Kong Kun lost face in the inner study, and Li Zhongyi not only did not punish him, but politely rejected Kong Kun's resignation.

The general trend of the world is mighty, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die! I don't blame you for not understanding it before, but now you have to understand!

Li Zhongyi only said this sentence, and Kong Kun retracted his resignation. The reason is actually very simple, if Li Zhongyi doesn't reprimand Kong Kun one day, it will be the time for him to really need to leave.

Li Zhongyi is more rude to Wu Chen, he is willing to kick someone's little ass, but he regards it as his own affection.

Among the senior generals of the forbidden army, including Liao Shanhe, Song Yunxiang and Liu Heyang, they all suffered from Li Zhongyi's "Foshan Shadowless Feet".

Kicked, not only is there no, but it is a glory worth bragging about!

Because the faces of the ministers are relatively thin, it is impossible for Li Zhongyi to take the way of kicking his ass to express his affection.

Then, in order to reflect the distance of the relationship with Wenchen, the more fiercely Li Zhongyi reprimanded, the more he regarded the other party as his own in his heart, which is already a well-known objective reality.

Kong Kun was scolded very badly by Li Zhongyi, but there were only two of them at the scene, so it didn't matter about face.

"The disadvantages of Confucianism are endless, and I will change them. Whether you really understand or not, I need to remind you not to be misguided! After Li Zhongyi threw down this stern warning, he really threw up his sleeves and left, leaving Kong Kun alone in the hall.

Are you kidding? Li Zhongyi's country relied on the lives of the soldiers of the Li family, not the scholars and doctors.

Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, which is the simplest truth!

On the second day of the provincial examination, two more students of the Ming Arithmetic Department handed in their papers in advance.

This time, Li Zhongyi didn't touch Wang Dahu's office again until he had dinner.

After Li Zhongyi finished reading the test paper, he smiled happily: "The dynasty is not without talents, it is indeed buried!" ”

Wang Dahu saw that Li Zhongyi was in a very good mood, so he made fun and said: "Third brother, these two movers are also right?" ”

"Well, that's right, it really didn't make me think about it at all." Li Zhongyi exhaled a heavy breath and sighed, "There are actually three people who can solve the binary quadratic equation, it is conceivable that the world is so big, there are indeed many talents!" ”

At present, there are about 40 million people in the entire Qiang Han Dynasty, and among so many people, there are three people with junior high school mathematics level, but the proportion is actually very low.

However, to Li Zhongyi's gratification, at least three people stood out. Mathematics is a science with extremely rigorous logical thinking, where right is right and wrong is wrong, and there is no ambiguous space.

Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things!

Even if there are only three junior high school students today, in a few years, we will definitely be able to teach 100 junior high school students. In a few decades, there will be 10,000 junior high school students, or even 100,000 junior high school students.

Li Zhongyi has long wanted to measure the acres of land in the world, but due to the lack of clear cadres in preparation, it is better to be still!

To put it bluntly, let the local servants of Hongxiang measure the acres of land in Hongxiang, even if the numbers are obtained, Li Zhongyi can't believe it.

In a small-scale peasant society, the main source of income for large families or gentry depended on acres of land, except for speculative trading in grain, linen, silk, and other commodities.

One of the root causes of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty was that the northeast and northwest fought at the same time, but the food (fiscal revenue) was insufficient. However, the taxes that should have been attributed to the imperial court were all privately swallowed by the scholars and doctors led by the Donglin Party.

The example of the thief Li Zicheng, who robbed tens of millions of taels of silver in the city of Beijing, was put alive in front of Li Zhongyi.

To put it bluntly, there are difficulties in the world, and Emperor Chongzhen is the only one who is poor, and the officials under him are all fat.

In the final analysis, Li Zhongyi's land restriction and tax equalization decree were intended to restrict the wealth accumulation privileges of current or former officials. This is also one of the fundamental reasons why the Wenchen Shifu group has repeatedly launched counteroffensives against Li Zhongyi.

Since Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng City, the interests of the Wuchen Xungui group have actually suffered. However, in the imminent war of reunification, the Wuchen clique can more or less make some profits, and the backlash is not as strong as that of the Wenchen clique.

In addition, the warriors all believe in one principle: whoever has the biggest fist will be served!

With the momentum of sweeping **, the Li family army destroyed the hundreds of thousands of old forbidden troops led by Han Tong in a few hours, which was equivalent to beating the old Wuchen group all at once.

What's more, the Khitan iron cavalry that the old Wuchen group thought they couldn't beat was actually beaten by the Li Jiajun all over the ground.

What's more, the Khitans even lost to Li Zhongyi, the granary of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, which had been operating for decades.

Therefore, so far, most of the important ministers who are willing to cooperate with Li Zhongyi and take the initiative to move closer to him are from the Wuchen Xungui Group. For example, Prime Minister Li Qiong and Ci Xiang Cong Nguyen are stark examples.

With the great success of Li Jiajun's Northern Expedition, the deterrence of force against the big landlords and big family classes was very sufficient.

Therefore, after the Northern Expeditionary Army returned to Kaifeng, Li Zhongyi comprehensively promoted the movement of officers to be transferred to Tingzheng and Muramasa.

As a super pragmatic master, Li Zhongyi believes that what he really pinched in the palm of his hand is his own. Otherwise, it's just a castle in the air.

