Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 114 It Doesn't Matter
When Zhu Yuan asked suddenly, a group of girls, big and small, looked at each other.

After a while, all the girls focused on one person.

Seeing everyone looking at her, the girl in the green dress who was being watched blinked her big eyes a few times, then knelt down as soon as her body softened, and murmured: "Slave... slave..."

Zhu Yuan asked: "What are you calling...?"

The girl was so frightened that her body began to tremble, she paused, and then whispered: "She...sheren..."

Zhu Yuan: "..."

The blank space next to him has already spoken: "A petty official is the head of the family, how can you call him a Sheren, you should call him an adult."

The girl on the ground immediately changed her words: "My lord, my lord, the slave is wrong."

Sheren, similar to another well-known "yamen", is a title for the children of wealthy families.

The key is 'children'.

If Zhu Yuan had a son, he could call him Sheren, but since he has no elders, at least on the surface, it would be wrong to call him Sheren.

Ok……

The problem is, Zhu Yuan glanced at the girl in green who was already crying on the ground.

Is this what I just asked?

Are you all going astray for me? !

Scratching his hair, Zhu Yuan saw a group of people around them with different expressions, but they were all aiming at the girls on the ground. Only Luo Shui, who was still standing on the scale, slightly raised the corners of his mouth.Luo Shui is extremely intelligent, and also an interpreter. He obviously understands the problem, but he just looks like he's watching the fun, and doesn't point it out.

Reluctantly waving his hands to signal Luoshui to go down, Zhu Yuan said to the girl in green: "It's a mistake, get up."

The girl in green raised her face, with tears in her eyes, confirming that she had heard correctly, she quickly wiped her eyes, but she didn't dare to get up for a while.

Zhu Yuan could only say: "Come on, let me have a look."

Then I got up, and stepped on the scale tremblingly, but the tears were still falling.

While fiddling with the scale, Zhu Yuan asked, "What's your name?"

The girl in green wiped her eyes again, and said softly, "Slave... surnamed Lu, Lu of Lu."

Then there is no text.

Zhu Yuan understood that she was a nameless girl again, and glanced at the girl's teary eyes, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "I love to cry so much, so I'm called Shui Shui, Lu Shui Shui."

The girl in green was startled, then knelt down on the scale: "Thank you...my lord for giving me your name."

Zhu Yuan looked at the scale that jumped up and down because of the girl's movements, shook his head and said, "Get up, the scale is messed up by you."

Get up quickly.

Zhu Yuan continued to fiddle, looking around: "Slowly, call again, I'll find out who it is."

So shout again.

This time, Zhu Yuan heard a voice, and immediately pointed towards it. It was a girl in red, who should be over 20 years old, with low eyebrows and a pleasing appearance. When she was pointed at, she immediately showed a panicked expression.

Zhu Yuan didn't want to kneel down again, and said directly: "Come on, I'll be called up."

Knowing that he was 'innocent' and just got his name, Lu Shuishui walked down reluctantly, dawdled a few times, and wanted to walk to Zhu Yuan's side, but seeing Liu Bai cat staring at him, he stopped, but he was unwilling to walk away .

The girl in red was about the same weight as the girl in green. Zhu Yuan fiddled with the weight twice and got the result. He didn't say anything, but asked, "What's your name?"

The girl in red also whispered, "Cheng Shi."

Liu Bai opened his mouth, feeling being pulled a bit, and when he saw the freehand brushwork beside him, he turned into a pout.

Zhu Yuan looked up at the past.

The girl in red realized that she was a little tall, so she took the initiative to kneel down on the scale, raised her fair face, and called out a certain title softly.

Zhu Yuan: "..."

Raising his hand, he gently scratched the tip of the girl in red's nose. Zhu Yuan smiled and said, "On purpose, little goblin, um, no, at your age, you can be considered a big goblin among them. Your name is Shanshan." , " said and glanced at the girl in green who was still next to the scale: "You two, one mountain, one water."

The girl in red immediately bowed down to thank her.

Zhu Yuan waited for her to get up, but there was no end. He still smiled and said: "I will punish you to accompany me tonight," and then turned to the girl in green: "And you, mountains and rivers, of course we want to be together."

When the two girls heard what their little master said, they began to tremble together again, and agreed again and again.

A group of people around are envious.

Is this a penalty?

If so, they also want to be punished.

correct.

They all thought of the cause of the matter, oh, it was a title problem.

After Zhu Yuan finished speaking, he drove off the freshly baked Cheng Shanshan, and ordered: "Come one by one, and see if any of you have reached the one-hundred-pound Qingniang."

Qing Niang dared not have any opinion on who the petty official should choose tonight, but why did she remember just now?
So he looked at it more resentfully.

Weighed them one by one here, but there was another girl who was about the same size as Qingniang, but she didn't weigh more than 100 catties.

It was lively, and it was already dark in a blink of an eye.

Xieyi reminded that it was time to have dinner, seeing a group of people, big and small, reluctant to leave, Zhu Yuan said it together.

Then, in the dining room, Zhu Yuan sat alone at the dining table, surrounded by a room full of people, feeling full just by looking at it.

