It is August in a blink of an eye, and the weather in Jiehe Market is getting cooler, and it is also ushering in the best season of the year.

The streets became bustling, and the boundary rivers outside the city were connected by shafts and sails. The goods on the docks on both sides of the shore were piled up like mountains, and the coolies who carried the goods were unwilling to miss the most profitable season of the year and were very busy.

Wu Haogu has been back from Haizhou to Jiehe Lair for a month. He squeezed up and waited for his official duties to handle, and finally finished the cooking and could take a break from his busy schedule.

Wearing a loose robe, he lay on a soft couch in the octagonal pavilion in his back garden, he looked at the recent newspapers and newspapers leisurely. The newspapers include "Wenquxing Xunbao", "Shilin", "Qingliu", "Jiehe Business Daily", "Jingdong Business Daily", "Yuntai Academy Journal", etc. After several years of development, newspapers' way of spreading news and propaganda appeared in the Song Dynasty's metropolis in advance.

The hottest topics in newspapers recently are of course centered on the triennial imperial examination. This fall, the military forces of all states will hold trials, and next spring will be trials from the Ministry of Rites and palace examinations. For the millions of scholars in the Song Dynasty, especially those who make up the majority of scholars, the next few months will undoubtedly be exciting and anticipated.

Whether to jump over the dragon gate or continue to waste time depends on their performance in the examination room.

However, this time the Dragon Gate Leap appeared, which made the poor scholars in the world very uneasy, and another big back door was opened on the side of the Dragon Gate!

This back door is the right-list Jinshi exam!

Although the tentative quota is only 200, which is equivalent to 400 people on the left list of Jinshi. This is just a tentative quota. Generally, there will be an increase or decrease, but the situation of the right list squeezing the left list is already very obvious.

You should know that in the third year of Jianzhong Jingguo, there were 538 people who passed the Jinshi class, and this subject has decreased to about 400. The number of people who were considered the predecessor of the Jinshi class on the right was only 20 in the previous subject, but now it has increased to about 200, almost ten times more!

What makes the poor scholars even more heartbroken is that the treatment of the Jinshi on the left and right list is exactly the same! It is no longer a difference between civil and military. Although most Jinshi on the right list will still hold military positions, in terms of the Jinshi recognized by the court, the left and right lists are completely equal.

In other words, the left-list Jinshi who was obtained from millions of scholars with real skills was equal to the right-list Jinshi who was on the back door, which was really intolerable!

In addition, due to the restructuring of the Imperial Academy, the metal route of the official school, "county school-prefecture school-impartment school" has disappeared.

Originally, the Taixue Shangshuo was able to directly be appointed as an official. Although the origin of Shangshuo was not as good as a Jinshi, it was still a little stronger than Yinbu, let alone compared to military officers.

Therefore, behind the 100 sacrifices in the Imperial Academy are the number of officials and students with more than 100,000 troops in the 400 states nationwide, as well as a large number of officials responsible for managing the official schools.

Although the local government schools have not been abolished now, the central government's Taixue has been reorganized and cut off the way for local government schools to go to Taixue, which is equivalent to moving the cheese of the official schools all over the world. To put it bluntly, the basis of their existence is the 100 places to sacrifice their lives in the Taixue school.

Since you have moved other people's cheese, you have to withstand the attacks of all the scholars in the world!

So in these days, the three major newspapers of "Wenquxing Xunbao", "Shilin" and "Qingliu", almost one-sided criticism of the Jinshi and the empirical school.

All the curses came out, and the calls for "Please abolish the Jinshi of the Right List" were relatively gentle, and they shouted to beat and kill, and they wanted to "kill Wu and the ancients to calm the anger of the scholars in the world", and the calls for "kill Wu and the ancients to comfort Confucius, and Mencius under the Jiuyuan" were all heard.

Some people even publicly called on the newspapers to "scholars all over the world to kill them with swords (Wu Haogu)"... Fortunately, the serious scholars all over the world all "others have swords, but I have a pen like a knife". However, the scholars from the empirical school of Wu Haogu are always inseparable from swords, so Wu Haogu's life is still safe for the time being.

But he still reduced the number of public appearances and tried not to appear in public as much as possible, so as not to be hit by someone with a "sword-like pen".

Pan Qiaolian walked into the pavilion, erected her big belly, and was carefully supported by a maid. Seeing her, Wu Haogu quickly put down the newspaper, went up to take Pan Qiaolian's hand, and let her sit beside her.

"Eighteen, how about it?" Wu Haogu smiled and pressed his palm on Pan Qiaolian's belly, feeling the slight fetal movement. "It's much more active than the previous two babies. Mostly they are boys, right?"

"I hope," Pan Qiaolian's pretty face was filled with sorrow. She glanced at the newspaper on a short table, "Da Lang, people's words are fierce, quite awesome!"

Wu Haogu smiled: "In a sudden change that has not been seen in a thousand years, what are you afraid of? Eighteen, don't worry about these things. You have your own way to deal with them for your husband. Keep it and let Cai Yuanchang go to Haizhou for retirement."

