Jingchu Jiangxia, Bullfrog Village.

Life in the countryside is the sound of chickens and dogs, Yang Yu woke up spontaneously in the morning, earlier than the two big roosters in the village crowed, this is the habit he has developed for so many years, when he was a child, his mother Chen repeatedly splashed his face with cold water, woke him up, and read "University" to her.

Now he got up, his mouth was open, and he seemed to blurt out, "The so-called sincere one, don't deceive yourself." Such as a foul smell, such as lustful, this is called self-humility. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious of his own self", which he memorized well when he was five years old. So when he put his clothes on his head, he remembered that he didn't have to go to the study to teach today, so he took off the scarf on his head, took a broom and cleaned the whole house, and lit the wormwood to smoke the foot of the bed, and after a while, all kinds of insects fell out of the cracks, and fled in a hurry, this is the bad place of Jingchu, there are too many insects, and I don't sleep very well at night.

When he was funging, he heard a knock on the door again, and a child with snot ran in, still carrying a bamboo basket of dates and bran buns, Yang Yu saw him coming, so he grabbed his pigtails and tutored him alone for half an hour before letting him go.

Today's Yang Yu has long been the death of his parents, wandering alone in the lake and Hunan Province, living in Jiangxia for the longest time, working as a teacher in a rural private school, Jiangxia is a small place where the people are poor, and there are no scholars in more than a dozen villages.

If you feel that Mr. is not good at teaching, you can leave at any time, Yang Yu is based on the amount of each student's bondage, to determine the depth of the knowledge he teaches. Just like the children in Lizheng's family, since he can give twice as much restraint, Yang Yu is not like teaching other children, only letting them read the book of life—he has to read every word to this child, speak a word, and every sentence he reads, he must say the meaning of a sentence.

Not long after the boy went out, there was another knock on his door—this time, Yang Yu himself went and opened the door. He seemed to know who the knocker was, his tone was surprised, but there was no surprise in his eyes, in fact, he did hear who was coming from the sound of knocking.

Because children and adults are different in height, the sound of knocking on the door is also different, and the door of his house has two finger-thick wood worms in it, which have long since corroded into the air. Another thing Yang Yu heard was that this person was not an ordinary farmer, because the farmer's hand was often very powerful, and every time he knocked on his door, there was always a feeling that the door was about to collapse.

Sure enough, the person who came was a scholar in a long robe, his name was Jiang Duo, he was not from Jiangxia, but from Anlu, Yang Yu had also lived in Anlu for a period of time, so he knew each other, and he felt a little sympathetic.

"Brother Shiqi," Jiang Duo made a long gesture, and his eyes showed an eager light: "Don't come to harm?"

"What a Zhenglin," Yang Yu patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't say a word when you come, the mountain road is difficult to walk, have you come all the way?"

The two entered the courtyard, Jiang Duo first saw the air-dried meat hanging under the eaves, and couldn't help but quip: "I didn't expect to see each other for two months, Brother Shiqi has already married his wife! Mrs. Sister-in-law is really virtuous, knowing that I am coming, sweeping the court, and even preparing the meat!

Yang Yu smiled helplessly and said: "Standing alone, hanging from each other, where can I get a good wife to take care of me! ”

This is right, Yang Yu is Chinese New Year's Eve a year old today, and he still hasn't married, and it's rare for people who don't have a family at such an age, and when he asked, he only said that he went back to his hometown to have a family, but in fact, he didn't, but Yang Yu didn't want to get married, he had the advantage of being single alone, at least when the government came to take him, there was no trouble dragging the family and no worries.

So Jiang Duo on the other side didn't know that Yang Yu was actually a fugitive at this time.

Specifically, although Yang Yu has never been famous, because of his good teaching, he first made a training in the county. The instructor is a petty official in charge of education, and he just spends his days in the yamen preparing for the education plan of the county school. It's just that this kind of chaotic life didn't last long, because Yang Shiqi actually lost his school seal at work.

Losing the seal of the yamen is a very serious matter, because not only may you go to prison, but even if you are severely punished, you may lose your life. So Yang Shiqi didn't say a word, he directly abandoned the official and fled.

