In the main hall, Li Xiuwen clearly understood what he meant, and told Ma Mingda and Zhao Xiong what he meant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoI don't care if you are a jinshi or not, whether you are a literati or not, the gentry class must be suppressed!

The imperial examination system has been in place for many years, and now it has begun to spread.

The so-called "poor scholar, ten years of hard study" is a joke in Li Xiuwen's view.

In this era, most of the scholars were actually small landlords at home. Otherwise, how can you afford to study and take exams?

This is not to say that there are no poor people among those who read, but there are really not many such people. Since the implementation of the imperial examination system, it is impossible to do without cheating in the examination room, and it is very difficult for children from poor families to get ahead.

In this case, why is this imperial examination system still prevalent?

In this era, it is not that no one sees the disadvantages of the imperial examination system, but the power of this class is too huge, and no one is willing to touch their interests and provoke their resistance.

In other words, these officials themselves are part of the gentry class and have vested interests. Who would want to compromise their vested interests if they didn't have to?

The Yuan Dynasty oppressed scholars, and scholars could not be officials, so Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew it and established the Ming Dynasty.

By what?

It is the gentry class!

And what about today?

The alternation of each dynasty is a big explosion of class contradictions, so can you defeat the gentry class by supporting the warriors and people at the lowest level?

Li Xiuwen felt that there was still hope.

But he knew better in his heart that the reader controlled public opinion. Once you fail, you will be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell and be scolded by the world!

This person in the world is naturally the gentry class.

In this feudal era, how can ordinary people have the right to speak?

Ma Mingda and Zhao Xiong have been officials for many years, so they can naturally see these drawbacks. But they never imagined that Li Xiuwen actually planned to target the entire gentry class and carry out a big purge.

They find themselves thinking wrong, very wrong.

Li Xiuwen did not intend to stop there, but continued to implicate and kill all the relatives of the nine clans of these people who came to make trouble today!

They hesitated, if they agreed to Li Xiuwen's approach, wouldn't they be scolded by all the soldiers in the world?

Ma Mingda is the former prefect, and Zhao Xiong is the current prefect, and they have both served as the chief examiners of the prefectural examination, and those students who are admitted to them are nominally their students.

Although the government examination is only a small test, and the examiner is not the seat teacher of the admitted talents, but there is still the name of half a teacher.

It is difficult for them to accept cooperating with Li Xiuwen to kill. If Li Xiuwen's rebellion can't succeed, I'm afraid he will be ruined.

The stakes were too big for them to make up their minds so easily.

Seeing that these two people were hesitating, Li Xiuwen continued to tempt: "If great things can be accomplished, you will all contribute to the society, and you will definitely be famous in history and immortal!" ”

"Hmph-"

Ma Mingda snorted coldly and asked rhetorically, "What if it doesn't work?" ”

"Discredited!" Li Xiuwen replied truthfully.

"This can't be done!"

Zhao Xiong also expressed his attitude. The scholar attaches the most importance to the name behind him, and he does not want to gamble on it.

Li Xiuwen smiled, took a sip of the teacup, and said slowly: "Even if we don't act like this, do the two adults think that you still have a clear name for taking refuge in the thief?" ”

Both of them were stunned when they heard this.

Yes, I have taken refuge in the anti-thief, openly rebelled against the court, and still want to clear my name?

It's the biggest joke in the world!

Now that he has been on the thief ship, the only thing that can save his reputation is to turn this thief ship into an official ship. If Li Xiuwen can't succeed, he will always be a thief, and he will never think about turning over again!

Ma Mingda stroked his beard and said, "This official still thinks it's inappropriate, the law of the Nine Clans is too cruel......

"Troubled times don't talk about benevolent government!"

Li Xiuwen interrupted him and asked, "Master Ma thinks, what is the original intention of this method of connecting the nine clans?" ”

"This ......"

Maminda was speechless, and the answer was already self-evident.

The nine clans of Zhulian are to avoid the relatives of the offender from avenging him, since everyone has been killed, if he is soft-hearted, it will indeed cause a catastrophe.

After a heated discussion, these two adults completely convinced Li Xiuwen.

In fact, they simply don't have the right to choose. Li Xiuwen is now in power, and this general's mansion has controlled everything inside and outside Kaifeng Mansion and has become the real king of grass.

Just saw off Ma Mingda and Zhao Xiong, and another guest came to the general's mansion.

This guest is the current commander of Xuanwuwei - Lin Hu.

Li Xiuwen relied on his own strong soldiers and horses, and he didn't pay attention to the officers and soldiers of the guard station at all. Xuan Wuwei was stationed outside Xicheng City, and he didn't pay attention to this army, which was different from what he thought two years ago.

Before, he had never entered the officialdom, nor had he ever come into contact with the barracks, so he didn't know what the combat power of the guard was. No matter how bad the combat strength of the officers and soldiers of the Daowei Station is, they can always deal with some peasant troops, right?

But what he saw and heard later made Li Xiuwen completely understand: the local guard post of the Ming Dynasty was even worse than the peasant army!

What is the use of such an army?

How much can you get by throwing money on them?

After understanding this, Li Xiuwen no longer looked down on the guard.

The officers and men of the guard post have not been trained for a long time, and they are no different from the common people. If I really have that money, I might as well recruit troops myself, why bother to collect the army of the guard?

Of course, for generals with some skills, Li Xiuwen is still willing to recruit them. He has been waiting, waiting for Lin Hu to take refuge by himself, so that he doesn't need to bother to raise the other party's price.

There are always various games between people.

I have painstakingly tried to solicit you, and you may ask for this, demand that, and put forward many conditions. But if you take the initiative to surrender, it is impossible to make so many demands, and this is the difference.

"Lindosi came to the door today, what is the matter?" Li Xiuwen played an official tone.

Li Da...... General Lee—"

Lin Hu paused, changed his title and continued: "The last general came to visit today to lead Xuanwuwei to take refuge in you. ”

"Why is that?" Li Xiuwen wondered.

"Ahh

Lin Hu sighed and said: "The general should understand, the military salary of the imperial court cannot be paid in full, and the salary of the guard is not much, after the hands of those civil officials, it is already less than half of it to me, how can it be paid in full?" ”

After a pause, Lin Hu continued: "Last time, you asked me to report Du Dusi, and then the imperial court ordered me to clean up the armament, recruit soldiers, and train soldiers, but ...... Alas...... It's hard to put it into words! (To be continued.) )