Bao'en Guangxiao Temple in Bao'en Fang, because it is not far from the Gongyuan, there are many people boarding in the imperial examination year.

After the provincial test, nearly three-quarters of the people failed to make the list and returned to their hometowns in frustration, making the guest house in the temple much empty.

After the hall call was called, it suddenly became lively again, just because Wen Tianxiang, the new champion, lived here.

Not only is the incense in the temple more than ten times more vigorous, but all the vacant guest houses have been rented out at high prices, which makes the great monks earn with tears and blood.

The scholar rushed to be neighbors with Wen Zhuangyuan, firstly, because he was involved in Wenyun, and secondly, he also wanted to make friends.

Not to mention what experience to ask for, it is such a young champion, there is a high probability of being a very good minister in the future, and he is familiar with his face in advance, and he has a personal connection, why not do it?

What's more, Zhao Guanjia also praised it as "Tianzhixiang, Song Zhirui", and let it officially change its name to Tianxiang, the word Song Rui, properly simplified in the emperor's heart.

After winning the championship, Wen Tianxiang is also proud, and he is very keen on these social interactions, after all, the young man is proud, human nature, at this time, the Song Dynasty does not seem to have fallen into the crisis of losing the country on the surface, and he has not yet awakened the sense of distress.

Under the stars and the moon, he went to the green building, drank fine wine, soaked in hot springs, admired the beauties, sounded dogs and horses, wandered happily, and also filled in a new new word "Qi Tianle".

The moon in the south building turns to the dawn of the Milky Way, and the jade flute blows the plum early.

The parrot is sunny, the grapes are warm, and a wisp of swallow fragrance is clear.

Yao Chi Chun tho.

I want to peach dew and glow, and Jubo Qinxiao.

The robe is brocade and graceful, and the fairy flower is surrounded by rainbow.

The people of Yuguan are not old.

Call the yellow crane on the rock, and talk and laugh with the shore scarf.

The sword whisk is quasi-clear, the lance is crossed, and the rain washes a Sichuan tobacco.

The print is yellow.

Look at the half-inkstone rose, full of saddle willows.

The sand road returns, and the golden sable cicada has small wings.

Look at this wording, gorgeous and magnificent, the merry boy brother is alive and active on the paper, full of commotion.

Perhaps, at this time, except for Zhao Mengqi, no one thought that such a wanton and chic person would eventually transform into a representative of the backbone of China.

Everyone just thinks that Wen Tianxiang has a bright future and great investment potential, so he is naturally more diligent in pursuing it.

However, when they learned that Wen Tianxiang had also been recruited into the Department of Integrity and Integrity, people's enthusiasm seemed to have cooled.

You must know that the Chen Reward of the Huai'an people in Fuzhou was awarded the Xuanyi Lang from the Eight Grades, signed the official affairs of the Taizhou Judge's Office, Yang Qixin of Tanhua Tongcheng, and was awarded the Chengshi Lang of the Nine Pins, and signed the official affairs of the Jiangyin Military Festival Judge's Office.

And the more than 200 people who entered the Department of Integrity were all unified from the nine products.

At first glance, the difference does not seem to be much, but in fact, the career of a junior official as an official usually affects his speed and height in his career.

To put it simply, it is normal to be promoted to a level, three or five years is always necessary, this step is slow, it is easy to slow down, although there is overtaking in corners, but it is still relatively rare.

What's more, who knows if it's a blessing or a curse when he enters King Yan's cage, and it must be very offensive to engage in honest government.

However, Wen Tianxiang himself is still relatively calm, probably with the idea of taking a look and then talking, if the situation is really not good, it is a big deal to hang the seal and go home, which is also the routine operation of civil officials in the Song Dynasty.

The day before he went to the Royal Military Academy to report, Wen Tianxiang stayed in the guest house and didn't go anywhere.

lived in the same courtyard with him, in addition to his younger brother Wenbi, there were also Xie Fangde, and Gan Tan, who was also from Jiangxi.

Gan Tan Zi Guimo, a native of Yichun County, Yuanzhou, 30 years old, won the second grade, and was recruited into the Department of Integrity together with Wen Tianxiang and Xie Fangde.

In other words, among the four, only Wen Bi did not enter the Department of Integrity and Integrity, but was invited by Gu Qing to join the Investigation Department.

They sat together at the stone table in the courtyard, enjoying the last bit of leisure before entering the office.

"Erlang, have you really thought about it? What kind of investigation department is not well-known, and it was born out of the Imperial City Division, it must be doing some flies and dogs, my generation of scholars should go straight to the right path, why bother to be stigmatized?"

Although Wen Tianxiang respected his younger brother's choice, but

Or try to make a final persuasion.

