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Li Yanzhi had more teachers, and he took the magistrate of his county exam, took the tutor of his examination, and the examiner who recommended his papers this time and the examiner who was the chief examiner of the juren, were all his teachers. However, these are just politeness, rules, and routine matters.

In front of Jiang Yifan and others, there were only two people, Li Yanzhi, who would call them teachers, one was Xu Jie and the other was Li Liangqin. The former told him what officialdom was, and the latter told him what martial arts was. There should have been a third person, which was Yu Dayou, the introductory teacher of Li Yanzhi's military strategy, but he had a more intimate name for this person: Big Brother!

Therefore, he only has two teachers. And of course, Xu Jie lives in Songjiang Mansion.

After Xu Jie left Yanping, he was promoted all the way. He was the assistant minister of the academic rank in Zhejiang for more than a year. He was then renamed the deputy envoy of Jiangxi, and was still the governor of the academic administration. Then he returned to the capital, and became a member of the Ministry of Justice and Ma, and was a attendant of the Hanlin Academy. He served as a fourth-rank official and a sex salary. The first of these two positions was to walk in the East Palace and have the opportunity to approach the crown prince, and the second was regarded as a reserve prime minister! Xu Jie was only 37 years old at that time! When he reached this point, the road ahead was bright!

But at this moment, Xu Jie's mother passed away. Putting aside personal feelings, according to the customization of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jie also had to go back to Ding You, and this worry would have to worry for three years. This year is the third year of Xu Jie's death! After the filial piety period is over, if the court still remembers Xu Jie, he would have to take office immediately. So Li Yan had to come to see him before he left.

As for going to Suzhou, Huzhou, Yixing and Jingdezhen, it was for commercial considerations. The embroidery of Suzhou, the silk of Huzhou, the pottery of Yixing, and the porcelain of Jingdezhen are all the best in the world! They are also extremely profitable goods in smuggling and exports. In recent years, Li Yanzhi's feet are not touched by sea water, but he is determined to establish a domestic procurement network to compete with the increasingly segmented smuggling groups overseas.

Although Li Baldou still has a deep foundation overseas, it has been increasingly marginalized in recent years. Li Yan was unable to go directly to help his uncle, and then directly compete with Xu Dong and others on the sea. This would be an overly fierce Red Sea War, which would also conflict with his strategy of walking on both legs while taking the imperial examinations. Therefore, he decided to avoid direct competition and switch to establishing a purchase and sales network at home to cooperate with the activities of smugglers.

At this time, the bigger the business, the harder it is to get ashore. The entire group needs a domestic purchasing and sales network that is willing and able to cooperate with them. Li Yanzhi did this so that he was simply in line with the times and was favored by the public smugglers. But several other smugglers saw that when the domestic network developed to a certain scale, and when their purchase and shipment were inseparable from their purchase and shipment, the owner of this network would be able to control them without going into the sea!

In the past ten years, Li Yanzhi has opened up the trade routes in Fujian Province, and then he will extend his tentacles to Zhejiang and Nanzhili. These places are not only the production sites of the highest-end commodities in this era, but also the most consumer-powered places in the world! If a purchasing and sales network can be successfully established in this area, then the two-way trade can be achieved: use Japanese silver to buy silk embroidery and ceramics, and then sell spices to earn the silver back.

However, when doing business in China, you must have a political protection umbrella. If you have money but no power, and have money but no power, the bigger the business, the more dangerous it is. This is also the reason why Li Yanzhi must take the Juren. However, being able to get a Juren this time certainly fulfilled his wish, but he accidentally understood Yuan, but it was not his wish.

Since many years ago, Li Yanzhi has deeply understood the importance of low-keyness. If he can decide, he even hopes to win the second-last juren, preferably by crossing the safety line, so that he will not only gain fame but also not very eye-catching. Unfortunately, the process of the imperial examination is not completely controlled by him.

When Li Yanzhi wanted to establish a domestic purchasing and sales network, Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan naturally knew that even middle-level cadres stationed in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yixing, Jingdezhen and other places had arranged the arrangements and even had the store selected the location, and they opened the store as soon as the relationship was opened.

"However," Jiang Yifan said: "In the next year's examination, won't you take the exam?"

