He knew that there were so-called fortune tellers in ancient times, such as Liu Bowen, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, who was said to be able to tell people's good and evil, and Bao Zheng in folklore, who could also do this.
However, these are always a bit strange and confusing, and people in orthodox Confucianism do not believe in them.
Of course, I can’t say I don’t believe it at all.
It can be seen from the scientific examination that when selecting talents, people with square looks are selected, and those with vulgar looks tend to be ranked lower.
Even if they are not dismissed, they will often be ranked among the top three.
Both scholars and scholars are affected by this aspect.
The Jinshi had greater influence because they had to meet the Holy King.
He looked at it for a while before saying, "Okay, then I'll give you a try."
Then he asked the old housekeeper to call more than 20 servants at home.
He knew most of these people well.
Except for a few who are lucky and have the protection of their elders, most people who can reach the high position of governor or governor have special skills in recognizing people and dealing with things.
In other words, social skills are definitely passable.
When looking at people, you can see at least 70% of them accurately.
"Come and judge. I won't embarrass you. As long as you are 60% correct, I will recommend you." Governor Wang said.
Scholars can also be officials, even without fame. If someone recommends them, they can also take the path of serving as miscellaneous officials and reach a very high official position. Although they are not valued by the Qingliu orthodox, it is still a good path after all.
"Okay, sir, please give me some paper and pen." Wen Rensheng said confidently.
"Okay, you can take whatever you want."
Wen Rensheng then took out a piece of rice paper on the table and began to write some questions.
"A kid is holding gold in a busy city. What do you think when you see him? A: Rob him. B: Deceive him. C: Find his master..."
"Five people are doing business and make twenty-six taels. How do they divide the money? A: divide it equally. B: divide it based on merit. C: divide it based on background and identity."
Write these questions one by one.
"They are illiterate, how can you write these questions to take the test?" Uncle Li Xin reminded in a low voice.
He is the governor's confidant, so he dares to speak at such a time.
After all, in the late Ming Dynasty, Shangguan officials were not so strict because they wanted to gain a good reputation.
However, if the Jurchens dare to talk nonsense in front of their master, they can be beheaded directly.
“Just find someone to read it to you.”
Then Wen Rensheng finished writing the topic and ordered everyone to stand in a row.
Then he found several desk clerks and recorded the choices of these people while reading the questions.
During the whole process, Governor Wang sat aside and waited patiently.
Not to mention anything else, this self-restraint skill is strong enough. It is spread that he treats strange people with generosity. His reputation as a courteous and virtuous corporal cannot be escaped.
There are ten questions in total.
Soon everyone had finished answering.
Seeing this, Governor Wang shook his head slightly.
Needless to say, these people's answers are basically the same, and they are all written according to the answer that seems to be the most correct and most acceptable on the stage.
For example, for the first question, no one would write the answer to rob the child of his gold, and everyone would choose C.
How to identify good people, bad people, loyal ministers and traitorous ministers?
Wen Rensheng smiled slightly.
Then write down the evaluation of good, evil, wise and foolish on each person's corresponding answer sheet and give it to Governor Wang.
Governor Wang took a closer look and was shocked.
He glanced at the servants, remembered a few of them, and then waved them away.
Then he bowed to Wen Rensheng and said, "Only today will students know that there is a strange person out of this world!"
Li Xin was shocked.
You must know that this is a governor of a place, and there are many high-ranking officials in the entire Ming Dynasty!
He actually bowed down to a scholar. If this spreads out, it will definitely cause a sensation in Shilin!
Fortunately I wasn't kneeling down, otherwise that would have been crazy!
"Your Majesty, the governor is too polite, but this is just a student who has gained something from watching the ancients learn miscellaneous things for many years." Wen Rensheng wrote lightly.
"Okay, okay, I will hire you to be a celebrant in the army right now, and I will recommend you to the court in the future. In this way, I have hope for the great Ming Dynasty, and everyone has hope for the great success of the court!" Governor Wang looked excited.
To be honest, in his position, he is different from ordinary bureaucrats. He also sincerely hopes that the country will prosper and last for generations.
In this way, his family, his own reputation, and his wealth can also be extended.
It is a pity that the current situation in the imperial court seems to be stable, but in fact there are many hidden dangers.
The annexation of land, the raging Eastern pirates, repeated border invasions, and the rebellion of the chieftains in the southwest. In short, hidden dangers have been laid.
The problem is that there are still constant disputes within the imperial court. The big bosses of the imperial court still do not see the crisis lurking, and still feel that the situation is generally stable, but there are only small hidden dangers.
After all, the entire Jiangnan, the most important place of wealth, is still peaceful with singing and dancing, and there is basically no civil unrest.
