Chapter 174: The Great Song Tai Student Incident
There is also an officialdom phenomenon in the Great Song Dynasty, that is, "Fengci".
The so-called "shrine", in most cases, is to take money and not work, go home and stay, nominally to be in charge of a Taoist temple, in essence to return to the hometown.
Although it is called "supervising a certain temple" and "lifting a certain palace view", it has little to do with the affairs of the palace view, and the "ancestral hall" and "Lu" are basically separated, just borrowing the name to eat Lu.
This system was founded in Song Zhenzong, and the original intention was to "benefit the old and virtuous", and it was a welfare policy specially provided to high-ranking officials.
By the time of Wang Anshi's reforms, the ancestral system had become the name of "dissenters of the new law", and the number of people in the temple had increased greatly, and the targets had been opened to middle-level bureaucrats, from a few people in the past to nearly a hundred.
After that, the momentum of development was rapid, and the number of ancestral officials who could be counted in the early days of the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty had reached more than 1,400, and if you take into account the factors of the shrinking territory of the Great Song Dynasty and the reduction of officials, this number is very amazing.
As for now, there are more than 20,000 ancestral officials who eat for nothing!
The high-level scholars and doctors in the Great Song Dynasty government, few of whom have not obtained the ancestral hall, if they are accidentally impeached, their fate is nothing more than "begging for the ancestral hall" or "leaving their posts to serve the ancestral hall".
This is naturally a setback in life for scholars who want to make a career, but it is also a good way out for those who do not pursue much or cannot afford to pursue careers.
For example, the great Confucian Zhu Xi has not been an official for a long time, and he often shouts "please the ancestral hall" verbally, because "Fengci" is indeed a better choice for him: since I can't get the way of the king, I might as well go back to my hometown to give lectures, talk and talk, and still get some money from the state for the elderly.
Because of the flood of "ancestral halls" in the Great Song Dynasty, many scholars who did not have a smooth career were familiar with the retreat of "inviting the ancestral hall", which naturally brought economic pressure to the Great Song Dynasty government.
However, it is also necessary to see that the other side had a good influence on the literary and academic development of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is no exaggeration to say that those who engaged in literary creation and academic research have benefited more or less from the ancestral system in their lifetimes.
They can also act as helpers for the federal empire to export culture.
The natives of North and South America, the natives of India, the natives of South Africa need them...... The westward support fleet has not yet returned, but they will return sooner or later, and the natives of Europe and Africa will need them too.
Hard power can make the Federal Empire eat everything, and soft power must keep up, so that the Federal Empire will play a major role in the whole world!
Wu Dapeng led some of his subordinates and prepared to start writing private messages to the locked "talents" one by one.
It probably means that the outside world is so big, and your Excellency might as well be born in the four seas...... Let your great talent be fully displayed in the Quartet, educate and civilize, and let them feel the cultural essence of our Great Song Dynasty...... That's probably what the letter meant.
Of course, it is certain to give them official positions, and overseas jobs have always been high-paying.
The plan was implemented little by little, Wu Dapeng and the others were very proud, everything was under control, this is the advantage of the traversers......
However, no one expected that the always peaceful society of the Great Song Dynasty would suddenly have a huge upheaval!
Wu Dapeng and the others were stunned...... It seems that the main officials of the Great Song Dynasty were also stunned!
On an ordinary day, some of the students of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly broke out, they rushed out of the Tai School with several banners and shouting slogans, and the number of participants quickly changed from dozens to hundreds, and then quickly exceeded 1,000!
They didn't shout indiscriminately, but their slogans were clear and neat.
"Oppose bribery and humiliation of the country!"
"Against traitorous warlords!"
"No distinction against the Emperor!"
"Against the people of fish and meat!"
They distributed leaflets to passers-by, detailing the amount of money that the Great Song Dynasty was to give to the Tatar bandit groups each year; He also took the example of the Lu military clique, Li Tingzhi, the envoy of the Shanxi East and West Road, and others to show that the local warlords made a windfall in the name of preparing for war, and even took the initiative to collude with the Tatars and privately issued a traitorous agreement!
The relationship between the private property of the royal family and the public property of the state is ambiguous...... There are also telegraph and other industries that are monopolized by the powerful, and the cost of telegraph is as much as four times that of Liuqiu Island!
There are also unscrupulous big businessmen and profiteers on Liuqiu Island who collude with each other to raise prices and disregard people's livelihood!
Their leaflets worked, and many people passing by, among them small businessmen, and even some women joined them!
The people of the Great Song Dynasty originally liked to watch the excitement, and what the students said was reasonable...... I really didn't expect that my Great Song Dynasty would give so much money to the Tatar robbers for nothing every year, how nice it would be if we gave it to our people!
Those local warlords have earned so much money, it is unbearable!
Any good industry is occupied by the powerful, no wonder it is not easy for us to make money!
It is so unfair that we need a penny for a penny on the island to send a telegram on the island, and we want a penny here!!
Prices are still so high!!
Well, all kinds of grievances have come together to form a force...... In addition, the Great Song Dynasty government is still a relatively enlightened government, they allow private newspapers and discuss government affairs, of course, as long as they don't get angry.
Students also have relative freedom of speech and personal freedom, and they may be stationed in school or go to school, because of the rounding system, they may be more stressful to study, but they can get free meals, and under Jia Pingzhang's many cares, they will also get some scholarships from time to time...... Perhaps the only disadvantage is the school system, because of the school system, they can graduate in as little as five or six years, and at most seven or eight years before they can go to the official career.
At this time, the number of day students in the entire Tai School Park is nearly 15,000!
Generally speaking, the Great Song Dynasty government is still good for Tai students...... In the earliest Taixue incident, which caused such a big social upheaval, it was only the execution of the leader at the time, Chen Dong, and a commoner.
The last time Chen Yizhong and they caused another Tai student incident, the relevant personnel of the Great Song Dynasty government only expelled the six leaders from school...... And in the end, under the mediation of Jia Pingzhang, some punishments were successively removed.
From these two things, it can be seen that it is really an old tradition not to kill scholars and scholars.
However, after all, the Great Song Dynasty is still an authoritarian government, and there must be some unspoken rules, you don't need to sing praises, and you can't let too many students criticize the government at will...... Too many students who care too much about the government will not end well.
Many students also understand this reality, and they are immersed in hard study, looking forward to the day when they will be in a high position, and maybe it will be more useful to speak out at that time.
However, there are still some hot-blooded young people among the students of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are still not used to seeing some political policies and behaviors that they can't understand, and they don't know why they burst out all at once!
They went to the Lihua Gate, the main gate of the palace, to petition and submit a letter, asking the Empress Dowager Xie to give an explanation...... They sat collectively at the gate of Lihua Gate, making a lot of noise for a while, and more and more people gathered!
This is the entire content of the telegram sent back by the Federal Imperial Embassy in Lin'an City of the Great Song Dynasty as quickly as possible!
After King Zhang Anguo knew about this, he didn't think about it, so he quickly invited a few friends to discuss, this matter is quite big!
Song Ziqiang glared and said, "Big Bird, you can do it, why did you start from the Tai Student?!"
"! What do I want those students for? At the moment, experienced officials are needed to do things, those hot-blooded hairy boys, what do we want them to do? It's not manual work! ”
Wu Dapeng said hatefully: "Who provoked this matter? Check it out well, delay our big event! ”
PS: The third update! The third more!!