Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 343 There are still unexpected gains
Du Ruchong frowned upon hearing this.

This Wu Xinzhong, no matter how he speaks, he feels a bit like those college students in Guangzhou City.

Open the mouth to fight for hegemony among the nations, but keep silent to fight for the living space of China.

What countries are fighting for hegemony?
The countries of Europa are thousands of miles away.

How can it pose a threat to the current Ming Dynasty.

It would be good if the Ming Dynasty didn't fight them.

And that living space.

Since ancient times, farmers have been strictly prohibited from migrating.

This Ming Dynasty is good.

First Nanyang, then the Northeast.

Now it is said that they are also recruiting immigrants to some new continent.

This Emperor Zhu was tossing and tossing the whole country like crazy.

Fighting for hegemony among the nations?
It would be nice if he didn't blow himself up like Emperor Sui Yang did in a few years.

Du Ruchong thought to himself.

However, he did not refute Wu Xinzhong.

Emperor Zhu's set of theories is indeed a bit of a lie to confuse the public.

Now most of the students in several universities in Guangzhou city have been brainwashed by this set of theories.

Go to the streets of Guangzhou to see.

Wearing a modified military uniform of the Ming Army, with a large horizontal knife hanging from his waist.

They are all fans of Emperor Zhu who are full of thoughts of "using the sword of Ming Dynasty to lay the foundation for China for the next 3000 years".

This scene made Du Ruchong very worried.

Such a country of tigers and wolves is not a blessing for the people.

I don't know if it is the blessing of the people.

Anyway, Wu Xinzhong is quite satisfied with the current situation.

After losing hope of being an official.

Wu Xinzhong devoted himself to business.

The Lanxiang Institute of Technology that he runs recruits students very smoothly, and more than 100 scholars have already signed up.

And now he plans to continue to hold a surprise class for the college entrance examination, to fight against New China.

After leaving the editorial department of "Junzi Daily".

Wu Xinzhong went straight to the university town in Huangpu.

Guangzhou is the place where Emperor Zhu started his family.

So there are quite a lot of universities in Guangzhou.

The headquarters of the Army Academy and the Naval Academy are both in Whampoa.

Besides.

There are also two "National Key Universities" including Daohua University and Guangdong University.

In addition, there is Nanyang University run by the local maritime merchants in Guangzhou.

It is also very famous now.

They are all concentrated in Huangpu.

Huangpu is now a "university town".

Moreover, Guangzhou is located in the south, quite far from the central capital and the northern capital, so there is a little too much freedom of speech.

In the university town.

Many college students have formed clubs.

Some societies have people behind them.

After all, these college students will definitely become a new force in the political arena of Ming Dynasty in the future.

It is normal to burn the stove in advance.

For example, Wu Xinzhong met a rich young man in Guangzhou.

Also surnamed Wu, named Wu Wanghai.

I donated a sum of money to Nanyang University to enroll, and now I have opened a "Democratic Republic Research Association" in the university city, and the influence is still quite large.

Although not many joined.

But this "Democratic Republic Research Association" has a great reputation.

Because you can tell from the name, many views of the Democratic Republic Research Association are somewhat against the monarchy.

In a monarchy country like the Ming Dynasty, study what kind of democratic republic.

It's also really courageous.

Oh.

According to etiquette.

If Wu Wanghai established a "Democratic Republic Promotion Association" and other organizations that clearly intend to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic, then the Guangzhou government can arrest and try them according to the rules.

But this so-called "Democratic and Republican Research Association" has played a side ball.

In the name of academic research, the study of the republic system in ancient Rome and the current French republic system-when declaring funds to universities, it is in the name of "historical research".

So I applied for a classroom at Nanyang University as an event venue.

"Students, now the emperor has made a fatal mistake! He actually excluded scholar-bureaucrats over the age of 30 from the imperial examination system! He must have lost his head. The role of the imperial examination system has been completely changed by him. He will definitely In the end, they were abandoned by the Chinese literati, and some literati who have no way out will definitely start to turn to other directions, historically."

Wu Xinzhong had just walked to the door of the "Democratic Republic Research Association".

I heard someone speaking.

Enter the door and have a look.

It turned out to be Sun Wen, the vice president of the "Democratic Republic Research Association".

Wu Xinzhong knew about Sun Wen.

His father was Sun Yuting, the Daotai of Yanzheng in Guangdong in the former Qing Dynasty.

It can also be regarded as a family of officials.

But during the Battle of Guangzhou.

This Sun Yuting was a bit unlucky.

