Chapter 577 – Something Magical Happens

Natsubara Yoshi enters the palace.

Played against Zhu Di.

However, it seems that the monarchs and ministers did not talk for a few moments before Natsubara Yoshi took his leave.

Immediately thereafter, an imperial edict was issued, appointing Natsubayoshi as the Minister of Education, and he took office on the following day.

The reason why Zhu didn’t talk to Natsubara Yoshi in detail.

In fact, this is also out of Zhu Di’s mastery of Xia Yuan Ji, after all, the monarch and the minister for so many years, for anyone else, the last time is enough to let Xia Yuan Ji die without a burial place.

But in the end, Natsubaruyoshi did no more than salute him, and soon, again, accepted the responsibility of overseeing the construction of Shinto.

It is not because of Zhu Di’s favoritism, but for people like Zhu Di, the same thing, different people, their intentions are different, naturally will be treated differently.

Though it is often said that a gentleman discusses the signs regardless of the heart.

But the actual situation, is completely different, Zhu Di at least know Xia Yuanji work or reliable, and there is nothing too sinister mind, and the reason why the last thing, but is Xia Yuanji bones in the thinking of the readers only.

To say that there were any ill-intentioned attempts would be an overstatement.

This time, all the ministers publicly elected Xia Yuanji as the new Ministry of Ministers, which is also considered to be the popular wish of the people.

On the one hand, the Wen Yuan Pavilion university professors and Xia Yuan Ji’s relationship are very deep, and got the Ministry of Rites Secretary Liu Guan’s recommendation, other ministries and departments, seniority are far less than Xia Yuan Ji, Xia Yuan Ji is also considered respect, naturally, they have all seconded the motion.

As for the other ministers, especially those Qingliu, not to mention that under one blow after another, the Qingliu in the dynasty, has become a rare species, even if there is, even if they no matter how much they slander Xia Yuanji shameless, actually play a slippery trick, two bets.

But when you think about it, which of the remaining candidates, apart from Natsubara Yoshi, are not those New Deal diehards?

This one, all have the old man to get the death of the squire such words engraved on the face, rather than let such a person as the new Ministry of Shangshu, it would be better to Xia Yuanji it.

Although Xia Yuanji has two ends, but after all, it is still hiding, Judas Pipa half cover, the surface of a few crowning words, in other words, the ghost knows whether it is a guy who wants to smash the Confucian temple.

Thus the court discussion of the public push, can be said to be a lopsided situation, since Zhu Di ascended to the throne, the court of the court, never yesterday that unanimity of opinion.

Natsubara Yoshi in the process of facing the saint, in fact, the heart has roughly some ideas about the new ministry, after all, last night has been and his own son talk freely, roughly already understand the goal of the new ministry.

This is how things are in the world. If you teach someone without experience, he may be at a loss as to what to do.

But all people who have the experience of doing things, especially Xia Yuanji such eunuchs, mastered a ministry for more than ten years of people, in fact, no matter what to do, not yet started to do it, in fact, the heart already has a chapter and verse.

The main responsibilities of the new ministry are nothing more than the curriculum, the university halls and the public schools, which are managed in addition to the new construction of countless school halls, as well as the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of teachers that may be available in the future.

Then, to put things in order, then is to develop a new ministry hall of their own statutes, not to mention the other, each Buzhengzhi, need to set up a corresponding cleaner division!

In addition, and then set up in charge of money and food of the master and Langzhong, and then set up a governor of the Department, a responsible for the syllabus of the Department of literature, there is a framework, to distinguish between the duties, followed by, and then one thing to do.

First calculate the approximate budget, and then ask for the allocation of money and grain, after that, the order of the provincial clearing department to recruit teachers, selected some of the school’s chief officer as well as the second officer, the capital side, this is the Department of literature and election to liaise with the university halls, responsible for the development of the syllabus.

The reason why we should ask the university hall to staff the syllabus, because in essence, the future of the future of the world’s states and counties of the school, the outstanding is to be admitted to the university hall to continue their education.

