Chapter 257: The Prosperity of a Nation Depends on Its Talents

"Brother Mo! Brother Mo! You're back! ”

"Brother Mo! You're majestic now! ”

At dinner, Mo Li and Lin Guo just walked out of the room and came to the main hall to prepare for dinner, when they saw Yuan Chengzhi and Li Dingguo, two and a half children, running in shouting, looking very happy. 【Fengyun Reading Network. There was a child about the same age behind him, but he was standing timidly at the door, not knowing whether to come in or not, and his expression was a little restrained.

That child is Liu Feihu, Liu Scarlet's younger brother. Mo Li grabbed Yuan Chengzhi with one hand and Li Dingguo with the other, and said with a smile: "Good boy, you have all grown up and grown taller!" ”

At a glance, he saw Liu Feihu standing at the door solemnly, he was stunned for a moment, and soon remembered that this was Liu Scarlet's younger brother, but he rarely talked to him when he was in Heiyunzhai at that time, because of his sister Liu Scarlet's matter, Liu Feihu was somewhat in awe of Moli, because he seemed relatively strange and restrained, not as enthusiastic as Yuan Chengzhi and Li Dingguo.

Mo Li beckoned to Liu Feihu and said, "Little Hu, come, come in!" ”

Liu Feihu hurriedly trotted in and walked in, stepped forward to greet him, and said, "Xiaohu meets Mo Da...... Lord Mo. ”

Mo Li waved his hand and said, "Xiaohu, don't be so outside, just call me Brother Mo like them." ”

As he spoke, he reached out and touched Liu Feihu's head, and said with a smile: "Why are you so afraid of me?" I'm not a tiger. By the way, what about your sister? ”

"My sister may be arranging things for the winery." Liu Feihu said innocently.

"Oh. Invite her to dinner! Moli said.

Dinner was prepared heartily with wine and R, and fish.

Mo Li asked people to call Liu Scarlet and Cheng Qingzhu to eat together, which can be regarded as catching the wind and washing the dust. Of course, there are also two foreigners, Lei Luo and Fred.

Lin Guo's face was flushed, and he was always a little embarrassed, and he lowered his head and ate silently. Liang Peijun and the others were tacitly acquiesced when they saw Lin Guo's expression, and just smiled heartily with Mo Li. With this smile, Lin Guo felt even more ashamed, and his face was as if he had drunk wine, and it was seductively red.

The wine is naturally a high-quality wine brewed by the winery presided over by Liu Crimson, with a sweet and aromatic taste.

"I haven't seen you for some days, the scarlet girl's craftsmanship is getting better and better, yes, this wine is refreshing!"

I haven't seen it for more than a year, and the willow crimson is like the forest fruit, which is more and more beautiful and moist, like a ripe apple, which makes people can't help but want to pick it.

"Master Mo has won the prize!" Liu Scarlet hurriedly got up and said, "These are all processes invented by adults at the beginning, and Scarlet just followed the teachings of adults to make such a good wine." ”

"Hahaha...... Sit down and speak! Sit down and speak! Mo Li said with a smile, "I heard that our wine is famous far and wide now!" It's all thanks to you, Scarlet Girl! ”

"Thank you, my lord, for your love, Crimson really doesn't dare to take credit."

During the banquet, Moli asked about the development of Lingchuan in the past year, all aspects are good, due to the planting of a large number of miscellaneous grains, to solve the survival problem of many victims, so that the population of Lingchuan has increased greatly, Wei Hong also under Moli's instructions, recruited more than 30,000 soldiers, half of whom followed Cheng Qingzhu south, at this time is stationed in Changsha. The other half of the men and horses were stationed in Lingchuan City under the continued leadership of Wei Hong.

Of course, these soldiers are unstaffed, belong to the local security forces of Lingchuan, and do not receive the imperial salary, which is equivalent to Moli's private army.

