"Oh, the son-in-law of the Liu family has become the lord!" said a villager.

"It's so amazing, even better than our county magistrate."

"Yes, now Mr. Liu's house is shaking."

"I remember that he didn't look down on Xue Rengui at the beginning."

“That’s it, that’s it.”

...

I heard that Xue Rengui has not only become a high-ranking official at the same level as the county magistrate, but also a lord, who is even more powerful than the county magistrate.

Envy, jealousy and hatred, the villagers' eyes were straightened.

The news spread like wildfire, and county magistrates and other officials and celebrities kept coming to visit Xue Rengui.

Xue Rengui stayed in his hometown for only three days and was in a hurry to go back.

Wang advised him to stay for a few more days, and Xue Rengui said, "No, I must go back quickly. The prince may want to hire people."

Xue Rengui is a real man, and it is his duty to repay kindness. He rushed back to serve the prince. So he took Liu Jinhua and others on the way to the capital.

Zhou Qing followed Xue Rengui to Chang'an. Xue Rengui just promised him to recommend him to the prince for him. As for whether he could be hired, he did not guarantee it, it all depends on the prince's arrangement.

After Liu Rengui reported to the Ministry of War, he moved into the Qi Palace and listened to the prince's call. The more he knew the prince, the more shocked, the more admired, and liked him.

He didn't know what virtue he had accumulated from his ancestors, so that the ancestral tombs were smoked.

This prince is talented, he treats people with ease and sincerity, protects his children, and does not greedy for merit. He thinks about the people around him any benefits. Such a master is really the person he dreams of.

Not to mention the descendants of Zhang Baogui and other nobles. Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance were born similar to Liu Rengui, and he was valued and had already begun to make achievements. Liu Rengui, who is also talented, is naturally excited and is just waiting to make achievements.

The first task that Liu Rengui received was to train a ocean-going naval army and prepare to implement the large-scale navigation plan.

Soon, he took the official documents of the Ministry of War and went to Yangzhou to perform his mission.

The shipbuilding industry in the Tang Dynasty was very developed and ranked in the world's leading position. I won't describe it one by one here.

The first thing that goes into the ocean is to build ships.

He has a specialty in his profession. If he wants to build a ship, he needs to have an expert in building a ship. After checking the information, Li You found a top expert in building a ship during the Zhenguan period, his name was Tang Xun.

Tang Xun is not simple. He served as the shipbuilding ambassador of Yangzhou Road in history. He was able to make his own ship drawings and organize the shipbuilding industry.

?Especially, it is amazing to make ship drawings by themselves. It was not until 1633, a thousand years later, that someone could make ship drawings by themselves.

At this time, Tang Xun was just a supervisor in the Left School Office of the Works Department, and was a draftsman, a junior official from the ninth rank.

Tang Xun is 22 years old this year. He is a standard white-faced scholar. He has a weak body. He is not good at speaking and is an honest and steady young man.

That morning, as usual, Tang Xun was the first to come to the office room, clean it up, and then started working with eight supervisors.

At this time, the voice of the Left School Office Order came from outside the door, and he said diligently: "Sir, Tang Xun is working here."

The door opened, and the Left School Office ordered a seventh-rank military officer to come in. When everyone saw it, they saw that this person was Bai Hu, the Dianjun Captain of His Highness King Qi.

The Left School Office Order said: "Tang Xun, I have come here to meet Lord Dian Jun."

Tang Xun hurried over and saluted the White Tiger.

Baihu looked at Tang Xun and said, "You are Tang Xun. My prince has fallen in love with you. From now on, you will be a member of the Qi Palace. Come with me."

Who is His Highness King Qi? One word is awesome!

Everyone who followed His Highness the King of Qi had all made great achievements. Tang Xun was very happy. Under the complex eyes of everyone's envy, jealous and hatred, he opened his glorious new life.

Tang Xun is not the only one who changes his destiny.

At noon that day, notices were posted in front of the gates of the east and west cities, which caused a sensation among merchants. The notice stated that the Qi Wang Mansion recruited shipbuilding supervisors and the work location was in Yangzhou.

No matter who is, it is particularly noted that no matter who, including the children of businessmen, can take the exam and hire the best.

This supervisory work is the lowest level of officials in the Ministry of Works, and its work location is in Yangzhou. It is not very attractive to ordinary nobles and children of officials, but for children of civilians and merchants, this is the first step to becoming an official.

There were only 24 people admitted to the supervisory work, and the registration time was only three days, but 715 people came to register at once.

That morning, the first exam began in the courtyard of the research institute.

More than 700 people sat in the yard, with a desk in front of each of them. Originally, the institute was preparing to hold a new school and prepared some desks, but it was still not enough, so they asked Kong Yingda for help and borrowed some desks. This met the demand.

Xiao Qian and Kong Yingda were invited to preside over the exam.

At 9 a.m., the exam officially begins.

Xiao Wanyu and more than a dozen female officials from the institute began to hand out papers to the candidates. Seeing these young and beautiful female officials wearing high heels, the candidates thought that they would enter the institute in the future and deal with these female officials, their already boiling blood burned directly.

There are only three types of contents in the exam. According to the content of the first article of the Analects of Confucius, write a thought, which is required to be between 500 and 700 words. This is to examine the candidates' basic cultural literacy.

The second question is mathematics, which examines the candidates' basic mathematics.

The third question is a bit strange.

This question is painting, but the candidates do not require them to make complete works. They only require them to draw a circle, a square, a straight line, two parallel lines, and an egg.

This is an examination of the candidates' skills in learning mechanical drawing.

The exam is over.

Finally, 24 candidates were admitted, including 3 children of officials, 5 children of civilians, and the rest were children of businessmen.

The candidates recruited were organized into a shipbuilding study class, which was taught by Tang Xun.

In order to train a group of shipbuilding engineers as soon as possible, Li You copied the scientific and technological knowledge about "Mechanical Mapping" and shipbuilding from the Science and Technology Library, allowing Tang Xun to learn and teach.

When the ancients used brushes to paint, it was inconvenient to make drawings. So Li You had to take out a secret weapon in advance.

It has been said before that Li Shimin, Li You and Gao Jingming had a big plan, which is to comprehensively improve the level of education for all, and is actually also a cultural foundation for the aristocratic clans.

Last time, the first step was achieved by improving the status of a businessman and a large number of schools were added nationwide. For this reason, the students also had a student movement.

However, this is far from enough to improve the cultural level of the entire Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!