"Rebellion." Shen said slowly.

"Scared ......" everyone's faces turned pale all of a sudden, and they stammered: "My lord, are you kidding............

"Of course it's a joke." Silently took a sip of tea, calmly changed the topic and said: "Since they don't dare to rebel, they have to do it according to the rules of reality......

"Ahem......" Everyone's little heart was put down, and they smiled bitterly while wiping their sweat: "My lord, this joke is going to scare people to death." ”

"Let's liven up the atmosphere." Shen Mo still smiled and said: "Everyone, if you want to make a hundred-year plan, opportunism will not work, you must have courage, perseverance and investment. ”

"Your Excellency, please speak." The heads of the families also came to their senses and listened to the silent topic.

"We have to make our goals clear," Shen Mo said in a deep voice: "Let the officials who belong to us continue to improve in terms of quality and quantity, and maintain their absolute superiority in the court." ”

"That's right." Of course, this is everyone's wish, but what they want to know more is how to do it.

"First of all, don't be nostalgic for the privilege of the vessel. The children of your clan, first, do not have to worry about food and clothing, just concentrate on studying, second, you can get famous teachers and professors, and third, there is the most authoritative pre-exam counseling, what is the reason why you can't take the exam for other scholars? Shen Mo said slowly: "Let them lose their luck and fight against the water, I don't believe in a noble family, and there will be no gold and jade talents!" ”

Everyone was slightly moved by what he said, but it was only slightly, and some people were not worried: "But Jiangnan Shizi is where the Ming Wenshu is located, and the scholars are like crossing the river, and there are countless people who are talented and eight fighters." If there is no protection of the dish name, I am afraid that in this way, the number of Chinese people will be greatly reduced. ”

"You can't just look at the negatives." Shen Mo shook his head and said: "In this way, the number of Chinese people will indeed decrease, but only in the flames can real gold be refined, and with the support of your strong strength" The elite children don't need too much, they have a great opportunity to go to the pavilion to pay respects. After a pause, he said, "Besides, you shouldn't just keep your two eyes on your own one-third of an acre...... Stand taller, think deeper, in the final analysis, the scholars in Jiangnan should be in the same trench as us, and they should not be regarded as opponents! ”

Everyone was really moved now, and they didn't know how disgusted Jiangnan Shilin was because of the number of dishes, "But I always feel that it is more important to get benefits, so I turn a deaf ear to the growing protests." In fact, they have already tasted the evil consequences of this, and compared the two things of "Zhu Kun's ban on the sea" and "Hu Zongxian's compilation", the former can be killed under the unanimous resistance of Fujian officials; The latter was able to overcome difficulties and implement policies that were obviously more unacceptable, and although there was a difference in the ability of the two and the upward movement of the two people, it had to be admitted that the officials of Jiangnan nationality were not as good as others. Especially in the attitude towards the hometown gentry, there is even quite hostility, which cannot but be said to be the evil result of the name.

The heads of the Nanzhi family are the most touched, after all, the number of dishes occupies the quota of the province, and does not occupy Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangzhou, "there is only good for people, there is no harm, of course people are happy to continue." However, to them, this is an offense to the scholars of this province, making wedding dresses for others. Such a stupid business, why didn't you realize it for a long time?

"Then ......" So while the others were still struggling, the people of Nanzhi spoke: "How can I remedy it?" ”

"In fact, there are good examples in front, which one is the biggest in the court today" said silently: "Do you turn a blind eye? ”

"Of course it's the Shanxi Gang." This is something that even three-year-olds know.

"How did they do it, haven't you ever thought about it?" Silently said and looked at Wang Yao and said, "Pugong, it's convenient to talk about it, did Jin Shang come to the front in this regard?" Wang Yao is a representative of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, which is a family of Jin merchants, but geographically speaking, "it belongs to the southeast line, which makes Yangzhou businessmen a bridge between the two sides...... In fact, "it is also thanks to these people who have eased in it, so that the contradictions between the two sides have not caused much conflict several times, and there is today's mì month."

