"This thief is ...... It's really different from our Fuzhou. The boat was sailing on the sea, drifting, and there was still light snow in the sky, Zhang Huchen spit out a mouthful of snow and raised his head to curse God.

It was already the second day of the second month of February, and on the day when the commonly known dragon raised its head, Xu Zixian and others who went north by boat finally arrived in the open sea area of Jinhaizhai.

All the way to the north, less sea ships, Fuzhou port is far less than Quanzhou, but there are also a large number of ships moored in the port, to the sea off Quanzhou, sailing ships constantly, even if it is the New Year, it is also a piece of sails, almost not broken.

When the two Zhejiang roads are off the sea, Mingzhou, Chuzhou, and Hangzhou also have their own ports, and the trade is also quite developed.

Then to Gangneung, three lucky ships anchored to replenish fresh water, and also saw the world of flowers in Gangneung...... With a population of more than one million and a circumference of more than 70 li, Jiangling is the largest city in the Great Wei Dynasty and much larger than Yanjing. The place where the dragon and tiger meet, the ancient capital of the previous dynasties, the capital of the Great Wei Dynasty was also set here, it is the economic center of the southeast, the industrial center, the cultural and educational center, and the military and government center. The Great Wei had 56 forbidden armies in Jiangling alone, and there were only 5 armies in Fujian, which shows how important Jiangling's strategic position is. And Jiangling has three deputy envoys in charge of financial planning, a privy deputy envoy in charge of military affairs, the Metropolitan Governor's Office manages the Xiang Army, and also supervises the forbidden army, and there is also a metropolitan envoy, who is the palace attendant, responsible for coming to be the supervisor of the army, in addition to the military department, patrol envoys and other multi-level supervision and management, all six departments are set up in Gangneung, and each ministry has a squire resident in Gangneung.

In terms of clans, Jiangling's clans are also the most, with eleven princes and more than 130 princes, accounting for more than eighty percent of the Great Wei clans, and only a small number of the remaining clans are in Beijing, most of them are small sects, in Beijing Shouzong Temple, far branch clans, and the title is also low, but there is no need to worry about them mixing up in Beijing, interfering in the political situation, and committing many lawlessness.

Of course, the rest are in Fuzhou, Jingshi, Jiangling, Fuzhou, and most of the Great Wei clans have settled in these three places.

Of course, there are also many clans scattered outside the country as officials, but once they resign or are dismissed, they need to return to Jiangling or Fuzhou, and they are not allowed to settle outside without authorization.

This is the law of the clan of the imperial court, which allows the clan to take examinations, be officials, and even conduct business, and all walks of life are allowed, but they are not allowed to settle down outside the specified place, so as not to disturb the people, and have strange thoughts, and it is also forbidden to open factories and mines, so as not to gather strong men and plot against them.

There are a lot of clans and officials in Jiangling, plus it was originally a big city with developed culture and education, and prosperous industry and commerce, with Jiangling Mansion as a city, it is enough to cover the financial income of many places all the way, and even Fuzhou and Quanzhou are added together, and Hangzhou has to be added to compete with Jiangling.

As for the city of Suzhou, which is hundreds of miles away, it is also a place where culture, education, industry and commerce are extremely developed, and its economic strength is not below Jiangling, but its status as a military and political center is far from that of Jiangling.

Xu Zixian originally wanted to take everyone to broaden their horizons, and anchored in Jiangling for three days, in addition to visiting Jiangling City, he also went to Danyang and Zhenjiang and other places to feel the customs of Jiangnan.

Zhang Huchen, Lin Cunxin and others were shocked by the affluence of Jiangling, but at the same time, they were also surprised that the folk customs in Jiangling and other places were too extravagant.

Not only the rich, but even ordinary people wear more silk and satin, and many men apply grease and powder like women, and their morale is not only extravagant, but also feminine, which simply makes Zhang Huchen and other martial artists stunned.

There are too many clan and civil and military officials, too many big businessmen, and too many young scholars, which also makes the Qinhuai River ten miles full of flowers, and there are more than 1,000 flower boats of all kinds.

It's a pity that these flower boats are almost all rejected by these martial artists from Fujian.

The prostitutes and women on the flower boat are counting on those civil officials, celebrities, and famous students to help, they have been learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, hoping to become a famous prostitute. Once you become famous, you don't have to pick up customers every day, and you can make a lot of money by singing and singing with those famous people's poems and wine.

On the Qinhuai River, I don't know how many stories there are about joys and sorrows, as long as you get on this river, you can become famous again, and the end is always much better than those inferior prostitutes and women who make money purely with their bodies.

Zhang Huchen and the others all held their breath, only to know that this world is really something that money can't buy.

Those poet prostitutes saw that they were handsome and famous, and they were afraid that they would be invited on the boat even if they were paying money, but they were too lazy to entertain this group of martial artists from Fujian, although they were not so bored that they rolled their eyes to refuse guests, and the coldness in their bones was still quite obvious.

In the evening, everyone is too popular, and they can only go to those inferior places, and it is inevitable that they will be depressed.

Fortunately, Jiangling was only delayed for three days, and Xu Zixian was afraid that if it continued, the atmosphere here would affect ordinary soldiers.

Fuzhou is already a rich and prosperous place, the atmosphere is still much more frugal and heavy than Jiangling, in this city, even the most ordinary people, the village men who pick dung and farm at night, wear turbans and hats in the morning, go to the teahouse to drink tea, watch the mansion, and discuss current affairs.

