Drinking tea and reading the newspaper have become Li Yuanji's current pastime.

The newspaper is a newspaper in the north of the town, and the content on it is still a month ago.

Through the newspaper, Li Yuanji was able to learn about the recent development of Zhenbei, and on the whole, it is still very good.

It's been more than half a year since I left the north of the town, and now it's a different scene.

Since the drought passed, the imperial court released the foot restriction order, and the scholars who had no chance to go north due to the drought finally couldn't bear the loneliness in their hearts, and chose to go north to study, vying to become one of the protégés of the Son of Heaven.

But there are already a lot of students in Zhenbei, and the people who originally belonged to the Qi State are given priority to enroll.

Later, there were too many scholars who poured in, and they couldn't all enroll in school for a while, so there were some problems with the security in the north of the town.

This has also led to some bad phenomena.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and in the face of the potential potential of Zhenbei, many people are still willing to gamble.

"Your Majesty......" Ma Liu came to his side and whispered a few words in Li Yuanji's ear.

"Good means!" After listening, Li Yuanji had to raise his hand to praise.

The Dark Guard is now divided into two, with Ma 5 in charge of the surroundings of Chang'an and Ma 6 in charge of other places.

Although the two have the same surname Ma and rank fifth or sixth, they are not related by blood, and Ma five and Ma six are the code names given to them by Li Yuanji.

The matter that Ma Liulai reported was very simple.

As early as less than half a month after the end of the foot restriction order, the dark guard noticed that there were a lot of people heading north.

Li Yuanji, who had already been fortified, sent Ma Liu to investigate.

Now looking at the newspapers in the north of the town, I am adding Ma Liu's report.

The facts are already obvious, there are still people who are not dead.

In other words, they are still not satisfied with the status quo and still want to regain the initiative.

"I can't care about the businessman's money, and I'm too lazy to care, but if I put my hand where it shouldn't, I'm going to get angry." Li Yuanji muttered to himself.

The scholars went north, but the road was far away, relying on land transportation, and no one dared to guarantee whether they would encounter other problems.

Someone found the family, and after several families discussed it, they decided to reopen the waterway.

On the one hand, the business in the north of the town can be re-arranged, so that the business that has been interrupted for half a year can be restored as before.

On the other hand, these scholars could also be transported to the north by water.

And this process of transportation is the opportunity of the Maison.

They keenly grasped this opportunity and made a sure business without losing money.

After arriving in Zhenbei, the family provided shelter and even food for these scholars until they could enter the Zhenbei Academy.

And those scholars who are not favored by the family, the travel expenses still have to be paid, and the food and drink on the ship still have to be paid, but every once in a while, the family will also arrange for someone to send some food to them.

More or less, it can be regarded as laying a certain foundation.

The favor is not big, but for the reader, the grace of the drop of water should be reciprocated by the spring, and with this friendship, he will find the door in the future, at least he will not be turned away.

The imperial court should reduce its personnel, but it should also replenish fresh blood.

Now Li Yuanji's attitude is obvious, that is, he wants to focus on Zhenbei Academy.

The old ones are also like that, and they are no longer popular.

This hand was indeed a surprise to the family, but there are no absolutes in everything, and the family still found an opportunity to re-enter the officialdom.

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Zhenbei City.

In the face of the ever-increasing population of the city, the chaotic order, the increasing government affairs and those headaches, Ma Zhou can be said to be busy with his feet on the ground.

"Dudu, another one is dead!" Qin Yuan stepped into the Governor's Mansion and reported to Ma Zhou, who was frowning.

"The seventeenth......" Ma Zhou sighed secretly and said a number.

In just over two months, seventeen scholars who had gone north had died abnormally.

This matter made Ma Zhou a little difficult to deal with, and it was even difficult to intervene, and it was impossible to solve it from the root cause.

From Xiangguo, he became the governor, changed his name, but his authority did not change.

On the contrary, the burden on his shoulders is getting heavier and heavier, but in other aspects, he is doing well, and he is making steady progress, but this public security problem is difficult to deal with.

"Governor, why don't you put up a notice prohibiting the southern scholars from entering the north of the town?" Qin Yuan made a suggestion.

Ma Zhou shook his head and said: "That can only cure the symptoms but not the root cause, and it will make Zhenzhou a thorn in the flesh of other places, now that the imperial court has released the foot restriction order, how can our Zhenzhou disobey the instructions of the imperial court?" ”

"So what else can I do? Persuade them to leave? Or open up the academy and include everyone? But there are not so many places in the academy, we don't have enough of our own people, there are thousands of people waiting outside, they want to enter the academy, it is impossible to ......" Qin Yuan shouted in despair.

