In order to educate the people, in addition to supporting local education, the most common behavior of county magistrates is to have the district chief preach some stories of loyalty, justice, etiquette, and strengthen the construction of the rule of law.

But teaching arithmetic has never been done before, but both Man Bao and Bai Shan think it is necessary.

Literacy is too difficult, and the vast majority of people in the world are illiterate. To be literate, you need a book and someone who knows how to read.

But counting is different. Man Bao thinks that counting is the simplest intellectual game in the world. It does not require any materials. You can just pick up a handful of stones on the ground with your fingers and count.

First recognize the numbers, know the numbers, and then add and subtract by yourself. The addition of the same number is multiplication, and the subtraction of the same number is division. There is no simpler and cheaper way to open up your mind than knowing the numbers.

And counting is also very important in life. You can see from today's calculation. Her mother and sister-in-law started teaching her to count her fingers and toes when she was very young. She could only speak at that time.

Of course, she couldn't remember these things clearly, just some fragments that flashed in her mind, but Keke remembered them.

Man Bao felt that the people in her fiefdom should be wiser. Well, she would go back and have a chat with the village chiefs.

After walking through the section of the road where Magistrate Guo and Magistrate Xun cooperated, they arrived at the section built with Zhou Man's money. Then when they reached the fork in the road, they only looked in the direction of Yueyang County and saw that the road was flat and as wide as theirs.

He nodded with satisfaction and continued towards Xincheng.

This is Mingda's imperial mansion, and she has a residence here.

In the past, this imperial estate did not specially prepare the courtyard for the master to live. After all, this imperial estate is not the closest to the capital, nor is it the largest nearby, and it really has no characteristics, so no one in the royal family thought of living here.

But when the emperor wanted to build this row of houses, he allocated money to build a house for his daughter in Zhuangzi, specifically for Mingda to stay when he came to inspect the property.

What else should I do? Xincheng is still far away from the capital. Where can she rest if she gets tired when she comes to inspect the industry?

So this time Mingda and the others went directly to Mingda's manor.

After all the luggage was unloaded and most of the people were put down, they took some of their entourage and headed for the new city.

Now there are more people in the new town than last time. The steward in charge of the shops in this street immediately rushed to say hello and reported to Princess Mingda: "There are nine shops rented out now, and six are under renovation.

But I don’t know why, this morning many people in the capital sent stewards over to reserve small shops, and some people also asked that the shops that had been rented out be freed up for them..."

Mingda asked curiously, "Who are they?"

The steward said: "The Prince's Palace came to reserve two rooms, and Princess Danyang's Palace came to reserve one..."

They are all relatives of the emperor.

The steward quietly raised his eyes and looked at Mingda before saying: "The Duke of Zhao also came to reserve a room, but it was the Duke who reserved a room, and the young prince himself reserved a room."

The steward paused for a moment and then continued: "The young master said that his shop will be next to Mr. Zhou's shop."

Upon hearing this, Man Bao asked: "By the way, what does my shop sell?"

Everyone:......

You, a business owner, ask everyone what they want to sell?

Man Bao looked innocent, "I originally wanted to sell ointments and creams, but didn't Chang Yu and Li Jun agree that our Zhou Ji would not open a shop in Yongzhou in the future?"

The steward then smiled and said, "I have asked Madam Zhou, and she said that the Zhou family is only good at medicine and food, so this shop will be used for food, and now they are planning to open a restaurant."

But this time the restaurant was very high-end, unlike the one in the outer city, because there were a lot of houses rented to scholars nearby, so Zhou Lijun wanted to make it more elegant.

Man Bao has been busy recently, and Zhou Lijun is also busy, so the two of them have basically never met each other, and naturally they have not communicated about this matter.

After all, this store is full of treasures, and the leasing, handover and decoration were all done by Zhou Lijun.

Unlike Princess Changyu, she has no problem putting any amount of property in her name, but Zhou Man obviously cannot, so this shop is leased under Xiang Mingxue's name.

He was punished back then and was not allowed to serve as an official. Even his children found it difficult to become an official. After all, assassinating the royal family was a serious crime. It was good that he was not exiled.

The store is half full at this time.

Zhou Lijun smiled and stepped forward to greet them.

Chang Yu and Zhou Lijun had met several times. They were about the same age and had somewhat similar temperaments, so they got along very well. Before Man Bao could say anything, Chang Yu invited her first, "Let's go back to Huangzhuang to rest together."

So Zhou Lijun accompanied them from the end of the street to the street, and then from the street to the end of the street, before going to Huangzhuang.

The steward then quietly reported to Princess Mingda, "The Prince's Palace has taken a fancy to Mr. Zhou's current shop..."

Mingda frowned and asked: "Which county king is it?"

The steward confessed in advance and then said: "He is the prince of Hejian County, but the one who came here is a steward."

"Didn't you say that the shop has been rented out?"

"He was in a hurry at that time, so he just circled the place on the drawing and left. When he found out, he chased him out and found that the person had already returned."

Mingda gave him a cold look and said, "Then you can go and apologize in person."

The steward was stunned, immediately knelt down, lowered his head in fear and said: "Yes, I will come to the door in person tomorrow."

Mingda looked at him condescendingly and asked: "Aside from this, what else is there?"

The steward paused for a moment and then said: "Princess Danyang's house said that the princess and her consort will come to Yongzhou soon, and they would like to use the princess's house to rest."

Princess Mingda's face brightened slightly, she nodded and said, "Yes."

The steward knelt on the ground and stared for a long time. Seeing that the princess did not give any orders, he kowtowed and quietly retreated.

Mingda lowered his eyes and thought for a while. After a long while, he couldn't help but sigh and said to his confidant maid: "There are too few useful people around me."

The palace maid smiled and said: "Your Highness, you are too demanding. He is not easy to use. Just adjust it slowly. Your Majesty and the empress have given you a lot of manpower. You have to say that there are few people who can be used. The other princesses will be angry when they hear it.

Yeah."

Mingda shook his head and said, "They are useless. Let's replace them with a group of young governors."

She said: "You can tell by looking at the Zhou family. If they can't figure out my thoughts, then they should know how to abide by the rules and do everything according to the rules. Then they won't make mistakes. Even if they make mistakes, they are just small mistakes."

"But he can't figure out my thoughts, but he insists on trying to figure it out, and he still wants to think from my position." Mingda sneered, "It's already a taboo to speculate unreasonably, but it's still such an unwise speculation, like this

How can someone use it?"

The palace maid stopped talking.

Mingda never expected that the person carefully selected for her by her father and mother would have so many flaws.

I don’t know if those people under my father’s command may also have problems.

Mingda was thinking about such a serious issue, while Changyu and others who were resting on the other side sat down cross-legged on both sides. Knowing that Princess Danyang was coming, Changyu happily said to Manbao: "Aunt Danyang and uncle have a good relationship.
Chapter completed!