The entire Northern Zhili was trapped in an extremely strange atmosphere.

Originally, only those gentry and scholars were considered "people" here in the Ming Dynasty.

They paid taxes to support the government and the emperor, which was the rule of the three generations that were praised by Confucianism.

But now these "civilians" are suffering from heavy blows from the Ming Emperor.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty raised the iron fist of justice and pulled these "people" out and chopped them up, or handed them over to the complaint meeting, allowing those leaders of Guizhou who had been despised by scholars to be stripped of life and death.

This is not an adjective, it is a verb.

How bad were the gentry of the Ming Dynasty? It was so bad that it was not enough to force the Guizhou leaders to a point where their families were destroyed. They had to get the oil and water out of their lives.

In the past, they had the support of the government and the protection of the slaves, and the leaders of Guizhou had no chance to take revenge. They could only wait for the rebel army to come and take revenge.

But now the emperor took the lead and destroyed the governments in various places, and then used the order of Shi Nu to liberate all the slaves and distributed them land.

The gentry who lost his protection is no more powerful than the meibai sheep.

It can be said that in a very short time, the entire gentry in Northern Zhili suffered a devastating blow.

Of course, not all scholars have been destroyed.

There were many scholars in the Ming Dynasty. They took exams all the way, from a child to a scholar, to a juren, and then to a Jinshi Jinqi exam.

Every time this identity is leap, thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge. Behind a person's success is the failure of ninety-nine people.

A large number of scholars who failed the exam have been wandering around the identity of scholars or even children all their lives.

What everyone knows is that if a scholar does not have the opportunity to become an official, he is the most typical waste.

You can't hold your hands and you can't carry your shoulders.

Apart from wasting food and hanging out in the trash, there is no use at all.

Raising a scholar is very costly and food. Many scholars have extremely miserable families and cannot even eat.

For scholars from such poor families, Wang Xiao gave him a chance to choose.

One is to start with officials from various government agencies, work hard and wait for the opportunity to be promoted.

Another one is to be a teacher and teach children to read and read.

If you are a teacher, your salary and benefits are good. However, you are not allowed to teach Confucian classics, namely the Four Books, Five Classics, Eight Essays, etc.

Their job is to teach children to understand and write, to know mathematics better, and to get more money and food to be a specialized mathematics teacher.

In science, the importance of mathematics is self-evident, and it can even be said that mathematics is the foundation of science.

But in ancient China, where Confucianism was the domineering Chinese, how did those great scholars view mathematics?

Contempt, undisguised contempt.

The progress of science is a word that often appears in the eyes of Confucianism, a strange and lustful technique!

Craftsmen are not as good as death as they live, while those who engage in mathematics are contemptuous and excluded.

The result was that technological power was getting more and more backward until someone set up a few cannons on the coast and blasted the country's door.

You should know that in the 17th year of Chongzhen, the technological level of the Tartars outside the pass was even higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the wild boar skin was not the one that was fooled by the book.

The main firepower output of their war was the cannon.

That's right, it's the cannon. Its quantity and quality have surpassed the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, when wild boar skins fight, the main combat method is mainly ground assault of heavily armored soldiers.

If you ride and shoot, you are all fools in "You are a madman, he is a fool."

Those who really make riding and shooting come out with tricks are Mengwu people.

If you want to revive the Ming Dynasty, you must first open up people's wisdom.

And it is definitely not written with the Four Books, Five Classics, Eight Essays, but with mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Otherwise, one or two hundred years later, it will be another old-fashioned cycle.

"These scholars have to look at each other."

In the lobby of Zunhua City Government Office, Wang Xiao was giving a lecture to Chongzhen. "All those above scholars cannot be kept. Tong Sheng and scholars should be selected as clerks and teachers who are from poor families. Also, those who are over forty-five years do not want to."

In the modern world, it is difficult to find a job at the age of thirty-five.

Wang Xiao has been here for ten years and is an absolute good person.

Judging from the living conditions in the late Ming Dynasty, he was about an old man at his age of 45.

Under Wang Xiao's love education, Chongzhen no longer refuted Wang Xiao's words.

He first responded, and then asked, "Why don't you have a scholar or above?"

"Isn't this what your ministers often shout, the law of ancestors?"

