Natsuhara Yoshiki enters the palace.

Played against Zhu Di.

However, there didn't seem to be a few words between the monarchs and ministers, and Xia Yuanji took his leave.

Immediately the edict was issued, and Xia Yuanji was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Education, and Keri took office.

The reason why Zhu Di did not talk to Xia Yuanji in detail.

In fact, this is also due to Zhu Di's mastery of Xia Yuanji, after all, after so many years, if you are someone else, the last time is enough to make Xia Yuanji die without a place to be buried.

But in the end, Natsuhara Yoshishi was just a priest, and soon, he accepted the responsibility of supervising the construction of Shinto.

It's not because Zhu Di is favoritism, but for people like Zhu Di, the same thing, different people, and their intentions are different, so they will naturally be treated differently.

Although it is often said that a gentleman does not care about his deeds.

But in reality, it is completely different, Zhu Di at least knows that Xia Yuanji is still reliable, and he doesn't have too sinister thoughts, and the reason why the last incident happened was just the thinking of Xia Yuanji's readers.

It would be an exaggeration to say that there are any ill-intentioned intentions.

This time, the ministers recommended Xia Yuanji as the new secretary, which can be regarded as the expectation of the public.

On the one hand, the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion have a deep relationship with Xia Yuanji, and they have been strongly recommended by Liu Guan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the qualifications of the other ministries and departments are far inferior to Xia Yuanji, and they can be regarded as respecting Xia Yuanji, so they naturally seconded it.

As for the other ministers, especially those Qingliu, not to mention that under the blows again and again, the Qingliu in the court has become a rare species, even if there are, no matter how shameless they slander Xia Yuanji, they actually play slippery heads and bet on both ends.

can think about it carefully, except for Xia Yuanji, which of the remaining candidates is not the sworn friend of those New Deals?

One by one, the words that Lao Tzu is going to kill the gentry have been engraved on their faces, rather than letting such a person serve as the new secretary, it is better for Xia Yuanji.

Although Xia Yuanji is the head of the rat at both ends, but after all, he is still secretive, still holding the pipa and half-covering his face, saying a few high-sounding words on the surface, and changing to others, the ghost knows if it is a guy who is going to smash the Confucian Temple.

Since Zhu Di ascended the throne, the court has never been as unanimous as yesterday.

In the process of facing the saint, Xia Yuanji actually had some thoughts about the new ministry in his heart, after all, he had talked with his son last night, and he probably understood the goal of the new department.

Things in this world are probably like this, a person who has no experience in doing things, if you teach him by hand, he may also be at a loss and don't know why.

And anyone who has experience in doing things, especially a person like Xia Yuanji, who has been in the sea for more than ten years, in fact, no matter what he does, he has not yet started to do it, but he actually has rules in his heart.

The main responsibilities of the new department are nothing more than the syllabus, university halls, public schools, and the management of new buildings without mathematics halls, as well as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of teachers in the future.

Then, to do things in an orderly manner, then it is to formulate the new ministry's own charter, not to mention others, each political envoy department needs to set up a corresponding Qing Officials Division!

In addition, there is a director in charge of money and food, and Langzhong, and a school inspector department, and a literature and anthology department in charge of the syllabus, so that there is a framework, and the responsibilities are distinguished, and then one thing is done.

First calculate the approximate budget, and then ask for money and food, and then order the provincial officials to recruit teachers, select some of the main officials and vice-officials of the school, here in the capital, this is the Department of Literature and Literature to contact the university halls, responsible for the formulation of the syllabus.

The reason why we want to invite the university hall to staff the syllabus is because in essence, in the future, in the schools of all states and counties in the world, the outstanding ones will be admitted to the universities to continue their studies.

If you can't meet the requirements of each university hall for future students, you will work behind closed doors and wait until the time is really trained, but the university hall will not be satisfied, and it will inevitably lead to disputes.

Therefore, well-known schools such as medical schools, arithmetic schools, government schools, martial arts schools, engineering schools, railway schools, and maritime affairs schools have gathered together.

As for the other university halls, after all, the impact is not enough to take care of everything.

In addition, on the side of the Ministry of Education, the third thing for Xia Yuan Jigan is to plan the Normal School, and this is also the top priority!

After all...... The current method of using Xiucai to teach is only a temporary method and cannot last for a long time.

This point, in fact, Xia Yuanji knows that anything that forces everyone to do it must always have a good effect at first, but once it has been a long time, it will definitely be hollowed out by people to find loopholes, and then, try their best to destroy it.

This is just like the Guozixue during the period of Emperor Taizu Gao, under the high pressure of Emperor Taizu Gao, the prisoners had to enter the Guozi School to study, but after a long time, everyone slacked off, so that this Guozixue has long been overgrown with weeds.

If you really want to carry on one thing and get long-term support, then ...... It is not to persecute a group of reluctant people, but to have a group of people who depend on this for their livelihood, and they are the staunch supporters of this national policy.

