Shilichang Street Market Jinglian, look at the gods on the Yueming Bridge.
Life is only for Yangzhou to die, and Zen Zhishan is a good graveyard.
Traveling in Huainan
Tang Dynasty: Zhang Hu
—I am the dividing line —
In Gangneung City, outside of the examination yard near the large training center, there is a big wooden list with an announcement that is dozens of steps high. At the bottom of the new round of the list called "Little Dengke", there are also hordes of young people waiting between the eagerly awaited inspections, and sighs with mellow and frustration.
"Congratulations to Brother Nian, I passed the list this time again, I'm afraid that after arriving in Huainan, my future will be even more limitless..."
Immediately there were people on the street full of eagerness and envy and cheered each other.
"Excessive reputation, excessive reputation, this is only the selection of the eleventh rank below the official head, it should not be so... It is still necessary for my generation to work hard to realize the peace of the world!"
The young man who was congratulated wore a light blue corset with the crotch style of a clerk, and replied with unconcealed joy:
"You are very humble. After you go to Huainan like this, as long as you can make a basic appearance, you will be promoted to officials first in accordance with the regulations of different places and battlefields, and even the leaders of the officials will not be expected."
This is a person who knows a little bit about the inside story
"What the younger brother said is very true. The selection of officials in the governor's office is more stringent. If you can be a full-term chief of staff, then is it really the qualifications of a close-minded official than a close-minded official..."
There are also people who are rejoicing and agreeing:
"There are two juniors in my family who are younger, and they have just been admitted to the affiliated school of the clerk subject. They will not be allowed to get the corresponding internship in the future, and they have to rely on the younger brother to take care of it..."
This is based on a good relationship and familiar enough classmates, so we can play the side drum and lay the foundation first.
"I have set a box upstairs in Yu Qingming, and I invite you all to enjoy your face in the same year..."
Another person dressed up as a senator cried out with fun, that this is an existence that can't wait to build relationships and solicit connections.
These children from business families are undoubtedly one of the strongest supporters of the Taiping Army. Although the chief governor may not have the eye of the eye, he was once jokingly called the alliance of interests. However, after the arrival of the Taiping Army, their situation of the "end of the Five Peoples" suddenly gained a great change and an indisputable advantage.
Not only the numerous taxes, miscellaneous classes, and checkpoints have not disappeared, but land and water roads have become well-connected, and the risk of trade through roads has been greatly reduced; in fact, even the corresponding social status has been elevated a lot in disguise. . The reason is also very simple. After the Taiping Army has liquidated the homes of the wealthy surnames, officials and subordinates, it will naturally be necessary for the corresponding class to rise to fill the corresponding gaps.
What's more, because of their family ties, they often have natural advantages in accounting documents and calculations, and they are easier than others to be selected into the early selection and employment system under the rule of the Taiping Army. Then, along with the Taiping Army's political philosophy, the natural boundary between officials and officials was broken, and they had a broader prospect and future.
It should be known that after so many years under the rule of the previous dynasty, their businessmen’s children could bypass the imperial imperial restrictions and participate in the rural examinations and tribute examinations through means such as sending households and registering their registration. But the actual situation is that no matter how much money and effort they spend, they cannot change the status quo of discrimination and suppression in their official careers.
Even if he is admitted, he can only take on some final posts, and wanting to go further is wishful thinking. Because they couldn't fight for the homes of the rich and powerful, noble families and officials within the imperial system, even the occasional successful examples were the result of a lot of money forged by chance and coincidence.
Therefore, when someone finds that the Taiping Army, who has always been criticized and harsh, has opened its doors and opened the door to them, they did not hesitate to change their positions and attitudes and become the most steadfast supporter of the Taiping Army and society. One of the driving forces of the transformation is the same even for those who were once branches of the family and related households.
It is not only because the places conquered and cleaned up by the Taiping Army are driven by unlimited business opportunities and profits; as long as they can provide cooperation and cooperation, most of them will be rewarded. It is also because of the Taiping Army's sake that the new group, which has just crossed and risen in a disguised form, is eager to consolidate its social position and role. After all, as long as it is a person, he will plan for something that is more beneficial to him.
Even peripheral businesses such as branches of aristocratic families and well-connected households, under this trend, they will inevitably have to seek more interests and future for themselves; compared with the old system of clan, dignity and inferiority, etc. , Continue to run and dedicate to these families, clans, and prefectures; is it still comparable to seeking a better life and prospects for your family under the new order dominated by the Taiping Army
Although the rules and restrictions of the Taiping Army are many and can be called complicated, as long as they get used to acting under the corresponding system and framework, they can be reassuring in disguise. As businessmen who work for profit or sit and make a living, they are most worried about the lack of rules, or the troubled times when there are clearly rules but no one takes it seriously.
