Throughout the eighteen years of Zhengde, Wang Yuan spent time in southern Liaoning.

In March, Xia Chan gave birth to a son. Because it was born in the Yongning prison city where horses were raised, it was named Wang Qi.

Well, it's a son again, Wang Yuan is about to cry, he really wants a daughter now.

In July, Xiangxiang gave birth to a son, named Wang Ji.

Or a son!

As for the eighteen-year meeting examination and palace examination of Zhengde, Wang Yuan did not go back to participate. Because he is the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, he can only preside over when he goes back, but he can't take the exam and mark the papers - an official of the Ministry of Rites, who is responsible for organizing the examination, and is not allowed to be an examiner or marker in order to avoid suspicion.

Disciple Wang Chong was admitted, and he was at the end of the three lists. However, he did well in the hall examination and successfully became a scholar, and is currently studying at the Hanlin Academy.

This year's champion is named Yao Lai, and his father is Yao Yi, the right deputy imperial envoy and governor of Yansui. In the winter of last year, the right-wing Mongolian deputy Khan Ji Nang invaded the south, and Yao Yi, as a civilian governor, led the generals to take the initiative to attack and attack at night, killing two right-wing Mongolian generals. Now, Yao Yi has been promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, and being thrown into the Ministry of Industry by Yang Tinghe is purely for convenience, anyway, the Ministry of Industry has been controlled by Wang Yuan.

Although Yao Yi is not Yang Ting and a henchman, his champion son is mixed with Yang Shen.

There is no way, Yao Lai is proficient in scripture and history, and he is another great talent in the world, and he is naturally like-minded with Yang Shen. In history, he even followed Yang Shen to the door of crying and was severely beaten by Emperor Jiajing.

This year's list is called Wang Jiao, a disciple of the physics school, and a nerd who is engaged in theoretical research.

He liked to study astronomy, and after studying hard every night, he observed the stars, and slept until the next morning and a half before getting up.

This year's top ...... It's Xu Jie!

What does Xu Jie say, he is a peripheral member of Yang Ming Xinxue. He did not worship Wang Yangming, but he corresponded with the disciples of Xinxue all day long and discussed many views on Xinxue. At present, it seems that he intends to attach himself to Wang Yuan, after all, Wang Yuan is also a disciple of Xinxue, and Xu Jie is more likely to recognize the idea of Xinxue.

By the way, Yan Song and Wang Yangming are also old acquaintances.

At the beginning, Wang Yangming left Longchangyi and went to Luling, Jiangxi Province to be the magistrate. Yan Song happened to be worried about filial piety, and went to visit, and had a very happy conversation with Wang Yangming, Uncle Wang felt that Yan Song was a promising young man, and he would definitely be able to help Sheji in the future.

In other words, did Xu Jie also suffer setbacks, so he became so forbearing.

Historically, people were a list of scholars, waiting for their ambitions in the Hanlin Academy. Because he offended Zhang Xuan, he was actually demoted to be a pusher, and he was knocked down from the sky in an instant.

Zhang Xuan often does this kind of thing, and he only became an official at his own age, so he feels that young people don't know the sky. Yang Tinghe only threw Wang Yuan's disciples from Shujishi to the local governor, which has been criticized by the Qingliu in the court, and Zhang Xuan directly threw all the Shujishi to various ministries or places!

Zhang Xuan's idea was that it was useless for these Shuji scholars to stay in the Hanlin Academy, and they would only be angry young people when they were science and Taoist officials, so it was better to send them to various ministries or places to exercise slowly.

Thinking well is to break the rules and make it difficult for the parties to accept.

And Xu Jie's offense against Zhang Xuan was even more nonsense.

Zhang Xuan went to Jiajing and asked to remove Confucius's royal title and lower Confucius's sacrificial standards. This simply stabbed the hornet's nest, and those Qingliu didn't dare to object, only the stunned Qingxu Jie jumped out stupidly.

Yan Song and Xu Jie, when they were young, were both hot-blooded young people.

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In the spring of the nineteenth year of Zhengde, when the Ming voyage went south to find Magellan's route, Wang Yuan also left southern Liaoning with his concubines and heirs.

Southern Liaoning has gradually restored 150,000 mu of pastures, and most of the military households that have cultivated these lands have been converted into horse households and distributed to the fertile land recaptured from the officers. They are now under the management of civil officials, and if the military attaché wants to seize the land again, he must wait for natural disasters, otherwise he will definitely anger Wang Yuan by forceful means.

The number of horses raised in the Yuanma Temple in Liaodong has reached more than 6,000. In addition to the foals born, there were also sporadic horse breeds purchased from Mongolia and Jurchen. As for the Arabian horses, they bought a hundred, and when they were transported by sea to Liaodong, only about forty were dead.

At the same time, corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts have been promoted in Gaizhouwei, and some land in Fuzhou is also being planted. It is estimated that in a few years, it will be able to spread to the entire southern Liaoning and radiate to the entire eastern Liaoning region.

