Because he had to send Qiu Jun, an eighty-six or seven-year-old veteran, back to his hometown, Wang Shouwen was allowed to walk slowly on the road this time.

The journey from the capital to Qiongzhou is nearly three thousand miles, and the water and land routes have to be changed repeatedly along the way. If they hadn't had officials there, and they could have post envoys to help along the way, this journey would have been really difficult.

In fact, in a situation like Qiu Jun's, the imperial court was originally going to send a reliable Hanlin officer to escort him back south, but now he was able to "do two things with one article."

Qiu Jun had countless books in his home, but he couldn't carry them back with him on such a long journey. He asked Zhu Youtang for a favor, and turned his royal residence into a "library" open to the public, so that he could use the books he already had. The eldest son, who is on an official mission, has a place to stay, and secondly, it also prevents his beloved books from being ignored, which ultimately saves the money.

In response to Qiu Jun's small request, Zhu Youtang was so self-reliant that he even inscribed "Qiu's Library" with five big characters and ordered someone to make a plaque and hang it up, and asked Qiu Jun to remain in Zhongshu. The eldest son, who was doing odd jobs in Shiren's position, became the first librarian.

Qiu Jun's grandsons are all going back to Guangdong to take the provincial examinations, and they are also going back to their hometowns this time.

His second son was an older student who was still studying hard in the Imperial College. The brothers felt that they could not just let their grandson accompany Qiu Jun back to Qiongzhou, so they also made an excuse to go back with him to study together.

As for whether to take the exam directly in Guangdong with my son, nephew and others, or to rush back to the Imperial College to fight for a spot in the Beijing Imperial College, I have to wait and think carefully about it later.

After all, there are more places in the Imperial College in Beijing, and the provincial examination in Guangdong is less difficult, so I really couldn’t make up my mind about where it would be easier to take the examination.

What's even more depressing is that if he asks Qiu Jun, his father, this kind of question, he will at least get scolded!

He could already imagine what Qiu Jun would say: "As long as you are knowledgeable, it won't be the same wherever you take the exam?!"

Guys like Qiu Jun won’t understand the worries of ordinary candidates!

Since there is no need to bring the books back to Qiongzhou, the luggage on the road will be much lighter.

Qiu Jun never likes to add things, and some old things can be left to the eldest son for further use, which saves a lot of trouble on the road.

Qiu Jun couldn't help but feel some sincere joy in his heart as he listened to his family members busy packing their things. Du Fu wrote that his mood when he returned home was "overflowing with poems and books, filled with joy and ecstasy", which he had experienced to some extent these days.

No matter how far the journey is, it can always be completed, and he can be considered alive to go back and see his hometown. His son has grown up and he has a salary, so he doesn't plan to leave any amount of money to his eldest son, so he will take it back with him. When he goes to Qiongzhou, he has already been a senior citizen, so he has to do something for his hometown.

Building bridges, roads, and schools for their hometown sounds tacky, but it is a major event in the hearts of their generation.

After thinking about it like this, Qiu Jun's heart flew back to the distant Qiongzhou, and he calculated every day how he could use the salary and rewards he had saved over the years.

You can't just spend it all blindly. You have to go back and see what your hometown really needs. This will save the people in the village and only enrich the pockets of some people with evil intentions!

Qiu Jun thought about it every day, and his energy became better and better.

Wang Shouwen would go to Qiu's house every day to care about Qiu Jun's situation.

Even though he had decided to send Qiu Jun back home, he was still worried that Qiu Jun wouldn't be able to endure the two or three thousand miles.

Not to mention this era, even in later generations, very few people would take an elderly person in their 80s to travel far away. No matter how convenient the transportation is, it is very painful for them to travel long distances!

Seeing that Qiu Jun looked completely different after he knew he was going home, Wang Shouwen finally relaxed and started attending farewell banquets one after another.

Originally, he didn't want to hold so many events, but everyone who invited him said they would hire a good chef or make special dishes. How could he refuse?

As Bachelor Wang, who has friends all over the world, he has been saying goodbye to people every day these days, so he is really busy.

Since he wanted to achieve something in the local area, Wang Shouwen also specifically asked many seniors in the Six Ministries with foreign experience for advice on how to handle local government affairs.

