The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

"It's not easy for Kui Wa and the officials who are on duty to leave. Although they are not happy in Luoyang, few people will make up their mind to bring them to Yungu." The second uncle saw Song Yingkui mentioning the officials who were on duty. , couldn't help but shook his head.

The reason why he made up his mind to come to Yungu back then was not because he was interested in the position of general judge, but because of the close relationship between the Jiang and Song families, and because he was from Xisu himself and had the feeling of returning to his roots after falling leaves.The other officials of Dazheng who were on duty had no such relationship with the Yungu Army.

Besides, when officials on duty come to Yungu, they still need documents from the Dazheng court. They will never give up their fame and flee to Yungu privately, right?With Yungu's current delicate relationship with Dazheng, how could the imperial court let in vacant officials and increase the strength of Yungu's army?
I talked with my second uncle for a long time, but didn't produce any results.The second uncle couldn't think of any good ideas for the talents Song Yingkui wanted.His idea was to directly appoint scholars and scholars as officials. This method also conflicts with the current talent training system of the Yungu military government and must not be used.

After sending away his second uncle, Song Yingkui had to stay alone in the office and think about ways to break the situation.

It seems that there is no advantage at all in competing with Dazheng for talents.We have to think of a way to rob people in a roundabout way, not with hard steel!
Furthermore, in addition to the talents in Dazheng, there may not be no talents in Beixiang, Xifan, Hexi, and the Western Regions. There should still be some undiscovered talents.

In addition to scholars, excellent craftsmen and craftsmen can also produce high-end talents.In this regard, the treatment given by Da Zheng to these people is not very good. The cost and difficulty of robbing people will be much lower.

For example, the previous alchemy conference was very effective. Now, the Yungu Alchemy Conference held on September [-]th every year has become a grand gathering for alchemists all over the world and has considerable influence.

Alchemists who have achieved rankings will not only receive good treatment here in Yungu, but will also be recognized in Beixiang, Xifan and Dazheng.At the beginning, it was just poaching from Beixiang. Now, Dazheng and Xifan have begun to pay attention to the alchemists, and they have offered very good benefits to compete with Yungu for talents.The ideas of the Alchemy Conference can be transferred to the recruitment of other talents.

This autumn, Taoyang City can hold a competition for all craftsmen from all over the world, and invite skilled craftsmen from all over the world to Taoyang City to compete and conduct technical exchanges.If some good policies and treatment are introduced, I believe it will attract many capable craftsmen and technical talents to try their luck in Yungu.

In addition to the Baigong Athletic Conference, it seems that we can also hold a product expo and trade fair?Holding an exhibition can not only gather goods from all over the world, attract investment, and promote commodity trade, but also discover many good technologies and talents. It is a multi-purpose method.

However, these methods cannot solve the core problem. In addition to excellent craftsmen, if you want to develop science and technology, you also need general talents who can summarize and refine laws.Talents in this area have to be found among scholars.

Song Yingkui remembered that in real historical time and space, there had been outstanding talents such as Shen Kuo and Song Yingxing, and these people, without exception, all came out of the imperial examination.Song Yingkui believes that there will definitely be such talents among the scholars in Dazheng.What we are seriously lacking now is university professor-level talents. How can we find such people?

If you just rely on your own training, it may take several years. Yungu University only admitted students this year, and now, there are not even serious university professors. What should we do?
Song Yingkui, who couldn't think of a clue, had no choice but to find the answer in books. He planned to read more books written by people of this era, hoping to find thoughtful authors among them, so as to poach people with purpose. .After reading the book for several days, he found that this was unrealistic.Because there are few works written by people who are still alive in this era, and what can be found are mostly collected works and strange novels. There are almost no so-called miscellaneous books and miscellaneous notes that Song Yingkui is most interested in.

Do people of this era really not write miscellaneous books like "Mengxi Bi Tan"?That doesn’t seem to be the case!Because among the books collected by the Secretariat, there are still some books on agriculture, medicine, arithmetic, and science and technology written by predecessors. Although the number is limited, it is not impossible.There were books like this in previous eras, so people in this era suddenly stopped doing research in this area?

After thinking about it, Song Yingkui felt that the problem was that Yungu was far away from the cultural center!It’s not that no one in this era wrote miscellaneous books, but that the miscellaneous books they wrote cannot be seen here in Yungu.

Miscellaneous books are not orthodox books. Generally, they are not popular. After some people write miscellaneous books, they just hand-copy a few copies for circulation in their own small circles. The more powerful ones are published on a small scale, basically No one would publish miscellaneous books on a large scale, the cost would be too high.There is no way to make a profit from this thing, and it’s hard to get famous. You can’t make a profit even if you lose money!
Unless there are some really classic miscellaneous books that later generations will reprint on a slightly larger scale after seeing them, these are the miscellaneous books that Song Yingkui could see written by his predecessors.Most of the miscellaneous books were actually lost in the long river of history as single copies.Many of the classic ancient science and technology works of later generations have been rediscovered in the form of single copies.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to find miscellaneous books written by people of the current era in the normal market.In the cultural center of Luoyang, it may be slightly easier, but in remote places like Yungu, it is difficult to find a copy.

After thinking of this, Song Yingkui was not discouraged, but instead had a new idea!Why do we have to go out and poach someone openly?You can do it in a curve.

At this stage, it is too difficult to directly allow real high-end talents to work in Yungu.But who can have trouble with money?Another way to think about it is to go directly to Luoyang to find people who have written miscellaneous books and pay publishing fees to help them publish their works. Isn't this a way?
That author doesn't want his work to be widely praised and published all over the world?The reason why miscellaneous books are rarely published and have no popularity is not the author's original intention, but the actual conditions do not allow it.We offered him this condition and paid him a printing fee of one or two hundred silver dollars, but we still didn't believe that he wouldn't be tempted.

In addition to helping people who have already published large books publish books, we also need to run magazines and periodicals, publish some short articles and excerpts from large works, so that we can attract more people who are interested in this.

Through royalties and publishing fees, we can build relationships with these talents and deepen their understanding of Yungu. Over time, it will no longer be difficult to completely attract them.Another thing is, through the works, it is not difficult to see the talent, and it is easy to select those who have the ability to fit the Yungu system.

No wonder, later generations of the West paid great attention to academic journals. It turned out that they were trying to attract talents.Think about it, being able to publish articles in other people's core journals doesn't mean that people recognize your academic level?If you have a good life here, just let it go. If you have a bad life and are not taken seriously, at least you have someone to rely on to find another way out!
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