In Zheng Yuming's plan, was ready to annex the Tang Dynasty in the spring of next year, and for the annexation of the Tang Dynasty to prepare a recovery funds. Now Chu Chao Hui helped him to scavenge three ships of money and silk, the number is much higher than the recovery of the Tang region needs funds, but let Zheng Yuming's finances become more generous. Financially it is generous, but the talent that can be sent to govern the Tang region is lacking.
In the original plan, the top 20 in the February 2 selection exam next year will be the main candidates to be sent to govern the Tang land as officials. Now the annexation has been advanced, but the selection examination cannot be advanced. Wu's February 2nd Selection Examination is so famous that many scholars from the vassal states are planning to come to Wu to take the examination next year, and if it is advanced, Wu will definitely lose its credibility to the bachelors of the world.
The Wu army took the Tang Dynasty in August, and there is still nearly half a year to February next year, this half a year can't rely on the army to implement military control on the Tang Dynasty. Zheng Yuming thought about it and decided to send all the top ten students of the third sector of the South and North Colleges to Tangland to learn how to deal with administration through internships.
Next year, the two colleges in Wu will have the first batch of students graduated, this batch of students before graduation will participate in the promotion examination, the college of the top ten no surprise words can be entered into the top fifty, they are Zheng Yuming consider sending to the Tang land of the administrative officials candidates.
Zheng Yuming made the decision that the students would first go to Tangdi for internship and put up the administrative framework first, and then immediately sent a letter to Wang Jie and Fan Jin, the deans of the two colleges, so that the twenty students would gather at Nangbu and a big ship would be sent to send them north by sea to Tangdi.
After Zheng Yuming recuperated for more than a month, his body had basically recovered. As soon as his body recovered, Zheng Yuming fulfilled his promise and took Wu Wangsheng on a boat trip to the Yangtze River. Wu Wangsheng was originally seasick, but this time, with Jiang Gui, a healer, by his side, Wu Wangsheng drank a potion to prevent seasickness and had a great time on the boat trip.
"Ming, this sea is too big, Sheng likes the sea!" Wu Wangsheng was so happy that he jumped on the boat.
"Great King, this is not the sea, it is the river, this is the estuary of the Long River. The sea is much larger than this river, and the color of the water is not white like this; the real sea is blue and so large that it is endless. Sometimes you can't see a bit of land for a month or two of sailing on the sea." Zheng Yuming shook his head to pith the difference between the river and the sea for King Wu.
Growing up inland, the biggest river Wu Wangsheng had ever seen was the moat of the Western Marquis' fiefdom. In June, when he took a boat ride from Gaomadi Ferry, Wu Wangsheng realized that the river could be so long that the boat could travel for several days. When he arrived at Nambu, he realized that the river could not only be very long, but also very wide.
"Ming, Sheng wants to go see the ocean!" Wu Wangsheng tugged at Zheng Yuming's sleeve and begged.
"King, today it is too late, we have to return, when it is dark into the south port can not see the channel will be dangerous." Zheng Yuming was in a difficult situation, if he continued to go forward, it would be bad if he went back and couldn't see the channel and had an accident. South port near the mouth only set up a lighthouse, three thousand material below the wooden ship traveling all right, three thousand material above the large ship traveling to be careful. Zheng Yuming and Wu Wangsheng out of the excursion to take the wooden boat and Chu Chao Hui's flagship tonnage is the same size, is just last month from the Valley Shipyard launched a new ship.
"Sheng really wants to see the sea, in a couple days won't the scholars take a boat to Tang Di from the sea, Sheng also wants to go." Wu Wang Sheng slightly lowered his head, his teeth biting his lower lip, his eyes peeking at Zheng Yuming.
Wu Wangsheng looked like a child asking an adult for a toy for fear of being rejected. This cautious look made Zheng Yuming's heart soften on the spot.
Zheng Yuming thought for a while before he looked up and said to the expectant Wu Wangsheng, "The scholars went to the Tang lands by sea in a boat to help the people there"
"Sheng can also go and help them, Sheng is a king, isn't it more important to go and help the people of the Tang land?" When King Wu Sheng said this, he suddenly straightened up, he puffed out his chest, "Da Niu said that the people there are starving to death, Sheng can give them food when he goes there, Qiang said that Sheng has a lot of money, money can buy food, right?"
