Huang Zhisheng, a Cantonese, actually wants to go to Shandong Province to marry?

Although the Holy Duke Kong Yuqi was young and ignorant, he also knew that there must be something strange in it!

He snorted, looked back at Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi, and asked in a low voice: "You can go to Dengzhou in person, but I, the Holy Duke, can't leave... What should I do?"

Kong Yuqi also has money!

He is the 66th generation of Duke Yan, and all the money exploited by the Qufu Confucian clan for dozens of generations fell into his hands.

Now the Confucian family's two to three hundred thousand acres of land have been allocated to Confucianism by Kangxi, but the Confucian family's money is still buried underground in the Confucius Mansion in Qufu... Originally, this money was foolproof.

"No ruler will inspect the Qufu Confucius Gate."

Even Li Zicheng would not do that!

But now the world has changed. Because Kong Yuqi was granted the title of Holy Duke of Confucianism, the Confucian Mansion in Qufu was forced to get involved in the Confucian Civil War and the Ming and Qing Dynasties...

Once you get involved in a power struggle, it can be dangerous!

Now Kong Yuqi has been expelled from Confucianism by the Confucian sect in Nanjing and deprived of his surname. Once the Ming Dynasty soldiers arrive in Shandong, the Confucius Mansion in Qufu will definitely be confiscated, and then all the savings of dozens of generations of the Confucius family will belong to others.

How could Kong Yuqi be so willing?

And he was not willing to donate this silver to Emperor Kangxi... Qianming was so kind to the Kong family back then. When Emperor Chongzhen was about to die of poverty, the Kong family did not donate a single tael of silver. Now to Kangxi

This lord of Yi and Di who has done so much harm? Why?

So the only way Kong Yuqi could think of was to transfer the money to Dengzhou and deposit it into some kind of Penglai bank account.

But the problem is that Kong Yuqi cannot leave Tongzhou and cannot go to Dengzhou to save money in person!

"Holy Duke, there is a way to humble one's position." Huang Zhisheng had been waiting for Kong Yuqi to raise this question for a long time.

"What method?" Kong Yuqi asked.

"You can open a bank!" Huang Zhisheng said, "Let your most trusted family members and servants manage it... This bank can open a branch in Dengzhou, Qufu, and Tianjin, and the main bank is in Tongzhou.

, specializes in exchange business. In this way, your money can be slowly transferred to Penglai Bank in Dengzhou through your own bank account!"

Kong Yuqi thought for a while and felt that this method was good, but it also had some problems, "But who in my family knows how to open a bank?"

Huang Zhisheng smiled and said: "Shenggong, the people in your family don't know how to do those old Shanxi gangs who are doing business in the outer city of Beijing! You can provide them with capital, the golden signboard of the Confucian family of Shenggong, and the power of Confucianism.

With talented people, won’t this bank be able to open up?”

"High! It's really high!" Kong Yuqi finally smiled, and then looked at Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi, "What do you think?"

Zhou Peigong smiled and said: "This is indeed a good idea... With such a bank, Shenggong is not the only one who is convenient!"

Li Guang nodded and said: "That's right, Holy Duke, you are doing this for your own convenience and for the convenience of others."

"Okay!" Kong Yuqi said, "Then let's do it... Zhi Sheng, you are familiar with those old pits in Shanxi, and I will leave the contact with Shanxi merchants to you."

"I obey my orders."

"Qing Jin," Kong Yuqi said to Li Guangtong again, "could you please go to Dengzhou again to finish the matter of opening a bank branch...and by the way, open a Confucian branch in Dengzhou."

"My subordinates will do it now!"

"Pei Gong," Kong Yuqi said to Zhou Pei Gong again, "the imperial court also needs people to take care of it...Who do you think is the right way to go? How much will it cost?"

Zhou Peigong laughed and said: "Of course I will follow the path of Tuzhongtang, the great scholar of the dynasty! Ten thousand taels of silver is enough for this matter!"

"Okay, then there's Brother Laopei!"

...

When the news that the Ming Dynasty was about to conquer the Central Plains and join forces with Mongolia to destroy the Qing Dynasty spread all over the northern land, causing people to panic. As the helmsman of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Heji, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, was still following the steps.

