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Also, some book friends asked what ethics were, which was a kind of garrison official position in the castles of the Nine Border Military Town at that time, which was equivalent to a thousand generals, defensive generals, and thousands of ethics.

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At this time, Li Banghua and his entourage were in a place called Caobaozhuang by the locals, which was not far from the state town and was quite close to Zhuolu Mountain.

This is a comprehensive town, there are several sewing factories, meat porcelain pot factories, bacon mills, honeycomb coal mills, iron nail factories, lime factories, brick kiln mills, etc., and the increase in the population of factories has made Caobaozhuang, which was originally just an ordinary village, bigger and bigger.

At first, the villagers lived on rented houses, but later they started to run small shops such as groceries and rice shops. With the arrival of all kinds of transport caravans, all kinds of inns and teahouses were born. There were also couches for the storage of merchants' goods, and they were erected one after another.

Now this town has been extremely lively, pharmacies, hotels, teahouses, restaurants, fruit shops, rice shops everything, the flow of people shuttles like weaving, storytellers, singing operas are settled in, and a green building is also open for business along the trend.

Originally, Li Banghua heard Ma Guoxi say that there was still a casino, but after being struck by the local government, the leader was arrested and sent to the mine to serve hard labor, and the casino was wiped out.

Also because he is a local who runs a casino, he knows the law and breaks the law, and the crime is added to the first degree, and this guy will spend a long time in the mine.

His father was even more affected by him, and he was originally the chief of the security guard, but he was dismissed.

Now want gamblers. I had to go to the state city, where there was a legal government-run casino, but anyone with a discerning eye knew that the casino was operated by the Xuanfu Town Intelligence Department.

Recently, several new waterwheel factories have been opened on the edge of the town, but it is the Metropolitan Protectorate that wants to develop Monan, which has given birth to the production of these large-scale farming tools. There are also factories such as yokes, ploughs, and even large cocoon carts used to make horse ploughing more lively.

Of course, Li Banghua knew that this kind of horse-drawn plough and columon could sow at least 100 acres of land a day with just one cocoon cart. As early as the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It was invented by Su Duwei Zhao Guo, but it has been used less in the north, let alone in the south.

Watch the cars continue to be carried away, passing by in a queue on the street. Clearly, demand is extremely strong. Think about the number of seeds that will be cultivated by the time the tools are sown. Wang Dou's management ability is outstanding, and Li Banghua has mixed feelings in his heart.

In the morning it snowed again, although the road was not paved. But when this kind of snow melts, it is also quite chilly.

In this kind of weather, it is very comfortable to sit in a warm wine shop.

Obviously, those who can be in the restaurant before the meal are either rich or expensive, especially big businessmen, factory owners, and locals.

One of their characteristics is that they are more luxuriously dressed, more elaborately dressed, and many of them wear swords on their bodies, apparently with sword bearers.

Their signboard is a newspaper in each person's hand, and many people still have a cigarette in their mouth. This is a large cigarette roll, somewhat similar to the cigars of later generations, which has only been popular in the high-end class of Xuanfu Town for only a few months.

I heard that the name "Yunyan" was taken by the Marquis of Yongning.

The cloud, there is a high on the top, implying the meaning of luxury, named Yunyan, as soon as you hear this smoke, the grade is very high.

The highest level is "Xuanfu Town Brand" Yunyan, also known as "Red Double Happiness", which is auspicious and pleasing when you hear the name.

Of course, this is the highest-end cloud smoke, and these factory owners may not be able to afford it.

At this time, tobacco has an excellent reputation in Daming, in addition to publicizing that tobacco can dispel miasma, treat head lice, kill insects, and also treat wind, cold and dampness, etc., outside Liaodong Pass, even a pound of tobacco leaves can be exchanged for a good horse.

Xuanfu Town has few local tobacco grows, and the tobacco tax is extremely heavy, so people who can smoke have a lot of financial resources. These people in the restaurant generally smoke third-class "Baoanzhou brand" cloud cigarettes, even so, a box of cloud cigarettes is also worth a lot of money, and they are willing to buy it.

