Three hundred and fifty-seven times, drastic
After Dutian and the new tax system, Qiao Ren also prepared a new material selection system with a heavy hand, a nine-product Zhongzheng system with an inspection mechanism. But the meal needs to be eaten step by step, and the same is true of reform. After considering the three, Qiao Ren decided to select talents, and the route was drastic and slightly lowered the requirements from the beginning. First of all, it is necessary to promote the poor, meritocracy, and strengthen education.
First of all, it is necessary to restrain the authority of local wealthy families and families. If you don't choose virtuous and virtuous, you can't be an official, and this Zhou Yu established "Election Cao", which was born for this. Different from Liu Cao of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shangshutai of the two sides, Eastern Wu had more Du Zhi Cao, who was in charge of money and commerce, and Xuan Cao, who was responsible for selecting talents. Regardless of whether the family is still very poor, non-local celebrities and decentralized central officials regularly go to the state and county every year to study and comment on the talents of their children, from the first grade to the ninth grade, from the county to the county. Finally, it was placed in the central government to personally evaluate the teaching talent through the three public selection examiners, monks, scholars, and scholars. Even among them, the truly talented scholars are recommended, and they can sit down with the three princes and explain their opinions face-to-face. Of course, at each joint, if it is found to be unworthy of the name. Then the local bureaucrats who recommend their children will be severely punished.
This is for the overall interests of the entire Soochow, although most of the people in the court represent the rights and interests of the family to a greater or lesser extent. But after all, he is not unwise, and he also knows how much benefit this system has for the future development of Soochow. It's just that when I think of it, it is possible to be in the same dynasty with a group of low-born poor families, but these people still have some bad feelings in their hearts. The more opponents couldn't help but jump out to refute, but they were glared at by the general Lu Meng, who was in very poor health, and the real families in the Huaisi Group are the Qiao family, the Zhou family, the Liu family and so on. At this time, the Jiangzuo family suddenly woke up to the fact that the stone of Jiangdong's foundation was these poor generals from Huaisi.
If you want to rectify the rule of state and county officials, you will naturally have to brush away a large number of rice bags without three taels of ink in your belly. Under the statement of the local small family attached to the local big family. can only endure swallowing, and the departure of the incompetent will naturally vacate a lot of official positions. For a time, many talented people from poor families raised their heads, and groups of talented people have stepped onto the status and stage they dare not imagine.
This is a policy that has been implemented in Soochow since Zhou Yu was alive, and now Qiao Ren has obviously met much less resistance to expanding the results of the battle. However, the four surnames of Wu County in Jiangdong, especially the Zhang family and the Lu family, had a large number of children who served as low-level bureaucrats in the nearly two-tier of Eastern Wu, which still made Qiao Ren very frightened.
The families were either helpless or made concessions to Qiao Ren's face, and Qiao Ren naturally needed to let them see the sweetness. Although it is said that a child of a family who has no talent is out of the game, it is necessary to compensate for the following sub-projects, so as not to make others feel cold. After all, the Lu family doesn't say it, Qiao Ren has a close relationship with the Zhang family and the Gu family.
So Qiao Ren's mind turned. It's very clever to guide everyone's thinking. Qiao Ren himself intends to reopen Hongdu Gate School in Jianye, and then at least at the county level. The established goal is to popularize culture and promote it to the common people, and the time is not ripe due to the books collected by teachers and families, but this time a large number of layoffs gave Qiao Ren a chance, so the incompetent children of the family who were brushed down due to unqualified performance evaluations were reused by Qiao Ren.
Where a county is governed or above. There is a county guard to build a school itch, which is for the county school. Again. It's for the state. In the national capital of Jianye, the imitation of Hongdu Gate has established a new type of learning, which corresponds to the main Taixue of the family. And all this dry learning itch was included in the pipeline of the Taifu Mansion, and it has been controlled by the Eastern Wu Imperial Court from the county school upwards.
In fact, under Qiao Ren's intentional or unintentional suggestion, the establishment of official learning at all levels. It has become a system that complements the talent evaluation system. Or two parallel channels, the evaluation of talents is undoubtedly an absolute advantage, but the family will never send their children to the official school itch to study, and these individual learning itch will eventually bring together the elite of the poor family in the Hongdu Gate School. These elite elites will provide a large number of talents for the emperor, and they can be selected to become Lang officials in Guangluxun, or Zhongshu and Shangshutai in the inner court, or they can be sent to assassinate and guard the county. At the same time, the education of Hongdu Gate is not completely limited to Confucian classics, but also some contents of Taoism and Legalism, and even calligraphy, drawing, arithmetic and so on.
If you are really talented, you can go to the annual evaluation and recommend it, and then pass the examination to choose Cao, and even sit down with the third prince and even the emperor himself, which is naturally the most glorious; And the second-class is to make up for the Hongdu Gate School, and he will also have the opportunity to embark on a career in the future. This also gives the children of the family a chance, but as long as they can really learn some skills in it, Qiao Ren, who is a big family, is also happy to see it.