The Ming Dynasty was actually in a state of separation of powers at the local level. The Chief Envoys' Department, the Inspector's Envoys' Department and the Capital Commander's Envoys' Department were in charge of local politics, justice and military affairs. At the same time, there were also guarding eunuchs who were stationed in the local area to serve the emperor and the imperial court from time to time. The inspector who was sent down was the censor, so if he wanted to achieve some results as a local official, he had to fiddle with many factors.

The Inspector-General is in charge of the judiciary. In addition, local sea lanes, grain lanes, education and other affairs are also under their charge.

The top leader of this organization is naturally the third-grade chief inspector, and there will be several deputies under him responsible for managing affairs in different directions. For example, the chief inspector Wang Shouwen obtained is to serve as a subordinate to the chief inspector, and is mainly responsible for providing education.

It's not like he didn't think about managing sea roads, but it's a pity that he was a Hanlin official, so he didn't seem to be professional at all. It would be safer to seek a position in charge of culture and education!

Officials like Guangdong Qianshi were on the bench, and it was common in the past to arrange officials of the sixth rank. It was too easy for Wang Shouwen, a bachelor of the fifth rank, to go.

After asking for advice, Wang Shouwen felt confident.

Coincidentally, his immediate boss Yang Jin and the head of Guangdong Chief Secretary Liu Meng were both newly appointed, so they only arrived in Guangdong a little earlier than him. They are all newcomers, and no one knows Guangdong better than the other. Regarding the specific situation, I'm afraid there will be a lot of things waiting to be sorted out when I get busy with various matters.

These two bosses, one from the Ministry of Justice and the other from the Department of Science and Technology, were not usually social and social friends. They had been working outside in recent years, and Wang Shouwen was not very familiar with them.

In fact, there are not so many opportunities to get ahead in the officialdom. Many people work quietly in their posts. Active members like Li Dongyang and others are only a minority.

Wang Shouwen was not too worried that he would not be able to do his studies and work when he got there, so the young couple simply packed their bags and prepared to go south.

In order to prevent Qiu Jun and other old and weak women and children from falling ill on the road, Wang Shouwen also went to the Imperial Hospital to gather a few familiar imperial doctors to take him away. For this purpose, he also specially set up a research project on the medicinal value of Lingnan herbs, saying that he wanted to have a deeper understanding of it. Which medicinal herbs in the Lingnan mountains are worthy of development and utilization? Let’s read the "Lingnan Materia Medica" which has more local characteristics compared to the "Da Ming Materia Medica".

Of course, even if he didn't specifically set up a project, the court would still send an imperial doctor to accompany him. After all, Qiu Jun had been in the cabinet. How could a benevolent monarch like Zhu Youtang not consider his health problems.

Since all the imperial doctors have gone to Lingnan, it would not be a bad idea to continue working under Wang Shouwen in compiling "Lingnan Materia Medica".

Wang Shouwen's ability in editing books is second to none, so they can just wait and buy the books!

However, the establishment of the "Lingnan Materia Medica" project has taken off, and things are serious.

Wang Shenci, Wang Shenci, Yan Song, these fresh Hanlin editors, what if you don’t want Hanlin review?

What if you don’t want the Shujishi who was just elected this year?

In the previous batches of Shujishi, you brought those who studied and worked together, but you didn’t bring this year’s Shujishi with you?

When did I become the resident mentor of Shujishi!

It’s still the kind that doesn’t include salary and overtime hours cannot be included in the resume!

It's not that Xie Qian and others want to dump the shujishi to Wang Shouwen. It's actually that the Hanlin Academy is too idle. These shujishi are the best among the new scholars. Their future official career will definitely be smoother than others, if they don't train well. How to take the lead!

In fact, no one had this idea before, but after Wang Shouwen persisted in their brainwashing work, everyone gradually agreed with this idea: they have already completed the promotion process, why not train the young people behind them. people!

Wang Shouwen was very happy when someone went to Guangdong to play with him, and he successively set up several book repair projects for Yan Song and others to sign up on their own. If there was something wrong at home or they were not healthy enough, he would also carefully carry out work to persuade them to leave, so that they could take good care of their health first. Good guys, I will take part in this type of group training again if I have the opportunity in the future.

