The teacup fell and shattered on the ground, but Zhang Anshi seemed unmoved.
He didn't even blink, he just looked at Yu Qian in front of him.
Then he said calmly: "You are a scholar, so you must not have a good impression of me. But it doesn't matter, just come here. Things are more complicated in the Prince's Mansion. You are in the Chang Shi's Mansion, and you can do your job well. If there is anything wrong with you,
To understand something, read more, listen more, and ask more.”
Yu Qian didn't expect that Zhang Anshi didn't get angry.
He looked at Zhang Anshi with a strange look.
Zhang Anshi naturally felt the scrutiny in Yu Qian's eyes and simply said: "Is there anything else you want to say?"
Yu Qian only paused for a moment and then said: "I heard that Jinyiwei arrested many people today. Do you dare to ask Your Highness, are all of these people guilty of death?"
Zhang Anshi smiled and said noncommittally: "What are you talking about?"
Yu Qian frowned slightly and said, "At least some people, I think..."
Zhang Anshi sighed, but interrupted him: "A scholar's opinion."
Yu Qian was not submissive like the others. He met Zhang Anshi's gaze and said, "Your Highness, how can I see you?"
Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "You will understand in the future. By the way, where did the official document in your hand come from?"
Only then did Yu Qian look away, looked at the official document in his hand, and said: "This is an express report from Java. His Royal Highness, King Zhao, wants to invade Sumatra. Now he is in full swing. I hope that His Highness can grant a loan of money to purchase firearms and sea transportation."
To Java…”
After hearing this, Zhang Anshi frowned and said, "Isn't this a white wolf with nothing? Where in the world can there be any truth in borrowing money to fight a war?"
Yu Qian: "..."
"Besides..." Yu Qian raised his head and looked at Zhang Anshi: "It is also said here that His Royal Highness King Zhao has appointed Chief Shi Jiejin to the court to contact the firearms matter. They can use plantations in Java and other places to
The mine is compensated.”
Zhang Anshi raised his eyebrows and said, "Xie Jin?"
Speaking of which, he had not heard of this name for a long time. It was so familiar yet strange at the same time!
Zhang Anshi nodded and said: "I understand, what else can I do?"
Yu Qian shook his head and said: "There are still a few private messages, I dare not open them and read them..."
Zhang Anshi said: "I have a lot of private messages on hand now. If I open and read them one by one and reply to them one by one, how can I respond? If there are still such letters in the future, you should open and read them first. Sort out some important ones and submit them.
In front of me, as for the unimportant things, summarize them into a briefing and let me know. As for how I want to reply, you can draft it."
As the king of the county, Zhang Anshi had so many correspondences every day that he was overwhelmed.
Therefore, if there is no dedicated person to handle it, it will only take a few days for it to pile up into a mountain.
Yu Qian looked very surprised. He did not expect that Zhang Anshi would ask him to take charge of this matter.
You must know that this involves many personal letters. If you trust someone absolutely, you will never entrust it to others.
But he came to Changshi Mansion for only a few days.
Zhang Anshi saw that he was silent and asked, "Why don't you respond?"
Yu Qian hesitated for a moment and then said: "I am worried that... I can't handle this matter well. Is your highness going to ask for someone else?"
Zhang Anshi said disapprovingly: "These are all trivial matters that anyone can handle. You are a Juren person, so you should be able to handle such matters with ease. As far as I am concerned, as long as this person is trustworthy, everything else does not matter."
Yu Qian: "..."
Yu Qian had mixed feelings in his heart. In fact, his impression of Zhang Anshi was not very good, but Zhang Anshi seemed to treat him... as if he wanted to make him his confidant.
Zhang Anshi looked at him strangely and said, "Why don't you say anything? If you have anything to do in the future, you can tell me and I won't be offended. Oh, by the way, you must think carefully when handling official documents and personal letters.
, think about the meaning behind these official documents."
"Yes." Yu Qian nodded.
He even had some suspicions that Zhang Anshi was up to some trick.
But if you think about it carefully, Zhang Anshi is just a young man, what bad thoughts can he have? Maybe the rumors outside are just spreading rumors.
Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, casually took out a letter from the document, opened it and read it. When he lowered his head and looked at it, his expression suddenly changed.
Just now, the two of them were chatting in a relaxed manner, but in the blink of an eye, there was an air of solemnity here.
Seeing Zhang Anshi frowning and looking silent, Yu Qian was about to speak and leave.
Zhang Anshi said: "Come here..."
Yu Qian had no choice but to say: "What are your orders, Your Highness?"
Zhang Anshi suddenly smiled and said happily: "Finally... it's done. It's very good. It's a pity that I didn't spend less money."
Seeing that Zhang Anshi was overjoyed, Yu Qian was even more confused, so he said, "I wonder if your highness has any other instructions?"
"Arrange an itinerary for me. Within three days, I will inspect Qixia Medical College."
Yu Qian said: "Yes. May I ask Your Highness, where is this medical school?"
Zhang Anshi said: "This is a new hospital. It is the first place in the past dynasties that specializes in treating patients and also takes into account consultation, medicine and teaching. Do you know how much money this medical school costs?
?”
He spoke enthusiastically, then held out a finger.
Yu Qian said: "Ten thousand taels?"
Zhang Anshi said: "One million taels of silver."
Yu Qian: "..."
Zhang Anshi said with a smile: "Of course, the expenses here mainly include construction, equipment, experiments, and personnel. Everything is difficult at the beginning. It's okay if the money is not abundant. Let's not talk about other things. Just talking about these eh personnel.
We have specially hired people and trained them for four years to teach them various medical and health principles."
"In addition, all medical equipment must be customized. Don't look at the many small equipment inside, which are just like embroidery needles, but they are more expensive than gold. Many utensils are tried to be made, but it takes a long time.
The hard work of countless people.”
"There are still experiments..." Zhang Anshi said excitedly: "Collect the current prescriptions, reorganize them, and then test the effects through different diseases. If the effects are not obvious, we will eliminate them. If they are obviously effective, we will compile them into teaching materials. As for the
You may not understand the other tests even if I tell you about them."
"The most rare thing about Outong is the personnel. It is not easy to train each person. It is not easy to teach them the experimental methods, medicine and pharmacology. In addition, the cost of the building is not easy.
It is smaller than my palace, and there are some places in it. To build a house, it would cost more than tens of thousands of taels of silver. But the money is worth spending, not to mention a million taels, or a few hundred taels more.
Ten thousand taels are worth every penny.”
Yu Qian was still confused.
In this day and age, if you tell people that a medical clinic costs one million taels of silver, people will generally think that this person is really greedy.
Moreover, he couldn't understand that Zhang Anshi's thinking seemed to be very different from ordinary people, and he always seemed to be interested in some strange things.
In particular, many of the official documents and instructions in the palace almost involve business matters, or some weird so-called machinery. Your Highness's approval is often more timely, while other matters are often slower.
Yu Qian thought for a while and then said: "Yes, I will add it to the schedule. It will be noon the day after tomorrow. How about it?"
Zhang Anshi pondered and said: "Okay, then it will be noon the day after tomorrow."
Yu Qian said: "I'm going to resign!"
Zhang Anshi waved his hand without raising his head and said: "Go, go."
Calm has gradually returned to the inside and outside of the capital.
Contrary to what many people imagined, I originally thought that Jin Yiwei's arrest of so many people would inevitably lead to unexpected consequences.
But in fact, the soldiers and civilians inside and outside the capital seemed to care more about the will fulfilled by His Majesty.
Once the decree comes, it is really difficult to be interested in who suffers disaster or misfortune.
Zhang Anshi did not interfere too much in the counter-case, as long as everyone in the Jinyi Guards acted according to the will.
However, as the United Bank began to relax lending again, and then the New Deal disputes were settled, it finally gave the Taiping Mansion a lot of confidence.
However, everyone in the Taiping Mansion is still busy, and a whole set of stimulating and beneficial plans have begun to be drawn up.
At the same time, one report after another was also submitted to the palace.
Zhu Di breathed a long sigh of relief after reading the report.
After all, in this era, although there are many workshops, they are still far from being productive.
In the parlance of later generations, it is called demand exceeding supply. After all, productivity lies here.
