People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 557 The Dragon Slayer Will Definitely Become a Dragon
Perhaps I had already thought about it and expected that I would be given such a hard time by these scholars.

Therefore, Wang Dahai and Liu Baihu were not panicked at all. They had already been prepared to deal with such problems.

In fact, this problem will not only be encountered in such a small country in the future, but has also existed in a dynasty as large as the Central Plains since the creation of the imperial examination system.

After nearly a thousand years of repairs and modifications, it is finally relatively complete, although there are still many defects.

But in such a small country, it can be said that all their systems are far superior.

So although Wang Dahai and Liu Baihu were military generals and had never taken the imperial examination, they were able to handle all the situations here just through a few days of training from Xia Yuanji.

First, Wang Dahai said, "We have three ways to relieve you of your worries."

Hearing that there were actually three ways to solve their problem, the scholars present were stunned.
They also want to know how to solve these problems.
Especially those scholars who raised questions just now.

Why do they raise this question?

It's very simple. They are real scholars with status in the small city of Mandala.

At the beginning, they put forward some ideas among their host's staff, telling them how to guard against the Ming army.

But they didn't expect to be overthrown, so they immediately ran out of the mansion.

These people are quite smart. They are not as confident as the ordinary people in Mandala City.

Perhaps it was because they could occasionally read about the strategies and tactics used by the Central Plains people in wars in books, and they knew that they might not be able to defeat them, so they consciously believed that the military force of Mandala City was completely insufficient.

One thing that makes these people particularly flexible is that they don't blindly believe that their own army can resist the Ming Dynasty.

So they cleverly came up with two choices.

The first is to help the host come up with ideas and tell the city lord how to resist and how to fight against the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The second thing is to prepare the soles of your feet and apply oil.

Once the masters of the City Lord's Mansion had no way to deal with the Ming Dynasty, they ran away immediately.

In this way, I may not have such great responsibilities in the future.

And now they have finally made the right bet.

This first one was shattered.

The army of Mandala City was like paper in front of the Ming Dynasty army and was defeated in an instant.

Then, after they ran out, they immediately faced the problem of possible liquidation.

And because they ran away early, and even if they had worked as staff in the boss's mansion, they were just staff after all.

So no one will make them pay any price.

And now when they heard that there was such a good thing that could make their lives better in the future and allow them to become officials, how could they not be excited.

Now they were surprised to hear Wang Dahai say that there were actually three solutions.

Because in their opinion, the problems they raise are problems that they have no way of solving and are generally difficult to solve.

Because from the overall perspective, the trend is that rich people can become richer and have more time to study.

In fact, they were extremely unconvinced in their hearts, but they had no choice but to feel unconvinced and felt very powerless.

Because those people have money and free time, they can concentrate on reading and studying.

You don't have to be like them, busy with eating, drinking, defecating and urinating all day long.

We must pay attention to the daily necessities of our family.

You have to be careful about how to please your boss.

The only time left for studying at home may be the little time for reading by candlelight at night.

Can that little bit of time be as profound as the whole day spent studying with scholars and teachers in the study?
Impossible, they were sure of it.

So it also makes them feel desperate.

In the eyes of many people, scholars should have plenty of time and do not have to take on work and make a living like craftsmen do.

You don't have to work hard like ordinary people, facing the earth and back to the sky.

But no one could understand them.

In fact, their time is very tight, and how can they select the ones that are really useful from the vast sea of ​​books?

It is very difficult to find truly useful knowledge from it.

Those scholars waste so much time on this every day, how can they have the time to really immerse themselves in books and learn?
But rich people can hire several little servants.

How do those little book boys work?
In addition to grinding ink for them, you also have to extract the key knowledge for these masters and find where the good pages are?
At that time, they can just let their masters take the sorted pages and flip through them, which will be very quick.

And with so much knowledge, how to find the key points was also helped by those little book boys.

In this kind of atmosphere, they have what everyone envies.

There is no need to choose where the knowledge is.

So this is where these scholars are extremely desperate.

They don't have that much time to do these things.

They don't have that much energy to compare themselves with those rich people.

It is precisely because of the existence of these things that those who read feel despair.

Now when people from the Ming Dynasty come and tell them that they can become an official by studying and taking the imperial examination, they will jump out to speak up immediately.

If this continues, those who hold official positions will definitely be those from wealthy families.

No matter what, they have more advantages than us.

If this thing cannot be leveled out, then your reform is actually the same as not changing it at all.

And this will also add some unnecessary contradictions.

You might as well just do what you did before and let those rich people become officials.

All we, the educated people, can do is read these books and then obediently serve as other people's aides, that is.

If this is your purpose, there is actually no need to say more here. As long as your national policy is announced, we will implement it.

That’s because it’s the same as before, except that there’s a new master above you.

Moreover, he is a master we cannot face. He is just a new master that those officials will have to kneel down to in the future, and our lives remain the same.

How could I not know what they were thinking when I saw the faces of those scholars?

Each and every one of them showed an expression of great wisdom and foolishness, as if they had seen through everything.

In fact, he felt even more disgusted.

