How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

In the 80th year of Jian'an, after completing basic education, students of the Imperial Academy went to the Taihe River Basin to study cotton planting with local farmers. They successfully harvested the first batch of cotton in Jian'an. The cotton was then woven into cloth through multiple processes such as cotton fluffing and spinning in the Shangyi Storehouse.

The cloth woven from cotton is soft and warm, has strong moisture absorption, is wear-resistant and durable, and can keep out the cold well whether it is made into clothes or filled into quilts. The imperial court issued subsidies to encourage local farmers to grow cotton. The following year, the Imperial College separated the Agricultural College and recruited cotton growers in the Taihe River Basin as foreign students to go to the Yangtze River Basin to popularize cotton planting knowledge among local farmers, ensuring that within three years, the people of Jian'an could cover themselves with quilts in winter, and within five years, the people could wear cotton clothes.

In the 82nd year of the Jian'an period, students at the Imperial Academy achieved the effects of shortening the ripening period of some fruits, increasing yields, and enhancing plant disease resistance through grafting technology, and began to study new agricultural models similar to the rice-fish-duck ecological symbiotic system.

At the same time, Jian'an reformed the imperial examination system, requiring those who failed the spring examination to study in the Imperial Academy for two years. Those with good grades could stay and become lecturers in the Imperial Academy, while those with poor grades could return to their hometowns to establish private schools, popularize the knowledge of the Imperial Academy, enjoy annual subsidies from the court, and gradually achieve the goal of universal basic education.

The students in Jian'an were very talented. Within three years, the Imperial College produced many talented people. Schools were frequently built in various prefectures and regions. The Imperial College began to issue special recruitment quotas to recruit talented people in advance.

In the 83rd year of Jian'an, a student of the Imperial College embezzled money and spread news in advance, allowing certain officials to manipulate market prices for profit. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. At the same time, a student developed a highly efficient textile machine, which was highly praised by the court. He was named Marquis of Textile and was allowed to attend the Qionglin Banquet.

The Imperial College had clear rewards and punishments, and its achievements benefited the people, attracting countless poor students to pursue it. Gradually, a situation of "poor students entering the Imperial College, officials and businessmen entering high-ranking officials" was formed. The emperor began to suppress the bureaucratic system and did not allow the descendants of businessmen to serve as officials in the court.

The eighty-fourth year of Jian'an.

Good news came from Yizhou that the dam was about to be completed, and the prefect of Yizhou sincerely invited the imperial teacher and the emperor to see the Minjiang River split into two and flow into the city to irrigate thousands of fields.

The emperor declined the invitation as he was busy with state affairs, and the imperial preceptor and Minister Shen went to inspect the item.

On Yuji Mountain.

Also accompanying this time were Zhu Xiaobiao and Jing Ze.

"Shen Yuan."

Xie Chengze, now 25 years old, has a more steady look in his eyes and brows, but when a smile with a sense of evil taste rises from his scarlet lips, his youthful frivolity and cunning can still be seen.

"Do you remember the bet we made?"

The man, still dressed in noble white, now had a lot of bright red on his body, such as the ugly "Ze" embroidered purse on his waist, and the red flower knot on the hilt of the green sword fluttering in the wind.

With a smile in his eyes, he looked at the man in red standing proudly on the top of the mountain with his arms folded, and said, "Of course I remember."

As he finished speaking, the snow water was seen leaving the mountains and pouring into the Minjiang River with great momentum, like a terrifying dragon turning into huge waves and attacking downstream. When passing through the Fish Mouth, it suddenly split into two, raising bursts of huge sand on the Feisha Weir. It was like a sea dragon that wanted to turn the rivers and seas upside down, trapped under the Hun Tian Ling and struggling constantly, but finally couldn't withstand the repeated beatings of the Qiankun Circle, and swam obediently into the Baopingkou, turning into spring water flowing into thousands of fields.

From now on, Tianfu will be established.

Millions of grain will soon flow into Jian'an, and the people will no longer just want to survive.

