Summer sunrise in the northeast, Lingtian through the middle street. Pen, fun, pavilion www.biquge.info Zhu Guang is thick, and he is steaming.

There has been no thunder in the sky for a long time, and there is no order to be obedient. The rain does not wet things, and the fertile fields rise yellow.

The birds died of bitter heat, and the fish in the pond dried up their mud. Ten thousand people are still redundant, and only Artemisia Lai is raised.

So far, the Great Hebei has turned into a tiger and a jackal. The mighty want to be a ghostly thistle, and the king is here.

I can't eat or not, my heart is not harmonious. At the beginning of Zhenguan, it is difficult to be with a number of children.

This is the best description of the famine phenomenon in Shandong now, just past during the imperial examination, there were persimmons from Shandong, on a picture of the starving people similar to the Northern Song Dynasty homeless people. Although the old emperor ignored the government for many years, he still saw this picture, and then issued an edict to continue to reduce taxes in Shandong.

But what Shandong needs now should be grain instead of an illusory lightening of the burden.

Chen Qiyou, a man from Qingzhou who presented the map of the hungry people, did not return with the same honor as his predecessor of the same name, in 1598, another Chen Qiyou who was a high school jinshi with Wang Zhikey and others, but returned to his hometown in Zhucheng, Qingzhou.

After Chai Yinbin learned of this, he also went to his home to visit him in person, commending him for his courage to speak up for his father and fellow villagers.

However, this hot-blooded scholar said: "What about daring to speak out? After this trip to the imperial examination, I spent all my family's savings for many years, and now I have suffered a catastrophe, there is no harvest in the geography, and several tenants have already fled, and if this continues, I am afraid that I will be starved to death. ”

After hearing this, Chai Yinbin got up and checked the environment of his house, the broken courtyard wall could no longer stop the east wind blowing in, and the empty warehouse proved that their house had reached the point where it could not be opened.

Chai Yinbin couldn't believe it, it stands to reason that even if he is a child of a poor family, after being promoted in the examination, he should have accumulated a lot of family property, how could he fall into the dilemma of hunger and cold in such a short period of time.

For his question, Chen Qiyouxin has already given the answer. Just for the imperial examination, there are a lot of expenses along the way, after all, it is not easy for the Beijing teacher to live in a big place, not to mention the need for some social expenses and up and down. If he can still have the money to come back, it is already a good result.

Hearing him state the reason again, Chai Yinbin couldn't stop sighing. I think that when he participated in the imperial examination, there was Xiya Trading Company responsible for all the travel expenses and the expenses of the Beijing Division, so naturally he didn't know the hard work of other scholars.

After sighing, he could only sigh that he was really lucky, and someone sponsored all the expenses from studies to exams. Of course, after they succeed in becoming officials, these investments need to be reciprocated, not only in terms of business convenience, but also in terms of political interests.

In fact, they are not as good as the southeastern merchants in this regard. Their power in the DPRK and China is intertwined and has a huge influence, and it is by no means something that ordinary forces can oppose.

Speaking of which, there is also a businessman in the local area who is rising rapidly, and a few days ago, the Jixia School Palace he planned has taken shape, and it seems that he is also a very enthusiastic person to persuade students. So he persuaded: "Before leaving home and going to Beijing, have you heard of a young wealthy businessman named Kang Ning? ”

"Of course, I've heard that this man made his fortune by selling seafood. It is rumored that many feudal states overseas have dealings. ”

Chai Yinbin nodded and said: "I have a little friendship with this person, his new group training is still approved by my hand, a few days ago his single tree building was completed, and I also went to visit it." Speaking of which, there seems to be a big talent gap over there, and if you're interested, I can introduce you there. ”

As soon as Chen Qiyou heard it, he couldn't open the pot at home, so he naturally needed a place to settle down again.

The two hit it off, and Chen Qiyou took his family to Yangdu.

The distance between the two places is actually not far, but Corning is now focusing on developing to the southeast. He wanted to get an outlet to the sea there, which would later become known as Rizhao. During this period, a large area belonged to the Sanzhi region, Laizhou Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion were beyond the reach of the whip, and Juzhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture, had lost its already weak control over the countryside outside the city because of various secret sect forces among the people and the long-term operation of the Black Clothes Society.

With the concrete steps in place for the bunker project, Corning has already begun preparations for the next project.

It would be an efficient route of transportation, although he had not yet decided whether to use road or rail in the form. In addition, the security of Rizhao Port also needs to be considered, after all, it is not in the inland sea like Tianjin Port, unless he turns the entire Yellow Sea and the East China Sea into an inland sea.

I'm afraid this is not easy to do, judging from the current intelligence, the Jurchens in the northeast can actually extend their tentacles to the Wa Kingdom, which proves that they are not inactive at sea.

After a few trips back and forth, Corning felt that his survey had achieved initial results, and he decisively slowed down the progress of the project's preparations. Not to mention that all aspects of land acquisition are very difficult, just to say that the most basic technical problems, it is difficult for him to solve. He doesn't want to do it so flamboyantly, but if he wants to build a railway, he can only run a horse-drawn carriage, and the appearance of the steam engine will have to wait for more than 100 years, although he now has many famous figures in modern history, but it will take time to accelerate this process.

The left and right can only run horse-drawn carriages, and the transportation capacity of horse-drawn carriages is very limited, so it is better to slow down and wait for further upgrades in engineering capacity and transportation.

So he has been free again these days, and when the sun has crept out, he will be bored in the library and read.

Until this day, a young man who claimed to be holding a letter of introduction from Chai Yinbin came to him.

"Chen Qiyou?" He silently recited the name, but there was no impression in his mind.

He originally wanted to use this as an example to test the information collection ability of the Great Library, but then he had the impression that such a character might not have left much of a record on the stone, not to mention that the current Great Library still has a lot of information to sort out.

So he finally decided to meet the native talent who had defected to him in person.

After greeting each other, Corning led him outside to the flower field, where there was tea and dessert for the guests.

The relatively open environment is also more suitable for an open talk than the closed interior of a large library.

The first to speak was of course Kang Ning, he said: "When Brother Chen participated in the imperial examination, he did not forget to complain for the fathers and villagers in Shandong, and he was deeply impressed by it, but this time you came to look for Zaixia, do you want to fight for the people of Shandong, do you want to fight for a way to live?" ”