, leading this ancient Celestial Empire into the future at its own pace.

After all, for him, countering the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty has long been no longer the primary goal. In other words, this goal has been basically achieved. He is now the king of the Ming Dynasty, but due to the promise of "the first to enter Beijing rules the world",

Without ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor...it can be said that the Qing Dynasty rebelled and the Ming Dynasty recovered.

But the future of the Celestial Empire is still shrouded in fog!

It is far better than starting a new history to lead this ancient country, which has gradually begun to lag behind the times, to the right path and save it from sinking two hundred years later and suffering and poverty for more than one hundred years.

Looping is much more difficult!

What Zhu Heji wants to challenge now is this much more difficult goal!

However, Zhu Heji is not a historian or sociologist after all, and he is not very clear about the reasons for the decline of Chinese civilization in modern times...perhaps there is no standard answer to this question at all.

So he can only try to solve problems that he can understand.

In his opinion, the main reason for the great cycle of ancient Chinese history is land annexation!

The prescription to inhibit mergers is of course the equalization of land!

The best time to implement the land equalization system is of course at the beginning of the country, when the authority was at its strongest, the population was at its smallest, and interest groups were just beginning to appear!

So now he would rather postpone the time of unifying the world, but also first solve the most difficult problem of equalizing land in the four provinces of Jiangbei, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang.

However, solving the problem of equalizing land will only delay the arrival of the great cycle, but it will not allow the Ming Dynasty to escape from this great historical cycle. If the Ming Dynasty wants to escape, the only way may be to take the lead in industrialization!

In order to take the lead in realizing industrialization, Zhu Heji's current options are to establish a financial system that can provide funds for industrialization.

The second is to establish an education system that can provide talents for industrialization in batches.

The third is to actively participate in the international zero-dollar movement to seize markets, raw materials, and funds.

Fourth, you have to end up becoming a capitalist yourself or support and train industrial and commercial capitalists yourself...

And these four methods seem to be inseparable from the selection and training of talents.

Therefore, after the results of the imperial examination competition in the second year of the Ming Dynasty came out, Zhu Heji devoted most of his energy to the cultivation and further selection of talents. The number of candidates for this imperial examination competition was unprecedented.

There were a total of 1,998 people on the final announced list of Jinshi - there were 2,000 people on the list of Gongshi. During the final imperial examination, there were two missing, and I don’t know where they went?

And these people are undoubtedly the best among the well-educated intellectuals in the six provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Jiangbei, and Zhejiang.

But it was impossible for Zhu Heji to train so many outstanding people at the same time, so starting from late February after the imperial examination competition, he had been personally in charge of the induction training of these new scholars, and tried to select no more than ten from them.

Focus on cultivating “real geniuses”.

By late August, after several rounds of screening, Zhu Heji finally selected seven talented Jinshi.

They are Yangzhou Huangluzhuang, Hangzhou Dai Zi, Zhangzhou Chen Hao, Leizhou Guo Zhongzhu, Chaozhou Su Zhe, Suzhou Geng Zhong, and Huizhou Wang Wenxuan.

All of these seven people are talented people, and one of them should be Dai Zi, who is historically known for being good at design and production!

However, the smartest among them is indeed not Dai Zi, but Huangluzhuang from Yangzhou. This man is less than twenty years old, but he has learned a lot about Chinese and Western skills, and is especially good at mechanics.

In a newly leveled open space next to the Wenhua Hall in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Yan Yuan, Leibczny, Zhuge Zhengyang, Dai Zi, Chen Hao, Guo Zhongzhu, Su Zhe, Geng Zhong and Wang Wenxuan gathered together

In the hall, surrounded by Zhu Heji, they happily watched Huang Luzhuang, sweating profusely, riding a manual two-wheeled wooden bicycle in circles.

The structure of this two-wheeled bicycle is somewhat similar to that of later bicycles. It has two wheels, one in front and one in the back. There is a seat in the middle for people to sit on. But its driving method is very strange. It is not driven by feet, but by hand.

Shake a pair of cranks to drive the wheel.
Chapter completed!