Since Cheng Qingzhu led his troops to Liaodong last year, he was ordered to stay in Hequ, continue to pursue Wang Jiayin and other rebels, and appease the local people and restore people's livelihood. Not long after, Wang Jiayin and other rebels left Shanxi and went south to Henan, and there were no thieves to suppress in Hequ.

After several months of development and training, Cheng Qingzhu's soldiers and horses have also grown from the original 3,000 to 12,000, plus more than 10,000 people in Lingchuan, Cheng Qingzhu brought a total of 25,000 men and horses this time, and the strength of the new Liao army has been greatly improved.

Due to the fact that after the land reform in Lingchuan, a large number of coarse grains were planted, and Lingchuan produced a lot of grain, which fed many people and brought huge economic benefits. The government-run farms, wineries, and cement factories in Lingchuan have huge benefits.

While bringing huge financial support to the new Liao army, the scientific research projects of Lei Luo and others have also become increasingly mature, and a large number of new flintlock pistols have been developed to equip the troops. On this trip south, Lei Luo also carried 30,000 flintlock guns, 2,000 rockets, tens of thousands of grenades and mines, and produced dozens of new artillery.

After equipping the army with these advanced weapons, the strength of the new Liao Army will be greatly enhanced and developed, and it will truly be replaced by a shotgun.

Lei Luo's scientific research team has also grown a lot, from the original dozens of people to more than 300 now, and its strength has increased significantly.

After learning about these things, Mo Li was quite happy. In future wars, what will be most lacking is talent, all kinds of talent, and the most indispensable thing is soldiers. Because in this era, as long as you have enough food, you can recruit enough soldiers, and for a bite to eat, there are a lot of people who will work for you.

But talent is different, the overall level of education in this era is backward, the vast majority of people have no chance to receive any education in their lives, more people only know to face the loess with their backs to the sky, hard work from the soil to eat.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, the talented scholars who were trained often only knew how to make a beautiful Bagu Wen, and they were an idiot for the knowledge of science and technology.

After recovering Changsha, Mo Li immediately ordered someone to post a recruitment list and recruit a large number of talents to serve.

Only Chu is talented, and Yu Si is prosperous. This is the signature couplet of Changsha Yuelu Academy, which is hung at the gate. Of course, this is a couplet written by later generations, and it has not yet appeared in Yuelu Academy at this time. However, it can also be seen from the history of thousands of years that Chu is indeed full of talents, and the earth spirit is outstanding, and what is written in this couplet is not arrogant.

Mo Li had heard of this, so soon after the recovery of Changsha, he personally led his staff to climb Yuelu Mountain, planning to go to the countryside to work on the spot to recruit talents.

Mount Yuelu has been a famous cultural mountain since ancient times. The Western Jin Dynasty used to be the place of Taoist activities, and there were Wanshou Palace, Chongzhen Temple, etc.

In the first four years (268 years) of Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty, Lushan Temple was founded, which is still well preserved.

Then, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhixuan and other two monks built a school in Yuelu Mountain, which was the early monk school.

In the ninth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (976 AD), Zhu D, the Taishou of Tanzhou, formally established the Yuelu Academy on the site of the original monk's school, that is, near Baohuang D at the foot of Yuelu Mountain.

During the Northern Song Dynasty (1008-1017), Yuelu Academy entered the heyday of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1015 AD), Song Zhenzong personally summoned the mountain chief Zhou Shi, praised the Zhou style Xingxue, and personally wrote the plaque of "Yuelu Academy". So far, the carved stone of the Ming Dynasty "Yuelu Academy" in the academy is the handwriting of Song Zhenzong in that year.

Under Zhou Shi's leadership, Yuelu Academy has greatly developed in terms of the number of students and the size of the academy, and has become one of the four major academies in the world. There are many theories about the "Four Great Academies", but only Yuelu is recommended by all families, reflecting the admiration of ancient scholars for Yuelu.

At the turn of the two Song Dynasty, Yuelu Academy was looted by war, and in the first year of Gandao (1165), Hunan pacified Liu Heng of Zhitan Prefecture to rebuild Yuelu Academy. He also hired the famous physicist Bishop Zhang Yan to Bishop Yuelu, which further strengthened the educational and academic status of Yuelu Academy in the Southern Song Dynasty.

