Chapter 1044 "Suzhou Interview Record"

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Nanzhili, Suzhou Prefecture, Shen family.

A few days ago, Zhang Zhun, accompanied by Shen Lingfei, visited Suzhou Prefecture.

Now Suzhou Prefecture has been completely under the control of the Hu Ben Army, and officials from all over the country have been re-exchanged. Although it cannot be said that the people can be elected by auditions and the best talents are selected, small-scale elections have been implemented. The elected officials have a good reputation among the people.

In fact, Zhang Zhun's arrival in inspection was just a formality. Zhang Zhun was completely sure that everything he saw now was prepared in advance. It was what the people below were willing to see for him. What they didn't want to see for him were already hidden.

If he really wants to know the real situation, he can only visit privately or send someone to visit privately. For example, the pair of Hong Niangzi and Liu Rushi have good skills in visit privately. The reports they sent are the most real.

Zhang Zhun can only acquiesce to local officials. He doesn’t have to acquiesce. There is a set of rules in the officialdom. Even Zhang Zhun cannot easily break this set of rules. Moreover, it is not beneficial to break them completely. If the rules are all broken, society will be in chaos. In fact, even the best officials will definitely prepare in advance when we welcome the inspection of superiors, and there is no exception.

After spending a day, Zhang Zhun made a walk around many areas of Suzhou. His focus was on inspecting the handicraft industry in Suzhou Prefecture, inspecting the largest handicraft workshops in the local area, and several large plantations. The handicraft industry in Suzhou Prefecture is quite developed, second only to Songjiang Prefecture. The largest handicraft workshop has hundreds of workers.

However, the most prominent thing in Suzhou Prefecture is not the handicrafts, but the plantation. These plantations have a considerable area, easily exceeding 5,000 acres of land. In the plantations, there are all kinds of vegetables, fruits and other varieties. There are a large number of cash crops harvested all year round. Basically, there are already the prototype of modern intensive agriculture.

Near Taihu Lake, some people have even invented the primitive mulberry fish pond planting methods. However, they are still in the stage of exploration and have not formed a systematic supporting facilities. It is inevitable that Zhang Zhun personally gave instructions to help planters form a complete mulberry fish pond planting. As a result, his guidance shocked the planters.

When the Hu Ben Army pacified Jiangnan, there was not much war, and it was mainly resolved by peaceful means. This led to the senior figures in the Jiangnan region not very well aware of Zhang Zhun's skills. They were more willing to believe that Zhang Zhun came up with luck. The so-called creation of heroes in the times is also true. To be honest, they would not be particularly convinced by such a person.

However, during Zhang Zhun's inspection, the planting facilities of the mulberry fish pond left a deep impression on the senior figures in Jiangnan. They had to believe that the general of the Hu Ben Army did have real materials. In addition to fighting and playing with women, he also knew agricultural production and mastered the technology they envied.

"These people..."

Zhang Zhun quietly despised him in his heart.

He knew that these senior figures in Jiangnan were obedient to him on the surface and looked down on the inside. It was as if they had never looked down on Zheng Zhilong. If he didn't show any real skills, he would really not be able to conquer these people. For this reason, Zhang Zhun also did considerable homework before coming to Suzhou Prefecture.

As a result, his homework was indeed quite solid. In addition to the mulberry fish pond, there were many other homework, such as cotton planting technology, sugarcane planting technology, tomato planting technology, hydrolooms, etc., which attracted the attention of those who were interested. Driven by interests, merchants in Jiangnan tried their best to get advanced technology from Zhang Zhun. As a result, every day, the doorstep of the Shen family in Suzhou was full of people, which was breathtaking.

Zhang Zhun seized this opportunity and simply set up a visiting team in the Shen family to specifically solve relevant technical problems. As long as people in need are required, they can ask Zhang Zhu in person after verifying their identity. Zhang Zhun will try their best to answer them. However, it is limited to purely technical questions and non-technical questions, so don’t ask them.