Soon, the three-day miscellaneous examination came to an end, and Wang Dahu organized the examiners and began to mark the papers collectively.

The same examiner of the Ming Arithmetic Department, Li Zhongyi was specially selected, and Wu Rongshan, the young eunuch of Si Tianjian.

In the Si Tianjian in this era, whether it is a prison or a young prisoner, they are all gods with real talent and learning!

The reason why I say that the god stick is mainly related to the function of Si Tianjian to observe the celestial phenomena. In the era of geocentrism, the celestial phenomena depicted by Si Tianjian were basically nonsense.

However, such a nonsense institution is an indispensable yamen.

In the previous dynasty, there was an earthquake in Longxi, and Si Tianjian said that this was a warning from heaven to the royal family. As a result, all the ministers in the political hall were dismissed, and a group of ministers were reinstated.

It can be seen from this that the status of Si Tianjian is not high, but he can use the reason of the anomaly of the celestial phenomena to bring down the prime minister of the political hall of the whole class.

After Li Zhongyi came to power, he specially summoned all the chief officials of Si Tianjian and asked them to ask them in the ruling palace.

In the end, it was Si Tianjian's young eunuch Wu Rongshan who stood out.

On that day, considering the time relationship, Li Zhongyi only came up with five questions about binary quadratic equations, but only Wu Rongshan answered them all correctly.

After the exam, Li Zhongyi checked Wu Rongshan's old background, and then he learned that the surname Wu turned out to be an immoral person who seduced the widow Tong J.

After Wu Rongshan's wife died, he never remarried, probably greedy for widow Zhang's money, and he has been secretly hooking up with her.

Unexpectedly, the beautiful Widow Zhang not only hooked up with Wu Rongshan, but also implicated Yang Jiong, the protégé of the then Prime Minister Fan Zhen.

After Si Tianjian's sentence was vacant, Wu Rongshan originally had a great chance to ascend to the position, but he was dragged back by Yang Jiong. So far, Wu Rongshan has been in the position of young eunuch for thirteen years.

According to the logic of ordinary people, immoral people like Wu Rongshan must be abandoned.

However, Li Zhongyi's logic of employing people is that when he can't have both ability and political integrity, he takes talent first.

To put it bluntly, it is to abandon the selection principle of looking at public morality from private morality, and adopt the logic of meritocracy.

Confucius said: If people are not for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!

If private morality is not good, it does not mean that you cannot contribute to the court. On the contrary, it is impossible for a person with a sense of public morality to serve a bowl of water for the rest of his life!

To put it bluntly, human nature is selfish! Whether or not you can contribute to the imperial court depends on personal morality alone, and it is impossible to maintain it for a long time. The key is that the system of supervision is fully perfected and implemented by the people.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi overrode public opinion and appointed Wu Rongshan as the same examiner of the Ming Arithmetic Department. It was both a bold appointment and a profound test.

Five days later, the preliminary list of each subject of the miscellaneous provincial examination was released, and they were placed on Li Zhongyi's imperial case one by one.

Li Zhongyi was obviously worried about the list of candidates in the Ming Mathematics Subject, but he reached out and opened the list of the Ming Scholars.

In this miscellaneous provincial examination, there are as many as 30 students who participated in the Mingshu examination. According to the past practice, most of the people who dared to participate in the Ming calligraphy course were people who were quite confident in calligraphy.

So far, Li Zhongyi, who can only write regular script, has almost negligible attainments in calligraphy. He went to the roster, opened the test papers one by one, and only felt that everyone's words were written very well, but he couldn't see who was superior and who was inferior.

Li Zhongyi knew in his heart that Wang Dahu, the chief examiner of miscellaneous subjects, like him, did not have much research on calligraphy.

Zhang Qian, the same examiner of the Ming Calligraphy Section, saw Li Zhongyi's eyes on him, and hurriedly said respectfully: "Your Majesty, according to the examination rules of the Ming Calligraphy Section, only the three best ones will be selected...... Explain the rules of the game clearly.

Li Zhongyi nodded, and made a note of Zhang Qian in his heart, and when the time is ripe in the future, he will be entrusted with a heavy task.

In these years, the greatest ability to be a courtier was originally to figure out the intention, and then work hard to achieve the intention.

After all, before Li Zhongyi could speak, Zhang Qian guessed his mind correctly, there are not many such talents.

Unlike the fellow examiners of the Jinshi course, all of whom are Hanlin scholars, the same examiners of the miscellaneous subjects come from all over the yamen, and they are all Qingshui yamen who are not taken seriously.

Based on this, these fellow examiners of miscellaneous subjects are congenital and have the basis to move closer to Li Zhongyi.

The basic principle of playing politics is to figure out who is a friend and who is an enemy!

That is, the big question of who to unite and who to fight!

For the enemy's camp, it is necessary to mix sand, beat sticks, dig corners, and throw bricks!

According to the past practice, in the provincial examination of miscellaneous subjects, as long as the chief examiner and the same examiner have a unified opinion, the relevant ranking on the list will be determined, and the prime ministers do not bother to ask.

It is precisely because of this convention that Li Zhongyi has been given a lot of room to swield, and with a stroke of his old man's pen, the thirty people who participated in the provincial examination of Ming calligraphy are all very well written, all of them are in order!

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