The whole world is still a vast market, and it is far from reaching a point where supply exceeds demand.
This crisis is more of a crisis of trust.
Zhu Zhanji was ordered to go to various prefectures and counties in Zhili to contact scholars, people, and merchants to explain the court's determination for the New Deal.
It must be said that this third-class official is very useful, energetic and has a low salary. The most important thing is that every time he comes to a county, almost everyone in the county is happy and his morale is boosted.
Those who had criticized the New Deal in the past no longer knew where they were hiding at this moment.
Zhu Di relaxed his mind and summoned the scholars and ministers to discuss the new policy.
At this time, the Wenyuan Pavilion and various ministries had reached a basic consensus. Although some were opposed to the New Deal, they almost knew that this was the general trend.
The question now is about discussing the details.
After everyone expressed their opinions.
Almost everyone believes that the implementation of the New Deal needs to be postponed.
Even Yang Rong said: "Your Majesty, I know a little bit about Taiping Prefecture's New Deal. The implementation of the New Deal depends on people. But if you want to implement it in all provinces in the world, if you use the original parents and officials of each prefecture and county and encourage local
I am worried that the gentry on the throne may end up just like the situation of the Jiangxi Chief Envoy. Instead of this, I believe that the implementation in each province can be postponed."
Zhu Di frowned and said: "If this is the case, wouldn't it mean that there will never be a new government in the world?"
Yang Rong smiled and said, "I don't think that's the case. Over at Taiping Mansion, I checked that there are 70,000 to 80,000 children enrolled in school every year, and the number of students and students currently studying there is also over 200,000. That's it.
With a large number of people reading and literate, within a few years, I am afraid that the scholars in Zhili will account for half of the scholars in the world. It can be said that the world's talents are gathered here. As long as time is given, when this group of people are tempered, their talents will be sharpened.
Action is much greater than the present moment."
"The minister's suggestion is not because he does not obstruct the New Deal, but because he believes that some things, the more hastily they are, will go in the opposite direction. It is better for the court's limited thoughts to focus on Zhili and use Zhili to leverage the world. This is the most effective way.
A safe approach.”
Zhu Di looked at it thoughtfully and said, "This makes sense."
He couldn't make up his mind for a moment.
But he said: "You talked about schoolchildren, you seem to be quite concerned about the academic affairs of Zhili?"
Yang Rongdao: "I have always believed that the essence of governing the world is to serve the common people. But speaking of it, if you want to govern the world, you must have someone. Only by reading can you pass on knowledge and find solutions to problems.
Zhili, especially Taiping Prefecture, has encouraged people to study in recent years, and now the effect has been demonstrated."
Hu Guang said with a smile: "But that's not necessarily the case. Reading and reading are different after all. The vast majority of schoolchildren in Taiping Prefecture read relatively shallow books after all. If they can read and hyphenate, they are considered scholars and real scholars.
, there will eventually be a difference.”
Yang Rongze said: "The essence of studying is not to produce many great Confucian scholars in the world, and the world cannot be stabilized by just a few great Confucian scholars. If so, in the Yuan Dynasty, there were quite a few great Confucian scholars.
Especially in Neo-Confucianism, progress has been rapid. Although Neo-Confucianism originated in the Song Dynasty, it was really promoted in the Yuan Dynasty. But... Hu Gong... How many years did this pre-Yuan Dynasty last?"
As soon as he said this, Hu Guang was immediately silenced.
He now has Yang Rong Fear Syndrome, and whenever Yang Rong opens his mouth, his eyes can't help but twitch.
Zhu Di nodded: "What Yang Qing said deeply resonates with my heart. When it comes to academic affairs, Zhang Qing can be said to take the greatest credit, which is good..."
As he said this, he turned around and asked Yi Shiha, but said, "Zhang Qing must have been very busy these past two days."
Yi Shiha Gongjin said: "Your Majesty, it is said that His Highness the Prince of Wuhu has never touched the ground. Now all kinds of things are waiting to be done. His Highness the Prince of Wuhu wants to appease people's hearts and try to deal with the rebels. Oh, at noon today, His Highness is still going Entered medical school..."
