Shi Bufan left the Taiji Palace quite helplessly, and this time he was also quite helpless. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis time, the imperial court can't come up with too much money to teach those soldiers, especially to supplement the culture of the soldiers, so it is also faced with insufficient funds. At present, Datang's funds are obviously very insufficient, don't look at Shi Bufan, who has brought a lot of funds, and Datang is currently in ruins, and how much financial revenue is going to be swallowed up. Anyway, that's it, the court can't squeeze out the money. Even Fang Xuanling, the supreme spokesman of the Shandong Shi clan, was puzzled and pulled behind him, and even when the time came, it was possible for him to borrow the power of the imperial court to secretly card a card. That's when it's embarrassing and you can't stop.

Shi Bufan didn't have any solution to this, on the one hand, he had to fight with Fang Xuanling, a Shandong scholar, to fight each other, to fight in compromise, and to compromise in struggle. Shi Bufan knew that he couldn't directly stimulate the Shandong Shi clan too much again, and it would be inappropriate for Shi Bufan to directly face the Shandong Shi clan in this regard. If he really fell out with Fang Xuanling, then I'm afraid that Li Shimin, the emperor, will also have a relationship with the mud. Although in the long run the Shandong scholars were enemies of the emperor, in the short term they were also "allies". This is also the peculiarity of politics, although it is an enemy in the long run, it may not be impossible to cooperate in the short term. Strategically hostile, but tactically it is not necessarily impossible to cooperate for the sake of the same interests. Li Shimin is still inseparable from the support of the scholars for the time being, so he has to stabilize his position by marrying with those big families such as the scholars.

Although Shi Bufan represents the interests of the Hanmen Shu clan and is Li Shimin's ally in the long run, in the short term, Li Shimin has to sacrifice the Hanmen to a certain extent to satisfy the Shi clan.

Shi Bufan came to this Mingli Hall again to be in charge of lecturing, and this Mingli Hall has now begun to expand. Shi Bufan got a lot of money from those newspapers and various advertising revenues, and expanded the scope of Minglitang, and the area was basically expanding every day. Minglitang is responsible for educating the poor students near Chang'an, of course, the selection is still relatively strict, and there will be no major problems.

"I've seen the mountain chief!" Li Yifu and Princess Runan said together.

This Mingli Hall is actually equivalent to the extraordinary "private learning", the ancient official and private schools complement each other, and they all have their own peaks, and even Confucius is one of the earliest private schools. The ideological prosperity of the Spring and Autumn Period is also related to the prosperity of private learning, so the imperial court will not particularly reject private learning, and the people will not think that it is impossible because it is private learning. This is just the opposite of later generations, the status of private schools in later generations is low, the quality of students is not very good, and even cannot absorb too many famous teachers. Even if you barely spend money, you can't attract real top scholars, not to mention the cost.

In ancient times, private schools were at their peak, and no one would say anything when they ran private schools, and it was normal for someone in the government to run private schools.

"Princess, Li Yifu, how have you learned?" Shi Bufan asked.

"Mountain Chief, we have a deep understanding!" Li Yifu said.

"Okay, let's go inside!" Shi Bufan said.

After Shi Bufan walked in, Li Yifu first asked, "Mountain Chief, do you have anything to worry about?" ”

"Oh? Yes, there is a little! Shi Bufan said.

"Chief, can you tell me?" Li Yifu asked.

Shi Bufan thought of this Li Yifu was originally a big traitor in history, although Shi Bufan didn't believe that there were any real loyal and traitorous ministers in this world, only politicians and politicians, but since he could get mixed up to that point, he should also have some ability.

"Princess, you can go and manage the students first!" Shi Bufan said.

Princess Runan looked at Shi Bufan, showing a slightly dissatisfied look, obviously very dissatisfied with Shi Bufan so far away from her. Of course, Princess Runan knew that Shi Bufan deliberately supported her, if she couldn't even see this, then I am afraid that the palace would be in vain for so many years. In the eyes of Princess Runan, Shi Bufan didn't trust her, which made her very depressed.

"Okay, Mountain Chief!" Princess Runan left.

Although Princess Runan was not satisfied, she could only leave.

