New Shun 1730

"Although we can't do what Grandpa Yue did, it is a capital crime to rape women. Are you afraid of this? Don't be afraid. If you still have a sister, just come and eat food. It's not what you think. When you recruit soldiers, you also recruit workers. We also set up a nursing home and open a free school, as long as it’s not too young.”

Zhang Hu still didn't quite believe it, but after a moment of hesitation, Zhang Dadun had already told the whole story.

"Master Jun, if this is the case, I do have a younger brother and a younger sister at home. The younger sister is ten years old, and the younger brother is fourteen years old. Can they both eat food?"

"Yes. Just go and call him."

"Hey!"

He agreed, no matter if Zhang Hu tried to stop him, he got up and shouted, but then he realized that the "fight" just now had exhausted all his strength, and he couldn't even stand up anymore.

Fortunately, the officer next to him turned around and asked for the names of the four people. Zhang Dadun, Zhang Erdun, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Ni wrote down their names directly.

The soldier in charge of recording names whispered: "Master Mi, sir, you want to see if you are qualified before recording them."

Perhaps thinking of the tragic memory of the year when he was sold as a child, the officer sighed and said: "Anyone who can survive until now is qualified. Mark it down."

"yes."

He waved his pen and wrote the names of the four people first. A soldier filled half a bowl of rice soup and handed it to Zhang Dadun and Zhang Hu.

He swallowed the half-hot rice soup in one gulp and stared at the rice in the pot eagerly, but the soldier who served the soup stopped scooping it.

"Don't look at it. From now on, you will have enough to eat every day. Now I give you half a bowl, that's for your own good. How many of you will die from this."

Zhang Dadun swallowed and regained his strength for a while. Just as he was about to leave, he was pulled back by Zhang Hu.

Zhang Hu raised his head and asked, "Master Jun, are you telling the truth? Is there really any kind of nursing home?"

"Then there is still a lie? If I, Michael, lie, I will be struck by lightning. Do you believe this?"

Although Zhang Hu didn't know who Mi Gao was, he finally believed him after hearing the other party swear a poisonous oath. He kowtowed several times to the officer.

…………

Liugong Island, inside the small station camp.

Kang Busao was worried, and he and Liu Yu were the only ones left in the room. He had been holding these words in his heart for several days, and finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Sir, no matter how hard you tried before, it's all fine as long as His Majesty trusts you. But if you want to raise a dead soldier... this, this is a big taboo."

Liu Yu looked a little weird and said with a smile: "Zhongxian really dares to think about raising dead soldiers? What kind of dead soldiers should I raise?"

"If you don't raise dead soldiers, why do you want to recruit children aged seven, eight or ten?"

Kang Bushaan said, Your Excellency does not specialize in buying and selling people. This seven or eight-year-old girl may be sold to the madam, but with Your Excellency's temperament, you will not do such a dirty thing.

In particular, it is best for these children to have both parents gone, or whose parents were sold for a bucket of grain.

In this case, if this is not to raise the dead soldiers, what is it for?

Liu Yu said calmly: "I just teach them to read and write, and pass on my skills. I run the charity school openly, not secretly to support the dead."

Hearing the words "upright and upright", Kang Busha felt a little relieved, but he was not very sure and asked: "Master, run a charity school... It seems that the charity school has not specifically recruited children whose family members are almost dead. "

Liu Yu sighed and asked: "If I don't take care of it, these children will die. If I want to take care of it, I only need 200,000 shi of food, which is enough for what? Does Zhongxian blame me for not recruiting troops until now? Or does he blame me for watching with cold eyes despite having food? No relief?”

Kang Buyao shook his head.

"What you did is right or wrong. I'm not good at judging. But that's not what I care about. I wonder if you know that something like this happened a few years ago? There was a big disaster in a certain place in Jiangsu, and a wealthy family came forward to provide relief. The local county magistrate thought that this person was going to deceive people into committing rebellion, so he arrested him first, causing the victims to become furious and attack the county government?"

"Even if the young master doesn't know about this matter, does the young master know about the Fujian religious case and the religious people taking advantage of the disaster to provide relief, which made the imperial court furious?"

"Whenever there is a disaster, the most fearful thing for the court is that someone will gather the victims. It is good for the young master to run a charity school and be upright, but if there is a book of ginseng from the young master, it says that the young master feeds the dead...You know, you can hide armor privately since ancient times. But if you raise a dead man, you will definitely die?"

"His Majesty only smiled slightly when he was blessed. Who can know the future? His Majesty also smiled slightly at the time about the Fujian Christian Religion, but now it has been revealed again..."

Liu Yu laughed loudly and said: "The path I want to take is bright and righteous. Relying on dead soldiers or a few strong men is a dead end. Even if such a person succeeds, can the world change at all? Don't worry Zhongxian , I am not a warrior, and what is taught in this righteousness is not the art of war, killing, or battle formations. It is just ordinary literacy, arithmetic, astronomy, and physics."

"Then what do you plan to do with these people when they grow up?"

"Be sir."

"Is it that simple?"

"It's that simple."

"Do you teach Confucianism?"

"Don't teach."

"Only teach Western learning?"

"Zhongxian's words are very wrong. What makes sense only in the West is called Western learning, such as the theory of God and heaven; what makes sense only in the East is called middle school, such as the communication between heaven and man. One is like one, and two is like four. Even if you go to America, that's right. How can it be called Western learning? "

Kang Busuo smiled bitterly and shook his head, and said after a while: "The young master once said that Chinese learning is for the body and Western learning is for the application... isn't it self-deception? The young master himself doesn't seem to believe it, just to stop the world from talking about it?"

