Chapter 303 Reform of the Imperial Examination

"Loyal and brave Marquis has arrived!"

A sudden shout made the Great Hall of the Four Peoples in chaos instantly quiet.

The delegates died down.

Amid their welcome applause, Yang Qing, dressed in court clothes, entered the door with a smile, and then ignored the mess and walked to the rostrum in the center......

The chairman of the Four People's Congress is his fiancée.

This was convened by the emperor at the request of the prison state, and naturally it was presided over by the prison state, but it was impossible for a woman in the prison country to attend, so he appointed his fiancé as the prime minister of the Four People's Assembly. This word was coined by Yang Qing, in fact, according to the habits of the Ming Dynasty, it should be the governor or the admiral These words are more appropriate, but Yang Qing believes that the Four People's Congress is a public opinion body, not a subordinate of the imperial court, so it cannot be used as a governor, but with a service nature.

He was ordered to serve the delegates.

"Marquis Zhongyong, someone slanders Zhu Zi, doesn't the court care!"

A representative of the scholars shouted.

"This deputy, the Great Hall of the Four Peoples is a place to speak freely, even if there are deputies who scold me Yang Qing with rumors, I also have to endure it, not to mention Zhu Xi, a former dynasty. What he said is not slander, at most it is just rumor, if the impeachment of the imperial history was found to be fiction, and the Song Dynasty also clearly cleared Zhu Wenzheng's suspicions, then you can say that this representative is slander.

But it is clear that Zhu Wenzheng also took the blame and resigned.

Therefore, the deputy's relaying of the matter according to the newspaper at this time has nothing to do with slander. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Marquis Zhongyong, then I don't care if I am injured in the court?"

Said the representative of the scholar whose nose was broken.

"This representative is seriously injured, do you need to go to the hospital for treatment, and you don't have to force today's vote, right?"

Yang Qing said.

"Even if I die, I won't let you succeed!"

The representative roared angrily.

Yang Qing spread his hands and said that there was no need to talk about it anymore!

These scholars were well aware of the significance of this vote, and although they were indeed inferior in numbers, the other three peoples together numbered three times as many as them! But in fact, it is not that there is no chance of turning defeat into victory, first of all, they are united, and all the scholars will support the fact that all subjects must join the Bagu Wen exam. Then they only need to win over a quarter of their supporters, and they have been privately active all this time, fooling the other representatives of the three peoples who are easier to coax in various ways, and even including some exchange of interests.

Especially those in the same county.

If any of you support us, it will be a big deal for us to give you some benefits when we go back.

It's a given.

The representatives of the four peoples are all from the same place, and there are many people with bad conduct, many mediocre people who are timid and afraid of things, and simple-minded fools. Drawing lots is inevitable, and Yang Qing will definitely add some qualification restrictions in the future, such as not having a criminal record, but this time it is really randomly selected.

After all, the influence of the scholars on the local level exceeded that of the other representatives of the three peoples.

It's easier for them to want to sway other people.

Especially those honest farmers, the old man Xiucai scares a few words, and then coaxes, it is easy to be deceived, especially those from remote areas are better coaxed.

But they also had real rivals, the merchant representatives, who were more educated and broad-minded than the peasant representatives, and who naturally opposed the scholars, and they were also trying to win the support of other representatives in their own country. In the end, this was the first parliamentary struggle of the Ming Dynasty, which was actually the representative of the scholars and the representatives of the merchants, each pulling the representatives of the peasants and the representatives of the workers and then fighting in separate camps. In the latter two countries, the representatives of the peasants and workers who really resisted the representatives of the scholars were actually those from the Huangzhuang militia, and the representatives of the peasants and workers in the vicinity of Nanjing, the fiefdoms of the former feudal kings, the Tuntian districts on both sides of the Huai River, and the resettlement areas of Huguang, where the representatives of the peasants and workers were educated and also opposed to the scholars, and they resolutely cooperated with the representatives of the merchants.

In short, this struggle is not so simple, and the scholars are not hopeless.

At this time, you really can't go back.

"Okay, delegates, although your behavior just now is a bit excessive, after all, this is the venue, and you still have to respect the order. However, I still understand the firm attitude of the delegates in defending their views, and I hope that you will maintain this firmness when it is time to vote. ”

Yang Qing stood on the rostrum and said.

There was laughter all around.

"The first item of the imperial examination reform, cancel the martial arts, please raise the red sign if you agree, and raise the white sign if you disagree!"

Yang Qing then said.

All around was immediately red, with a few white sporadicals, and in the aisles next to the delegates, there were special staff members who counted the situation in their own areas. In favor, disapproval, and abstention, the whole process lasted a quarter of an hour, after all, you still have to take care of those deputies who don't know the official language very well, and finally all the statistical results are summarized in front of Yang Qing.

In the end, more than 80 percent were in favor.