"Yifu, today I encountered something in the imperial court, and I want to solve a matter called the paradox of the strong army. ……”

Shi Bufan explained to Li Yifu the paradox of a strong army, and mentioned that it is necessary to supplement the culture of soldiers, so that soldiers can understand who they are fighting for and what they are fighting for, which is the real means to solve the paradox of strengthening the army. However, there must be a lot of resistance to this problem, because the first to bear the brunt is the Shandong Shi clan, who is trying every means to prevent the spread of culture. The Shandong scholars are at the vanguard of stopping the spread of culture, and they will certainly do so by various means. There is another problem, that is, the imperial court does not have money, and there is not enough wealth to allow the soldiers of the army to replenish their culture in time, which is also a problem.

"Mountain chief, in fact, it is relatively simple to solve this matter." Li Yifu said with a smile.

"Oh? What can you do? Shi Bufan asked.

Shi Bufan feels that this is just a future traitor who is less than ten years old, is there really any good way?

"Chief, I once heard my father mention something. That is, the officials at the bottom often give orders from above, but they have the choice to carry them out at the bottom. Many court policies are out of shape at the grassroots level, and of course, there are many times before they go up and down, there will be people who report the news, and then let the officials prepare. This kind of deception is not concealment. Li Yifu said.

"Bullying the superiors and not hiding it, oh, I see, you mean to let us do it ourselves down there without the approval of the superiors?" Shi Bufan asked.

This kind of method of deception and not concealing it, don't think that it is only available in later generations, and there are definitely more in ancient times. Whatever people in later generations held banners to welcome the central secret visit team to come to make an unannounced visit, and what came up to make a temporary show when they came to inspect, in fact, they were all deceived and not concealed. Don't the officials above know? Yes, they know, but what can they do? Everyone has come all the way like this, and can you even hold those grassroots officials accountable?

This is also the principle that the law does not blame the public, anyway, this one says that he is a crime, and that cannot be achieved. So this kind of side-kicking thing is a lot of headaches. There are policies and countermeasures, not to mention that there is no legislation, even if there is legislation, there are still a lot of loopholes. In the West, there are simply too many such lawsuits.

The meaning of this Li Yifu is actually to let them do it themselves, so that they can completely exploit loopholes without the approval of their superiors. Anyway, what those scholars can often control is the center, and the scholars can control the center, but they can't control the grassroots. The actual executive power at the grassroots level is often still in the hands of ordinary poor officials, which is also the truth of the inferior non-gentry.

The scholar clan does not look at each family as very big, but the big family does not mean that everyone can come out to be officials, even the big family cannot all be officials, a big family is also a big company, each has its own work, has its own division of labor. In particular, the economic base of the scholars depended on the agricultural estate economy, and they had to maintain the economic base first. There are also people who need to maintain their academic status. What's more, being an official is not something that everyone is good at, even in the noble clan, not everyone has the potential to be an official and has the potential to engage in politics.

In this way, there are still quite few people who actually come out to be officials, and they cannot effectively control the official positions in the whole country. The main method of controlling the state apparatus was to control the central government, but it could not be extended to the grassroots level. They often only control to the state assassin level, and even the state assassin history level cannot be completely controlled.

"This is a solution, I almost forgot the common problem of the scholars who value the central government and despise the localities. It's just that yo ah has the power to execute, then we can gradually empty them up. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, more than eighty percent of the central officials and scholars accounted for it, but almost all of them fell at the local level. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the scholars had lost control of the grassroots, which was another reason for the disintegration of the Tang Dynasty. The disintegration of the Tang Dynasty was composed of many reasons, mixed with too many factors. Shi Bufan thought.

"But how can we reach into the army?" Shi Bufan asked.

Li Yifu replied very directly: "Master, have you forgotten that the biggest feature of the government military system is that the father dies and the son succeeds?" Since we can't take the people who are in the army, then we can take their offspring. ”

"Oh? I see, haha, sure enough. Shi Bufan thought.

The government military system, a system that integrates soldiers and peasants, has a characteristic, that is, they are soldiers for generations, and when the father dies, the son must go up. This ensures that there are enough soldiers, which is very supportive in the feudal period, and the government even supports this method of serving as soldiers for generations to ensure that there are enough soldiers. This is also the case with the government military system and the later Ming Dynasty's guard system.

