The rise of the prince

Chapter 708 Solving One by One
Time flies like an arrow, the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle, and before you know it, it is the end of October.

These days, there are many things in the Privy Council, mainly about the deployment to the north, the arrangement of officials at all levels, and the recruitment of new troops.

What Li Xingzhou didn't expect was that because of King Jin's great reputation, he actually attracted many young people. The recruitment of the new army was smoother than expected, and many more literate people were recruited than he thought. Up to now, there are already 100 young people. People who have read a lot.

This may not seem like much, but you must know that this ratio is actually very exaggerated.

Ancient dynasties had different degrees of ignorance policies, which made it difficult for ordinary people to read, so the literacy rate was relatively low.

Now that the recruitment of talents has started, so many can be recruited, which is enough to show that some scholars have indeed come.

Li Xingzhou attaches great importance to these scholars.

There are two kinds of scholars in this world. One kind keeps his mouth shut and abandons his pen to serve in the army, defending his family and defending his country, or saying that this is wrong and there is not good, but he just talks about it and sits and talks about guests. When something really happens, he compares Everyone runs fast.

And the other is to talk about it and do it, even if you are covered with bruises, even if you are bookish and immature, but dare to do it, he likes this kind of scholars and is willing to give them opportunities to play.

But now that they dare to join the army as scholars, Li Xingzhou naturally appreciates it. You must know that today's army is not an army under nuclear deterrence, which is generally peaceful under the nuclear deterrence of later generations.

There are wars every now and then, and if it is not handled well, the country will be destroyed. Just like the Daliao, which dominated the north before, it perished in just a few years, and how many people died on the battlefield.

Just in the spring and summer of this year, in the past few months, tens of thousands of people died in Jingguo's third-route army in the north. Even so, they still dared to come. For this alone, Li Xingzhou also valued these scholars.

So I told Wei Yubai, Yan Shen, and Shen Lin in private that these scholars should be compiled into a special volume.

In fact, when it comes to fooling the people, it is an interesting question. Many people who don’t understand the pre-Qin schools will definitely say that Confucius has harmed the country, and Confucianism has harmed the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

This is a huge case of injustice. It is easy to label it, but no one wants to understand it.

Among the pre-Qin hundred schools, three schools mentioned fooling the people, the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Mohists.

The "fools" of these three schools are different.

The Mohists fooled the people rather than "deceived the people" and restrained people by deceiving the people into believing in ghosts and gods.

Taoism says that the reason for fooling the people is to do nothing, and it requires not only the common people to be "stupid", but also the rulers, nobles, etc., all people should be "stupid", in order to pursue the realm of doing nothing and doing everything, which is more like philosophical thinking.

The legalists' "foolish people" are the foolish people that the rulers really hope for. The reason why the legalists propose foolish people is because the starting point is "human nature is evil". Since human nature is evil, education is useless. It’s okay to follow the law, but you can’t study or think, otherwise you will think wildly.

This is the ignorance of the Legalists, so many scholars say that after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the national ideology was "Confucian skin and legal bones", and they used Confucianism to talk about things, but they did what Legalism did.

This also makes the essence of the two theories have not been brought into play and has been tampered with by later generations, which is completely different from the pre-Qin philosophers.The legalists' basic theoretical evils were buried and not mentioned at all, but the legalists' laws were used to kill people.

The distortion of Confucianism is the most serious. Dong Zhongshu's sense of heaven and man also said that if the pre-Qin Confucian knew it, he would be alive and angry.What is more serious is the Neo-Confucianism of the Song Dynasty, the so-called Neo-Confucianism combined with Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, and finally classified as a kind of Confucianism.The branch represented by Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has directly changed the core values ​​of Confucianism.

Slowly reduced to a tool of domination.

Li Xingzhou was drinking tea. Outside the window was the icy autumn rain. Every time it rained, it would get a little colder.

Gillian sat next to him, clung to him, and helped him read the documents from various places to the Privy Council.

Sitting opposite, Shiyu flipped through the accounts with a pen in his hand, and said to him: "Zhao Si will send over the expense details every few days. He said that his apprentice wrote it for him, so don't delay."

He nodded.

"These letters are all congratulations, and some praises." Gillian put the letter aside after reading it: "It's from Jiangzhou and Guanbei."

He nods again.

"The first batch of uniforms for the new army will arrive tomorrow in the tents. They were made by someone from Suzhou. Princess Qing'an is in charge and transported by Qifang. The total cost is 850 taels, which has already been recorded in the account."

Li Xingzhou nodded again.

"My lord, sister Wei's younger brother, Wei Xingping, has already arrived in Jiangzhou, and there are still about four days to go to the capital. He said he would bring his own soldiers, entourage, cook, a total of [-] people, and the posthouse outside the city can't accommodate so many people. manage?"

"It's okay, let them be stationed in the new army camp when the time comes." He said lazily, the raindrops outside the house fell along the tile ditch, tick-tock-tick-tick.

"The first batch of newly recruited chemical factory workers has been placed." Shiyu said: "But the second batch will have to wait for a while."

Speaking of this, Li Xingzhou laughed: "Speaking of those workers, you are really capable. You can even invite Taoists from around Shandong."

Shiyu smiled slyly: "They don't want to come, so what if Prince Jin ordered it."

"You are really a good general of the king, what is in your hands is a good thing to reconcile the old city!" Li Xingzhou laughed loudly, and kissed her with his head.

The poetic language is angry and ashamed, "in broad daylight, don't be like this all the time!"

The chemical factory worker that Shiyu found for him was a Taoist priest in a Taoist temple in Shandong!
This trick is very effective. These Taoist priests are not only literate, but also learn the way of alchemy from a young age, and they are handy in the preparation of various medicines and the use of instruments.

They are simply talents specially prepared for Wangfu Chemical Factory, just like western alchemy.

Of course, not all Taoist sects study alchemy. Those who study alchemy are only a branch, and they are despised by the orthodox Taoist sects and regarded as heresy.

But the poetic language is very clever, and the Taoist priests she asked to invite are all from the Quanzhen Longmen sect in Shandong.

The Quanzhen Longmen belongs to the Dandingmen of Taoism, and it specializes in the study of alchemy. Although it usually makes some messy things, is addicted to playing with mercury, and eats people to death from time to time, but the craftsmanship is nothing to say. The precise control of the dose is practiced from an early age.

These Taoist priests didn't want to come. After all, they just wanted to practice alchemy quietly in the Taoist temple and come to be tool people. Who would want to.

However, Li Xingzhou is the Prince of Jin. He threatened and lured them, gave them high salaries, and even personally ordered the commanders of the local Xiangjun in Shandong area as a privy envoy, asking them to cooperate. After more than ten days of tossing, the Daoist They were "invited" "willingly" to come.

Li Xingzhou also assigned an assistant to each priest, in order to cultivate more talents in this area.

There were 18 priests "invited" in the first batch, and 36 people including assistants.

With their joining, the chemical plant in Wangfu started to run initially, and a batch of thundermercury can be produced every day. Currently, it is mainly used for Zhao Si's experiments, and the excess is stored in passivation.

Li Xingzhou felt more and more that his life was too degenerate. Poetry took the lead in the affairs of the palace, and Qifang, Yan Kun, Zhu Rong, Fang Xin, Yan Gu, Tieniu, Guan Zhong and many other people below dealt with it.

The military affairs include Yan Shen, Wei Yubai, Shen Lin, and Di Zhi.
The court has Gillian, Degong, He Zhao, Bao Zheng and others helping from time to time, and I feel that I am about to become a useless person.

Thinking about it, she couldn't help leaning on Gillian's soft and fragrant thigh, alas, it's so depraved!
(End of this chapter)