Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 83
Bai Mingxiu had a good life in Haikou. Originally, he had planned for the Qing army to attack across the sea, and he used the Clipper Fleet of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army to directly sink them all at sea, but in fact, although Qiongzhou Prefecture fell to the Ming Dynasty The matter of the hand has already spread to the mainland, but the Qing court did not respond quickly.

According to Bai Mingxiu's occupation of Qiongzhou Prefecture for several weeks, Nanming has completely controlled the entire Hainan Island, and the Qing army on the island has basically been wiped out. After Bai Mingxiu implemented the three strategies of restoring the soil, the ground in Hainan gradually calmed down. And it started to prosper again.

Taking in Nanming rebels, defectors to the Qing army, and local Dingkou in Hainan, Bai Mingxiu opened a training center for the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army in Haikou, where a total of more than a thousand people received armed training and ideological reform from the Restoration Army.At the same time, Bai Mingxiu also set up a list to recruit talented people, regardless of their backgrounds, and the selected talents were also sent to the newly opened Qiongzhou Prefecture Cadre School for further studies.

Including Zhou Shensi, who had joined Bai Mingxiu in the Nansha Islands before, is also studying in this cadre school. The teachers in the cadre school are basically Australian officials. Bai Mingxiu brought his Nanming Lizhengyuan to Hainan as a whole this time, because Next, he will occupy more provinces, requiring more specific and detailed governance issues.

There are even current cabinet officials teaching in the Haikou Cadre School, but this is only possible at present.After all, the population of Qiongzhou Prefecture is only 40, most of them are farmers, and there are not many things to deal with.Therefore, the cabinet members can also spare a little time to personally teach the new officials and cadres of Ming Dynasty in the future.

Wearing a book long shirt, Zhou Shensi wiped the sweat off his head with a little effort.The Shushu they were in used to be the prefectural school of Qiongzhou Prefecture, but now it is used as a cadre school.Zhou Shensi thought that if he joined His Highness the Crown Prince, he would be appointed immediately, but he didn't expect that he would be thrown into the so-called cadre school.On the first day of entering the cadre school, Zhou Shensi received a thick stack of textbooks, and was told by the school teachers that after a period of study, they would have to divide subjects.

Holding a pencil in his hand, Zhou Shensi racked his brains to calculate the topic in front of him, muttering in his mouth: "What kind of Laoshizi's school is this? It doesn't teach the study of sages, and doesn't explain scriptures to students. But if you want students to do these maths, the questions are still so difficult."

Although he said so, in fact he was not willing to lag behind. This was not the time for class, and Zhou Shensi was practicing extra questions in the study room of the school.

It's just that his complaint just now was overheard by a person, who walked into the study room with his usual expression.

Zhou Shensi was shocked when he saw the person coming, he quickly got up and wanted to bow, but remembered the new etiquette taught in school, and quickly bowed to the person: "Lord Ge Kui."

The person who came was none other than Tang Beilu, the current prime minister of the Legislative Yuan. He returned north with Bai Mingxiu, and he also became a teacher at the cadre school in Haikou by the way.

Tang Beilu waved his hand and said, "No need to be too polite, just call me the principal in school."

In Zhou Shensi's eyes, it was a little strange that the Ming court asked His Royal Highness to change it. For example, many things needed a very long noun, and some previous titles were also changed.The Haikou Cadre School, in his eyes, is actually the Imperial College, which is specially trained for officials for the Holy Dynasty.However, in the first class after he entered the school, the Prime Minister Tang Beilu told everyone that cadres are trained here, not officials.Therefore, the first priority for all of them is to be able to improve the relationship between the cadres and the masses, to be able to hear the voices and grievances of the people, and to be able to suffer from and worry about the people's worries.

Therefore, the current prime minister and Guozijian in Zhou Shensi's eyes asked all the cadres and students to go to the streets of Qiongzhou City, go to the countryside and fields, and ask the common people with a good attitude what worries them. what to worry about.

On that day, someone asserted his identity and believed that scholars should not be with untouchables. Tang Beilu immediately asked the student to leave.

At that time, Tang Beilu said something that made Zhou Shen think about it every time: "Those who think they are superior cannot be cadres in Ming Dynasty, because His Royal Highness said that those who enter our country, regardless of their origin, are equal and are all compatriots." Brothers and sisters. If you want to be an official like that, why not go to the Qing court of the Tartars in the north, where you can let the common people be your slaves, and at the same time, you are also the slaves of those Tartars.”

Zhou Shensi always ponders on Tang Beilu's words. He has long agreed with the orderly social relationship between ruler and minister, but from a certain point of view, the subordinates are indeed the slaves of the superiors.Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. If you don't want to be other people's slaves, then you shouldn't let others be your slaves.

Zhou Shensi thought that Tang Beilu was a very virtuous official. From Tang Beilu running the school, he could imagine what Tang Beilu was like running the country.

Tang Beilu always had an unsmiling appearance, but it would not make people feel too serious. He thought to Zhou Shen, "Why, student Zhou, are you dissatisfied with the school's curriculum?"

Zhou Shensi hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Students dare not."

Tang Beilu shook his head and said, "It's okay. In our school, you must first know how to express yourself. If you have any thoughts and you can't sincerely point them out to His Highness or your superior, how can you make His Highness trust you?"

Zhou Shensi gritted his teeth and said: "Students are stupid, but what the cadre school teaches is very different from what they have learned in their lives. They emphasize practicality, but they are paradoxical. In ancient times, sages ruled the world and relied on moral education. Now we are studying the details , doing petty calculations, I always feel inferior."

"Well, your ideas actually exist in the hearts of many students. Many of you are full of knowledge and have written good articles, but do scholars like you really know how to govern the country? If you follow your In other words, the gentlemen of Donglin Fushe should all be first-class talents in governing the country. But is this really the case?"

Zhou Shensi also knew how many moths those people from the Donglin Party had done. He shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid those are just hypocrites. His Royal Highness said in the proclamation that people today only value self-interest and have no righteousness. .”

"It's wrong." Tang Beilu suddenly interrupted Zhou Shensi.

"There are hundreds of millions of people in the world. Counting thousands of years, remembering the sages, how many people are completely selfless? To a certain extent, Daming died on the hypocrites who valued self-interest without righteousness. But if everyone in Daming is rich and money Goods are in circulation, people live in a well-to-do life, have enough food and clothing to live in a well-to-do life, the youngest son is educated, and the soldiers are elite, even if everyone is selfish, then how could Li Chuang make trouble, and how could Daming be thrown into the customs by Qing dogs?"

In the end, Tang Beilu came to a conclusion: "In the final analysis, what determines the prosperity of a country is not a group of gentlemen who understand the Four Books and Five Classics to educate the people with benevolence, but the country is rich and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the country still has room for further development. Prospects—and this is what our Crown Prince wishes Daming to achieve."

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