Since Yan Song took over the post of governor of Nanzhili in the hands of Wang Yangming, he has been conducting his own experiments in corn cultivation.

In this agricultural experiment, he accumulated a lot of agricultural knowledge, and became more and more aware of the profound knowledge hidden behind the seemingly simple corn plants.

Over the years, although he has still followed the rules and regulations in major policies and followed the instructions of the central court, in the specific schedule of government affairs, he has tried his best to benefit the people through what he has newly learned.

Yan Song is very glad that he chose to enter Beijing Normal University as a businessman, and therefore learned a lot of new knowledge from His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, so that now he can also be blessed by the people when he is a feudal official.

Instead of being like the previous editors of the Hanlin Academy, he only stayed in the Hanlin Academy to study his qualifications, and he had no opportunity to participate in the music in front of the king, and he had no opportunity to seek well-being in front of the people.

After Yan Song came to Nanzhili, he began to cooperate with the Royal Industrial Company to establish a fertilizer factory in Nanzhili.

Even, after Yan Song applied for the permission of Emperor Zhu Houzhao, he personally organized people to set up the Agricultural Science Research Institute of Beijing Normal University in Nanzhili, and used the newly refined converter steel of the Royal Industrial Company to manufacture agricultural machinery and equipment and fertilizer production equipment.

Because of this, during Yan Song's tenure as governor of Nanzhili, chemical fertilizers were promoted in the Nanzhili area, and the grain production in the Nanzhili area was greatly increased, and not only the promotion of chemical fertilizers, the use of agricultural machinery and equipment and more scientific research and guidance on the physiological characteristics of crops also increased the grain output of Nanzhili a lot.

"Your Majesty, this year's Nanzhili grain income increased by three percent, the people's faces are excited, the year has not increased, and the grain production has increased, the people have more than money, this is the image of the prosperous age;

In addition, because of the chemical fertilizer, many barren land also has production, the vassals hire the displaced people to plant it, and the obtained is exchanged for treasury silver or disaster preparedness and poverty relief, and there is a great prosperity of commerce and trade, and now the people of Jiangnan are rich and the country is rich! This year's grain is also expected to escort an additional 1 million stone into Beijing......"

Yan Song wrote in detail about his gains and losses in politics in his secret recital to Zhu Houzhao, but what he didn't know was that soon, Zhu Houzhao would give him a more important task, that is, to continue to implement the new education reform in Nanzhili.

However, when Yan Song received the pilot of the new education reform in Nanzhili, he did not feel pressured because of this, and even felt that this was an opportunity to prove himself again, he believed that as long as he did well, His Majesty would see it.

Yan Song was not worried about the problem of education funds, because the development of agricultural science and technology in Nanzhili had increased his local fiscal revenue a lot, and he was also very good at commercial investment and other ways to accumulate wealth.

For example, after he became governor of Nanzhili and relied on the use of chemical fertilizers to obtain his first additional financial revenue, he majored in building a cement road from Suzhou to Nanjing.

It cost him a lot of money to build this road, but Yan Song turned this road into a road to make money, he set up roadblocks on this cement road, and set up a toll booth every other county to collect cents of money from merchants along the way.

In addition, Yan Song also had tolls charged to the gentry who rode in horse-drawn carriages, and his reason was very simple, it was just to maintain the roads, and only to charge no fees for the civilians who walked.

Because it is collected by each county, and each county has a share of the local governor and the state capital, each county also actively collects centimen and tolls.

In addition, Yan Song also provided a part of this income to the central household department, so that the central household department had an additional income, so that neither the cabinet nor the household department had any opinion on Yan Song because of this.

Even, the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate and the six department corridor officials were also bought by Yan Song, so that so far, only someone has impeached Yan Song, and there are imperial historians who have returned to protect Yan Song.

This is not enough, Yan Song also used various cultural revitalization to fund the Confucians in the Nanzhili area, so that these Confucians also shut up.

Yan Song can be said to be an all-encompassing official, and because of this, he took the opportunity to collect a large amount of money for the local treasury of Nanzhili, making the officials at all levels of Nanzhili very rich, so Yan Song dared to say that the people are rich and the country is rich.

Of course, wealth cannot grow out of thin air, and if there are benefits, there must be losses.

Many of the gentry in Jiangnan were still damaged.

After all, Yan Song can only bribe a few Confucians, it is impossible to bribe all the Confucians, and most of the people who happen to be doing business in the Jiangnan area are gentry, and most of the people who love to ride in carriages, especially the new four-wheel bearing carriages, are also Jiangnan gentry, which makes the Jiangnan gentry the most seriously damaged, so that the Jiangnan gentry are very dissatisfied with Yan Song, and even directly scold Yan Song in secret.

However, Yan Song's position is still standing.

In the central court, although there were also speech officials who spoke for the Jiangnan gentry who impeached Yan Song, there were also speech officials who took Yan Song's filial piety to protect Yan Song, and the reasons were also very good.

The reason is that Yan Song paid an extra million taels of silver in taxes for the central court during his tenure as governor of Nanzhili, which increased the central court's income by a large amount.

In addition, Yan Song also allowed the people in the Nanzhili area to successfully get relief, and several local disasters in Nanzhili did not allow the central court to allocate funds, and even in terms of academic and political reform and official governance examinations, the Nanzhili area has always done the best.

Because of this, the cabinet and the household department have nothing to say, and praise Yan Song as a capable minister, Emperor Zhu Houzhao himself naturally has nothing to say, he does not sympathize with the Jiangnan gentry, he just issued an edict to warn Yan Song, spend more energy on the national economy and people's livelihood, and the implication is naturally that it is okay to collect money, but the wealth collected must be used to benefit the people.

