Wang Mang came fast and walked faster.

He only stayed in Xinfeng for one afternoon, and led the cavalry overnight, and under the protection of the arsenal cavalry who had rushed to Xinfeng in advance, he brought the three assassins captured by Zhang Yue back to Chang'an.

However, before leaving, Wang Mang revealed a message to Zhang Yue - the Wuheng archer captured by him was indeed Li Ling's subordinate.

To be precise, it was the deserter of the army that Li Ling was defeated in Junji Mountain!

Moreover, he was not only a deserter, but almost all the assassins were deserters.

Deserters from all wars.

That's where it gets interesting.

The fact that a deserter was recruited can also be explained as accidental.

Eight Assassins, deserters from many wars, eventually come together.

If there are no ghosts in this, who will believe it?

A mere Taiyuan Bai clan is just a local hero, no matter how great the ability is, it is impossible to achieve this point.

Not to mention, that Wuheng deserter was holding a rhubarb crossbow in his hand!

At the beginning, Zhou Yafu's son quietly and privately made 500 armor weapons for the funeral in order to save some dead burial weapons for Zhou Yafu, and let Zhou Yafu go to prison.

The sensitivity and danger of this rhubarb crossbow are more than 10,000 times that of those that have no practical use and are purely good-looking.

Not to mention, with such dangerous goods, he openly entered Guanzhong and swaggered in Xinfeng, which was so close to Chang'an.

This illustrates......

The rebels and rebels lurking in the Guanzhong are probably very capable, and there are a lot of them!

Otherwise, how could such a thing happen?

Wang Mang was in high spirits, while Zhang Yue was worried.

But he had no way and no ability to get involved.

This matter is no longer something he can meddle in and interfere in.

After Wang Mang left, Xinfeng returned to calm.

Soon, the day of the public examination arrived.

…………………………

In the summer of the first year of Yanhe, June (18th), it was a full ten days after Zhang Yue took office.

Xinfeng County's first public examination to recruit and admit officials officially kicked off.

Early in the morning, the entire Xinfeng City has been occupied by young people and their parents from all over the county and even from Linxian and even Chang'an.

After the assassin incident, all the landlords and nobles in Guanzhong have been convinced of one fact - the new Xinfeng Ling and the servant Zhang Zizhong is indeed a promising and shining star worth following and investing in!

Sooner or later, he will go into battle.

The upper limit may be Changping Liehou, and it is more likely to be the champion Jing Henghou.

Relying on supreme martial arts and invincible military exploits, he opened up and established his own era, and established his own military merit aristocratic group.

Just like the Weihuo military aristocratic group, it looks at the world, crisscrosses the four seas, and is invincible in the world.

and ultimately influence and decide on national politics.

Even if it is the lower limit, it is a new Hercynian Syndrome.

At least it can create a new war frenzy, just like the Haixi Hou launched the Dawan War, leading tens of millions of people to glory and wealth.

Such a golden thigh is rare in a hundred years.

Maybe the three princes and nine kings at the top level and the relatives and princes still have to take care of it and be reserved.

The people below don't have so many concerns.

In particular, the middle and lower class scholars, aristocrats, and merchants almost heard the news.

In just a few days, the number of applicants for the public examination has skyrocketed from only 300 to 1,000, and by yesterday's deadline for registration, the number of applicants even climbed to 1,457!

The number of applicants for the Xinfeng nationality has even dropped to less than 30% of the total number.

And with so many applicants, there are only fifty-four positions left for them.

The tallest is nothing more than a 400-stone Shinfeng Cao rafter.

The lowest position is even just a clerical officer, the so-called temporary worker.

That is, an average of thirty people compete for a position.

If you change somewhere else, other times.

I'm afraid that many celebrities will rise up on the case, shout insulting Sven, and then walk away with their sleeves - what do you think of my generation of scholars? Street hawkers? Or is it a businessman in the market who must compete for baht?

Yes?

Do you still want to get mixed up?

Still shameless?

But in Xinfeng City, most of the young people and their parents are full of excitement, and they are eager to try.

A marquis of Changping and a champion who can mix with the future, at least it is also an opportunity for Haixi Hou?

It's a real ladder to the top!

