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"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations, Duke Jie Yuan!"

"Big happy event, everyone is happy!"

"Our Shanghe Village is really a place of good geomantic omen!"

"That's not true. Our Lord Xie Yuan is the third Juren master who has left our Shanghe Village in these years. All of them are so young."

"The changes in the Li family over the years are really unrecognizable, tsk tsk."

"Our Bai family's is not bad, hehe."

"That's not true. I feel that in two years, our Shanghe Village should be renamed Shanghe Town."

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The villagers of Shanghe Village were joking around the dinner table.

"You old men, you gibberish after drinking two sips of horse urine, and you can't stop your mouths with food?" The old woman next to her looked at the old men who drank two sips of rice wine and started to show their faces, and said angrily. .

"Old sister, today is a good day in our village, let them drink a couple more, I won't let the old man in my family drink if he wants to drink on weekdays." Another old woman said with a smile.

The people sitting at this table are basically from the Bai nationality in Shanghe Village. They are related to each other, so you don't have to be so scruples about what you say.

In the fifth year after Li Mingde and Bai Zhiwen won the Jinshi examination, when Li Mingkang was 17 years old, he became the youngest Xie Yuan in the history of the former Han Province, breaking the record of Bai Zhiwen's 20-year-old Zhong Jieyuan.

For a long time, the former Han Province, Nanliao Province, and Ercang Province have not had such a strong style of study, and there are few young candidates. After Li Mingkang passed the examination, Shanghe Village, Changping County once again entered the former Han Province. line of sight.

At this time, everyone knew that there was not only the 17-year-old Xie Yuangong in that place, but also two Juren in the same year many years ago, one of them was Xie Yuan, and the other was No.3. .

Not only are there scholars, Zheng's Xiangxun Rabbit is also from Shanghe Village, which is the well-known Rabbit Township.

Li Mingkang was able to pass the exam at such a young age because he not only studied in the original Han province these years, but also went to the capital with Bai Mugen when he became a scholar at the age of 14 and stayed in the capital for two years. He is not only taught by his brother-in-law Bai Zhiwen, but also guided by his teacher, Mr. Dehui.

And along the way, he followed Bai Mugen outside. He had seen many scenery, instead of just staying at home and studying hard, he became the youngest Xie Yuan due to a combination of various reasons.

After Shanghe Village became famous, more and more people paid attention to Shanghe Village. Everyone wanted to see how outstanding a place it was, and how many outstanding scholars could be raised there.

Speaking of which, the people of Shanghe Village have changed a lot over the years. Older people stay in the village or farm, or raise rabbits, or go to the workshop built by the Zheng family to smoke rabbits. Under the leadership of Bai Mugen, they went to work outside. The children did not have to go to the fields to do farm work. Their main task was to study in the village.

Changes in dressing and eating can only reflect external changes. After the village has a village school, the talents in Shanghe Village began to truly become different.

Because no matter if they are from the Bai nationality, or other Niu family, Li family, or Wu family, as long as they are from Shanghe Village, adults and children can go to the village to attend classes and find their masters to learn how to read.

Once people can read and write, they will be different from ordinary people when they go out. Everyone in Shanghe Village holds their heads high and their chests high, even more arrogant than the people in the county town.

Of course, the most fundamental reason for the bullishness of the people in Shanghe Village is not that they have a village school to read and write, but because their village has already produced two Jinshi masters.

Li Mingkang was also selected for the exam, and there must be another master Jinshi in a few years.

Once a person has energy, no matter what he does, he will be energetic no matter what he does. Under the leadership and encouragement of Village Chief Bai, everyone can learn to read a little bit. Old men and women aged four or fifty, and children as young as seven or eight years old can easily recite the three hundreds of thousands.

In the past few years, several 12-year-old children in Shanghe Village have passed the Tongsheng examination, and they belong to the kind who can continue to study and take the imperial examination after they have a solid foundation. More and more children are embarking on the road of studying and taking the imperial examination.

After all, with Bai Zhiwen and the others setting an example in front, everyone has really realized the benefits of reading. Children who don't want to read so much will be asked to read by adults. Under strict encouragement, they can always find a few good seedlings who can read.

As long as such a positive atmosphere continues, Shanghe Village will become better and better.

Such a change in Shanghe Village is inseparable from the guidance of Li Mingde and Bai Zhiwen.

Because they never took the initiative to use money to subsidize the village after they became officials. They would only find suitable teachers for the village, buy village fields similar to clan fields for the village, train village schools for the village, and recommend them after the children in the village have achieved results. They go to better schools.

Now, five years have passed, and Li Mingkang's Zhongju has already seen obvious results.

