Because it is the annual examination and not the township examination, Wang Xian has the right to change the topic, thought about it and came up with a "Guan Zhong Theory", and said: "There are four books, and if you can't answer it, let the student go home directly and evaluate it as inferior." ”

I didn't want Tong Sheng to be happy at first sight, it turned out that he had memorized a written article, which happened to be the title of Guan Zhong's two words, so he hurriedly changed the article to a facelift, changed the eight-strand format to an eight-paragraph text, and happily handed over the volume.

The scholar sent the scroll to the prefect, and the master picked it up first and looked at it, but frowned.

Wang Xian asked, "How are you doing?" ”

The master shook his head and said: "If you change to eight shares, there are still some aphorisms, and it will be smoother to inherit the past and the future, but as a historical theory, there are some words that donkey's lips are not right for the horse's mouth." It's better to ask Taizun to take a look at it, and then decide to take it. ”

Wang Xian took it and read it carefully, he was very hesitant for a while, it stands to reason that such a volume is worthless, but he is the only one in the scene, although he does not do well, in the end there are still two words of history in his belly, which is better than those who can only understand the affairs of the world.

In any case, this person refuses to follow the customs, and can barely be regarded as a person with lofty ideals, so it is better to take him out and take him out, and the right to throw bricks and lead jade, and also let other children see it, and stimulate their pragmatic ambition, which is also good.

In this way, the child who counted the test took the first place in this annual examination, and the child who was in charge of the middle of the examination was the second place, and then the second and third tests, and the test was completed in less than ten days.

Then it's time to take the martial arts exam, the first one is horsemanship, and the test is in the martial arts hall. The second is archery, which does not require much space, and is traditionally set in the prefect's lobby.

Because of the large number of people, five targets were set up in the courtyard so as not to delay time. On this day, Wang Xian and the military attache of the city had just been promoted to sit down, and they didn't wait for the roll call to begin. The official brought in a person, panting and sweating, knelt down in the hall and said, "Little Ji Changchun is the chief outside the West Gate." This morning, the shopkeeper in the Gaosheng Inn outside the West Gate came to the small house and said that three foreigners had come to his shop last night, and he was accompanied by a few locals. ”

Wang Xian said without thinking: "That must be Chinese, foreigners basically will not go deep into the Central Plains, even if they come to visit the mountains and waters, they will not come to us Yongshun." ”

Ji Changchun said: "It's not from the Central Plains. The accent of the speech is all off-the-beaten. ”

"Oh." Wang Xian suddenly understood, "That's all from Liaodong, right?" Confused, Liaodong is the territory of my Ming Dynasty, not a foreigner, and the Korean and Nanyang countries are considered foreign. ”

"Yes, yes!" Ji Changchun nodded in agreement, but in fact, he was quite unimpressed, thinking that Yongshun had been regarded as a frontier since ancient times, similar to a place in the northwest and the border of Yunnan forty or fifty years ago, it was obviously a foreign country. Not to mention outside the border, what is it that is not a foreigner? Of course, he didn't know that these regions were China's territory long before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Ji Changchun said again: "Last night, the shopkeeper accidentally broke something, and the Liaodong people got angry and beat the shopkeeper. He also grabbed him, saying that he would take him to the yamen. The shopkeeper was so frightened that he hid and didn't dare to go home. ”

After speaking, he took out the broken compass from his arms, gave it to him and said, "This thing should be in the grocery store." Why do you hit someone? ”

Wang Xian took it and looked at it carefully, and scolded: "Nonsense, this is a precious instrument produced in Liaodong. Even if you search all over Hunan, you probably won't be able to buy the exact same. It will be useful for others to bring it, but how can you be willing to break it? Come on, lock up that bastard thing first, and wait for the official to deal with him. ”

When the lieutenant heard this, he hurriedly pleaded with the shopkeeper, but Wang Xian ignored him, grabbed a fire stick, and sent two messengers to arrest people.

Now Wang Xian is interested, Liaodong businessmen are becoming more and more famous, belonging to the local tyrants among the local tyrants, and they will not run to Yongshun Mansion where birds don't for no reason, with the geographical conditions of Yongshun, industries such as weaving and spinning cannot be established, and even if they are established, they cannot be sold. And what can Yongshun do? One is agriculture, and the other is mining.

I remember that Xu Dudu once said that if agriculture and mining are done well, the country will be strong. Of course, he didn't know if someone deliberately said that the premise of mining is industry.

invited the guests to interrogate in person, and sure enough, a few Liaodong businessmen brought a few miners who graduated from new-style schools to survey the ore veins, and it was the provincial political envoy who came forward to invite them.

