Chapter 701 Donate and Lose
The rules of the Ming Dynasty must be that all the ministers stand in a solemn way, and the emperor sits on the dragon throne. When encountering problems, the latter must immediately go forward and answer respectfully. Only after the emperor nodded, the officials can continue to report the matter, otherwise they will not be allowed to speak again.
Among the emperors of the previous Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, the king who lost his country, may have summoned the most times on the platform. Unfortunately, no matter how many officials Chongzhen summoned, it could not change the end of the Ming Dynasty's demise. Most of the officials who were summoned by him died at the hands of the emperor.
In the end, no minister dared to tell the truth to the emperor.
However, in Dashun, in the upcoming throne of Emperor Longwu Lu Si, the rules of the platform have greatly changed.
First, Lu Siming gave everyone a seat and happily walked to Song Yingxing, pulled the latter and pressed him on the middle chair opposite, and said with emotion: "You Song Yingxing is our Dashun's treasure. The knowledge you put in your head is so good that I think it can match our five towns."
The saying "knowledge" is not unfamiliar with everyone, because the current term knowledge is not different from the understanding of later generations. In the Wanli period, the top scholar Jiao Rong wrote in "Jiao's Brush Cheng·Reading Mencius" has a saying that "If a child is a child, then knowledge will be born and confused."
Cai Shiying, the admiral of the Supervisor Bureau, was shocked when he heard this. He wondered how Song Yingxing, who was the governor of Bozhou, Fengyang Prefecture, Nanzhili, could have been able to surpass the five main towns of Dashun in the 16th year of Chongzhen in the former Ming Dynasty. Moreover, Song Yingxing was not famous, far less famous than the great master of Jiangnan literary world, nor could he have the ability to governors and governors to the border. After all, he just wrote a miscellaneous book.
Song Yingxing was also shocked. He didn't expect the bandit leader to admire him so much. He seemed to treat him as a national soldier in his words, and his heart was inevitably fluctuating.
In fact, Song himself was in a scrupulous way to the north, because he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown in Jiangxi and was forcibly tied to Yangzhou by a group of bandits, and was later forced to serve the bandits in the ordnance field in Yangzhou. Although the bandits treated him well, Song Yingxing, who had always been a wise minister, still couldn't accept the fact that he became a "traitor". This time he went north, he felt even more helpless and desolate.
Before this, the Hongguang regime established by King Lu in the southern capital had appointed Song Yingxing to patrol the Chuhe Army and Nanrui Army. However, Song Yingxing believed that the Lu Wang's succession was not correct, so he refused to surrender.
After Song Yingxing sat down, Lu Si smiled and greeted Yangzhou military industry "experts" and the four Western technician representatives. After everyone was restrained, he sat down just now, and then looked at everyone and said with a smile: "Which day do you know is the happiest day I came here these days? It's today!"
Lu Si signaled his nephew Sun Yiliang to disperse cigarettes for a group of scientific and technological talents. He also lit a cigarette and said affectionately: "You must ask why? No, it's just because you people can make my Dashun's national strength stronger, make our Dashun's people richer, and make my China become a peaceful and prosperous era from now on!"
After spitting out the smoke ring, he said, "The knowledge and ideas in your head are very important to our Dashun. I often say that our Dashun cannot only value officials like the dynasties in the past, but do not value you all the miscellaneous things. So a few days ago, I discussed this matter with Mr. Zuo Fu Gu, and decided that in the future, our Dashun officials should be selected in many aspects, and they can no longer rely on eight-legged essays to win scholars and make classic strategies, but should be inclined to the actual abilities of officials. For example, as long as you make achievements, you can be an official in the future, and you can even join the cabinet and become a minister."
Lu Si did not write a check for these scientific and technological talents present, but this matter has become a custom. In the future, at least one-fifth of the number of officials selected by Dashun should be used to select from "scientific and technological talents". Even the Grand Secretary of the Government will be held by at least one scientific and technological personnel.
That is, Dashun not only completely abolished the personal dependence between craftsmen and the government, but also carried out certain reforms to the imperial examination system and official selection system, and improved the political and social status of craftsmen, thereby ensuring that China's scientific and technological power does not lag behind the West of the contemporary era, and thus ensuring Dashun's external development.
If these words were said from other officials in Dashun, they might be shocked to "experts" including Song Yingxing, but if they said from the Emperor Dashun and said on the platform, even if Song Yingxing was still full of resistance and suspicion towards Dashun, he couldn't help but be shocked.
Because this is a major impact on the impression that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", which is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the world, and it is also the first time in all dynasties that have raised miscellaneous flow (miscellaneous sciences, arts) to the same status as classic strategy theory.
"Mr. Song, I have been reading your "Natural Works of Heavenly Works" recently. This book is really comprehensive. Yu Gong, Yu Nong, and Yu Jun are very important in all aspects, so I am going to publish your "Natural Works of Heavenly Works of Heavenly Works of Heavenly Works". Not only will the officials of the court have to have one, but in the future, I will also list it as a classic explanation for schools in various places, so that my hard work can truly benefit the country and the people, rather than put it aside."
Lu Si was a little excited and his voice was a little excited.
