After the Three Valleys Selection, Fang Yun started to adjust his focus in Ning An County.
The West Ocean Dragon Sage's millions of beasts, barbarians, and water beasts were a huge gift. The War Hall Elder requested that Fang Yun receive an A grade in military affairs before he became a Saint.
This meant that out of the ten subjects in the court examination, Fang Yun had already received an A grade in eight of them.
However, Fang Yun did not make any big moves before the 15th of September. This was because the 15th of September was the High Scholar Examinations, and he was going to give a lecture to the county's Elementary Scholars.
Mi Prefecture was a small prefecture. Even though there were more High Scholars this year, there were only 100 of them.
After the High Scholar Examinations, something shocking happened. A total of 16 people became High Scholars in Ning An County, even more than the prefecture with the lowest number.
Education had been decided. The only two subjects left were the people's livelihood and governance.
At this point, Fang Yun's people's livelihood had already reached B grade. In this year's court examination, there were seven other people who had achieved B grade.
It was not difficult to achieve B grade in the people's livelihood, but it was difficult to achieve B grade or even A grade. This was because there were too many factors in the people's livelihood, such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, marriage, and funerals. It was very difficult for people to achieve B grade or above.
Fang Yun had already put in effort in the areas of public security, urban construction, health, and living security. The next step was to increase income and let the people live a more prosperous life. Only then could he be considered to have made a real contribution to the people's livelihood.
Hence, after the 15th of September, Fang Yun used the advantages of Ning An City to come up with many plans. For example, he would hold a textile fair at the end of September. At the same time, he would increase the number of workshops in Ning An County to further reduce the cost of the textile industry. He would expand the textile industry and take over the textile industry with an absolute advantage.
This was especially so when the hats, sweaters, gloves, and other textiles that Fang Yun personally designed were released to the market. They immediately became popular in Ning An County and Jingguo. They also started to spread to other countries.
Unknowingly, the "Ning An" brand of textiles became a hot commodity. In front of the three main characteristics of the textile industry, the textiles from the older shops paled in comparison.
A few Grand Scholars in the court examination admitted that they were unlucky. This was because the textile industry took up a large portion of the county that they were in charge of.
Initially, Ning An County's textile products would only affect Jingguo and the northern part of Saint Origin Continent. However, once the cost of production was reduced, the transportation costs would be offset. The textiles of Ning An County could definitely be sold to all parts of the human race.
Since the prices of textiles in Ning An County were low, the workshops and shops in other counties had no choice but to lower their prices. With a decrease in income, the quality of people's livelihood would definitely drop.
In order to reduce the cost, the workshops all over the Saint Origin World had to purchase the new textile machinery made by the Gongzi Clan and the Mo Clan. At the very least, the efficiency of the textile machinery couldn't be lower than Ning An's. However. A portion of the money they spent on the textile machines went to Ning An Workshop and Ning An County, which continuously expanded Ning An County's textile industry.
In this world that did not delve into branding and marketing, many people did not understand the real purpose of Fang Yun's "Ning An" brand, nor did they realize how great of an impact Fang Yun's innovations would have on the future.
The Lei family's Grand Scholar in the court examination, Lei Shushan, was originally in charge of a large textile county. He originally wanted to surpass Fang Yun in construction, but Fang Yun's innovations in the workshops were far better than his. He also worked hard on agriculture, and the Cloud Building of the Agriculture Palace flew to Ning An County. In the end, he burned all his bridges and invested all of his resources into the quality of people's livelihood, but the textile industry in the county suffered a blow. The income of the citizens decreased sharply, and he had no chance of obtaining an A grade in the quality of people's livelihood.
A few days later, Lei Shushan got drunk because of his failure in the court examination. He lost his composure and cursed. He was reported to the Hall of Rites by the enemies of the Lei family. In the end, he was reprimanded by the Hall of Rites and dropped by one grade in all ten subjects of the court examination.
After the incident, Lei Shushan's courage was covered in dust.
The entire Lei family flew into a rage and closed their doors to curse Fang Yun again. The new head of the Lei family was especially angry.
The other Grand Scholars in Jia Country, where Lei Shushan was located, lost a strong opponent and secretly swore that they would thank Fang Yun properly in the future.
It was the end of the 9th month. Fang Yun officially introduced a more reasonable system for the examination of officials in Ning An County. Some of the rules were extremely strict, and many officials found it hard to accept.
Fang Yun now had absolute control over Ning An County. He did not back down because of this and allowed the officials to leave.
Very quickly, 20% of the officials left Ning An County.
The officials of Ning An County became more and more resentful towards Fang Yun.
Following this, a small number of officials from Ning An County headed to the capital and joined forces with the Left Minister to sue Fang Yun.
Back then, when the Left Prime Minister made a move, a large number of civil officials would follow him. The number of memorials to impeach Fang Yun was like snow. But now, whether it was the number of memorials or the number of memorials, it was less than one-fifth of what it used to be.
Even so, this was not good for Fang Yun. According to the standards of the Court Examination, if one could not unite the officials, no matter how great their contributions were, they would only get a Grade B or A.
Fang Yun's enemies went all out. The Lei family and Ba Kong Mountain's Juwen Pavilion attacked Fang Yun and even bribed scholars. The Zongsheng family and Gyeongo's spies worked together with the Left Minister to stir up trouble in Jingguo. This caused some of the neutral officials to waver. Some of the selfless officials also felt that Fang Yun was too biased. Although they did not blame Fang Yun in the Imperial Court, they still expressed some opposing views.
His aides and friends all tried to persuade him, but Fang Yun was not moved.
A few days later, Fang Yun announced the retirement system for the officials of Ning An County. After every official retired, they would receive the lowest level of title. Their status would be lower than that of a villager, and they would receive different pensions based on their rank.
Once the retirement system was announced, it caused a huge uproar.
In the Saint Origin World, many low-ranking officials would lose their income after retirement. Every country did not have a complete retirement system, and only high-ranking officials and officials with titles could enjoy the benefits of such a system.
Other than releasing the examination system and retirement system for officials, Fang Yun also completely reformed the county government in Ning An County. The ten-house system caused too much power to be concentrated. It might be suitable for a small county with ten to twenty thousand people, but it was no longer suitable for a rapidly developing city, especially for Ning An County, which was constantly changing.
As a result, new organizations were established one after another. Those who joined Fang Yun at the beginning became the heads of the various branches, and the officials who did not leave also gained more real power.
The officials who originally left the government regretted their decision and tried to return. They even knelt outside the government office, but Fang Yun ignored them.
Fang Yun's method of giving carrots after carrots was perfect. All of the officials in Ning An County were convinced. In the past, they were either intimidated by Fang Yun's power or conquered by Fang Yun's achievements, but now, they were bound by Fang Yun's interests. They desperately tried to protect Fang Yun's interests!
Since all of the officials in Ning An County supported Fang Yun, the impeachment in the imperial court was like water without a source, and soon disappeared without a trace.
When the officials of the various countries learned of Fang Yun's new system, they began to push for a reform of the retirement system from the bottom up.
The son-in-law of Gyeongo's Zongsheng family, Xiang Lancheng, was also a Grand Scholar in this year's court examination. He originally wanted to surpass Fang Yun in the two subjects, and borrowed the power of the Zongsheng family and Gyeongo. However, he was disrupted by Fang Yun's actions in September.
On the first day of the tenth month, a headline on the front page of the Wen Pao caused an uproar in the Saint Origin World.
"Will Fang Yun become the unprecedented ten Grand Scholars?"
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