Li An is to tell the officials of Anshi County that the responsibility they have to bear is very large, with the strong strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult to open up the Maritime Silk Road, but it is more important to guard this commercial road and ensure the smooth flow of this road, if one of the links goes wrong, it will inevitably bring huge losses to the Silk Road.

There must be no surprises in such an important industrial corridor, and there is a need for continuous construction and investment to make trade on this commercial route more prosperous and convenient, and all important ports should be expanded to ensure that they are accommodating enough to handle greater cargo.

To be recognized by such a high-ranking official as Li An, Chen Tingshi and other officials are naturally very happy, which shows that their position is extremely important, and the imperial court let them come to Anshi County to be officials, not to assign, but to let them take on this important responsibility, so that they can show their talents through their own efforts.

"It is incumbent upon us to serve the imperial court, and we will go all out to ensure the stability of the Tang Dynasty overseas."

Chen Tingshi said on behalf of the officials.

Li An nodded happily and said, "Okay, that's very good!" With you here, the official will be relieved, yo, the first game is over, and it's time to hand out the prizes. ”

Turning sideways, I saw that the ten schoolchildren had already finished casting all the coconut fruits, and the results were naturally out.

"How are the children's grades?"

Li An looked at the master who came over and asked.

The master was full of spring breeze and said: "Li Shilang, these children have practiced very well, the first place has hit twenty-five, and the least one has also shot ten, in such a short period of time, it is not easy. ”

"Okay, very good, all the ten people who participated in the competition will all have rewards, but the rewards will be distributed together at the end, and then the next project will be compared!"

Li An said.

The master nodded and said, "Understood." ”

Soon, ten more schoolchildren began to compete in the next event, shuttlecock kicking.

This competition is relatively simple, ten students can compete at the same time, there is no need to compare in groups, which can better save time.

The content of the game is also relatively simple, that is, within the specified time, to see who kicks the most times, in addition, fall to the ground once deducted five numbers, if every five kicks are dropped, the score is zero, if each time the kick is less than five, the score is negative.

This sport is something that many officials have never seen, so they all watch it with great relish, and from time to time they judge it.

"This is shuttlecock kicking, don't you think it's funny!"

Li An looked at several new officials and asked.

"It's really interesting, but it should be more suitable for these children to play, and it's a bit degrading for adults to kick this, haha!"

Chen Tingshi said.

Li An objected: "As long as you can exercise, you can kick in the house, and no one can see it, isn't it good." ”

"Haha! Again, we can try it out when we have time and see if we can kick more than these kids. ”

The officials flattered the answer.

In order to be able to accurately divide the ranking of the competition, the time of the competition is relatively long, if there is no mistake, there is no problem for a schoolchild to kick out three or five hundred.

Ang Lee chatted with a number of officials while waiting for the results of the game, drinking a little iced tea when he was thirsty, and then continuing to chat.

The game was soon over again, and Master came over to report the results.

The gap in this game is a bit wider, the best schoolboy kicked 700 points in one go, and the worst score was only 50 points, of course, this may be the worst schoolboy is too nervous, always make mistakes, resulting in a lot of points lost.

Ang Lee casually encouraged him and asked the master to start the third subject competition, which was the badminton competition, which was also the longest time consuming competition of all the events.

After all, badminton has both a coordinated style of play and a game style of play, and the coordinated style of play is more interesting, and the game at this time will cause it difficult for both sides to receive the ball, after all, these children have not undergone much training, and it is difficult to keep up with their physical strength and reactions.

Therefore, ten schoolchildren should be randomly selected to cooperate in pairs, let them play with the ball, and show the audience on the stage, the more back and forth, the better the results, and the results are counted as two people.

After that, they have to go to a place where there is a net to have a one-on-one real duel, which is also randomly selected, and then promoted and rounded.

At the beginning of the fight, these new Datang officials were stunned, they had never seen such a refreshing gameplay, they thought it was very interesting, and even eager to try, with the meaning of experiencing it for themselves.

Li An looked at several officials and said, "You have seen it! This is the official recently invented badminton, which has the effect of exercising the whole body, you can also play a dozen and exercise your body after work, only if the body is good, can you have more energy to serve the Tang Empire. ”

"We'll definitely give it a try."

Several officials responded.

The schoolchildren cooperated very well, basically they could play seven or eight times at one time, and there were three rounds with the worst grades, which can be said to be very good results, and the viewing effect was relatively good, and Ang Lee was very satisfied.

The winning group of schoolchildren was given the highest score and had a first-mover advantage, and then they were to regroup and play against each other.

Because when grouping, there will be an element of luck, so the competition should be divided into five groups, take the last points, the highest point is the first place, of course, this is still unavoidable The element of luck, however, as long as there is a strong schoolboy, there will always be a final victory.

Originally, there were only four venues for the competition, but in order to make the competition more convenient, a net was temporarily installed so that all the schoolchildren could participate in the competition at the same time.

Each group has two masters in charge of recording to prevent one person from making a mistake in the race points and causing unnecessary disputes.

The competition venue is some distance from the viewing platform, and it is difficult to see the wonderful game when sitting under the shed, so some officials leave the shed and run to watch the game closer.

All the children who did not participate in the competition were very excited to cheer for their classmates, many of the children were hoarse, and their foreheads were tired with beads of sweat, but none of the children shouted tired, because they were full of interest in these sports, so they did not feel tired, but felt very happy.

Ang Lee did not go close to watch the game, but rested in the shaded shed, drinking a cup of iced tea from time to time, chatting with the new Chen Tingshi about life, and feeling very happy.

