Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 133 Jiangling Shen Family
More than 60 mu of land has been granted to the common people.

Yuan Wendu sent more than 50 people to various places to observe the situation of granting land secretly.

Among them, Yang Xuangan, who belongs to Jiangxia County, can't be a man. When he granted the land, he didn't mention Yang Ming at all. On the other hand, the other three were vigorously promoting that this grant of land was an order from the governor's office.

As a result, people from all over Jingzhou are praising Yang Ming's merits and virtues. Some people who have been assigned to the fields have even enshrined Yang Ming at home.

I'm not dead yet. Yang Ming couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the news.

The first step in rectifying the literary family is considered complete.

Yang Ming did this because he wanted to win the hearts of the people in the Jingzhou area and lay a foundation for the future.

As long as Jingzhou recognizes him as a person, there will be something that can be used in the future chaos.

Harvesting people's hearts is the first step, and placing one's own people is the second step.

Right now, the county lieutenant of Jiangling County and the county lieutenant of Jiangling County have been vacated, and Murong Sanzang can appoint these two positions by himself.

But Yang Ming didn't let go of this right.

If it weren't for the fact that there is no one around who is suitable to be the prefect, he would want to replace Murong Sanzang. Of course, changing a prefect is not easy, and the process is very complicated.

Murong could become a close friend of the second child, Yang Hao, but it was not easy to become his, because the second child was married to Jing Zhaowei, and Murong Sanzang's backer was Webster.

On this day, Yang Ming called Yuan Wendu and asked the other party if he had any suitable candidates.

He doesn't have much trust in Yuan Wendu, but the Yuan family no longer has the backing of the old concubine Yuan Zhen, and the father has successfully succeeded to the crown prince, so the future focus of the Yuan family is bound to be Lean in this direction.

In other words, so far, this person is worthy of entrusting some things, as for the future, it remains to be seen.

"Your Highness, do you want to arrange candidates for these two positions?" Yuan Wendu asked.

Yang Ming nodded: "Well, do you have anyone to recommend?"

"The minister dare not recommend it,"

Yuan Wen knew very well in his heart that these two positions were irrelevant to Yang Ming, but since he wanted to appoint him himself, it meant that he wanted to cultivate cronies, so how could he recommend them?

Could it be Yang Ming's cronies that he recommended?So he had to stay out of it.

Yang Ming could also roughly guess Yuan Wendu's inner thoughts, and said with a smile: "You are the long history of this king, and this king has absolute trust in you, and you know more about this place than I do. I recommend a few people to come out. The king will consider it himself."

For the sake of this, Yuan Wen didn't even mention a few people's names, which seemed a bit hypocritical, so he said:

"Since the founding of the country in the Sui Dynasty, county and county officials have all been selected from the local area. The most important thing is their virtue. Those who are not prestige are not competent. The most important thing is their talent. No talent is not enough to discuss affairs. Only those who have both moral and ability are the top choices. .”

"Right now in Jiangling, the Shen family, Xiong family, Cai family, and Zhang family should be the most recommended. Your Highness may wish to choose among these families."

Yang Ming nodded: "I will think about it, you go down."

Yuan Wen knew that he had retired, and he felt more and more that this little Highness was too powerful, and his long history was just a display.

Yang Ming knew that the only way to choose an assistant officer was within the clan, because ordinary people were not well literate, let alone educated.

Only those who have read the book can be officials.

Yang Ming called Pang Tao and asked him to take someone to the Shen family, and invite the person in charge of the Shen family to the general manager's mansion.

In the evening, a woman under the age of 40 was invited to the back hall.

Yang Ming stood in the hall and greeted each other with a smile: "It's really rare for a woman to manage housework. Please sit down."

Shen even said she didn't dare, and after saluting Yang Ming, she said, "It's an honor for my concubine, and an honor for the Shen family, to be summoned by His Highness."

