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Chapter 30 Confucian scholars in the past two years can't do it, but it doesn't mean I can't do it
Of course, Jiang Dejing, the servant of the household department, cared about Chongzhen's orders.

After going back, it is better to conduct strict review, let people do experiments, and make detailed calculations.In the end, it was confirmed that the technical optimization and management optimization of Shen Shuren's set of grain ship loading and unloading can indeed save at least more than half of the cost compared with the current old method.

However, it takes some time to do experiments, so when Jiang Dejing finally reported back, it was already a year later.After the meeting of the Six Dynasties on the Lunar New Year's Day, Jiang Dejing had time to meet the emperor privately and state the situation.

These days, he also did a lot of extra homework, mainly collecting more information about Shen Shuren's official career, looking at the results of the Beijing inspection by the Ministry of Officials, and the follow-up arrangements.

Jiang Dejing knew Chongzhen very well, and knew that when he interviewed the emperor again this time, His Majesty might ask some more questions, so there was nothing wrong with being more comprehensive.

Sure enough, after listening to this report, Zhu Youjian was in a good mood, and asked about Shen Shuren's situation by the way.

Jiang Dejing hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, I also think that Shen Lin is a practical talent, so I went to the Ministry of Officials to find out. Shen Lin was only a scholar before.

It was just last July that he was promoted by Wu Weiye, the secretary of the Nanjing Guozijian, and donated a supervisor student, and then donated an official to become an official, and became the official eighth-rank Susonghe Road official.

In the performance appraisal that just passed, it was judged that his performance last year was top-notch, and he planned to be promoted to Zheng Qipin River Reservoir.If His Majesty feels that there is nothing wrong, the Ministry of Officials will follow suit. "

After only working for the eighth rank for four months, he was promoted to the seventh rank, and skipped the seventh rank in the middle. It was indeed an extraordinary and rapid promotion.

However, Zhu Youjian was obviously not very satisfied. What he thought was that such a small official could save such a huge amount of money for the court, why couldn't he use talents more eclecticly?
"Nowadays, in the autumn of national crisis, there should be extraordinary methods to employ people. How can we blindly stick to established rules?"

Jiang Dejing's heart trembled, and he said in a polite manner:

"Your Majesty's determination to forge ahead is justified. However, I believe that the measures taken by the Ministry of Officials are also an old-fashioned and prudent method. After all, this matter involves hundreds of thousands of people and millions of money from the two countries. It is also appropriate to reward the officials involved step by step. of.

My Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and the folk customs and geography of each place are different.The small-scale pilot project of the Ministry of Household Affairs can be reproduced, but it does not mean that it can be implemented nationwide.A policy is good governance in Jiangzuo, but it may be discounted in a place where the people are tough.

If your majesty just wants to promote Youyin and encourage talented and calculating people to be loyal to the country.Why not let all regions try it first, and after feedback on the actual effect, if it is really effective, then reward the relevant people and others for follow-up. "

When Zhu Youjian heard it, it was indeed the truth.

The credit for this matter can be great, but it has not been fully verified.That can completely separate rewards and promotions.

At present, it is only the related work of the two prefectures of Su and Song that is outstanding, and Shen Lin has already been promoted to the seventh rank.In the future, it will be extended to the entire Jiangnan. If everyone benefits, then it will be better to upgrade to another level.

A major contribution to upgrade two ranks, can be regarded as the emperor's grace.

And these words also reminded him: This kind of innovation involves too much, and the current first stage may only report good news but not bad news, and there may be disadvantages exposed in the future.

After thinking it over, Zhu Youjian made a decision: "Since that's the case, Jiang Qing, you should immediately arrange for promotion and trials in various places, and play it in time if there is a situation."

Jiang Dejing hurriedly thanked En and retreated, and also heaved a sigh of relief.

As the servant of the household department, he is aware of the contradiction between the household department and the governor of water transportation.Shen Shuren's temptations are obviously a step in Shen's water transportation reform.

Now this strategy has not been promoted nationwide, and Zhu Dadian's counterattack is not yet obvious.But once it is pushed hard, a rebound will inevitably occur.