If they fail to meet the requirements of the university halls for future trainees and work behind closed doors, when they are really trained, the university halls will turn out to be dissatisfied, and they will inevitably have to start a dispute.

As a result, medical schools, arithmetic schools, government schools, martial arts schools, engineering schools, railroad schools, and maritime political schools were brought together in a number of well-known schools.

As for the other university halls, after all, their influence is still insufficient to take care of all of them.

In addition, the Ministry of Education, Xia Yuanji did the third thing, is to plan the teacher training school, and this, too, is the most important!

After all, …… the current approach of utilizing showmen for teaching is only a temporary one and is unlikely to last.

This point, in fact, Natsubara Yoshi know very well, any forced everyone to do things, at first the effect must always be okay, but once the days are long, will certainly be dug out to find a loophole, and after that, and then try to do everything possible to sabotage it.

This is just like the state school in the period of Emperor Taizu’s high emperor, under the high pressure of Emperor Taizu’s high emperor, the supervisors had to enter the state school to study, but for a long time, everyone also slacked off, so that this state school, now has long been overgrown with weeds.

Really want to implement a thing, and can get long-term support, then …… not to force a group of reluctant people, but should be, there is a rely on this livelihood group, they are the firm supporters of this national policy, who smash their rice bowls, it is and the 100,000 million CaoLong against it.

This teacher training school is so, try to find ways to recruit students, after graduation and then into the public school as a teacher, they want to learn to use, the future is to eat this bowl of rice, the public school is their food and clothing, recruiting more schoolchildren enrollment, is their performance, is the fundamental part of the money they receive food.

In this way, this group of peaches and plums will be the first to jump up and refuse to budge if one day someone says to them that the public schools should be abolished.

Therefore, this teacher training university hall, the scale must be large enough, and the ministry of this side to personally preside over, can never pretend to others.

After these things are done, it’s actually the negotiation part.

Office school, in addition to the court allocated money and food, in essence, is to solve the problem of schoolchildren, schoolchildren enrolled in school, can be literate, mastery of arithmetic, which is certainly beneficial.

But with these benefits, it’s not enough to get motivated.

The problem now is that on this side of the capital, there are indeed quite a few university halls, but compared to the whole world, the number of schoolchildren that these university halls can enroll is a drop in the bucket.

University halls are actually more or less profitable now, partly from tuition fees and partly from grants.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji’s idea is that this university hall must be expanded, or rather, in all the world’s prefectural government departments, try to have two to three or more university halls. In this way, for the local schoolchildren to continue to study, to provide a convenient, which two, also means that the annual enrollment of the school quota is also greatly increased.

If into a university hall, as if the imperial examinations, a year down, only a few thousands of tens of thousands of places, for the vast majority of schoolchildren, this is the existence of the unattainable, naturally, also cut off the heart of the school.

But if you can get 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of posts per year and have quite a future after entering the university hall, then …… it’s a completely different story.

In the final analysis, the new ministry’s responsibility, in addition to building schools, followed by persuasion, to teach the world’s military and civilian sons and daughters are enrolled in school, based solely on a few official documents, it is impossible, which is the same as the former to encourage people to read the book of the sages, if there is no merit, who would be willing to study?

After the finalization of these, the new ministry can finally maintain the operation.

Xia Yuanji and on all the way on the sang, all the above matters, and please transfer some officials, into the new ministry, in the end, he is old, not possible to do everything himself, there must be some use of the hand, as the right hand.

Zhu Di after reading his zhangshi, but also painfully, did not say anything more, and then directly approved.

After this matter is sent down to organize, within the capital, recently is a rare peace and quiet.

But just because it was peaceful, it always made people feel as if something was missing.

The daily diaries, too, are almost always lackluster news, rather than boring.

The only thing that’s buzzing is probably the perch.

Here in Qixia, there were many buildings, and too many business firms had set up their headquarters here, thus, it seemed extraordinarily lively.