Zheng Yuming looked at Wu Wangsheng's serious face, his heart couldn't help but be moved, Wu's king personally appeased the people in the occupied land, and was more able to appease the hearts of the people in Tangland. In fact, Zheng Yuming himself very much want to go to Tangland, he misses Chu Chaohui, in addition, Zheng Yuming also want to Tangland to see the local people's situation, in order to better formulate a rest and recuperation plan. The news from the north is that the Tang people's livelihood is very bad, Zheng Yuming wants to go to see how bad it is.
"Okay, we'll go with the scholars to Tangdi!"
As soon as Zheng Yuming's words fell, Wu Wangsheng cheered, and even Queen Tian couldn't help but bow her head in secret joy. Like Wu Wangsheng, Queen Tian also aspired to see more of the outside world. This time in Nambu Heda City, Queen Tian had seen many new and strange things that were far beyond her imagination sitting in the palace, such as this big boat under her feet that could carry more than a thousand people.
Zheng Yuming sent someone to inform Chu Chao Hui of the news that he was going to the Tang land with Wu Wangsheng's husband and wife and the schoolchildren, and then made some arrangements for Dacheng, and Ulsan was still under the sole responsibility of Yu Kui.
Two days later, Wei Ci led three thousand elite soldiers to escort Zheng Yuming, the husband and wife of Wu Wangsheng, twenty academy students, Wang Jie, the president of the South Academy, Gongsun Pan, the director of the Department of Education who came to the South Port with the students from the North Academy, Jiang Gui, the healer, the two contributors to the two major newspapers, and Zheng Yuming's personal bodyguards, Da Niu and Woody, on board the ship together. The most unusual boat passenger on this trip north was the youngest member of the Jitu family, who had been forced by the King of Tang to commit suicide as a scapegoat. Jitu's body was cremated with the help of Fu Chou. Jitu's family was not disposed of by the court of the King of Wu, but the King of Tang, who confiscated Jitu's properties such as his mansion and fields in the Tang capital, and only Jitu's old family house and fields survived, and Jitu's family members will stay in their old family house and settle down after escorting the family head's ashes back on this trip.
This trip north to the Tang land of the five ships are large ships, the smallest tonnage of three thousand tons, by the sailor battalion of soldiers maneuvering, the large ship sailing half a day, before entering the sea from the river and sea junction.
It was mid-August, just when the fall was high and clear, the sea wind was small, the sea water was blue and endless, a flock of seagulls circled at the top of the ship's mast. Standing in the bow, only to see the sea and sky, if not the big ship forward split out the waves, are to think that it is still in it.
Zheng Yuming boarded the ship and stayed in his cabin to do his official business, Wu Wangsheng husband and wife stood on the top floor of the big ship to enjoy the sea view, Wu Wangsheng drank the medicine to prevent seasickness, has always been energetic, and completely different from the way he came from Kangcheng to Nambu by boat.
Wang Jie, Gongsun Pan and most of the students were standing next to the ship's side, gathered in twos and threes, pointing at the sea, and every time a dolphin chased a sailboat, they would let out a cry of surprise and cheer, and their usual civilized appearance could not be maintained at this time.
"Beautiful and spectacular, my generation looks too small in it." Wang Jie looked at the seascape and sighed, he traveled around dozens of vassal states, went to the beach and saw the sea, but it was the first time to take a boat on the sea.
"Gongsun does not feel small." Gongsun Pan shook his head and retorted, "Although the sea is big, can not drown mountains. Our generation is small, but can climb high mountains, build appliances to swim in the sea, Gongsun think, although our generation is small but the spirit of all things, the earth master."
Wang Jie nodded his head repeatedly after hearing this, "What Director Gongsun said is very true, it is precisely by mastering the art of building weapons that our generation can walk freely in the sea." Wang Jie originally advocated the rule of the country by rituals and books, teaching in Ulsan for four years, by the influence of Ulsan's preference for craftsmen, began to pay attention to the science and mathematics, before going to the South College to open the subject of mathematics and science.