This is the case of this normal school, try their best to recruit students, and then enter the public schools as teachers after graduation, they want to apply what they have learned, and what they will eat in the future is this bowl of rice, the public school is their food and clothing, and recruiting more schoolchildren to enroll is their performance, which is the foundation of their money and food.

In this way, if one day, someone tells them that they want to abolish the public school, they are afraid that they will be the first to jump up and refuse to back down.

Therefore, the scale of this normal university hall must be large enough, and the ministry must preside over it personally, and it must not be faked to others.

After these few things are done, it is actually the negotiation link.

Office learning, in addition to the imperial court to allocate money and food, in essence, is to solve the problem of schoolchildren, schoolchildren can be literate, master arithmetic, this is of course beneficial.

But these benefits are not enough to make people forge ahead.

The problem now is that there are indeed many university halls in the capital, but compared to the whole world, the number of students that these university halls can recruit is a drop in the bucket.

In fact, university halls are now more or less profitable, on the one hand, from tuition fees, and on the other hand, from funding.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji's idea was that this university hall must be expanded, or in other words, every political envoy in the world should try their best to have two or three university halls. In this way, it provides convenience for local students to continue their studies, and secondly, it also means that the number of school places enrolled each year has also increased significantly.

If you enter a university, it is like the imperial examination, and after a year, there are only tens of thousands of places, which is an unattainable existence for the vast majority of students, and naturally, they will cut off the heart of going to school.

But if there are 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of posts every year, and after entering the university hall, there is a lot of prospects, then ...... It's completely different.

In the final analysis, the responsibility of the new ministry is not only to build a school, but also to persuade the school, to teach the children of the military and civilians in the world to enroll, it is impossible to rely on a few official documents, which is the same as encouraging people to read the books of sages and sages in the past.

Probably finalized these, this new ministry can finally maintain its operation.

Xia Yuanji went to all the ways again, played all the above matters, and asked some officials to be transferred to the new ministry, in the final analysis, he is old, it is impossible to bow down to everything, and there must be some useful people as the right and left hands.

After Zhu Di saw his recital, he was also very happy, and he didn't say anything more, so he directly criticized it.

After this matter was sent down to deal with it, it has been rare to have peace and quiet in the capital recently.

But because of the peace, people always feel as if something is missing.

The daily Di newspaper is almost all lackluster news, but it is a bit unexpected.

The only lively thing may be Qixia.

Qixia here, there are many buildings, and there are too many commercial houses to set their headquarters here, so it is particularly lively.

Especially on the side of the street, it is a place where businessmen often come and go on weekdays, and it can be said that it is very lively every day.

These days, even Zhang Anshi actually came every once in a while.

He doesn't talk about business.

At first, people couldn't help but be happy to see His Royal Highness King Song come here in person, after all, His Royal Highness King Song was already very popular among the merchants.

What's more, His Royal Highness King Song is willing to deign to come here, and the businessmen feel that their faces are bright.

This street is actually a trading place for bulk commodities.

However, the delivery of commodities is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Many merchants buy and sell, do not hurry, so they directly place a business order here to trade directly, as long as the note is established, the gold and silver are delivered, the agreement will be considered effective, and then find time to pick up the goods.

Over time, some people saw the doorway, with the frequent transactions, some people did not even pick up the goods, but directly signed a subscription list with someone, turned their heads, if the market is good, and then resell the list at a high price, and grab the difference.

Here, a group of special groups have begun to appear, that is, buying and selling various orders, coupled with the good market these days, so many people have made money.

Of course, there are many people who lose money, but they ...... Willing to gamble and lose.

Zhang Anshi probably understands the rules.

The reason why this street is famous is because there is an exchange for business orders here, and this exchange was founded by dozens of the largest commercial banks in the Ming Dynasty.

Because of these big merchants, all of them have big businesses, especially the leading Qixia Commercial Bank, with them as a guarantee, naturally, everyone is willing to trust.

It is said that the daily trading volume here is very amazing, and when encountering a good market, it can even exceed 10 million taels of silver a day.

Zhang Anshi came almost every three or five times.

Soon everyone found out that it was boring.

For example, the last time, His Royal Highness King Song came down, and after walking around, soon the bulk of white sugar on the market began to be purchased.

Then, within a few days, the news came out that this large purchase of white sugar was actually due to a fire in the largest sugar factory in Luzon, and as soon as the news came, the price of white sugar immediately skyrocketed.

Immediately afterwards, I heard that in just a few days, His Royal Highness King Song earned more than two million taels of silver.

As businessmen, the sense of smell is the keenest, and for them, the slightest clue can be valuable information. So everyone's eyes undoubtedly fell on His Royal Highness King Song.

Early this morning, Zhang Anshi came here routinely, still hugging back and forth, ordinary people were not allowed to approach, but he just came and walked around and went back, and there seemed to be nothing special.

But obviously, everyone has seen some clues, so many people have begun to stare at every move on the market, just waiting to see what His Royal Highness King Song has asked people to buy, and they can follow the wind.

It's a pity that there is no movement in the market at all.

