More than 600,000 acres of land began to be given to the people.

Yuan Wendu sent more than 50 people to various places to secretly observe the situation of granting fields.

Among them, Yang Xuangan, who belongs to Jiangxia County, does not know how to be a man, when he grants the land, he does not mention Yang Ming, on the other hand, the other three are vigorously publicizing that this grant of land is an order of the governor's office.

So much so that the people all over Jingzhou are praising Yang Ming's merits, and some of the people who have been assigned to the fields have even enshrined Yang Ming at home.

I'm not dead yet...... After Yang Ming heard these news, he couldn't cry or laugh.

The first step in rectifying the Wen family is completed.

Yang Ming did this because he wanted to gain the hearts of the people in Jingzhou and lay a foundation for the future.

As long as the Jingzhou area recognizes him as a person, then in the future chaos, there will be a place to use here.

Harvesting the hearts of the people is the first step, and installing one's own people is the second step.

At present, the county lieutenant of Jiangling County and the county lieutenant of Jiangling County have been vacated, and Murong Sanzang can appoint these two positions by himself.

But Yang Ming didn't let go of this right.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no one around him who was suitable to be a Taishou, he would have wanted to change Murong Sanzang, of course, it was not easy to change a Taishou, and the process was very complicated.

Murong can become the second Yang Yin's cronies, but it is not easy to become him, because the second child is married to Jing Zhaowei, and Murong Sanzang's backstage is Wei's.

On this day, Yang Ming called Yuan Wendu and asked the other party if there was a suitable candidate.

He doesn't have much trust in Yuan Wendu, but the Yuan family currently has no backstage of the old crown princess Yuan Zhen, and his father has successfully succeeded to the crown prince, so the focus of the Yuan family in the future is bound to tilt in this direction.

In other words, so far, this person is worthy of entrusting some things, as for the future, it remains to be seen.

"Your Highness, do you mean that you want to arrange the candidates for these two positions?" Yuan Wendu asked.

Yang Ming nodded: "Well, do you have any candidates to recommend?"

"The subordinates don't dare to recommend it,"

Yuan Wendu saw it very clearly in his heart, these two positions were insignificant to Yang Ming, but since he wanted to appoint them himself, it meant that he wanted to cultivate cronies, so how could he recommend them?

What he recommended, can it still be Yang Ming's cronies? So he had to stay out of it.

Yang Ming could also roughly guess Yuan Wendu's inner thoughts, and said with a smile: "You are the long history of this king, this king has absolute trust in you, and you know more about this place than I do, recommend a few people to come out, and this king will consider it."

When it came to this, Yuan Wen didn't say a few names, which seemed a little hypocritical, so he said:

"Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the left officials of the counties and counties have been selected from the locality, and the first priority is their morality, and those who are not highly respected cannot be competent.

"At the moment in Jiangling, the Shen family, the Xiong family, the Cai family, and the Zhang family should be the first to be recommended, and Your Highness may wish to choose among these families."

Yang Ming nodded: "I'll think about it, you go down and take it."

Yuan Wendu retreated, he felt more and more that this little highness was too powerful, and his long history was completely an ornament.

Yang Ming knew that the election of Zuoguan could only be chosen among the clan, because ordinary people were not literate, let alone had read.

Only those who have read books can become officials.

Yang Ming called Pang Tao and asked him to take someone to the Shen family and invite the one who was in charge of the Shen family to the governor's mansion.

In the evening, a woman under the age of 40 was invited to the back hall.

Yang Ming stood in the hall and greeted each other with a smile: "It is really rare for a woman to take care of household affairs, please take a seat."

The Shen family didn't even dare to say it, and after saluting Yang Ming, he said, "It is the honor of the concubine to be summoned by His Royal Highness, and it is also the honor of the Shen family."

Yang Ming waved his hand and motioned for the maid to help the other party sit down,

Shen Shi didn't want to excuse himself, nodded politely to the maid, and then sat down on the last chair, his waist straight,

The sitting posture is dignified and elegant.

Yang Ming had already inquired about this woman's background, and it was a little funny to say.

The Shen family in front of him was originally a maid in the palace of Qin Wangjun, and when the Sui destroyed Chen, Yang Jun's middle route army was in the Jingzhou area, and the Shen family contributed money and efforts.

So Yang Jun rewarded this woman to Shen Xing, the head of the Shen family at that time, as a concubine, Shen Xing, who was good at welcoming him, directly divorced his wife, let Shen enter the main house, and gave birth to two sons.

As for Shen Xing, when he followed Yang Liang to fight Goguryeo, he died on the battlefield, so Shen became a widow.

The fact that orphans and widows can gain a firm foothold in the Shen family of Nuoda, can serve the public in such a patriarchal society, and become the voice of the family, is enough to show that this woman's means are high.

And those paintings of Zhan Ziqian were given by her.

"I heard that your mansion is in the business of transport?" Yang Ming asked with a smile.

Shen got up and replied, "Back to Your Highness, the Han family has been doing good luck in Jiangling for a hundred years."

"Do all the people in the family study?" Yang Ming asked, some merchant families don't pay attention to reading, and only think about making money.

Shen replied, "Yes, the disciples in the clan have been reading the Mean, the Analects, the Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Period since they were young."

"How many books do you have?" Yang Ming asked again.

Shen replied, "One hundred and ten volumes."

Yang Ming nodded, this is a lot, after the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, official schools were set up in various prefectures, counties, and counties, that is, government-run schools.

If you want to enter the official school, you have to go through the relationship, to put it bluntly, your father has to be an official.

It's a pity that last month, Daxing had already issued an edict abolishing all local government schools, leaving only Guozijian, the central university, because Yang Jian felt that there were many local government schools, and they were all indiscriminate.

