Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

As for Pang Degong, whether it is going to Yingchuan and Nanyang to contact his friends, or preparing relevant lecture content, it will take time.

Only after everything was completed, he could truly accompany Zhang Yan to fight.

Everything is moving forward steadily, all Zhang Yan needs to do now is to wait.

Leaving aside some specific details of the cooperation between the two, Zhang Yan still received a lot of positive feedback after meeting Pang Degong, the famous Nanyang hermit.

On the one hand, it was the consensus reached by the two on the joint school. On the other hand, Mr. Pang De’s actions this time also reminded Zhang Yan that his previous understanding was too simple for the group of aristocratic families. , is also too thin.

In Zhang Yan's previous understanding, the aristocratic family seemed to be a solid class barrier.As long as he wants to promote a series of reforms in education, medical care, population and people's rights in the future, the aristocratic family will definitely stand on his opposite side.

But that's not the case.As the leaders of later generations have said, no matter how stubborn the enemy is, there are ways to divide it.No matter how backward the group is, there are always two advanced people who are willing to be the vanguard of the change of the old world.

After some clear talk, Zhang Yan has realized the most fundamental mistake he made before:

That is, the aristocratic family, or the Chinese scholars, are not monolithic in the true sense.

These people are far from united as they appear on the outside.

It is true that in terms of social structure, these bloodline-inherited groups are called "family", but family and family cannot be generalized.Their starting points are different, their goals are different, and their means of doing things are completely different.

Even if it is something that will be an essential blow to some aristocratic groups, it may be a good thing for other scholars.

Take the matter of running a school this time as an example, wouldn't Zhang Yan, who came from a later life, not know the importance of education?

Of course not.

Then why has he kept silent about universal education?

He just didn't dare to do it before.

In fact, after coming to Lujiang, Zhang Yan has always wanted to increase the proportion of intellectuals among his people...or the minimum level of literacy.

As long as the illiteracy rate in Lujiang is reduced, things like productivity will naturally undergo essential changes due to the improvement of the quality of workers.

But in the original Zhang Yan's eyes, this aristocratic family is simply synonymous with scholars in the world.

Once he acts rashly and tries to popularize education throughout Lujiang, the aristocratic families whose resource barriers have been broken are likely to attack them together, just like the capitalist world pulled up a siege to suppress all the waves of the red revolution. like that.

Whenever Zhang Yan went to popularize education, all scholars in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty would attack him.

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It has to be said that although Zhang Yan has knowledge and vision far beyond that of people in today's world, in terms of personal ability, one person is always inferior to a group of people.

He needs the help of scholars, he needs scholars to help him manage the territory under his command, and even needs scholars to help him solve a series of problems encountered during his administration.

He needs these things, so even though deep in his heart he already wanted to popularize education, Zhang Yan still didn't dare to act rashly, for fear that one day he would wake up and suddenly find that he had become the enemy of the whole world.

And this meeting, Pound taught Zhang Yan a lesson with his actions:

The aristocratic family is far from being as united as it seems, and the group of scholars is not monolithic.

Even if he was squeezed out by some aristocratic families, Zhang Yan was still able to find suitable people, so that he would not fall into a situation where no one was available.

To put it in the simplest terms, that is: scholars in this world are actually divided into two categories.

One category is naturally the gentry.

Just like the Yuan family and the Yang family, they rely on their own blood as inheritance, accumulate wealth and various means of production from generation to generation, and through this accumulation, they can finally reach the point where they can eat all the people, and then improve food, security, knowledge, etc. In various aspects, the passage for the lower class people to jump upward is blocked.

This is the "bad gentry" we often refer to, that is, those indirect factors that led to the decline and demise of the feudal dynasty.

In this world, not all scholars are regarded as gentry, or "family members".

There are always some people, although they can read and write by virtue of their family background and education, they don't put their experience on how to strengthen themselves and how to exploit the people at the bottom more efficiently.

These people may be from poor families, so that they have no ability to exploit and produce in the face of ordinary people.

These people may also be scholars who live in seclusion in the mountains. Their interest in exploitation is far less intense than self-improvement.

Instead of letting them study how to "grab" food from other people's hands to feed themselves, it is better to let them relax, play the piano and sing every day, and live a carefree life.

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In essence, the ultimate pursuit of these two kinds of scholars is actually the so-called egoism.

It's just that those large aristocratic families pursue more material things, like fame and fortune, as well as the wealth and power they actually hold in their hands.

For others, they don't care about benefits.It's just that they pursue spiritual realization and detachment more than material interests.

Of course, these "dream school" scholars are only a minority after all, and they only occupy a relatively small part of the entire group of scholars.

But even so...they still have inheritance!

If Zhang Yan can get the help of these idle small families, let alone promote enlightenment education in Lujiang, even if he proposes a policy of land nationalization that is incompatible with aristocratic families, it is not impossible to push forward.

After all, Zhang Shijun nationalized a large piece of land of your big family, and I, a small family, don't have much arable land. What does this matter have to do with me, right?

It's too late for me to be happy!

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Still take Jingzhou, where Duke Pang De was born, as an example. Scholars all over the world know that there are two largest families in Jingzhou, one is called Kuai and the other is called Cai.

Below Kuai and Cai, there are some smaller landlords, headed by the Huang family, who have worked for the two giants above for generations.

