Section IX
Immediately after taking annual leave, the Han military government ushered in two major events, which limited the seriousness and seriousness of these two major events, and at the strong request of Li Guangdi, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, Lin Feng, who was inspecting the army abroad, had to rush back to Beijing.
For the local officials of this era, whether they are qualified for the post, generally from the "government" and "learning" two aspects to assess, the meaning of "government" is generally considered to be "Qian Gu criminal name", which means the local income and judicial security situation, and the meaning of "learning" is about the education of the people under the rule, of course, this thing is more abstract than the former, the so-called people's hearts are separated from the belly, no one knows what others are thinking, so the assessment of political performance is generally established on the "persuasion of learning", That is, it depends on the situation of the scholars in this place.
Now these two important matters have been put on the work agenda of the Lee Kwang-di government. In this year, the government's income is mainly concentrated in agriculture, so this spring ploughing work is absolutely very important, originally "persuading farmers" this thing is the old business of Confucianism, thousands of years of fixed agricultural policy for them to provide them with a wealth of reference experience, so most of the work has already been programmed, officials are familiar with it, only need to operate in accordance with the law of solar terms, but this year this work has become difficult because of some special reasons.
According to the order of the Han king, this year, the big peasants under the rule of the Han army must plant a large number of "golden potatoes," "artichokes," and "corn" in accordance with government regulations. In fact, when the local yamen of the Han military government posted notices, they were immediately criticized by the local landlords, and then, under their initiation and instigation, the peasants in many places also began to carry out the "non-violent non-cooperation movement", which was manifested in the form of ignoring the laws and regulations of the government, or ignoring the rules and regulations of the government.
Generally speaking, the government's business in agriculture is mainly focused on building water conservancy or overhauling the Dragon King Temple, as for how the farmers farm the fields, it is really a bit inexplicable, and the farmers are a little inexplicable to the old men suddenly running to their fields, as an oppressed class, everyone instinctively feels that this matter is not good, and I don't know what new tricks the government has come up with this time to torture people.
In northern China, the traditional main food crops are millet and wheat, although after last year's observation, sweet potatoes and potatoes and other things are not as strange as at first, but in the end it is also a new thing, and it is not clear about the law, so now if this thing is indeed regarded as "venture capital", if something goes wrong, it will be a big loss, and this is not the most serious problem, from last year's grain market analysis, although the sweet potato potato is a large output, but it is a coarse grainMost people are not used to eating this thing, so the price has not been able to go up, and it is also very difficult to sell, relatively speaking, wheat and other fine grains compared to this thing can really be regarded as a "cash crop", so from their own interests, they are also strongly opposed to the promotion of planting.
After understanding the real situation, Lin Feng was also a little annoyed this time, last year's experience showed that in this era, food is atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, which can be said to be an unparalleled deterrent weapon, and if there is no food, nothing can be done, but this agricultural production matter does not seem to be able to be solved in a very crude way, in fact, so far, Lin Feng has never taken strong means to intervene in the field of production, using his own will to guide others to make something, and what is even more embarrassing is that It is not so easy to use force in this matter, you must know that there are millions of peasants who oppose this matter, and they can't send troops to monitor the fields, right?!
Spring ploughing can not be delayed, in the end the year's rice bowl depends on these few days, including Lin Feng, no one has the courage to put this matter aside, so after fierce debate, the Han government finally had to compromise with the landlords and farmers, change the restricted planting to "voluntary planting", and issued a notice to the whole territory, indicating that this year's government grain collection will be mainly coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, and the quantity will also increase.
After the decree was issued, the original huge controversy gradually subsided, unexpectedly, so that a little flexibility seemed to be understood by the peasants at once, and they immediately found a reference in history - it turned out that the government also wanted to restrict every household to plant mulberry trees and the like, it seems that this new thing is similar to the original things, all of which are wanted by the government, anyway, they are just a few acres to deal with the public grain.
The second thing is about the imperial examination. Because of the great military victory, the power of the Han government from the wind and rain to the gradual consolidation, in order to consolidate the "national capital", this project to encourage learning of course has to be taken over from the Qing Dynasty government, in fact, this matter has long been expected by the majority of scholars, although last year the Han military government had a imperial examination, but at that time the situation was unclear, no one was sure how long the banner of the Han Dynasty could fight, and even after being admitted to the Jinshi, wouldn't it be bad if the Qing Dynasty came again?! So at that time, most of the scholars still maintained a wait-and-see attitude, but with the victory of the Han army, the Tartars were stomped off their heads one by one, and the prestige of the Han Dynasty was in full swing, seeing that the new dynasty was about to be established, and there was really no chance if they didn't get a piece of the pie at this time, so on this issue, the Han army was under a lot of pressure, and now it is the spring solstice, and this spring boudoir should certainly not be delayed.
