Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 537 Centennial Shandong (Eleventh)

half year later

Yangong 330 Seventh Year Winter (547)
Hou Jing, a hero from Shandong, defeated the main force of the rebel army in Liaodong, and entered Yandu as the "Guardian" of Yan.

However, just like Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Er Zhurong's rebellion, Eight Kings' rebellion, and Ran Min's rebellion, anyone who brings foreign soldiers into Beijing will inevitably have to bear various risks.

As soon as Hou Jing's army entered Yandu, they plundered the city. Many commoner women and even aristocratic offshoots were raped by Hou Jing's army, and extortion happened one after another in the streets.

In the beginning, in order to maintain his image, Hou Jing forbade the soldiers from doing anything wrong in the city and punished those who raped and plundered.

However, when Jiuqing couldn't bear Hou Jing's army doing mischief in the city, he ordered Hou Jinghou to be expelled.

The contradiction broke out completely!

Hou Jing pretended to leave Yandu, but took the opportunity of Jiuqing to relax his guard, and suddenly rushed to the inner city of Yandu.

Under the desperate struggle of the imperial guards, the inner city of Yandu was preserved, but the outer city became the place where Hou Jing's army raged.

The news that Hou Jing suddenly rebelled, occupied the outer city, and besieged the inner city spread quickly.

All of a sudden, the whole country was in an uproar, and all the nobles condemned Hou Jing, while the citizens of the guild stayed on the sidelines, as if they didn't care whether Hou Jing usurped the throne or not.

another two months later

Chang'e City

city ​​hall
"Even if Hou Jing really usurped the throne, what does that have to do with us?"

"This country of Yan will perish if it wants to die!"

In the city hall, various guilds, merchants, handicraftsmen, and representatives of citizens gathered together, discussing whether to respond to the call of King Qin from Nandu Hou Yanji.

Not long ago, in Xingfan City of the Spice Islands, the 47-year-old Nandu Hou "Yan Ji" issued an order to call on all parties in the country of Yan to end their internal strife and unite to repel Hou Jing.

Chang'e City has been controlled by the Zhulu Guild, and the Peony Guild also cooperated with the Zhulu Guild, and welcomed Huang Zongxi as their representative.

Over the years, the two guilds have trained a large number of craftsmen for Chang'e City and taught many craftsmen and other professionals.

Although their initial purpose was only to meet internal production needs, and incidentally formed a superior-subordinate relationship through skill training, so that new craftsmen who had just mastered professional skills became part of their own system, but it is undeniable that this accelerated the development of folk handicrafts.

The court of Yan State also trained craftsmen, but relying only on the few people trained by the court itself is really a drop in the bucket, and it mainly serves the government, not the people.

Maybe many people don't understand, it's just a simple training of some professional handicraftsmen, what kind of important thing is this?

However, the fact is that the handicraftsmen of this era, just like the Confucian scholars, need to learn from teachers, but the conditions are not as harsh as Confucianism.

What does that mean?

Take Confucian classics as an example, Confucian classics is not something you can learn if you want to, you have to spend money to buy transcripts, which is the most basic, but even so, even if you buy all the transcripts and read them all, everyone will only read them. I think you are wild, that is, if you are self-taught, others will look down on you.

As long as you find those great Confucians, that is, masters of Confucian classics, and become their disciples, even if you don't learn anything, but simply name yourself, everyone will respect you and think that famous teachers produce outstanding disciples.

This is the reason why Liu Bei wants to register under Lu Zhi's name. Lu Zhi still has many named disciples like Liu Bei, and Lu Zhi himself is not familiar with most of the named disciples.

Most of these nominal disciples were unknown to everyone, only Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan, became famous later, so he was known by later generations.

In the same way, being a craftsman doctor is not something you can do if you want, you have to have a teacher, otherwise self-taught is a wild way in the eyes of others.

Most craftsmen will let their sons inherit the mantle and let their sons learn their craft from them. If there is no son, or the son dies suddenly, then the craftsman's craft will most likely be lost.

