Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 387

On the next day, the issue of the mission was indeed discussed in the early court, and the initiator Sun Zhengming became the center of everyone's questions. In fact, the state visit during this period was very simple, because Datang was the strong side, so, It is enough to show the powerful side of the Tang Dynasty. Those small barbarian countries that respect the strong will naturally attach themselves. Li Shimin in history can be a khan, let alone now.

The first point Sun Xiangfu mentioned was the size of the mission's guards.

The number of people should not be too many, too many will cost a lot of missions, and it will scare those small countries, which will cause unnecessary troubles. About 1000 people are enough, but the combat effectiveness of these 1000 people must be strong. , to be tall and burly, and the equipment used must look sturdy, through this small corner, to show the spirit of Datang to all countries.

The second point is that the mission must have people from all walks of life in the Tang Dynasty, farmers, industry, businessmen, doctors, and even a huge team of musicians. They must leave a deep impression on foreigners in all aspects.

The third point is that ministers on missions must have the power to sign cooperation framework agreements with foreign countries. For countries recognized by Datang, in the future, what kind of protection and what kind of protection will businessmen with Datang nationality need in this country? preferential policies, even tax exemption policies, and so on.

This requires envoys to discuss with the king in detail. You must know that many Hu merchants in the Western Regions have registered household registrations in Shanyang. Once Datang signs similar framework agreements with other countries in the Western Regions, then the household registrations in their hands will be of great use. , even if the Tang Dynasty does nothing, there will always be a group of businessmen who claim to be in the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions all year round.

This method will invisibly make the people or rulers of various countries no longer unfamiliar with the Tang Dynasty, and it can also be regarded as a means of cultural propaganda in the early stage.

The fourth point, of course, is to give some economic and material assistance to weak and small countries, and to invite qualified countries to participate in the world's first big competition held in Dingxiang City three years later. For the competition's items, rules, and The invitation letter needs to be printed into a book and sent out by the envoy at his discretion.

Then there are people from all walks of life such as agriculture, industry, business, medicine, music, etc., who have played freely in the countries of the Western Regions. I believe that they can find a point that is beneficial to them.

For example, in agriculture, Sun Xiangfu intends to send Sun Erli to bring back the seeds of various edible or usable crops from various countries in the Western Regions, and try to cultivate them, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty will have more food and more available resources.

Labor means that many low-tech things can be directly built in local factories, organized by local people for production, using local resources, local labor output, and earning money for local people. This is a relatively common development in later generations. The model is that countries with advanced technology put some low-tech and manpower-intensive manufacturing in some poor countries, and only need to put one or two people in charge there, and they can continuously obtain very rich profits.

Businesses, there are even more things to do, to investigate what their commodity needs are, and our demand for their commodity natural resources. With these data, in the future, we will do business according to their needs and our own needs. It's easier to do.

If there is a large trade project, you can sign an agreement with the local king at the national level through envoys. For example, in countries that produce iron ore, Datang can directly sign an ore supply agreement with them. How much ore do you give me every year? How much food, silk, porcelain, etc., I will give you, directly targeting the needs of the two countries, and rejecting middlemen to make the difference.

Let's talk about medicine, with the current level of medical treatment in the Tang Dynasty, it should be able to beat dozens of streets in the Western Regions. The Imperial Medical Office will send Zhen Quan, Zhen Bin and others, the new generation of famous doctors from the Zhen family, and the Shanyang Medical College will send medical skills only Wang Youdao, who was second to Sun Simiao, Russell and others took a group of adult medical students with good foundations to make some advanced medical technology demonstrations.

Musicians, in addition to the court musicians, are folk musicians headed by Wangjianglou. They will show the people of the Western Regions the music of the Tang Dynasty concert level, as well as various songs and dances with ethnic characteristics, mainly for cultural Promotional display.

Of course, these are just the main framework. How many people and how many materials to bring will need to be carefully selected and considered. But undoubtedly, this will resolve some contradictions caused by the reform of the court, and everyone's thoughts will be diverted. When it comes to how to gain fame and compete for benefits through this large-scale mission, if there is no accident, the situation of this mission will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.

On October [-]th, the first imperial examination of the Zhenguan Dynasty finally began. Sun Xiangfu became an invigilator, and soon, at the gate of the Imperial College, Kong Yingda saw the quality of scholars in this period.

"Zhengming, why do these scholars not listen to the rules that we have clearly stipulated that we cannot bring books and cheat sheets into the examination room?"

Xiao Yu looked at the mountains of books and small papers piled up at the door, and asked in puzzlement.

"The things in the books are ideal, but the reality is not an ideal world. Since the Han Dynasty, so many people have studied Confucian classics and read the Analects of Confucius. In the Spring and Autumn Period, have you ever seen anyone who really made it? saint?"

Kong Yingda next to Xiao Yu's face was hot when he said this, but he couldn't refute it, because apart from the candidates of Jinshi, the candidates of other subjects were indeed rarely entrained. In fact, many people didn't know what they were going to take. He also brought a saw, an axe, and a fortune teller.Because, before that, there were no classics that taught merchants how to do business and how to teach workers how to work.

As for medicine, there were written "Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen" in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" and so on. The medical books that doctors must read, as for the works of the pre-Qin period such as "Nan Jing", have long been inapplicable, because medicine is progressing, and crude and outdated things will be eliminated.

