Xinshun 1730

Chapter 140
The condition that you are willing to serve as a soldier if you give Wowotou is at least not tempting to the second sons of these good families.

Liu Yu couldn't know what would have happened if Li Guo hadn't died early, but he knew that after these years of evolution, these old Wuying good family sons were somewhat like Han Liang's family and Tang Guan. The son of Long, somewhat resembles the Prussian Junker, and somewhat resembles Qin's control over the Shang Dynasty in Guanzhong.

Like, and not at all.

Very paradoxical.

After asking some more questions about the harvest, the conflict lawsuit with the nationality, the implementation of land equalization, etc., he took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was time.

When delivering the test papers, Chen Qinghai handed them over with his hands raised.

Although Liu Yu did not reveal his identity, Chen Qinghai had already imagined a big scene in his mind: someone cheated, His Majesty was furious, he killed treacherous ministers with swords, and sent eight government inspectors to make private visits...

Shaking his head to drive away the dramas he usually listens to from his fantasy, the other party didn't reveal his identity, and he couldn't directly address him as an adult, but when he came into contact with others, he treated the other party as the master of Qingtian.

The papers are difficult and easy to combine, some are very simple, but some are a bit difficult.Especially for the next few questions, the direction of the question is very clever. If you give it another three or five hours, you may be able to solve it.But it only takes half an hour, and it can't be solved no matter what.

Chen Qinghai thinks that he is not bad at learning, and that the camp school in Baoding Prefecture is considered an outstanding figure in mathematics and geometry. He just thinks that if he can't answer it, others should not be able to answer it either. Perhaps it is the adult in front of him. Did you take the wrong paper from Wude Palace Shangshe?
Liu Yu took the test paper and glanced at it, then handed the paper to the steamed bun behind him and asked him to put it away.

"Chen Qinghai, take me out for a walk around the village. Don't ask too many questions. My surname is Liu, so you can call me Mr. Liu."

Liu is a very common surname, but Chen Qinghai, who was making up a big drama in his head, naturally thought of a name that was in the limelight this year.

His elder brother died in the siege of the Nenjiang River. Many people in the village participated in the battle, and two returned from injuries. They often mentioned the name of a young man in the northern Xinjiang battle.

When I was in the camp school in Baoding Prefecture, I heard about the hot air balloon flying in the capital.It was time to take the Martial Virtue Palace exam again. Of course, I had bought and read the policy theory of the leader of the autumn exam. Seeing that the person opposite was so young, I naturally thought of that name.

He wondered in his heart, could this person in front of him be Master Liu Yuliu, the leader of the Wude Palace Autumn Examination, who is in the Fortress of the Rakshasa Number, Tuotu Three Thousand Miles, and Wude Palace?
His head was filled with the story of the private visit of Master Qingtian in disguise, and the person in front of him was so young, about the same age as himself, and he spoke naturally with a condescending attitude.

Chen Qinghai's heart was pounding, not only because of the twist in his own imagination, but also because he had witnessed some legendary figures who had been heard in the circle of good families in the past two years standing in front of him. in front of you.

Although he wasn't sure, he believed his conjecture to half or so in his heart. Seeing that Mr. Liu didn't want to make a fuss, he said: "Then Mr. Liu, come with me, let's go for a while. But I don't know that Mr. Liu wants to go first. where?"

"Go to the camp school first. Can I go in?"

"Okay, but be quiet."

"I saved it. Please lead the way."

Turning around, he ordered Mantou to buy some drinks and food, and the rest of them rested here for a while, and he only brought Kang Bushao and a Haierjun warrior appointed by the emperor to follow.

Not far away is the camp school. Chen Qinghai is a familiar face. Although it is impossible to teach in the camp school of this village in the future, he can come and go freely.

He led Liu Yu and the others to attend a class, which was considered to be the best class in the dormitory.

The level is about the same as the third and fourth grades in the previous life?Learn to recognize characters, count, add, subtract, multiply and divide, Arabic numerals, and recognize various graphics.

I went to girls' schools again, and found that the difficulty was lower than that of boys, that is, the level of word recognition, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

In the field outside the camp classroom, some eleven or twelve-year-old children are practicing forming a team, walking in line and listening to left and right.They all held a long stick in their hands, and they were learning Ben's recent forehand and backhand grip for holding a spear.

Liu Yu trembled all over when he saw it, thinking that there is no need to popularize the camp-school three-house method, even if he has the money to popularize the education level of the camp-school low-house across the country, it will be able to pull out millions of dollars every minute to understand Left and right, I have known since I was a child that the army stands in line and walks in line.

After looking at it for a while, Liu Yu asked: "Among these people, those who cannot assume the status of good family sons, won't the imperial court recruit soldiers?"

Chen Qinghai shook his head.

