Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Not long after Zheng Yuming sent the portrait to Yu Kui, he received a letter with crooked handwriting. When he opened the letter, he was greeted with reproaches. Although there were many typos, the tone of the content was quite intense.

"Has Yu Kui eaten young grass?" Zheng Yuming pinched his nose and read through the pages full of punitive statements, and finally understood what this wild girl Tuoqing wrote.

"Let me take a look." Chu Zhaohui took the letter, and couldn't help but twitch his mouth after reading it: "Interesting! I don't think old cows should be told to eat tender grass, it should be said that tender grass abducts old cows."

"Haha, Yu Kui and Tuo Qing, who would have thought that they could be a couple? Can you blame me for meddling in my own business?" Zheng Yuming was really sullen, thinking that Yu Kui had received strict etiquette education in the Great Qin Dynasty since he was a child, who would treat wild monkeys like Tuoqing was connected with the noble son of aristocratic family who was educated in the upper class system.

"I said earlier that marriage is predestined." Chu Chaohui smiled lightly, and he and Zheng Yuming are the best examples.

Three days later, Yu Kui's handwritten letter was sent to the Prime Minister's Office. The reason why Yu Kui's letter was later than Tuo Qing's was because Yu Kui had to ask the coal man to go to the Eagle Tribe to propose marriage to Tuo Xiong. Report to Chu Chaohui.Of course, the matchmaker Yu Kui invited was not the elder of the Eagle tribe who loved Tuoqing the most, but the head of the Ulsan clan, Guo.

After Tuoxiong knew about his daughter's affair with Yu Kui, he was not angry but happy, thinking that the etiquette tutor he hired with a lot of money had achieved results in his daughter's education.

The place where the Eagle Tribe lives has now become a small city. With the rapid expansion of the population, the proportion of the original clan residents of the Eagle Tribe is shrinking. Now it only accounts for one-third of the total resident population, and the other two-thirds are Refugees from other places, other tribesmen who were annexed, and a small number of civilians from the Xihou fiefdom.

The proportion of the population of the Eagle Tribe has become smaller, but the wealth of the clan has doubled due to the hot sale of iron ore. The Eagle Tribe implements a collective wealth distribution system. After the wealth of the clan is distributed to everyone, the Eagle Tribe families become rich. .

However, as the patriarch of the Eagle Tribe, Tuo Xiong has realized that the iron ore will be mined one day, and began to seek a way out for the future development of the Eagle Tribe.The vigorous development of Nanbu industry attracted the attention of the original chief.After the Eagle Tribe had more money in their hands, they invested in several projects in Nanbu, and these projects have begun to generate dividends. In the long run, it can be predicted that the dividends obtained from investment will not be much less than iron mines.

After the Eagle Tribe became rich, many older tribesmen in the tribe felt uneasy while enjoying the material comforts brought by the wealth.Back then, the Eagle Tribe just occupied the relatively rich Su Plain, and they were robbed by the Tiger Tribe. Today, the Eagle Tribe is even richer than it was 20 years ago, and such a rich tribe will attract people's attention.And because the Changhe River separated the hills where the Eagle Tribe lived from Nanbu, the Eagle Tribe could not integrate into Nanbu Village.

Although the current Prime Minister, Gong Ziming, is kind to the Eagle Tribe and does things justly, it cannot completely dispel the worries deep in the hearts of the elders of the Eagle Tribe. They are worried that their tribal wealth will be plundered by the nobles of the Wu Kingdom.Now that the news of the marriage between the patriarch's daughter and the governor of Ulsan County came out, the people of the Eagle Tribe were immediately excited about it. This kind of marriage made the people of the tribe feel at ease.

Tuoxiong, who deeply felt that his daughter got a good marriage by learning etiquette and literacy education, became interested in running a school. General Assembly.

At the meeting, the whole family unanimously approved the decision to open two primary schools. The school follows the school-running method of the ancestral hall in Nanbu Village. All students are free, and a free lunch is provided at noon.As for the candidates for the school's tutors, of course Yu Kui, the new son-in-law of the Eagle Tribe, is in charge.

In the spring of this year, Zeng You and Yu Kui got married in March and April successively. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui couldn't get away from the capital to attend the wedding, so they had to send special envoys to Qucheng to express their gratitude to Zeng You. Congratulations, Huo Sihua was sent as a representative to bring congratulatory gifts back to Nanbu to attend Yu Kui and Tuo Qing's wedding.

In May, an exam was held simultaneously in the counties and counties across the country of Wu. This exam is similar to the college entrance examination of later generations. It is an exam set up for the selection of candidates from the two colleges in the north and the south. This exam is different from the three-year promotion exam. There is an age limit, as long as the test scores reach the admission scores of the two colleges in the south and the north, the college will admit it.The promotion examination has an age limit for candidates, and candidates must be at least [-] years old.

There are no female students in North-South College, and Zheng Yuming wants to solve this problem.For the examination in May, Zheng Yuming sent official documents to the counties and counties, asking the local administrators to mobilize educated women to take reference. Most of the educated women are the daughters of nobles.

