Fortunately, Qian Yiben was the person who was ordered to be supervised by Zhu Yijun.
Therefore, local officers and soldiers have been secretly supervising him under orders.
Therefore, these natives who were preparing to escape through dog holes were all captured alive by the officers and soldiers who had already ambushed them.
As for why the officers and soldiers didn't catch these natives when they got in through dog holes?
Naturally, when the officers and soldiers supervising Qian Yiben discovered that these natives were going in, they suspected that Qian Yiben deliberately asked these natives to go in, so they did not say anything. If something goes wrong, take action in time.
Anyway.
Not long after, the unlucky Fengzhou and several other natives were escorted in front of Qian Yiben and were all shackled.
Before Qian Yiben could put on his clothes and talk to his servant, he saw these natives being escorted in.
"Mr. Qixin, the officers and soldiers have captured several natives who stole your property. Whether they are your slaves or not, if so, it is up to you to deal with them yourself."
"Mr. Qixin, what's wrong with you?"
At this time.
Ge Gonggong, a student of Qian Yiben who came with these officers and soldiers, first said something at this time, and then stood there in shock because he saw Qian Yiben not holding anything.
Qian Ben also suddenly felt that it was chilly down there, so he hurriedly ordered his servant:
"Bring the clothes quickly!"
For a moment, Qian Yiben wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in.
"yes!"
After an embarrassingly long half-quarter of an hour passed, Qian Yiben put on his Confucian robe and crown again, regaining his former elegant demeanor.
Then, he opened the door and walked out, and said to the officers and soldiers who were supervising him: "Thank you, the one here named Fengzhou is my new servant."
Qian Yiben pointed at Fengzhou as he spoke.
"Since he is your slave, you have to deal with him yourself."
These officers and soldiers handed over Fengzhou to Qian Yiben and asked Qian Yiben to handle it himself.
After Fengzhou fell into Qian Yiben's hands again, Qian Yiben asked him directly: "Why did you do this?"
"Master, please spare my life!"
"When the slave saw that the master was so kind-hearted, he took the initiative to redeem the slave without saying anything or even shackles the slave. He felt that the master was obviously a fool who was easy to bully, so he had evil intentions and thought of stealing the master's things and selling them. The master shouldn’t blame me.”
The Ming Dynasty had been running Luzon for many years, and many natives had learned Chinese. Fengzhou had also mastered Chinese. At this time, he knelt down to Qian Yiben and explained the reason on the spot.
After Qian Yiyi heard this, his expression changed on the spot, he looked at Fengzhou, and then ordered:
"Beat him to death, beat him to death immediately!"
"yes!"
So, Qian Yiben's family and disciples immediately pushed Fengzhou to the ground and beat him with a paddle.
Snapped!
Snapped!
Because Fengzhou had been shackled by the officers and soldiers, he could not move, but kept begging for mercy.
"Mencius said: The goodness of human nature is like water's tendency to flow down. There is nothing bad about people, and nothing about water cannot flow down."
"As long as you are a human being, you should be kind and grateful. If you are not kind, you are not a human being, but a beast!"
"You deserve to be beaten to death, you evil beast!"
Qian Yiben spoke righteously and solemnly, and quoted scriptures to express his justice in beating Fengzhou to death.
Not long after, Fengzhou was beaten to death with a stick.
Qian Yiben snorted and said that he would not buy natives as slaves in the future. The reason was that the natives were not educated and were like animals.
But after staying in Luzon for a long time, Qian Yiben and his entourage had an increased demand for servants, so they had to compromise and chose to buy servants as slaves. However, they had to start accepting the consensus of other Han landlords here. That is, native slaves are like animals. They must wear shackles or nose nooses in order to be tamed, and they cannot be treated the same as Han people.
"The new etiquette is right, and the natives should not be treated as human beings."
On this day, when Qian Yiben was lecturing with his students, he once again mentioned his views on the Luzon natives and couldn't help but say this.
And his words were spread back to China across the ocean, shocking many Confucian scholars in the country. They didn't expect that Qian Yiben went to Luzon and expelled the native people.
Many supporters of Qianyiben in China have to start to wonder whether the natives are really not human beings.
Moreover, Qian Benben was not the only Confucian scholar who reacted strongly to the reform of the examination system.
Scholars all over the world reacted violently to this.
Many people even chose to commit suicide directly because of this, saying that they were martyrs for Confucianism and Taoism.
Zhu Yijun had no choice but to respect his personal choice.
Of course, most Confucian scholars chose to accept the reality and began to seriously prepare for the college entrance examination instead of preparing for the provincial examination.
The first thing they have to do is decide what subject they want to study.
The liberal arts and sciences branch is a good thing for people with obvious interests and hobbies.
But for people whose interests and hobbies are not obvious, it makes them very entangled.
"Taichu, what subject do you plan to choose?"
For example, on the day when he chose to divide his subjects, the scholar He Dongru asked the scholar Gu Qiyuan, and Gu Qiyuan replied: "I like history, so naturally I still want to take the liberal arts exam."
He Dongru nodded, and then asked Xu Guangqi with a confused look on his face: "Xuanhu, where are you?"
