Daming College of Architecture and Engineering, Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Liu Jin, Zhi Zhong and others were walking on the beautiful campus. The campus is extremely beautifully built, with spacious roads and good greening.
Everywhere you can see groups of students studying and discussing on the lawns. The teaching buildings are also majestic and beautiful.
"Liu Jin, you are really willing to give up on education. This school probably cost millions of taels of silver to build, right?"
Emperor Hongzhi is quite satisfied with the school environment in front of him. Compared with traditional private schools and academies, the environment of this new type of school is more comfortable, but of course it also requires more money.
¡°It does cost a lot of money, but it¡¯s all worth it. With this school, a large number of construction engineering talents can emerge in our country every year to pave the way and contribute to the construction of bridges in our country.¡±
Liu Jin nodded and replied.
"Yes, the reason why our Ming Dynasty is able to prosper depends not only on the ministers in the court, but also on the emergence of more talents, making more powerful machines, building more bridges, and building more buildings." More houses and roads, more powerful muskets and cannons.¡±
Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly. He now understood that the rapid development of the entire Ming Dynasty definitely did not rely on the civil servants in the court who kept shouting loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.
We rely on the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the battlefield, on the ordinary farmers who work hard, on the busy workers in the factories, and on the road construction workers who sweat and work hard on the roads.
It is precisely because of these ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty and their hard work and dedication that the Ming Dynasty is now prosperous. As for the ministers in the court, they were like this before and are like this now. There is nothing substantial about it. transformation.
¡°Perhaps the only change is that the many reform plans formulated by Liu Jin forced them to change and do something, but in essence, they were still the same civil servants, and there was no essential change.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
The surrounding ministers didn't know how to reply for a while. Although many people disagreed with Emperor Hongzhi's words, after all, they had always believed that the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together. In this world, the scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor had the final say. Yes, as for the ordinary people, they are not even considered the people. Only the scholar-bureaucrats can be considered the people.
Emperor Hongzhi smiled. He had heard too many compliments like this, and now he is completely immune to them. Emperor Hongzhi knew very well whether he had done a good job or not.
"Compared with the emperors in history, Emperor Hongzhi felt that he could only be better than a diligent person, and other than that, he was nothing at all.
¡°I don¡¯t know how to play the tricks of the emperor, nor do I know any real way to govern the country. The only thing I can do is to be diligent, thinking that diligence can make up for my weakness, and relying on hard work to govern the country.
As for anything else, the word sage is too far away.
"This classmate, what do you usually plan to do after graduation?"
Emperor Hongzhi came to a few classmates sitting on the lawn chatting and asked with a smile.
? ? Everyone wears casual clothes so as not to attract attention.
Li Zhen, Wang Shiwen, Tang Jiwen and Xu Yunpeng looked at Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Liu Jin and others, and quickly stood up and saluted respectfully.
Although Emperor Hongzhi and others were wearing casual clothes, they looked distinguished and noble. Moreover, most of the ministers were elderly. Being polite to the elders was the most basic etiquette for scholars.
"Students Li Zhen, Wang Shiwen, Tang Jiwen, and Xu Yunpeng have met all of you."
The four people saluted respectfully, which also made Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Zhong Zhong nod with satisfaction. At least they were very polite.
"The students are going to Ningguo after graduation. His Highness Prince Ning is very thirsty for talents. As soon as we graduate, we can become a seventh-grade official. In addition, there are many preferential immigration policies, and we can also use our talents in Ningguo's Ministry of Industry. What I learned.¡±
Li Zhen was the first to stand up and reply. He was very clear about his destination after graduation, which was to immigrate to Ningguo.
"Immigrate to Ningguo?"
"Can you become an official as soon as you go to Ningguo?" At this time tianlaixw.com Zhang Si
When Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others heard this, they were slightly surprised. This overseas vassal country actually came to the Ming Dynasty to recruit talents, and it also directly provided powerful immigration preferential policies to the officials. This was very attractive.
"Prince Ning is quite capable."; "Does being a minor official insult your status or knowledge?"
Emperor Hongzhi asked in surprise.
It is surprising that these four people are so opposed to being minor officials.
¡°It¡¯s not that it insults our identity and knowledge, it¡¯s mainly due to various reasons.¡±
"First of all, being a minor official is not a very honorable thing. A minor official is just a minor official after all, not an official. You will remain a minor official for the rest of your life. There is no future."
"The second thing is that the income of being a junior official is very average, only a few dozen taels of silver a year. As soon as we graduate, we will earn at least 200 taels of silver and there are project dividends and the like. The income is very high, and being a junior official is Far from reaching this income level.¡±
"Also, when you are a petty official, you have to be punished by those officials. These officials are all from private schools and academies. They don't know anything and they are still pointing fingers. Who is going to be angry with them? We don't have to be petty officials. Only then can officials have food to eat."
"What's more, overseas vassal states, colonies, and even vassal states such as Korea and Japan are willing to give good treatment and can serve as officials casually. Naturally, we are not willing to be petty officials. ."Zhidaz.com Zhixiao
Li Zhen thought for a while and listed several reasons why he did not want to be a petty official.
"The most important thing is that there is no hope for petty officials. We can basically become managers if we go out and work for a few years, get promotions and salary increases, and the income is okay. Who will become a petty official, even if it is a petty official under the sixth department? We don¡¯t care about it either.¡±
"Yes, we don't care about it at all. Being an official is acceptable."