Children who can learn to read and write can continue to take the imperial examination. Those who have grown up and are even quite old can learn to read and write, which subtly changes their thinking.

Not only did he use reading to influence people in his hometown of Shanghe Village, after Li Mingde took office in Nanliao Province, he selected several representative villages within his management to implement this approach.

Because it was sponsored by the government, there must not be a beautiful and grand village school like Shanghe Village. It just found the old houses in those villages to re-strengthen them, and then invited ordinary teachers to teach the children there.

Without paper and pen, I used branches and sand instead to practice writing. The master taught everything that should be taught. How much the children in those villages can learn depends on their own abilities.

From the time he invited his master to teach the children in the villages, Li Mingde often went to those villages, chatted with the villagers, and told them what else to do besides taking the imperial examination and becoming an official.

Since he was a poor student who came out of the village, after Li Mingde learned the local dialect in a short period of time, he quickly got along with the local people. Most of the villagers were willing to listen to what he had to say.

Therefore, what Li Mingde did was effective in a short period of time. It was too difficult for these children to get ahead in the imperial examination by relying on the humble school. After more children learned to read and write most of the characters, their family members Based on Li Mingde's opinion, send the children outside to do things like accountant apprentices, management apprentices, etc. that must be literate.

It is faster and easier to make money by brains than purely by hard work. When a few children go home with wages, other people see that doing so can really benefit them, and they immediately become strict with their own children and take education seriously. their chances of literacy.

This is Li Mingde's purpose. To spend money on studying and taking the imperial examination, it is better to do something practical first, starting from improving the lives of the villagers. After they can eat and clothe themselves warmly, if he doesn't take the initiative to mention it, everyone will think about it. Continue to send children who can read to read.

In the beginning, what Li Mingde did seemed a bit nonsense to Zhizhou. Li Mingde simply didn't ask the state government for much money, and when Li Mingde did his own thing well, he didn't take much care of it.

Unexpectedly, the things he didn't care about would surprise him later. After five years, those villages really changed a lot. The changes in these villages became the highlight of his work report that year.

Relying on the changes in these villages, Zhizhou was rated as excellent in the official department, and he was promoted to general judge.

From being a sixth-rank magistrate to a fifth-rank general judge, although the grade has only changed by one level, the position of general judge is very important, and it is not something ordinary people can do. After three years of general judgment, there is a high probability of being transferred to the magistrate.

The position of Zhizhou became vacant, and Li Mingde was promoted from the prefect of the state to the prefect of the state, in charge of the political affairs of a state.

With more power in his hands, Li Mingde began to promote his ideas in villages and towns across the state, hiring those literate and patient old students to go to various villages as teachers.

Not only started with the problem of children's reading, Li Mingde also called together craftsmen to teach those children who do not want to continue to study the crafts of all walks of life and so on.

It was very difficult at the beginning. No one wanted to hand over their cooking skills to someone who had nothing to do with them. Teaching apprentices to starve their master to death was a truth that each of them knew well from the beginning of their careers.

Li Mingde thought of many ways, and finally persuaded several porcelain kiln masters to teach those young people who are willing to learn porcelain firing skills in the porcelain kiln built by the government in the name of accepting apprentices.

Building a car behind closed doors has turned into brainstorming, and the porcelain produced by the cikiln has become rich in patterns, shapes, colors, and shapes.

Three years later, porcelain became a feature of the prefecture managed by Li Mingde and was exported to the vassal states outside the Dayu Dynasty.

Three years later, the number of children and scholars in the states governed by Li Mingde doubled, and the various taxes collected doubled.

Li Mingde's political achievements allowed him to be directly promoted from Zhizhou to Deputy Chief Secretary when he was transferred. He was in charge of civil affairs and was responsible for coordinating with Xuezheng.

Unknowingly, the style of study in Southern Liao Province was prevalent. In the past few years, Southern Liao Province has produced a large number of talents, especially the state where Li Mingde was in power, and Xie Yuan came from almost every township examination.

Later, Li Mingde was promoted from deputy chief secretary to chief minister. He actively promoted the reform of all walks of life, and in just a few years, the tax revenue of Nanliao Province became the top few provinces in China.

Every year when the governor goes to the capital to report on his duties, he can hold his head high in front of other governors, instead of always being ridiculed like before.

When Li Mingde was 40 years old, he was transferred from the Chief Secretary of Nanliao Province to the governor of Jingchi Province, which is located in the middle of the Dayu Dynasty. , nothing special.

But Li Mingde quickly discovered the advantage of Jingchi Province - location.

The terrain in Jingchi Province is flat, so he opened up several trade routes around Jingchi Province, cultivated caravans, traded in and out, revitalized a province with no characteristics, and became a place that merchants yearn for even more than the capital city.

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