"This thief... is really different from our Fuzhou." The boat was wandering above the sea, and it was still snowing in the sky. Zhang Huchen spit out a mouthful of snow and raised his head to curse God.

It was already the second day of the second month, commonly known as the Dragon Rising Head, Xu Zixian and others who were on the boat north finally arrived at the outer sea area of ​​Jinhaizhai.

There were fewer sea boats all the way north. The port of Fuzhou was far less than that of Quanzhou, but there were also a large number of ships moored in the port. When we arrived at the sea outside Quanzhou, there were constant sailing ships. Even during the Chinese New Year, there were still wind and sails, almost without interruption.

When we reached the coast of Liangzhe Road, Mingzhou, Chuzhou and Hangzhou also had their own ports, and the trade was quite developed.

When we arrived in Jiangling, three lucky ships were moored to replenish water, and we also saw Jiangling's flower world... Jiangling had a population of over one million, with a wall of more than 70 miles in circumference. It was the largest city of the Great Wei, much larger than Yanjing. The ancient capital of the dragon and tiger, and the ancient capital of all dynasties, was established here when the Great Wei Dynasty first started. It was the economic center in the southeast, an industrial center, a cultural and educational center, and a military and government center. The Great Wei had fifty-six imperial guards in Jiangling, and only five armies along Fujian. This shows how important Jiangling's strategic position was. Jiangling had three deputy envoys responsible for financial planning, a deputy envoy in the Privy Council was responsible for military affairs, the Grand Governor's Office managed the wing army, and also supervised the imperial guards. There were also a chief eunuch in the palace who was responsible for coming to serve as a military supervisor, and there were also multiple levels of supervision and management of the Ministry of War and the inspectors. The six ministries all set up departments in Jiangling, and each department had a minister stationed in Jiangling.

Among the royal families, Jiangling also had the largest number of royal families, with eleven princes and more than 130 princes and marquises, accounting for more than 80% of the royal families of the Great Wei Dynasty. The remaining only a small number of royal families were in the capital, most of which were small clans, guarding the ancestral temples in the capital, and the remote clan members had low titles. There is no need to worry that they would disturb the capital, interfere in the political situation, and do many illegal acts.

Of course, the rest are in Fuzhou, the capital, Jiangling, Fuzhou, and most of the royal families in the Great Wei Dynasty settled their homes in these three places.

Of course, there are many royal families scattered outside as officials, but once they resign or are dismissed, they need to return to Jiangling or Fuzhou, and they are not allowed to settle outside without authorization.

This is the law of the royal family in the court. It allows the royal family to take exams, be an official, or even conduct business, and all walks of life. It is not allowed to settle a house outside the prescribed place to avoid disturbing the people and have strange thoughts. It is also not allowed to open factories or mines to avoid gathering strong men and making bad plans.

Jiangling has a lot of royal family and officials, and it is originally a big city with developed culture and education and prosperous industry and commerce. With Jiangling Mansion, the city can reach the financial income of many places along the way. Even Fuzhou and Quanzhou combined, there is also a Hangzhou to compete with Jiangling.

As for Suzhou Fucheng hundreds of miles away, it is also a place with extremely developed culture, education, industry and commerce. Its economic strength is not inferior to Jiangling, but its position as military and political centers is far from that of Jiangling.

Xu Zixian originally wanted to take everyone to broaden his horizons. He stayed in Jiangling for three days. In addition to traveling to Jiangling City, he also went to Danyang and Zhenjiang to experience the customs of Jiangnan.

Zhang Huchen, Lin Cunxin and others were shocked by Jiangling's wealth, but at the same time they were also surprised that the customs of Jiangling and other places were too extravagant.

Not only rich people, but even ordinary people wear silk and satin. Many men apply makeup like women. The style of scholars is not only extravagant, but also feminine, which makes martial artists such as Zhang Huchen stunned.

There were too many royal family members and civil and military officials, too many great merchants, and too many young scholars, which also caused the Qinhuai River to bloom ten miles and the flowers and boats of various kinds to cross over a thousand. In the evening, Xu Zi first took Zhang Huchen and others to visit, and everyone was lingering.

Unfortunately, these flower boats almost turned away the warriors from Fujian.

The prostitutes and girls on the flower boat all rely on civil servants, celebrities, and famous students to help. They have learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since they were young, hoping to be famous prostitutes. Once they become famous, they do not have to pick up customers every day, and sing with the famous scholars in poetry, wine, and make a fortune.

There are many stories about joys and sorrows on the Qinhuai River. As long as you get on this river, you will always have much better outcomes than those inferior prostitutes who make money purely by their physical body.

Zhang Huchen and others were all angry and realized that there was something in this world that even if you have money, you can't buy.

When those poets saw handsome students and famous scholars, they would have to invite them on board if they paid for the money. However, they were too lazy to entertain the group of martial artists from Fujian. Although they were not so bored that they rolled their eyes to reject guests, the coldness in their bones was still quite obvious.

At night, everyone was so angry that they could only go to those inferior places, and they were depressed, which was inevitable.

Fortunately, Jiangling only delayed for three days, and Xu Zixian was afraid that he would delay it. The atmosphere here would affect ordinary martial arts soldiers.

Fuzhou is already a rich and prosperous place, and the atmosphere is still much more frugal and heavy than Jiangling. In this city, even the most ordinary people, the village men who carry manure and farm at night wear headscarves and hats in the morning. They politely go to the teahouse to drink tea, read the residence and discuss current affairs.

