Liu Bian and Song Zhong were stunned and could not speak for a long time.

Can these craftsmen with low status really become officials in the court?

Is this possible?

Although they are illiterate and have little knowledge, they have lived for most of their lives and understand one thing.

If you want to become an official, you can only pass the imperial examination.

All civil officials advance from the imperial examinations, and those who are not imperial examinations should not be allowed to be officials!

This is the rule of the court and the shackles that limit these lowly merchants.

There is never fairness in this life. Everyone is divided into different levels when they are born. If nothing unexpected happens, this will be the case for generations.

Because their ancestors were craftsmen, they were also craftsmen when they were born. The father died and the son succeeded them, and all the soldiers were always rewarded!

The whole family and the young have to participate in production, and they have been there for generations. Not only are the status low and humble, but their income is pitifully low. Apart from the meager wages given by the government and the occasional clothes rewarded, there is no other income at all.

Even so, those wages and clothes will be greedy by others, and eventually they will be hungry and cold, and they can only sell their children to others as slaves and servants!

When Liu Bian thought of this, he couldn't help but turn red in his eyes and kneel down on the ground with a thud.

Zhu Gaoxu was confused when he saw this, and he didn't understand why this guy suddenly sucked crazy.

Old Liu wiped his tears and said, "Prince, we are so humble, now we can eat and wear a good meal, and even save money to marry a wife. These are your great kindness and we dare not forget!"

"We are already content with the prince. We don't need to be any official, let alone that official!"

Song Zhong nodded with deep conscience. He, a carpenter, often participated in the construction of the palace, so he had a lot of insights than Liu Bian.

"Prince, we are already very satisfied with our current life. There is no need to compete with those literati for food, otherwise we are afraid that this good life we ​​have finally lived will be gone in a blink of an eye!"

"We know that you are facing us, but the little devil is difficult to deal with. If you really anger those civil servants, you will suffer some of them in the future!"

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned when he heard this and could not speak for a long time.

He did not expect that these craftsmen's fear of officials had been engraved into their bones!

Song Zhong’s words are not difficult to understand. To put it nicely, it means that food and clothing are at ease, and to put it badly, it means that it is afraid!

This is not a coward, but a real fear!

They were afraid that after they created a way for craftsmen to become officials, they would be hostile to the gentry officials, and they deliberately made things difficult for them!

If this is true, the food and clothing they have finally obtained now will naturally be gone.

Although the Royal Manufacturing Bureau was directly under the emperor and was not subject to the control of other departments, the ideas of these craftsmen were still at the time when they were subordinate to the Ministry of Works as slaves and servants!

This is not possible!

If the Ming Dynasty wanted to take the road to strengthening the country, these craftsmen and technical talents from major countries were indispensable.

But cultivating craftsmen from great powers is not just a simple statement. They must give them a stable living environment, so that they can devote all their energy to R&D and innovation, and pass on their exquisite craftsmanship!

If there is a choice, Zhu Gaoxu really wants to turn the privileges of scholars into the exclusive privileges of craftsmen of great powers!

Don’t worry about food and clothing, don’t worry about livelihood, just keep researching, developing and innovating!

This is not impossible, it is just not possible for the time being, and it needs to be taken out step by step!

Now, what he needs to do is to reverse the pathetic thoughts of these craftsmen!

The Prince of Han looked at Liu Bian and Song Zhong, touched his chin and thought for a moment, then stepped forward and helped him up, and then said, "You said just now, the King of Hell is easy to meet, the little ghost is difficult to deal with. I am just a prince. I will leave the imperial capital sooner or later and go to the vassal state. I can't take care of you all the time. No one will support you at that time. What do you think?"

As soon as these words were said, Liu Bian and Song Zhong changed their faces immediately.

After all, the Prince of Han is not the crown prince of the current dynasty, but just a prince. Sooner or later, he will leave the imperial capital and go to the vassal.

Then, will the Royal Manufacturing Bureau be restored to its original state?

They have only lived a good life for a while, and it is about to end here?

