Wu Yuan and the others realized that Jiang Tian did not suspect that King Ji was going to rebel, but interpreted it as winning military merits for his old subordinates, and the two of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, as long as they were not involved in the internal contradictions of the royal family, it was right to think about it, how could King Ji say such a sensitive thing in front of him.

As soon as the two of them relaxed, they listened to Jiang Tian continue: "Actually, Your Majesty has long expected that there will be people who are greedy for military merits, and whoever wants to make this idea will make a mistake!" ”

These two people are a stirring spirit when they hear it, why are there so many things that stimulate the nerves today, it seems that the water of this army @ change is deeper than that of politics @ change, Rao is these two people are well-informed, and at this moment their backs are also in a cold sweat.

Jiang Tian didn't seem to notice their expressions at all, looked at Shi Chen and said, "I've been with King Ji for inspection all day, and I haven't done anything serious, so you can just come down and have dinner." ”

Liu Baokai hurriedly refused: "I haven't gone to visit my grandmother yet, so I won't bother my husband today, so I won't worry about the old lady." ”

When Wu Yuan heard this, he hurriedly got off the donkey: "My mother also told me that I must visit the old lady for her, and I will go with you." ”

Seeing that these two people were gone, Jiang Tian only felt funny, thinking that this was terrifying? I thought that these two people were the lords who were not afraid of heaven and earth, and in this world, when it comes to understanding the pure firearms army, Zhang Tao on the Jinluan Palace is the first, and the second place is not the general of any army, but Jiang Tian, who is responsible for military production.

The more advanced an army's equipment is, the more dependent it is on logistical support, and the new army without ammunition is not even as good as ordinary infantry. What a wolf! There were no more important enemies to fight in the north, and at most there would be armed marches in the summer.

But those who play tricks behind their backs are afraid that they will be in trouble, even if he Zhang Qian really wants to hoard arms, win over the old troops, and intend to rebel, but the biggest difference between the new army and the old army is that the soldiers are not private, and when the time comes, see how big the waves you can make.

Whether it was Jiang Tian or Wu Yuan, none of them thought that Zhang Qian, who had been fighting on the battlefield for so many years, could be a political idiot? As soon as he returned to Beijing, he went to the palace to complain to his brother, and made a look of anger, accusing Jiang Tian of not only greedy for money, but also did not know how to pretend to understand the random delivery of materials, and put on a posture of a prince who did not know how to pretend to know blind command. Zhang Tao couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, so he could only praise his younger brother twice, and he knew about it.

As for the use of precious smokeless @ fire @ medicine to make pen barrels, Zhang Tao is actually a little painful, but when he thinks of the existing production capacity, it can't play much role in the war. Jiang Tian can only toss it first, after all, the money in exchange for civilian supplies will eventually feed back to military production.

When something is produced, it must be sold in exchange for money, and the dipping pen is completely different from the traditional brush, how can the society accept the new product?

In addition to foreign trade, Jiang Tian's choice of breakthrough is to introduce new writing habits in the new education, this is a very huge market, so it was remembered by Zhang Qian, but the popularization time will be very long, and the other way is to cater to the market and make some products that the public can accept immediately.

Jiang Tian, a product between the traditional brush and the dipping pen, was also produced, thanks to the highly developed stationery industry in later generations, without thinking about it, a fountain pen-style brush was trial-produced, and the biggest feature of this pen is the use of ink storage system.

As we all know, as with later fountain pens, plastic and rubber were prerequisites for mass production. Plastic is okay, but you can also use wood and brass to replace some plastic parts, but there is really no substitute for rubber.

As the emperor of crossing, Zhang Tao has long begun to lay out the transplantation of rubber, but because of the relationship of time, and the most suitable territory for planting rubber in Hainan, which is not highly developed, it will take a long time to plant on a large scale, and it is not possible to count on it at present.

Therefore, Jiang Tian's pen does not have an ink sac, in order to ensure ink storage, he adopted a method often used by people who play color ink in later generations - pen barrel ink storage!

