"My father's illness has been cured." A middle-aged man knelt down and cried bitterly. He looked at his old father lying on the cart and said, "Dad, we are accepted here, and your illness has been cured."
The old man was very weak, but after hearing his son's words, he managed a smile and said, "Son, you must remember the kindness of His Highness King Weihai."
This scene kept playing out in this shed.
Everyone is a poor person coming from all over the world, just for the hope of survival.
Everyone knows that paying for supplies is a thankless task for King Weihai.
Keren did it, and not only did it, but he did it very well.
Those who have no permanent property are given permanent property, and the unemployed are helped to purchase properties. The sick are treated free of charge and do not have to pay grain taxes. They only need to set aside one or two months a year during the slack period to do corvee work, and the place where the corvee work is done is in Weihai.
Two meals a day is simply unheard of and unseen.
Soon, it was Wang Shouyang's turn.
Wang Shouyang took his road guide and the note and handed them to the people in the office.
These people are very enthusiastic and ask questions carefully.
Knowing that Wang Shouyang was a scholar, these people became even more enthusiastic. Those who came to Weihaiwei were generally ordinary people.
And scholars will not come here unless they are desperate.
If you have fame and fame, you usually don't have to worry about food and drink.
"Sir, have you obtained any honors?"
Wang Shouyang thought for a while and said: "I have no fame, but I learned to write when I was three years old. I can recite the Four Books and Five Classics by heart, and I can write and draw."
Hearing this, everyone did not ask further questions, saying that Potian had no fame, not even a child, which showed that this person's talents were limited, but what Zhu Jun meant was that talents were not based on fame.
Immediately, they led Wang Shouyang to another small room, "Mr. Wang, here is a test paper issued by His Highness. The full score is 100. If you can answer 50% correctly, you will be considered a pass!"
Wang Shouyang looked at the test paper in his hand and found it particularly interesting. What if he got full marks?
"The current highest score is only seventy points!" the examiner said.
Wang Shouyang was eager to give it a try and immediately started writing papers.
This paper is also particularly interesting. It contains mostly arithmetic and then civil affairs issues.
There are several aspects involved.
Wang Shouyang thought to himself that this paper was quite original. It seemed that King Weihai wanted to select comprehensive talents.
Some of the first questions are relatively simple, but the further you go, the more difficult they become.
Two of the questions made Wang Shouyang slightly stunned, "Which came first in the world, the chicken or the egg? If mother and father fell into the water at the same time, who would you save first?"
Wang Shouyang didn't know how to write for a while, but looking at these two topics, he felt more and more that King Weihai was a wonderful person.
Anyone who sees this kind of topic will be enlightened.
After thinking for a while, he began to answer.
In just over half an hour, he handed in the test paper.
The examiner looked at the neat test paper and the words like razor blades, and couldn't help but nod. You can tell whether you have talent or not by looking at the words.
This guy is really good at handwriting.
"Sir, take a break and drink some hot tea to warm up. If you are hungry, eat some snacks!" The examiner cupped his hands and left immediately.
Ah Fu asked: "Master, why didn't you say you were the top scholar in Jinke?"
"Then tell them, have I, the number one scholar, been demoted?" Wang Shouyang rolled his eyes at him, "I'm not in a hurry to find King Weihai right now, I want to see how they will allocate us next.
Surrender is good, but I want to see more. "
Wang Shouyang is an extremely proud person, otherwise he would not have contradicted Zhu Yuanzhang on the spot in the Jinluan Palace.
Even ten cows couldn't pull back what he decided.
But he is just straight, not stupid.
Zhu Jun did a great job, but even so, he wanted to see Zhu Jun's shortcomings even more.
If you are talented, even if you start from the basics, you will surely become famous.
Only in this way can you learn more things.
Only at the bottom can you see the embodiment of King Weihai's thoughts and find the answers you want.
"Master, a feast..."
"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat!" Wang Shouyang knocked on his head, "You just ate five big steamed buns in one go, haven't you had enough?"
Ah Fu wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth and swallowed hard, "I'm done eating. I want to drink some chicken soup to moisten my throat!"
Wang Shouyang laughed angrily, but it was also his fault. He was very good to this little book boy. He lived and ate with him. They had grown up together since they were young, so naturally they didn't have too many restrictions.
While the two were bickering, several examiners got together to mark the test papers.
Within a quarter of an hour, the scores came out. When several people added them up, the accuracy rate was as high as 90!
"Such a high score!" said the leading examiner: "Go and inform Mr. Cai and send the test papers. This is a talent. Your Highness will be happy to know about it!"
Weihaiwei needs talents, not just illiterate people, orphans, widows and children.
To be honest, a thousand or maybe six hundred people are all burdens, either children or women and children.
The remaining people either have no ability to deal with it, or they are poor and do not know a word.
They have to arrange housing for them and ensure their livelihood in the early stage.
The logistics are very stressful.
In just over a month, tens of thousands of people poured into Weihaiwei.
This small county town is packed to the brim.
Many people advised Zhu Jun to only accept talented people and not to accept these people casually.
Usually it is the desperate people who leave their hometowns to try their luck here.
You know, the daily expenditure here now exceeds one thousand five hundred taels, which is forty-five thousand taels a month.
This is only the expenditure on materials, and does not include the cost of building houses and expanding the county seat.
Someone has calculated that if you want to build Weihaiwei into a large city with a population of more than 500,000, it will cost no less than two million taels.
That's an astronomical number.
But the Weihai Palace was not afraid at all, nor did it oppress the people, it just endured it silently.
Therefore, all the people are even more grateful.
Cai Guan is currently looking at the intelligence sent by disciples from various places.
In the past two years, he has recruited no less than a thousand disciples for the Weihai Palace.
These disciples were all capable and fine, but he looked down upon them at all.
Most of these people now go to the bottom to work as minor officials.
Of course, being capable is secondary. The most important thing in accepting them is loyalty to Zhu Jun.
Cai Guan also listed loyalty to Zhu Jun as his top priority.
Privately, they all call themselves 'King Weihai's lackeys'.
It's just that most of these people stayed in Yingtian and Fengyang, or stayed in Jiangnan to promote Zhu Jun's ideas.
Weihaiwei has a shortage of talents, so how to introduce talents is a big problem.
In his opinion, although His Highness's move has attracted a large number of people, it is not that easy to attract real talents!
