"My lord, you are gracious to the township, this head can bear it, you can bear it!" The old man was very excited.

Bai Minghe walked closer, the old man had already been helped up by his son, and the old man took two steps back: "Don't dare to disturb the adults, the little old man retires!" With that, he hurriedly retreated and walked away.

There are also people who kowtow to the white crane, which is about 500 meters away from the nearest one.

Shira-nae was a little nervous, and sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Let's go. Return! "Bai Minghe knows that he can't stay here, from his bones Bai Minghe is still a modern person, kneeling is the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not a very normal etiquette.

The white crane turned over and got on the horse, and there were some things he could only think about in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it. Even those close to him dare not say that he once read a book in later generations, the so-called 'there is no China after the cliff mountain', and the promiscuous kneeling is the most important aspect. It can be said that the turning of the kneeling salute into a greeting ceremony is the disaster of Mengyuan.

Before this, the Heaven and Earth Monarch was only kneeling to the second place in normal times, which was the earth!

Even when you see the emperor, you don't necessarily use kneeling all the time.

This change will take time and a huge effort, and it can even be said that it will take your life.

"It is rumored that the white crane does not like to be bowed to, and it seems that this rumor is true. Although the distance was far away, it could still be seen that the face of the white crane just now was very bad. Zhang Feng seemed to be talking to himself, but there were indeed many people who heard this. The reason why, no one speculates.

After all, the white crane is now in his twenties.

"My lord, Lord Bai has a very high reputation among the people, and almost every family in my Shangyuan County has Lord Bai's immortal tablet. At the end of the year, the county government invited the county to live in the elderly, and the elders said that each family should be diligent this year, and there would be an increase in income of ten taels of silver. There are four looms in the homes of artisan households. At the end of the three months alone, more than 200 taels of cash were paid, and the wages were paid to repair the machine, and there was also a balance of 100 taels. Shangyuan County Commander said on the side.

"It's an act of goodness!" Zhang Feng responded.

"Not only that, but there are fish, pork, rice, and some cabbage stored in winter. Originally, those coconut oil that no one dared to ask. You can't buy the first-class high-quality products, but the second-class oil is affordable and accessible to every household. Therefore, the people set up an immortal tablet for Lord Bai. ”

The county order of Shangyuan County is the seventh grade, and the white name crane is twenty years old, and it is only from the sixth grade official that he has only arrived.

That's not much.

can be in his heart, but the county magistrate of Shangyuan County did not dare to be a white crane This is a petty official from the sixth grade, and in his mind, it is at least a big member like the six or so servants. Therefore, the white crane appeared in the county order of Shangyuan County, and he saw it, and he did not dare to take the initiative to step forward without greeting.

A few days later, the clerk's examination began.

The white crane did not appear, because he believed that out of the more than 10,000 people, it would be lucky to be able to pick out a hundred.

There were no pavilions, and no officers and soldiers locked the doors, so the location was chosen in a new workshop built by merchants and not yet in use. Thousands of long tables that were originally used as garment desks were set up. The large water tank contains ink, and there is an ink bucket on each table. Then there are ten people at a table, if you want to copy whatever you want, you can copy whatever you want, and no one cares at all.

In addition to showing talents and lifting people, there were also some craftsmen who thought that they could pass the examination of one of the officials, especially after seeing the content of the exam announced. In addition, if you are excellent in any of the exams, you may be an official.

Everyone waited in front of the gate, and two pairs of words hung out.

One reads: Useless is a scholar, and the other reads: After everyone is literate, Xiucai is like a beggar.

The two pairs are not symmetrical. The words are very beautiful.

Gao Gu and Zhang Feng, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, walked out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the former deputy assistant of the cabinet, Takaya. This is Lord Zhang, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites. These two pairs of words were written by the official, and after the official and Bai Minghe discussed it a few days ago, the two sentences of the white crane made the official speechless. This official only said a few words here, if we are really literate, what else can Xiucai do? What else can be done to lift people? The official couldn't answer. ”

Is it anger, or helplessness.

Gao Gu didn't have the heart to care about these inferior talents and people's ideas at all. In Gao Gu's eyes, these people are not talents. Of course, there are also seventy-year-old children, eighty-year-old people who have just reached the middle school, so these people are not the worst. It's still not a talent.

There are onlookers here, and the people are not here to see the excitement, they are here to care about this change.

Gao Gu opened his mouth again: "This official was originally full of confidence, but Bai Minghe is even more confident. He dared to release the test questions in advance, in human terms, it is useless to release the test questions in advance, real gold is real gold, and if you have a talented hat, you will think that you are a talent, which is simply ridiculous. ”

Someone jumped out at that moment, but before he could refute, Gao Gu's words made all the candidates here lower their heads.

"The official has no confidence now, there are more than 20,000 people who have signed up, and less than 7,000 people have taken the exam today. The rest of the people sent someone to ask, but they thought they couldn't pass the test, so they gave up and didn't want to hand in the blank papers. The official is seventy, but I still hope to live until everyone is literate in the Ming Dynasty, and the official wants to see if everyone is literate after everyone is literate, and there is no way for the talents to live! ”

Takaya shouted excitedly.

