"Really?"

Hou Shi stood up happily at this time, and immediately took the money in Shen Maoxiao's hand, and asked, "So, Lin'er can continue to study?" ”

Shen Maoxiao said "um".

"I didn't expect you nerd to find such a good job one day."

"It's just that how long can this copy last?"

Hou asked about Shen Maoxiao as he spoke.

Shen Maoxiao said: "Don't worry, you will have to copy it for many years!" They said that it would take at least ten years to copy these books. ”

Hou Shi was shocked when he heard this, and said, "It's going to take so long!" ”

Hou then smiled again: "However, it's a good thing that it takes so long!" This means that you can do this job for ten years, and after ten years, Lin'er has already graduated from the mining school and can go to the mine as a technician. ”

Shen Maoxiao only smiled slightly, and did not say much.

"I'll just say that the court won't care if we live or die!"

"After the advent of steam engine spinning, I had to be idle."

"Because if you continue to spin, you can only lose, and you can also pay the money out, in this case, you can't live at all, and you don't want to go to the coolies, I feel that I have read so many books in vain, and I also complain that the court should not promote strange skills and tricks so much, so that the cold people in the world have no food to eat."

"As a result, in the blink of an eye, the imperial court gave you such a big job, and it was obviously specially prepared for people like you."

"You shouldn't complain about the court now, right?"

After Hou said, he asked about Shen Maoxiao.

Shen Maoxiao smiled: "Don't complain!" ”

"Now it seems that it can only show that the Son of Heaven is eloquent and strategic, and I myself can't see Mount Tai by a leaf;"

"Although steam spinning makes you no longer able to earn money by spinning to support your family, it can make the wealth of the world increase dramatically, and the imperial court will have stronger financial resources to promote culture and education, so that a Han scholar like me, who has not been ranked for a long time, can also have a job that is suitable for me and has a good income."

Zhu Yijun recruited a large number of literati to copy school books, which indeed solved the income problem of many literati families like Shen Maoxiao.

There are more than one examples like Shen Maoxiao.

As a result, the Jiangnan region's resentment against the various reforms of the imperial court was greatly reduced.

"Tang Xianzu won the Huangming Literature Award for his work "The Story of Returning the Soul", and was rewarded with 30,000 taels of silver dollars!"

"Cheng Dawei won the Huangming Arithmetic Award for his work "Arithmetic Tongzong", and was rewarded with 30,000 taels of silver dollars!"

"Wang Qiyin's work ......"

Meanwhile.

Because the donation of books made Zhu Yijun know many masterpieces from the people, Zhu Yijun also rewarded some authors with outstanding achievements as promised by the Holy Decree.

Tang Xianzu, Cheng Dawei, Wang Qi and others, who were ordered to come to the southern capital to receive the reward, soon received a large number of shining silver dollars, and a holy decree and medals with the reason for the reward, and also got the crown and belt given by the emperor.

And this scene also made many literati doctors even hotter.

Many aspiring literati and doctors began to give up throwing blood in Fireworks Willow Lane, and instead began to sit in the study and write books or draw pictures seriously.

After all, being rewarded by the emperor is not just as simple as getting a rich reward of silver, and the political gains in it are enough to make people greedy.

Just as military merit medals can make a warrior more willing to die.

Zhu Yijun's glory to the literati in terms of cultural knowledge achievements can also make some literati more motivated to devote their efforts to it.

On this day, Suzhou Changzhou.

Inside the Feng family's house.

As soon as Feng Menggui and his younger brother Feng Menglong came back from copying the book, they saw Feng Menglong sitting on the bookcase again, writing hard, so he asked, "I have only copied the book for a day, and I don't stop." ”

"What's the matter, my brother still has to write a book."

Feng Menglong replied with a smile.

"Tang Linchuan can get a holy reward for writing a "Soul Resurrection", and so can I!"

"What's more, I've already collected a lot of folk legends, and I'm waiting to compile them into a book."

"Now that I write it first, maybe I will have the opportunity to be included in the canon in the future, or enter the major libraries, and I can also let you and my brother copy more books for a period of time, and earn some more money by copying books."

Subsequently.

Feng Menglong said a few more words, and there was obviously a meaning between his words that he wanted to be noticed by the emperor through literary creation.

Feng Menggui didn't stop after hearing this, just smiled and said:

"Carefully burn out your eyes."

There are many literati in Jiangnan.

Jiangnan literati who can be officials are a minority in the face of the huge Jiangnan literati base.

And those who have become officials through the Zhongjin Sergeant are even rarer.

Most of the Jiangnan literati could only engage in other occupations in society, or even no occupation, and became idle students.

