"Did you hear that? On the tenth day of August, the Hangzhou Thorn History Mansion held a judicial examination, did you say that someone went to sign up for it? "Hangzhou's lakeside building is a place close to the West Lake, where the fragrance of piano rhyme and tea is located, and it is also the resting place for Hangzhou scholars to visit the lake every day. At this time, these scholars sat in twos and threes in the long corridor and painting boat that jutted out of the lake, discussing the announcement of the Assassin's Mansion that had just been issued.

A young man in a white robe next to him smiled: "Naturally, I saw it, but this judicial exam is not for you to be an official, but for the entrance examination for students recruited by the newly established judicial academy." Therefore, there are very few applicants, and few of the children of our family can look at it. ”

"Originally, according to the interpretation of the Imperial Court of Law, the judicial examination is to obtain the qualification examination for serving in the law court or the qualification certification to engage in the legal profession, which is a threshold to put it bluntly. Do we and other big families still have to sit on an equal footing with those small people who have risen to the top? The young man who spoke before with a teapot and made tea smiled: "Don't worry, just those poor children can't support the scene, maybe it's okay in the northern region, but in our Jiangnan, we still need people like us." Don't look at the military administration area in cracking down on the wealthy in various places, to put it bluntly, at most it is confiscated land for unified distribution, what else can we do? We're not trying to do anything yet. As soon as this sentence was spoken, it was unanimously approved by several people around him. The land reform in various parts of the military administration in the southeast has shaken the foundation of these wealthy families, and in the face of violent means, these people have chosen cold confrontation and adopted the means of not responding to and not adopting the measures promulgated by the military administration yamen. This phenomenon is especially evident in large cities such as Hangzhou, which were relatively stable. In the judicial examination notice issued by the Hangzhou Assassin History Mansion, except for the children of the poor family and ordinary people, there is no child of the family.

After drinking tea for a while, these people began to take a painting boat to the West Lake, but after they left, a young couple quietly walked out of a tea house in a long corridor next to them.

"Big brother, it seems that the situation in Hangzhou is not very good." This young couple is naturally Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi. Listening to the words of those people just now, Qiaoxi's face was a little depressed and said, "It seems that the rectification is not strong enough." ”

Li Xuanqing's face is not very good, but it doesn't matter if you think about it, you have moved the foundation of others, do you still think that others will cooperate with you? However, thinking of this, Li Xuanqing is still a little anxious about the popularization of education, the two originally planned to swim in the lake, but they are not in the mood at the moment, and directly returned to the Assassin's Mansion to retrieve the list of this judicial examination, the rated number of candidates for the examination is one hundred and twenty, and only one hundred people have registered, so it can be said that this judicial examination is very bad. Moreover, Hangzhou, as a city established as a judicial college, has so few responders. This made Wu Qisheng, the vice president of the law court who came to preside over the exam, look embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Lord Wu doesn't need to be like this, isn't there still a hundred people coming to take the exam. The judicial examination is better for lack than abuse, and if the south is not good, it is necessary to select talents from the northern region. This trend must not be fostered. The political ecology of the empire needs to be implemented in accordance with our established direction and rules, and cannot be easily changed just because there are people who resist it. Besides, sooner or later, these people will be eliminated by history. Qiaoxi saw Wu Qisheng's face and smiled: "We have dug up their economic privileges, which is equivalent to breaking a pillar of the family, as long as education keeps up, it is equivalent to the pillar of the monopoly of knowledge of the wealthy family, then when industry and commerce develop rapidly, the remnants of the forces behind them will soon die, so that they can completely break their minds in the hands of a generation." ”

Qiaoxi's words also made Li Xuanqing think of one thing, so he said with a smile: "Wu Qing, don't worry, since the people who came to sign up for the exam this time are all children from poor families, then you must train them well, and when they finish their studies, the work of your law court will definitely be much better." In fact, when Li Xuanqing decided to admit the children of the poor as much as possible in the judicial examination, Cen Tianshi also received the latest list of the admission examinations of various colleges in the autumn sent by the Ministry of Education, which was almost similar to the situation in Hangzhou. This method of cold confrontation was discussed in advance by the major families across the country almost overnight, which caught Yuan He off guard and began to seriously consider how to make the next plan. The education system of the Ministry of Education in the northern provinces and regions has basically covered the county level, and every year a variety of graduates enter all walks of life. Originally, I thought that the development of the education and cultural system driven by the prosperity of the south would naturally select more talents, but what I didn't expect was that these families would make trouble and become the forefront of class confrontation.

