The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

"Find someone to go to the newspaper office and ask Zhang Qing to come and see me." Zhang Qing is the person in charge of the newspaper office, and Li Wen happened to have something to tell Zhang Qing.In the past, he would go to the newspaper office when he was free, but now he is not free at all, and some things are ordered to let people come to see him.

There are still businessmen outside who want to meet him through acquaintances and connections, but let alone not having time to meet these businessmen at this time, even if he has time, it is not good for him to meet these businessmen in private before the conference.So up to now, he has not seen any merchants from all over the world, but he has had people collect information about these merchants, and he has a thick stack of information in his hand.

"Yes, my lord." Du Ruoheng knew who Zhang Qing was. He had met Zhang Qing twice.It's just that both of them are busy, so they really don't have time to invite each other out for a meeting

After going out, Du Ruoheng recruited someone and sent someone to find Zhang Qing.

At the newspaper office, Zhang Qing immediately put down what he was doing and went to see his lord as soon as he received someone from Master Li to say he wanted to see him.Without making him wait too long, Zhang Qing arrived, and Li Wen asked someone to sit down, "I'll send someone to find you, because there are a few things I've ordered you to do^"

Li Wen called Zhang Qing here because he wanted Zhang Qing to arrange for people to come to the business conference and the subsequent investment conference. He said, "If you can arrange the time, it's best to bring people here yourself." This conference was somewhat half-official and half-civilian in nature, businessmen from all over the world were invited to participate, and the arrangement of location and personnel was relatively free, so he asked Zhang Qing to bring people over.

"If I have time, my lord, I can come over." Zhang Qing didn't expect that the lord wanted them to attend the business meeting, and he was naturally very willing, which made him feel extremely happy in his heart.

When the time comes, things about the conference will definitely be published in newspapers, Li Wen said, "You will collect the information about this conference yourself, and I won't provide it to you here."

"Okay." Zhang Qing nodded, there is no problem with this.

After talking about asking Zhang Qing to bring people to the conference, Li Wen asked Zhang Qing to come today, not just for such a trivial matter, he continued, "There are so many people outside reading our newspaper, the big reason is actually, Our newspaper reports are true, valid news.

Presumably you should also know that if you want to write a good article, you must personally participate and experience it... In the future, the People’s Daily will definitely not be limited to the capital here, I hope that the newspaper can be built in every corner of Dacheng Go, then we need to cultivate a group of such talents, not only the sword in the hands of warriors is a sharp weapon, but the pen in the hands of literati can also be used as a sharp weapon. "

The current mode of the newspaper office is still that the people arranged by the subordinates collect the news, and the articles written by the staff of the newspaper office are published in the newspaper.

Li Wen now hopes that these people can come out and feel and experience it first-hand, so that they can write better articles. In fact, this is a bit similar to the identity of reporters in later generations, which requires these people in the newspaper office to go deep into the people. Only by going there can we understand the sentiments of the people and write articles about people's livelihood.

In the past, they could not operate according to this model. In fact, a large part of the reason was that there were not many members in the newspaper office.After observing for such a long time, Li Wen agreed with Zhang Qing's personal ability, because he felt that Zhang Qing was a usable person.

After confirming that this person is available, he really wants to use this person for business.

The newspaper they run has too little content on the national economy and people's livelihood. His original intention of running this newspaper was actually to convey the news and government orders of the imperial court, and to be able to issue local governments. Now they have achieved this simple purpose. , then we must play a greater role in newspapers.

A great use of newspaper news in later generations is "supervision" and "inspector". If they set up newspaper offices in various places, they can form an invisible network and hold the news of the whole Dacheng in their hands.

Zhang Qing understood what their lords meant, is that what he thought?

"So, Zhang Qing, do you have the confidence?" Li Wen knew that Zhang Qing was a smart person, and he probably understood what he said. He smiled slightly and asked, "Cultivate me a group of such When people come out, the newspaper office will be expanded beyond the capital, and a newspaper office will be established in every town.”

"My lord." Zhang Qing knelt down on the ground, of course he would be willing to say the following words, "Yes, I can!"

Zhang Qing never dreamed that their adults would give him such an important task. Originally, he only became the person in charge of the newspaper because he was a little older.

He didn't even pass the imperial examination twice. He spent too much time and energy on the imperial examination, and the chances of being a Jinshi became increasingly slim. He felt ashamed to go back to his hometown to see his parents, wife and children. , I can only stay here in the capital to look for opportunities, but I didn't expect to meet shopkeeper Zhang, introduced him to a newspaper office to write articles, and then met their adults

When I heard that a 16-year-old boy had won the first prize in the exam, to be honest, his mood was very complicated at that time. He felt sorry for himself and envied others in high school.But he didn't expect that he would meet the legendary Li Liuyuan, Mr. Li, who was still working under Mr. Li, and now he was entrusted with an important task.