It's just that......

Many people looked around and saw that there were too many competitors.

In particular, the powerful nobles of Xinfeng's local origin are now furious.

Looking at those people from Huxian and Nanling and even Chang'an, their eyes were about to burst into flames.

This is the grand meeting of my Xinfeng election officials, not what you are waiting for!

Why are you robbing it?

However, they don't have a good solution.

Those who came from Linxian and Chang'an were not vegetarians.

Moreover, the heroes of Xinfeng are also afraid that they will make trouble and attract suppression.

So, I can only just watch.

At most, a few words of slander will give those strangers some looks.

The few merchants in Xinfeng City instantly seemed to have come to heaven.

The influx of a large number of people has made their products and goods almost unmarketable.

Thousands of scholars who applied for the exam, as well as parents and entourages who were several times as many, immediately bought up the entire Xinfeng.

Grain, cloth, oil and salt, inkstones, inkstones, and bamboo slips......

Almost all the items were sold out.

Merchants make money to the point of hand cramps.

Cute little money money, spread all over their cash cabinets.

And those guys who used to leave because of fear or other reasons before Zhang Yue took office, now regret that their intestines are green.

I knew that this new county was so promising.

So......

Even if it is death, they will not give up.

Now, I gave up on my own initiative and gave away those sought-after positions to others.

………………………………

Zhang Yue is immersed in wealth at the moment.

A full three thousand golden cakes were densely piled up in his sight.

"Teacher, this is a ...... sent by my father's disciples" Yuan Chang was beside him, and said with a happy face: "My father said that after discussing the 80 million bonds required by the servants, everyone was willing to buy them after discussing them with many big men and righteous merchants in Guanzhong...... At most, the 80 million funds can be received in the account! ”

The sale of bonds went smoothly beyond imagination.

After hearing that it was mortgaged by Xinfeng's taxes, the big names in the entire Guanzhong were all moved.

There are even people who don't want interest and want to invest.

Because, Xinfeng is the eldest grandson's food town, and it is the territory of 'Zhang Chiyou', and the Liu family is somewhere else, maybe the grass is sparse.

But in the matter of debt, it is extremely creditworthy!

The state owes money, and it has always been borrowed and must be repaid!

Not to mention, even if you take out the money and buy a ticket that can have a chance to get on the Changsun boat, it is worth it.

This kind of opportunity is not something that can be easily encountered.

And now, this batch of bonds not only stipulates the repayment period, but also the interest!

Bonds can also be used to offset commercial tax, calculation and field tax!

What better investment opportunity could there be?

Without!

Especially after the news of Zhang Yue's counter-killing of the assassin spread, the last trace of scruples and worries of the merchants disappeared.

Countless people waved the five-baht money and gold in their hands, crying and shouting that they would also buy a bond.

Pity......

They were still too slow to react, and Yuan Guangguo and his relatives and friends had already digested all the bonds internally.

Leave less than 10 million for others to scramble for.

As far as Yuan Chang knew, the 10 million bonds were immediately divided.

Zhang Yue listened, and he was also gearing up and feeling full of energy.

In this world, it is easy to do things when you have money.

Even the state!

With this money, he can do a big job in Xinfeng!

However, the goals and objectives have been fine-tuned.

In the past, he was just thinking about building Xinfeng well and making the people of Xinfeng prosperous.

But now, he has a new goal - to build Xinfeng into a barracks!

Let the young people of the Yanhe generation become strong and well-trained elite soldiers.

Then, take them to conquer a big territory and conquer that big world!

Even better, this goal does not conflict with the previous goal at all.

Xinfeng construction is good - how to build well? Of course, it is to balance the wealth gap and re-establish a strong middle-class group as the backbone of society.

Prosperity of the people? The growing middle class means that the better the life of the people.

And the children of middle-class homesteaders have always been the main source of soldiers for the Han army, and they are also the best source of soldiers!

However, just Xinfeng is good, but it is not enough to support his ambitions.

Zhang Yue squinted his eyes and looked at Yuan Chang, his cheap disciple, then smiled and said to Yuan Chang: "Yuan Chang, the teacher wants you to help the teacher do something......

