It is now June 24 of the ninth year of Chongde, and the news of the capital and the north in the newspapers is about ten days ago, that is, in early June. It seems that the post station from the imperial court to Fujian Road usually takes eight to nine days to rush over, and then the newspapers and societies select the latest military and political news from the north one day later.

For a successful evening newspaper, these military and political events may not be of interest to the people, for example, Xu Zixian in the past turned over these directly and did not read them.

But these things must be there, otherwise the tone of the newspaper will be much lowered.

The first thing is, of course, the major event of the Donghu invasion in May of the ninth year of Chongde, Donghu broke through the border defense of the Great Wall with tens of thousands of cavalry, more than a dozen prefectures and counties were breached, dozens of envoys, defense envoys, or prefects, prefectures, and counties, and the commanders were killed in battle, and the losses in the northern Beijing division were extremely heavy, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were either killed or captured.

Donghu also tried to attack Zhending or Daimyofu, but was pacified by Hebei East Road so that Li Guorui led more than ten troops to block in Cangzhou and Dingzhou, several battles down the Donghu people lost not small, to July, the frustrated Donghu people began to withdraw, Li Guorui recaptured a lot of people, in early August, the territory of the Donghu soldiers have been withdrawn, the north and the Beijing division is safe.

The newspaper was full of jubilation, and there was no lack of praise for important ministers like Li Guorui, and the imperial court had already rewarded Li Guorui with 10 million dollars, and at the same time awarded the three divisions of the opening of the government, Li Guorui's entry into the two governments was almost a foregone conclusion, and it could be regarded as a war to become famous.

Xu Zixian shook his head slightly, now the newspapers are quite optimistic, thinking that Donghu has lost all his sharpness, and may not dare to enter the customs again, this dynasty has a Jingshi to guard the north, and the Great Wall is intact, and the Donghu people can only fight the grass valley when they come in, and there is no fundamental threat to Sheji.

Moreover, there are commentators' articles in the newspaper, talking about Li Guorui, the pacification envoy of Hebei East Road, Jia Sunlan, the pacification envoy of Hebei West Road, and Zhang Shiji of Hedong Road...... The Donghu people can't turn the sky.

Xu Zixian shook his head and smiled bitterly, he also thought the same way before he was reborn, in terms of national strength, there are more than 20 roads in the Great Wei, and there are dozens of military ...... Two thousand five hundred men per army, five battalions per battalion, five hundred men per battalion, five men per battalion, one hundred men per battalion, two guards per battalion, fifty men per post, five teams per sentry, ten men per team, and two corps divided into two corps.

The five armies have 12,500 people as a box, and the box is the largest military unit, and the military generals can lead up to 12,500 people, and the only people who can control the actions of the chambers together are the civilian officials, that is, the pacification envoys of the pacification envoys of the Zhulu.

There were 1.2 million regular troops in the entire Great Wei, collectively known as the forbidden army, and hundreds of thousands of van troops, which were under the command of local moderation, and were divided into city defense battalions, river defense battalions, river defense battalions, or each village, which was used to defend against pirates and mountain bandits.

The financial revenue of the Great Wei was 160 million guan a year, 100 million guan during the founding of Taizu, 300 million guan during the reign of Wenzong, 210 million guan during the reign of Xiaozong, 180 million guan during the reign of Wuzong, and continued to decline during the reign of Xuanzong, and only 160 million guan during the Chongde period.

Fiscal revenues are declining, the army is booming, and the expenditures are huge, so we can only increase the squeeze on the small people, and the non-governmental industry and commerce are developed and trade is developed, but they are becoming more and more impoverished, and the army and the ranks of officials are getting bigger and bigger, and the expenses are increasing.

Looking at the military and political version accounted for Xu Zixian's time, and then turning the social and people's livelihood version, but first looking at the prices.

Meat, fish, grain, and all kinds of livelihood prices have a slight pullback, which is normal, and prices will fall back in the summer.

There are also a lot of advertisements for all kinds of investment and recruitment, a ship yard recruits familiar craftsmen, and the daily salary is 200 yuan a day, which must be a high salary, and it is estimated that it is difficult to find skilled craftsmen.

A restaurant recruits a guy with a daily salary of 80 yuan, including two meals a day...... It's not bad either.

A commercial bank recruits apprentices, including food and housing, no wages, and a teacher in five years.

A novelist recruits assistants who write well and quickly, 100 essays a day, and the novelist dictates and the assistants recruit transcriptions.

The Xiang army selected a new army among the displaced people in Zhangzhou, and the settlement fee was five yuan, and the daily money was forty wen, of course, including food and accommodation.

The Sentencing Department cracked a closed room murder case, this case has been out for a long time, Xu Zixian has paid attention to it, locked the three people in the room, one person died after dawn, only one door in the secret room was locked from the outside, and the inside was blocked with a door bolt, inside and outside the secret room, one person died but one of the two was the murderer, and the murderer turned out to be someone else.

Xu Zi watched this case with relish first, and it took a long time to move his gaze.

A snack bar has invented a new fish soup cake, and heroes from all walks of life are welcome to taste it.

An unspeakable entertainment venue has a new batch of young goddesses, welcoming new and old customers to ...... Well, it's still unspeakable.

Xu Zixian frowned sometimes and smiled at the time, he had already realized that the social section of the newspaper was much more interesting than the military and political edition. The military and political version is lifeless, and the imperial court seems to be unable to raise the energy of everything, like an old man who is in the waning mountains, and the officials have been messing around a lot, and there has never been anything that can make people's eyes shine on military affairs.

On the contrary, the civil society version, full of vitality, there are always whimsical ideas to attract people's attention, from this version, the private economy of the Great Wei is still quite active and developed, and the citizen culture is also quite developed.

