Chapter 2843: Changing the Emperor Again
After years of training by Shen Long, those refugees and those selected from the Nanyang Chinese have been able to take responsibility. They handle government affairs much more smoothly than those officials in the Qing Dynasty who only know what to do.
In the local area, the unbreakable boundary between officials and officials was broken, and those officials who were familiar with the local conditions were given a channel to rise, and at the same time, the slippery and corrupt people among the officials were cleaned up. The power has all belonged to the new dynasty.
As for the most troublesome local officials in the feudal period, the problem of local tyrants was much easier to deal with than the Manchu Qing court. At least now these people have not had time to establish a relationship with the new dynasty. They cannot find high officials to support them. , Tax collection and other work, can only try to incite the people to oppose.
It's a pity that Shen Long's rural work experience is really rich, and he has been trained in this area long ago. The strict internal system prevents local officials from accepting bribes from local tyrants. Talented people came to carry out, coupled with the officials who surrendered to the new dynasty, and the newly-built police force, they quickly resolved the counterattack of local tyrants.
Going too far and directly enshrining the canon of punishment, distributed their land to the local people. After several tyrants who had been in the local area for hundreds of years were uprooted, the entire Jiangnan saw the ability and determination of the new dynasty. It is rumored that the new dynasty does not know how to win over scholar-bureaucrats, and it is not a long-term solution, but at least now, few people dare to expressly oppose it.
After getting the land to support themselves, the desire of the people in the south of the Yangtze River to join the army gradually increased. After being educated by the local officials, they already understood that joining the army is to protect their own land. Just pulled up a huge number of troops in the south of the Yangtze River.
Of course, not everyone is accepted. In the process of selecting soldiers, they strictly abide by Shen Long's teachings. Those slippery people and speculators are excluded one after another. Knowledgeable scholars are discussing privately that the new dynasty is using Qi Nantang's selection strategy.
After the recruits enter the barracks, they will not be pulled to the front line to fight immediately, but will undergo strict military training first. The serious discipline makes these peasant children who have just left their hometown feel a little uncomfortable, but after eating the first meal, even if they are Even if they beat them with a stick, they didn't want to leave. It's such a good life to be able to eat meat every day. The landlords in my hometown are not so rich, right? As long as I can eat more meat for a few days, it's worth it even if I'm exhausted!
Shen Long would definitely not be able to provide so much meat to his soldiers if he relied solely on pigs, cattle and sheep, but now he still has a large navy in his hands, and the water power of the Qing Dynasty is not worth mentioning at all. The focus of Western colonists is still business However, Shen Long had a good time cooperating with them, so the navy, which has no combat missions for the time being, can just be sent out to hunt whales. On the one hand, they can exercise their ocean-going capabilities, and on the other hand, they can provide a lot of meat.
For this reason, Shen Long also specially built several canneries in coastal ports to process and store whale meat. In addition, whale skin, whale bones, whale oil, and ambergris produced by sperm whales can all be processed into valuable Commodities, these can bring quite a lot of income to the new dynasty.
With money, you can do something that really changes this ancient country. Shen Long built schools in various places, which immediately attracted the attention of scholars. In their opinion, Xingwenjiao is the foundation of a long-term imperial court. But when they went to school to see it, they fell into confusion again.
Those enlightenment books are fine, anyway, they are only used for reading and literacy, but what is taught in the higher grades is not the orthodox Confucianism, but the improved Confucianism. different,
I regard it as heresy, but after reading it carefully, I feel that it is very reasonable, and the writing is rigorous and difficult to refute.
How did they know that these books were originally sorted out by Shen Long in the world of "Xiu Chun Knife", with the efforts of many great scholars in the late Ming Dynasty, in order to cater to the transformation from agricultural society to industrial society, and they have been continuously revised over the years Perfect, how can it be knocked down with just a few glances?
Pure scholars don't like these books, but those businessmen and workshop owners are treasured. They have a vague feeling that if the new dynasty really wants to govern the country according to the principles written in this book, maybe the scholars in the past thousand years The status of the four people, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen is about to change completely.
In addition to building schools, Shen Long also spent a lot of money on water conservancy projects. Before winning the world, he spent money on such places, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River once again opened their eyes; Take the example of the end of the Warring States period to refute, saying that Qiang Qin relied on Dujiangyan and Zheng Guoqu to have the capital to wipe out the six countries in Shandong. Jiangnan was originally a land of fish and rice. ah.
Regardless of whether they can get used to the policies of the new dynasty, they can understand after seeing these that King Fang is not a grassroots bandit who doesn't understand anything. The officials of the new dynasty pointed out that the seeds planted had a good harvest rate, and these scholars finally realized that maybe he could really win the world, right?
Then gradually, the wind changed, and some people began to persuade Shen Long to take the imperial examination to obtain a scholar. Shen Long readily agreed, but he did not adopt the method of stereotyped examination. Selecting talents; after these scholars objected, seeing Shen Long's firm attitude, they could only submit.
The first imperial examination of the new dynasty was held in Jiangning, and hundreds of talents were recruited, but they were not granted official positions immediately, but sent to schools for intensive training. They take classes so that they really understand what it's like to deal with government affairs.
These scholars could not help complaining repeatedly. It seems that being an official in the new dynasty is much more difficult than in the Qing Dynasty. If you want to hand over official duties to the masters and officials as before, it is impossible for you to write poems and enjoy a leisurely life; but you can’t bear to give up. , I can only grit my teeth and continue to study hard, hoping to pass the exam as soon as possible and officially take up the post.
And just as the south was flourishing, something happened to the court in the north. The new emperor Yongyan, who had just been enthroned for two years, suddenly died of a sudden illness. How long did it take before the Qing Dynasty was about to change to a new emperor.