The world of public opinion is still lively, but it is very different from the past.

The business community has paid attention to these changes, but has not been affected by the changes in public opinion in the slightest. It's not that they don't care, it's that they don't have time to play with.

The huge wealth that the Ming Dynasty has accumulated in Sichuan for 300 years is rapidly waking up. A large amount of capital outside Sichuan also ran into the market through the thick suction pipe of Huitong Qianzhuang and joined the vigorous investment feast in Shudi.

On the day of the official opening of the Chengdu Stock Exchange, the reorganized, renaming Sichuan Iron and Steel Group Corporation, Wuding Construction Engineering Group Company, Luban Machinery Manufacturing Group Company, Qiaoniang Textile Group Company, Minsheng Shipping Group Company and Chuanchu Shipbuilding Group Company were listed at the same time.

The average ratio of publicly listed shares of the six major groups to total shares is about 40%, and the total market value of the outstanding shares exceeds 25 million taels of silver notes, with a subscription rate of 91.7%. All the newcomers successfully subscribed in full, and the remaining 8.3% were fully subscribed by the controlling shareholder of the six major groups, the newly established Xingshu Investment Group Company, a joint investment platform of the Shu clan family.

Several small businesses have also been lucky enough to catch this first express train of fortune. But to the surprise of market participants, the most popular company in the market, is not known as the "new six shares" of the six Wang You Group, but the "fecal and urine separation, benefit the country and the people" of the eight red characters brushed on the green paint manure truck, and through the dung trucks all over the city and countryside, let the company's popularity rush out of Sichuan, to the Ming Dynasty Cao Huan Ji Green Fertilizer Company.

As we all know, Cao Eunji, a private company dressed in fertilizer, has the concept of agriculture, environmental protection, and military industry, and is an out-and-out arms dealer.

According to the amount of urine purchased in the company's listing announcement, the amount of nitrate and potassium fermentation is estimated to be several million catties. It is said that ninety percent of this nitrate and potassium production is used for gunpowder production, which is then used for battlefield consumption.

Of course, the reason why this company is highly popular in the capital market is that there is another unique concept: the concept of private pockets.

As we all know, the son of the world is called the boy who scatters wealth, and he is good at making money but does not like to grab profits. How many people are blushing with the dividends of the soap bureau? As a result, he was scattered by the son of the world in a blink of an eye. There are many properties in the name of the Shu Wangfu and the various county palaces, but there are almost no that really belong to the private pockets of the princes.

One of the major shareholders of Cao Huanji Green Fertilizer Company is Cao Yicheng, an old eunuch of Shu Wangfu who has no children and no daughters. The big shopkeeper of this company is Cao Yicheng's righteous son Cao Sanshun. As a result, the market speculated that the old eunuch Cao Yicheng's equity was just held on behalf of the master's son.

This speculation is not only reasonable, but also supported by the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Cao Yicheng is a slave of the Heavenly Family, the shares he holds are clearly owned by the main family, that is, the Shu Wangfu.

So why use Cao Yicheng to invest instead of being managed by Miss Luo herself? Because Cao Yicheng has been the princess's attendant for many years, Cao Sanshun is a simple cadre of the prince. They came forward to do business, mostly to avoid the jealous Miss Luo, and to take care of the private money for the princess and the prince!

It is impossible for a company with such a background not to be imagined by shareholders and not to be speculated by the market.

On the day of listing, Cao Huan Ji Green Fertilizer Company, which has the title of "Shizi Concept Stock", has an issue price of as high as 40 taels per share and is speculated to 160 taels by the crazy market, which is a full two buckets.

Cao Ji green manure, so it will be the top of the mountain, a glance at the mountains, deservedly known as "the first share of Shu City"!

And the green leek color on the dung truck has since become the standard color for the rise of the Daming stock market!

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The stock market is open to all real-name registered people, including officials from the Second and Third Divisions and prefectures, prefectures and counties. But most of the officials are not in the mood to participate in the rise and fall of the stock market, not because they don't love money, but because the expected major adjustment of the government institutions in Shu has finally begun.

According to the analysis and speculation of the news, this institutional adjustment is likely to adopt a new approach like the establishment of the Administrative Department of the Shu Wangfu last year and the Military Aircraft Department this year. That is, to put aside the old organization and put the people who want to use it in the new organization. The newcomers and new institutions eat and drink spicy, and the old people and old officials sit and wait for death.

The foundation of officials' lifelong fame and ambition is in their official ranks, and of course they are not willing to let themselves die. As a result, the Sichuan Fu Liao tycoon, who presided over the major adjustment of the organization, once again became the focus of attention in the Sichuan officialdom, and the people who offered bribes and gifts to inquire about the news in various names completely stepped on the already crumbling threshold of the governor's yamen.

At the beginning of July, the much-anticipated overall plan for institutional restructuring was finally unveiled in the Fuxing Daily.

In line with most people's predictions, the commanding body of the civil and military officials in the province has really become the Department of Political Affairs, the Department of Justice, and the Privy Military Department of the Shu Palace.

