Officials of level three or above came to the palace to discuss with Tang Yang for two hours.
An imperial edict to hold a poetry conference was issued.
The event will be held half a month later.
In this poetry conference, the rewards are divided into two categories.
The first reward is to have the opportunity to have a good time with the emperor and the prime minister, and to directly enter the palace examination during the next imperial examination.
It seems that compared to being an official directly in Nanlin Kingdom, it is not so attractive, but most official positions are controlled by various parties, and being able to directly enter the palace examination is already the result of the regression of many forces.
But the real attraction is the bonus!
The top three will be rewarded with 20,000 taels, 10,000 taels, and 5,000 taels of silver respectively!
This reward is much better for the world's literati than entering the palace examination directly.
What's more, there is no threshold for those who want to participate. If you want to participate, you only need to write an article and successfully pass the preliminary examination before you can participate in this poetry conference.
The reward of 20,000 taels of silver is enough to change the fate of most people's lives.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately stirred up waves.
There are people from all walks of life who want to seize the rewards, and there are also people who want to take this opportunity to become famous all over the world, and they are coming to the Xia Capital one after another.
Because of this poetry conference, even ordinary people can participate, and there are tens of thousands of taels of rewards, which instantly became the focus of discussion among people everywhere.
The limelight of low-priced salt poisoning people everywhere was immediately overshadowed by it.
After learning the news, Dugu Yingyue once again proposed that holding a poetry conference was not a good thing, as it would affect their dealings with Tang Yang!
But Dugu Bingyu and Lin Guangling, one wanted to see the man they longed for, and the other wanted to take this opportunity to catch Tang Huohuo and threaten Dugu Bingyu. Naturally, it was impossible for them to listen to Dugu Yingyue's words.
In order to shut him up, he even said that the issue of low-priced salt would take a long time to ferment before the people can reach a consensus and must not be rushed.
This poetry conference is just the right time to thoroughly ferment this matter.
After all!
No matter how much the people look forward to the Poetry Conference, they still need life, firewood, rice, oil and salt.
Seeing this, Dugu Yingyue realized that Dugu Bingyu's love for Tang Huohuo had turned into a demon!
So he gave up on stopping this poetry conference and focused all his energy on how to take the opportunity to kill Tang Huohuo!
"Feixue, how are you finding the person the Ai family asked you to find?"
Dugu Yingyue couldn't wait to call Feixue.
"Queen Mother, all the suitable candidates for this time have been found. They will gather in Xia Capital in three days at most." Feixue replied.
"Very good. In order to avoid being seen by others, I will not meet them. I will definitely do it well this time and tell them to kill Tang Huohuo. The Ai family will not only give them 50,000 taels as commission, even if the government catches them, The Ai family can also rescue them!" Dugu Yingyue ordered.
"Queen Mother, if that's the case, I'm afraid you have to pay some deposit, otherwise they won't do it easily." Feixue stepped forward and said.
"Deposit?"
Dugu Yingyue originally wanted to kill those people with nothing, so that she could achieve her goal without paying any compensation.
She didn't want to spend money for this: "What? Do I have to give it?"
"Queen Mother, the person you want to assassinate this time is Tang Huohuo, the most famous genius in the world. If you don't give them a deposit first, no one will be willing to take the risk!" Feixue replied.
"A bunch of money-hungry pariahs!" Dugu Yingyue scolded angrily: "It's okay to give it to them, but after the matter is over, you have to take it from them to the Ai family every cent!"
"Don't worry, Queen Mother, my subordinates will do it this time." Feixue nodded.
"Haha!" Dugu Yingyue laughed. The biggest reason why she trusted Feixue was that Feixue could help her deal with these dirty things.
In this way, she could achieve her goal without actually spending a tael of silver.
Gu Nanxiang, who disguised herself as a woman and got help from Jin Qingya, also sneaked into Xiadu early. After hearing the news, she realized that her opportunity had come.
Not only will she have the opportunity to see Tang Huohuo again this time, but she will also be ranked among the top three. By then, she will be qualified to enter the imperial examination. Once the imperial examination is held in the future, she will have a greater chance of being favored by Tang Yang and becoming an important official around him. !
