Xinshun 1730

Chapter 162

"Although we can't do what Grandpa Yue did, it is a capital offense to abuse a woman. Are you afraid of this? Don't be afraid, if you have a younger sister, you can come to eat together. It's not what you think, adults recruit soldiers and workers, And by the way, run a nursing home and start a righteous school, just don't be too young."

Zhang Hu still didn't quite believe it, but after a moment of hesitation, Zhang Dadun had already said everything.

"Master Jun, if this is the case, there is indeed a younger brother and a younger sister in my family. The younger sister is ten years old, and the younger brother is fourteen. Can they all eat food?"

"Yes. Go and call."

"Eh!"

He promised, even if Zhang Hu wanted to stop him, he wanted to get up and shout, but only then did he realize that the "fight" just now had exhausted all his strength, and he couldn't even stand up.

Fortunately, the officer next to him turned around and asked the names of the four. Zhang Dadun, Zhang Erdun, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Ni just wrote down their names.

The soldier in charge of recording the name whispered: "Master Mi, Sir, you want to see if you are qualified before recording."

The officer may have thought of the tragic memory of the year when he was sold when he was young, and sighed: "Those who can survive until now are qualified. Write it down."

"Yes."

Waving a large pen, he wrote the names of the four people first, and a soldier filled half a bowl of rice soup and handed it to Zhang Dadun and Zhang Hu.

He swallowed the half-hot rice soup in one gulp, staring at the rice in the pot eagerly, but the soldiers who served the soup stopped scooping it up.

"Don't look at it, you will be full every day in the future. I will give you half a bowl now, that is for your own good. How many people will die from it."

Zhang Dadun swallowed his saliva and regained his strength for a while, when he was about to leave, Zhang Hu grabbed him again.

Zhang Hu raised his head and asked, "Master Jun, is what you said true? Is there really a foster home?"

"Then there is still a lie? If I, Mi Gao, tell a lie, I will be struck with a thunderbolt. Do you believe it?"

Although Zhang Hu didn't know who Mi Gao was, he finally believed him after hearing the other party's poisonous oath.With a bang, he kowtowed to the officer several times in a row.

…………

Liugong Island, inside the Xiaozhan Camp.

Kang Buxi was full of worries, he and Liu Yu were the only ones left in the room, these words had been held in his heart for several days, and finally he couldn't bear it any longer.

"My lord, no matter what you did before, as long as His Majesty trusts you, it's fine. But my lord wants to support dead soldiers... This, this is a big taboo."

Liu Yu looked a little weird, and said with a smile: "Zhongxian really dares to think about raising a dead man? What kind of dead man should I raise?"

"If you don't raise dead soldiers, why do you recruit children aged seven, eight, or ten?"

Kang didn't hesitate to say, adults don't specialize in human trafficking, this seven or eight-year-old girl may be sold to a bustard, but with an adult's temperament, he would not do such a dirty thing.

Especially for these children, it is best if their parents are gone, or their parents have sold them for a bucket of grain.

In this way, this is not to support the dead, what is it for?
Liu Yu said indifferently: "It's just teaching them to read and write, and passing on my skills. I run a charity school openly, not secretly supporting the dead."

Hearing the words "upright and bright", Kang Buxiu felt a little relieved, but he was not quite sure, and asked: "My lord, run a free school... It seems that there is no special school for free children whose family members are almost dead. "

Liu Yu sighed and asked back: "If I don't care, these children will die. If I want to take care of it, I only need 20 shi of grain, what can I do? Does Zhongxian blame me for not recruiting soldiers until now? Or is it that I have food but just sit on the sidelines? Relief?"

Kang Busha shook his head.

"Young Master's actions are both right and wrong. I don't like judging. It's just that I don't care about this matter. I don't know if you know something like this happened a few years ago? There was a disaster in a certain place in Jiangsu, and a certain rich family came forward to help. The local county magistrate thought that this person was going to incite people to commit rebellion, so he arrested him first. As a result, the victims were furious and broke the county government?"

"Even if you don't know about this matter, young master, does the young master know about the Fujian missionary case, the Yejiao people took advantage of the disaster to provide relief, and the court was furious?"

"Whenever there is a disaster, what the imperial court is most afraid of is that someone will gather the victims. It is good for the son to run a free school, and it is good to be upright, but if someone has a heart, he will read the son's book and say that the son feeds the dead... You know, since ancient times, private possession of armor can still be free. Distinguish, but if you feed a dead man, you will definitely die?"

"Your Majesty just smiled slightly when he was in his prime. Who will know in the future? His Majesty also smiled slightly in the past about the Christian religion in Fujian, but now it's revealed again..."

Liu Yu laughed loudly and said: "What I want to go is the bright and righteous way. Those who rely on dead men, or those who rely on a few strong men, are all dead ends. Even if such a person succeeds, will the world be half changed? Zhong Xian can rest assured , I am not a dead soldier, and what is taught in this righteous school is not the art of war, killing, or battle formation. It is just ordinary literacy, arithmetic, astronomy, and physics."

"Then what do you want these people to do when they grow up?"

"Mr. Be."

"It's that simple?"

"It's that simple."

"Do you teach Confucianism?"

"Don't teach."

"Only teaching Western learning?"

"What Zhongxian said is quite wrong. What makes sense in the West is called Western learning, such as the theory of God's heaven; what makes sense in the East is called Chinese learning, such as the interaction between heaven and man. That one is the same as one, two twos are the same as four, Even if you went to America, that’s right, how can it be called Western learning? It’s called science.”

Kang Buxi shook his head with a wry smile, and said for a while: "The young master once said that Chinese learning is for the body and western learning is for use... Isn't it a self-deception? You don't seem to believe it yourself, just to block the mouth of the world?"