"I don't know what is wide until I reach the sea, the student turns out to be a frog at the bottom of the well." A student with a charcoal pencil and notebook in his hand at all times looks down and jots down what he has heard and seen. The scholar is a contributor to the South Newspaper and a second-world student of South College. This time, he went to Tangdi to interview people's livelihood. His status as a contributor was equivalent to a journalist in the twenty-first century, and there was also a Wen Wei Po contributor on board who was his peer.
"So read ten thousand volumes of books, travel ten thousand miles of road, personal experience, reference to the evidence of fine thinking before becoming a great talent." Wang Jie do tutor do habit, at any time to students teach.
Yang He, Fu Chou and Wei Zhong were all ranked in the top ten of the Northern Academy, and all three of them were on the list of those who were going to Tang Di for internship. Yang He came out of the cabin and went to the side of the ship and turned around, only finding Wei Zhong and realizing that there was no figure of Fu Chou, Yang He couldn't help but start to worry.
After the assassination of Ulsan Kui Gee, Fu Chou identified the Tang King as the mastermind off the record. After the incident was reported by two major newspapers in the North and South, Fu Chou became uneasy. After Wu sends troops to Tang, Fu Chou goes from uneasy to silent. By the time his mentor Jitu's body and his mentor's family were sent to Nambu, Fu Chou was devastated. In his heart of hearts, Fu Chou doesn't think that he made a mistake by testifying against the King of Tang at the scene of the assassination, but the consequences of testifying against the mastermind are tormenting him. His mentor is forced to commit suicide, and his family is sent to Wu as the guilty party, which leads to the annexation of Tang.
Fu Chou has no feelings about the annexation of his home country, only the guilt of his mentor's suicide that he can't breathe, Yang He comforted him for a few days in a row, with little effect.
Yang He and Wei Zhong discussed the matter, and the two of them lifted their feet and walked towards the bottom barn, which had the largest room and housed the family of Jitu.
As expected, Fu Chou was kneeling at the door of the cabin room, with a wooden tray next to him, on which were several kinds of fruits unique to Nangbu, one kind of grapes, one kind of big apples, and one kind of late-season peaches. These fruits were bought by Fu Chou in Nanbu and brought on board. Fu Chou had originally sent a few times to the Ji family, but they were all thrown away by the teacher's mother.
"Fu Di, go back, your master mother is still in grief, later when she calms down and thinks about it, she will forgive you." Yang He walked to Fu Chou's side to console him.
"Will it be forgiven?" Fu Chou looked up, he was fading badly now.
"Of course, it's not your fault, it's that Tang King who wanted to get off the hook before forcing your master to die. Your teacher was also foolishly loyal, loyalty to a dim and brutal king is destined to have no good ending. With such a dim king who is so rebellious, even your uncle has said that it is good for Tang to be annexed by Wu, so that it can live on." Before the Battle of Shan Au on the shores of the East China Sea, Fu Chou's uncle still honored the King of Tang.
"But my benefactor didn't survive!" Fu Chou's eyes were lifeless, Jitu had always loved him, and the seven or eight years of teaching kindness was too much for Fu Chou not to feel guilty.
"Your Enshu didn't survive, but your Enshu's family is still alive, you can secretly take care of them." Wei Zhong lowered his voice to persuade, trying to drag Fu Chou out of his depression in this way.
"Not bad, I can take care of them instead of Enshu." As if Fu Chou had found the path to redemption, there was a gleam in his eyes.
Yang He and Wei Zhong saw Fu Chou's expression loosen and hurriedly helped him away.
The bottom barn room was not dark, with two wooden windows and air vents above it, and the room was clean, with Ji's wife and Ji Tu's two sons and daughters-in-law plus three grandchildren, plus three loyal household servants. Yang He's words of persuasion to Fu Chou were clearly heard, except for the last part of his voice, which was muffled and muffled.
"Mother! My father's death is not the fault of Schoolboy Fu!" Jitu's youngest son spoke softly.
Ji's wife had been sitting with her eyes closed, but when she heard her youngest son speak for Fu Chou, she opened her eyes and glared at her youngest son, who immediately shut up.
When Jitu took the poison, he thought that he had taken the blame for the King of Tang, and that the King of Tang would always take care of his family and children, but it turned out that before Jitu's body warmed up, his family and children were sent to the Kingdom of Wu by the King of Tang, who ordered them to be tied up and sent to the Kingdom of Wu together with Jitu's body.
