Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1024 Separation ([-])

The scene that happened in the court hall actually showed one thing, Dashun's interior has been torn apart.

However, since the founding of Dashun, it has been divided, and the emperor has no plans to bridge this division at all.

On the contrary, I also want to have two governments, adjust and control power by myself, and achieve a balance through mutual separation, with the imperial power acting as a transcendent arbiter.

This stems from the policy of checks and balances that Dashun chose at the beginning of the founding of the country, and institutionalized the emperor's own thinking.

However, in fact this split was far more complicated than the emperor imagined.And it is definitely different from the division that was deliberately left to restrain the imperial examination officials when the country was founded.

Similar in appearance, not in spirit.

What happened in northern Jiangsu has already happened, people have been shot, and the moral "shit pot" has been detained, and it is impossible for people to come back to life.

But all this is just the beginning.

To equalize the land, to fill the villages where the gentry were almost wiped out, and to improve the organizational strength there to prepare for the follow-up Huai River Phase II project and the new seawall, all these require talents.

But these talents have a very embarrassing position, so they are not easy to choose.

The place where the emperor was selected was Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong.

At this time in Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, many young people are heading towards Weihai, Jimo and other places, and they are going to participate in an assessment and selection.

Terengganu is where Liu Yu started his family.

With the rise of shipping and the deepening of trade with Japan and North Korea, Terengganu gradually prospered.Both Weihai Port and Qingdao Port developed along with shipping, and became important transit points for Dashun immigrants to Liaodong.

The new learning system here before has gradually been established.

The imperial court does not allocate funds. This is a matter of principle. If you have the money to allocate funds for new studies, don’t you have the money to build Confucianism for officials?
Fortunately, Liu Yu supported himself with his own money, and with donations from overseas trade, the new learning system in Terengganu Prefecture has gradually taken shape.In fact, it doesn't cost much money a year. National compulsory education cannot be afforded, but one county and one government can still afford it.

If they fail to enter the military academy or the Academy of Sciences, the remaining people mainly go to some specialized schools, mainly studying navigation, accounting, trade, foreign languages, agriculture, etc.

After so many years, people have gradually discovered that after graduating from the new school, they can really find a job, and the new school has gradually revitalized.

The imperial court does not recognize the academic qualifications of Xinxue, and it is true that these crap things learned by Xinxue cannot participate in the imperial examination.

Therefore, in the early stage, the only way to attract low-level people to let their children come to learn is to manage a lunch.

And before the age of 14, they have to be diverted, because they can already work at the age of twelve or thirteen, and it is impossible for ordinary people to support a full-time labor force for nothing.

That is to say, in the past few years, Xinxue has gradually shown its benefits. Whether it is going to sea or going out for a living, the imperial court does not recognize the degree of Xinxue, but those companies and maritime merchants do.

Therefore, I have learned a lot in the past few years, and I think it is a way out.

No matter how bad it is, you can still learn to pick up cowpox and the like. It's easier to eat a living than farming at home.

This place is no different than Songjiang Mansion. The mainstream culture of Songjiang Mansion is the emerging bourgeois culture, which is dominant.

But here, it is "middle-class" culture, and the mainstream aesthetics is to have "skills" rather than "get rich overnight".

Knowing Japanese is a skill, knowing French is a skill, being able to calculate accounts is a skill, and being able to farm is also a skill.

At this time, several young people aged seventeen or eighteen gathered together to discuss the notice posted by the imperial court a few days ago in Qingdao, a new port that had recently emerged due to shipping.

The imperial court wants to recruit some people to go to northern Jiangsu.

However, this proclamation was not as popular and sought after as expected, even though it was a serious court proclamation.

A young man in the crowd murmured: "Everyone says that first-rate students go to the Academy of Sciences, and second-rate ones become military officers. We can't go to the Academy of Sciences, and we can't get into the military academy."

"But speaking of it, is there a fart for it?"

"Even if you are admitted to the Academy of Sciences, you don't even have a Jinshi background. Let alone a Jinshi background, you don't even have a Tongjuren or Tongxiucai."

"Now the imperial court is going to select someone to go to Subei, but I won't go anyway."

"I'll give you two taels of silver a month. The reclamation company over there, if you are a student of agriculture, if you pass the assessment, you can directly ask for a price of four taels a month, and there will be a promotion in the future."

"Not to mention two liang of silver from the imperial court, you will be a village official for a lifetime, and you will not be able to be promoted at all. But if you can go to the company, or go to Ezo, or Nanyang, who will go to the imperial court?"

He slandered the government during this meal, and the classmates next to him also echoed.

"That's what I said. There are also some people in the capital who are learning new things, but the good places are the first to keep up with them. Why don't you find an errand? Two taels of silver a month go to that ghost place in northern Jiangsu, but no one goes to the capital. Did you find us here?"

"Anyway, I'll go to the company first. If I fail the exam, I'll go to the imperial court."

"If you go to the court to do it, your life will be over. Anyway, there is no hope."

The word hope, in middle-class culture, has divinity.

The imperial court did not give these people hope at all, because they did not recognize the new academic qualifications at all, and they absolutely could not be officials.

What was said in the notice was not so clear, but everyone who read it understood that if I really wanted to go, it would be like that for the rest of my life.

Those who came from a new school here, but those who are strong in their studies and can enter a specialized school, cannot stay in their hometown.

