"Why doesn't Brother Huang speak?"

"Say what?" Huang Geng, a scholar surnamed Huang in a moon-white robe, dropped the chopsticks in his hand.

"Brother Huang has been staying in the house for the past few days and burying his head in reading, he really doesn't listen to the things outside the window, and only reads the books of sages and sages, but it's a pity that the current Ming Confucianism is no longer popular, and if you want to take the imperial examination, you still have to study miscellaneous studies."

Huang Geng was slightly stunned, the three of them were all prisoners of Guozijian, and they were also the most aggrieved kind of scholars in Daming today.

Emperor Jiajing didn't like Confucianism, or the emperor didn't like Confucianism who could only die to study, and the emperor liked different types of talents, such as those who knew business to manage business, those who managed finance, and so on.

This is also the most basic form of officialdom today, as long as you want to go through the official career, then don't want to go around the past!

Therefore, the new schools, led by Yan University and supplemented by various universities in Tongzhou, can now be said to be full of talents, while the traditional Confucianism such as Guozijian and various academies have shown a posture of fatigue and decline.

You can not change, but if you don't change, you have to accept failure calmly, and those old Confucian students are okay, but how can their young scholars be willing?

Therefore, in recent years, a large number of students from Guozijian have left and entered various universities, and many of them have successfully graduated and have entered the low-level officialdom.

Those who can really persevere and not move their nests are all readers who have real beliefs and want to save the decline of Confucianism, but the reality is becoming more and more severe, how long can they persevere?

Seeing that Huang Geng didn't speak, the blue-shirted scholar Ge Bai chuckled: "The latest issue of the newspaper said that the parliament is discussing changing the Beiguo Zijian to Shuimu Tsinghua University, and all the Guozijian students will have to take the exam at that time, and those who pass the exam will stay, and those who fail to pass the exam will go to the Nanguo Zijian, and it is estimated that this life will be abolished."

Feng Fei nodded and said: "I have also read this article below, Guozijian is the last position of Confucianism such as us, if I lose it...... Hey, let's accept the reality, Brother Huang don't bury himself in the case all day long, read the articles of the sages, it's useless......"

Huang Geng raised his head, stared at Feng Fei's face and said, "Is there something wrong with the sage's article?" Confucianism has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, how can Taoism be broken and the inheritance will be broken, if our generation of scholars does not adhere to it, Confucianism will really have no hope! ”

Feng Fei said disdainfully: "It's useless to talk about the big truth, now Da Ming is like this, unless...... Unless ......"

Unless something is not said, but the listener knows what it is? Unless Emperor Jiajing dies and a new monarch succeeds to the throne, perhaps in order to consolidate imperial power, Confucianism will have a chance of revival, but this chance is also slim.

You must know that Emperor Jiajing is only in his thirties, and he is still young, if he reigns for forty or fifty years, who can say exactly where the Ming Dynasty will go after twenty or thirty years?

"I have always felt that the emperor is a benevolent monarch, and many reforms over the years have changed the world beyond recognition, but the emperor has not created a big case to kill the world, thus paving the way for reform measures, and now it seems that we are wrong after all."

Feng Fei sighed lightly: "The Emperor of the People slaughtered more than 2,000 officials this time, and the number of people sitting in a row was as high as nearly 10,000, and there is far from seeing the end, in order to implement the land reform, the Emperor has done everything to ......"

"Is Your Majesty wrong?" Ge Bai glanced at Feng Fei and said: "Every official who has been escorted back to Beijing has his crimes clearly published in the newspaper.

"That's right." Feng Fei said speechlessly: "I just think that this time is not good, to eliminate corruption, to rectify the rule of officials, when not, but on the cusp of land reform to raise the butcher's knife, the purpose is not to forcibly implement land reform, the family gentry are afraid of being killed, but they may not be convinced, these are all hidden dangers."

"Jokes." Ge Bai sneered: "Without the earth-shattering killing, how could the family clan easily succumb, and I don't know how much more effort it will take to implement the new land reform policy at that time, but now?" Cracking down on corruption and land reform together, like cutting through the chaos with a quick knife, who would dare to obstruct the promulgation of major policies! ”

"I'm not convinced." Feng Fei sighed: "Land tax exemption is the virtue policy of the Ming Dynasty to give preferential treatment to scholars, and the abolition of this policy by the emperor will cut off the motivation of scholars."

Huang Geng snorted and said: "New scholars are not exempt from taxes, this policy is aimed at Confucianism!" In Huang's view, the emperor might as well abolish the imperial examination directly, so that after a few decades, there will be no meritorious officials, if the Ming Dynasty has no power all over the world, how can there be a tax-free place! ”

"Abolish the imperial examination......" Ge Bai muttered, "Do you think the emperor will really abolish the imperial examination?"

"It's hard to say, but it's unlikely to be possible recently, after all, almost all the upper-level officials of the Ming Dynasty are Confucian orthodox imperial examinations, and the emperor develops new learning, which is only a dozen years, even if the new learning is huge, it still can't shake the upper level, but in another twenty years, I'm afraid it's not easy to say, when there will be fewer and fewer orthodox Confucian scholars, even if they don't die, they will definitely be weak to the extreme! How similar is this hand to the deprivation of the reproductive rights of alien workers"

Huang Geng's words, Feng Fei and Ge Bai fell silent, the Confucians in the world, and even the princes of the court all know the emperor's calculations, but this seems to have become a general trend that is difficult to resist at all!

It is indeed very similar to the deprivation of the reproductive rights of foreign workers, and in recent years, there have been almost three million foreign laborers sent back to the Ming Dynasty in Western Europe, of which the proportion of men and women is not much different.

That is to say, Daming now has about 1.5 million strong laborers of different races, and these laborers are doing the hardest, most tiring and most dangerous work!

For example, dredging various rivers, such as opening roads for cliffs, such as building bridges and dams, these laborers are arranged for the most dangerous places, so the deaths and injuries of these laborers are also heavy!

There is no way, the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Water Resources jointly issued the decree clearly stipulates the compensation standard for work-related injuries and deaths, and any contractor, if there is a work-related death, will not only face compensation for the family pension of the deceased, but also face several times the fine!

The ubiquitous trade unions and engineering supervision agencies ensure that the vital interests of the people and workers of Daming are not stolen by the contractors, and the personal safety is also guaranteed to the greatest extent!

However, there is no such problem for foreign laborers in Western Europe, as long as the contractor can guarantee the wages of the alien race and ensure that they can be fed and clothed, as long as these laborers do not riot and cause casualties among the Ming people, then the government will not intervene as many deaths as they want.

In fact, it is indeed about the same as expected, 1.5 million Western European laborers, in these years of infrastructure construction in the dead and injured almost 10%, plus old age and disease deaths, etc., the overall number of deaths has exceeded 300,000!

It is a terrifying number, but it is only a number, and with the passage of time, in another ten or twenty years, this group of Western European laborers who have been deprived of reproductive rights is estimated to completely disappear on the land of China......

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