This time, he must seize the opportunity and do a big event!

When he turned around, he brought his parents, wife and children to the capital, and let them have a look at him. He is not so useless!

"Get up, kneel to me without telling you to move." Li Wen was stunned by Zhang Qing's kneeling like this, and he couldn't help but get up quickly.

"Okay, you can go back today. Remember that people will bring people over in two days. You should know the location and time of the meeting. I don't need to say these things, right? When you come to see Director Du, he will do it for you. Detailed arrangements." Director Du is now the senior secretary next to Mr. Li!

Secretary Du: ...

"Yes, my lord, I know all of this." Zhang Qing said with a smile.

Li Wen waved his hand and told people to leave quickly. Zhang Qing saluted and left.

The location of the meeting was chosen to be held in [Kezhi], mainly because at this time, all the restaurants in the capital were basically full, and it was impossible for them to let others drive away the guests and make room for them to hold the meeting.The original meeting time of the business meeting was three days, and after two days were vacated, we arrived at the investment promotion meeting. It would take at least seven or eight days before and after.

[Guest] is a private restaurant, first of all, it is their own place, and the staff is relatively easy to arrange and manage; second, the environment here is good and the place is large; third, the confidentiality here is good, and the last point can also be for their own The restaurant advertised to let more businessmen from other places know that there is such a place in the capital.

Now their restaurant is known by many among the dignitaries in the capital.But who thinks there are too many customers in business?It would be better if more people knew about it and attracted more people.Fortunately, although Bai Yu is not in the capital, the shopkeepers and stewards below are already able to take care of themselves.

On the day before the meeting, several ticket outlets were still selling tickets, and when the last round of tickets were sold out, several ticket outlets announced that they would stop selling.

August NO.20, the first business conference hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was officially held.

The meeting was held in the middle of the day, starting at eight o'clock in the morning.From [-] onwards, businessmen holding tickets for the conference can register at the entrance. The regulation is that each businessman holding a ticket can only bring no more than two people with him.

After registration, businessmen who have verified that there is no problem with the bills in their hands can enter.

As soon as the businessman with a ticket enters the door, a responsible young man will greet him, "Hello, we provide free morning food here. Would you like to go to the lobby to use the morning food?"

During the period of the conference, the organizers will provide two simple meals for breakfast and lunch, and businessmen after entering the venue can go to the designated place to eat first.In order to avoid excessive waste of food, the food is provided in a self-service way, and the person who receives the food takes as much as he eats, and must not waste it.

This point was brought up by Li Wen. After all, the conference lasted for one day. If everyone came early, some people might come without eating. Even if they came after eating, they would be hungry later.Their organizers can provide simple meals, but the premise is that everyone can't waste it.

In this era, people have not yet promoted the idea and concept of saving food, but he hopes that after their conference, more wealthy businessmen can have this idea and idea.

"Oh, you also provide morning food, let's go and have a look."

Some merchants who have not used the morning food will choose to go to eat, and some merchants who have already eaten will not choose to eat, but go to the tea room to drink tea and wait for the start of the meeting.

Seeing all kinds of pastries and snacks on the long table, porridge water and freshly cooked noodles in the lobby, the merchants who come want to eat or ask the servants to pick it up, or they can go up and pick it up .The boy who led the way did not follow in, but turned around and went back to continue the task of leading people in.

The arrangement of people working in the entire venue is well organized, each person is responsible for their own work, and when it comes to the part that others should be responsible for, the guests are handed over to the next person who should be responsible.Every entrance in the venue is arranged for reception, so that the guests who arrive will not lose their way and do not know where they are going.These things have already been arranged in an orderly manner, and the entire venue is running normally.

In the lobby, there is another receptionist, who leads the merchants who come all the way to receive food and arrange seats.

At this time, there are already some businessmen sitting here in the lobby with food.

These businessmen knew each other, and after saying hello, they sat at the same table.

"I don't know what this pastry is made of. It's soft and sticky, and there are crunchy things inside. It doesn't taste too sweet, and it doesn't taste greasy." After tasting a piece of pastry, there is a restaurant owner The boss was curious about what material the pastry he ate was made of.

The bosses of them traveled from north to south to do business, and they had never eaten any good food.

