Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 274: Once the little hat is on, no one loves it
Xia Lin stepped forward, pulled up his hat, and sat down in front of the girl in purple. He stretched out his hand to stop her from messing with him.

"Wait a minute."

Being stopped by him like this, the purple-clothed sister was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "You want to stop me? Fine, fine, let me see your literary talent."

The shout attracted the attention of everyone who had been hiding far away. Xia Lin was sitting in front of the purple-clothed girl with a smile on his face. He crossed his legs calmly and said, "It's not that I'm talented in literature, I just want to advise you not to fool around anymore."

"Nonsense? Haha, interesting." The purple-clothed girl walked back and forth in front of Xia Lin with her hands behind her back: "Ask them which of my words are nonsense? If they can't answer, they can't answer."

Xia Lin smiled, looked the purple-clothed girl up and down, and gently lifted the hem of his clothes. His posture was very calm, which was completely unlike the movement that someone wearing his clothes would make.

"why are you laughing?"

Zi Yi was actually a little dissatisfied at this time. At first, she thought the man in front of her was interesting and eloquent. But since he had just slandered her idol Xia Daosheng, her impression of him had become extremely bad. She didn't want to make trouble for him, but she didn't expect him to come to her on his own.

Xia Lin waved his hands, but was interrupted by the purple-clothed girl just as he was about to speak. She shook her head and asked proudly, "I have three questions. I want to see how you answer them. I won't bully you with poetry or songs, nor will I embarrass you with music theory and arithmetic. I will just ask you a few questions about current affairs."

"You? Current affairs?"

After hearing this, the students standing behind the purple-clothed girl kept making faces at Xia Lin, which probably meant "Don't answer, don't answer, don't answer."

But Xia Lin just waved his hand and said, "If you want to ask about poetry, poetry is a natural gift, and it is created by a skilled hand. Winning or losing is undetermined. If you want to ask about music, I am not good at it, and I am not able to make five or seven notes accurately. If you want to ask about arithmetic, I can barely do addition and subtraction. You want to ask about current affairs? Hey! Little sister, ask around, among us men, who can't chat about current affairs with the big yellow dog at home while eating a bowl on weekdays."

As soon as he said this, everyone around him burst into laughter of understanding. Men understand each other best. No matter how reserved and glamorous they appear in public, when no one is around, they will most likely do the same things. I don't know whether they talk about current affairs with dogs, but most men prefer this topic.

"Hahaha, you can call those current affairs you talk about chat? They're nothing but common opinions." The purple-clothed sister was really arrogant. First, she was the daughter of the county magistrate. Second, she was studying Xia Daosheng's basic theory. Third, she had analyzed a large number of actual problems in Fuliang and Jiangnan Road and summarized many relevant arguments. Even among men, she was very prominent, so she had the capital to be arrogant.

"Okay, stop being so smooth-talking. I've been patient with you for a long time since you slandered Xia Daosheng. I'll ask you three questions. If you can answer them, I'll admit defeat and apologize. If you can't, I won't make it difficult for you. Just go to the old man at the intersection who has a stall and treats patients with unspeakable diseases and shout three times, 'My disease can be cured.'"

Damn...this naughty little girl is really vicious.

The people around him couldn't hide their laughter after hearing this, but they didn't dare to laugh too loudly. Xia Lin sat there and nodded gently: "Okay, okay, if that's the case, then you can start."

The purple-clothed girl put her hands behind her back, limping and shaking her head: "For the first question, five years ago, Xinping Township in Raozhou Prefecture in Jiangnan Road was a barren land, with a thousand nominal households and only 500 elderly and weak households. I want to ask you, why has Xinping Township become the richest county in Jiangnan Road? Don't talk about political harmony and people's harmony. What I want to ask is what kind of political harmony is there and what is the harmony of people."

This is a very difficult question, because the thinking structure is different under the constraints of the times. In the more than five years from Xinping to Fuliang, it can be said to be an unsolved mystery anywhere. Few people know how it was done. Other places have also imitated it, but people like me are doomed. Even if Danyang County has made some achievements, they are based on sea transportation. There are no successful examples in other places.

In this era, there is only one person who can answer this question, and that is Xia Daosheng. No other person can do it.

After Xia Lin heard this, he opened his fan with a click. "That's it? I thought it was some earth-shattering problem. Xinpingfa has made great success for three reasons. The first is to attract investment, the second is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and the third is to transform the labor force."

The noises around him suddenly quieted down. Even the county magistrate who had been hiding nearby and keeping silent came up to him. If others didn't know Xia Daosheng, how could he not know him? He knew his daughter's character, and he wanted to let Xia Daosheng temper her character.

But now that the root of Fuliang's prosperity was mentioned, he had to listen carefully. It was his instinct to like young girls, but it was his job to develop the local economy.

"One of the solutions is to use local high-quality resources to attract external merchants to settle in, and to use the merchants to drive economic development..."

It would be a bit of a mess to write this out. Xia Lin has mentioned this more than once or twice in previous meetings. Anyway, the meaning is exactly what it says. It is a normal, non-sheep-eating-man process of urbanization, industrialization and clustering.

