The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 280 Peace in Yecheng

The news that Tian Zhen had successfully hunted a large Kun was quickly sent to him.

Compared with the last time, after Tian Jin accidentally killed Da Kun, Chu Hui anxiously came over to ask Liu Tai to return to the palace to avoid disaster, and even panicked about letting Liu Yao take over. This time, when the report was delivered to Liu Tai, he calmly There are too many.

"Your Majesty, General Tian hunted Da Kun and sent Da Kun's body to the naval base in Jiaozhou Bay!" Chu Hui said and handed the report to Liu Tai, accepting that Da Kun could be hunted. fact.

Otherwise, what else can be done? What happened to encountering the giant Kun? If the first encounter with the giant Kun was just an accident, Tian Zhen had already used his fleet to plunder and kill the giant Kun, and the mystery of this kind of thing had completely disappeared.

For creatures like humans, as long as you show the blood bar of anything, it will be somewhat disrespectful to God. As long as this god can be defeated, it is basically a matter of time to kill this god.

"It's a pity that it's too far away. We can't eat fresh Kun meat, so we can only use ambergris and light Kun incense lamps!" Liu Tai sighed and put the matter aside.

Using the army to hunt whales, so as to grow the army as a whole, is a relatively good choice in the current era to develop maritime power. In the future, we will have to wait a few years for the navy to retire, for the fishing boats that hunt whales to retire, and even for villages to retire. If you dare to use these retired navy and ships to hunt whales in Haiyang Mountain, then the whale industry chain will be truly born.

With the birth of the whaling industry, the big man's pursuit of opening up the ocean will be infinitely amplified.

Therefore, Liu Tai encouraged this matter.

Li Tai is not afraid that all the whales will be fished out by the Han people. After all, the whole West lasted for three hundred years from the time when the first whale was hunted to advocating not to hunt whales, and throughout the entire industrial revolution.

In contrast, even if the Han Dynasty does develop a whaling industry in the future, these whales will not perish even if the Han Dynasty is destroyed.

Even in Liu Tai's view, if whaling could help the Han Dynasty transform from a farming civilization to an outward-expanding civilization, then Liu Tai would be even more interested in it.

In comparison, I don't even care about people other than big men, so why should I care about whales?

So after Liu Tai looked at this matter, he said: "You tell Tian Zhen and let him deal with this giant whale on the spot.

The court wanted the whale's ambergris and oil, but he should have left the rest to deal with it himself! "

"No!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Chu Hui saluted Liu Tai respectfully and immediately went to reply to Tian Tian.

"However, if more whales are hunted, there should be more requirements for the fleet, which should make it more convenient to attack Jinting in the future!" Liu Tai silently calculated an account in his heart, which was more or less supporting Tian Tian's current behavior.

At this time, Liu Tai said to Xi Jian who was not far away, "Dao Hui, how are the exam arrangements for the candidates?"

Xi Jian heard Liu Tai's words and came over, saluted Liu Tai and said: "Your Majesty, this exam, the construction of the examination room and school building, and the preparation of teachers are all ready. We just need to wait for the candidates to come and take the exam."

Xi Jian continued to introduce to Liu Tai: "Respecting the king's decree, this examination is divided into three tests, the first test is "Hanshu", the second test is "Nine Chapters", the third test is policy theory, and after the third test, 360 scholars are selected. Ten of Zhou Tian's number, and then enter the palace to take the test!

After the palace examination, the candidates were ranked, paraded through the streets, and held banquets to encourage them! "

Liu Tai heard Xi Jian's words, nodded and said, "After all, we have to select talents from all over the world, so we must not ignore them."

Xi Jian heard Liu Tai's words, saluted Liu Tai solemnly, and immediately started to make arrangements.

In fact, Yecheng has become very lively at this time. Even if there is heavy snow in the sky, it can't cover up the fireworks in the whole city. Even in winter, the whole city gives people a reassuring warmth. .

First of all, we need to thank the large-scale use of hot pots and the large-scale mining of coal.

Although wood is more popular than coal in terms of keeping warm, people can feel that using wood to burn the kang will keep them warm longer.

However, Liu Tai himself has always advocated the use of coal, especially since some open-pit coal mines are mined by foreigners. In addition, it is unrealistic to rely solely on wood to provide heating for the entire Yecheng. Therefore, coal is used as a heating material in Yecheng. It is still very popular in this winter.

Liu Tai even predicted that with the opening of the Yongji Canal and faster and more convenient water passages between Tangshan Coal and Steel Company and Yecheng, coal might really overtake wood and become a more mainstream energy source.

