Zheng Yuming to Yu Kui sent to the portrait soon, received a letter with crooked handwriting, open the letter, came to reproach, although there are many typos, but the content of the tone is quite intense.
"Yu Kuei's old cow ate young grass?" Zheng Yuming pinched his nose as he read the paper full of crusading statements and finally understood what Tuoyue, the wild girl, had written.
"Let me see." Chu Zhaohui took the letter paper, after reading it, he couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, "Interesting! I don't think it should be called old ox eating young grass, it should be said that young grass abducts old ox."
"Dang, Yu Kyu and Takumi, who would've thought they could be a couple? Can you blame me for being nosy?" Zheng Yuming was really sulking, thinking that Yu Kui had received a strict education in Qin etiquette since he was a child, who would associate the wild monkey-like Tuoyue with a noble son of a family who had received a systematic education in high society.
"I told you that marriage is destined by heaven." Chu Chao Hui smiled faintly, he and Zheng Yuming were the best example.
It was only three days later that Yu Kui's handwritten letter was sent to the Prime Minister's Office. The reason why Yu Kui's letter was later than Tuo Yui's was because Yu Kui had to ask a coal man to go to the Eagle Tribe to propose to Tuo Xiong first, and finalize the marriage before he could report to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui. Of course, the matchmaker Yu Kui asked was not the Eagle Tribe's Grand Elder who loved Tuo Xiong the most, but the Ulsan Grand Clan's Clan Chief Guo.
Tuoxiong knows the love of his daughter and Yu Kui affair, not angry but happy, that he paid a lot of money to hire the etiquette tutor of his daughter's education came to fruition, this is not, his daughter turned into a lady immediately after the catch a golden son-in-law.
The place where the Eagle Tribe resides has now become a small city, and with the rapid expansion of the population, the proportion of the original clan inhabitants of the Eagle Tribe has been shrinking, and now accounts for only one-third of the total inhabited population, while the other two-thirds are refugees from outside the area and other tribesmen annexed, as well as a small portion of the civilians of the Western Husband's fiefdom.
Eagle Tribe population proportion becomes smaller, the wealth of the tribe but because of the iron ore in the hot sale in the exponential increase, the Eagle Tribe is the implementation of the collective wealth common distribution system, the wealth of the tribe after the distribution of the wealth of the Eagle Tribe to each person, the Eagle Tribe family becomes rich.
However, as the chief of the Eagle Tribe, Tuo Xiong has recognized that the iron ore mine has finished one day, began to seek a way out for the future development of the Eagle Tribe. The booming industry in Nambu attracted the original chief's attention. Eagle Tribe has money in hand, after investing in several projects in Nambu, these projects have begun to produce dividends, in the long run can be predicted, the dividends obtained from investment will not be less than the iron ore to where.
After the Eagle Tribe became rich, many older tribesmen in the tribe enjoyed the material enjoyment brought by the wealth, but at the same time there was uneasiness in the bottom of their hearts. In the beginning, the Eagle Tribe only occupied the richer Su Plain, then invited the Tiger Tribe to seize, now the Eagle Tribe rich than more than 20 years ago, so the richness of the tribe will attract more people will be coveted. And because the Yangtze River separates the hills where the Eagle Tribe lives from Nambu, the Eagle Tribe is unable to integrate into Nambu Village.
Although the current Prime Minister, Duke Ziming, was kind and fair to the Eagle Tribe, he could not completely dispel the deep-seated fears of the Eagle Tribe's elderly citizens, who were worried that their tribal wealth would be plundered by the powerful nobles of the Kingdom of Wu. Now that the news of the marriage between the chief's daughter and the Ulsan County governor has spread, the Eagle Tribe people are immediately energized by the news, and this kind of marriage makes the tribespeople's hearts feel solid.
Deeply aware that his daughter is learning etiquette and literacy education to get a good marriage, Tuohsiung, interested in running a school, and wait until Yu Kui asked the Guo patriarch to the Tuohsiung family under the three books, performed five rites to set the date of the wedding, Tuohsiung convened a tribal conference.
At the general meeting, the whole tribe unanimously passed the decision to open two elementary schools, which were modeled after the Nambu Village Ancestral Hall, and were free of charge for all students, with one free lunch served at noon. As for the selection of tutors for the schools, Yu Kui, the new son-in-law of the Eagle Tribe, was of course responsible for the solution.
In the spring of this year, Zeng You and Yu Kui got married in March and April, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui could not get away from the royal capital to attend the wedding, but could only send their envoys to Qucheng with heavy gifts to congratulate Zeng You, and sent Huo Sihua as a representative to return to Nambu to attend the wedding of Yu Kui and Tuoyi with the congratulatory gifts.
In the month of May, Wu country national big counties and counties at the same time carried out an examination, this examination is similar to the later generations of the college entrance examination, is for the north and south of the two colleges selection of candidates and the examination, this examination is different from the three-yearly promotion examination, there is no age limit, as long as the examination scores reach the south and north of the two colleges admission score line, the college will be admitted. The promotion examination has an age limit for candidates, who must be at least sixteen years old.
The North-South Academy did not have any female students to further their studies, and Zheng Yuming wanted to solve this problem. May exams, Zheng Yuming sent official documents to the counties, so that the local administrators to mobilize educated women to refer to the vast majority of educated women are the daughters of nobles.