And as another powerful competitive group, the descendants of the local officials' homes for generations. However, because of the long-term activities in the countryside, there are few backgrounds and clean hands, which can eventually pass through the strict liquidation system of the Taiping Army, and the number of remaining is limited. However, it is difficult to form with the practical application of criminal names. Enough pressure.
In contrast, those merchants, merchants, artisans, and workshops, although they also have all kinds of accumulated habits and customs, squeezing apprentices, buddies, and hoarding strange things, but after being purged and reformed by the Taiping Army, they are on the contrary. It is also the group that is easiest to accept changes and reforms and survive under the new order dominated by the Taiping Army.
Among them, the former can rely on the foundation of numbers and words to take the shortcuts of planners and clerks in the Taiping Army’s exercises; while the latter can rely on the skills and talents handed down from the family, taking the construction and workshop system at all levels. route. Correspondingly, they are those traditional poor scholars who can enter the corresponding official career through agronomy, propaganda, and civilization systems, or the prostitutes of the surnamed Yuanzong.
Then, according to the order in which they joined the Taiping Army, they were divided into many large and small business groups and clubs, based on the ties of the three or sixty-nine ranks, the geographical, the township party, and the clan. Hotel; while maintaining a long-term situation of both (internal) competition and (external) cooperation.
For example: Among them, the oldest qualified and most capitalized merchants of the Cantonese family are undoubtedly from Liangling; the most favored merchants are the Guannei Jingzhao merchants headed by Wang Poxian; the merchants in Hunan have the largest number but the smallest average cost. ; The most inexistent is the local merchants in Jingnan; and since the Taiping Army put down Jiangdong 3rd Road, the powerful coastal world business organizations such as Chang, Su, Hangzhou, Vietnam, and Ming have jumped to the top and become the most A strong competitor.
Therefore, this round of retesting is also one of the businessmen groups in these backgrounds, another way and stage for wrestling and competition in disguise. In fact, this has also promoted a new wave of local private schools in a disguised form. In order to meet and echo the basic requirements of the Taiping Army’s “practical and practical approach”, various schools and schools for teaching Fang skills and local officials began to appear in some famous cities and towns in response to the requests of sponsors. between.
There are also some Confucian scholars, who are obviously sending food and living in the south, and begin to use Confucian ideas to force their advocacy. The propositions and rationale from "Outline of Taiping Fields", "Taiping Sacred Treasury System", "Taiping Policy", and "Qingping Program" are in fact recreating the ancient "Three Generations of the Rule" of the ancient "rule of the three generations" of the sages and sages, "the world is the public, the young and old are the supporters" "The big sound is hopeless. Or it described the Gongtun official camp system implemented by the Taiping Army as a contemporary good governance for salvation and salvation comparable to Zhou Gong's "feudal world, minefield metric system".
The reason is also very simple. No one wants to miss the chance of seeing the new dynasty set the tripod. Even the southern dynasty is enough to make most people infinitely useful. However, the Taiping Army didn't think much of the traditional verses and essays on classics and morals. Therefore, in order to gain the future, it is inevitable for this generation to pretend to be ancestors and great sages to climb and trace back to the source.
(It's like those of later generations who used the banners of "New Confucianism" and "Guoxue" to revive traditional culture, and desperately went to the product of the new democratic movement—socialist China to touch porcelain and cheat resources.)
Of course, these students have entered the large training center, because in addition to specific majors and fellow art associations, in fact, any substantive associations of fellow villagers and associations with political inclination and appeals are prohibited. But it can't stop them from making contact with various circles under the sponsorship of various family backgrounds, with various names and ties such as the same year, the same college, the same subject, the same subject, and the same class;
In other words, there are those who truly have aspirations, ideals, and forge ahead; there are those who want to change the status quo and their own circumstances; there are also those who just speculate in disguise and pursue fame; but those who are at the bottom and follow the crowd, even in the end It’s not hesitating to drop out in the assessment, or there are those who have limited qualifications but try to sharpen their heads and squeeze in, just to build the corresponding connections.
Therefore, every time the seminars under the governor’s office are listed after the entrance examination and the selection examination, it is almost always such a round of living scenes of sentient beings. And this time, because of the needs of strategy and management of Huainan, the expansion of the selection is also one of the opportunities they value.
At the same time, at the mouth of the Poyang Lake, a weirdly shaped waterwheel vessel with a convex central axis similar to a hump is also undergoing river trials.
"Bell the big bell once!
Push the lever, start the piston and pump head...
Ring the big bell twice!
Open the furnace, ignite the boiler, inject coal...
Ring the big bell three times!
Praise in unison, like a public defeat with Mozi's ancestors forever. "(End of this chapter)