"Then this item is passed, and the second item adds agriculture, engineering, business, and medicine, and those who agree will be given a red card, and those who disagree will be given a white card."

Yang Qing said.

Each of his four subjects is useful.

In the future, the functions and powers of local officials must be separated.

Needless to say, the county agricultural bureau, the township agricultural technology station, the village agricultural technician, a county must have at least these three things to match, water conservancy facilities, improved seed promotion, new agricultural machinery promotion, and composting technology, these are all responsible for the agricultural bureau. It is impossible for the two departments of industry and commerce to set up the industrial bureau and the commercial bureau in the short term, and the establishment of these institutions will cost finance, and Yang Qing does not have so much money. His finances have always been very tight, and Shandong has become even more nervous after a war, and I have to say that the burden on his back is completely different from that of the past when he was lightly armed......

This is still an era of famine suppressed by the Xiaoice period.

The Agricultural Bureau had to be set up because in his opinion agriculture always came first, and there was nothing more important in this era than agriculture, and he slowed down the expansion of the army for the sake of agricultural development, because the lack of steel production had to be prioritized for the promotion of new agricultural tools.

But industrial and commercial development can be postponed.

At least there is no need for the imperial court to set up a financially expensive institution such as the Bureau of Industry and Commerce to support it, it is enough to have these industrial and commercial scholars, and after these people enter the ranks of the second official, they will inevitably start from the field they are good at in order to be promoted, which means that they will create a good environment for industrial and commercial people to the greatest extent.

It's a given.

In this era, it is difficult for the local chiefs who have come out of the Bagu Wenshu examination to despise the industrialists and merchants, and it is difficult to expect these chiefs to encourage industry and commerce, at least in the vast majority of places. These people are changing this state of affairs, and they were born to inject new strength into the backwater of the grassroots level, even if it is limited, enough to bring about great progress.

As for medicine, it is a professional talent.

The main responsibility of the future medical practitioners is to establish a medical and health system, especially the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in various places, and the top priority is schistosomiasis, and a nationwide campaign to eliminate snails must be launched in Huguang. Yang Qing plans to throw more than half of the first batch of medical scholars into Huguang, and establish a county-level health bureau in Huguang first, and then concentrate all efforts on dealing with schistosomiasis. There is no other trick for this thing, it is to eliminate snails for the whole people, at least the drugs he can obtain in this era have no real substantive effect on solving schistosomiasis, so they can only start with prevention, eliminate snails, change toilets, etc., all the means that can be used together.

And such activities are not possible without special organizations, and Yang Qing's medical practitioners are dealing with infectious diseases.

Snail extinguishing is the first item.

After all, the development of Huguang must first do a good job in this.

Then there are roundworms.

I'm afraid it's very troublesome, this thing has to go to the Western Regions to find, there is no more in China, the legend is that the crane lice from Persia five generations ago is, but at this time there is really no, at least the crane lice of the Ming Dynasty is actually another medicinal material. Even if the crane lice of the Tang Dynasty were really the seeds of the roundworm, after thousands of years of war, the Central Asian region that had been completely deified would probably not know about this thing for a long time.

But fortunately, he still has a gentleman.

Although the effect of making a gentleman is worse, it is not impossible to use.

And then there's the flu, which is the most prevalent.

This is the best treatment, ancient Chinese doctors fought against the flu for a thousand or two thousand years, and the reason why so many people died every year was entirely because ordinary people couldn't even afford to take medicine, which was not a technical problem, but a pure money problem. But Yang Qingzhen can't afford free medical care, and he plans to follow the way Huangzhuang promotes seeds, and set up medical loans in banks, so that people who have no money for treatment can take out loans, and the interest rate is low and the repayment time is longer.

This would at least lead to a significant reduction in mortality.

In short, in the future, the responsibility of these medical scholars is to disperse to various places and fight against all kinds of infectious diseases, and even Yang Qing is ready to simply set up a Ministry of Health. Although this person is a student of Yuan Jixian, as a northerner over the years, he has followed Yang Qing to run a medical center, and his performance in the orphanage is still very good.

Although he is a famous gynecologist.

However, midwifery was also the most important job of the health system in the future, and the first batch of midwives he trained have already taken up their posts at the Huangzhuang Health Center, although it is still impossible to be sure, but the success rate and safety of women's childbirth have skyrocketed. Since he has done a good job in Huangzhuang, let him spread it nationwide, and train all village midwives in the county-level health bureau, and even reward individuals with high success rates. For such a thing, even if the finances are tight, you must grit your teeth and support, it is really not a big deal to copy the house a few more times, and then Yang Qing has a lot of opportunities to copy the house, for example, those salt merchant families in Huizhou can be harvested after this wave of struggle.

He admits that he is also raising pigs.

But there's nothing wrong with this, as long as you can let the people celebrate the New Year after killing the pigs, instead of fattening yourself, then kill it!