But there are also some craftsmen who, when they have no sons or their sons are unwilling to be handicraftsmen, will select some children from relatives who want to rely on handicrafts for a living, and teach them to learn their own handicrafts since childhood, so that they can inherit the mantle.

Therefore, such things as crafts are easily lost, because craftsmen are also selfish. A special craft he invented with great difficulty, or a craft inherited from his ancestors, is reluctant to share it with outsiders, and it is passed down to himself. tribe.

But occasionally there are special circumstances, some craftsmen have no relatives and no children, so they have to recruit children from other families and let the children of other families inherit their mantle.

Moreover, not only are they generally unwilling to pass it on to outsiders, but they are also reluctant to pass it on to women, unless it is a special case, so there is an old saying "pass on a man but not a woman".

However, the Imperial Court of the State of Yan specially set up "craftsman training" and "doctor training" in the academy, which was the first time to break the [craftsman-teaching inheritance].

At the beginning, the doctors and craftsmen in charge of the lectures were very reluctant, thinking that this was giving away the craftsmanship passed down from their ancestors to outsiders.

However, King Yan's family gave too much. Under the temptation of money and beauties, most ordinary doctors and craftsmen are willing to enter the academy to teach their skills.

However, those who can enter the academy to study are either rich or expensive, so the government of Yan State opened up the training of craftsmen and doctors in the academy, which is only the first time to break the "teacher-student inheritance" in the Central Plains since ancient times, and it has not completely disintegrated the "teacher-student inheritance". Life Inheritance] This kind of skill develops slowly, and at the same time, it is very easy to lose the ancient form of fault.

The private guilds have injected new vitality into the technological development of the handicraft industry in Yan State. The guilds often have huge plantations, farmland and other production factors, but they do not have enough handicraftsmen to convert these production factors into Wealth gains, so for the purpose of making money, they spontaneously select qualified children from the folk for training, and teach the gifted children various crafts, so that these children will become lifelong craftsmen of the guild in the future, and serve the guild serve for the benefit.

Over the past hundred years, there have been veteran craftsmen and doctors who have constantly criticized the behavior of the guilds in training craftsmen and doctors, thinking that the guilds are despicable and shameless. 】Ancient mode.

The old craftsmen and old doctors also used various reasons to belittle these wild ways trained by the guild, thinking that their skills were low, their craftsmanship was not good, and they were not good at curing diseases.

However, the cruel reality makes these stubborn old antiques despair.

Although these wild roads are not good here or there, most of them can live a life without worrying about food and clothing, because there is too much demand for handicraftsmen in the private market.

Of course, the guilds know that old craftsmen and old doctors have better skills, but the number is too small, so they can't wait to train themselves, even if they are wild, it is better than nothing.

This is like the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the advent of printing, there were more and more academies, so that more and more powerful and wealthy people no longer rushed to send their children to study with Confucian classics, but had Many people don't want to take the exam any more, so they simply send their children to colleges to study, which makes the traditional [teacher-student inheritance] model gradually decline, so that it is criticized by old classics scholars as forgetting their ancestors, which is the inevitable result of the development of the times.

[Teacher-Student Inheritance] Things like looking down on Ye Luzi still exist even in modern times.

For example, in the chess circle, those chess masters with teacher-student inheritance always look down on self-taught "aliens". "Alien" is just a wild way without a teacher.

Those who don't know the actual situation in the circle will think that a certain master is high-spirited, and his disciples must also be famous teachers who have produced outstanding disciples. But if you really understand how dirty the inside of the circle is, you will understand that the ancient so-called "elegance" of [teacher-student inheritance] The model should indeed be eliminated with the times.

All kinds of things in the world do not mean that the older the better, the times are developing, and when some things need to be eliminated, they should be eliminated instead of restoring under the pretext of inheritance and preventing new productivity and production. Development of relations of production.

In the past few years in Yan State, some people have shouted the excuse of protecting the traditional oil-extracting culture, smashed many woodworking oil-extracting machines, and called on the people of Yan State to press oil by stepping on it, and are not allowed to use woodworking machines made by craftsmen to extract oil , because it is more traditional, more orthodox, and more Chinese.

(End of this chapter)