Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1301 The Imperial Examination
After the war in the Western Regions is over, it needs to be built and restored, and the interests of all parties should be distributed.

Sun Kewang allocated the pastures of the Khiva Khanate to Xiaoyuzi, and Xiaoyuzi set aside a large piece of pasture in the Ural River Basin for the Zhungeer tribe to cultivate and thrive as an outpost for defending Rakshasa.

Tens of thousands of Turghut Mongolians nomadic on the Volga River were moved to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, near the Yibohai (Balkhash Lake and Ili River) in the west of the Junggar Basin, to prevent the Raksha people from going south from the north, and at the same time Also beware of Huite Mongolia, which has not yet surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin.

After the distribution of benefits, Sun Kewang moved the Anxi Prince's Mansion from the closed Shache to Kucha, and the Western Regions Protectorate was also set up here. Can quickly grow into a heavy city.

In addition, Sun Kewang asked to set up four towns in Anxi and four generals in Anxi, and asked for a certain amount of cheap power for the four generals.

Because the Western Regions are no different from the Han lands and are surrounded by foreign races, all military and political affairs must be decided by the town generals, and certain privileges should be given to them, and they cannot be restricted like the troops and generals in Guanzhong.

These four towns, Sun Kewang has already thought about it, set up a town in Khotan at the northern foot of Kunlun Mountains, and appoint one person as the commander-in-chief to guard against Uzbekistan; set up a town in Hami, the exit of the Hexi Corridor, to ensure the connection between the Western Regions and Guanzhong ; At the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, rebuild Tingzhou at the former site of the Tang Beiting Duhufu, and set up a town to control the Jungar Basin to facilitate trade with Mongolia; to the west of Rehai, east of Julan City, rebuild Suiye City, and set up a town Control the three Yuzi and Zhungeer departments.

If these four towns can be established, then the Kingdom of Jin's control over the Western Regions is not a nominal control, but a set of military and administrative systems has been established to control the Western Regions and Central Asia.

At the same time, Sun Kewang also made some regulations and reached some consensus on the tribes and vassal states to be subject to.

One of the most critical ones, and one that is in everyone's interest, is to protect the Silk Road.

The Silk Road is long, and the Kingdom of Jin has no strength to protect it, so Sun Kewang divided the Silk Road into several sections, one section for each vassal or trade alliance, and the tax rate is determined according to factors such as the length of the road. After discussing with other countries, the country controlling this section of the Silk Road can collect taxes.

For each section of the Silk Road, the Anxi Protectorate only gave one family the power to levy taxes, but after this family collected taxes, it was obliged to maintain the smooth flow of the Silk Road and crack down on bandits along the way.

If they are not competent, the Anxi Protectorate will send troops to help solve the problem, but the cost of sending troops and food must be deducted from the customs duties on this section of the Silk Road.

In this way, all vassals and trade alliance countries can only try their best to maintain the smooth flow of trade routes in order to ensure that they can collect tariffs.

In the past, goods from the Kingdom of Jin traveled from Guanzhong to the Western Regions, and then to Central Asia through Samarkand and entered the northern part of the Mughals. Because of robbery by tribes along the way, or arbitrary tariffs and heavy taxes, a piece of good cotton cloth was sold halfway. The tax will cost two or three taels, but now the toll tax may only be one tael, or even less.

With such a safe trade route and a sound tax system to prevent arbitrary taxation from increasing transportation costs, the competitiveness of Jin Kingdom’s goods will be greatly improved, and they can be transported to farther places. With smooth trade routes and unified tariff regulations, There will also be more merchants and goods on the road. For the various forces along the road, the income may not be less than before, or even more.

Of course, if some countries, after seeing more merchants and goods, become greedy and insist on taxing more, and do not follow the rules of the Kingdom of Jin, then the Kingdom of Jin can only send troops to attack and solve the problem by force.

This time, Sun Kewang's internal affairs ability was once again demonstrated. His goals and intentions were very clear, and his execution ability was also very strong.