Under this pyramid-like structure, the small families below exploited the bottom farmers through the land, allowing the owner farmers to be transformed into sharecroppers through a series of operations, and eventually became their slaves.

On the other hand, the Kuai family and the Cai family at the top relied on their own political resources, academic resources and influence to give some benefits to the family below from time to time, and at the same time ate the biggest cake in the entire state and county into their own mouths.

At this time, where is Lord Pang De?Where is Xu Shu?Where is Huang Chengyan?

Oh, they're all farming, that's fine.

Although in terms of fame, the status of Pang Degong and others is almost the same as that of the Kuai family and the Cai family, but in terms of social structure, these people are not exploiters but producers, so they are the ones Zhang Yan needs to "unite" that group of people.

With the support of these scholars, he has the confidence to deal with those large families.

And even among those large families, aren't there some smart people like the Qiao family who are more clever and able to find their own position?

After Zhang Yan really started to attack the aristocratic family, how many people would be willing to drown with the big ship of the aristocratic family when they saw that there was nothing they could do?

Probably not as much as I imagined...

As long as there is enough strength in Zhang Yan's hands during this process.

Chapter 27 Three visits

To use the words of later generations of economics to describe, Zhang Yan's current situation is generally stable and improving, and at the same time full of prospects and hopes for development.

It's just a pity, and because Mr. Pang De's visit to him was too important to Zhang Yan, it actually caused him to ignore another very important thing to him, and even missed a person who is very important to him now. As far as he is concerned, he is highly regarded as a scholar.

This scholar was none other than someone who had come to Lujiang from Sili early on. He was full of thoughts of fighting Fa Zheng, a true marching staff officer, and an almost omnipotent battlefield strategist.

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"Hey, Xiao Zhi, why don't we go back first?"

"I've been waiting here for more than an hour, and the prefect hasn't come out yet, so I guess there's nothing going on today..."

"Anyway, Xiaozhi, you have made plans to live in Lujiang permanently, and this day is not too bad. Why don't you go back to rest earlier, and I will come with you to have a look after two days."

"Waiting like this, the eunuch doesn't know how long he will be busy, how can he have a head..."

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On the afternoon of the same day when Duke Pang De went to visit Zhang Yan at the Mansion of Marquis of the Kingdom of Wan, not far outside the mansion, Fazheng and his good friend Meng Da were sitting by the side, waiting for the servants in the mansion to summon them.

Seeing him wiping the stinky sweat off his head tiredly, Meng Da looked at the closed gate of the mansion not far away, then looked up at the sun in the sky, and couldn't help complaining to his friend Fazheng said a word.

"Don't make noise, just wait..."

"It might come out soon."

Facing the complaints from his friends, Fazheng is actually feeling a little restless now.

It's just that he thought about it, but he looked a little unwilling, so he shook his head with Meng Da, continued to sit where he was, and waited bitterly.

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"Zijing, you're right, we've been waiting for more than an hour, so it's not too late."

"Wait with me. If he hasn't summoned us by ten o'clock in the evening, we can go back together."

Youyou sighed, Fazheng stared at the distant gate with his lips pursed, wondering what he was thinking.

Beside him, Meng Da looked at his companion speechlessly, spoke several times, but didn't say anything, so he could only continue to wait with him.

This is not the first time they have come to Zhang Yan's house to seek a visit.

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As early as a few days ago, after Fazheng met his friend Ma Jun in Lujiang for the first time, he was told by Ma Jun about the current situation in Lujiang.

At the same time, Fazheng also learned from Ma Jun that if an outsider like him wants to be in politics in Lujiang, there is a high probability that he will first go to the Department of Civil Affairs to take the exam, starting from the most basic petty official. From the beginning, a little bit of accumulation of merit will do.

If Fazheng didn't have Ma Jun's relationship here, according to his temperament, it would be fine to start from the grassroots.

As far as he is concerned, as long as there is a chance of fair competition, Fazheng is not too repulsed by this method of climbing up step by step.

But isn't Ma Jun still here...

Knowing that his friend had already gained a firm foothold in Lujiang, Fazheng inevitably wanted to show his abilities "as quickly as possible".

"Deheng, help me..."

"You don't want to see the two of us being bullied in Lujiang, and you can't hold your head up?"

In this way, after Fazheng's stalking, Ma Jun had no choice but to finally agree to the other party's request, agreeing that the other party would take them directly to Zhang Yan and give him a chance to seek his position face to face.

However, due to the heavy workload of the Lujiang Science and Technology Department during this period, Ma Jun was in charge of the development of construction cement with one hand, and took care of the casting of Lujiang Type [-] artillery with the other. They were able to give Fazheng a token of their own, so they let them come to visit by themselves, and Ma Jun himself continued to work overtime in the Science and Technology Department.

Regarding this situation, Fazheng didn't say anything more.

He just wanted to enter the official career as soon as possible, at most he would be younger and more irritable, but that didn't mean he couldn't tell the good from the bad.

He knew very well that in this matter, he was the one who asked Ma Jun for help, not that the other party owed him anything.

If you continue to harass with a dissatisfied face, it will be somewhat inappropriate.

In short, Fazheng took the token provided by Ma Jun, and took Meng Da to visit Zhang Yanwan Guohou's mansion.

What he didn't expect was that the visit lasted for nearly a month.

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