The advantage of slipping away is that when the matter was reported, the explanation given by the county was: Yang Shiqi was a temporary worker. After that, the fugitive Yang Shiqi wandered the rivers and lakes, and he, the so-called fugitive, should be put in quotation marks, because the county government would not waste time and effort to hunt him down, to put it mildly, he didn't even have the value of being hunted down.

So for more than ten years, he went back and forth between Huxiang and Xiang, working for private schools everywhere to support himself, it is gratifying that the long-term wandering life did not make him a second bastard, in addition to teaching, he continued to study hard, and his academic level has reached a considerable height.

"So Brother Shiqi, you are poor and strong, and you don't fall into the ambition of the clouds," Jiang Duo saw that the three or four places in the courtyard were full of scriptures: "At the level of my brother, Zhongjinshi is also like a palm in the hand, how can you not even show talent!"

Yang Yu himself said that he failed to pass the county school twice in a row, so he came out to study, Jiang Duo also believed it, but he didn't know that he couldn't go back to refer to it, the imperial examination was like this, he could only go back to his hometown to take the exam, and he was afraid that he would be arrested when he went back, to compensate for his crime of losing the school seal.

"Let's talk about you," Yang Yu looked at him and said with a smile: "I just won the lift, how do you feel?"

That is, in this year's township examination, Jiang Duo stood out and became the second person in the poor place of Anlu in the past fifty years, the first one dates back to the Yuan Dynasty to the Zheng period, which is a supreme glory, even Yang Yu has heard of it from so far away.

"Don't mention it," Jiang Duo frowned sadly: "It's said that it's a consolation, it didn't stop at all, I drank wine for twenty-three days in a row, and I really drank it'stomach fatigue'!"

Yang Yu smiled slightly, and said: "That's the Luming Banquet, the governor of the state government is personally presiding, you are cheap and good." ”

Looking at Jiang Duo's half-painful and half-joyed look, Yang Yu said again: "I told you last year that you were allowed to take the township exam early, but you just didn't listen, and dragged it out until this year, but you had to wait for three years in vain if you passed the exam, which is really a pity." ”

At that time, Yang Shiqi thought that Jiang Duo had read through the scriptures, and persuaded him to take the township examination early, if he passed, he would be able to participate in the examination in one fell swoop. Jiang Duo is not like Yang Yu who is a person who is calm on the outside and dares to fight in his heart, otherwise after losing the school seal, he would have chosen to write a 10,000-character letter of repentance, and then surrendered and was arrested in prison.

"It's right that I didn't take the exam this year," Jiang Duo suddenly became excited: "The north and the south have divided the list, and there is a lot of trouble, and many people have died, so it has finally been suppressed." ”

He said indignantly: "These old men in the north! If they don't do well in their papers, and if they don't get the right papers, they will make trouble! Have you heard, even the last place on the yellow list is much higher than the first place in the north! Since ancient times, they have opened a department to determine the merits and disadvantages, ranked them by their grades, and selected people by volume, not by land, and when they arrive at the national dynasty, why do they abandon them!"

He said even more excited, "The emperor didn't ask about his innocence, he wantonly killed, all the Nanbang tributes were deposed, and the champion of Nanbang was executed for the crime of bribery, I don't know, what kind of bribery is this, isn't the ranking of this champion, Bangyan, and Tanhua set by the emperor himself!"

When the criminal department investigated the case, the chief examiner Liu Sanwu and the attendant Zhang Xin were severely tortured, and a testimony of more than 600 people for scientific examination fraud was obtained, didn't the emperor know that this was an unjust case - although these 51 tributes were taken by Liu Sanwu, but the first three were determined by the emperor himself, whether he was talented or not, the emperor didn't know?

"The emperor naturally knows that this is an unjust case," Yang Shiqi said: "When he was finally convicted, he did not mention the word fraud, but killed him on the charge of rebellion." ”

The emperor issued an edict to denounce Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner of this imperial examination, and Ji Shan and Bai Xin, the deputy chief examiners, as "Lan Yuyu Yu Dang", and identified Liu Sanwu as a "thief", but all the officials involved in the case were severely punished, and Liu Sanwu was assigned to the northwest. Zhang Xin, who had questioned Liu Sanwu, was even more miserable, and the emperor said that he was "Hu Weiyong's party" and ended up being executed by Ling Chi. The rest of the people were also sent into exile, and only Dai Yi and Yin Changlong were exempted. The reason why these two people were exempted was that after reviewing the examination papers, they made a list of northern scholars.