I am caught in the middle, but I can't just listen to the wind and rain just because the emperor's mind is hot for a while.He had to wait until the Zhu family's counterattack was over and the emperor gave the final conclusion before he could charge forward.

This is the "iron law of preventing blame" that was summed up after being an official by Chongzhen's side for many years.

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When the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Household Affairs in the capital were dealing with Shen Shuren's promotion arrangement, he was in the vast ocean and didn't know all this.

Since boarding the ship the next day of the Lantern Festival, Shen Shuren has been in the "offline mode" for twelve days, not knowing the Han, regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Of course, there are also things that the offline mode is suitable for. For example, you can nest in the cabin every day, discuss articles and discuss knowledge with the university bully.

By the way, play "Baguwen", a stand-alone game that does not require networking.

Not to mention, being locked up on a ship and concentrating on learning, the efficiency is really high.

It is almost comparable to the efficiency of later generations of writers who have locked their mobile phones and opened the small black house software to code words. It is not a dream to update [-] a day.

After more than ten days of high concentration training, there is still a famous Jieyuan-level teacher like Fang Yizhi by his side. Shen Shuren, among other things, has basically mastered the stereotyped answering skills and high-score routines.

It's just that the level of writing and rhetoric is still quite lacking, and there is no way to do it.Those things need to be accumulated over time and cannot be accomplished overnight.

Fang Yizhi didn't know the wind direction of this year's exam, nor did he know the current policy theory questions in the history books.Based on his assessment of the true strength of Shen Shuren's article, he was somewhat discouraged.

On this day, Shanhaiguan was approaching, and everyone had no intention of writing any more articles. Fang Yizhi persuaded him with emotion:

"My dear brother, you don't really think that you can do this subject, do you? I think you've just gone through the motions and learned a lot. Anyway, you have donated to the government and made meritorious service. Maybe you will be promoted soon. If you continue the exam, You can't get a better official position.

It’s not Brother Yu who’s attacking you. Looking at it these days, even if your article has been trained by me, it’s barely up to the level of juren at most, and it’s really far from being a Jinshi. "

"I'm also very satisfied that I can have the real ability to raise people. How will I know if I don't try it. My supervisor is bought. To put it bluntly, I was only an upper-middle level scholar. It's very good to be able to reach Juren."

Shen Shuren didn't take it seriously either, and played sloppy eyes with a playful smile, concealing the fact that he already knew the real question based on "Ming History. Wei Zaode Biography".

These days at sea, while he was studying articles, he also calmed down, and suddenly figured out a big problem, which further strengthened his determination to take the imperial examination.

To be honest, Shen Shuren is not for becoming a bigger official, nor is it for the future "to be able to integrate into the team and not be coldly excluded among colleagues with professional backgrounds".

If you just want to be promoted, buying an official and making meritorious service is definitely fast enough, and getting a Jinshi is just icing on the cake.

The recognition of rotten Confucian literati only has three or four years of validity left, and the future will be an era in which you will be tough when you speak hard.

The real reason why he insisted on taking the exam was that he thought of the historical lessons of Wang Mang and Zhao Kuangyin—why were there so many martial arts in the Han and Tang Dynasties in history?The Song Dynasty was cowardly?
There are certainly many complicated reasons for this, but one important reason cannot be circumvented.

The Han Dynasty was interrupted because Wang Mang, a "model of Confucian morality," played a game of abdication, and it was a peaceful coup d'état by high-level aristocratic politicians who did not hold military power.

So after Wang Mang was overthrown, the Han Dynasty felt that the biggest threat was still not from generals, but from aristocratic politics, so there was no need to be too wary of generals.

The Song Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty relied on the "Chenqiao Mutiny". Zhao Kuangyin's previous identity was Jiedu Envoy and General of the Forbidden Army.In addition, the Song Dynasty was the first dynasty to truly implement the imperial examination system from top to bottom, and the status of literati and bureaucrats was unprecedentedly improved.
When scholar-bureaucrats want to suppress a military official with outstanding meritorious service, they can always use "Emperor Taizu was also a loyal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty" to disgust people, which has been tried repeatedly.

