Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

Because of this, Zhoujia Village is much more isolated than the previous two villages. They seldom communicate with the outside villages and live their own lives in isolation.Even the imperial decree is the most difficult to implement in this place.

This is the only village with fortifications. When Ping An called to open the gate of the village, all the people in the village gathered together. They held weapons in their hands and stared at the group of people vigilantly, especially Zhao Can who was standing next to him. Behind him, the tall and strong Imperial Guard.

Fortunately, the county magistrate sent someone to follow them. After showing their identification, the villagers let them into the village vigilantly.But obviously, even the people from the government were very jealous, so they didn't invite them to visit the village, but took them directly to the village chief's house.

Even so, Ping An obtained basic information through observation during the short journey.This village doesn't seem to be affected by the outside world at all. Even though the cement road has been repaired to the door, they still close their doors and live their lives. It seems that they don't think it has anything to do with them.

This situation made Ping An feel a little embarrassed.

Even though the two villages were poor before, they are very satisfied with the concrete road. They think it will be easier to get the mountain goods out in the future, and it is a good thing that the children can go to the city to find their way.They can't say more benefits, but just walking on a smooth road seems to be a good thing.

But here, people are wary of the concrete road, except for children.

They seem to be wary of all foreign things, just like the old China that once closed the country.

It took a little effort for Ping An to find out the reason for their attitude.It turns out that Zhoujia Village occupies a good place, but it may not be that good, because they not only have to deal with coveted people from outside, but also guard against the beasts on the mountain.This is one of the reasons why the village has grown so large.

This is a very "independent" village. They have their own survival philosophy and reject any external changes.

Even the meaning revealed in the words of the village chief is the same.He expressed his concern about the frequent visits from the imperial court, and even built a convenient cement road. He felt that in this way, it would be difficult to make use of the favorable location of Zhoujia Village.Because there used to be only one winding mountain road to go up, but now it has been widened a lot.

As for the new policy of the imperial court, the people here don't care at all. They don't know that there are newspapers outside, they don't know the importance of cement roads, and they don't know that Dachu's sea boats have set off. Apart from changing the seat of the emperor, the changes in the past few years are all unclear.

It is worth mentioning that although the government pressured a library to be built in this village, the house was built outside the village and no one used it at all.

Even small children are not allowed near them.

The desire and admiration of ordinary people for knowledge seems to have disappeared here.

Because the people in the village are full of vigilance, no matter where they go, there are people staring at them, as if they are guarding against thieves. Everyone is not used to this kind of atmosphere, but if you want to get angry with these villagers, it will inevitably seem like a big deal.After all, it is true that they came to disturb the peaceful life of these villagers.

They are not welcome here, and everyone knows it in their hearts.

So they didn't stay in Zhoujia Village for an hour, and then left in a hurry.

Pingan remembered that he had seen the description about Zhoujia Village in the report before. The strange thing was that although it mentioned that the village was closed and did not welcome contacts with outsiders, it did not mention that they were so wary of people.The most important thing is that the report contains a detailed overview of the village, including population composition, land and surrounding landforms, and so on.

If these contents are not nonsense, then that is to say, the officer in charge of investigating this place should have found a way to get along with these people.

This surprised Ping An, and was also pleasantly surprised to find a talent.If you can adapt to local conditions and find a way to make these people not guard against you, then when you lead troops in the future, you will naturally not stick to the form, but you can flexibly display your own strength.

It's a pity that after the students handed in their reports, they went back to their own troops. Even if Ping An wants to see him now, it's not very convenient.

However, this incident was also discovered by Ping An. Many things cannot be taken for granted. He only thought that it would be easy for the generals to investigate these things, but he did not consider the specific situation they would face. It can be said that when the students set off very poorly prepared.

Under such circumstances, the report they handed in did not disappoint Ping An, which was a pleasant surprise.

I don't know what Feng Yutang taught them during the training.

However, Ping An's expectations for martial arts have increased a lot.