However, compared to Yuanhe, he only considered one aspect of education, and Cen Tianshi, as the prime minister of the cabinet, had a lot more means when dealing with this matter, so he issued the latest cabinet order to the northern provinces and regions, requiring the provincial political envoys to cooperate with the Ministry of Education to complete the enrollment plan, and let the Ministry of Education order that this social enrollment will be the last time the cabinet will select talents from the non-education system, and the door to social enrollment will be directly closed in the future. Anyone who does not have a certificate of literacy from the Ministry of Education will lose the opportunity to go further politically and economically.

At the same time, he took a ship directly from Tianjin to Hangzhou to meet Li Xuanqing and discuss how to solve the cold confrontation of the family.

"Actually, sir, don't be too anxious, all our current arrangements are like an invisible net, slowly incorporating all aspects of the entire empire into this net. Don't they look down on our qualifications and talent training system? Very simply, let the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the legal court increase the investigation and punishment of the qualifications of all walks of life, and those who have not obtained the qualification certificate cannot engage in related industries, so that in the industrial and commercial industry, a large number of profiteering industries have actually turned away these classes. Without economic support, culturally, when the Ministry of Education fully rolls out the education system, it will encompass all the young students of the entire empire, and the monopoly of cultural knowledge they control is not worth mentioning. Li Xuanqing has not finished speaking, in today's printing industry has flourished because of its own existence, it is really a dream that these wealthy families still want to monopolize knowledge.

Cen Tianshi nodded and said: "Relatively speaking, the north is much better than the southeast, Yuan He sent me a report before I came, analyzing the specific situation, I came to think that the emperor has any way to suppress this momentum, not to make them satisfied, otherwise it will definitely boost arrogance, and make others mistakenly think that our imperial government is afraid of them." ”

"Let's continue to suppress the economy, let the Ministry of Industry and Commerce join forces with the Ministry of Security and the Yamen of the Military Administrative Region to carry out a strict inspection of industrial and commercial qualifications in the southeast, and ban all those who do not meet the regulations and do not have qualification certificates and licenses, and expand the scope of this strict inspection. At the same time, let Yang Qiu start to emigrate to the northeast. Split up those disobedient clans, and some of them migrated directly to the northeast, so as to be able to disperse their forces. Li Xuanqing waved his hand and said: "As for them wanting to cling to their own monopoly of cultural knowledge, we don't need to care." The Ministry of Education will do its own thing step by step, and naturally there will be a steady stream of ordinary people's children growing up through our education system, and they will be the driving force and source of talent that the empire needs to rely on in the future. ”

After Cen Tianshi and Li Xuanqing discussed these things in Hangzhou, they immediately summoned these three departments in the name of the cabinet, and a majestic alternative war that did not belong to the Lingnan front was launched in the southeast, and then spread to the southwest and even Sichuan and other places, tens of thousands of wealthy industries that were not registered and did not cooperate with the imperial government were forced to shut down, and the people in charge of them also faced huge fines, and after a large number of assets were seized, the economic strength of many big families was greatly weakened, and then they were replaced by others. The industrial and commercial circles in the northwest of the empire, which followed the five wealthy merchants, flourished and quickly squeezed out the market gaps in these big families in various places. This economic crackdown, on the grounds of correcting the market order and protecting the normal development of industry and commerce, made these cold and confrontational families gradually realize that the nascent empire had economic means that they could not imagine.