Sensitive people subconsciously felt that this was their last opportunity to communicate with Zhang Zhun face to face. Once Zhang Zhun ascended the throne and was influenced by various rules and regulations, he would never be able to have face to face with ordinary people in this way. The emperor's identity is still quite troublesome. Therefore, if you have any questions, you must hurry up and ask. This is real, and there will be no such store after passing this village.

As a result, many handicraft shop owners, plantation owners, or ordinary businessmen, wealthy families, and people with status in Jiangnan rushed to Suzhou as long as they felt that there were technical problems. Some people even heard the news in Guangzhou Prefecture and rushed there. For a time, Suzhou was quite crowded, with endless situations, which was really unprecedentedly lively.

Because there are quite a lot of guests who need to be received, the questions answered are all kinds of strange. Zhang Zhun has to spend a lot of brains every day to make reference answers. Although his answers cannot be said to be very perfect and immediate, they at least play a role in opening up their thinking. The technical level of Jiangnan industry and agriculture has thus achieved great improvement.

For some questions that cannot be answered on the spot, Zhang Zhun also left a written contact information and made a written reply after thinking about the answer. His actions made the upper class members in Jiangnan feel very satisfied. At the same time, many new technologies have been promoted and many new things have emerged one after another.

The technology of refining refined salt was also disclosed by Zhang Zhun. The purpose of doing this is to crack down on private salt dealers and let the people get real cheap and good salt. Many basic technologies in ironmaking, steelmaking, shipbuilding, carriages, cement, etc. have also been disclosed. The purpose of doing this is naturally to allow private capital to participate in competition and maximize output. It seems that the more output the things like cement and steel, the better.

There are smart merchants in Jiangnan who compiled relevant questions and Zhang Zhun's answers together, printed them into books, and then published them, which was popular with many people. The name of this book is "Suzhou Interview". Almost everyone in Jiangnan's handicraftsmanship owners and planters have one book, working hard to study, communicate with each other, and making progress together.

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"You're back."

On this day, night gradually came, and Zhang Zhun returned to his stay, Shen’s home, and Chen Lingfei came up to greet him slowly.

Chen Lingfei's child is already born, and she is a good little boy. Now, the children are all supported by Yang Yinghan. As a mother, she will only go back to see her when she misses her children. She usually has to be busy with business.

Zhang Zhun's management of children is also semi-army. Whether boys or girls are one year old, they are all gathered together and managed by specialized personnel. The mother of the child can go to see them at any time, but they cannot be taken away in normal times. Only during festivals can they be brought back to her. Now, there are already ten children in this future royal "kindergarten". There are still sixteen who are not old and cannot enter the kindergarten.

With more children in the Royal Kindergarten, Ziyuan became lively. Anyway, the children were young, so Zhang Zhun didn’t want them to read and write, just to play casually. As a result, they were naturally crazy. Ziyuan had children crying and laughing every day, and they were happy.

It is said that Suzhou gardens are the best in the world. Although Suzhou at that time was not as good as the gardens of later generations, it had already had the prototype of gardens. It seemed that after the Shen family's Liuyuan was slightly expanded, it was a good garden in the south of the Yangtze River. Rockery, flowing water, pavilions and towers surrounded an exquisite lake. In the lake, the pleasure boats floated in it, exuding the taste of the Jiangnan water town.

The supper was ready. Today's supper was arranged on the pleasure boat. The pleasure boat had just been in the water and had a little smell of tung oil. The pleasure boat floated on the lake, and the breeze came, which was indeed a different flavor. The only ones who accompanied Zhang Zhun to have dinner were Chen Lingfei, Sun Weina, Yun Yi and Yun Shang.

Sun Weina came to Suzhou two days ago. As for the reason for the arrival, only a few people present knew it. Because there was a ghost in his heart, Sun Weina never dared to look at Zhang Zhun. Instead, Zhang Zhun looked at her intentionally or unintentionally, looking like a big bad wolf without any concealment.