"The emperor's meaning is actually very clear," Yang Shiqi said: "As early as when the case was reviewed, it was made clear, 'Yu Luodi test paper each person read ten more volumes, and added northerners to the office', the emperor did not let them see whether it was fair to take people from the southern list, the emperor knew that the northerners were in the arts, and the southerners could not speak the same day at all, and the holy intention was to quickly add the northerners to the list, and the dwarf would pull out the generals, and pull out a few, so as to calm the resentment of the northerners." It's just that among the dozen or so chief judges, only two of them realized the emperor's thoughts, and the others looked at the level of the candidates, saying that the people admitted were all admitted on the basis of talent and learning, and there was no problem. The emperor naturally wants to be angry. ”

This case is no longer a simple case of fraud in scientific examinations, but has risen to the height of the intensification of contradictions between the southerners and the northerners in the DPRK, because Liu Sanwu took 51 southerners, which caused a big uproar in the north, and the enthusiastic candidates beat the imperial list to pieces, and then went to the Ministry of Rites to demonstrate. The streets and alleys are plastered with leaflets accusing the examiner of favoring fellow villagers and that there must be hidden secrets, making a mess of the city of Nanjing. Even if this is the case, no matter how much trouble is raised, there will be nothing to do, just because they shouted regional discrimination, which aroused the grievances of the people in the north of the DPRK, and dozens of people jointly participated in the incident Liu Sanwu, and most of these people were northerners. And the imperial history who falsely accused Zhang Xin is a native of Henan - although Henan is located in the Central Plains, it is still regarded as the north, and the important thing is that there is no Henan person in the admission list this time.

Why two reviews, all the people on the list are southerners, because after the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty set the capital of Lin'an, hundreds of years of talent transfer, the economy and culture of the north has been far inferior to the south, not to mention that the north has experienced hundreds of years of rule by Liao, Jin, and Yuan, and has a centrifugal sense of the Han people, after the death of the Yuan, many people would rather move west and flee north than take refuge in the Ming Dynasty.

Another is because the school system in the south is perfect, and the government school, state school, and county school have been established, while there are still military disasters in the north, so naturally there is no universal education, and the actual formulators of the national and imperial examinations are actually Liu Bowen and Song Lian, both of whom are southerners, and the examination rules formulated are naturally more suitable for southerners. Therefore, all of the above are the deep-seated reasons for the North-South list case, and if scholars are admitted only on the basis of the quality of the articles, it will inevitably cause great differences between regions, and the scholars in some backward areas will never come out, which will affect the development of backward areas and the stability of the political situation. As an emperor, he grasps the overall situation and considers stability, and only by adopting an artificial balance method can the grievances of the northern intellectuals be calmed down and the hearts of the northern intellectuals appeased, which is actually a political need.

Yang Yu can see the above clearly, but he only said: "The emperor thinks that the northerners are thick and uneducated, they are all honest and talented, and the southerners are smart and cunning, and they are all untruthful." ”

It is nothing more than regional discrimination, which caused a stir in the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu has a famous saying "the southerners must not be the prime minister", the early history of the Song Dynasty, the two dynasties of Taizu and Taizong, in the past 40 years, there is indeed no southerner in the Zaifu, it can be seen that it is not groundless. It wasn't until the time of Song Renzong that he realized that the admission method of dividing people into north and south did cause a brain drain, so he canceled the policy of differentiation between north and south, so during the Xining period, many famous ministers represented by Wang Anshi, such as Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu, Lu Huiqing, including Sansu, emerged.

History said that Ouyang Xiu and his descendants are very famous, to a large extent, it is talking about this matter, because Ouyang Xiu was born in the south and advocated meritocracy, so he brought a lot of southerners, of course, this matter broke the wishful thinking of the northerners and attracted the attacks of many northerners, including Sima Guang, Sima Guang advocated recruiting students according to the proportion of the population from all walks of life. In the reign of Shenzong, the contradiction between the southerners and the northerners came to a general outbreak through Wang Anshi's reform, because the backbone elements of Wang Anshi's reform were almost all southerners, and the northerners basically lost their right to speak on this issue, and finally Sima Guang said one of the most famous regional discrimination remarks in Chinese history: "The Min people are cunning, the Chu people are easy, now the two are both Fujian people, and the two are Chu people, and the two are Chu people, and they will inevitably invoke the township party, and the customs of the world are more pure."