At that time, Ji's wife thought that her family would die for sure, but to her surprise, Wu did not dispose of the Ji family, but instead asked Fu Chou to help take care of the aftermath of Ji Tu's death. The wife was unable to harbor any hatred or resentment towards Wu. She hated the King of Tang the most, but her feelings towards Fu Chou were more complicated. When Fu Chou was studying with Ji Tu, Ji's wife took good care of him. Now that her husband had been killed because of Fu Chou's testimony, she could not deny his loyalty and hate the Tang King, but could only vent her hatred on Fu Chou.
Although Fu Chou helped cremate Jitu's body and did his best to take care of her family, it was Fu Chou's request to Zheng Yuming that the Jitu family was able to take the boat back to Tang.
Jitu's eldest son judged from his mother's behavior that her attitude towards Fu Chou had loosened, for Ji-wife did not correct her youngest son's address of Fu Chou as a schoolmate this time.
"Mother, Xiao Er wants to get some air on the side of the ship." Seeing the wink passed by her husband, Ji Tu's eldest daughter-in-law hurriedly made the request with her mother-in-law; Xiao Er was her youngest son and had always been loved by Ji's wife.
Ji's wife opened her eyes and looked at her grandson, unable to beat his longing eyes, she gently nodded her head in acquiescence.
Ji family size and Zheng Yuming and Wu Wangsheng ride is not a boat, the boat guards on the Ji family only ordinary surveillance, as long as they do not run to the ship vital compartments, on the side of the boat to get a breath of air anything is not restricted.
Jitu's eldest daughter-in-law took her three children to the ship's side for a bit of sea air, and when she returned, she brought back the fruit that Fu-chou had left at the door of his room in the barn, and Ji-wife, seeing the children nibbling on the fruit, rolled over to face the bulkhead and feigned ignorance.
When Fu Chou came to deliver the fruit the next day, he found only empty wooden trays at the door, and could not help but be refreshed, and has since slowly freed himself from his depression.
The fleet sailed day and night for two days to reach the small bay, and Xu Wei, the county magistrate of Northeast County, had already waited for Wang Jie to meet him at the pier of the bay harbor. When Wang Jie saw his favorite disciple, the two of them had a chat, and when the students of South College saw their senior, they also scrambled to come forward to chat.
The scholars of the North Academy did not know Xu Wei, but they all knew that Xu Wei had been recognized as the highest administrator of the Northeast County because he had taken the third place in the promotion examination.
Xu Wei's performance in the northeastern county for three years is only a little worse than that of Huo Sizhong, and Xu Wei's performance has always been good in the annual evaluation of local performance. The students will participate in the promotion examination next year, thinking that they will be reused like Xu Wei, and will make a career, the students are more excited.
The small bay is no longer the original small harbor with only a dozen villagers, the original village place has been transformed into a city of more than 20,000 people, the city to loading and unloading of goods and fishing for sea fish as the main industry, because salt is very cheap, so that the fishermen go out to sea to catch sea fish can be salted and preserved, salted sea fish to supply the northeastern counties and the East China Sea coast.
More than ninety percent of the current inhabitants of Little Bay are the original Tang people, who only became Wu people after the defeat of the Tang king four years ago. The residents of Siu Hoi Wan are not as rich as the people of Nambu, but they are comparable to the people of Kang City, the capital of the King. Half of the residents have renovated their straw huts and the other half have plans to remodel their thatched roofs. The faces of the people in the small town were full of contentment, and the place was full of vitality.
The flotilla stayed in the small bay for a day and continued north, this time from the sea into the north where the big river meets the sea, following the big river straight to Tang Wangdu. Tang Wangdu has now been renamed New City.
After the big wooden boat entered the newly annexed Tang land, people immediately felt that the scenery on both sides of the river was very different from the territory of Wu. People didn't go ashore and couldn't see the specific situation, but only felt that there were fewer people walking around, the crops in the fields were wilting, and there was a sense of depression everywhere. It was not until the wooden boat docked at the pier near the new city, and the slogans from the people working feverishly around the new city made them feel energized.