Chapter 461 The Zoo is Opening Hotly

Author: sole red

Chapter 461 The Zoo is Opening Hotly

In late March, Li Zhao had to return to Shanxi to supervise the government's organization of spring plowing.

Song Qingyue laughed at him: "Tell me about you, you are such a bunch of trash who were selected in the imperial examination. You, the eldest prince, even need to personally supervise things like persuading farmers. The Ministry of Rites is trash, and the Ministry of Personnel is also trash."

Li Zhao could not refute and could only shake his head.

In the past, officials only read the Four Books and Five Classics and did not understand farming or people's livelihood economics. As long as they did not plunder the people, they were considered good officials. The result was a group of mediocre people who did nothing.

Yue'er is right, the imperial examination must be changed, and the rules and standards for official evaluation within the Ministry of Civil Service must also be changed.

So when Li Zhao went to Shanxi this time, he brought with him all the agricultural doctors from the Academy of Science who were responsible for sorting out scientific books. In addition, officials from the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites also had to go with him.

Mr. Wu Ge, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, heard that the eldest prince was going to Shanxi to bring with him a minister, a lieutenant, two ministers and two ministers from the Ministry of Personnel. He immediately felt that this matter was not simple.

I couldn't think of a reason, so I went to the printing factory to ask Brother Song what he thought about this matter.

Song Jianming looked at Wu Shangshu's gray beard and suddenly said: "I think you should go home and rest like me as soon as possible. Maybe your majesty can give you a good position to support you in your old age and leave some money."

Decent.”

Wu Shangshu became anxious when he heard this: "Your Majesty and Your Highness, are you... thinking that I am old and are you anxious to train a replacement?!"

Song Jianming said: "Why don't you tell His Highness that you want to follow? You can pay for all the food, accommodation, transportation and horse expenses yourself."

"It makes sense! Brother, you have more ideas!"

Just as Wu Shangshu was about to leave, Song Jianming called him back: "Your Majesty and His Highness Prince Jin don't think you are old, they think you are lazy."

"I...since Your Majesty became the crown prince, I have been diligent in my work these past four years and have not dared to slack off at all!" Mr. Wu felt that he had suffered a great injustice.

Song Jianming suggested: "Mr. Wu, you are serious about your work, but you don't want to change."

"How to change? What should we change?!" Wu Rukang was unconvinced.

"Your Highness went to Shanxi last year and found so many dereliction of duty and corruption. Apart from the Supervisory Office, doesn't your staff have no responsibility? Who sent them to that position, and who was responsible for their evaluation?

? He is obviously a derelict and corrupt official, but it was not reflected in the evaluation results. Shouldn't you, Mr. Wu, think about whether there is something wrong with the evaluation methods and standards? Have you brought these out to discuss with His Majesty and Mr. Wu?

His Highness said that?”

"This..." Song Jianming's words were like a bolt from the blue.

Wu Rukang felt that his official career was over.

Song Jianming shook his head. Mr. Wu was kind-hearted and upright, but he was too lazy to use his brain and did everything step by step. Another emperor might have been able to stay in this position until he was too old to walk, but in today's situation, His Majesty

It won't work here.

In fact, by now, it's already too late.

Wu Shangshu immediately went home to pack his luggage and prepare his carriage and horses. The next day, he proposed to the emperor that he wanted to go to Shanxi with His Highness.

The emperor laughed and said: "Wu Shangshu is already sixty-three this year. This trip to Shanxi is not easy. You can't bear it."

Wu Shangshu immediately said: "How could it be! The old minister is in very good health! He can also share your worries for Your Majesty!"

"No need, there are many official affairs in the capital, and the old minister needs to be in charge. Shanxi is not the only one in the world."

The emperor did not play around with Wu Rukang and decisively refused.

At this moment, the sense of crisis about packing up and returning to his hometown suddenly increased tenfold. After returning to the Liubu Yamen, he began to inquire about what the minister who was selected by His Highness the eldest prince to take with him to inspect Shanxi was doing recently.

After asking for a long time, I couldn't figure out the reason.

In fact, the person that the emperor and Li Zhao wanted to promote to become the new minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was not any minister, but the doctor named Yu Weizhang, who had just turned forty this year and secretly won a mathematics competition last April.

The third prize winner also imitated the eldest princess and funded a primary school in her hometown of Xingyang, teaching people reading and mathematics, and providing a free lunch at noon.

The local magistrate also wanted to please this official doctor, so he found a child from a farmer's family to write a crooked letter of thanks. He also organized children from local schools to sign it and sent it to the capital in a memorial.

At that time, I don’t know which cabinet minister read the memorial. He probably didn’t think it was an important matter, so he didn’t put the memorial into the pile that needed review.

So the book arrived on the emperor's desk without letting Wu Shangshu see it.

The emperor was very interested when he saw it and asked Ning Yuan to go to Xingyang to see how the primary school was doing.

