Chapter 379: The Next Big Chess

Night.

In the temporary residence of the imperial grandson, the moonlight of early spring shines through the plum forest outside the window and pours into the small courtyard study hidden in the plum forest. There is tranquility everywhere in the study, since Yuwen Yubo once lived here, no one else has lived in this quiet courtyard, and only two maids who have served Yuwen Yubo in the house occasionally come to clean. Yi Feng sat in the room sprinkled with silver moonlight, and he could still feel the many traces left by Yuwen Yubo in this room.

In this quiet night, Yi Feng suddenly couldn't help but have the urge to paint. He spread out the rice paper, took out the pencils and sharpened them one by one, and waited until the pen was down, at this time his mind was full of a complete picture, which was the shadow of Yuwen Yubo. Yi Feng likes to paint very much, and in his previous life, it was already half of his profession. It turned out that at that time, he painted more paintings with some surrealism, full of a unique painting style. However, after arriving in this plane, he still likes to draw, but limited by the conditions, he paints more with pencils. The pencil is also a major change after he arrived in this plane, just like his improvement of paper, which is convenient for everyone and himself. When it comes to pencils, Yi Feng's painting style is no longer what it used to be, but it is a super realist painting style. From the surrealism of emphasizing intuition with a strong emphasis on consciousness, to a shift from a more detail-oriented and objective emphasis today.

This kind of change is actually a kind of change in Yi Feng's heart today, from more subjective personal attitudes to objectivity, more not to impose his own views on others, but just to calmly and objectively observe and reflect, present to others, let them feel for themselves. Just like these things that Yi Feng is doing now. He tried hard to change the world, but he didn't want to impose his own will on others. It's more about wanting to be a facilitator.

Now, of course, he's more used to hyper-realism. There are also a lot of constraints, and I like the realism of this photographic approach. In this medieval era, where photography was lacking, he also liked to use this hyper-realistic painting technique to leave the people he liked on paper. Even he is still teaching this kind of painting technique to the people around him, and feels that this kind of photographic painting technique, in addition to the artistic sense, can also play a lot of special roles, such as special science and other intelligence agencies have begun to have super realistic painting skills to teach, let them use this magical painting method. Boost intelligence services.

Yuwen Yubo's smile was so real in his mind, and under Yi Feng's skillful painting skills, it gradually showed on his painting paper.

Outside the house, there was a sudden sound of strings, it was a pipa playing, a quiet night, a soothing pipa music, not the kind of ironclad fierce symphony. It was Red Whisk plucking the strings, and since the assassination, Red Whisk has become his closest bodyguard. Almost inseparable, close protection. Yi Feng smiled slightly, this is actually a woman with a story, and at the same time, she is not very intoxicating. Beautiful, but not a canary in a cage, nor an ordinary lady of the lady. She is beautiful and strong. It's a sonorous rose. As soon as he finished painting a portrait of Yuwen Yubo, he simply picked up his pen again and began to paint a portrait of Hongfu. Yi Feng has painted every woman he has had. Carefully collected, to Yuwen Yubo and Red Whisk paintings. It shows that the two of them finally have a place in his heart.

The portrait was quickly drawn, and the two beauties came to life on paper.

After carefully studying the two portraits for a while, Yi Feng put away the two paintings, re-spread a stack of white paper, picked up the pen and began to write a plan.

Today's bachelor's banquet was very successful, and with some of the content he had revealed intentionally or unintentionally before, all the great Confucian celebrities in Beijing who had successfully succeeded were invited to the banquet. At the banquet, Yi Feng faced the excited and expectant Confucians, threw out a lot of dry goods, painted a lot of big cakes, depicted excellent prospects, promised many conditions, and many Confucian scholars who went to the banquet were very interested in the plan he threw out. But to really impress them, it's not enough to brag at the banquet, you also have to have a detailed and feasible plan.

From a certain point of view, this is the biggest impact and change that Yifeng Energy has brought to this era.