That's right.

There is a great miraculous phenomenon in the south of the Yangtze River, that is, many idle people are not uneducated people, but educated scholars.

Gu Yanwu, a great Confucian in history, therefore listed the students as the three major evils along with the officials and the squires, saying that they were the main force in the world who were idle and spread rumors, and they were excessively hooligans everywhere, and because they were literate hooligans, they made the government quite a headache, and many times they couldn't control it, and the destructive power was greater.

Now, Zhu Yijun's revitalization of cultural and educational undertakings can be regarded as reducing the number of idle Jiangnan literati by solving the problem of employment of a large number of cultural people.

"It's not enough, the value created by keeping them busy is not too big, we have to let them play a greater value."

Zhu Yijun, who visited Suzhou, stood next to the Tiger Hill Tower in Suzhou on this day, looked at the Jiangnan literati who were seriously copying books in a courtyard in the distance, and said to Shen Shixing, Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue, etc.

Wang Xijue looked at Zhu Yijun: "What Your Majesty said is that just copying books is a bit condescending for some talented people with splendid chests, and the country's cultivators are not just allowing them to copy books." ”

"There are many literati in the south of the Yangtze River, but there is a shortage of literati in Yunnan, Guichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Liaodong."

"I heard that in many counties of Yunnan, Guichuan, and even the number of students stipulated by the imperial court is not enough?"

Zhu Yijun talked about the uneven level of culture and education at this time.

Shen Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites has always been busy and said: "What Your Majesty said is that in many places in the southwest and northwest, there are few people who study, and then these few scholars are often easy to be filial and honest among the middle school members, and then basically become officials." ”

"They are originally from a barren place, so they don't pick the quality of the places where they are officials, so they are very willing to sign up to be officials outside the customs or overseas before they are in the middle of the jinshi."

"It's just that in this way, in many places in the southwest and northwest, there are fewer scholars who can stay in their hometowns to teach, and then students from other places are unwilling to take the initiative to sign up to be professors there."

"As a result, except for a few local eunuchs who teach their children to read, there are often not many families who have the opportunity to let their children study, and the local county schools cannot get together students."

"We have to encourage the literati in Jiangnan to go to the southwest and northwest!"

"Changing the land and returning to the stream, it doesn't mean that the Tusi is eliminated, just send the flow officials, if the local people are not improved, sooner or later there will be new chieftains."

Zhu Yijun then said: "In this way, you go back and discuss it, and propose a perfect incentive system, all those who go to the southwest and northwest to teach or even settle down can receive a special allowance on the Yulu, and it is clear that after two or three years, they will be unconditionally transferred back to the rich county as a chief official, and the excellent can be given a jinshi background, and the promotion priority is only lower than that of those who go overseas to serve." ”

"At the same time, in the name of me, the Imperial Secretary wrote an edict calling on the vast number of scholars to go to the southwest and northwest to dedicate their youth and contribute to the long-term peace and stability of the country."

"Especially the children of the military, let them dare to be at the forefront of the struggle for the country."

As soon as Zhu Yijun's hadith was reached, Shen Shixing, Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue, etc. all surrendered their hands.

Li Chengliang even echoed: "In the opinion of the ministers, if the children of the military cannot benefit the country first and then themselves, then they are not worthy of being the children of the military, and even their families should be expelled from the army, and they cannot be called nobles who rest with the country!" ”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Just as Lin Guogong said." ”

Li Chengliang said this because he had already taken the lead, and he had already sent his second son Li Rubai to Dongying and began to train at the grassroots level of the army.

But.

After Li Chengliang said this, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue also understood more clearly that the Jiangnan scholars who were brought into the military by Chengen had to set an example, otherwise, they might really be kicked out of the military.

Although doing so, it will make your children suffer a little, but now after your army, the benefits of becoming a military nobleman are too great, and the punishment will not be tortured, at most it is just given to death, not to mention, even if the descendants of future generations do not become a weapon, they will also have a fixed salary, free schooling, and free medical security.

Therefore, after they returned home, they began to ask their children to take the initiative to take the lead in going to the southwest and northwest.

"Shi Jie, you moved your family to Suzhou to add context to Huangming there!"

"In order to make up for your loss, you can take all the cash at home, except for what is urgently needed by this branch, and then you can take half of the subscription coupons at home!"

Shen Shixing gathered the children of the family that night, and told his youngest third brother Shen Shijie about his arrangements.

After hearing this, Shen Shijie stood up in surprise and said, "Brother, although my brother has been in Suzhou for a term, it is just a formality!" Why does the elder brother want the younger brother to move his family to Suzhou now, but what big mistake did the younger brother make to be sent to such a far place by the elder brother? ”

"It's not that I'm going to assign you, it's our Shen family, as a Jiangnan military household, who wants to set an example!"