Although the status of women in the Great Qin Dynasty was not as bad as that of later generations, their political status was not as good as that of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty. It has become a consensus that women cannot be official.The aristocracy generally believed that women could only stay in the courtyard to raise their children and handle housework, and it was unbearable to act outside in public.

Zheng Yuming debated in the court meeting in order to let women also take the exam.Zheng Yuming believes that women must be educated, because women will become mothers in the future, and educated mothers educate their children, which is more reasonable than uneducated mothers. Therefore, for the next generation of Wu, women in Wu must accept Regarding culture and education, as for outstanding women becoming officials, Zheng Yuming only suggested that women could serve as tutors in schools.

Zheng Yuming's debate at the court meeting played a role. The resolution to encourage girls to go to school was passed by a narrow margin. This court meeting won the strong support of Queen Tian. Queen Tian recommended five female officials to take the exam in May. The female officials are all aristocratic concubines with relatively prominent backgrounds, and some of them are particularly gentle with Wu Wangsheng.

Huo Sihua also took the exam this time, and she became a blockbuster in the exam. Her exam results surpassed all the students, and she won the first place with an undisputed high score, and was admitted by the North College first.

There are thousands of students in the country of Wu who took the exam, and the North-South College only admitted a quarter, about 200 people.There are only thirty or so women who have received thousands of references, but there are many who have reached the admission score line, 21 of them, 21 from the North College, and [-] from the South College. For these [-] female students, the North-South College has a separate The women's school is separated from the male students.

Although the rate of women going to college is extremely low, at least it is a precedent for girls going to school. There is a precedent for girls going to college. I don't care about the children helping with the work at home. Seeing that girls have a future in school, I send all the school-age girls in the family to the school. Anyway, there is no fee to enter the school, and there are free lunches available. It is like a school to help take care of young children, so that adults can Go out to work with more peace of mind.

During the spring harvest at the end of May, the wheat production in Wu State decreased, and the production reduction here is relatively free from disasters.Because the fields in Wu State were fertile this year, high-quality wheat seeds were selected for sowing, and the yield per mu of wheat fields was still 20.00% higher than before. With the addition of potatoes, farmers in Wu State did not feel that their field harvests were affected by the cold winter.

Farmers have a bumper harvest in spring, and Wu's finances have not benefited from agriculture. The land tax received is not as much as the funds invested, but the funds invested in agriculture can be reduced compared to previous years.

Wu's finances depend on industrial and commercial taxation.This year, Wu's foreign trade volume was staggering. In the first half of the year alone, the border import and export taxes amounted to one million gold.Nanbu, the port of Southeast County, and the throat border trade market of Northwest County are the three key tax areas of Wu State, and the tax revenue of the three areas accounts for 80.00% of Wu State's finances.

With money in his pocket, Zheng Yuming began to build schools in various places. However, due to the limitation of teacher resources, it was impossible to achieve universal compulsory education for all. Zheng Yuming planned to complete this task within five years.

The increase in financial revenue does not mean that Zheng Yuming's hands are loose. He is still worried about finances, because Chu Chaohui has established a navy in Nanbu, and the navy's expenditure is quite large. In addition to the army's expenditure, military expenditure is still the largest, accounting for half of the finances.In this world where the jungle preys on the weak, military strength is the guarantee of security, and Zheng Yuming cannot reduce military expenses.

God favors the country of Wu. The largest river in Daqin passes through the country of Wu. In years with little rainfall, it can divert water for irrigation in the country of Wu.This made Wu less affected by the drought.

After two years of excavation, the Changhe River is connected to the inland river of Wu State. Now, from Nanbu, you can take a boat directly to the coast of the East China Sea. The sea salt on the coast of the East China Sea can go to Nanbu by water, and then from Nanbu to the west through the Changhe River. It was sold to Chu State and other western vassal states, and went east to the sea to the small bay, from the Danshui River near the small bay to the north, and sold to more than a dozen vassal states in the central and northern parts of Daqin via the Dahe River.The canal from the shore of the East China Sea to the small bay is under construction. Two years later, the Changhe River System will pass through the Tang Inland River and connect with the Dahe River in the middle of Daqin. By then, you can take a boat to the capital of Qin.

Affected by the cold winter, many vassal states reduced their harvests in spring, and in autumn, due to the drought, farmers’ harvests continued to decrease, and the people were starving. However, the vassal states and monarchs all increased their control measures. As long as there was a riot, the monarch Our army went to suppress it mercilessly. This year, there was no riot of miners in the Qilu Gold Mine last year, but when it calmed down, it was like an active volcano, with hot lava hidden in the ground.

The autumn harvest of the farmers in Wu State is better than the spring harvest. It is a bumper harvest year. In Wu State this year, the September [-] Harvest Festival is celebrated by the people. From south to north, the whole Wu State is filled with joy.Zheng Yuming looked at the official documents sent to the capital by local officials from all over the country, and heaved a long sigh of relief, feeling happy, but this happy mood was soon interrupted by Huo Sizhong's urgent mail.Zhao Guo sent heavy troops to the border of the throat, and the bazaar at the throat was facing closure.