Scholars often gathered in groups of three or five to cause trouble. The government did not have enough prestige and did not impose government orders. The chaos in the local area was quite obvious. However, unlike Fuzhou, Fuzhou was frequent pirates, Jingnan was full of mountain people, and Jiangling was completely different.

Right Prime Minister Xu Xiashang was quite disdainful of these scholars Qingliu.

Although the royal family and Qingliu are not said to be incompatible with water and fire, they are obviously two people.

Qingliu thought that the royal family had many playboys and wasted no effort. Their own family also opened a business, lent loan sharks, and sucked blood from the people, but he turned a blind eye to the royal family and criticized the royal family for wasting their wealth and cream. The double standard was that they were talking loudly.

Xu Xiashang's evaluation came to the forefront. There were only Jiangling who was a scholar in the country!

Xu Zixian was not as angry as the old prime minister, but he did not agree with this decadent style of scholars.

Scholars are very polite and sensible, and can teach local people's spirit. If the scholars are not good, it will only make the local people's spirit worse. The Great Wei is not the Qin rule of governing the country, nor is it the way of the Han Dynasty Huang-Lao, but Confucianism has the upper hand. If the Confucian scholars do not maintain their own moral integrity, the impact on the local area is actually quite bad.

Since leaving Jiangling, Xu Zixian felt that the wind was still eclipsing, and his gains were not deep, but the journey north was very important, so he could only set sail again and go straight to the capital.

The journey to North Shanghai is completely different after passing Jiangling.

The number of sea ships gradually decreased. When they arrived in Dengzhou and Laizhou, these three lucky ships could also be called large ships. They were more than two masts and hard sails, which were more than ten meters long and even less than ten meters long, and could only accommodate less than ten people, similar to small boats like Navy Grand Sentence's large whistle boats.

This kind of ship can transport dozens of stones of rice and grain at a time, mainly sea transport ships in Shandong and other places. If there were no sea transport ships, there would be even fewer ships.

Shandong East Road, Shandong East Road, Henan Road, Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, Hedong Road, these northern inland provinces are relatively conservative in places, and industry and commerce are more backward than the south, with more officials and gentry and less rich, resulting in more landlords than the south. Because industry and commerce are underdeveloped, wealthy officials and gentry can open at most several business banks, and the rest of the money is used to buy land, which makes the average wealth far less than the north in the south, and the land price is much higher than that in the north.

When we arrived at Jinhaizhangzhai, there were only dozens of small boats moored at the port, most of which were from the sea and then along the Tongji River, the materials and food transported from the canal were transported all the way to Tongzhou.

The Tongji River is shallow, and the three lucky ships are all large ships, so everyone can only disembark at the Jinhai Port. Fortunately, there is less than 200 miles away from the capital, and it will be within two days.

Unfortunately, the weather is not good. It is already February, and there is still snowfall. It only took a winter to fall in Fuzhou. The snow in front of me is light snow in the north, and it is already considered heavy snow in Fuzhou.

Many southern barbarians were ashen with a cold face. Zhang Huchen complained and hurriedly wrapped his thick cloak on his body.

"After a while, I'll ask the postmaster to cook more ginger soup." Xu Zixian didn't feel much uncomfortable in his spirit. It was convenient for people from later generations to go out. He has also been to many places in the northern country where snow had to be dug out in winter. The snow scene was not new to him.

But the body still felt a little uncomfortable. Yanbei land was dry, bitter and cold, Fuzhou was warm and warm, and it rarely reached below zero when it was the coldest in winter. Now the temperature is estimated to be at least about minus five or six degrees below zero, which has already recovered in the north, but Xu Zixian felt that it was as cold as everyone else.

Chen Zuo shook the snow on his body and said to Xu Zixian: "I can enter Beijing on the afternoon of the fourth day, and go to Dazong and the Ministry of Rites to join the letter on the fifth day. Zongzhengshi held the title and the lock hall test was the ninth day of the second month, but it was enough to be rushed."

Xu Zixian said: "Have you ever been to the capital?"

"I came to Yanjing for the Jinshi exam more than ten years ago." Chen Zuocai said: "I didn't try again after I failed the trial."

Chen Zuocai was just a scholar. The examination system of the Great Wei Dynasty was different from that of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The first juren of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a gentry. There was no need to say that he was a good person. As long as he wanted to be an official, he could not only take the exam but always have the status of a juren, but he could also go to the Ministry of Personnel to choose an official as a juren. This kind of background is called a big-picking background. He is generally a miscellaneous official in the prefecture or a county magistrate in the remote county. The origin of a juren is also considered a clear and upright journey, and is lower than that of a Jinshi, and is much better than a supervisor or a student or a favor, or a donation of an official.

During the Qing Dynasty, there were many juren, and even the Grand Secretary of the Congjiang River, the most famous one was Zuo Zongtang.

However, the Great Wei Dynasty is different. You don’t have to take the exam for the identity of a scholar, but if you pass the exam every three years, you will go to Beijing to participate in the Ministry of Rites at the beginning of the second year. Only if you win the exam can you become an official. If you fail, your identity as a scholar will be cancelled and you will take the exam again in the next round of provincial examinations. If you win, you can go to Beijing to participate in the exam again.

There are many people who give up if they fail one exam.

"The situation at that time, how is it today?"
Chapter completed!