Fang Xuanling was very emotional.

That ignorant and stupid son since he was a child, not only grew up to be intelligent and capable, but also had such lofty ambitions as he has now, which really made him feel very gratified.

What makes him even more happy is that he is silent in Chang'an, but there is such a big event behind him, which shows that his personality has gradually become more calm with the growth of age, and he is no longer as flamboyant and domineering as before, which is a mature performance and one of the keys to success in officialdom.

Sharp and introverted, if he is determined, Fang Xuanling was worried that Fang Jun would retaliate against the Jiangnan Shi clan because of Le Yanwei's frame, but now looking at it, with this calm heart, it should not go too far, which is very good......

Pei Xingjian, who is meticulous and cautious, is in charge of this project, and Fang Xuanling has nothing to worry about, listening to Li Jing's words, he couldn't help but smile and said: "That bastard boy doesn't praise him, His Majesty beats him every day and is still restless from time to time to make some things, if he praises his tail, I don't know what lawless mistakes will come out." ”

Li Jing disagreed, and said, "Are you showing off in front of someone?" ”

Fang Xuanling wanted to politely say no, but immediately remembered that Li Jing's two strange sons who had already become the laughing stock of Chang'an had already become the laughing stock of Chang'an, and if they were modest, they would be embarrassed by Li Jing, so he had to make a haha, and changed the topic: "The sea breeze here is too strong, and the humidity is heavy, so we can't bear the old bones, so let's hurry back to Huating Town, so it's good to wash up and rest." ”

Even if Fang Xuanling turns around naturally without a trace, what kind of person is Li Jing?

It is easy to hear the evasion in the words, and then think of the son of the son of his own who prepared a funeral for himself, his chest was like a big stone blocked, and he said depressedly: "When you come here, you are the landlord, and you can do whatever you want." ”

Fang Xuanling laughed and didn't say much.

Pei Xingjian ordered Wang Xuance to stay here to supervise the construction site, and he personally accompanied the two bigwigs down from the island and returned to Huating Town by boat.

The warship sailed away from Snake Mountain Island, and looked back, the small island in the vast sea was like a drop in the ocean, but when this ancient golden lighthouse rose in the future, it will be glorious for a hundred years and immortal for a thousand years!

The wharf of Huating Town stopped, and the soldiers on the ship stood on the side of the ship, paying attention to Fang Xuanling and Li Jingli. The group disembarked, and then the warship raised its sails and returned to the military port.

Li Jing has commanded thousands of troops and horses for many years, and his chin praised: "Just look at this strict military discipline and neat military appearance, you know that it must be one of the strongest troops in the world." ”

In the era of cold weapons, tactics, strategy, and equipment are certainly the conditions that affect the outcome of a war, but all of them are not as important as military discipline and morale.

People are the main force of war in this era.

Fourteen hundred years later, thousands of miles across the ocean, a single cannonball can destroy a city, no matter how many people face the devastating superweapon, they will only end up in ashes......

The officials of the town office on the dock were waiting here, and when they saw that Wang Xuance had been replaced by Pei Xingjian, they all stepped forward again to salute Fang Xuanling and Li Jing.

Fang Xuanling smiled gently, comforted them one by one, and said some relaxed words, not at all self-contained and domineering, not like a super powerful minister who had been in charge of the center of the empire for more than ten years, but more like an old man in the left neighbor of the countryside, kind and gentle, and approachable.

Li Jing didn't smile, his face was solemn, and he basically didn't talk much when he fell behind Fang Xuanling, but who didn't know this Tang Dynasty "God of War"?

The officials were in awe......

Pei Xingjian said: "Fang Xiang, Wei Gong, the place to stay has already been arranged, just where Erlang lived before, because Erlang sent someone to tell him not to make a big fanfare too much, so he only replaced the new bedding, and the rest did not change more, and I hope that the two will be lenient." ”

Li Jing looked at Fang Xuanling with a smile, you are the head of the court, the head of the hundred officials, and when you were in Guanzhong, you were in power and power, and it can be said that one person is above ten thousand people, but your son is running a monolithic land, even if you, the old man of Zaifu, come here, you have to listen to others......

Fang Xuanling didn't care about these at all, and said with a smile: "It's very good, but it's still early at this time, you might as well accompany the two old guys to walk around, when you were in Guanzhong, you just listened to all kinds of rumors, watched all kinds of reports, and was already curious about this Huating Town, which holds the lifeblood of Jiangnan commerce." ”

Pei Xingjian said: "You should obey your orders." ”

He first sent away a group of officials from the town office, and they all stayed here for a long time, afraid that the entire Huating Town would be paralyzed, and then only a few officials were left, which led Fang Xuanling and Li Jing to walk around the town slowly.

