The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 461

In late March, Li Zhaode went back to Shanxi to supervise the government's organization of spring plowing.

Song Qingyue laughed at him: "Tell me about you, there are such a bunch of trash selected for the imperial examination, and even such things as persuading farmers have to be supervised by you, the First Prince. The Ministry of Rites is trash, and the Ministry of Officials is also trash."

Li Zhao couldn't refute and could only shake his head.

In the past, officials only read the Four Books and Five Classics, did not understand farming and mulberry, and did not understand the people's livelihood and economics. As long as they did not search for the people, they were considered good officials, but they ended up raising a group of mediocre people who did nothing.

Yue'er was right, the imperial examinations had to be changed, and the rules and standards for official evaluation in the Ministry of Officials had to be changed as well.

So when Li Zhao went to Shanxi this time, he brought all the doctors of agriculture from the Academy of Sciences who were in charge of sorting out scientific books, and the officials from the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites also had to go with him.

Wu Gelao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, heard that His Royal Highness was going to Shanxi to bring a servant from the Ministry of Officials, a Lang Zhong, two Yuanwai Lang, and two Bosses. He immediately felt that this was not an easy matter.

Unable to figure out why, he went to the printing factory to ask brother Song what he thought of this matter.

Song Jianming looked at Wu Shangshu's gray beard, and suddenly said: "I see that you should go home and rest as soon as possible, maybe His Majesty can give you a good job, support you, and save some money. Decent."

When Wu Shangshu heard this, he became anxious: "Your Majesty and Your Highness, this is... you think I am old, and you are in a hurry to train a successor?!"

Song Jianming said: "Why don't you tell His Highness that you want to go too? All the expenses for board, lodging, carriage and horses should be taken care of by yourself."

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

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

"I... have become the crown prince since your majesty, and I have reserved my career for the past four years, and I dare not slack off at all!" Lord Wu felt that he had suffered a great injustice.

Song Jianming pointed out: "Master Wu, you are very reserved, why don't you seek change."

"How to change? What to change?!" Wu Rukang was not convinced.

"Your Highness went to Shanxi last year and found so many dereliction of duty and corruption. Apart from the Inspectorate, don't you have any responsibility for your official department? Who sent them to that position, and who was in charge of their evaluation He is obviously a dereliction of duty and a corrupt official, but the results of the evaluation did not reflect it. Should you, Mr. Wu, think about whether there is something wrong with the methods and standards of the evaluation? Have you brought these lords out to discuss with His Majesty and Mr. Wu? Your Highness said?"

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

Wu Rukang felt that his official position had come to an end.

Song Jianming shook his head, this Mr. Wu is considered a kind-hearted and upright person, but he is too lazy to use his brain and does everything step by step.Another emperor may be able to stay in this position until he is too old to walk, but it will not work with His Majesty today.

In fact, by now, it is already too late.

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

The emperor laughed and said, "Wu Shangshu is already 63 this year. It's not easy to go to Shanxi this time. If you can't bear it, forget it."

Wu Shangshu immediately said: "How can it be! The old minister is in good health! He can still share his majesty's worries!"

"No need, the official department in the capital has a lot of things to do, and the old minister is still in charge. Shanxi is not the only one in this world."

The emperor did not go around in circles with Wu Rukang, and refused decisively.

All of a sudden, the sense of crisis about packing up and going back to his hometown suddenly increased tenfold.After returning to the Six Departments Yamen, he began to inquire about what the minister who was selected by His Royal Highness to take a piece to Shanxi for inspection was doing recently.

After inquiring for a long time, I didn't find out why.

In fact, the person whom the emperor and Li Zhao wanted to be promoted to be the new Minister of the Ministry of Officials was not any servant, but the doctor named Yu Weizhang, who just turned 40 this year and secretly won the third place in a math competition last April. Waiting for the prize, he also imitated the eldest princess to fund and run a primary school in his hometown of Xingyang, teaching people to read and write, and providing a free lunch at noon.

It was also the local county magistrate who wanted to please the official doctor, so he found a child from a farmer's family to write a letter of thanks crookedly, and organized the children in the local school to sign it, and sent it to the capital in the memorial.

At that time, I didn't know which cabinet minister looked at the memorial, and probably didn't think it was an important matter, so he didn't put the memorial into the pile that needed reconsideration.

So this book arrived on the emperor's table without Wu Shangshu seeing it.

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

Yu Weizhang's behavior of running a school in his hometown is not to mention how clever, 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 stagnant pool of stagnant water. Even if a strong wind blows, it can only cause a small wave. There was no movement again.

However, Mrs. Wu was still fighting for the last time. He went home and started to think about the reform of the exam system overnight, and called all his nephews and nephews to the study to discuss.

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 novelty, and everyone has never seen anything like it. Some vendors proposed to rent the entire garden, but Song Qingyue would naturally not agree.

So she ordered the shopkeeper of Liuquanju to open a "boutique restaurant" in the park first, and asked Meng Wanfeng to open a branch of her tea house in the park.

Meng Wanfeng disliked the high rent and did not agree.

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

The main product needs to be 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.

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

For the rest of the shops, Song Qingyue divided them up, shrunk them down, and rented them out to those who sold candied haws, peach cakes, skewered snacks, as well as fruit juices and peanut butter, and promised them that they would be free for the first three months.

In the end, the scenery in the whole park was the best, a small building adjacent to the lake, Song Qingyue planned to rent it out by herself and open a tavern.

Lighting up the lights from the evening, and inviting two people to play the piano and sing, isn't it more romantic than a brothel?