Although the Ming Dynasty was not as serious as the Song Dynasty, the problem of using literature to control military forces still existed to some extent.

It's not that it's wrong to prevent generals from rebelling, but the point is that many Confucian scholars and liberal arts class use this as a tool to eliminate dissidents and embrace the unity of the party, which will be a disaster for the country.

Shen Shuren has the ambition to hold the emperor in the future to order the princes, unify the Central Plains and drive out the Tartars, so he has figured it out these days on the boat:

Aren't those rotten Confucians begging for mercy from the emperor in exchange for the embarrassing record of "no Confucian scholar has ever successfully stolen the highest power in history"?
But this logic does not make sense. If the more incompetent the emperor is in rebellion, the more important the imperial examination officials are, and the more incompetent the eunuchs are in rebellion, is it true that the emperor should use eunuchs more?This is how the underlying logic of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty came from.

It is shameless to rely on the logic of convincing the supreme ruler to believe that you are a low threat and use you instead of using you because you are capable and can do good things.

Then he, Shen Shuren, wants to destroy the impotence of Confucian scholars for 2000 years, and let the history books of later generations clearly write:

Confucian scholars can also succeed in seizing power. There is no need for the emperor to give them extra preferential treatment because they are particularly incompetent, reassuring, and unable to make waves.

There is another advantage of doing this, that is, in the future world, technology may advance, and even military officials will not be important, and wars rely on technology.At that time, perhaps Shen Shuren's operations in this life could further reduce the room for those liberal arts bureaucrats to rely on "I am incompetent" in exchange for the trust of the supreme ruler.

Prevent liberal arts students from overpowering science students and get a garbage regime like the Americans where "law students become president".The science and engineering students who finally realize the "working class leadership" govern the country and good governance.

Confucian scholars have maintained their status for 2000 years by relying on their own incompetence. He Shen Shuren broke the law, and Confucius couldn't keep it.

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With this grand ambition, the sea fleet gradually approached the mainland, and Qinhuangdao also appeared on the sea level.

In the distance, the sentinel ship of the Shanhaiguan defenders could already be seen, and they came up to inspect and interrogate them. After confirming that it was Daming's grain transport fleet, the defenders immediately guided the fleet respectfully to Qinhuangdao to dock.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Qinhuangdao was actually a peninsula, connected to the land by silted sandbars, and the defenders specially paved a road to facilitate the passage of vehicles and horses.

In this way, the deep water area on the south coast of Qinhuangdao is very suitable as a port anchorage. After the goods are loaded and unloaded ashore, they will be pulled by bullock carts to the granaries in Shanhaiguan.

Due to the large size of the fleet, it took several days to load, unload and deliver the goods. There were not enough civilians on the docks, and many Shanhaiguan defenders were also arrested by the generals as coolies.

Shen Shuren originally thought that he could see Wu Sangui, but after asking a little at last, he learned that Wu Sangui is still the commander of Ningyuan, stationed in Ningyuan outside the pass.There is only one eunuch Gao Qiqian in charge of Shanhaiguan.

This is also due to the rapid changes in the spheres of influence of all parties outside the pass in the late Ming Dynasty. Shen Shuren may have made a slight mistake in his memory when he read history.Now the Ming army still has a few strongholds outside the pass, and it seems that they will be lost after Hong Chengchou is completely wiped out the next year.

Gao Qiqian said that after unloading the grain, they had to find another way to transport it to Ningyuan.

Of course, Shen Shuren felt that this was too troublesome, so he took the initiative to ask the other party for advice, so that some of the seagoing ships should not unload their cargo, and continue along the coast to the Northeast Pass, and then go to Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other places to unload.

Gao Qiqian also felt that one thing more is worse than one thing less, so he gave Shen Shuren a document to authorize him.

Shen Shuren took the documents, and delayed for several days, going back and forth to Ningyuan and other places, and transported all the military rations in batches.

Anyway, Chunwei didn't take the exam until late February, and I still had more than 20 days to go back to the capital, so I definitely had time.

(End of this chapter)