The establishment of four towns is the threat of force from the Jin Kingdom, which can deter the Western Regions, provide military guarantees, and make the Western Regions have a stable environment. The planning of the Silk Road is to link the interests of various ministries in the Western Regions.

He is a big stick in one hand and sugar in the other, twisting the parts together with profit.

When Sun Kewang was trying to build a complete administrative and ruling system in the Western Regions and plan his business routes, the Ming Dynasty ushered in another autumn.

After the Jiashen national disaster, the timing of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty has been relatively chaotic.

When they were beaten to the southwest by the Qing Dynasty, in order to compete with the Qing Dynasty for talents, the Ming Dynasty did not stop the imperial examinations even when they were fleeing. On the contrary, they were held relatively regularly.

After the liberation of Nanjing, Enke was also opened for the celebration of the whole world and to make up for the lack of officials. Since then, the imperial examination has basically returned to the normal rhythm of once every three years.

After the second imperial examination of the co-government dynasty was held in the fourth year of co-government, seven years of co-government passed, and it was time for Qiu Wei again.

Since the beginning of August, scholars from various provinces have already rushed to the provincial capitals to prepare to take the exam. If they win the Juren, they can take a boat to Nanjing to participate in the spring boudoir next year.

It was August [-]th, and there were only two days left before the exam on the [-]th, and most of the talented students in Nanzhili rushing for the exam had already arrived in Nanjing City.

The land in the south of the Yangtze River has a prosperous cultural context, and the already prosperous city of Nanjing is immediately overcrowded, and every inn and restaurant is full of scholars who came to rush for the exam.

Most of the wealthy scholars chose good inns by themselves, and those who were not motivated even lived in flower boats on the Qinhuai River.

Those scholars born in poverty also have a place to go. Susong or Nanzhi's various companies have established many fellow village halls for them.

China's social structure is a circle. The innermost core is the father and son, the outer circle is the blood relatives and the same clan, and the outside is the township party. In addition to this circle, there are also the teachers and students. , is also a circle.

These circles are combined to surround the central government and become a big circle like the Ming Dynasty, but the small circles in the big circle also have their own interests and competitions.

Qiu Wei is a great event for the provinces. Given the current political ecology of the Ming Dynasty, which province has more proposals, which province will get more benefits in the court in the future, so the merchants in Nanzhili It can be said that they take good care of the scholars in Nanzhi, and various restaurants and shops give them certain discounts.

Some businessmen even set aside some money to support those poor scholars and make political investments.

At this time, the exam was approaching, and many scholars gave up their revision. They either went to see the teacher, or went to drink and relax in groups of three or four, and inquired about the news about the exam.

All of a sudden, there were their figures in every restaurant, and their high-spirited talks could be heard on the street, making the whole Nanjing city extraordinarily lively.

In a decent restaurant in the west of Nanjing City, because it is close to Taixue, the business inside is very hot, and it is already full of many scholars before evening.

Wang Yan was sitting in a private room, when he heard the chatter of scholars from two rooms.

"Brother Zhang, the imperial court has changed every three years in the imperial examination. It has never taken stereotyped essays, and now it has added arrow shooting and gun shooting. Now it has divided political examinations and business examinations. You are the son of an official, do you know the political examination and the civil examination? What's the difference between the tests?"

Another voice came and said with a smile: "Brothers, don't be nervous. At the beginning, the imperial court said that stereotyped essays would not be taken, and many people opposed it. They were worried that the scholars would not be able to adapt, which would affect the imperial examination. Later, when the imperial court joined the archery arts, many people said it was humiliating. Sven, but what do you think now? Haven’t you all gotten used to it? The political and business tests are actually the same. I know something from my father. It is mainly about government affairs, but those who have been tested are good at one thing, such as river management, such as the Ministry of Industry's shipbuilding and artillery, etc., to implement a specific thing."

"So, then this test will definitely test some miscellaneous knowledge!"

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