The Spring Festival in the 12th year of Hongwu was the most lively Spring Festival in Huairou City in history. People with gradually becoming rich in families will try every means to make the festival more prosperous without mobilizing. The fame of this small border town has continued to expand with the continuous launch of fresh goods in the past two years. This time, with the story of eight hundred heroes and tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, it has added a bit of mystery. The merchants from all over the country with the news of the east and west claws and their imaginations they heard. With their footsteps, the names of heroes have spread all over the country. In Huairou, the birthplace of the story, they casually held a meal in a tavern on the side of the road in the evening.

When asked about the details, they will be described as if they were personally experienced. And soon a bunch of workers will gather around and fill in the parts they think are inappropriate. By the way, the imperial edict from the court will be repeated as evidence of what they say. When they are about to come, the workers will tell merchants from afar two unwritten rules of Huairou Tavern: First, it is not allowed to criticize the current emperor, and this common rule in taverns across the country does not need to be explained. Second, it is not allowed to say bad things about Master Wu. Although the government will not care about Master Wu's bad words, and Master Wu will not be as knowledgeable as you, the spit of everyone is enough to make you unable to eat.

The second advice is evidenced by an example. A sour ding poured too much yellow soup in a tavern, saying that Wu'anguo, as an official, always did not mislead his job and made some tricks and tricks to compete with the people for profit. The people in Peking all ignored the sages and were full of money. If they had the opportunity to meet the saints, what would happen? As a result, they were immediately denounced by a group of the same literati on the spot. When the person sobered up at home the next day, he found that he had spent a lot of money to install crystal glass windows (glass windows) in autumn.

) He was beaten to pieces with a slingshot outside the yard, and he was extremely sad. He reported to the government. The new team leader Sun Wenbin brought someone to pretend to be perfunctory and decided to be a "naughty boy making trouble, a disaster" and ridiculed him before leaving: "Anyway, this crystal glass is also a lewd thing. If it is broken, you can still avoid being angry when you look at it. This failure to maintain the place is also a dereliction of duty. Otherwise, I will ask someone to send you some window paper later and give it to you as it is.

"? Sour Ding was so angry that he almost turned his back on the spot. He sent someone to buy new glass windows, but he ran all over the city. All the merchants said that they had no goods and had been frozen for three or four days. In the end, Zhang Wuye heard about this and sent someone to send new glass. As soon as the delivery person left, the people from the Wuwei Insurance Bank arrived and insisted on selling Sour Ding a piece of insurance. It turned out that the two brothers Zhan Zhen and Zhan Yi of the Wuwei Escort Agency were inspired to provide insurance for the Township Yong from Xuji pawnshop, and raised funds to start

I had a "Wuwei Insurance Bank" specializing in the goods insurance business of customers. I heard about this, so I kindly asked Sour Ding to buy a piece of insurance and spent twenty taels of silver. This year, something at home was broken by a stone flying in. The insurance bank was responsible for the compensation. The sour Ding bank was not allowed to buy insurance in the end. It is said that anyone dared to disrespect Master Wu again and did not need to teach everyone a lesson. The elders of his family would knock on his head with crutches and scolded this unscrupulous thing for life and forget their true nature.

As for the Wu Da, who has been promoted to the Beiping Guard, it seems that someone would rather criticize him. He specially paid to the Confucian leader Yang Wenzheng, a group of prestigious literati, to discuss what he has done now, what is incompatible with the teachings of the saints and what is inconsistent with etiquette and law, and to print the content of the discussion, and sell it on the market for a price of one penny per piece, and sell it every half a month.

The literati have no consensus on the views that some believe that the teachings of the Supreme Sages and the current new things are not inconsistent with the current new things, while others believe that many are contrary to the education at present. Some people have put forward a newer view that the sages said after the distortion of the Han Dynasty's Confucianism and the misunderstanding of the great sages of the Song Dynasty have long been separated from the original meaning, and proposed to "retro" and call for the restoration of the teachings of the sages to respect other schools in academic terms, focus on innovation, and be based on political and political affairs.

The original meaning of the debate is advocated. All kinds of opinions are printed together, which attracts the attention of scholars, and is even more attractive than the notices at the yamen. Seeing this, Guo Pu simply printed some notices posted in Quanbeiping on these booklets as they were, so that the people could see it conveniently. When workers were trained in night school, there were many people who read the literacy, and they also like to buy a copy to relieve boredom in their spare time. Everyone named the booklet "newspaper", and after a long time, they became a general term for such items.

After taking office, Guo Pu, the new magistrate of Peking, was still as calm as he was. He politely accepted the congratulations from his subordinates. The new official took office, but he did not let the fire go. "Let's go with the flow, let the people in the country live and work in peace and contentment. We do not disturb the people, the people are safe and sound, agriculture, industry, business, business, and scholars. The four people are doing their own business. It doesn't matter who is more important than who is less." His lecture on taking office was so simple that it made his subordinates shocked. However, the merchants in Huairou County came out through a county.

The limelight of so many senior officials and generals extends their tentacles to the entire prefecture. All prefectures and counties are also willing to cooperate with Huairou merchants. After all, the changes in the lives of the people in Huairou in the past two years are obvious. Moreover, there are currently some gentry in each county that owns a lot of shares in the original Huairou business groups. Who would refuse to make money together? In the development plans proposed at the New Year's major shareholder gatherings of each group, the goal of expanding industry to the entire prefecture is mentioned.