Because the political situation this year is very different from last year, the small court of the Han Dynasty has blatantly announced the cancellation of all the merits of the "pseudo-Qing Dynasty" with the backing of the gun, and the Han regime will rebuild the imperial examination system, that is to say, if the Qing Dynasty was to raise people and show talents or something, then all of them will be abolished and returned to the state of "children".
Originally, Lin Feng thought that after this news came out, it would cause an uproar in Shilin, because people had worked hard for most of their lives, so it must be all gone, in Lin Feng's own opinion, if he was finally admitted to Tsinghua University, the country suddenly announced that the college entrance examination would not be counted, and the diplomas of college students were all treated with junior high school graduation certificates, then he would definitely be furious, so he prepared a lot of rhetoric for this problem a long time ago, Moreover, a large number of military and police agents from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Military Command were secretly mobilized, ready to suppress ** at any time.
Surprisingly, Shilin's reaction to this order was quite calm, in fact, when the edict was promulgated, many famous "Confucians" also applauded, according to them, the Qing Dynasty's kind of "Yidi Zhixue" is simply an insult to the saint, so even if the test is not necessarily learned, and although the majority of scholars are angry, they can't find any excuse for a while, according to the laws of the dynasties, from ancient times to the present, it is a son of heaven and a courtier, and people have killed the Manchu court. It is normal not to recognize the Manchu scholars.
In order to make this matter as grand as possible, the small court of the Han army set up a new "Guozijian" yamen, and re-established two national universities of "Taixue" and "Law Calculation", Lin Feng at the suggestion of Li Guangdi, personally invited three and four times, and hired Gu Yanwu out of the mountain, as the chief priest of the Han Dynasty, and under the recommendation of Gu Yanwu, issued an edict from afar, recruiting Huang Zongxi as a doctor of Taixue in the Han Dynasty, the chief governor, from top to bottom, until the local governments, states, and counties, the Yamen of the Han army have rebuilt the Confucian temple and sacrificed to the sages. Give bacon to those scholars.
This series of activities made Lin Feng anxious, although these so-called "sacrificial saints", "rites", "school opening" and so on are some superficial skills, but they are out-and-out physical work, in addition to repeatedly running around the circle, which bullshit sacrifices are generally stinky and long, so that His Royal Highness the King of Han kneeling for most of the day, and must not complain, must pretend to be happy and cheerful, otherwise it is disrespectful and insincere, and if something goes wrong, then the previous efforts to buy people's hearts will be in vain.
Just when the Han army was engaged in a great cultural movement, Nuergan was a big move, and after purging the local bandits, Ma Ying, the general of the captivity, according to Lin Feng's prior explanation, took advantage of the opportunity of the freezing of the Yalu River to kill North Korea, and plundered the gold, silver, cloth, grain and population of several provinces on the Korean border, and the army of the Korean Kingdom stationed on the border was extremely weak, and the border army on the front line of Yizhou, Xinuiju and Changcheng was defeated by Ma Ying after only one battle, and tens of thousands of troops fled in the desert, while the Han army rode vertically and horizontally, Hundreds of cavalry in the forward battalion almost killed Pyongyang, at the beginning Ma Ying was like a great enemy, solemnly arranged the army to meet the Korean counteroffensive army, but after waiting for more than half a month, he didn't even see a single soldier's hair, but waited for the envoy of the Korean king Li Chun.
This is indeed a very embarrassing thing, when the North Korean envoy asked the reason for sending troops, Ma Ying simply didn't know what to say, although he was born in the green forest, it is common to rob homes and houses, but at this time, he has been a general for so long, and he understands that the war between countries is still very different from going out to rob, not to mention that our Chinese kingdom has been known as the "state of etiquette" from ancient times to the present, so even if you go out to rob, you have to find a name, right?!
Under the envoy's questioning, Ma Ying thought for a long time, and finally decided to push this question to the lord, in the final analysis, this matter also belongs to the national diplomatic policy, and he is just a general, this kind of "befriending foreign countries" is best to mix well, not to mention that Lin Feng explained to him very vaguely at the beginning, it has been so long, and now it is difficult to say what Lin Feng thinks, the so-called disaster comes from the mouth, and you can't be cautious. So he very readily ordered the army to retreat to the side of the Yalu River, and asked the North Korean envoy to go to Beijing to find out the reason.
With this confusion in mind, the inexplicable North Korean ambassador Ahn Ji-sung walked towards Beijing.