"Medical school..." Zhu Di murmured.
I saw Yi Shiha and continued: "Your Majesty, the people below reported that this medical school occupies a huge area. One medical school can be as large as a hundred medical clinics. Today it is officially completed and opened for business, so Your Highness is very I’m concerned and went there myself.”
"With such a large area, how many people have to be treated?" Zhu Di looked very surprised.
Afterwards, Zhu Di paused and then said: "This must cost a lot of money."
Yi Shiha said truthfully: "I heard that it cost more than one million taels of silver."
Zhu Di's eyes twitched, but he still looked careless. He looked a little unhappy.
Fortunately, in front of the ministers, Zhu Di did not show off his talents and continued to talk about political affairs.
Just as he was talking, Xia Yuanji suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I heard that His Royal Highness King Zhao sent people to Beijing. I wonder if this is the case?"
Zhu Di's face immediately became a little solemn and he said: "I heard about this prodigal!"
Now Zhu Di would be very unhappy whenever he heard news about the King of Han and the King of Zhao. They all came to pay for firearms.
Xia Yuanji looked at Zhu Di's face and said: "It is said that the one sent was the long history of King Zhao..."
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Di's face became even more ugly.
The longest history of King Zhao was Xie Jin.
As for Jie Jin, Zhu Di disliked him very much.
But this person is very famous.
Not only was this man a talented man, but he was also ordered to compile books, so his literary reputation became more prosperous. The most important thing was that he was from Jiangxi, and he worked in Wenyuan Pavilion, where he was unparalleled and unparalleled in the world. I don’t know, but as for his ill-fated future, to a certain extent, this tragic talent character is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
When Zhu Di ordered Xie Jin to be the chief historian of King Zhao, he originally meant to be exiled.
Who knew that this guy would actually be back now?
When it came to Xie Jin, the atmosphere in the palace seemed very awkward.
You must know that Xie Jin is by no means an ordinary person, not to mention his deep friendship with Hu Guang, and his close friendship with Jin Youzi, Xia Yuanjiren, etc. who are also from Jiangxi.
These are just the tip of the iceberg. It can be said that there are countless people who have a close relationship with Xie Jin, both inside and outside the government.
The more Zhu Di thought about it, the more he felt that he disliked this person. He felt that King Zhao was a fool and released Xie Jin in order to beg money and things from his father.
Zhu Di snorted coldly and did not continue.
Xia Yuanji finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Xie is a scholar. He traveled across the ocean and now he has returned to Beijing all the way. I don't know what kind of etiquette should be used to entertain him."
Zhu Di said calmly: "He is just a long history, why do you need to take special care of him?"
The meaning was obvious, and Xia Yuanji fell silent.
When they were leaving, all the ministers were silently thinking about their thoughts.
Xia Yuanji also looked gloomy. Seeing this, Jin Chun, the Minister of Punishment, said, "Is Mr. Xia still thinking about Mr. Jie? Your Majesty, to Mr. Jie...hey...you'd better say less."
Jin Chun's words were a somewhat well-intentioned reminder.
Xia Yuanji said: "Gentlemen are harmonious but different. Although Xie Gong has many things that are not as expected. But after all..."
He didn't say anything else, but it was obvious that he was protective of Xie Jin.
On the other side, Yang Rong glanced at Hu Guang who was thoughtful, walked closer, and said, "Why haven't I seen you interceding for Jie Gong today?"
Hu Guang said honestly: "If I don't say anything, it's fine. If I say something, Mr. Yang will definitely refute it. This will be detrimental to Xie Gong, so I'd better not say anything."
Yang Rong couldn't help but laugh, and then said with a smile: "Xie Jin... do you think His Highness King Zhao ordered Xie Jin to come to Beijing just to ask for money and food?"
Hu Guang opened his eyes and asked, "What do you mean by this?"
"It's not interesting." Yang Rong said, "I just have some doubts in my heart."
Hu Guang felt that he seemed to have read some of Yang Rong's meaning, and said: "No, do you think that King Zhao has not given up?"
Yang Rong said calmly: "I didn't say that."
Hu Guang suppressed his blush and said with a bit of anger, "But that's what you meant."