Blown by the cool breeze, Gao Gu, who had just shouted, kept coughing.

Zhang Feng hurriedly sent someone to invite Gao Gu to the inner room, and then stood in front and said: "Whether Xiucai is useful or not, it's not Bai Minghe's up to him." It's just that the official also thinks that the talent who can only read four books and five classics is really not enough. The Four Books and Five Classics are fundamental, but beyond the fundamentals, among the six arts of a gentleman, only books are not enough. Let's take the exam! ”

Are the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty really only able to read four books and five classics?

The answer is no, take Zhang Feng as an example, he is proficient in history books, etiquette, and also understands Washuang and Goryeo. In addition to these, he also knew some simple architecture, as well as general astronomy and geography.

Bai Minghe scolded not Confucianism, but Xiucai who only knew how to memorize dead books.

This is not even touching the bottom limit of these Confucian students, and there are many Confucian scholars who are proficient in other disciplines in addition to scriptures, such as Xiao Rong of Nanjing's household department, that is, a master of arithmetic that can be counted by the Ming Dynasty. Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department in the capital, far surpassed many generals of the Ming Dynasty in his study of the military books.

Open the department and take the officials.

After the exam began, people from the Nanjing Ministry came.

"Lord Zuo!" Zhang Feng took the initiative to greet him after seeing the Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials.

The official Shangshu replied: "No wonder you come uninvited, if you don't move now, I'm afraid that if you want to move in the future, you won't be qualified to move." These days, the entrance of the household is closed, and the lights are bright every day. I heard that Lord Xiao was leading the household up and down to tidy up the rules on the dock, so to speak, every word is fine! ”

"There must be a rule for everything, and the same is true for the Ministry of Rites. I know the rules of the household department, this is called foreign trade customs tariff. Different goods have different taxes, and some rules are very strict, I asked Bai Minghe and he said that a qiē is to not affect the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhang Feng gave a simple explanation to Lord Zuo of the Ministry of Officials.

"For example, snow salt, the current output itself is low, and it would be good for the people of the Ming Dynasty to get one or two for a hundred people. If a large amount is sold out, the snow salt here in Daming will naturally be more expensive. There are also some things that are forbidden to be shipped overseas for raw materials, but the finished products are fine. As for overseas things, you can buy back the raw materials, but the finished products are expensive. ”

Lord Zuo also echoed and said, "That's exactly the reason. I heard that Goryeo cotton cloth is taxed at seventy percent, to put it bluntly, this is this kind of thing, he doesn't want to buy it from outside, and leaves it to the weavers of the Ming Dynasty to do business. A few days ago, I saw a shipload of porcelain bottles on the dock, and asked, this is a special cargo, and it is too wasteful to burn this kind of low-grade bottle in the kiln of Daming, so it was outsourced to Li's Goryeo, and the official also agreed. ”

Zhang Feng did not continue to talk about this topic.

"Lord Zuo, are you here this time?"

"Let's be honest, I'm looking for some work for myself. Originally, the Nanjing Ministry was only responsible for assessing the officials in Nanjing, but the officials inquired. There will also be some officials overseas, some officials. Then, these people should be managed by my Nanjing officials, this is not to occupy power, but also to let the Nanjing officials not be idle. ”

Zhang Feng thought for a while and nodded: "What Lord Zuo said is right, I have calculated, I am afraid that there are hundreds of officials sent abroad, and there must be a charter and an assessment." ”

"Please ask the elder Gao to introduce the white crane, that's my intention!"

"It doesn't have to be that bother. The Ministry of Industry Shangshu took a few cadres of the Ministry of Industry to the door by himself, and heard that Bai Minghe had made an appointment with them to meet them on the treasure ship a few days later, and the work of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing was too much to count. Building roads, building ships, building embankments, and so on. There are also those wood, iron, and gunpowder work, and the Ministry of Industry will only be busier, so the Ministry of Industry will come to the door directly. ”

Nanjing's six departments, officials, households, workers, soldiers, rituals, and punishments.

"What about the Criminal Department?"

"I heard that Bai Minghe has rectified three new things, one is called "Daming Business Regulations" and the other is called "Daming People's Overseas Management Regulations", the Criminal Department is estimated to be quieter behind closed doors than the household department for this matter, and it is much more difficult to set this kind of rules than collecting taxes. The last one, this one! Zhang Feng gave a small coin to Lord Zuo.

Lord Zuo flipped through it and looked at it.

This is the size of a nail, with a dragon pattern on one side and a word in the middle of the sun and moon on the other.

"What is this?"

"It's silver. I heard that the white crane plans to make a rule to prohibit the circulation of non-currency gold and silver in the market. This is a silver coin of one penny, and the maximum is one tael. No matter how big it is, it's five taels and ten taels of silver ingots, and even bigger is a silver ticket. I heard that the merchants have jointly agreed that the miscellaneous silver nuggets are indistinguishable and need to be weighed, so they are fully supported by this merchant. ”

Hearing Zhang Feng say this, Lord Zuo asked again: "What about the people, does this change have no impact on the people?" ”

Zhang Feng smiled: "People? The immortal tablet of the white-named crane in every household, what do you say? (To be continued......)