When Zhao Lingxuan found his father Zhao Shijiang, the old man Zhao of Huayin, who was nicknamed the old horse Ben, was in the stable.

In the back garden of Huayin Houfu outside the city, half of the land was occupied by the stables, and the weeping willows by the pool, which were the envy of countless clans in the old days, were now cut down to nothing, and the water pavilion that Zhao Lingxuan had played in since childhood was also gone. The 100 acres of sloping land outside the courtyard under the name of the Marquis of Huayin have also been transformed into a running valley for the daily training of horse racing.

All these changes have only achieved the name of Lao Maben.

Zhao Shijiang was dressed in a short beat, and the sweat-soaked marks on the back of his gray-brown kudzu shirt made him look like a laborer on the dock outside, holding a brush in his hand, and was carefully scrubbing his favorite black horse. The appearance of light hands and feet is more careful than a nurse holding a newborn baby, Zhao Lingxuan has never seen Zhao Shijiang so cautious when he holds his grandson.

Just as the outsider didn't dare to compare with the lions in the garden, Zhao Lingxuan didn't bother to be jealous of these beasts.

In the stables of Huayin Hou Beiye, there is not much smell, and the clean, horse manure and wet forage will not be cleaned up in more than half an hour.

In the stone trough in front of the horse pen, the water is murmuring. In the summer, the Hou Mansion drank only the clean water taken from the deep well, and the water was brought all the way from the wellhead through the trough. The residents of the stables, in addition to washing, wear carefully sewn mosquito suits to prevent mosquito bites. Not to mention, ice cubes in summer, stoves in winter, can only be enjoyed by ordinary rich and noble families, and you will only get more from a horse race. Speaking of which, it does make people jealous.

But so what?

His fifth brother Zhao Lingge once complained that Zhao Shijiang was more willing to spend money on his four-hoofed beasts than for his sons and grandsons. Zhao Shijiang poked the fifth son's head at that time and scolded: "Raising horses is a net profit business, and you are all a discounted business, can you compare?" ’”

If there were no horse races, the Huayin Marquis Mansion would be the same as in the past, bright on the outside and dilapidated on the inside.

How many nobles are the clansmen of the prince and the king of the county, and they can only dig out the gifts they received before from the treasury to transfer them, Zhao Linghuang can see a few familiar things when he inspects the gifts every festival, all of which are sent from his hands. Out of the Lu to go to the banquet, there are even fewer people who can go to the main store, and the money given by the imperial court is not enough to fill a dozen mouths of all sizes in the house, who dares to go to the seventy-two main stores to spend? Go to a street shop for a side dish and that's pretty much it.

As long as it is not from the Taizong Pu family, it is roughly so. Otherwise, there would not be a situation where the family of wealthy businessmen and the county lord could not count ten hands.

And the Huayin Marquis Mansion has been very prosperous over the years, and when he goes out, he is also looked down upon. I am worried that a few uncertain children in the family will be exacerbated by the increase in monthly cases, and this kind of extravagant troubles can only be found in rich families.

Walking behind Zhao Shijiang, Zhao Lingxuan said softly, "Dad, let my son come." ”

Zhao Shijiang ignored it, shook the brush in the bucket, and carefully brushed the beloved horse in front of him.

There are a total of fourteen horses in the stable, and only this Wuli in front of him will be taken care of by General Zhao Shi.

A black horse with a fur as smooth as silk satin. From top to bottom, there is not a single variegated color.

This horse, which was transported back from the Western Regions, was named after Wuli. Don't say that Jingshi, that is, all walks of life in the world, there are thousands of people know the way, Huayin Marquis Zhao Shijiang's stable, there is a divine horse incomparable, comparable to the floating light, the glimpse of the two imperial horses, is one of the few top champion horses in the capital, but also one of the most valuable stallions in the world.

Li is a dark horse, and it is repeated by adding a black character in front.