The imperial examination is usually arranged in February of the second year of the provincial examination. Now it is September. If you want to go to Beijing to take the exam and eliminate the effort required to walk, there will be less time left. If you take the exam based on your real talent and knowledge, it is enough for people to come, but if you want to take care of your relationship, the time will be a little nervous. The Li family’s connections are concentrated in central Fujian, western Fujian, northern Fujian, and southern Fujian. The influence will be very limited as soon as they leave the province. As for the Li family in Beijing, almost no one has ever been involved in it. Although Li Yanzhi is still quite glorious in Fuzhou, it is also the momentum created by a group of allied merchants. It is just a lively momentum. The real upper class of this era, the gentry class with the fame of Jinshi, does not recognize him very much! If you reach the foot of the emperor, the juren is like a pig or dog, and the Jinshi is gone, who will recognize who Li Yanzhi is!

Feng Qi suggested that he should go to Beijing first to familiarize himself with the environment and see if he could pave the way for Li Yanzhi. However, Li Yanzhi said: "No! You are going to Beijing now, it's too rush. If you are not sure about this subject, just wait for the next subject. Anyway, there is a Juren's fame and reputation for a temporary job, and it will be troublesome if you pass the Jinshi."

Because he had to become an official after passing the Jinshi exam, Li Yanzhi was not ready to officially join the government and serve the emperor.

Feng Qi said: "If Sanshe doesn't plan to participate in next year's exam, then we will have much more time."

After the itinerary was roughly agreed, the three of them did their business separately. This time they went north to Jiangdong, Li Yanzhi also prepared a generous gift for Xu Jie: he wanted to set up a weaving factory in Songjiang Prefecture in the name of Xu Fan, the son of Xu Jie. Songjiang Prefecture is an important cotton production area in the Ming Dynasty. Cotton weaving is quite developed and the industrial chain of cotton weaving is also very complete. Li Yanzhi has sent people to order a hundred looms in Jiaxing, and it was only when he arrived in Huating that it started to operate. Because cotton can be produced in bulk and is a commodity with a wide range of demand, although its unit profit is not as good as raw silk, if it can achieve large-scale operation, its development space and social effects will probably be better than silk.

After the three of them prepared the rest of their work in Fuzhou, they were about to set off when a policeman suddenly came to the city. A martial artist from Zhige Pavilion came to shout, "No! Japanese pirates! Japanese pirates!"

Li Yanzhi and the other three were surprised, especially Li Yanzhi. He was surprised at first, and then turned from surprise to angrily: "It's not the war time! Why are Japanese pirates invading the provincial capital? The Japanese devils are too rampant!"

Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan were puzzled. This was the first time they heard the name "Japanese devil", and they were even more puzzled by the irreconcilable hatred tone between Li Yan's words. In Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan's impression, Japan was just a troublesome neighbor, a country listed by Emperor Taizu. Although they felt that this small country liked to cause trouble, they did not have much disgust and hatred for it. The behavior of the students of Liuyitang was mostly influenced by Li Yanzhi, but Li Yanzhi did not usually have the opportunity to publicize the national hatred of Japan, so they did not resonate with them.

Li Yanzhi also lost his composure for a moment. Then he remembered that the relationship between China and Japan in this era was not much the same as in his previous life. His temper was a little ahead of his temper, so he calmed down his anger. He also knew that pirates often disturbed places in recent years, and Japanese people were often among the pirates. However, Fuzhou was a provincial capital after all, and it was geographically barriered with Guantangshan Island Chain. Military also included Zhendongwei, Dinghai Institute, Plum Blossom Institute, Wan'an Institute and other garrisons. It was not easy for Japanese pirates to break through. Li Yanzhi thought about it and asked Feng Qi, who had been in Fuzhou for a long time: "Fuzhou is often harassed by Japanese pirates?"

"No." Feng Qi said: "Never before."

I did not have it before, but because of this, the entire provincial capital seemed even more panicked! Especially those civil servants, I heard that Japanese pirates were in chaos. When they were embarrassed by these people, there was a great talent, Li Zhuowu, who had a very vivid text:

"If you have nothing to do in peace, you can only bow respectfully; if you sit all day long, it is the same as a clay and clay doll; if you think you don't have any distractions, you will be a great sage! Once there is a policeman, you will look at each other, no one will look at each other, and you will blame each other, thinking that you are a wise man. This is the only one in the country, so no one can use it when you are in an emergency!"

