According to Zhang Ke's regulations, the city department strictly guarded the gates, punished five Western merchants in half a month, and also thwarted a pirate sneak attack and cut off more than a dozen heads.

Under such a thunderbolt method, the business of the city shipping company was not affected, but more prosperous, especially Western merchants, even in an endless stream, and even the original Ming Dynasty circled Fujian Yuegang became deserted, a large number of merchants went north to Songjiang, the newly established Shanghai County wantonly enclosed land, to seize the opportunity.

Therefore, the reason is very simple, that is, the city division treats everyone equally, and while dealing with Western merchants, the restrictions on the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are equally strict. Seven consecutive penalties were imposed for shoddy, defrauding customers, and the businessmen involved in the case were announced.

This trick is too powerful, businessmen pay attention to the word credit, once it is known that there is fraud, it is equivalent to smashing the signboard, basically announcing the withdrawal from Jiangnan business.

In this way, it is a strong deterrent to all merchants, while Westerners dare not go wild, while the merchants of the Ming Dynasty no longer cheat, and the trading volume of Songjiang City has doubled. In one month, the order has exceeded 2 million, and it seems that by the end of the year, it will reach at least 20 million.

Tariffs alone can be a million dollars, and the most important ones will lead to the development of workshops, increase the number of weavers, and artisans will increase consumption and promote economic prosperity.

It is conservatively estimated that the commercial tax revenue in Songjiang and Suzhou will exceed 5 million taels a year!!

One government is better than one country!

If he hadn't personally participated in it, he wouldn't have believed that the City Boss Division was so powerful!

Of course, there are more and more businesses in the city, and the manpower required is also surging, and it is necessary to have an efficient and honest administrative team to ensure the smooth development of the company.

The recruitment of a large number of talents has been included in the agenda, and the new Songjiang prefect and city secretary of the city promoted Deng Wentong with the detailed rules for recruiting talents and found Zhang Ke.

"Brother-in-law, how are these days?" Zhang Ke said vaguely while nibbling on peaches.

"Hey. You can't be as chic and comfortable as Yongzhen! Deng Wentong sat on the sofa and said with a smile: "It's just one word: tired!" But tired comfortably, tired for reason! Don't hide it from Yongzhen, I feel that we are doing an unprecedented big thing, as long as we succeed, we will definitely go down in history, even if we are tired, we are willing! ”

"Hehe, brother-in-law Gao Jian, it's just that you have to learn to do the work to the people below them. Don't be afraid to stab Lou Zi. I'm not afraid of problems. It's just getting started, and it's easy to adjust. According to my estimates, in a few years, the trading volume of the city and Jiangnan Bank will reach hundreds of millions of taels, or even more than a billion taels, and then a small mistake will cause irreparable consequences. ”

Zhang Ke is not untrue when he says this, he lived in the Age of Discovery, and the West unearthed almost infinite gold and silver. Possess strong purchasing power. Due to the ban on the sea, the production capacity of silk porcelain has been in a state of depression.

The city boss opened an opening, it was like dry firewood, and Ximenqing ran into Pan Jinlian. Out of control!

"Brother-in-law, it is not easy to train a strong bureaucratic team within three or five years!"

"Hehehe. Yongzhen, you have to worry too much about this, the Ming Dynasty didn't have much of anything. There are many people who like to be officials. Jiangnan is also a place where the literary style is at its peak, and there are a lot of down-and-out talented children, as long as they are given the opportunity, they will flock in. ”

Zhang Ke immediately straightened his body, particularly interested, he was convinced that as long as he used the right person, it was the first thing to do great things.

He can't stay in Jiangnan for a long time, so Southeast must use absolute henchmen, but also be bold and careful, and be able to take charge alone. Therefore, the army gave Wu Boyan, who was both wise and brave, and absolutely loyal. On the water side, it was given to Ming Ruxin, who was proud and had outstanding skills. As for his brother-in-law Deng Wentong, who is a financial wizard and has administrative experience, these three people are combined, no matter what means the imperial court uses, don't want to take away the city.

Once the people at the top have been arranged, the people at the bottom must recruit enough clerks to flesh out all the agencies.

"Brother-in-law, talent recruitment is the top priority, I am in Jiangnan, and I don't leave for a long time, I just want to wait for the recruitment to be completed. Although there are many scholars in Jiangnan, the rotten Confucianism with four books and five classics in one belly is useless at all, not only useless, but also bad, you have to do a good job! ”

"Hahaha! Yongzhen, you look down on scholars, and your brother-in-law has four books and five classics in his stomach! ”

"You are different from them, you can see through the two yuan, and your brother-in-law is a great talent in the world."

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" Deng Wentong's face was stern, and he said with a smile: "Although there are many scholars in Jiangnan, there are also many corrupt Confucians, but there are more practical talents, but they have not been discovered in the past!" ”

Deng Wentong immediately told Zhang Ke about the observations of these days.

Jiangnan has a flourishing literary style, not to mention that every family reads, almost half of the families will let their children read and write. There are hundreds of thousands, millions of scholars, but the imperial court will only take the exam once every three years, and only three or four hundred people will be admitted, which can be described as a drop in the bucket.

Not to mention Jinshi, even ordinary lifters, even Xiucai, are selected one out of a thousand, one out of ten thousand, some people from teenagers, to grandchildren are in their teens, and they may not rely on Xiucai.

Except for some dead-eyed, the family conditions are excellent, and they will continue to take the exam. Most people will leave a way out for themselves, and the most common is to go to a private school to teach.