"Zhongxian is wrong again."

Liu Yu waved his hand and asked, "Are the Confucian scholars of the Spring and Autumn Period the same as those of the Han and Jin Dynasties?"

Kang Budai shook his head.

"Then are the Confucian scholars of the Han and Jin Dynasties the same as those of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties?"

Kang Budai shook his head again.

"So, practical learning changes the world, and the words of sages explain the world."

"Since shaving hair and changing clothes can explain the truth, then the great Confucian scholars can certainly explain the truth of the world after the rise of practical learning. I can't explain the truth, but I know that after the world changes, someone will be able to explain the truth. Isn't the truth at that time the body of Confucianism?"

Kang Budai suddenly realized: "So you think that the world has no body now?"

"It's not that I think, but there really is no body. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to now, there have been many thoughts. Some people want to supplement Confucianism with Christianity, some want to restore the well-field system, some want to promote practical learning, and some want to discuss the way of the universe. Even if the court says that it wants to promote the Yongjia and Yongkang learning, what exactly is the Yongjia and Yongkang learning has not been clearly argued, how can it be considered that the world has a body? It's just a side trip."

Kang Budai didn't ask any more questions.

Perhaps to reassure Kang Budai, Liu Yu asked Kang Budai, who was a little excited just now, to sit down and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhongxian, I want to ask you a question."

"Sir, please speak."

"If I run a charity school and recruit children from wealthy families, then the things they learn can neither be used to become officials nor to pass the imperial examinations. Will the wealthy families come?"

Since they can neither pass the imperial examinations nor become officials, Kang Budai smiled and shook his head. Only fools would come.

"Of course not."

"Okay, then if I recruit poor families, everyone will think that learning these things, recognizing a few words, and not being blind is always good. But after learning for thirteen or fourteen years old, and being able to work, can the poor families still let their children continue to go to useless school and not work to support the family?"

Kang Budai finally understood and nodded: "Yes, no, at that time, they will definitely be asked to drop out of school to support the family and do housework."

"Yes, then even if a lawsuit is filed at that time, does Dashun have a law that says that not going to school is illegal?"

"Hahahaha... Young Master is joking. In all dynasties, there is no saying that not going to school is illegal. At that time, those children will naturally listen to their parents."

"That's right, so I can only recruit those whose families are basically extinct. Zhongxian is relieved this time?"

Kang Budai also smiled, indicating that he was really relieved.

Since this year's famine, Liu Yu in Kang Budai's eyes has been watching coldly.

He was not afraid that Liu Yu would raise dead soldiers, but he was afraid that Liu Yu would raise dead soldiers now, and recruit three or four hundred children at once, which was unwise.

During the famine, the island trained soldiers as usual, and traded on the sea as usual.

Songs were sung in the barracks, and games such as Cuju were played during the rest period, and it seemed that they did not pay any attention to the famine outside.

It was not until May that it was confirmed that this year was a major disaster, winter wheat was hopeless, and summer grain was almost impossible to survive that they began to recruit soldiers.

Even the navy who were in training went ashore. The students of the staff class made a series of plans for marching, camping, transporting grain along the way, gathering, and assembling according to the map of Jiaodong.

The army was dispatched and quickly covered all the counties affected by the disaster. According to the plan made by the staff class, the plan of recruiting soldiers, recruiting people, recruiting students from charity schools, and recruiting farmers was carried out step by step.

Recruiting 10,000 soldiers, including 9,000 in the army and 1,000 in the navy.

Recruiting 7,000 long-term workers for work-for-relief.

Recruit 2,000 households of men and women for cultivation.

Recruit 1,500 men and women for contract labor.

Recruit 500 students for charity school.

Liu Yu did not even show up, but asked the staff to make a plan and select talented officers from the reserve officers to lead the migration in various directions.

He did not take the initiative to deploy where to meet, when to meet, where to transport grain, and where to assemble. He was just responsible for reviewing.

Tell them that this is an assessment, and whether they will be appointed as officials in the future will be evaluated based on this.

The 200,000 shi of grain stored before, this recruitment only cost 30,000 shi.

Once the soldiers are recruited and enlisted, they will eat imperial food.

There is a special military granary near Weihai, which is specially prepared by the court for the army in Jiaodong.

In the future, they will have to feed more than 10,000 people outside the military, and they will have to rely on the stored surplus grain.

Previously, Liu Yu had sent people to various villages and communities of good families to recruit a group of students from the camp who were not qualified to inherit the status of good families. They have not arrived yet, but they should be half-grown boys.

These half-grown boys cannot be dealt with by stuttering. They need to pay a sum of money. Of course, the emperor and the court will not pay this money, so Liu Yu can only pay it.

From the end of the Chinese New Year to May, Kang Budai saw Liu Yu busy with military training and writing something, and he didn't know what he was writing.

Now think about it, maybe it's the textbooks of the charity school.

Thinking that after this recruitment, Weihaiwei and Liugong Island finally have a large army stationed, Kang Budai can be said to be relieved. It's not long before the five-year period, I hope that a large army can be trained in the remaining time.

The worry that Liu Yu would "raise a group of assassins" these days was finally put to rest. Just as I was about to help Liu Yu write memorials and "diaries for others to see" as a daily routine, someone outside came to report.

"Sir, the governor of Wendeng Prefecture, Lord Bai, wants to see you."

Liu Yu nodded at Kang Budai, and Kang Budai quickly put away the memorials and "diaries".

"Please."