As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed.
Huo Qubing looked at Xie Yuan quietly, his eyes showing worry.
Xie Yuan showed no fear on his face, but instead spoke with a smile——
"Although the Buddhist temple has not yet been built, I have ordered people to plate all the Buddha statues in the Buddhist temples in Yangzhou with a layer of gold, and add ten thousand yuan of incense to each temple. The late emperor once had an edict that if you donate more than ten thousand yuan of incense to ministers, you can be promoted to a higher grade.
Here are the donation records of various Buddhist temples. Since the censor is here, you might as well bring it to Dazai for me and ask him to pick a better job for me."
After that, he actually ordered someone to bring a cart of bamboo slips.
The censor of the county was stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously turned over these bamboo slips. When he saw someone spending a lot of money, he couldn't help but twitch his eyelids.
Yes, he just remembered that there was such a thing.
Now, not only could he not kill Xie Yuan, but he could even be promoted to an official.
If the governor was promoted again, he would go to Jiankang and enter the power center of the imperial court.
How could Xie Yuan, a poor man from a humble family, climb on his head?
Beautiful thought!
dream!
He immediately put down the bamboo slips, coughed and said: "Um...I can't decide on this matter, so I'd better report it to Dazai later."
Then he left in a hurry and told the matter to Dazai Wang.
Dazai Wang was so angry that his beard stood up.
I still want to be promoted even though I haven’t been killed!
You are living your big spring and autumn dream.
He immediately revised the book and gave it to Xie Yuan, writing a long and eloquent article.
They talked about how Xie Yuan was considerate of the people, how he was compassionate and merciful - in short, some important information was picked out from a lot of nonsense. To put it simply and concisely, it was that Xie Yuan could not be promoted.
why.
First, your time as an official is too short and you cannot be promoted;
Second, although your performance is there, it is not much and cannot be promoted;
Third, the people cannot bear to leave you and cannot be promoted.
Cui Heng smiled after reading the letter.
Bullshit.
How could Emperor Tianwu set such a rule?
In Dajin, in addition to the recommendation required to become an official, no matter how old you are, as long as you meet the qualifications for promotion in certain aspects, you can be promoted.
This is clearly because the nobles looked down on the poor families, ignored the laws set by Emperor Tianwu, and deliberately suppressed them.
It didn't matter to Xie Yuan whether he was promoted or not, anyway, he saved his life with these words.
Staying alive is the most important thing.
Then he continued to serve as the governor of Yangzhou.
In Yangzhou, local officials discovered that Xie Yuan was still alive after the censor left. They were shocked and became even more disgusted with this man.
Damn it would be worse to have someone from a poor family sit on their head than to eat shit.
The gentry have been in charge of the court since the Han Dynasty, so it was their turn to let the poor families get a share of the soup.
Can't stand it.
When the common people saw that Xie Yuan, after a round of supervision, actually sat firmly in the position of governor and continued to implement the six laws and regulations - they were surprised and at the same time began to secretly shake their original thoughts.
If there is really sunshine that is willing to shine on this dark land, they are willing to open their shackles and be protected by this warmth.
Perhaps it was the young man's efforts that touched these numb hearts.
In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, the governor's mansion received bamboo slips from the people one after another.
They are all kinds of interest disputes with the nobles.
Xie Yuan picked up a scroll of bamboo slips, shook it towards Huo Qubing, and said with a smile: "Look, I said the time has not come yet."
Then he and Cui Heng began to look at each bamboo slip.
The characters on the bamboo slips were crooked and twisted, and there were many crosses and circles. It took the two of them a long time to identify them before sorting out more than a dozen volumes of bamboo slips that were understandable.
Xie Yuan fell into silence looking at these words.
Later, he personally spent money to open academies in various places in Yangzhou, specifically recruiting common people who were willing to study and learn to write but had no money.
At the same time, he also issued an edict, saying that as long as they are willing to study, the academy will admit students for free, provide food, clothing, housing and transportation, and select talents based on examinations, and he will personally recommend them to become officials in the imperial court.
When the common people heard that they could attend school for free, have free food, and be recommended to become officials just like Longgang Academy because they did well in exams, they became interested.
Being an official is good. Being an official is an iron rice bowl. You don't need to eat one meal at a time like those who farm and do small business.
These things about honoring the ancestors are not important. The most important thing is that in this year of famine, someone will be willing to provide free food.
This is a life-saving thing, something more precious than gold.
At the end of the twelfth lunar month, when academies were rapidly being built and opened in various places, a large number of people rushed to register with their children.
Xie Yuan took his disciples to select a group of young people of suitable age, and after checking their character, let them enter various academies.
The gentlemen who taught in the academy were all disciples from Longgang Academy. When the disciples heard that they could teach like Xie Yuan, they could still teach the common people and let them learn to read. They didn't even think about getting fame and becoming an official, so they all actively asked for help.
Xie Yuan studied books and applied to be transferred to a local academy to become a teacher.
Xie Yuan readily agreed.
Of course, these academies immediately attracted strong opposition from various aristocratic families in Yangzhou.
The aristocratic families scolded Xie Yuan, saying that common people, who were at the bottom of the class, were only qualified to farm and do business. They were not qualified to study, and studying was the exclusive preserve of the aristocratic families.
Xie Yuan took out Yi Yin, Jiang Ziya and other examples and said -
"Celebrities who leave their names in history may not necessarily have a distinguished background. If one had to judge whether he was a celebrity based on his birthplace and whether he was qualified to read and write, then there would not be so many celebrity history books circulating in the world since ancient times."
If those historical celebrities who were not from noble families could not write and read, then they would not be able to get ahead one day, and they would not have such amazing works spread around the world.
Therefore, reading is not the exclusive privilege of the gentry, nor is it a tool used by them to monopolize culture.
As soon as these words came out, they aroused the emotion and admiration of the common people and the children of poor families, and also attracted the abuse of more children of the gentry.
After all, it touches their interests.
At first, Xie Yuan ignored those who cursed. It wasn't until they cursed so hard that they reached the eighteenth generation of their ancestors and cursed the Qi clan. Only then did Xie Yuan take action and let Cui Heng find out who had done bad things in the past.
To prove the evidence, they were all beaten, sentenced to slavery, and sent to the frontier.
Seeing that Xie Yuan really dared to attack the nobles, those who were scolding him became quiet.
This is how they bully the weak and fear the strong.
If you just tolerate it, they will scold you even more fiercely, but if you do something serious, they will be afraid.
So these people only pick weak persimmons.
But I didn't expect that Xie Yuan was not a soft persimmon at all.
After these academies were opened, considering the books they needed to use, Xie Yuan promoted engraving printing.
Once this invention came out, it immediately shocked the whole world.
The nobles hated Xie Yuan extremely, but because of his current status, it was difficult to take action openly, so they wrote memorials to impeach him.
But these are of no avail.
Comrade Xiao Xie's status in the hearts of the people is growing day by day. He has the support of the people. He is no longer someone who can be killed by the nobles at will.
In order to prevent public anger and unnecessary riots, and because he did not want to experience the feeling of hunger again, Wang Dazai could only suppress the dissatisfaction of the aristocratic family and let woodblock printing be promoted to the people. This chapter has been completed!