After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 173 Southwest Enke Begins

After leaving the Ordnance Bureau, Shan Anren, the Minister of the Household, went to the Gunpowder Bureau again, and handed over the gunpowder formula to two gunpowder ambassadors, who had a seventh-rank official rank.

After that, they summoned the iron smelters, and asked them to immediately summon workers to build the blast furnace.

Daming's shaft furnace ironmaking was already a world leader at that time.

Piston blowers and refractory bricks are available, which can fully meet the technical indicators of blast furnaces.

Just need a little improvement.

……

Ministry of Commerce.

Shang Shu Shen Wansan was also holding a regular meeting. At this time, he already had more than a dozen subordinates.The subordinates are in charge of a daily business, some specialize in food, some specialize in silk, and some specialize in daily necessities...

The division of labor is clear.

And he himself, in charge of overseas trade.

The subordinate's official position is called the chief, and the six-rank official title.

Under each principal, there are four divisions: insurance, average, general arts, and accounting.

The officials of the four divisions, from the seventh grade.

"Everyone, the emperor is now preparing to practice steel, and the imperial decree has been issued, so our business department must fully cooperate with the emperor's measures." Shen Wansan said, "At the same time, this is also a good time for various merchants to make money."

Shen Wansan got his start by doing business with the imperial court, and knew that there were big business opportunities.

Businessmen and the court do business, not only make money, but also facilitate the court's affairs, which is a win-win situation.

"We want the world to see that our merchants are not just about making money." Shen Wansan said, "We want the world to see that merchants play a bigger role in transferring and allocating resources."

"good."

"good."

the crowd said.

"The emperor's action of refining steel can be said to have revitalized the country's economy and greatly promoted domestic sales." Shen Wansan continued.

"Not bad." The crowd used to be veterans of business, and Shen Wansan said that they understood, "For example, the operation of iron ore requires a lot of vehicles, and workers need a lot of mining tools..."

"Coal mining in Shanxi requires a lot of labor, and those laborers need all kinds of living materials."

"We need to deploy a lot of living materials and coal mining tools to Shanxi, otherwise they will be slow to develop."

"The iron of the people needs to be purchased from among our merchants and then sold to the government. It is impossible for the government to have so many people and go to the countryside one by one."

"In the past, the imperial court wanted to take any major measures, but it was difficult to carry out, and many even died in the middle. The biggest reason is the inconvenience of transportation, the difficulty in purchasing various living materials and necessary tools." The value of merchants has been reflected in time, and in the past, merchants were under the status of being too lazy to help the court."

"Even if they are gloating about misfortune, who told you to look down on businessmen so much?"

"Now that the emperor attaches great importance to us, we will fully cooperate with the emperor, so that the emperor's measures can be implemented with half the effort."

"Not bad, not bad!" said the crowd.

"Businessmen are very important. Without them, it would be difficult for the court to do anything."

"Don't say that it is difficult to do things, even food, shelter and transportation are inconvenient."

"We want the emperor and the people all over the world to see this, realize the importance of our merchants to the imperial court, and no longer think that we are just getting something for nothing, and that there are no traitors and no business." Shen Wansan said, "The emperor is making steel this time. , is our great time."

Under Zhu Yuanzhang's vigorous and resolute actions, the whole people's steelmaking and coal mining activities in Daming began.

The business of making a god machine gun is also proceeding in an orderly manner.

In these activities, the cooperation of businessmen also played an indispensable role.

After the first batch of magic machine guns were formed, Zhu Yuanzhang would be equipped in the army immediately.Zhu Yuanzhang was preparing to assemble the first batch of machine guns into Jingwei, and the second and third batches were shipped to Goryeo and Tubo Deng Yu's department respectively.

I believe that it will not be long before Daming's army will undergo a reborn change.

……

The next day, in the imperial study.

Zhu Yuanzhang recruited Liu Bowen and Gao Qi for an audience, for the sake of Southwest Enke's affairs.

"Your Majesty, the students from the southwest have arrived in Yingtian one after another. May I ask when the examination will begin, and the candidates for the main and deputy examinations also need to be determined." Liu Bowen asked.

Because this Enke is a specially added Enke for Southwest students, not a normal Enke, so the time is different from the past.

"We've been so busy lately that we almost forgot about this." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "I didn't think of it just now, so I invited you to discuss it."

"Please show the emperor."

"Have the students' household registrations been identified? It must be in the southwest, and don't let students from other places get in." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"All inspections have been made, and no one pretends to be a household registration." Liu Bowen said.

"Yeah." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. He still believed in this matter. Today, the three southwestern provinces are implementing the gentry as a gentry to work as a clerk, and local students do not have any privileges even if they pass the examination. Unless they are fools, they will pretend to be Southwest household registration.

Few of the students pretended to be the household registration in the southwest, and there were more of the common people, because the life of the common people was better.

Even in other provinces, there have been underground businesses specializing in the reform of household registration in the southwest.

"You, Liu Bowen, will be the chief examiner for Enke this time. After all, you are the most famous among the students, and Gao Qi will be the deputy examiner." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"The minister obeys the order, thank the Lord Longen." The two of them were overjoyed when they heard the words.

Since the founding of the country, Daming has only held two encores, and Liu Bowen and Gao Qi have not had the turn of the chief examination and the deputy chief examination, which made him unhappy.

After all, in the minds of his students, he is a master of Confucianism, and it would be too shameless if he could not even be the chief and deputy chief examination.

Moreover, the chief examination of Daming Enke for the first time was Li Shanchang, which made Liu Bowen and Gao Qi unhappy.Li Shanchang was not admitted to the imperial examinations of the Yuan Dynasty, and both of them were Jinshi of the Yuan Dynasty.

The two of them, who were admitted to the jinshi, were overwhelmed by a man named Luosunshan.

Now that Zhu Yuanzhang has made the two of them the chief examiner, it is the opportunity for them to raise their eyebrows.

In addition, the positions of the main examiner and the deputy examiner are also very important. After students have obtained their titles, they usually go to the two examiners, calling themselves students and teachers.

That is to say, the civil servants selected by this session of Enke will be his disciples in the future, and they will be in the same party as them.

This is a good way to win over civil servants.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang used the two of them as the examiners was for balance.He originally wanted to promote the officials in the southwest, and in the future, it would be better to compete with the Huaixi Party in the imperial court, so as to facilitate the implementation of the spread across the country.

Therefore, the candidates for the examination this time will first exclude Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong.

"Is there a famous student at Southwest Enke this time?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.

"Yes." Liu Bowen said, "Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai'an are both famous students."

(End of this chapter)