There is a long or short process between the idea and the eventual realization of any new thing. The same is true for the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info minting Chongzhen silver dollars.

The reason why it is said to be casting rather than rolling is because the industrial level of this era has not yet reached the level of mechanized rolling, so there will be some slight errors in specifications, shapes, weights, etc.

So can today's Daming make a Chongzhen silver dollar with relatively uniform specifications? The current Emperor Chongzhen himself has no doubt about this.

Because of the later generations he came from, he has unearthed a lot of silver coins supervised by the Inner Court Silver Bureau during the Apocalypse and Chongzhen periods. However, it was a very pure silver coin, not used for circulation, but as a reward for the emperor's harem, clan, nobles, and some close ministers.

Therefore, the idea of casting Chongzhen silver dollars proposed by the current Chongzhen Hang Emperor did not exceed the level of handicraft manufacturing in this era. And this is another reason why several cabinet ministers did not raise objections.

Just when Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, took the task personally granted by the emperor and led the Baoyuan Bureau, the Baoquan Bureau and other relevant departments to study the problem of Chongzhen's silver dollar casting process, the people of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty had also rushed to the capital one after another.

According to the list submitted by the state capitals in the world, the number of people who were eligible to participate in the Enke examination in the first year of Chongzhen exceeded 9,000, and the total number of candidates who were eligible to participate in the Guozijian exceeded 10,000 historically, which has exceeded the number that the Jingshi Gongyuan can accommodate.

Originally, the Jingshi Gongyuan was able to accommodate more than 9,000 people to take the examination at the same time, but now the examination shed is not enough, so it can only be stepped up to build. This is also one of the reasons why this year's Enke has not yet opened the exam. Of course, this is only an open reason. And there is no public reason, that is, the current emperor does not want to be like in the past, and only in February gathered all the people from all over the world to Beijing. As for why, Xu Guangqi, the chief examiner of the test, and Li Biao, the deputy chief examiner, did not ask.

And for Emperor Chongzhen, in fact, the reason is very simple, that is, he simply doesn't want to toss these people. After all, the matter was decided on New Year's Day, and the exam was held in February or early March, and many people who traveled far away were afraid that they would not have a good time in the year, so they had to set off for Beijing. And the emperor's policy of allowing local governments to subsidize poor people to go to Beijing for the examination may not be implemented in time. As a result, even if the number of places admitted is expanded, some lifters may fail because they can't catch up with the exam.

In order to recruit the talents he wants as Jinshi, now Emperor Chongzhen is also racking his brains. But fortunately, from the list of candidates who were reported to the Ministry of Rites in various provinces, Emperor Chongzhen has seen several names he wants to see, such as the later scientists Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng brothers, such as the later famous ministers Shi Kefa and Lu Daqi, and then Niu Jinxing and Li Xin who later assisted Li Zicheng in establishing the Dashun regime, as well as Xia Yunyi, the father of the later anti-Qing hero Xia Wanchun, and Zhang Guizhang, the father of the anti-Qing hero Zhang Huangyan, and so on. Even if Enke just recruits these people as jinshi this time, it is enough to do it.

Just when Emperor Chongzhen was sitting in the study of the Qianqing Palace, looking at the list of candidates for the Enkehui examination in the first year of Chongzhen, Song Yingxing, who is forty-one this year, is living in a post house in Tongzhou with his forty-four-year-old eldest brother Song Yingsheng, with two servants.

Chongzhen's first year of Enke, finally scheduled to be held in the last nine days of March, is now three days away from the exam, if it is not for the halfway to abandon the boat and ride a horse, all the way to the gallop, I am afraid this subject will be in vain.

Now the thawed canal is very busy, and the official ships transporting grain to the north are one after another, sometimes stretching for more than ten miles, and the men and horses under the command of the governor of Caoyun are organizing young and strong people in various state capitals along the river everywhere to clean up the silt in the canal.

In fact, just after the New Year in Jiangxi's hometown, the two Song brothers who were preparing to continue to study at the White Deer Cave Academy saw the proclamation issued by the province, and then hurriedly packed up and rushed to Nanchang to register and record.

The brothers first went north along the Gan River, passed through Poyang Lake, turned into the Yangtze River, and then turned into the Grand Canal after arriving in Yangzhou, all the way north. Originally, the journey was very smooth, and the two brothers still had time to see the places of interest along the river, but who would have thought that after entering the Grand Canal, it began to be unsmooth, and sometimes they couldn't move forward for several days.

