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Chapter 51 Another ten years

"The great way is invisible, giving birth to heaven and earth; the great way is ruthless, running the sun and the moon; the great way is nameless, nourishing all things. I don't know its name, but I strongly call it Tao."

"The Taoist people have clear and turbid..."

Lang Lang's reading sound came from the academy. Today, the Dasong Academy is no longer just a place and a city, nor is it just an integral part of educational literacy.

Instead, it has completely become a target that all young people yearn for. Even if the Song Dynasty Academy has almost opened all over the Song Dynasty, it cannot stop this enthusiasm.

In contrast, the various Confucian academies that were once high and high were almost knocked out.

It’s not that they have no audience. Even if the Ministry of Revenue reforms over the past ten years and the imperial examinations have changed, Confucianism is still an important pillar for managing the court.

Moreover, due to the imperial examinations over the years, the importance of Confucianism has become more profound than before.

But the school was not happy at all.

Originally, the professors in various colleges are just one's own opinions, while the rest of the theories are just supplements and broaden their horizons, which is equivalent to a unique business.

Now, in order to cater to the court, all theories of the hundreds of schools have been published, including Confucianism, Law, Taoism, Mohism, Public Transportation, Medicine, Peasants and Soldiers, and all the families have restored their past prosperity.

After five years of pain, the court reform of the Song Dynasty ushered in a completely different scene from the past dynasties. Each theory has its own place of use, rather than wailing in the wild and pointing fingers.

The collision of various ideas has also brought this era to a climax. Confucianism, as the most impacted and most criticized subject, is not only undergoing a major internal transformation, but also constantly adapting to its own position in the new era.

Fortunately, the academic court has a deep foundation, and with the actions of all kinds of people who are originally affiliated with Confucianism, Confucianism finally maintained a super status.

But behind the scenes, the strong people chased after him, especially Mo, Nong, Soldier, and Fa followed him closely, so he could not have a little free thought.

Instead, it made the court and academic circles of the Song Dynasty more stable.

Learning Taoism in the early morning, savoring Confucianism at noon, reading the Dharma at night, and alternating theories of the three schools. This is the daily life of today's students of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, if you want to study other subjects, you can study by yourself based on your own interests. However, if you just want to participate in the most orthodox imperial examination, then just study these three subjects.

Now after the imperial examination reform, the main body remains unchanged, but there are many more branches. You can still enter the court or even enter the center, but it is more difficult than the orthodox way.

It is precisely this that the value of the imperial examinations in these branches has been recognized, and it is not inferior to the real high school gold list.

Ten years of hard work finally gave people from all walks of life an upward channel. It can be said that the Song Dynasty court's reform of education and imperial examinations finally completed the first phase of the task.

The forces of the court were divided again. The Ministry of Works was controlled by the three schools of Medicine, Mo and Gongshu. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites had their own disputes between Confucianism, Law and Taoism. The Ministry of Justice was also a territory that the Legalists regarded as a must-win. The Ministry of War has now become a place where the Mohists and military strategists compete, and the Ministry of Revenue has become a place where merchants and Gongshushus confronted each other.

Even those cabinet masters who work hard and make great contributions now have to be influenced by the hundreds of schools of thought, especially the founder of the Legalists who have made great progress in the past ten years, Feng Yang and Feng Grand Secretary Feng.

He never concealed his preference for Legalism.

Since the contemporary Emperor of Human Emperor's retreat, the court has been controlled by the cabinet for the past three years, and nothing major happened.

Especially after farmers continued to develop the method of planting and domesticating grain and animal husbandry, the population soared in the tenth year of the Song Dynasty and there was no shortage of food.

On the contrary, because of the continuous breeding of good varieties, we searched for various edible plants and animals from overseas and used the barren land. The agricultural development of the entire Song Dynasty was extremely rapid.

Many places have even begun to have the prototype of collective agriculture, and the centralized breeding of livestock allows each household to eat a bite of meat for two or three days.

This kind of life like heaven, not to mention the middle-aged and elderly people who watched the changes of the Song Dynasty, even the new generation can feel the changes of the times and have sufficient confidence in the future.

The belly problem was solved in the last decade, and the problem of knowing etiquette has been solved in the last decade. What about the next decade?

Everyone is looking forward to the change of the Song Dynasty court. You must know that this Emperor of Humanity has only been in his prime for twenty years, and is still in his prime. More senior officials know that this Emperor of Humanity also serves as the responsibility of Houtu, and it is a fact that long-term control of the Song Dynasty is an important fact.

What surprised many people even more was that many of Zhao Wuyou's secret actions stopped at this time, and the development of the power step by step seemed to be not anxious at all.

You should know that you already have the two honorary positions of the Human Queen, and anyone with a discerning eye can see what the next step is.

However, the silence between the Song Dynasty and the Heavenly Court seemed to have reached some agreement, which made many forces who wanted to take the opportunity to get benefits wonder.

However, no matter how many forces are at the forefront of this, the development of the Song Dynasty did not stop, and opened up the newly occupied grasslands, developed overseas trade, and even reached another wild continent, which the Song Dynasty had been doing.

The wealthy gentry who controlled the land finally raised their heads and no longer looked at their own acres of land, but looked at more opportunities.

So much so that after the Jinshan Temple was destroyed, the gentry in the south adapted to the imperial edicts of the court without much resistance and took most of the land to the state.

There are one thing and two things. Now all the fertile land in the world is owned by the Song Dynasty, and the taxes of farmers are even lower than the last in history. The calls for the court to abolish the agricultural tax are also heard.

However, with the efforts of today's merchant theory, the development of industry is not enough to truly support the expenses of the Song Dynasty court, so agricultural taxes were not completely abolished, but this is inevitable in the visible future.

The development of overseas trade and the discovery of gold and silver mines have pushed industry and commerce in this era to a galloping high-speed train.

The day when the Civil Department invented the steam engine, the entire Song Dynasty had already set off a revolutionary craze. The era of industry came. If there were not more occupations that required labor, it would have caused riots at that time.

This also shows the benefits of the opening of the Song Dynasty College in various places and opening up people's wisdom.

Today's people of the Song Dynasty are still full of energy, but this kind of fullness is different from being proud of the country's strength. This kind of self-confidence is even more due to the progress of civilization and the progress of their own knowledge and culture.
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