Break the monopoly of academic culture, break the old system of electing officials, and break the family system since the Han and Wei dynasties, so that more people can be involved in the state and political affairs, and not just the fate of the Chinese Han people is dominated by a very small number of big aristocrats and big bureaucrats. Although Yi Feng knew that he couldn't let everyone be the masters of the house at once, at least he could let more big landlords and middle landlords participate. The more people who participate, the better it will be for the Chinese nation in the long run.

Of course, those who are too metaphysical and say something straightforward, Yi Feng has recognized his own positioning. Just like in foreign elections, you always have to find your own support group, do a good job of positioning, and then fundamentally make your own support group and make a campaign slogan that is in line with the support group. To put it bluntly, Yi Feng has a very clear understanding of himself, compared with Yang Yong and Yang Guang, he is still too weak, even if he is in such a high position as the imperial grandson, it is just a tower in the air, and there is no actual foundation. Who is Yang Yong's biggest supporter? The Guanlong group is a big aristocratic bureaucratic class. Yang Guang was supported by the emerging aristocracy of the Guanlong clique and some of the Jiangnan and Shandong clans of the Sui dynasty.

Yi Fengming belongs to the prince's party on the surface, but in fact he has a real cooperative relationship with Yang Guang, but whether it is the Guanlong Group or the scholars in Jiangdong and Shandong, the first target of their support is not themselves. If we want to break through the current situation, quickly strengthen ourselves, and strive to form a new and powerful political force in Hebei, then we must find another way out. Yi Feng didn't want to dig into the corner of Yang Yong or Yang Guang, he chose his own positioning, according to the strategic plan of Hebei in the future, then the most suitable supporters are of course the natives of Hebei, throwing away those big valves that have been integrated into the court, Yi Feng aimed at those Youyan landlords who were unwilling to accept Zhao'an. These people have a lot of power in the local area, but they are quite weak in politics, they are suppressed by the Guanlong group, and they are also suppressed by those top local masters, and they also urgently need a strong partner. As long as Yi Feng can give them what they want, then it is not impossible to get their support.

What is the biggest appeal of these Youyan places? Money and land are only secondary, when their power reaches a certain level. It has already fallen into a bottleneck, if it is not possible to achieve sufficient status in politics. Then they will always be stuck in that position, and they will always have to be suppressed by the ruling Guanlong Group and the local Shandong Gaomen lords. There will never be a day.

After the struggle, the yeoman farmer hoped to become a small landowner through the efforts of several generations. Naturally, small landlords also hope that their families will work hard to become middle-class landlords and even enter officialdom. And when they enter the officialdom and have a certain political status, they can promote the development of the family and develop into large landlords. After becoming big landlords, there is no doubt that they will not be satisfied. Instead, they will strive for a higher level, and want to make their family become those top gatekeepers, or even become aristocratic and wealthy, which is a history of family struggle that has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Time has passed, and many families have improved and expanded step by step, but there are also many once top gate valves, after experiencing key choices such as changing dynasties and even supporting the team, because they ended up on the wrong team. And lost from the clouds, weakened, defeated and even perished. It's a wonderful cycle, and for thousands of years, the cycle has not stopped.

These small and medium-sized landlords of Yi Feng and Youyan have a common demand. Therefore, there is also a common basis for cooperation.

Yi Feng's promotion and education was ultimately aimed at expanding the implementation of the imperial examination system, which, on the surface, broke the monopoly of the big nobles, big bureaucrats, and big landowners on the officialdom. So that many ordinary people also have the opportunity to enter the official career through the guò imperial examination. Participate in state affairs. In fact, the biggest blow to the imperial examination system is indeed those big aristocrats. But it is not the ordinary peasants who benefit the most, but the small and medium-sized landlords. In this era, reading is not everyone's right, and reading is not a burden that everyone can bear. Although the children of small and medium-sized landlords can read, even if they read, there is no way to enter the officialdom and become officials. The children of the aristocracy entered the ranks, and the children of the scholars became officials by virtue of their monopoly on scripture and culture, and the rest of the people had no chance at all, not to mention the ordinary peasants who could not afford to read and had no time to study, and as for the merchants and craftsmen, they were directly excluded, and even if they could read, they were not qualified to be officials.

