Chapter 331: A Very Valuable Six Arts Student
Since Wang Ning'an proposed to support the rebuilding of the Bohai Kingdom, this country that has been destroyed for more than 100 years has re-entered everyone's eyes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Many people only know the name of the Bohai country, but fortunately, there are many kinds of information in the capital, and many documents have been turned out from the pile of old papers, and after a little tidying, everyone will find that this Bohai country is really amazing, just the eastern half of the Liao country, across the Yalu River, is Goryeo.
In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian successively sent four times, each time with hundreds of thousands, more than 200,000 troops, lost troops and lost generals, and finally pacified Liaodong, established Kuhan Prefecture, and later upgraded to Bohai State, officially becoming one of the vassals of the Tang Dynasty.
With the rise of the Khitan, the Bohai State was broken by Liao Taizu, and the Bohai homeland became the Dongdan State subordinate to the Liao State, and later the Dongdan Kingdom also perished, and the entire Bohai State was incorporated into the territory of the Great Liao.
Seeing this, people will inevitably think that if the Bohai State still exists, there will be a strong enemy to the east of the Liao State, and the pressure on the Great Song Dynasty will be much less.
During the Tang Dynasty, the trade between the Bohai Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty was very dense, and the Dengzhou generation relied on the trade with the Bohai Kingdom to prosper.
Rebuilding the Bohai State and taking the sea route to trade will not only make profits, but also divide the Liao State and pave the way for the capture of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
I have to say, this is a wonderful move.
Wang Ning'an's idea was collectively resisted by the ministers in the court, but it was very popular among the people, many scholars in Beijing, bureaucrats and officials from various yamen, when they got together, they always liked to chat, and the vast majority of people had the idea of recovering Yanyun, supporting the Bohai State, and officially restoring Yanyun as the first step.
More and more people can't help but sigh, "Lord Wang is young and dedicated to seeking the country, but all the princes in the country are all rat guts, and they are not enough to plan!" ā
"People have wives and sons, high-ranking officials are generous, who is willing to take risks! If you lose, you'll have nothing left! ā
Someone else complained: "When the princes of the dynasty are full of men who don't know that hungry men are hungry, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, what a good place, if you take it back, at least add sixteen prefects, hundreds of prefects, maybe we can still get one!" ā
"Yes, yes, this cold yamen in the capital is really boring, messing around, I can't even afford to hire a servant, I have to resign and not do it, even if I go to the Royal Bank, I can be a counselor!"
When the Royal Bank was mentioned, many people became interested and the discussion became more and more lively.
In fact, Wang Ningan encountered a monolith in the court, and there were voices against him everywhere, that is, he did not look down, tossed for so many years, did so many things, offended many people, but also gained a lot of people's hearts.
Take Fan Zhongyan's entry into Beijing this time, he sent the students of the Six Arts to take the exam.
The five years of Huangyou is the year of the imperial examination every four years, which is different from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is once every four years in the Song Dynasty, and the Six Arts School was also founded for six or seven years, and a large number of outstanding students have been collected, and they want to show their skills in the imperial examination.
However, they soon found that the current science field is not conducive to the students of the six arts, in the early Song Dynasty, following the example of the Tang Dynasty, with poetry as the main assessment content, resulting in the Xikun style, this kind of poetry pursues gorgeous rhetoric, neat battles, and is very empty. At this time, the failure of Xikun style can be judged from one point, that is, people in later generations can memorize a few Song poems, but few people can recite Song poems.
The person who reversed this absurdity was Fan Zhongyan!
In addition to setting up official schools in the local area, Lao Fan also reformed the content of the imperial examination, reducing the poetry to the second level, and the main content of the assessment became a policy theory.
He hoped that through his strategy, he would select truly knowledgeable young people to act as reform warriors and implement the Qingli New Deal.
But with Lao Fan being driven out of the imperial court, the imperial examination reform was abandoned halfway.
Although strategy has replaced poetry, the empty and gorgeous style still dominates the scientific field, and the popular style today is Taixue style.
What is Taixue Style?
It's very troublesome to say, to use an analogy, many experts in later generations must be no stranger, in order to pretend to be profound, so to make a mystery, the very simple truth has to be packaged with bells and whistles, and make a lot of concepts, formulas, definitions, but people are confused...... In short, just don't talk to people!
The experts are all from the university, and there are a little more "too scholarly" than experts, which is obviously more excessive, and the overall characteristic of too academic is that it is sinister and difficult, and they have to get some words that they can't understand, and they can't understand words, so as to show that they are knowledgeable and extraordinary......