Delicious food.

The problem is, this really can't be used as a meal, so it can only be sent out again.

After dinner, Zhu Yuan was accompanied by Qing Niang and Luo Shui to the main room, where they cleaned up the dishes.

In the small kitchen in the southeast of the courtyard, he personally cleaned the dishes of his petty officials, sent Nuan Niang away with ease, and said to Lin Xiaoyu who was about to leave, "Get ready, Yuer, and watch the night with me."

Lin Xiaoyu blinked her eyes, looked at her eyes and then began to poot her mouth blank, nodded with a smile, and walked out first.

Xieyi checked the tableware again, then looked at the blank space next to her, and said, "Those girls, I don't know if they are really cooked, Yuer...you know who you picked, let her accompany you, don't worry. Some."

Liu Bai suddenly remembered what happened that day.

A certain little girl... came out of the water with one person and one head. The scene caused all kinds of weird rumors in Dinghai County, saying that Mr. Yinghai Envoy has a powerful Shui Mistress next to him. It can pluck out the head of a person alive.

Such a... is really reassuring.

However, Liu Bai still pouted: "Then, Yu'er and I will stay together."

Xie Yi glanced at her: "You are the one who is not familiar with raising, so I dare not let you accompany me."

Lu Bai immediately held on to Xieyi's arm and began to shake it.

Xieyi closed the sideboard with one hand, dragged her blank to her own room in the East Wing next door, lit the lamp, and then said: "Little official dotes on us, we should do our duty even more, you are doing this now, little official Not much, but in the future petty officials will always marry wives, and at that time, no matter how unruly you are, you will suffer a lot."

Liu Bai was still acting coquettishly with his arms in his arms, but he was stunned when he heard the words, and then whispered after a while: "At that time... really at that time... I, I will die, and I will not be angry."

Immediately, Xieyi raised her hand to hit him, seeing Liu Bai shrunk his head but was not convinced, sighed, and said: "It would be clean for you to die, what about your mother, brother, and, if you have a child in the future, you will Leave him alone?"

Liu Bai was stunned again.

After a while, Liu Bai whispered again: "Little official... now, now..."

Xieyi understood what she was talking about.

As a petty official in my own family, it is obvious that I don't want children right now.

However, Xie Yi also understood, and said: "Young officials...have concerns. Although I don't know why, I can feel it. Besides, I am still young after all."

Lu Bai was anxious, and murmured in a low voice: "We are not young anymore."

Xie Yi laughed and said: "Isn't there a chapter in the books that small officials are writing these days, saying that 20 to 30 years old is the most appropriate."

Liu Bai pouted: "I don't believe it."

Other knowledge of my own petty official, I believe in it, even worship it.

right here...

Liu Bai thinks, if this is the case, why do men and women marry early and have children for thousands of years?
Liu Bai still remembers a story, and forgets that it is recorded in the idle book that Bai Juyi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, because he had no children, his wife took concubines for him.

Look, it's obviously 14 to 18 years old.

However, whether it's me or Xinyi, I've already passed eighteen.

It hurts to think about it.

Writing comments about her appearance, I know that this girl is stubborn, and I can't understand the reason why I believe it. I can only give up and push her: "Forget it, you can go and write the diary with the little official."

Liu Bai nodded, and opened his eyes wide again: "What about you?"

Xieyi didn't answer, but just pushed her out.

After Liu Bai entered the main room, Xieyi called Lin Xiaoyu out again, went to the back room together to take pictures, found the mountains and rivers, and brought the two girls to the front yard amidst the anxious expressions of some other girls.

The maids in the inverted room outside had been ordered to boil hot water in advance.

Take Cheng Shanshan and Lu Shuishui to the bathroom of the South House first.

The maid had already prepared two large tubs of hot water, watched the two girls step into the tub, and asked the maid to put away their original clothes, and went to the warehouse next door to pick out two sets of new clothes and a pair of jewelry .

After thinking about it, I cut another piece of white silk.

The two women, Xieyi knew their details clearly, including Cheng Shanshan, who said before that she didn't have a name, of course she knew that she did, but she pretended not to hear it, and at that time she kept blank to prevent her from revealing it.

Little officials have a little interest, why bother?

Therefore, I also know some other things, including that one of them is still a daughter's family, and the other is married.

After choosing the clothes and jewelry, the two girls also took a bath soon.

Xieyi called Nuan Niang to come over and help her dress up.

Nuan Niang's identity, Xie Yi also knew in private, in short, she is a knowledgeable person, but she is always used to hide and hide, and the petty official asked her to help Luo Shui paint, but the painting was not good on purpose, Luo Shui saw that, and she still Speaking of it, the girls didn't point it out in front of the little officials.

It's better not to fight.

After dressing up the two girls, Xieyi took them to the main room, sent them to the bedroom on the east side first, told them to wait patiently, left the room by himself, and went to the study on the west side.

Zhu Yuan has already written today's diary.

It is mainly about some ideas in the fish baking workshop today, about the industrial chain.

