The progress of civilization requires the progress of unscrupulous means, as it is said in the famous science fiction book of later generations, the advance of natural selection.

Only by moving forward can there be any hope of survival, and this is true of a person, and the same is true of a civilization.

From the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Qi country, which has a pioneering and enterprising spirit, has been advancing non-stop for more than ten years.

From not having enough to eat, to now having the ability to sail in the ocean, in nearly a generation, the Qi State has achieved this.

There is no difference between Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens, whether it is the ancients 5,000 years ago or the modern people 5,000 years later, there is no difference in nature.

Human beings are still very adaptable, and adapting to a new system is much easier than imagined.

For example, the question of assimilation in conquered areas.

Except for the Miao people in the south who have not yet completed complete assimilation, the other people living in the territory of Qi do not have much difference in terms of living habits and language.

Yang Hao was not worried about this, as long as the Qi State continued to be strong, the issue of assimilation was only a matter of time.

And he is not willing to give an inch on the issue of assimilation.

And in his heart, he simply did not allow his own Qi country to appear as a multi-ethnic state.

Since they live in their own land, they have only one identity, and that is Qi people.

Those who agree are my subjects, and those who do not agree are waiting for them only a cruel hell.

Yang Hao has never been a gentle monarch, in his dictionary, obedient to me, he will try to make these people live a good life, disobedient physical and mental destruction will be wiped out.

Let Hao do this naturally has his domineering capital, and this capital is the strong combat effectiveness of the Great Qi army far beyond this era.

When muskets and cannons appear in the future, even the nomads of the north will honestly sing and dance, and if they dare to jump in front of themselves by that time, the north will not mind turning it into a no-man's land.

Sometimes human life is precious, and sometimes it is worthless.

More than ten years of imperial life has made him equal to interests in his attitude towards life.

It sounds a bit cold-blooded, but sitting in that position, the emotions of normal people will be more or less distorted.

Just as Yang Hao sometimes comforts himself, talents can't help themselves.

At the beginning of June, it was the middle of summer.

After nearly a month of offshore exercises, on the third day of June in the 14th year of Hongwu, Shixi led the fleet and left Penglai Port along the monsoon and ocean currents.

On the deck, the crew knelt down collectively in the direction of the mainland, and bowed three times to the east.

There may be many people who will never be able to return to the mainland in this life, but this is their mission, and since they have chosen this path, there should be no turning back.

Stony Brook turned his head and stopped looking in the direction of the land.

Facing the vast sea, he was a little dazed at this time.

When this day really came, he felt that his confidence was so low.

Even after a year of preparation and learning a lot of nautical knowledge, it was only from the moment he really left the land that he felt what real loneliness and helplessness were.

From that moment on, the names of more than 1,000 people in this fleet were closely related to themselves.

Every decision you make is a matter of life and death for the fleet.

The invisible pressure of the unknown road made him not know if he could do the task assigned to him by Yang Hao.

Recalling the world map and the supplies he was going to find, Stony Brook looked up at the sky and muttered, "Heaven bless!" ”

Following the line, their first stop was the Korean Peninsula, where, after correction, continued north.

There will be no supply depots on the Korean Peninsula, and by the time we continue north between Hokkaido and Sakhalin, a portion of the convoy will have to be separated.

During these six months, these people, unlike sailors who sailed on a long voyage, were mostly trained in the wilderness survival, how to build supply stations, and how to use local things for planting.

This is especially important for building supply depots far away from the Qi mainland.

The fleet left, sailing with Yang Hao's ardent expectations.

It's just that Yang Hao's heart can't be calm for a long time.

What was once a beautiful fantasy has become so uncontrollable after the fleet is gone, all this is beyond the control.

Facing the fleet thousands of miles away, Yang Hao could only look at the ocean and sigh.

"Father!"

Yang Zhi saw that his father was a little distracted, and couldn't help but scream twice.

Yang Hao came back to his senses and said, "What's the matter, oh! By the way, where did I just go? ”

"Father just talked about the way of the imperial examination."

Yang Hao nodded and said, "Okay, let's continue."

In this world, there is no absolute fairness, just like in the past tribal alliance period, some people were born nobles, and some people were born slaves, and in general, this status has been fixed from the day they were born, although there are exceptions.

But the probability of this exception is too small.

Although such a system allows the ruler to maintain control over the bottom, as time goes on, the discontent at the bottom will become more and more serious, and rebellion will naturally arise.

The Father calls this situation, the solidification of class.

The so-called class is the status of each person, such as officials, commoners, and so on.

There is no flow between the different classes, it is like a pool of stagnant water, and it will stink over time.

The imperial examination system is to break down this rigid class, so that commoners can enter the ruling class or become people with higher status.

In this way, most people will feel that they will get ahead as long as they work hard, and they will feel that they are not fundamentally different from those officials in their hearts.

The only difference is the division of labor.

If the class is active, the people will feel fair, and the society will be stable.

But this kind of justice is not absolute, so it needs to be supplemented by laws so that the weak have a way to demand more justice.

In addition to this, the imperial examination system is to be able to find out the people who can be used by our Daqi in the most efficient way from the vast sea of people.

As a monarch, you don't need to know everything, you can do everything, as long as you can know people well, it is enough, and it is enough to leave professional things to professional people to deal with.

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Yang Zhi listened so seriously, he was about to become an adult, and he could naturally feel that Yang Hao could say this to him, and he was cultivating him as a future successor, and he was naturally extremely excited in his heart.

He tried his best to understand what Yang Hao meant, and after Yang Hao finished speaking, he asked: "Father, what if everyone in my Daqi wants to be an official in the future, but does not give birth." ”

Yang Hao smiled when he heard this: "That's impossible, life in the world, the most important thing is survival, even if everyone is literate in the future, but the difficulty of the corresponding examination will increase, and only a small number of people will be selected by the imperial examination."

Don't stick to a certain system, the times are developing, and the system must adapt to the present, you understand

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Yang Zhi nodded: "Erchen understands." ”