Lao Fan was very sad to see that his reform had gone astray, Ouyang Xiu gave a suggestion to the students of the Six Arts, wait for another four years for the time being, and the next imperial court will inevitably reform, he has already received news from Zhao Zhen that the emperor is already very disgusted with the Taixue style.
In this way, the students of the six arts promised to wait four years.
But the problem is that living in the capital is like spending money like running water, and it is okay for wealthy families to say, and some families with slightly worse conditions cannot be maintained.
At this time, the Royal Bank gained a firm foothold and wanted to expand its business, and Wang Ningan had already brought a group of students from the Six Arts School before.
Wang Ningan arranged a total of three sessions, the first two were written exams, one was basic arithmetic, one was an introduction to accounting, and then the third was an interview.
A bank recruits, and the big guy doesn't take it seriously.
But the next news blew everyone up!
There are a total of 43 people who have passed the bank assessment, of which 40 are from the Six Arts School, which is nothing, the problem is that the top three are directly hired as managers of the Royal Bank, with an annual salary of 5,000 yuan!
What is this concept?
Let's pack adults all year round, all kinds of grain, cloth, seasonings, bacon, in short, are converted into money, equivalent to 3,000 yuan!
God pity!
Bao Zheng has been filial piety at home for ten years, and has been an official in the court for more than ten years...... Of course, these 3,000 pieces are already very rich, and Mr. Bao still feels guilty when he holds it! After all, the poorest government in the Great Song Dynasty has an annual tax of 3,000 yuan!
Everyone knows that the Song Dynasty's Yulu was very rich, and the people of the Six Arts School actually got more generous remuneration than officials as soon as they worked, what is going on?
Is it true that someone gives and receives it privately to the detriment of the public and private interests?
For a while, the crowd was angry, and the big guy pointed the finger at Wang Ning'an, saying that he was kind to the doorman and had bad intentions, and he was a person who took the royal money to raise the six arts.
This matter naturally went to Zhao Zhen, and His Majesty the Emperor was also frightened, how could he open such a high salary, it really didn't make sense!
As a last resort, Wang Ningan was called to the palace.
"Wang Qing, you explain to me, why do your freshmen earn more than my prime minister? What's going on? ā
Wang Ningan spread his hands, and he had no choice.
With the establishment of the Royal Bank, there is a shortage of more than 10,000 financial talents in Beijing!
Among them, there are more than 3,000 high-end talents who are proficient in arithmetic, and there are only more than 4,000 people who can add up to all the bookkeepers in Bianjing, and more than eighty percent of them are traditional bookkeepers.
Many big businessmen in the capital have dealt with complex business problems, and have to spend huge sums of money to poach talents in Pingxian County, and someone in Pingxian County has opened an account office to 1,000 yuan, and those who have done it in Qianzhuang have directly started with 3,000 yuan.
Those cultivated by the Six Arts Academy, some people have asked for 10,000 yuan, but there is still no market. As a result, many people had to send houses, provide servants, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, all kinds of packages, and promised dividends!
In this way, a financial and business talent from the Six Arts Academy can earn almost 30,000 yuan a year, which is more than the ruling dynasty of the dynasty!
"Your Majesty, the minister will open 5,000 yuan, which is already very low, these little rabbit cubs have the heart to take the imperial examination, and they are not willing to work for ordinary businessmen, otherwise, even if it is 350,000 yuan, someone is willing to give it, don't believe it, you go and ask Uncle Guo?"
Don't really say it, Zhao Zhen didn't believe Wang Ning'an's foolishness, and directly brought Cao Tong over, and after asking, Cao Tong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, others don't say it, Lord Wang has a few students, they work for the ministers, and the ministers are willing to give them 100,000 yuan a year!" ā
Zhao Zhen frowned, almost roaring: "Jing Xiu, according to what you said, aren't these people worth thousands of times more than the scholars of the ten-year cold window?" ā
Cao Tong obviously felt the anger of his brother-in-law, but he couldn't deceive the king, so he had to say honestly: "Your Majesty, don't hide it, even if the hard-working sour Confucians give money to the ministers, the ministers don't dare to use them, these people are not enough to succeed and more than to lose......"
"Humph!"
Zhao Zhen said angrily: "I don't believe it, I don't believe it at all!" ā
Wang Ningan didn't care, "Real gold is not afraid of fire, if Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can choose a day to assess, and you will know if you try it." ā