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Although the Ministry of Rites exam ended a few days earlier, Han Gang estimated that Li Chengzhi and Pu Zongmeng, who were still in the Gongyuan, were not in the mood to feel the breath of spring.

It's not an estimate, thousands of exam papers can keep examiners so busy that they won't even have time to be distracted.

There are three more days to go and the day the list will be released. But it is at this time, not to mention the ranking, even the work of marking the papers is not over.

In Hangang, I also talked with Zhang Qi, who was an examiner, and several other people about the old things of being an examiner in the Ministry of Rites, and as soon as the topic was opened, Zhang Qi poured bitter water.

Xu just took away a stack of exam papers, there was a stack of exam papers in front of him, and there was a small official next to him holding a stack of exam papers, and at the end of the day, there was no stop. This errand is hard, you have to read the rolls when you eat, and you have to be an official all your life, no matter which term you are in, the hard work of a year is not as good as those days in the tribute courtyard.

If it was in the past, during the Tang Dynasty, you could also get a relationship between teachers and protégés, pass on the mantle, not to mention that in the future, you can respond to the court in the future, and your children and grandchildren can also take care of the future. But after Emperor Taizu made a palace test, he is now a protégé of the Son of Heaven. Relying on the reward after the fact, this little month's fat loss is not worth it. However, it was not a serious Zhigongju like Zhang Qi who said this, it was only because of the high ranking in the previous subject that he was transferred to be a detailed judge, and he thought about Han Gang, so he said these words that seemed to be heartfelt.

In the general etiquette examination, except for the Zhigongju designated by the imperial court, many of the examiners below were selected from the top Jinshi in the previous subject. Han Gang was originally the ninth Jinshi and was also qualified to serve, but when he was in the ninth year of Xining, his status was enough to be a Tongzhi tribute, of course, it was impossible to be a preliminary examiner, a repeat examiner, and a detailed judge.

Han Gang was not interested in the results of today's Ministry of Science and Rites, only the questions of the palace examination were the focus of his concern.

When he returned home from the street, Han Gang received a few officials, which was his own private time, and it was not until the evening that he ordered someone to send SF Express's newly arrived big boss out of the house.

Regarding the court's decision to buy cotton cloth, including the specific inside information, Han Gang will inform the township in detail through SF Express.

Taking out part of the cloth and handing it over to the imperial court was not Han Gang's arbitrariness. Anyone who has a little insight knows that the court will definitely draw the tax on cotton cloth, and it will also add and buy.

Thinking about it, the imperial court will not even let go of cheap goods such as linen cloth and kudzu cloth, and wild places like Guangdong and Guangxi also have to collect taxes, so how can they let go of the cotton cloth on Longyou Road?

The relaxation of the old Xihe Road in recent years is due to the fact that it is a newly restored land, and the Ding tax that needs to be paid for many years has been exempted by the Son of Heaven. In the Longyou area, because of the need to maintain the battle line, the people contributed to the war, and in terms of taxes, they were more or less preferential than the Central Plains and other Taiping regions. However, with the demise of Western Xia and the recovery of the Western Regions, the heavy burden on the heads of the military and civilians in Guanxi also disappeared, and the imperial court would not watch the large loss of tax revenue.

When Han Gang was in Guangxi, a large part of the local tax paid was converted into Ge cloth. And in the silk producing areas, most of the taxes are also converted into silk. The taxes on the old Xihe Road and even Longyou Road will presumably be changed to cotton cloth in the future. However, what the imperial court did not know all about, and what the cotton industry wanted to keep secret, was that the production of cotton cloth on Longyou Road was not a small peasant production of male ploughing and female weaving, but large-scale mechanical weaving. If the imperial court asked the local residents to pay cotton cloth as a tax, they could only buy it from the market and then pay it out.

The movements of the imperial court are very vigilant, if, especially Lu Jiawen, who served as the third envoy, once the election of the privy deputy fails completely, will he try to get along with Han Gang from another angle, no one dares to guarantee.

If Lu Jia asked the book to levy the cotton cloth on Xihe Road, the reason was bright and bright, and no one could say that it was not.

If Han Gang is against it, his position will become very passive, and no one will believe that he is not protecting his own interests. Han Gang made the first move, and he temporarily avoided attacks from the outside.

As long as the supply to the army is limited to coats, and it is limited to the forbidden army, one piece of cloth per person is sufficient. Just for the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in the northwest, only need to take out more than 100,000 pieces of cotton cloth, which is not painful for the cotton industry.

And after Han Gang has the initiative, he can prevent the imperial court from reaching out to the northwest again, and at the same time, he doesn't have to worry about causing discussions. If you want to get it, you must pay first, this is the common sense of the world, do not invest any capital, but want to occupy the largest piece, such people will eventually reap the consequences.

It is precisely because of this understanding that when Han Gang explained the matter to the new head of SF Express, he also emphasized to him the quality of the cotton cloth provided to the imperial court and bought.

"The quality has to be good. Patterns, dyeing, etc., don't care, just the primary color. But the thickness and weight must be the best. Han Gang said at the time.

The big boss had done it in the cotton shop, and he paid attention to the details, so he carefully asked Han Gang how thick it was.

"You can make sails." Han Gang said.

The big boss didn't know why, but Han Gang's words, for the members of SF Express, were like a holy decree, and they nodded and wrote them down.

