The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

"You sent Yunfei away?"

Just after he finished taking a shower, Zhao Xiangyi came over. Li Wen was wiping his hair with a towel in one hand, when he heard the door open, he looked at the man who walked in with a smile on his face.Zhao Xiangyi walked over to the boy, and naturally took the towel from the boy's hand, wiped the boy's wet hair, and replied, "Well, send it back to me."

He went back to the General's Mansion, circled around, and came to Liuyuan Mansion again.

Speaking of which, he hadn't lived in the General's Mansion for a long time, and spent the nights in Liuyuan Mansion, and both of them were used to this way of getting along.

They are busy with their own affairs on weekdays, and their relationship outside is just like ordinary friends, so they have been together for so long, except for a few close people who know their relationship, outsiders don't know that they have this layer relationship in.

Zhao Xiangyi didn't care about his own reputation, anyway, he had the reputation of being the lone star of the evil spirit in the capital, not to mention people outside, even some people in the general's mansion wanted to stay three meters away from him, for fear of being overwhelmed by him.

It's just that he doesn't care about his own reputation, but it doesn't mean he doesn't care about Li Wen's reputation. This man is the number one scholar hand-picked by the emperor, Li Liuyuan of their success.People outside spoke highly of Li Liuyuan, and the emperor is now trusting and reusing the young man, so Zhao Xiangyi definitely didn't want the young man to bear unwarranted infamy because of their affairs, or even affect the young man's career.

When two people are together, as for the way of getting along with each other, as long as they feel good about themselves, it has nothing to do with outsiders.

Li Wen rested his head on the man's lap, let the man wipe his hair, opened his mouth and yawned, "Aha... did you do it?"

"It will take a while." Zhao Xiangyi looked down at the boy who was rubbing his eyes, like a well-behaved kitten in the arms of its owner, he stopped wiping the boy's hair with his hands, and stared at the boy .Noticing that the man was staring at him, Li Wen showed a bright smile to the man.

The man's lips were on his lips, and the two exchanged a kiss.

Li Wen felt the man's big hands gently wipe his hair on the top of his head, it was so comfortable, his drooping eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he fell asleep uncontrollably.Seeing the boy who was lying on his lap and fell asleep, Zhao Xiangyi had a wry smile on his face. This little guy really regarded him as Liu Xiahui and really trusted him..

But who made him fall in love with this little guy?When he sees someone falling asleep, he can't wake him up, can he?

Seeing that the boy's hair was dry, Zhao Xiangyi moved gently, carried him onto the bed, put him on the bed to sleep, and then he lay down.

This night seemed to be particularly stuffy, there was no wind outside the window, and the room was very stuffy, the boy didn't sleep soundly, and moved from time to time.Zhao Xiangyi slept soundly, he knew the young man moved as soon as he moved, and he never put down the fan in his hand, fanning the young man from time to time.

In the dead of night, every household in the entire capital city closed their doors, everyone in every household fell asleep, and the entire capital city entered the quietest moment of the day.

A gust of wind blew up the dust on the ground, rustling the trees. .

The watchman on the street was blown up by the dust blown by the gust of wind, and took a mouthful of sand and went in, "Bah, bah..." The watchman spit out a few times, and spit out the sand in his mouth.

"It's windy, I see...it's going to rain."

"That's right, let's find a place to shelter from the rain..." It seems that there is no need to fight tonight. As soon as the two watchmen finished speaking, they heard thunder from a distance. It must be raining, and the two watchmen went to find a place to shelter from the rain while working the watch.

Well pa--

The western sky was filled with black clouds, a bolt of lightning flashed, splitting half of the sky, and the sound of thunder came one after another, with great momentum.

The children who fell asleep at night were woken up by the thunder, crying, and the adults were all woken up by the thunder.

The person in his arms was startled by the thunder. Zhao Xiangyi opened his eyes, patted the boy's back lightly, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, it's just thunder and it's going to rain." Zhao Xiangyi looked up at the window, and the sky outside was lit up by thunder.

The boy in his arms squirmed and buried his head in his chest, but he didn't wake up.

"crash one"

A heavy rain came as expected, and it began to rain heavily outside. The bean-sized raindrops fell on the ground, and the rain watered out the hot land, and a wisp of white smoke "squeaked".Soon the whole ground was wet, and the excess rainwater collected into

There are small rivers, and the water from the high places flows down to the low places.

This heavy rain instantly extinguished the scorching heat of the capital and became cooler.

