Zhao Yu's account was calculated in this way, and he wanted to use the 'door' to open the passage to the hinterland. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info At present, the coastal area of Liangguang has been set up by Mengyuan, and it has become a paradise for all kinds of smugglers and bandits within this range. However, there is only relative freedom, and the Yuan government set up the quarantine area in order to strengthen the blockade of Qiongzhou, and naturally will not allow smugglers to run rampant, so it will send troops into the quarantine area from time to time to launch a clean-up.

Even if the bureau was able to evade the Yuan army's purge and avoid heavy losses by virtue of convenient conditions, it was difficult for their armed forces to confront the Yuan army head-on. But these people are all buying and selling in Qiongzhou, so in the final analysis, it is Qiongzhou that loses the most. In addition, as the blockade line becomes tighter, it becomes more difficult to penetrate into the mainland, and a batch of goods often loses more than 50 percent, resulting in a decline in profits. This is also one of the reasons why Huang Hua wants to join forces with Chen Hangyan and take advantage of the road.

The Yuan army now surrounded Chen Hangyan's cottage and cut off the access route, causing damage to the illegal salt business, and they had to open another way. And the merchants are like flies, and they can find the smell of copper wherever they are, but they have the privilege to come and go freely, not to mention, they will also use the hands of the Yuan army to fight all forces to seek the greatest benefits, but they have made a lot of profits from it.

Zhao Hao's intention this time is to buy roads from the merchants by 'showing favor' to them, after all, the maritime trade business is much more profitable than the small profit of selling smuggling, and as long as they want to make money, they will not worry about not entering the pit, and they will grasp the pricing power by holding the strait themselves. He told Zheng Huchen, Zhuang Shilin and Zhou Xiang about his intentions, and they all lit up.

In this way, the caravan of the office can walk the land south of the Yangtze River unimpeded, and the money will naturally come back after the salt is sold, and the bulk of it will also go into the inner treasury, which solves the problem of tight money. At the same time, the general prison will also be able to obtain much-needed supplies by brokering the entrainment of merchants. And although these comprehensive calculations are not faster than 'robbery', they are not less than the money to buy roads, and 'robbery' is a one-shot deal, and people will not get anything if they don't come. The three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang, and the four of them together set the principle of negotiation:

Merchants were asked to assist Qiongzhou in opening up four trade routes in Qinzhou, Leizhou, Chaozhou, and Fuzhou, corresponding to the Huguang Province, Jiangxi Province, Fujian Province, and Jianghuai Province set up by the Mongol and Yuan provinces along the coast. All of these places are connected to the sea by inland rivers, and boats can go directly to the inland areas; Let the merchants promise to buy war horses, copper and iron and other embargoed materials for Qiongzhou, and traffic them to Qiongzhou; Require coastal state capitals to relax regulations on inland smuggling ships so that they can reach Qiongzhou for trading, etc. In this way, their ships can be sent to and from the strait.

Zhao Yu knew that these requirements were not unattainable for the businessmen, and they were nothing more than bribes from the top and bottom and profiteering. In addition, the Mongol rulers did not have any good solutions to economic problems, their principle was that whoever could get money for themselves was good, and they didn't care what method was used, and these merchants had already found their pulse, and besides, merchants were profit-heavy and could do whatever it took to make money. And for these extortionists, the Mongols are just a tool to make money for themselves, and whoever can give them benefits is the master.

However, the opening of these 'private roads' is not just as simple as obtaining materials and money for Qiongzhou, but it is of great significance, through which Zhao Yu can further penetrate into the interior, send personnel and troops into the interior to develop forces, and establish a base area. Once the time is ripe to launch a war for the restoration of the country, these places can become the internal response of the Song army, and the war will be echoed together......

Busy chattering soon into September, the imperial court in March to open the branch to take scholars, after two rounds of elimination of the township test and the government test, plus the gift of more than 500 returned scholars have gathered in the city to prepare to participate in the ministry examination. The opening of the branch is a major event for every dynasty, not to mention the first time after the establishment of the Xing Dynasty, Zhao Yu made people expand and repair the department, with Lu Xiufu as the president, Liu Huang, the governor of the political affairs, Xu Zongren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Zhongwei, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, as the vice president; In order to be strict and Wen Tianxiang for the tribute. He also appointed examiners from the Eighteen Quarters and a number of officials such as promotion, supervision, search, acceptance, sealing, transcription, and reading.