Fortunately, the plasticity of celluloid is very good, supplemented by grease sealing to meet the practical requirements, but he found a very embarrassing reality, this design is troublesome to add, the cost is still outrageous at this stage, and the consequence of a large number of materials is that it is also difficult to manufacture.

It can be said that except for a few wealthy people who will buy it to play, it does not have the value of popularization at all, but it is the glass ink bottle with a traditional brush and a dipping pen that is the panacea in the current use environment.

This is the reason why Jiang Tian only showed the dipping pen, too many things that are not conducive to popularization beyond the times, can only be a luxury for a few people, a small amount of production to make a fool's money, for example, he made Zhang Tao a pen with the wrong barrel of the gold depiction dragon, because of the processing level, the thickness of the handwriting is about one millimeter, and it can only be regarded as a special-purpose art pen in later generations, but this makes His Majesty the Emperor happy.

After arranging the existing production plan of the factory, and the ordered teaching aids and teaching materials, Jiang Tian was finally able to put the plan of cultivating talents into practice, so the latest notice was posted on the notice board in front of the original official school.

Many people who were originally concerned about the news of the examination immediately spread the news that the government school had opened two pre-examination tutorial classes, one of which was a pre-examination assault class for children, and the other was a pre-examination intensive class for the national examination.

Although the names of the two training courses on the notice are not so funny, the basic meaning is still clear to everyone, and the national examination will be held in a month after the autumn of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the time is relatively urgent, which means that the talents who have just passed the examination may not be able to participate in the national examination.

However, many of them did not care about the so-called civil service examination, because they felt that if they studied hard for so many years and finally ran to the yamen to become a small official, it would be better to die.

Jiang Tian is very clear about this idea, there may be a lot of people in the training class, but it is very likely that there will be a cold scene during the exam, he is not very worried about this, these people are just thinking about going to Beijing to participate in the examination, thinking that once the title of the gold list can be directly an official.

So a notice was posted at the entrance of the yamen, this time it was not anything else, but a public announcement of the treatment and promotion standards for civil servants that will be implemented from next year.

As soon as this notice came out, it made many poor students grow grass in their hearts, and if nothing else, they rushed to the annual increase in seniority wages and various welfare subsidies, which was enough to make people blush, not to mention that at the end of the trouble, the new official position can be promoted in another place. In other words, the officials who have climbed up through the new system here are officially established by the state and can become officials elsewhere in the future!

This is actually the same as the existing imperial examination system, which promotes people to rise by filling vacancies and becoming a second official, but no one thought that Jiang Tian would dare to say this when the reform was still inconclusive.

For a while, all kinds of visits were connected in private, whether it was Xiucai or Juren, they were talking about the possibility of this matter, if this is the case, it means that the support for Jiang Tian's reform in the imperial court is not small, if it is fake, the officials do not recognize the officials who have risen up like this, and they can only stay in the local area to be a small official for the rest of their lives.

In fact, the city of Beijing has also become a pot of porridge for this matter, many people impeached Jiang Tian for falsely preaching the holy decree, and made up the things that have not yet been shadowed to build momentum for themselves, and some people scolded them, so naturally someone would maintain them, and found the possibility of their own children entering the system, and the reformers and the nobles reached an agreement to support Jiang Tian.

Until Zhang Tao set the tone at the court meeting, since the Jinshi who had excelled in the past exams wanted to enter the Hanlin Academy for internship, then the civil servants who worked well at the grassroots level could of course be promoted, and they could even enter the cabinet!

As soon as these words came out, it was tantamount to putting a thunder on the court, although the positions of the six ministries and the nine secretaries and the cabinet elders have changed their names now, they have always been the territory of the clear stream, who can imagine that a government official finally became the secretary of the military department? Or did the former clerk become a celestial official?

