Become a feudal king from today

"That's right. The government office will hold an exam in the near future. I will set the questions and select the best scholars who participate in the exam, regardless of whether they are from the commoner or the noble family. Read М" Zhao Xu's expression was firm.

In his view, the talent selection system is the foundation of a country.

The recommendation system of Dasong was abolished in the contemporary Tang Dynasty.

Because this is the soil for the survival of the powerful and the noble families.

After that, the imperial examination came to the stage, and in modern times, it was to select talents through examinations.

Now that there are no powerful and noble families in his fiefdom, it is natural to promote this more advanced selection system.

"No distinction between commoner and noble families?"

Liu Fu's face was excited.

"Of course, it is fair and just. Everyone is treated equally and employed according to their talents. In the future, officials will be selected in this way in my fiefdom." Zhao Xu said.

Liu Fu's heart almost jumped out of his chest when he heard it.

He had imagined countless times that scholars in the world could compete in such a fair environment to enter the officialdom.

And now the King of Yan actually thought the same as him.

To him, the King of Yan was his confidant.

Ignoring the looks of the crowd, he hugged Zhao Xu's thighs and burst into tears, "Your Highness, you are the most virtuous king in the world. I bow down to you, bow down to you."

Zhao Xu was helpless for a moment. Every time he was excited, Liu Fu became shameless.

Chang Wei was used to it. Who let the King of Yan always give them big surprises?

He used to despise Liu Fu, but the artillery incident made him the same as Liu Fu.

Mo Yu was stunned. The people around the King of Yan were really the same as the King of Yan. They were all different.

Just then, a soldier hurried upstairs and said, "Your Highness, I found the father and son of the Gao family."

Soon, Gao Yuan and his son were brought over.

"King of Yan, I am the father-in-law of the governor of Yuanzhou. If you dare to touch a hair of mine, the governor of Yuanzhou will never let you go."

Pressed to the ground by the soldier, Gao Yuan kept struggling and still refused to surrender.

His eldest son Gao Man looked dejected.

When the soldiers of the King of Yan attacked the fortress, he and his father hid in the secret room of his home.

They hid for a night, but were still discovered.

"Just wait, the army of the Yuan family will come soon, and they will kill you without a single piece of armor left." Gao Yuan continued to shout.

"Hahaha..." Zhao Xu laughed out loud, and he said, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. The Yuan family army you are looking forward to has already come, but was defeated by me and fled back to Fanyang in a panic."

"Impossible." Gao Yuan shouted, "How can you, with just over 20,000 people, resist the 200,000-strong army of the Yuan family."

Chang Wei and other generals all laughed when they heard this, their eyes full of ridicule.

Liu Fu said, "Gao County Magistrate, you take yourself too seriously. How can there be an army of 200,000? It's just over 20,000 old and weak soldiers."

Gao Yuan still refused to accept this reality, and kept muttering "Impossible, this is impossible."

Zhao Xu was too lazy to talk nonsense with the father and son, and made a beheading gesture to the soldier guarding the father and son.

"Hang their heads on the city gate." Zhao Xu left a word as he turned to leave.

With the death of Gao's father and son, the matter of Shanggu County came to an end.

From now on, Shanggu County will be under the unified jurisdiction of the royal palace like Yan County.

After leaving the fort, Zhao Xu and the generals returned to Shanggu City.

In the government office, Zhao Xu said to Liu Fu: "The remaining chores will be handed over to you. One is to search the property of the wealthy families in Shanggu County, and the other is to distribute the confiscated land to the people."

"Yes, Your Highness." Liu Fu bowed his hands with a smile on his face.

This is completely different from the gloomy look when he first took over Shanggu County.

After all, like Yan County, no one in Shanggu County can stop the government orders issued by the government office.

Zhao Xu turned to Chang Wei again, "One of you and Mo Yu should stay. Now that the nobles of Shanggu County have been eradicated, the people are in high spirits. It should be smoother to recruit new soldiers and replenish the 60,000 soldiers of the royal palace as soon as possible."

"Let Deputy General Mo take full responsibility for this matter." Chang Wei said.

Mo Yu showed a grateful look. Since he came to the army of King Yan, he has not had the opportunity to show his skills and has been unhappy.

