses, and the city defense construction in various places costs money, and the soldiers also need money to change their clothes, Navy shipbuilding costs more money, and I am going to die of worry when it all adds up. Yuan Fang nodded and motioned for Yang Xing to continue.

Yang Xing's face was depressed: "In addition to money, it's people, boss, you should know, after you set out on the expedition, I thoroughly sorted out the administrative system of the empire, and those who were poor and restless were all cleaned up, and now the vacancies of officials in various places are too big, and there are already signs of government decrees not working, and talents from all walks of life are urgently needed." ”

Yuan Fang interjected and asked, "Didn't you say before that you were going to open a scientific examination?" Don't have the right candidate? ”

Yang Xing smiled: "I've been busy with other things during this time, and the scientific expedition has been delayed until now, no, I just want to discuss this matter with you." ”

Yuan Fang was stunned: "Damn, it's been delayed for so long, and those students who are rushing to take the exam have been waiting?" Is there any dissatisfaction? ”

Yang Xing smiled bitterly and said: "Of course there are opinions, some time ago, there were people who gathered to protest. ”

Yuan Fang smiled: "Gather the crowd to protest, who came up with this idea, it's quite talented, what was the situation at that time?" Was it a group of people holding banners in front of the palace to hold a sit-in demonstration? ”

Yang Xing rolled his eyes: "Of course not, if they dared to make trouble at the gate of the palace, they would have been shot into hedgehogs by the bows and arrows of the forbidden army, and those scholars just hung some articles expressing their dissatisfaction outside the inn where they lived." ”

Yuan Fang asked, "Then how did you solve it?" ”

Yang Xing sighed and said: "Most of the scholars who came to take the exam were from poor backgrounds, and they didn't bring much money to the imperial capital this time, and they had no money to live in the hotel to eat at that time, and they had to do it as a last resort, this time it was my negligence, so I didn't care about them." ”

Yuan Fang understood Yang Xing's character, and said with a smile: "Then the cost of their food and accommodation will be borne by you?" ”

Yang Xing scratched his head embarrassedly: "Almost, it's not impossible." ”

Yuan Fang nodded and said, "Well, it should be so, you mean to let me supervise the scientific examination?" ”

Yang Xing nodded heavily and said: "Well, boss, I remember you once told me that the selection of talents should not only look at their literary skills, but also pay attention to personal knowledge and other talents, I want you to help select a group of qualified talents, that is, the kind that can be directly sent to the local government to take charge of themselves, not like the so-called talents selected by the previous scientific examinations, after being released, their eyes will be blackened, and they will not understand anything except poetry." ”

Yuan Fang understood what Yang Xing meant, nodded and said: "Well, I think it's just a good opportunity to completely break the bad habits of the past, talent, what is talent, not just a scholar who knows how to learn and learn, and has a wider vision, for example, Lian Song, he used to be a small blacksmith in Zhiyuan Dart Bureau, but now, there are many things that only he can forge, this is talent." Another example is a village with 50 households, and they get 1,000 catties of rice every year, and one of them can harvest 1,500 catties of rice every year. This is also a talent, is a hard-working talent, I remember there is a saying how to say, ah yes, empty talk is misleading the country, hard work to prosper the country, our current situation is the most needed is to have real materials of practical talents instead of blindly pursuing elegance. ”

Yang Xing nodded vigorously: "I think so too." ”

Yuan Fang pondered for a moment and said: "In this way, tomorrow you will release the news, the topic of this scientific examination will be greatly changed, and the previous literary level examination is only a small part of it, mainly inclined to other aspects, such as people's livelihood and business and administrative management topics." ”