Therefore, it can be said that in the comprehensive implementation of the imperial examination, the rest of the hardest hits are the aristocratic groups, and the most interests are the small and medium-sized landlords, who finally have a way to become officials, and it is no longer the case that only a very small number of small and medium-sized landlords' children can be fortunate to be officials, and those high-ranking landlords can actually benefit a lot from the imperial examination. Especially those scholars and scholars, they have always monopolized the scripture culture, but the children of the nobles have always relied on the shadow of the door, but they have greatly overwhelmed those children of the scholars who are well-educated. And the implementation of the imperial examination, the real examination, who in the world can pass these high-ranking scholars who have monopolized learning for thousands of years?

Crack down on a part, win over a part, unite a part, unite a part.

The plan written by Yi Feng was naturally to unite the small and medium-sized landlords, unite the vast numbers of ordinary peasants, industrialists, and merchants, win over the big landlords and scholars, and strike at the existing Guanlong aristocratic clique and big bureaucratic clique with vested interests. Clear goals and clear plans.

Although those big nobles and big bureaucrats are the most powerful, they are also vested interests, and the possibility of cooperation with Yi Feng is small, and the possibility of confrontation and conflict is high.

Of course, the plan is beautifully written, but it's just a plan. In other words, this plan is actually equivalent to a long-term benefit map prepared for financing, and the benefits are clearly written there, but they cannot be obtained immediately. If you want to share in this wonderful future benefit, you have to invest and participate now.

Yi Feng painted so many wonderful visions for those great Confucians, and of course, he also gave many immediate direct benefits.

He hoped that those famous Confucian scholars would follow him to Youzhou and bring their disciples with him. Those famous Confucians, each of them now gathered thousands of disciples to give lectures, in this era can follow the famous Confucianism to study, not ordinary peasant people, most of them are at least from landlord families, belong to the middle class.

Yi Feng promised the Confucians that as long as they were willing to accept Yi Feng's offer to become teachers at the soon-to-be-established Northern University, then each of them would receive the title of professor. And you can immediately get a research grant ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 yuan. At the same time, you can also get the cost of settling in and moving. When they come to teach at Northern University, they can also get an excellent salary. In addition, Yifeng will also burn, publish, and distribute their academic research works. The disciples who followed them to Youzhou would also become the first batch of students at Northern University, and Yi Feng promised to cover all of these students' food and lodging, as well as travel, settling-in and living expenses. Even the best of them receive a lot of scholarships and bursaries. Even in the future, these students will be able to arrange to work in the state capitals and the military in Youzhou after graduation, and the best ones will be directly recommended by Yi Feng as officials, etc.

Yi Feng's conditions are quite good, although many Confucians have good backgrounds and gather disciples to teach, but many Confucianism disciples have thousands, and the conditions are inevitably difficult, and there is not even a decent school house. If you go to Youzhou, there will not only be a northern university with excellent conditions in all aspects. Moreover, the school will also have a large library and other facilities, in addition, the school also bears the accommodation and living expenses of teachers and students, and even provides books, paper, pen and ink, etc., not to mention that the teachers also have very attractive research funds, as well as scholarships and grants for students and future graduation arrangements, and even Yi Feng also said to the great Confucians, Yi Feng will also actively fight for them to the imperial court to grant them official positions, although it is very likely that they can only get Lang or Shi two rank of literary officials, but for many Confucians. Although they are not necessarily keen to be officials, it is also a good treatment to be able to teach and have an official rank at the same time.

Yifeng's invitation conditions can be described as full of sincerity. Many Confucians were very impressed. I was even more moved by the long-term plan proposed by this imperial grandson.

