Chapter 268: I Gave Them a Chance
After the Seed Master Dao and the Ministry of Officials Li Ruobing, as well as the Criminal Department Shangshu and the Ministry of Industry and others left with a confused face, Zhao Huan bent his fingers, knocked on the table in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "I plan to really divide people into three, six, nine and so on, and leave three Aiqing today to talk about this matter." β
As soon as Zhao Huan's words came out, Li Gang and Zhuang Chengyi, as well as Fang Zian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who had not spoken just now, immediately frowned.
I have not experienced the rule of Meng Yuansi and others, nor have I seen Jiannu keep his hair without a head, and the hardcore crops are full of uncles, Li Gang and others feel that there are high and low positions, dignity and humility, and the people are divided into farmers, industry and commerce, these are all normal. But isn't it too much to forcibly divide people into three, six, nine, and so on?
"The official family, the minister thinks that this matter must not be done."
Fang Zi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, bowed down and said: "It's not that the ministers are pedantic, but that the official family is the Son of Heaven, representing the herdsmen of the heavens, and all the people in the world are the people of the official family, how can they be divided into three, six, nine and so on?" β
Li Gang and Zhuang Chengyi also bowed down and said, "The minister seconded the proposal." β
Zhao Huan sneered, knocked his fingers on the table, and asked, "All the people in the world are my people?" The blue hats in the alleys of the city are given to the people of Joy, and they may be counted as my people? Have they ever paid me a penny in taxes? β
At the mention of the tendon alley, Zhao Huan suddenly felt nauseous again-
Since these Yici Le Ye people came to Kaifeng Bianliang during the time period when Zhao Jixiang's sand sculptures were emperors, an alley that was originally good has become a tendon alley, and no one remembers the original name!
Li Gang and the others were a little dumbfounded-
Emperor Zhao Jixiang edicted him to "return to my Zhongxia, abide by the ancestral style, and leave Bianliang", but the officials in Bianjing did not take these people too seriously, although these people lived in Bianjing, and could study and take the imperial examination, but no one really remembered to ask them to collect taxes......
"The people of the Great Song Dynasty have to pay taxes twice a year, and the taxes go to me and the taxes go to the treasury. To put it bluntly, my expenses in the harem, as well as Zhuqing's money, are all the savings saved by the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are the real people's fat and people's ointment. β
"The palace maid in my palace? Concubines? The maid of Zhuqing's house, the concubine? and they were all daughters of the people's families. My soldiers of the Great Song Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army? It also comes from the people. β
"Treat people like this, don't our monarchs and ministers hurt? Who else do you expect to hurt? If our monarchs and ministers are not good to them, do they still have a conscience? β
The more you talk, the more hilarious you get? Zhao Huan gradually became a little unable to contain it.
"So? The 'benevolence' mentioned by the sage is actually aimed at the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and we monarchs and ministers have the obligation to let them live a good life! β
"As for the foreign clans, what contribution can they make to my Great Song Dynasty? What qualifications do they have to enjoy the same treatment as the people of my Great Song Dynasty, or even more than the people of my Great Song Dynasty? β
"And this gift. Is this more than just etiquette? It also includes the exchange of courtesies. What is a gift exchange? Did someone give you a gift? You'll have to pay a salute or you'll be rude. Therefore, if someone runs to my Song Dynasty to bully the people of my Great Song Dynasty, my Great Song Dynasty should capture its king and destroy its country! Or else this gift is light? Doesn't it make people say that I am rude? Wait until the army burns down its temple and exterminates its seedlings? If we forgive them again, isn't that what the saints call 'forgiveness'? β
"So this three, six, nine, etc.? The first-class is naturally the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the second-class are those barbarians who are in the Great Song Dynasty but have not yet been able to obtain the household registration of the Great Song Dynasty? Wait until they have the household registration of the Great Song Dynasty? Naturally, no longer a barbarian? It's a person like the people of the Great Song Dynasty. As for those barbarians who are not in my Great Song Dynasty, they are naturally third-class people, and their lives and deaths have nothing to do with my Great Song Dynasty, and the money of the Great Song Dynasty should be spent on the people of the Great Song Dynasty, not on them. β
"In order to give these barbarians the opportunity to become my Great Song people, I have also thought of a way."
"Let's take a Chinese proficiency test first."
"The first level is to be able to know 500 Chinese characters, to be able to speak the official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty, and to be fluent or not is second. After passing this first-level exam, even those barbarians who are not in my Great Song can apply for the third-class citizen household registration of my Great Song. After the application is approved, they can rent a house in the Great Song Dynasty, but they can't study, they can't be officials, they pay half more taxes than the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and other benefits have nothing to do with them. β
"Level 2 students must know at least 1,000 Chinese characters, not only must they be able to speak the official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty fluently, but they must also be able to write no less than 500 characters. After passing the second-class examination, they can apply for the household registration of second-class citizens. They can rent a house, their children can enter social studies and study, but they can't be officials, they pay 20% more taxes than ordinary people in the Song Dynasty, and they can't enjoy benefits like Leaky Zeyuan and Huimin Pharmacy. β
"When you reach the third level, you can at least memorize 100 of the 300 Tang poems, and be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, these people can buy their own houses in the Great Song Dynasty, pay the same taxes as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and can study, except that they cannot join the army or be an official, and enjoy the same welfare treatment as the people of the Great Song Dynasty."
"After they pass the third-level examination, and there is no record of illegal crimes within five years, they can apply for the fourth-level examinationβat least they must be able to recite poetry correctly, and they must have a little understanding of the subset of scriptures and history. After passing the exam, they will become exactly the same people as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and they can be officials and soldiers. β
"As for those laborers, I was very merciful and gave them a chance - those who could work on the construction site for five years could apply directly for the second-level examination. As for whether it can be passed, that's their own problem. β
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Every time Zhao Huan said a word, Li Gang, Zhuang Chengyi and Fang Zi'an's faces turned a little darker, and after Zhao Huan finished speaking, the faces of the three of them were as black as the bottom of the pot, and they couldn't see it anymore.
Li Gang even wanted to ask the official family, how did he associate so many things from this Yici Leye person?
And what the saints said about benevolence, courtesy, forgiveness, these virtue things are explained in this way?
And what kind of fourth-level exam - not to mention those barbarians, even if you catch a hundred random people in Bianjing City, it is estimated that few of them will be able to pass the first-level exam, right? Do you think this literacy project is completely over?
What makes Li Gang even more entangled is that once the official family comes up with such an inexplicable idea, most of them will not change it.
This also means that there is another mess in the court, which is already in chaos!
Thinking of this, Li Gang simply set his eyes on Fang Zi'an, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
These things should be in the hands of the Ministry of Rites, right? It must be right!
Anyway, dead friends don't die poor!