Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1076 Fighting for merit ([-])

In such a state, it is roughly established, not to mention a few hundred students, even if there are several times more, it is not a big deal.

Once the canal was abolished and the salt industry was turned around, Yangzhou loved to make trouble. Anyway, the emperor didn't care, otherwise he wouldn't have assigned troops to Liu Yu.

After all, Yangzhou after the dismantling of the canal is still Yangzhou, but for Dashun, the capital of the city, it is no longer the Yangzhou that used to be afraid of meltdown and fear of accidents.

Mainly for the sake of the court's face.

Now that the day of the final trial is getting closer, Lin Min is not nervous, but is just thinking about what to do after this matter.

The few confidantes around him were also informed of Liu Yu and Lin Min's methods on how to make the court liveable in this matter.

Lin Min's confidants and aides also believed that these students were involved in political affairs, "with plausible words but not with the truth of benevolence and righteousness".

However, their angle of thinking is different from that of people like Liu Yu.

Regarding Liu Yu's practice of asking Lin Min to hold the banner of benevolence and justice against benevolence and righteousness, these aides felt that although the temporary problem could be solved, it might leave serious sequelae.

From the perspective of Lin Min, the Jiedu envoy of Jiangsu, they analyzed the matter.It's okay now, everyone knows that Lin Min is Liu Yu's second assistant officer, and he came to put a little pressure on Liu Yu, fearing that Liu Yu's handling of affairs would be too rough and cause big troubles.

If this matter is done well and many problems in Jiangsu are resolved, it is obvious that Lin Min will have the opportunity to enter the court decision-making circle in the future.

Jiangsu, as a pilot of the Dashun reform, the emperor sent Lin Min to be Liu Yu's second assistant officer. In fact, he hoped that the traditional imperial examination school would experience this radical reform for himself, but find a way to balance and conclude Many problems raised in the reform, to see whether tradition and innovation can be integrated to a certain extent.

Otherwise, it would be meaningless to be the Second Assistant Officer, because obviously Lin Min did not come to monitor Liu Yu.

Taking advantage of this incident, Lin Min's confidants decided to talk to Lin Min about the biggest problem in Jiangsu's future.

In other words, after the students' disturbance was resolved this time, did they treat the symptoms or the root cause, or didn't treat the symptoms or the root cause at all, and just suppressed the bigger contradiction temporarily.

"My lord, it's normal for this student to make noise."

"In the past, Gu Tinglin said: Today, those who go in and out of the public door to disturb the government's government are also born members; those who rely on the situation to make decisions in the countryside are also born members; they have a relationship with Xu Shi, and they have a relationship with Xu Shi. Those who are historians are also students; when the government flicks its will, those who mobilize and coax are also students; those who control the secret affairs of the government and make it a market with them are also students."

"The former makes noise, and the latter makes peace; the former rushes, and the latter follows; the superior wants to control it but cannot control it, and wants to hoe it but cannot hoe it."

"If you know something about it, you can say that it is killing scholars and defrauding Confucianism."

"The problem of students is already a long-standing problem that cannot be cured. If you touch them a little, they will say that they are killing scholars and cheating Confucianism."

"As for the Emperor Taizong of this dynasty, he had a legacy at the beginning, don't make it into a sad situation where thousands of horses are silent, don't be depressed, let the scholars still be angry."

"So, the matter of forming associations and discussing politics is not worse than that of the previous dynasty, and this dynasty is no worse than the previous dynasty."

"Gu Tinglin said, at that time there were no fewer than 60 or [-] students in the whole country. And how many people were able to win the exam?"

"There are only a lot of students in this dynasty. There are even fewer people who can be officials."

"There are 70 to [-] students in the country, who have status and status, but cannot be selected or awarded Jinshi. If you don't become hooligans and make noise among the people, what should you do?"

"In the first year of Longqing in the previous dynasty, Li Youzi was the magistrate of Changzhou. He was almost beaten to death by the students from the five counties of Changzhou prefecture because of the childbirth exam. How are you living in the countryside?"

"That's right, Yangzhou is a small matter, but students are a big matter."