The scholars often gather in groups of three or five, gather to make trouble, the prestige of the government is not enough, the government decree is not enforced, and the local chaos is also quite obvious, but it is different from Fuzhou, Fuzhou is a frequent pirate, Jingnan is a group of mountain people, but here in Jiangling, it is completely different.

Xu Xiashang, the right minister, was quite disdainful of these scholars.

Although the clan and Qingliu are not incompatible, they are obviously two people.

Qingliu thought that the clan was too cunning and got something for nothing, and their own family also opened a trading house, lent usury, and sucked blood from the people's heads, but they turned a blind eye, and turned their heads to criticize the clan for wasting the people's fat and people's ointment, double standards, but what they said was loud.

Xu Xiashang's evaluation hit the nail on the head, there are all kinds in the country, only Jiangling is a thief!

Xu Zixian is not as angry as the old man on the right, but he doesn't think much of this kind of declining morale.

If the morale is not good, it will only make the local morale worse, the Great Wei is not Qin's law to govern the country, nor is it the way of the Han family Huang Lao, but Confucianism has the upper hand, Confucian scholars, if they are not upright, the impact on the local area is actually quite bad.

Since leaving Jiangling, Xu Zixian's feeling is still a glimpse of the wind and his gains are not deep, but the trip to the north is quite important, and he can only set sail again and go straight to Beijing.

The journey to the north is completely different after Gangneung.

The number of sea ships gradually decreased, and when they arrived in Dengzhou and Laizhou, these three lucky ships could also be called big ships, more of them were two-masted hard sails, more than ten meters long or even less than ten meters, and could only accommodate less than ten people, similar to small boats like sailors' big sentinel ships.

This kind of ship can transport dozens of stone rice grain at a time, mainly in Shandong and other places of the sea boats, if there is not a sea Cao, I am afraid that there will be fewer ships.

Shandong East Road, Shanxi Road, Henan Road, Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, Hedong Road, these northern inland provinces, in comparison with the local more conservative, industry and commerce are much more backward than the south, there are many gentry, the local area is not rich, resulting in more big landlords than the south, because the industry and commerce are not developed, the rich gentry at most open a few commercial houses, and the rest of the money is used to buy land, which makes the average degree of wealth far less than that of the north in the south, and the price of land is much higher than that in the north.

When arriving at the Tianjin Sea Village, only dozens of small boats were moored in the port, most of them were Haicao here, and then along the Tongji River, the materials and grains transported by Cao were transported all the way to Tongzhou.

The Tongji River is shallow, and the three lucky boats are all big ships, so everyone can only get off the boat at Jinhai Port, but fortunately, this place is less than 200 miles away from Jingshi, and it will be there in two days.

Unfortunately, the sky is not beautiful, it is already February, there is still snowfall, Fuzhou only snowed in winter, the snow in front of me is light snow in the north, and it is already heavy snow in Fuzhou.

Many of the southern barbarians were cold and pale, Zhang Huchen complained, and hurriedly wrapped the thick cloak around his body.

"When I arrived at the post station in a while, I asked the post to cook more ginger soup." Xu Zixian didn't have much discomfort in his spirit, it was convenient for people in later generations to go out, and he had also been to a lot of places in the north where he had to dig up the snow in winter to go out, and the snow scene was not new to him.

But the body still feels a little uncomfortable, the land of Yanbei is dry and bitter cold, Fuzhou is warm and moist, and the coldest time in winter is rarely below zero. Now the temperature, it is estimated that it is at least about minus five or six degrees, which is already warm in the north, but Xu Zixian is like everyone else, feeling cold.

Chen Zuocai shook the snow on his body and said to Xu Zixian: "I can enter Beijing on the afternoon of the fourth day, and on the fifth day, the Dazong Zhengsi and the Ministry of Rites will join the case, and the Zongzheng Division will do the raid, and the lock hall test is the ninth day of the second month, but it is enough to rush." ”

Xu Zixian said: "Have you ever been to Jingshi?" ”

"Yanjing, I came here more than ten years ago to take the Jinshi exam." Chen Zuocai said: "If you don't succeed in the first attempt, you won't try again." ”

Chen Zuocai is just a showman, the Great Wei examination system is different from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties are the gentry status, the good field and the beautiful house do not need to be said, as long as you want to be an official, not only can you always take the exam, you have always had the identity of lifting people, and you can really not pass the exam and you can also go to the Ministry of Officials to elect officials as a person, this kind of background is called a big pick background, generally the governor of the state capital or the county governor of the county in a remote place, and the person is also considered to be on the right path, one level lower than the Jinshi, and much stronger than the prisoner or Enyin, or the official donation.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were many people who raised their identities, until the feudal territory, and the most famous was Zuo Zongtang.

At the beginning of the second year, he went to Beijing to participate in the Ministry of Rites examination, and then he could be an official.

There are many people who give up after failing to take exams once.

"How was it then?"

"The land is ruined, and the people are poor." From the port to the military village, and then to the post house thirty miles north of Jinhai County, along the way, there are many villages and towns, and it is indeed as Chen Zuocai said, the place is dilapidated, the people are scattered, and there are many houses in those villages, Fuzhou is also a lot of thatched houses, but the repairs are neat and clean, and at a glance you know that it is a house that is inhabited, and within Yanjing Gifu, the villages here in Jinhai are mostly dilapidated, and many houses have collapsed, even if they do not collapse, they are overgrown with dry grass, and even the intersection into the village is the same, such a situation, There is more than one place.