Chapter 1192 Postscript Forty-Eight·Famous
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the capital of Hebei Province was Zhending (less than twenty miles away from Shijiazhuang City).
In order to control Youyan and guard against Jin soldiers going south, the capital of Hebei Province was quickly moved to Baoding, and this arrangement continues to this day.
Today's Hebei Province is very large, including the left and right banners of Bahrain, and there is even a special Linhuang General Soldier there.
That area of ​​Tianjin is also under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province.
However, Zhangjiakou, Zhuolu, Huailai, Kangbao, Guyuan, Chicheng, Fengning, and Luanping were cut off and assigned to Yanshan Prefecture in Beijing.
Today, Beijing, Baoding and Linhuang (Bahrain Left Banner) are all important political, economic and military cities in the north.
Another important town is Zunhua.
Only one county in Zunhua was designated as Jingzhou, which belongs to Zhili Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province.
Nothing but iron ore!
Zunhua Iron and Steel Plant, second only to Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant, has direct railways to Beijing and Baoding.
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Xie Yan’s hometown is Duliu Town, Jinghai County, Cangzhou.
Jinghai County was later known as Jinghai District of Tianjin. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was called Jinghai County for the first time, but it was soon abolished as a county-level division.
Why?
Because the Yellow River overflowed, the county seat was gone!
It belonged to the border between Song and Liao, and a number of military forts were set up there. Duliu Town originated from Duliu Dongzhai in the Northern Song Dynasty.
When the Ming Dynasty first regained this area, it was desolate, sparsely populated, and the Yellow River often flooded.
It was not until Ju Ming ordered the regulation of the Yellow River and artificially diverted it to force the Yellow River to flow eastward that Jinghai County gradually recovered.
Xie Yan's ancestors were originally demolished and moved to Duliu North Village, where the living environment was better. As their descendants multiplied, they crossed the old path of the Yellow River and branched off to move to Duliu East Village to reclaim wasteland.
The two Xie clans are both located on the boundary of Jinghai County, Cangzhou.
By the way, the Yellow River project during Ju Ming's reign helped to calm down the floods in the Yellow River for a hundred years. Now problems arise every now and then. In the past twenty years, there have been small-scale breaches from time to time.
There is no way, the sediment has been deposited for a long time, raising the river bed downstream.
People in prefectures and counties that are often affected by disasters all miss Taizu and the Taizong Dynasty. It is even widely spread among the people that there were saints who ruled the world at that time, so the water in the Yellow River was clear, and floods in the Yellow River never happened once.
In the lower reaches of the Yellow River, there are many privately built temples dedicated to Taizu Taizong and the officials who helped control the river at that time.
The local officials turned a blind eye to this because they couldn't control it at all.
As the floods in the Yellow River increased, in order to allow the people to vent their emotions and pray for peace, local officials even acquiesced in holding large-scale sacrificial activities. It seemed that the floods would recede quickly by worshiping Taizu Taizong and the heroes who controlled the river.
Cangzhou Fucheng, outside Gongyuan.
Xie Kan and his friends are looking at the list.
He successfully passed the county examination and was checking the list of government examinations.
The first list of papers was posted. Xie Kan observed it repeatedly but did not find his name.
The second list was posted, but still not there.
Xie Kan didn't bother to read it anymore. The later the post was posted, the higher the exam ranking would be. He couldn't possibly be ranked that high.
Failed, failed the scholar exam for the first time!
Xie Yan's friend Wang Sheng was also looking at the results, and he also failed in the exam.
"I won, I won!" a candidate from the same county shouted.
Although Xie Kan, Wang Sheng and others were frustrated, they could only step forward to congratulate: "Congratulations, Wang Ba Lang!"
Wang Balang was called Wang Pan, and he came from the Wang family of Sanhuaitang. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial family was forcibly demolished and moved here. At the beginning, it was very hard to reclaim the wasteland, and the imperial examination study was completely abandoned. After two or three generations, the imperial examination was resumed.
Someone else shouted: "I got it too, I got it too!"
Xie Kan recognized this person as Zhu Qingfan, a scholar from Sannu Town, Jinghai County.
This surname is related to the surname of the Ming Dynasty.
But he is not from a clan, but a descendant of a foreign race who changed his surname to Zhu.
Zhu Qingfan's ancestors were Xi people. Now there is no Xi tribe, and all Xi people have been assimilated into Han Chinese. They don't even admit that their ancestors are foreigners, and they are looking for ancestors for themselves. Even Zhu Wen was found.
Although Jinghai County has a large territory, it is a small county in terms of population, with only 10 places for scholars in each session.
