Author: Use your soul to aim

Chapter 155 Customer Service

After visiting Magistrate Sun for a whole day, Zhang Zongxian did not summon him until the afternoon.

This was the first time that Governor Sun met Zhang Zongxian. In his opinion, Governor Zhang Zongxian had an indescribable confidence and looked at people with a sense of arrogance.

"The lower official Sun Mingyuan pays homage to Zhang Zhitai."

Zhang Zongxian also observed Magistrate Sun. He was neither thin nor fat. Although he was over fifty years old, he was still in good spirits and his body looked strong. Even if he didn't speak, he could still exude a scholarly elegance.

"Prefect Sun, no courtesy. Although I am your superior, I am now half an in-law, so you and I don't need to be too polite. Hurry up and take your seats."

As a veteran official, Magistrate Sun could not be as casual as Zhang Zongxian.

"The superior and the inferior cannot be abolished. How can a subordinate be rude?"

Having seen the rigidity of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Zongxian stopped persuading him and went straight to the point.

"Prefect Sun spent a day visiting our legislative school, but what can I learn from you?"

The governor must have a deep meaning in letting him visit the academy. After he finished the tour himself, he had many questions?

"How dare you ask me for advice? I just have a few questions?"

"Speak out any questions you have? Since you are already my eldest disciple's father-in-law, our family is already a family in the eyes of outsiders, so naturally we will not have any reservations about you! Answering your questions will also allow you to

Serve the governor clearly."

Seeing Zhang Zongxian speak so bluntly, although Magistrate Sun was not used to it, he now understood that he had made the right bet. There was really a lack of people like him around Zhang Zongxian.

"Zhi Tai, my subordinates saw that the academy that made Tai did not teach the Four Books and Five Classics, but instead taught how to learn. Could it be that the disciples of the academy will not become officials in the future?"

I knew you were going to ask this, so Zhang Zongxian said disdainfully:

"The Four Books and the Five Classics? What's the use of learning them? Do you use the Four Books and the Five Classics when you are a magistrate to judge cases? Are the Four Books and the Five Classics useful in organizing people to farm? Do you also use the Four Books and the Five Classics to deal with the Tatars?

These Four Books and Five Classics contain principles for life and strategies for governing the country. However, people are constantly making progress, and society is also progressing. It is useless to study hard. What the sages said may not be applicable to the present.

Besides, the academy does not prohibit students from reading the Four Books and Five Classics, but it does not teach them and allows them to read and judge for themselves.

What the academy teaches are practical things, and they will make things that are useful to the senses in the future. The academy will not tell the students what books they must read. It will only teach them to use dialectical thinking to look at everything in the world.

As for becoming an official in the future, in the future Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination will only test practical things, and the dross such as the eight-part essay will be abolished."

Magistrate Sun was immediately stunned by the governor's words. The imperial examination test was set by Taizu when the country was founded. Even today's emperor dare not change it easily. You are just a governor now, and you dare to say such things even if you are not the chief minister.

nature.

Zhang Zongxian saw that Magistrate Sun was so shocked that he could not speak, so he continued:

"Two years ago, I was only a seventh-grade county magistrate, and now I am a second-grade feudal official. A person's life is to dare to be the first in the world. Eight-legged recruitment of scholars will only imprison the mind. Those who are recruited are not scholars, but domestic slaves.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, princes, princes, and royal family members have spread all over the world. According to regulations, a prince must provide 50,000 dans of rice, 25,000 guan of banknotes, 40 pieces of brocade, and 3 pieces of silk every year.

One hundred bolts of silk, five hundred bolts of silk, one thousand bolts of gauze, one thousand bolts of winter cloth, another thousand bolts of summer cloth, and other expenses are too numerous to mention. A prince has spent so much national money, so much

How much national money is spent by the royal family members? These royal family members, the eunuchs in the palace, and officials at all levels do not pay taxes to the annexed farms that account for half of the world. The land that the common people can cultivate is less than half of the world.

But he has to pay the world's tax. This is known to everyone, but no one says anything.

Now the ministers in the court are not familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, but do they speak for the people? They have become slaves, thinking only about their own official career and the suffering of the people.

But we, the legislative faction, want to break all this and govern the country according to the law, so that officials and gentry can all pay for themselves and be exempted from corvee."

Magistrate Sun's heart surged and he said bravely:

"Is the platform meant to cause rebellion?"

Zhang Zongxian sneered:

"They all say that I am the God of Wealth who descended to earth, but what they don't know is that I am also a god of murder. The Tatar head erected outside the border wall is still standing there. If you want to rebel, I will not be the Ming Dynasty.

I am an official. I am serving the people of the world, not my own selfish desires.

If other people said these words, Magistrate Sun would regard him as a madman. When these words came out of the mouth of the person in front of him, Magistrate Sun had a feeling of excitement, as if the society described by Zhang Zongxian would definitely be realized in the future.

"My ambition is to build a platform! I admire you, and I am willing to work hard for my ambition to build a platform."

Zhang Zongxian wants to believe you, you know nothing about the legal system, but if a group wants to succeed, it must have a great goal. If we have a goal and everyone works together in this direction, it will not delay promotion and make a fortune, right?

"Prefect Sun is already one of our own, so I won't go around any more. Soon, the position of Governor of Yansui will definitely be yours, and after you take office as governor, you must fully cooperate with the governor's plan.

You must imitate everything that the governor originally implemented in Jiazhou. You must measure the land and replace the land title as soon as possible to reduce the burden on the people. As for other things, you don't need to ask. If anything happens, the governor will naturally come to you.

When I have made the three reforms, I will definitely join the cabinet, and I will naturally support you when the time comes. In addition, Prefect Sun will be a guest of my Legislative Faction from now on, and the knowledge of the Legislative Faction will be open to Prefect Sun."

Although Sun Zhifu couldn't figure out what the position of guest service was, and it must be the same as that of an external teacher, it did not prevent him from accepting it. After all, it meant that he had entered Zhang Zongxian's inner circle.

Thank you for your support. From now on, my subordinates will definitely work for Zhitai. I am just a guest of this school, but I have to teach in the college.

The establishment of Keqing in the school was also to create a way for talents like Sun Zhifu and Master Ma to join the legislative school. This would not affect Zhang Zongxian's control over the school, but also allow them to integrate into the school.

"Teaching is something that will happen in the future. Magistrate Sun will go back and take a good look at the fundamental teachings of our sect. Only after he has mastered it can he teach the disciples of the sect!"

After saying that, he took out what he had prepared and handed it to Magistrate Sun.

After subduing Magistrate Sun, Zhang Zongxian immediately wrote to Master Ma, asking him to contact Wei Zhongxian to help promote Sun Minyuan to Governor of Yanshou.

Once Governor Yanshou becomes our own, many things will become easier. Unfortunately, Governor Hedong and Governor Hexi are not our own. We have to find a way to bring these two governors into the water, so that we can fully control the three sides.
Chapter completed!