When everything was in place and waiting for the examination to begin, a scholar suddenly made a fuss, saying that the imperial examination was unfair. Zhao Hao listened to the excitement, and his opening of the department this time did violate the old system. The financial, material and human resources used by the country every time it opens a science and technology can be imagined. The Song Dynasty set a three-year big ratio during the Yingzong period, which is the so-called big year of the big competition, which refers to the year when the Ministry of Rites will take the test.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there was only a two-level examination system. The first level is the examination held by the state, and the first level is the provincial examination held by the Ministry of Rites. In order to select people who are really down-to-earth and talented under feudal rule to serve in official positions and serve them, Song Taizu implemented the palace examination in the sixth year of Kaibao. Since then, the palace examination has become the highest level of the imperial examination system, and the three-level imperial examination system of the state examination, the provincial examination and the palace examination has been formalized. The exam is held in the fall, and the states take the exam. In the spring of the following year, the examination was conducted by the Ministry of Rites. The provincial examination is held in the same year.

At the beginning, Zhao Yu considered that the Song Dynasty had not held the imperial examination for many years, and there were few scholars in Qiongzhou, so in order to select some local talents, he increased the township examination, so that more people could participate in the examination. The place of Qiongzhou is not large, and there is no need for candidates to travel long distances to come, so the examination time has also been adjusted, which is very different from the old system. And when he proposed it at that time, the ministers did not object, so they did it, but at the last moment there was trouble.

At first, Zhao Hao thought that it was those scholars who failed in the government examination to make trouble, but under careful questioning, this was not the case. It turned out that after the Xing Dynasty decided to open a department last year, not only the scholars of Qiongzhou knew about it, but this matter spread inland with the merchants and the population coming and going to Qiongzhou, and quickly spread. Therefore, many mainland scholars also want to participate in the scientific examination, but many people have heard about it, and they do not know the details and miss the examination time, and lose the qualification to participate in the ministry examination.

At first, there were few scholars from the mainland, so I could only sigh that I was unlucky, and it was not so easy to go back, so I could only temporarily settle down and wait for the reopening of the department. But as the spread of the news became larger and larger, more and more scholars came across the sea without fear of danger, and finally more than 1,000 people gathered in Fucheng. The three of them became tigers, and the scholars who felt very lost gathered to make trouble, saying that the imperial examination was unfair, and it was all because the Great Song scholars broke the rules!

Knowing the truth, Zhao Hao could only sigh, lamenting that the world is impermanent, and these scholars are also pitiful. I think that the Great Song Dynasty treated scholars well and cared for them, but who would have thought that the Great Song Dynasty would be finished after speaking. However, the new master is not interested in scholars, and he has not opened a single course for 20 years since the founding of the country, which has made the life of these scholars extremely difficult......

Zhao Yu knew that when Kublai Khan was the king of Zongzong, the Confucian ministers and advisers did him a great favor, and he also pretended to do some measures such as "the Confucian soldiers captured in the Zhao army listened to the ransom for the people", which was nothing more than to clean up the hearts of the people, and the main eagles and dogs of his attack on the Southern Song Dynasty were all Han generals in the north. However, after Li Pu's rebellion, Kublai Khan killed the Hanchen Wang Wentong, who was related to Li Pu by marriage, and became suspicious of the Han people. With the pacification of Jiangnan, the Han Confucian scholars lost any value in the eyes of the Great Yuan Emperor.

In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan issued an edict: "The Mongols are used as the Daru Huachi, the Han people are the governors, and the Hui people are the same knowledge, and they will always be customized." In addition, the imperial historian "does not give a national surname", and the incorruptible department must also choose the Mongolian as the envoy, and the actual soil emperor is sent. So there was a strange phenomenon in the court of the Yuan Dynasty, after the southerners finished saluting, they would put their hands behind their backs. Outsiders who did not know the truth thought that the people of southern China liked to stand with their hands behind their backs as a sign of grace, but in fact they were forced to make a reverse cut and tie up to show obedience to the Mongols.

Politically, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty strictly guarded against the Han and Nan people, who constituted the majority of the population, in many aspects, and even the Han and Nan upper classes who joined the ruling group were subject to many restrictions on their power. Among the central ruling institutions of the Yuan Dynasty, the chief officials of the three departments, Zhongshu Province, which oversaw the administration of the whole country, the Privy Council, which was in charge of military affairs, and the Yushitai, which was supervised by the chief secretary of the Yuan Dynasty, were not awarded by non-Mongols. The right and left prime ministers of Zhongshu Province are the highest administrative officials of the six departments and the rate of the hundred divisions, and in the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han and the southern people were appointed to this post only Shi Tianze who was the "father of the father" Shi Tianze and the only two people who were given the Mongolian surname by Emperor Shun.

