End of May.

Since mid-April, several teams that have gone south to recruit talents have returned to Dengzhou City one after another. Before leaving, Li Congyan gave each team a time limit of two months, and at the end of May, all the southbound teams returned, and the journey of each team was very smooth.

Later, Li Congyan sat in the Assessment Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and began to interview all kinds of talents recruited, and the amount was applicable.

The various divisions who led the team to the south accompanied him, and was appointed by Li Congyan as an examiner and formed a talent review team with himself.

First of all, the military medical department Si Cheng Sun Yi brought more than a dozen famous doctors in Jiangnan to the interview, Li Congyan is not too good at medical skills, but knows some simple pharmacology, such as knowing notoginseng to stop bleeding, Chuanbei and loquat to suppress cough and so on.

Therefore, the interview for these famous doctors in Jiangnan is also at the level of asking resumes, and the follow-up assessment department will conduct an identity review of the talents recruited by each team to eliminate the possibility of fine work mixed into Dengzhou.

Li Congyan still trusts Sun Yi, the director of the Military Medical Department, after all, Sun Yi is a famous doctor in Dengzhou, and the ordinary mediocre Sun Yi is not eye-catching.

However, the procedure that should be taken is still complete, and after Li Congyan finished asking, Sun Yi also had some symptoms on the spot, so that these famous doctors in Jiangnan could diagnose it.

After reading the prescriptions or disposals handed over by everyone, Sun Yi couldn't help nodding in agreement, and explained the truth to Li Congyan one by one.

"Okay, you are serving in the Military Medical Department, and the specific positions are arranged by Sun Sicheng. In the future, you must bear in mind the responsibilities of the Military Medical Department, train military medical officers for the new army, train life-saving medical craftsmen for the people, and help the world and benefit all the people! ”

"Whoa!"

More than a dozen people were slightly stunned after hearing the eight words "hanging pot to help the world and bless the people", although Li Congyan didn't know much about medical skills, but the cognitive realm of medical skills made everyone admire, and they all crossed their hands and saluted.

Then there were more than 20 people recruited by the conscription department, most of whom were grassroots officers from all parties in Jiangnan.

It's just that Li Congyan is not interested in the grassroots officers of these local separatist forces, and his demand for military talents is biased towards the strategic level, rather than the tactical aspect, and it is best to have talents such as military divisions and staff officers.

After all, with the combat strength and equipment of the new army, as well as the firearms and other weapons of mass destruction that will definitely be equipped in the future, the demand for this old-style grass-roots officer is getting smaller and smaller, and it is gradually tending to zero. If Li Congyan wants to train, he can rely on the gradually improved drill code to continuously train qualified grassroots officers.

But after all, people came all the way to themselves, and Li Congyan naturally would not treat everyone badly, so he interviewed everyone one by one, not only asking everyone about their past achievements, good at troops, skills in the army, etc., but also asking about everyone's three views on morality.

Fortunately, Xue Mingtuan, the director of the conscription department, was deeply influenced by Li Congyan, and was very strict with the recruitment of grassroots officers, and would never recruit those soldiers and soldiers, and these 20 or so people all passed Li Congyan's interview.

"Yes, you are all elite generals, and when you arrive in Dengzhou, you will be my Li Congyan's generals, I hope you can show your strength in the new army under my command."

These 20 or so people were very excited, they were originally grassroots officers who were unwilling to do anything in various places, at this time, everyone was able to see the history of the assassination of a state, and they were also the identity of the prince of the dynasty, and they were already very excited in their hearts, and they were promised by Li Congyan, and everyone was even more determined to stay in Dengzhou.

At this time, Li Congyan said to Xu Mingzhi, the secretary of the assessment department: "The new army has just undergone an expansion, and there will be some changes in the future. ”

"Whoa!"

Li Congyan knew very well that the new army was in urgent need of grassroots officers at this time, and although these more than 20 people were not his own lineage, nor were they trained by himself, after all, they were veterans of the army, and there were no quality problems, so they simply left them all for use.

Xu Mingzhi, the secretary of the assessment department, also recruited several talents, all of whom were from Wuyue, and they were originally scholars from all over Wuyue. Li Congyan chatted with a few people for a while, and found that their minds were full of ideas such as promoting Confucianism, educating the people, resting with the people, and respecting the sages, so they had a plan in their hearts.

"My people in Dengzhou really lack education, so I am going to build an official school in Dengzhou City, and I also ask you to serve as the teachers of this official school."

The scholars were slightly stunned, they didn't expect that they couldn't get mixed up with the official position when they arrived in Dengzhou, and they also wanted to be a teacher, and they were all a little dissatisfied.

One of them was about to leave, and the rest of them also chimed in.

Li Congyan sneered and said secretly: "Just a few of you still want to be officials?" Seeing that the world of great controversy is coming, I don't need a corrupt scholar! ”

However, Li Congyan didn't say that, in line with the principle of making the best use of things, it was also to give Si Cheng Xu Ming's face, so he said: "Each of you has five yuan per month, and there is a festival fee at the end of the year, why don't you do it?" ”

The scholars were still indignant just now, and when they heard that there were five guan lu, they immediately fell silent, and then they all agreed to stay with red faces.

Li Congyan said: "Dengzhou official school is subordinate to the shogunate, specifically recruiting poor children from all over Dengzhou, teaching literacy, sage books, arithmetic, historical materials of the past dynasties, astronomy and geography, the number of students is less than 300 people, with a two-year term, all costs are borne by the shogunate, and you have negotiated with Xu Sicheng on specific matters, and the official school is temporarily under the jurisdiction of the assessment department." ”

"Whoa!"

