Chapter 452 The trouble of a newspaper
Recently, Dian Wei found that his lord often said something, that is, "people-oriented". At first, Dian Wei didn't understand what it meant, but after hearing Zhao Xing's talk too much, he figured out some of the feelings.
Dian Wei saw that the lord felt that his subordinates were short of people now, and the gap was very huge! Otherwise, he would not have been holding a list of Jin officials all day long and looked over and over, as if there were so many embroidered on it.
As Dian Wei thought, since he followed Zhao Xing from Yuyang City to Wohu City, Zhao Xing has been worried about the candidates for the prefects of the six counties of Youzhou. This matter is still unknown, and the good news in Liangzhou has been continuously transmitted. So, the next step is that the gap in officials needed by the ten counties and two vassal states of Liangzhou needs even larger!
If you just want to scatter a few people to be officials from other states, it would be very simple. Zhao Xing could just assign a group of county officials from some major counties in Jin now. However, the foundation of Youzhou and Liangzhou is poor, and the local people have never felt the superiority of the political system of Jin. If the first batch of officials who were released from the outside have insufficient political ability or bad character, it will directly affect Zhao Xing's next idea of forming Youzhou, Jin, and Liangzhou into political entities.
Therefore, the first batch of officials sent to Youzhou and Liangzhou must not only send enough troops, but also select elite soldiers and generals to transport them outward!
Zhao Xing gathered together with Liu Dai who arrived at Wohu City with him, Liu Yu, the prime minister who had not yet stepped down, Chen Gong, Jia Xu and Guo Jia in Jin State, Zao Zhi, Cui Yan, Lou Gui, Liang Xi, Guoyuan, Yuan Huan, Zhang Ji and others who served as prefects, Zhang Jian, Cai Yong, Bing Yuan, Guan Ning and others from Taihang Academy, Ni Heng, Li Fu, Liu Jili, Qin Yilu and others from the Lieutenant's Mansion, to prepare to hold a very significant meeting.
As for the civil and military aides under Gongsun Zan, the generals had already entered the training of the Huhu Martial Arts Hall, while the scholars did not attend the meeting because they were not familiar with the internal affairs system of Jin.
At the meeting, Zhao Xing first told everyone about his long-term plans for Youzhou and Liangzhou, indicating that he was not just concerned about "playing around", and then proposed his idea of the system of training internal officials.
Zhao Xing proposed that the choice of internal officials is mainly generated through three channels.
The first channel is to select and appoint excellent commanding generals in the protection of the **. Zhao Xing particularly emphasized that at the moment when external expansion is needed, more and more generals will lead troops to fight, so that there will be no extra position in the protection of the ** in the future to promote generals who have made contributions in combat. Therefore, some generals with both civil and military skills need to be diverted.
An obvious benefit of doing this is that generals who have served in military positions will inevitably attach great importance to military defense and strongly support the garrison troops when participating in local internal affairs. The expansion of Jin State will last for decades, and it is indeed necessary for a group of civil servants who understand military affairs and can even fight to serve as local chief officials in important border towns.
The second channel is selected and appointed from the lower-level officials who are assessed by various counties in Jin State. This channel is easy to understand. For example, in the next step, Cui Yan or Lou Gui was promoted from the prefect to the highest internal affairs chief of a state. Then the vacant position will naturally give priority to the county government and the county magistrates of some major counties.
Zhao Xing had only one requirement for this second channel, that is, all officials released from Jin Kingdom in the future must serve in Jin for more than three years. Because Jin Kingdom is always closest to Zhao Xing, he has the ability to use Jin Kingdom as an incubator and train the lower-level officials into officials who can strictly implement his political philosophy according to his own wishes.
The third channel is to open a subject and recruit talents from all over the world. In the specific concept of this channel, Zhao Xing had a serious conflict of ideas with everyone. The key issue was which subjects to open and what kind of taxi to choose. During the debate with everyone, Zhao Xing fully realized the huge negative impact of Dong Zhongshu's "destroying all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" in the Western Han Dynasty.
Among the participants convened by Zhao Xing, only a few supported Zhao Xing's proposal for multiple subjects, and many of the remaining people stubbornly insisted that Confucianism should be regarded as the only criterion for selecting scholars. For example, Cai Yong, Bing Yuan, Guan Ning, etc., the nerds such as Lou Gui, Guoyuan, and Yuan Huan. Surprisingly, Liu Dai, Liu Yu and several military advisors all supported Zhao Xing. Their support was only based on unconditional trust in Zhao Xing, not from the heart.
In the absence of soliciting opinions on democracy, Zhao Xing finally carried forward a paternal style and made a strong decision. He defined the scope of the courses as: Chinese studies, mathematics, agriculture, business, and academic studies. Among them, Chinese studies include traditional schools such as Confucianism and Legalism; mathematics includes astronomy, geography, mathematics, geometry, etc.; agriculture includes farming, animal husbandry, fishing, hunting, etc.; business studies include economy, trade, finance, textile, minerals and other contents; art studies include Mohism, medical skills, science, technology, equipment and other contents.
The military strategy, martial arts and other content that does not appear in the scope of the enrollment of the subjects is reflected in the actual subjects of the Crouching Tiger Young Class, Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall and Crouching Tiger Training Group.
Because the selection of officials is long-term and has a huge impact, the full text of the Jin Daily, which Zhao Xing asked Ni Heng to be responsible, published the results of the meeting, and organized a group of teachers and students from Taihang Academy to debate Zhao Xing's decision. The Jin Daily reported on the big debate in a serialized form.
Today, the Jin Daily has become a powerful weapon to guide the trend of public opinion in Jin. Not only does it have a huge circulation within the Jin State, but the business travelers who travel to other states will also bring some newspapers back to their states, which has become an important channel for other states to pay attention to and understand the situation in Jin State.
Because of the successful publication of Jin Daily, Ni Heng's great enthusiasm for running newspapers, under his guidance and help, Jin State produced four newspapers, namely Shangdang Morning News, Taihang Evening News, Business Daily and Wohu Science and Technology News. These four newspapers were written by the four great priests of Taihang Academy (Doctoral Professor). Once published, they were immediately popular in Jin State and were enthusiastically sought after by people in related industries.
The issuance of five newspapers has played an immeasurable role in promoting the construction of the internal affairs of Jin. Governments at all levels have information release platforms to explain policies to the people, and the people at the bottom have channels to reflect the recent situation of people's livelihood. This not only avoids conflicts and frictions in various industries and classes, but also saves a lot of manpower and material resources and concentrates various advantageous resources.
As the official voice, Jin Bao published the content of the opening of the imperial examinations and the recruitment of scholars, which really attracted attention from the world. Because this plan was too incredible, some traditional scholars naturally cursed Zhao Xing loudly and chased Zhao Xing to disrupt the court and destroyed the foundation; some lower-class people who had no hope of becoming officials cheered and inspired a stronger enthusiasm for production.
Chapter completed!