One of the Xie family also passed the exam, but it was not Xie Yan's branch, but the Xie family on the other side of the old Yellow River. In terms of seniority, he can be regarded as a distant uncle of Xie Yan, so far away that no one in the clan is ranked together.
"Thank you Erlang, let's go have a drink together!"
"I'll forget it."
"This is your first imperial examination. It's normal to fail. Don't be discouraged. Take a walk and have a drink!"
"..."
Xie Kan, Wang Sheng and other candidates who failed the exam were taken to a restaurant by scholars from the same county. The main purpose was to celebrate those who passed the examination and to establish friendship with fellow villagers.
Everyone was talking loudly all the way, but Xie Kan was uncomfortable listening silently.
He thought he would be a scholar, and planned to take the imperial examination with his elder brother. Who would have thought that he failed in the government examination.
There were a lot of scholars gathering for dinner today, and it was only mid-morning. They found several restaurants in a row that were already full. In desperation, they had no choice but to run to Fuguo Street, where people started to leave one after another along the way.
Finally, a restaurant was chosen, and there were only about twenty scholars from Jinghai County left to dine.
Everyone asked the bartender to put the tables together, made an appointment, ordered a table full of food and drinks, and started chatting.
While we were chatting, Cheng Gu, a failed scholar from the same town, asked: "Second brother Xie, why didn't Liulang return to his hometown to take the imperial examination? He took the Mongolian exam with me and went to elementary school for four years. Logically speaking, he should have taken the imperial examination this year. ."
Xie Kan explained: "The sixth brother went to Luoyang and was invited to attend the Royal Academic Conference."
Everyone laughed.
Wang Pan, who was admitted as a scholar this year, said: "Brother, please don't tease me. I've also seen your Liulang. What academic conference is he participating in?"
Xie Kan sighed: "You don't read academic journals, and you don't know the secrets of the academic world. I can't explain it to you."
Xie Yiyong, a distant relative of the family who was admitted as a scholar, said: "Is your sixth brother a child prodigy? More than a hundred years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there was only one child prodigy in the entire Cangzhou Prefecture."
"Believe it or not." Xie Kan didn't bother to explain.
Even if you bring an academic journal and point to the name of the author of the paper, these guys will think they have the same name.
There are more and more people in the restaurant. It is still early for lunch, but it is full again very quickly.
For more than 130 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, prices have been rising as a whole.
However, the prices of some commodities have remained stable, such as grain, with almost no major fluctuations and have only increased by about 40% in more than a hundred years.
This is of course the result of the crazy transportation of grain from overseas. Even if it is not a colony of the Ming Dynasty, there are still many countries selling grain to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, the northern grasslands and Australia are also continuing to sell meat to the Ming Dynasty. It does not matter if the preservation technology is backward, it can be made into cured products, and even urban civilians can often eat cured meat.
The prices of salt and cloth have even dropped compared to the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This is due to the development of productivity and the reduction of transportation costs.
The prices of daily necessities are stable, and the overall income is rising. As a result, almost all scholars who can afford to study can afford to go out to restaurants for dinner. There are also poor scholars who have left long ago and do not come together at all.
The lobby of the restaurant was very lively, and chatting was gradually not limited to chatting at the same table, but also exchanged greetings with each other at neighboring tables.
There was a scholar named Ye Xianzhi who became the center of attention because he got ninth place in the exam, which was the highest in the restaurant.
Ye Xianzhi raised his glass and stood up: "Since you have asked me to talk about the topic of this government trial, I will briefly explain it. The question is about industry and commerce, and the argument is nothing more than the debate between justice and benefit. This is easy to answer. The real answer is
The difficulty is how to compare it with the present. The coastal and riverine provinces in the south are indeed rich, but there are many problems. I have been to Zhejiang, and many wealthy businessmen there are more extravagant than our salt merchants in Cangzhou Prefecture..."
All the scholars listened carefully and nodded in agreement from time to time.
Ye Xianzhi spoke for more than ten minutes, and the entire tavern applauded.
Xie Kan curled his lips. He thought his policy articles were more profound and exciting than what Ye Xianzhi said. Unfortunately, his Four Books, Six Classics and Laws were so poorly tested that he was held back.
After a while, the restaurant became noisy again, and the scholars toasted each other and talked loudly.
A scholar who was sitting in the corner reading a newspaper boredly suddenly stood up and shouted: "Does anyone know Xie Yan from Jinghai County?"
The gentleman at the same table was stunned, not knowing what he was crazy about.
To be continued...