Wen Bi pursed his lips and recalled what Gu Qing said, "As long as you can do things for the country and the people, why care about personal fame and fortune? Who said that only those who stand in the light are heroes!?"

"Brother, the duties of the Investigation Department are very important to the country, I can't say what they are, but please believe that I can distinguish between right and wrong, uphold the right path in my heart, and do things that benefit the country and the people!"

Seeing that his younger brother was as determined as iron, Wen Tianxiang had no choice but to sigh, "Okay, I hope you are not deceived and can take the right path."

Gan Tan on the side shook his head, "Song Zhen is known to be upright, and her eyes are bright, how can she be easily deceived by others, you must have your own reasons for choosing like this, Song Rui, you don't have to worry too much, but the three of us, it's just a matter of going to the Department of Integrity and Integrity, anyway, we all serve the imperial court, there is nothing to pick and choose, but I still have to go to the Royal Military Academy for some training, which really makes people feel worried."

"This kind of strange thing, at first glance, is from the hand of King Yan, and now it is also strange, King Yan obviously does not act in the government, but his shadow can be seen in major political affairs, and I don't know what's wrong, whether it is the official family or the ruling party, it seems that King Yan is allowed to do it."

Wen Tianxiang twisted his sword eyebrows, he didn't understand the current government very much, and he was somewhat dissatisfied with the unruly King Yan.

Xie Fang looked at his expression and said with a smile, "I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, at least compared with before, the efficiency of the imperial court is getting higher and higher, for example, the selection of officials by the new branch of the Jinshi, in the past, it was usually necessary to abide by the "five selections", and at least it took more than a year to go to the Ministry of Officials to select the officials, but now, most of them have a place to go."

There are six hundred and five new science and technology scholars, and the age range is very large, several are one year younger than Wen Bi, and they are nineteen years old, such as Lu Xiufu, and the oldest is fifty-eight years old.

The Investigation Division only needs young people, no more than twenty-five years old, and they have to volunteer themselves, so they didn't pick a few.

As for the Department of Integrity and Integrity, the age can be relaxed to about 30 years old, but the family background is more demanding, so more than 200 people were selected.

In addition, more than 150 people, including Lu Shangming, will be sent to Liangguang and Fujian to enrich the area, but it is said that more than 30 people who are unwilling to go will probably not have the opportunity to become officials in the future.

There are also many people over forty or fifty years old, and the imperial court is also very sympathetic, and assigns them to the two prefectures of Pingjiang and Jiaxing to serve as teachers and shoguns.

Excluding more than 30 people who already have official positions, there are less than 100 people left without arrangement, such as Sun Yuanzheng and Tian Zhenzi......

Needless to say, Sun Yuanzheng and his gang are kind, Zhao Mengqi is kind if he doesn't kill them, as for Tian Zhenzi, you have to blame him for his name being too special, Zhao Mengqi remembers that in history, this guy and Pu Shougeng descended to the Yuan together, and it seems that they also participated in the massacre of the clan, so they naturally have to hold him down.

Listening to Xie Fangde's words, Wen Tianxiang couldn't help scratching his head, "This King Yan doesn't seem to be worried about the trouble of redundant officials at all, the Statistics Department has made more than 600 officials before, and now it has released nearly 500, can the imperial court's finances be affordable?"

Gan Tan's thinking is still relatively mature, "We are still outside the court gate, and we can't understand the internal situation of the court, but the ruling princes and officials will agree, that must be certain, maybe they have found a new way to solve the redundancy of officials and finances."

"Don't say anything else, but King Yan's ability to make money, that is definitely the first person in ancient and modern times!" Wen Bi said, his face full of admiration.

The other three couldn't help laughing, "It's true......

On the day of the Lantern Festival, tens of thousands of new fireworks were set off in the entire Lin'an City, all of which were bought from King Yan, and one cost ten yuan.

Then he began to promote honeycomb coal in Lin'an City, selling or renovating matching new stoves and warming houses.

Kang appeared in the Western Han Dynasty at the latest, but it was used in the northern region, and there was no Lin'an at this time.

Lin'an mainly uses firewood, but due to the large population, the surrounding mountains and forests can not withstand consumption at all, and even were cut down bald at the beginning of the southern crossing, and now it is mainly provided by Yan, Wu, Qu, Hui and other prefectures in the southwest. z.br>

Therefore, the people's expenditure on living fuel is not small, and before Lin'an

A small amount of coal in the city, basically produced in Huainan, transported to Zhenjiang through the canal, and then transported by merchants to Suzhou and Hangzhou for sale, a port in Zhenjiang has a large amount of coal transit, so it is named Shitanzhu.