Li Banghua has always been surprised by the number of rich people in Baozhou, and in front of him in a small town, this high-end restaurant is full of people of this generation.

Upstairs and downstairs, they were all there.

I saw them smoking cigarettes, drinking wine, spreading newspapers and talking loudly, laughing from time to time, and even talking about the climax, some of them even drew their swords and swung them, and the rest of them played their swords and sang loudly, causing a burst of ghosts and wolves upstairs and downstairs.

Looking at their demeanor, on the good side, they are called heroic and uninhibited, and Yan Zhao is generous and sad. But from Li Banghua's point of view, these people are villains, and they get carried away, which is really unaccustomed.

Many of them were talking about the great victory outside the Cyprus, looking forward to their own pride, and in bursts of laughter, they said one after another.

"Our Jingbian army is invincible!"

"The general is invincible, and the victory outside the Saiwai is already expected by Yang!"

"Destroy Mo Nan, the next step is Mo Bei! In the snap of a finger, the ugly group of people disappeared, and I asked the heroes, who is the opponent of our army? ”

"Good! Brother Sun said this heroically, drink a cup! ”

After these people drank wine, they began to sing "Horse Stepping on Yanran" in unison, choking the sound of the dragon's groan, and two guys drew their swords, accompanied by the beat, and began to get up and dance the sword.

They were not far from Li Banghua, and he was restless when he sang.

The sword flashed, and he and Ma Guoxi were also frightened, and the attachés beside him were also frightened. They didn't have a sword license, so in order to avoid trouble, they only hid a small dagger, and when they saw the long sword shining, how could they not be afraid?

Li Banghua had the heart to stay away from these people, went downstairs to sit, and looked again, there were more than a dozen people dancing swords below.

He didn't sit or walk, and his heart flashed: "The demons are dancing!" ”

It was easy for these people to stop, and they began to talk about the latest newspaper content, recruiting the officials of the capital protectorate, mobilizing the people to reclaim and develop Monan, and other things.

I heard them say one after another.

"I didn't say it, Zhao must respond to the general's call and do my best to develop Monan."

"Well, I'm going to invest 2,000 silver yuan and go outside the plug to see what good opportunities there are."

"The Great General never treats us badly, gentlemen. Don't hesitate, if you have the capital, just take it out. ”

"Yes, there is a saying called seizing the opportunity, step by step, step by step, step by step, step by step! What did I rely on when I waited for this step? Just took the lead and ate the soup. Look at the old ones who were sticking to the fields. What's the point? Until now, I can't even afford Yunyan. ”

"Okay, Brother Sun is right again, come, let's have another drink!"

Li Banghua and Yang Guozhu were dumbfounded. Look at these people from the neighboring security states. Just a few words. The investment capital decided has exceeded 10,000 taels of silver.

It seems that their belief in Wang Dou has reached the point where it is deeply rooted. These hateful people in their eyes are the staunchest supporters of Wang Dou, and it seems that whatever decision Wang Dou makes, they will follow without thinking.

Indeed, only Wang Dou can give them the good life they are living in front of them, and if they are Li Banghua, the first step is to clean up these people.

Li Banghua was still not a taste in his heart again, Wang Dou casually said in the newspaper, how difficult it is for the people to obey the people, and the court to call on the people?

What makes Li Banghua a little comfortable is that these people speak all official dialects, not local dialects, and they will listen more pleasantly. I heard that Wang Dou vigorously promoted the official language in Xuanfu Town, and it was easier for outsiders to find a job if they could speak official language.

And I have to admit that these people are vulgar and vulgar, but everyone is quite literate, not white, as can be seen from the fact that they are proficient in reading newspapers.

I heard that when Wang Dou started his family, he used various means to promote knowledge among military household craftsmen. Literate people can also be promoted more quickly, and it is easier to make a fortune, and now, at least in the land of Baozhou, the popularity rate of local knowledge is even higher than that in the land of Jiangnan.

Especially in the Jingbian Army, the more homogeneous intellectuals are the only highly educated soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, after all, they are young and more malleable.