The sub-departments under the jurisdiction of the Department of Administration have all been abolished, and its economic functions and people's livelihood functions have been greatly strengthened, with the General Office, the Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Finance and Taxation, the Police Department, the Department of Education, the Propaganda Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Construction, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Health, the Department of Huayi, the Shu'an Bureau, the Science and Technology Bureau, the Bureau of Statistics, the Financial Supervision Commission, the Shu Assets Supervision Commission, the Military Sales Supervision Commission, the Sichuan Salt Industry Franchise Corporation, the Sichuan Tobacco Franchise Corporation, and other thirteen departments, three bureaus, three supervision committees and two franchise companies.

The economic management function of the administrative department of the Shu royal government was also merged into the administrative department of the official government, and the functions of Wang Zhuang and Wang Qi returned to the long history department. Instead of retiring with honor, the Chief Secretary of Administration has become a new unit with great power and independence from the government and other internal institutions of the Shu Palace. The Organization Department is responsible for selecting and employing people, and has become a well-deserved official department in Shudi.

The functions of the feudal division were strengthened, and the division, which was also one of the three divisions, was torn apart.

In the Ming official system, the judicial trial function is the judicial department in the province, and in Fuzhou County, it is the pro-people official of Fuzhou County; In the province, the supervision and procuratorial functions are divided into separate organs and patrol roads according to the procurators and the procurators.

In this major reshuffle, the Sentencing Authority was merged into the National Police Agency, which was subordinate to the Political Envoy.

Instead of being merged and downgraded, the procuratorial functions were separated into four levels of procuratorial courts, from the provincial to the county level. According to the procuratorate, vertical leadership is implemented, and it is directly responsible to the head of the country, Zhu Pingjin. It has the power to send agencies and personnel to supervise all government agencies, government-invested enterprises, and even the judiciary.

Similarly, the judicial function is also independent from the judicial department, and four levels of judicial courts have been set up in the provincial capital, prefecture and county.

The audit function is new and is mainly aimed at all levels of finance, but as with the judicial function and the inspection function, four levels of audit offices have also been established in the provincial capitals, prefectures and counties.

In this way, there are four supervisory bodies with different functions at the provincial capital, prefecture and county levels: at the provincial level, the Sichuan Provincial Procuratorate, the Sichuan Trial Court, and the Sichuan Audit Office; Prefectures, prefectures, and counties refer to the prefect's (prefecture, county) yamen and a prefecture (prefecture, county) according to the procuratorate, the trial court, and the audit office.

Zhu Pingjian, the prince of Shu, watched the army closely, which was an open secret of Shu officialdom. It is also an open secret that the Privy Military Machinery Department was originally just a military staff of His Royal Highness Shu Shizi. The newly established Privy Military Machinery Department was publicly named "Shu Wangfu", which can be seen from this.

However, with the appointment of Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, as the chief military aircraft, and Ma Gan, the deputy envoy of the Sichuan military garrison, as the full-time military aircraft, the Military Aircraft Department has become the legitimate governing body of the armed forces of Shu.

Also because of the addition of Liao Daheng, Ma Gan and other important ministers, the Military Aircraft Department has also become an institution that can coordinate the civil and military. This is an important reason why the four general departments of the Staff, Politics, Logistics, and Armament Headquarters are subordinated to the Military Aircraft Department.

The Military Office of the Shu Prince's Mansion is a military staff organization at the same level as the Privy Military Aircraft Department, but because it does not have a specific charge, that is, the power to lead the troops to train and use the troops, it has been reduced to the pension and placement of the old and important ministers from the beginning, and the meritorious heroes are promoted to rank and receive treatment.

The old bottle was filled with new wine, and it was also a new wine made in the Shu Palace, and some old wine was poured into the river.

Whether it was the Sichuan Division, one of the three divisions, whether it was the seventeen guards in the Hongwu year to the twelve guards in the Chongzhen year, and a number of guards and thousands of households, they were all abolished at the same time on the day at the end of June. With the same fate, there are also a number of yamen who have long been idle, such as the Yandao Imperial History Yamen, the Qing Military Procuratorate, the Tea Bureau, and the Tax Division.

The old is gone, and the new comes.

The most eye-catching of the newly established institutions is the Taiping Senate led by Zhang Fakong, the former political envoy of Sichuan.

In order to demonstrate the concept of "the people are noble and the king is light", the chief officer of the Taiping Senate is half a rank higher than the rank of the political secretary and the privy military department, which is quite attractive to some officials.

However, the constitution of the Taiping Senate stipulates that the main body of the Senate is the senator, and the positions above the senator are quite limited. The selection of senators is based on the recommended electoral system, not the imperial examination system. There are many restrictions on nationality, age, fame, sector, etc., and there are also regulations for a five-year term. If it were not for the personal recommendation of the prince himself, many officials from other provinces would not have been eligible to run for election at all.

