In the imperial study of the Qianqing Palace, a figure was crouching on the bookcase and writing hard.

"Phew, I've finally finished criticizing these recitals!"

Lazily stretched, Pang Gang moved his eyes to the thick stack of folds in front of the dragon case, it seemed that there were more than 100 copies if not two hundred, this is the work that Pang Gang spent a morning to complete.

Today is the third Saturday of the first year of Dahua Yongwu, it is a day that does not need to go to the court, Pang Gang got up early in the morning to finish the recital sent today, is to accompany his wife and children to the imperial garden in the afternoon, after being the emperor for so long, I haven't gone to the imperial garden to see it, I heard that the flowers in it are still very good.

Putting down the quill pen in his hand, Pang Gang rubbed his wrist, well, it was already a little numb. Speaking of Pang just used this quill pen to criticize the folding, there are still many ministers who oppose it, for them who have used the brush for most of their lives, using the quill pen to write is disrespectful to the ancestors, and it is called a great rebellion.

But there is a saying, what is good at the top and what is good at the bottom, there will never be a shortage of people who shoot the emperor's horses in this world, what the emperor likes, let alone writing with goose feathers, even if it is written with his toes, some people will applaud. And the officials below were curious to write for a while, and they were also surprised to find that although the words written with a quill pen were not as majestic as those written with a brush, they were not all useless, at least they looked like they were also stylish, the skeleton was strange, and they looked very good-looking, and the most important thing was convenience. You just have to take a bottle of grind and a goose feather with you, and write wherever you go? It is very convenient, and the cost is also very low, a goose feather is only, it is not expensive to think of it, it has completely reached the extent that it can be used up, and it is still not distressed, so the quill pen is quietly spread slowly below. In the end, it developed to the point that not only some officials used it at home, but also used it when writing in the office, if someone crooked their mouths. They will retort with confidence, before saying me, please persuade the emperor first.

Stretching his waist, Pang Gang slowly stood up, and several palace maids who had been waiting beside him hurriedly came over and handed over the ginseng tea, Pang Gang took the ginseng tea and drank it all, only to feel a warm heat rising from his abdomen, and swept away the fatigue that had accumulated for a morning.

"Hmm. This ginseng tea is really a good thing, not only to drive away fatigue, but also has the effect of nourishing the face and invigorating qi, but the price is more expensive, I don't care about the ancients all said that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, if you are used to drinking it, it will really be a lot of expenses in the future. ”

Pang Gang, who was thinking about it, couldn't help but start to think a little cranky, and at this moment, a palace maid quietly walked in and bent down in front of Pang Gang and said, "Your Majesty, Wei Ge Lao, Hua Da and Wen Da ask to see you!" ”

"Oh. What are they here for? ”

Pang Gang couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, since he became a cabinet elder in one step, he seemed to have become a workaholic, and he couldn't wait to spend twelve hours a day in the cabinet. As if he wanted to snatch back the time wasted in the first forty years, and then Pang Gang, who was afraid that he would be physically exhausted, had to make a forced decree, ordering him not to work more than five hours a day, otherwise he would be forcibly taken away from the yamen.

"The slave doesn't know."

When the palace maid said this, Pang Gang couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he just said the question casually, who knew that the palace maid answered him so properly.

Pang Gang smiled. waved his hand and said, "Okay, you can step aside, and by the way, let Wei Ge Lao, Hua Da and Wen also come in." ”…,

"Yes!"

The young and beautiful palace maid bowed lightly and retreated, and soon there was a sound of footsteps at the door, and Wei Tongnian and Wen Renjun appeared at the door of the imperial study at the same time. Seeing Pang Gang sitting behind the dragon case, he bowed down in unison, and praised in his mouth: "In the same year as the minister, Wei, Wenrenjun, and Huayan see the emperor, may my emperor live long live!" ”

"Okay, let's get flat, and worship once you see you. You're not tired, I'm tired. ”

Pang Gang waved his hand a little dissatisfied, for Pang Gang from later generations, when he first became the emperor, he was secretly happy to see someone bow down to him, but after seeing more, he felt strange in his heart.

