Sun Xiangfu was once again impressed by the character of a famous city through the ages, and it is no wonder that in history, Li Shimin will give a song "The wind knows the strength of the grass, the board knows the sincerity, the brave man knows the righteousness, and the wise man must be benevolent" to Xiao, he is really a sincere and virtuous man who is loyal to the country.

Of course, Xiao's purpose in doing this is not only to take the blame for the new imperial examination system, but also to take advantage of the situation to retire again, so that more Li Shimin's irons can have the opportunity to take the position, or to give Li Shimin a chance to adjust personnel, which is a kind of political tacit understanding between them.

After understanding Xiao's thoughts, Sun Xiangfu said again, "In this way, the lower officials will release the entire imperial examination system in advance in the name of Xiao Xiang, so that candidates from all over the country can prepare for the examination according to the system as soon as possible." ”

"Well, everything is implemented according to your ideas, it is best to design the exam questions as well, the old man is not as good as you in this relatively new scheme, just implement it."

Xiao has fully recognized Sun Xiangfu's talent, if it is in the style of other ministers, it will definitely not be as bullish as him to change to the end, they will consider the reactions of all parties, and at the same time, choose some compromise or balanced methods, but Xiao, who has been up and down several times, is not afraid, and it is his consistent style to do thoroughly.

In history, he has always been a pioneer in the issue of reform, and even Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui couldn't persuade him, and some contradictions have arisen, which can be regarded as a kind of character of his! As long as he believes that it is a good thing, he will resolutely implement it, regardless of the impact on his own fame and fortune, which is also one of the reasons why Li Shimin likes to use him.

"In this case, please also ask Xiao Xiang to let the various departments of the imperial court report the number of missing manpower, majors, and specialties as soon as possible, so that we can take people according to the lack of talents in each department, as for the locality, according to the number of households in the population, let's limit a standard equipment, so that candidates who have obtained a diploma can choose their own internship location, in this way, externally, we also have a reasonable statement."

The imperial examination is a job fair for the government according to the posts of the various ministries and yamen of the imperial court, this is the purpose of Sun Xiangfu, as long as the implementation is good, like the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of being dragged down by Shen officials, the Tang Dynasty should not appear.

Whatever people are lacking, they will recruit, everyone is like this, it is reasonable, and others can't find fault. Once this kind of system is formed, in the future, when the number of officials is full and there are no vacancies, it is normal not to hold scientific examinations, and not let everyone put the hope of promotion on the imperial examination, then the channels for others to get ahead will become more important, so that there will be a situation in which a hundred flowers bloom in the workplace.

After the implementation of this system, the imperial court only supported a small number of interns, and if they only met the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation, the treatment was similar to that of a worker, and the cost could be negligible.

After becoming an intern for an official, you need to be recognized by the leaders of various departments, and the magistrates also need to be recognized by the people, so when most of the officials take office, they actually already have a certain working ability and mass base, which will make all the functional departments of the imperial court more efficient when they operate.

In order to maintain the mass base, the officials serving in the localities do not dare to wantonly bend the law for bribes and oppress the people.

Sun Xiangfu still has to think about the exam questions slowly, competing for the demand for various professionals, and he needs to set different degrees of difficulty.

Like liberal arts officials, the imperial court must be lacking, but the number of applicants will also be very large, and if the questions are set a little harder, most people can be excluded, and over time, they will automatically transfer to the profession of being a good test and easy to be a chief official, just like the Xiucai Department that was more popular at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty scientific examination history, but was later abolished, the winning rate is too low, and naturally no one will take the test for a long time.

There is nothing wrong with the pursuit of profit by man, and as long as the rulers do a good job of guidance, the problem can basically be solved.

After talking about the imperial examination, Sun Xiangfu talked to Ma Zhou about the matter of Weinan New Town, he didn't go to the scene to see it, Sun Xiangfu didn't know the specific progress of the entire new city, of course, he is not the person in charge of Weinan New Town, and it is not his turn to take care of this matter, he just negotiated with Ma Zhou on some needs according to the imperial court's requisition task.

"Governor Ma, I won't ask about the overall progress of the new city, now, you tell me first, when the smelter can start production at the earliest, and the weapons and equipment of more than 200,000 troops can only be quickly met by the Weinan smelter."

Hearing this, Ma Zhou did not hesitate to say, "If the technical workers of Xingfu Village can send more over, the smelter can start production before the Spring Festival, but our factory is so big, I am afraid that all kinds of metal ores will not be available at that time." "Ma Zhou has a difficult face.

The large smelting workshop of Weinan New Town, after the completion of the main building, has been named Datang Smelter, is the first project to start construction in Weinan New Town, from the beginning of construction to the present, it has lasted for more than half a year, the basic production workshop houses have all been built, the production line in the workshop is built, but it needs to be slowly explored and built, in fact, most of them are also the various facilities and production lines of the smelting workshop of Happy Village to enlarge and increase, just because there are too few skilled workers, compared to building a house, It's a lot slower.

Sun Xiangfu knew that even if this smelter was built, it was estimated that it would only be able to have one or two production lines in the first two years, because craftsmen needed time to train, and with the cultural level and learning ability of people in this period, it may take many times as long to train a steel mill production workers.

Therefore, there is no urgency, and the current social demand is not as big as that of the future generations, and it can make things one or two times faster than before, which is enough to make the whole world tremble.