However, even these books were incomplete in the early Tang Dynasty. For example, Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" only had the chapter on "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", Hua Tuo's "Mafei San" and various surgical treatments All methods are lost.

Therefore, the treatment of diseases in this period mainly depends on the experience of the doctors themselves. A doctor can effectively cure several common diseases in one aspect, which is already a good level. Most diseases are unavoidable. to treatment.

If you want to test them, in fact, you can only use some common diseases to test them. If you get advanced, then I can only tell you with regret that this year's medical department is useless, because no one can pass the test.

"From this point of view, future imperial examinations will have to strictly investigate this kind of entrainment."

As Xiao Yu said, Sun Xiangfu nodded in agreement and said, "After learning the lesson this time, they will use more secretive methods to entrain them next time. Therefore, strict investigation is necessary. However, there will always be some who slip through the net." However, fortunately, we still have a test of practice, even if their test scores are good, if they fail in actual work, it can only show that they are useless, and practice is the only criterion for testing truth."

"Practice is the only criterion for testing truth..."

Xiao Yu repeated Sun Xiangfu's words several times before nodding his head and said, "Zhengming's words are good, I hope these candidates can appreciate your painstaking efforts, and during the internship, they can practice and do good things for the country and the people. "

"Officials are always the ruling class. Let them all do good things for the country and the people. Just like Confucianism, it is impossible to apply ideals to the real world. They just need to do less evil and oppress the people less. , our country will not be so bad.”

Even in the 21st century, when the level of civilization far exceeds that of ancient times, how many officials are dedicated to serving the people!Vanity, greed, extravagance, etc., are emotions that normal people will have. No one can erase these human emotions. As long as most people are upright in body and mind and do not do evil, the country can still maintain rapid development and continue to be prosperous.

"What Zhengming said is that those who have the ability to be officials may not all be good officials, so you and I still have a long way to go!"

Xiao Yu and Sun Xiangfu were just chatting, but Kong Yingda, who was at the side, heard their conversation clearly, and had a lot of feelings in his heart.

Confucianism is like a panacea. It can change its nature according to the needs of the rulers. As long as they always put themselves in the position of serving the rulers, there must be rulers who need it.

However, the Li Tang Dynasty seems to pay more attention to practice, so when he lectures in the future, he should emphasize on exhorting the students to be more practical, so that the emperor likes their Confucianism, so as to change the court. A situation where a peasant boy like Sun Zhengming can be in power.

Everyone wears thick clothes in winter, and there are 8000 people. It takes a lot of time just to search and search. Although the students are allowed to enter the examination room an hour earlier, the start of the examination is almost late, because the candidates have to be in the examination room. I found my place in the unfamiliar examination room. More than 8000 headless flies were chaotically chaotic inside, and there were only thirty or so invigilating officials in the examination room. It took me a long time to sort out the order. , so that all candidates can find their place.

Thinking that he might have to do it again in the afternoon, Sun Xiangfu decisively wrote to Li Shimin, asking him to call in an extra battalion of soldiers, open several times more search passages, and send as many invigilators as possible, although he knew that the court It's very busy now. Due to the tight staffing, all the officials have their own things to do, but we can let them help with the exams first, and then go back to work overtime at night to do their own things!

After the letter was sent out, Sun Xiangfu had time to inspect the examination room. He saw many candidates scratching their heads and thinking about the answer, while some were writing happily. All the people in the world looked confused in the end, which made Sun Xiangfu a little proud.

If you want to plagiarize, there is basically no way. Don’t look at the person on the left who writes very fast. He is taking an engineering test. The first question is to simply copy a thousand-character text according to the words on the test paper. The question has full marks.

Don't look at the person on the right who keeps writing and drawing. People who are studying mathematics have special draft paper for their calculations. You who are studying liberal arts should answer your own test papers properly. Filling in the blank questions is a good score question. Basically, as long as you are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, you will know what the middle sentence says after seeing the prompts before and after.

Starting from the second big question, it is to silently write the entire classic, which is not an ordinary difficulty.

The third question is about writing poems. Those who usually have creative reserves can have an advantage.

The fourth question is a composition question, you can write about scenery, people, and things.

The fifth question is a policy question. According to the questions raised in the examination paper, answer the solution and the reason for doing so.

There are six sessions in three days. Except for the first topics that can be scored by rote memorization, liberal arts students have to write six poems, chant six things, and write six essays to express their understanding of literary classics. Concentrate on the six kinds of problems encountered by the court, express your own opinions, and write out your own solutions. It is difficult for people who are not really good at brains, or who have reserves for writing poetry and articles, to answer the questions within three hours Finished, and, at the end, there is an optional answer composition question "Imagination for Hometown" that can be answered or not.

This made most of the liberal arts students who saw the test papers frown.

"Zhengming, isn't the examination paper for our Jinshi department too difficult?"

"Probably not! This is the paper that you and Kong Jijiu produced together, and many ministers, including His Majesty and Fang, have read it!"

"Yes! But, one and a half hours to answer the questions is too short, even if the old man takes up the pen to answer the questions, he can barely complete the answer." Xiao Yu replied with a sad face.

"The taller ones in the dwarf group, anyway, the overall score is low, and they are also the ones who take the middle and high scores from the low scores. I think this is very good. When they answer the questions, they should also think about the trade-offs. Either answer the high-scoring questions first, or Answer the questions that you are sure you can get points for first, or, if you are really talented and knowledgeable, you can answer all the questions quickly."

(End of this chapter)