Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1690, build roads to the rich and powerful
Everyone was completely dumbfounded when they heard what Li Zhen, Wang Shiwen and others said.

In their impression and concept all the time, being a petty official can be regarded as eating the emperor's food, and it is also something that many people want to do when they sharpen their heads.

Many scholars who have no hope in the imperial examination will choose to be petty officials. Serving as clerks, masters, etc. for officials is also a good face-to-face job.

For these new students, they always feel that what they are learning is not the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, but the ingenious tricks of heresy, which cannot be put on the table.

Being able to let them be petty officials is already very respectful of them, because some things really need professional talents like them to do well.

But now, none of them are willing to be petty officials, and they have explained the reasons in detail.

"You all have an annual salary of at least 200 taels of silver once you graduate?"

He Zhong thought for a while and asked in surprise.

This level of income is quite high. You must know that the annual income of ordinary seventh-rank officials is almost at this level, and they can at least get this amount after graduation.

"Of course, we all rely on knowledge and skills to make a living. Building bridges, paving roads, building houses and bridges is absolutely impossible without us. There are many places that need us in the whole Ming Dynasty. We still need the annual salary of 200 taels of silver." Seriously consider whether to go or not."

Li Zhen nodded solemnly and replied.

"If this is the case, then there is really nothing to be a petty official. After a year of being a petty official, the income is actually very average, and it is difficult to increase."

He Zhong thought for a while and nodded to express his understanding.

The income level of a small official is really average in today's Ming Dynasty. The common people in the Beijing-Tianjin area work hard for a year, and they can easily earn dozens of taels of silver. The income of this small official is almost This number is just that the small official has some small power in his hands, and he is also an official anyway, so he can be regarded as a good status among ordinary people.

"That's it~"

"What about graduates from other colleges, such as Daming Institute of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, and School of Textiles, are they as popular as you, and are they willing to be petty officials?"

Li Dongyang thought about it and asked quickly.

"They also won't be willing to be petty officials. After they graduate, major commercial firms, factories, workshops, etc. are scrambling to get them. The salary they offer is better than the other. How can they be petty officials? .”

"Anyway, I haven't heard of any of our new students who become petty officials and can be honored. Why bother to be slaves to those so-called scholars."

"That is, those traditional scholars, those who care about every day, are useless except for writing some articles. They don't even understand a lot of basic common sense. They often come to our school to make trouble. I don't know what face they have."

Wang Shiwen, Tang Jiwen, and Xu Yunpeng also followed suit.

Hearing what a few people said, the faces of these ministers present couldn't hold back. It is really infuriating to criticize traditional scholars like them so much.

Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said, "Thank you, my classmates~"

After finishing speaking, he also left here, and then went to more than a dozen students from the engineering college to ask them if they would like to be petty officials, but the results were all the same.

No one is willing to be a petty official, and petty officials have no attraction to them at all. If they want income, they have no future, and if they want status, they have no status. No one wants to be a petty official. official.

"It seems that Liu Jin is right, no one wants to be a petty official."

"But the imperial court needs professional talents like them. Without them, many things cannot be done. If the household department does not have small officials who can settle accounts, the accounts will not be clear."

"The Ministry of Industry does not have people who understand construction engineering, so it can only be messy in the future?"

Emperor Hongzhi's face was full of sorrow.

Traditional scholars clamored to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country every day, saying that what they learned was the way of governing the country. Now it seems that what they have learned may not be of much use in governing the country.

The so-called loyalty and filial piety to govern the country is nothing more than verbal shouting. As for what is loyalty and what is filial piety, they will only follow the scriptures and have no insights or breakthroughs of their own.

For the various ministries of the imperial court alone, many things cannot be done without these small officials and officials under their command.

Count on these officials, they can hardly do anything, and they can't do anything.

It is true that these civil servants cannot be relied upon to govern the country. Military generals are also needed. Now it seems that these professional talents from all walks of life are also needed. Without them, it is impossible to govern the country well.

It is not good for the country to be close to officials who have read the Four Books, Five Classics, and Confucian classics. In addition to emphasizing both civil and military affairs, more new scholars should be recruited to participate in governing the country.

However, the selection of court officials now relies on the imperial examination system. The prince Zhu Houzhao only promoted and appointed three small officials, but he was strongly opposed by these civil officials.

Why are they against it?
It's not that they are worried that the current imperial examination system will completely shake the ruling foundation of their Confucian civil servants.

There is no dynasty with a thousand years, only Confucianism with a thousand years.

Emperor Hongzhi thought a lot at this moment, and he also thought very far.

Things that I didn’t think about before, but now I am slowly thinking about them. The more I think about it, the more I feel that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is not their old Zhu’s family at all, but the old Kong’s family. It has been their old Kong’s family for thousands of years. home.

This iron-clad Confucianism, the flowing emperor, has not changed from the beginning to the end, and has always been like this.

"Your Majesty~"

At this time, Cao Yuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, came to Emperor Hongzhi. This time, everyone came to the School of Architecture and Engineering to see if they could recruit people from here to be small officials.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry also deliberately took out a few places for small officials, and specially came to the School of Civil Engineering to recruit people to see if anyone was willing to be a small official.

"How about it?"

"Have you hired anyone?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Cao Yuan and asked.

"No, none of them were recruited, and no one even came to ask."

Not surprisingly, Cao Yuan shook his head helplessly and replied; "I really can't figure it out. Our Ministry of Industry recruits small officials. This is directly under the Ministry of Industry. The students from the School of Architecture and Engineering have no one to ask. , it is really incomprehensible.”

"It's right if you can't recruit people."

Emperor Hongzhi already understood why he couldn't recruit people, so he said it flatly.

"It shouldn't be, this is directly under the Ministry of Industry."

Cao Yuan couldn't figure it out, this is a rich government office, and now Daming is building infrastructure everywhere, such as roads, railways, reservoirs, dams, ports, bridges, etc., and hundreds of millions of taels of money are spent on them every year.

The current Ministry of Industry is not the former Ministry of Industry. In the past, the Ministry of Industry was poor. The Ministry of Industry needed to do 1 taels of silver. It was so difficult that no one wanted to do it.

But now, the imperial court allocates a lot of money, and the work is full of vacancies. It is fat to do anything casually, and it is still impossible to recruit people. It is really incomprehensible.

"Think slowly if you can't figure it out."

Emperor Hongzhi dropped a sentence, which made Cao Yuan look innocent. Why did he make Emperor Hongzhi angry with his good manners?
After being slandered like this, the whole person was at a loss.

"Let's go to Shuntianfu City Construction Bureau!"

Emperor Hongzhi left the School of Architecture and Engineering, and went straight to Zhu Houzhao's Shuntianfu Urban Construction Bureau, wanting to see what Zhu Houzhao was doing now and how he planned the urban construction of the capital.

Soon, everyone came to Shuntianfu City Construction Bureau, and before they entered, Zhu Houzhao's voice came.

"Yes, yes, we will build roads to the land of the rich and powerful. They are not short of this land. I will take care of things!"

(End of this chapter)