"Early the morning after tomorrow, the official is about to set off, Anshi County will be handed over to you in the future, the Tang Anshi University Hall is the future of Anshi County, you must come to the University Hall more, care more about the study of the master and the children, in the future, when the funds are abundant, to expand the University Hall, recruit more students to enroll, this matter is extremely important, you must take it to heart."

Li An opened his mouth to admonish.

"Li Shilang can rest assured that education is a century-old plan, and the lower officials will definitely attach importance to education, and will definitely expand the university hall in the future to allow more local children to enter the school to study."

Chen Tingshi agreed.

Li An nodded and said: "Chen Tingshi can attach importance to education, this official can rest assured, in addition to education, the construction of water conservancy, the promotion of agriculture and animal husbandry, the importance of commerce and trade, the expansion of important ports, and the fight against piracy are all very important, everything is very laborious, in addition, you must have enough skills to deal with the surrounding small countries, you will be very hard." ”

"Overseas is far away from the Tang Dynasty, when I came, Xia Guan had already taken into account the special situation here, as an official of the imperial court, Xia Guan will definitely go all out."

Chen Tingshi said with a serious face.

Li An opened his mouth and said: "This official naturally believes in Chen Tingshi, but as an official overseas, it is inevitable that you will encounter many difficulties, and smaller difficulties can naturally be solved by yourself, but if you encounter more difficult difficulties, you must truthfully report to the imperial court and ask for the support of the imperial court. ”

"That's really good, if the lower officials encounter difficulties that are difficult to deal with, they must ask Li Shilang for advice."

Chen Thorn Shi is very high in response.

"Come, it's hot, drink more iced tea! This is a local specialty of Anshi County! ”

Li An pointed to the iced tea and said.

Chen Tingshi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked: "This is a local specialty, hey, Xia Guan really hasn't seen this kind of tea." ”

As an official of the Tang Dynasty, everyone knows that the technology of making ice cubes in summer was discovered by Li An, and there is no difficulty in making ice cubes in summer, and they also know about tea, and they have all drunk a lot of tea.

Li An said: "There is a kind of tea tree that grows naturally in the mountains here, the official calls it Ceylon black tea, the taste of this tea is very special, and all the tea produced in the Tang Dynasty is not the same taste, it has its own characteristics, after adding some ice cubes, this taste is even more different, in Anshi County, which is very hot all year round, you can drink ice tea comfortably, which feels very good, this kind of tea is also very marketable, and it has great advantages in local distribution, so, As long as you don't leak your technology, it will be difficult for merchants to discover the technology of roasting tea, at least, it will not be possible to discover the technology of roasting tea, at least, it will not be possible to discover it within a few decades, so that the financial resources of your Anshi County will be guaranteed, and you can also provide necessary support to the imperial court. ”

Planting tea trees, collecting tea, and selling finished tea, these are all not technical, anyone can do it, but the fresh and tender tea is fried into finished tea that can be sold, this is really difficult, any step is not in place, will cause the taste of tea to become different, and the best tea technology, only Li An knows, so, can completely monopolize all Ceylon black tea trade, but Li An is not short of money, let the local yamen master, as the source of wealth of the local yamen, It is also a good choice, after all, Anshi County needs to develop, it is inseparable from money, it is always good to have more financial resources, if it is really not exhausted, it can also be handed over to the treasury to support the local construction of the Tang Empire.

"The roasted tea technique of Ceylon black tea, Li Shilang wants to give it to us Anshi County Yamen?"

Chen Tingshi looked at Li An in disbelief, and his eyes were about to fall out.

No matter what era it is, officials on one side want to have abundant financial resources under their rule, so that it is not difficult to pay officials' salaries or build and maintain local public facilities, and everything can be done with ease.

And if there is no financial resources under the rule, the life of the officials will be more difficult, and everything will not go well, and even the salaries of the personnel under the rule will not be paid, let alone welfare, and the officials themselves will not be able to make much money.

It is precisely for this reason that officials like to go to economically developed and wealthy places to be officials, but are not willing to go to poor places to be officials.

In many areas in later generations, because the important units that can generate wealth are taken away, it often causes a lot of turmoil, and even different areas of the same city, because of the inconsistency of wealth taxation, resulting in a large gap in the wages of state personnel who do the same work, and even as much as double, which shows the importance of local fiscal and tax revenues, which is related to the problem of many people's jobs.

Many officials have trekked through mountains and rivers to go overseas far from their homeland, and it is quite difficult in themselves, and if their welfare income is reduced because the fiscal income is too low, they will naturally reduce their enthusiasm for work and their living standards will be lowered a lot.

Li An handed over the roasting technology of Ceylon black tea to the Yamen of Anshi County, and the main reason was naturally not to improve the welfare of local officials, but to let the local Yamen have more sufficient money to carry out necessary construction of the local area and improve the living standards of the officials by the way.

And because the roasted tea technology is related to the income of the local yamen, Li An has enough reason to believe that the local officials will strictly protect this technology and will not let the merchants obtain it.

However, if the officials in charge of the roasting tea process conspire with the rest of the officials to secretly fry illicit tea in a hidden place for personal benefits, it will be worse, so some preventive shots still need to be given first.

"Roasted tea is related to the financial revenue of Anshi County, so it must not be leaked to businessmen, if someone is deceived by the immediate interests, colludes with businessmen, and leaks the technology of roasted tea, then the official will definitely know, when the time comes, this is a capital crime!"