"Shen Yuan, call me daddy!" His voice was still full of vigor, as if time had never left any trace on him.

"father."

Shen Yuan answered promptly and straightforwardly, then took Xie Chengze's hand and flew him to the top of a tall tree, looking from afar at the Neijiang River pouring into Yizhou.

When they set foot here again, the two of them had become close friends, no longer having the suspicion of each other as before.

That is impossible.

Shen Yuan glanced at the ground and whispered to Xie Chengze leisurely, "Call me daddy, or I won't take you down."

Xie Chengze: "...Shen Yuan, don't push your luck!"

Isn't it common for him to call him dad so often? Why does he have to fight back at this time?!

"Just kidding." Shen Yuan laughed softly, hugged his waist, jumped on tiptoe, and crossed countless lush green treetops, blending into the mountain breeze, and went in the direction of the surging waves.

Under the tree, Zhu Xiaobiao pointed at the Minjiang River that was split in two and said to Jingze with surprise, "Jingze, Your Highness really did it! I knew that Your Highness could do it!"

Jing Ze looked at the surging river, his cold and calm gaze fell on Zhu Xiaobiao, and a few smiles slowly rippled out of his face.

"Well, the myth imagined by our little Zhu has come true."

"Jingze, you are the Prime Minister now, don't call me Lord Xiao Zhu!"

"It sounds good."

"How can it be nice! Why do you and Ouyang Jiu both like to tease me like this?"

"So you prefer Ji Songhua to call you Brother Zhu?"

"..." I always feel that what you want to ask is not such a superficial question, "Forget it, call me whatever you want."

"Then...when you return, will you move into the Jing residence?"

"???"

Why did the topic jump here?

……

The weir was built, and Yizhou summoned students to collect names for the weir. The imperial teacher followed one, and finally the name of the weir was decided - Dujiangyan.

Shen Yuan settled accounts of Liang Wanda's past achievements and faults, and finally demoted him to Lingnan as the prefect of Chaozhou.

Xie Chengze asked Liang Wanda, "Can you blame my master for not speaking up to plead for you?"

Liang Wanda bowed deeply, "The teachings of the Grand Master have long been deeply rooted in my heart. I know that the Grand Master values ​​me and wants me to go to Lingnan to clear the miasma, build terraces, and create another miracle in Tianfu."

Xie Chengze laughed, "For Tianfu alone, Sir Liang will be recorded in history books."

"Then I, Liang Wanda, will gladly accept the two Tianfu Lingnan items!"

On the day when Governor Liang left Yizhou, the streets were deserted and common people came to the city gate to see him off and presented him with an umbrella for all the people.

As the carriage started, colorful strips of cloth under the two-meter-high umbrella fluttered in the wind, like colorful deer stepping on the air, leaving dense traces of the people's handwriting, recording the good deeds Liang Wanda had done for them in another way.

They bowed deeply and watched this fatherly official go on his long journey, hoping that Lingnan, after passing through his hands, would become like a paradise.

In the 86th year of Jian'an, drought struck again and famine occurred in many places.

Grain from Tianfu poured into Jian'an, solving the urgent food shortage in many places. Merchants and people from Yizhou drove grain carts through the mountains and went to the famine-stricken cities to provide free porridge as disaster relief.

He told everyone he met that when Yizhou suffered a disaster that year, all parties came to its aid. Now that all parties are in trouble, Yizhou has the obligation to do so.

The people affected by the disaster were all moved.

In the 87th year of Jian'an, the Imperial College hybridized high-quality rice, and the Land of Abundance gained more divine power. The imperial court issued an imperial decree to dig through the mountains to build an official road connecting the north and south, east and west, to facilitate the transportation of food and fodder in the future.

As a female businessman, Sheng Yiren took on this important task and worked diligently for it. The following year, she gave birth to a son and left him with Jiang Yuan, the young master of the Jiang family, while she continued to devote herself to the road construction business.

In the same year, the third princess gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.