After reading Jiang Yanhui's strategy, the time for the exam is over.

Many candidates walked out of the main hall under the guidance of officials of the Ministry of Rites, preparing to leave the palace.

And several examiners in charge of supervising the examination room were busy putting away the answer sheets of many candidates.

Because Yang Wu personally marked the papers, these exam papers do not need to be copied and obscured, and they can be directly marked.

Yang Wu has already read Jiang Yanhui's answer sheet, and among the remaining candidates, Yang Wu is also a little more interested in Xu Zhihe's answer sheet.

Seeing that it was still early at this time, he was about to pull out Xu Zhihe's answer sheet and look at it, and Chen Yanqian, as the chief examiner, naturally accompanied him to read other people's answer sheets.

Compared with Jiang Yanhui's answer sheet, Xu Zhihe's policy views are much calmer.

Although it also mentions the idea of establishing a city department in Quanzhou, considering that his father, Xu Wen, as the governor of Fujian, was also one of the few ministers who knew about this plan, it cannot be ruled out that he knew about this plan in advance.

In addition to the establishment of the Quanzhou City Shipping Division, Xu Zhihe also believed that a Municipal Shipping Division could also be established in Suzhou, as for the other views are relatively much calmer, many suggestions belong to Jiang Yanhui's mouth Those who were criticized by him as worthless clichés.

Of course, Xu Zhihe's ability is still good, even if it is some clichés, but he has also written a lot of new ideas in his strategies, and there are many places where he has very unique opinions, plus his writing is even more outstanding, which makes Yang Wu feel extremely appreciative when he sees it.

To be honest, if there were no potential effects of those events in history, from a fair point of view, it seems that Xu Zhihe's strategy would be even better.

But Yang Wu had some resistance to Xu Zhihe in his heart, and Jiang Yanhui's suggestion also gave him a lot of inspiration, so Yang Wu had already decided to rank Jiang Yanhui's answer sheet in front of Xu Zhihe in his heart.

After reading Xu Zhihe's answer sheets, Yang Wu read two other candidates' answer sheets one after another, and it was not too early at this time, so Yang Wu immediately got up and left.

"King, now that the palace exam has ended, do you think that Jiang Yanhui can win the top prize this time?" Back in the harem, Zhou Mengjie hurriedly greeted him and asked.

Prior to this, Yang Wu had already sent someone to investigate Jiang Yanhui's family background, confirmed this person's appearance and conduct, etc., coupled with his good performance in the examination, it can be said that Yang Wu had basically determined to recruit this person as a colt.

And this time, after his direct observation, this idea became even stronger.

"It's hard to say whether you can get the top spot in the exam, but there is no problem in getting the top three in the exam." Yang Wu smiled: "What, the fifth sister asked you to ask?" ”

"Isn't it? These days, the fifth sister often runs to the concubine, and from time to time she wants to inquire about some imperial examinations, except for wanting to know more about that Jiang Yanhui, what else can she think? Zhou Mengjie laughed.

"Really? In this case, when Lone was preparing a banquet in the palace after a while, let the fifth sister check it in secret, and if she was satisfied, Lone would settle it for her. ”

"This ......" Zhou Mengjie was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Yang Wu to let her sister secretly go to see her future concubine, this is also too nonsense, if it is spread out, I am afraid that it will make people laugh.

She instinctively wanted to object, but after thinking about it, it was just a trivial matter, and there was no need to make a big fuss, so she swallowed back the words that were about to be spoken.

"How is Jiong'er doing? Is there anything he is naughty about studying with the Taishi? Yang Wu then asked.

"Everything else is fine, but his memory is not good enough, and what others can remember quickly, he needs more time to memorize." As soon as she mentioned her son, Zhou Mengjie said with some concern.

Now Gao Mian is basically in a semi-retired state, basically no longer involved in official business, but he is very concerned about Yang Jiong's teachings, that is, Yang Jiong is still young now, and he is still in the stage of reading and literacy, and he is very patient to teach him to read and write.

Yang Wu is naturally happy to see this.

Not only that, among Yang Wu's younger siblings, Yang Xun, Yang Ning and Yang Che are also in the literacy stage, and Yang Wu simply let Gao Miao teach them together.

"It doesn't matter if he has a bad memory, even if he is not smart enough, as long as he is diligent and willing to learn, and has good conduct. Lone doesn't expect him to be a pioneer in the future, as long as he can keep the foundation that Lone has laid for him! ”

For Yang Wu, the prince he needs is not a big problem even if he lacks ability, and he himself is still young as a pioneer king, and if there are no accidents, it will be enough to lay a solid foundation for his son in the future.

In this case, his successor does not necessarily need to be wise, as long as he can keep the foundation in terms of ability.

