Chapter Seventy-Four: The Imperial Examination

Zhang Xuan said: "I know. But there are some things that still need to be done. It's hard to do it because it's too high, so don't do it. ”

"And if I don't do this now, when will I do it, and if I don't do it, will future generations be able to do it?"

"Can you really choose any talents with the eight shares?"

To be honest, Zhang Xuan has long been dissatisfied with the Eight Shares of Takeshi.

Before the imperial examination this time, Zhang Xuan wanted to make a big change. It's just that Zhang Zhen is bent on blocking it, and the reason is very simple.

Just as he just said, the imperial examination is a big matter, and now the Great Xia Imperial Court can only be said to be coarse. And Zhang Xuan is now doing things with great fanfare in many ways, such as measuring acres of land in Jiangnan, such as the money reversal case just past.

The government has been in turmoil.

After all, Zhang Zhen came out of the imperial examination, and he also felt something about the imperial examination, and secondly, Zhang Zhen was one of the helmsmen of the Great Xia Imperial Court, and he was also thinking about the Great Xia Imperial Court.

Zhang Xuan wanted to change the old system and establish a new chapter. But things have to be done one by one, and these things are done too much, I am afraid that it will affect the stability of the imperial court.

Now that Zhang Xuan has just ascended the throne and is taking the first imperial examination, the selection of candidates is one of them, and winning the hearts of the world's scholars is the most important thing.

At this time, it is better to change than to be conservative.

So Zhang Xuan dispelled this thought. It's just that Zhang Xuan dispelled the idea of changing the imperial examination this time, but it was not the idea of reforming the imperial examination.

Therefore, prepare for Taixue, that is, above the Guozijian. The person who will be in charge of the country has been undecided.

As Zhang Zhen said, wait for wisdom in the same way.

In the past six months, Fang Yizhi has done excellent errands in Jiangnan, and he has measured Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion, Huzhou Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, and Hangzhou Mansion.

It can be said that it is a turning point of thousands of miles, and within half a year, there is hardly a day to live in one place, all of which are here today and tomorrow. Turning saddles and horses, changing boats and boats, he has traveled almost all over the seven prefectures.

These are the seven prefectures where the essence of Jiangnan is located.

Not only that, Fang Yizhi also trained a lot of students sent by Zhang Xuan in the past, and Zhang Xuan has also seen several of them.

After careful inquiry, their mathematical foundation is indeed good, and they may not be clever in later generations, but they can also preside over the measurement.

Zhang Xuan was amazed by the ability of the other party's wisdom. even took Fang Yizhi's works to look at.

Zhang Xuan's attainments in the classics and history are not deep, but there are people with profound attainments around him, such as the talents in the Hanlin Academy, all of whom are full of poetry and books, and they also invite Zhang Xuan to hold a sutra feast again and again. That is, to give lectures to the emperor and educate the emperor.

This one thing seems small, but

In the eyes of the scholars, it is very great, and all the emperors who are willing to hold sutra feasts are all wise monarchs in the hearts of the scholars, and they are at least willing to communicate with the scholars.

Zhang Xuan also knew that the Qian reversal case greatly hurt Shilin's vitality, and he didn't know how many well-educated people were assigned to Lingnan. Are there any wrongs in it? Of course, there is, but Zhang Xuan understands, and many people also understand that the punishment for the Jiangnan gentry is not a crime.

Almost everyone has incidents such as settling acres of land, evading taxes, and so on, and they are accustomed to it. If Zhang Xuan punishes them with this crime, he will either be more widely implicated or give up halfway.

There is no room for sand in the eyes, it is good to be a person, but it is not good to be in charge of the sun and the moon and assist in yin and yang.

No matter how much Zhang Xuan suppressed Jiangnan Shilin, Zhang Xuan had to admit one thing, that is, Jiangnan's educational ability was too strong. Even if Zhang Xuan used money to reverse the case and abolished all the famous people in Jiangnan, they would be able to grow another stubble in less than twenty years.

Even if it's a little tough, it's not a problem to think about.

Therefore, I also want to give the world a doctor, so I set aside one or two days a month to listen to a few lessons. And every time he listened to the class, Zhang Xuan took out the questions from the reader to ask the questions in the Zhishu. After a long time, the Hanlin Academy has spread all over the world, and now it is unique to learn from the party. It's no secret anymore.