This is neither left nor right, Qin Yuan, who is also a public security power, feels a lot of pressure.

The academy is principled, and the priority is given to the descendants of those soldiers, which was set at the time of the military reform, and no one can change it.

The second is the children of the people of Zhenzhou, who have passed the examination, can enter the academy.

In the past, I didn't even think that there would be scholars from other places to come to study.

On the one hand, there is a large influx of scholars, and on the other hand, there are not enough seowon schools.

The scholars have indeed injected new vitality into Zhenbei, and the economy of Zhenbei has been improved rapidly, and the biggest benefit is that the tax revenue of the Zhenzhou government has increased by 20% compared with last month.

But these superficial glamour cannot hide the real problems.

"The learning content of the academy occupies a great advantage in terms of examinations, and I am afraid that it is impossible to persuade them to take the initiative to leave, but it is impossible to admit them in for a while. And those who can afford it, at the moment, almost most of them are also studying on their own with books, waiting for the entrance exam, and those who can't afford it can only spend it here day by day. In the final analysis, there is a problem with the system of the seowon. Ma Zhou sighed helplessly.

I didn't feel that way before, although it was a lot of pressure to burden these students.

But the good thing is that everything is self-sufficient, and you don't need to buy too much outside, so the pressure is not particularly high.

However, the college is free of tuition, free of books, free of accommodation and free of meals, and it is a paradise for poor students in other places.

This is tantamount to someone paying for their own education, and then they don't ask for anything in return.

If you want to talk about returns, you can be loyal to the emperor after joining the scholars, even if there is no stubble, no one dares to be disloyal to the emperor, at most, it is to be loyal to the emperor at the same time, take care of the power of some people.

But no matter what, Zhenbei Academy is a dream place for students all over the world.

During this period, many people have already found themselves, hoping to arrange distant relatives to be involved.

But they were all rejected by themselves on the grounds that the mountain chief had an explanation.

The mountain chief, that is, the dean, is served by Li Yuanji himself, which is the origin of the protégé of the Son of Heaven, and Ma Zhou only served as the deputy mountain chief and was responsible for the work of the academy.

"Or just crack down?" Qin Yuan continued to mention.

Regardless of the reasons for the restrictions, the town and state must respond.

Otherwise, more and more students will have accidents.

The seventeen people who died, basically found out the cause of death, all borrowed usury, and then tried to run away and were killed.

To say that these students are also brainless, this loan shark has only borrowed for such a short time, and he has a hairy road?

"That's all it can be......" Ma Zhou nodded, a little helpless.

After all, poor students account for a large part, and most of these people have taken out their savings to make up the cost of the journey north.

Originally, I expected that after coming here, I could go directly to school, and after enrolling, food, clothing, and housing would not be a problem.

But who would have thought that Zhenbei Academy would not accept people at all.

The students had gone to the gate of the academy a few times to make trouble, but after the army intervened, they lost the courage.

In fact, without Ma Zhou worrying too much, those patrolling sergeants will be very attentive to themselves, and their children are all studying inside, and if these people are allowed to mess around, won't it affect their own children's learning?

There was no one making trouble at the gate of the academy, but life still had to go on.

As a result, the industry of usury was born.

There are two kinds of usury, the first is that some rich people lend money by themselves, in addition to those people who really can't live, there are also a large part of the immigrants in the north of the town who have committed crimes in the south and come here to take refuge, and these ruthless people are the main force of the first kind of usury.

And this kind of model, there are two main ones, one is to wait for them to enroll, and then succeed in the examination, so as to get a long-term meal ticket.

The second is to be favored by the family, and then take out a sum of money to buy them back at one time, this way is the first person's favorite type, with a short term, high returns, and no big risk.

The second type is a little more subtle and mainly based on the family.

They are not as violent as the first one, they want people's lives at every turn, they lend more of an investment, and when you can't pay it back, you are theirs.

Even if you can afford to pay back, you have to bear this favor.

Ma Zhou knew very well what would happen if this matter was allowed to develop, so he wrote a letter to Chang'an yesterday, but he didn't expect that the song had just been sent away, and there was still no sign of convergence.

"This ......" Ma Zhou thought about it, the measure must be done, but there must be a limit, you can't kill with a stick, you can't ignore it at all, in short, you just drag it first, and wait for the court to reply, Ma Zhou was about to continue, and when he looked up, there was an old acquaintance standing at the door, and he said suddenly: "Old gun?" What wind is blowing you here? ”

"It's like a bird here, you think I'm going to come?" The old gun couldn't help but bury his sentence, threw out a small barrel to Ma Zhou, and said, "Your Majesty gave you ......"