But he must be generous and love the people, have a tolerant heart in his heart, and not have any tyrannical feelings.

There are too many tyrannical monarchs in this era, and they always feel that their generals are unruly, so they have to be more tyrannical than their generals in order to deter their subordinates with strong means.

However, in Yang Wu's view, this kind of forceful means can only deter for a while at most, but cannot completely solve the problem, as Liu Zhijun's betrayal of Zhu Wen last year is enough to illustrate this.

A qualified ruler should use gentle means to appease the generals and reassure them of their allegiance to the Yang family, and at the same time attack those particularly arrogant generals in a typical way to achieve the effect of deterring others.

Yang Jiong is still young now, except for being a little lively and active, he can't see anything at present, and letting Gao Miao, a gentle elder, teach him, just so that he can cultivate a generous character.

Of course, this is not to say that ability is not important, if Yang Jiong has no means at all in the future, it is completely insufficient to deter the ministers, then Yang Wu can only change an heir.

Although he only has one son like Yang Jiong now, He Yiyi finally conceived a child a few months ago, and after being diagnosed by the imperial doctor, it is very likely that he is pregnant with a boy this time, which means that Yang Wu may have one more prince.

Regardless of whether she gave birth to a boy or a girl in the end, in short, it is impossible for him to have only a prince like Yang Jiong in the future.

If Yang Jiong really doesn't look at it, then Yang Wu can only reluctantly abolish it.

A few days later, after intense marking, Yang Wu finally determined the list of the top ten candidates for this palace examination, and the later rankings were directly determined by the examiner Chen Yanqian because they were relatively less important.

In this palace test, Yang Wu finally named Jiang Yanhui as the champion, Xu Zhihe as the leader, and the third Tanhua was a candidate from Fuzhou.

Now that Fujian has just been incorporated into the Wu State, Yang Wu naturally has to try to win one or two.

Because of the rush of time, there are not many candidates who come to Jinling to participate in the palace examination this year; Among the many Fujian candidates, Yang Wu saw that this candidate's talent and learning were not bad, so he ordered this person to explore flowers.

This is the same reason as when Wu Guoguo took the first imperial examination two years ago, when the policy was specifically tilted towards Jiangxi candidates, all in order to quickly appease people's hearts and eliminate the estrangement between various places.

After the ranking was determined, Yang Wu gave a banquet in the palace and specially entertained these new scholars.

At the banquet, Jiang Yanhui, as the champion of the new department, was naturally the most eye-catching one, and many of the more than 100 new science and technology scholars in the audience were paying attention to him.

Of course, during the banquet, Yang Wu naturally had to arrange for his fifth sister Yang Qin to secretly observe the horse selected for her, and after her own observation, she also readily agreed, so without Jiang Yanhui's knowledge, he had already been determined to be the concubine of Wu State.

Canopy in the hall.

"Jiang Yanhui's proposal to have the imperial court come forward to form a merchant fleet mentioned in Jiang Yanhui's strategy, everyone must have seen it, right? What do you think, might as well talk about it? ”

After reading Jiang Yanhui's proposal, Yang Wu not only thought of the merchant fleet, but also thought of some other projects that could be developed by the state.

In later generations, the state that Western countries had achieved through the natural development of the private economy for hundreds of years had achieved in many countries by state means in just a few decades, a speed that was obviously not possible through natural development.

This is like today's maritime trade, if the people are allowed to develop trade spontaneously, then the speed of development may be very slow.

For ordinary people, not only do they have to consider the huge risks of maritime trade, but the huge cost of building sea ships is also not affordable for ordinary people.

In this case, they might as well buy a few acres of land honestly, just after the war in this era, the population is relatively small, but the land is relatively large, and the price is cheaper.

In other words, even if Yang Wu set up a city shipping department in Quanzhou, in the short term, because the sea trade is not developed enough, it will take decades or even hundreds of years to achieve results.

Historically, Quanzhou began to develop gradually in the era of Wang Shenzhi, but it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that it entered the most prosperous period.

But if the imperial court had intervened, all this would have developed at a much faster pace, and perhaps in a few years, Quanzhou's maritime trade would have reached the level of the Southern Song Dynasty.

This will inevitably bring great opportunities for the prosperity of the country's economy.

As for the undesirable effects of state monopolies, this is also easy to solve, and it only takes a dozen years to wait until the maritime trade reaches a certain level and some wealthy people see the huge profits of overseas trade, and then the merchant fleet can be gradually sold to private individuals.

This is similar to the Meiji Restoration in Japan, in which the state first took the initiative to build up the market, and then when it reached a certain level, it was fully privatized to increase its competitiveness and reduce corruption.