Politics is always an extension of the economy, why did Yang Bo tolerate Shen Mo again and again, and why did Shen Mo withdraw his troops when he had the advantage, on the one hand, because both of them are mature politicians and know that they must take care of the overall situation, but what is the overall situation? It is not yet that the industry and commerce in the southeast are booming, the total economic volume has swelled sharply, and several major business gangs have enough room for profit, so cooperation has overwhelmed confrontation and has become the main wind direction.

In fact, for this gathering, Shen Mo can not invite Yangzhou businessmen to come, but since this matter also involves their interests, it is obviously not appropriate to exclude them; Second, Shen Mo also wanted to pass on his thoughts to Jinshang Group through Wang Yao's mouth...... This will only benefit and not harm in getting along in the future. As for whether it will be violent, those who can know it already know, and those who can't know it can't leak it this time. So Shen Mo invited them to come over with him very angrily, so as to save the development of the conference in the future.

"The adult is overrated" Seeing that he couldn't shirk it, Wang Yao smiled implicitly: "Then I'll say a few words." So he cleared his throat and introduced to everyone the way of the Jin merchants in this regard: first, whether in Shanxi or Yangzhou, the Jin merchants did not hesitate to spend money on a large scale to establish education, so that the clan has a clan study, the township has a township study, and there are a large number of workshops in the city. These schools, of different sizes and hundreds of thousands, all kinds of expenses are funded by the Jin merchants, scholars study in them, no need to pay for the bundle of savings, and those from poor families and excellent character and learning will also receive additional funding. This has given many young people who could not afford to read in the past the opportunity to pick up books. If there are more readers, the probability of talent will naturally be higher.

In addition to investing in basic education, the Jin merchants also made great efforts to set up cultural fairs to provide conditions for scholars to study and learn from each other before the examination............ The so-called literary meeting, from the gentleman to meet friends in writing, a word, but after the Chenghua of this dynasty, it has become an institutionalized form of educational organization, and it has been widely established in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River. For example, in Suzhou, Jinling, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places, all of them hold lectures and set up lecturers all year round for scholars to learn skills. Although Shanxi's literary atmosphere is not as strong as that of Jiangnan, the Jin merchants insisted on inviting a large number of famous teachers to the city by virtue of their bloody investment, not only opening altars in the city all year round, but even regularly going down to the countryside to give lectures" to benefit rural scholars.

In order to make this kind of literary society that gathers a township and a clan to attack and control righteousness, "through the guidance of famous teachers and the care of friends to improve the level of the literary society, the Jin merchants not only generously provide the club food, but also give rewards to the best articles, which can be described as painstaking. However, the effect of this is also obvious, making Shanxi from a backward province in the imperial examination to a strong province in the imperial examination that does not allow Jiangsu and Zhejiang to be the only beauty. So much so that if a certain county does not do well in the exam, people will say that it is because the school and the hall are not done well, and its importance can be seen.

The second is to generously donate the fees for the imperial examination to provide financial security for the students who take the examination. In this era, the imperial examination was a luxury, not only requiring scholars to take off their jobs, but also requiring a very high fee, and it was getting higher and higher...... In addition to binding generals, books, paper and pens, and eating, they also have to meet with the lords of the big and small seats, the same year and the township officials. After winning the promotion, they will also be rewarded with drunken banquets, rewarding the servants of the lord and the cabinet officials, as well as the travel expenses to Beijing in the coming year, and the cost of examination papers, and the huā fee will be doubled.

, reading must not cost more money" its huā fee and other idlers simply cannot afford it. In the final analysis, this is still a rich man's game, "Poor scholars study hard, and once they succeed in the title of the gold list, the bridge can basically only exist in the opera script. However, the Jin merchants broke this gap and donated generously, as long as they could be admitted to the county school, "whether it is a child, a hyperplasia or an epiphyte, they will get their funding." If the scholar is promoted, the Jin merchants will not only cover the aforementioned expenses, but also provide the most thoughtful service for them to get through the joints.

