Xinshun 1730

Chapter 94

Take Nanyang as the Western Regions, and the Western Regions as Liaodong.

This idea is good, and it is quite high. Although I don't know whether the emperor's intention is true, Liu Sheng couldn't think of a better one for a while.

Liu Yu thinks more simply: if it is used, it proves that the emperor can still go on the same road for a while.If you don't use it, just treat yourself as a wink for the blind.

Except for those chapters that are famous in the literary world, most of Guochao Policy Theory is "there are arguments without evidence", and the limited arguments are also found from historical records of the Four Books and Five Classics, lacking rigorous logic and data analysis.

It seems simple, but if you don't have excellent writing skills, it won't work.

It's not that there is no talent in the Martial Virtue Palace. Although most of the noble children are useless, there are still many who have studied since childhood, and have worked all the way from camp to inner house.

Liu Sheng couldn't think of other meanings for a while, and he knew that the emperor was actually a quick-tempered man who was very happy. Although he hid it well on weekdays, he, who started as a guard of the previous emperor, still looked at him. translucent.

I thought to myself that such a grand narrative strategy would be liked by the emperor, but I don't know.

After pondering for a while, he thought of a person.

"There is a cleaner in the family. This person is quite talented. It's just that the scientific examination is not going well, and he has an arrogant personality. He has been helping at home for a long time, so he can take over the matter."

"Is it reliable?"

"Reliable. I have been with me for seven or eight years. There is talent. When he committed a crime back then, the magistrate also looked at me and was lenient. He is also a man who knows how to repay his kindness. He is a hero. Character. This person's surname is Kang, his first name is not lazy, and his style name is Zhongxian."

Since Liu Sheng said that this person is reliable, he should be reliable.

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In a gambling house near Duke Yi's mansion, the chants of "buy it and leave it" can't stop.

Kang Bushao was wearing a blue and black gown, holding a wine gourd in his hand.

He didn't have a penny on the gambling table, but he was more anxious than anyone else, with his neck stretched out, like a goose being pinched by the neck.

The dealer moved the dice cup away, half crying and half laughing.Kang Bulao picked up the wine gourd, licked the two drops left on the mouth of the gourd, and said bitterly, "I'll just say buy the big one!"

Next to him, a brawny man with shirtless, shaved hair and tattoos on his shoulders shouted, "Kang Xiucai, do you really never lend money?"

Immediately someone next to him answered with a smile: "Kang Budai, Kang Budai, they have a good name. They lose everything at the gambling table, but they never borrow money. Even if they have income tomorrow, they will not borrow half a penny. "

Several new gamblers were immediately in awe when they heard this.

The respect is not the word "scholar" that the strong man who lends money said, let alone a scholar, in the casino, even if your own father comes, you can't win half a bit of respect.

Everyone respects that there is such a gambler in this world, who can bear not to lend money when he loses?What kind of character is this?
Everyone thinks, the gambling table is not loaned? !This man can do great things!
A few people who had lost all their money came over to make fun of it, and asked, "Kang Bushao, are you really a scholar?"

"Is this still false? It's just that it's not a stereotyped scholar, but a strategic scholar."

These people also don't understand the difference between the eight-legged scholar and the policy theory scholar, thinking that since they say so, the policy theory scholar must not be comparable to the eight-legged scholar.

Someone next to him yelled: "It can't be fake. Kang Xiucai was a cleanser in the Duke Yi's mansion. Do you know that cleansing is not something ordinary people can do."

"To be a Qing guest, you need to have a good penmanship, good writing, second-class talent, not showing off, three catties of alcohol, not drunk, four seasons, improper clothes, five sons of Go, no regrets, six Kunqu operas, seven-character crooked poems, eight Zhang Ma Diao didn’t check, he didn’t choose the title of Ninth Grade, he was very friendly and nice. This is called the Ten Arts of Qing Ke, and there are four more than Confucius’s Six Arts.”

A group of people laughed, and even those who had just lost money laughed a few times because of Kang Bushao's existence.

"I'm not as good as you. I can also play a horse tag and push a table of mahjong. Hey, I said Kang Xiucai, why don't you win a Juren anymore? If you win a Juren, then you will be a master. Why don't you compare yourself to you?" Is it better to be a clean guest in the duke's mansion by looking at people's faces?"

Kang Bushao smiled lightly and said, "I'm lazy."

"Hahahahaha... what you said, it seems that if you are not lazy, you can still win the number one prize!"

He didn't argue, thinking, what do you know?It's not speculative, half a sentence is too much.

If others say "I failed to win the Juren because of laziness", it is probably boasting.But what Kang Bushao said was half the truth.

