"Sir, you have kindness from the countryside. This end can bear it, you can bear it!" The old man was very excited.

Bai Minghe walked closer, and the old man had been helped up by his son. The old man took two steps back: "I dare not disturb the adults, the old man will take his leave!" After that, he hurriedly stepped back.

Someone kowtowed to Baiminghe, which was about 500 meters away from the nearest one.

Bai Minghe was a little nervous and sweat was oozing from his forehead.

"Let's go. Go back!" Bai Minghe knew that he could not stay here anymore. Bai Minghe was still a modern person in his heart. Kneeling etiquette was a ritual of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not a very normal etiquette.

Bai Minghe turned over the horse, and he could only think about some things in his heart, but he didn't dare to say them. Even if he was close to him, he once read a book in later generations. The so-called "There is no China after Yashan". The origin of the kneeling ceremony is the most important aspect. It can be said that the kneeling ceremony turned into a meeting ceremony was a disaster for the Yuan Dynasty.

Before this, the heaven, earth, king, parents and teachers just knelt down to the second place, that is, the earth!

Even when you see the emperor, you may not always use kneeling etiquette.

This change takes time and great efforts, and it can even be said to have to fight for life.

"It is rumored that Bai Minghe doesn't like to be treated with a kneeling ceremony. It seems that this rumor is true. Although it is far away, you can still see that Bai Minghe's face was very bad just now." Zhang Feng seemed to be talking to himself, but there were indeed many people who heard this. The reason is why, no one speculated.

After all, Bai Minghe is only twenty years old now.

"Sir, Lord Bai has a very high reputation among the people. Almost every family in Shangyuan County has a tablet of Lord Bai's immortality. At the end of the year, the county government hosted a banquet for the elderly in the county. All the elderly said that each household would be diligent this year, and at least ten taels of silver would increase their income. There were four looms in the family of craftsmen. At the end of the year, the actual cash register was more than two hundred taels, and after paying for the repair of the machine, there was also a surplus of one hundred taels." The county magistrate of Shangyuan County said on the side.

"It's a good act of the people!" Zhang Feng responded.

"Not only that, there are fish, pork, rice, and some cabbage stored in winter on the market. The coconut oil that no one dared to ask about was not available. The first-class quality can't be bought, but every household can afford it and can buy it. So the people set up the tablet of immortality for Lord Bai."

The county magistrate of Shangyuan County is the seventh rank, and the white name is the twenty-year-old. He has only reached the sixth rank official.

This is not much.

In his heart, the county magistrate of Shangyuan County did not dare to be Bai Minghe, who was a small official from the sixth rank. In his mind, he was at least a senior official like the ministers of the six ministries. Therefore, Bai Minghe appeared as the county magistrate of Shangyuan County, and did not dare to come forward without hello.

A few days later, the official's examination began.

The white-known crane did not appear because he believed that it would be lucky to be able to pick out a hundred of the more than 10,000 people.

There was no pavilion room, no officers and soldiers locked the door, so the location was chosen in a newly built workshop by a merchant and had not yet been put into use. Thousands of long tables originally used as garment tables were placed. The large water tank contained ink, and each table was filled with an ink bucket. Then there was ten people in a table. If you wanted to copy whatever you wanted, copy it casually, and no one would care about it.

In addition to scholars and juren, there are also some craftsmen who come to the exam. They think they can pass the exam to the officials of a certain department, especially after seeing the published exam content. In addition, they are excellent in any exam, and they may become officials.

Everyone was waiting in front of the gate and hung up two pairs of words.

One of them says: "There is no use for scholars, and the other says: After everyone knows how to read, scholars are like beggars."

The two pairs are not symmetrical. The characters are very beautiful.

Gao Gu and Nanjing Minister of Rites Zhang Feng came out.

"Dear students, my former cabinet assistant Gao Gu. This is Mr. Zhang, the Minister of Rites of Nanjing. These two characters were written by me. After I discussed with Bai Minghe a few days ago, the two words of Bai Minghe left me speechless. I only say a few words here. If everyone in the Ming Dynasty really knows how to read, what can scholars do? What can Juren do? I can't answer it."

Is it angry or helpless?

Gao Gu had no intention of caring about these inferior scholars and juren. In Gao Gu's eyes, these people were not talented. Of course, there were also Tong Sheng, who was 70 years old and who had just won the scholar at the age of 80, so these people were not the worst. But they were still not talented.

There are people watching here. The people are not watching the fun, they are here to care about the changes.

Gao Gu said again: "I was very confident, but Bai Minghe was even more confident. He dared to release the test questions in advance. In terms of human words, it would be useless to release the test questions in advance. Real gold is real gold. If you have the hat of a scholar, you think you are a talent. It is so simple and ridiculous."

Someone jumped out immediately, but before he could refute, Gao Gu made all the candidates here lower their heads with one sentence.

"I am not confident now. More than 20,000 people have registered, and only less than 7,000 people have taken the exam today. The rest of the people have sent people to ask. They thought they failed the exam, so they gave up and did not want to hand in the blank paper. I am already seventy years old, but I still hope to live until the Ming Dynasty, everyone can read. I want to see if everyone can read, will the scholars still have a way out!"