This gave them the illusion that Jiangnan was stable and the capital had sufficient food, so there would be no major problems.
But an illusion is an illusion.
They don't know that erosion in a few places is like a pustule on the human body. As it gets worse, it will spread to the whole body and eventually lead to death.
However, when the pustule first appeared, the person was still very strong and healthy. Who would have thought that just one or two years later, such a healthy person would suddenly die?
This is the image characteristic of the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Before the destruction, there were no signs of destruction at all in the areas south of the Yangtze River and Guangxi. However, the pustules had become too big to be cut.
Governor Wang also felt that there were some problems, but he also felt that the problem was not big.
But if Li Hao's ability is used to govern the world, why worry about the world being unstable?
Why worry about the Eastern pirates invading the border?
"Thank you, sir." Wen Rensheng smiled and agreed.
With the governor as his backer, his business can reach a scale of ten thousand taels, which means that his annual profit can reach ten thousand taels.
Ten thousand taels a year, a servant's monthly salary is about 2 taels, which is 24 taels a year. Ten thousand taels can support nearly 500 servants.
Of course, the consumption of ordnance, rations, cloth, etc. must also be taken into account. A conscientious general will pay for it. Of course, the loyalty and combat power of the servant are also high. The unscrupulous ones will directly deduct it from the monthly salary. The servant's combat power and loyalty will also be
reduce.
But no matter what, it is still a hundred times better than the soldiers in the camp who are often in arrears with their monthly salary and even don't have enough to eat.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! These days, an ordinary farmer in the north can only harvest five to seven taels of silver for the whole year, and cannot make ends meet, often on the verge of bankruptcy.
A servant's income is equivalent to four times that of an ordinary farmer. As long as the salary is sufficient, it is enough for them to work hard.
At least it can collapse only when the military law team is present and the battle loss reaches 20%.
And the adopted sons of the soldiers were able to achieve total annihilation but also escort the general to escape.
Wen Rensheng could not use the modern training methods of later generations, he could only use the technology and knowledge of this era.
So he could only use the servant's method.
However, there is a big problem with the servant method, that is, the number cannot be increased.
Moreover, relying solely on personal bravery cannot reach the level of fighting after formation.
But Wen Rensheng understood that Donglu had more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 60,000 soldiers, so they could fight in formation and then fight.
In this way, it seems that the imperial court can dispatch more than 100,000 troops and horses at one time, but each general can only use his servants, and the servants can only be one thousand, or even two thousand.
Every time you really face an opponent, you have one or two thousand fighting men against 20,000 soldiers in formation. While you are fighting hard, other generals are still watching, conserving their strength, or even running away...
If this continues, it would be strange to be undefeated.
The Jia Ding method is a method that generals have to adopt in order to maintain their status and combat effectiveness when the imperial court's finances collapse.
Moreover, this has the advantage that it can be used as a general's army, because these servants are raised by the general himself by occupying the farmland on his own free salary.
It is beyond the control of civil servants.
The military pay given by civilian officials is the rated amount, but it is used by the generals, generals, deputy generals, and generals to support their few servants.
Moreover, when changing the place of garrison, the generals also have to take their servants with them to take office.
It is impossible for the imperial court to prohibit it. If it were prohibited, the generals would have no fighting power. Then it would be meaningless for the imperial court to change the place where it was guarded. They would be repeatedly defeated by foreign invaders.
The imperial court could only allow soldiers to serve as generals, and then use civil and military control and control of large and small ministers to maintain combat effectiveness.
Wen Rensheng thought to himself, and then got the appointment from Governor Wang.
Then he was given preferential treatment in a house in the governor's mansion.
That is to say, all day long, I have the opportunity to meet with the governor and praise the military, aircraft and civil affairs.
The power in this is equivalent to that of the cabinet to the emperor.
This is something that even his uncle Li Xin could not do.
"You are better than your master. You are indeed the darling of my Li family." Li Xin praised him after he was put on duty.
"Uncle, I won the prize, but it's just a small test."
Early the next morning.
Governor Wang ordered all the officials, big and small, to be gathered in the yamen under his jurisdiction, and asked Wen Rensheng to use his method to identify them one by one.
After Wen Rensheng identified it, he wrote a comment.
At first, everyone didn't know what they were going to do.
It wasn't until Governor Wang began to use the authority of the military sect to investigate and punish several officials with military law that they finally woke up.
For a time, everyone hated and feared Wen Rensheng.
Wen Rensheng also took the opportunity to propose hiring some guards for himself.
Governor Wang naturally agreed.
He also understands how scary and hateful this ability is.
No one wants to be judged as a traitor.