So up to now, there is still a view of the southerners "cunning and easy" in the court, and even although the emperor was born in Haozhou, he does not regard himself as a southerner, as the so-called "killing all the millions of soldiers in the south, the sword on the waist is still bloody" is also, the means of the Jiangnan Haoqiang are also very fierce, and hundreds of thousands of Jiangnan wealthy families have migrated before and after to fill in the Beijing division, and through the scientific examination case, he deposed the southern Juzi and re-registered the rich people's register.

"I heard that in the entrance examination after this year, students from the north and south will be ranked according to their regions, and after admitting tribute students respectively, they will participate in the palace examination. Jiang Duo said: "This is a rumor, but depending on the emperor's meaning, it may not be decided." ”

Yang Shiqi glanced at the indignant Jiang Duo and knew what he was thinking. Because if the scholars are selected in this way, the northerners will snatch away the places that should belong to the southerners, and the northerners are far inferior to the southerners in terms of talent and learning, but because of policy reasons, they can get such benefits. He smiled: "Zhenglin, do you know why since the fifth year of Hongwu's Renzi Branch, it wasn't until the eighteenth year of Hongwu that the Yichou Department was opened?

Seeing Jiang Duo shaking his head, Yang Shiqi said: "The emperor once said, 'There are many young people who are taken by the division today.'" Look at the word, and if it is available, and try it, it cannot be measured. I seek talents with a solid heart, and the world responds to me with a virtual text, which is not the meaning of seeking talents with my responsibility. ’”

From ancient times to the present, there is a problem in exams, and there will be a large number of people who take exams for the sake of exams. The developed education and culture and social stability in the southeast have given a group of scholars who are ignorant of the world and immersed themselves in scientific examinations. The emperor felt that the Jinshi selected for the imperial examination was impressive, but in practice, it was simply bullshit, and it was useless, so he let the imperial examination be suspended for thirteen years in a fit of anger.

Northerners are not good at exams, but that doesn't mean that northerners aren't good at politics. Although Yang Shiqi was born in Jiangxi and belongs to the south, his thoughts are the same as those of the emperor: "Although you and I were born in the south, I have traveled to many places to study, and I have seen that the southern people are dressed in flashiness, although they are good at Confucianism, they are just empty talk, talented, and frivolous." In my opinion, the tools of growth are all out of the north. If the purpose of the imperial examination is to select talents for the country to govern the country, then the need for selecting practical talents is greater than the need for examination results, and talented people may not necessarily be able to be talented in the government. ”

Jiang Duo looked him up and down, and said with a smile: "It's a little sour! Brother Shiqi, if you can't eat grapes, what do you say about grapes?"

Yang Shiqi also smiled, and didn't seem to deny it. He already knew that he would never be able to participate in the imperial examination, but fortunately, all the grass creations of the national dynasty did not attach as much importance to the right path of the imperial examination as he did in the Song Dynasty, and the emperor seemed to like schools and recommending talents. Since he has cut off the road to the imperial examination, he can only find another way.

At this time, there are roughly four types of election methods - schools, subjects, recommendations, and elections.

The school is Guozijian, at this time the prisoner is a very popular talent, as soon as he graduates, there are officials, and the Guozijian has a wide range of students, there are multiple ways to enter the Guozijian to study, for example, the seventeenth year of Hongwu is determined: the government, the state, and the county school recommend an outstanding student to study in the Guozijian every year, and the recommended student is called Gongsheng, and the Gongsheng is called the prisoner after entering the Guozijian, and this kind of prisoner is called Gongjian. Even if he is a tribute supervisor, Yang Shiqi is not qualified, because he has to be audited by the county, how can he pass the county's audit?

This path is blocked, and look at the next one, the subject. The subject is the imperial examination, which is more strict, and Yang Shiqi has no way to participate. So there is only the road of recommendation and selection.

