"Li Shilang chose Shandong to start the investigation. It was a mistake! Moreover, it was a big mistake!"
This was the first sentence Hou Yong, the Minister of Civil Affairs, said after entering the palace, and it was also the first time he publicly expressed his personal views on the New Deal.
There was silence in the hall. A rare event like this in ancient and modern times, where students from a province stopped taking exams, really makes people very worried. If it is not handled well, it will make people laugh forever. ωωw..net
Zhu Yunxi sat on the throne, rubbing his temples, and said, "Wrong? Where is the mistake?"
Hou Yong raised his head and looked directly into the emperor's eyes, "Because Shandong is different from other places!" He said with a smile, "To be precise, the northern land is completely different from the southern scholar. This difference is not the origin of the students, nor is it the style of writing.
, it’s not about the level of the article, but...the future!”
Zhu Yunxi's hand suddenly paused, "Keep talking!"
"Shilang Li has no experience in the local area, and he probably doesn't know much about the local customs. He thinks that as long as you act rationally, you can do anything without restraint, but he ignores that lawlessness is love, and love has reason!"
Hou Yong, an honest man, rarely opened his mouth to sneer.
Zhu Yunxi's face turned red. He insisted on promoting Li Zhigang. Hou Yong's words seemed more like he was speaking to him as the emperor.
"Since the Song Dynasty moved southward, the literary style in the north has gradually declined..."
Just as Hou Yong was about to speak, Zhu Gaochi in front of him couldn't help but said, "Hou Shangshu, please be brief. What happened more than a hundred years ago, there is no need to repeat the same old tune!"
"If you don't tell me, you won't know what is wrong with Mr. Li? You won't know why the students in Shandong are so easy to incite and start making trouble as soon as they are encouraged!" Hou Yong frowned and spoke in a cold tone.
He usually didn't want to offend Minister Wang from the South Study Room, but now he couldn't care less about this issue.
He was more devastated than anyone else when something like this happened in Shandong. He had served as the chief envoy of Shandong for several years, and he was most proficient and proud of two things, one was to calm the people, and the other was to promote official education.
In addition, he is originally from Shandong.
"Listen to him!" Zhu Yunxi said calmly.
"A hundred years ago, the North was in the hands of the Hu people. The Jin Dynasty was okay. Starting from Jin Zhangzong, they followed Confucianism and legalism, and then Hanized it, and they also regarded themselves as Chinese orthodox. But after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, did they ever rule the country with Confucianism?" Hou Yong
He continued, "The ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty believed that the destruction of Jin lay in Sinicization, so he wanted to use Han Confucianism, but he was very wary of Sinology!"
"Therefore, since the founding of the country in the BC Yuan Dynasty, there was no imperial examination. Even if it was opened, it would be divided into three, six or nine grades, just to save face!" Hou Yong continued, "In this way, how good can the academic style in the north be?
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"Coupled with the fact that the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, all life in the north was devastated, and then the Song Dynasty was attacked with all its strength for decades. There was no room for scholars who read the books of sages!"
"As for Jiangnan, the Southern Song Dynasty's aristocratic families had a flourishing literary style, and their family traditions and inheritance continued to produce talents in large numbers. As a result, the gap between students from the north and the south has been widened!"
At this point, Hou Yong paused and said, "You all know this, so don't be impatient and listen to me slowly!"
Then, he looked at everyone again, "Besides, when the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, the ones who fought the most brutally were probably in the north, right?"
Everyone was silent. The chaos in the late Yuan Dynasty began in the north and affected half of the Yuan Dynasty.
The old man's Huaixi Xungui Group also turned its attention to the south and successfully annexed Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, and then it was qualified to compete with the Yuan army.
At that time, the entire north was destroyed, especially Henan and Shandong, where all the powerful families and powerful families were reduced to bones. The destruction in the south was relatively small, and the Ming Dynasty occupied the most fertile land that produced grain and cloth, so it was able to launch its troops in the Northern Expedition.
The process of the Northern Expedition was a great achievement.
But the war will cost lives, and it will be another heavy blow to the north.
To this day, the vitality of the North has not slowed down. This can be understood from the last North-South List case.
How can we talk about education without money?
Without education, there is no talent!