After Li Congyan finished dealing with the talents of the Appraisal Division, it was already noon, so he ordered a banquet to be held in the shogunate to entertain all the recruited talents.

In the afternoon, the rest of the divisions left with their assigned talents, and went to implement Li Congyan's instructions, and only the talents recruited by the Industrial Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the R&D Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs were left in the assessment department.

"The Lord of Qiqi, these six are the heads of the famous merchant families of Wu Di and Wu Yue, and they specially defected to the Lord this time."

Li Sisheng pointed to six businessmen of different ages and said: "This one is He Xun, the head of the Wu Dihe family, who is good at dealing in minerals; This is Liu Yang, the head of the Liu family in Wudi, who is also a mining master. ”

"These are all famous businessmen in Wu Yue, Guo Xu, the head of the Guo family, Wang Zaijin, the head of the Wang family, Zhao Chuan'an, the head of the Zhao family, and Zhou Zuo, the head of the Zhou family."

Li Congyan looked at everyone, and saw that several of them were very young, Zhou Zuo, who looked the oldest, was only in his thirties, and the rest were all young people in their twenties and thirties, if they were all the heads of the Shangjia family, it would be impossible to be so young! Li Congyan couldn't help frowning slightly, and looked at Li Sisheng.

Li Sisheng naturally understood what Li Congyan meant, and said with his crossed hands: "The Lord doesn't know, the current political situation of all parties in Jiangnan is turbulent and changing, so that all parties are wantonly accumulating money, especially Wu Di and Wu Yue, which are even more frustrated. These families were originally local elite merchant families, but they were raided by the county guards of Wu Di and Wu Yue on various charges. ”

Those businessmen were already teary-eyed at this time, obviously Li Sisheng was talking about the sore spots of several people, among which Zhou Zuo was even more tearful and cried out with a whimper.

"Now these six merchant families can be said to be ruined, only these six sisters-in-law were met by their subordinates by chance, and several of them are desperate, and they are all willing to work in Dengzhou. Moreover, the six of them have a lot of connections in Jiangnan, and they can also be used in the future. ”

Li Congyan nodded and said, "I thought Jiangnan was rich, but I didn't expect that the forces of all parties in Jiangnan would be so mad!" Now that this has come to this, don't be too sad, and look forward. In Dengzhou, as long as you have real talent and learning, you will definitely make a difference! ”

I saw that the six people crossed their hands one after another and said, "Thank you, Lord!" ”

Li Congyan smiled slightly, and said secretly: "These businessmen really saw the opportunity quickly, so they changed their minds directly. ”

Then, Li Congyan directly appointed several people.

He Xun and Liu Yang were both good at mining, so he ordered He Xun to be in charge of the Zhengqishan Copper Mine, and Liu Yang to be in charge of the Nanshan Silver Mine.

Guo Xu was appointed as the head of the brewing workshop, Wang Zaijin was appointed as the head of the vehicle factory, and Zhao Chuanan was appointed as the head of the lamp factory.

Zhou Zuo was appointed as the head of the woodware workshop, and Guo Siming was in charge of the fertilizer workshop in the future.

"Whoa!"

After some appointments, each workshop of the Industrial Division finally has a special director, and there is no longer a need for one person to be in charge of several places at the same time.

Finally, there is the talent recruited by the R&D Division.

This time, Cheng Guogan, the director of the R&D Division, worked the hardest, recruiting more than 70 craftsmen of all kinds from Wu Di and Wu Yue, in addition to more than 230 apprentices of all kinds, these more than 300 people stood in the courtyard of the assessment department, which seemed very crowded.

The reason why the R&D Department has such fruitful results this time is also due to the chaotic and turbulent situation in Jiangnan, so that these hundreds of workers who rely on craftsmanship have no possibility to live in peace.

Li Congyan naturally had no way to test everyone's craftsmanship one by one, but just asked a few simple questions from a few leading workers, and then took over the roster registered by Si Cheng Guogan.

This roster records the name, expertise, place of origin, and family information of each worker or apprentice.

Li Congyan was surprised to find that most of the hundred workers and apprentices were alone, so he asked Si Cheng Guogan about it.

Guo Gan stepped forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, now there is chaos in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Di and Wu Yue have experienced several coups ~ d'état, arresting and killing people everywhere, and these hundred workers are the primary people competing for the forces of all parties. Their families were either separated or killed in the course of several changes......"

Li Congyan understood, so he said: "In this way, the R&D Department should settle these talents well, and if possible, let them settle down in Dengzhou as much as possible." ”

"Whoa!"

After Li Congyan finished dealing with the talents recruited by various divisions, he returned to the mansion very tired in the evening.

However, Li Congyan did not feel sleepy at night, and was always thinking about a question: "If Jiangnan is so chaotic, can the plan of the trade route go south can still be carried out?" ”

Li Congyan tossed and turned in the middle of the night and never understood the essentials, and finally sat up suddenly: "Since this is the case, let's reorganize the new army!" As long as my Dengzhou military strength is strong, even if Jiangnan becomes a pot of porridge, I don't dare to easily cut off my Dengzhou trade route! ”

Li Congyan thought about it for a long time, but did not find a way to stabilize the trade route south to the south of the Yangtze River, and finally decided to use his strength to break the trick, directly expand the military again, and use soldiers and horses to maintain the trade route.

"Having said that, why do you think that my actions are a bit like the style of the bald eagles of later generations?"

Li Congyan thought about it and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.