Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1077 Fighting for merit ([-])

"Emperor Taizong also said that humiliating them is more useful than being a licking dog. The more you humiliate them, the more they will get close to you spontaneously. Some people even take the initiative to break up with them in order to prove that they are not such sluts."

"That's why, at the beginning of the founding of the country, there was a lot of humiliation by shaving hair, changing clothes, and Huayi. The more humiliation, the more real talents were made to join the court."

"One is to prove that I am not a slut that other people can do their best; the other is..."

When the staff member said this, he smiled. This matter is not a secret, and many people know it.

But it is obvious that by doing this, it was indeed humiliating the entire group of Confucian scholars.It has indeed played a very good effect. Many people took the initiative to stand up and make a cut, trying to prove that they are not, so that at the beginning of the founding of the country, it did absorb a large number of talents.

However, individual people did the cutting.

But the whole group did not "know the shame and be brave".

On the contrary, what should be done at the grassroots level, or what should be done.

Later, humiliation was useless at all. If you can cut a chicken and become an official, there will be people rushing to come, not to mention this little humiliation.

It is also used in troubled times to recruit those real, ambitious, and confident talents, and the effect is very good.

Indeed, it allowed them to spontaneously and actively demonstrate the legitimacy of Dashun.

The staff said again: "However, what's the point of Duke Xingguo doing this to these Yangzhou students? Don't they really know that they are dogs of salt merchants?"

"Or, they really don't know that they are calling for the interests of the salt households, but they are actually for the interests of the salt merchants and their own interests?"

"They are very clear in their hearts. Moreover, the Duke is not prepared to select available talents from them at all, so what's the use of humiliating them?"

"Could it be expected that after this humiliation, they will find out with their own conscience that they will really seek the well-being of the people, the community, and the world?"

"How can it be useful to humiliate a group of people who have no sense of shame? Knowing shame and then being brave is aimed at those who have shame."

"At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was very useful to humiliate. After all, in the land of Yao, Shun and Yutang, there were always some people who were honest and shameful, people who had the world in their hearts, and people who wanted to be famous and educated."

"Choose and use it, and the world will be safe."

"If you are ashamed and humiliated, then someone will talk about the righteousness of the country."

"However, what is Xing Guogong's attitude towards these Yangzhou students? Even if he wants to carry out greater reforms in Jiangsu in the future, will he really use these people?"

Lin Min hummed, thinking that what the staff said was correct.

Even if Liu Yu pushes the reform across the Yangtze River and from Huainan to Xuzhou Prefecture in the future, I am afraid that many of these students will not be really employed during the reform process.

Moreover, it is true that those who are really ambitious and really considerate of the common people are probably at odds with Liu Yu's ideas.

If the ideas are inconsistent, how can you use them?

From Lin Min's point of view, Liu Yu's presence in Jiangsu alone has buried a huge hidden danger. I'm afraid there will be many fights in the future.

For example, there is no need to mention the reform of southern Jiangsu, especially the process of tax reform.

There must be disturbances and opposition from students.

But it is basically ineffective against Liu Yu.

First, he had the support of the emperor.

Secondly, the emperor really has a force other than the imperial examination, and Liu Yu also has a third party outside the imperial examination, outside the imperial power, and new students who are not serious scholars.

After the reform in southern Jiangsu, there was a similar "civil servant" examination.

But for those things that are tested, most of the serious scholars will fail the test.

It's just that these "civil servants" are neither officials nor officials, but non-staff personnel with embarrassing status. Those who eat local finance are employees.

Southern Jiangsu has a developed economy, and it also controls the monopoly of foreign trade, not only the West, but also Japan, so it is really rich.

Therefore, these non-staff personnel can afford to support them.

Some scholars feel hopeless and have to try to learn new things.After the riots, some gentry gentry also participated in industry, commerce and overseas trade.

Through division and disintegration, a group of troubles were caused and a group was suppressed. Finally, relying on the developed economy and finance of southern Jiangsu, they stabilized.

But if it is stable, it is stable, and the contradictions still exist.

Those who read the books of sages cannot take the "civil servant" test, because the content of the test is all about agriculture and arithmetic, and a large number of new students regard it as a good way out.

These "civil servants" have gradually replaced the ruling power of the students at the grassroots level, especially in urban areas, and the households that have completely squeezed the students do not have much room for political survival at the grassroots level.

And the salary given financially is really not low.

At least stronger than some real low-level students.

It seems that this is a good thing: if you feel that you are not capable of crossing the single-plank bridge and winning the exam, then you should transfer to a real school as soon as possible, so that you will have a way to make a living in the future.

But the problem is that there is hope here. Countless stories tell people that as long as they work hard, they will win a lot of money, and maybe one day they will win!

Is it the hope that if he wins the weightlifting, he will directly ascend?Or is it a reality to fight for an honest life?

Furthermore, the preference and exemption for students is nominally based on the distinction between gentlemen and common people.But in essence, the imperial court still does not pay wages, and some land is preferentially exempted, so that students can do some grassroots work.

But after the reforms in southern Jiangsu, some grassroots tasks were also paid for by hiring people.On the whole, it still relies on its own advantages to engage in a policy of peace and mud.

In this case, what is the value of the existence of the students?
Even if various policies of reform and legal reform are to be implemented in the future from southern Jiangsu and Huainan to the entire Jiangsu including northern Jiangsu, the problem of students is still not resolved.

The staff said, since Liu Yu didn't want to use these students, what's the point of humiliating them?
And it is true, even if there are people who are not going to be dogs of salt merchants, but really stand up for the people, for the salt households, and for the small people with the arrogance in their hearts, then this is also incompatible with Liu Yu's ideas are not harmonious at all.

So from this matter, Lin Min and his staff felt that this would not give them meaningful experience.

If Lin Min really wants to solve the student problem, Jiangsu Province is indeed a place where there are very few attempts.

Liu Yu didn't solve this problem, and didn't want to solve it at all, so he just suppressed it.

If Lin Min can solve this problem in Jiangsu, it will be quite beneficial to him personally.

Obviously, Lin Min was not the first to contribute to many reforms, whether it was industry and commerce or salt administration.

The emperor knew this, and so did many people.

He needs to solve some of the problems left by Liu Yu that he didn't solve at all, so that he can get his own credit for the reform that started in the first year of Weixin.

If it is done well, the emperor thinks it is useful, and it is not certain that he will really be able to climb to the position of prime minister in the future.

So, regardless of the whole country, just talk about the current Jiangsu Province, with so many students, how to solve it?

Don't ask them to be meritorious, just don't make trouble, continue to provide welfare, tuition, money, rice, privileges, and support them?

Or is it that someone who is so poor that he doesn't even make it to Juren is not worthy of being counted as a scholar?Or, students who fail the exam and those who repeat their studies until they are 30 years old are not allowed to take the provincial examination to reduce the number?

(End of this chapter)