Just when everyone was disappointed.

But there is a humane: "Today's turnover is not high at all, much less than yesterday...... It's very rare, in one day, there are 13 million taels...... It's weird, I didn't see any major news yesterday. ”

At this time, someone seemed to be alert and said nervously: "Yesterday? What were you trading yesterday? ”

As long as someone investigates these things, they immediately realize that yesterday someone somehow threw out timber and bought steel on a large scale.

When you hear about the sale of timber, it feels incredible. You know, now that railways are being built everywhere, the demand for timber is bound to be huge, so these days, the price of certain timber has never come down.

As for steel, of course, the price is not low, but in the past year, with the iron ore mining in many parts of the world, more steel workshops began to be built, so the price of steel, although also driven by the railway, remains high, but ...... Compared with other products, it is much more stable.

But in the current situation, it is clear that someone is behind it, secretly manipulating the market.

But the question is, where is the logic of this market?

Just when everyone was in a daze, people were scrambling to talk about it, and they couldn't figure it out.

Two days later.

"Master, master......"

In Liu Ji Commercial Bank, early in the morning, Liu Lu, the big owner, was awakened by an eager voice.

Liu Lu, the big proprietor, rubbed his still sober head, got up with his shoes, and saw the shopkeeper come in person.

The shopkeeper's face was anxious, and he said to his face: "The latest news, the latest news...... The great victory of Annam, His Royal Highness the King of Han in Annam, led the army to open up to the west, defeated the main force of the local princely state, swept hundreds of miles in one fell swoop, captured more than 30 large and small towns, and captured more than 400,000 thieves...... The silver and gold that were obtained alone were innumerable. These places are numerous, many of which are wooded, and are best suited for making sleepers......"

When Liu Lu heard this, he was taken aback, and the little drowsiness on his body dissipated suddenly.

Then, I listened to the shopkeeper's words: "His Royal Highness the King of Han has now announced to Annam that he will take the lead in building the Annam Railway, and the Annam Railway Division has been built on the Annam side, and the workshop that builds sleepers on a large scale is not only for his own use, but also for a steady stream of peddling by sea, just ...... In Annam, iron ore is scarce, and just a dozen days ago, the merchant group in Annam was preparing to enter Beijing to negotiate the large-scale procurement of steel needed for the construction of the railway, in addition to custom-made steam locomotives...... Now, this Annan merchant group is on the way. ”

Liu Lu's expression became solemn, and he looked at the shopkeeper seriously: "What is the scale of this railway?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "It's a lot, Annan is long and narrow, up and down 2,000 miles, but once it is connected, the benefits are huge, so this time, after His Royal Highness the King of Han won a great victory, he obviously intends to temporarily withdraw the army and use all his efforts on this railway." What's more, the income from this land grabs should not be small, plus Annan is rich in products, and there is a lot of gold and silver, if you borrow some more from my Daming Money Bank, it is enough to support the construction of the railway. ”

"On such a large scale?" Liu Lu was stunned for a moment, showing a little shock.

Although railways are being built all over the world, many political envoys are using the method of finding ore veins locally and building iron ore and iron and steel workshops on the spot.

But on the Annan side, such a large-scale railway construction, but because of the lack of steel, all of it was purchased, which is almost conceivable in the future, what a big steel gap will be.

Not only that, according to the temperament of the King of Han, nine times out of ten, this railway will eventually be connected to the railway of the Ming Dynasty, so ...... In the future, there may be large-scale construction projects for years or even decades.

This Han King is really a great joy as rumored in the past, but I have to say that this is definitely a big deal.

Liu Lu frowned and said thoughtfully: "In this way, iron ore and steel are going to rise sharply?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "It has begun to rise, but unfortunately some time ago, a large amount of steel has been bought out, and now there is not much steel on the market, and the major workshops are saying that they want to expand production!" But with such a big gap, if you want to expand production for a while, where is it so easy? Therefore, now the exchange is crazy, and some people say that some time ago, the person who secretly bought the steel list, I am afraid that this time, it will definitely make a lot of money. ”

"You're talking about His Royal Highness King Song......" Liu Lu listened and subconsciously said.

The shopkeeper said: "It's hard to say, everyone guesses that it is His Royal Highness King Song, but there is no evidence." ”

"In this way, King Song learned the news in advance." Liu Lu muttered.

The shopkeeper said: "Could it be that His Royal Highness the King of Han communicated a letter with the King of Song in advance?" ”

"There is this possibility, but ......" Liu Lu thought for a while and said: "It stands to reason that even if the King of Han communicates the letter in advance, such a big matter must be discussed and discussed by the people in the Han Palace." Our firm is not without friends in Annan, as long as they discuss, there should be a friend of the old man who repairs the old man's book and comes quickly. It can't be that His Royal Highness the King of Han kept such a big event secret, and he didn't discuss it with anyone, he only repaired a letter with His Royal Highness the King of Song, and then suddenly announced it, that's not how things are done. ”

(End of chapter)