Anyway, you will see the newspaper sooner or later, so there is no need to rush.
Lü Qinghou had made up his mind and had his own speculations and thoughts. If the new school lowered its standards, would he give it a try and try to get a job?
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Zhu Youxiao really did not expect that opening a private school could cultivate any high-end talents, but people at that time did not understand the relationship between the popularization rate of education and the strength and prosperity of a country.
There is no need for junior high school or high school. If half of the people in the Ming Dynasty can read a newspaper and understand notices, they will be invincible in the world.
The lowering of the admission standards for the new school meant that not everyone could enter; an exam was required. However, the exam was not difficult; even a scholar could pass it, and there was no quota limit.
In this way, people like Lu Qinghou, who had reached the level of a scholar but could only lose in the competition due to numbers, had an opportunity.
Zhu Youxiao's requirements for officials were not particularly strict. All they needed was to be law-abiding and do their jobs in accordance with the law.
As the new issue of the newspaper was reprinted in various places, the measures and methods announced therein also spread across the country.
No matter what people say, whether it is praise or criticism, joy or hate, Zhu Youxiao's purpose of adding new students was always achieved.
As for the idea that the Song Dynasty enjoyed a long life because it treated scholars well, or that scholars were loyal and served the country out of gratitude, Zhu Youxiao believed that this was not comprehensive.
Many people also believe that the Song Dynasty's respect for literati and patriots enabled many literati to show an indomitable spirit when the country was unable to resist foreign invasion and the Mongolian barbarians were wreaking havoc.
The Ming Dynasty treated scholars harshly, causing the scholars to lose their civility. That is why a large number of shameless scholars appeared when it was about to perish.
Zhu Youxiao felt that this was not entirely true, at least not the main reason.
If we talk about repaying kindness, shouldn't the powerful people, officials, businessmen, and gentry and students of the Ming Dynasty who enjoyed various preferential policies be grateful and repay their kindness?
Speaking of Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, and Zhang Shijie in the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also had national heroes such as Zhang Huangyan, Wen Anzhi, and Shen Tingyang.
In other words, integrity is just integrity, and has little to do with gratitude. Those who insist on making a connection are simply trying to find an excuse to be a traitor.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao did not think that he was treating scholars harshly, nor did he regard some scholars as pillars of the country, nor did he expect them to become the backbone of the nation.
The scope of scholars is too broad, so Zhu Youxiao has to define categories for them and treat them differently.
When the country is in turmoil and facing the ravages of foreign enemies, you should take up arms and use your pen as a weapon to boost people's morale. That makes you a good scholar.
You haven't been asked to fight in the battlefield yet. You are just talents needed by the country. Zhu Youxiao doesn't need grumbling scholars. He doesn't care about the bad reputation of being harsh on scholars.
They enjoy preferential treatment with a clear conscience, but retreat or turn a blind eye when the country needs them. Such scholars are bad and unusable, and there is no need to be polite to them.
"Daming Forum" publicizes and comments on the definition of the emperor and what constitutes a scholar who is useful to the country with one article per issue.
When the outside world thought that the court's crackdown on officials and businessmen would slow down or be delayed, the emperor began to take action, targeting the meritorious officials in the capital.
The Ming Dynasty restricted the participation of meritorious officials in government affairs, but at the same time, they gave preferential treatment to the nobles. This is similar to treating the vassal states like pigs.
However, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, although the nobles were regarded by the emperor as "my family's hereditary ministers", in the end, only a few of them could share the joys and sorrows with him.
Zhu Youxiao had long been eyeing these fat sheep under the emperor's feet, but the preparations were not completed, so he could only wait quietly.
Now, with the Beijing Army, the Nine Gates Commander-in-Chief, and the Five Cities Military Commander under his control, and with the help of the Factory Guards' spies, he began to act under the pretext of cracking down on officials and merchants.
The first target had long been set as the last Duke of Chengguo, Zhu Chunchen. The reason why he was called the last one was that this guy would be the last to hold the title of Duke of Chengguo, whether in Zhu Youxiao's Tianqi Dynasty or in the Chongzhen Dynasty in history.
Zhu Youxiao didn't have to kill him, but he would definitely strip him of his title. How could he be polite to a bastard who refused to accept the Chongzhen Emperor and even offered the Qihua Gate to surrender and persuade him to ascend the throne?
The truth was clear, and Zhu Youxiao wanted to do this without waiting for Li Zicheng to kill him and confiscate his property.
Zhu Chunchen's head was not necessarily chopped off, but his title and property were definitely confiscated. This required a reasonable charge, and collusion between officials and businessmen was clearly not enough.
There is no shortage of negative information. None of the nobles in the capital are clean.
Uncle Wei bowed respectfully and stood solemnly, listening to the sound of the emperor gently turning the pages of the paper.
Those were the evidence of illegal crimes committed by the nobles in the capital that the East Factory was ordered to collect. He didn't know who the emperor was going to attack, but he just felt that what the emperor did was inappropriate.
Nobles are not like officials. If you trace back to the past, they all shed blood and made contributions for the Zhu family. The throne that the emperor sits on now is due to their efforts.
Therefore, there has been a tradition of treating meritorious officials and their descendants with kindness in all dynasties, for fear of being accused of being harsh and ungrateful.
Zhu Youxiao put down the materials and tapped the table lightly with his fingers. It was okay to punish the lawbreakers, but stripping them of their titles and confiscating their property was obviously not enough.
Of course, he also knew that it was not so easy to take action against the nobles, and it was not the end of the dynasty. It seemed that he would not be so impatient and ruin his reputation?
Officials do not have deep backgrounds and connections, so there will not be much aftereffect if they are attacked; but the nobles have been in power for hundreds of years and have complex and intertwined networks, so if they are attacked, the impact will be huge.
Seeing that the emperor hadn't spoken for a long time after reading the materials, Uncle Wei felt a little uneasy. He didn't know if the materials he had collected were not enough, or if they were not sufficient.
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