Wang Hongyu introduced the scene at that time: "The eldest brother did leave with a smile."
"Is General Zhou's coffin at the back?"
"Yes, we will arrive the day after tomorrow."
"More than a year later, he and I met like this..."
We had exchanges about warfare, military training, and ordnance matters.
At present, Baoding has been working hard, but there is also a certain overdraft situation.
For example, the recruitment went smoothly before, but it has been filled in this way. The more strong laborers leave, the more production will be affected, and the complaints of the people will become bigger and bigger.
However, none of this will happen at present, because the production situation is stable, and as long as there are no natural disasters, Baoding will never delay the needs of the front line, and there will be no accidents.
Wang Hongyu lamented very much, "Why are some officials always thinking about party struggle and reputation, while others are really thinking about doing things?"
This is not just a matter of personal ability and moral character, but a matter of officials joining together to form a group.
After all, an official is a person, not a conscious and purposeful group.
Officials team up to form an interest group of regions, teachers, students, and friends at first, but more importantly, they have common interests, consciousness, and purposes.
Officials are not scary.
The scariest thing is to form a bureaucracy and act together to support each other.
The reason why Han Jun is different is not that he has special abilities, but that he does not stick together.
The two started talking and laughing, and felt that a gentleman should stand out from the rest.
Wang Hongyu has since added another angle of judgment.
To unite the civil servants themselves, give priority to those who are not united or party-minded.
There may be "treacherous ministers" like Wen Tiren who are not united but do bad things.
But Wen Tiren is Wen Tiren after all. For Chongzhen who lacks basic strength, he can use some tricks. For me who has a strong foundation, he must upgrade a few more ranks to cause me some trouble.
People like that are also very rare. If we can't stick together, we can't continue.
Han Jun, the governor of Baoding, was actually quite worried about Wang Hongyu not long ago:
"In the past two months, a lot of things happened around General Wang. Some paranoid Confucian scholars insist on seeing themselves as superior to others, but they don't know that without the farmers, they would starve to death, and without the warriors and bandits who would be the first to rob them."
He was talking about Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong and others.
Sometimes as civil servants, we can see their mental thoughts more clearly.
In fact, it is the mentality of "people are superior to others".
After studying and becoming an official, I felt that I was a "superior".
Do not regard farmers, craftsmen, and warriors as human beings.
Wang Hongyu is not a military commander of this era, but an Internet activist with many friends in later generations. Of course he knows this is a twisted mentality.
Sometimes this mentality particularly delays China's development and rise.
Now that we have traveled through time, we must of course break the culture of "human superiority over human beings", make Chinese culture richer and stronger, and strive to have the influence of Asia in later generations in the world.
"Report!"
Suddenly, someone shouted outside the governor's office and ran towards him.
The butler went to greet her and came back with a thick letter.
"Sir! I have an important report from the capital."
"Oh? Put it here, General Wang and I will look at it together."
The two of them opened the newspaper and saw a new round of personnel appointments for the imperial court.
Zou Yuanbiao, the former right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was promoted to the position of censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Gao Panlong, the former Minister of Guanglu Temple, was dismissed from his post and returned home.
Zhao Nanxing, the former censor of Zuodu, was the right minister of the Ministry of Work.
Although the content of this newspaper is small, the matter is very big.
Although the position of the top leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was changed from Zhao Nanxing of the Donglin Party to Zou Yuanbiao, who was also from the Donglin Party, the style was changed from a radical one to a more moderate one.
Gao Panlong, who is good at trolling people, just go home.
Apocalypse is equivalent to issuing an edict to himself for committing sins. He also punished Zhao and Gao, but it was not very severe and would not lead to criticism.
This hand is very beautiful.
Han Jun also praised the current emperor as a wise and decisive king. If there are capable ministers to assist the left, he will be able to implement the new policy.
In fact, what Tianqi lacks is not capable ministers, but a foundation to rely on.
This topic has been briefly touched on. After all, in this era, it is slightly unethical to talk too much about the emperor behind his back.
Wang Hongyu didn't really care, but considering that he wasn't that familiar with Han Jun yet, it was best not to talk about it more.
There is an industry that is very suitable for Baoding.
I was about to ask Governor Han Jun for some support.
That is printing and publishing.
In the late Ming Dynasty, printing technology was greatly improved, the market economy flourished, and bookstores spread all over the country.
During the Wanli period, the number of private bookshops reached nearly one hundred.
Of course, there are so many bookstores across the country that not only sell content related to imperial examinations, but also sell popular popular books. The market demand is quite strong, and so many bookstores are enough to undertake the commercial operation of scripts.
Especially since the Jialong period, the commodity economy has prospered, the population has grown rapidly, life has been relatively stable, the number of towns has also increased rapidly, and the living standards of the people in the middle and lower classes of society have improved.
In addition to those from scholarly families and those who have passed the examination, more and more ordinary people are participating in the purchase and reading of poetry collections and other reading materials. Compared with the previous period, due to the rapid growth in the number of readers, the team is huge. Although
Individual purchases were average, but the total purchasing power was amazing, so the late Ming Dynasty became a period of rapid popular development.
Wang Hongyu wants to do this, which can not only make money but also do publicity work.
Previously, Meng Biao was arranged to conduct a preliminary investigation of the industry situation in this area.
There are a hundred well-known bookstores in the private sector, mainly concentrated in Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other Jiangnan areas. The number in the north is relatively small, but there is also a large market.
At this time, there were more than a dozen bookstores in the capital, but there was only one in Baoding, run by a famous local family, specializing in poetry collections and the Four Books and Five Classics. In Tianjin, which was newly developed due to the Grand Canal and the seaport, there was not even a famous bookstore.
Small quantities are sold by vendors and large households.
The printing and publishing market space in Baoding and Tianjin is very large.
This is one of the important reasons for choosing this location.
The city has a population of 200,000, and there are nearly 10 surrounding counties.
Baoding also has very convenient transportation communication with Tianjin and Beijing through waterways such as Baiyangdian, Juma River, and tributaries of the Grand Canal.
The rivers in and around the city are rich in resources. They can be used for transportation, transporting goods downstream, and you can also choose a suitable location with sufficient wood and water sources for papermaking.
When choosing to print and open a bookshop in Baoding, in addition to the market and transportation, another consideration was having Governor Han Jun as a supporter.
Han Jun must be assisted in the location selection and employment of the printing office.
Book publishing will also affect the interests of an existing local bookstore and some book sellers.
Wang Hongyu had no one in Baoding, so of course he needed to rely on the most powerful governor's office in the area.
The other party wants to cause trouble. Once they heard that it was opened by a friend of the governor and that people from the governor's office specially ordered books about this book visit, who would dare to cause trouble?