"Equality."

Yang Qing said.

"The pyramid-shaped Ming Dynasty is unfair, and the severance of the upward channel in peacetime is even more dangerous, and it can even be said to be fatal, and the solidification of the class can only force the bottom to stand up and overthrow all the classes that are pressed on them with a war of corpses and blood.

I don't want to burn everything.

Then I have to find a way to change all this, so that peace and order can continue, then I have to tear down this pyramid, so that everyone stands on the same height, has the same opportunities, the lowest proletarians, yeoman farmers and small merchants, big landlords and wealthy merchants, even nobles and officials, no one oppresses anyone, everyone is the same, even the clan, there is only one person left in this world who can be higher than others.

Emperor.

But all below the emperor are equal. ”

He continued.

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

Huang Degong said vigilantly.

Yang Qing can't be crazy brain, he said this to him because he was so idle, he must have a special purpose, the current Ming army actually has two main systems, one is the Yang Qing system, and the remaining one is the old army system headed by him, but the Yang Qing system has an absolute advantage, and it is impossible for him to compete with it. And Yang Qing is an opponent in the imperial court and the civil official system, so he, as the leader of forces other than the Yang family in the military, will inevitably become the target of contention between the two sides, but he is not interested in getting involved in these bad things in the imperial court.

"It's nothing, it's actually very simple, I just want to reform the imperial examination."

Yang Qing said with a smile.

It's time for the Ming Dynasty to start a science.

The previous section was the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and the next section was in February next year, when scholars from all over the Ming court-controlled area had begun to gather in Nanjing, which was why Wenchen was silent about his wanton purge of Huguang officials.

What if he kills all the officials in Huguang?

It was replaced by the gentry.

There were still a large number of officials from northern provinces in Huguang before, but this time there were definitely no scholars from northern provinces participating in the imperial examination, and even if there were, there were very few, because the war between the two provinces was gone, and the three southwestern provinces were mainly Sichuan, but only half of Sichuan was left in the hands of the imperial court, so the number was also sharply reduced. In the end, the vast majority of scholars who participated in the imperial examination came from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, and in the end, there were not many scholars, in fact, more than sixty percent came from the first three provinces. Especially in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, it can be said that nearly half of the scholars come from these two provinces, and these two provinces are also the most Jinshi, so needless to say, the results of this examination are needless to say, I am afraid that 70% of the Jinshi come from these two provinces.

In this case, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang don't care how many Huguang officials you Yang Qing kills, anyway, in the end, they will be given official positions.

Their hearts are still happy!

But Yang Qing didn't want to make them wedding dresses.

So his black hand finally stretched out to the confinement of the civil officials, and he wanted to reform the imperial examination system.

"Marquis Zhongyong, I am a foreign minister, the foreign minister does not pre-empt the government, I only listen to orders, I will do what the prison country asks me to do, and I will not do what the prison country does not let me do, and as a town general, I only accept the dispatch of the staff of the metropolitan governor's office, and I will not listen to any orders signed by the chief of staff, as for the rest, it has nothing to do with me."

Huang Degong said.

Yang Qing nodded with satisfaction.

That's fine, Lao Huang means that he stays out of the matter, it has nothing to do with him, if someone wants him to be on the side of Qingjun, he won't be stupid enough to be the next Zuo Liangyu.

Yang Qing wants such a result.

"I'm curious, how is the Marquis of Zhongyong going to reform the imperial examination?"

Huang Degong said with interest.

"It's very simple, the first step, the jinshi of this section can't be the chief official, you need to be an adjutant first, first assigned to various places to be a second official, let a person without any governance experience be the respect of a county, it is completely irresponsible for the people of this county, so they have to go through an internship period first, that is, they will be assigned to each county to be the county chief bookkeeper and the like, and then re-evaluate after the three-year internship period expires, and then appoint according to the assessment."

Yang Qing said.

Huang Degong nodded.

This is not too ruthless, after all, in the past, the new branch jinshi usually first set up the Hanlin Academy, and then waited for vacancies in the Hanlin Academy, and rarely directly appointed, although the county and the main book were of low grade, they were also officials rather than officials.

Those jinshi will accept it.

In fact, at this time, after cutting off a bunch of heads of chief officials in various parts of Huguang, it was those Zuo Erguan who were acting for their duties, after all, there was no spare Jinshi in the Hanlin Academy at this time, and the Hanlin Academy was in Beijing, and most of the Jinshi in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen were either under Li Zicheng or became our Qing officials. The Ministry of Officials originally wanted to use a large number of old officials in the township, including Qian Qianyi, but this had to be approved by the prison state, and Yang Qing would certainly not be stupid enough to approve these people to climb out again, so the water was too cool and he was still at home and Liu Ru is poetry.

"And what about this department?"

Huang Degong asked.

"Cancel the restrictions on the imperial examination of household registration, so everyone is eligible, including the militia, as long as they are literate, they can participate, and then they will be divided into scientific examinations."

