Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

It is not easy to assemble a team for a long journey. There must be a guide, a guard, a clear division of labor, and loyalty. Otherwise, if something happens midway, it is very likely that several years of hard work will be wasted.

Zhang Jian is actually the core figure of the team that Ning Fan is looking for. The other characters naturally need to be equipped. Of course, Ning Fan cannot do this himself and can only leave it to Yue Ying.

People who have been in Jinyiwei for a long time are very reliable, because the conditions for entering Jinyiwei are very harsh. It is basically impossible for those without three talents to enter Jinyiwei, but all those who enter Jinyiwei are clean people.

Not only must one's wealth be clean, but one must also have a family and a wife, so that if something goes wrong they can be implicated. Therefore, ordinary Jin Yiwei either dare not betray or are loyal.

It was not difficult for Ning Fan to gather a team for a long journey. It only took about seven days for Yueying to gather the remaining people and send them to Green Willow Villa.

Except for Zhang Jian, there were about twenty people in the entire team. Looking at these strong and determined people, Ning Fan suddenly felt admiration in his heart. No matter what the outcome was, in this era, they could have the courage to cross the river. To reach another place that has never been before, these people will always have a pioneering spirit.

Among these people are retired veterans. These veterans have rich combat experience and can quickly organize battles when problems arise.

There are also strong doctors. If someone in the team gets sick, the doctor can deal with it in time. The other ones are businessmen.

Ning Fan organized this expedition not only to obtain shipbuilding technology from Ryukyu, but also to go to the coastal areas to check out the customs and customs there to see if there were any business opportunities.

Going overseas to do business has always been Ning Fan's biggest dream, because the industrial revolution in Dakang is coming soon, and a large number of industrial products will sweep in like a tsunami. If there is not a huge market to digest these industries, products, then Dakang’s industrial revolution may not bring many substantial benefits to Dakang.

After sending Zhang Jian and others away, Ning Fan, the initial team, got a rare free time. In the remaining days, Ning Fan went in and out of Green Willow Villa every day, flying kites everywhere with a few girls.

In the blink of an eye, it had been half a month since he arrived at Green Willow Villa. Ning Fan thought of what happened in Kyoto and had no intention of continuing to play, so he led the team towards Kyoto again.

Arriving in Kyoto, Ning Fan clearly felt that the atmosphere in Kyoto was a little different from usual. First of all, there were more people, more young people, young faces everywhere, and accents from the south to the north, with different accents from all over the place.

What's more, the expressions on the faces of these scholars are very exciting. In normal times, children from poor families have no way to advance, and the ultimate outcome of their studies is to become a staff member, but now it is different.

The emperor opened the imperial examination, and the children of poor families also had a way to rise. It can even be said that there is no obstacle to the future status of the prosperous family.

If we talk about these children from poor families before, they thought that the court was just talking about it, but it is different now. Zhou Qun is a role model. Zhou Qun comes from Jiangbei and is an out-and-out child of poor families. This is obvious to all and cannot be hidden from anyone. Human, but now Zhou Qun is the prime minister, one person is inferior to ten thousand people.

This kind of ground-breaking move naturally gave these students a lot of ideas for progress. They have studied hard for ten years in order to achieve today.

Ning Fan found that there were many students reading the Four Books and Five Classics on the street, but there were also people who read Ning Fan's manuscripts, such as textbooks on physics, chemistry, and biogeography.

In the inherent thinking of Dakang scholars, the talent of writing by sages is the road to prosperity. As for other books, they are just idle books, and miscellaneous books are not a concern. But now the situation has reversed. As the emperor, Ning Fan personally wrote these teaching materials, and students all over the world naturally flocked to them.

"This student, do you understand this chemistry textbook in your hand?"

Ning Fan was walking on the street when he suddenly stopped a young man who was looking down at a book.

The young man looked up at Ning Fan and found that Ning Fan was a young man with red lips and white teeth. The young master looked fair-skinned and must have come from a good family. However, he still stopped and answered patiently: "Do my classmates want to laugh at you? Don't you hear it? Today is different from the past. His Majesty attaches great importance to these natural sciences. Now is no longer the age where we only read the books of sages. All roads can lead to success. This is what His Majesty said."

"Your Majesty said that?"

Ning Fan himself was a little surprised. He couldn't remember when he said these words.

"Brother, is there anything you don't understand about the knowledge recorded in these books?"

Ning Fan asked casually.

In this era, most people do not have a foundation in natural science, so reading these subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc. is no less than a sacred book. Ning Fan only feels that these students are holding books on these subjects just to memorize them by rote.

Who knew that this man actually closed the book, looked at Ning Fan seriously and said: "His Majesty is a saint today, and the books he wrote are naturally not easy to understand, but the theories recorded in these books are quite fascinating. I am fascinated, according to the book written by Your Majesty, the world is composed of various elements, and each element has its own characteristics."

"I didn't know what the air we breathe was before, but now I understand. It turns out to be something called oxygen. Without oxygen, people will be suffocated to death."

This young man spoke extremely seriously, his expression was extremely serious, and his eyes were full of desire for knowledge.

Ning Fan was moved by this young man. He was obviously a nerd who only read books about sages, but now he could read it with gusto and explain some truths in simple and easy-to-understand terms. It was indeed a bit embarrassing for him to take a chemistry book. .

"Brother, which subject should I take for this imperial examination? Is it just chemistry?"

Ning Fan was curious.

"That's not true. The subject I applied for this time is architecture, because my family's craft is carpentry and building houses, and I have some experience in this aspect."

The man looked a little evasive, and it seemed that he was not confident in his original subject.

"Brother, as far as I know, the acceptance rate for these unpopular subjects is still very high. If you are accepted by the examiner, your future success will be just around the corner."

Ning Fan complimented the other party casually.