346, the plan to cut off children and grandchildren without asshole (II)
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui are both struggling with how to "fool" domestic scholars to the grassland for education, because the conditions for those who can study during this period are very good. In this era, the family's economic conditions are too poor to study. Although some of them claim to be poor scholars, most of them have certain economic conditions, but they are not as good as the scholars. Fooling them to the legendary place where birds don't poop to educate the Hu people is not something that everyone can want.
"Don't worry, that kid Jingwen not only gave the Turks an idea, but also gave us an idea of how to deal with it." Li Shimin said.
"Oh, can this kid Jingwen solve our problem?" Fang Xuanling asked.
"Actually, it's not that hard to solve this problem. As long as we mobilize scholars to go to the Turks to support Turkic education, and come up with some benefits. Of course, this benefit is not a so-called monetary benefit, but an interest that is good for their future prospects. Isn't our current imperial examination a separate examination? We might as well add another subject, which is called the Volunteer Teaching Subject. This branch of the imperial examination is specially given to those who have gone to the Turks to support education for three years, and then successfully passed the approval of the local officials, and then can come back to take the imperial examination. This volunteer teaching section is specially selected from these scholars who participate in volunteer teaching, so that many of them should be willing to go. ”
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui didn't expect this, they were so! Aren't those scholars studying just to be officials? But now there are too few opportunities to become officials, and the imperial examination has become the only opportunity for the poor. But at the same time, in the face of competition from so many people, as well as the scarcity of the number of admission places, this makes it impossible for the vast majority of people to enter the official career. And if they open a new teaching department, they can avoid too many competitors, and the competitors are those who teach together. In this way, the scope of competition is much smaller, so isn't the chance of becoming an official much greater?
"Jingwen, this kid, is really wonderful!" Du Ruhui said.
Where do they know. Jingwen is a policy to learn from future generations. Later generations also started a vigorous teaching campaign, and some even took out the establishment of civil servants. This is just an ordinary "small official" establishment, which has attracted countless official fans to teach. And in this era, there are fewer educated people, and they have taken out real official positions, which is of course more attractive. China lacks all talents, that is, there is no shortage of talents who want to become officials. There are many official fans in China, and even Jingwen is an official fan. For this kind of official fan, it is the best way to directly use an official position to tempt them.
"That's a good idea." Fang Xuanling said.
"Jingwen, this kid proposed, to make the best use of people's talents and materials! In fact. Not only do we have a lot of poor scholars, but there are also some people who have read books, but they don't have the opportunity to take the imperial examination. That is, the descendants of many merchants, although they are wealthy and let their children study, they do not have the opportunity to take the imperial examination. We can let them teach for six years, give up the inheritance of the family's property, and then give them the opportunity to take the imperial examination, so that many descendants of businessmen will be willing to teach. ”
Jingwen's method is actually to use those literate and disadvantaged groups, that is, the descendants of businessmen, to teach. They are literate though. However, there was no opportunity to take the imperial examination to become an official, because the descendants of merchants could not take the imperial examination. However, now there is an opportunity, and that is to educate the Hu people for six years. Then give up the inheritance of the property in the family, so that you can get the opportunity to become an official. Of course, if you don't give up the right to inherit the property, I'm afraid you won't be able to become an official.
This is actually to give the descendants of merchants an identity that is free from the so-called lowly status of merchants. so that they can take the imperial examinations. However, Jingwen's method is also very spicy. Although the descendants of those officials have nominally renounced the inheritance of the property, they are no longer merchants. However, it still represents the interests of merchants. Because the officials in the court don't really regard them as their own, the descendants of their merchants can only unite themselves so that they can fight against the risks in politics. This is tantamount to giving businessmen a chance to rise. Once businessmen have spokespersons in the officialdom, I am afraid that with the backing of their economic strength, they will definitely be able to rise very quickly. If you don't have money, it's very difficult to take this path.
Although the ancient officials said that officials have nothing to do with money, in fact, any country, as long as it is not in troubled times, cannot do without economic support if you want to be an official. If you don't have financial support, it's hard to be an official, especially in a capitalist country. Even in ancient times, didn't you need money to get promoted? If you don't have money, who will give you a political achievement! How many of the achievements of ancient times do not require money? In particular, local officials pay attention to the development of education and manage the people, all of which require money! And those who have the backing of businessmen can easily create political achievements. And with the right amount of power, they can easily rise.
Don't think that this strength is very small, but which political collectives did not start from weakness? Wasn't the strength of the Hanmen very small back then? But later, did they overthrow the monopoly of the scholars and become the mainstream of officialdom? So, the merchant class is very easy to get up. Moreover, when the merchant class rises, it can support the development of commerce, so that the country can truly become rich and strong.
It turned out that the traditional small-scale peasant economy had little desire to expand, and it was not enough for China to expand. Only by supporting the "insatiable" merchant class can China continue to expand and eventually rule the world. This is actually cutting off the road of those scholars who are attached to the small peasant economy, and it can be said that it is the idea of giving birth to a son without an asshole due to lack of virtue!
"Your Majesty, will this make businessmen have too deep influence in officialdom?" Fang Xuanling also said with some worry.
Li Shimin said confidently: "As long as it can operate properly at that time, the businessman will not be able to rise." Therefore, at present, we still have to find a way to do a good job of naturalization, so that we can eradicate the border troubles in the north forever. ”
Although Li Shimin is wise, he is an ancient man after all, and his vision is much shorter than Jingwen, so he can't see the later situation. Maybe he can suppress it while he is alive, but can his descendants have such power? (To be continued......)