"Emperor Xie!"

Pang Gang didn't care, but the three of them couldn't help but care, now that the new dynasty had just been established, the foundation was still unstable, and the three of them were close ministers of the Son of Heaven, one was equivalent to the premier of the State Council in later generations, one was the head of the Central Organization Department in later generations, and the other was equivalent to the Minister of Finance, all of them were high-powered high-ranking officials, so whether they were people or doing things, they were trembling on thin ice, and they also wanted to set an example for the courtiers below.

"Sit down!"

As soon as Pang Gang's words fell, three eunuchs moved three upholstered round stools with yellow silk just behind the three of them. After the three of them thanked them again, they only sat on their half-pulled butts, which was also a gesture of respect.

Seeing the three of them sitting down, Pang Gang asked, "Okay, why are you here today?" ”

Wei Tongnian, Wen Renjun, and Hua Yan glanced at each other, "Your Majesty, the old minister is indeed here today to make a few difficult decisions, and I have come to ask Your Majesty for a holy judgment?" ”

When Pang Gang heard this, he straightened up and asked with interest, "Oh, what is it that can make the three of you feel tricky at the same time?" ”

Wei Tongnian said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, since you ascended the throne, you have been busy with state affairs, but you have not had time to care about some of your private affairs, which is understandable, and now it is time to take care of it." For example, what should you do with the imperial village left over from the previous dynasty? ”

"Huangzhuang?"

Pang Gang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this name, and Hua Yan on the side knew that Pang Gang didn't know much about Huangzhuang as soon as he saw Pang Gang's expression, so he explained in detail on the side.

The so-called Huangzhuang, is the royal family directly operated Zhuangtian, in a word, is the private field of the emperor Laozi, the distribution of the Ming Dynasty Huangzhuang, mainly concentrated in the north of Zhili Shuntian and other eight mansions, especially Shuntian, Baoding, Hejian and other mansions for the most.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's management of land was relatively tight, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, had already realized that the annexation of land would cause peasants to become displaced people, which would lead to serious social problems. Therefore, he once issued an edict, "The cultivator will test his strength and give it to him." Let the poor have money, and the rich may not be annexed. If the annexors occupy more of the land for their own property, and turn to the poor tenants. of sin.

Therefore, in the Hongwu period, the old Zhu family's imperial village was not much, only a few tens of thousands of acres of land, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the lack of entertainment at that time, there was basically no entertainment at night except for doing a man-making movement, so that the offspring were more and more. The old Zhu family's imperial village has also gradually increased. By the time of the Wanli period, the Huangzhuang had expanded to 36 places, occupying 37,595 acres and 46 acres of land, that is, more than 3 million acres.

This is only the emperor's own imperial village, if you count the imperial village occupied by other imperial relatives, it is even more innumerable, this is almost an uncountable number, according to Wei in the same year, at least two to three million acres of land were occupied by the moths of the old Zhu family.

This problem was a powder keg in the Ming Dynasty. No one in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty dared to bring it up, and whoever brought it up was against the old Zhu family, even if someone with courage raised it, it was equivalent to mentioning it in vain. But now it's different. The dynasty has changed, your old Zhu family has been laid off and still dares to occupy such a huge amount of rich land, do you think this is still the previous dynasty? …,

There will not be many people in this world, but there must be a lot of people who fall into the ground, especially those literati who have just become the imperial historians, who have just arrived at the company, and are they still impeached? So in the past few days, the folds that asked the old Zhu family to return the land were sent to the cabinet in stacks. But Wei Tongtong was a little worried after seeing it, after all, his son-in-law had just peacefully handed over such a splendid river and mountain from others. Isn't it too unkind to confiscate other people's fields when he turns around, and he is also worried about the backlash of the Zhu family, so Wei decided to hand over this problem to his son-in-law to solve in the same year.