After leaving the area of ​​Zhoujia Village, everyone was silent for a while, and the Prime Minister Wu Xuzhi said, "I used to only know about the government's decrees, but they are always difficult to implement in the village, but I don't know that there are various situations."

Jin Shiwen was also very puzzled and said, "The imperial government's decree is clearly beneficial to the people, why are they unwilling to accept it?"

They couldn't understand what Zhoujiacun did.

Pingan said, "Probably because you suffered too much loss before?"

They won't be the first to go to Zhoujia Village, nor will they be the last.Maybe they once trusted outsiders before, but the final result was not satisfactory.So now, they are simply vigilant against all outsiders and are determined not to be tempted.

Everything that happens has its reasons.

Hearing what Ping An said, the ministers were a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, it should be the same reason.

In fact, they are all at the level of the prime minister of a country, participating in important military affairs, and their words and deeds can affect the country.Such officials have all been sent out and made certain achievements.However, at most they have worked as magistrates and magistrates. Although they are close to the people, they actually don't need to do many things by themselves, and they have never been sent to the countryside.

Therefore, it is obvious that the future development direction of Dachu can be determined, but they don't even know what the needs of the people are.

"There must be many more villages like Zhoujia Village, right?" Zhao Can said. Through this visit, he also discovered the pattern, "The farther away from the county town or town, the more closed, and the more difficult it is to make government orders." implement."

Speaking of this, Zhao Can recalled that Pingan had told him before that it was very unacceptable for the imperial power to stay in the county, and thinking about it now, it was really reasonable.

No matter how many favorable policies the imperial court formulates, as long as they cannot be implemented, they are all false.The lives of the common people have not improved in any way, on the contrary, many speculators have made a lot of money in it.In the end, the court wasted a lot of energy and money, which was actually useless at all.

If this status quo can't be changed, the beautiful world he and Ping An imagined before can only exist in their imagination.

The others nodded after hearing the words, and Zhao Can said again, "This matter must be resolved. After the gentlemen go back, they can think about it and see if there is a good solution."

Bringing these ministers here is not to serve as a foil, but to drag them into the water and make them stand on their side.

There was no other place to go, and they quickly returned to the palace.

Several elderly adults fell ill as soon as they came back, and this trip was still a little bit reluctant for their bodies.You need to hold on outside, and when you relax after you come back, it will naturally be a tragedy.

Not to mention them, but Zhao Can and Ping An, because of their young bodies, they didn't feel anything at the time, but now they come back and feel that their energy has been completely exhausted, and they need to rest for a period of time before they can recover.

Fortunately, after this matter was resolved, they had some leisure time.

But before that, Zhao Can still arranged for people to take the more than 100 fellow Jinshi who came with him, and walked the old road they had walked, and then gave them a question, how to solve the current problem.

These people have given up any hope for their future. ——Who dares to use people who are famous with the emperor?In case His Majesty remembers one day, he has to follow suit.

But later, they were reminded by the Ministry of Education to come with them, and the flame of hope was rekindled in these people's hearts.

If His Majesty intends to abandon them, he will definitely not let them follow. Now that they are here, there will be a turning point for this matter.

So during this time, they were all waiting for this so-called opportunity to come.

But now, the emperor asked them to do things, and this group of people naturally did their best.Although none of the solutions that I came up with in the end were enforceable, this thought can still be commended.

Afterwards, several ministers also recovered and proposed to Zhao Can what they thought was a more appropriate solution.These methods are different, but in summary, it is four words: subtle.This kind of atmosphere was not formed overnight, and naturally it cannot be broken overnight.To solve it peacefully, we can only slowly change their concepts.

It's just how to do it specifically. The methods they proposed are not very feasible.

Only at this time did Zhao Can come up with his own ideas, and decided to let the 130 seven fellow Jinshi stay here, one in each village, to teach the children in the village to read, and at the same time explain some common truths to the villagers, and publicize the imperial court's ideas. The decree, after a long time like this, will naturally have some effect.