Zhao Lingxuan once pointed out this, and Zhao Shijiang only asked rhetorically, "Do you want to be called a thief?" ’

The thief is the royal horse of King Mu of Zhou, this horse doesn't even dare to give the name of Wu Qi, how can he dare to use the name of the horse used by Zhou Tianzi? Even if it is Wuli now, some people still say that they want the carp to jump the dragon gate.

Since the evidence and conclusion of Zhao Shiju's rebellion case, everyone in Taizu's descendants have been silent, and Zhao Shijiang's actions have been much more low-key, otherwise, why would he resign from the position of the head of the horse racing society early?

After a hundred years, Taizong's family still treats them as thieves to guard against them, and now they eat, drink and have fun, and they are indispensable to look at them with suspicion from all directions.

After carefully checking the farriers on the horse's hooves, and wiping his sweat with a hand towel, Zhao Shijiang got up: "What did Xiang Si say?" ”

"Yue Guogong said that Han Xianggong should have done it on purpose."

"Oh."

Zhao Shijiang replied lightly. Medicine has been established, and the next step is to establish engineering and arithmetic. What Han Gang wants to do, look at Wang Anshi to know the way.

He took a carrot that was introduced to China at the same time as Tianma in recent years - this vegetable with a very special color and smell, for some reason it was particularly popular with Wuli, probably because of the hometown cuisine, and when he saw Zhao Shijiang holding the carrot in his palm and handed it over, he immediately sighed excitedly.

Let the beloved horse nibble on the carrot in his hand, Zhao Shijiang turned around and asked, "Xiang Si, does he really think that Han Gang wants to let the nobles of the clan interfere in it?" He thinks we have a part in this matter? ”

"Yue Guogong said that if you go to Han Xianggong's engineering and arithmetic, it is best to come out and only come from various subjects. The children of real families, who can't get into the Jinshi, will choose to make up for the shade, which is better than the future of those who were born in all subjects. ”

Zhao Shijiang nodded, in this world, there are people from the two mansions who are from Yin Bu, but there are no prime ministers and politicians from various disciplines.

Zhao Lingxuan said again: "Yue Guogong also said, not everyone in our family can be shaded, even if they are the descendants of Taizu Taizong, one out of five clothes, in addition to the jade version of the name, it is no different from mortals. If you can't pass the Jinshi exam, if you want to be an official, you can only go through the subjects. Whether it is engineering or arithmetic, in fact, half of it is for the children of the clan and relatives. ”

Zhao Shijiang said, "How many poor people are gearing up, how much can be snatched from them?" ”

Zhao Lingxuan shook his head and said: "Whether it's counting or building, which one doesn't need financial support?" How could Confucian scholars who couldn't even afford books afford to buy them? ”

"It's a pity that Feng Si went back, and I couldn't find anyone to ask." Zhao Shijiang took a towel to wipe his sweat and sighed, not saying whether he believed it or not.

Han Gang's recent remarks at the feast, Feng Congyi happened to throw out the hydraulic silk reeling machine and other machines, and these two things are easy to connect. If you want to get the benefits of silk weaving, then you must support Han Gang's idea.

It's just that this decision is very difficult to make, after all, this is to let the clan and nobles who have always been bystanders join the dispute in the court, at least to wave the flag and shout. It is difficult to calculate the benefits of getting a silk reeling machine, and engineering and arithmetic are also very beneficial to remote clans, but if you want to eat the benefits without paying the price, it is indeed not so good in this world.

Although Zhao Shijiang is no longer the head of the horse racing club, he is still the head of the champion Jockey Club, his influence on the Jockey Club is incomparable, and his net worth is also the top in the clan, and he spares no effort to help his relatives on weekdays. Among the descendants of Taizu, the popularity is extremely high. As long as he says a word, how many people are willing to run for him...... But at the cost of the lives of the whole family, this decision became more and more difficult.