"Well, Wei Aiqing. Is this what you entered the palace for? ”

After listening to Wei Tongnian's words, Pang Gang was noncommittal, just stopped talking after asking, and then said to Wen Renjun and Hua Yan: "What are you two going to enter the palace for?" ”

Hua Yan and Wen Renjun glanced at each other, and Wen Renjun smiled and made a gesture of please. Signaling Hua Yan to say first, Hua Yan had no choice but to say first: "Weichen came here this time to ask the emperor for an order, our new dynasty has been decided, should the tax rate be charged according to the tax rate we used to have in Qingzhou?" How should the tax money be distributed after it is collected? Please ask the emperor to show me? ”

After listening to Hua Yan's words, Pang Gang thought for a while and said: "Regarding the tax rate, let's collect it according to the tax rate we set when we were in Qingzhou, the commercial tax is still charged 20%, and the agricultural tax is also 20%, but after the commercial tax is taken, 60% of it must be charged into the treasury, and the local government must not be intercepted without authorization, and the violator will be beheaded!" ”

The Ming Dynasty's taxation is very interesting, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, believes that since the tax has been collected, it will be used in the place anyway, so why bother to escort the tax silver into Beijing, and put it in various places.

However, Pang Gang, a later person, knew that the greatest power of money still lies in circulation, and only the silver that circulates is useful, otherwise it can only be wasted if it is just put in the local treasury, and leaving the tax silver in the local area can only weaken the central government's control over the localities, which is something that a fool can do. That's why the above bloody sentence was uttered.

And this is also a major event related to the prosperity of the country, so he can't help but be ruthless. Pang Gang knows very well that if many policies are not formulated at the beginning, the resistance to doing them in the future will increase hundreds or thousands of times, just like the old Zhu family's tax is a good example.

Pang Gang's bloody words showed his determination, and Hua Yan's face changed color slightly, and then he nodded heavily.

"Wen Aiqing, what's the matter with you?"

After solving the matter of Huayan, Pang Gang turned his gaze to Wen Renjun.

Wen Renjun bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, now that the new dynasty is established, it is the time for Vientiane to be renewed, but because our dynasty was first established, and we should not rely too much on the officials of the previous dynasty, the minister implores Your Majesty to reopen the imperial examination as soon as possible, thinking that our dynasty will select talents and enrich them into all prefectures and counties." ”

"This"

Pang Gang just began to groan, in this era, scientific research is a major event, at least it is to select talents for the court and the country, and at worst it is not an exaggeration to say that it is related to the stability and survival of the country and society, no matter which dynasty and which generation of emperors must be cautious.

However, for the scientific research of this era, Pang Gang really looks down on it in his heart, and doing well in your Baguwen does not necessarily mean that you can do well in governing the place.

The ancient Chinese imperial examination system first originated in the Sui Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty unified the country. In order to adapt to the development and changes of feudal economic and political relations, to expand the requirements of the feudal ruling class to participate in political power, and to strengthen the centralization of power, the power to select officials was transferred to the central government, and the imperial examination system was used to replace the nine-rank Zhongzheng system. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened the Jinshi course in the third year of the Great Cause, and used the examination method to select the Jinshi. …,

Shen Jiji, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty, had a pertinent evaluation of this historic change: "The previous generation was selected, and the county of the prefecture was inspected...... As for Qi Sui, it is overwhelmed...... It is to dispose of the power of the state capital and return to the Ministry of Officials. Since the Sui boycott external election. Recruit people from all over the world, gather in Beijing in spring and autumn, and gather in the clouds. ‘

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was established, and the imperial examination system entered its heyday. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the imperial examination, and the method of the imperial examination was more rigorous than that of previous dynasties.

However, the scientific examination also has a very fatal weakness, that is, the Ming Dynasty Township Examination and the first test of the Hui Examination only tested eight strands of literature. Whether you can pass the test mainly depends on the merits of the Baguwen. Therefore, ordinary readers often devote their whole lives to Baguwen. The Baguwen is titled with verses from the Four Books and the Five Classics. The meaning can only be expounded according to the title. The wording should be in the tone of the ancients, that is, the so-called words of the sages, and the format is also very dead. Therefore, Gu Yanwu once said indignantly: "Eight shares are prosperous and the "Six Classics" is small, eighteen houses are prosperous and twenty-one are wasted." He also said, "Foolishness is worse than burning books." ”

Since Baguwen is so unbearable, does Pang Gang want to cancel him immediately? Naturally not, the scientific research system can exist for so many years, naturally there is a reason for it, and Pang Gang will not cancel this system at will before there is no better system to replace it, so Pang Gang came up with another way.