What is the selection, it is for those who have already become officials to inspect and complete the examination, and those who can pass are expected to be promoted naturally, and those who do not pass are demoted to the people. The Beijing officials are inspected once every six years, that is, the Beijing inspection, and the foreign officials are inspected once every three years, which is called the external inspection. There is a supplement to this, called baoju, which is the recommendation of the person in charge of the inspection to the person who has achieved excellent results in the inspection, and has the right to guarantee them for higher positions. However, the biggest problem with the law of guaranteeing is that it conflicts with the authority of the officials, so this guarantee cannot become a big climate.

Yang Shiqi just started to do the county government instructor, if he can pass the investigation of the state government, he can take the road of selection and be promoted to the county teacher or state instructor, which is also the promotion path that Yang Shiqi chose for himself. It's just that later, when I lost my school seal, everything was put to rest.

There's only one last one left, the recommendation.

Recommendation is to recommend talents to serve as officials, which to a certain extent is indeed "eclectic and talent-demoting". The emperor issued many edicts to seek talents, and the standard of "virtuous talents" in the edict was also very low - "based on virtue, and literature and art are secondary".

Just like Guo Chuan, he was originally a monk in the Huiji Temple, but because he was recommended by Song Lian, he was actually promoted to the political secretary of Huguangbu to participate in politics. There are many examples like this, because the emperor even dismissed the thirteen-year scientific examination, but selected scholars by recommendation. Every year, 3,700 people are elected to the rank of official, and 2,000 are elected at the lowest. There are forty or fifty people who have risen from civilians to high positions, not to mention those who have risen step by step.

Therefore, the emperor only pays attention to virtue and talent in the selection of talents, regardless of background, no matter who he is, as long as he has real talent and real learning, he will be appointed. It seems that this path is not difficult, but there are two things that must be done.

The first is genuine talent or conduct.

If you don't have one of these two things, you will be an ordinary person, and where you will be above the crowd, and where can people see that you are not ordinary? As for the latter, character and virtue actually need to be done, and the biggest thing is nothing more than "filial piety." If you are a great filial son, and your neighborhood is dutiful, and the county officials visit talents, they will naturally report your name. It's just that Yang Shiqi's parents died, where did he make such a reputation?

This is the same as the Eastern Han Dynasty's filial piety and honesty, in the absence of the imperial examination, "recommendation" became the only means for intellectuals to achieve the goal of being officials. The recommended standard is mainly ethical behavior. In the face of strong competition, it is necessary to have a breakthrough reputation in order to attract the attention of those who have the right to recommend. As for what it takes to have a breakthrough reputation, it needs to be a surprise win. Therefore, every intellectual is conscientious and conscientious, pursuing the best filial piety that breaks the record.

Since Yang Shiqi can't highlight his character, he has to start from his talents, which is why he studies hard, especially the books of scripture and history, after all, when the petty officials who even look at the warehouse have to serve through recommendation, it is not difficult to recommend this road.

As long as you meet the second requirement, know someone who has the right to recommend.

Such a person is not nothing, think that when he was twenty years old when he was teaching at Zhanggong Qinjiang Academy, he had a very close friendship with the local county commander Shao Zijing. If he recommended him, he would also be able to enter the office, but Shao Zijing had passed away.

This does not mean that he does not have other officials he knows. When Yang Shiqi lived in Hanyang, he met Wang Shuying, the magistrate of Hanyang, and Wang Shuying praised him and thought that he was "Zuo Caiye". Yang Shiqi has already made up his mind that after the autumn equinox this year, he will go to Hanyang to teach, just to get this person's recommendation.

So who is Wang Shuying, he was recruited by the emperor together with Yang Dazhong, Ye Jiantai, Fang Xiaoru, and Lin You, among these four people, Yang Dazhong has nothing to do, Ye Jiantai is now serving in the Criminal Department, as the head of the Criminal Department, and Lin You is a professor in the palace, a scholar in the middle school, Fang Xiaoru is famous all over the world, and the emperor wants to leave it to his grandson. At that time, Wang Shuying resigned from the appointment and returned home until the twentieth year of Hongwu, when he was recommended by others as the instructor of Xianju and moved to Hanyang County.