"Governor Ma, the matter of the mine, if you publish a message in the newspaper, it will almost be solved, and you will say that the imperial court wants to sell the minerals in the territory to the outside world, whether it is gold, silver, copper and iron, a family with a certain mining capacity, or, a state and county collective, or even a collective organized by the people, they can come to bargain, in addition to being able to use the mined ore to offset the mining right, they can also directly buy minerals and mine them themselves, but the minerals sold need to sign some supply agreements with the imperial court."

As soon as Sun Xiangfu's words came out, Ma Zhou suddenly had a feeling that he saw Shanyang's investment promotion plan, and hurriedly asked, "Sun Dudu, this mineral is the resource of the imperial court, the public property of the state, will it be inappropriate to sell it to private individuals?" ”

"How could it be inappropriate! Those things are also put away, sold to the people for mining, the court will have it immediately, not to mention, but also earn a large amount of income, the governor has His Majesty's requisition order in his hand, these sold minerals will be regarded as a part of the imperial court levied by the governor! ”

Li Shimin's privilege of leviing Sun Xiangfu was used for the first time on the royal estate. The second time it was used on the resources of the imperial court, and so far, there is no intention of reaching out to the people, but Du Ruhui is anxious for a long time.

Then, Sun Xiangfu talked about his suggestions on the specific operation of the mineral project, and Ma Zhou and Xiao listened to it with a lot of brilliance on their faces.

Due to the technical reasons of this period, the mining of minerals is a very time-consuming and labor-intensive project, which is generally controlled by the government or powerful families, although there are huge profits, but only a small number of wealthy families and elite classes, and does not play a role in enriching the people, on the contrary, because the government or the family lacks mining labor, and many people are harmed.

The imperial court now needs tens of millions of ordnance, most of which are steel, so the demand for the mine is bound to skyrocket, Sun Xiangfu put the entry point on the mine, not only to solve the army's ordnance problem, but also to take this opportunity to formulate rules for the mining industry, so that it can bring benefits to the people.

First of all, Sun Xiangfu set some conditions for the purchase of imperial court minerals, buyers want to buy minerals, like those families who participated in the auction in the north, to get the land, you have to prove that you have the strength to develop the land, then to open the mine, you have to prove that you have a certain mining capacity.

Then, the imperial court only accepted the mined ore to offset most of the cost of purchasing the minerals, signed a stable supply agreement with the imperial court, or directly sold the mined minerals to the smelter at a price.

In this way, the imperial court did not need to do anything to revitalize many mines that had been discovered but were not capable of mining, so that they could continuously send ore to the smelter.

Moreover, Sun Xiangfu has a very wide audience, for example, a county, or a state and county has mineral resources, then, the county government or the state government, or even the local people themselves can organize themselves, sign an agreement with the imperial court, and then mine, of which seventy percent of the output is used to deduct the cost of purchasing mines from the imperial court, and the other three percent can be sold into money to distribute benefits to all workers participating in mining.

After all, in addition to the busy farming time, ordinary people still have a lot of spare time to work, especially now that the price of grain is cheap, and the money that people go to mine and sell is more than the money they get from farming, many people will choose to open mines and give up farming, which can be regarded as a kind of adjustment to the market.

I believe that for this kind of high-quality industry that can be passed down from generation to generation, the children of the family must be very interested, look at the Wei family, just bought a few coal mines in Guanzhong, how rich are they now?

You know, iron, but not a valuable item that is not sold, is worth more than coal, this kind of industry, that family doesn't want it?

If you want, you can, you can fight for it, Sun Xiangfu is worried about the lack of military spending! Sell a few mines, get all the military expenses needed, and then go to other countries to grab several times the number of mines, this business is not too cost-effective.

Moreover, the abundance of metal minerals will greatly promote the development of the country, which is some invisible benefits.

"The lower officials ask more, do all workers involved in mining projects have to sign a labor agreement like Shanyang?"

"In order for the people who are engaged in mineral mining to enjoy the fruits of their labor, all families or organizations that buy or sign mining agreements with the imperial court should sign agreements with hired laborers or other forms of laborers, so as to protect their interests and facilitate the imperial court's management of the entire industry."

"Sun Dudu's talent is beyond expectations, in this case, for the country's mineral resources, we also have to conduct a comprehensive inventory, which also requires Xiao Xiang to issue an order to the local officials as soon as possible, and the officials think that the sale of minerals can also be an auction like Shanyang, not to mention other places, Guanzhong and Luoyang, which can quickly reach Chang'an, need to get it up first, so that the ore can be transported to the smelter as soon as possible."

determined how to do it, with Ma Zhou's talent, Sun Xiangfu didn't need to explain more at all, Sun Xiangfu agreed with his follow-up plan, nodded and said, "Yes, it will be operated as soon as possible, it is best before the end of the year, the ore from all the mines has been transported to the smelter in advance." ”

"Xia Guan understands, however, in addition, the other industries in my Weinan New City will not start operating until next year, and the help for the governor's other levy tasks is very limited, and I ask the governor to find more ways to solve it by himself."

Next year, the various industries in Xingfu Village will indeed be able to start production, but after the new year, it will soon enter the busy period of spring ploughing and farming, and the people need to go back to work in the fields for a period of time, and there is really not much time to do armament things before the summer grain harvest.

However, now the problems of weapons, clothing, and food, Sun Xiangfu has solved most of them, and the rest is not so difficult to complete, farewell to the two of them, Sun Xiangfu did not go home directly, while it was still dark, went straight to the military headquarters, before he saw the information of the military department's requisition of war preparation materials in the past, he was really a little bit of a black feeling.