"Only now do you know how awesome your father is?" Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, but very proud. After a pause, he said again:
"Lao Liu did a great job this time. He identified this link and made a surprising move to let the people see through the lies of those squires and elders. Knowing that whether it is clearing the land or the Lijia system, it is a good thing that benefits the people.
Those country gentry and patriarchs have lost the support of the people, so naturally they cannot make any splash."
"Hehe, Father, thank you very much." The corners of Lao Liu's mouth couldn't help but turn up.
"It's just that your method is too disgraceful." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and scolded: "Damn it, the dignified prince went to become the leader of a beggar gang, is it ridiculous? Is it ridiculous?!"
"It's the chief gang leader." Lao Liu corrected.
"That's a beggar too!" Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless. Back then, he was forced to beg for food, but this kid took it as a fucking hobby.
"What's wrong with the beggar? One of my dreams since childhood is to be the leader of the Beggar Clan." Lao Liu said nonchalantly: "People say that a young man is better than a young man. A son must have someone who can be better than his father."
"Fuck..." Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang understand his intention, and he rolled his eyes in depression and said, "Then your father was a monk, do you want to be an abbot?"
"I have no such plan at the moment." Lao Liu thought about it seriously and said, "The profession of Neptune is more attractive."
"Look, look, look, I just praised him a few words, and this guy's tail is raised to the sky." Zhu Yuanzhang became so angry that he bent down to take off his shoes and said, "I think his skin is itchy."
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"Father, we're talking about business." The prince quickly pressed his father's hand, glared at Lao Liu and said, "Don't talk nonsense anymore."
"Oh..." Lao Liu nodded obediently.
"Fuck..." Zhu Yuanzhang also cursed and put on his shoes. When he couldn't see this kid, he always thought about how good he was, but when he saw him, he hated him so much. "What did you say just now?"
"Speaking of using people from the Beggar Gang to go around the streets and alleys to promote things to the people, the effect is very good," the prince said, "but it's a bit disgraceful."
"That's right, can't you find anyone in such a huge imperial court? You still have to let beggars publicize national policies." Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly:
"However, the effect of government propaganda is not necessarily as good as that of beggars."
"That's right, publicity must speak human language and be down-to-earth." Zhu Zhen nodded.
"Yeah." Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard and said with deep approval: "'Speak in human language and be grounded' is a good saying. It is really not easy for Lao Liu to understand these six words. But he can definitely do it more decently.
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"We plan to build a 'Shenming Pavilion' and a 'Jingshan Pavilion' in every rural community. The former is used to post court proclamations and directly convey government orders that are closely related to them to the people; the latter is used to post various local filial piety and charity.
, in order to educate the villagers.
"The common people are illiterate, so they select three to five or seven literate and respected people from each township to read to them regularly and explain to them the painstaking efforts of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yuanzhang was very proud of his resourcefulness and glanced at Lao Liudao: "
What do you think, this method is better than your Beggar Clan propaganda team?"
"It's on the stage, but it's a bit wishful thinking." Lao Liu didn't buy it.
"Hey, why are you wishful thinking?" Zhu Yuanzhang said a little shamelessly.
"Not only can those scholars not read to them obediently, but they also confuse the public with their monstrous words!" The fourth child took the initiative to share the firepower for the sixth child and said angrily: "We are forced to have no choice but to kill those Mr. Dong Heng, the down-and-out scholar, and the ruffian.
The gangsters, street gangsters and the like were all locked up, so no one would go against the propaganda team."
"If the government were to choose people, it would most likely be these people." Zhu Zhen nodded and said with certainty: "It would be better to find some accountants who only know how to read but have not read the books of sages. Yin and Yang are born,
Agents and the like are following the script."
"You mean, all the scholars' sages' books have been read into the stomachs of dogs?" The prince frowned slightly when he heard this. He still had a good impression of the scholars. But he didn't expect them to play such a disgraceful role.
"Actually, your brain is damaged because you read too many books by sages." Zhu Zhen said in shock: "If my father wants to share the world with the people, he can't use scholars who only read books by sages!"
"Who else can they use?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and asked. He had long been fed up with those scholars who were full of benevolence, justice and morality, but were full of male thieves and female prostitutes. As long as there were replacements, they would have been thrown out of the sky.
"Technocrat." Zhu Zhen replied.
"Technocrat?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked confused: "What the hell is that?"
"That is to let people with professional knowledge manage the country." Zhu Zhen explained: "For example, let people who are proficient in accounting knowledge and understand financial rules manage the finance; let people who are proficient in criminal names and understand the law manage the judicial department; let people who are proficient in water conservancy
Let people manage water conservancy; let people who are proficient in construction manage projects.”
"To put it bluntly, let the experts lead the experts. Instead of letting those who are deaf to the outside world and only read the books of sages to give blind orders." After a pause, he said solemnly:
"This is also the reason why I said there is a lack of manpower. There are too few technocrats who understand practical matters like this. The measurement data of a piece of land are there, and those officials who only read the books of sages cannot calculate its size. Each township
When the pornographic data is reported, they don’t even know how to count it. If the people below are not covered by them, who will they be covered by? What’s the use of them?”
After Zhu Yuanzhang listened, he was silent for a long time, and Fang Youyou said: "You kid, you are going to ruin the jobs of scholars."
"My father smashed it first." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
One of the important reasons why Zhu Zhen dared to mention such a sensitive topic to Zhu Yuanzhang was that he guessed the old thief's thoughts and knew that he thought the same way.
In the third year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to open an imperial examination to recruit scholars. However, after three years of attempts to recruit scholars through the imperial examination, he was very disappointed because the selected scholars were all scholars who could only recite poems and write articles.
Rhetoric will accomplish nothing.
This was very different from his original intention of setting up subjects to select officials to govern the country and take charge of one side. So he announced the suspension of the imperial examinations and expressed disappointment in the edict:
"I seek the wise with my sincerity, but the world responds to me with empty words. This is not my intention to seek the wise with my sincerity."
After that, he used the method of recommending local officials and training his own students to enrich the team of officials. The effect was actually very good... In Suzhou and Jiangxi, Laoliu recruited a large number of students who had learned arithmetic and financial management.
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At that time, Liu Lian went to Jiangxi to clear his father-in-law, and he used Qing Yishui's Guozisheng.
It can be said that without the students cultivated by Lao Zhu with pragmatism, there would be no victory for Jiangxi Qingzhang.
It was precisely because of this premise that he dared to say this...
However, this proposal was too shocking. If we really want to follow what Lao Liu said, we would have to turn the world upside down. Even the prince could not support it. He said solemnly: "The imperial court established the country in the way of sages, so it is natural to select and appoint officials.
As a scholar who reads books from sages, you can slowly learn and practice specific matters..."
"Brother, I didn't say that I don't want to read books by sages." Zhu Zhen smiled and said, "I'm talking about scholars who don't just read books by sages."