Wang Shuying, Lin You, and Fang Xiaoru are close friends, which is already unbelievable, not to mention that Lin You is now tutoring the grandson, and Fang Xiaoru is even more said by the emperor himself: "This is not the time to use filial piety." ”

Now is not the time to use Fang Xiaoru, then the emperor is determined to leave it to the grandson, this person has a great future, and he is an unreachable person, but now he can climb this ladder because of Wang Shuying's relationship, this may be Yang Shiqi's last and best opportunity, he can't not seize it.

Yang Shiqi's ears rang with what Wang Shuying said when he was talking with him: "Mingliang meets, and those who are once in a thousand years are also." I will see that if I don't ask, the deacon will be able to speak, and if the deacon doesn't speak, I will be able to use my words. To the people of Tang Yu Yongxi, the prosperity is in the yes. Isn't it a blessing for the world!"

Ming Jun and good ministers meet, and the wind and clouds meet, once in a lifetime. When I meet such a king, I don't have to ask, ask me, and I know everything, because I know that as long as I say it, he will definitely be able to use my words - as a courtier, who doesn't want to meet such a king, just like Zhang Zifang met Henkel, and obey his words?

He also heard Wang Shuying's evaluation of the grandson, thinking that this is the future master, the person who can make him "use his words to the fullest", maybe. It is said that in this world, there is already one master, now he is the emperor, and he will be the grandson in the future, and he also believes that the person he will serve in the future is that one, but why, he still feels the confusion of fate?

Yang Shiqi has analyzed his future in his mind countless times. Is it hard to get a recommendation? Wang Shuying can immediately recommend him to be an official, but this official position is also a small official in Hanyang County, because Wang Shuying's own official position is just a small county order. But this situation will change, and once it changes, it will be an earth-shattering change, because the names of Wang Shuying and Fang Xiaoru are on the appointment list of the grandson.

When he thought of the day when he said something unpleasant, his urine felt swollen.

People live in this world, high and low, ups and downs, he has been low and low for more than ten years, even if it is the shrimp in the lake, it is time to wait for the tide. One look at fate, the other looks at luck, his Yang Shiqi's life is only held in his Yang Shiqi's hand, no one can see through it, no one can take it away, and his fortune will also come together at the moment of heaven and earth innovation.

"Brother Shiqi, Brother Shiqi!" Jiang Duo chattered for a long time but didn't get a response, and couldn't help but push the person in front of him who had been doing it like a clay sculpture for a long time: "I'll talk to you, thirteen imperial historians, thirty-four to participate in the joint participation of Liu Sanwu in the matter, this is a raging public opinion, forced by public opinion——"

"The public opinion is raging, not for public anger, but for personal grievances. Yang Shiqi said: "The emperor has opened up his speech, which is a good thing, but the emperor has given extraordinary power in the matter, no matter who can impeach, and sinners with a word, disaster to his family, is it too much?"

The emperor placed the official position in the matter, admonished, supplemented, picked, reviewed, refuted the edict, refuted the edict, supervised the six departments, impeached the hundred officials, and complemented each other with the imperial history. In addition, he is responsible for recording and compiling the edicts and supervising the execution of the edicts, serving as examiners in the township examination, serving as examiners in the same examination, and serving as the examiner in the palace examination, serving as the official and deputy envoy when canonizing the clan, vassals or admonishing foreign countries, and accepting unjust lawsuits.

is the so-called humble and weighty, and Yang Yu has clearly seen the unique position in the future government of the Ming Dynasty, just because the former officials and prosecutors of the national dynasty are completely two ways, to the ministry in the matter of admonishing and refuting, and although the dynasty also followed the old name, but there are more "inspectors of six departments and hundreds of divisions", which has already encroached on the authority of the imperial history, and the same emperor set more than 50 people in the matter, which has far exceeded the Tang and Song dynasties, this is the emperor is suspicious by nature, worried that the ministries are blinded and lawless, so the number of posts is increased to meet the needs of supervision.

The most terrible thing is that in the Tang and Song dynasties, the matter was subordinate to the province under the door, but the dynasty became its own yamen, without any subordination, straight to the Son of Heaven, you can directly sue the emperor, for the official of the close service, the power is quite strong - and in the rank, the Tang Dynasty is five products, the Song Dynasty is four products, and the dynasty is only seven products, the emperor's mind is to let this group of people have a low rank, so they cherish their own lightness, and the power is great, dare not speak, so that they can do their best without worries, and achieve the purpose of "controlling the big with the small, and maintaining each other".

