Hou Xuanyan has been stranded in Suzhou for a month. After the Northern Expedition, he had a rare long vacation and had a few days of free and happy peace.

I don’t care if I put down the government. I have a little medicine and Jinling is restless...

But when I started May Enko again, it was not something that Little Lingyao could do. I still have to take charge of this kind of thing by myself and take charge of the overall situation.

Since its birth, the imperial examination system has opened up a path for poor families, but the effect is limited. After all, who has the spare money for children to study and learn to read? You should know that the cost of private schools in this era is not low.

The abolition of eight-legged essays to select scholars is not just about changing the exam questions, but also involves changes in education methods. Although the admissions of the Medical Center and the Jiangxue Center are already facing the hardships of children, they are still not enough. Using the policy of fooling the people to ensure the stability of the rule is already an old age, and the wisdom of opening up the people is imminent. The May Enke reform is a top-down change in education.

First change the ultimate goal - the imperial examination, and then naturally change it to serve the imperial examination, and teach and educate people with the purpose of the imperial examination.

The road from Suzhou to Jinling is wide and wide, with flat official roads everywhere. Walking on such a road, even the horses pulling the cart are much more relaxed and happy.

This was the earliest road to be built, and it was tamped with loess, and in some places even stone slabs and bricks were used.

Hou Xuanyan was sitting in the carriage. He and Huang Ying'er and Gu Ling'er were in the same carriage. Behind him was Bian Yujing and two maids. Bian Yujing was different from Chen Yuanyuan. She was Hou Xuanyan's concubine, so she was brought this time. Although the status of the concubine was not high, the master who could not resist him was too prominent, so Bian Yujing rose to the point of rising. As for Yang Fujin and his daughter, because they had just given birth, they were not suitable for walking far away, so they stayed in Suzhou to recuperate.

Hou Xuanyan felt that there was still some bumps and couldn't help but say, "It would be great if there was cement." After saying that, Hou Xuanyan felt a little ashamed. Not to mention cement, he wouldn't even have soap that had rotten streets in later time-travel novels. He knew nothing about other things such as gunpowder, steam engines, rubber...

"What is cement?" curious baby Gu Ling'er raised her little face and asked.

"It's a kind of mud, it's very hard after it's dry, and it can even smash walnuts." Hou Xuanyan responded casually.

"What's so great about that? Walnuts are not delicious."

I opened the curtain and looked out. There were many pedestrians on the road from Suzhou to Jinling.

Because of the court's commercial tax reform, the treasury was full of money and no place to spend it. Although the war in the north was huge, it was enough for Everbright to clean up the house and search the money. With a lot of money, Hou Xuanyan was not buried in the ground like a Shanxi merchant, nor did he squander it to build a palace. He began to pave the road and build bridges.

After the war, many refugees lost their homes and made them make a living again, it was really difficult for them to do so. Especially land measurement and population inventory took time. During this period, they would inevitably not be able to divide the land and could not sit here and wait for the court to provide relief.

Work-for-relief is the best way to do it. Infrastructure is being built everywhere in the entire land of China. Moreover, Hou Xuanyan piloted the pilot in Suzhou, headed by the Gu family, which increased many large factories. The huge demand for materials for work-for-relief was just as if these factories had provided enough orders at the beginning of their business. Take the "Jinsu Highway" from Jinling to Suzhou for example, there are shadows of the Gu family everywhere.

When you arrive at Wangting, you will soon leave Suzhou. A stone tablet next to the roadside is engraved with two straight trees, with Siling underneath.

Gu Ling'er crawled out of Hou Xuanyan's arms, then clapped her hands and smiled, "Look, look, that's our sign."

Hou Xuanyan touched her head and asked, "Is this sign so special? Does it mean it will soar into the sky and be as straight as a ginkgo tree?"

Gu Ling'er pouted and said proudly: "Grandmaster said that's because when I met my husband, I tied two small braids to the sky." After that, she grabbed her hair with her hands, pinched out the shape of two small braids, and asked, "How is it, does it look like it?"

Huang Ying'er covered her stomach, her pretty face turned red and her tears burst out. Hou Xuanyan said with a smile like a pomegranate, with a look of contempt. This was too unclassified.

After Huang Ying'er finished laughing, she looked at the sign and the "Si Ling" below and suddenly became envious. She moved her butt and rubbed it against Hou Xuanyan, and said coquettishly: "I also want a factory like this. I have already thought of the name, so I'll call it Sanying."

Hou Xuanyan despised him even more and said sarcastically: "Sanying? Are you still Lu Bu? What are you doing to build a factory?"

Huang Ying'er was full of energy, and under her crescent-like eyes, there were two tears hanging on her face, but she smiled: "What is making money? What is making money for!"

"Look, you can do it." Hou Xuanyan looked at her and asked, "It takes a lot of people to build a factory. Do you have anyone?"

"Why are there no? My father's old subordinates have been coming to me one after another four years ago, but now there are hundreds. Three hundred or four hundred people. Oh, Fan Xiong told me once, but they didn't go out, so they forgot, because many people have."

As soon as she said that Hou Xuanyan, she remembered that there were indeed many old subordinates of Duke Jingguo Huang Degong. Especially Fan Xiong, who was of the same physique as Hu Bawan, had a twisted muscles like a tree root, and looked a little scary. At the time when Huang Ying'er adopted the ceremony, these burly men wore red-belt flowers and sang candy with a smile along the way, making a fool of themselves in Suzhou City.

Huang Ying'er put on his body and sat in front of him on Hou Xuanyan's lap. Her eyes dripped in a daze and said excitedly: "Tell me quickly, tell me, which factory makes money?"

The family servant system that was prevalent in the late Ming Dynasty, all the closest confidant soldiers under the generals were similar to those of their housemen. These people were treated the best and the most loyal. Take Wu Sangui as an example. He had many soldiers under his command, but what he cared about the most was his own family servants.

Huang Degong is one of the four towns, and there are many such servants. It is a hidden danger to make such a group of fighting men idle all day long. It is really better to let them go out to do something. Thinking of this, Hou Xuanyan said seriously: "Maritime merchants, maritime merchants are the most profitable."

"Okay! Our Sanying factory is just a maritime businessman." Huang Ying'er's willow-leaf eyebrows slightly frowned and said, "How do you do maritime businessman?"
Chapter completed!