Now Chang Wei asked him to be responsible for the recruitment of new soldiers, which is equivalent to handing over these newly recruited millions of new soldiers to him for training.

Zhao Xu nodded and did not object.

This is also good, although he trusts Chang Wei very much.

But it is always a bit inappropriate for his troops to be controlled by only one person.

Chang Wei is usually careless, but he is still cautious in major matters.

He must have thought that if one person holds the military power alone, it will inevitably make the officials under King Yan suspicious in the future.

So he simply picked Mo Yu out and divided the military power equally.

In this way, many criticisms can be avoided.

At the same time, this would also give Mo Yu the opportunity to display his military talent.

He also explained some things about the political affairs and military affairs of Shanggu County.

In the afternoon, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei set off to return to Yan County.

The next evening, the group arrived.

Before entering the city gate, Zhao Xu looked at the endless stream of carriages on the official road with a puzzled expression.

He had not been away for a few days, but Yancheng seemed to be more noisy than before.

Chang Wei led the troops back to the camp, and he returned to the palace under the protection of Xu Lie.

"Your Highness, you are back", learned that the King of Yan was back.

Feng'er and Luan'er waited at the gate of the palace.

Seeing Zhao Xu, the two showed a look of joy.

A short separation is better than a new marriage. The two girls have been sticking to Zhao Xu for a long time, and they don't think there is anything wrong on weekdays.

But after a few days of separation, I felt a little lovesick.

In front of everyone, the two of them have to remain reserved.

But as soon as they arrived in the backyard and no one else was around, they revealed their true colors. One of them held Zhao Xu's arm and walked towards the bedroom.

Because he and the two of them had torn the window paper a long time ago, Zhao Xu was used to it and played with the two of them.

When we returned to the dormitory, a sumptuous dinner table had already been set up in the room.

Zhao Xu held their hands and asked them to sit down next to him.

He was alone in Yan County.

Although there are old men like Chang Wei and Liu Fu, there are old men's feelings between them.

For him, both iron and blood and tenderness are indispensable.

Luan'er and Feng'er have this kind of tenderness.

Let his frantic heart gradually calm down after the killing.

"Your Highness, Yancheng has been very lively in the past few days since you left. Many businessmen came from the capital, clamoring to buy the palace's perfume." Feng'er leaned on Zhao Xu and said softly.

"No wonder, I said that Yancheng suddenly became lively. It turns out that this is what happened. It seems that the reputation of this perfume has already spread in the capital." Zhao Xu said.

After pacifying Shanggu County, this is another happy event.

Now the palace can have another important income.

"No, I heard from these businessmen that all the ladies in the capital are now crazy about buying perfume. Your Highness is going to get rich this time." Luan'er said softly.

"When His Highness made the perfume, I thought it would be a big seller." Feng'er was very proud and thought of something. She said: "While His Highness was away, Chief Yang sent a letter. It was said that it was from Deputy Dong. The chief sent it from the capital."

After saying that, she walked out and came back a short time later, holding a letter in her hand and handing it to Zhao Xu.

Opening the envelope, Zhao Xu glanced at the contents and nodded lightly.

This is a letter from Dong An. The letter mainly talks about one thing in Dongwan, which is the pricing issue of perfume in the capital.

According to his survey, 20% of adults think that they can accept even a bottle of perfume worth 100 taels.

50% of people think that the price of perfume should be between 20 taels and 30 taels.

There are also 30% of people who think that perfume should be less than 20 taels.

After reading the contents of the letter, Zhao Xu had something to worry about.

These are actually the three consumption levels of consumers.

One hundred taels is not too expensive, so naturally they are the top ladies in the capital. They are really not short of money.

Only sell good ones, no matter the price.

Twenty or thirty taels represent middle-class ladies.

Those with less than 20 taels are at the bottom.

With this investigation, he had something to worry about.

This time, it seems that Wangfu's perfume will be sold in three levels, just like wine.

But this time, he was not going to rely on lowering the concentration to differentiate like wine.

Instead, we decided to officially rely on packaging and repackage wine and perfume together.

Let the third-grade goods have a more obvious distinction.

He had thought of ways to increase the distinction.

This relies on the next heavyweight to be manufactured.