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"Division?"

Huang Degong looked dazed.

"Yes, a magistrate must not only be able to write eight strands of literature, he must have a variety of knowledge, so he must not only study literature, astronomy, geography, farmland, water conservancy and even arithmetic, although he cannot be proficient, but at least he must understand, even if it is industry and commerce. But it would be too difficult for a person to understand so much at once, so the easiest way is to divide the subjects, including the Bagu Wen, the farmland and water conservancy, and the industrial and commercial development, and those who take the test are all considered Jinshi. ”

Yang Qing said.

"How much do you take for each subject?"

Huang Degong was stunned.

"It's all the same as the Jinshi of the past."

Yang Qing said.

"How many official positions do you have to make so many Jinshi have officials to do?"

Huang Degong looked at him in shock.

In fact, even if it is a subject every three years, in the past, not all those Jinshi were official, many people had to stay up for many years to be poor, and they had to spend money to make points everywhere to get a real shortage, and now Yang Qing wants to make the number of Jinshi swell several times at once, this is the rhythm of starving to death for those poor Hanlin!

"Isn't the second official an official?"

Yang Qing said.

Well, he is just going to let go of the faucet of the jinshi and let the number of jinshi flood the officialdom, this is the best way at present, although it is not what he planned, what he planned is actually the civil service exam, but in that case it will make the civil servants fight hard with him, and the current conditions are not yet met. However, it is possible to relax the criteria for lifting people, relax the scope of the jinshi examination, and let the jinshi of various subjects surge out, stand on the same standard and go to various places to become those assistant officers, and then promote the chief officer from among the two officials. Although the officials can play the unspoken rule and only promote those who they think are genuine jinshi as chief officers, then they will wait to bear the raging wrath of the jinshi of other subjects who are more numerous!

To put it bluntly, this is the disintegration of division.

It must be understood that Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the most progressive and developed areas in the Ming Dynasty, and the scholars here still have some real talents, such as those in Songjiang who open their eyes to see the world, such as Gu Yanwu, you must know that Xu Guangqi was born here.

But the number of Baguwen and Jinshi limited them.

Yang Qing gave them this opportunity.

Let the number of Jinshi skyrocket several times, so that those who are not good at Bagu Wen, but who know more about those practical knowledge, have the opportunity to become Jinshi, they will definitely welcome it, the knowledge they are good at will finally have a place, and then there will be a large number of scholars who understand practical knowledge to become Jinshi, and those who are born in Bagu Wen will get the same opportunity together, and they will be thrown to the local area as Zuo Erguan, and through being Zuo Erguan to get promoted and become important ministers of the court step by step.

If the officials discriminate against them......

This is inevitable, and the civil officials of the Ministry of Officials must regard these miscellaneous scholars as inferior, and then choke them in the neck in promotion.

But.

They are also gentry!

Many of them are even families!

Just like Gu Yanwu, he didn't pass the exam, but what if he passed the Jinshi in other subjects? Those eight-strand lifters in astronomy and geography will definitely not be able to pass him, he is a jinshi at his fingertips, and he will definitely be a good official when he is a second official, but what if he is discriminated against by the officials just because he is not from the eight-strand literary background, and he will never get the opportunity to be promoted? What would he think of these guys in the Ministry who are full of fat brains and suppress talents? What about those miscellaneous scholars who came from the gentry group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang like him, but were also discriminated against for these reasons?

The gentry group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang immediately split.

Their infighting immediately began, and even new factions outside the Donglin Party immediately appeared.

This is also inevitable.

The Donglin Party became the representative of the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because the students of Donglin Academy were the core and formed an interest group in the officialdom, and the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang had no other choice but to elect them as representatives, but if there was another choice, these gentry were not monolithic after all. Gu Yanwu's family and township party relatives and friends behind him will also be dissatisfied and even disgusted with the officials controlled by the Donglin Party because he is discriminated against, and then they will form a new force and begin to oppose the Donglin Party within the gentry group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The rest of Yang Qing can play between the weakened Donglin Party and these new forces.

As for the increase in officials, the burden on the imperial court has increased......

That's not worth mentioning, these Zuo Er Officials are in many places themselves, but they used to be held by the Eunuch and the like, Yang Qing changed it to be a genuine Jinshi, and a county should have been equipped with all kinds of Zuo Er Officials, which is also conducive to his future reform of the local government system. Besides, even a Bapin County Cheng is only a little more than seven stones a month, and these guys will definitely stare at each other in order to compete for the first chance in the local area, and they will be ready to find each other's corruption handles at any time, so they can be regarded as supervising each other.

Of course, Huang Degong definitely couldn't understand so deeply.

But Yang Qing wants to do things again, and he knows it.

"Loyal and brave marquis, you really deserve to be a ......"

He wanted to say something with emotion, but couldn't find the right words to describe it.

"Be a little expert at death?"

Yang Qing smiled and gave him a new word.