Originally, as a civil servant, he didn't need to go to the battlefield, but one of the Ming army's shells missed, which just happened to kill the unlucky man.

Sun Wen, the eldest son of Sun Yuting—a young man originally named Sun Shanwen changed his name and lived in seclusion in Guangzhou. Although this Sun family is a family of officials and eunuchs, the Qing Dynasty is gone, and he does not want to be the grandson of an official in the Ming Dynasty. It is not an option for the family to sit and eat, so Sun Wen came out to take the university entrance examination, intending to learn a medical skill, which can be regarded as a skill in the future, and now he is studying in the Department of Medicine of Nanyang University.

Later, I don’t know how to get on line with Wu Wanghai, and I want to start this "Democratic Republic Promotion Association".

"Zhong Shan, Zhong Shan, are you free?"

Wu Xinzhong shouted at the door of the classroom.

Oh My God.

His surname is Sun, his name is Wen, and his style name is Zhong Shan. He is still a medical student!

If Emperor Zhu heard about this, he wouldn't have ordered Jin Yiwei to arrest him immediately.

Fortunately.

Pronunciation is correct.

Just the words are different.

Emperor Zhu should be relieved for the time being.

"Students, I'm here for the time being. I have a friend to meet."

The relationship between Sun Wen and Wu Xinzhong is still very good.

Sun Wen and others have a good impression of these gentlemen like Wu Xinzhong.

And Wu Xinzhong also often donated money to Sun Wen and others, and even asked Sun Wen to publish articles in the "Gentlemen's Daily" to make him famous.

"What? Mr. Wu, you plan to open a school to recruit scholars over the age of 30 to study medicine, law, and accounting, and let students from our Democratic Republic Academy be teachers?"

The students of the Democratic Republic Research Association are all formal students of Nanyang University, Guangdong University, and Dao Hua University.

It is at least adequate for medical students to train barefoot doctors.

No sophisticated suicide note is required.

Able to cope with a headache, fever and cold, can prescribe some medicine, bandage and suture the wound, and a little sense of disinfection is enough.

Six years after the restoration, at the end of the year.

The end of the year is approaching.

The first month of the seventh year of the Restoration came amidst the hustle and bustle of the year.

By the Qinhuai River.

Inside the Confucius Temple.

A group of 30-year-old scholars gathered together to chat and smoke cigarettes.

"Hey, today the emperor went to the port to send the first batch of immigrants to the New World. On the way back, someone knelt down to petition, but the emperor ignored it at all."

"The paperwork for the petition that was submitted was also rejected."

"The emperor is determined not to let us take the exam."

"Oh, if I knew this earlier, I wouldn't make trouble two years ago. What's the trouble? Now I can't take the exam even if I want to."

"How easy it was to take the exam. 1000 people got 1. Now? Even if you can take the exam, it's hard to get in. [-] people get [-]."

"It's better to be an official. Even if you don't get promoted, you can earn 300 yuan a year as a low-level official. You will have a solid job in this life, and you will have a pension when you retire at the age of 60."

Everyone was silent while talking.

Only sigh.

"It doesn't matter whether you can pass the exam or not, but the identity of this gentry? It's fatal to lose it. Without fame and career, we can't count on the relationship in the officialdom, and people don't see us as gentry. The mayor of my house has come to say hello, and the land tax will be collected in full next year."

"It's the same with me. I don't lose a penny."

"It's not bad if you don't charge a long price. We people don't have fame, it doesn't matter. The local officials don't bully us? Fortunately, the locals are now officials, and the villagers dare not do too much. If we used to It would be strange if a foreigner came to be an official and didn't pick up a layer of skin."

Just then.

A scholar dressed as a Confucian scholar walked in.

The person named Hong Xiu is a scholar from Guangdong.

I am 31 years old this year.

But it looks a little delicate.

Appears small.

It seems that you can get away with it and take the exam again.

However, he had participated in the Guangzhou government's scholar examination, but failed.

This is over.

The name, place of origin, and age files were left behind.

Although you can also try to get away with it, after all, there are so many spies in the documents, and the Ming Dynasty University Scholars Office may not be able to find out.

But
The Guangzhou scholar who was so easy to take the exam failed in the exam.

Now it is thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge.

If you want to pass the exam, I'm afraid it will be as difficult as climbing the sky.

Hong Xiu said loudly: "Everyone, the only way out now is to go to a university or a technical school. New China and Lanxiang have branch schools in Guangzhou, Zhongdu, and Shanghai. Everyone go to sign up and hold my name card. The tuition fee is [-]% fold!"

After Hong Xiu said that, he began to distribute his famous posts.