Staying in my hometown can only eat shit, or become a free school teacher.

Either go to southern Jiangsu, or go overseas, or go to Nanyang, it's better than staying at home.

This group of young people from Xinxue, or the first batch of Xinxue students who were born and raised when Liu Yu was training in Dengzhou, have completely separated from the old Dashun.

This is an artificial split of identity labels.

Those who study Confucianism are able to take the imperial examination, and even if they are admitted to the Academy of Sciences and eventually become academicians, they don't even have a Jinshi background.

Those who study Confucianism are orthodox knowledge.

But they are heretics, miscellaneous learning, strange skills and obscene knowledge.

To a certain extent, they are similar to those of the good family, but the difference is that the descendants of the brothers of the old Wuying, they are the good family of the compound, which is the basic foundation of the Dashun royal family.

It is impossible to empty the vacancy occupied by Liangjiazi to these people.

Therefore, these Xinxue students neither belonged to Confucian scholars, nor did they belong to the class of good families who were vassals of the feudal imperial power.

With the rise of Sunan Capital Group, the demand for a "middle class" with certain knowledge and skills has gradually created a middle class culture based on the economic foundation of young people in Terengganu in the past 20 years.

Culturally, it has actually been separated.

Farming and studying as a family heirloom or mastering a skill to conquer the world?

A letter of benevolence, wisdom and etiquette?Or tear off the veil of tenderness and look at money?

Is it collecting land rent and lending?Or rely on your own skills to make a living and make a fortune?

Is the feudal hierarchy insurmountable?Or in the heresy of the pre-Qin period, regardless of one's origin, a slave with a hundred workers can be selected as a prime minister?

The shaping of the community had been carried out quietly more than ten years ago, but it was done so secretly that no one in the court noticed.

These new learners gather together and say, "A ship at sea will see the mast first", and everyone will smile knowingly.

Speaking of peas, I smiled knowingly.

Singing "carrying a schoolbag to school, not afraid of the sun, not afraid of wind and rain", is also a knowing smile.

The standardized annotations of general education textbooks, jokes, nursery rhymes, humming songs, almost consistent bells for class and class, teachers who are shaped to say hello, etc., etc., have also shaped their same memories.

Created a marginalized, culturally weird community.

Of course, the number of people in this strange community is not very large, compared to the total population of Dashun, it is insignificant.

Moreover, this weird community does not study politics, but only ideology and morality, that is, various scriptures.

However, the problem is that they can read.

Dashun's printing technology can print pamphlets.

Literacy is the foundation, which is why in the chaotic and hopeful history of later generations, the headquarters of the uprising will be in the Commercial Press.

Just like China's special handicraft industry foundation, hand textile industry, spinning and weaving will never die, and the female backbones are basically from a "spinning factory" rather than a "cloth factory".

Not by accident, but by necessity.

At this time, the court did not feel much danger in the grave that Liu Yu dug quietly.

The emperor could vaguely feel the danger of these new students, but he only felt that the danger came from the fact that the imperial examination did not recognize their knowledge and they could not be officials.

Generally speaking, for the Dashun court at this time, the advantages of these new students outweighed the disadvantages, and the advantages should far outweigh the disadvantages.

First, the army and the Academy of Sciences absorbed first-class talents and incorporated them into the imperial court.

Secondly, the industrial and commercial development and overseas development in southern Jiangsu accommodate a large number of employed people. The number of people is not very large. During the rising period, they will complain at most, and there will be no major problems.

On the contrary, when the emperor wants to use someone, he can still choose from these new students.

It is impossible for those in the capital to go to the job of village officials in northern Jiangsu, and they are given too little.

Why don't you find something to do in the capital.Naturally, they can only recruit people from places where they are willing to go to the countryside for two taels of silver.

It really wouldn't work without these people. The gentry in several counties had been killed, and someone had to go to the grassroots. The emperor also had to try the miraculous organizational model of the Qin Dynasty in the history books.

As for those places to send imperial examination talents, it is definitely not acceptable.

For the young ones, there is still hope, maybe they will win the exam next time; the old ones can take the exam every year, so how can they go to the countryside for the two taels of silver?
Besides, they don't understand some knowledge at all.

So, in Terengganu, there was such an anecdote.

The company and the imperial court were recruiting people almost at the same time, and the young people who rushed over went to the company first, and only came to the imperial court when they were not selected.

The imperial court didn't care anyway, the first- and second-rate talents were all under the imperial court's control, and under the dividends brought about by external expansion, they squeezed into the system on the premise that they would not occupy the vacancies of imperial examination officials.

For those who go to the rural areas of northern Jiangsu, it is enough to be able to read and write, to be able to take up positions after a period of intensive training, to be able to collect taxes, and to be able to organize people to build the Huaihe River and seawall in the future.

Hulala picked up the company's leftovers and recruited and assessed more than 200 people.

The emperor had already thought about it in his heart, and he was really making a lot of money.

There are more than 200 people, even if they pay more money, it will only cost 700 taels a year.

Spread the grassroots, increase the tax rate, get rid of the middlemen, and increase the mu tax of the Huaihe irrigation area in the future to increase the land output, etc. How can it not be more than 500 taels of silver?
After the selection, there is no need to travel around, and they are directly loaded in Dengzhou and sent to Haizhou.

On the other side of Haizhou, Liu Yu presided over a short-term training, and then started to work.

(End of this chapter)