Daming Military Empire

Chapter 182 Preparing to Build a Special Zone
In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634 A.D.) on March [-]th, the Jiaxu Branch Examination was held in the square in front of the Huangji Hall in the Forbidden City. Zhu Cijiong sat on the three-story step in front of the Huangji Hall, waiting for the tribute students to come forward one by one. Get test questions.

With a smile on his face, he kept nodding to the Gongsheng who came forward to pay homage. He seemed to think highly of them, but he kept muttering in his heart: "I don't know." "I haven't heard of it." ah!".
His criteria for being the No. [-] scholar are very simple. He does not look at literary talent or calligraphy, but only whether you have left a name in history. Of course, this name has limitations. It must be the history he has seen or heard about. I don't know, even if I left my name in history, it would be for nothing.

The Gong students in this subject seemed to be unlucky. Zhu Cijiong hadn't met anyone he had heard of until almost the end of the round. Just when he was at a loss for what to do, a handsome young man walked down the steps and knelt on his knees. Said: "Student Chen Zilong sees the emperor."

Zhu Cijiong was attracted by him as soon as he glanced over, his eyes gradually showed excitement, er, this, not because he is handsome, nor because his name is a bit close to the historical celebrity Zhao Zilong, but mainly because Zhu Cijiong watched He looks familiar, he has definitely seen this person before!
Good acquaintances, there are really no celebrities who are 'famous in history', so choosing an acquaintance to be the champion is also a good option.

If the students below know that the emperor's number one is the standard, they will probably spit out a mouthful of blood with anger. This is simply cronyism!
There is no way, who called him the emperor, whoever you want to be the number one scholar, you can choose whoever is the number one scholar, if you are not convinced, you don't have to come to the exam!
Zhu Cijiong stared blankly for a long time, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this handsome guy, so he nodded to let him take the test questions and leave, and then asked in a low voice: "Who is this guy, I seem to have seen him somewhere."

As soon as his words fell, Cao Huachun on the side immediately bowed and replied: "If you go back to the emperor, this person is a student of Xu Guangqi, Master Xu. Hua Dian may have accidentally seen him when he was checking the progress of the compilation of "Nongzheng Quanshu."

When Zhu Cijiong heard the words, he immediately recalled that he had indeed met Chen Zilong in the Wenhua Palace. He is a talent. He was able to participate in the editing of "Nongzheng Quanshu" at such a young age. He was the champion!

In fact, this Chen Zilong is quite famous in history. He was a famous writer in the late Ming Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.Zhu Cijiong doesn't care much about history, he is just ignorant, or else he has been famous for a long time, like thunder!

However, Chen Zilong was lucky, Zhu Cijiong inadvertently glanced at him and made him the number one scholar.You must know that in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was famous for his failure in the imperial examinations. He had already passed the high school in the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen (AD 1630). However, Xin Weike in the fourth year of Chongzhen, he accidentally Changed a word on the test paper, and failed the general examination; in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the chief examiner Wen Tiren disliked him, so he failed the general examination; it was not until the tenth year of Chongzhen that Ding Chou was awarded the gold list, but he was only a top three Jinshi His background is extremely inconsistent with his status as a great writer.

In the Chongzheng Dynasty, Chen Zilong was a lucky man. Not to mention he was already the number one scholar in high school before the exam started, and Zhu Cijiong even started to think about how to train him to be the chief minister of the cabinet!

This is not Zhu Cijiong's cronyism. Chen Zilong's being Xu Guangqi's student certainly gave him a lot of points, but the main reason is that he participated in the editing of "Nongzheng Quanshu".You must know that Xu Guangqi is not the kind of crony person. If he has no skills, Xu Guangqi can't put him in the middle of a pile of Hanlin to compile books. What is Hanlin? They all recognize his talent so much, Zhu Cijiong has nothing to hesitate.

Coincidentally, the current affairs policy of this imperial examination happened to be about agricultural administration. Of course, this was not because Zhu Cijiong deliberately cheated to make things easier for Chen Zilong. He didn't know about Chen Zilong when he asked the question.

The reason why he set current affairs policy as discussing agricultural policy is mainly for the development of Liaodong. Now the snow in Liaodong is melting, and the ordinary people in Beizhili and Shandong provinces due to the severe drought in the northwest will soon move to Liaodong. Moving them there is In order to turn Liaodong into the northern granary of Daming, to solve the huge waste caused by the perennial south-to-north grain transfer of Daming.

You must know that the shipping cost of transporting grain from the south is more than 1000 million taels, and the annual tax of Ming Dynasty is only so much, and a small half of it is wasted on it!

He also thought about building the railway, which may cost more than 1000 million taels at a time, but the transportation cost can be reduced to a negligible level after completion, but he gave up after opening the map. It is simply impossible to build the Yellow River Bridge or even the Yangtze River Bridge!
Liaodong is different. It is close from the capital to Liaodong, and there is no big river in between. The Liaohe River may not be repaired, but if the Liaohe River is repaired, it means that it has already reached the grain-producing area. What does it matter if it cannot be crossed?

The transportation cost is easy to solve. As long as the railway is repaired to Sanchahebao, the transportation cost can basically be ignored.But it is useless to solve the transportation cost alone. The grain production is the key. If the grain production cannot increase, then everything is fake.

Therefore, this agricultural issue is naturally the top priority. Zhu Cijiong had already thought about it. He wanted to divide the Liaohe Plain from Liaodong and establish a large state capital directly under the imperial court. All military settlements will be relocated to places bordering Monan and Mongolia, such as the Guangning-Ningjin Line and the Guanning Tieling Liao-Hai Line. The Liaohe River in the middle will be formed into a large agricultural special zone in principle, specializing in agriculture and increasing food production.