"Haha, that's right, you're right, instead of teaching those soldiers who have reached adulthood, their previous foundation is too weak. It is better to simply seize their descendants, whose descendants will sooner or later take their place and become soldiers, then in fact, we have already taught the future soldiers. ”

"And the children of these soldiers are younger, more malleable, and they are more receptive to new knowledge. And if you teach those veterans who have reached adulthood or even many have passed middle age, the cost is too great, and you will even have to face the situation that those veterans have not been able to learn one by one, and even spend a lot of money in the end, but it is useless at all. We might as well catch the children who are secretly thinking about you, and by helping these young children we can get future soldiers, who will go to the army sooner or later. And those children are younger, learn things faster, and the cost of education is more promising than those of veterans who are middle-aged. ”

"What's more, those veterans also know that they are too late even to study, and what future do people have when they reach middle age. It's better to simply let your children come, children are the future of the family, and teaching children may make them more grateful than teaching them. “

Li Yifu continued: "Chief Shan, the imperial court has no money, so why can't we use the wealth of the people?" The wealth of the people has now risen rapidly, and even many businessmen have begun to be very willing to hire the families of those government soldiers, so as to give those government soldiers an extra income, and the government soldiers are also openly and secretly helping businessmen, and they will also help whoever bullies them in the future. ”

"I think I can let the businessmen donate money to support the school, and specially accept the children of these government soldiers to study, so that the government soldiers are further tied to various businessmen."

Shi Bufan finally understood, and said: "That's right, that's it, as long as you can get businessmen to donate money to study, not only can you avoid the financial budget of the imperial court, but you can even directly educate the descendants of those government soldiers, which means that my Tang Dynasty's army has been tied to the chariot." ”

"This will not only serve the purpose of educating the future army, but even tie the government soldiers to our merchants and various social classes, and they will not be separated in the future. Safeguarding the interests of all strata of society is safeguarding their long-term interests. As for those businessmen and all kinds of people, they won't mind too much about donating money to support education, so that when the time comes, all the children of the government soldiers will study, so will those bigwigs in the court dare to raid it? ”

Shi Bufan knew that if he wanted to expand the school, the biggest difficulty was there. That is to say, maybe it is still possible to run schools in Chang'an, but once they go to other places, the territory of those scholars, I am afraid that they will directly go to demolish those schools openly and secretly. This is a problem that cannot be solved.

But what if those government soldiers, that is, the Datang armed forces, are tied to these schools? When the time comes, the children of the government soldiers will be directly accepted to study, and then the interests of the government soldiers and these schools will be tied together, and the Datang armed forces can be directly pulled into the water.

If you can't get a conscription system in a short period of time, it's better to dig a hole directly on top of this government military system. Once the future soldiers of this government military system come out of various private schools, it means that the future soldiers are close to the poor in terms of ideology. As for the generals issued by the soldiers, the middle-level officers of the Tang Dynasty will gradually appear by these soldiers in the future, and the strength of the army will be very stable.

As for the scholars, dare to smash the schools of the descendants of those government soldiers? If they dare to smash it, then those Datang people will dare to fight with them, and when the time comes, Xiucai will meet the soldiers, and it is unreasonable. The Shi clan does not have direct military power, and once they really encounter Qiu Ba and turn their faces, they are still very weak.

"Very good, this is a good solution. At that time, under the pretext of giving the government soldiers the opportunity to educate their descendants, they will mix sand vigorously. Mixing a large number of descendants of ordinary people from poor families into those military schools, and mixing sand into them like this, the scholars want to stop it. Shi Bufan thought.

This kind of mixing sand is not very easy, under the banner of benefiting the descendants of the government soldiers, directly mixing sand into the schools that give the descendants of the government soldiers, so that those scholars know that they are deliberately mixed with sand, but they have no way at all. Because once it is mixed with sand, there are still descendants of government soldiers who study in it. In that case, if they dare to demolish it, the soldiers of the government will be willing to make trouble with them, and they are not afraid of the quarrel until the Tang Central Committee is at that time, at most it will set off a civil and military dispute.

On the contrary, what Shi Bufan is most afraid of is that it is not too noisy, if it is not big, it is not easy to make mud. Only when the trouble is big will Li Shimin be forced to make peace with the mud in order to balance the civil and military disputes, and in the end both sides will remain the same. (To be continued.) )