Father can be an enemy to the country

"Just now you know how awesome your father is?" Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, but very proud. After a pause, he said again:

"Lao Liu did a great job this time. He identified this link and used a surprising trick to make the people see through the lies of those squire and clan elders. Knowing whether it is clearing the land or the Lijia system is a good thing for the people. Those country gentry and patriarchs have lost the support of the people, so naturally they can't make any splash."

"Hehe, Father, thank you very much." The corners of Lao Liu's mouth couldn't help but turn up.

"It's just that your method is too disgraceful." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and scolded: "Damn it, the dignified prince went to become the leader of the Beggar Gang, is it ridiculous? Is it ridiculous?!"

"It's the chief gang leader." Lao Liu corrected.

"That's also a beggar!" Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless. Back then, he was forced to beg for food because of his livelihood, but this kid took it as a fucking hobby.

"What's wrong with the beggar? One of my dreams since childhood is to be the leader of the Beggar Clan." Lao Liu said nonchalantly: "People say that a young man is better than a young man. There must be someone who is better than his father."

"Fuck..." Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang understand his intention, and he rolled his eyes in depression and said, "Then your father was a monk, do you want to be an abbot?"

"We don't have this plan at the moment." Lao Liu thought about it and said seriously: "The profession of Neptune is more attractive."

"Look, look, look, I just praised him a few words, and this guy's tail is raised to the sky." Zhu Yuanzhang became so angry that he bent down to take off his shoes and said, "I think his skin is itchy." !”

"Father, we're talking about business." The prince quickly pressed his father's hand and glared at Lao Liu: "No more nonsense."

"Oh..." Lao Liu nodded obediently.

"Fuck..." Zhu Yuanzhang also cursed and put on his shoes. When he couldn't see this boy, he always thought about his good things and that, but when he saw him, he hated him so much. "What did you say just now?"

"Speaking of using beggar gang members to go around the streets and alleys to promote things to the people, the effect is very good," the prince said, "but it's a bit disgraceful."

"That's right, can't you find anyone in such a huge court? You still have to let beggars publicize national policies." Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly:

"However, the effect of government propaganda is not necessarily as good as that of beggars."

"Yes, publicity must be humane and down-to-earth." Zhu Zhen nodded.

"Well." Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard and said with deep approval: "'Speak in a human language and be down-to-earth' is a good saying. It is really not easy for Lao Liu to understand these six words. But he can definitely do it more decently. some--

"We plan to build a 'Shenming Pavilion' and a 'Jingshan Pavilion' in every rural community. The former is used to post court proclamations and directly convey government orders that are closely related to them to the people; the latter is used to post various local filial piety and good deeds. , in order to educate the villagers.

"The common people are illiterate, so they select three to five or seven literate and respected people from each township to read to them regularly and explain to them the painstaking efforts of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yuanzhang was very proud of his resourcefulness and glanced at Lao Liu and said: " What do you think, this method is better than your Beggar Clan propaganda team?"

"It's on the stage, but it's a bit wishful thinking." Lao Liu didn't buy it.

"Hey, why are you wishful thinking?" Zhu Yuanzhang said a little shamelessly.

"Those scholars not only can't read to them obediently, but they also confuse the public with their evil words!" The fourth child took the initiative to share the firepower for the sixth child and said angrily: "We are forced to have no choice but to kill those Mr. Dong Heng, the down-and-out scholar, and the gangsters. All the gangsters, street gangsters, etc. were locked up, so no one would go against the propaganda team."

"If the government were to choose people, it would most likely be these people." Zhu Zhen nodded and said with certainty: "It would be better to find some accountants, yin and yang students, etc. who only know how to read but have not read the books of sages. Agents and the like are following the script."

"Are you saying that all the scholar's sages' books have been read into the dog's belly?" The prince frowned slightly when he heard this. He still had a very good impression of the scholar. But I didn't expect them to play such a disgraceful role.

"Actually, your brain is damaged because you read too many books by sages." Zhu Zhen said in shock: "If my father wants to share the world with the people, he can't use scholars who only read books by sages!"

"Who else can they use?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and asked. He was already tired of those scholars who were full of benevolence and morality and were full of men stealing and women being prostitutes. As long as there were replacements, they would have been thrown out of the sky.

"Technocrats." Zhu Zhen replied.

"Technocrat?" Zhu Yuanzhang was confused: "What the hell is that?"

"That is to let people with professional knowledge manage the country." Zhu Zhen explained: "For example, let people who are proficient in accounting knowledge and understand financial rules manage the finance; let people who are proficient in criminal names and understand the law manage the judicial department; let people who are proficient in water conservancy Let people manage water conservancy; let people who are proficient in construction manage projects.”

"To put it bluntly, let the experts lead the experts. Instead of letting those who are deaf to the outside world and only read the books of sages to give blind orders." After a pause, he said solemnly:

"This is also the reason why I said there is a lack of manpower. There are too few technocrats who understand practical matters like this. The measurement data of a piece of land are there, and those officials who only read the books of sages cannot calculate its size. Townships When the pornographic data is reported, they don’t even know how to count it. If the people below are not fooled by them, who will they be fooled? What’s the use of them?”

After Zhu Yuanzhang listened, he was silent for a long time, and Fang Youyou said: "You kid, you are going to ruin the jobs of scholars."

"Father smashed it first." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.

One of the important reasons why Zhu Zhen dared to mention such a sensitive topic to Zhu Yuanzhang was that he guessed the old thief's mind and knew that he thought the same way.

In the third year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang once issued an edict to open schools to recruit scholars. However, after three years of trying to obtain scholars through the imperial examination, he was very disappointed because the selected scholars were all scholars who could only recite poems and write essays. When they were placed in the court, they could do nothing but talk.

This is very different from his original intention of setting up a department to select officials to govern the country and take charge of a party. So he announced the suspension of the imperial examination and expressed disappointment in the edict:

"I seek the wise with my sincerity, but the world responds to me with empty words. This is not my intention to seek the wise with my sincerity."

After that, he adopted the method of recommending local officials and training his own students to enrich the team of officials. The effect was actually very good... Lao Liu recruited a large number of Chinese students who had learned arithmetic and financial management in Suzhou and Jiangxi.

At that time, Liu Lian went to Jiangxi to clear his father-in-law, and he used Qing Yishui's Guozisheng.

It can be said that without the students cultivated by Lao Zhu with pragmatism, there would be no victory for Jiangxi Qingzhang.

It was precisely because of this premise that he dared to say this...

But this proposal is too shocking. If we really want to follow what Lao Liu said, we will have to turn the world upside down. Even the prince couldn't support it. He said in a deep voice: "The imperial court established the country based on the way of sages and sages. Naturally, when selecting and appointing officials, scholars who have read the books of sages and sages should be selected. Specific affairs can be learned and practiced slowly..."

"Brother, I didn't say that I don't want to read books by sages." Zhu Zhen smiled and said, "I'm talking about scholars who don't just read books by sages."