Chen Ping and others remained silent.
His eyes were very solemn.
Their thoughts now are no longer whether Fusu is testing them, but they are really thinking about the influence these things have on the world and what impact they will have on themselves.
Be able to read and understand sentences, and be proficient in arithmetic.
These two seemingly simple things.
From ancient times to the present, I don’t know how many people have been stopped.
How many people have been created.
A large part of the reason why they are respected by the powerful in the local area and respected by the three elders in the village is that they can read and do arithmetic better than others. Therefore, many times, the village and even the county need to ask for advice. them.
And this has always been the scholar's greatest confidence.
They can only see one volume at the moment, but it is only one volume and they can already get some clues.
This was not just a whim.
Instead, he has been plotting secretly for a long time.
If Fusu really didn't know anything, they would never believe it.
It is indeed possible in a month or two, but in a year or two, it is still right under the nose. Even the slowest person will have reacted long ago, so how can he really not notice it?
It doesn't really matter.
What is important is the content of these bamboo slips.
Yuan Sheng's eyes were fixed on the words above, his expression uncertain, and he kept thinking in his heart about the impact on himself if Qin Ting really promoted these things.
Others are thinking the same thing at the moment.
Think for a moment.
Yuan Sheng gradually calmed down.
He really almost lost his mind in front of him.
How can reading be so easy?
His family background is considered good, but to get to where he is today, he has spent countless money and food. Even if Qin Ting intends to keep the cost of study down, are the people who can finally afford to study really those at the bottom?
impossible.
Those at the bottom cannot even afford food and clothing.
How can I have enough money to study and become literate?
Even if the cost goes down, the lower class cannot afford it. A scroll of bamboo slips costs nearly ten and a half qin. If you want to be successful in studying, you have to learn at least dozens or hundreds of scrolls. How many families can afford it?
What's more, the Qin court added more gifts every year.
Life at the bottom is miserable, let alone studying.
And that's just the basics.
If you want to learn laws and master a certain amount of arithmetic, you will need to spend a huge amount of money and food. Even rich farmers cannot afford it, let alone ordinary households at the bottom?
So let's talk about it realistically.
If Qin Ting really promotes it, it will be of great benefit to the relatively poor scholars like them. It will have little impact on the lower class, but it will cause a big blow to the upper class nobles.
But what does this have to do with them?
Think about it.
Yuan Sheng calmed down completely.
He looked at the other people aside and saw that these people had not yet figured it out. There was a hint of pride in his eyes, and he cupped his hands and said, "Since His Highness is asking, Yuan Sheng will tell you his own opinion."
One word fell.
Others around him looked over instantly.
The same goes for Fusu.
Feeling that everyone's attention was focused on him, Yuan Sheng raised the corner of his mouth with a hint of complacency and said with a smile: "Although I have not read all the bamboo slips, I have already realized how extraordinary these bamboo slips are after just reading one of them."
"If it is spread to the world, it will definitely benefit the world."
"Since ancient times, learning has been very expensive, and the high cost has also made many people prohibitive."
"If the masterpieces written by the Second Young Master and the Third Young Master are really released to the world, it will undoubtedly cause a big sensation in today's learning and will also greatly reduce the cost of learning. In the past, the knowledge of arithmetic has been monopolized by the nobles. However, Some of these bamboo slips involve arithmetic. If they were issued, one can imagine the impact it would have on the nobles."
"but."
"In my personal opinion."
"These contents will only affect scholars."
"It is good for poor families, but not good for high-ranking families. As for the lowest level, it may not have much impact."
"The reason is very simple."
“The priority at the bottom is livelihood.”
"If you can't even maintain your life, how dare you spend money and food on these things?"
"Learning itself is a bottomless pit. No matter how much money and food you throw into it, it may not be enough. If you spend all your money just to learn a few words, I'm afraid not many people at the bottom would dare to do that."
"So I think these bamboo slips are aimed at taxis."
"Overall, it is beneficial to the world and can also weaken the influence of the nobles to a certain extent."
"I think this is good!!!"
Yuan Sheng bowed again and sat down with a solemn expression.
It was hard to hide the look of pride in his eyes.
Hear the words.
Others mused.
Although what Yuan Sheng said is different from what they thought in some aspects, overall, it is still roughly the same.
They think so too.
The contents of these bamboo slips are only useful to scholars.
And this is actually understandable. After all, the young master, Mr. Gao, was born and raised in the palace. He was born in a good environment. How could he know the true situation among the people? And the lowest they can realize is a scholar.
