"Compared with the changes of previous dynasties, the reform process of the Southern Tang Dynasty is the strangest and the most effective. It takes the 'strong earthquake' caused by the ten questions of recruiting talents as the starting point, takes commerce as the main driving force, and then extends to agriculture, and at the same time parallel elite soldiers and officials, while strongly promoting from top to bottom, it also really stimulates the power of the people, thus forming a strong thrust from bottom to top, and the two forces are successfully integrated, forming the most powerful driving force for the Southern Tang Dynasty to become strong. When everyone looked back on the entire change process, they had to admire the advocate Lin Feng's accurate control and grasp of the overall rhythm. ——Excerpt from the book "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty" written by the historian Shi Yan? Memorabilia of Lin Feng

On April 27, the eighth year of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is advisable to sacrifice and break ground.

At the beginning of the early dynasty, as soon as the celebrant spoke, Li Jing's face was calm, and he waved his right hand. Li Jingsui picked up a huge piece of white paper, took a big step forward, and then turned to face the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and read aloud:

"Sue the world's talents.

The foundation of a strong country is also talented. The rise of all dynasties starts with the selection of talents. Today, Datang wants to inherit the grand wish of Datang to carry forward the past and open up the future, follow the practice of gathering talents from the ancestors, and open Enke in the year of Gengxu, and from now on, it will recruit talents from all over the world.

The ten questions are as follows:

……

Datang will be held from July 24 to August 24 in Jinling City to carry out the talent ceremony, where to the point, willing to be aggressive, where clever and intelligent, can innovate and invent, once selected, the common people will be promoted to eight products, reward thousands of dollars. Anyone who has an official status will be promoted to two levels and rewarded with a thousand dollars. For those who can apply for national patents, the patent fee and royalty will be charged separately!

Hereby made! ”

Because Lin Feng had previously suggested that the world's skilled craftsmen are not necessarily readers, and it is best to make the text easy to understand when announcing the world. Therefore, the overall text of "The Book of Talents to the World" does not pursue five or six words, allusions.

I still underestimated the determination of the Holy Lord to get rid of the old and welcome the new! The courtiers were all dumbfounded, and a chill couldn't help but rise in their hearts.

Song Qiqiu and Sun Sheng, who was in the same row, inadvertently exchanged glances, and both sides subconsciously avoided it. Previously, the two factions led by the two dared to argue slowly and logically, but they were actually based on a premise, that is, they believed that any major political affairs in the Southern Tang Dynasty would ultimately depend on them to control and implement! But one of the things that they fear most in their hearts and subconsciously avoid talking about is that if the saint insists on going his own way, any of their individual and group efforts will be a pavilion on the beach!

At this moment, Xiao Yan and Han Xizai glanced at each other, and they really didn't feel good in their hearts! Previously, in everyone's private discussion, Sun Sheng had proposed that he should not mention the ten questions of recruiting talents for the time being, and make every effort to debate the four methods of reform with the Song Party, and then suddenly exert his strength on the ten questions of recruiting talents when the stalemate is deadlocked. Everyone tacitly agreed to this strategy, and they have been debating along this line. However, no one expected that the Holy Lord would decide to do it independently!

Han Xizai regretted it even more in his heart, and twisted his right hand on his body, and he couldn't wait to slap himself. For the benefit of the country and the people, I shouldn't have compromised at that time! Could it be that Lin Feng was not around, and he had lost the courage to move forward? Han Xizai asked himself, and suddenly a feeling of being sorry for Lin Feng and his ideals arose.

Just when the ministers were shocked, Li Jing spoke: "This system must be posted all over the city today, all states in the whole territory within five days, and all counties in the whole territory within ten days. Retreat! ”

As early as two days ago, after discussing with Li Jing, Li Jingsui circled all the six Zhongshu people in the palace, and successively transcribed more than 200 announcements and holy decrees of the "Book of Talents to the World". The second is to arrange for the 34th Road team to hurry up and rush to the prefectures and counties throughout the territory with the holy decree and proclamation to carry out the decree.

Soldiers are fast. As soon as the early dynasty dispersed, Li Jing went straight to the garrison of the Praetorian Guards, personally sat in the formation, and arranged for the forbidden troops from all walks of life to set off immediately.

Suddenly, the carefully selected forbidden troops came out of the camp in groups of four, fully armed, and went to the four directions. Under the urging of the horsewhip, the horse's hooves flew over, causing bursts of smoke and dust to be lifted from the main streets in all directions of Jinling City.

"What's wrong? Is there another big war on the border? At first, the people of Jinling looked at the war horses flying around, frightened and frightened, and asked each other uneasily. When the announcement stamped with the red seal began at the gates of each square outside the palace and gradually spread to the outer circle of the city, it immediately became the focus of attention of the people.