Zhang Zhun is really open to women now. He knows very well that it is impossible to find true love when he is now. Everything is based on interests. In the face of interests, love is a flower that is arbitrarily destroyed. If you pursue such things, it is to waste the foundation and lose the sesame seeds and watermelons, which is not worth the loss. Of course, Zhang Zhun doesn't want to be such a fool.

Did Emperor Minghuang and Yang Guifei have love? The answer is yes. Yes! However, this love is based on no fundamental conflict of interest. Once there is a fundamental conflict of interest, love will be sacrificed. In fact, there is nothing worthy of tragedy in Maweipo. This is a result that was destined early in the morning.

Sun Weina finally chose herself. In fact, in the final analysis, it was the need of interest groups. Zhang Zhun estimated that Gao Hongtu should have done a lot of work for her behind the scenes. Zhang Zhun was surrounded by interest groups such as Ji Yuqing, Xu Qingluan, Chen Lingfei, and Liu Xianqian. Of course, Gao Hongtu had to put Sun Weina in and achieve a basic balance.

Zhang Zhun was very calm about Sun Weina's arrival. As long as there was no fundamental conflict of interest, as long as she was not forced, he accepted it openly. It would be too stupid to not eat the fat meat delivered to his mouth. This fat meat was not stolen by himself.

Zhang Zhun deliberately looked at Sun Weina's pretty face and said intentionally or unintentionally: "Boss Sun, you regret it now, it's still time. I'm a good person."

Sun Weina blushed and dared not speak. Her beautiful cheeks were as red as the big red apples in autumn. Such a shy attitude was really rare for her former female salt owl leader. There was no way. She is no longer an outsider's relationship with Zhang Zhun, and she can no longer play with Zhang Zhun in front of outsiders.

Her current identity is Zhang Zhun's concubine. She was Yang Yinghan presided over the ceremony and passed by seriously. This time she came to Suzhou and was able to fulfill her family. No matter how tough she is, she is still a shy girl, right?

Chen Lingfei quietly knocked on Zhang Zhun and said coquettishly: "Why are you calling someone else Boss Sun? Really."

Zhang Zhun smiled and said, "Okay, that's Nana."

Sun Weina's face turned redder.

Chen Lingfei reached out and pushed Sun Weina, and said with a smile: "Okay, Sister Nana, there are no outsiders here, why are you so shy? If you don't want to, you should have refused when Sister Yinghan gave you a letter of employment. Now, you are not allowed to regret it."

Sun Weina still seemed a little embarrassed, shyly lowered her head and did not dare to speak. Usually, she often made fun of others. Every time a sister was eaten by Zhang Zhun, she would tease her. However, now it was her turn, and she was a little nervous. Thinking of being like Zhang Zhun, she couldn't help but feel a little worried about gaining or losing, worried that she would not get Zhang Zhun's love.

In fact, she is also a pretty girl. She originally had a beautiful outline that was born from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Her eyebrows were faintly browsing on the spring mountains, her eyes were condensed in autumn water, revealing her noble and dignified temperament, just like a goddess from the sky descending to the earth, turning the dark forest into a beautiful place for the spiritual rain in the empty mountains. However, in the past, she often appeared in a black leather jacket to cover up the innocent side. In Zhang Zhun's impression, she was very wild and charming.

Today, she rarely gave up the black leather jacket and showed her innocent side. Her handsome black hair with her shoulders made her bright eyes with clear wisdom even more irresistible. Her white teeth are like two lines of white and broken jade that make people excited. It is a kind of true and simple nature, like a lotus in clear water, which is surprising that her natural beauty can reach this state.

Although she is a little older and over thirty years old, she is naturally beautiful and has good care of herself, so she still looks as young as twenty. Compared with other women, in addition to her previous simplicity and elegance, she adds a mature and charming charm. However, she seems to have no confidence in herself.

After dinner, Yun Shang and Yun Yi accompanied Sun Weina back to the room, and Chen Lingfei ordered the servants to prepare some necessary things. Sun Weina's face was flushed and sweating profusely. It could be seen that she was experiencing a battle between heaven and man. Soon after, Chen Lingfei followed Zhang Zhun in.
Chapter completed!