As a result, many young officials and students who are worried about their future or eager to make progress have set their sights on a new way to get promoted, that is, a way to give full play to their special skills. Because he participated in the Shu examination, he became a protégé of the prince. According to the experience of the last Shu exam, all the candidates who have passed the Shu exam and can pass the military training are all reused by the prince!

The autumn of the imperial court is in August, and the Shu examination of Sichuan is also in August. The candidates of the Qiu Yu have a strict identity definition, but the candidates of the Shu exam are not refused.

The regulations for the Shu examination have recently been announced, and the rumored examination subjects on the street have been greatly simplified, and the compulsory examination is divided into three subjects: Chinese studies, mathematics, and science, and the designated textbooks and required reading lists for each subject have been released.

Depending on the level and category of the examination, additional examinations or different subjects may be required.

In the past, the defect of not dividing the Shu examination into grades was corrected to a total of five levels of diplomas A, B, C, D, and E, and it was clearly linked to the previous meritorious fame.

Those who show their talents and fame can automatically obtain a C-class diploma, and they can refer to the B-class diploma;

Those who raise people and make meritorious contributions to Jinshi can automatically obtain a second-class diploma, and you can refer to the first-class diploma.

But strangely, those who are famous for their Jinshi merit cannot automatically obtain a first-class diploma, and they also need to pass the exam.

Those who have already joined the ranks, including officials serving in Wangzhuang and Wang Qi and officers at all levels of protection, are also posthumously awarded a certain level of diploma. At the same time, the recent appointment document jointly issued by the Organization Department of the Shu Wangfu and the Military Department of the Protector ** stipulates that future officials will not be able to learn martial arts, and a certain level of position must have a corresponding level of diploma to hold, and even the lowest-level platoon-level officer must also have a diploma equivalent to the level of the literacy class!

As a result, for the first time, the Shu examination was publicly endowed with the same effect as the imperial examination and was linked to being an official!

Not only that, the recent fire of Wang You's enterprise has given the Shu exam a more realistic significance, and without the Shu exam diploma, people won't recruit you at all!

In the 5,000-year history of civilization, the Chinese have understood that only by continuously strengthening the education of future generations can the family bloodline progress and climb higher and higher in the pagoda-like social class.

The level of education is also a criterion for people from different walks of life in the real world to crush and despise.

Once the Shu examination was rolled out, it was like a thousand-year-old imperial examination system, which firmly grasped the lifeblood of the Shu people. It is like a magnet with infinite magic power, which sweeps out the elites inside and outside Shudi, and also ties the children of ordinary people to the shuttle bus of the college entrance examination. On the day that the Shu Examination Brief appeared in the newspaper, the circulation of the special issue of Fuxing Bao exceeded three times that of Zhu Pingjin's special issue in the palace, and it was repeatedly reprinted twice in the following month!

Just when all the provinces of Shu were crazy about the Shu examination, Liao Daheng, the chief military minister of the Shu Wangfu and the governor of Sichuan, published a signed article in the Fuxing Daily, commemorating the 314th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Taizu Gao and the 264th anniversary of the feudal state of Sichuan.

Liao Fu emphasized that it is necessary to deeply understand Emperor Taizu Gao's "strict governance" and "pro-people", offer His Royal Highness the "benevolence" and "enrichment of the people", and combine the two spirits of "strict governance and benevolence" and "pro-people and enrichment of the people" with the background of today's chaos and rampant thieves, so that the gentry, military and people of Sichuan are "united in one heart", and closely unite around the Shu Wangfu with Shu Shizi and his wife as the core, so as to "think in one place and work hard in one place".

It is necessary to implement to the letter the important will of Shu Shizi on comprehensive reform at the Baoning Conference, and comprehensively promote and vigorously implement the "old accumulated defects" that have shackled Sichuan for 300 years in various fields and links, such as institutional reform, army reorganization, land reclamation and farming, salt monopoly, scientific and technological development, financial innovation, emerging industries, education and culture, and public opinion rectification.

Liao Daheng also spent a lot of pen and ink in the article to remind officials at all levels in Sichuan: Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and face many major "uncertainties" in the future.

The upcoming challenge is bound to be more severe and cruel than the local tyrants ravaging northern Sichuan!

Therefore, Liao Daheng clearly asked all cadres and officials in Sichuan to abandon the wait-and-see mentality, and unswervingly be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the Shu Palace, and the "Heavenly Lord" Shu Shizi and his unmarried princess.

With the most positive and full enthusiasm for work, race against time to do a good job in the current work.

By the end of autumn and the beginning of winter this year at the latest, all preparations for a painstaking tug of war with the "internal and external enemy" will be completed.

In late autumn and early winter, this is the signal of time for another war.

Internal and external enemies, are they thieves or the imperial court?

These haunting questions make many diligent thinkers and good thinkers uneasy.

At this moment, the palace of the king of Shu came with an oracle from the prince:

The prince is about to conquer Meizhou in person and pull out this stinger nailed to the land of western Sichuan with his own hands!