Especially the horse street side, is the merchants often in and out of the place, can be said to be every day lively.

These days, even Zhang Anshi actually came every now and then.

He does not speak of business ethics.

At first, people couldn’t help but rejoice at the sight of His Highness the King of Song personally coming here, after all, His Highness the King of Song was already very popular with the merchants.

Moreover, His Highness the King of Song is willing to condescend to come here, which makes the merchants feel honored.

This Walking Street is, in fact, the place where bulk commodities are traded.

However, delivery of commodities, after all, is time-consuming and laborious.

Many merchants buy and sell, wait for no hurry, they will be here directly under the trade order direct transactions, as long as the documents, delivery of gold and silver, the agreement will be considered effective, and then find time to pick up the goods can be.

Over time, some people see the doorway, with the frequency of transactions, there are people do not even go to mention the goods, but directly with the person signed a subscription list, turn the head, if the market is good, and then resell the list at a high price, clutching the difference.

Here, a special group of people have begun to appear, that is, buying and selling all kinds of lists, coupled with the market is good these days, thus many people have made money.

Of course, there are a lot of people who lose money, just …… willing to gamble.

Zhang Anshi understands the rules by and large.

The reason why this street is famous is that there is an exchange of business orders here, and this exchange is founded by dozens of the biggest business houses of the Ming Dynasty as a joint guarantee.

Because these big merchants, all big families, especially the leader of the Qixia merchant bank, have them as a guarantee, naturally, everyone is willing to trust.

It is rumored that the daily trading volume here is very amazing, and when there is a good market, it can even exceed ten million taels of silver in a day.

Zhang Anshi came almost every other day.

It didn’t take long for everyone to realize the cat was out of the bag.

For example, the last time, the King of Song came down and walked around, and soon the bulk of white sugar on the market began to be purchased.

And then not more than a few days of work, the news came out that this bulk purchase of sugar was actually due to a fire in the largest sugar workshop located in Luzon, and the price of sugar immediately skyrocketed when this news came out.

Immediately afterward, it was heard that in just a few short days, His Highness, the King of Song, had earned more than two million taels of silver.

As businessmen, their sense of smell was the sharpest of all, and for them, the slightest hint could be valuable information. So everyone’s eyes, without a doubt, landed on this His Highness, the King of Song.

Early this morning, Zhang Anshi again routinely come here, still the front and back, unusual people are not allowed to get close, but he also just came to walk around, and went back, it seems that there is nothing special.

But obviously everyone saw some clues, so many people have begun to watch every move on the market, waiting to see what His Highness the King of Song let people buy, they can also follow a wind.

It’s just a shame that the market hasn’t moved at all.

Just as everyone was disappointed.

But someone said, “Today’s turnover, but not high at all, too much less than yesterday, to say the least, yesterday’s turnover …… is rare, within one day, there are 13 million taels …… strange, yesterday also Didn’t see any significant news ah.”

At that moment, someone seemed to be alerted and nervously said, “Yesterday? What was traded yesterday?”

This is the sort of thing that, if someone were to look into it, they would immediately realize that someone, somehow, was actually dumping lumber and buying up steel on a large scale yesterday.

To hear of the dumping of lumber makes one think the unthinkable. You know, now building railroads everywhere, the demand for timber is bound to be great, so these days, specific some timber, the price is never down.

As for steel, of course, the price is not low, but over the past year, with the iron ore mining in many parts of the world, more iron and steel workshops began to build up, so the price of steel, although also in the railroad driven, high, but …… compared to other commodities, but it is much smoother.

But as things stand now, it seems clear that someone is behind it, secretly manipulating the market.

But the question is, where is the logic of this market?

Just when everyone was in a state of disbelief, people were arguing and puzzled.

Two days later.

“Master, Master ……”

In the Liu Ji Trading House, early in the morning, the big proprietor Liu Lu was awakened by an urgent voice.

This big proprietor Liu Lu rubbed his still not quite awake head, shuffled his shoes and got up, and then saw the shopkeeper himself coming.