Therefore, there is no problem in starting as a scholar.
They also like this.
The reason why they didn't speak was that they were still thinking about what Fusu thought about this. It didn't matter whether the prince was a high-ranking prince or a general. The contents of these bamboo slips were not important either. What was important was Fusu's opinion.
Everyone secretly speculated.
Also waiting for Fusu to speak.
It just made them a little disappointed. After listening to Yuan Sheng's words, Fusu just smiled and nodded. He didn't say more about it. Instead, he looked at them expectantly, as if he was waiting for them to speak.
Chen Ping has been watching Fusu secretly.
My mood is getting more and more complicated.
He also saw the insights Yuan Sheng said.
only
He didn't think it was that simple.
If you rely on them for such a simple matter, it would be a bit of a fuss. And is Fusu personally here? What's more, when it comes down to the truth, this also involves the young master Gao, the young master Jianglu and several other young masters.
This is enough to be called a mobilization of troops and mobilization of people.
Is there something else fishy?
Chen Ping looked at these bamboo slips again.
But after reading it dozens of times, he still didn't find anything unusual. The content of the bamboo slip in his hand was actually a fable. It told the story of "There was a man in Chu who waded into the river, and his sword fell from the boat into the water." He quickly agreed to his boat and said, "This is where my sword fell." 'The boat stops, and the person it agrees with enters the water to find it. The boat has moved, but the sword cannot move. If you are looking for a sword like this, you are confused."
Immediately seek the sword.
"Carve a boat and ask for a sword." Chen Ping murmured in a low voice.
He raised his head and looked at Fusu, who was smiling but not smiling, and then read the fable, and an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.
He sat upright.
Let’s reorganize one thing.
The importance of knowledge.
In the past, the reason why the scholar-officials were scholar-officials and the reason why the nobles were nobles was that the scholar-officials and the nobles had the knowledge and were ready to say that they had a monopoly on knowledge.
However, as the Zhou royal family weakened, the emperor lost his official position and studied in the barbarians.
A lot of knowledge leaked.
Then created the glory of various schools of thought.
In the glorious era of the various schools of thought, those who had no chance to come into contact with knowledge gradually gained access to knowledge that they had no chance to access in the past. Under the enlightenment of the various scholars, more and more people gained access to knowledge. By chance, a lot of knowledge monopolized by scholar-bureaucrats gradually fell to the bottom, thus promoting the prosperity of 'scholars'.
Then it led to the birth of a powerful man.
But the nobles are still superior.
Why?
It lies in the monopoly of knowledge.
The world has recognized two types of wealth since ancient times.
Land and knowledge.
Since the beginning of the Great Controversy, the situation of Shiqing and Shilu was broken, and the nobility's monopoly on land gradually appeared. With the frequent wars, scholar-officials and aristocrats iterated rapidly. Many nobles declined, and new scholar-officials rose. , which then caused the land to be continuously divided, but as the situation in the world became clear and Qin Ting launched a massive attack.
A large part of the land originally controlled by the nobles fell into the hands of the powerful.
But this is only on the surface.
Because the powerful are dependent on the nobles to a certain extent.
The reason is knowledge.
From beginning to end in this world, scholar-bureaucrats control knowledge and also control the right to interpret knowledge.
Although hundreds of schools of thought have appeared in the world, and many able men and sages have appeared. Their appearance has greatly promoted the spread of knowledge in the world, but with the emergence of the seven-hero pattern, the world as a whole has actually become more stable. , and the knowledge spread by various schools of thought has gathered upward again after more than a hundred years.
However, when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, this stability was broken again.
He and many of the scholars present took this opportunity to get the chance to read and become literate.
But in reality.
After more than ten years of accumulation, the control and interpretation of knowledge has returned to the hands of the nobles.
Very little has been spread outside.
Land and knowledge, from a certain perspective, the former is wealth and the latter is the guarantee of wealth.
In the past, the reason why scholar-bureaucrats were superior was that they formed a dual monopoly of land and knowledge, which in turn created a monopoly of local power. Now that the monopoly of land has been broken and has fallen into the hands of local powerful people, the monopoly of knowledge has not been broken.
It was still firmly in the hands of the scholars.
Powerful people control the land.
But many times people from the nobility have to be invited to settle accounts.
In the turmoil of the world, the only thing that powerful people can gain is the opportunity to learn literacy, but arithmetic has always been firmly controlled by the nobles, and not much has been leaked to the outside world.