Takaya shouted excitedly.

When the cool breeze blew, Gao Gu who had just shouted was constantly coughing.

Zhang Feng quickly sent someone to invite Gao Gu to the inner room, and then stood in front and said, "Whether the scholar is useful or not, it is not up to Bai Minghe. But I also believe that scholars who only know the Four Books and Five Classics are indeed not enough. The Four Books and Five Classics are the fundamentals, but beyond the fundamentals, among the six arts of a gentleman, only books are not enough. Just start the exam!"

Are the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty really only know the Four Books and Five Classics?

The answer is no, take Zhang Feng as an example. He is proficient in history books, rituals, and also knows Watanabe and Goryeo. In addition to these, he also knows some simple architecture, as well as ordinary astronomy and geography.

The Bai Minghe scolded not the Confucian scholar, but the scholar who only knows how to recite books to death.

This does not touch the limits of these Confucian scholars. There are many talents who are proficient in other disciplines besides the scriptures. For example, Xiao Yu Huang from the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing, who is a master of mathematics who is of great numbers in the Ming Dynasty. Yu Qian, the Minister of War in the Capital, studied military books far more than many generals in the Ming Dynasty.

Enroll the official and win the official position.

After the exam began, people from the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel came.

"Master Zuo!" Zhang Feng took the initiative to greet him when he saw the Minister of Personnel in Nanjing.

The Minister of Personnel replied: "Don't blame him for coming here uninvited. If he doesn't move now, he is afraid that he will not be qualified to move in the future. The Ministry of Revenue has been closed these days, and the lights are brightly lit every day. I heard that Lord Xiao is taking the Ministry of Revenue to sort out the rules on the docks. It can be said that every word is so gem!"

"There must be rules in everything, and the same is true for the Ministry of Rites. I know the rules of the Ministry of Revenue. This is called foreign trade customs duty. Different commodities have different taxes, and some rules are very strict. I asked Bai Minghe and said that everything is to not affect the people of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Feng gave a brief explanation to Lord Zuo of the Ministry of Personnel.

"For example, snow salt, the current output is low, and it would be good if the people of the Ming Dynasty could get one or two taels. If you take out a lot, the snow salt here in the Ming Dynasty would naturally be more expensive. There are some things that are prohibited from shipping overseas, but the finished products are available. For overseas things, the raw materials can be bought back, but the finished products are expensive."

Lord Zuo also said, "It's this reason. I heard that Goryeo cotton is 70% taxable. To put it bluntly, it's just this kind of thing. He didn't want to buy it from outside, so he left it to the weaver in the Ming Dynasty to make the business done. A few days ago, he saw a ship of porcelain bottles entering the dock and asked, this was a special cargo. It was too waste of labor to burn such low-end bottles in the Ming kiln, so he outsourced it to the Li family's Goryeo, and I agreed."

Zhang Feng did not continue to talk about this topic.

"Sir Zuo, where are you here this time?"

"I'll just say it, I'm looking for some work for myself. The Nanjing Ministry of Personnel originally only cared about the assessment of various officials in Nanjing, but I asked about it. There will be some officials and some officials overseas. So, my Nanjing Ministry of Personnel should start to take charge of these people. This is not about occupying power, but also about letting the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel not be idle."

Zhang Feng thought about it and nodded: "Mr. Zuo is right. I calculated it. There are probably hundreds of officials sent out. There must be a charter and an assessment."

"Please invite Lao Dai Gao to introduce Baiminghe, which is my purpose!"

"In fact, there is no need to be such a trouble. The Minister of Works brought several operators from the Ministry of Works to come to the door by himself. I heard that Bai Minghe had made an appointment with them to meet on the treasure ship a few days later. There were countless jobs in the Ministry of Works in Nanjing. There were countless jobs in the Ministry of Works in construction, shipbuilding, embankment, etc. There were also those jobs of wood, iron, and gunpowder. The Ministry of Works would only be busier, so the Ministry of Works came to the door directly."

The six ministries of Nanjing, officials, households, workers, soldiers, rituals, and punishments.

"What about the Ministry of Justice?"

"I heard that Bai Minghe has made three new things, one called "Ming Dynasty Business Rules" and the other called "Ming Dynasty People's Management Regulations on Overseas Management". The Ministry of Justice is probably more busy with the matter secretly closed the door than the Ministry of Revenue. It is much harder to set such rules than collect taxes. The last one is this!" Zhang Feng gave a small coin to Lord Zuo.

Lord Zuo flipped over and over and looked.

The size of this nail is a dragon pattern on one side and a character in the middle of the sun and the moon.

"This is?"

"It's silver coins. I heard that the white-named crane planned to set a rule to prohibit non-currency gold and silver from circulating in the market. This is a silver coin of one qian, the largest is one liang. No matter how big it is, a silver ingot of five liang and ten liang, the bigger one is a silver note. I heard that merchants have jointly agreed that the silver chunks are indistinguishable in quality and need to be weighed, and they are uniformly supported by this merchant."

After hearing what Zhang Feng said, Lord Zuo asked again: "What about the people? Does this change have no impact on the people?"
Chapter completed!