Chapter 75 Baisha Academy

In the 31st year of Zhengtong, the Biyong Association was something that could be written by a big book.

Because a lot of changes start from here.

Thirty-one years ago, the newspaper registered in the Ming Dynasty was a copy of the Ming Pao, and the city where it was located was Beijing.

However, after the 31st year of orthodox, not only did more than a dozen newspapers appear in the capital, but even the number was increasing. Newspapers appeared in Nanjing, Suzhou, Ningbo, Kaifeng, Guangdong, Wuchang and other places. Although the combined scale of these places is not as good as Beijing.

Chen Xianzhang's Guangdong News is one of them.

When Chen Xianzhang returned from Beijing, he had the title of a new Jinshi, so he naturally went smoothly when doing things. He quickly established Baisha Academy and started a Guangdong newspaper.

Become a famous scholar far and wide.

There are endless streams of disciples from Guangdong and Guangxi.

Of course, Chen Xianzhang is not as good as Wu and Bi, but with time, his achievements are definitely not inferior to Wu and Bi.

In Baisha Academy.

Chen Xianzhang is giving lectures to dozens of students, and many students are listening outside the door.

"In short, learning is important to know doubts, and to become suspicious from the unquestionable part is the way to learn. Today is here." Chen Xianzhang said.

After Chen Xianzhang finished speaking, he answered several questions from the students about the Shangshu.

Chen Xianzhang's tendency to be a question for Shangshu, but it is not clear how big the problem is and what kind of problem is.

After Chen Xianzhang went out, a student followed behind him.

Chen Xianzhang turned around and asked, "Xian Jing, what are your problems?"

Xian Jing bowed and said, "Teacher, the student has a problem."

Why didn’t Chen Xianzhang ask just now?

Xian Jing said: "What students need to ask is not a academic question."

Chen Xianzhang glanced at Xian Jing and said, "Come with me."

Chen Xianzhang returned to his room and asked, "Tell me, what's the problem."

Xian Jing said: "This year, the court issued three orders, general amnesty, ban, and change to official orders. The disciples have some things that they don't understand, so please give me some advice."

Chen Xianzhang asked: "Do you have a problem? Or does your family have a problem?"

Xian Jing said: "It's my problem, it's my family's problem."

The Xian family is one of the thirteen families in Foshan.

Today, Foshan is not the southern iron manufacturing center during the Ming and Qing dynasties, but there is still this trend. The so-called Thirteen Foshan companies are the Thirteen companies that monopolize Foshan's iron smelting industry.

So, Chen Xianzhang asked Xian Jing whether it was his problem or the Xian family.

Chen Xianzhang said: "What's the problem?"

Xian Jing said: "The court has mercy. My family has reported several previous mines to the prefectures and counties, and has taken the right path since then. But I want to know, can my family build a large iron plant like the Zunhua Iron Factory in Shaofu?"

Xian Jing is not good at learning, but he is a genius in business.

Although Zunhua Iron Factory dominated the north, it has no impact on Foshan. Even when Foshan's iron industry was the most prosperous, it has no influence on some parts of the north.

Of course, it would be fake if there is no impact at all.

After all, they are all in the same industry, so it is natural to hear about Zunhua Iron Factory.

Others don’t know, how can people in their industry not know? So many people don’t understand, how can Zunhua Iron Factory and Shaofu an official iron factory builder, build so much iron?

Foshan's efficiency is far inferior to Shaofu.

This is the doubt of many people in Foshan.

But for many people, doubt is just doubt. But for some people, this is not the case, such as Xian Jing.

Xian Jing had a scholarly reputation, so he traveled to the capital.

Others went to see Beijing, but he went to see Zunhua.

Even if others went to Zunhua, they would take a look outside, but Xian Jing stuffed countless money and pretended to be a craftsman. He went to the iron factory and worked for a long time.

After gaining a comprehensive understanding of the process inside.

There was an irreducible flame in his heart, that was, to build a large iron plant comparable to Zunhua Iron Factory.

This is not impossible.

Foshan iron smelting has a unique reason.

