Chapter 256: Harvesting the hearts of the people
In the end, a hundred counties were selected, and each county put ten to one Confucian scholar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Among them, Yunnan and Guizhou occupy more than 300, Sichuan, Liangguang and other places also account for more than 200, Qin, Jin, and Liaodong account for more than 100, and there are also places in barren areas in other provinces, such as Huguang, Yunyangfu, Nanjiang, and western Zhejiang.
Not only these Confucian scholars, but also their families had to be driven to these poor rural areas, and all the original houses were confiscated, and these Confucian scholars had to learn to fend for themselves in the penal colonies.
Of course, the imperial court will also give a certain salary, but this is related to whether you are diligent in teaching, if you only know how to sigh and sigh, chanting the wind and making the moon, then you can only eat porridge and even starve to death directly with the whole family, if you work hard to teach, and even teach well, there will be several times more than the county magistrate.
Moreover, in order to encourage these exiled Confucian scholars to actively devote themselves to the education of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao gave an extra favor, allowing someone to return to his hometown if he could educate a son locally.
If you can educate a jinshi, you can be awarded an official position of no less than seven grades, and if you cultivate a champion list, you can even be directly transferred to Beijing.
Of course, since the purpose is still to popularize education rather than to pursue elites, teaching 20 children or 10 Xiucai is the same as a juzi, 50 children or 30 Xiucai is the same reward as a jinshi, and 100 children or 50 Xiucai is the same as the top of the list.
After many years, these Confucian scholars will find that in the underdeveloped areas where only one or two jinshi can be produced every year or even several years, the latter standard is less difficult than the former.
Wang Siren is famous for a long time in Shaoxing, so Li Mingrui also met him in person, although the meeting between the two was not friendly, but Li Mingrui was still very kind and told him that the place where he was going to teach was Kuizhou Mansion, and he was going to Taiping County, Kuizhou Prefecture, to be a teacher.
Taiping Prefecture belongs to Suiding Prefecture, and its total population is less than a town in the south of the Yangtze River, and most of them are Tujia people.
Wang Siren sighed, he felt that he was going to die in a foreign country, and he asked the officers and soldiers who were called escorts to let him go to Shanyin to bid farewell to his ancestors before setting off for the mountains of eastern Sichuan.
Under Li Mingrui's care, the officers and soldiers who escorted him agreed to his request, and Wang Siren did not enter the city when he arrived in Shanyin County, but held a handful of soil outside the city, put it in a purse, and then raised his hand and said, "Put it in the flail." ”
The officers and soldiers put him in a good flail, but the flail was not heavy, and a literati like Wang Siren couldn't stand the heavy flail.
After crossing the Yangtze River, crossing the Jingchu Plain in an ox cart, and then entering the territory of Xiangxi, Wang Siren's flail was released, and the reason why he no longer wore the flail was because he had to walk on all fours like an ape.
Wang Siren walked such a difficult journey, it took almost half a month to enter the depths of the mountains in eastern Sichuan, looking at the mountains and green forests, tired, but also suddenly rose a sense of joy from now on in seclusion in the mountains and from now on to study with peace of mind.
Although Wang Siren was exiled, he is famous all over the world, and the magistrate from Bagong is naturally welcome.
But when he entered the county seat, he found that in the county town made of stones, in addition to a dozen chicken feather shops, it was just a county government and it was still a look, but it was also very decaying, and it was just a blue brick wall, and most of the local people spoke a dialect that Wang Siren couldn't understand at all, and now only the county order and a few elders could talk to him.
Chen Jiru and other great Confucians also encountered such a problem, and they only understood at this time why His Majesty spared his life, because staying in this place where birds don't is more uncomfortable than dying, not to mention teaching and educating people, you can't communicate with the locals, and loneliness is the biggest enemy.
As a result, some Confucian scholars began to get sick not long after, and in this poor and remote country, there was naturally no cure, and some died of depression.
And some Confucian scholars began to grit their teeth and put down their bodies to get close to the locals, visiting each house, persuading the local people to send their children to study, and in February and March, they also integrated into the local area, and when the museum opened for teaching, there were more than a dozen children enrolled in school.
In this way, among the cliffs, under the canopy of the big trees, in the most mysterious area of the Ming Dynasty, there was finally the sound of Lang reading aloud.
Popularizing education and breaking the monopoly of scholars and doctors on knowledge can allow more poor families to participate in the construction of society, make the whole society more active, and at the same time, at the same time, it can also assimilate the ethnic minorities in these places through the export of culture, and it will naturally be much easier to change the land and return to the river in the future.
However,This is just the beginning.,The process of implementing sinicization is a long-term process.。
Zhu Youxiao did not want to be in this world, and after hundreds of years, the Chinese-speaking world had been surrounded by the English-speaking world.
For Wang Siren and other pedantic but non-reactionary celebrities, Zhu Youxiao can not kill them, and use their knowledge to make some contributions to the Ming Dynasty, but for Chen Mingxia, Fang Dayou, Mao Bijiang and others who acted as planners and instigators in this parade, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to let them go easily.
In addition, hateful officials who violate or even secretly contradict and restrain their own emperor's will, but are also domineering outside, such as Wang Wenkui, the governor of Yingtian, will naturally be punished with severe punishments, otherwise it will not be enough to deter Jiangnan officialdom, and it will be difficult for royal capital to enter the Jiangnan market.
Moreover, the head of the Dongchang stall also launched a strict interrogation of Chen Mingxia and other ill-intentioned scholars and Wang Wenkui and other lawless officials, forcing them to confess more people, regardless of whether the people they confessed were true or false, according to Zhu Youxiao's intention, that is, to eradicate all the reactionary forces that might exist.
For a time, the people of Dongchang were not able to rest for a moment because of the end of the parade, and the gentry who thought they were lucky to have escaped were arrested and put in prison, and then continued to torture, and a batch of bites were climbed, until the end of Zhu Youxiao's sacrifice to the filial piety tomb, the arrest was announced.
As a result, almost all of the literati groups in Jiangnan were arrested and dealt a devastating blow, most of them were degraded and exiled to promote education in underdeveloped areas, and a few of the most heinous criminals were directly executed.
And the first evils such as Wang Wenkui, Chen Mingxia, etc., Zhu Youxiao wanted to use polarity in these places when sacrificing filial piety, so as to respect the spirit of Emperor Taizu Gao.
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The arrest and exile of a large number of gentry did not cause much damage to the economy of the Jiangnan region.
After suppressing the demonstrations, Zhu Youxiao issued an order to the governor of Yingtian, ordering the governor to not only show mercy to the people, but also to properly compensate the losses of the major shops and workshops in Jiangnan, after all, these businesses are the basis for maintaining the livelihood of the people in Jiangnan.
Zhu Youxiao can crack down on the industries of the big landlords and gentry, but these middle- and lower-scale industries must be protected.
The amount of compensation is tentatively set at 1 million silver dollars, but all commercial shops registered in the household department or the household department in Nanjing can sign the compensation agreement with the household department in Nanjing with the registration license, and the compensation amount and compensation ratio vary according to the scale of the industry and the type of business.
The proportion of nature that is beneficial to the people and the country is high, the proportion of nature that is harmless and unhelpful is low, and the proportion of nature that is harmful and unhelpful is even lower.
For example, if an ironware workshop with an industrial scale of 10,000 silver dollars is registered as a legal commercial household in the household department of the imperial court, it can receive 10% compensation, that is, 1,000 silver dollars, and if it is a gambling house of the same size, it can only get 100 silver dollars.