When the new Hongdu Gate School was created, most of the families were resistant, after all, the former Hongdu Gate School was founded by eunuchs in order to cultivate talents to deal with the family. Now that it was founded by Qiao Ren, can it not be a little resistant!? But as a part-time mountain chief Qiao Ren threw his beloved son Qiao Sheng into it, and at the same time, Sun Shao also promised that at the end of next year, he would be promoted to ten Lang officials in the Hongdu Gate School, and for a time the big and small families flocked to it, in the final analysis, in addition to the Zhang, Gu, and Lu families in the Jiangzuo family, the so-called scripture heirlooms are just a joke for them, this Jiangdong region where education is not prosperous, even the education of the family is limited, and it is really necessary to pass the Cao exam seriously, and even the poor family on the Huaisi side can't compare. Hongdu Men Xue has invited the most famous scholars of Eastern Wu, and it is naturally good to be able to learn some things.
The establishment of Xuan Cao relied on Qiao Ren's unique reputation and the support of the Eastern Wu court, and under the joint promotion of Sun Shao and Qiao Ren, the capable ministers selected from below were naturally mainly poor henchmen, which also dispelled the worries of those poor disciples, and talented scholars admired each other. In fact, with Qiao Ren's current reputation, there is probably no one higher than him in the whole world, even if he is not the first, it is not much worse. As a scholar, Qiao Ren himself is a university scholar who is proficient in the Six Classics and has written and circulated, and his Wenzhi has been recognized by everyone under the incomparably prosperous scene of Jiangdong, and as for martial arts, it is even more famous, and he has almost never lost the battle under his name. In the end, coupled with the strong support of Sun Shao, the emperor of Wu, and Qiao Ren's identity as the head of the Huaisi family and a powerful relative, he had enough political capital
On the basis of these selected talents, Qiao Ren turned around and put these poor talents in official education, and the input of fresh blood was mostly the children of the poor family, and the tentacles of the family could not reach in at all in a short period of time. And under Qiao Ren's strong control, everything is in order.
Naturally, in addition to rectifying the rule of officials and promoting the poor, Qiao Ren did not stop there. There are no rules, there is no circle, and the country is chaotic if there are no laws and regulations, and the Han Law has been riddled with holes under the monopoly of a group of maggots, which has brought fertile soil to the germination of the gate valve of the scholar clan, and Qiao Ren is naturally reluctant to use it again. In addition, Shu Han has the Shu family, and Cao Wei also has a new law, no matter how much Dongwu says, it should have its own law.
Under the leadership of Qiao Ren, Sun Shao ordered Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, Zhang Zhao, Xue Zong, Pan Jun, and Zheng Li to compile the "Wu Law" together. This is also Qiao Ren's cleverness, although he is in a high position, all orders are given by Sun Shao, and this merit is sent to Sun Shao's name, he has already made a high merit, and what is the use of asking for the so-called merit!!
Coupled with the previous Dutian Order, Qiao Ren almost abolished the private slavery system, and at the same time liquidated and measured the land, which is also the most fundamental and undoubted point. In troubled times, people are people-oriented, and the gate lords of the two Jin Dynasty sit on the stool because of the private occupation of land, private accumulation of people, and their privilege to pay taxes is minimal, these people do not belong to the state, but are owned by individuals, and the power is huge, and the strong are enough to shake the foundation of the imperial court, and even the family private soldiers are often thousands.
On the basis of not canceling the inherent land of the family, it is not allowed to privately store farmers, as long as it is a person, it must be registered and the people of the country. In exchange, the Soochow regime also adopted a gentle exchange for those powerful people who occupied the land, and the fields they originally stole acquiesced to vested interests, but the tenants who cultivated the land for them turned into the state's household Qi people, and the achievements of the tax law were still very great.
Under these combinations, Lujiang Qiao's and Lujiang's Lujiang Zhou took the lead, and more than 20 large and small families, such as Wujun Zhang's, Wujun's Lu's, Wujun's Zhu's, Wujun's Gu's, Huijiyu's, Danyang Xu's, Runan's Lu's, Huaiyin's Dai's, etc., made concessions together. In fact, the current gate lord clan is only in the initial embryonic stage, and has not yet formed a huge and terrifying force like the two Jin Dynasty, and under the strength of the central power, it naturally has to bow its head. In comparison, the loss of the population made the family have to pay a lot of money and food to recruit tenants, and the profits from overseas trade with Qiao Ren made them even more excited.
Soochow is blessed with unique and developed shipping, and has the right time and place to engage in overseas trade, and the only thing that is poor is the people, that is, the shipping industry. Qiao's monopoly on shipping and as a transit point from Daqin to and from Southeast Asia, although Taiwan was nominally the territory of Soochow, in reality it was no different from Qiao Ren's fiefdom. (To be continued......)