Emperor Liu Hong

() "Old Aiqing, tell me quickly, I would like to hear the details?"

"Your Majesty, what you just said is correct. Whether it is an official or a title, it is difficult for ordinary people to join. Therefore, we directly set up a class between ordinary people and officials. It can enjoy the privileges of some officials and nobles , but it is not difficult to join. Anyone can join as long as they make a little effort. In that case, His Majesty's problem will be solved."

"Oh, this is a good way! But what kind of class should I set up to solve this problem?"

At this time Dahongxu Xu Xu spoke, "Your Majesty, there is no need for Your Majesty to re-establish this class, we already have this class."

"Oh, how do you say that?"

"Your Majesty, scholars, peasants, businessmen, and scholars are the class that His Majesty mentioned. Although they are classified among the people, they were a privileged class before the Qin Dynasty. So now, Your Majesty only needs to restore it. , don’t bother to set up another one.”

"Yes, Your Majesty, scholars are a privileged class, and joining it is much easier than becoming an official or conferring a title. It fully meets your Majesty's requirements. This class can use scholars." Hu Guang also agreed.

"But this scholar, I have only heard of scribes and warriors. If I want to use this class to enhance national pride, I need to be able to join the whole people. Its coverage is a bit narrow, which does not meet my requirements."

At this time Situ Xuxun said, "Your Majesty, there is no rule that scholars can only be divided into scribes and warriors. We can also let other common people join in. Peasants can become farmers, craftsmen can become workers, and businessmen can Become merchants. Add scribes and warriors to this, and you cover the entire poor class."

"Well, a good way! As expected of a villain, he has a strong ability to adapt!"

The matter was resolved, and Liu Hong was very happy.Immediately ordered to restore the special class of scholars, and allowed farmers and businessmen to pass the assessment to join them.

In order to make it easier for the common people to understand, Liu Hong simply put the ordinary literature and martial arts directly into the common people.The people of the world have become the five people of civil, military, agricultural, industrial and commercial.In this way, scholars are selected from among the people, and scholars become the five scholars of civil, military, agricultural, industrial and commercial.

Through deliberation, everyone reached a consensus.Since scholars are for the general public, let them enhance their sense of national pride.Therefore, its entry point must be low, and anyone can join in with a little effort, so as to increase its attractiveness.

But becoming a soldier is not the end.Together, they divided the ranks of the scholars and divided them into nine grades.Among them, the nine ranks are the lowest and the first rank is the highest.It allows people to continuously improve through hard work, so that once they enter, they will have no motivation.

The reason why the common people have to work hard to join the class of scholars and work hard to upgrade layer by layer must be because of privileges.So the privilege of enacting them must be attractive.This question stumped Liu Hong again.

"What kind of privileges are given to the soldiers so that people can compete to join them?"

At this time, Xu Xun spoke again, "Your Majesty, if you want to attract people, it depends on what people want most. As long as this is satisfied, people will rush to join."

"Oh, what's Ai Qing's idea?"

"What the people want most is money and power. Money, we can't satisfy. Power is exactly what we want to give, but we don't know how to give it. In this case, we might as well think in a different direction."

"Which direction should you think?"

Not only Liu Hong was interested in this question, but other people also pricked up their ears to listen.

"That is what the people are most afraid of. As long as we remove what they are most afraid of, the problem will be solved."

"Then what are the people most afraid of?" Then Liu Hong said: "If the people are afraid of death, then I can't do anything about it. I can't solve this."

"Your Majesty, what you said is that death is something that almost everyone is afraid of. It is best to use it as a privilege, but this thing has to be left as a deterrent, so we have to think about it. Apart from death, what are the people afraid of?"

"Then what are you afraid of?"

Xu Xun didn't dare to show off, and said directly: "According to Weichen, the common people are still afraid of being implicated."

"Zhulian?"

Hearing this word, Liu Hong couldn't help nodding.

As a time traveler, Liu Hong also hates Zhu Lian.This thing is too inhumane. I have never done anything wrong, but I am innocently implicated by others. I will never be reconciled.Liu Hong originally wanted to cancel it directly, but now he heard what Xu Xun said, and felt that it would be the best thing to be exempted from implicated persons, as a privilege of scholars, to attract the common people to join.

With Xu Xun's reminder, everyone's thinking broadened.After some hard work, all those privileges were finally confirmed.

The Nine Grades Scholars are the lowest, and its privileges are only entry-level, but it is also very necessary to be attractive.Therefore, Liu Hong defined its privileges as: avoiding entanglement, marrying concubines, having the right to directly submit letters to the court, seeing that officials do not kneel, not being able to use torture before being convicted, enjoying minimum guarantees and holidays for labor, and being able to travel freely with weapons The world enjoys immunity abroad.

In Liu Hong's view, scholars of ninth to seventh rank are considered low-level scholars, and there are only so many privileges, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with high-ranking ones. There is an increase, and for each additional rank, one more concubine can be married.

Sixth to fourth-rank scholars are middle-level scholars, they can be regarded as talents, and the imperial court must vigorously protect them.Therefore, if you have any difficulties, you can directly find the local government to solve them, and the local government cannot shirk.Moreover, in order to strengthen the motivation of the people, Liu Hong used tax exemptions to attract people. For every additional product, a certain percentage of tax exemptions would be added as rewards.In addition to tax exemption, the number of women that can be married has also increased. This is not only that one more concubine can be married for each rank, but the number of wives can be directly increased by mid-level scholars.

In ancient times, concubines could marry whatever they wanted, as long as they had money and could afford it, no one cared.But under normal circumstances, wives can only marry one, so Liu Hong's increase in the number of wives is a big reward.As for whether the people can use it or not, this is not what Liu Hong considers.

Three to one rank, this is a senior scholar, a top talent, privileges must be heavy.They have difficulties that cannot be solved locally. They can go to the palace to face the saint at any time and let Liu Hong solve it for them in person.For high-level talents, life must be guaranteed. In addition to enjoying certain tax-free rewards, they can also get a certain amount of farmland to guarantee their livelihood.And women are more casual, there is no limit to taking concubines, and even the number of wives has been increased to three, no matter how affectionate they are, this number is enough.

In Liu Hong's view, a scholar is similar to a diploma of later generations, except that it contains more gold.Therefore, in order to join the ranks of scholars, an assessment is required, but there are many ways to do so.

If you want to obtain the qualification of a scholar, you can get it through the government examination, you can also get it through going to school, and you can also get it through the recommendation of the industry association.

The government's exams are mainly based on theory, while industry associations are mainly based on technology, and the school is more comprehensive, and he pays attention to both theory and technology.Such regulations basically cannot miss anyone.As long as you have real skills, even if you can't read, you don't have to be afraid of being buried.

Basically, for taxis with grades nine to seven, the county can make the decision.As for the six to four ranks, it needs to be recognized by the county level organization. If it is the third to the first rank, it must be at least the state level organization, in order to reduce the possibility of fraud.