"Knowledge is not enough to be written in books. It must be able to be disseminated and applied. Not only should officials know the truth, but the people should also let the people know that the things written in the books can help them increase their production and income, and be able to be understood in daily life closely related to the people. This is what is called knowledge. Those Confucius and Mencius classics are not considered knowledge, but at most they are considered truth. The problem is that what we Dashun needs is knowledge, not truth."
Lu Si's words were even more shocking than before, so that some people wondered whether Dashunchao would be unreasonable in the future?
"This time Mr. Song and you come to Beijing, my governor is welcomed by 100%. In order to show the importance my governor attaches to you, we will be awarded the corresponding official positions. From then on, you are a member of my Dashun Dynasty. I hope you can contribute more to the strength of my Dashun. In addition, you should also help us Dashun cultivate young people. In this way, with the master and the apprentice, our talents will become more and more..."
The Supervisory Bureau has been customized to give professional talents official positions, so Song Yingxing will serve as the Ambassador of the Supervisory Bureau, temporarily being a fourth-rank official, and the rest are also appointed, at least the seventh-rank equivalent to the county magistrate. If the Western technicians invited from Macau are willing to serve as Dashun official position, they will be appointed based on their contribution to Dashun. If they are not willing, they will continue to be hired with high salaries.
"The current construction bureau has two main tasks: one is to build more firearms and artillery for our Dashun Army, and the other is to build more agricultural equipment for our farmers to increase farmland output. You also know that China has been in chaos for so many years, and natural disasters and man-made disasters are now in short supply, but the most scarce is still food. The people can only survive if they have food. Without food, the world will still be in chaos."
Lu Si asked Cai Shiying if he had read the "Ten Methods of Supervising Creation" he had made for the supervisor. The latter said that Mr. Song had read it long ago.
"Sir, do you think it is feasible to supervise the ten methods?" Lu Si asked with concern, and wanted to get a certain answer from the scientific and technological expert Song Yingxing.
Song Yingxing hesitated and admitted that supervising the creation of ten methods is indeed a good way to benefit the people, and some of them are recorded in "The Creation of Things in Heaven". As long as the court organizes manpower and material resources to conduct corresponding research on key issues, results will definitely be achieved.
Lu Si encouraged Song Yingxing and his party to dare to think and do in the future when supervising the construction of the bureau, and not be afraid of failure. If it doesn’t work once, it will be twice, ten times, and a hundred times. In short, as long as Dashun Dynasty is in one day, Dashun Dynasty will unconditionally support scientific and technological workers in all aspects.
This made the "experts" nod. For those of the former "craftsmen", they were not afraid of anything else, but were afraid that the government would not provide financial support, or were too strict, so that they would be difficult to perform. In the end, they would probably deal with things, such as the things were made, but the quality was extremely poor.
Cai Shiying reported that the Supervisory Bureau was concentrating on the research of the flintlock musket. After hearing this, Lu Si waved his hand and said to Jia Hanfu, the assistant minister of the Military Government: "Your military government is now the main construction. You can draw up a plan for the development of firearms and artillery. How much money does it cost to the household government and how many people you need? In the future, you should take Jiaohou to heart our Dashun military industry. If you have any difficulties, just tell me directly, as long as I, the supervisor, can do it, it will definitely be done!"
Lu Si also needs to supervise the Construction Bureau to formulate a detailed salary and reward system, and require that the treatment of scientific and technological talents should be higher than 10% or 20% of officials of the same level, and reasonable arrangements should be made for the family and family, so that scientific and technological talents can serve Dashun with peace of mind.
"As long as we are united, have ideas, motivation and motivation, there is nothing that we cannot do with Dashun!"
Lu Si clearly instructed that in addition to reporting to the military government, all matters of the Supervisory Bureau should also be reported directly to him, that is, the admiral Cai Shiying, could have the power to write to the emperor directly.
After the meeting, Lu Si left Cai Shiying and instructed him: "You admiral should be the steward of these talents, but you don't want you to take care of others, but you want you to serve them."
Cai Shiying carefully thought about the meaning of the State Administration, and then thought about the words that the State Administration said before, so he knew what his main task would be in the future. He was busy expressing his opinion to the State Administration that he would do a good job in the supervision and construction work.
"I won't treat you badly after the results. You, Cai Shiying, also has the potential to be bound by the border."
Lu Si nodded with satisfaction and temporarily brought Jiang Xueyi, the secretary of the camp, to the list of personnel who were planning to attend the throne ceremony by the Government Affairs Council, and asked the supervisor to make a final review.
Lu Si glanced briefly and said, "I won't look at the specifics, but Song Yingxing must be on the list. You check it. If not, you must add him, and you will be closer to me at that time."
Jiang Xueyi nodded and wrote down the book, and mentioned another matter, saying that Feng Quan, the Minister of the Li Government, submitted a memorial before going to Tongzhou.
Lu Si asked: "What was written in Feng Quan's memorial?"
"It's better to see the ruling state for yourself."
Jiang Xueyi took out another memorial from her sleeve.
Lu Si was surprised and opened Feng Quan's memorial to read. When he saw this, his face was first surprised, then his brows raised slightly, but finally his eyes lit up.
The main content of Feng Quan’s memorial is to solve the financial tension in Dashun.
The solution is to write a document in various places and allow local gentry to come to Beijing to attend the throne ceremony of the state supervision by donating.
In layman's terms, it is to sell tickets.
Chapter completed!