Chapter 297: The Son of Heaven asks the question
Jiajing's heart was surging when he saw the 10,000-word strategy, which not only had many things that resonated with his heart, but also gave Jiajing a lot of inspiration and thinking.
For example, recruitment, how to recruit soldiers? How do soldiers train? This has always been the weakness of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War is an official yamen, more general, they are mainly responsible for the promotion and merit examination of military attachés, as well as the allocation of grain and grass, although there are also methods of drilling, but the officials and masters emphasize teaching but not art, thinking that as long as how they are, the soldiers will be how they will be, in fact, they are all fake and empty, and they are used to fool people.
In fact, this thing is indeed very demagogic, at least no one in the imperial court has questioned it for so many years, so that after the Ming army arrived at Tumubao, as a group of outstanding generals broke their halberds and sank into the sand, they began to sing a certain tune, which did not pay attention to the quality of the officers and soldiers and the combat drills, but focused on loyalty and bravery. But the problem is that this thing is all false, who is loyal and who is treacherous, who is brave and who is cowardly, and no one can tell the difference until the critical moment, the result is that the old man says that you are loyal and brave, you will be loyal.
Xu Qian, on the other hand, summed up a set of methods for training troops, that is, the so-called soldiers are not expensive and refined, and if there are many soldiers, they are scattered, and it is easy to cause chaos; in fact, they no longer give food to train the troops, but to train the troops with silver, which greatly enhances the enthusiasm of the officers and men, greatly simplifies the outdated rules in the army, and conducts training day and night.
This kind of military training method, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, is actually nothing, but for the princes of the DPRK and China, this thing is obviously not very suitable for their appetite, Jiajing is squinting, seems to feel quite reasonable, he is a very realistic person, a realistic person of course knows that a few empty words are useless to the Qiu Ba, do not give enough protection, just a few words of national righteousness, a few words of benevolence, righteousness and courtesy to make people sell your life, this is simply a joke.
Xu Qian's book of 10,000 words is very detailed. Some subtleties also took a lot of pen and ink, Jiajing nodded secretly, and then when he looked at other strategies, he already tasted the same as chewing wax, in his opinion, Xu Qian's strategy was too real, compared to it, other strategies were too pragmatic, and they were too fanciful. What edict to denounce the crimes of the Japanese invaders, and what kind of soldiers must be brave, and everyone will strive to be the first. To put it bluntly, this is empty talk, Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Xiaozong will believe it. But people like Taizu, the emperor, and Jiajing won't believe it. Of course, Taizu and the emperor are different from Jiajing, although they don't believe it, but they will advocate it, this is the so-called building a memorial arch while being a bitch, and advocating this so-called empty talk is for political purposes. But what should I do or how to do it is based on reality.
But in the Jiajing Dynasty, the situation was different, and Taizu and the emperor could advocate it. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been maintained at its peak, so even if it is advocated, it is harmless, but it is in the hands of Jiajing. The combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been unbearable and eroded to the bones. Therefore, in a certain way, it is necessary to set things right, otherwise something big will happen.
Therefore, the so-called emperor's mental art also needs to be adapted to the time and place, if Xu Qian's policy is sent to the Taizu Emperor, the Taizu Emperor will definitely think it is true, and feel that the person who wrote this policy is very practical, and then ...... Then he went down directly and chopped Xu Qian into meat sauce.
This is not because Emperor Taizu does not need a talent like Xu Qian, but that the official army is only a part of the government, and Emperor Taizu needs to advocate loyalty and bravery, loyalty and courage are the correctness of Emperor Taizu's politics, and there is a guy who dares to question his politics, if you don't cut whom.
The same strategy was sent to Emperor Yingzong or Emperor Xiaozong, of course, it was not so dangerous that Xu Qian would be chopped into meat sauce, after all, in the hands of these two emperors, there was no need to use radical means to establish prestige, but Xu Qian's future was also limited. This is because Yingzong and Xiaozong have already believed in this set of theories, and the emperor believes them, and you run out and say you don't believe it, isn't this looking for death?
But in the hands of Jiajing, on the one hand, Jiajing is extremely smart and does not believe in this cliché; On the other hand, reality no longer allows him to continue to advocate such empty words and clichés. Jiajing's political correctness has been transformed from empty words and clichés into reality, and it is useless to say more, and for the sake of the stability of the empire, it is necessary to carry out reform.
Xu Qian's recital happened to Jiajing's appetite, which is also the reason why Jiajing has so much faith in Xu Qian, he believes in Xu Qian, not because Xu Qian has any advanced consciousness, but because Xu Qian can always coincide with his political correctness, to put it bluntly, everyone's interests are in the same direction, coupled with good personal relations, and finally gave unlimited trust and enough holy favors.