‘…… It's really embarrassing. ’

Lao Hua Yinhou's voice was not loud, so he didn't let his son hear it, but Wu Li immediately pricked up his ears and turned left and right.

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Raising his head from the official document, Han Gang caught the expression on Zong Ze's face that wanted to stop talking.

"What's wrong?"

"Xianggong." Zong Ze hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are you planning to rectify martial arts?" ”

"This? No! Han Gang raised the official document in his hand, and then denied it very simply, "That mess, I can't avoid it." ”

Talking about troops on paper and actually commanding are completely two different concepts, and there are still very few courtiers who can understand what kind of talent is urgently needed in the military.

Therefore, although the martial arts set up in the temple of King Wucheng have been many years and there are many martial arts, none of those students have become successful until now.

The military attache system of the Great Song Dynasty has more than 20,000 registered military attachés, with different backgrounds. Jiangmen families, military classes, relatives, relatives and relatives, scholars and civil officials in the army, military selection, eunuchs, generals, officials, clans, all kinds of things, hundreds of doors and thousands of ways.

But among them, the clan, relatives and the hidden palace are a group of people who basically will not go to the battlefield, although in addition to the clan, the relatives and the hidden mansion are from two families, and they are a major source of the three yaguan army, but the people who are relied on by the imperial court as a dry city are still generals who can really go into battle.

The Jiangmen family has a heritage, and the military ranks rely on fighting, most of them can fight, and they are the ones who go into battle. And the eunuchs and civil officials who lead the army are almost all in the capacity of supervisors and commanders, and it is the military attaches who really want to go into battle.

And the students who came out of martial arts, although they had a background, their position arrangement was not as rule-based as that of Jinshi and Zhuke, and they were reluctantly placed in the army, and they were all excluded. In addition, almost all of these students failed to learn literature, so they retreated to practice martial arts, and the number of those who were born in the army was very small, and it was even more difficult to become talents.

If you want to do a good job in martial arts, you have to sort out the chaotic military attache background, but this is too offensive. Han Gang doesn't plan to meddle in martial arts for the time being, if Zhang Dian has the heart, let him do it, anyway, it is the territory of the Privy Council, and the enemy at this stage does not need to popularize military schools for the time being.

"What is the prime minister going to do?" Zong Ze asked.

"Let's see what goes wrong with running a school?" Han Gang smiled sarcastically: "Martial arts is a good sample, and all the mistakes that can be made have been made." ”

"Xiang Gong is really planning to open engineering and arithmetic in the near future?"

"Who said that? There is no such thing. Han Gang denied it, "If you want to do it, it will be later." ”

No one would think that Han Gang said in front of the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven that 'there are many talents' is just a lie, judging from the dispute between Wang Han Weng and his son-in-law, the focus of the competition between the two families must be the school. Now everyone knows that after Han Gang included "Kindergarten Qionglin" in the content of the exam, he will go further, and he may not start with Guozijian for a while, but it has been rumored for a long time that the engineering and arithmetic that are matched with the Ming Engineering Department and the Ming Arithmetic Department will definitely be established.

But Han Gang now denied it, which made Zong Ze confused, "Why did Xiang Gong say that at the banquet?" ”

Han Gang laughed.

If Zong Ze hadn't been trapped in the limitations of the times, he wouldn't have thought of it.

Arithmetic, engineering, and even agriculture, Han Gang must be established. To carry forward the theory of Gewu, it is necessary for a large number of Qi disciples to enter the officialdom and enter the Shiyi Road, which is too competitive, and the Zhuxue is much simpler. Although it is difficult to be promoted to a high position from a background in various disciplines, when people who do things are all over the government and the opposition, who can shake the status of Qi Xue.

It's just that something that has been rumored for a long time and there is not much resistance, so why let the prime minister bother with the feast?

"It's Mengxue." Han Gang said: "If you want to farm and harvest grain, don't you sow seeds first?" ”