To put it bluntly, even if this generation cannot be influenced, it can influence their children and change their minds in the next generation, which is not bad.Anyway, it's only more than ten years, so I can't afford to wait.

Among the courtiers who came with the second driver, although most of them did not follow Zhao Can, they had already heard about it.Zhao Can wanted to solve this problem and proposed a solution. They thought about it and felt that there was no reason to object, so this matter was settled like this.

There is no need to pick any good days, and let these supporting teachers take up their posts immediately.Before leaving, Ping An went to see them off, and expressed His Majesty's expectation to them: I hope they can gain a firm foothold in the village before Zhao Can leaves the palace at the end of summer.

With this sentence, I think these people will work hard.They should understand better than anyone that they only have this one chance.

Of course, peace also reassures their hearts, letting them know that they only need to stay here for one full year, and no matter what the outcome is, they can leave at that time.For those who thought they were sent here to be disheartened, this guarantee also gave them hope.

In any case, if you do this well and leave a year later, you may be able to get rid of the impression you left on the emperor and get reused again.

It's just that if the goal can be achieved so easily, Ping An and Zhao Can don't have to worry about it.

So until the end of the summer and before they set off to return to Beijing, among the more than 120 villages, only teachers in more than 80 villages managed to find a way to communicate with the villagers, gained the respect of the villagers, and started teaching.The rest of the people are still fighting wits with the villagers, hoping that they can send their children to school.

Because of the large number of people, in a few villages like Zhoujia Village, Ping An has arranged for two people to take care of each other, so as not to be isolated and have psychological problems.

No matter what, this matter has finally been settled in this way. After a year, it has achieved results, and the courtiers naturally have no reason to object to it being promoted in other places.

However, after returning from the palace, another worrying thing came to the door again.

Previously, Zhao Can used the excuse of the talent show to ask the household department to count the household registrations of the whole country and select women from good families with clean backgrounds. This work took a long time, but it will always be finished.

So after returning from the palace, the household department sent the roster they sorted out.

——In fact, it is said that it is to select the best girls in the world, but basically they will not go to the village to select people, at most they will go to the town.Because the local government will also conduct a simple screening, to be healthy, with good facial features, fair skin, no peculiar smell, etc... and the girls in the village will inevitably get tanned because they have to work, so it is difficult to be selected.

In this way, after the initial selection, the girls who can be sent up are all girls with good foundations, and they are more likely to be selected.

But even so, there are more than 5000 people in the roster sent up.

Zhao Can only glanced at it before throwing it back, "There are too many people. The journey to Beijing was a waste of time and money. If they are not selected, it will be a hassle to send them back home. I can't bear to waste time and money like this. Pick out a list of 1000 people. Bring it back."

As soon as he gave an order, the Hubu naturally had to rack his brains again.This kind of screening is also exquisite, and it is not a small project.It can be said that Zhao Can is now well versed in the use of the dragging formula, and he added an errand to the other party in an understatement.

The only thing that makes these officials rejoice is that it is still early, and it will be enough to send these girls to Beijing next spring.

In the end, 1000 people were selected by thousands of people, and the Ministry of Households sent the list up again. Zhao Can didn't even look at it, and then sent the list to the Ministry of Rites, asking the Ministry of Rites to send officials to various places for inspection. From the 1000 people, choose 100 people will enter Beijing to be selected.

The reason Zhao Can gave was very strong, because the palace can't accommodate 1000 people now, and he won't choose more, so there is really no need to send so many people here.Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Rites are required to carefully select girls who are outstanding in all aspects.

After all these visits, coupled with the process of local selection, it is inevitable that there will be some "human relations", and the delay will never be less.So until the spring of the fifth year of Anping, this group of show girls still hadn't been selected, let alone entered Beijing.

There is good news from the Navy.

Zhao Jie, who has been at sea for several years, finally returned with his fleet!

The return of the fleet this time caused a huge sensation again.