After hearing this, some people around had already started taking notes, and even the county magistrate was silently recording.

When Xia Lin was excited, he stood up and used a teacup as a node to tell them what benefits trade between one region and another could bring to both regions.

The purple-clothed girl was dumbfounded halfway through listening. There was a lot of knowledge in it that she had not learned. All of this was in the textbooks of Ehu Academy, but they were all textbooks for very high grades.

After Xia Lin finished speaking, the purple-clothed girl was silent for a long time before she sneered and said, "As expected of you who taught at Ehu Academy. You passed this question, but I'm afraid you won't be so lucky for the second one."

She cleared her throat as she spoke: "If you were an official, what measures would you take after succeeding Fuliang to prevent it from declining, or even to make further progress?"

Xia Lin found this question funny. This was the winter vacation homework he left for students last year. It was to simulate how he would continue to develop various local industries after becoming the controller of Fuliang. He now realized that this girl was not only a die-hard fan of Xia Daosheng, but also a firm supporter of Fuliang's policies.

This is quite interesting. Other girls are either obsessed with music, chess, calligraphy and painting, or indulge in poetry and songs. The worst ones are immersed in love between men and women. But it's different for her. Isn't she a master of keyboard politics?

Xia Lin smiled slightly and said, "This matter still needs to be divided into three parts. A town with a population of more than 200,000 people cannot be treated like a village. The first step for a new official is to understand the structure of this place..."

At this point it becomes very professional, what constitutes the industrial chain, what the tax gradient is, etc. It has reached the point where ordinary people cannot understand it, let alone hear it.

But the purple-clothed sister was completely shocked at this moment, not for any other reason, but because she had thought about this question for a long time and asked many people, but nine out of ten of those people could not give a clear answer, and they kept saying some nonsense and some Wanghua teachings.

She wanted to laugh when she heard these things. Those were methods for governing a few hundred or a few thousand people. If they were really used on a scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of people, they would definitely be ineffective.

She had also discussed this issue with her father. Her father's answer was naturally better, but not as detailed as the one in front of her.

"Okay, okay, you still have some ability."

The purple-clothed sister complimented him against her will, but the young people's natural unwillingness to admit defeat made her want to continue. But now her father couldn't stand it anymore. If he continued to ask, something bad would probably happen. So he stepped forward and asked seriously, "Ning'er, stop fooling around. It's getting late. Come back with me!"

"Dad, I still have a question for him to answer! Dad! I also want to ask him about the troubled times..."

She was dragged out of here before she could finish her words. Although her voice was still floating in the room, she had disappeared.

As soon as she left, the room was suddenly filled with a happy atmosphere, and then many students began to applaud Xia Lin. This was not insincere but because what he said was really good. After listening to some of the things he said, they even felt like they had suddenly understood something.

"You still don't know who this classmate is?" Someone came forward and said, "I am Dong Wanli, a student from Xiaoxiang."

Xia Lin bowed and was about to speak, but the young master who had been nagging beside him became more alert. He stepped forward and said, "My master's name will never change! Zhang Zhongchun!"

When this name came out, everyone present was stunned.

Who is Zhang Zhongchun? Of course they know each other. There are only two most powerful academies in the world, one is Xia Lin's Ehu Academy and the other is Hongdu Prefecture's Yuzhang Academy. Zhang Zhongchun is the principal of Yuzhang Academy.

I have heard that Zhang Shanzhang is extremely talented, but he lives in seclusion and few people have seen him. However, his fame outside is no less than that of Xia Daosheng.

I also heard that Xia Daosheng was Zhang Zhongchun's servant in his early years. The servant was so capable, so how could the young master be so capable?

"Are you Chief Zhang?!"

The students gathered around Xia Lin and started discussing with him. The scene was very lively. Although they were all successful candidates, Lao Zhang was the author of "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire". His fame...

To put it roughly, it is equivalent to Jordan in the basketball world in 1984 and Alan Tam in the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene in 1994. It is the kind of person that no matter whether you know him or not, you have definitely heard of him.

"It wouldn't be surprising if it was Principal Zhang. I heard that Principal Zhang and Xia Daosheng discussed Taoism for three days and three nights but couldn't decide who was the winner. In the end, the two broke up and left. Alas... What a pity! If these two could get together, it would be a blessing for the Wei Dynasty."

"Alas, there is no way. It is said that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. There are two geniuses who appear once in a century under the same roof. How can you let them get along? Talented people are always incompatible. This is true for Su Qin and Zhang Yi, and it is also true for Sun Bin and Pang Juan. Only mediocre people like you and me can be brothers."

"Hahahaha, yes yes, Brother Huang, please!"

"Brother, please!"

Xia Lin sat there laughing as he listened to their conversation, but it would be too arrogant if he didn't say anything at this moment, so he coughed and said, "Everyone, I was invited here to talk to you students at this oath-taking ceremony."

In an instant, the whole room fell silent. To be able to listen to the headmaster of the world's best academy speak before taking the exam was something that one could never achieve in several lifetimes.

(End of this chapter)