Yang Ming waved his hand, motioning for the maid to help him to sit down,

Shen couldn't refuse anymore, she nodded politely to the maid, and then sat down on the last chair, with her back straight and her posture dignified and elegant.

Yang Ming had already inquired about this woman's background, and it was a bit funny to say it.

The Shen family in front of me was originally a maid in Qin Wangjun's residence. When the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Yang Jun's Central Route Army was in the Jingzhou area, and the Shen family contributed money and effort.

So Yang Jun rewarded this girl to Shen Xing, the head of the Shen family at that time, as a concubine. two sons.

As for Shen Xing, when he fought Goguryeo with Yang Liang, he died on the battlefield, so Shen became a widow.

Orphans and widows can gain a firm foothold in Nuoda's Shen family, and being able to convince the public in such a patriarchal society, and become the talker of the family, is enough to show how skilled this woman is.

And those paintings by Zhan Ziqian were given by her.

"I heard that your mansion is in the water transport business?" Yang Ming asked with a smile.

Shen got up and replied: "His Royal Highness, the Han family has been doing water transportation in Jiangling for a hundred years."

"Does everyone in the family study?" Yang Ming asked. Some merchant families don't pay much attention to reading, they only think about making money.

Shen replied: "I read it. The disciples in the clan have read Zhongyong, Analects, Book of Rites, and Spring and Autumn Annals since childhood."

"How many books are there?" Yang Ming asked again.

Shen replied: "110 volumes."

Yang Ming nodded. This is quite a lot. After the founding of the Sui Dynasty, all prefectures, counties, and counties set up government schools, that is, government-run schools.

If you want to enter a government school, you have to use connections. To put it bluntly, your father has to be an official.

It's a pity that last month, Daxing had issued an edict to abolish all local government schools, leaving only the central university, Guozijian, because Yang Jian felt that the local government schools were too many but not good, and they were all fake.

This is the truth. After Yang Ming received the edict last month, when Yuan Wendu was ordered to close the Jiangling official school, there was not a single student in the school, and no one was floating around.

If Dad is an official, they may become officials in the future, and they can learn a lot.

However, the Shen family had read too few books, and it was impossible for them to pass the scientific examination and become an official.

Although the Imperial Examinations of the Sui Dynasty were only the prototype of the Chinese Imperial Examinations, the content of the examinations was quite complicated.
First of all, there are three major, medium and minor classics, which must be familiarized with.

The great scriptures are "Book of Rites" and "Zuo Zhuan".

The classics are "Book of Songs", "Zhou Li", "Yi Li".

The small classics are "Book of Changes", "Shangshu", "Biography of Gongyang" and "Biography of Guliang".

In addition, "Book of Filial Piety" and "The Analects of Confucius" must be thoroughly familiar.

But it is not easy for ordinary people to find this set of books.

After Yang Ming inquired, he found that the Shen family's collection was missing a lot, even the most basic Four Books and Five Classics.

So he said: "The general manager's mansion has some books, and I can send them to you to copy. If the children of your mansion are willing to work hard, I can win one or two places for Jiangling tributes for you next year."

Shen was taken aback for a moment, then quickly got up, and knelt down towards Yang Ming with a grateful face:
"Your Highness' kindness, it is difficult for the entire Shen family to repay the kindness."

She is very clear that if a small family like theirs wants to become an official, they can only rely on their connections in the local area. If they really want to be an official, they really want to enter the family. The Menyin family only has a way of scientific examination.

But the difficulty lies in that the annual quota of tributes in various states and counties cannot fall on their heads.

Moreover, the tributes in Jiangling, no matter how talented they are, cannot be reused, and most of them can only be civil and military officials.

But now that the King of Hedong is willing to recommend him, as long as he passes the exam, the Shen family will be attached to the big tree of the King of Hedong, and there will be no way out.

It can be said that Yang Ming's words directly affected the future prosperity and decline of the Shen family.