Opening another edition is a big advertisement, and opening another edition is also ...... It seems that the selling price of newspapers is not very high, and newspaper companies have to make a considerable profit from advertising.

Another version is the literary version, Xu Zixian actually received a fairly complete Confucian education since he was a child, and the clans of the Great Wei Dynasty can be out of office, and each clan directly obtains the identity of a Wenju person or a Wuju person, and then goes to Beijing to participate in the lock hall examination of the Jinshi level.

The difficulty of the locked hall examination is much lower than that of the normal imperial examination, and the clan becomes a scholar or a martial scholar after passing the locked hall examination, and then becomes an official of both civil and military affairs.

Xu Yingbin, the marquis of Nan'an, used to be a martial artist, and then slowly rose to the top of the clan's military ministers, the defense envoy of a state.

The defense envoy is only a real position of the fifth grade, and it is also the apex of the military officials that the Great Wei clan can serve.

There is no upper limit for civil officials, but generally speaking, the clan is not allowed to serve as the prime minister, and the current right minister Xu Xiashang is a distant sect with five suits, and he is a very popular minister before the dynasty that is very strict against the clan, and he is also a well-known Confucian, so he can enter the two governments to govern.

In recent years, the status of Xu Xiashang has gradually become unstable, and everyone in the court and the opposition knows that Emperor Chongde is more wary of the clan because he is a pro-vassal family, and he is generally not allowed to let the clan serve in Beijing, and the slightest opportunity to put the clan in Jiangling or Fuzhou, and the clan Jinshi after the hall test is also all placed in the local office, so as not to let him stay in Beijing, in case the clan is born in Beijing, and even threaten the imperial power.

Xu Yingbin once hoped that Xu Zixian could take the Chinese Jinshi exam, so that his life would be much smoother, and he could accumulate family resources, the first two generations of Nan'an Marquis were sitting on the mountain, Xu Yingbin was admitted to the Wujin Shi and became an official, and he was rich, but unfortunately he was defeated by the Qishan thieves in a few years, and committed suicide under the threat of imprisonment.

This is also the reason why the last two generations of marquis are reluctant to be officials, Wen Jinshi is too difficult to test, Wu Jinshi is the way of military attachés, the court rarely asks about civil officials, but it is quite harsh on military officials, and the officials are generous, but the risks also follow.

Most of the people who can run rampant in the text page of the newspaper are the celebrities of Fujian Road, most of them have the fame of lifting people or jinshi, at least they must be talents who are not more than 30 years old, and they can barely be called the existence of young celebrities.

The subject matter is mainly poems and songs, most of which are poems and lyrics, and there are also small sections of opera texts, and most of the operas circulating in the market are written by these celebrities.

Commentary novels are not elegant, and can only be published in the social edition.

From many names, Xu Zixian really saw the most familiar one, the brother of Zhao Wangfu, the young man, the literary talent is amazing, although the clan can not participate in the normal scientific examination, but he is incognito, less than twenty years old in the Fujian road examination in the peak of literature and education, was cited as a prodigy, and then participated in the lock hall test, became a formal dynasty jinshi, in his thirties, he sat in Jianzhou Tongju, when the world was a great Confucian.

Just when the spring breeze was proud, the Donghu people came.

Xu Zixian thought of the situation when his father died depressed, and sighed unconsciously.

"Brother, the way of literature is just a small way." The little sister saw that Xu Zixian was lamenting to the literary version, and she didn't think of the rumors, and couldn't help but comfort her brother.

The corners of Xu Zixian's mouth twitched a few times, he fainted at the time, it was just the sequelae of the just crossing, and it was rumored that he fainted after thinking the Yaji, which was really a disaster.

"Eat, eat, eat." Xu Zi put down the newspaper first and began to bury his head in eating, and if he didn't eat, it would be cold.

The little sister covered her mouth and laughed, her eyes crooked, as if hiding a pool of autumn water. Xiuniang on the side couldn't help but smile, her brows were furrowed, Xiao Yiran didn't know why everyone was laughing, she looked left and right, and she also laughed.

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After dinner, Xu Ming took a lamp and Xu Zi went back to the main room of the north courtyard to rest, all around was dark, there were not too many residences near the courtyard, and there was no trace of human voices, if you pushed the door out from the back house door, there was a large vegetable field during the day, and there was only a large area of black at night, and occasionally you could see the ghost fire floating.

Xu Zi first went to the wing room and took a bath with hot water, changed into light clothes, and just sat down to pick up a book and read it, when the little servant Xu Ming came in and said, "Shizi, Lord Fengchang Li is here." ”

Fengchang Li Yi walked over with a frown, and saw Xu Zi bowing one after another.

This person is wearing the robe of a seven-rank civil official, with a head with a foot on his head, and the snow-white lining and cyan official robe are ironed very flat, which shows that this is a meticulous and rigorous person.

Li Yi is in his forties, and he is very blessed with big ears, and he has become famous by raising people, because he has no connections, he can only be a small official, and later he was appreciated by Xu Yingbin, the Marquis of Nan'an, who went to Beijing to meet, and took him back to Fuzhou directly, which is considered to be a grace of knowledge.

Li Yi is a northerner, and it is inconvenient to come to Fuzhou, but fortunately, Xu Yingbin trusts him very much, and after a long time, he is quite qualified to be a regular official of the Hou Mansion.

The Great Wei clan system is different from the previous dynasty, the prince may not be able to be crowned king, the first generation of Nan'an Marquis is the prince, but because the status of the mother concubine is not high, the ability is very mediocre, not liked by Emperor Wenzong, only the marquis, and did not stay in Beijing, nor did he go to Jiangling, but went to Fuzhou here.

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