The third is to actively donate to build examination sheds, examination institutes and examination halls to provide comfortable examination rooms and apartments for candidates. It is no exaggeration to say that the examination sheds and test institutes in various counties and provinces in Shanxi are the best in the country. Zhu Dashou, who served as a school inspector in Shanxi, once told Shen Mo with great emotion in a letter that the trial institute in a county in Shanxi is the middle of the heavy door, the road, and the steps. In the water hall "two corridors for the boy number, more than 800 seats. The right is the huā hall, the left is the study, the back is the kitchen, the front is the gate, the east and west are the propaganda building, and there are dozens of rooms...... This kind of test institute is not comparable to thousands of counties in the world, and it is not far behind the provincial tribute courts. What can better reflect the sincerity of the Jin merchants is the comfortable apartments they built in Nanjing and Beijing for the scholars who participated in the township examination and the meeting examination. In the city of Beijing, where every inch of land is valuable, the wealthy Jin merchants have set up more than 20 guild halls, and even down to each prefecture...... Such as Taiyuan Hall, Puzhou Hall, Yangzhou Hall and so on. Most of these halls are large-scale, well-equipped, and have a beautiful environment, so that the lifters can feel at home and take the exam calmly.

When Shen Mo entered Beijing to take the exam, he once visited the Puzhou Guild Hall, and he is still deeply impressed. The hall was built in the former residence of the first assistant Li Xian, with a grand house and elegant corridors, with three sets of courtyards and a huā garden. In the courtyard, there is a special hanging plaque with the name of the Benyi test taker, there is a shrine building that worships Zhu Xi and the famous ministers of the past dynasties, there is a stage, there is a Bi Linglong Pavilion, Kuiguang Pavilion, Sijing Hall, Fujima Yinwu, etc., there are cloud and smoke collection and release pavilions, Zishan pavilions, rockeries, ponds in the huā garden, covering an area of thirty or forty acres.

This is the case for just one prefecture hall, not to mention the largest Shanxi hall and the widest Yangzhou hall. The main purpose of these halls as places for buses to stay is to serve the scholars of the province and the prefecture to enter Beijing for the examination. Although it is usually provided to fellow merchants to earn some operating expenses. However, in the year of Dabi and a few months before the field, these idle people had to move out of the clubhouse, and they could not stop the goods, so as not to affect the preparation of the exams.

Although they knew that the Jin merchants were willing to invest in education, they heard Wang Yao tell the story with their own ears, and the southeast gentry were really shocked...... They did not expect that the Jin merchants' support and funding for the imperial examination of scholars in their hometown was not only strong, but also specific and thoughtful, and full of sincerity. It can be said that Shanxi can change the face of the imperial examination, and batches of outstanding talents such as Yang Bo, Ge Shouli, Wang Guoguang, Wang Chonggu, and Zhang Siwei have emerged. The number of Chinese style is also in the forefront of all provinces in the country, known as extremely prosperous, which is inseparable from the support of Jin merchants in financial resources.

Of course, no matter how shrewd the Jin merchants are, they will never make loss-making transactions, and the benefits they get directly or indirectly are still very profitable compared to the annual fee of one million taels of silver.

Wang Yao actually didn't say too much, for example, the Jin merchants would use bribery, gambling, examination affairs, dredging relationships, etc., to help as many people as possible to take the exam. After his high school, he will "continue to do some favors for him, go through the door, and seek the most favorable development, these tricks that cannot be put on the table, of course, people will not talk about them." But just the three points he said in general terms were enough to make everyone present fall into deep thought.