With such a large capital, Yi Feng's plan is not small. The most important thing is that there are few readers in this era, and even fewer excellent readers. Although he had always been in favor of directly linking literati and officials in ancient times, in today's conditions. A literati who have read books always have a better vision than those who often never leave home for the rest of their lives.

Bao Kai had already agreed to go to Youzhou, and was willing to persuade his disciples to follow him to Youzhou. Xiao Gai has also expressed his willingness to go to Youzhou. Even the very famous Confucian in Beijing, the former Guozi priest He Tuo, although he was a handful of years, but after a long talk with Yi Feng at the banquet last night, he also readily agreed to go to Youzhou, and accepted Yi Feng's request to agree to be the first mountain chief of Northern University. Last night, there were already seven or eight celebrities who initially expressed their willingness to go to Youzhou, and I believe that there will be many people who are willing to go to Youzhou in the end. Among them, several great Confucians, He Tuo, Bao Kai, Xiao Gai, etc., are more than 1,000 disciples, they went to Youzhou, and many of their respective disciples will definitely follow in the end, so many scholars went to Youzhou, which really made him very happy.

In addition, Yi Feng also sent messengers to send invitations to many great Confucians outside Beijing, especially Wang Tong in Hedong and Erliu in Hebei, which were the targets of his key invitations. If these three people can be invited successfully, and some other great Confucians outside Beijing can also be invited to Youzhou, then according to Li Mi's statistics, in the end, they can invite hundreds of great Confucian celebrities to teach in Youzhou, and the disciples these people can bring will be no less than 3,000.

This number is staggering, although because of Yi Feng's special insistence, many junior colleges will be set up at that time.

Yi Feng plans to build the Northern University into a comprehensive college of higher learning, mainly according to the main examination subjects of the imperial examination in the future, set up four major subjects, Ming Jing, Ming Law, Ming Characters, and Ming Arithmetic, respectively, to study Jingyi, law, calligraphy, arithmetic, in addition, there will be additional subjects such as Gewu, translation, economics, poetry, music, physical education, painting, etiquette, and driving. In addition, there will be a special medical school, a business school, a school of architecture, a teacher training college, and a school of wood, earth and hydraulics. He didn't plan to just let students just blindly learn the scriptures and meanings like the academies of this era, and then learn the six arts in general, he actually paid more attention to professional talents, accountants, doctors, business management, teachers, architects, etc., for the kind of traditional scholars like a panacea, it is not the most urgent.

Nowadays, Huaihuang's industry and commerce are extremely prosperous, and the financial industry has formed a certain scale, coupled with the management of the market, as well as the demand for taxation, Yi Feng is in urgent need of a large number of professional accountants. It's not the traditional accounting room, but a new type of accounting, which can double-entry accounting, Arabic numerals, plans, and even equations, forms, and accounting statements, and he needs a large number of professionals in this new style to adapt to the growing demand gap. In addition, there is also the construction and manufacturing industry, which also requires a large number of professional technicians, and the traditional way of taking apprentices is far from keeping up with the rhythm, Yi Feng cannot expect those masters to spend ten years to bring out an apprentice, he needs to train a large number of specialized technicians in a short period of time, even if each technician only controls the technology of one process after coming out, it can already greatly alleviate the current dilemma.

The long-term goal of establishing Northern University is to train a group of its own new-style officials, but in terms of the short-term goal of the moment, the most urgent goal here is to train a large number of professional technicians.

After a long time, Yi Feng finally finished writing the plan of tens of thousands of words, rubbed his wrist Yi Feng glanced at it a few times, and then put it together and threw it aside. This plan is for those Confucian scholars, not for themselves, and if they cannot become the master of the world one day, this plan will never be truly implemented, and even according to the most optimistic attitude, if you want to wait until the day when the plan is implemented, it will be at least ten or eight years later.

Now, he has to sleep well, and tomorrow morning, he will leave Beijing and return to Youyan.

The dragon swims in the sea, the tiger leaps in the mountains and forests, this day, he is already a little impatient to wait! (To be continued......)