Chapter 1691, just go to the powerful place to build a road
When everyone heard what Li Zhen, Wang Shiwen and others said, they were completely dumbfounded.
In their impressions and concepts, being a petty official is like eating royal food, and it is also something that many people want to do.
Many scholars who have no hope of taking the imperial examination will choose to work as petty officials, clerks for officials, masters, etc. It can be considered a good personal job.
For these students who are learning new things, they always feel that what they are learning is not the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, but the strange sexual techniques of heretics, which cannot be put on the stage.
Being able to let them work as minor officials is already very respectable to them, because some things really require professional talents like them to do them well.
However, now, none of them are willing to become petty officials, and they even explained the reasons in detail.
"You all have an annual salary of at least 200 taels of silver upon graduation?"
Zhong Zhong thought about it and asked in surprise.
This income level is quite high. You should know that the annual income of ordinary seventh-grade officials is almost at this level. They can actually get at least this amount after graduation.
"Of course, we all rely on knowledge and skills to make a living. Building bridges, paving roads, and building houses and bridges is absolutely impossible without us. There are many places that need us in the entire Ming Dynasty. We still have to pay an annual salary of 200 taels.
Seriously consider whether to go."
Li Zhen nodded solemnly and replied.
"If this is the case, then there is really no point in becoming a petty official. The income of being a petty official in a year is actually very average, and it is difficult to increase."
Zhong Zhong thought about it and nodded to express his understanding.
The income level of a small official is really average compared to today's Ming Dynasty. People in the Beijing and Tianjin areas work hard for a year and only have dozens of taels of silver. This small official's income is almost
This number is just that a small official has some small power in his hands. In addition, he is still an official after all, and he has a good status among the common people.
"That's it~"
"What about graduates from other colleges, such as Daming Institute of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Mechanical Institute, and Textile Institute? Are they as popular as you and are they willing to work as petty officials?"
Li Dongyang thought for a while and asked quickly.
"They are also not willing to work as petty officials. After they graduate, major commercial banks, factories, workshops, etc. are all vying for them, and the remuneration offered is better than the other, so why would they want to be petty officials?
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"Anyway, among our new students, I haven't heard of anyone who works as a clerk. If they can be upright, why should they work as slaves for those so-called scholars?"
"That's right, those traditional scholars are just like everyday people. Apart from being able to write some articles, they are useless. They don't even understand a lot of basic common sense. They often come to our school to cause trouble. I don't know what face they have."
Wang Shiwen, Tang Jiwen, and Xu Yunpeng also followed suit.
After hearing what a few people said, the ministers present became a little confused. It was really infuriating to criticize traditional scholars like them.
Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said: "Thank you classmates~"
After saying that, he left the place, and then he went to find more than a dozen students from the engineering school and asked them if they were willing to be clerks, but the results were the same.
No one wants to be a petty official at all. Petty officials have no appeal to them at all. They have no income, no future, and no status. No one wants to be a petty official.
official.
"It seems that you are right, Liu Jin. No one is willing to be a minor official."
"But the imperial court needs professional talents like them to handle affairs. Without them, many things cannot be done. If there are no clerks in the household department who can calculate accounts, the accounts will not be settled."
"Without the people who understand construction engineering in the Ministry of Industry, won't we just have to do random things in the future?"
Emperor Hongzhi's face was full of sorrow.
Traditional scholars clamored to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country every day, saying that they were learning how to govern the country. Now it seems that what they learned may not be of much use in running the country.
The so-called loyalty and filial piety to govern the country are just words. As for what loyalty is and what filial piety is, they only follow the script without any insights or breakthroughs of their own.
Just in the various ministries of the imperial court, many things would not be accomplished without the petty officials and officials under their command.
If you expect these officials, they know almost nothing and can't accomplish anything.
It is true that we cannot rely solely on these civil servants to govern the country. Military generals are also needed. Now it seems that these professional talents from all walks of life are also needed. Without them, it is impossible for this country to be governed well.
These officials who have read the Four Books, Five Classics, and Confucian classics are not good for the country. In addition to paying equal attention to civil and military affairs, more new scholars should be recruited to participate in running the country.
However, the selection of court officials now relies on the imperial examination system. Prince Zhu Houzhao only promoted and appointed three minor officials, but he encountered strong opposition from these civil servants.
Why do they object?
We are not worried that the current imperial examination system will completely shake the foundation of their Confucian civil servants' rule.
There is no thousand-year-old dynasty, only thousand-year-old Confucianism.
Emperor Hongzhi was thinking a lot at this moment, and he was also thinking very far.
Things that I didn’t think about before are slowly starting to come to mind now. The more I think about it, the more I feel that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is actually not our old Zhu family at all, but the old Kong family. He has been their old Kong family for thousands of years.
Home.
This iron-clad Confucianism and flowing emperor have never changed from beginning to end. They have always been like this.
"Your Majesty~"
At this time, Cao Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, came to Emperor Hongzhi. This time everyone came to the School of Architecture and Engineering to see if they could recruit people from here to be minor officials.
Therefore, the Ministry of Industry also specially allocated a few positions for minor officials, and went to the School of Construction Engineering to recruit people to see if anyone was willing to be a minor official.
"How about it?"
"Have you found anyone?"
Emperor Hongzhi looked at Cao Yuan and asked.
"No, I haven't recruited anyone, and no one even came to ask."
As expected, Cao Yuan shook his head helplessly and replied, "I really can't figure it out. Our Ministry of Works is recruiting junior staff. This is directly under the Ministry of Works. No one from the School of Architecture and Engineering even came to ask.
, it’s really confusing.”
“It’s just that we can’t recruit anyone.”
Emperor Hongzhi already understood why he couldn't recruit anyone, so he said calmly.
"It shouldn't be. This is directly under the Ministry of Industry."
Cao Yuan couldn't figure it out. This was a well-oiled yamen. Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty was building infrastructure everywhere, including roads, railways, reservoirs, dams, ports, bridges, etc., and hundreds of millions of taels of money were spent on it every year.
The current Ministry of Works is not the former Ministry of Works. In the past, we were very poor. In the Ministry of Works, we had to pay 10 taels of silver to do something that cost 10 taels of silver. It was very difficult and no one wanted to do it.
But now, there is a lot of money allocated by the imperial court, and there are plenty of job vacancies. It's easy to find someone who can do anything casually, but it's still hard to recruit people. I really can't figure it out.
"If you can't figure it out, think about it slowly."
Emperor Hongzhi's words made Cao Yuan look innocent. Why did he make Emperor Hongzhi angry because he was so good?
After being spoken to so harshly, everyone was completely confused.
"Let's go to Shuntianfu Urban Construction Bureau!"
Emperor Hongzhi left the School of Architectural Engineering and went straight to Zhu Houzhao's Shuntian Prefecture Urban Construction Bureau to see what Zhu Houzhao was doing now and how he was planning the urban construction of the capital.
Soon, everyone arrived at the Shuntian City Construction Bureau. Before they entered, Zhu Houzhao's voice came.
"Yes, yes, let's go to the land of the powerful and build a road there. They don't need this little land. I'll take care of it if you have anything to do!"