This shopkeeper’s face anxious, face to face, said: “The latest news, the latest news sent …… Annan great victory, Annan’s His Highness, the Han King, led the army to the west to open up, routed the main force of the local Tupang, swept hundreds of miles, capturing more than thirty towns of all sizes, captured more than four hundred thousand thieves, it is rumored that this time to attack the thieves’ den, killed into the king’s city of this great harvest, heard …… that the gold and silver alone will be countless. Killed into the royal city of this Tupang, the harvest is great, heard …… that the gold and silver obtained alone are countless. These places, forests are numerous, many of them, the most suitable for manufacturing sleepers ……”

When this Liu Lu heard it, he was shocked, and the bit of drowsiness in his body dissipated all of a sudden.

And then, and listen to this shopkeeper said: “That His Highness the King of Han, has now notified Annan, to take the lead in the construction of the Annan Railway, Annan, has built the Annan Railway Division, and the construction of sleepers of the workshop in a big way, not only for their own use, but also a steady stream of peddling through the sea, only …… Annan territory, iron ore Poor, just a dozen days ago, Annan’s business group, has prepared to enter the capital, to negotiate large-scale procurement of steel required for the construction of railroads, in addition to customized steam locomotives …… Now, this Annan’s business group, has been on the road.”

Liu Lu’s expression became grave as he looked seriously at the shopkeeper and said, “What is the size of this railroad?”

This shopkeeper then said: “can be quite a lot, Annan narrow, up and down 2,000 miles, but once through, the revenue is great, so this time, His Majesty the King of Han, after a great victory, apparently intends to temporarily stop the army, will be all the efforts are used in the railroad on the head. What’s more, this plundering, earnings should not small, plus Annan is rich, gold and silver is also very much, if again to my Daming money bank borrow some, enough to support the construction of the railroad.”

“Such a large scale?” Liu Lu froze, showing a few moments of shock.

The world is now building railroads, but many of the Buzhengji Division, the use of the local search for veins, the construction of iron ore and iron and steel workshops on the spot approach, although the need for large-scale procurement, but the number of purchases, after all, is limited.

But on the Annam side, a railroad construction of such a large scale, but because of the paucity of steel, all outsourcing, it can almost be imagined that this in the future, there will be a gap of how big a steel.

Not only that, according to the nature of the Han King, in all probability, this railroad, ultimately to be connected with the railroad of Daming, then …… the future may be several years or even a dozen years, there are large-scale construction works.

This Han King, indeed, is as good as the rumors of the past, but I have to say that this is definitely a big deal.

Liu Lu frowned and said thoughtfully, “In that case, iron ore, steel, are going up big time?”

This shopkeeper said: “has begun to rise, but it is a pity that some time ago, a large number of steel, has been bought out, and now there is not much steel on the market, the major workshops, all said to expand production! But such a large gap, want to expand production, where is this easy? Thus now the exchange there, have been crazy, there are people say, some days ago, that secretly buy steel list of people, I’m afraid that this time, must be to earn a pot full of money.”

“You are talking about His Highness the King of Song ……” Liu Lu heard and subconsciously said.

The shopkeeper said, “It’s hard to say, everyone guesses that it’s His Highness the King of Song, but there’s no proof.”

“In that case, King Song learned the news in advance.” Liu Lu muttered.

The shopkeeper said, “Could it be that His Highness, the King of Han, has exchanged letters with the King of Song in advance?”

“There is this possibility, but ……” Liu Lu thought about it, “As a matter of fact, even if the Han King passed the letter in advance, but such a big thing, the Han King’s House up and down, is certainly to deliberate and discuss. Our merchant bank, in Annan is not without friends, as long as they discuss, there should be a friend of the old man to the old man to repair the letter fast horse and come. It can’t be, such a big event, His Highness King Han kept it a secret, and didn’t discuss it with anyone, only repairing a letter with His Highness King Song, and then suddenly announcing it, things aren’t done this way ah.”