Pan Qiaolian smiled, naturally worried, but she couldn't say anything else, but she just said, "By the way, someone from Zhao's house said that Brother Zhong came back and brought Aguda's two sons. One was eleven years old, named Oben, was Aguda's eldest son; the other was only eight years old, named Occao, and was Aguda's fourth son."

"Aguda's fourth son Wu Chuan... Wu Shu?" Wu Haogu was stunned. Isn't this the fourth prince Jin Wu Shu? Why did Brother Zhao Zhong bring him? He can't let him develop in the military. He will take him as his apprentice and cultivate his interest in painting art. In the future, he will be Jin Wu Shu, a famous painter in the Jin Kingdom...

"Okay!" Wu Haogu stood up and said to Pan Qiaolian, "Eighteen, go to Zhao's mansion for your husband and take Agu's two children to our house. In the future, let them go to elementary school with Yiyong and Brother Tie."

"Okay." Pan Qiaolian smiled, "Anyway, the house is big, and there are still many empty houses, so it's more lively to live in a few more people."

"That's good," Wu Haogudao, "I'll call Zhang Zhiping for my husband. He has read military books from the Knights Academy these days and has read many battlefield logs. He admires Brother Zhong and is just trying to make friends."

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Brother Zhao Zhong’s house is located in Zhaojiafang, Jiehe Commercial City. It is also a huge mansion with a deep courtyard and a grand demeanor.

In addition to Brother Zhao Zhong and his family, there were also friends who had been thieves with Brother Zhao Zhong in their early years. There were 16 people in total, and now they all became families and have careers. Several were teachers at Yuntai Academy and Knights’ School, two were instructors of Wuhaogu Knights, one was an officer in the police station of Jiehe Commercial City, and one was working in Jiehe Pond. The rest were Zhao Zhong’s retainer, Zhao Zhong, who also retained the old customs of Yanyun’s powerful strength and raised a group of retainers and guests. Except for the few closest to Brother Zhao Zhong who lived in the Zhao family’s mansion, the rest were scattered in Zhao’s house or in a manor outside the city.

By the way, the sphere of influence of Jiehe Commercial City has now expanded from Beicangzhou to Wuqing County, a subsidiary of Nanjing Road, Liao Kingdom.

Many Liao nobles who were exiled to Jiehe Shang City also brought some retainers and guests. They could not settle in Jiehe Shang City, so they set up a manor in Wuqing County, Liao for resettlement through their relationship. In addition, Ma Zhi and Zhang Jue were also working hard to expand their strength. They also learned the method of Wu Haogu and secretly raised a large number of warriors in Wuqing County. At the same time, a group of children were sent to the Knights Academy under Yuntai Academy to systematically study military affairs.

As for the economic radiation circle of Jiehe Commercial City, it is even bigger, almost replaced Xijin Prefecture and became the real economic center of Yanyun area.

It can be said that the original intention of Wu Haogu's proposal to establish Jiehe Market in the past was completely achieved. However, there were some "unexpected" places, and this city became very special. Although it was jointly organized by the Song and Liao dynasties, the imperial power of the Song and Liao dynasties was very weak in this city.

Zhang Yuan, who went to Zhao Zhongge's mansion with Wu Haogu, had already discovered something strange. In this city, no one seemed to care about the imperial examination that was about to begin. Instead, the annual Sikai Academy entrance examination and Yuntai Academy entrance examination were even more eye-catching.

In addition, the "Battle of Anxi" that almost no one cares about in other parts of the Song Dynasty is a hot topic in Jiehe Market.

Because this city is not only a city of merchants, academy and a craftsman, but also a city of mercenaries.

This is a place where the kings and laws of the Song and Liao dynasties could not reach, so naturally it became a haven for all kinds of evil and bad people. At the same time, it became the intersection of land and maritime Silk Roads. Many maritime merchants and traders set out from here, and of course they hired bodyguards here, so it could become a "mercenary market". Since there is a market, it has to be managed, so the mercenary guild appeared in Jiehe Commercial Market.

Moreover, when Wu Haogu went to the northwest, he also recruited a lot of mercenaries in Jiehe Shangshi, some of whom became rich and became officials. So this time, the news of the Song Dynasty's attack on the Black Khan Uighurs came out, it caused a sensation among the mercenary groups in Jiehe Shangshi.

The leaders of these mercenary groups all wanted to make a fortune in the war that was about to begin! So they started to move around early in the morning, wanting to find a way to fight in the northwest.

However, Wu Haogu and Murong Wangyou are not able to reach them. Murong Gu is always missing (he is responsible for the Knight of the Mock), so he can only find Ximen Anguo, Zhao Zhong, and Lin Chong. Zhao Zhong is undoubtedly the one with the greatest voice, so after many people saw Zhao Zhong enter the city this morning, many mercenary leaders have now been scrambling to Wu Haogu, and Zhang Yuan visited Zhao's mansion before.
Chapter completed!