Since it has been decided to start recuperating and recuperating, and to educate the people, Li Guanqi, the chief officials and scholars of various provinces, all want to meet him.

Jiangnan Province's administrative office is the closest to Jingshi, so the first people Li Guanqi saw were Zhou Yawen, the Jiangnan Provincial Disposal Envoy, and Lu Chunming, a scholar and politician.

Gangnam Province is the richest province in Daqian. It is not only the granary of the world, but also the most developed in the country in terms of silk, salt, tea, porcelain, etc. It can be said that this is the money bag of the great cadres, and one-third of the taxes of the great cadres come from here.

Li Guanqi had not dealt with Zhou Yawen before, but after talking about it, he was already overjoyed, this Jiangnan Dao disposal envoy did have two brushes, his report was very organized, very vivid, and the most important thing was that he was at his fingertips on the livelihood of Jiangnan Dao, and he was definitely a capable official. Let Li Guanqi have a feeling of hating each other.

All morning, Li Guanqi listened to Zhou Yawen's report on the situation in Jiangnan Province, and he didn't feel bored or tired at all.

According to Zhou Yawen's report, the situation in Jiangnan Province is still very satisfactory to Li Guanqi. What pleased Li Guanqi the most was that capitalism had already begun to emerge in Jiangnan Province -- there were already handicraft workshops in the silk weaving industry in Suzhou and Hangzhou, forming a situation in which "machine owners contribute capital and machine workers contribute."

Of course, when Zhou Yawen reported this situation, he did not report it as an "achievement", he naturally did not see that this was progress, but thought that it was a pathology that needed to be treated.

In fact, this is not to blame Zhou Yawen, the self-sufficient economic structure formed by the long-term feudal society is very stubborn, and it cannot be changed all at once.

Moreover, the feudal emperors had always been concerned with keeping the peasants bound to the land in order to rule, rather than the working people being free from the land. The most afraid of working people getting together. The imperial court sometimes mined minerals, sometimes closed them, and generally forbade the people to mine them on their own, so it was because they saw that mining was profitable. However, more attention is paid to the troubles that may arise when too many working people are gathered in the mining area.

The imperial court often adopted the methods of restricting production and forcing low-price purchases in some of the more promising production sectors, such as the silk textile industry and mining operations. For goods such as salt, tea, and wine, heavy taxes were levied in the name of prohibition.

As an official of the imperial court, Zhou Yawen naturally had to follow the policies of the imperial court.

Li Guanqi is different, he has traveled from modern times, and naturally understands that this situation needs to be guided, not banned.

Therefore, Li Guanqi immediately decided to vigorously support and protect private capitalism. He told Zhou Yawen clearly. When you go back, you should immediately come up with support policies and promote them.

Although Zhou Yawen didn't quite understand why Li Guanqi did this, what the emperor said was a holy decree, so he could only obey it.

Li Guanqi then turned to Lu Chunming and said: "Jiangnan Province has always been a place of etiquette and religion, I remember when Qianwei was in the first year of Enke, there was a storm because you Jiangnan Province took too many students, how is it now?" ”

Lu Chunming leaned over and said, "Back to Your Majesty." Jiangnan Province is the cultural center of the Central Plains, and it has produced talented people since ancient times. But the current situation is not ideal! Especially Yangzhou. ”

Li Guanqi was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked, "What you said is a little more detailed!"

Zhou Yawen gestured to Lu Chunming. Lu Chunming immediately said: "Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the Jinshi Department has been changed to one test a year, and before the Mu Zong Dynasty, Yangzhou has accumulated no more than two people in the ten subject examinations, and sometimes there is no one. ”

Li Guanqi was stunned, and everyone said that Jiangnan was romantic. And with Yangzhou as the most, why is it so shabby in the imperial examination, he doesn't know about it, and said with a smile: "I am very puzzled, there are not a few young talents in Jiangnan." Yangzhou is even more of a leader, why can't it be in this Jinshike!"

Zhou Yawen interjected and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, in fact, Yangzhou scholars are not unable to enter this Shike, they really don't want to, Yangzhou does have many talented people, but most of them are from the wang family, but there are very few poor people!"

Li Guanqi nodded, this is inevitable, the family education of the Wang clan is extremely strict, the children of the clan are generally full of poetry and books, and it is very difficult for poor people to want to study, but even so, there should be a few people among the talents of these wang clans.

Zhou Yawen saw Li Guanqi's doubts in his heart, and said: "The key to the matter is here, although there are many talents in the wang clan, these people are unwilling to participate in the imperial court examination, nor do they want to come out to be officials. ”

"Why is that?" Li Guanqi is really confused this time, the feudal dynasty, there are still people who don't want to be officials?

Zhou Yawen said slowly: "These big clans themselves are intricate and powerful, and none of them are officials in the court, coupled with their own arrogance, they naturally refuse to compete with those poor people in the court, if they win, it is easy to talk, if they lose, their faces can be said to be ......."

Hearing this, Li Guanqi couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: What kind of bullshit is this?

Lu Chunming continued: "What Master Zhou said is the crux of the matter! Although Yangzhou has the largest academy in the country, of which there are 2,000 people, it only accepts 200 students from non-prestigious families, and these students are also good and bad, most of them are the children of merchants, and the academy does not discipline these students very much, so this situation will be caused. ”

Li Guanqi nodded.

Lu Chunming and Zhou Yawen glanced at each other, as if they were observing Li Guanqi's reaction.

Li Guanqi suddenly realized, carefully looked at Zhou Yawen and Lu Chunming, and said in his heart: These two people are here to trap themselves, so they will sing and harmonize.

When he came to his senses, Li Guanqi was not angry, but said with a smile: "Okay, you guys don't stop beating around the bush." If you want me to do something, as long as this king can do it, I will do it!"

When the two saw that Li Guanqi understood, although their faces were flushed, they were still very happy. Lu Chunming said hurriedly: "The minister and Lord Zhou discussed, this matter can only be effective if His Majesty personally goes out to get results!"

Li Guanqi suddenly felt a trace of emotion in his heart, Lu Chunming and Zhou Yawen are both people who really care about government affairs and people's livelihood, and the feelings revealed from them are also extremely moving. So he nodded and said, "Say, what do you want me to do?" ”

"Please ask Your Majesty to issue an order to increase the number of ordinary people in Yangzhou Academy." Lu Chunming said excitedly.

Li Guanqi thought for a while and said: "Yangzhou Academy is not an official school, and it is not very suitable for me to make a direct order." In this way, Yangzhou is not far from Beijing, and I will go there in person. How about discussing with the owner of the college? (To be continued......)

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