The literary gathering to welcome the officials from Mizhou to take office came to a quiet end, and "Ode to the Willow" was listed on the D list of literary awards, and also caused quite a stir on the discussion list.
In the eyes of many people, this poem "Ode to the Willow" brought an end to the dispute over the palace examination in Ning'an County. The left prime minister's party was like willow catkins all over the sky, but was ended by the empress dowager, the minister of literature, Fang Yun and others who were like clear frost.
After the first day of April, Ning'an County became as peaceful and tranquil as its name. Fang Yun began to take over the overall management of Ning'an County. With the help of his aides and scholars from the Holy Academy, Ning'an County was well governed. Some officials even gave the county an evaluation that "no one picks up things on the streets and no one locks their doors at night."
In the following days, Fang Yun also calmed down like Ning'an County. He no longer felt the urgency to fight against the Zuo Xiang Party. He only dealt with government affairs during the day. If there was nothing urgent at night, he would study at home, recite the scriptures of the saints, and consolidate his talent.
Fang Yun began to bide his time.
Fang Yun has already surpassed the level of sword of tongue and has begun to restrain his edge. He wants his edge to be able to come out and go back, otherwise he will never become a Hanlin.
Except for that literary gathering, there was no news about Fang Yun in Shengyuan Continent throughout April. Both the Literary Newspaper and the discussion list seemed to have forgotten Fang Yun, but he was not idle.
Fang Yun would go to Yunlou every two days to discuss research with the farmers, and use the standards of later laboratories to require improvements to Yunlou.
Nongjia Yunlou is actually an artificial ecosystem and breeding base, but its system is backward and lacking, and it depends entirely on Fang Yun to improve it.
In terms of fortifications, Fang Yun cooperated with officials from the Ministry of Works to begin improving the buildings and roads of Ning'an City. Since the project was very large, everything was still only on the drawing board.
In terms of medical services, it is only a matter of time before Fang Yun is awarded Grade A. The main mission of the medical staff is to use Ning'an County to verify Fang Yun's previous strategies such as the "Plague Prevention and Control Method".
In terms of criminal justice, Fang Yun still arrested the big ones and let the small ones go, and the small cases were handled by the Dianshi and the Criminal Department.
In terms of history, Fang Yun has already started writing "Ancient Demon History". However, "Ancient Demon History" is not an ordinary history book, but contains ancient secrets, and turns the ancient demon heritage into words, which requires a lot of talent when writing. "Ancient Demon History" is also helpful for the literature among the ten subjects.
In terms of education, Fang Yun had already finished writing "Zeng Guang Xian Wen" and "You Xue Qiong Lin". He was revising them these days and would formally submit them to the Holy Academy in a while. These two books for children not only have the merit of education, but also can improve the subject of literature, killing two birds with one stone. As for "Di Zi Gui" and "Fang Family Instructions", Fang Yun was not going to take them out in the palace examination and needed to wait for a while.
Every ten days, Fang Yun would write a letter to the children of the Fang family who were far away in Ji County, using his own life experience to educate them. As a person with a vision spanning more than a thousand years, his experience may seem ordinary to later generations, but in this era it is of a different level and has a bird's-eye view.
In terms of people's livelihood, Ning'an County can be said to be a place where people can live and work in peace and contentment, especially after Fang Yun resolved the grain price issue. It has received praise from many parties.
Some candidates who passed the palace examination complained that Fang Yun cheated by leading the Nong family and the Yunlou projection to Ning'an County, but the Nong Palace responded that any candidate who passed the palace examination could lead the Nong Palace as long as they could show achievements comparable to Fang Yun's.
Ning'an County has a large population flow. It is extremely difficult to improve the livelihood subject. Many palace examination candidates have quietly competed for this subject, and they believe that Fang Yun is powerless to improve the livelihood of the first grade.