Under the Qin system.
Most of the scholars turned away.
The original legacy of various scholars has been basically destroyed.
The reason why the scholars have been confident these years is because the Qin Dynasty must rely on them, because they have knowledge and the right to interpret a lot of knowledge. It is their absolute monopoly on knowledge that makes Qin have to use Guandong on a large scale. Although the officials ordered books to be burned, they did not dare to kill all Confucians.
That's why.
But now Chen Ping felt something was wrong.
He had a vague feeling that Qin Ting really didn't care about the scholars anymore, nor how the scholars had interacted with each other through marriage and marriage over the past few hundred years. Instead, he wanted to completely control the scholars' control of knowledge. Destroy it so that this knowledge, which is limited to a small number of people, can be spread more widely.
Completely destroy the foundation of the nobility.
In this era where the cost of learning knowledge is extremely high, in this era where almost everyone except the nobles is illiterate, Qin itself is out of tune with the times, but now Qin wants to go one step further and give the world one more choice.
Official science! ! !
Qin Ting wanted to imitate the past.
Just as scholar-bureaucrats were suppressed step by step into nobles in the past, today's aristocrats are being suppressed step by step into gentry. At most, they can be allowed to own the wealth of land, but they will never be allowed to have the right to control and interpret knowledge.
The monopoly of land and knowledge means the monopoly of power.
This is something Qin Ting will never allow.
Think of this.
Chen Ping remembered a lot at once.
He thought of the First Emperor's cleanup of Jiangdong not long ago, and also thought of the 'transfer of non-commissioned officers' proposed by Fusu, which included a lowering of admission standards. He also thought of the burning of books a few years ago, and the death of Shi Tian from the head of Guizhou. Tian Ling.
All thoughts are connected at this moment.
Qin Ting is not targeting scholars.
Instead, he wanted to destroy the 'scholars' group.
This idea is undoubtedly crazy.
But Qin Ting may not be able to do it. Qin Ting is not from the same side as Guandong, and he is not on the same page as the scholars. For a long time, Qin officials have been trained more by themselves. This is no longer the same as the old "scholar" line. We have gone backwards, now we just have to take a step further.
Chen Ping took a deep breath.
He suppressed the horror in his heart.
I don’t know how to deal with it anymore.
He slowly closed his eyes and sorted everything out.
finally.
He was convinced of his thoughts.
Qin Ting indeed had this idea and wanted to completely destroy the old system.
Then re-establish a new system.
A whole new world.
This was the ambition promised by Qin Shihuang when he founded the country. It is still being carried out step by step over the years, and the pace is getting faster and faster, which also means that Qin Ting cannot fail.
Once it fails.
There will definitely be a crazy counterattack by the warriors.
After the collapse of the Qin system, the "scholars" who have accumulated a large amount of land and knowledge will completely dominate the world. They have been suppressed by Qin for so long, and they will definitely take crazy revenge on Qin. I am afraid that there may not be a good word in Qing history, but it will still remain. Endless infamy.
And no one can argue with that.
Chen Ping's face turned slightly pale.
Looking at Fusu, his eyes became frightened for the first time. Fusu, who looked gentle at this moment, had changed in his eyes, becoming crazy and ferocious. There was a kind of person who would rather teach me to take down the world than teach the world to take the blame. My madness.
Or.
It’s not just Fusu.
Da Qin's Second Young Master, Third Young Master and many other young masters clearly hold the same attitude.
This is really creepy.
madman!
All crazy.
The entire Da Qin royal family is crazy.
If Ji Heng had known about Chen Ping's current situation, he would have said with a smile, "Thousands of people are going to leave."
Chen Ping tremblingly picked up the wine glass. Even though there was no more wine in it, he still subconsciously moved it to his mouth, trying to cover up the panic and uneasiness in his heart.
He couldn't make up his mind.
It's a big gamble.
If the bet is won, the name will be left in history and will last for thousands of years.
But if you lose the bet, you will be infamy for thousands of years and be ridiculed by the world.
For a while.
Chen Ping was also a little at a loss.
Before he came, he just wanted to find an official position, and he didn't even think about getting himself involved.
but now.
But it must be faced.
In fact, to a certain extent, it was not Huang Chao who destroyed the clan, but during the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the clan could no longer control the outflow of knowledge, and Huang Chao just added the last scrap of dirt.
And covered it.
(End of chapter)
