"Wang Weiwei, what did you say this Reform Academy teaches? Also, who runs this Reform Academy? What kind of future can the students of this Academy have in the future?"
Huang Zongxi, an old scholar, seemed to be really old. He didn't seem to understand what Wang Zhongxiao said, so after Wang Zhongxiao finished speaking, he asked several questions in succession.
"Mr. Lizhou! The Reform Academy teaches the spirit of saving the world and the ability to govern the world. Therefore, the students in the Academy must learn not only the moral character, but also the ability to manage the world. Only those who take the world as their own responsibility in their hearts and have the scriptures in their hands Only talented scholars who can help the people can serve the country and the people."
Wang Zhongxiao explained his ideals for running a school in detail, speaking slowly and in a soft voice, which made people feel like spring breeze. However, these ideal words sounded full of "rebellion" to the ears of Huang Zongxi, a great Confucian who had studied "the science of rebellion"!
What is "the heart to save the world"?
The Qing Dynasty is now the Holy Lord, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the river is clear and the sea is prosperous. The Qing Dynasty is about to flourish. Is there any need to "save the world"?
And whose life is this royal guard trying to save? From the Qing Dynasty? Or the Ming Dynasty and Wu Sangui?
As for the "ability to govern the world", it is even more inappropriate for officials in the Qing Dynasty, especially the Han officials. Do they need the ability to govern the world? No need at all! If the Qing Dynasty really needed such officials, it would not have allowed most of the Han civil servants who were just entering the official career to take office carrying a lot of Beijing debt. Is it so difficult to give more shortcomings to the people below? No!
In the Qing Dynasty, the official vacancies for Han officials were very tight. In the yamen of Beijing, where the main bannermen are recruited, there are countless scribes, but in the local yamen that serve as officials for Han officials, there are very few assistant officers. Among them, there are no assistant officers under the governor and governor. If Not counting Du Biao and Fu Biao, there is only one governor or governor in the entire Du Fu Yamen who is "staffed". Even the head of the six departments of the six departments is a Shaoxing master.
If the Qing Dynasty really wanted to arrange for those future "capable officials" to govern the world, couldn't it just arrange more assistant officials to work for Han officials? The more experience you have, the easier it will be to become a talent!
But what does that old saying say? The "capable minister in governing the world" is the "treacherous hero in troubled times"!
What was the background of the Qing Dynasty? How many villains can you control? If there were a few more traitors in the central and local areas, would the Qing Dynasty still be prosperous?
And could the Qing Dynasty still hide the thoughts of the Qing Dynasty from Huang Zongxi?
But now, father and son Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao want to run a school to cultivate "capable ministers and heroes" after taking charge of Guangdong. Doesn't it cost money to run a school?
Also, how many years does a governor-general last? If he leaves after the expiration date, the reform school will not be opened, and Wang Fuchen will have to change places. Won't all the expenses for running the school be wasted?
But the Wang family and his son are willing to spend money to run a school, which shows that you are disloyal!
Wang Zhongxiao did not expect Huang Zongxi, a great scholar, to be so able to speculate. When he saw that he was speechless, he continued: "This Reform Academy is jointly run by my father, Prince Pingnan, Prince Jingnan and Dingnan Gege. Now Prince Jingnan has taken over the vassal administration of Jingfan, Prince Pingxi and Dingnangege will soon take over the Ping and Ding vassals, and my father will soon be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, so the four of them need to appoint a large number of people who want to save the world and are able to serve. A civil servant.
Mr. Lizhou must also know that today's civil servants in the Qing Dynasty, whether they are born as writers, Jinshi, or Juren, are not very capable of doing things. Those writers were a little better, after all, they were promoted one level at a time. As for those who came from the imperial examination, apart from being able to write eight-legged essays, they had no ability. You can't do anything after entering the yamen, and it's all up to the master to take care of everything. It's better to let the master be the official! Therefore, my father couldn't stand such civil servants, so he thought of opening a school specifically to train capable officials, combining civil servants and masters into one.
But now in this world, it is time for another storm to come. After my father, Prince Pingnan, and Princess Dingnan all arrive in Guangdong and Guangxi, they should have the opportunity to show off their talents. Therefore, the future prospects of students in this academy are certainly guaranteed. They can either work as officials in government offices at all levels in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, or they can join the army to serve the country. They may even have the opportunity to make contributions. This opportunity is rare! "
Wang Zhongxiao spoke very sincerely, and even the fat scholar who followed Huang Zongxi was tempted by what he said, but he could not persuade a "big anti-Confucian" like Huang Zongxi - a great Confucian who could write "Records of Visits to the Ming Yi", what kind of character could you imagine? And know!