If you want to specialize in agriculture, you need professionals to manage it. It turns out that the local officials in Daming basically don’t have to count on it. If they have a way, they have already engaged in agriculture. Pick out all those who are more familiar with agricultural administration, and then let Xu Guangqi train them well, and then send them to Fengtian Mansion to serve as magistrates. Those who are powerful will be directly promoted to the magistrate!

So Chen Zilong was lucky, the magistrate was tailor-made for him, and he didn't even have to go to Xu Guangqi for training. If he was not familiar with agricultural politics, would Xu Guangqi let him edit the "Complete Book of Agricultural Politics"?

Chen Zilong is still in a daze right now, he has no idea that he is already the number one scholar in the new department, and he will soon be the magistrate, even as long as he does not make mistakes, he will be promoted to the chief assistant of the cabinet in about ten years!
The topic of the palace examination turned out to be on agricultural administration, which was a big drop in his bowl. Except for his teacher and chief assistant, Mr. Xu Guangqi, he had never met anyone who understood agricultural administration better than him, so he finished it easily. Straightforward.Of course, he doesn't think he is the No.1 No. It is certain to enter, and there is hope for the top one. As for the champion, he can only hope that a miracle will be born.

Unexpectedly, this miracle was really born. When the servants who announced the good news came to him with drums and gongs, he was just like Fan Jin by mistake, and went crazy with joy.After wandering in the streets and alleys of the capital in a daze with big red flowers for a few days, the imperial decree arrived that he was appointed as the editor of the Imperial Academy and promoted to be a lecturer at the same time. this post.

The main job of a bachelor attendant is to accompany the emperor when he is studying, explaining the difficult points in the book to the emperor, so after arriving at the Imperial Academy, he immediately went around asking the pope what books he likes to read. Although he is the number one scholar, he dare not say Knows everything, if the emperor likes to read some uncommon books, he will stop cooking.

As a result, he was stunned!All the colleagues shook their heads and didn't know, because the emperor had never looked for them; he had no choice but to bite the bullet and run to find the champion and Tanhua of the previous term, the current General Secretary General Wu Jianye and Zuo Tongzheng Chen Yutai. Just let him read more "Beijing News"!
Well, the emperor may like to read the "New Beijing News", so he hurriedly read a pile of "The New Beijing News" hard. Before he had read a few pages, the emperor's edict came, calling him to go to the palace of the Qing Dynasty. Study attendant.

Along the way, Chen Zilong felt that this little boy was about to jump out of his throat. This was the first time he was speaking, so the emperor must not ask such weird questions!
In the end, he was stunned again, the emperor was actually reading "Nongzheng Quanshu"!Of course, he was very familiar with the "Nongzheng Quanshu", and now he was relieved.

Zhu Cijiong didn't ask Chen Zilong about the contents of the "Nongzheng Quanshu". He was really not interested in farming. He just looked through the catalog to see how different the crops of the Ming Dynasty were from those of later generations.

Flipping through the pages, he casually asked, "How long have you been studying with your mentor?"

Teacher?Only now did Chen Zilong realize that Xu Guangqi was not only his teacher but also the emperor's teacher. Of course he didn't dare to call him the emperor's younger brother. This younger brother couldn't be called a younger brother. He respectfully replied: "If you want to return to the emperor, I will follow you from the fifth year of Tianqi. It has been nine years since my mentor studied."

Zhu Cijiong nodded slightly, then pointed to the book in his hand and said, "Then when did you start editing this book?"

Chen Zilong thought about it for a while, and then replied respectfully: "The words of returning to the emperor also began in the fifth year of Tianqi. Based on experience, the mentor asked Weichen to follow along with the corrections, and the first draft was not completed until the seventh year of Tianqi."

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "Maozhong doesn't have to be so cautious, I and you are also from the same school, and you can order freely when no one is around. So you and your mentor are still from the same hometown?"

Chen Zilong was a little flattered, how could this be casual?He thought for a while before replying hesitantly: "Well, yes, both Weichen and my mentor are from Songjiang Prefecture in Nanzhili."

Zhu Cijiong was still a little nervous when he saw him, so he found a topic that he might be interested in and asked, "I heard that you write good poems and songs, and you have published a lot of poetry collections. Do you have any new works recently?"

When it comes to learning, Chen Zilong is much more normal. He said politely: "I don't dare to be praised by the emperor. Those are trivial studies. They are just for self-entertainment in leisure time. Recently, I have been studying the principles of manipulating the world and applying them to the world." I am studying, and I am collecting articles related to world affairs and state affairs with a few fellow villagers. With the focus on military affairs and economics, I will discuss articles on politics, military affairs, taxes and labor, finance and economics, farmland, water conservancy, school culture, laws and regulations, etc. Compiled together, it was named "Huangming Jingshiwen Bian".

Zhu Cijiong originally wanted to study him this time to see if he was flashy. Unexpectedly, he not only understands agriculture, but also has research on economics and military affairs. So what else is there to say, Zhu Cijiong said directly: "Yes, yes, I We are planning to combine Haizhou, Gaizhou, Zizaizhou and other places in Liaodong into one Zhili Prefecture, named Fengtianfu, and you will be the magistrate after a while. Go and use your strengths to build a granary for me."

Chen Zilong was dumbfounded when he heard the words, this, this promotion speed is too fast!It's only been a few days since he became the number one scholar. The six-rank Hanlin Academy has only registered a number, and he is directly a five-rank waiter and lecturer. This ass will become a four-rank magistrate immediately before he sits hot!
(End of this chapter)