For the people of Yecheng, they were the quickest to feel the changes brought about by Liu Tai's arrival.

Especially after the autumn harvest, they look at the heavy grains in their hands and are extremely grateful that they can have enough to eat this year.

Those temporary corvees who dig, carry soil, and carry bricks for the Yongji Canal during their off-farm days save their own food and at the same time accumulate enough salt stamps to buy and sell cloth, which is enough for them to buy a new suit near the end of the year. clothing.

Most of the people who have been converted from temporary corvee to formal corvee can be assigned a small but own house during the Chinese New Year this year, allowing them to stay in peace and contentment to contribute to Yongji in this area. He does professional maintenance work.

From now on, they will be needed to dredge canals, build roads, move bricks and tiles around Yecheng.

It can be said that although it has been a hard year, after Liu Tai arrived in Yecheng, the people were able to eat and wear clothes. Even those ruffians who took advantage of people's power had to go around when they saw the people.

Because the gangster bullied you, as long as you tell the urban management officer patrolling the street, the gangster will be arrested by the government immediately. I heard that he will be sent to the coal mines in the Taihang Mountains for mining!

This made the public security in the entire Yecheng and even the entire Hebei Province much better, and made the people more convinced of Liu Tai.

To be honest, Liu Tai may not be as good as these people thought, but when he started to build an entire supporting facility around the Yongji Canal with Yongji Canal as the core, Liu Tai immediately found that he was short of people. !

But the problem is that the agricultural population cannot move on their own. Even migrant workers only do similar farm work. They only go to Yongji Canal to help during the slack season, not to mention the workers who are already working in Yongji Canal. That is even more... I can't even move!

However, many supporting facilities, especially the mining industry in this era, very much need someone to fill in their lives. Then I can only suffer from the three treasures of manpower in the feudal era, the son-in-law, the prisoner and the ranger.

The first is getting a son-in-law. Even Liu Tai is very envious of such a thing as having soft rice. But as a man, why should he have soft rice and hard food? How can he get married? Doesn’t this break the rules on the road!

What if others follow your example and eat soft food without any lower limit? !

What should I do if it arouses the jealousy of the majority of male compatriots and destabilizes the entire society? !

The most important thing is what to do if the labor force is reduced to the production industry? !

So stop talking nonsense, even if you get married, you have to move bricks for me, otherwise you will pay taxes and a large amount of redemption fees every year.

When it comes to paying money and making friends, basically all families choose to give a son-in-law to work. After all, for these families, all they need is a son-in-law to inherit the family bloodline.

As for the life or death of the son-in-law, it really doesn't matter. If he works until he dies, that's what his fate is.

If he didn't die while working...how could he not die? In order to curb this unhealthy trend, Liu Tai would never allow them to go back and eat soft food in peace.

The idea that if you want to find a rich woman, you can be stable for the rest of your life as long as you endure the steel ball, it will not work under Liu Tai's autocratic iron fist. Just like this, the whole society has been swept away by the trend of marriage.

As for the criminals and the rangers, to a certain extent, they are one and the same. If the rangers have lower moral standards, they will be just like wandering scoundrels. If the moral level is higher, they will become an evil force on one side.

And if there was no place for them in society, Liu Tai would naturally turn a blind eye. But now that the whole society is waiting for them to reclaim land, how could they be allowed to do nothing in the countryside, or even bother to disturb normal life when they have time? People produce.

So no matter whether you are a scoundrel or a ranger, as long as you commit a crime, you will definitely be arrested and thrown into a cell. The punishment cannot be said to be harsh, but at least when these people are caught, they are more or less expected to be in the coal mine. Work there for a few years.

Of course, because Liu Tai had only been here for a year, these ranger scoundrels thought that relying on their own aristocratic families, not to mention being lenient, they could at least reduce their punishments, but they were all very arrogant.

At this time, Chen Yuanda was no longer in charge, but the case was handed over to Gou Chun.

For Gou Chun, he just hopes to grab the tails of these wealthy families, but Liu Tai will not let go because of Liu Tai's rules.

But these scoundrels and rangers didn't instigate you aristocratic families to raise dead soldiers like them. Gou Chun just asked these families calmly, "Tell me, does your family want to learn from the Sima family and raise three thousand dead soldiers?"

These wealthy families decisively cut off from these rangers, and even sent the people in their families who were responsible for befriending these rangers and scoundrels to Gou Chun, and expressed from the bottom of their hearts that their families really had no such intention.

