Qiming 1158

Chapter 998 Dream Linkage
According to the situation at the time, the real poor did not have enough food to eat at home.

The poor at that time had to do their best just to find something to eat and live. What qualifications did they have to sit at a desk and study, study and take exams?
Not to mention how they get books, ink, paper and inkstones and more expensive tuition fees.

When a person is hungry, he can't do anything. Eating is the first need, let alone reading and studying, which consumes a lot of energy.

Moreover, even if the family is rich and has not been involved in production, reading and examinations for many years, it is inevitable that the family will fall.

Just like the famous Sansu father and son.

The Su family was originally from a wealthy family in Sichuan. However, when the Su Shi brothers went home for the funeral because their mother died of illness, the family was already in a tragic situation.

In order to take the imperial examination, all the belongings of the Su family, which were considered to be wealthy at the time, were smashed into it. In the end, the imperial examination was passed, but the biological mother was gone, the hometown was gone, and the family business of several generations was gone.

This is not bad. They have at least passed the exam. The future can be expected. It is also foreseeable that they can earn a family business and come back in the foreseeable future. If they are rich and expensive, they can be considered to have recovered their costs. .

But there are more and more people who lost their wives and lost their soldiers. They spent their whole life in the examination room, but they failed to pass the examination. In the end, their hair turned white, and their families were ruined. With endless regret and despair, he was unwilling to leave the world.

The cost of their investment was all wasted, and they all went into it, making outstanding contributions to the vigorous development of the imperial examination economy in the Song Dynasty, and then they were swallowed up by the historical trend.

It costs a lot of money to take the imperial examination, which is destined to be almost impossible for ordinary people to pass the imperial examination to change their fate and reach the peak of life.

Unless the national policy changes, the state supports the bottom, invests astronomical amounts of money, and decentralizes educational resources so that ordinary people can also receive high-quality and cheap education, then the status quo can be changed.

This is impossible for the Song government to do.

A lot of money?
Why use it for education?
What good does it do to the ruler to make the foolish people wiser?
Isn't it fragrant to use it to build a palace for the emperor?

If you make the foolish people smart, they will immediately ask Zhao Tan for more official positions and money, and they will not dare to think about anything in the future!
Therefore, it is impossible to popularize education, and it is impossible to popularize education in this life. Only by letting the people find a way to solve it themselves can they maintain the exploitative rule of the dynasty.

Therefore, according to the background of the times, the protagonist of Su Yonglin's works is the "poor man" based on Fan Zhongyan.

He is the lowest-ranking person in the imperial examination system who has the hope of being admitted to the imperial examination, the middle class, not the absolute poor.

Through his perspective, he observed the various states of Shilin after the imperial examination system in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty was basically stable.

Observing the complacence of the people after passing the jinshi examination, and observing the inferiority and painful sensitivity of those who failed in the scientific examination.

Even he himself has to go on such a journey.

Su Yonglin had indeed seen this kind of thing when he was young. He had seen the complacent attitude of those who passed the jinshi exam, and the pain, despair, and self-preparation of those who were disappointed in the examination field.

Thinking about it now, it's still fresh in my memory.

Therefore, the experience of the protagonist in his writings is also quite bumpy.

He was despised and even humiliated before he was admitted to the jinshi examination. Even his family looked down on him. After he passed the jinshi examination, all those who had despised and humiliated him all came to flatter him, and even his family was servile and servile to him. status.

But he is not Fan Jin. He has a strong heart and has his own ideals and pursuits. Under the long-term mental and physical torture, he not only did not sink, but became more and more tenacious.

He held his breath and insisted on being admitted to the jinshi to prove his knowledge.

As a result, the huge contrast between the people and things around him after he was admitted to the jinshi examination greatly stimulated him, and made him begin to doubt the legitimacy of the existence of this system.

Even elders like his father-in-law, who had always looked down on him, had to be cautious and even humble towards him after he was admitted to the jinshi examination. Everyone in the family dared not speak loudly in the face of him. Is this system really justified?
He wanted to be respected, but he felt he got even their awe.

Can the words of the sage he read really govern the country and bring peace to the world?

If so, why was he not respected when he was full of economics, or even the care of his family, but he was respected and even furthered after he passed the jinshi examination.

The family began to fear him, respect him, and dare not offend him in the slightest.

What is more important is the study of the sage or the status of a scholar?

What they really care about is me or my status as a jinshi?

Who are they living with?

I?
Or jinshi?

who am I?
Saint disciples?

Imperial jinshi?

or myself?
He was bewildered and distressed by this.

Under the great pain, he accidentally got a strange book called "A Political Commentary". After reading it, he was greatly surprised. He kept reading for three consecutive months, and he did not know the taste of meat.

He watched it over and over for dozens of times, and then he came to his senses. He understood what kind of evil this cannibalism system carried, and also knew what happened to him, and understood the deep logic.

In the end, he resigned from office and hung up his seal, and went to the next journey of his life.

He wants to completely change this system that makes people change, and together with his comrades, achieve a complete change.

Su Yonglin added fuel to it, stuffed it with private goods, and even made a dream linkage.

This is Su Yonglin's version of "School of Foreign Studies".

While inheriting the content of the original book's criticism of Confucian scholars and the imperial examination system, he did not turn around and go back in the content after that, but galloped directly in the direction of Dapo Dali in one breath.

In order to write this book, Su Yonglin also used all his spare time. With the professionalism of an old scalper, he turned his thoughts into ammunition and loaded it into the artillery called "School of Foreign Affairs". , just waiting for that powerful launch.

Su Yonglin believes that once this book is completed, it will have a considerable impact on people's thinking, especially on those Confucian scholars who suffer from the imperial examination system.

Even Su Yonglin knew very well that under the imperial examination system, only a small fraction of the millions of literate people could get a title, and of this small fraction, only a tiny fraction could go further and get a jinshi. As an official, he became a supporter of the Southern Song Dynasty.

And those who have tried many times are actually very distressed.

In fact, the vast majority of scholars have been trapped in the first level of the Southern Song Dynasty's third-level imperial examinations all their lives.

The social involution brought about by the imperial examinations was very, very serious.

Looking at others who have passed the entrance examination of Jinshi Guangzong and honored their ancestors, the scenery is beautiful, and the praises of thousands of people, but I can only sneak away from the dark road to avoid being a foil for others, like a mouse crossing the street for fear of being discovered.

That feeling is very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

If this kind of discomfort is only one or two times, it’s okay to say, but it can be resolved with time. After becoming an official, you will cherish it more and support the dynastic system more and more.

But if you keep failing the exam, that feeling of despair will awaken people to a certain extent, which will lead to doubts about the imperial examination system and the society, which will lead to rebellious emotions and do some anti-system things.

For example, writing small articles that are easily banned by rulers and can only be circulated secretly among the people.

This is actually the limit of what Confucian scholars can do without guidance. They have no organization and no other abilities. It is not easy to do this. Maybe if they can be given some guidance and organization, these people will also explode. out a powerful force.

Before the Ming Kingdom is ready to go south, Su Yonglin will devote part of his energy to guide and improve the cultural field of the Ming Empire, consolidate the foundation of civilian culture, and use satirical novels to shoot at the Southern Song Dynasty to promote their civil unrest.

With their bureaucratic system and work efficiency, it is impossible to stop Ming Dynasty's books from spreading to the Southern Song Dynasty. So in these three years, how much the ideology and culture of the Southern Song Dynasty will be attacked and eliminated is really hard to say.

(End of this chapter)