Zhu Yuan thinks that not only fishery, but also agriculture, the prosperity of surrounding industries, such as the manufacture of farm tools, and further extension, the iron and steel industry involved in the manufacture of farm tools, and the imperial court must take the initiative to innovate farm tools, better hoes, rakes and rakes Plows, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

This may also be regarded as a kind of 'moving the whole body with one hair'.

As for fishery, it is even more vivid and obvious. Fishery does not require sowing, fertilization, or construction of water conservancy. At least, these are not needed for the time being, because it is equivalent to directly harvesting the 'fruit'. Therefore, the only way to increase fishery productivity , It is to work hard at the tool level of harvesting the "fruit".

The better and more tools you have, the more you will gain.

until a certain limit in the future.

However, at least in the next ten years, or even 30 to [-] years, this limit cannot be reached.

Then there is one more thing.

About the imperial examination.

Speaking of it, Lao Zhu asked Zhongshu to prepare for the imperial examination last year, but until Zhu Yuan appeared, he did not implement it in detail.

Lao Zhu's emphasis on talents is well known and beyond doubt.

However, having learned about the imperial examination system of previous dynasties, Lao Zhu probably instinctively felt that there was something wrong with it. To be more straightforward, he felt that passing those exams, writing poems and classics, would not actually get the talents he wanted.

I have to say that Lao Zhu's feeling is right.

Later, some people always opened their mouths, saying that Lao Zhu made Liu Bowen create stereotyped essays, which led to the rigidity of the imperial examination system in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It's actually nonsense.

During the Hongwu Dynasty, Lao Zhu never paid much attention to the imperial examinations. The reason was that, as a pragmatist, he always felt that there were problems with the traditional imperial examinations. Tend to recommend, and, through Guozixue, specially cultivate the talents you want.

The rigidity of the imperial examination system in the Ming and Qing Dynasties began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The appearance of Zhu Yuan opened Lao Zhu's mind, so he decided to start the imperial examination several years in advance.

Recently things have been settled.

The first imperial examination is planned to be held in September.

Lao Zhu has issued an edict to let officials from all states and counties nominate talents to go to Jinling to take the exam.

Still push.

At present, there is no selection system for grade-by-level assessment. Scholars from all over the country, either actively or passively, have been reviewed by the local chief officials, and those who are confirmed to be knowledgeable will be issued a certificate and sent to Jinling.

Then, what is the specific test.

Because Zhu Yuan opened his mind, Lao Zhu has some ideas of his own, but they are still not very specific, so he recently wrote a letter asking his precious 23rd grandson to help him as a staff officer.

Zhu Yuan's thinking is very clear.

It doesn't matter what you test.

Even this imperial examination is not important.

What is important is the further training of talents after the exam.

Zhu Yuan is also a pragmatist, so this exam, in Zhu Yuan's view, should actually be a primary election.

What Daming needs most right now is people who can read and write.

That's right, literacy will do.

Of course, if it is really just literacy, it must not be given too high an official rank.

Recently, I have been constantly summarizing that although there are various rules and regulations, there are only two core points.

The first one, Li.

Traditional Confucianism must be tested.

Zhu Yuan did not have the idea that some people would like to overthrow the tradition a few hundred years later.

For example, one, filial piety.

I remember once having a thought that foreigners do not have the concept of filial piety to their parents. When children grow up, they will live independently, and their parents will not ask for anything. They will go to nursing homes by themselves when they are old.Therefore, it is also wrong for the Chinese to advocate filial piety. It is feudal dross and should be abandoned.

Otherwise, why are foreign countries so powerful?
Because it is strong, everything is right.

Because of weakness, everything is wrong.

Regardless of whether this is true or not, Zhu Yuan's attitude towards this is that people who can say these arguments must have no parents or mothers.

In short, etiquette must never be discarded.

The second is practical knowledge.

Today's academics will take the initiative to involve in this kind of work, and there must not be many. The suggestion given by Zhu Yuan is to distribute "Mathematics Foundation" in advance.

At least, mathematics must be tested.

And according to the new mathematics given by Zhu Yuan to test.

Those who are unwilling to actively accept new learning are just right, so they don't have to think about jumping into the dragon's gate.

Then, in the future, talents will be selected, and then according to the book list provided by Zhu Yuan at the beginning, or, there are various textbooks that have been compiled recently, the selected students will be trained for at least one year, and then according to the Officials are given specific circumstances.

There is another question of age.

There are three things about being unfilial in respect of etiquette. Ayi is obedient, trapping relatives and being unrighteous.

This is the traditional 'three unfilial piety'.

What Zhu Yuan pays more attention to is not the "no offspring is great", but another one, "the family is poor, the relatives are old, and they are not a salary official". Therefore, this time, there must be no more people who are 70 or [-] years old and still taking exams An old boy begets an old scholar.

Now that there is another saying of "standing at thirty", Zhu Yuan gave an upper age limit for the imperial examination, which is 30 years old.

Of course, this is after.

Now that the new dynasty has just established, there is a great demand for talents, and there is no age limit for the time being, but the rules must be established early.

(End of this chapter)