In addition, scholars also learn bookkeeping and arithmetic, litigation documents, astronomical calendars, official documents, etc., do bookkeepers, act as litigation agents, help choose auspicious days of the zodiac, preside over weddings and funerals, and some people are lucky enough to be admitted to the government and become six-room officials.

There are even more bullish ones, people disdain to take the eight shares, full of economy, full of ideas, to serve as a staff member for officials, give advice, and strategize. One of the best is Master Shaoxing, which is famous all over the world!

Later generations always criticize the eight-strand text, in fact, to put it bluntly, isn't it just eight dual sentences, even if it comes to the national college entrance examination in later generations, the article is still the number of eight shares, without him, it is easy to read! Otherwise, if you write four lines of poetry and someone else writes an eight-hundred-word article, how can you calm down the high and low?

In Zhang Ke's view, the biggest problem with Bagu is that there are too few admissions, which makes a large number of talents lose in vain, and writing a good Bagu essay requires the ability to be high, and often ignores other talents, and as a result, a bunch of high-scoring and low-energy guys may be admitted!

This time the Jiangnan examination recruited talents, Zhang Ke gave the guiding ideology, and the content of the exam was lenient and simple. And the number of admissions should be as large as possible. First select them, and then let them compete constantly, and choose the best from them.

"Yongzhen, I have admitted three batches, a total of 800 people, mainly the original six-room scribes in the yamen, the bookkeepers recommended by various large households, and the scholars of the county school and the government school."

"How's it going?"

"It's better than I imagined, and among the topics I designed, in addition to writing. There are also arithmetic, accounting accounts, and there are also strategies, asking how to develop and grow the city, and the buildings obtained are varied, and there are really many available. ”

Zhang Ke also wanted to see if Daming's scholars were imprisoned, so he smiled and said, "Tell me, what are the good ideas?" ”

"Yes, some people think that the market is for the sake of selling things. Only if the output is more, the more it will be sold, so Tiyì should change the farmland to mulberry fields and weave more silk. ”

"Good. This is an inevitable trend! ”

"There are also people who say that the speed of the loom is too slow, and that the weaving speed is the key to making a new loom."

"Well, that's right."

Deng Wentong said with a smile: "There is also a mention of yì." said that the market division is to make money, why not do a business without capital, and directly let the sailor dispatch. Following the example of the Westerners, going to the ocean to mine gold and silver, and shipping it back directly, I estimate that the kid who mentions yì should be a descendant of pirates! ”

"Hahaha, brother-in-law, what we lack is such a person! Immediately give the kid who proposed to build yì to Ming Ruxin, put him in the sailor for exercise, and in the future, he will point them to gallop on the sea and expand the territory! ”

After chatting with his brother-in-law, Zhang Ke became more and more confident, the situation in Jiangnan is far from being the textbook, nor is it closed and conservative.

On the contrary, since the popularity of Yangming Xinxue, Westerners have brought a lot of new knowledge, and as the center of economy and culture, Jiangnan has been constantly agitating and colliding, and there are countless "strange theories".

The three outlines and five constants are constantly relaxed, women do not say anything irresponsible about remarriage, the status of businessmen continues to improve, some people scold Confucius and Mencius, and some people say that the monarch is a great harm to the world, advocating the reality of the hypocritical monarch...... And so on and on.

The open-mindedness of the mind has made the Jiangnan scholars dabble in a wider range, especially those who have no hope of the imperial examination, and urgently need a way to improve.

Take the exam, enter the city department, or Jiangnan Bank, although it is a small official, but it can be promoted, take Fang Chongwen as an example, now it is Songjiang Tongzhi who is the sixth product, and it is not worse than Kejia on the right way.

Especially if you do a good job, you will be appreciated by the Duke of Pingliao and go to Liaodong to be an official, and you will have a great future and unlimited brightness!

Not only Jiangnan, but even Jiangxi, Huguang and other places have come all the way to take the examination, which is countless times more lively than the imperial examination.

……

"Grandpa Guo, the Suzhou and Hangzhou Weaving Mansion has sent an invitation, I hope you will come over."

Zhang Ke has been busy with his brother-in-law for exams these days, and when he heard about the banquet, his brows immediately furrowed.

"What the hell is Wang Tiqian, didn't you just eat it two days ago!"

Sun Jiawen asked: "Grandpa Guo, if you don't humble yourself, you will say that you are busy with official business and will not go." ”

"Don't!" Zhang Ke smiled bitterly: "Normal people are balanced with yin and yang, but what about eunuchs, the light is left with yin, although Benjue doesn't care, but if he wants to sprinkle his anger on you, it will also be a trouble, after all, Benjue will return to Liaodong in two months." Let's go, go to the weaving bureau and have a look. ”

Sun Jiawen hurriedly arranged, prepared a four-wheeled carriage for Zhang Ke, and surrounded by guards, went out of the yamen and went straight to the weaving bureau.

The four-wheeled carriage was extremely stable, Zhang Ke leaned on the bearskin cushion, closed his eyes and recuperated, and various pictures kept flashing in his mind. Counting Yan'er, she is five years old, and she doesn't need to wear open crotch pants for small things, Shen Qingyan was also happy two days ago, and was about to return to Beijing to raise the baby, but Fang Yunqing has not moved, and she has to work harder, it's not easy for a man!

At this moment, there was a sudden bang, and Zhang Ke's hairs stood on end, he was familiar with it, this was the crackling sound of the fire gun.

"Not good!" Zhang Ke was full of strength and jumped out of the car window...... (To be continued......)