And almost at the same time, another thing announced by the military administration yamen made these big families almost on the verge of collapse and emigrated to the northeast. For them in the southeast, the northeast is a wild land, the climate is harsh, and they are simply uninhabitable. At this time, the empire was going to emigrate to the northeast, and in their opinion, it was going to kill them. So they didn't care about confrontation at all, and they went out to inquire about what was going on. However, Yang Qiu was vague in the face of these people who came one after another, just explaining that the development of the Northeast requires a huge amount of manpower, and the south of the Yangtze River is narrow and densely populated, and the over-development of land is not conducive to long-term development, but the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and many resources are waiting for you to develop. The Northeast and the Southeast can fully complement each other and develop together.

This kind of statement is high-sounding for these people, and it is impossible for them to believe it. However, according to the conditions set by the military administrative region's yamen, the development of the northeast is actually not bad, and various preferential policies are also in place. In fact, these people have no problem going to the Northeast to do business, but the migrant population, especially their own families, need to migrate, which is unacceptable to them.

However, Yang Qiu didn't have so much time to spend here, so he directly announced that he would implement this plan in early September, and some powerful families from the southeastern regions would be transferred to migrate there, and all the travel expenses would be borne by the yamen of the military administrative region. This is tantamount to talking directly to oneself and starting to implement it without giving anyone a chance to refute it. This made the long-lost Jinling City surging again, and countless people rushed one after another, which was tantamount to falling into a catastrophe for the families included in the migration list. You must know that the migration of people to the border areas in successive dynasties is basically a disaster.

However, these are not so troublesome for Li Xuanqing who is boating on the West Lake, the development of the Bohai Bay requires a large number of people, and it is unrealistic to rely on the prisoners controlled by the logistics department alone, and a large number of people with sufficient consumption power are also required to participate. Originally, Li Xuanqing planned to transfer millions of people from the southeast and Sichuan, but in the end, in the face of such a huge base, he retreated and decided to take it step by step.

"Big brother, don't worry, they will thank us after they go to the Northeast." Qiaoxi sat in the painting boat and looked at the scenery of the West Lake and said with a smile: "After these people go, they are scattered and assigned to a few big cities, and they will no longer be able to make any waves, and if they want to survive and develop in the northeast without roots, they must rely on the imperial government tightly, so that the situation can be stabilized over time." And after so many people are transferred, the southeast will also free up more space for development, killing two birds with one stone. ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and smiled: "Originally, I thought that these people would come up with some clever way to deal with us, but it turned out to be the same old thing, and there was nothing new at all." ”

"They think that the cultural knowledge they have in their hands is what we need. What I didn't expect was that we were completely grafted on the knowledge of later generations in the application of social knowledge, so this hope was doomed to fail. And we don't need to learn the concept of excellence, naturally their failure is doomed early on. Qiaoxi smiled: "Let's go rowing to the other side to see?" The West Lake in this era seems to be not as beautiful as in later generations, and there are many scenic spots. I also want to see the broken bridge and Su Causeway or something. ”

"That's not easy, let's just fix it ourselves." Li Xuanqing said with a smile while paddling: "We will repair the Su Causeway and the White Causeway ourselves, and it is guaranteed to look much better than what they repaired, but this story and legend are estimated to have to be changed." ”

When the two of them went to the West Lake to indulge in the mountains and rivers, the picket movement that affected the entire southeast region gradually came to an end, and after the banner of the migrant population was erected, those coldly opposed classes faced not only economic suppression, but also spatial dispersion and physical disappearance, and they could no longer act in unison. The Zhang family, a big family near Jinling, suddenly took the initiative to declare that they would move to the northeast with the entire Zhang family, under the leadership of Jiazhu Qishan, in response to the call of the Yamen of the military district.

This huge backlash caused the entire Jinling City and even the southeast region to be dropped with a bomb again. Zhang Qishan's actions also announced that this wave of confrontation had come to an end, and the family relented and admitted defeat in the face of various suppressions.

However, Yang Qiu, who was in charge of the Yamen of the Southeast Military Region, narrowed his eyes at this time, in his opinion, the struggle in the southeast had just begun. There is still a lot of work to be done in the military administrative region, and all obstacles must be cleared before the imperial conference in the coming year, so that the southeast can be divided and the provincial governments can be formed, otherwise the mission of the military administrative region yamen will not be completed.