When Yuan Chang heard this, he immediately bowed down with great interest: "Teacher, please instruct, the disciple must go to the soup and fight hard to do it!" ”

For this teacher, Yuan Chang is now completely convinced.

Not only is the talent extremely high, but even the force value is unimaginably high.

Now, he doesn't know how much cooler he is when he goes out than before.

In the past, people only knew that he was the only son of Yuan Guangguo, an upstart, and a second ancestor.

People may be afraid of his wealth and his family's power.

But there is not much respect for him.

But now, as soon as you go out, who doesn't bow down and say hello when you go out?

Even the few aristocratic ladies he once admired were now staring at him with admiration and adoration, eager to marry into the Yuan family immediately.

and the previous love to ignore and cold as ice, it is like two people.

Of course, Yuan Chang understood that this was because he was the only disciple of the teacher, and he was a disciple of the Great Han Shizhong and Xinfeng Ling.

"I have recently designed several fishing instruments for the master......" Zhang Yue blinked his eyes, stuffed a piece of silk cloth to the other party, and said: "Since you are a disciple of the master, then go and find someone to make these kinds of fishing equipment, and then go to Liaodong or Jiaozhi Seashore to buy a few fishing boats to fish......

"Fishing?" Yuan Chang didn't know why, and his face was full of questions.

"Of course!" Zhang Yue chuckled and said, "Sea fish, that's an inexhaustible resource......

"And among these fishing equipment designed for the teacher, two of them can even kill giant whales!"

The silk depicts several common fishing gear used by Zhang Yue on fishing boats that were active in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans between the 17th and 18th centuries in continental Europe.

Examples include primitive trawls, long-line fishing gear, and harpoons for whaling.

Zhang Yue once proposed to Sang Hongyang that he take the fleet of buildings to go fishing in the waters of Liaodong and Jiaozhi and Panyu.

Unfortunately, the bureaucracy's ability to act is sluggish until it is stimulated or in a crisis.

There is no way, Zhang Yue can only let the Yuan family take the lead.

The fishery resources in the ocean are abundant beyond your imagination in this day and age.

Countless fish that have been turned into luxuries and delicacies in later generations are now all over the land.

Yellow-lipped fish, worth millions, may now be a meal for fishermen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In later generations, the whale group, which has long been a protected animal, is even more overflowing.

As for those schools of fish that are famous for the number of groups, if you just cast a net, you may be able to catch dozens of catties.

Therefore, Dasi Nong's fishing fleet in Qilu can wipe out the fish in the coastal waters of Qilu, and he is really a talent.

It's a pity that these scum, Qilu doesn't know how to change places after fishing.

What a shame!

And Zhang Yue will set off a great conquest for his own ambition and desire for war in the future.

In the process, the availability of food, especially meat, will determine success or failure, and at least how far his army can fight?

Nowadays, the meat of the Han army is mainly beef and mutton.

Especially beef.

But, soon this era will pass.

Because, when cattle farming technology is promoted, cattle become a protected livestock.

I can't eat beef happily anymore.

As for lamb? One is more fishy, and the other is that the supply is too small.

Zhang Yue had no choice but to explore the fishery resources of the ocean.

Moreover, marine resources must be harnessed as soon as possible.

He couldn't wait, the bureaucrats moved slowly.

Therefore, private capital can only be allowed to take the lead.

Zhang Yue also believes that as long as the Yuan family makes a profit from fishing on the seashore, the Han people's pursuit and pursuit of wealth will be followed.

In a few years, the entire empire's maritime frontier will be full of fishing boats.

Large quantities of marine fish will be dried and shipped to the mainland and north.

Fishing would be the fuel and driving force for the empire's external expansion.

Therefore, protect the Ministry of Agriculture and expand the territory and fishery bureau!

Yuan often listened, but it was one by one, but it didn't matter, he had a lot of money in his family, and he was not afraid of wasting it.

Holding the silk cloth, he nodded without thinking much and said, "Teacher, please rest assured, the disciple will send someone to do it as soon as he returns......"

There was no need to even alarm his father, he took a little out of his pocket money, and sent a few more diners and slaves to preside over it, and at most a lesser-regarded side disciple to keep an eye on it.