According to the current development, this situation is very likely to occur, judging from the fact that the emperor did not make a promise to Jiang Tian without permission and was furious, Emperor Zhang obviously wanted to do this for a long time, but the timing was not right, so he did not promote it. Therefore, Zhang Tao's statement is very important, which directly led to Jiang Tian's reform being upgraded from an experiment to the emperor's will.

In fact, what really caused controversy about this system is not that it gives the officials a channel for promotion, so many scholars in the world, and after the popularization of primary education, if you want to be an official, you have to take the exam again is the inevitable result, what really worries the current officials is that the scientific examination has completely become an academic examination, even if you come back from the top of the exam, you still have to start from the grassroots level if you want to be an official, so that the Qingliu giants in those big examination provinces in Jiangnan have no advantage.

The lack of advantage, or the fact that they were pulled down to the same starting line, was not only a chance to give the students with ideals and ambitions from poor families, but also weakened the powerful landlord bureaucracy.

At the same time, it also avoided the kind of early Ming Dynasty that in the name of investigating and dealing with major cases, the physical elimination of the widely connected literati groups, and the prevention of unjust, false and wrongful cases caused by implication, Zhu Yuanzhang used the four major cases to crack down on mountaineering and party formation in the two systems of military @ government, although the effect was remarkable, but there were many sequelae, and did not eradicate the soil for the birth of warlords and civilian parties, and the Ming Dynasty was finally destroyed in this point.

People with far-reaching light and brains immediately saw the power of this reform, just like the Sui Dynasty's imperial examination, which suddenly shook the wealthy nobles who had been inherited for thousands of years, popularized the class of scholars, and completed the second dimensionality reduction attack on the social structure in Chinese history, while Zhang Tao and Jiang Tian are carrying out the third dimensionality reduction, with the aim of professionalizing the country's ruling structure and diversifying the sources of officials.

"So, your father came out too early! If I had waited until I had been in a difficult battle with the old bureaucracy and then stepped forward to act as an arbiter, I would have definitely achieved better results than I have now. Jiang Tian took a sip of tea and continued: "Now those Jiangnan landlords and bureaucrats who are in tandem will only lie dormant and wait for the opportunity, and they have also exposed my true intentions prematurely. ”

I heard that Zhang Huan, who had a new style of stationery, finally obtained permission to go out under the soft grinding and hard bubbles, and came to Tianjin in the name of a study tour.

After listening to his complaints, Zhang Huan smiled instead: "What Mr. said is exactly the same as what my father guessed, what do you guess he thinks?" ”

Jiang Tian was stunned for a moment, Zhang Tao could guess that it was normal for him to complain, after all, this strategy was formulated by the two of them together, and to his surprise, Zhang Huan's growth had exceeded his expectations as a teacher.

"What else can you think?" Jiang Tian smiled bitterly: "He will definitely tell you that my thoughts can only be regarded as a politician, and from the perspective of the country and the nation, it is the way to be a king to minimize the fight and concentrate on promoting the country forward." ”

Zhang Huan's smile did not decrease: "Father really guessed again, he said that although you will slander, you will complete the reform to the letter!" ”

"Alas......" Jiang Tian sighed: "Who makes us all have the same dream." ”

Zhang Huan came not only to inspect the production of new stationery, but also to visit the pre-examination training course that everyone is currently staring at, as the crown prince, he inspected the reform of the ruling class, which was not much for all parties to do, but in order to ensure that they could get first-hand information, there were many more people accompanying the inspection.

So Wu Yuan and Liu Baokai, who had just returned to Beijing, came back again, their task this time was to monitor the civil official group on behalf of the aristocracy and not to have a negative impact on the prince, also as a representative of the traditional civil official class, Tian Xuhai also came as a classmate, after all, he is also a person who knows Xinxue better. The representative of the scientific school is none other than Song Yi, in fact, what he wants to see most is the plasticization molding process of celluloid.