Wang Xiao sneered, "Those above scholars are Juren, Jinshi. Jinshi are basically officials, so I won't mention this. Juren can cover up taxes. Who has no tens of thousands of acres of land under his name? Leaving them is to destroy the action to recast the Ming Dynasty."

"You have to remember that the people you need now are not these gentry scholars, but those slutty leaders who were looked down upon in the past. Before doing anything, you must first consider how they will think about it."

At this time, Chongzhen's mentality towards the Guizhou leaders was no longer the same as before.

Because he saw with his own eyes how terrible the power brought by the Guizhou leaders when they exploded.

"The Ming Dynasty has a population of billions. How many scholars can there be? The number of scholars and scholars in Guizhou must be at least 100."

"As the emperor, you have to stand on this side with a lot of people."

Wang Xiaoyu taught him earnestly, "Those scholars have no ability except being able to talk. Don't be afraid of them, use them to please the people of Guizhou. In this way, your throne can be firmly seated."

"Grandpa is right."

"Divid the land, let the slaves burn all the IOU, and all the taxes are exempted from all the taxes."

Wang Xiao sighed, "Actually, our Chinese people don't want much. As long as we can do these things, no one in the world can shake your position."

"From now on, you will be the protector of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and you can be called the Emperor of the People of the Ming Dynasty. Now the people of the Ming Dynasty hate the gentry scholars who snatched their property and land and their wives and children. Then you have to do those gentry scholars to satisfy the needs of hundreds of people.

The need for surname.”

Chongzhen saluted again, "Grandpa Grandpa is right."

After the brief chat, when he saw Wang Xiao sitting on a chair and resting with his eyes closed, Chongzhen was about to ask Wang Chengen to come in and prepare the meal.

Before he could speak, Wang Chengen hurriedly ran in.

"His Majesty."

Wang Chengen looked a little panicked, "The Guanning Army sent someone to ask for the salary!"

Guanning Army, the last elite of the Ming Dynasty.

Among historical books and various literary works, Guanning Army is very famous.

He fought with wild boar skin all year round, and even after surrender, he caused the Three Feudal Rebellion under the leadership of Wu Sangui.

On the surface, it seems that it is indeed a soldier fighting against wild boar skin, but in fact it is not the case at all.

The Guanning Army during the Wanli period was actually not conspicuous at all.

For example, when the three major conscripts sent troops to North Korea, there was no problem with them.

The real rise of the Guanning Army was when Yuan Chonghuan was in power in Liaodong.

With the support of a massive Liao salary, the Guanning Army rose rapidly.

With enough money and food to support the family, and enough money and food to equip horse armor. The combat effectiveness of the Guanning Army was naturally outstanding among the Ming Army, which could not be eaten enough.

However, the Ming generals of this era all had a characteristic, that is, they regarded the sergeants as their own private property, which was similar to the separatist rule of the vassal states in the late Tang Dynasty.

In just twenty years, the western Liaoning Corridor where the Guanning Army was located had no civilians.

It was not that they were all killed, but were transformed into their tenants by generals at all levels of Guanning Army.

Every Guanning Army general is a big landlord. The entire land of the Liaoxi Corridor was divided up by them.

It is not wrong to say that they resisted the wild boar skin, because they could be masters in the corridors of western Liaoning. Who would go crazy and be a slave to the wild boar skin?

However, the Guanning Army's traditional combat skills, the enemy's forward moves to kill the Ming Dynasty.

The reinforcements mobilized from all over the country fell under the Guanning Army's unique tricks.

As for why the Guanning Army wanted to cheat friendly forces, on the one hand, it was to preserve its strength.

As long as there are troops in your hands, the court will not dare to deal with them, and there will naturally be a steady stream of large amounts of Liao pay.

Most of the Liao sacrifices entered the pockets of the civil and military officials from the cabinet chief to the Guanning Army generals, inside and outside.

A small number of people raised a Guanning Iron Cavalry.

Although the Guanning Army is on the front line, the homes of those military generals are more luxurious and elegant than the other.

There are many flowers, plants and strange rocks transported from Jiangnan, opera troupes bought from Jiangnan, beautiful girls brought from Jiangnan, etc.

In order to maintain one's life and status, of course we must preserve our strength.
To be continued...