Chapter 17: Mozi: Did the artisans lift the ashes of the ancestors of Confucianism?
After a while of playing the imperial examination system, Confucius continued to introduce the detailed content of the imperial examination system: "Of course, the imperial examination system is not without its shortcomings. For example, not everyone can participate in the imperial examination. Women cannot do it, even the emperor's daughter cannot do it! As for men, sons of skilled women, children of the royal family, etc., they cannot participate in the imperial examination."
"But overall, the imperial examination is still a very excellent system. In this system, scholars need to go through exams such as children, scholars, scholars, and Jinshi. The better the exam scores and the higher the status, the broader the final future."
"But even if you are just the lowest-level boy, you can join the circle of scholars and consider yourself as scholars. If you know some scholars and friends, then from now on, you can escape the exploitation of minor officials."
"Scholars are even more amazing. They can be exempted from labor service directly, and there will be no ignorant officials to exploit you. When they are juren, they can call you a master openly. They can protect their friends, not be exploited by minor officials, accept the offer of landlords and merchants, avoid taxes, and even have the right to meet the local county magistrate directly."
"As for the Jinshi, he is the future master of the Ming Dynasty and a real senior management. The third-class Jinshi started as a county magistrate. The second-class Jinshi could be an official in the capital, starting from the head of the six ministries and departments. An excellent second-class Jinshi could even become a Shujishi."
"A Jinshi started with a Hanlin official, and Hanlin official was known as the Prime Minister. Unless Hanlin officials were not allowed to enter the cabinet, and the highest institution of the Ming Dynasty was the cabinet, and the cabinet grand clerks were the general government affairs of the country, and they had great power!"
"So, Qiu's choice is to study, take the imperial examination, take the imperial examination, and be a high-ranking official. As the saying goes, self-cultivation, family management, country and peace, is Qiu's wish forever."
"So how to participate in the imperial examination? How to become a scholar? It's simple and difficult. As long as you have money, you can join the academy."
"Only by joining the academy, you can participate in the imperial examination. Because the imperial examination requires a survivor, the survivor must be a scholar. If you don't know other scholars, they will not provide you with insurance. The most effective way to get to know scholars is to join a certain academy."
After a while, Mozi walked onto the platform.
"As Zhongni said, the imperial examination system is a very excellent system. Although I can tell you a lot about the shortcomings of the imperial examination system, such as those scholars who are not diligent in the four bodies and do not distinguish between grains. They can do nothing except study, and they are just pure iron waste!"
"Most of them do not know how to farm, nor do they even know what kind of season to plant crops. They do not know how to calculate the calculation, and even think that calculation is just the last and not worth learning by scholars. They think craftsmen are inferior, they think scholars are the noblest, and they regard all kinds of advanced technologies as strange skills, which are worse than those of the last."
Mo Di discovered that this so-called Confucianism and the so-called group of scholars seemed to be targeted specifically at craftsmen. Could it be that craftsmen once raised the ashes of Confucianism and killed the ancestors of Confucianism?
"In the words of scholars, it means: everything is inferior, but reading is high!"
Speaking of this, Mo Zi shook his head disdainfully: "The imperial examination system itself is of course a very excellent and fair system. Even real civilians have the hope of becoming the chief minister of the cabinet through the imperial examination system. From this perspective, this imperial examination system is really very, very excellent!"
"So, Mozi admires this system from the bottom of his heart, and admires the person who created it. Unfortunately, when I asked who invented this system, I couldn't get any answer."
"At first, I thought it was my inquiry method wrong, but later I found out the truth. After all, this is just a fragment of time, and only records what the Supreme Master saw and heard. Therefore, when Supreme Master was unwilling to let us know about the previous dynasty, all our problems related to the previous dynasty will be automatically ignored by the people here. And the senior who invented the imperial examination system was obviously a member of the previous dynasty."
After all, this is just a fragment of time, not a real world!
"Okay, that's all for this problem. Now there is obviously something wrong with the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty. But I am not the emperor of the Zhu family, and I am not the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, so this problem has nothing to do with me."
"At this point, everyone should know my choice. Yes, although the imperial examination is the real road to heaven in this world, I did not choose the imperial examination."
"On the one hand, the imperial examination is too complicated. Those who study are not good at anything else, and their intrigues are particularly powerful. These days, I have obtained a newspaper in this world through some personal relationships. It records the emperor's decree, ministerial memorials and some political information."
"Although I have only browsed the newspapers in recent years, I have also drawn many conclusions from the details."
"First of all, today's son is Emperor Tianqi, and this year is the first year of the Emperor Tianqi. This emperor likes carpenters, and the people even call him the carpenter emperor."
"Secondly, this emperor valued eunuchs."
"In the end, I think the political situation in the Ming Dynasty may be chaotic for a while."
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What logic is this?
The emperor likes carpenter work, and the emperor values eunuchs, so will the senior management in the Ming Dynasty become in chaos?
Mr. Mozi, how did you derive the final result through the first two conditions?
"This question is very complicated to explain, and I can only say that I understand everything. If you have to investigate the reasons, it is that the emperor does not listen to the civil servants, and the civil servants want the emperor to listen to their words."
"In short, this is a struggle between the imperial power and the entire class of civil servants!"
"In such a struggle, it is only a matter of time before the emperor fails, and a person cannot be an opponent of a class in any case!"
"The only difference is, when will the emperor fail? What price will the emperor pay after his failure?"
"I read the history books in this world and found that Emperor Zhengde and civil servants fought and eventually fell into the water, fell ill, died of illness. Before he died, he wanted to change to an imperial physician to treat himself, but the civil servants refused!"
"Emperor Jiajing fought with civil servants all his life. At first, he played civil servants like monkeys, but in the end he played civil servants like monkeys."
"Emperor Wanli wanted to follow Jiajing and let civil servants fight against civil servants, so he tried to make Concubine Zheng's son, King Fu, the crown prince, but he was discovered by the civil servants and was not deceived at all. In the end, he could only give civil servants some colors by not attending court for the rest of his life."
"The civil servants know very well what Emperor Tianqi valued eunuchs for now. So civil servants have already started to fight back. Now there is a title of carpenter emperor among the people. How did this title come from?"
Chapter completed!