The whole wharf was full of pedestrians, merchants, officials, officials, porters...... People are in a hurry, and they will never stay in one place for too long, as if a moment's delay will cost a great deal of wealth, and they must hurry ahead of everyone.

This kind of rhythm is completely different from the leisurely and slow Chang'an, and the contrast is extremely profound, and it is extremely unaccustomed......

Fang Xuanling sighed, looked at the hurried passers-by and the mountains of goods, shook his head and said: "Even though it is prosperous here, the worldly atmosphere is too heavy, chasing fame and fortune and forgetting the fundamentals of life, not knowing the true meaning of purity and tastelessness, too urban." ”

He is indifferent to fame and fortune, and naturally has no good impression of the businessmen who rush to make money on the dock.

In his opinion, business has to be done, but there can be no only business in life, life is in the world, making money is just to live, but if you want to live better, you obviously can't just make money.

Pei Xingjian did not bend his mind because of Fang Xuanling's backup and status, but said: "Fang Xiang's words, I dare not agree with my humble position. Obviously, the master also thinks that the primary goal is to make people have enough to eat, and only after they have enough food can they have the heart to study, and only by reading can they understand reason. The pace of life in Huating Town is more than twice as fast as that of Guanzhong, and the accumulation of wealth is more than twice as fast. Merchants should speed up their pace, otherwise the goods in demand will be bought by others, and the porter must speed up his pace, because the next job is waiting for you, slow, it is someone else's, in the newly built village behind the town office, the people spun the wool transported from the Western Regions into threads and weaved into cloth day and night, because the profits earned in the middle are several times that of farming...... However, the value they create is not only the bulging of their own family's purse bags, but also a large amount of taxes. ”

He pointed to a protruding roof not far away, apparently a tall building, and said, "There is the school in Huating Town, where all local people, children between the ages of six and twelve must attend the school, and they will eat and eat for free. Children who are not registered in the local area will need to pay a certain fee to enroll, but if a school-age child does not go to school in the school but works outside, regardless of the reason, he or she can be expelled from Huating Town! ”

Fang Xuanling and Li Jing were both a little dumbfounded.

The school of Fangjia Farm is also compulsory and free of charge, but there is no such compulsory means for outsiders.

Li Jing couldn't help frowning: "This move is a bit excessive, right?" Since it is to come to Huating Town to work, it must be a poor person who has suffered a famine or a change, and life is not easy, but you have come to ask for such coercive means, although the intention is good, but it is inevitably a little unkind. ”

Pei Xingjian shook his head and said: "Wei Gong's words are fallacious, and he dares to ask you, looking at the world, is there a place that attaches such importance to education as Huating Town?" ”

Li Jing said calmly: "Unique. ”

If your child doesn't go to school and you expel people, you attach too much importance to education, where in the world can it be compared?

Pei Xingjian asked again: "Does Wei Gong know that until the last month of this year, how many people have poured into Huating Town and taken the initiative to send school-age children to the school?" ”

Li Jing frowned and said, "How did this old man know?" ”

"The exact number of people is 117,000! The number of school-age children has reached more than 10,000, and the original school in the town has long been overwhelmed...... Pei Xingjian said, pointing to the mountain on the other side of the Wusong River: "There was originally a building built for the lecture hall, and now in the relocation of the lecture hall, it will soon become the school in the town, and it will be expanded, and the total amount of funds spent has exceeded 300,000 yuan, which is enough to accommodate 30,000 children to enroll in school at the same time." ”

In the past day, Fang Xuanling and Li Jing didn't know how many times they had been surprised, but when they heard the two numbers of 300,000 Guan and 30,000, they still couldn't hide their surprise.

300,000 yuan, what is this concept?

Even if it is a medium-sized state capital, it may not be able to collect 300,000 yuan in taxes a year, but now, Huating Town has taken it out to build a school.

What is the concept of 30,000 people?

Since Zhenguan, the society is stable, the people are abundant, the population is reproduced very fast, and the two counties of Chang'an and Wannian under the jurisdiction of Chang'an have a population of hundreds of thousands, but there is only one case in the world. Generally speaking, in a prosperous place like Jiangnan, the population of an upper county is only about 100,000, and if it is a lower county in a remote area, there may be only a few thousand......

The school in Huating Town can accommodate 30,000 children......

The total population is not two or three hundred thousand, and there is no doubt that it is the first town in the world!

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