I thought about it. Pang Gang said: "Looking at the previous dynasty, only the two subjects of the Ming and Ming classics were re-entered, but the Ming Law (law) and the Ming Arithmetic (arithmetic) were ignored. And established the Dahua Law, in the future, if you want to serve in the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, you must be from the Ming Law Department, if you want to work in the Ministry of Households, you must be from the Ming Arithmetic Department, otherwise you are not allowed to serve in the Ministry of Households. ”

Pang Gang's words just fell. Everyone in the imperial study was stunned, and Hua Yan stammered: "Your Majesty, if this is spread out, I'm afraid there will be a big uproar in the whole country!" ”

Wen Renjun also persuaded on the side: "Your Majesty, I hope you will think twice!" ”

Wei Tongnian also frowned and said nothing, the Ministry of Household and Criminal Affairs, Dali Temple is an important department of the imperial court, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Finance and the Court, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice in later generations.

But Wei Tong's shock was not over, Pang Gang immediately dropped a bombshell, "Also, I plan to build a Dahua Royal Army Academy in the capital and a Dahua Royal Naval Academy in Qingzhou, with me personally serving as the dean, and selecting military generals and polyrudito to teach their courses in the academy, and those who do not graduate from these two academies in the future will not be allowed to hold a military position above the seventh rank in the army!" ”

"Hiss"

If it was said that Pang Gang's proposal just now that those who were not from the two disciplines of Ming Law and Ming Arithmetic were not allowed to serve in the Household Department, the Criminal Department, and Dali Temple, they were shocked, and Pang Gang proposed that people who were not graduates of these two colleges were not allowed to hold military positions above the seventh rank in the army, which shocked them beyond words.

At this moment, Wei Tongtong and the three of them were so sluggish that they didn't know what to say, if this was the case, the students who graduated from these two academies could really be regarded as protégés of the Son of Heaven, could it be that in the future, the emperor planned to reuse martial artists and those miscellaneous scholars?

Looking at the stunned three people, Pang Gang couldn't help but shake his head, "Don't be surprised, in the future, I will have to open a Gewu department, and those who are not from the Gewu department are not allowed to serve in the Ministry of Industry." ”

"Crazy, the emperor must be crazy!"

This is the common idea of these three people at this time

Looking at the sluggish faces of the three people, Pang Gang couldn't help but smile dumbly, how could these three people understand their hard work? The biggest drawback of the imperial examination system is rote memorization, which is also its basic requirement for candidates, and its reason is that the ancients have finished all the truths about the world and life, and "today's people" only need to keep it in mind, and when they want to use it, they can just pick a few out to solve all the problems in reality. This is also a complete denial of the wisdom of "today's people".

In addition, the restriction of only the Confucian classics is another basic feature of the scientific examination. How much ideological value does the Confucian classics themselves have, don't care about it, just this kind of idea of advocating the only thought, engaging in cultural dictatorship, which itself is a kind of closed foolish thought, the consequence of which is to cause Confucianism to be high above for thousands of years, and the bottom is a vast emptiness, although all kinds of ideas and isms are still being studied and invented unremittingly, but they are all prostrate at the bottom, and they cannot be on the table, not to mention the slightest carelessness, they will be suppressed by the imperial court by force, so the Chinese multi-text prison. As for the fact that law, arithmetic, or other subjects are not permanent, it shows that China has always attached little importance to science, resulting in the traditional situation in which China has not been able to form scientific and technological ideas, and has caused China to fall behind and collapse thousands of years later.

And what Pang Gang wants to do today is to break this monopoly (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )