Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 162 0157 [Taboo and Strike]

"The people who live there are all the seeds of immortals and sages, and there are countless people who fly to and from each other day and night... The emperor feared that he would be lost in the West Pole and lose the home of the immortals and saints, so he ordered Yu to force the giant Ao Shiwu to raise his head And Dai Zhi..."

In the Taixue classroom, the students are reciting the text.

As the teaching director, the 17-year-old Zhu Ming has to inspect the style of study in the small courtyard every day.

But the teaching content he heard occasionally made Ju Ming feel very funny.

For example, at this moment, the teacher is teaching Liezi.

The expansion of Taixue's enrollment is Cai Jing's painstaking work, and it also contains Song Huizong's ardent hope.

If you don't rely on nepotism and graduate from Taixue purely on talent, you will definitely be able to beat the imperial examination Jinshi.

Because the curriculum is too rich!
Poetry and Fu, which was canceled in the imperial examination, is a compulsory course of Taixue, and the credits account for a very large proportion.

These courses of "Three Biography of Spring and Autumn" are not taken in the imperial examination, and they are also compulsory courses in Taixue.

Song Huizong himself liked to practice Taoism, and he also stuffed Taoist books such as "Laozi", "Zhuangzi", and "Liezi" into the Taixue classroom.

By the way, Song Huizong also liked mathematics and ordered to open a special mathematics school.

Therefore, arithmetic is also a compulsory course in Taixue.

If you learn all these courses thoroughly, how awesome will the Taixue graduates be?
"Dang Dang Dang Dang!"

When the school bell rang, the students rushed out of the classroom.

Seeing Zhu Ming passing by outside the classroom, a student was the fastest to rush forward, bowing to each other in a dignified way: "The student has seen Zhu Xuezheng!"

Zhu Ming nodded and said, "Okay."

This student's name is very popular in the second year of middle school, it's called Goulong Ruyuan, and Zhu Ming can remember it after listening to it only once.

Pity, a waste of a good name.

Gou Long Ruyuan respected Ju Ming very much, and even suspected of flattering him.

At the beginning, Ju Ming was a little happy, thinking that he had another little fanboy.It turned out quickly that this guy was just flattering himself, because it was a little too obvious.

Historically, this person flattered Zhang Jun to be superior, and later crazily clinging to Qin Hui.

And he made no secret of being a villain, which made even Zhao Gou unbearable, and commented: "This person has bad intentions."

Gou Long Ruyuan took out the straw paper from his arms: "The student has a geometry problem, but he couldn't solve it last night, please teach me."

Zhu Ming took it over and saw that it was the geometry of the second year of junior high school, and it was not very complicated.He seriously suspected that Gou Long Ruyuan's so-called asking for advice was purely to get close to the school leaders.

Because this guy is very smart, a real top student, and he is excellent in all courses.

"Draw an auxiliary line here..." Zhu Ming casually pointed.

Gou Long Ruyuan immediately exclaimed: "Learning the arithmetic of righteousness is really extraordinary, it's really admirable!"

Zhu Ming smiled and said nothing.

He didn't know how Gou Long Ruyuan would behave in the future, but based on the current situation, he could still understand this person's behavior.

The uncle of Gou Long Ruyuan is Gou Longshuang, the imperial painter of Song Shenzong, and a friend of Su Shi's hometown, who was once implicated by Su Shi.And he himself was recommended by Cai Jing's mortal enemy Zhang Shangying to enroll.

Most of the school leaders were Cai Dang, and Gou Long Ruyuan was so suppressed that he couldn't help it, so he wanted to hug Zhu Ming's thigh tightly.

At least, Ju Ming can let him get promoted normally.

Zhu Ming patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him: "Just study hard, don't put too much thought into it. As long as you pass the private exam, I will let you be promoted (promoted). If you pass the public exam, no one can suppress you. Guaranteed to upgrade you!"

Gou Long Ruyuan was startled when he heard the words, and suddenly felt a little ashamed, bowed upright and said: "I would like to follow the correct instruction of Xue Xue!"

The private exam is the quarterly exam, and those who pass the exam are promoted.

The public exam is an annual exam. As long as you have accumulated enough credits, you can be promoted to the inner house if you pass the annual exam.

There is also a house test, if you have enough credits, you can be promoted to the upper house.

"I've seen Xuezheng!" A few more students came over.

There are student opinion leader Chen Dong, and Zhu Xi's biological father Zhu Song.

These Tai students used to listen to Chen Yuan's lectures before, and they especially liked mathematics.

Among them, there are many people with active minds. If they want to please the emperor with mathematics, they may be able to go straight to the upper house.

Because Song Huizong also liked mathematics, after setting up a special school for mathematics, there was an upsurge of mathematics research among the people.Some flatterers even proposed to move the Yellow Emperor (the founder of mathematics) into the Confucian Temple for worship, but Song Huizong gave up because it was not easy to arrange the position.

"Zhu Xuezheng, Zhu Xuezheng!"

Xuelu Xie Lun rushed over, panting: "The Ministry of Rites sent an official document, and the official decreed to increase the number of taboo words, such as monarch, lord, dragon, sky, Wannian, and Wanshou, all need to be taboo. Tai students should also abide by it. The servants of the outer house need to learn how to supervise and avoid taboos."

Zhu Ming asked, "Does the surname need to be taboo?"

Sheron said, "Everything!"

Ju Ming felt unreasonable: "Could it be that all the dragon families in the world have to change their surnames because of this?"

"Exactly," Sheron said.

Zhu Ming was speechless for a moment, and said to Gou Long Ruyuan, "You can only be called Gou Ruyuan from now on."

Song Huizong was really crazy. He didn't know which Taoist priest he believed in, thinking that those with the words "jun", "lord", "dragon", and "heaven" would rob or divide his luck.

At present, only the names of people need to be taboo, and in a few years even the names of places will have to be changed, for example, Longquan County will be changed to Quanjiang County.Moreover, in the imperial examination, words such as monarch, lord, dragon, sky, and ten thousand years cannot be included in the article, which will drive the examinee crazy.

Hence, the first thing that Ju Ming handles after going to work is to urge the students in this grade to change their names.

After lunch, Zhu Ming called Chen Dong over.

"You are the staff member (squad leader), so you must carry out the name change carefully," Zhu Ming urged, "If you do well in this private exam, I will let you be the staff member (first-year student council president) of the outer house."

"Yes!"

Chen Dong took the order, and couldn't help but said: "This taboo is really too much, how can I avoid all surnames? Among the Taixue, there are people with the surname Long. They have been surnamed for hundreds of thousands of years, and they are forced to change their surnames." , the officials are too domineering."

Zhu Ming warned: "You can say this kind of thing in front of me, but you can't say it in other places."

"I know." Chen Dong muttered.

Zhu Ming took out Chen Yuan's manuscript again: "Give it back to me after copying, and study in private, don't say anything."

This manuscript includes "My Book", "Fang Ju", "Tao Yong", "Gang Chang", "Agronomy", "Mathematics", "Physics", "Geometry" and so on.

Especially agronomy, mathematics, physics, and geometry occupy the most space. Chen Yuan did not write clearly, and Zhu Ming also wrote to fill in.

For the chapter on agronomy, Zhu Guoxiang's manuscript on agronomy was directly transferred.

There are three authors on the cover, in order: Zhu Guoxiang, Chen Yuan, and Zhu Ming.

Chen Dong got the manuscript, quickly flipped through the content, and immediately felt like a treasure: "This is a book that really helps the world!"

Zhu Ming urged again: "Before the copying is completed, don't show off. Return the original copy to me as soon as possible to prevent the traitor from ordering the book to be burned."

Chen Dongzheng nodded: "Students only invite two or three trustworthy students to copy this book at the same time, and finish copying the manuscript as soon as possible."