Such long-distance transportation makes coal not cheap, more expensive than firewood, and can be used less in daily life, generally added spices to make high-end products and sold to the rich, such briquettes are called "fragrant cakes".

When Zhao Mengqi was in Pingjiang Mansion, he noticed that the coal used in the people's homes was not all transported from Zhenjiang, but that coal production points had been found in Changxing County, Anji Prefecture.

In principle, the mountains, forests, lakes and marshes all belonged to the imperial court, but Zhao Mengqi still compensated several private mine owners with some money, recovered these mines, and began to expand mining.

The coal mine has small reserves, but without a large industrial use, Zhao Mengqi estimates that it will be enough for Lin'an for at least a few decades.

It is not to completely replace firewood, at least it can reduce the fuel pressure in Lin'an, so that the people can be slightly warmer in winter.

Moreover, the industry has also placed a lot of jobs, and it has made a decent profit by selling high-end stoves to the wealthy and renovating greenhouses.

In addition, Yanwang's industries also have many new products on the market, such as distilled and refined cane wine and fruit wine, canned seafood sealed in clay pots, dried seafood, oil-consuming oysters, reading glasses polished from natural crystal, cotton jackets, refined salt, snow sugar, candy, soap, perfume, alabaster and ......

Most of them are not cheap, and they are also in the mid-to-high-end market, but there is no shortage of rich people in Lin'an.

The most sensational thing was the public sale of the new carriage.

The cheapest one costs 5,000 yuan, and you need to buy another horse, a horse is at least 300 yuan, and each car must be licensed, and the horse also has an independent identity plate.

The record of the horse is basically free, but the license plate, the ordinary one will have an annual fee of 30 times, if you want what auspicious number, leopard number, sorry, add money!

In addition, the imperial court also publicly announced the liberalization of the etiquette requirements for carriages, as long as the maximum number of horses is not more than five, there is no limit, as long as the body does not use the official regulations, as luxurious as you want.

It is said that the Qian family not only bought six cars at one time, but one of them is currently the most expensive, worth 200,000 yuan!

Many people sighed that King Yan was not soft at all when he slaughtered his father-in-law.

Nowadays, the rich and noble families in Lin'an City, if they don't have a new carriage, they are embarrassed to go out.

Some time ago, Qingming went out to the green, and there was a large number of luxury carriages along the West Lake, and there was no need to count them, at least three or four hundred.

In fact, Lin'an City has the convenience of water transportation, and there is not so much demand for carriages at all, but after this thing becomes a status symbol and becomes a comparison and show-off, it has little to do with actual demand.

As a result, the already congested streets of Lin'an are often congested.

For this reason, I heard that a city management office will be set up under the Military Patrol Yuan, which will be responsible for planning and managing new traffic rules, as well as the improvement and regulation of the city's appearance.

As for the new city area, it is also changing day by day, more and more buildings are nearing completion, and many of the imperial and royal workshops will be relocated.

Sturdy and smooth concrete roads are everywhere, and a new harbour five times larger than the canal wharf has been built along the Qiantang River to replace the old one, but it is estimated that it will take a year and a half to complete.

So these days, the people of Lin'an always have fresh things to talk about, and even if King Yan rarely enters the city, the people have always been talking about him.

More and more people believe that King Yan is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, but the opinion of people in the officialdom on King Yan is much more complicated.

Looking at the depleted money bags, can you not have an opinion on the king of Yan who cut their leeks?

What's more, King Yan still has a big knife in his hand, and he doesn't know when he will cut it down......

When it came to King Yan's money, Wen Tianxiang and the four couldn't help chatting for a long time.

When it was approaching dusk, Wen Tianxiang said to Wen Bi, "Let's go, go visit my father and mother, and say goodbye."

Although the Wen family has been flat for several generations

people, but in his hometown Luling, he is also a famous scholarly family, and his family background is still very good.

Although Wen Tianxiang's father Wen Yi failed in the imperial examination twice, he was knowledgeable and well-known in the township.

Several neighboring towns and villages have heard of its name and are respected by other literati, so Wenyi teaches at home and comes from far and near to listen to and discuss.

In addition to the two brothers, there is also a third brother Wen Tingsun, Xiao Wen Tianxiang is four years old, a fourth brother Wen Zhang, eight years old this year, and three younger sisters, Yisun, Shusun, and Shunsun.

This time, the two brothers rushed to take the exam together, and Wenyi simply came to Lin'an as a family.

However, because the third brother Wen Tingsun died of illness before the exam, Wen Yi became depressed due to the pain of losing his son, and his health was not good and he needed to recuperate, and there were too many children.

The two brothers were at the same time, Wenyi's mood was much better, and his health also improved, but Lang Zhong said that he still had to cultivate, so the Wen family had to stay in Lin'an for a long time.