At first, the two brothers also took this opportunity to get off the boat and take a look, and they looked around Yangzhou and Huai'an, but later, they began to worry, after all, half of the time had passed, and now the two were still trapped on the river.

As a result, when they arrived in Xuzhou, they encountered the dredging of the canal in full swing, and as a result, a large number of boats were stranded, and the whole canal was blocked by water, and the two brothers couldn't wait any longer, so they went ashore and changed to horses, and the horses rushed to the north quickly, which was naturally much faster.

And today's post station, there is also a new atmosphere, the grade of the post has been upgraded, from now on they are all serious officials, the treatment of the post has also been promoted, and there is a fixed income of money and grain, so the attitude of the people who go north to Beijing to catch the exam is also a lot better.

It's just that the things that used to be free to use by virtue of the identity of the person who rushed to take the exam are no longer free. For example, the cost of renting a stagecoach is much more expensive than in the past. But when it comes to the math, it's still a little more cost-effective than buying or renting private horses yourself.

The two Song brothers took their servants and rented a few post horses at the post station along the river in Xuzhou, and only half a month later, they rushed to Tongzhou, the eastern gateway of Beijing. At this time, there are only a few days left before the official opening of the Enke examination in the first year of Chongzhen, if it weren't for their temporary shore horseback, it is estimated that they may still be blocked on the canal now.

However, Song Yingxing was extremely appreciative of the Governor of Caoyun's renovation of the canal itself, although it was blocked for a while, but as long as the renovation is completed, the role of the Grand Canal in communicating the north and the south will play a better role, not to mention that there will be no more problems with the grain of the Beijing Division, that is, the residents on both sides of the canal will also benefit from it, which is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people.

The problem of the post station has accumulated for a long time, of course, it is not a few months to clean up and rectify, it can be completely improved, but since the dispatch of Xu Guorong and Jiang Sirui, the two inspectors who oppose the abolition of the post station and advocate the rectification of the post service, and take the lead in inspecting the post office of the world with the personnel of the Jinyi Wei North and South Town Fu Division, a large number of official hats have been distributed, and a large amount of white money has been spent.

Emperor Chongzhen did not have too many complicated new policies for post administration, but only instructed Xu Guorong and Jiang Sirui to implement the principle of "non-militaristic important matters are not allowed to give posts" in accordance with the "Regulations on the Appointment of Post Stations" formulated and promulgated during the Taizu period, and to clearly define the functions of post stations, clear and reduce the burden of post stations, and clean up and abolish all non-compliant post road surveys in the hands of clan personnel, noble families and court officials in accordance with regulations. As for the new survey of the imperial court, civil officials are confirmed and distributed by the cabinet in conjunction with the Ministry of Officials, military attachés are confirmed and distributed by the Military Aircraft Department in conjunction with the Ministry of War, and ministers are all confirmed and distributed by the celebrant and supervisor. Those who do not have a new survey from the imperial court will pay the relevant expenses for the use of post guards, pavilions, horses, and water horse posts and delivery stations in various places.

In the past, those who went to Beijing to take the exam could use the hall and horses free of charge, but now of course they can't use it free of charge. In the early Ming Dynasty, the post station delivery system belonged to the Ministry of War, in addition to the water and land transfer functions of the imperial court's military affairs, it rarely undertook the transfer business between local merchants and people, and there were not so many people who had the privilege of using the post station delivery system.

Now Emperor Chongzhen sent Xu Guorong and Jiang Sirui to rectify their obligations, but it is just to restore the ancestral system and ancestral training, whether it is a high-ranking official or a child of the clan, no one dares to say a word "no". And once the various privileges attached to the post station system were abolished, the post station system immediately rejuvenated.

After all, today's post station system is equivalent to the post office, confidential bureau, guest house and express company of various countries in later generations, which are inseparable from people all over the world. As long as the various privileges imposed on these systems by the ruling class are removed, the survival and development of these systems will definitely be the most viable.

What the two Song brothers saw on the way north was a post station that had undergone relaxation and burden reduction. Although at present, there is only a post road connecting the north and south of Beijing, which is experiencing such a relaxation and burden reduction, but it has given all the post officials and post guards in the world infinite hope.