After Yang Tingjian finished speaking, he continued to go to the printing task of tinkering, leaving Wan Shun in shock, Yang Tingjian's problem made Wan Shun embarrassed to death. Qian Xiangkun and Wu Zongda are both cabinet shopkeepers, such a background is already the top of the sky, and now let Wan Shun decide whether to arrest or not.

Wan Shun's time in the Intelligence Department of the Tiger Ben Army is not short, but he understands that the Tiger Ben Army is a force that is completely outside the control of the imperial court, and this cabinet really can't do anything with the Tiger Ben Army, of course Wan Shun knows how to do it.

"I think that no matter what background he has, as soon as he is arrested and tortured in prison, there will be any evidence, even if their backstage wants to investigate, we will have evidence in hand, even if the lawsuit is brought to the Forbidden City, we are not afraid."

After listening to Wan Shun's answer, Yang Tingjian said with great satisfaction:

"This official will write a warrant to you, and transfer a regiment of Shen Lian's city defense division to assist you, and at the same time, Yangzhou will begin martial law, and all the troublemakers will be arrested and locked up in the barracks."

Yang Tingjian walked to the desk and wrote a warrant to Wan Shun:

"The lowly duty will do it immediately, the custody will not disappoint the adults, and the torture ability of the lowly duty in Jinyi Weixue has not been left behind."

Yang Tingjian can't be clean now, and Wang Xingjian, the same governor of Yangzhou Mansion, came to report:

"Lord Yang, half of the officials did not go to work today, and at the same time, there are hundreds of scholars gathered at the yamen, clamoring to see you, my lord."

Yang Tingjian also wanted to meet these scholars to see if he could understand them and be moved by them, most of these scholars were hot-blooded young people, and when they came to the prefect's yamen, most of them were Yang Tingjian who touched the interests of their family.

Yang Tingjian asked more than 100 young scholars to come to the public hall to talk, and after these scholars came to the public hall, they couldn't help but secretly marvel when they saw Yang Tingjian sitting in the main hall. Unexpectedly, this is the legendary new champion Yang Tingjian, this is too young! Although these are really surprising, there are a lot of courtesies:

"Late life see Futai Lord ......"

Yang Tingjian was very amiable at this time, and said with a smile:

"Students, I tell you good news that this official has received His Majesty's will. A township examination will be held in Yangzhou every year, and if the scholars who are raised in the examination graduate from the administrative class of the "Daming Royal University", they can serve as the head of the township of Zhengbapin, and those who are not enrolled can serve as the township (deputy township head. ）

There are hundreds of state capitals in the world, but Yangzhou is the only one who has this grace, and after all the students get such good news, shouldn't they immediately go home and study hard behind closed doors? ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the establishment of workshops, townships, and societies below the county level were the grassroots organizations of the Ming Dynasty. In order to fabricate the Yellow Book and the conscription of enlistment, and strengthen the rule over the grassroots, the Ming Dynasty began to establish strict grassroots organizations below the county level in the 14th year of Hongwu (1381). Set up a workshop in the city, and set up a village, a mile, and a near the city. It is stipulated that 110 households will be taken as one mile, and l0 households with more grain will be selected as the captain in turn. The remaining 100 households are organized into l0 A, and each Ajia has 1 person at the head of A, who is responsible for local civil affairs, "education" and enlistment. It is also stipulated that every tax of grain is 10,000 stones, and one landlord with a large amount of grain is selected as the grain chief, who is in charge of the collection of land taxes.

"Ah!!h

This is great news, there are many scholars in Yangzhou, but the number of imperial examinations in Yangzhou is the same as that of other prefectures and counties. The number of candidates for the township examination in the northern state capital is generally about 1,000, but the number of candidates for the township examination in Yangzhou is more than 20,000. Otherwise, the Gongyuan in Yangzhou would not cover an area of more than 300,000 square meters.

Yang Tingjian relied on his merits and relationships to give Yangzhou a township test to Enke once a year, this is an annual Enke township test! Yang Tingjian: This is simply the reborn parent of a scholar in Yangzhou Mansion!

Yang Tingjian didn't ask why these scholars gathered to make trouble, but took the lead in throwing out a big carrot, and first smashed these scholars who were moving forward on the scientific expedition road.

In fact, Yang Tingjian was also placed in the administrative agency of the local government to the township, and the administrative agency at the township level at this time. It has been controlled by the family, and these families often pass on the taxes they bear to other ordinary people for their own interests, and some of these families are villains in their neighbors.

Now Yang Tingjian's move is three birds with one stone. On the one hand, these scholars can be wooed, and on the other hand, they can also take back the power of the grassroots from those families. Those were the gentry's houses, but there were a lot of scholars! For the sake of their children's future, do they dare to fight with Yang Tingjian?

The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty did not leave the county, which was summarized as: "The state power is not under the county, but the clan is under the county, the clans are all autonomous, the autonomy depends on ethics, and ethics creates the squire." Zhu Yuanzhang's idea is good, but with the growth of the population and the migration of the population, many townships are no longer one family name.

But the power at the grassroots level has fallen into the hands of a small poke clan, and there is no need to think about what they will do for the benefit of their clan, it is just human nature.

In ancient China, the cycle of dynastic change and chaos was the most in the world, including the "hidden dangers of the palace" within the imperial ruling group (such as the struggle for the throne, the power of the queen mother, the power of the prime minister, the power of the military generals, the power of the eunuchs, etc.), and the "power game" between the central and local governments (such as the struggle for hegemony of the princes, the division of feudal towns, etc.), as well as the "hidden dangers of the border passes" of the invasion of the Central Plains by foreign races, but the most common, the most common, the most persistent, the most stubborn, and the most strict is the periodic outbreak of large-scale peasant uprisings. Hundreds of uprisings, large and small, were all peasant rebellions, and the scale of peasant uprisings and peasant wars in Chinese history is unprecedented in the history of the world."

So, what is the reason for the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties and the cycle of chaos that occurs so frequently? The explanation of this issue can be described as the opinion of the benevolent, the wise and the wise, and the opinions of the people, and there is no consensus.

"Officialdom corruption" in traditional Chinese society is a systemic and structural disease. But in Chinese history, is the "big thief" the emperor alone, or a group of subordinates, or a group of officials and township officials in the county government? In my opinion, the "county government" in traditional China is a perverted problem of "big tails", which is like a "ghost of history" that haunts the imperial autocratic centralized system and accompanies it until its demise.

Towering above the spire is the self-proclaimed lonely emperor, the middle and upper echelons are thousands of official officials from the first to the ninth grade, and at the bottom of the tower are hundreds of thousands or even millions of officials, officials and "township officials". In this top-down "pyramid" power structure, there is nothing more than the "county government" that has the most loopholes, the greatest hidden dangers, the strongest concealment, the most direct exploitation of the common people, and the most severe social danger.

As Hai Rui, a famous Qing official in the Ming Longqing period, said, I still feel "hard to make a swarm by swarming" by virtue of my own strength, "I can't do anything with my heart, I can't help it!" Manager Baifan, it is a pity, hateful! This social and political phenomenon was once vividly compared to "a gentleman can't fight a villain" by the great poets of the Song Dynasty, Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe, father and son. (To be continued......)