"Zhongxian was wrong again."

Liu Yu waved his hand and asked back, "Is the Confucianism of the Spring and Autumn Period the same as the Confucianism of the Han and Jin Dynasties?"

Kang Busha shook his head.

"Is Confucianism in the Han and Jin Dynasties the same as Tang Confucianism, Song Confucianism, Yuan Confucianism, and Ming Confucianism?"

Kang Busha shook his head again.

"So, practical learning changes the world, and the words of sages explain the world."

"Since shaving hair and changing clothes back then could explain the truth, then of course the great Confucians can explain the truth after the great prosperity of practical learning. I can't explain the truth, but I know that after the world changes, someone will be able to explain the truth. When the time comes Isn’t the principle of middle school as body?”

Kang Bulao suddenly said: "So the young master thinks that there is no body in the world now?"

"It's not that I think, but it really doesn't exist. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the present, there have been many trends of thought. There are those who want to study Buddhism and Confucianism, those who want to revive the well fields, those who want to promote reality, and those who want to discuss the spirit of the universe. Even though the imperial court said that it wanted to promote the learning of Yongjia and Yongkang, but what exactly is the learning of Yongjia and Yongkang has not yet been clarified, so how can it be regarded as the world’s body? It’s just slipping along the way.”

Kang Bushi didn't ask any further questions.

Perhaps in order to reassure Kang Bulao completely, Liu Yu asked Kang Bulao, who was a little excited just now, to sit down, and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhongxian, let me ask you a question."

"Sir, please speak."

"If I run free schools and recruit children from wealthy households, then the things I learn can neither serve as officials nor take imperial examinations. Will the wealthy households come?"

Since he couldn't take the imperial examination and be an official, Kang Bushan shook his head with a smile.Only fools will come.

"of course not."

"Okay, if I recruit poor people, everyone wants to learn these things, recognize a few words, and don't be blind. But after learning the [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th five-year plans, they can work. Can households let their children continue to go to useless schools instead of working to support their families?"

Only then did Kang Buxiu understand, nodded and said: "Yes, no, when the time comes, they will definitely be sent out of school to support their families. Do housework."

"That's right, then even if there is a lawsuit at that time, is there a law in Dashun that says it is illegal to go to school?"

"Hahahahahaha...Young Master, you are joking. Throughout the dynasties, there has never been a saying that not going to school is illegal. When the time comes, those children will naturally have to listen to their parents."

"That's right, so, I can only recruit the whole family who are basically dead. Can Zhongxian feel relieved this time?"

Kang Bushao also smiled, expressing that he was really relieved.

Since the famine this year, Liu Yu in Kang Bushang's eyes has been watching with cold eyes.

He was not afraid that Liu Yu would raise dead men, but that it would be unwise for Liu Yu to raise dead men now and recruit three or four hundred children at once.

During the famine, military training on the island and trade on the sea continued as usual.

Competitions such as singing in the barracks and cuju while resting and bathing continued as usual, and it seemed that they did not pay attention to the famine outside.

It was not until May that it was confirmed that this year was a catastrophe, that there was no hope for winter wheat, and that summer grain was almost impossible to survive, that they began to recruit troops.

Even the navies who were training went ashore, and the students in the staff class made a series of plans for marching, camping, transporting food along the way, gathering, and gathering according to the map of Jiaodong.

The army was dispatched and quickly covered all the states and counties where the disaster was recruited. According to the plan formulated by the staff team, the plan of recruiting soldiers, recruiting people, recruiting righteous students, and recruiting farmers was carried out step by step.

Recruit [-] troops, including [-] for the army and [-] for the navy.

Recruit [-] long-term employees who use work as relief.

Two thousand households of men and women were recruited.

Recruit [-] long-term workers, men and women.

Recruit five hundred students.

Liu Yu didn't even show up, and asked the staff team to make a plan and select talented candidates from among the alternate officers to lead the migration in each direction.

Where to meet, when to meet, where to transport food, and where to gather, there was no active deployment throughout the whole process, but I was responsible for reviewing it.

Tell them that this is an assessment, and whether they will be awarded an official in the future will be used as an evaluation.

Of the 20 shi of grain that had been hoarded before, this recruitment only cost [-] shi.

Once the recruitment of soldiers is completed and they are enrolled in the army, they will eat imperial food.

There is a special military granary near Weihai, which was specially prepared by the imperial court for the army in Jiaodong.

In the future, if we have to feed more than [-] people who are not in the military, we will have to rely on the accumulated surplus food.

Before that, Liu Yu also sent people to various villages of Liangjiazi, and recruited a group of middle school students who were not qualified to claim the status of Liangjiazi. son.

These half-children can't be dealt with if they stutter. These people have to pay a sum of money. Of course, the emperor and the court will not pay the money, so Liu Yu can only rely on Liu Yu to pay.

From the end of the Chinese New Year to May, Kang Bushao saw that Liu Yu was busy with military camp training, and was just writing, and he didn't know what he was writing.

Now that I think about it, maybe it's the textbooks of Yixue that I don't know.

Thinking that after this recruitment, Weihaiwei and Liu Gongdao finally had a large army stationed there, Kang Bushao felt relieved, the five-year period is not long, I hope the rest of the time can really Raise an army.

These few days, the worry that Liu Yu would "raise the dead" was finally let go, and when he was about to help Liu Yu write memorials and "diary for people to read" every day as a routine, someone came to report.

"My lord, Mr. Zhou Mubai of Wendeng Prefecture, please see me."

Liu Yu nodded to Kang Bushao, and Kang Bushao quickly put away the memorial and "diary".

"Please."

(End of this chapter)