Where Foshan is located, water flows from all directions. The iron ore, coal ore timber in the deep mountains can flow down the water.

Use convenient waterways to gather in Foshan.

Especially after opening the sea, whether it is the weapons needed by sea traders, various iron materials for shipbuilding, or even iron tools used as export commodities, Foshan makes a lot of money.

Make Foshan Ironware's business scale bigger and bigger.

Even the establishment of Baisha Academy and the establishment of Guangdong News, a group of people in Foshan donated.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Xianzhang is a little special to Xian Jing. Of course, Chen Xianzhang does not dislike the poor and love the rich, but that some interpersonal relationships are inevitable.

Chen Xianzhang pondered for a long time and said, "This may be possible."

Xian Jing held his hands tightly and said, "Master, is it really feasible?"

Chen Xianzhang said: "What I said may be possible, but no matter whether it is feasible or not, it is not in Guangdong. The key is in Beijing. And can your family afford this?"

Xian Jing said: "I have convinced the elders of the Thirteen families. As long as the Master nods, he can do this."

Chen Xianzhang stood up and walked slowly. He pondered for a while and said, "I will write you a few letters. When you go to the capital to pay homage to these people, whether you can achieve success depends on God's will."

Xian Jing might think that the will of heaven is the will of heaven, but he didn't know that what Chen Xianzhang said was simply the will of the emperor.

Xian Jing wanted to build a large iron factory in his heart. He regarded this as a lifelong achievement, but Chen Xianzhang was not like this. He was speculating on Zhu Qizhen's thoughts.

At the Biyong meeting, one of the biggest conclusions was to change the strategy of raising the people. Before, I thought that the people should live and work in peace and contentment were to give them land.

But now, people who have a career in the city will also regard it as a way to support the people.

Although Chen Xianzhang may not understand Zhu Qizhen's entire blueprint, he felt that if Foshan could build a large iron factory, it would be more in line with the emperor's wishes.

That's why Chen Xianzhang was willing to come forward.

But he didn't know that he was plotted against by his own students.

Xian Jing immediately left Baisha with several letters from Chen Xianzhang, returned to Foshan, and showed it to his father without saying a word.

Of course, the contents in the letter cannot be read, the contents of the letters are just an envelope.

Even an envelope is enough to shock the head of the Xian family.

What are the Hanlin Academy Shuji Li Dongyang, the Minister of War Cheng Minzheng, the chief writer of the Tianli Daily, the great scholars of the world, Wu and Bi, and several Guangdong officials in Beijing, etc.

There are probably more than a dozen letters.

It is Chen Xianzhang's network of relationships in the capital.

This is how the connections of civil officials were built, in the same year, fellow townsmen, teachers and students, etc.

The Xian family made a lot of money by taking advantage of the opening of the sea. Speaking of which, the family also had a home business of tens of thousands of taels, but they could not climb to anyone above these envelopes.

This is the reason why the head of the Xian family has always supported his children in their studies. Although the Xian family seems to have no such fate, there will be few seeds of study in their next life.

There was Xian Jing who couldn't continue studying after studying for a scholar.

It makes him unable to do anything.

Seeing these letters at this moment, I was naturally shocked.

After looking over and over again, the head of the Xian family looked at it twice, he asked, "What did Mr. Chen say?"

Xian Jing said, "Sir, this is what Your Majesty means. Your Majesty is in the market for thousands of gold. You must not miss the opportunity. If our family enters His Majesty's eyes, it will be prosperous."

The head of the Xian family thought about it and said, "Let me think about it, let me think about it."

This is a big deal, and it may have suppressed the Xian family's family's assets. If you don't do it well, the family business of the three generations of the Xian family will be ruined.

But Xian Jing didn't want him to think about it any longer.

He knew very well that he told the Master that the family had already discussed it, but in turn, he used the Master to suppress the family, which was similar to the method of making money from nothing in later generations.

However, if you want to do this set of methods well, you cannot let both sides face each other. However, Baisha is not far away from Foshan, and after a long time, the news will inevitably leak, so it will be difficult to deal with.
Chapter completed!