Because of this, although Yan Song's reputation in Jiangnan is even more stinky than when Wang Yangming was the governor of Nanzhili, his position is very stable, not only the people above do not move him, but the officials below also support him.

Only the Jiangnan gentry hated Yan Song.

"Lord Futai, Ren Li, a student of Jiangpu County, scolded you in the newspaper for being strict and taking the benefits of the people, so that the people were extremely resentful, saying that you embezzled millions of silver, thousands of wives and concubines in your family, and even bought the right to comb the cage of the Oiran of Wujiang Pavilion with 10,000 taels of gold, this is not out of nowhere, the lower officials think that such fanatics must be punished, otherwise your official reputation is not good!"

Zhan Hui, the garrison of the Security Division, said very worriedly, he had a good impression of a boss like Yan Song, because he could make a fortune with such a boss, so he was also worried that Yan Song would lose his official position because of the false accusations of the scholars, and he would also lose the opportunity to get more benefits from the gentry.

"Don't worry about him, how these people bark wildly, the official is not worried, now the imperial court is only measured by political performance, and the reputation is also subject to the imperial history of Dongchang, how these people say, the above will naturally not believe it, but I just want to explain to Mrs. that these scholars are really strange, every time they frame a person, they always love to pull his romantic debts! I'm afraid that they only know or only fantasize about some romantic things, no wonder they will achieve nothing! ”

As Yan Song was talking, his wife Ouyang broke in and slapped the newspaper on the table: "The surname is Yan, what's going on, when will you spend 10,000 taels of gold to buy a woman in a green house!" ”

"Madam, why do you still believe these literati nonsense, who am I, don't you know? What's more, you are still very tired to meet you alone, how can you have the energy to sprinkle rain and dew all over for your husband", Yan Song hurriedly coaxed Ouyang to get up, and after Ouyang left with relief, he asked with a cold face:

"What kind of business does this family named Ren Li do?"

"Who's in the spice business."

Zhan Hui replied.

"Your Majesty has decreed that until the establishment of the customs in Nanzhili opens the sea, the centijin may not be abolished for the time being, so as to cultivate customs talents, but it shall not hinder the development of commerce and trade;

Therefore, the official has decided to reform the system of levying centigold from next month, so that the value of goods below 100 taels will be exempted from centigold, and grain, cloth, salt and other items needed by the people will be exempted from centi, so as to curb the rise in prices;

At the same time, spices, jewelry, etc. are subject to a threefold luxury tax on the basis of the existing centigold, in response to the argument put forward by Zhu En, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to advocate thrift and abstain from extravagance! ”

Yan Song is obviously not a person who is really lenient and generous, and he also has his own means of counterattacking the offense of the student Ren Li.

However, Yan Song's engagement made the extravagance in Jiangnan also curb it.

But at the same time, a large amount of the wealth that would have been consumed by the extravagant consumption of these wealthy merchants in Jiangnan also flowed into the pockets of the Nanzhili government, so that when the edict issued by the central court on the construction of higher primary schools was transmitted to Nanjing, Yan Song also had enough funds to carry out educational reform.

After studying at Jingshi University, more than 100 juzi were all appointed by the Ministry of Officials to serve as a teacher in Nanzhili, and Yan Song, as the governor, gave these teachers sufficient financial support.

Not only that, Yan Song also relied on his wealth in Nanzhili, and directly funded the free school fees for the higher primary school, and also directly subsidized the common people, so that in order to get an extra income, the common people let their children take the examination of the higher primary school.

Because of this, the enrollment rate of the higher primary school in Nanzhili is very high, and because there is a certain commercial and industrial economic foundation, and because the newly appointed teacher and Yan Song himself are from the background of Beijing Normal University, the higher primary school in Nanzhili is also the only new school with a new form of education.

For the students who were not admitted to the new school, Yan Song did not give up, he independently set up the Nanzhili Agricultural School and the Industrial School, and recruited these students as apprentices.

In addition, Yan Song also responded to the call of the central court, and after getting Zhu Houzhao's permission, he established the Central University in Nanjing, and followed the example of Beijing Normal University to form the second modern university of the Ming Dynasty, but the Central University, like Beijing Normal University, is now the main task is to train normal students.

Yan Song spent money like flowing water in Nanzhili, so he naturally had to continue to accumulate wealth, and he couldn't rely on the gold system alone, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor had no sense of the gentry and loved the people very much, so he figured out this thought, and began to fine those businessmen and gentry in Jiangnan who did not follow the etiquette and dress in the name of continuing to advocate the style of civilization and thrift and the style of following the etiquette system.

Even those who spit and dump garbage are punished by fines or hard labor.

Because of the increase in private wealth, coupled with the increasing development of the commodity economy, the gentry and merchants lived more and more luxuriously, not to mention that they also had privileges such as exemption from military service, and they were also treated preferentially in law many times, so they had to not abide by the etiquette hierarchy formulated by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang period, that is, what kind of clothes should people wear and what kind of hats should be worn.

As a result, many students were fined for wearing red robes, and many wealthy merchants were fined for wearing silk.

Anyway, Yan Song is desperately collecting money in the name of following etiquette.

And Zhu En, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, who first advocated thrift and followed the etiquette system, was remorseful after learning about this, saying that he didn't expect that he was just persuading the emperor, but Yan Song used it to scrape the gentry's wealth.

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