After inspecting Guozijian and martial arts, Wang Yan came to the Ministry of Engineering School again, which is also something that has just been made this year.

Wang Yan said that the four people are the stone pillars of the country, and many people also agree with his statement, with the rise of various workshops in society, the status of craftsmen has indeed risen, but it is still not the moment to shake the fixed mind.

Wang Yan wants to set up this Ministry of Engineering School, and it can be said that he has encountered the opposition of many people, including most of the people around him.

In the eyes of the vast majority of scholars, craftsmen have always been a cheap profession.

Wang Yan, Gu Yanwu and others walked through the school, and in a room, there was a huge model, which was the hydraulic stamping machine made by a folk craftsman not long ago.

"Your Highness, although you can get a large number of masters by opening this school, the lower officials think that there are still some gains that outweigh the losses!" Gu Yanwu stood beside Wang Yan and said: "Now among the scholars, the controversy between mind and science, and the controversy between the people-oriented faction and the imperial faction has caused turmoil in the government and the opposition. Since His Royal Highness asked Tai Chong not to make radical remarks in the Guozijian, why did he still set up this Ministry of Engineering School and give Shilin a handle? ”

Wang Yan already had an idea in his heart, he muttered: "The implementation of the theory of mind and the people-oriented theory in the Guozijian has shaken the foundation of science, they have fought back fiercely, and if they insist on continuing to promote it strongly, it will definitely cause greater turmoil, so they will recycle it and make them feel that the situation is not urgent." ”

Wang Yan paused, and then said with a smile: "Now that the ideological confrontation is head-to-head, since it has encountered a bottleneck and strong resistance, then Gu will find another way, this engineering is despised by them, thinking that it is just a strange skill, so they will definitely not pay too much attention to it." After this group of students completes their studies, they will be assigned to the Ministry of Industry as officials, or put them in the Chamber of Commerce, so that they can influence social evaluation, break through from the side, and dig the corners of traditional science. ”

Gu Yanwu listened to Wang Yan's words, and couldn't help but admire Wang Yan a little, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is worthy of being a figure who leads troops to fight, this hand avoids the real and attacks the false, and attacks in a roundabout way, which is really unguardable.

"Your Highness, this strategy is really good!" Gu Yanwu couldn't help but praise: "Ten years of cold window, you may not be able to enter the court as an official and become a person, but you can study for a few years in this engineering study, not to mention being a high-ranking official, at least you will not have to worry about eating and drinking in the future, which can indeed drive some people to change their views on craftsmen." ”

Wang Yan nodded, "This is exactly one of Gu's intentions, now we are facing not only political enemies, but also contradictions with the people. Lone also did this to give the people one more way to rise. "The imperial examination is a great system invented in China, which enables the class to move without being completely solidified, and the poor can have a channel to rise.

Successive dynasties were also able to attract outstanding talents to the ruling class through the imperial examinations, so as to prevent these talents from remaining at the bottom and rebelling against the dynasty.

Generally speaking, if the talents are above the court, the dynasty will be stable, and the talents are in the countryside, and the dynasty will basically be over.

However, Wang Yan feels that it is not enough to take a path to the imperial examination, especially now that he is in an era of change unseen in a thousand years, and he must build a few more upward roads from the bottom in order to alleviate the contradictions in society.

In the Tang Dynasty, a scholar who took the entrance examination several times, but was named Sun Shan, found that the road to the imperial examination was not passable, and wrote a poem "Fu Ju after the first step" with anger, "Wait until September 8 in autumn, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor. Soon after he returned, this person who mentioned poetry withdrew the banner and created a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

In later generations, a Xiucai who failed to succeed in many attempts, after losing the imperial examination, hated Confucius even more, and started to worship God, stirring up the storm for more than ten years.

If the whole society is not just an upward channel, and the status of craftsmen and merchants is also improved, then the imperial examination will not be successful, and the person who wrote poetry may continue to go back to selling salt.

At a time when the commodity economy is beginning to develop and the mind is in turmoil, Wang Yan must find a way to give the people more upward channels and let people have a variety of choices, otherwise the whole society will be full of contradictions.

Although there seems to be someone behind the Jinhua rebellion, the fundamental reason is that the people and Shilin have begun to be dissatisfied with Wang Yan, and only when they are dissatisfied will they be instigated.

Gu Yanwu listened to Wang Yan's words and felt that it was very reasonable: "If there is only one way to take the imperial examination, now the imperial court is obviously biased towards the scholars of the heart, and the scholars who were originally influenced by the acceptance of the school will have a greatly reduced chance of winning the examination." They studied hard for more than ten years, and finally they couldn't get fame, so they naturally resented His Royal Highness and the imperial court, and if there was one more way for them to go, then they would not participate in the rebellion in Jinhua. ”

The problems faced by the Ming Dynasty as a whole were the problems brought about by its own social transformation and the various problems existing in the society itself.

For example, if the status of a businessman is not high, then the businessman must not continue to invest in business, but to buy land, turn himself into a landlord, and then train his children to take the imperial examination, and then turn himself into a gentry and become a man of men.

Because of the high status of the gentry, the whole society only has the ascending channel of the gentry, so the people below must only climb up through this channel, and the merchant makes money to sell the land, and the capital is limited to the land, the commerce of the whole society cannot be transformed, and capitalism cannot appear.

If the status of the businessman is enough, to become a successful businessman, that is, the upper class of society, then the businessman makes money There is no need to turn himself into a gentry, and the liquidity becomes more, and the era of capital has arrived.

The same principle applies to people at other levels, and people in the whole society are trying to become the same and become gentry, so the whole society cannot be transformed, and it will always be a unitized society.

In order to break down this unitary society, it is necessary to elevate the status of merchants, craftsmen, and soldiers, so that they can be diversified from units.

It shows that the society of the DPRK is changing, because he has the idea of breaking the unit society, and thinkers like Li Zhen have begun to encourage the improvement of the status of merchants and encourage commerce.

The more developed the society, the more avenues it had to rise, and the Ming Dynasty was now transforming from a traditional small-scale peasant society to a commodity economy society and to a capitalist society.

In this process of transformation, the old and new forces alternate, and there are various complex problems, and Wang Yan's mission is to complete this transformation.

Wang Yan stood in the room outside the press for a while, and then led Gu Yanwu to the area about firearms teaching.