In front of Changshengfang, the "South Market" in the southern part of Jinling City, where industry and commerce gather, it was nearly noon when the announcement was posted, and the small vendors who were preparing to eat near the gate suddenly saw many people running in front of the door, shouting something excitedly in their mouths.

Fang Hongli was directing a group of guys to take a serious inventory in front of the Fang family's merchant stack like a mountain, but he was pulled by a panting guy's sleeve.

"Master, go and see, the emperor posted a notice, with what ten questions to recruit talents, to recruit talents from the world!" Because he was running too fast, the guy bent down, held his thigh with his hand, and said as he gasped.

"What does that have to do with us?" Fang Hongli was a little displeased, the batch of goods in front of him was the largest batch this year, and he was in a hurry to transport them to the seaside.

"There is a relationship, one of the questions is to collect the artifacts of nautical charts and maritime shipping from the world, and the other is to collect what is the most productive crop." The guy finally gasped for breath and said eagerly.

There are quirks! Fang Hongli threw the account book in his hand to the guy next to him, and immediately walked quickly to the fang with the guy who reported the news.

When Fang Hongli arrived, the gate was already surrounded by water. Everyone was desperately shouting and discussing something.

When Fang Hongli was in a hurry, he only heard a broken shout in front of him: "All be quiet!" One of the guards jumped onto the stone steps at the entrance of the workshop and pressed his hands down to signal the crowd to be quiet.

The voices of the crowd gradually subdued.

"Ladies and gentlemen, hello guys!" The forbidden soldier began to smile on his face, this is also no way, when Li Jingsui personally lectured beforehand, he made the cruel words clear, and all those who did not perform well were driven out of the forbidden army, "Our Datang is blessed!" From today onwards, today's Shengshang Kaienke is sincerely recruiting talents from all over the world. Everyone came early and late, and I will read the contents of the announcement to you again. ”

Subsequently, the forbidden soldier said the content of the announcement verbatim, and from time to time he sandwiched two sentences in the local dialect in the middle of his not-so-bright official words. However, at this moment, no one cared about this, and was preoccupied with the content of the announcement.

"This military master, this can't be fake, right? Who answered the question well, did he really directly reward the eight officials? As soon as the forbidden soldier's words fell, a young man dressed as a scholar shouted.

"Of course it's true. Didn't you see that there are the original handworks of the name of the saint today and the great seal of the jade seal below?! The decree has been officially issued this morning, and the announcement will be sent to all states and counties across the country! The janissary replied politely.

"This military master, what is a patent?" Seeing that the forbidden army was very easy to deal with, a man in coarse cloth clothes shouted.

"This is what Prince Qi personally taught us!" Speaking of this, the forbidden army also felt that he had a lot of face, raised his voice and said: "Prince Qi told us, as long as you have any inventions and creations that are beneficial to the country and the people, if they are recognized by the imperial court, you can apply for a patent from the state, and the imperial court can pay a lot of money to buy out your patent, and you can also cooperate with the merchant, he will use your patent once, how much money will he give you!" ”

"Ah, isn't this man rich?" The strong man said with a look of envy.

"It's been sent a long time ago! Don't you hear, just inventing it will reward you with a thousand dollars?! A stall owner next to him laughed loudly.

"Alas, my kid likes to dismantle and pretend things, and I beat him up yesterday to ask him to study hard! I knew the way early, and let him do something invented! The man shouted with some annoyance.

"It's not too late! There are still three months to go. Zhang Laowei, then you will be developed in the future, and you can't help but take care of the neighborhood! A familiar ** next to him made a joke.

"Coax", the people near the two of them all laughed, isn't this a pipe dream?! There are also many people in the crowd whose eyes are rolling, their brows are furrowed, and their hearts are frantically recalling whether they have any good things and capable people who can be linked to this ten questions about recruitment!

"It seems that the emperor is going to make a big move, no, I have to report to the eldest brother quickly!" Fang Hongli heard clearly outside the crowd and immediately made a decision in his heart. Their Fang family is mainly engaged in foreign trade, if there is really such a navigation artifact, then the sea area of the world will not be allowed to gallop by the Fang family? By the way, I seem to have heard someone say a few days ago that there is a place overseas where rice is delicious, and you have to go back and ask what happened!

Fang Hongli turned his head and walked away excitedly, and behind him, there were more and more people around the bulletin board, and it became more and more noisy.

De'an Fang, known as "Jihang Street", and Ernst & Young Fang, known as "Gold and Silver Street", are known as "Gold and Silver Street...... On the same day, a similar scene was staged in front of various streets and squares in Jinling City.