Yu Weizhang's behavior in setting up a school in his hometown should not be said to be very smart. At least the emperor saw that he was an activist who was willing to follow the trend of the times.

As for Mr. Wu, he is probably really old. He is like a pool of stagnant water. Even if a strong wind blows, it can only cause a small wave. As long as there is no wind or the wind is light, he will

There was no movement again.

However, Mr. Wu was still making his final struggle. He went home and started thinking about the reform of the class and examination system all night long, and called all his nephews and nephews into the study to discuss it.

I don’t know if he finally wrote a satisfactory one.

After Li Zhao left, the shops in the park officially began to be rented out.

This park is a new thing, no one has ever seen anything like it. Some vendors offered to rent the entire garden, but Song Qingyue naturally would not agree.

So she asked the shopkeeper of Liuquanju to take the lead in opening a "fine restaurant" in the park, and then approached Meng Wanfeng and asked her to open a branch of her teahouse in the park.

Meng Wanfeng disliked the high rent and refused to agree.

Song Qingyue was a little angry, but she couldn't do anything to Meng Wanfeng. She could only ask the shopkeeper of Liuquanju to find another way to open a tea shop.

The main products are from all over the world, with a complete range of categories.

Then she went to find her father and asked him to open a bookstore in the park.

Mr. Song doted on his daughter so much, so he naturally agreed wholeheartedly.

Song Qingyue divided the remaining shops, downsized them, and rented them to those selling candied haws, peach cakes, kebab snacks, juices and peanut butter, and promised them the first three months for free.

Finally, Song Qingyue planned to rent a small building next to the lake with the best scenery in the entire park and open a tavern.

Lighting lamps from dusk and inviting two people to play the piano and sing songs, isn't it more emotional than a brothel?

In addition, Song Qingyue spent her own money to build a pier, put a few wooden boats in, and asked the rattan master to braid a few big duck heads, and the simple duck boats were built.

The park officially opened to the public during the 21st Wanth Birthday Festival in April.

Song Qingyue wanted the emperor to come over in person and take a tour first, so that everyone could know that this park is a good place.

The emperor naturally hoped that his daughter-in-law's business would be prosperous, and of course he also wanted to prevent his investment from going to waste. As expected, after the palace banquet ended, the emperor brought several of his favorite concubines for a tour and bought candied haws and tea and snacks.

I took my beloved concubine for a boating trip, and finally had two drinks and two songs in a tavern by the lake before leaving with satisfaction.

This excursion made the emperor very happy.

The next day, the officials and their families came in droves with their children.

Park!

How fresh.

Of course you want to see it?

The Zhou Dynasty stipulated that officials were not allowed to have sex with prostitutes.

We can’t go to brothels in public, but now we can go to the lake to have a drink and listen to some tunes. Isn’t this always okay?

In this way, the park's business was booming in the first two months of its opening.

Song Qingyue stopped joining in the fun, she still wanted to fix the theater and the zoo.

Since the rain in Shanxi was quite abundant after the beginning of spring, Li Zhao brought some of the victims who were farmers back to Shanxi.

As a result, the progress of the project is much slower than in February.

After two months of observation, Song Qingyue asked experienced officials from the Ministry of Industry to divide these craftsmen into groups, and appointed skilled craftsmen as group leaders, who set tasks every day and required them to be completed on time.

In this way, the progress of the project progressed steadily.

The emperor's leopard room really has everything. Lions and elephants are probably imported from the body. Sika deer and Siberian tigers are native. Brown bears and leopards are seen, macaques and gibbons are also seen, but there are no giraffes.

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Giant pandas want to eat fresh bamboo, but conditions here in Beijing probably don’t allow it, so we didn’t see them.

However, there are quite a lot of bird species such as cranes, peacocks, golden pheasants, owls, and peregrine falcons.

For that peregrine falcon, Song Qingyue specially asked the arsenal to help build a giant iron cage with a height of nine meters. The main purpose is to shock.

The ticket price is thirty cents, and there is also a candied haws shop selling tea and snacks.

With the park’s successful case in mind, the zoo’s space leasing went very smoothly this time.

Song Qingyue even opened a souvenir shop, which sold animal picture albums, animal plaster statues, animal-painted fans, silk handkerchiefs and wool tapestries.

When Li Zhao returned to the capital, he heard that the zoo had opened, so he wanted to take his wife and son to join in the fun.

Song Qingyue said she didn't want to go. She was the one who created this garden. She had already taken little Kunkun to visit it several times!

But in the end he couldn't resist, and was forced to go by Li Zhao.

When I got to the door, I realized why my wife didn't want to come - there were too many people!

"July! There are chess games and math competitions. When there are the most people in the capital, how can you not come and take a look at such new things? Look, those young masters and ladies, with a bunch of servants and slaves, want to buy them when they come in.
To be continued...