"Hong Xiu, you do both New China and Lanxiang?"

"Yeah, do one more job and make more money."

"Is it better to go to Duxin Zhonghua or to study Lanxiang?"

Hong Xiu smiled and said: "It depends on you. If your family has a family and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, then it's not bad to go to a university. It takes four years to study in a university. The annual tuition fee and living expenses If you can’t afford it, you can go to Lanxiang University. If you can afford it, you can pay the tuition fee. If you can’t afford it, you can sign a contract and pay it back after you find a job when you come out. Of course, interest will be charged. "

"Have you heard? The royal consortium plans to open hospitals all over the country, and they need to recruit a large number of doctors. There is a future in studying medicine now. This royal consortium is also a royal industry. If you go to a royal hospital to become a doctor, you are considered an imperial doctor. It's an official."

Hearing Hong Xiu's words, a group of frustrated scholars burst out laughing.

That's a good excuse to comfort yourself.

"Okay, then I, Lin Wanrong, will become his imperial physician!"

"Lao Hong pointed us to a clear path. This royal consortium builds hospitals in various places, and the junior doctors are paid 50 yuan a month. 50 yuan, even the magistrates in some places can't get this amount."

"Tuition fees can also be credited. This is indeed a good way out. It seems that people are not afraid that we will not be able to pay in the future."

Many scholars dispersed, returned to their hometowns to raise money, and went their separate ways.

The restrictions on the age and number of references in an imperial examination seem to have nothing to do with the land issue, but its marginal effects quickly spread to land and agriculture.

The industry and commerce in the southeast coast are developing rapidly, and there are many ways for "overage" scholars.

In addition to going to university or technical school, you can also directly invest funds in the business industry to be your own boss.

Of course, the premise is that they want to sell their own fields and take out the silver buried in the ground in the backyard-without the skin of the gentry, no matter how deep the silver is buried, it may not be able to keep it!

It's better to live in those big cities that are more respectful of the king's law early.

Now the "rituals" of the Ming Dynasty are still very particular in major cities.

But locally, especially in rural areas.

The inertia of tradition is so powerful.

A rich man without the status of a gentry.

In these places where "rituals" are not talked about very much, it is easy to be wiped out by others.

The silver that has been flowing into China from abroad for hundreds of years has been leveraged once again. From the very beginning, it was stipulated that only the Ming Yuan is legal tender, and Ming Yuan must be used for various commercial activities and taxes. From the beginning, Emperor Zhu always hoped to pry the silver that was sleeping in the cellars of landlords all over China.

This is a wealth that is so huge that it is difficult to count-in history, this wealth has been accompanied by the dumping of opium, Western industrial products, and the indemnities of several wars, and even after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, from Beiyang to a certain Jiang, almost completely Reduced to a comprador, the country is wide open, foreign goods are dumped, and domestic wealth is plundered by various means.
And now.

None of this has been experienced.

In Chinese folk, these hoarded silver.

Lying in the cellar all the time has become a "dead money".

Zhu Daohua stipulated that no scholar over the age of 30 could be admitted.

In fact, the original intention is not to promote these "dead money" into "living money".

But unexpectedly, there was an unexpected harvest.

A large number of landlords who lost their status as gentry chose to sell their land, exchanged silver into Ming Yuan, and then poured into Guangzhou, Shanghai and other big cities that were more "ritual".

A lot of dead money turned into living money.

With so much money invested in the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty, the speed became faster.

Of course.

Social transformation cannot be achieved overnight.

There are also a large number of gentry classes who remain in the countryside.

They have also been impacted by the times and changed by the times.
Li Zhongyi returned home from Luojiang Academy on vacation in Luojiang County.

Just got home.

Then I heard cries and curses coming from the Li family compound.

"My lord, my lord, I beg you. Our family of five's livelihood is those few acres of fields. You can't take them all away. How can we live if we take them away!"

"Xu Fugui, it's useless for you to beg me here. This field belongs to my family. My family has leased it to you for 13 years, and you owe the rent for eight years! Eight years! My family is enough for you. When will you be able to exchange the money? I will rent it to you again? If I rent it to you, I will drink the northwest wind myself!"

"My lord, you can't do this calculation. Seventy to eighty percent of my family's annual harvest is used to pay back the money. I work day and night, but there is only so much that can be dug out of the land. You want it?" I can't afford more with my life."

"I don't want your life, you go, I will also forgive you the money you owe, anyway, your family will not be able to change it in a few lifetimes. I will show you the way, go to the New World, now go to the New World to enclose land, As much as you can circle is yours, hurry up."

(End of this chapter)