"Also, have you ever thought about it? I will not change the craftsman system while I am now supervising the country and making more benefits for you. When I leave, your descendants will continue to live a miserable life like you, like you, where you can't keep your food in your stomach, your body covered, and your wife!"

Zhu Gaoxu directly threw out his killer move, which is to make plans for future generations!

"Some things that I can do for you now, so I will do them naturally!"

"For example, improve the treatment of your craftsmen, change the abnormal craftsman system, and provide your descendants with a path to becoming an official... I am also doing these things, right?"

"Even if the sudden reform will lead to you being excluded and treated coldly, so what? Can you compare to the past when you were called like dogs by those officials, and you were so poor that you were so hungry that you sold your children?"

Hearing this, Liu Bian and Song Zhong's eyes turned red in an instant, and their eyes were full of resentment.

Although they had not married a wife or children before, it does not mean that they had never met them.

In this military weapon bureau compound, there are many craftsmen and craftsmen who are forced to sell their children, especially their daughters. Selling them to rich families as maids is better than starving to death!

I don’t know how many times they saw the tragic scene of waiting for their wife to separate!

All of this is because of the damn craftsman system!

"What you need to do is to lead the craftsmen and brothers of the Royal Manufacturing Bureau to fully cooperate with the king in carrying out reforms. All other consequences, including the anger of those literati officials, will be borne by the king!"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Bian and the others looked a little moved and fell to the ground again.

"The great kindness of His Highness the King of Han, we will never forget our craftsmen in this life!"

"Okay, get up, I have some serious matters to tell you."

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and after the two of them got up, he immediately ordered: "Liu Bian, Song Zhong, you two will not go to the workshop for production in the future. As the quality manager of the Second Bureau of the Royal Manufacturing Bureau, you need to take overall charge of the overall situation and make overall arrangements."

"First point, we must divide the most experienced masters and craftsmen in the bureau separately. They do not need to distribute daily workloads to engage in production, they only need to teach the children of craftsmen who are over ten years old..."

Hearing this, Liu Bian and Song Zhong were stunned, their faces becoming a little strange.

Song Zhong gritted the bullet and explained: "Prince, this method... isn't it? Those are the master skills of old craftsmen and their capital to settle down. They will definitely not agree to do so..."

"Yes, the master, the master is starved to death by the church apprentice. How could these old craftsmen agree to it..."

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he just smiled.

The disciples of the church starve to death. To put it bluntly, the interests of the masters are not guaranteed, so this kind of mentality occurs.

However, it is precisely because of this psychology that many advanced and precious technologies in China have not been passed down and have been regretted by later generations.

"Don't worry, the wages of the old craftsman have become a fixed quota, and every time he brings out an apprentice who can independently make military weapons, he will receive a generous bonus. In addition, we have adopted a piece-based flow system. Within five years, 10% of the income of the craftsman's apprentice belongs to the craftsman's master."

"These experienced and skilled old craftsmen only need to teach their apprentices and develop new military weapons and new weapons. If the improved military weapons and supplies are verified and recognized, an extra bonus will be issued separately, which will definitely not disappoint you!"

The more Liu Bian and Song Zhong heard it, the more feasible they felt, and nodded subconsciously.

In this way, the income of the old craftsmen is guaranteed and there is a reward mechanism, so they are eager to teach more apprentices.

"The second point is that I will hire some teachers to teach the children of craftsmen to read and read. The most important thing is to practice calligraphy. I hope you will not let down my efforts..."

As soon as these words came out, the two of them had their eyes red instantly, and they knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Prince, your great kindness..."

"The little old man thanked the prince for his kindness again..."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at them helplessly, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

Where to start when implementing new learning?

Royal Manufacturing Bureau!

After all, that God of Firearms is now a firm supporter of science!

He was in charge of the Royal Manufacturing Bureau, vigorously promoted science and cultivated children of craftsmen. I believe that it would take not long before a group of improved Mother disciples appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

The leader of various schools of thought was once praised by Han Feizi, a representative of the Legalists, as "the world's obvious academic studies", and competed with Confucianism...
Chapter completed!