Those scholars are so conceited, always thinking that they have seen through everything and that they are the smartest ones.

He boasts that he has seen everything clearly, and even knows what the future will be like by seeing a little bit of it. This is called knowing the coming of autumn from a single leaf.

But what Wang Dahai really wanted to say was, who the hell do you think you are? You don’t even know what we are trying to do.

You don't understand what we are going to do to you.

You don't even understand what we are going to do now, and you are just making wild guesses here.

In fact, it all comes down to you being too conceited, and still having the arrogance and pride that comes with being a scholar.

If it were me, I would just listen quietly below.

Listen carefully to what others have to say, and keep your own opinions to yourself instead of speaking them out loud.

This will make you appear shallow.

Especially if you are the first to stick your head out, even if the Ming Dynasty has some good policies here in the future, if you are the first to stick your head out and are remembered, you may be knocked to the ground with one stick.

Because you guys who stick your head out are the most difficult to deal with.

If anything happens in the future, you guys who are the first to stick your head out will be the ones most likely to cause trouble.

But these scholars don’t know this, and they seem to be fighting for themselves, but in fact this is the most stupid thing to do.

To be honest, when facing those craftsmen, Wang Dahai felt particularly sympathetic.

Because the craftsmen here seem to have a much harder life than those in the Ming Dynasty.

Because the status of craftsmen here is lower than any other class.

Everyone looked at these craftsmen as if they were a pile of shit.

So Wang Dahai has deep sympathy for these people.

Especially since Captain Liu was the son of a craftsman, he knew too well what kind of life these craftsmen lived, so he was more able to empathize with them.

As for these scholars during the Central Plains dynasty, they hated them very much.

All you can do in your whole life is talk about sour things.

Especially when talking to these scholars, they make you feel particularly disgusted when they go around in circles.

Moreover, these scholars are always looking ahead and behind, thinking too much about themselves, and speaking in a roundabout way to leave room for others. It is particularly tiring to deal with such people.

When dealing with them, you never know what they are thinking.

Maybe if something happens in the future, he can immediately pick out some faults in his previous remarks to target you, then stab you in the back and absolve himself of responsibility.

Both Wang Dahai and Liu Baihu have encountered such things.

So if we really want to talk about which class they have the best relationship with, they are still better with ordinary people.

I don't have a good impression of people who read books.

Especially these pedantic scholars, they think it is best for you to fend for yourselves and not to provoke you.

If Xia Yuanji had not insisted that he and others come here to promote the work, they would never have liked to deal with these scholars.

And now I see these scholars jumping out one by one, looking at the consequences of their own affairs.

It was not difficult for him to see that none of those who spoke had any sincerity.

Especially since there are staff among these people.

When we first came in, someone pointed out that those people were the landlords' staff.

The reason why the landlords dared to resist the Ming Dynasty was because they listened to the advice of these staff members.

He felt that he could defeat the Ming Dynasty's army.

Thanks to the strong city walls, they were able to withstand the cannons and muskets of the Ming Dynasty.

But the fact is that it failed.

However, after failing, these people immediately ran out and started to make things difficult for me and others again.

So to be honest, hearing these scholars chattering here, Captain Liu and Wang Dahai felt very annoyed.

But their job is to spread the word here. After defeating the rebels in Mandala City, they will immediately tell everyone present what our Ming Dynasty reforms are like.

Even when facing these particularly annoying scholars, we must still promote it.

After hearing what those scholars said here, Wang Dahai just smiled contemptuously, and then proposed three methods, which made those scholars look forward to it.

It was as if a bone was thrown out and the dogs came rushing over.

The dogs were barking happily just now, but when they heard that I was going to throw a bone, they immediately gathered around me.

That look is simply lowly.

But even though they are so lowly, they still think they are particularly proud.

When he thought of this, all the dark thoughts in Wang Dahai's heart were satisfied.

Because they have looked down on those who study since childhood.

Especially Wang Dahai, who lived in the village, was ridiculed by those scholars all day long.

He said that he would never be a soldier in his future life.

You can only spend your whole life in the barracks, listening to others' orders.

But it is different for these educated people. If they become officials through scientific research, their status will be much higher than that of being a soldier.

In the future, I will command you soldiers to fight wars and so on.

Anyway, I just look down on you in various ways.

Even though his father was a centurion, in the eyes of these scholars he was just an ignorant soldier.

After being fed up with the ridicule from those scholars, Wang Dahai worked hard and finally joined the Ming Navy.

So now that I have this status, I can finally face those scholars directly and say the most confident words.

But now he had to face these scholars again, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

So they just ridiculed it, but they didn't expect that when a bone was thrown out, these people would come over and grab it.

It can be seen that these scholars talk about benevolence, righteousness, and morality, but when they act, they are only concerned with profit and justice.

In the final analysis, it's all for their own benefit.

In the final analysis, they are afraid of competing with them from rich people, and at the same time they are afraid that they will not become rich after becoming officials.

This is where their contradiction lies. This is the dragon-slaying boy. They will definitely become evil dragons in the future...

(End of this chapter)