He even proposed to expand his industry to the nearby Yongping Prefecture. The tools promoted by hydraulic power have been continuously improved and have been at the highest level in all industries. As long as all industries want to scale, the first thing people think of is water conservancy. The rivers in the counties in southeastern Beijing are more turbulent and more attractive to the bosses. The new Huairou County Magistrate Xu Haoda obviously wanted to fuel all this. Before taking office, he admired Guo Pu's way of turning a small county into a land of the country's richest man within a few years. Since he could not surpass his predecessor's political achievements, it was easy for Xiao Gui and Cao Sui. Moreover, Huairou and other groups have already taken root in the army of the King of Yan, so there is no need to offend the people here. "Who knows how many generals will be smoked from this place where people are in this place in the future. It is better to be careful. It is better to be more convenient to others, which is convenient for yourself."

The most affected by the promotion of Wu'anguo and others was Huairou Yixue. It turned out that all prefectures and counties had schools. At the foot of Jiming Mountain in the capital, there were Chinese studies and those who had imperial examinations and Jinshi. Most of the people who had imperial examinations were from Chinese studies. The various prefectures recommended students to Chinese studies every year, and the scattered positions of prefectures and counties were mostly from official schools. The Ming Taizu believed that the north had been under the hands of foreigners for too long, and people rarely knew about learning. He also specially sent outstanding Chinese studies students to teach in various places. Therefore, official schools have always been the first choice for scholars and the shortcut for becoming officials. This time, the court praised Huairou's achievements in fighting the enemy. In addition to Wu'anguo, Guo Pu, Zhou Heng and others, many young people who received official positions were from Huairou Yixue. In addition, even if students of Yixue could not get a good reputation, they could get a good job in various emerging industries. So at the beginning of the new year, those who signed up for Shangyixue almost all stood the playground.

. Wu Anguo and others were interested in promoting the teaching methods of Yixue, and decided to donate money to expand Yixue, changing Huairou Yixue to Peking Academy, with Huairou Yixue as the headquarters, setting up branches in Peiping and Wanping. Teachers and managers are recruited from Yixue students and all walks of life. The school has a fixed class address, but the campus is not closed, and students rent in houses and hotels near the school. Some people suggested that the school be separated from the people to avoid reducing the identity of scholars. The new principal, Muhammad, opened his squinting eyes and whispered in alternative Chinese: "There is a saying in China that there is no difference. The behavior of the students in the school will inevitably affect the people around me. I think this is the best way to promote education. If you study behind closed doors, you will teach a group of nerds who do not care about the world, which is not the purpose of the academy."

While waiting for Xu Da to enter Beijing together, King Yan Zhu Di was busy organizing gifts to his parents. He was named King Yan in the third year of Hongwu and established the palace of the Prince of Yan. He was ordered by the vassal of the princes to live in advance without performing the ceremony (minor). At present, the father has handed over the entire northern defense to himself, and the treatment is probably more than the prince's brother. His biological mother died early, and Empress Ma has always treated Zhu Di as her own, and she is grateful.

Zhu Di was very dedicated when choosing gifts for his parents. These good intentions also contained a gratitude to Wu Anguo and others. During those days of Huairou, what Zhu Di understood the most was the thinking of merchants and fair transactions. "Brother Wu, I will definitely give you a great fortune to you and these brothers who face death with me. And you must help me establish a great achievement like Prince Shu Chi and Prince Badu. This is our fair transaction."

The Imperial Guards of Hu Ben are now allocated to the King of Yan. After receiving the imperial edict from the disbanded township heroes, Zhu Di decisively hired the township braves to his command, so most of the township braves were included in the Beiping Guards. Zhu Di adopted the suggestion of Wu'anguo to appoint the township braves as instructors and went to various battalions to teach the soldiers to learn the use of muskets, sabers and three-eyed short guns, as well as stances, queues, etc. The new training made the Imperial Guards of Hu Ben appear more heroic, although the weapons were not equipped yet, most of them.

He only sent out a new saber, but when he welcomed Xu Da who returned in triumphantly outside the city, less than 4,000 troops were still not inferior to the 200,000 Ming troops who came back with Xu Da. Xu Da was very happy and praised him. What interested Xu Da most was the new muskets, three-eyed short guns and cannons. "If I get this thing before going out of the frontier, I will let him escape Gus Temur, no matter how fast I slipped away, I can catch him and comfort my Chinese ancestors." He stroked the firearms given to him by Wu'anguo as a gift, and Xu Da said regretfully.

Despite this, Xu Da also knew in his heart that if there was no accident, it would be the last time he had led his troops out of the frontier. The emperor had made up his mind to hand over the military power to his descendants. Xu Da saw this clearly. He did not think that the Mongolians would surrender, and peace talks were just a way to breathe. As spring came and went, Mongolian horses would thrive on the grassland, and Mongolian warriors would gallop on the grassland again. The Mongolians who had seen the prosperity of the Central Plains would never give up.

Every opportunity, they will soon make a comeback. Puying and Guo Ying, who are stationed outside the frontier, have a long way to go. "In any case, the mission of their generation has been basically completed, and the future competition will take place between the new generation of the two countries." Xu Da thought silently. Xu Da was very satisfied with the new generation chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang. With Zhu Di's decisiveness and Wu'anguo's wit and calmness, and with Guo Pu's support, if there were no foreign elbows, the Mongolian cavalry would probably never be able to step into the Central Plains again.
Chapter completed!