He is 35 years old, in his prime. It is rare to be selected as a scholar at the age of 16, but a major event happened that year.

Emperor Taizong left many last instructions before, one of which was about scientific research.He believed that the stereotyped selection of scholars was a bad policy and bound the mind, so he demanded to select scholars based on policy theory.

However, Emperor Taizong died in the middle of the Northern Expedition. This legacy was finalized, but after several decades of implementation, major problems occurred.

To discuss policy and theory, you must have insight.

Not to mention that it costs money to make social friends and chat with each other, just for historical discussions, you have to go through more than 20 history books.

Not to mention a "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", but a "Song History", a thick book, it is not affordable for ordinary people.

If not, when you come up with a policy theory, take out a name in a history book, you don't even know who it is and what it is written about?
I'm afraid that most of them will write jokes like "Xiang Yu is so powerful that he can pull up the mountain, how can he not win it with a broken wheel".

Besides, your father is not an official, your father is not a duke or marquis, what insight can you, a poor child, have about the government?I have no knowledge, and the style of writing in the country is generous, how can I write it?

In the year when Kang Bushuo became a scholar, You Pingzhang at that time made a statement: it was said that the founding of the country had been established for more than [-] years, and those who were selected for the promotion were not necessarily the children of the poor, at least they all had more than [-] hectares of land in their families Those, without exception!There are more than a hundred hectares of land, and they are still called poor families, which is going to cause big troubles.

People in the world don't suffer from scarcity but inequality. If things go on like this, people in the countryside are afraid that they will stop reading because reading is useless—if they can't afford all kinds of books, and if they don't have the money to participate in social alliances, they will have no knowledge and can't write policy opinions well.

Moreover, the policy theory has caused many people to talk endlessly, or to boast for fame; or to pay attention to rhythm and lose the true meaning of the article;

Since the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhuzi was abolished and no new ideas were established, so that the trend of thought was chaotic, and a hundred Confucians contended, making it difficult to define.

The stereotyped selection of scholars in the previous dynasty did have the disadvantages of imprisonment, but at least it was fair-fewer books to read and economically fair.

Poor scholars can also afford to read a few books to be tested, at least they can give hope to the lower class, and it will also help the lower class to learn and gain hope.

If you can't be an official by studying, no one will learn.

If things go on like this, I'm afraid that all the ministers in the court are from the family of officials.

But the name is the imperial examination, but it is actually the nine-rank Zhongzheng.

This is a big disadvantage!

At that time, You Pingzhangshi was knowledgeable and capable. At that time, he believed that the biggest problem of the country was the failure to achieve "one morality".

Even if Wang Anshi reformed the law, he also took out the "Three Classics and New Meanings", at least there is a standard textbook, and the understanding of a sentence must have an official correct understanding.

Now Guochao says it uses the Yongjia Yongkang School, but for a while there are still school disputes, and they only interpret it based on a few words recorded in historical books, without forming a system, and there is no standard understanding of the "subtle words and great meaning" of the scriptures.

Secondly, although Emperor Taizong was a genius, his understanding of the Yongjia Yongkang School was closer to "Mo" than "Confucianism", and the distinction between righteousness and benefit was an unavoidable problem.

It is broken but not established, and it has not formed a system. So far, there has never been a figure like Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming who can break and establish a self-contained system.

As a result, when testing the "Classics", the public says that the public is reasonable and the woman is reasonable, and the personal thoughts of the examiner are often used as the criterion.

Under all kinds of conditions, there are talents, and it is true that a hundred flowers bloom, but it is really unfair.

The disadvantage of stereotyped writing lies not in the form, but in the content.

If you dislike stereotyped writing, you just need to choose more books as topics, and don't have the situation of "cutting questions".

It doesn't mean that you have to use stereotyped essays to get a scholar, but you can completely start a school with money from the household government.Based on the idea of ​​Confucianism sent by the country to the north, the school is divided into fast education, and the state pays for the children of the poor to go to school and gain insight.

However...without money, I can't afford the education method of Daxing School.

Since the household government can't afford the money, it might as well reuse the stereotyped essay.

At least the format is fixed, mainly depends on the style of writing, handwriting, whether it is smooth, and whether it is smart.As long as you don't narrow the scope of the topic so narrow.

If the imperial court really wants to use the Northern Confucianism school, divide the education, and test half of the scriptures and half of the practical studies, then it will take money.This method is indeed good.

If you have no money, please do it to give hope to the bottom.

If it is said that stereotypes are imprisoned, then poems and songs also need a fixed format.When writing a song poem, shouldn't you write it according to the format of the name of the poem?When writing a poem, shouldn't you follow the rule of flatness?
The format is restricted, but why not change the content to determine the format?
At that time, You Pingzhang also said: I am not ignorant of the disadvantages of stereotyped writing, but I also know the benefits of divided education, but no matter how good things are far away and have no money to do, it is better to choose a compromise that is close at hand.

After the Shangshu, the court was shaken, and after half a year of discussion, the reform was finally implemented: three years later, Qiu Wei reused stereotyped writing, continued policy theory, increased the content of stereotyped topic selection, and convened great Confucianism to discuss the "Eastern Zhejiang School", wanting to be like Wang Anshi The "Three Classics and New Meanings", as the official ideology, achieve one morality, one right and wrong, and then carry out a more thorough reform of the imperial examination.

That year happened to be the year when Kang Bulan was selected as a scholar, and their group of people was called "the last policy scholar", or "Three Classes of Suffering".

After all, Qiu Wei, three years after they took the scholar, will be reformed, and they are the most disadvantaged group.

Some people successfully transformed and went to learn stereotyped essays.But Kang Bushao was close to Lao Zhuang because of his free and unrestrained writing style, and he was really lazy... so he fucked it and stopped learning.

Went to the capital and worked as a clearer in the Duke of Yi's mansion. Although it was a job to watch people's faces and to be admired, after all, ordinary people in the Duke's mansion would not dare to provoke them; Decorating the appearance of culture, or rebuilding, can also allow these cleanups to participate, earn some money, and live a decent life.

The more you live, the more lazy you become.Every day, I enjoy talking and matching words, and drink, play chess, piano, and gamble in my spare time, and I have a good time.

Although there are a few literate people in the gambling shop, they can't tell the difference between policy theory, stereotyped writing, scholar, and juren, let alone the changes in it, and Kang Bushao doesn't bother to explain.

Just as he was about to get up to leave, someone asked again: "Kang Xiucai, since you are knowledgeable, why don't you go to the Martial Virtue Palace? Now we all know that if you want to be an official, there are two paths. "

Hearing this, Kang Buxiu couldn't help but sneer sarcastically, no matter how friendly he was on weekdays.

"Cawdor Palace? Is your father a Duke or a Marquis?"

"Is your ancestor the old five battalion who followed Taizu Emperor Taizong to conquer the world? The old fifth battalion was implemented in the Tang Dynasty. The land of the Tang Dynasty was equal, and the permanent land was not allowed to be bought and sold. It was divided into small communes and divided into public land, which was changed every 20 years. Each commune There is also camp education. As a military soldier, as long as you are qualified to serve in the army, you will be exempted from tax, are you?"

"If you're not, you can choose one of riding skills, bow and arrow, bird gun in Wude Palace, geometry, surveying and mapping... not to mention the last two, you can't learn it by yourself, let's talk about horses. A war horse is at least 30 taels of silver. Could it be that you think you can practice it by buying a mule? You fucking eat sorghum nests every day, and you can feed a war horse?"

"Although Guochao can't help the bird gun, but the bird gun costs seven or eight taels of silver. There is no gunpowder that weighs ten catties, how can you practice it?"

"Practice riding every day, but you can't make a living. Does your family have a letter from the imperial court to open a copper mine in Yunnan? As for the knowledge of geometric surveying, mapping and arithmetic, how can it be so easy to learn without being taught?"

"Poor culture and rich martial arts, poor culture and rich martial arts, do you understand?"

"To ask this question, you need to examine yourself three times first: Is your father a prince? Is your ancestor Wuying? Does your family have a mine? If you don't have any, why do you have the money to test Wude Palace?"

"Don't talk about the Wude Palace, it's all the research and policy theory back then, all the schools of thought, the first four histories, the history of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and Tongjian Guoyu, all come to one set, and another set of annotations, and editorials on weekdays. Zheng, do you think anyone can afford this money?"

I satirized a few words, and with the drunkenness, my heart was inevitably depressed. I was about to say a few more words, when I saw a young servant in Yi Guogong's mansion through the smoke, and shouted: "Mr. Kang, Mr. Kang, Guo Gong is looking for you!" What about you! Sure enough, you are here."

Hearing this, the melancholy in Kang Buxie's heart immediately dissipated from his pores, and he shouted at those gamblers: "I'm making a living again here, stay for a few days, just wait and see me Daily flipbook! Leave me a place when the time comes.”

After finishing speaking, he smeared oil on the soles of his feet and slid in front of the boy like a loach. He thought that if the Duke of the country came to me for something, he must be making a living again. Give it a go, go ahead!

(End of this chapter)