The Ming Dynasty had a system of selecting officials by imperial examination, but Donghai Town did not want officials appointed by the imperial court, and Fu Shangrui and officials promoted by the imperial court all left Jiangdong and went to Huguang with the envoys.In this way, the imperial examination system, for Donghai Town, not only cannot select talents, but also makes the scholars and talents of Donghai pass the imperial examination and be selected by the imperial court.Therefore, Qian Qianyi proposed to reserve talents through the selection of staff, and immediately received Zhao Ming's support.In this way, the selection of shogunates was equivalent to the imperial court and the imperial examination, and the shogunate became the Hanlin Academy for training officials.Now that the system of Donghai Town has been determined, there is a set of means to select officials to continue to supply talents to the administrative system of Donghai Town.Zhao Ming couldn't help but praise, Lao Qian is really a ghost.In this way, the examination for the selection of staff members is tantamount to competition with the examination of the imperial court.This requires some rules, first of all, Zhao Ming wants to ensure that the scholars who enter the shogunate can be officials, and this time there can be so many literati who come to apply, one of the main reasons is that Zhao Ming's staff in the shogunate served as the prefect and prefect of Su Songchang's state capitals.Some of these staff members are only famous, and some are tributes, but they were recommended by Zhao Ming as the prefect of the fourth rank and the county order of the seventh grade, which is equivalent to ascending to the sky in one step.You must know that many scholars who have passed the Jinshi examination will not be able to find an errand or make up for a shortage after staying in Beijing for a few years.Confucianism says that reading is for the sake of the Qi family and the world, but the vast majority of scholars actually only read Confucian books, but they are not the gentlemen and Confucian disciples that Confucianism says, they just use Confucianism to be officials and test their fame, in order to nominate themselves on the gold list and change their fate, not for the sake of the world, the vast majority of them are hypocrites and pseudo-Confucians.Therefore, whether you can be an official or not is the key to the selection of the curtain examination and whether you can compete with the imperial court examination.If you can't be an official, it is estimated that there are not many people who are willing to come to Zhao Ming as a staff member.This time, more than 20 staff members of the Right Capital Governor's Mansion served as the official positions of Su Songchang's prefectures and counties together, and made an excellent advertisement for Zhao Ming.Secondly, the shogunate does not accept everyone, and the township examination still has to be held, so to participate in the shogunate selection examination, you must pass the township examination and obtain the fame of lifting people, and it is not limited to the participation of people in Donghai Town, and everyone in the world can come to take the test.Of course, even if you come to recruit this time, as long as you come to apply, you will take the test together, and the rules will be formed in the future, and the recruits must be famous.If a scholar wants to be an official in the Longwu Dynasty, the original way is to first take the examination in the county, then in the province, and finally go to Beijing to take the Jinshi examination, and then wait for the arrangement to be an official.Now Zhao Ming is equal to opening one more road, the front is still the same, first to examine the candidates, and then to take the examination, but at this time, in addition to the Jingshi examination Jinshi, you can also go to the East China Sea Governor Yamen to take the entrance examination, and after entering the shogunate, wait for the assignment of official positions.Because the township examination is a local examination, Zhao Ming can also take some people who are ideologically biased towards the ideas of the National Socialist Party as the promoters of the township examination, and these people go to the imperial court to take the Jinshi examination, most of them fail to pass the examination, and in the end they can only come back to take the examiner, so as to avoid the talents of Donghai Town being attracted by the imperial court.At that time, Zhao Ming decided to adopt Qian Qianyi's suggestion and appointed Qian Qianyi as the chief secretary of the shogunate to preside over the examination for the selection of staff.Qian Qianyi was nearly seventy years old, and he didn't have a long time to live, so Zhao Ming was very relieved to hand