This is the truth, after Yang Ming received the edict last month, when Yuanwen closed the Jiangling Official School, there was not a single student in the school, and they didn't know where it was.

If my father becomes an official, they may become an official in the future, and they will learn from Mao.

However, the Shen family still has too few books, and if they want to pass the scientific examination, the road is impassable.

Although the Great Sui Imperial Examination is only the prototype of the Chinese Imperial Examination, the content of its examination is quite mixed.

First of all, there are the Major, Middle, and Minor Classics, which must be read by heart.

The major scriptures are "The Book of Rites" and "Zuo Chuan".

The Chinese classics are "Book of Songs", "Zhou Li", and "Rites".

The small scriptures are "Book of Changes", "Book of Changes", "Legend of the Ram", and "Legend of Gu Liang".

In addition, the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects must be well understood.

But in ordinary people's homes, it is not easy to find this set of books.

Under Yang Ming's inquiry, he found that the Shen family's collection lacked a lot of books, and even the most basic Four Books and Five Classics could not be completed.

So he said, "The governor's mansion has some books, this king can send them to you for copying, if the children of your mansion are willing to work hard, I can fight for you for the place of Jiangling tribute next year."

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment, hurriedly got up, and knelt down towards Yang Ming with a grateful face:

"Your Highness's kindness, it is difficult for the Shen family to repay it."

She knows very well that a small family like them, if they want to enter the office, they can only rely on their local relationships, mix with a left official, and really want to enter the house.

But the difficulty is that the number of tributes per year in each state and county cannot fall on them.

Moreover, the tributes in the land of Jiangling, even if they are talented, cannot be reused, and most of them can only be civil and military officials.

But now, since the king of Hedong is willing to be promoted, as long as he passes the examination, the Shen family is attached to the big tree of the king of Hedong, and there is no way out.

It can be said that Yang Ming's words directly affected the future rise and fall of the Shen family.

"Get up, this king is just showing you the way for the Shen family, whether you can do it or not depends on yourself,"

Although Yang Ming spoke, Shen still knelt on the ground and refused to get up.

"Get up!" Yang Ming said in a deep voice.

Hear this

, Shen Shi sobbed and stood up: "The concubine is out of shape, please forgive your highness."

Yang Ming said: "Tomorrow at this time, come to the governor's mansion to pick up the book, and return the original after copying."

"Yes, the concubine is retiring," Shen slowly retreated.

There are still a lot of books in the Governor's Mansion, these are all brought by Yang Ming from Daxing, and they are all basic books, but Yang Yinjiang's side is a rare collection.

Yang Ming instructed to warm the winter and cool the summer, select nearly 100 books from the library, and let the Shen family take them away the next day.

And Shen came this time, and brought two carts full of gifts, Yang Ming glanced at it roughly, and could see that the other party was planning to slap him with blood.

There's no need, since I want to use you, I won't take these things from you.

So Yang Ming ordered him to take it away and put his mind on reading.

Shen couldn't describe her current state of mind, and on the way home, it was still as if she had had a big dream, which gave her a completely unreal feeling.

The Shen family is the governor's mansion from her line, so her position in the Shen family in the future will be even more unshakable.

And she was already able to carry it clearly, and she was in charge of the clan, and she had always been a bowl of water, so when she went back this time, she would ask each room to copy the scrolls, select good students, and work hard, so that one or two of them could come out before the selection tomorrow.

The three places in Jiangling County last year were all set by Murong Sanzang, two were given to the Xiao family and one to the Wen family, which should have made a fortune.

The focus of the Xiao family's development in Lanling has been transferred back to Jiangnan with Yang Guang taking office as the governor of Yangzhou that year, and those who stayed in Jiangling were all small side branches, after all, Jiangnan is the base camp of the Xiao family.

This year's three places, Murong Sanzang was given to the Wen family, but unfortunately the three places that the Wen family went up were all brushed down, and nothing was mixed.

If you want to be selected as a tribute, you have to rely on relationships, but if you want to be promoted in the exam, you have to show real talents.

Like Fang Xuanling, who has the way and talent to learn, can come out, and without the support of nobles after passing the exam, he will do nothing all his life.

And Yang Ming is undoubtedly a nobleman.

The next day, under the instruction of Yang Ming, Xu Jing led more than a dozen guards of the Governor's Mansion to the Shen family in Xicheng.

The entire Shen family came out to greet them.

Xu Jing stood in the courtyard, glanced at the black crowd in front of him, and asked:

"Who is Shen Lun?"

In the crowd, a young man was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute:

"The little people are Shen Lun."

Xu Jing glanced at this person up and down, and said, "Because of the recommendation of his sister-in-law Shen, the king of Hedong Lingru will take the post of Jiangling County Lieutenant and go to the post tomorrow."

After speaking, Xu Jing turned his head and left.

Shen was also stunned on the spot, at a loss, I didn't recommend it?

At this time, Shen Lun, who had reacted, suddenly knelt down at her and cried bitterly: "Sister-in-law, regardless of her previous suspicions, she is willing to protect in front of Her Royal Highness, Shen Lun is so embarrassed."

Shen hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "The family doesn't talk to two families, but now His Highness is respected, you should be a good student and an official, think twice about everything, don't disappoint Your Highness."

"My brother knows that he will live up to His Highness's grace and sister-in-law's kindness," Shen Lun cried.

After ten years in the Shen family, someone in the family finally served as the left official of Jiangling.

And Yang Ming's decision has resolved the contradiction between the Shen family and his uncle Shen Lun for many years, and since then, the Shen family has a greater right to speak in the clan.

In this way, Yang Ming became the Shen family's biggest support, and he also won the absolute loyalty of the other party.