Huang Zongxi said in his heart: It turned out that it was not only Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao who were "disloyal", but also Shang Zhixin, Geng Jingzhong, and Kong Sizhen were also disloyal! Although their thoughts should be different from those of Prince Zhu and Wu Sangui, they would not immediately raise a flag of rebellion. But once disloyal thoughts arise, real rebellion is not far away!
And even if you don’t want to go so fast on the road of rebellion, I and my students can still give you a push!
Well, not bad, not bad. It seems that there is hope for the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty!
Guessing Wang Zhongxiao's thoughts, Huang Zongxi did not continue to inquire further, but said with a smile: "Wang Guards, I have nothing to do but want to go out for a while. I still have many old acquaintances in Fujian and Guangxi! Qing soldiers I haven't met them much since I went south, so I just wanted to go see them this time.
In addition, the dozens of apprentices I have accepted at the Yongshang Witness Academy are all engaged in learning behind closed doors. This time I am taking them to Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian to broaden their horizons! "
Hearing that Huang Zongxi agreed to Wang Zhongxiao's request and was not only willing to send students, but also planned to go to Guangdong in person, Wang Zhongxiao felt overjoyed and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, Mr. Lizhou can go to Guangdong, this Reform Academy can definitely do it." To become the first-class prestigious school in the world, as for the education money of Mr. Lizhou and other gentlemen, junior, how about giving this amount for one year in total? In addition, we will also give this amount for housing expenses."
Wang Zhongxiao was a down-to-earth person, and he didn't show off too much. He directly picked up the brush that the fat scholar brought just now and wrote the two numbers "five thousand" and "ten thousand" on the coffee table.
The repair money (remuneration to the teacher) of 10,000 taels and the settlement fee of 15,000 taels were not given to Huang Zongxi alone, but to Huang Zongxi and his disciples.
Wang Zhongxiao asked with a smile: "Are you satisfied, old man? If you are satisfied, we will sign a contract and pay immediately. I have the banknotes from Ruixin Hall with me, and they are all payable on demand. If you always find it troublesome, I I'll have someone transport cash from Suzhou later!"
"Satisfied, satisfied" Huang Zongxi stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Wang Guard, your father will have to spend a lot of money for this school, right?"
Wang Zhongxiao laughed and said: "Mr. Lizhou is joking, where can I run a school without spending money? And it is really a good deal for this junior to use this small amount of repair money and settling-in expenses to hire Mr. Lizhou and his disciples."
Of course it is a bargain, but the 25,000 taels are only part of the cost of hiring people from the Reform Academy, not counting the cost of hiring a master from Shaoxing to be a teacher!
Those masters who can be teachers and apprentices are not cheap! Moreover, Shaoxing masters and their colleagues also want to create a monopoly, and are usually unwilling to accept apprentices from other than Shaoxing people unless they pay a lot of money!
After these teachers were invited to Guangdong, they had to build schools, write and print textbooks, recruit students from all over Guangdong, Guangdong, and Fujian, and make arrangements for all the students and teachers, and take care of their miscellaneous lives. Taking into account all the expenses, it is really impossible to build a high-end reform school without a starting fee of 1,200,000 yuan and a maintenance fee of 108,000 yuan a year!
And this reform school is not the only school that Wang Zhongxiao plans to open in Guangdong. He also has a Jingwu School, which will also be opened in the future. Moreover, he is poor in literature and rich in martial arts!
To run a military school, the cost is much more than that of a reform school.
Now that the two universities, Wen Weixin and Wu Jingwu, have been established, talented people with both civil and military skills can continue to join the cause of the Tiandihui!
However, Wang Zhongxiao has been very busy recently and has no time to follow up on the matter of opening a reform school - Emperor Kangxi's letter and decree have been delivered to him by 800-mile flight! Emperor Xiao Mazi asked him to go back as soon as possible to help "cheat" the Qing Dynasty!
So after negotiating the detailed conditions for hiring people with Huang Zongxi, signing the "Contract Proof", and paying a silver check of 25,000 taels, he handed over the next steps to Wang Zhongyi and more than a dozen people. After joining the Tiandi Hui disciples sent by Yang Qilong and Chen Yonghua, they left Ningbo Mansion with Zhou Chang and Wang Shiyuan.
However, they did not rush back to Beijing, but went to Shaoxing first.