"I choose reason!"
"Now that the reform has been implemented, I don't have to force myself to focus on articles and poetry. As you know, I am more interested in arithmetic and the skills of various craftsmen."
Xu Guangqi said with a smile.
He Dongru couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "I heard that after this reform, it means that each province will have two Jieyuan. If you choose separately now, there is hope that each of you will get one Jieyuan."
Gu Qiyuan just smiled.
Xu Guangqi just smiled slightly and did not comment.
And wait until August.
The college entrance examination in the 25th year of Wanli was actually held as scheduled.
Because the examination system has been changed, the people who came to take the provincial examination this time were not only traditional scholars who only read Zhuzi's articles, but also scholars who graduated from major new schools.
Because the content of the exam has changed, so has the way it is evaluated.
Regardless of arts or science, all are ranked by points.
""The Master's Statement" is an article written by Han Yu. Do you want me to write it silently?"
"Why do you want to test me for this? How do I know what Fan Wenzhenggong thought in "The Story of Yueyang Tower"?"
"It doesn't make sense, why do you need to take the exam to write couplets?"
However, there are many Confucian scholars who only want to study Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, or scholars who have strayed from the true path of Wang Xue's thoughts. Because they have become so self-contained that they are unwilling to read other books except the Four Books and Five Classics, they even take the Chinese language test in the first class. very bad.
Although the imperial court has announced the exam syllabus and mock papers in advance, some people still have difficulties because they are too late to prepare for the exam.
Many scholars who only knew how to write contemporary articles directly chose to jump into the lake during the exam.
In particular, some veteran students feel that they don't have many three years left to wait, and it is impossible to start learning from scratch, and because they think that starting from now on will make their dreams come true, they go to extremes.
After Zhu Yijun learned about this situation, in order to avoid this happening, he ordered:
"I decree that the college entrance examination will be held once a year in the future, and you can refer to it every year, so don't be too discouraged if you fail the exam once or twice."
"yes!"
After Zhu Yijun's edict was issued, many traditional scholars felt much better.
The number of suicides has also been greatly reduced.
After all, as long as they take the exam every year, many older scholars will have a greater chance of passing the exam.
However, some people couldn't help crying again after seeing this imperial edict: "The emperor's favor is indeed great, but why didn't he promulgate this edict earlier? In this way, my old brother would not have to throw himself into the lake, woo woo!"
Although Zhu Yijun decreed that the college entrance examination will be held once a year in the future, because fewer people choose science subjects, and the Ming Dynasty is now industrialized, among the quota for admission, more science subjects are admitted, which makes more and more parents They began to choose to let their children study science, and many young scholars also began to take the initiative to transform.
For a time, there was an even shortage of science talents in Ming Dynasty.
These talents were originally needed for major projects, but now a large number of children and scholars want to study natural sciences, which makes such talents even rarer.
"Why!"
Gu Xiancheng's younger brother Gu Yuncheng also couldn't help sighing when he saw that his people began to worship the local householder as their master. For this reason, he walked to Gu Xiancheng's tomb and said:
"Brother, if you have a soul in heaven, you must have seen this scene, right?"
Gu Yuncheng said, "The world has really changed!"
"It can be said that this is truly a major change that has not happened in thousands of years!"
"The provincial examination has become the college entrance examination. It does not judge the merits of the articles, but only the scores and the arts and sciences. Those scholars who always like to pay attention to partial miscellaneous studies suddenly become the most popular. On the contrary, we, the authentic Confucian gentry, The children of high birth are suddenly abandoned like worn-out shoes!"
"Even though Donglin Academy, which was taken over by the government long ago, was founded by you, it now also offers medicine, science, and engineering. What a pity, this is not your original intention of building this academy!"
Gu Yuncheng choked up as he spoke, then touched Gu Xiancheng's tombstone and said:
"Although now we no longer have to pay Ding Yin, and even the heavy land tax in Jiangnan is exempted, but you know, I can't be happy, not at all."
"My brother just hopes to go down to see you soon. But can you tell me in your dream, is it still the same as before where you are, that is, you are inferior in everything but educated, and you only read books by sages?"
"Railway recruiting trainees!"
"Railway recruiting trainees!"
"Once you pass the training, you will be appointed as the railway post officer of the newly established post office in two years."
Ming Dynasty is currently short of technocrats.
Especially the construction of new railways requires a lot of technocrats who can scientifically manage each section of railway to maintain its functions.
For this reason, Zhu Yijun specially set up a Post Office, and separated the transportation and postal matters that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and let the Post Department handle them exclusively.
Most of the many technocrats to be recruited today are the bureaucrats that the Post Office needs.
While Gu Yuncheng was talking to Gu Xiancheng's tombstone in his ancestral grave, outside Donglin Academy not far from here, someone from the post office came to recruit people and shouted.
At that time, many scholars from Donglin Academy came out to sign up.
Gu Yuncheng also heard the voice and looked over. He was even more emotional and said: "Brother, you have seen it. Donglin Academy, which used to talk about world affairs, is now almost becoming a railway academy!" (End of Chapter)
