People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 545: Imperial Examination and Officialdom Is Your Best Destiny
When Wang Dahai said this, the people below were very surprised.

They didn't know what the imperial examination system was, nor did they understand how this system could benefit their descendants.

Captain Liu was still moved after listening to it.

In fact, the idea of ​​implementing the imperial examination system was not proposed by Xia Yuanji, but by Chen Han.

They were all very surprised after hearing this, because this was definitely going to turn this place into a second daimyo.

Moreover, they were directly assimilated by the daimyo.

In fact, Captain Liu found it very strange at first.

Because when the Duke was in Daming, he seemed to dislike the imperial examination system very much, even to the point of hatred. After all, he directly dug up and whipped the corpses of many predecessors of the Kong family. This level of hatred is no joke.

But why did they use this method to control the people in Sanfuqi?
But soon a thought flashed through my mind, that is, there seemed to be no Confucius here.

They may not even know who wrote those sage books.

But if you just tell them that they must memorize these sage books and then take the exam, they will just think that those sage books are just books brought over from the Ming Dynasty and will not think about anything else.

After figuring this out, Captain Liu finally understood why Chen Han was the real Duke and so powerful. It turned out that he had been working hard on this.

Let these Sanfuqi people who don't know their specific roots accept the culture of the Ming Dynasty imperceptibly, but don't let them know where the roots are. In this way, they will only be grateful to the Ming Dynasty, not Confucius or those so-called saints.

This will fundamentally eliminate the theory of worshipping gods.

The reason why the scholars in the Ming Dynasty worshipped Confucius so much was because they felt that the ultimate destination of all knowledge and all sages was Confucius.

Confucius was able to create Confucianism more than a thousand years ago. Such a person should be highly respected.

Therefore, his descendants were all worshipped by scholars.

The reason why they worship Confucius is that they have their own reasons for worshipping him, but more importantly, they treat Confucius as a card to play.

Some even regard Confucius as sacred, so that the great scholars can interpret the classics.

Then all reforms that violate Confucius' words and deeds are denounced as evil and evil.

The reason why they do this is to protect their own interests from being violated, because as long as they establish Confucius as sacred, they can fool all the people.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, those scholars are equivalent to superior aristocrats, and they have the real say.

All the truths in the world come from the mouths of these scholars, and the scholars attribute the right to interpret all the truths of heaven and earth to Confucius.

This forms a closed loop, and they will say that these are not the reasons we said.

But for more than a thousand years, everyone has been practicing Confucius' teachings.

The reason why our nation has developed so well over the past thousand years is because the brilliance of Confucius is still shining on the world.

Therefore, we must abide by this principle, and we must believe that Confucius can truly lead us to a better future.

They used this method to deify Confucius as a person and achieved the goal of protecting their own interests.

Over the past thousand years, as more and more scholars have gained power.

They are like a dung ball rolled by a dung beetle, which gets bigger and bigger, locking their most core interests firmly in the core of the dung ball.

Then, cover the dung ball with feces in circles.

In this way, once someone wants to move this pile of shit, they will find that there is a thick layer of feces ball on the outside, which makes you unable to touch it and it smells terrible.

And this is the ugly face of these people.

But they didn't admit it.

Because they always feel that they have the right to speak, these scholars will do anything to gain the right to speak.

Whether it was spreading the so-called theory that reading is the noblest thing among the people, or influencing the emperor's will in the court.

Although they seem to be the emperor's subjects, the emperor often has to rely on them to govern the country.

Another reason is that the emperor himself was the largest landlord.

It is impossible for an emperor to have anything in common with ordinary people.

They have a common language with those who read books.

It is precisely because of this that even the emperor wanted to rule the world.

He could only go against his conscience and regard the scholars' methods as the only way to govern the country.

But it is precisely because of this that a large number of people are unable to reach the abyss.

As a result, a large number of people were ruled by this kind of argument, and the rights of scholars were greatly expanded.

That is why the Duke of the Ming Dynasty tried so hard to crack down on those scholars. It was because these scholars expanded their power too much.

But now if all these things were brought to Sanfuqi, then there would be no such problem.

First of all, if there is no so-called sage, that is, the kind of monument deliberately established in the minds of scholars.

The scholars here would only think that everything was due to the arrangement of the Ming Dynasty. They are grateful to the Ming Dynasty, not the so-called sage.

This is very easy to handle.

So when he thought of this, Captain Liu admired Chen Han very much.

This is truly a genius move.

In other words, the imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty could no longer be regarded as the only way for officials to be promoted.

But it can be done in other places, or anywhere except the Ming Dynasty.

Because the selection of talents is indeed relatively fair.

Although in the later period, there may be a gathering of scholars.

For the sake of their own family's future, they intermarried to form the gentry class.

Since we know that such things may happen, if we curb them in advance, we may be able to achieve some unexpected results.

I guess Chen Han also thought this way at the time.

Thinking of this, Captain Liu's admiration for Chen Han reached the point of prostrating himself.

No one would have thought that during the Ming Dynasty, Chen Han had probably already figured out how to utilize the imperial examination system.

At least don't let the scholars of the Ming Dynasty deify the imperial examination system one by one.