After inviting the guests to have a meal and sending the gifts back, the master said: "Taizun, the shopkeeper has been locked, and now he is going to find his father again, and take him and his grandfather together, and the three of them are connected to the chief, is it the county government, or is the master personally interrogated?" ”

Wang Xian said: "There is no need to interrogate, but you can't release the people immediately, after all, there is a dirt with the people of Liaodong." Actually, I didn't plan to do anything, so what's the point of hitting something? It's nothing more than giving three points to the businessman, and you will be locked up for a few days and you will directly let the person go. ”

He thought about it wholeheartedly, so he was not happy to watch the martial arts boys shoot arrows all day long, so he went out early in the morning. As a result, the examiner was helpless, so he said to those candidates: "There are people from other places, and Taizun is on the rise, so I have to wronged you to stay for a few more days." ”

Someone said dissatisfiedly: "It's okay for the people in this city to say, those from other counties, and those from the countryside, who didn't deduct the date to take the test?" Where can I delay these days, what should I do when the dry food is exhausted? ”

The examiner waved his hand and said, "This is what Taizun ordered, and I have no way." ”

I think that Wutong has basically read for a few days and can write, and Wuju has to test the art of war, how can he be illiterate? Soon everyone received the notice, and most of them were indignant, saying that the prefect was in league with foreign businessmen, and did not think of sympathizing with the scholars, and the news of dissatisfaction spread out, one to ten, ten to hundred, and the whole city was spread.

The official who accompanied the merchant from the provincial capital was surnamed Yang, named Yang Kun, who was five years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, and was an alternate governor of the prefecture, who had always worked as an errand in the political envoy department. In the past two years, he was selected to go to Dalian Comprehensive University, and just graduated, it was he who told his boss that he should start by surveying the ore vein.

The industrialization of the Ming Dynasty is still in the most primitive stage, but some industries have been quietly emerging, related research has been several years, such as mining, Xu Hao put forward the invention track, manpower to promote the saving of time and effort, and recently Liaodong has launched a patent law that has been brewing for many years.

What's more, the demand for gold, silver, copper and iron is never too much, and one of Xu Hao's great achievements is to persuade Zhu Gaochi not to treat all the minerals in the world as the emperor's alone, nor to blindly monopolize them by the government, and should be properly open to the people.

This will inevitably involve relevant interest groups, such as royal magnates, officials and eunuchs, and local tycoons, and the monopoly of salt and iron is also the core interest of every feudal dynasty, Xu Hao will not be naïve enough to persuade the emperor to make the decree unimpeded, let alone naïve to touch these interest groups.

For example, in Liaodong, even if Changbai Mountain is dug into a big hole, the imperial court and Guannai probably will not have any reaction, so Liaodong, Taiwan, Hainan, Yunnan, Northwest and Nanyang and other places have people investing in mining, and most of the inland provinces are calm. In the same way, this is why the exploration site was chosen in the Yongshun area.

In the study, Yang Kun said to Wang Xian: "This time, the officials came over, and they were going to go to the prefectures to investigate first, and try wherever there are mountains, and then send the documents to the Ministry of Industry for record-keeping, for future use." If Yongshun Prefecture has a mineral vein suitable for mining, it can be directly presented to the political secretary, or convene foreign merchants to mine in the way of Liaodong, or if the local gentry are rich and willing to do it, it is better to use the soil method to mine, in order to avoid the concerns of the merchants, the imperial court will not send eunuchs to supervise, and the government will not occupy shares, and it can be extracted according to the amount of mining. ”

This move undoubtedly caters to Wang Xian's idea of doing some business, and he nodded happily.

Yang Kun said: "When the ore vein is surveyed, the imperial court may have other regulations at that time, or it may not be allowed to mine, but it is not yet possible to say there." At present, I only ask the adults to send a few more notices, and tell the local people in advance, telling them that this time the outsiders have come to test the seedlings, just for the sake of the future prosperity of the place, and have no other intentions, so that the people do not need to be suspicious.

When you go to the countryside, ask the county to send more soldiers to help explain the pressure of the bullet, so that no one will take the opportunity to make trouble. Although there are more mountains in the four counties under the rule of the adults, there are more mountains than other prefectures and counties, but at most it will take about a month to complete the survey. ”

"Good!" Wang Xian was even more relieved, he was very worried that his boss was a two-hundred-and-five, and he misbelieved people's words; or plan to open a mine to fill their pockets, and collude with some powerful people to sit on the ground and share the spoils together, then it will be bad; Or regardless of the opposition of all parties, he insisted on going his own way, and Yang Kun's words were obviously well thought out and reasonable in the province.

The problem is that he has been a Beijing official for many years and has a wealth of experience as an official, but he has no experience in governing the local government, and he is concerned about the above, but does not take into account the reaction of the below.

On the first day, the notice was written and posted, and he accompanied Yang Kun around the city, and for a few days ordered the master to take Yang Kun to visit the counties, military camps, and squire's homes one by one.

Let's say that those martial arts boys gathered in the city, they gradually felt impatient when they had nothing to do, and the young people liked to have nothing to do, and most of them were idle when they studied and practiced martial arts since they were young, not to mention the local Han and Miao mixed places, and the people were strong, and the time when the government was established was still short, and the prestige was insufficient.

If there is a government decree that is unpopular with the people, no matter how big or small, as long as it does not fulfill their wishes, even if they do not make trouble, they will make a big deal of nitpicking, look down on officials, and sneer at them lightly.

The advent of newspapers also played a catalytic role, allowing the news-blocked areas to know the outside world, even if they were often hindsighted, at least to make readers feel that they were great and knew the world without leaving home.

I have read the articles of celebrities from all over the world, current political opinions, etc., and learned all kinds of news, which naturally makes readers have the passion to point out the world and criticize current affairs. (To be continued......)