During the period of Bishop Zhang Yan, with the guiding ideology of opposing the study of the imperial examination and cultivating talents who preach and help the people, he cultivated a group of outstanding students such as Wu Lie, Zhao Fang, You Jiuyan, Chen Qi and other talents in the world.

In the third year of the main road (1167 AD), Zhu Xi came to visit, discussed with Zhang Yan, and held the famous "Zhu Zhang Hui Lecture" in history. There was an endless stream of people who came to listen to the lecture, and the people of the time described "the crowd of horses and horses for a while, and the water in the drinking pond dried up immediately". This lecture also promoted the development of Song Dynasty Acting and ancient Chinese philosophy, so it is not only Changsha, but also a grand event in the history of ancient Chinese culture.

After Zhu Zhanghui spoke, the reputation of Yuelu Academy spread even more far-reaching, and it once again entered a prosperous period.

Since then, Yuelu Academy has been repeatedly destroyed by war, but it has been rebuilt and prosperous several times, and has always led the way in China's cultural history.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang pursued the policy of "governing the country with education first, and education based on schools". Emphasis was placed on the revival of local government schools, but not on seowon education. The national academy is decadent, and the Yuelu Academy has been silent for more than a hundred years. It was not until the Chenghua (1465-1487) period that the seowon began to gradually recover.

After several generations of hard work, Yuelu Academy was finally restored to its original appearance and developed, but the teaching of the academy has always been based on Zhu Cheng science.

In the second year of Zhengde, Wang Shouren, a generation of spiritual masters, came to Yuelu to give lectures. Wang Shouren and his disciples founded the school of mind in Yuelu Academy.

Although the study of mind still belongs to the category of idealism, it advocates the unity of knowledge and action, which is much more useful than Zhu Chengli's advocacy of 'preserving heavenly principles, destroying human desires, and integrating heaven and man'.

Wang Shouren's psychology does not advocate empty talk, but advocates self-reflection, practice, and the unity of knowledge and action. From practice, we are looking for the inner truth and law of things, and after understanding the truth, we must also "unite knowledge and action".

However, now the Shanchang paradigm of Yuelu Academy believes in Zhu Cheng's science, and has been at the helm of Yuelu Academy for decades, and has been committed to eliminating the influence of psychology, advocating the obedience of science, and pursuing the unity of heaven and man.

Mo Li is also educated, and he can only smile bitterly at the popularity of Zhu Cheng's science in this era.

For example, if there is chaos today, hundreds of millions of people have no food and clothing, they are displaced, the country is in danger, and foreign races are eyeing each other.

Even if you really make heaven and man one, what you pursue is only your own cultivation, and you have become a saint, that is your own business, does it have a half-dime relationship with ordinary billions of people? Can it save the people from the scourge of swords?

In these troubled times, science cannot save ordinary people, only through continuous exploration and discovery of the law of change of things, the development of science, and the liberation of productive forces, can we make the country strong, resist the enemy from the outside, and secure the people from the inside.

Therefore, what Moli needs is not those "talents" in Yuelu Academy who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, pursue self-cultivation, but do not know how to govern the country and secure the country.

Nowadays, people who are a little famous almost all have an inextricable relationship with the Donglin Party, such a person, even if he is indeed a rare talent in some fields, Mo Li does not dare to use it. Because, they lack the backbone that a nation should have.

Think about the time of the death of the Ming Dynasty, those so-called patriots, court dignitaries, and leaders of the Donglin Party, such as Qian Qianyi and others, are not the Manchu Iron Cavalry who immediately kneel and lick as soon as they arrive, and it makes people feel chilling and disgusting when they think about it.

What Moli wants is a pragmatic talent who can work hard to save the country. Such a talent cannot be said to be absent from the Ming Dynasty, but it is even more difficult to find a virgin than a virgin in the 21st century......