"Recruitment, but few people go. If you don't have the military status of Liang's son, you just serve as a soldier. With a little money for a month, it's far better to help at home. The imperial court strictly enforces the identity card of Liang's son. Citizens join the army , You have to chop someone down to the captain of Shangqi, so that you can gain the status of a good family member of the fifth battalion."

Kang Bulao, who was following Liu Yu, added: "My lord, as the saying goes, soldiers are more expensive than elites. If the military pay is generous, you won't be able to afford it. If the military salary is not generous, there may be people who believe that giving birth to a boy is evil, but give birth to a girl instead." Good. If you have a daughter, you have to marry a neighbor, and if you have a boy, you can bury your complaints about following Baicao."

"Besides, this dynasty has not yet reached the point where all sons of good families are forced to join the army. Since they are sons of good families, the younger brothers are also considered to be half-farmers. .If there is property outside, the family will be separated. If there is no property, the son of the good family will fight outside, and the younger brothers will work at home. In this way, the court will not dare to force the conscript, otherwise the good family will have resentment.”

Kang Bushao explained the key point, Liu Yu thought for a moment, and understood the logic.

For those who inherit the ancestry of a good family, there must always be people in the family land.Not everyone has property other than Yongye Tian, ​​and not everyone wants to hire long-term workers. At this time, the younger brothers are actually laborers at home.

Of course, the imperial court knew that those who could not attack Liangjiazi but had attended camp school since childhood were good sources of soldiers, but they did not want to offend the huge class of Liangjiazi for the sake of these soldiers, and acquiesced in the oppression of the younger brothers by Xiliangjiazi.

Unless there is a real change of dynasty, it is possible to recruit these younger brothers of the good family class on a large scale... However, that is also drinking poison to quench thirst. Once these people are recruited, the life of the good family class will inevitably decline rapidly due to lack of labor. Might keep it up any longer.

After sorting out the relationship, although Liu Yu coveted these sources of soldiers as new troops, he still reluctantly filtered them out.

The post-modern conscription system is not suitable for Dashun, and it has to follow the route of military officer corps and "thieves with the army" to recruit refugees.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sighed.

An officer corps entirely from a small privileged class of 10,000+ households... I'm afraid it's not a good thing.

When that day really comes, I am afraid that the entire empire will slide down an unimagined path.

Hearing Liu Yu's slight sigh, Chen Qinghai thought that Liu Yu felt sorry for these good families and their lives were hard. Thinking that Liu Yu might be the master of Qingtian, he boldly said something else.

"Mr. Liu, at the age of eleven or twelve, you will be selected to enter the camp school. There are several camp schools in each prefecture. After three years, you will be admitted to the camp."

"It's actually not fair to say it. Although there are big animals in the homes of good families, being able to ride a horse and riding a horse well are not the same thing."

"Kaowude Palace requires equestrian skills, marksmanship, etc., and it has been said since ancient times that the poor are rich in martial arts. If those are officials, their children will certainly have money to eat meat, have money to learn equestrian skills, and have money to practice marksmanship. I wait for these people, Even though the knowledge of geometry and arithmetic is good, it is difficult to enter the Wude Palace. We are still far behind in horsemanship, marksmanship and martial arts. I think that if there are another few decades, everyone who enters the Wude Palace will be the children of officials. .”

Kang Bushao experienced the turmoil of changing policy theory into stereotyped talent. What Chen Qinghai said is probably a replica of the change of policy theory to stereotyped talent:

Even if the imperial court spends an extra two or three million taels of silver every year on the class of good families, riding, spear, and martial arts are like "knowledge, strategy, and general strategy" in the stereotyped disputes. Over time, the advantages of officials' children gradually expand. And it is the expansion of the advantages under the "examination without violating the system".

Liu Yu is good at equestrian skills and good marksmanship, because if he wants to play spear and horse, his family has money to let him play.

Du Feng's horsemanship is good, because his father is Captain Zhechong, and there are hired workers and tenants at home in a ghostly place like Songhua River, so Du Feng can spend a lot of time playing horses.

Kang Bushao was admitted to the Celun Scholar because his family was once rich.But back then, when even scholars were thinking about strategies, ordinary poor families had no chance to have that kind of insight and read a lot of expensive history books.

Even if the entire good family class is already considered a privileged class, within this interior, there is still a need to separate the top, middle and bottom.

Facing Chen Qinghai's complaints, Liu Yu didn't answer.

He also made complaints about the selection of the Martial Virtue Palace, just like the martial arts of the previous dynasty, the things that were tested were completely the criteria for selecting warriors.Sun Wu's military law is completely the skill of the general who strategizes.