He has another very important "big business" here in Shaoxing - Chen Yonghua and Chang Mingyue are staying in Shaoxing these days, helping Wang Zhongxiao recruit Shaoxing masters, while following this order personally!
And the "customer" of this big business is also a very capable person named Yao Qisheng!
It was the governor of Fujian, Yao Qisheng, who helped Shi Lang regain Da Yuan Island in later TV series. The real Yao Qisheng was much more powerful than the Yao Qisheng in the TV series! But the coastal border relocation has nothing to do with him. When he was the governor of Fujian, the coastal border relocation had been going on for twenty years!
The "power" of Yao Qisheng mainly lies in the word "drilling camp". He is the kind of master who is particularly good at "drilling"!
When he was in Shunzhi for sixteen years, he found himself a disciple of the Eight Banners through some unknown means! He is not just a slave, but a member of the Zhenghu Banner of the Han Army under the Red Banner. He is a Shaoxing master and has been a Shaoxing native for many generations, and he is actually part of the Eight Banners! I wonder if his Manchurian with a Shaoxing accent will reveal his secret?
And of course he joined the Eight Banners team not to become an Eight Banners soldier, but to join the Eight Banners imperial examination, which actually allowed him to pass the exam in the second year of Kangxi.
A Han Chinese Jinshi had to be appointed as a county magistrate, and the candidate had to wait eight years on average. And Yao Qisheng passed the "Shaoxing Eight Banners Juren" test, so the next year he was appointed as the county magistrate of Xiangshan County, Guangdong. He was the county magistrate of Xiangshan County where Hao'ao is located! It smells so good!
However, Yao Qisheng, who was particularly clever and courageous, encountered something he couldn't handle when he was the magistrate of Xiangshan County - he accepted bribes from the Portuguese in Hao'ao, opened the sea ban without authorization, and also helped The Portuguese passed through Zi to avoid becoming a foreign servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, what he did did made Pingnan King Shang Ke unhappy.
As a result, Yao Qisheng was impeached by the censor and dismissed from office, and returned to Shaoxing to eat old rice.
But Yao Qisheng is not willing to perish like this!
So when Wang Zhongxiao took Chen Yonghua, Zhou Chang, and Wang Shiyuan to Shaoxing to recruit masters, Yao Qisheng came as soon as he smelled it!
He and Wang Zhongxiao are our own people. Wang Zhongxiao is a disciple of the Eight Banners, and he is also a disciple of the Eight Banners!
Now that Wang Zhongxiao wants to recruit a master, he must be recruited!
Wang Zhongxiao and this Manchu from Shaoxing also hit it off. Not only did he recruit Yao Qisheng into the palace, but he also directly used Yao Qisheng's home in Kuaiji City as the "recruitment office" (recruitment office for masters), and also let Chen Yonghua and Chang Mingyue live together. Enter Yao's house and be responsible for interviewing the master together with Yao Qisheng.
So when Wang Zhongxiao returned to Shaoxing, Chen Yonghua and Yao Qisheng had already helped recruit a large group of Shaoxing masters, and the two of them were still fighting fiercely, and they were about to win!
It must be a good thing that Chen Yonghua and Yao Qisheng are in the same position!
Will Chen Jinnan's brothers be able to attack Damuan Island together with Shi Lang in the future?
What would be better than this, of course, would be to bring Zhou Peigong and Zhu's third prince Wang Shiyuan along with them. The four of them would worship together and then end the Qing Dynasty together.
In Yao Qisheng's big house, at the banquet where Yao Qisheng greeted Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Zhongxiao heard that Yao Qisheng intended to sworn sworn relatives with Chen Yonghua, and he immediately became interested after drinking: "This is a good thing. I think it's a good thing. We are very destined to Xizhi. You can worship this brother, and you can also worship a few more brothers! Peigong and Shiyuan, why don't you two join Fufu and Xizhi and worship together!"
"Let's sworn sworn friends together? That's great. I have had this idea for a long time!" Zhou Chang and Zhou Peigong knew that Wang Zhongxiao had a very close relationship with Chen Yonghua and Wang Shiyuan, but he could never get into Wang Zhongxiao's inner circle. Now Wang Zhongxiao opened a gold medal I asked him to get into the "circle", how could he disagree?
Of course Wang Shiyuan was also happy, and immediately smiled and said to Yao Qisheng and Zhou Chang: "Xizhi, Peigong, and Fufu, the four of us hit it off, and we are like-minded. Now that we are living together in troubled times, it is time to show off our talents. , we are sworn brothers with different surnames, so we can support each other in the future!"
