"The father-in-law is too good. I just feel that the pro-official system controlled by the powerful clan has become a bad policy that drags down Da Song. Since the wealthy clan in Yanzhou has been cleaned up, why not give the poor scholars in the world a chance?" Zhao Xu said slowly.

"Your Highness's courage is admired by us. It's just that the official system is the lifeblood of the world's powerful clans and the powerful clans. Isn't your Highness afraid that the world's powerful clans will attack him?"

At this time, a scholar in his thirties with a national face stood up and said.

Mi Zhuang looked at the scholar and said to Zhao Xu: "Your Highness, this man is named Zhutuo. He was a county magistrate in Ningzhou for six years. Later, he resigned from his post because he was dissatisfied with Shangguan's corruption and fraud. He has been teaching in a private school in the capital for the past two years."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly and said to Zhu Tuo: "You are wrong and stay in Yanzhou. Even if I do nothing, the power clan will regard me as a thorn in my eyes and a thorn in my flesh. Instead of doing this, it is better to make drastic moves and do whatever I want."

Then, he suppressed the powerful clan in business, and he resolved it, and used the Yuan family to check and balance him. He just experienced another assassination and other things.

Mi Zhuang frowned and sighed, "Your Highness is so terrible. If so, your Highness can only rely on himself."

"I think so too," Zhao Xu said.

After hearing this, Zhu Tuo was silent for a while and said, "When I was in the capital, I heard that Your Highness valued business, and the treasury had only supported it until now. Now Your Highness controls the four northern counties and needs more money. The power tribe is fickle and often goes back on his word. Maybe he will continue to make a fuss about trade in the future. Your Highness should prepare for the future."

"Brother Zhu said that there is a way to go. If Your Highness can make it, he will make more than ten million in the future." Another person stood up.

This man sat opposite Zhutuo, with a round face, dark complexion and a little black mole on his eyebrows.

"Your Highness, his name is Xia Huai. He once made a book of accounts on a sea boat because of his livelihood, and later worked as a minor official in the capital for three years." Mi Zhuang said.

When Zhao Xu heard this, his interest in Xia Huai increased greatly.

This is not because he was a minor official for three years, but because he made a book of accounts on a sea boat.

Since waking up, he has basically mastered the bad situation in Dasong, but he knows nothing about the bad situation outside Dasong.

I just know that there are warships loaded with artillery in the West in this world that are rampant at sea.

But according to contemporary experience, the Age of Discovery continued from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

During this period, Western warships arrived in the east.

So, he wanted to know exactly what stage the West of this world is at.

"Please speak." Zhao Xu did not rush to ask, and wanted Xia Huai to say it first.

After pondering for a while, Xia Huai said, "Sea Trade! As long as your highness's business goods go overseas, you will definitely make a lot of profit."

Zhao Xu nodded secretly, and all the officials in Yanzhou had no idea about the ocean.

In fact, they can't be blamed.

After all, the Dongtu Continent has been a powerful country for thousands of years.

Even in modern times, the importance of maritime power has been gradually strengthened in recent years.

But people don’t understand Dasong, he understands.

"I'm not hiding this matter to you, the king mentioned this matter, but the emperor has rejected it." Zhao Xu looked at Xia Huai.

"This..." Everyone whispered when they heard this.

Xia Huai chuckled with a bright look, "Even so, does Your Highness understand the way to adapt?"

Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, and the two looked at each other and smiled. Then he skipped the matter and asked, "I have always been very interested in Dasong's current sea trade. I don't know what interesting things you encountered when you were doing accounting at sea. You can tell me."

Xia Huai looked up at the gray sky and said slowly: "In the following view, among the eight major tribes, the Liang family is the richest, and it can even be said to be richest in the world. This shows the benefits of maritime trade."

After thinking about it, he continued: "As for interesting things, I don't have much experience. Only the core members of the Liang family can participate in some important trades, and outsiders have no way to know that at that time, I participated in the silk trade. The ship set off from Zhejiang to Japan."

"Yangtze?" Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment.

The history of the Central Plains of this world has become a mess.

There have also been considerable changes in other places, but in this world, you can still find some familiar elements, such as the word Japan.

"But to say something interesting, I have seen some strange-looking people in Japan, who call them British people, Folang Ji people and so on."

"British? Folangji? Are they blue eyes and white skin?" Zhao Xu asked.

Xia Huai was surprised, "How does Your Highness know?"

Mi Zhuang looked at Zhao Xu in confusion at the same time. He was also very surprised. Zhao Xu had been growing up in the deep palace and knew these things.