We should not let those scholars regard the imperial examination system and passing the examinations such as scholar, juren, jinshi as the capital for their own establishment.

There was no need to let the imperial examination system become an obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's reforms. But after arriving in Sanfuqi, it could promote the development of this place.

Allow the people here to gain certain power in the shortest possible time, thereby breaking through the control of those landlords, aristocrats and financial tycoons.

Because of this, Liu Baihu, Wang Dahai and others are so excited when they think of these things.

After hearing this, the people below also paid special attention.

Their biggest pain now is that they don’t know how to find a suitable path for themselves.

I don't even know my future.

In other words, what should their descendants do?

Even if the Ming Dynasty came, if a system like Sanfuqi was still implemented, wouldn't it be the same as if it had not come?

So they are the ones who are most eager to get a correct answer.

If we could give them an accurate answer at this time, it would be a very good start for them or for the future rule of the entire Ming Dynasty.

After having this idea, the people below looked at Wang Dahai with full anticipation.

Some people even whispered, "I wonder if the Ming Dynasty is really coming this time?"

“I don’t know if they really want to make our lives better, or if it’s really like what people say.

It's just to let others see that the Ming Dynasty is a little different, but deep down they still want to take advantage of us."

The people were talking a lot.

Another citizen said, "I am also worried about this problem. But as soon as they arrived, they directly blasted open our city gate with cannons.

It can be seen that they actually have the power to enslave all of us.

But since they are willing to tell us this, they are probably sincere. After all, even if they really want to use force, how can ordinary people like us resist?"

When the people of Mandala City heard this, they actually thought it made a lot of sense.

Just like what the person just said, they have the ability to directly break open the entire gate.

Then I have the ability to make you all so confused that you can't say anything else.

Since they have the ability and are willing to discuss with you, it at least shows that they are sincere in coming here.

When I thought of this, I immediately relaxed.

Then Wang Dahai said: "The so-called imperial examination system means that we will bring over what our scholars have learned from the Ming Dynasty. The books contain the culture and knowledge of our Ming Dynasty for thousands of years.

The reason why our Ming Dynasty was able to quickly adapt to the reforms of our princes was that our Ming Dynasty leapt into an extremely powerful country.

The reason why we scholars can fight the pirates on the sea head-on is that what we learn is different from you.

The knowledge you have here is no longer suitable. You should learn the knowledge of our Ming Dynasty and the written language of our Ming Dynasty.

Only then can you integrate into the reforms of our Ming Dynasty more quickly and become like us.

Otherwise, no matter how successful our reforms and changes here are.

If you don't study, and the knowledge we have here is not as good as the knowledge in our books to educate you, then you won't be able to keep up.

You can see how well the Ming Dynasty is developing now, and you can also see how powerful our warships, muskets and artillery are under the reforms of the Duke of Ming Dynasty."

After hearing this, the people became very interested.

It turns out that the reforms in the Ming Dynasty were actually initiated by those scholars.

But the scholars in the Ming Dynasty were different from the scholars here.

Because all the scholars here are children of high-ranking officials, none of them are ordinary people, and they all have the support of big families.

Then some people said, “Speaking of studying, many people here also want to study.

But there is no way. Even if we have studied, we cannot become officials and can only become puppets of those big families.

It even became a tool for the big families to please others."

The person who said this was a scholar.

He had suffered too much injustice in Sanfuqi.

Because these people can be considered scholars, although they do not have access to as many classics as the scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

However, after thousands of years of trade, they were actually able to accept some of the Central Plains culture.

Just from that little bit of Central Plains culture, they felt how profound the things recorded in the books there were.

They also wanted to make contact, but the power to go to sea was in the hands of pirates and the children of high-ranking officials, and it was impossible for them to do so.

People like them can only get a pitiful bit of knowledge from the little culture that leaked out from the upper echelons, that is, the nobles.

But even with just a little bit of knowledge, they felt like they had obtained a priceless treasure.

From this we can see how much they are eager to get good things from the Ming Dynasty.

Now Wang Dahai said that as long as they can get access to the knowledge of the Ming Dynasty and then take the imperial examination, they can truly become officials of Sanfuqi under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. The scholars are the most excited.

Which one of them did not slowly gain a little hope after experiencing disappointment again and again?

And now they finally saw a glimmer of hope.

Wang Dahai said: "You can become an official by studying for the imperial examination and passing the examinations for the title of scholar, juren or jinshi.

This is a practice that has been established in our Central Plains dynasty for thousands of years, and the talents selected from among those scholars have also allowed countless outstanding children of officials to get the opportunity to enter politics.

In this process, they played to their strengths and laid a solid foundation for the reforms of the Ming Dynasty.

It was precisely because they laid the foundations that the Duke's reforms were able to quickly reach Srivijaya this time.

And they successfully took over the entire Sanfuji. After that, our Duke said that the people here must be treated the same as the people of my Central Plains Dynasty.

The ultimate goal is to become an official through studying.

And for this purpose, we are here.

If your descendants truly want to break free from a fate controlled by those nobles, they must understand that only by passing the imperial examinations and becoming an official can they free themselves from the fate of being bound by others.

I wonder if you can understand me if I say this?"

……

(End of this chapter)