Chen Yonghua seemed to have had a few too many drinks. At this time, he also smiled and said: "This is great, Xizhi, Peigong, and Shiyuan, let's sworn sworn friends together and we will be ours!"
"Okay, okay," Wang Zhongxiao almost laughed from ear to ear, "Since the four of you have the intention of becoming brothers, then I will bear witness to you, and we will be brothers from now on!"
How great, Yao Qisheng, Zhou Peigong, Chen Jinnan, and the third prince Zhu will become brothers. From now on, the third prince Zhu’s father will be the uncle of Yao Qisheng, Zhou Peigong, and Chen Jinnan!
The royal relatives of the Ming Dynasty, Yao Qisheng and Zhou Peigong, are considered to have become. With this status, there is no need for Shangcai Shikou Lingchi to arrange additional charges.
"Xizhi, now that you are sworn friends with my cousin (Wang Shiyuan), you are considered mine!"
In the backyard of Yao Qisheng's mansion, next to an incense table used for sworn obeisance, Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said to Yao Qisheng, who had just recognized three adopted brothers: "Since you are mine, then the official position you lost, Sooner or later I will be able to give you a reply!"
Yao Qisheng was so happy when he heard this, he had met a noble man! Thinking of this, he immediately took out an envelope and stuffed it into Wang Zhongxiao's hand with a smile, but Wang Zhongxiao raised his hand to block it, "I don't like this, but you must be more careful about the errand I entrust you with!" "
"Second Master, do you have any errands for your subordinates?" Yao Qisheng took back the red envelope when he saw Wang Zhongxiao's firm attitude.
Wang Zhongxiao said: "This errand is very important. Even the masters I invited here in Shaoxing, you have to take them to Zhaoqing. My father has already been appointed as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the President of Guilin Tuntian! He cannot do these two errands alone. Come, you have to take the master below to help him properly.
In addition, my father, Dingnan Gege, Pingnan Wang Shizi, and Jingnan Wang Shizi are planning to jointly open a reform school in Zhaoqing. Mr. Lizhou and his students will be responsible for Confucianism in this school. The master you brought with you, Xi Zhi, will be responsible for imparting these practical knowledge, such as the study of construction! It's up to you to decide the amount of money for master's repair. As long as they are willing to teach, money is not an issue. "
"What?" Yao Qisheng looked very surprised after hearing this, "Mr. Lizhou? Are you talking about Huang Lizhou who came to the Witness School?"
"Yes!" Wang Zhongxiao looked at Yao Qisheng, "Is there any problem?"
"This..." Yao Qisheng said, "Wang Shiwei doesn't know something. This Huanglizhou has always been inclined to the previous dynasty in the past and was dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty."
"Dissatisfied?" Wang Zhongxiao smiled, "Xizhi, people will change. Huang Lizhou will not be more inclined to the former dynasty than you!"
Emperor Chongzhen is now Yao Qisheng's "uncle"! Compared with Yao Qisheng, what does Huang Zongxi's attachment to the previous dynasty mean?
"In this case, my subordinates have nothing to say." Yao Qisheng didn't know that he and Chongzhen were both "his own people". He thought Huang Zongxi had already thought about it and had surrendered to the imperial court as a lackey.
"There is one more thing that you have to do with your heart!" Wang Zhongxiao ordered again, "Xizhi, you are familiar with the Franji people from Haao'ao, right?"
"Oh, yes, it's a bit familiar." Yao Qisheng said, "I once served as a magistrate in Xiangshan County."
Wang Zhongxiao nodded: "Then please take the time to go to Hao'ao and help my father buy thirty or forty bronze artillery pieces that can fire three kilograms of solid shells and shotguns. Not a Franchise machine gun, but an integrated one." The artillery with cast barrels must also be equipped with gun mounts and artillery carts that can maneuver in the field. They must be delivered as soon as possible! You have to make it clear to those Franji people that these artillery will be used to suppress the southwest rebellion. If Once it’s done, if the emperor is happy, maybe he won’t want them to move inland and become foreign slaves!”
"My subordinates know!" Yao Qisheng said, "There is a cannon factory owned by Franji over Haao'ao. They can make red cannons. Is this small cannon with a three-pound bullet too small?"
"It's not too young," Wang Zhongxiao shook his head, "it's too heavy to enter Yungui."
"My subordinate understands."
(End of chapter)