As for civil officials, military officials are not much better! Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu had great martial arts. They were already full of vigor during the Jiajing period. The military officials who relied on to intimidate the world now can only be taken to work errands. Not to mention defending the country, they even have problems in protecting themselves!

After the city defense officials were in an emergency, Fuzhou Prefecture quickly ordered all the gates to be closed and the whole city was martial law. The commander of Fujian Sima passed an order to transfer the officers and soldiers of Zhenhaiwei in the southeast, the plum blossom office in the east, the Dinghai office in the northeast, the Zhuqi inspection office and other departments, the archers entered the aid, and met with the left and right governors and the criminal inspectors, summoned the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, the deputy commander-in-chief, and the branch officials to discuss matters. They also reported that the magistrate of Fuzhou and the Min County, the magistrate of Min County, the magistrate, and the magistrate rushed to the city to inspect, but they saw that the officers and soldiers standing guard on the city were trembling. These people usually acted as a blessing when facing the people, and they were extremely majestic. Only then did they hear that the thieves came and looked like a gangster! When the magistrate and the magistrate saw it, they felt cold in their hearts, and they all thought: "How can we save our lives by relying on them!"

When I went back to see Sansi, I didn’t know whether to tell the truth or lies! The prefect said: “The lower official waited until the top of the city and looked at it, but he didn’t see the Japanese pirates.”

The magistrate of Min County was a little ignorant of advancing and said, "Or they hid, and when we slacked off, we would attack the city..."

Halfway through his words, the prefect's face seemed to be covered with blood, and the three officials were even pale. The commander Sun Taihe finally had a sense of a military general. He stood up and said, "I'll go and see!" After patrolling the city, the first reinforcements outside the city also arrived. Sun Taihe stepped forward to parade on the spot, but saw a sparse team of about 300 people, so he asked Qianhu, who led the troops: "Why are these people? What about the others?"

The Qianhu shrank his head and said, "Subordinate...the only people under his command are here..."

Sun Taihe said angrily: "Look at your patronage, you are a thousand households. You think there are more than 1,100 people under your command. Why did you say that all of them are here after three hundred people?" But he was not the first day of becoming an official, and immediately remembered that this thousand households were empty wages. There were more than 1,000 soldiers in the account book, and only six or seven hundred were left with their names! He couldn't help but say angrily: "Damn it! Damn it! Even if you eat empty wages, you can't help but eat too much! Even if you keep seven or eight hundred people..." Look at the soldiers behind the thousand households, all of whom were scattered and looked like they were about to escape at any time. What's the use of seven or eight hundred people? He immediately had no strength to get angry. After all, he was a kind man, and sighed: "Forget it! You guys should go to the city to hide quickly, don't let the Japanese pirates suddenly rushed out and seize the city gate! Alas, it's ridiculous that I still hope you!"

He personally assigned officials at the top of the city to supervise the defense of the gates. Then he returned to the governor's office to discuss with the governor and the supervisor. However, he saw that there were sixteen young people who were not energetic at the door. He held a big stick and guarded the gate. When he saw the commander, he shouted: "Where did people come from? What are you doing here!"

The commander-in-chief shouted: "Irrespect! This is the commander-in-chief! Who are you? What are you doing when you stand here!"

One of the young students went out to salute and said, "We are students of Zhige Pavilion. Li Xiaolian is under the mission of governing and takes us here to protect him. Since he is the commander-in-chief, please come in." Then he retreated back to his original position.

When Sun Taihe saw this, he thought to himself, "I have heard of this Zhige Pavilion, like a famous martial arts hall in the provincial capital, but I didn't know that it had taught such good students!" He couldn't help but secretly amaze and asked again, "Can you use a knife?"

The young man in the head said, "Yes!"

The commander asked, "Since that's the case, why don't you bring a knife?"

The young man said, "We are civilians and not soldiers. We dare not bring a knife for no reason. We practice normally, but just use bamboo knives."

The commander of the city was even more happy to hear that they could abide by the rules. He even praised him and said, "Now there is a police officer in the provincial capital, what is the price of wooden sticks?" He ordered people to go to the arsenal to retrieve real swords and guns and distribute them to them for use. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!