It wasn't a problem for Zhang to guess. However, Zhang Zhineng thought from Fang Yizhi that Zhang Xuan wanted to reform the imperial examination, but it was his understanding of Zhang Xuan.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Zhen said: "There are many drawbacks to taking the eight shares, but His Majesty wants to incorporate mathematics into the main subject, which seems to be a little too big. ”

"So, I'm going to come little by little." Zhang Xuan said: "The eldest brother has also seen it, Fang Yizhi measured the seven mansions, the imperial court added millions of acres of arable land, and after the tax burden was equalized, the imperial court collected millions of stone of grain, and the people did not increase it, how could such a thing not be extended to the whole country." ”

"But Fang Yizhi is just a person. Even if he has three heads and six arms, how much can he do. I intended him to return to the country to teach a group of students for me, just like Ming Taizu used the country to supervise the students, measuring the acres of land in the world. ”

"I prepare, after the autumn harvest, Mr. Fang will return to Beijing."

In fact, Zhang Xuan's actions are mostly imitations of Ming Taizu.

No matter how bad it was in the late Ming Dynasty, the original intention of many things in the Ming Taizu was good, such as equal taxation and equal taxation. The burden of the imperial court was distributed as evenly as possible, so that the burden of a single person was reduced a lot, which is Zhu Yuanzhang, and even the Zhongming generation, insisted on financial management thinking.

But there is a difference between how to think and how to do it.

Zhu Yuanzhang used a large number of Guozi prison students at the beginning, and even in the early Ming Dynasty, the future of many Guozi prison students was not under the imperial examination.

This is also Zhang Xuan's second-best approach.

The imperial examination is a matter of great importance and cannot be acted upon, but the Guozijian is decadent

For a long time, many people have forgotten the prestige of the imperial eunuch at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. In the later part of the Ming Dynasty, the role of Guozijian seems to be just to open a batch of donations when the imperial court is in trouble. You can sell the identity of the country's eunuch with money.

"Measure something, although it is also a matter of being." Zhang Zhen said: "But it is also a temporary thing. It's only ten years at most, but the addition of mathematics to the imperial examination has a far-reaching impact, since Your Majesty is in charge of the Guozijian with Mr. Fang, why should Your Majesty insist on this. ”

Zhang Xuan sneered and said, "Back then, Ming Taizu asked the next year's annual report to report the number of yellow books, and in the end, what did the Houhu Yellow Book look like?" Daming fell to this point, financial management loss, is the biggest problem, Daming is rich in the world, and in the end, the imperial treasury is not as good as the Zheng family, is it really unreasonable? ”

"Although Chongzhen is a mediocre person, if the court had the money in the early years of Wanli, the world might not be able to reach the point where it is now."

"I have learned the lessons of the dead, this dynasty must not repeat the mistakes of the past, so the corporal doctor in the world must be proficient in mathematics, the upper can make up for the mistakes of the national government, and the lower level will not be deceived by the officials, so as not to become a magistrate, and what master will be brought with him. Everything has been done by the master, what does the court want this person to do? ”

"And the freezing three feet, not a day's cold, measuring the acres of land, is by no means a matter of today, in the future, the imperial court will definitely conduct regular surveys, and the situation cannot be reached."

"The big account of the imperial court, I must understand it clearly."

When Zhang Zhen heard this, he was secretly frightened, and he wanted to say something in his heart, but when it came to his mouth, he swallowed it again.

Zhang Xuan said: "If the eldest brother has anything to say, just say it directly." ”

Zhang Zhen knelt on the ground and said: "Your Majesty called me a big brother, and the minister will encroach today, and call himself His Majesty's brother. ”

Zhang Xuan listened and said, "Big brother, please general, foolish brother listen." ”

Zhang Zhen said: "When I was in Linying, I was a lifter, in the south of Linying City, Zhangjiazhuang by the river is where my Zhang family is located, hundreds of acres of land in the village, most of which are owned by my Zhang family. The county government received this amount, and I sent another sum of silver to the officials, and this silver was divided equally between the top and bottom of the Linying County government. ”

"It has always been. Up and down the county government, there are only a dozen officials in the imperial court, even if there are hundreds of white servants, but they can't take a look at the politics of the county. Most of them are local matters, which are handled by the three old gentry of each village. ”

"Among them, the ministers know about concealing acres of land, referring to fertile land as wasteland, referring to paddy fields as dry land, and so on."

"I have been a pro-people official in Shanxi, how can I not want to govern the big households under my command. Expand tax sources. I can't. ”

"Even if it is a county order to destroy the door, it is only the door of the family, how can it destroy the door of the county? Even if it is not so, the local people's conditions are different, the terrain is different, and the folk customs are different. ”