"Get up, this king is just pointing out the way for your Shen family, whether you can make it or not depends on yourselves,"

Although Yang Ming spoke, Shen still knelt down and refused to get up.

"Get up!" Yang Ming said in a deep voice.

Hearing this sentence, Shen stood up sobbing: "I lost my temper, please forgive me, Your Highness."

Yang Ming said lightly: "Tomorrow at this time, come to the general manager's mansion to pick up the books, and return the originals after copying."

"Yes, the concubine is resigning," Shen Shi slowly retreated.

The collection of books in the General Manager's Mansion is still quite a lot. These are all basic books brought by Yang Ming from Daxing, while the ones around Yang Yinjiang are rare collections.

Yang Ming ordered Nuan Dong Liang Xia to select nearly a hundred volumes of books from the library, and asked Shen to take them away the next day.

This time, when Shen came, she brought two carts full of presents. Yang Ming took a quick glance and could tell that the other party was planning to spend money to curry favor with him.

No need, since I want to use you, I won't charge you for these things.

So Yang Ming ordered him to take it away and devote all his thoughts to studying.

Shen couldn't describe her current state of mind. On the way home, she still seemed to have a big dream, which gave her a completely unreal feeling.

The Shen family is the general manager's mansion next to her, so her position in the Shen family will be even more unshakable in the future.

And she already knew clearly that when she was in charge of the clan, she had always been a bowl of water, so when she went back this time, she would ask all the houses to copy the books, select good students, work hard, and strive for tomorrow Before the selection, one or two outstanding ones can come out.

The three quotas in Jiangling County last year were all determined by Murong Sanzang, two were given to the Xiao family, and one was given to the Wen family, so they should have made a fortune.

The Lanling Xiao family's focus of family development has been transferred back to Jiangnan after Yang Guang became the general manager of Yangzhou. Those who stayed in Jiangling were all small side branches. After all, Jiangnan is the headquarters of the Xiao family.

This year, Murong Sanzang gave all three places to the Wen family, but unfortunately, the three who went up to the Wen family were all dismissed, and nothing was mixed up.

If you want to be selected as a tribute, you have to rely on connections, but if you want to pass the exam, you have to show your real talents and learning.

Like Fang Xuanling, those who are well-connected and talented can stand out. After passing the exam, without the support of noble people, they will be mediocre throughout their lives.

And Yang Ming is undoubtedly a noble person.

The next day, under Yang Ming's instruction, Xu Jing led a dozen guards of the general manager's mansion to the Shen family in the west city.

The entire Shen family came out to greet her.

Standing in the courtyard, Xu Jing scanned the crowd of people in front of him, and asked:
"Who is Shen Lun?"

Among the crowd, a young man froze for a moment, and hurried forward to salute:

"Xiaomin is Shen Lun."

Xu Jing glanced at this person up and down, and said: "Because it was recommended by my sister-in-law Shen, the King of Hedong ordered you to take up the post of Jiangling County Captain, and I will take up the post tomorrow."

After speaking, Xu Jing turned his head and left.

Mrs. Shen also froze on the spot, at a loss, I didn't recommend it?

At this time, Shen Lun, who had reacted, suddenly knelt down towards her, and cried bitterly: "Sister-in-law, regardless of the past, is willing to recommend her in front of His Highness, Shen Lun is ashamed."

Shen hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "One family doesn't talk about two things, and His Highness values ​​it now. You should be a good official, think twice about everything, and don't disappoint His Highness."

"My younger brother knows that he will live up to His Highness's kindness and sister-in-law's kindness," Shen Lun cried.

After ten years in the Shen family, someone from the family finally served as Jiangling's assistant official.

But Yang Ming's move resolved the years of conflict between the Shen family and his younger uncle Shen Lun, and since then, the Shen family has a greater voice in the clan.

In this way, Yang Ming became the Shen family's greatest reliance, and gained the absolute loyalty of the other party.

(End of this chapter)