In April, Li Zhang was promoted because of his meritorious service in purging the capital of Maitreya, but he still served as the director of the Department of Arresting Thieves. Moreover, the emperor also decided to expand the establishment of the Arrest and Theft Division, and ordered the Arrest and Theft Division to expand the scope of investigation to Jingdong Road, Jingxi Road and Hebei Road, and the responsibility also added a "supervision of illegal affairs and foreign affairs", and the authority of the Arrest and Theft Division was immediately expanded.

This annoyed the civil servants. Although the emperor's "supervision of illegal affairs and foreign affairs" originally only referred to cases involving Maitreya, Liao, and Western Xia, as long as the Arrest and Theft Department operated, even officials could monitor it, which was intolerable. So the civil officials began to persuade the emperor in one voice, saying that this would cause panic among the people, infringe on the powers of the magistrates, increase the establishment of the imperial court, and consume money, "the government and the people are inconvenient", please stop this discussion. As a result, the emperor lost the war of words, and the Capture and Robbery Division could only arrest the bandits in Gyeonggi. The interests of civil servants are really not allowed to be violated at all.

Fortunately, the emperor's proposal to select civilians from Gyeonggi counties for military service was supported by the new Governor Wu Yu, the Privy Envoy Ding Du, and the Inspector Bao Zheng. The most unexpected thing is that the three divisions are almost in favor of raising their hands and feet, because they save money by replacing military service with recruitment, and the three divisions are now about to go crazy with money and food shortages.

However, it takes several years to do everything in the Great Song Dynasty, and if you don't quarrel a few times, there will be no results, and Li is not in a hurry to do it, just to watch a play.

Compared with the emperor's work and constraints everywhere, Li did not abandon his own affairs, but he was advancing smoothly. Those who returned from Dengzhou reported that more than 500 rebels had landed on Tamna Island in two batches, and had transported dozens of cattle, as well as a large number of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks for breeding. There are already local horses the size of donkeys on Tamna Island, so donkeys can be left without for the time being. After offering iron pots, farm tools, grain and other materials to the supreme ruler of Tamna, the "Star Lord" was overjoyed and set aside a piece of land for the rebels to cultivate and live. Li Buqi's first step in opening up overseas has already been taken.

The steward of the liquor shop reported that a new big customer in Hebei had bought hundreds of jars of spirits in a row. Li Buqi listened to it and was relieved, this should be Zheng En's entry into the Maitreya Sect and acting according to the plan.

There will always be some residual liquor that can be called a strong liquor but has no value for continuing distillation, but the Song people prefer turbid liquor with low alcohol content, and it is difficult to promote spirits. Relatively speaking, the northerners prefer spirits, and it is impossible for Maitreya to have no followers in Liao, so it is waste to let Maitreya sell these wines to Liao. When the people of Liao were accustomed to drinking spirits, Li Buqi was ready to send the recipe for brewing wine to Liao, which was a big killer for the funeral of Liao.

Soda ash shipped from Fuzhou has already begun to be used in the manufacture of glass and has begun to be sold in the market. These soda ash are recrystallized and purified in Fuzhou according to Li Buqi's method, and the quality is better than most of the soda ash on the market now. This saved Li Buqi the trouble of recrystallizing the commercially available soda ash by himself, so all the soda ash supply of the glass workshop was handed over to Fuzhou. Therefore, Zhe Jichang thanked him a thousand times before returning to Shaanxi.

Now glass is not to be sold. Yang Baishun, who was in an unknown state, came to Li Buqi again, thinking of getting another batch of glassware to go back. Maritime merchants are rich, Li Buqi will never let go of a rich man easily. He asked Yang Baishun with a smile: "You go to sea, the waves are thousands of miles, it is very dangerous, right?" ”

Yang Wanli said: "That's nature. Every year, there are ships that can't come back, and we just risk our lives to earn money. ”

Li Buqi said: "It seems that this is very risky. Since you make so much profit from the sea, you don't want to do something less risky? ”

"There is this, but my family is a maritime merchant in the era, and I am not very good at doing anything else, so it is all a small fight, and it can't become a climate. If you want to buy land, there is little land in Mingzhou. ”

Li Buqi took over: "That's like a rich man, digging a cellar with all the money he earns?" ”

"Ahem" Yang Wanli choked for a moment, and then said after taking a breath: "It's too risky to go to sea, to say something unpleasant, I don't know when the ship will sink." In order to make a comeback, you must always prepare a sum of money just in case. ”

Li Buqi said: "That means that your family has a lot of money and is idle and useless, right?" To tell you the truth, next year I want to set up a money bank to raise money for a big weaving business. You can make a lot of money from this. We are also acquaintances, and the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, so I will tell you. Your family can choose to buy shares, or you can choose to save money for interest. The return on equity is greater, and the interest is free to advance and retreat. ”

Yang Wanli hurriedly asked: "What's going on with this money village, tell me about it carefully?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Go to my study and talk." I've written something you can look at. ”

In the study, Li Buqi showed Yang Wanli the "Articles of Association and Plan of Qianzhuang" he wrote. As the next generation of successors cultivated by the Yang family, Yang Wanli has no lack of vision, and he is keenly aware that participating in Qianzhuang is a sure-fire business, and participating in Qianzhuang can help the Yang family open up contacts and develop other industries. Although the maritime merchants are profitable, they are also risky, and they don't know which time to sink a ship, but they have worked hard for decades in vain, so they have long wanted to find someone to make money. It's just that it's not easy for the Yang family to make a big turn, and Yang Baishun thinks that this opportunity should be seized.

However, such a big matter is that the head of the family cannot be the master alone, so he said: "Tiju, can I take this charter back to the family to discuss before making a decision?" ”

Li Buqi said: "I told you that this matter was my temporary idea, and this "Constitution and Plan" is only one copy, and if you want to take it away, you need to copy another copy." So I'll have it delivered to you tomorrow afternoon. ”

Yang Baishun finally remembered his glassware: "Lift, so can you give more glassware this time?" ”

Li Buqi said: "This is natural. I'll give you a note, and you go to the people in the glass shop. As he spoke, he found a note from a book and handed it to Yang Baishun: "When your ship goes back to heaven, there will be as much iron as there is in these places." Also, every time I bring some copper back from Tianfang and other places, the copper in the Great Song Dynasty will be more expensive in a few years. ”

After approving the slip to Yang Baishun, Li Buqi went to Chunze to stay in prison for ten days, inspected the progress of the hydraulic loom, and arranged various things.

The Great Song Dynasty stipulated that those who held official positions should set up a separate examination room to participate in the imperial examination, which was called the "locked hall examination". Those who participate in the lock hall test cannot be the champion, no matter how good the results are, they can only be second, and if they fail to pass the Jinshi test, they will be fined ten pounds of copper. One of the most stringent stipulations is that if an official fails to pass the "locked hall examination" once, he will not be allowed to participate in the scientific examination in the future.

So the people who don't know the truth are saying that Li Buqi doesn't even want an official, and he is determined to take the top prize. But the old foxes, who knew everything about the officialdom, understood that it didn't matter if Li Buqi wanted that ungraded Hanlin official, and now he resigned, and the emperor would resume after the exam. However, Li Buqi's early resignation made them feel a strong sense of conspiracy, and those who thought about Yin Li Buqi couldn't help but guess what Li Buqi's intentions were.