After all this trouble, the official ship was full on the day Wang Shouwen set out, and the dock was also full.

On the boat were a team of handymen sent by the Hanlin Academy and the Sixth Ministry to participate in on-the-job training, and on the shore were relatives and friends who came to see them off.

This situation made everyone in the capital know that their Wang Xiaozhuangyuan (Xiaoshi Wang) was going to Guangdong to take up his post today, and they all called their friends to say goodbye and watch the fun.

Fortunately, the people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division had already anticipated this and had dispatched all available manpower to maintain order. Otherwise, trouble might have occurred!

Yan Song was also on the accompanying list. They Jiangxi people placed the most emphasis on the imperial examination, and almost all young people had the goal of becoming an official through the imperial examination.

It's just that after joining the officialdom, they are not particularly clear in their minds about how to achieve "cultivation of one's morality and integrity of the family" followed by "ruling the country and bringing peace to the world".

Now looking at the grand scene on and off the boat, Yan Song felt hot in his chest, hoping to show off his talents in the future.

Even if he is not a "little prodigy" that the people of the capital have watched grow up, as long as he can make some achievements, he may not be able to have such deep popularity. When the coffin is finalized in the future, his name will definitely occupy the place in the history. A place for yourself!

This time, in addition to the lower-ranking Hanlin officials and Liubu officials, there were also a group of students from the Capital University who were accompanying them this time. They were all at the stage where they had already mastered the basic theories and needed to go out and broaden their horizons.

This time, we can just go out on Wang Shouwen's boat and come back on Yan Song's boat.

Students from particularly difficult families can also follow the procedures to apply for publicly funded study tours. Beijing Normal University has special funds for them to go out and learn about people's livelihood and conditions.

It's just that there are still relatively few study tours that are organized and disciplined (even with research projects). Just to select the accompanying students, many additional exams have to be taken urgently!

Among the university students from the capital selected this time was Yan Song's brother-in-law Ouyang Bijin.

Ouyang Bijin was also from Jiangxi. His family did not agree with his choice to take the imperial examination. They believed that young people would have no future if they did not take the imperial examination. Didn't you see that those who encourage their children to take the imperial examination have several children and grandchildren of the same age?

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They are casting a wide net, why are you, a good young man from a province with great imperial examinations, running to join in the fun!

Ouyang Bijin couldn't listen at all, so he went straight to the capital to join his brother-in-law Yan Song with the money he had saved over the years, and he was admitted to the capital university to study physics and chemistry.

What could be more fascinating than studying the principles of all things and the source of change?

Since Ouyang Bijin entered the Capital University, he has been forgetting sleep and food when studying. He has already become one of the first people to master "Basic Physics" and "Basic Chemistry".

I heard that I could travel with Wang Shouwen, the founder of Wangpai Guanxue, and Ouyang Bijin was the first to sign up. It happened that his brother-in-law Yan Song was also going, so he had someone to look after him on the way, so his sister wouldn't be too worried.

At this moment, Ouyang Bijin was standing next to Yan Song and watching the lively farewell scene on the pier.

Since their physics teacher, Li Yao, was a fanatical advocate of the Wang School of Guanxue, Ouyang Bijin and the others were drilled to death by Li Yao every day. Besides listening to Li Yao bragging about Wang Shouwen's various deeds, Ouyang Bijin and the others often heard Li Yao brag about Wang Shouwen's deeds.

Now seeing the terrifying scene in the capital when Wang Shouwen was about to take office, Ouyang Bijin truly realized that what their teacher said was true!

Thinking of the big news that Wang Shouwen had created in the northwest and south of the Yangtze River, Ouyang Bijin discussed with his brother-in-law Yan Song: "I don't know what Bachelor Wang will do when he comes to Guangzhou this time."

No matter what official position Wang Shouwen holds, the titles of the Hanlin Academy will follow. For example, Xie Qian and others have already entered the cabinet, and everyone will probably call them "Xie Bachelor" and "Xiya Bachelor" because they are serious people.

The titles are "Grand Bachelor of XX Pavilion" and "Grand Bachelor of XX Hall".
Chapter completed!