The military households and civilian households in southern Liaoning are not very interested in sweet potatoes, but they are very fond of corn, and they usually call them "Governor Rice".

Wang Yuan and Ling Xiang made improvements to the official horse breeding system.

The main reason for the decline of official horse breeding is not the encroachment of military attachés on pastures, but the flight of military households. This thing belongs to a big pot of rice, naturally some people are diligent and some are lazy, and in the end they all become lazy. And after the death of the horse, it is also responsible for the compensation as a whole, and who accompanies it all depends on the face of the official. encountered horse plague, lost all the money, and all the horse-raising military households fled.

Wang Yuan directly cataloged the horse households, and these horse households were directly managed by the Yuan Horse Temple.

Ma Hu Zhengding has five people who raise a trough together, and is responsible for four adult horses and one young horse. Another five surplus dings are allowed, which is equivalent to ten people raising five horses. However, five of them did not actually raise horses, they could farm or work on the land, and they only needed to pay money and forage every month—these horse households were given land free of charge, and they were obliged to raise horses for the imperial court, and they were not required to pay additional taxes or conscription.

Each garden has a quota of horse breeds, such as 4,000 horse breeds per garden. The only tax that the horse households paid to the court was to pay one horse every two years. If the breed dies, as long as they get a new breed, they don't have to lose money, and if they can't make up the breed, they have to pay the compensation in groups of ten. A horse breed is owned by the owner after ten years.

In case of horse plague, it must be reported to Yuanma Siqing, and the compensation fee can be waived as appropriate.

This rule is not harsh, with horses having one litter a year and allowing them to turn in one foal in two years. If you raise it well and are lucky, you can earn a young horse for nothing in three or five years, and the young horses that are raised outside the task are also allocated by the horse farmers themselves.

Such a reform is equivalent to the responsibility of the ten-person group, there is no drawbacks of big pot rice, and it also allows horse farmers to have a head start.

But there must be omissions, if they can last for thirty years, even if Wang Yuan and Ling Xiang succeed. Thirty years later, it will depend on the competence of the bureaucracy at that time. Even if Wang Yuan is still alive, he is already a very popular minister, and it is impossible to go to Liaodong to supervise Ma Zheng in person.

The system has been decided, the military households in southern Liaoning are also soft, Ling Xiang is even more capable, and Wang Yuan has nothing to do in southern Liaoning.

Crossing the sea from Lushun Port to Tianjin Port, the night is coming, and the two babies are safe and sound.

Tianjin Port has become increasingly prosperous because of the cotton cloth trade, and there are about three or four thousand permanent residents in the port. This place was originally under the jurisdiction of the military attache of Tianjin Wei, but now it is managed by the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Bo - the military attache of Tianjin Wei is estimated to be the most peaceful in the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, there are all kinds of foreign civil officials in the Acropolis, not to mention the Tianjin Port on the seaside.

The river where the factory is located is incredibly prosperous, and the black chimneys also bring air pollution.

To make matters worse, the chimney was not built very high, and Wang Yuan could smell the soot on the boat.

However, no one complained about the environment.

Most of the locals mention the chimneys with pride, that is, ordinary textile workers are living a happy life.

Wang Yuan set the rules, a ten-hour work system, workers work in shifts, and oil lamps are used for lighting at night. Those oil lamps are also guarded by special personnel, so as not to accidentally cause a fire.

The entire factory has been steamed, and the output of cotton cloth here is almost equal to that of the whole of Zhejiang, and the power of industrialization is too strong.

Wang Yuan landed on the shore and entered the factory area, and actually saw a few white people.

When I asked the manager, I thought that the price of cotton cloth in the south was too high, and these European maritime merchants planned to get the goods directly in Tianjin.

"What nationality are you?" Wang Yuan asked.

The foreign devil replied through the translator: "Portugal, only Portuguese merchant ships can come to the East to do business. Of course, the Ming referred to Portugal as the Franco. ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "The Portuguese have come all the way, why don't they do the spice business?" Even porcelain is more profitable than cotton. ”

The foreign devil smiled: "The journey to buy and sell spices and porcelain is too long, and you may encounter various risks along the way. Unlike other merchants, I chose to buy Chinese cotton cloth and sell it to Indians or Ottomans. Chinese cotton cloth is cheap and of high quality, and it is a sought-after item everywhere. Moreover, the distance of this waterway is short, the risk is small, and it is almost guaranteed to make a profit. ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "Is the Governor of India okay?" ”

"We have a new governor," said the foreign devil, "and he is very wise, much better than the bastard before. ”

Wang Yuan was curious: "Oh, what's the name of the new governor?" ”

The foreign devil said: "Vasakoh da Gama, he was a navigator who once crossed the Atlantic. ”

Wang Yuan's expression was solemn.