Jiajing squinted, raised his eyes and said slowly: "The strategy is very good, and I have benefited a lot." ”
This is an empty word, but empty words are obviously Jiajing's specialty, so in a sense, Jiajing is a clever politician, and a clever politician is the best at nonsense, blowing the sky, and then ...... If you are fooled by politicians, it is not that you are unlucky, nor that you are stupid, but that you have a misunderstanding of politicians, and you don't know that people eat by mouth, and they often boast that they can make a show for you, so even if you are worthy of you, what do you want?
The tributes were all overjoyed, for them, today's palace examination was obviously an extraordinary experience, personally face the saint, and get the praise of His Majesty, what a glorious thing to honor the ancestors.
Jiajing said: "The country has a great ceremony of talents, and all living beings stand out, I can get better and other talents, I am very relieved, I want Emperor Taizu to establish a country, and my country has been in power for one hundred and fifty years......"
Immediately afterwards, Jiajing began to talk nonsense, and said a stick of incense in a row, which is nothing more than saying that you are very important, I am very happy, the Ming Dynasty needs you, and you must be how to do it in the future.
These words were deeply encouraged in the ears of Gongsheng, and they felt more and more wonderful, but when Xu Qian heard them, he knew that Jiajing must be fooling, in a sense, in the future, among these people, at least seven or eight out of ten will become Jiajing's thorns in the eye and flesh, don't look at what I said to you today, maybe ten years later, I will pull your list.
Speaking of excitement, Jiajing suddenly stopped talking, and said with a straight face: "Talents are rare, I will simply take the school test for you one or two today." ”
It is said that it is an examination school, but in fact, it is also an established procedure, this is the second level of the palace examination, which is more relaxed and casual, and even the questions are not limited.
The ten tributes were all excited, whether it was a mule or a horse, it depends on the next few pillars of incense time, and if you answer well, you can stand out and strive for the first place, and from now on the future is bright, and you have a chance to rule the world!
Jiajing smiled slightly, and smiled at Huang Jin, who was standing on the side, and said, "Huang Companion, bring it." ”
Huang Jin nodded, then took out a box, opened the box, a piece of beautiful jade appeared in everyone's eyes, Jiajing smiled slightly, and said: "I am a casual character, today I will take this beautiful jade as the theme, you can use this beautiful jade to say some reason, you can win with this beautiful jade." ”
The Gongsheng were confused, and someone cautiously stood up and said: "Your Majesty, since it is based on beautiful jade, do you use the method of eight strands to solve the problem?" ”
After all, Jiajing's question is too broad, take out a piece of jade for you to answer, what to answer? There has to be a limit, and there must be a tailor.
Jiajing smiled slightly and said, "Yes, let's answer, who will come first?" ”
Everyone looked at each other, unwilling to be a bird, Jiajing frowned, and said lightly: "What, no one can answer?" ”
The Gongsheng who asked the question before stepped forward and shook his head and said, "The student is not talented, and he is ugly." ”
Huang Jin handed the jade into his hand, he looked at it a few times, and then frowned: "This piece of jade is really a royal thing, the workmanship is fine, and the jade material used is also the best, but there is a flaw on this jade, the jade is flawed, and the students have the courage to break the problem: the Son of Heaven raises the beautiful jade and makes a statement, and there is Mu Yusi who steals." ”
The first sentence directly breaks the topic, in a decent manner, to the effect that the Son of Heaven uses Meiyu as a metaphor to discuss, and Weichen privately envies and admires the quality of Meiyu.
This Gongsheng then said: "Gai Yu is a gentleman, gentle as jade, beautiful jade is flawed, regretful, Zigong set up words, how can it be ignored?" ”
The meaning of the second sentence is that Meiyu has beautiful qualities, but now Meiyu has flaws, which is a great pity. Beautiful jade is flawed, just as a gentleman is flawed, Zigong once said that a gentleman has flaws that cannot be ignored.
This person is quite anxious and wise, and the answer is quite clever, but this is the most common answer, jade is used to describe the gentleman, take this piece of jade as a metaphor for the gentleman, and finally came to the conclusion that the jade is flawless, and the gentleman is also flawless.
Jiajing nodded slightly, very approvingly, and said, "Yes, what's your name?" ”
This Gongsheng said: "Student Zhu Yan. ”
Jiajing muttered, as if he remembered the name, which made Zhu Yan happy in his heart, knowing that this answer was quite favored by the Son of Heaven.
He was the first person to eat crabs, and immediately made the other Gongsheng react, you have to hurry up and answer this thing as soon as possible, you see, if you answer the question late, then the scope of your answer will be smaller and smaller, and now people have compared Meiyu to a gentleman, and this Meiyu describes the gentleman's answer can no longer be used.
So a second person immediately stood up and hurriedly said, "Student answer ...... question"
In this hall, most of them are elites, IQ is definitely not low, they are all rich and rich people, for them, such answers are not difficult, although they have to play on the spot, a little increase in difficulty, but not to be anxious, so everyone came out to answer like a marquee, but it was also lively, Jiajing seemed to be quite satisfied with everyone, one by one to give encouragement and praise, so that the atmosphere in this hall is more relaxed.
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