With the sound of the guns, there was no more Zhao Guanzhang in the world. When Zhao Guanzhang came to face the line of troops, it was impossible to rush into the formation and cut seven generals in and seven out.Although Zhao Zilong is brave, does he recognize the rifled hunter squatting in the grass?
Whether it's Chen Qinghai's resentment or Liu Yu's complaints, in fact, there is one thing inside: there is a problem with Dashun's military system and army building ideas.

This is not a problem with flintlocks and arquebuses, but a problem brought about by the entire military system.

The reform is not just as simple as changing the matchlock gun to a flintlock gun with a bayonet, otherwise it is just an embroidered pillow, with gold and jade on the outside.

The idea of ​​​​the military system is wrong, even if it is replaced with new guns and cannons, it will be at most the level of a sick man in West Asia.

Forming good families as elite soldiers, once these elite and good families are eliminated, it will become a scene at the end of the dynasty: bad money drives out good money, good soldiers are filled in, recruits are weak, military discipline is corrupt, recruit strong men, elect Servants, preserve your strength, the elite raised by the master will be scattered, and the rest will die in droves.

These things need to be changed, and you can't beat your head.

I don't want to start all over again now, but I want to treat this literacy and numeracy heritage as Zhu Xia's heritage rather than the royal family's legacy, so I have to play the game within the scope allowed by the royal family.

Although Liu Yu has a general idea, he also knows to investigate the actual situation and take samples for analysis.

They walked around the village again, had a meal with Chen Qinghai's family, and then took advantage of the meal time to make a surprise inspection of what the rich and poor households in the village eat on weekdays.

I chatted with rich households and asked them about letting their children do business; chatted with poor households and asked them about farming their land during their military service.

He stayed in this village for three days, and did not reveal his identity until he left.

He just told Chen Qinghai about the few questions that Chen Qinghai didn't answer in the test paper, and told Chen Qinghai his thoughts on similar questions.Following him, the officer of the Boyer Army thought to himself, Mr. Liu is a studious person who never tires of teaching.

Before leaving, I told Chen Qinghai not to go out these days and wait for the announcement.

After leaving this village, Liu Yu chose several prefectures in Zhili, and chose more than a dozen villages, staying as short as one day and as long as three days.

I went to Baoding Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Daming Mansion, Yongping Mansion and other places to inspect the inner and upper houses of the camp school.

I asked more than [-] students who failed the exam, and asked them about their expectations for the future, their psychological expectations for future income, their daily family income,

Watched two more lawsuits.

One is the conflict within the Liangjiazi: the daughter-in-law cheated during the military service; the other is a lawsuit between the Liangjiazi and the Minji: too much debt has transferred the farming rights of Yongyetian to the Minji landlord.

I wandered around until November, and then I wrote an investigation report of more than 8 words.

He hid [-] of the [-] characters by himself, and wrote the remaining [-] characters into a memorial, which was sent back to the emperor.

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"Wonderful! Wonderful! This is what you say, and this is my patrol envoy!"

In the Forbidden Palace, Li Gan wore glasses, flipped through the long memorial by the light, and couldn't help clapping his hands in praise.

He didn't mention his name, but the eunuch who was serving at the side could tell from the length of the memorial and the emperor's attitude that this memorial must belong to Liu Yu, the current dragon guard in front of the palace.

It’s not that the emperor has never received such a long memorial before. Of course, the eunuch knew the emperor’s attitude towards this kind of memorial: you have to read it, and you can’t help but scold twice before reading it. It’s hard to find the real content from it. Finally, after a few replies, there will be another sentence that is stinky and long.

The eunuch serving him knew that most of Liu Yu's memorials were extremely long.But every time the emperor read it, instead of scolding, he would praise it greatly.

The reason why the eunuch cared so much about Liu Yu was because the eunuch always felt that Liu Yu was a bit scary.

In the private questioning a few months ago, when Liu Yu was still an Xunwei instead of a dragon confinement, most of the eunuchs who heard the conversation that day suddenly "succumbed to an emergency and died of illness".

He was the only eunuch who heard the talk about "cutting water transportation and opening imperial examinations" that day, so how could he not care?
The rest of the people "died of illness", and he didn't want to die of illness, so he could only keep warning himself and keep his mouth shut.

Thanks to the fact that I have served for many years, I still have some affection. I originally regarded this affection as a capital to show off my power, but now it is only a floating grass to save my life and not "die of illness".

At this time, I quietly observed the emperor again, and saw that the emperor picked up the pen, but only lived in a few places to draw circles, but there was no half-word reply.

After drawing more than a dozen circles, he put down his pen again and muttered a few words, "It makes sense, but it turns out that it is like this. Baoshan is in hand, but you hate poverty. What's the reason?".

The eunuch thought to himself, what kind of words could make His Majesty sigh so much?Thinking of this, the body immediately stepped back, not lingering on the memorial.

I only think that if what Liu Yu said makes a lot of sense, it's better not to read it, because it's easy to die of illness...

(End of this chapter)