There is no talent to talk about construction!
The original education system and social structure have been shattered and are not easy to establish.
"Everything has a cause!" Hou Yong sighed, "If there is a cause, there will be an effect! Take Shandong students as an example. They become officials in the court, shine on their families and revitalize their families. This is the reason why they study. And the privileges given to them by the court are
The fruit they want!”
"They study just to be officials, just for the privileges!" Hou Yong said, saluting Zhu Yunxi, "Isn't this the case for me?" He raised his head and said, "The reason for this is because there is no way out!"
Zhu Yunxi's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly felt that he seemed to have overlooked something most important.
"If you are not an official, you will be a poor scholar. You will be ridiculed and bullied by others! The Northland has been in the hands of barbarians for hundreds of years, and the distinction between officials and people is clear!"
Hou Yong said again, "But students from Jiangnan are different, right?"
"Students from Jiangnan are proud of being Jinshi after passing the examination, and after becoming an official, they are even more honored by the Imperial Academy!" Hou Yong added, "It is rare to see students from Jiangnan who start running for official positions after winning the imperial examination, right? It is also rare to see that,
Are Jiangnan students overjoyed to be an eighth-grade official?"
The hall was filled with Hou Yong's voice.
Everyone was listening carefully, with thoughtful expressions on their faces.
"Because they have a way out! Even students from poor families have the support of their whole family. If they are admitted to the Juren Examination, if they don't get the Jinshi, they will continue to study hard at home, or go to private schools to teach, or work as a staff, which is not easy.
Comfortable...what's more money than less trouble?" After saying that, Hou Yong smiled and said, "With the promotion of people, you will have an official status, you can protect the family, you can feed back, and you will be respected wherever you go! Yes!
With your status as a judge, you don’t have to worry about your livelihood.”
"Not to mention those aristocratic families!" Hou Yong sighed again, "Everyone, there are many Jiangnan Jinshi who are serving as officials in the court, right? Have you ever seen anyone who is willing to stay away from the capital to become a local official, eh? Unless he is a feudal lord.
Officer, right?"
"But on the other hand, it's not the case in the north! If you can't pass the exam, you won't be able to hold your head up for the rest of your life. Without an official position, your family will... decline! They say that the rich are poor in literature and military, but it costs money to study! How about passing the exam?
Fame, what do you want?"
"Let me tell you, if I had not passed the exam back then, the few acres of farmland my family had would have been used to pay off debts! But after passing the exam, I would really leap over the dragon's gate! Become a master!"
Hou Yong's words cannot be said to be completely correct, but we must admit that they are reasonable!
The upper-class economy determines the lower-class structure, and the economic differences between the north and the south as well as the humanistic structure lead to completely different mentality of students from the north and the south.
Especially in the humanities, there are clans in the south, but there is no clan behind the students in the north.
"I'm not saying that the implementation of the New Deal is wrong!" Hou Yong said again, "The benefits of the New Deal are countless!"
Everyone here is a smart person, and the purpose of the New Deal is nothing more than to increase revenue for the national treasury, curb the growing gentry class, and strengthen the power of the central government over the local areas.
These three things are the bones and muscles of the Ming Dynasty, making the entire Ming Empire form a fist, instead of doing things in the court and doing things independently in the local areas.
Especially when it comes to curbing the gentry group that is like a local emperor, important matters such as money and food for the people cannot be left in their hands, so the government tax collectors have to look at their faces and discuss with them.
Not to mention the collusion between officials and gentry at higher levels, the connection between officials and businessmen, and the fact that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River established spokespersons one after another in the court.
"What I want to say is that Li Shilang's method and means are wrong!" Hou Yong continued, "It's too hasty! It's too cruel!"
"What famous student doesn't have someone else's land in his name? He thought he was acting vigorously and resolutely when he left, but he didn't know he was just stirring up a hornet's nest! He is tantamount to being the enemy of all the students in Shandong!"
"How can we not rebel in this way!"
"Besides!" Hou Yong's words were resounding, "Shilang Li is an official from the south, and when he goes to Shandong to investigate the case, someone with intentions will use his status to make a big fuss, saying that he is seeking personal revenge for the North-South Ranking!"
This chapter has been completed!