On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Uncle Gu and Huo Junhao led a group of people to Chunnan City.
Before leaving, Gu Shouxin gave Huo Junhao the task of transforming Chunnan City into Chunnan County within a year. He wanted Huo Junhao to achieve this, so that next year, as the prefect of Kunzhou, he would have a county under his jurisdiction.
Looking at Uncle Gu, who was focused on farming, Huo Junhao suddenly felt immense pressure and was somewhat exhausted.
No matter how tired he was, Gu Shouxin didn't soften his heart. Anyway, there were only so many people. If you needed more people, you had to find your own way. As for money, your uncle was making it. If you wanted to do better, you could urge your uncle to plant a few more acres of land.
Uncle Gu and Huo Junhao have left. Fortunately, Chunnan City is not far from Dekun City. They can return in a day on horseback.
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, he sent off Uncle Gu Si and He Yun, the scholar whom Gu Shouxin had found for him. He brought more people with him to Baiyu City, since Uncle Gu Da had already formed a small settlement there, while Uncle Gu Si's side was a bit slower.
Gu Shouxin gave He Yun the same task as Huo Junhao, but Uncle Gu was more reliable than Uncle Gu. Although Uncle Gu was also a craftsman, he loved reading more than Uncle Gu. After learning about his family's true identity, he also intended to develop in this direction. Uncle Gu and He Yun learned from each other and made progress together.
The seventeenth was also the day Gu En set off back to Qingzhou to take the exam.
Zhang was very worried and even wanted to go back with them, but after Grandma Gu said a few words to her, she had to give up the idea.
No one in the family put pressure on Gu En, letting him take the exams as he pleased. He was gone for half a year, taking the county, prefectural, and provincial exams. If he got the title of Xiucai (a scholar who passed the lowest level of the imperial examinations), he was to come back. If not, he was told to stay there and not come back, and to continue taking the exams next year.
Well, the Gu family doesn't see this as pressure, but Gu En, who has never taken an exam before, feels immense pressure.
He had never taken an exam, and he hadn't attended any school since he went to the capital. He was taught entirely by Gu Shouxin, so he had no idea of his own level. He was quite anxious, even though Gu Ren advised him that his second uncle was going to be his teacher and he should be secretly happy, saying that his second uncle said he could pass and that he definitely could.
Gu Ren also said, "Brother, come back soon after you finish your exams. Our storytelling business can't be left unfinished. It would be best to bring back a few students from Qingzhou, the kind from families with few members and poor circumstances, so they can register as residents of our Kunzhou Prefecture and study there. Then we can have people write our storytelling stories."
Gu En was helpless against his intelligent younger brother!
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On the afternoon of the 17th, Gu Shouxin personally went to the Peng family and brought a stack of plans he had made in the past two days to show to General Peng and General Peng Da.
The plan was to build a settlement for the five nations outside the west gate. He had already thought of a name for it: Huncheng, a medium-sized town, which would be incorporated into the jurisdiction of Kunzhou.
What he meant was that if the courts of other countries disagreed, Peng's army should declare, "If you won't do it, we'll do it! We'll rob you!"
Then, the population of this mixed city includes people from the five neighboring countries, as well as people from the Great Zhou Dynasty who can rent or buy houses there, do business, etc.
At that time, Kuncheng's city walls will continue to expand westward, which means that Kuncheng will be expanded.
In this case, it would be equivalent to dividing Kuncheng into an inner city and an outer city. The inner city is the original city, with the city walls remaining intact, while the outer city consists of the newly expanded city to the east and the mixed city to the west.
After reading it, General Peng said, "Gu Er, why did you gamble and drink so much all those years ago! If you had come to Kuncheng earlier, the Langge Kingdom in the west would have been gradually brought to the Great Zhou by you! Hahahaha..."
Gu Shouxin: "..."
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