In the middle of the afternoon, 1500 first-year students reported their changed names on a class basis.

There are nearly a hundred people who are forced to avoid taboos, and most of them have the characters of Jun, Zhu, Tian and Long.

Zhu Ming called Xie Lun: "Make a copy of the student roster and hand it over to me for review."

Xie Lun went back and called the school official again: "Make a new copy."

There is no need to do trivial matters by himself, Ju Ming leans on a chair to read a book, and his daily work is so leisurely.

He has been reading "Lie Zi" for the past two days, purely as a novel.

"Three Biography", "Laozi" and "Zhuangzi" are also planned to be studied. Anyway, they are compulsory courses in Taixue, and you can stand outside the classroom to listen occasionally.

After reading for half an hour, Zhu Ming left the office and rode his horse home from get off work.

Passing by a government-run coal store, I saw a long queue outside the store, and many people queued up to buy coal with baskets.

what's the situation?
Even if the coal is sold at half price, there is no need to do this.

Zhu Ming got off his horse immediately and asked a commoner who was queuing up: "Why do you all come to buy charcoal?"

The commoner didn't know Zhu Ming, and saw that he was wearing an official's uniform, so they replied, "The charcoal store is closed. If we don't store more, I'm afraid there will be no charcoal burning in the future if we have money."

Zhu Ming pointed to the government-run coal shop: "Isn't this open for business?"

The commoner said: "The official shop is still selling, and the private shop has been closed. I heard that the charcoal boats from other places will not come to Tokyo again, and all those charcoal merchants will stop transporting."

Zhu Ming got on his horse and ran towards the state bridge. Sure enough, the gates of Zhang's and Che's coal shops were closed.

If businessmen are forced to have no way out, they will call for a collective strike.

The strike action is led by the guild.

The commercial guilds in the Song Dynasty were very powerful. They set a unified price internally and prohibited members from lowering prices and discounting promotions at will.Industry norms will also be formulated, and members must strictly abide by them.

But its real function is to hold together for warmth.

That is to unite the strength of all merchants to resist the wanton exploitation of the government.

In the face of apportionment of scientific and technical equipment, you can bargain with the government to minimize the loss of businessmen, and everyone will share the difficulties together.

For example, in the sixth year of Xining, the meat merchants in Tokyo were exploited excessively, and Xu Zhongzheng, the head of the meat merchants, was clamoring to strike the market in order to win the negotiation with the government.The imperial court even promulgated the "Exemption Law" for this reason, allowing major guilds to pay the exemption money on time, and no longer need to provide materials and labor to the government in the future.

This time Tong Guan led an army to conquer Xixia, which also triggered a strike in Chang'an.

During the war in the Northern Song Dynasty, if there was a shortage of military supplies, the Ministry of Households (formerly the Department of Accounting) allocated cash, and then used the money to purchase from local merchants.

A few days ago, the Ministry of Households ordered merchants from two groups in Shaanxi to reduce their prices by 40% and sell various supplies to Tong Guan for military supplies.

Merchants were unbearable to be exploited, and all walks and cities in Chang'an stopped their business to show their determination to resist.

Zhu Ming's impeachment of the Carboniferous Secretary only brought down a few small officials.

The Cai party spread its grievances on the merchants, and took the opportunity to order the merchants to cut prices, hoping to force more coal merchants into bankruptcy, and not allowing coal transporters to sell coal to private shops.

The merchants of the coal shop and the coal transporters from other places, of course, did not want to sit still, and they actually united to strike.

All private coal shops in the city closed down, and coal ships from out of town no longer passed through the tax field, and shipped back shiploads of coal intact.

Generally speaking, merchants will not choose to strike the market.

Unless, the government has forced them to die!

Zhu Ming looked at those long queues queuing up to buy coal, and laughed in his heart. The bigger the trouble, the better, otherwise, where would he go to buy the coal?

(End of this chapter)