Even a loyal minister does not like to be judged by others.
Although among scholars, everyone enjoys criticizing others.
Everyone pursues a good reputation.
Even if you are a court official, you still have to worry about the evaluation of scholars.
Wen Rensheng did not search through Yaren, but went to a refugee gathering place under the wall outside the city and found three families with half-grown children, that is, children between 13 and 15 years old.
Let them be your own servants.
I found a house in the city, rented it with the money given by others these days, and then settled them.
He became a popular figure in the eyes of the governor, and he received a lot of tributes from others every day.
All the subordinate officials gave gifts one after another.
There are as few as five taels, and as many as one hundred taels, which is a lot.
All in all, in just a few days, more than 900 taels of silver were accumulated.
This shows how easy it is to enjoy the shade under a big tree.
This fund accumulates very quickly.
This amount of money would take a year to accumulate even for a county magistrate.
Naturally, these three families are extremely grateful, which is called simplicity.
Wen Rensheng smiled slightly.
The three families are the Xie family, the Zhou family, and the Luo family. Naturally, they all now have the surname Li.
Wen Rensheng also adopted the boys from those three families as adopted sons and took his surname.
Even though he is only 15 years old, so what?
Same.
They are all from northern Shaanxi, bankrupt households, and fled here to beg and work to make a living.
Thanks to the late Ming Dynasty, the Luyin system was in such a state of decay that households could still flee.
The main reason is that officials are lazy and it is better to do less than to do more.
Otherwise, if they are investigated and dealt with one by one and deported to their place of origin, how much trouble will there be in this process?
If you want to repatriate, you have to give them food. If you don't give food, just say one word and let the government officials repatriate hundreds or dozens of people. That's not forcing people to die, it's just not causing trouble.
There were people doing this kind of thing in the beginning, but when there were more troubles, there were no officials to do it, so the refugees wandered around.
Officials also muddle along, and as long as there are not too many refugees, they are basically allowed to work as beggars outside the city.
Of course, entering the city is still not possible unless you find connections in the city.
"All you have to do is eat and drink well. This young master will be of great use to you in the future. As long as you work hard, you will definitely have a good ending in the future."
"Thank you so much, foster father." The boys from the three families knelt down and kowtowed.
"It's easy to tell, Li Da. This is 25 taels of food and vegetable money for this month. I guarantee one meat every 3 days. I have to eat enough every day. If you don't have enough, come to me to get it." Wen Rensheng said and took out 25 taels of silver.
"Thank you, foster father." Li Da quickly held it with both hands.
25 liang. Rice is not expensive these days. 5 qian silver per stone, one liang is equal to ten qian.
In other words, you can buy 50 shi of rice, and one person can eat 1 jin of rice a day to be full. Of course, this is based on low- to medium-intensity labor.
1 kilogram of rice can steam 3 kilograms of rice.
But people these days are short of oil, water and protein, so they eat a lot of carbohydrates.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In this case, one person per month is 30 kilograms of rice, 3 people can eat one stone of grain, and 50 stone of rice is enough to feed 150 people for one month.
There are a total of 20 people in their three families.
In other words, 25 taels of silver is enough for the three of them to eat well and well.
How could they not sacrifice their lives just for this?
Of course, Wen Rensheng knew that this kind of loyalty could only be guaranteed for 5 years. After 5 years, as the contrast declined and the memory of the famine was forgotten, they began to feel dissatisfied.
However, their nature and character have been set, and they will not do anything too extreme unless they are tempted by great power and wealth.
However, as time goes by, if you encounter temptation, there is no guarantee.
Even the Jurchens, who had strict military laws, went from being strong to sweeping the Ming and Dashun armies, including the Guan Ning Cavalry (1644), and were finally pushed back from Yunnan to Hubei by Wu Sangui (1673). The Eight Banners completely lost their combat effectiveness and could only
It only took 30 years to rely on the Han army's green battalion to suppress the rebellion.
In 30 years, a group of tough and cold-weapon troops at the pinnacle of East Asia can quickly degenerate into Eight Banners old soldiers.
The reason is very simple, 30 years happens to be the renewal of two generations.
The first generation of veterans dies of old age, the second generation enjoys it, and the third generation continues to enjoy it, what kind of fighting power can they still have?
The ancestors' battle formations, arduous treks, fishing and hunting life have long been forgotten.
There are only a few battle memories.
Wen Rensheng understands this very well, so in order to maintain the vitality and loyalty of the organization, it must be constantly updated.
Continuously rising comparisons give people goals.
Those who are able to cope with the situation will be transferred from their posts to do repetitive work, and they will not be able to do leading and pioneering work.
