Fang Yun really wanted Yang Yuhuan to return to Xiangzhou immediately, but now Yang Yuhuan was no longer the woman who never left the house, but an important figure in the Women's Society. Together with Su Xiaoxiao, she helped Fang Yun monitor the Women's Society and helped the society develop. At the same time, she studied in the Women's Society, reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and learning music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Although Yang Yuhuan was busy in Kongcheng and had to finish her own work before leaving, her heart had already flown to Fang Yun.
Fang Yun was a hundred times busier than Yang Yuhuan. He had to deal with a large amount of government affairs every day and practiced at night.
He studied books from the Qishu world, read books from the Shengyuan Continent, practiced verbal battles and war poems, composed articles on classics, practiced the Yaoqin, and at the same time continued to write "History of Ancient Monsters". He was also sorting out some medical books, military strategies, and other knowledge.
Not only that, Fang Yun spends half an hour every day reading almost all the articles and replies on the discussion board, so as to keep abreast of all the information about the human race. He must not fall behind the times or fall into self-isolation.
One after another, breaking news broke out in Xiangzhou.
Every three days, the provincial government, the judicial department and the criminal department would jointly issue documents to various places and post them on the bulletin board.
The contents of these documents were surprisingly similar, all listing evidence of a certain official's guilt. Moreover, the rank of these officials was not low, at least seventh rank, and their literary rank was at least Juren, and some might even be Hanlin.
There was a subtle change in the atmosphere in the entire Xiangzhou officialdom, but people from all over the country rushed to tell each other, excitedly discussing or spreading the news that the high-ranking official had been arrested.
Near September, Yang Yuhuan, Nunu, Su Xiaoxiao, Ao Huang and others arrived in Baling City and moved to the Governor's Mansion with Fang Yun and officially settled down in Baling.
With the support of Fang Yun, Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao will establish a girls' school with a college-like scale in Baling City.
Nunu has been pestering Fang Yun these days, but Ao Huang is different. He just goes to Dongting Lake or the Yangtze River to have fun every day. Fang Yun simply appoints him as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Xiangzhou Monster Army", letting him govern all the nearby water monsters and be responsible for training them.
Ao Huang likes his current identity very much. He goes out early and comes back late every day and has a lot of fun.
Fang Yun's private soldiers had already arrived in Xiangzhou and settled down in Baling City.
Just after September, Fang Yun saw that the time was right and began to announce the rectification of the official atmosphere in Xiangzhou.
This was the first time Fang Yun was in charge of a state rather than a county.
A county is only the size of a palm, so Fang Yun can take care of everything. However, a state has several prefectures and nearly a hundred counties. Unless Fang Yun does not practice or study and spends all his time on this, he may be able to fully control it. Otherwise, he must delegate power and rely on the entire bureaucratic system to operate, rather than himself.
Throughout history, all those who thought they had absolute control over officials would be laughed at by reality and future generations.
During this rectification campaign, Fang Yun's first step was to rectify the writing style of government offices, requiring all government offices to gradually use the vernacular characters established by the Minbao, and strive to achieve full vernacular writing within two years. At the same time, Fang Yun formulated reasonable standards for the format, content, length, and other aspects of documents, which greatly saved the time of clerks.
After the order to rectify the writing style was issued, except for a few old stubborn people who had some complaints, most of the clerks in charge of writing documents cheered and rejoiced. They preferred to use the faster and simpler vernacular characters.
The rectification of literary style encountered no real resistance, and Xiangzhou officials found that Fang Yun's reforms did not shake their own interests at present, and no one stood up to oppose it, so the atmosphere in Xiangzhou officialdom eased.
As September 15th approached, even Fang Yun slowed down his rectification efforts.
September 15th is the day for the imperial examination.
Unlike usual, in recent years, due to the constant changes in Wenquxing, the number of people participating in the Juren examination has greatly increased.
There are as many as 70,000 scholars in Xiangzhou participating in the Juren examination this year, while in the year when Fang Yun took the imperial examination, there were only more than 30,000 scholars in Quanjing Kingdom participating in the Juren examination.
This was the first time Fang Yun presided over the imperial examination, so he went to the Baling City Academy of Literature early in the morning to prepare.
When the time came, Fang Yun led the scholar candidates entering the examination room to pay homage to the saints. After the candidates entered the examination room, Fang Yun chatted with other officials in the Academy of Literature.
People talked about all sorts of things, but mainly about the civil and political affairs of Xiangzhou.
The Juren examination is of vital importance, and the official seals of all participants are isolated from the outside world, even Fang Yun. However, Fang Yun is better off than others, as he can browse the essay and discussion lists, but he cannot post or reply to articles.
The candidates will take the exam for three days, and Fang Yun and everyone else will have to endure it here for three days.
When it was time for lunch, all the officials went to the dining hall to eat together.
Just when he was halfway through his meal, Fang Yun suddenly turned his head to look at the six servants who were eating in the corner.
The others also looked at the six servants, and the dining room suddenly became quiet.
The six officers soon realized that Xu Sheng was looking at them. They were so scared that they put down their bowls and chopsticks, hurriedly stood up, and looked at Fang Yun in panic, at a loss as to what to do.
Fang Yun said with a pleasant face: "Come here, all of you."
The six officers looked at each other and slowly walked towards Fang Yun. It was not that they did not want to walk fast, but their legs were weak and they could not walk fast. One of the timid ones was even almost scared to tears.
The atmosphere in the dining room was very depressing.
When the six officers came closer, Fang Yun smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, it's nothing serious. I just heard you discussing the matter of today's examination room. It was said that two students were rejected because of problems with their examination badges?"
The six officers secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The oldest officer bowed and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, this is indeed the case. The examination cards of the two people were not sent by the government, but were replaced by someone else. They are fake examination cards."
"This kind of thing doesn't seem to happen often." Fang Yun said.
Dong Wencong said, "It is indeed rare, but when I was taking the exam, I encountered someone whose exam card was swapped, which resulted in him being unable to enter the exam room."
Fang Yun asked the officers: "What else do you know about the replacement of the exam license?"
The officer replied hastily, "Since they didn't intentionally damage the exam cards or cheat, we just asked them to leave. The two stood not far from the door and discussed for a while. They seemed to suspect that it was done by a classmate. They quickly found that person, but that person just entered the exam room. The two didn't dare to rush into the exam room and could only leave. The younger one left crying."
"Hmm." Fang Yun said, and suddenly closed his eyes. Talent surged around him, and a history book that could be created by historians and scholars appeared in front of him. It was a scroll of bamboo slips.
The officials in the dining hall were stunned, and then some older people or those with higher literary status showed expressions of horror, especially Dong Wencong, who actually opened his mouth in a very ungraceful manner.
After a few breaths, Fang Yun opened his eyes, nodded, and said, "I see, you did a good job, the six of you can go back."
The six officers felt relieved and went back happily. Being praised by Xu Sheng was enough for them to brag about for the rest of their lives.
Dong Wencong asked incredulously: "Governor, are you recalling your memories?"
"That's right." Fang Yun smiled.
Everyone present looked at Fang Yun in surprise. That was an ability only great scholars had. No one expected that Fang Yun, who was also a university scholar, could do it.
A person will encounter all kinds of complicated information, most of which are useless, so he or she will instinctively ignore a lot of information. For example, when walking on the street, you can see everyone's face clearly, but no one will remember the faces of strangers, and it is impossible to use them in the future.
Fang Yun has the ability to retrospectively recall memories. Even months later, as long as he needs to, he can always find everyone he has ever met from the depths of his memory, even if he had never deliberately remembered them before. As long as they were once within his sight, he can find them back.
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