"I heard some businessmen say it." Zhao Xu defended.

Xia Huai showed such an expression, and he continued: "These weirdos have also taught the Japanese people to make a firearm called iron cannon."

Upon hearing this, a sensation broke out in Zhao Xu's heart.

Whether it is the British or the Florida, it is obvious that they are the Western colonists of this world.

In contemporary history, the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and British traded with Japan in the 17th century.

At that time, Japan was ruled by the shogunate, and among several countries, the Dutch and Japan had the closest relationship. After Japan closed its country, it became the only country to trade with Japan.

It was in trade with these countries that Japan mastered the technology of making coercive guns, which the Japanese called iron cannons.

This firearm played a huge role in the war between Toyonae Hideyoshi's invasion of North Korea.

So, Xia Huai said this to him, the illusion that history repeats itself.

It seems that the Great Song seems to be in such a period as the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But just as the history of Dasong is distorted, and it has been closed to the country.

It is still impossible to judge the development status of this world based on this alone, and the news from ancient times was still very closed.

It's just obvious.

An era of hot and cold weapons is coming.

Especially after he sent the cannons to Jinling, it would attract the attention of the powerful and powerful people of Dasong.

After all, Dasong has attached great importance to the development of muskets in recent years.

The musket is actually a cannon, but due to the limitations of forging technology, its power is very poor.

If we include the artillery that the Liang family had just exploded and the melee gun presented to Zhao Heng.

This means that even without his arrival, the mezzanine and artillery had already appeared on the stage of Da Song.

His appearance accelerated the process.

"The eight major tribes should not underestimate them." Zhao Xu murmured to himself when he thought of the Liang family's melee gun and artillery.

Among the eight major tribes, the Liang family has always been low-key in the court, but it is obviously hidden the deepest.

Judging from the current situation, the cots guns are no longer a secret to the Liang family.

Otherwise, they would not be generous to Zhao Heng. Besides, a primary convex gun is not necessarily better than a bow and arrow, which is probably one of the reasons why the Liang family is generous.

After he showed up the artillery, the Liang family had no choice but to show that they came to compete with him.

Suddenly he smiled.

Zhao Xu felt that he was thinking a little too much.

No matter how the situation outside changes.

At present, it is still the first priority to build your own closure.

Respond to changes with the same change.

A banquet lasted for an hour. After the banquet ended, Zhao Xu asked Liu Fu to arrange accommodation for the scholars and wait for the official examination.

Leave Mi Zhuang and Mi Wen alone in the mansion.

At this time, Feng'er and Luan'er came to pay tribute to Mi Zhuang.

After all, the two were taken in by Mizhuang since childhood.

"Okay, okay, Your Highness is alone in Yanzhou. You must take good care of him." Mi Zhuang smiled slightly in front of the wing room of the Intermediate Courtyard.

Mi Wen took advantage of the situation and said with a smile: "With me here, your highness will not be alone in the future, and I can take care of your highness."

"Hmph, after I leave, you can take good care of yourself. If you dare not listen to Your Highness's order in Yanzhou, your father and I will take you to the capital." Mi Zhuang glared at Mi Wen.

When Mi Wen heard this, he shrank his neck and did not dare to speak.

At home, my grandfather has always been strict with their father and son.

"The father-in-law wants to go back?" Zhao Xu heard what Mi Zhuang said.

Mi Zhuang nodded with a smile, "This time I sent these scholars to Your Highness to help Your Highness, but I will be hurting Your Highness."

"Oh? How can I explain this?" Zhao Xu probably guessed something.

Mi Zhuang said: "The people under Your Highness have all experienced bloody storms with You, and now they are in power. When I come, I will only be overwhelming. Secondly, although I carefully consider the scholars who came this time and choose those who have gaps with each other, I am here, and they will be more willing to get close to me, which will inevitably lead to the officialdom being in a dispute between the party."

After a while, he continued, "Only I can leave can they be truly used by His Highness."

Zhao Xu sighed softly, Zhao Xu's memory of Mi Zhuang was really correct.

It is precisely because of the existence of these memories that he turned to Mi Zhuang for help, and now it seems that it is right.

As Mi Zhuang said, he was a father-in-law with a respectable status and it would be difficult for him to stay in Yanzhou to be under Liu Fu.

But if Mi Zhuang commands all the officials in Yanzhou, the officials in Yanzhou must be dissatisfied.

The second is what Mi Zhuang said about forming a clique.
To be continued...