Chapter 54: Xuchang Lectures on Martial Arts and Seeking Talents
According to Guo Jia's conception, the lecture hall is located in Xuchang, but all students who want to come to the martial arts hall must be at least twelve years old and must be literate, but in this era of low literacy rate, it is extremely difficult to meet the literacy level. Therefore, Guo Jia stipulates that if the immediate family members within three generations have joined the army, their children and grandchildren can enter the special literacy class of the martial arts hall in advance to study, and then enter the martial arts hall after becoming literate, which can be regarded as a benefit for the soldiers, after all, who joins the army does not have a little family mind in it.
However, students in the literacy class can study for up to six years, and after six years, if they still can't know most of the words and can't pass the final exam of the literacy class, then they can only say sorry.
There are four basic courses offered in the lecture hall, including equestrian courses, archery courses, martial arts courses, art of war courses, and physical fitness courses.
All students who enter the lecture hall can take these four courses for a period of three years, and after three years, they will have a final exam, and those who do not pass will be assigned to the army, of course, according to their grades in each subject and their personal wishes.
Don't underestimate those who don't pass, they have gone through three years of study, at least these basic projects are not much better than most of the soldiers.
Those who pass will move on to the next round of learning. However, in addition to the four basic courses that everyone still has to take, they will also face a choice, including infantry, cavalry, archery, staff and the highest level of general subjects.
All students who pass can choose to enter each subject according to their grades and personal preferences. The comprehensive subject is the most difficult to enter, and the number of people will be the least, there may only be dozens of people, but those who can enter are definitely talented. The second round of study lasts for five years, and there will also be a final exam after graduation.
Students who graduate from the second round of lecture martial arts study will be determined based on the results of the final examination to determine their military positions after joining the army. Most of the students can become a general in the army after graduation, commanding a hundred people. The students who graduated from the comprehensive course will serve as a music captain after graduation, leading 200 people. Give them some low-level military positions, and you can also let them experience the real battlefield, experience the baptism of the battlefield, and experience the battlefield different from books.
However, after graduation, the students of the staff department do not become junior generals in command of the army, but become a member of the general staff group of the main generals of each army.
In October of the fourth year of the first peace, Xuchang lecture martial arts hall was established, countless generals and soldiers have sent their children and grandchildren into the lecture hall or literacy class, in the lecture martial arts hall, no matter what official position the father is, the children and grandchildren are all treated equally, and the food and accommodation are borne by the lecture martial arts hall, Cao Cao spent a high price to buy all kinds of military books from all over the country, and invited more to teach Mr. At the same time, Cao Cao served as the principal of Xuchang Lecture Hall, Guo Jia served as the director of teaching, and other generals also took up temporary posts in the Lecture Hall, and would teach in the Lecture Hall from time to time.
Since then, Cao Jun has entered a state of recuperation.
However, although they have entered a state of recuperation, Cao Cao, Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others are still "doing things".
In November of the fourth year of the first peace, Cao Cao's "Seeking Talents" was posted in the cities of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and the world shook.
"Since ancient times, the king of Zhongxing has been ordained, and it is easy to taste the wise man and gentleman who rules the world with him? And he is virtuous, he has never been out of Lu Lane, how can he be lucky to meet? The ear of those who are above seek it. Today's decision has not yet been made, and this special talent is also urgent. "Meng Gong is Zhao and Wei Lao is excellent, not Teng and Xue Dafu." If it is available later, then how can Qi Huan dominate the world! Is there anyone who is fishing in Weibin by brown jade today? And you have to have no thief sister-in-law to receive money and have not met the ignorant? The second and third sons are bright and ugly, and I am the only one who moves, and I have to use it. ”
In the Han Dynasty, officials were selected, and the selected people must not only have feudal moral qualities such as benevolence, righteousness, filial piety, etc., but also have noble family backgrounds. In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the local suffrage was controlled by a small number of ministers and famous families, and they often recommended the children of prestigious families regardless of their academic quality, so that the scope of inspection became narrower and narrower, and most of the people who were inspected did not live up to the truth. In society, there has been a bureaucratic gate valve group of "four worlds and five dukes", "successive generations of ministers", and "successive generations of classics". At this time, the probation system has degenerated into a hereditary system in disguise, and has become a tool for those ministers to maintain their power and maintain their privileges.
For the poor family, although there is Caihou paper in this era, the cost of paper is still very high, and it is still not as good as bamboo slips. Therefore, the number of books and the popularization rate of knowledge are very low, and most of them are in the hands of powerful families. It was not easy for a poor scholar to learn a full stomach for ten years, but he was out of his career because he had no way.
In view of the shortcomings of the Han Dynasty's election of officials, Cao Cao swept away the pedantic and useless selection criteria such as "virtue", "honor" and "family rank" with fearless courage, and pushed the idea of only using talents and not mediocre talents to the peak, fully demonstrating the courage and courage of surpassing others, making the world's poor scholars and warriors praised.
The scholars, on the other hand, regarded Cao Cao as their mortal enemy, and in their eyes, Cao Cao had violated their capital to live and live, and they had to resist.
After the Yanzhou Shi clan was killed by Cao Cao, they were much more stable, and most of them had no courage or strength to fight against Cao again. And the Yuzhou Shi clan is headed by the Yingchuan Xun clan, and the Yingchuan Xun clan has Xun Yu, Xun Yu and Xun Yan serving under Cao Cao, which can be regarded as having bet on Cao Cao, as long as the Cao clan is hegemonic, they will naturally not be treated badly. Several other families in Yingchuan also took refuge in Cao Cao like the Xun family, so they and the Xun family naturally did not oppose Cao.
And they can also see that these changes have little impact on them, but only to improve the status of the merchants, but will share a part of their industrial income. What's more, if the economy is more developed, it will also be beneficial to the development of their respective industries, and in general, it is actually not bad.
As for the selection of officials, Yingchuan Shizi has always had real talent and learning, and it has little impact except for some disdain for those officials who have no virtue.
But the other Yuzhou scholars may not be as wise as the Yingchuan scholars, they just think that Cao Cao is harming their interests. The Yuzhou scholars, who had not experienced Cao Cao's knife, privately sent people to incite the emotions of the laid-off soldiers, and also hoarded grain and grass on a large scale, which caused Yan and Henan to suddenly fall into a situation of high grain prices.