"Your Majesty should encourage the vast number of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River to go to the southwest and northwest to revitalize culture and education there, and prevent the achievements of land reform and return to the river from being annihilated."

"And the cardinal means, we military children must set an example, otherwise we are not worthy of being military nobles;"

"Our Shen family, you are the youngest in this room, and you have been to the Great Northwest, so you can only go! Otherwise, do you want your eldest brother and me to go to two rooms with your second brother? ”

After Shen Shixing spoke, he asked about Shen Shijie.

Shen Shixing's second brother, Shen Shide, complained at this time: "This cardinal minister is really good, he only knows how to please His Majesty, but it affects us Jiangnan military households. ”

"Don't lie about it!"

"Lin Guogong took the initiative to confiscate his second son into the army, and he did this, which is also a move of public loyalty to the country."

"If I were in that position, I would have advocated this, since I want to rest with the country, I have to take responsibility! You have to think about the future of the country, and you can't think like you used to be an ordinary eunuch, and think that changing dynasties is not a big deal! ”

"Moreover, although we are military children, but in the end we are a family of literati, it is already good that we don't have to go to the front line to kill the enemy, but we just go to a remote place to flourish culture and education, and settle there.

After Shen Shixing said this, Shen Shide had no choice but to say yes, and Shen Shijie also understood Shen Shixing's intentions:

"It's not only for the country, but also for the family, that brother moved to Suzhou, but to subscribe to coupons and cash, the house should stay more, Suzhou is not as good as Jiangnan, and there are not many places to use money."

"But there are not many places in Suzhou that can make money, not to mention, if you take more money, it will reduce the resentment of the people in your room, and it will be easier to prevent them from escaping halfway."

Shen Shixing said.

Shen Shijie nodded and didn't say anything more.

"Since ancient times, the rise and fall of the world has been uncertain, and it is a good thing for the continuation of the entire family that our Wang family has moved more branches;"

"After all, no one knows where there will be any catastrophe in the future, if there is a catastrophe in the Jiangnan branch and the clan is wiped out, at least you move to Jianchangwei (Xichang) This branch can still survive;"

"As far as the country is concerned, relocating more scholars to places with unstable foundations is also conducive to the survival of the country."

"It's not just people like us who have to be relocated, but the royal family is going to be relocated next."

"So, Heng'er, as the eldest son of the long house, you should stand up on behalf of the Wang family, set an example first, and take your brother to Jianchang Wei'an's house."

Wang Xijue also instructed his son Wang Heng at this time, and just like Shen Shixing, he said some reasons.

Wang Heng nodded: "My son is willing to follow his father's orders to go to Jianchangwei, but father, you have to allow your son to continue writing miscellaneous dramas." ”

Wang Xijue bowed his head: "Follow you, go to Jianchangwei, just write more miscellaneous dramas, and it may be easier for local people to know the stories of some loyal people." ”

Zhu Yijun issued an order to call for all kinds of incentive systems to be the first, plus the children of big military bureaucrats such as Shen and Wang to cooperate first.

Thereupon.

In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, the first batch of Jiangnan scribes who responded to the call of the country and went to the southwest and northwest were quite large.

this day.

When the first batch of scholars were called to the southwest and northwest, the canal under the red sun was filled with many ships heading north.

The soldiers on the boat also kept waving goodbye to their relatives in the south.

"Brother Shaoyun!"

"Brother Shaoyun!"

Shen Shixing's youngest grandson, Shen Shaoqi, cried and shouted when he saw off Shen Shijie's family and left Suzhou and took a boat to settle in Suzhou, and took Shen Shijie's eldest grandson's hand and said:

"When I grow up, I will go to Suzhou to find you!"

Shen Shaoyun nodded, and then glanced at his grandfather Shen Shijie.

Shen Shijie stood at the bow of the boat at this time, and just bowed to Shen Shixing: "Brother, brother go!" ”

Shen Shixing nodded tearfully.

Meanwhile.

Wang Xijue was also at the gate, looking at his eldest son Wang Heng holding the hand of his beloved concubine, pointing to the sky in the southwest direction and saying something with a smile, and couldn't help but shake his head and said:

"Others are reluctant to leave, but seeing him like this, they wish to leave me."

The Jiangnan scribes who went with Shen, Wang and other children were also saying goodbye to their families at the pier at this time, some in tears and some with laughter.

Zhu Yijun, who came here in Weifu, saw this scene.

Sorry, I'm too busy today to write four thousand words

(End of chapter)