It's easy to see that these people are quiet, only talking about the affairs of the officials, saying that the children of the family can be sent to apply for the examination, many of them are sons and nephews, and now they are all officers of the Jingbian Army, and some of their children join the army is one way, and politics is the same road.

However, some of them have thin mouths, and some of them are worried that their children will all join the army and politics, and they are afraid that there will be no one to manage and inherit the family property, and then the topic will turn to the full-time stewards who are now very popular in Xuanfu Town.

This kind of full-time steward is a professional manager specially introduced by the big businessmen with strong financial resources in the town when they see business opportunities, and they can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of the business, just like the Zheng family and other agricultural banks, who run industries for the officers at all levels of the Jingbian Army who have a large amount of land and have no spare land to cultivate.

This kind of nascent affairs, of course, makes many people hesitate to wait and see, and the result of these Baoan Prefecture people is that they can still do it for many years, and they will talk about it in the future.

They listened to Li Banghua's discussions, and they were dizzying, like listening to a book from heaven.

The more I know about Xuanfu Town, the more strange and frightening this place is, and I feel that everything is evil, and I can't wait to wave my hand to sweep everything away and let it return to orthodoxy.

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Also, when he was on the way, Li Banghua also saw the latest news of the Xuanbao Times, and he was dissatisfied with it, and he still had to read every issue of the newspaper.

Wang Dou called on the people to develop Monan, and after a private interview with Weifu, Li Banghua's attitude changed, thinking that this was a good thing, and acquiesced and did not object. However, the news of the recruitment of officials caused him great dissatisfaction.

It is not necessary to say who is superior and who is inferior in the official evaluation system and the imperial examination system, but there are at least two points in the selection of officials by the imperial court, which is certain.

One is positive, and the other is less.

All those who can be officials are those who have read the books of sages and sages, and they are assessed step by step from children, talents, people, and scholars, and they are eliminated layer by layer, and finally they can become officials, at least in terms of ethics and personal cultivation, most of them are fine.

And who are the officials?

There is a saying, with your official as clear as water, it is difficult to escape the slippery officials, referring to these people.

These officials, in the early days of the dynasty, were also filled by the government from the local people with innocent family backgrounds, and all of them needed to be virtuous and talented.

However, now, all parts of the country are controlled by the family of officials, and they are in cahoots with the local gentry, all of whom have sores on the top of their heads and pus on the soles of their feet. It can be said that most of the things in the country and dynasty are bad in the hands of these people.

After all, the magistrates have a system of avoiding their origins, most of them are from other provinces, they don't know the local customs, and the language is difficult to know, of course, they have to listen to the officials, and even let them be at their mercy like puppets.

After the officials finally figured it out, they were about to leave their posts at the end of the term, so their sense of existence was far inferior to that of local officials and Xu.

Local officials will eventually have a time to serve, and officials will survive in the local area from generation to generation, and there are often "officials in the caves, the father thinks that the son is the heir, and the brother is the younger brother of the passon", and the real power of the state and county is in their hands, and they manipulate local affairs and fool the officials.

For example, if the official wants to add a liter of grain, and finally get you a bucket, or even a stone out, these additions will also go into the pockets of the officials and squires, but let the officials on top of their heads go to the tank.

The country and the dynasty will pay three salaries, how much is the full amount, and if it is really added to the people, will it be so angry and resentful? It's not a good thing that the officials below did!

Even if an official is greedy, one person can't be greedy, and at least seven or eighty percent of the extra ones are greedy.

Then when Quan Daming calculated, it was an astonishing number.

Therefore, the ethics and cultivation of the officials are not reassuring, and it is dangerous for the government to appoint this generation!

This is not true.

Also, the Guanwang Dou department is so finely divided, and there are so many officials recruited, how can the people bear the offerings?

This is redundant!

It is conceivable that Xuanfu Town and the Duhufu will have redundant officials and redundant officials in the future, and the people will suffer!

Li Banghua was worried: "Yongning Hou has gone astray!" (To be continued.) )