"If you pay, you will be rewarded" After a while, a silent voice slowly sounded: "Helping a student alone may not be rewarded, and he will even be ungrateful." But when there are more people who help, a tradition and a culture will be formed, and those who are ungrateful will be ashamed. ”

"In addition to the experience of Shanxi to learn" Seeing that everyone nodded silently, they silently hit the railway while it was hot: "I suggest that if you want to do it, it is best to formulate a set of strict rules and grades from the beginning, such as setting up four-level educational institutions in townships, counties, governments, and provinces......" After a pause, he said: ", among them, the focus should be on the two heads" The township level is specially selected materials, and the provincial level is fully committed to cultivating elites. Saying that, he smiled at Wang Yao and said, "Let Pu Gong see it and laugh." ”

"Where do you speak, adult" Wang Yao hurriedly shook his head and smiled: "You are always so modest, in fact, who doesn't know" The best thing about this set is Suzhou, I heard that Suzhou Mansion has learned to hide the dragon and crouching tiger, and sharpen the sword for ten years, and the next year is afraid that it will be the only one. ”

"It's over." Shen Mo smiled faintly, but did not deny it, but looked around the cabin and said: "You don't have to agree now, you might as well go back to investigate it first, and wait until next year's spring to see the results of Suzhou Fuxue before making a decision." ”

Listening to Shen Mo's big tone, everyone's interest was aroused at once, and they didn't have to make a decision right away...... It's such a big deal, so I have to go back and discuss it. So they all happily agreed, saying that we would wait and see.

"If we do it according to the will of adults in the future" Having said that, there are some questions that should be asked, so some people ask: "Our children will definitely go to their own schools", then what is the meaning of the existence of the national eunuch? ”

"Of course it makes sense." Shen asked in a deep voice, "Can your disciples all go to high school?" ”

"How is that possible?" Everyone smiled bitterly: "After all, there are still many people who fail the test." ”

"Gone." Silent chin smiled: "I said, we are a family, I will not let you children reduce the number of scholars...... "Of course, those who can be admitted to the Jinshi don't have to worry, for those who can't pass the exam, I also have to give them a good way out." ”

"Guozijian?" Everyone thought of it almost together.

"If all goes well, Guozijian will no longer accept regular prisoners, and after all the inmates in the school have dropped out, there will be no one in the prison who can buy the status of inmates with huā money." Silent and said lightly: "Guozijian will only accept three kinds of prisoners: Ju, Gong, and Yin, and will restore the ancestral system, hone them with prison points and internship experience, and then distribute them according to their comprehensive results." Saying that, he looked at the people: "The school system is four years, and the first three years are mainly based on prison points............ But people don't have to earn points. Then, whether it is a new science and technology jinshi, or a prison student who has completed the points, will be sent to each yamen for internship and experience, and after a year, the ranking will be arranged and distributed according to the comprehensive evaluation given by each yamen, officials, and Guozi supervisors, what do you think? ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up: "Is it really the same as a non-commissioned officer?" "The heart said that what are you doing with the cancellation of the dish number? The benefits of the prison students only increase, not decrease!

"Yes." Shen Mo nodded slowly: "But don't be happy too early, first, the provincial inspectors will be responsible for the recommended supervisors, and the grades and performance of the supervisors during the school period will be an important basis for evaluating their political performance; Second, the premise of sitting in prison for three years is that the inmates can complete the points. If you are not satisfied, you have to continue to study, and if you can't finish it in six years at most, you can only go back to the province to deal with it yourself. Third, whether the yamen who are interning in the last year is willing to give praise or not depends on their performance, which is also related to whether the inmates can be strong in the future...... "Or sink again." ”

"Your Excellency has considered it enough." Everyone was worried: "But can the imperial court agree?" ”

"It's a matter of people." Shen Mo smiled and said: "And this is not against the ancestral system, I am still somewhat sure." ”

"Let the adults bother............" When you meet a leader who thinks about the problem so thoroughly, what else can everyone say? Although they are not allowed to restore the name of the dish, they use the restoration of the prison history system to compensate those prisoners whose interests have been damaged. Moreover, it points out a clear and pragmatic path for each family to continue to write brilliance.

They all knew that with the energy of silence, it was completely possible to settle the incident without explanation, and use power to settle the incident, but he put down his body and did their work with all his might, is it not for their good? At least this sincere respect is something that no other official can give.