People's livelihood involves all aspects, and Fang Yun has already made plans. He has begun to change the status quo of Ning'an County from dozens of aspects such as life, entertainment, work, accommodation, transportation, education and public security. These actions seem ordinary, such as urban reconstruction and road planning. For example, restricting brothels and gambling houses, adding new public entertainment facilities, strengthening greening, promoting basic health knowledge, ensuring the cleanliness of the city, and strengthening patrols.
These actions are unlikely to have any effect in a short period of time and are a thankless task. No other candidates in the palace examination would do it, but Fang Yun started without hesitation, because the palace examination is the best pilot project to gradually change and strengthen the human race!
Even if the three semi-saint examiners did not understand the changes and would not raise the grades, Fang Yun would not stop.
No matter how important the palace examination is, it is not as important as the future of the human race!
As for the civil service department, it was the most difficult, because this was the strength of the Miscellaneous Family. The two great imperial examination candidates, Xiang Lancheng, the son-in-law of the Zongsheng family, and Lei Shushan, the Lei family, were both competing for the civil service department. However, Fang Yun had performance appraisal, and as long as the experiment in the workshop was successful, he would immediately make some changes and use it on the officials of Ning'an County.
Performance appraisal was originally derived from the civil service appraisal model. Fang Yun was just using the workshop as a cover, and his main goal was to reform the administration of officials.
The last section, military affairs, is Fang Yun’s only shortcoming at the moment.
Ning'an County is an important town with strict defenses. In addition, the Yingyang Army deliberately prevented the barbarians from approaching, so Fang Yun had no chance to kill the barbarians and gain merit.
Before, the Yingyang Army had never given Fang Yun military power. It was only after Fang Yun's uncle Fang Shouye took office as the general of Qingwu Prefecture that the Qingwu Prefecture army was stationed outside Ning'an County. With the orders of the Grand Marshal's Office, the Ministry of War and Mizhou Governor Yu Xingshu, Fang Yun was given the power to mobilize this prefectural army when Fang Shouye was not in Ning'an.
The Qingwu Prefecture Army was originally from the Zuo Xiang faction, but the troops now stationed outside Ning'an County were all temporarily transferred from the army that was not from the Zuo Xiang faction, so there is no problem with their loyalty.
Fang Yun was unable to lead his troops into battle, but he found another way. He designed camouflage uniforms suitable for grassland warfare, slightly adjusted the configuration of the government troops, improved logistics, medical care, and fortifications based on later concepts and the situation in the Shengyuan Continent, and rationally changed the way of training troops.
Although April is quiet, Ning'an County is undergoing reforms in ways that are barely noticeable to the public.
Not a change, but a real overhaul.
On the first day of May, good news came. Three semi-saint examiners awarded Fang Yun the title of "Top Grade in Medical Affairs", which excited the whole Jing Kingdom.
Out of ten A-grade candidates, only nine remained. The atmosphere of the palace examination changed quietly, and all the candidates were more cautious and hardworking than before.
On the second day of May, Fang Yun summoned all the graduating students in the county. From that day on, he gave lectures in the holy temple every five days, teaching the holy scriptures in preparation for the scholar examination on June 15.
As soon as this incident happened, a large number of Jinshi candidates protested, because Fang Yun was obviously only a Jinshi, but he possessed a "spokenness of heaven" similar to that of a grand secretary. No matter what he said, the students would remember it and understand it more easily. He was simply cheating in the subject of education.
But the reply from the Holy Academy was that there were lectures given by candidates who passed the palace examination every year, and no matter how good Fang Yun was, it was his own ability and he did not rely on any external force.
For Fang Yun, apart from having an extra lecture in May, the rest of the days were no different from those in April, because some plans and policies were formulated in April and implemented by his staff, officials from various halls and officials from Ning'an County. He just asked about the progress and occasionally made incognito visits with the help of the Second Realm Painting Technique to disguise himself, and did not find any major problems.
As time went by, Fang Yun spent his time studying besides handling government affairs. His mind became pure and his talent gradually became stable. (To be continued...)