After the sergeant gets the cloth, if the color is bad, he will go to the dyeing workshop to deal with it, and the key is to be strong. The so-called sail is just an analogy, today's sails are hard sails, not soft sails made of fabric, as a comparison, only for a strong and durable.

According to the official size, a piece of fabric, two feet five minutes wide, forty-two feet long. If it is used as a tax product, there are also weight requirements, the official silk silk, at least eleven taels, linen cloth, kudzu cloth also have a specified weight, cotton cloth will not be an exception, if the standard is set from the right side of Long, other places must also follow.

However, Han Gang did not give this order in order to block his competitors, he relied on military merits to get ahead, which is related to the morale of the army, Han Gang would rather suffer a loss, and he will make the fabric provided to the army perfect. It is impossible to be like the silk silk bought by Jiangnan He, the weight is not up to standard, so he pounces on the medicinal powder to gain weight.

The price of pure cotton is not high. The value of cotton cloth is mainly manual and manufactured. Semi-mechanized production can keep the cost of cotton very low. The same cloth, if it is transported nearby, can squeeze out the largest piece of the cost.

As for the problem of output, it will depend on the talents of the Fan in a short period of time.

There is still a lot of wasteland on Longyou Road, and if you want to develop it, the number of Han people in the road is far from enough, and the number of more Fan people is the main force.

In fact, the Tibetan people are not good at growing cotton, but they are better than the large number of people, and they are easy to call. As long as those patriarchs invited a few old Han farmers who were familiar with cotton planting, and asked them to teach the people in the clan how to plant, they gradually achieved some results in the past two years.

Cotton picking requires a lot of labor, and the population advantage of Tibet is also the key to ensuring the supply of cotton raw materials. Mu Zheng, now called Zhao Sizhong, every time the cotton is harvested, the Han family's cotton fields in Hezhou have to rely on his sons and daughters to help. The first of the two major Tibetan departments on the front line of Gongzhou and Xizhou, Baoshun, Baocontract, and labor export are also a major input for their daily life.

However, since the children in the family, it is inconvenient to squeeze excessively. In the past two years, all the Tibetan tribes on the old Xihe Road have mobilized troops to the southern plateau, but all the Tibetan tribes that have not surrendered have become the objects of their plunder and annexation.

Last year, the governor of Xizhou took office and was very vigilant against Zhao Sizhong and others' behavior of annexing the same clan to the south, believing that they must have evil intentions.

But when he first met Zhao Sizhong, who was already too fat to get on the horse, and then went to Fanxue, and saw the children of the Fanren who were studying Confucian classics in it, he laughed at his vigilance. The children and grandchildren of those Tibetan families even learn the fashion in Tokyo, and the price of the pendant on their body is more than what he can do in a year.

Afterwards, he also said to his staff in private: "This net worth is all the children of the regimental training envoy family, and the younger characters of the Empress Dowager's family in Beijing are not as good as them." ”

Several of the Queen Mother's cousins were appointed as the training envoys of a certain state regiment, and because they were relatives of the country, they were able to ascend to the sky and become a regular official in one step. Although he does not hold a real position, from salary to salary, he will not be slightly worse than a regimental training envoy with a military position. But none of the children and nephews in their family can be compared with the children and grandchildren of Zhao Sizhong and others in terms of daily wear.

Of course, there was a thorn in his words, but a few days later, a few cages delivered to the yamen at night made him shut up. The same is true of the original intention, otherwise these words would not have come out.

Compared with officials transferred from other places, the local Han people are actually more wary of the Tibetan people. The war with the Tibetans has only been ten years, and they are stained with the blood of each other's people. Even if they drink together, gamble together, and scold their mothers together, they still inevitably sharpen the knives at home in secret. However, the big families on Xihe Road, the demand for labor made them forget all the dangers.

And the strength of the Western Army, which of the Tibetan people is not clear? More than half of the more than 30 commanders stationed on Xihe Road have participated in the battle to destroy Xia, and they are all elites.

Even if the Tibetan people were able to win by luck, alarming Wang Sunchen in the west, and rushing back with the elite who were taken away from Xihe Road, would they still be able to live that life?

Since Wang Sunchen laid down the Ganliang Road and the Western Regions, from Liangzhou to Chang'an, the land of Guanxi, which mentioned Wang Xuan's jurisdiction, which is now the royal capital protector, is not a thumbs up? The Tibetan people were even more frightened when they heard it.

Not to mention behind Wang Sunchen, Han Gang, Chong Ge, Wang Hou, Zhao Long, Li Xin, these are all related to him, except for Chong Ge, the other few people are all from Xihe Road, as soon as they hear that there is something in their hometown, all the civil and martial arts come up, who can eat.

Now I am at ease to make money and enjoy life, I am a beautiful concubine in a mansion at night, and I am gambling on balls and horses during the day, how can I compare with it when I was called the king in the mountain nest in the past? Why bother to kill yourself.

Even if they are Tibetans, they are not confused in terms of quality of life.

Combined with the changes on Xihe Road over the years, the exam questions for the Jinshi Kedian Examination have actually come out.

In order to avoid fraud in the palace examination, the examination questions of the palace examination are temporarily determined by the queen mother before the examination, and then submitted by the concubines.

But what the Queen Mother will decide, Han Gang can still guess a little bit.