over the exam to him.At the beginning of December, nearly 1,000 scholars came to Suzhou to participate in the shogunate examination, and finally the governor yamen admitted 50 people as shogunate staff, and Zhao Ming also recruited 15 members of the National Socialist Party to form the shogunate.These people are behind the scenes, divided into three categories, one is the shogunate secretary, into the council, a total of seven people, headed by Qian Qianyi, mainly members of the National Socialist Party, to help Zhao Ming deal with affairs, give opinions, and then hand over to Zhao Ming to decide, one type, for the shogunate senator, after Zhao Ming decides, help Zhao Ming draft documents, sent to the East China Sea three divisions for execution, and the last category is the shogunate discipline inspection committee, which can supervise local officials and report illegal things.At this point, the administrative system, the election of officials, and the supervision system of Donghai Town have begun to take shape, which is enough for the current operation of Donghai Town.When Qian Qianyi built the shogunate for Zhao Ming, Zhao Ming did not stay in Suzhou, but came to Shanghai.At this time, after more than a year of construction, the Huangpu River has been dredged, the construction of wharves and warehouses has been completed, and Shanghai has the conditions for opening a port.However, Zhao Ming came here not to open a port, but to do a big thing.According to the information received by Zhao Ming, Dolgon Xu was a Jin merchant who specialized in the salt industry of Lianghuai, and obtained a large amount of silver from the Jin merchants.According to the news from the Ming merchants in Manila and the inside lines of the Dayuan, the Spanish cannon foundry in Manila and the Dutch factory in Dayuan have increased production, captured a large number of slaves, opened mines and smelted, and several merchant ships from Batavia were also loaded with gunpowder and copper blocks.Merchants in Tokai Town, Japan, also discovered Dutch and Spanish merchant ships, sold their goods to Japan, and then bought copper ore and copper nuggets from Japan.These messages all indicate that the Manchus were buying guns from the Dutch and the Spaniards.This made Zhao Ming very dissatisfied, he originally intended to drive away the Dutch and the Spaniards, because in comparison, Zhao Ming would definitely not be able to destroy the Manchus now, and he would not be able to defeat the Qing army, but there were only more than 2,000 Dutch people in Taiwan, and there were only two or three thousand Spaniards in Luzon, and Donghai Town was fully capable of defeating them.If Zhao Ming started a war with the Manchus, the Spaniards and Dutch would continue to send weapons to the Manchus from behind, and even backstab them at critical moments, which would make Donghai Town very passive.It's just that although Zhao Ming can drive them away, he can't completely defeat them, and in the maritime trade, Huaxing Company currently mainly provides a source of goods, and does not have the strength to transport goods to the Mughals, Sasansanids, Ottomans, and East Africa to sell.At this time, the transportation of ocean trade was completely in the hands of the Dutch.This made Zhao Mingming know that the Dutch colluded with the Manchus to make weapons for the Manchus, but they did not dare to drive the Dutch out of Taiwan rashly.Because if there was a war with the Dutch, Huaxing Company's goods would not be able to be exported overseas, and Huaxing Company would not have the ability to organize its own fleet and transport the goods out for sale.At that time, only a few markets in Japan, North Korea, and Annam will restrict the development of Jiangdong's private capital and Huaxing Company.For this reason, Zhao Ming decided to organize a rather large fleet, and after loading the goods, go on an ocean voyage, with the goal of re-taking the path of the Three Treasure Eunuchs, and then go to the Western Ocean, so that the fleet must at least reach the coast of East Africa.It was originally difficult to do this, but thanks to He Bin and Yu Yi, they got the Dutch navigation charts from the Dutch East India Company, and with the navigation charts, Zhao Ming made up his mind to go to the West again.As for why he chose not to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the Americas, but chose to follow Zheng He's old path, it was out of interest considerations.At this time, the richer regions of the world were China, India and Ottoman Turkey, and the goods of Huaxing Company could only be sold in these places, and the west coast of America was still a primitive tribe, which was more suitable for colonization and colonization than commercial trade.
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