I am just a small rich man from Hebei. Do I deserve to raise a dead soldier? How can you slander my family's reputation out of thin air?

In short, these scoundrels and rangers were originally waiting for the people behind them to come and take advantage of them, but in the end, the people behind them were sent in, and they also ransacked their homes, and the sentences they received were even heavier and more miserable.

All of them suddenly became silent. Nothing could let them know more than this that the sky north of the Yellow River had changed.

The order of the entire Hebei land is naturally much better, and the people are naturally more satisfied with Liu Tai's rule.

Especially with the snow this year, many bathhouses have been added unknowingly. Even in winter, with just a few five baht, you can take a hot bath happily. For the people at the bottom, it is completely unimaginable. thing.

At this moment, Zheng Lue and Wang Du came out of the bathhouse together and came to the attic on the second floor of this large bathhouse. They were eating hot pot and sighed:

"Zi Qi, I originally thought that after Ye City was captured by the King of Han, even if there was a Taoist king, Ye City would need to be depressed for a period of time, but I didn't expect that in just one year, we could see that the lights have entered thousands of families. A peaceful scene.”

"The king adheres to the principle of using heavy codes in troubled times. Although he is a little harsh on aristocratic families, he is quite considerate of the common people or poor families.

Apart from anything else, if Your Majesty had not held this examination, how would you and I have the opportunity to feast on delicious food here and wait for the examination! "

At this moment, Wang Du picked up the chopsticks in his hand, held the small hot pot in front of him, and sighed while eating.

When Zheng Lue heard Wang Du's words, he sighed:

"Ziqi, you are from Beihai and know the habits of the King of Han. You just need to pass the imperial examination, and you will definitely be reused by the King of Han.

And I come from the south of the Yellow River. Firstly, I don’t know if I can pass the Jinshi examination. Secondly, I don’t know whether the King of Han will reuse me even if I pass the test! "

"Jieju, you have great responsibilities, especially in agriculture." Wang Du said with emotion,

"I once attended Mr. Wang's class in Linzi. If Mr. Wang could meet you Jie Ju, I'm afraid he would lament that his "Essential Art of Qi Min" would be written by future generations!"

""Essential Techniques for Qi Min"? Could it be that you, Ziqi, are a disciple of Mr. Wang Pei?!" Zheng Lue couldn't help but sigh after hearing Wang Du's words.

You must know that his father didn't know what method to use, and even gave him the latest version of "Qi Min Yao Shu" compiled by Wang Pei to read, so Zheng Lue admired Wang Pei quite a lot.

"How can I be so lucky? It's just that I can listen in when Mr. Wang is giving lectures!"

Wang Du couldn't help but shake his head. Although he was not from an aristocratic family, he was somewhat more humble.

Because under Liu Tai's intervention, there are only two styles of study in Qingzhou, one is for agricultural studies, and the other is for history. But no one knows whether he can become an official.

Anyway, Liu Tai did not follow Confucianism, but very pragmatically respected "Han Shu" and "Qi Min Yao Shu" compiled by Wang Pei.

Basically, the students trained by Wang Pe can directly serve as officials. Although they are only involved in specific official duties, they are a path for advancement, so Wang Pe's lectures are still very popular.

Wang Du and Wang Roruo may have been really related for hundreds of years, but now Wang Du can only listen.

Although Wang Du was not from a poor family, he was not from a wealthy family either. At most, he only had a few books in his family.

Of course, because of this, when Liu Tai swept through the aristocratic families in Qingzhou, Wang Du was spared the blow.

But again, because Wang Du's family was too small, he wanted to take the path of promoting filial piety and integrity, but he couldn't.

Of course, if Wang Du wants to take the path of military history, then Wang Du can go directly, but Wang Du doesn't like it.

At this moment, Wang Du was confused about what he should do. Then he heard that Liu Tai was promoting the imperial examination, so he came over to give it a try.

After all, although Liu Tai is quite cruel to the aristocratic family, Liu Tai's senses are pretty good to the humble family.

The most important thing is that Qingzhou has been governed by Liu Tai for many years. Basically everyone there knows Liu Tai's temper, so many people come from Qingzhou after hearing the news.

At this moment, the two of them saw a simple and tall carriage pulled by several horses galloping past them. There was a word "Chu" on this carriage.

"This is the carriage of Chu Changshi's family!" The two looked at each other, showing a bit of envy for this carriage.

Because this carriage represents Liu Tai’s mastermind, Chu Hui’s Chu family!

(End of this chapter)