"I think that my lord and Jiangsu are both the second deputy of the Duke of the state, such as salt, industry and commerce, and taxes. Your lord can do whatever you want, and the credit goes to Duke Xingguo."

"Only the matter of the students, the adults should have a strategy to deal with it, so that they can be credited and live up to His Majesty's expectations."

The words of his confidantes are very reasonable, and Lin Min also quite agrees.

What happened in Jiangsu now can't be changed.The emperor made up his mind to reform in Jiangsu, and before leaving, he specially summoned Lin Min to explain that the reform in Jiangsu was related to the disaster of the Yellow River, etc. Lin Min actually knew it in his heart.

But he was definitely not the first to make these reforms, and he was not the real promoter of the reforms.

He even thinks that if he really follows the salt government reform plan he envisioned at the beginning, it will be like what Liu Yu said, at most ten years, and it will be reincarnation, hereditary citation, changing to hereditary assets and hoarding tickets, there is no essential difference .

What the staff meant was that Lin Min must have contributed to Jiangsu's reform, and the emperor would remember it and most likely would reuse it in the future.

However, these reforms in industry and commerce, the tax system, and the salt law were not Lin Min's first contribution.

If Lin Min wanted to do something that would make the emperor feel that he was truly capable, he had to focus on other issues such as industry and commerce, the tax system, and the salt law.

It is a problem that Liu Yu can only use rough methods, and Liu Yu cannot solve it.

That is the problem of 67 births across the country derived from Jiangsu.

It's not that the issue of the students must be reformed, but that the emperor changed his name to Weixin, and made it clear that he wanted to continue to toss and toss before he died, at least to solve some of the problems left over from before, and to take advantage of the opportunity of the prosperous age to make more troubles, so as not to leave it to the heirs. Some entrenched issues.

It does not mean that whoever does not reform will step down.

But Lin Min knew in his heart that he was pushed to Jiangsu and served as a Jiedu envoy.The achievements are obvious, and it is clear that following Liu Yu will also have his own credit in the future.

Then, if Jiedushi goes up further, he has a chance to enter the decision-making circle.

As an official, who doesn't want to climb to a high place?
First of all, Liu Yu's reforms are credited to Liu Yu.

So, how can I show my ability and let the emperor continue to favor me?
Furthermore, if I have climbed into the decision-making circle and want to get involved in the state affairs of the Pingzhang Army, can I promote some less radical measures in China, which are not only applicable to the special situation of Jiangsu, but can be implemented nationwide? , and reforms with basic solutions in Jiangsu practice?
He does not agree with Liu Yu's many reform methods, nor does he think that these reforms in Jiangsu can be promoted to the whole country.

However, this does not mean that he, a reformer, does not want to carry out the tinkering reforms mentioned by Liu Yu within the framework of the traditional dynasty.

From Lin Min's point of view, the Jiangsu-style radical reforms, coupled with the emperor's secret promises, came to an end.

Shouldn't reforms that are not so radical, weird, and unconventional be done elsewhere?

In this, after all, it is because of his identity as a "reformist".

Although he said it long ago, and expressed it very clearly, the reform direction of himself, a reformist, and Liu Yu's is not the same at all.

But being pushed here by the emperor, this label can no longer be removed.

If you want to stick to the rules, why would the emperor use himself as a reformist in the future?
There are too many people who don't move, don't toss about anything, and people who can maintain themselves, and they are lost to everyone.

The staff chose a direction for him, saying that maybe he could accumulate some experience and solve the problem of students.

This is a good direction, or it is not a good direction.

I said yes because many great Confucians all over the world are quite troubled by this problem and feel that it should be changed.

Although they themselves are also the beneficiaries of the benefits, they do not deny that the problem of students is already serious.

When Dashun was first founded, there was an urgent shortage of talents, so that's easy to say.

As the situation stabilized, the problem became more and more troublesome.

There are 67 students in the country, and the township examination is held every three years, and only 5000 people are admitted across the country?Fewer people can get Jinshi.

Officials, unless they have committed a crime, generally speaking, they must live older than ordinary people.

How can there be so many official vacancies?