Seeing this group of people stationed in the city, the most headache is not Jiang Tian, but Wei Gang, who is responsible for security, although the prince finally lived in Liu's house, but there is no more work on the periphery, he now really understands what pain is and is happy, in the past, there were few times when he could see a second-grade member in a year, and now the prince and the prince are running here in turn, do you want to make friends with dignitaries? Grab a handful.

may be the reason for getting along with the reformers day and night, he now has a certain understanding of reform, and through political @ reform he also thinks more about the meaning of military @ reform, thanks to Zhang Tao's promotion of literacy in the army back then, although he is not an officer who reads poetry and books, but at least he can understand history books.

Since then, the officers in the Chinese army are no longer monopolized by the aristocracy, and the common people can also make a fortune or become officers by military merits, which also lays the foundation for the centralized system of the great unification of the Chinese nation, and China has moved from feudal secession to centralization in advance.

It is also this dimensionality reduction that gave birth to the national spirit of the princely general Xiangning, which ensured that before the second dimensionality reduction, China would not be re-divided due to the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, even if there was a short-term warlord division due to the interference of external forces, it would eventually move towards unification.

Wei Gang, who has been so educated, scoffs at the current murmur of opposition to reform, and he not only supports reform, but also firmly believes that it will succeed, and it is ridiculous that the conservatives have been unable to shake the people in the new army system when they find all kinds of reasons to pull back.

They only think that Zhang Tao's personal charm in the army is too strong, and they hope that Emperor Zhang will also kill the heroes for the sake of the stability of the dragon chair, or wait for Zhang Huan, who has no military qualifications, to succeed to the throne, and subtly correct the "deviation" line, just like the one that locked the country after Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di died in Qianming and others. As everyone knows, the two very simple methods of eradicating illiteracy in the army and letting soldiers know why they are fighting are destined to prevent the new army from being co-opted by the old forces.

Of course, we can't be harsh on these people, after all, no one has seen the third dimensionality reduction that began in the history of the Chinese nation after 1949, although the main idea of this dimensionality reduction comes from a German Jew, but it is not inferior to the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty. And before the reform and opening up, the social structure was reduced to only three classes: citizens, civil servants, and soldiers. The title is even more refined to the point that there is only one word left - comrade!

It is precisely knowing that this third revolution that changed history that Zhang Tao and Jiang Tian will be so enthusiastic about reform, but different from Zhang Tao's fanatical revolutionary thoughts, Jiang Tian's thinking is more calm and pragmatic.

Today's Chinese are still convinced of their status as the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and their cultural self-confidence has almost reached the highest point in history, which is actually more like a kind of conceit, so whether it is the literati class or the common people, they do not understand and agree with the emperor's reforms, and they all rely on the imperial authority that has been continued for thousands of years to be implemented.

So in this case, Jiang Tiancai is more concerned about how to maintain this authority from a political point of view, and would rather rush to the front line to bear the firepower, but also ensure that Zhang Tao can make a final decision in the end, instead of hiding behind the emperor and shouting and cheering, but unfortunately the anxious Zhang Tao does not appreciate it.

Knowing very well that there is a subjective contradiction between the brothers, Zhang Huan, as a mediator caught in it, has an immeasurable role, at least until now, Zhang Tao has not revealed the intention of engaging in a republican system, and he also knows that there is no soil for a republican system in China at present. Therefore, Zhang Huan is ironclad that he will inherit the throne, and it is only a matter of time.

Thinking of what his father explained before leaving, Zhang Huan took advantage of Jiang Tian's mood to stabilize and hurriedly asked: "It is estimated that there will be many children who will be admitted to the Xiucai examination this time, but there should not be many who are admitted to the civil service, how does Mr. plan to use these new talents?" ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Tian knew that Zhang Tao wanted to ask, but there was nothing to hide: "In the future, titles such as Xiucai and Juren will be at most just academic certificates, and the imperial examination will gradually become a civil service examination, but your father and I plan to carry out a nationwide literacy eradication, even if these Xiucai can't pass the civil service exam, it's okay, if the family is poor and has no livelihood, let me go to school to be a primary school teacher!" ”