"Brother Huang, how are you preparing for the civil service exam, and how many students have signed up for reference?" Sun Yuan didn't want to continue to have in-depth 'exchanges' with Huang You on the matter of awarding land with military merits, so he pulled the topic on the upcoming civil service examination. (.marshmallow)-

Today's Ningxiang Army has been in the army for ten years, and the first group of people who followed him, such as Jiang Wu, Wen Laosan and others, have all started families and careers, and their sons and daughters are in groups. Relying on the rewards of the previous wars, they are still living a good life, but if the world is peaceful in the future, they may not be able to maintain the decent life they have now.

Although a group cannot be without ideals, idealism alone cannot be maintained for a long time. It is now the Ming Dynasty, it is the feudal era, and people's 'nature' is selfish and needs to be fed with practical interests. Sun Yuan did not believe that in the current era, he could build a modern army based on doctrine and meaning. Therefore, taking the road of Beiyang may be his only choice. Even if he doesn't want to, the Ningxiang Army will take such a road in the future.

Even if Ningxiangjun doesn't leave, Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Zeqing will go.

This is reality, not subject to people's will.

Huang You is a bit idealistic, and many times he looks at problems a little out of reality. He is an ancient literati, and he still believes in the style of monarchs and ministers in his bones, unlike Fu Shan, a 'yin' strategist who specializes in the lower three roads.

Hearing Sun Yuan ask about the question of the civil service examination, Huang You replied: "It's ready, it will be held on the ninth of this month." The examination room is located in Tongzhou, and all the candidates have already arrived. ”

"This time, our town has to recruit a total of more than 100 officials, and once the candidates are Chinese, they will be awarded official positions immediately

。 In accordance with the orders of the chief military officer, in order to recruit as many talents as possible, in addition to the more than 100 places, our town will also recruit dozens of officials to enrich the military at all levels of the town's ya'men. Even if it can't be resettled, it must be recruited to facilitate the reception of local power when the Northern Expedition recovers the lost territory. The current civil service examination is to establish a system and use this as a regular practice to recruit students every three years. ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "The biggest problem in my Ming Dynasty politics is that the imperial power is not down to the county, that is to say, the imperial court decree is at most down to the county level. As for the locality, it was managed by the gentry. In other words, once there is something in the township, as long as it is not a serious crime, the clan patriarch can rule on his own. In this way, the imperial decree is useless to the place, and it is not even comparable to the words of the patriarch. Therefore, in this way, ordinary people only have clans in their eyes, but no national and national identity. ”

"Once the foreign enemy invades, or the internal 'chaos', until the enemy slaughters his neck, for the people, it is just a county official in the county 'gate', how to live and how to live."

In addition, when the world talks about the old affairs of the Chongzhen Dynasty and reviews the scholars, they all think that the reason why Beijing fell and the reason why the Son of Chongzhen was martyred was because the central government was bankrupt, and the imperial court could not pay a penny of military salaries, and was helpless against the internal troubles that entered the abyss. The reason, in addition to natural disasters, is that there are too many officials. ”

Huang You listened to Sun Yuan's words and nodded: "I think this is one of the important reasons, as far as I know, before the Wanli year of my Ming Dynasty, the annual figure of Taicang was only three million taels of silver. In the late Chongzhen year, it swelled to tens of millions of taels. The burden on the imperial court is too heavy, and there are too many officials, and it is indeed time to reduce it. "The so-called Taicang silver is the money that the state should issue to officials every year.

Sun Yuan laughed: "Brother Huang, I just thought that I didn't have too many officials in the Ming Dynasty, but too few." The reason for so much Taicang silver expenditure at the end of Chongzhen, in fact, everyone knows what is going on, and it will not be discussed for the sake of His Holiness. In fact, if the world is peaceful, the country can easily afford to spend millions of taels of silver. Nowadays, a county ya', the state needs to bear the beginning of the Lulu branch is just a county order and a county Cheng. But where does the salary of the people related to the six houses below, the servants and the masters sent on weekdays come from, and it is not also the sheep's 'hair' that comes from the sheep. It's nothing more than the imperial court giving a little, and the officials raising a little by themselves. Not only did they 'operate' in the dark, but they also allowed the officials to control local government affairs and hollowed out officials. The so-called, iron-clad Ya'men and flowing officials, this is also an important reason why the imperial power does not go down to the county. All I need to do now is to break this unspoken rule and turn officials into rogue officials. This law only needs to be implemented for ten years, and the decree of the imperial court will reach every corner of the village. ”

"I know that Brother Huang and many people have a lot of complaints about the civil service examination piloted in Yangzhou Town, thinking that this is a play against the imperial court and a farce. But who knows the deep meaning of this, this is a pilot, and it is trying to see if this road can be passed for the imperial court

！ ”

When Sun Yuan said this, he suddenly felt a little proud in his heart.

In fact, he has a deeper meaning that he did not explain: that is, to fight the power of the gentry in the civil society as much as possible, and to fight against the clan power, and these are the most reliable forces in Donglin.

Sun Yuan wanted to dig the foundation of Donglin and even scholars in his own territory.

Hearing Sun Yuan's words speak so carefully, Huang You frowned and thought for a long time before he relaxed. He stood up and saluted: "The chief officer's move is a revolution and a long-term vision, and Huang You admires it very much." ”

"Brother Huang praised it." Sun Yuan hurriedly helped him up, yes, this is already a bit of a revolution. If it is spread throughout the country in the future, the entire social form will undergo considerable changes.

Huang You then talked about the civil service examination again: "Taichu, in fact, Shilin is still very resistant to your exam. Especially in Taizhou, scholars have regarded you as a ****. After all, what you are shaking is the imperial examination system that has been practiced in our dynasty for more than 200 years. Not only that, but the scholars are also connected everywhere, hoping that everyone will not take this exam. He also said that if anyone takes this exam, it will be the public enemy of Shilin. ”

"I am also helpless in the next month, I have been running around for the past two months, talking with the scholar's 'door', but I have run into walls everywhere and eaten a lot of closed-door soup." When Huang You said this, his face was full of bitterness: "If it weren't for seeing the face of the martyred Lu Inspector, and seeing that Huang You had made meritorious contributions to the country back then, I am afraid that he would have been beaten to death by the Taizhou scholars." ”

Sun Yuan was taken aback: "So serious? ”

Huang You: "Taichu, guess how many shows in Taizhou have signed up for reference?" ”

Sun Yuan: "How much?" ”

Huang You: "It's just ten people. ”

"Ahh Sun Yuan was startled and muttered, "Could it be that he can't even report the quota and turn it into a joke?" If I can't say it this time, my grandson will be greatly embarrassed. ”

Huang You: "Who said it wasn't, that's because of this." These days, I have been persuading people to take the exam like an old matchmaker, and to this day, I have finally gathered enough 200 candidates to make this exam not cold. ”

Seeing the tiredness on Huang You's face, Sun Yuan: "Brother Huang has worked hard. ”

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