The system is such a system.

It is difficult to take the exam, and if you pass the exam, you may not be able to make it to the official position, and there are still a bunch of scholars below.

Anyway, there is no age limit for the exam, and the family has money, year after year.

Students are scholars, have their own circles, have their own interests, and have some preferential treatment from the court.

A chaotic group in the local area.

There are those who join the underworld, those who form local political interest groups, beat the county magistrate, stop exams and go to school, and so on.

Many people can see that there is a problem, and they all hope to carry out reforms. Even though many people themselves have vested interests, they still think that reforms must be made from the perspective of the country, society, and the world.

Moral support is certainly no problem.

But to say that it is a bad direction is to change it badly, and it is easy to cause major accidents.

Didn't the Song Dynasty have failed students who went to Xixia to do something great?

Moreover, carrying out this kind of reform will definitely involve a series of issues such as land, preferential exemption, taxation, examination and admission, and school system.

It will definitely offend people, and offend many people, and may even cause a big event, and be pulled down in the court.

There are pros and cons.

This is also a historical problem.

It belongs to the idealized political assumption of rural self-government and the education of village sages at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, accompanied by incompatibility after the influx of silver, the development of industry and commerce, and the explosion of population.

Under the idealized vision of rural self-government, education by the townspeople, and containment of business and industry, a certain degree of preferential treatment for students is tantamount to giving them wages and letting them work at the grassroots level.

It's just that the times are developing, and this set of things is definitely not going to work now.

Then, we have to design a new set of things to adapt to the development of the times.

Apparently, Liu Yu's radical reforms in the eyes of traditional scholar-bureaucrats may be okay in one province, but they will definitely explode if they are extended to the whole country.

Then, Lin Min had to consider whether he had the ability to design a traditional but brand-new system for Dashun based on the various problems in Jiangsu's reform that did not take the Ming system as the foundation?

If you can't do the whole system design, or don't dare to make such a big fuss.

So, is there a way to solve the student problem only a little bit?
Those famous thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty were very good at discovering problems.But after discovering the problem, the solution given can only be hard to say.

After Gu Yanwu discovered the problem of students, the solution he proposed was to reduce the number of scholars, to two or three places in one county, and then implement the method of recruiting.

If it is changed in this way, the old problem will be solved, but the new problem will definitely appear again.

Moreover, I am afraid that it is more serious than the current problem.

After considering his staff's suggestion for his "future", Lin Min asked, "What do you think Duke Xing told me to use benevolence and righteousness to control benevolence and righteousness?"

These confidantes must have opinions on this, so they said: "This matter, I think that the Duke's move is still the same as when the dynasty was founded."

"Its meaning is to humiliate."

"It is to expose these people's thoughts in public. It is called benevolence and righteousness, and it is called the people, but it is actually for oneself."

"But...but this method doesn't make much sense."

Lin Min smiled and said: "The meaning in his eyes is different from the meaning in your eyes and mine. Some things he thinks are significant, but I think they are meaningless; some things I think are significant, but to him Come but fix it."

"However, let's not talk about how Duke Xingguo views this matter today. Just say that from your point of view, this matter is meaningless?"

The aide nodded and said: "Exactly. I can roughly understand one or two of what Duke Xingguo did. But from the perspective of adults, it really doesn't make much sense."

"Even if you don't humiliate them, don't expose their benevolence and righteousness in public, but they are actually for the benefit of salt merchants, and use Xingguogong's methods and habits, wouldn't you really not reform?"

Lin Min smiled and said, "It's impossible. If these people make trouble again, with his temperament, most of them will be directly suppressed by the army."

The aide said again: "Yes, I said, doing this is actually a bit similar to what the dynasty did at the beginning of the founding of the country, but it has no meaning at all at the beginning of the founding of the country."

"Yan Xizhai said that after Song Confucianism, Confucianists were all Yin people, feminized, and emasculated."

"Master Yun: Only women and villains are difficult to raise. If they are close, they will not be inferior, and if they are far away, they will complain. Therefore, to make a woman fall in love, you must use some means."

(End of this chapter)