emperor?
Guo Liang's legs softened after being kicked by Han Du, and he knelt on the ground. Only then did he realize that the person in front of him was actually the emperor.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
After Guo Liang finished speaking, he was still shocked that the person in front of him was actually the emperor. Suddenly Guo Liang realized that the emperor seemed to be saying just now, should he be granted an official title? How could he, a craftsman, be an official one day?
"Since you are an official, you can't call yourself young in front of me. You have to call yourself a minister." Lao Zhu smiled and corrected Guo Liang's claim.
Guo Liang's face flushed with excitement. He tried intermittently several times, but couldn't squeeze out the word "chen".
Seeing this, Lao Zhu stopped caring about him.
Han Du looked at Guo Liang and felt that the ancestral tombs in this guy's home must be smoking. That's why he was so lucky to be appointed as an official by Lao Zhu himself.
In the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period, there were three ways to become an official. One is recommendation. If someone recommends you, you can become an official in the imperial court. But this situation was common in the first few days of the Ming Dynasty, because at that time the world was uncertain and many places were still in the hands of the Yuan Dynasty. Lao Zhu is in urgent need of all kinds of talents. Anyone recommended by the princes and ministers can be an official.
The other is to pass the imperial examination. The imperial examination was mainly aimed at scholars, and in the first few years after the founding of the country, the Ming Dynasty did not even have an imperial examination. Later, Lao Zhu felt deeply that there was a shortage of talents to govern the world, and with the unanimous advice of the courtiers, he established the system to select talents through the imperial examination. However, even the imperial examinations cannot be held every three years. Anyway, the imperial examinations in the Hongwu Dynasty have been intermittent until now, sometimes there are, sometimes not.
This is not to say that Lao Zhu did not pay enough attention to the imperial examination. On the contrary, he attached great importance to the imperial examination. However, after the wars in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, talents were extremely withered. Anyone who had read poetry and books for more than ten years was appointed as an official. Nowadays, facing some scholars who are only literate, there is really no need to hold imperial examinations every time. Of course, this situation became much better ten years after Hongwu. There were enough scholars to participate in almost every imperial examination.
The last way to become an official is to be directly appointed as an official by Lao Zhu. For example, for those scholars who came to the capital in the early years of Hongwu, even if they were not recommended by others, if they stayed in the capital, if they were lucky enough and met Lao Zhu, they might be directly promoted to official positions.
However, please see clearly that even if Lao Zhu was granted an official title, he was still a scholar, but he had never granted a craftsmanship title. Anyway, Han Du has never heard of it, which is why Han Du thinks there is smoke coming out of Guo Liang's ancestral tomb. It was an unprecedented first time. What was it if it wasn't smoke?
Lao Zhu came here to take advantage of the excitement and returned home completely happy. After reading all the production processes of Baoqiao from beginning to end, Lao Zhu's worries were finally relieved.
Han Du did not leave with Lao Zhu. Originally, Han Du wanted to come to the banknote bureau after going to court. Coming with Lao Zhu was just being pulled into the carriage by Lao Zhu, so there was no reason to leave with Lao Zhu.
Watching Lao Zhu's carriage leave, Han Du turned around and came to Shanzi Camp. As soon as he entered the commander's camp, he saw Xu Chengfei sitting leisurely at the bottom.
"The last general has met General Han." Xu Chengfei spotted Han Du, stood up and greeted him.
It's just that Xu Chengfei's tone was calm, without any fluctuation, and he remained silent after finishing speaking. Thinking about it, General Han Du not only didn't care about anything, but left it all to Xu Chengfei. He didn't even have much time to come to the military camp, and only came to take a look occasionally. Xu Chengfei and Han Du had only met a few times, and it was really hard to say what they wanted to say.
Han Du didn't care about Xu Chengfei's indifference. He motioned for him to sit down and joked with a smile: "You look very leisurely today. Why do you have time to stay here? Didn't you teach those soldiers how to read?"
Hearing Han Du's words, Xu Chengfei laughed in a good mood and replied: "There is no need for the general to teach you now."
"Oh? Why is this?" Han Du was curious.
Xu Chengfei leaned back in his chair, crossed his hands, and explained: "My lord is a scholar, and the priests and soldiers are not literate themselves. Instead, they leave it to the general. Then the general can also leave the matter to the general. Among the people below? There are a few smart people below who can read quickly. They have already finished learning the thousand-character essay given by the general. Therefore, the general asked them to teach other people how to read. "
You really understand the essence of blame-shifting.
However, Han Du was not only not angry, but also silently praised Xu Chengfei in his heart. Han Du was a little interested in the fact that someone had already recognized a thousand characters, so he asked: "Someone has recognized it so quickly? What about the others?"
"Oh, there are a few clever ones who have recognized it long ago." Xu Chengfei nodded and continued: "Although the others are worse, they are generally good. The worst ones now know more than half of the words. If it is On average, everyone has probably completed 70%."
Seventy percent, this speed is not too slow.
Han Du originally thought that since these soldiers were old and illiterate, it would not be easy to make them literate, but he did not expect that the progress would be faster. If this is the case, then it won't be long before everyone can read the Thousand-Character Classic, so some things need to be planned in advance.
Seeing the smile on Han Du's face, Xu Chengfei also smiled and said: "Speaking of which, the reason why they are so desperate is due to the good idea that the general came up with."
At first, Xu Chengfei disapproved of Han Du's move of eating meat to seduce his soldiers. But what happened next shocked him. The enthusiasm of the soldiers to learn literacy was really the first time for him, a person who had been in the military camp for so many years, to see it. In the past, when generals trained their troops, even if they were whipped with whips and beaten with military sticks, the effect might not be as good as Han Du's method of eating meat.
It was also because of this incident that Xu Chengfei took a new look at Han Du. To be honest, Xu Chengfei would have looked down upon Han Du if Cao Guogong hadn't come in person to announce Han Du's appointment. Although Han Du was a civil servant, he had never been able to pee in a pot in civil and military affairs. In addition, Han Du knew nothing about military training, which made him even more looked down upon by Xu Chengfei.
But now Xu Chengfei truly regards Han Du as the commander of Shanzi Camp from the bottom of his heart, and he can speak well instead of saying weird words.
However, despite admiration, Xu Chengfei still had some opinions on Han Du's approach. He curled his lips and said, "It's just too expensive."