Religiously, the Mongolian aristocracy was also very different from scholars, at first they believed in polytheistic shamanism, and later converted to Lamaism, worshipping Tibetan monks as emperors, and worshipping them fervently, from whom the emperor himself was ordained. In the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor's palace was built in various roads, and the first emperor was worshipped Ba Sipa, and its scale system exceeded that of the Confucian Temple. In contrast, Confucianism was much less important in the minds of the Mongol rulers. Due to the differences in social and cultural backgrounds, they find it difficult to understand the concepts and systems of Confucianism. Kublai Khan had some interest in Confucianism in his early years, but his experience was superficial, and later he had a disagreement with Confucian ministers on financial issues, believing that the latter was ignorant of things and gradually distanced himself from him.

In terms of language, Kublai Khan ordered Phags-pa to imitate the Tibetan alphabet to create a "new Mongolian character", which was promulgated all over the world, and all official documents must be written with it, and then attached to it in the local language, which expelled a large number of scholars. In order to instill Confucianism in the emperor, the Confucian ministers of the Yuan Dynasty had to translate scriptures, history books and relevant explanations into Mongolian. The Mongolian and Semu ministers are also in the minority. In order to popularize this script, the imperial court set up a wide range of local Mongolian characters to teach. A large number of Han Chinese had to re-enter Mongolian schools in order to gain the rank of advancement.

After the unification of the Yuan Dynasty, a naked ethnic classification was implemented throughout the country. The first-class Mongolian people are the victors, the people in power, and naturally the leading bosses; the second class is the Seikhu; The third category is the "Han people", which mainly refers to the people in northern China, especially in the areas under the jurisdiction of the former Jin Dynasty, including the Han people, the Jurchen people, the Khitan people, the Goryeo people, etc., in addition to the people in most parts of Yunnan and Sichuan, which were conquered by the Mongols earlier. The fourth and last class is the "Nanren", which generally refers to the people in the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty who were finally conquered by the Yuan Dynasty, and they were contemptuously called "barbarians" by the Yuan Dynasty rulers and the first three people.

Crossing the river and demolishing the bridge is a common trick used by emperors, not to mention that Kublai Khan himself is a captive king who does not know benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith. Under this policy of political repression and ethnic discrimination, it was almost impossible for Hanchen to seek cooperation with the Mongol regime and display his talents. As soon as Jiangnan was pacified for a year, Kublai Khan used the excuse of "eliminating redundant officials in Jiangnan" to pursue the old officials of the Song Dynasty and clean out a large number of old Song Confucian officials.

This kind of disdain and national oppression of the Yuan Dynasty is, to put it bluntly, also an expression of inner weakness. The Mongols used the steppe mentality, or the idea of a primitive society, a slave society, to govern more advanced areas, only to corrupt them, reduce productivity, increase popular discontent, and destroy ideas and culture, which determined their attitude towards Confucianism from the superstructure.

These former sons of heaven, literati and writers, suddenly became pariahs, there is no golden house in the book, there is no face like jade in the book, the disciples of the saints, and the craftsmen are inferior. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, Han scholars have advanced through the imperial examinations, but suddenly it has become a dead end. The triumphant yearning of the spring breeze, with the sound of horses' hooves and the gusting wind, all turned into the cry of the end of the road.

Therefore, the "best" way out for Confucian scholars in the Yuan Dynasty was to be a priest and a teacher. The officials are vulgar, and they have to make a lot of money and seek positions, because in the Yuan Dynasty, corruption among officials was the norm, and honesty was perverted. In terms of teaching positions, there are more monks and less porridge, and the number of positions such as Xuelu, teaching, Xuezheng, and mountain chief is limited, which is more scarce than the current "academicians" of the two academies, but the treatment is extremely low. Seven products are considered sesame seeds, but what are these nine products?

Zhao Yu knew that not all the scholars who came across the sea came to Qiongzhou in desperation to meet the great luck, and there must have been loyal people who were still grateful to the Great Song Dynasty and hoped to restore the country, but no matter what, they were a hundred times stronger than those unscrupulous people who were willing to be the minions of the Mongols and gave advice to them. Moreover, he knows that the continuation of a nation is first of all the inheritance of culture, and these scholars are the inheritors and disseminators of culture, and the national Zuo of Mengyuan is less than a hundred years old because they have not been able to integrate into it.

Since Kublai Khan has no eyes, of course Zhao Yu can't turn a blind eye, if it is because of the consideration of the scholars who failed to participate in the scientific expedition this time, it is obviously unfair to those who participate. After careful consideration and discussion with the ministers, Zhao Yu decided to open Enke in March next year, whether it is a scholar who failed to be elected this time, or those who failed to catch up, can participate, in order to gather talents......