Take an incident not long ago, Yang Jing, the secretary of the criminal department and the guest of the prince, was given to death, this person is the eighteenth year of Hongwu Jinshi, selected Shu Jishi, and awarded the right attendant of the household department. In the following year, he moved to the Ministry of Household Zuo Shilang, and in February of the 22nd year, he moved to the Ministry of Shangshu, which was quite trusted by the emperor. Just because some villagers were in prison from time to time, and their family members heard the drum and sued, Yang Jing changed the slander grass for him and added floating words, so he was impeached in the matter. The emperor originally thought of his talent and stayed in the middle without asking. And these gang were impeached in the matter, and the emperor issued an edict to die at home.

In Yang Shiqi's view, if there is no compulsion in the matter, it will be poisoned in the world!

If there is a strong emperor in the matter, and it can be temporarily safe, after three generations, I am afraid that this turbulent way of speech has been uncontrollable. Because there is no prime minister in this dynasty, when the emperor can't suppress it, no one can control it. Do you count on the six departments, who are supposed to supervise the six departments and hundreds of officials in the matter, where can they control it!

Yang Shiqi was just worried, he did not expect that soon a secretarial body that drafted edicts for the emperor would gradually emerge and replace the prime minister and become the center of the world in the actual sense.

What he thinks about now is that if he manipulates speech in the matter, he will fight against the same party in the future, because this position has a special status, so if there is a dispute between the north and south of Ganling, it will definitely come out of the forefront and become the first thing for all parties to fan the flames. Don't look at it now, it seems that under the oppression of the emperor, there is no "party", but Yang Shiqi knows very well that as long as there are officials, the party will exist.

From the disaster of the party in the Han Dynasty, to the Niu-Li party struggle in the Tang Dynasty, and then to the new party and the old party in the Song Dynasty, even if you look at the group of people who launched the Qingli New Deal during the Renzong period, they called themselves "gentlemen and friends but not the party", but they were still regarded as "gentlemen's party" and were suspicious of Renzong.

So what about the national dynasty, as soon as the north and south lists came out, Yang Shiqi saw a very bad situation - the candidates on the same list, the intimacy between regions is especially obvious, so the candidates on the same list will form gangs and factions, and it will gradually become normal. First divided into the south, the north, and then I am afraid that it will be more subdivided, and the Jinshi from Liangguang and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jingxiang are naturally not the same. So what will this become, the division of parties according to fellow villagers.

When that happens, that's when it's really over.

Yang Shiqi thought like this and sighed slightly.

Jiang Duo had already stood up, and his eyes were attracted by the toys on the corner of the table. "What is this?" Jiang Duo asked in surprise as he picked up a drawing with colorful green grids.

"This is the promotion map," Yang Shiqi said: "Meng Tong is playing with this thing in the school, let me see it, and confiscate it." ”

Jiang Duo looked at the drawings curiously, tossed the dice again, and said: "Promotion chart, has the heart of the eunuch become the norm now? Brother Shiqi, you teach me how to play." ”

Jiang Duo's family is strictly controlled, and there is also a family school, and he has not been exposed to the games that have been popularized by outsiders, which in other places, even three or four-year-old children can play.

"Don't play with this thing. Yang Shiqi smiled, "This is actually a gambling device, there are bets." ”

Jiang Duo was even more interested when he heard this, and said: "A small bet is pleasant, but a big gamble hurts your body! Brother Shiqi, you will teach me to play, how about only betting on one or two pieces of silver?"

Yang Shiqi still has this gentle smile, so that people can't see that he is actually leading people step by step: "Okay, there is nothing else to do in the countryside, and you can steal half a day of leisure." Only this once, not for example. ”

He picked up the dice made of bamboo bones, pinched it in his hand, and threw it lightly.

But I suddenly remembered a little man I had seen many years ago, staring at me with big, curious eyes, and told him to tell this secret that was not passed on. Calculate the age, this little girl should be married, and he hasn't been to Yongcheng for a long time.