Although the status of women in Da Qin was not as bad as that of the later generations, their political status was not as good as that of the Wu Zetian era of the Tang Dynasty, and there was a consensus that women could not serve in the government. The aristocracy generally believed that women could only stay in the court house to raise their children and deal with household affairs, and that it was bad behavior for them to show their faces and act outside.
Zheng Yuming debated at the court in order to let women take the exam as well. Zheng Yuming argued that women must be literate because they would become mothers later, and a literate mother educating her children would always be more reasonable than a child educated by an uneducated mother, so for the sake of the next generation of Wu, the women of Wu must be educated, and as for the issue of good women going to the civil service, Zheng Yuming only proposed that the women could serve as tutors in the schools.
Zheng Yuming's debate in the court worked, and the resolution to encourage women to go to school was passed by a narrow margin. This time the court gained the strong support of Queen Tian, who recommended five female officials to sit for the May exams, all of whom, were noble ladies of more distinguished birth, and a few of whom were particularly gentle with Wu Wangsheng.
Huo Sihua also took the exam this time and made a splash, her exam results overwhelmed the crowd of students, with an undisputed high score, took the first place and was snatched by the North College.
Wu country nationwide to participate in the examination there are thousands of students, North and South College only admitted a quarter, about two hundred people. Thousands of reference women only three dozen, but reached the admission score line of many, there are twenty-one, the North College accepted twelve, the South College accepted nine, North and South College for the twenty-one female students, a separate women's academy and male students separated.
Although the rate of women's college education is very low, at least it is a precedent for women's schooling, there is a precedent for women's college, this year's elementary school enrollment in the fall semester, the number of girls increased at once, especially in Nambu village, because the villagers are rich, do not care about the children at home to help with the work, to see women's schooling has a future, will be the home of all the girls of school age to send to the school, in any case, no fees to enter the school, there is a free lunch can be used, as the school to help look after young children, can make adults feel more at ease to go out and work. In any case, there is no fee to attend the school and free lunch is available, so the school helps to take care of the young children, so that the adults can go out to work with more peace of mind.
At the end of May, the spring harvest, Wu wheat production reduction, here is a reduction in production is relatively not disaster in terms of. Because of this year's Wu fields are fertile fertilizer, selected high-quality wheat seed sowing, wheat field mu yield is still more than the previous yield of twenty percent, coupled with potatoes to supplement, Wu farmers flabbergasted did not feel their fields harvest by the winter impact.
Farmers spring harvest bountiful harvest, Wu's finances did not benefit from agriculture, the collection of the field tax is not as much as the money invested, just the money invested in agriculture can be reduced than in previous years.
Wu's finances depended on industrial and commercial taxes. This year, Wu's foreign trade volume was frightening, in the first half of the year alone, the border import and export tax revenue amounted to one million gold. The South Port, the harbor of Southeast County, and the border trade market at the throat of Northwest County were the three key areas of Wu's tax revenue, and the tax revenue from the three areas accounted for eighty percent of Wu's finances.
Pocket money, Zheng Yuming began to build schools around the world, only in the way of the limitations of the teacher's resources, can not achieve universal compulsory education, Zheng Yuming plans to complete this task in five years.
The increase in revenue, does not mean that Zheng Yuming hands loose, he is still worrying about finances, because Chu Chao Hui in the South Port established a naval division, the expenditure of the naval division is quite large, coupled with the army spending, military spending is still the biggest head, accounting for half of the financial. In this world of the weak and the strong, military power is a guarantee of security, Zheng Yuming can not reduce the army spending.
The heavens were more favorable to the Kingdom of Wu, the first great river of Great Qin passed through the territory of Wu, and the years when rainfall was scarce allowed water to be diverted from the territory of Wu to irrigate it. This made Wu less affected by drought.
After two years of excavation, the Yangtze River and the domestic river of Wu were connected, and now from Nanbu, one could take a boat to reach the shore of the East China Sea directly, and the sea salt from the shore of the East China Sea could be sold through the waterway to Nanbu, and then sold from Nanbu through the Yangtze River to the west to the state of Chu and other western vassal states, and then to the east into the sea to the Little Bay, and then to the north by the fresh water river near the Little Bay, and then to the ten or so vassal states of the center-north of Dazhen through the Great River. The canal from the east coast of the sea to the Little Bay is under construction, and in two years, the Yangtze River system will be able to connect with the Great River in central Da Qin through the Tang Domestic River, and at that time, it will be possible to take a boat all the way to the capital city of Qin.
Affected by the cold winter, many vassal states spring harvest reduced production, to the fall harvest, and because of the drought, farmers continue to reduce the harvest, the people are in the midst of starvation, and the sovereigns of the vassal states, coincidentally increased the means of control, as long as where there is a riot, the monarchs' armies will be relentless to go to the suppression of this year, there is no last year's Qilu gold miner riots, but under the calm, it is like an active volcano, and the ground hidden hot lava.
Wu's farmers autumn harvest is better than the spring harvest, it is a good harvest year, Wu this year's September 9 Harvest Festival, the people celebrated greatly, from the south to the north, the whole of Wu overflowed with joy. Zheng Yuming looked at the official documents sent to the royal capital by local officials from all over the country, and took a long sigh of relief, in a happy mood, only this happy mood was soon interrupted by an urgent document from Huo Si Zhong. Zhao sent heavy troops to the border at the mouth of the throat, the marketplace at the mouth of the throat, facing closure.