By then! ! !
That was Tang Yang's death!
In order to get a good ranking, she also bought a collection of Tang Huohuo's poems and read them. She hoped that she could gain some insights from his collection of poems in the next ten days, so as to improve her strength.
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As they set their goals on the poetry conference.
Tang Yang's purpose was not focused on it at all.
He agreed to hold a poetry conference, firstly to create prerequisites for his reform of the imperial examination system in the future, and secondly, to use this opportunity to sow discord between Dugu Bingyu and Dugu Yingyue.
He just needs to participate again as Tang Huohuo.
While their attention was focused on the poetry conference, Tang Yang prepared for a war with the Dugu Party and the Lin clan in the future.
First, continue to order Su Xinting to continue to accelerate the recruitment of refugees from Xishan Kingdom into the Southwest Road, turning them into his secret army, and report the detailed situation to him as soon as possible.
Secondly, he ordered the mining speed to be accelerated and the speed of casting Hongyi cannon to be increased as much as possible.
In order to deceive others and prevent them from knowing his true purpose, Tang Yang used this poetry conference to start hyping up the fairy wine again, spreading the word that the emperor had used magical weapons to defeat the Rounu Kingdom, so that it would not dare to provoke the Xia Kingdom!
Xia Kingdom will definitely return to its peak in the future!
What do these mean?
It shows that Daxia Immortal Lord really exists!
The value of fairy wine will become higher and higher in the future. If you buy it now, you will definitely make money in the future!
However, this hype could not raise the price of fairy wine again.
Even the price on the black market has dropped below ten thousand taels per jar.
The price that Cao He offered for sale even dropped to five thousand taels per jar. If it were higher, no one would care.
It can be seen that after a short period of speculation in the early stage, people found that although there was still a market for this wine, it could not be sold at the previous high price.
The high price has completely exceeded their affordability.
Prices can only fall back step by step.
However, fortunately, the current price of five thousand taels per jar has been stable for some time.
This is probably the price accepted by the rich, dignitaries and businessmen from all walks of life.
Although it has not continued to increase to make huge profits, once the price stabilizes, the luxury setting of this wine has been completed.
Even if they don't hype the wine next, the price will remain high.
Overall, it was a success!
But in the eyes of the Dugu Party and the Lin family, they all thought that Tang Yang had failed!
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Su Xinting finally had a reply regarding Xishan Kingdom’s recruitment of refugees.
Since then, they have recruited 10,000 refugees and settled them secretly on Southwest Road.
According to his estimate, 50,000 refugees could eventually be attracted!
Within two months, it will be done!
Fifty thousand people is already a lot!
After all, Tang Yang can currently mobilize more than 30,000 troops.
It can be said that his military strength has more than doubled!
In the end, the number of troops he could mobilize reached 80,000!
However, they are just some refugees, and compared to the combat effectiveness of the regular army, they are simply vulnerable.
In order to improve their combat effectiveness.
Tang Yang once again allocated 500,000 taels of silver to Su Xinting, asking him to use it to prepare weapons, armor, and food for the refugees, and at the same time arrange for them to put into formal training as soon as possible.
And the speed of casting Hongyi cannon is still slow!
Even though he currently owns many copper and iron mines, they have been mined by the Jin family for many years. The further you go to the back, the more difficult and slower the mining becomes.
In addition, the casting of Hongyi cannons requires extremely high steel, and the speed is even slower.
In the past ten days, they had only cast two Hongyi cannons.
According to Tang Yang's plan, he must have at least a hundred Hongyi cannons before he can directly go to war with the Dugu Party!
Because then he will face not only the Dugu Party, but also the Lin family and the three princes and kings, who will deal with him together!
Seeing this opportunity, other countries may also take the opportunity to nip Xia's power in the bud.
The army will also be sent!
not to mention!
And the hidden black spirit army!
If Hongyi's cannons were not fast enough, with his small number of troops, they would be beaten into pieces very quickly.
Tang Yang must find a way to increase the supply speed of copper and iron ore!