In addition, Song Qingyue built a pier with her own money, put a few wooden boats in it, asked the rattan weaver to weave a few big duck heads, and the simple duck boat was built.

The park officially opened to the public on April [-], the Longevity Day.

Song Qingyue wanted the emperor to come over and take a tour in person, to take a tour first, to show the way, so that the big guys 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 it was also to prevent his own investment from being in vain. The palace banquet ended this day, and the emperor brought a few concubines for a walk, and bought candied haws and tea and snacks. He took his beloved concubine to go boating, and finally had two drinks in the tavern by the lake and listened to two pieces of music before leaving contentedly.

This excursion made the emperor very happy.

The next day, the family members of the officials flocked here with their children.

park!
How fresh.

Of course you want to see and see?

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

You can't go to the brothel publicly, but now you can go to the lake to drink wine and listen to ditties, is it always possible?

And just like that, the park enjoyed brisk business during its first two months of opening.

Song Qingyue didn't want to join in the fun anymore, she still had to fix the theater building and the zoo.

Since the rain in Shanxi was still abundant after the beginning of spring, Li Zhao took 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 the experienced officials of the Ministry of Industry to divide these craftsmen into groups, and appointed a craftsman with good skills as the team leader to set tasks every day and complete them on time.

In this way, the progress of the project is steadily advancing.

The emperor’s leopard house has everything in it. Lions and elephants were probably imported from Shendu, sika deer and Siberian tigers are native to China, brown bears and leopards were seen, macaques and gibbons were also seen, but giraffes were not. of.

Giant pandas want to eat fresh bamboo, but the conditions here in the capital probably do not allow it, so I haven't seen it.

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.

Tickets are priced at [-] Wen, and there is also a shop with tea, snacks and candied haws inside.

With the successful cases of the park in front, the lease of the zoo's pavement went very smoothly.

Song Qingyue even set up a souvenir shop, which sold animal picture albums, animal plaster figures, round fans with animal paintings, silk handkerchiefs, and woolen 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 built this garden, and she has taken Xiao Kunkun around several times!

But after all, he couldn't hold back, and was dragged away by Li Zhao.

When I got to the door, I found out why my daughter-in-law didn't want to come - there were too many people!
"July! There are chess competitions and math competitions. When the capital is the most crowded, how can you not come and have a look at such a fresh thing? Look, those young masters and ladies bring a bunch of servants and servants, and they have to buy it when they enter the door." A dozen tickets."

Song Qingyue hugged Li Kun and drank peanut cheese at the teahouse opposite the zoo. Li Zhao looked at the long queue at the gate of the zoo, full of disappointment.

Lin Wanfu said that even for the sake of Li Kun's safety, he couldn't go in with so many people.

For the sake of his precious son, Li Zhao compromised.

"Wait, let's come back when the museum is closed for cleaning on the [-]th."

Knowing that His Royal Highness Jin Wang and Princess Jin are going to visit the zoo on the [-]th, the person in charge of the zoo, Eunuch Lu from the former Leopard Room, closed the zoo one day earlier and started cleaning.

In order to let His Royal Highness Jin Wang have a good time, he specially told the owner of the tea, snacks and candied haws shop not to close the shop.

As for Song Qingyue, she specially called the second sister and asked her to bring her little Douding over to play.

Song Yuxi is so happy!
She was worried that there were too many people and she couldn't take the children to see the excitement.

Not to mention children, even she herself has never seen those rare beasts!

The emperor's leopard room can go wherever he wants.

Not to mention Song Yuxi, even Jiang Yuanchao has never seen her before. The second brother-in-law who is known as a workaholic actually asked the yamen for leave and came here to see new ones!

Hearing that the second brother's family was going to the zoo with His Royal Highness, Jiang Yuanchao's elder brother and sister-in-law immediately had the cheek to say that they would take their children to see it too.

The second sister's family is here, Song Qianqian and Mu Lei, second brother and Lu Wenyan will naturally also come, how can the rest of the Song family's younger brothers and sisters be left behind?Even Mrs. Liang and Song Jianming planned to come and have a look.

Finally decided to come and have fun on this day, not only the big family of the Song family came, but also many people from the Jiang family, Mu family, and Lu family.The third prince, Guo Ba, Zhuang Qionghui who had become his side concubine, the second prince Li Yi, Meng Yuyan, and his three beauties were all on the play list.

It's the first time for everyone.

Let's just say how hot this zoo is.

Naturally, this was not the first time for Li Zhao to see these animals. What surprised him was the structure of the zoo and the labels and introductions of the names of the animals in front of each cage, all in simplified Chinese.

The group of internal supervisors who used to raise animals would stand by and tell everyone what these things are called, what their habits are, and so on.

It was the first time for Li Kun to see so many children of similar age, and he was so excited!

Facts have proved that this kid is not only a social cow, but a social gangster.Seeing the pink and jade-carved young lady of Jiang Shizi's family, she rushed to hug her, opened her mouth and gnawed on her face.

Seeing that the peacock looks good, I ran after the peacock's buttocks, and even wanted to squeeze the peacock's tail!
Song Qingyue supported his forehead, picked up the little boy again and again, telling him that this is not allowed, that is the right way, what can be done and what cannot be done.

Meng Yuyan and Guo Yun'er sat in the tea shop, the children were held by their respective nanny, watching Song Qingyue running panting behind Li Kun with cold eyes.

"Our sister-in-law is really full of energy." Guo Yuner laughed.

Meng Yuyan snorted: "As long as she indulges the child like this, I'm afraid that our eldest grandson will cause trouble one day sooner or later."

(End of this chapter)