But I have to say that the pastries here still gave them a lot of surprises, sweet, salty, steamed, fried, soft, hard, all are good, and they have not seen many varieties , let alone tasted it.

There are so many tastes, taking into account the different tastes of businessmen from the north and the south.

When businessmen from other places came to the capital, most of them only knew Yipinlou, several famous restaurants in the capital, but they didn't know that there was such a place hidden in the capital.

The freshly cooked noodles are strong, and the soup base is so fresh that they can't wait to swallow it with their tongues. "What is this soup made of? It tastes fresh and fragrant." It's so delicious!There is also the texture of this noodle, which is elastic and chewy after one bite, which is better than the noodles they have eaten before.

"What kind of sauce is spread on this pancake? The skin is crispy, and the mouth and teeth are fragrant." Businessmen in the Northland like to eat noodle pancakes, and most people like to eat salty and spicy flavors. The taste is simply amazing!

There is also this spiciness, which is more spicy than what they have eaten before!

Usually, these businessmen who sit together like to talk about business. They talked about this meeting. Only this time they sat down and talked about the food on the table. Everyone was full of praise for the food. They had restaurants The businessman can't wait to learn all these ways of eating back secretly.

However, this is of course impossible.

The businessmen who were eating in the lobby did not know that in a side room in the past, they had inquired through various relationships for so long, and Li Liuyuan, who wanted to meet Mr. Li, was sitting not far from them.

Li Wen came here early in the morning, and Zhao Xiangyi came with him, and the two of them sat here to have breakfast.Naturally, they heard the businessmen outside discussing the food on the table. Li Wen looked proud, "Let me just say, the things we have eaten are definitely good."

Many of these pastries and snacks are ideas he provided to the chef. Of course, he doesn't know how to make them himself, but he can give a general idea of ​​the materials and methods of some pastries, and the rest is for the chef in the kitchen to figure out.But as expected of the master he hired at a high price, the things he made did not disappoint him.

Usually, when the two of them are free, Li Wen still likes to come here to taste some fresh food from time to time, and talk about some things that come to mind with the chef in the kitchen, and he will be surprised when he comes next time him.It is because the cooking skills of the two chefs in the kitchen are improving day by day because they are increasingly immersed in the study of various delicacies.

"Yeah." Zhao Xiangyi likes this pancake and Hu spicy soup, both of which suit his taste.

Li Wen looked up at the man who couldn't stop eating, stretched out his hand to grab some sauce pancakes to eat, and asked, "Do you like it?"

"Yeah." It was so delicious that there was no time to talk, Zhao Xiangyi took a bite of pancakes.

Today, Zhao Xiangyi brought a team over to maintain the order and safety of the venue.Originally, General Zhao didn't need to do this kind of trivial matter, but whoever let this "small matter" be the responsibility of his family's teenager, Zhao Xiangyi brought someone here without saying a word.

Li Wen didn't refuse this either, and agreed with a smile.

The small pots for making tea in the tea room are specially made. Each small pot is equipped with an exquisite small seat, and the tea can be boiled and drunk at the same time.

The merchants who drank tea in the tea room did not go to the lobby to use the morning food. They also noticed this set of tea making tools, and the snacks prepared for them on the table were also good. Some merchants had eaten the morning meal in the morning. I still couldn't help pinching a piece of dim sum, and couldn't stop after taking a bite.

At this time, Li Wen and Zhao Xiangyi were having breakfast in the wing room. When they saw Du Ruoheng coming over, Li Wen knew that Du Ruoheng hadn't eaten breakfast, so he asked him to sit down and have breakfast together. By the way, he sent someone to bring the rest together, " Anyone who hasn't eaten breakfast will take turns to eat breakfast first."

"Okay, my lord, I will send someone to notify everyone to come here."

It didn't take long for their wing room to be filled with personnel from the entire business department. At this time, Zhao Xiangyi had quietly gone out, leaving the space for Li Wen to talk to his people.Taking advantage of the meal time, Li Wen communicated with everyone about the process and several key points, "This time the conference is hosted by our business department, and there can be no mistakes. Do you understand?"

"Understood." Everyone said in unison.

Before the chamber of commerce started, each of these merchants couldn't control their mouths, and they ate until they left on their stomachs.By the time everyone left, there was basically no wasted food on the table, and basically everyone had eaten it up

There was not much food left in the kitchen, and most of it was taken away at the end, only a little porridge and noodles and pancakes were left. These things were prepared a lot, and the rest was eaten by those who worked in the venue up

After everyone left, those of them who had been busy all morning came to the lobby to eat one after another.However, there is not much time for them to eat, and everyone has to hurry to get busy after eating.