Zhao Xiangyi lowered his head and watched the boy's frown unfold. A slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Seeing that the boy was sleeping soundly, he closed his eyes reassuringly, and put his hand gently on the boy's forehead. Around the waist, he fell asleep with his arms around the boy.

At dawn the next day, the rain stopped outside and the sun came out. Today's weather is very good.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers—"

It is the beginning of a new day in the capital, and the boy selling newspapers on the street is shouting to sell newspapers.

There are two big news in today's newspapers. One is that the Ministry of Commerce has called representative businessmen from all over Dacheng to arrive here in the capital on August [-]th for a three-day business conference. Blue Book of Business Development and Planning.

However, the entrance fee is not low. All participants in the conference have to pay an entrance fee of 100 taels. This businessman has set a minimum threshold, so not everyone can participate, at least it must be given Only merchants who bought the 100 taels of silver are eligible to participate.

The number of people participating in the conference is limited to only [-] people. From now on, all people can go to any registration office of the Ministry of Commerce to register and buy admission tickets with their household registration certificates. Each person can only buy one ticket, while stocks last .

The second piece of news is also an investment invitation message issued by the Ministry of Commerce. A comprehensive trade market is to be opened here in the capital. The time is scheduled for the fifth day after the business conference, which is August 25th. All interested businessmen are invited to come. Participate in bidding.

Businessmen who participate in the bidding have to pay a predetermined deposit in advance. The deposit is 100 taels and will not be refunded. However, once the bidding is successful, the deposit of 100 taels can be used as 300 taels to deduct cash.

The quota for participating in the bidding is also limited to only [-] people. From now on, all businessmen can use their household registration certificates to register at any registration office of the Ministry of Commerce and pay a reservation fee to get this quota for participating in the bidding.Only one can be purchased per person, while supplies last.

"What? A business conference?"

As soon as the newspaper came out on this day, the merchants in the capital saw the news in the newspaper. Merchants from all over the place gathered together to discuss these two pieces of news. This is the first time that the government has issued a message to call them to the capital to do business. General Assembly.

"It has the seal of the Ministry of Commerce and Mr. Li's signature on it...so it is true that this news was released by the Ministry of Commerce." Under the two messages are the seal of the Ministry of Commerce and Mr. Li's signature. This is definitely impossible. Fake.

Not only the seal of the Ministry of Commerce but also the seal of the emperor appeared in the Kyoto Daily. This newspaper is very authoritative here in the capital, so if it is fake, who has the ability to fake it?

"I need to give 100 taels of silver to enter the venue?" Is this too high?

"What does 100 taels count? The point is... what is this business conference for?"

For the merchants, the 100 taels of silver was nothing. They usually used more than 100 taels to manage some government officials. They were more concerned about the purpose and purpose of this conference.

"Isn't it mentioned above that representative businessmen from all over the world are invited to attend the meeting to discuss business development and formulate blueprints?"

"Is this because the government wants to pay more attention to commercial development?" The imperial court has always suppressed these businessmen and squeezed money from them. They have to guard against this.However, another businessman said, "There shouldn't be anything wrong with this. Master Li established the Commerce Department, isn't it just for us businessmen?"

If the court doesn't believe it, Master Li won't believe it, right?

"That's right." Someone nodded in agreement.

"And this trade market, this bidding, what is it for?"

No one in Dacheng has held any bidding conference before, so these businessmen don’t quite understand what this bidding conference is for. When they read the newspaper, they saw that the imperial court had come forward to open a trade market and sold all the shops in the trade market. , invited all businessmen to come to participate in the bidding conference, only to realize that this is a shop that they can bid for in this market.

There are also some policy and preferential issues mentioned above, that is, if they bid for the pavement, they will also enjoy the preferential policies provided by the imperial court.

After someone explained it, everyone present understood, "Oh, that's how it is."

"This is interesting."

"Look, it says above that the participation in the first article of the conference is limited to Dacheng merchants. But the second article says that as long as interested merchants can come to participate in the bidding..." Someone pointed out , said, "Does this mean that foreigners can also participate?"

A lot of foreigners here in Kyoto come to do business, this business invitation that is open to the outside world is that foreigners can also participate in the bidding!

"That's right!"

"No, these foreigners also come to participate, isn't that a competition with us?"

Everyone reacted, "It's said that from today onwards, you can go to the various registration offices of the Ministry of Commerce to buy admission tickets. Should we go and buy the tickets first?" If it's too late, These tickets are all sold out, and they don't have tickets, and they don't even have the qualifications to enter, so they will be ashamed and humiliated.

As soon as these businessmen discussed it, they decided to buy the tickets first.