Over the past few years, Great Chu's trade with Nanyang has flourished. While the imperial court has collected a large amount of tariffs, private capital has also accumulated rapidly.The prosperity of trade has also promoted the development of many industries.The silk and cotton cloth from the south of the Yangtze River, the tea, peanuts and sugar from the southeast, and the exquisite porcelain produced in Dachu are all very popular among Nanyang people, and the prices are so high that people can't even believe it.

However, after all, Nanyang is not a big place, and it is poor and backward, so not many people can afford good things.Therefore, although Haimao still looks very lively, Ping An speculates that it will gradually become saturated within a few years.There is no way to do this, after all, the place is small, and the wealth that can be searched is also very limited.

But now that the navy is back, the situation is different. They obviously discovered a lot of new land, and brought back a lot of special products that have never been seen in Dachu, and even have a high nose bridge and deep eye sockets, and the colors of the eyeballs and hair are various. The foreigners came back with their fleet to meet His Majesty the Emperor of Chu.

For many Dachu people, it means that they have a new place to do business, which means a lot of wealth, so they are naturally very concerned about it.

What Zhao Can and Ping An were concerned about was the loss of the boat, casualties, experiences along the way, nautical charts and so on.

This was the first ultra-long-distance voyage, and it took a long time. Both the sailors and the ships suffered losses, and there was no way around it.After all, experience is accumulated in such a process.

And they succeeded after all.

According to Zhao Jie, he did see a lot of unclaimed land along the way, and he had already set up a stone tablet to mark the territory.The most wonderful thing is that on the way back to the city, he took these foreign envoys to take a detour to make sure to let them know that these places are all the land of the extremely powerful Da Chu, and they can't make up their minds.

In addition, of course, there are many places where humans have already lived, but the progress of civilization is far behind that of Dachu.Relying on excellent equipment and a small number of sailors, Zhao Jie subdued them all, and admitted that Da Chu was "the kingdom of heaven", and this time he was also accompanied by envoys to see the prosperity of Da Chu.

In addition, it is naturally a land where the level of civilization is already very high, and there is no way to fight head-on for the time being.However, because they carried a lot of goods and the ships were very powerful, the other party did not dare to neglect, and the transaction with each other was very pleasant.These countries also sent envoys to visit Zhao Can, hoping to establish friendly relations with Da Chu.

Ping An's luck is good, the era of great voyages has not yet begun, so the current fleet of Da Chu is unmatched by these countries.

Now that Zhao Jie has returned, the matter of gradually sending the clan abroad to occupy these lands and share the domestic pressure naturally needs to be put on the agenda.On this matter, Zhao Can did not hide from Zhao Jie, but let him participate in the discussion. After all, only he knows the specific local environment.

However, Zhao Can still gave him a promise, "Brother Eleven can first enclose a piece of these lands as his own, and I won't bother."

But this proposal was rejected by Zhao Jie, "I am a citizen of Great Chu. I only want to live in Great Chu, serve His Majesty, and continue sailing. I hope that one day I can travel all over the land. So thank you for your kindness, brother. I'm afraid it won't work."

Zhao Jie's ideal is to sail the world!

Ping An listened to him, and couldn't help but think, perhaps in this world, the first person in this world to discover that the earth is round, and who can start from the starting point and return to the starting point at the end, will probably become this Highness.

It's also an interesting thing, isn't it?

Pingan seems to have seen the future development of physics - the world is not a round sky, but a spherical shape, so if we are standing upright on the ground, wouldn't the person standing on the other side of our feet be upside down? With?If not, how is this going on?

From here, many disciplines and knowledge will be gradually enriched and developed.

Ping An believes that the development of these things in China must be easier than abroad.

Because this is a place that agrees to tolerate new ideas, many people throughout the ages will create their own schools, but most of them explain the world from a philosophical level and observe the world by themselves.The subjectivity is too strong, so it always seems to be looking at flowers in a fog. Although it has its own beauty, it is not clear after all.

Moreover, there is no religion in Dachu, or religion cannot rule the people here.The imperial power is currently still in Zhao Can's hands, and he doesn't mind letting ordinary people understand that the monarchy is not granted by gods. There has never been a god in this world!