The Ming Dynasty had a system of electing officials in the imperial examination, but Donghai Town did not want officials appointed by the court. Fu Shangrui and the officials promoted by the court all left Jiangdong and went to Huguang with the envoy.

In this way, the imperial examination system will not only not be able to select talents for Donghai Town, but will also allow scholars and talents from Donghai to pass the imperial examination and be selected by the court.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi proposed to select staff to reserve talents, and immediately received support from Zhao Ming.

In this way, selecting staff is equivalent to the imperial examination and palace examination held by the court, while the shogunate became the Hanlin Academy for cultivating officials.

Now the system of Donghai Town has been determined, and there is only a set of means of selecting officials to continue to provide talents for Donghai Town’s administrative system.

Zhao Ming couldn't help but praise him, Lao Qian is really a genius.

In this way, the examination of selecting staff is equivalent to competing with the imperial examinations of the court.

This requires some rules. First of all, Zhao Ming must ensure that the scholars who entered the temple can become officials. This time, there are so many scholars who come to apply for the recruitment. One of the main reasons is that Zhao Ming's staff membership in the temple was appointed as the prefect and county magistrate of Susongchang Prefectures.

Some of these aides were just fame and honor, and some were tribute students, but they were recommended by Zhao Ming as the fourth-rank prefect and the seventh-rank county magistrate, which was equivalent to reaching the sky in one step.

You should know that many scholars who passed the imperial examination and passed the imperial examination could not find any job or make up for a vacancy in Beijing for a few years.

Confucianism says that reading is to manage the family and pacify the world, but most scholars actually only read Confucian books, but they are not gentlemen and disciples as Confucianism. They just use Confucianism to be officials and test their fame and fortune, in order to nominate their own gold list and change their destiny, not for the sake of the world. Most of them are hypocrites and hypocrites.

Therefore, whether you can become an official is the key to the screen selection exam and whether you can compete with the imperial examination.

If you can't be an official, there are probably not many people who are willing to be an aide to Zhao Ming.

This time, he was more than 20 aides from the Right Governor's Office, and he served as an official position in various prefectures and counties in Susongchang, making an excellent advertisement for Zhao Ming.

Secondly, the shogunate is not accepted by everyone, and the provincial examination must be held. Therefore, to take the provincial examination, you must pass the provincial examination and obtain the reputation of the juren. It is not limited to the participation of the juren in Donghai Town. All juren in the world can take the exam.

Of course, it’s all for this time. As long as you come to apply for the exam, Jinshi, Juren, and students will be given a rule later. The applicant must obtain the reputation of Juren.

A scholar wanted to be an official in the Longwu Dynasty. The original way was to first take the candidates in the county, then take the Juren in the province, and finally go to the capital to take the Jinshi, and then wait to arrange to become an official.

Now Zhao Ming has opened another road, and the previous one is still the same, first take the candidates and then take the Juren. However, at this time, in addition to taking the Jinshi exam in the capital, you can also go to the Donghai Governor's Office to take the Shipman exam. After entering the shogunate, you can wait for the official position to be assigned.

Because the provincial examination is taken at the local level, Zhao Ming can also take some people who are more ideologically inclined to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party as juren. However, these people who go to the court to take the imperial examination mostly fail, and they can only come back to take the imperial examination to take the civil servants, which can prevent the talents from Donghai Town from being attracted by the court.

At this moment, Zhao Ming decided to adopt Qian Qianyi's suggestion and appoint Qian Qianyi as the chief secretary of the shogunate to preside over the examination of selecting staff.

Qian Qianyi was nearly seventy years old and had a good life not long before. He couldn't make any trouble. Zhao Ming was very relieved to hand over the exam to him.

In early December, nearly a thousand scholars came to Suzhou to participate in the selection examination. In the end, the Governor's Office admitted fifty people as a staff member of the shogunate. In addition, Zhao Ming also recruited fifteen members of the KMT Party to form the shogunate.

These people came behind the scenes and were divided into three categories. One category was the shogunate secretary and the convention hall, with a total of seven people. They were headed by Qian Qianyi, mainly members of the KMT party committee, who helped Zhao Ming handle matters, gave opinions, and then handed over to Zhao Ming to make decisions. The other category was the shogunate senator. After Zhao Ming made a decision, he helped Zhao Ming draft documents and sent them to the Three Departments of the East China Sea for execution. The last category was the shogunate Discipline Inspection Commission, which could supervise local officials and report illegal matters.

At this point, the administrative system, official selection and supervision system of Donghai Town has begun to take shape, which is enough to operate Donghai Town at present.

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 had been dredged, the wharf and warehouse were built, and Shanghai had the conditions to open a port.

However, Zhao Ming came here not to open a port, but to do something big.

According to the information received by Zhao Ming, Dorgon and Xu were specializing in the salt industry of Lianghuai, and obtained a large sum of silver from the Shanxi merchants.

According to news from the Ming merchants in Manila and the inside of the Grand Master, the Spanish in Manila's artillery factory and the Dutch in Manila's factory both increased production, arrested a large number of slaves, started mining and smelting, and several merchant ships from Batavia were also loaded with gunpowder and copper blocks.

In Japan, merchants in Donghai Town also discovered that Dutch and Spanish merchant ships sold their goods to Japan and purchased copper ores and copper blocks from Japan.

All these news indicate that the Qing Dynasty was buying guns and cannons from the hands of the Dutch and the Spanish.

This made Zhao Ming very dissatisfied. He originally intended to drive away the Dutch and the Spaniards, because in comparison, Zhao Ming must not be able to destroy the Qing Dynasty now and could not defeat the Qing army. However, there were only more than 2,000 Taiwanese Dutch, and Luzon's Spaniards were only two or three thousand, and Donghai Town was fully capable of defeating them.

If Zhao Ming went to war with the Qing Dynasty, the Spaniards and the Dutch continued to send weapons to the Qing Dynasty from behind, and even back-sting at critical moments would make Donghai Town very passive.

However, although Zhao Ming could drive them away, he could not defeat them completely. In maritime trade, Huaxing Company currently mainly provides a source of goods and does not have the ability to transport goods to Mughals, Sassanids, Ottomans, and East Africa for sale.

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 Qing Dynasty to create weapons for the Qing Dynasty, but he did not dare to rashly drive the Dutch out of Taiwan.

Because if the war broke out with the Dutch, Huaxing Company's goods would not be sold overseas, and Huaxing Company did not have the ability to organize its own fleet and transport the goods for sale.

By then, only a few markets in Japan, North Korea and Annan would limit the development of Jiangdong private capital and Huaxing Company.

To this end, Zhao Ming decided to organize a relatively large fleet, loaded with cargo, and carried out a long-distance voyage. The goal was to retake the path of Sanbao eunuchs and then go to the West, so that the fleet would reach at least the coast of East Africa.

It was difficult to do this, but I was proud of He Bin and Kuiyi. They got the Dutch navigation chart from the Dutch East India Company. With the navigation chart, Zhao Ming made up his mind to go to the West again.

As for why he chose to follow Zheng He's old path instead of crossing the Pacific Ocean and reaching America, it was for the sake of interests.

At this time, the more wealthy areas in the world were China, India, Ottoman Turkey, and the goods of Huaxing Company were only sold in these places. The West Coast of the Americas were still primitive tribes, which were more suitable for colonization and colonization rather than commercial trade.
Chapter completed!