On August 11, 1637, Wu Sangui, who had been trapped in Wuchang for many days, was killed by his subordinates, and the remnants of tens of thousands of troops surrendered to Lu Xiangsheng, and the largest military force in the south was wiped out. Eighty-one? Middle?? Wenwang ???.?

This is also expected, after all, under the powerful offensive of the Tuanshan Army, how can Wu Sangui resist it? In the panic of the people, even if he is not betrayed by his subordinates, there is only one way out, suicide in defeat.

The military offensive in both the north and the south was like a whirlwind and clouds, and it was not until this moment that everyone understood the deep meaning of the decisive battle between the tension and the Manchus in Korea.

Setting up the battlefield abroad can naturally avoid the domestic war and turmoil, which is also a good strategy. For example, after the Korean state has experienced a series of wars, even if it is just "watching the war," hundreds of thousands of Korean people have died, and the Korean state is withering more and more.

And after Korea solved the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Tuanshan Army was in full swing, and no matter which side of the force was attacked, it was a breeze.

Shenyang has been besieged for two months, and the artillery of the Tuanshan Army has been continuously assembled under the city, gradually increasing from more than 400 at the beginning to more than 1,000, and more artillery will be transported there as time goes by.

There was no suspense about the outcome of the war, and everyone's eyes in the Ming Dynasty were focused on the Jingshi Gongyuan.

Here, the first time in the Xinming Dynasty to open a science and take the exam, today officially opened.

Today's examination is for candidates from Liaodong and Beizhili, and they are also taking the official positions of Liaodong and Beizhili.

This is a bit like the civil service examination in later generations, where the magistrate examination was taken directly, and the examination at the central level will not be held until next year. Let's start with two pilot places, for a major innovation like the Luncai Ceremony, the tension is like walking on thin ice, and I am cautious.

A huge country is in the hands of tension, and every decision he makes is very important. Even if it is a very common practice in later generations, whether it is suitable for implementation in this year and month, Zhang Li is not sure.

Throughout the ages, China has been too big. The situation is too complicated. Even if the great men of later generations engaged in reform and opening up, they would first find Shenzhen to test, which gave Zhang Li a great inspiration.

Even if you think it's the right decision, you can't just tap your head and make it. We must be cautious, and those who can be piloted must be piloted first.

The second examination room of the Xinming Dynasty is still set up in the Gongyuan, but it has done some humane treatment. Zhang Zhang himself has taken the Jinshi exam here before, although he is a bit "tricky", but he has also been in the number room. When I think of this painful process, I feel that 10,000 grass and mud horses are galloping in my heart.

In the past, the imperial examination often had to be taken in the number room for several days, eating, drinking, and lazing were all in it, and many people could not swing at the usual level. Due to the lack of officials in the country at present, many localities have temporarily retained old bureaucrats, and the talent gap is very large, so the number of places admitted by the examination is much more than that of the imperial examination.

The examination papers of each subject are divided into three volumes, upper, middle and lower, and only one paper is taken every day, and the answering time of each paper is only two hours, so as to ensure the state of the candidates as much as possible.

After all, most candidates are new to engineering and agriculture, and they can become petty officials if they can have a little basic concept in a few months. And how can you be too demanding?

At the end of the three-day exam, the graders began to mark the papers. Zhang Zhang specially transferred Song Yingxing from Liaodong to Beijing to serve as the chief marking officer this time, and the ordinary marking officers below are also technicians engaged in the corresponding industries. Of course, the national discipline tension invited the former master of the Hanlin Academy to read the papers, which made the Qingliu leader feel quite complacent, and also won a lot of hearts for the tension.

In the end, the exam went well, which made Zhang Li really relieved. Although the level of the first batch of admitted people is not very good, at least it has set a precedent, and it will be slowly improved in the future!

If it doesn't work in one year, it can be two years, and if it doesn't work in two years, it can be four years As soon as the subjects of the imperial examination were changed, young people and even children would begin to be guided to slowly change the millennial tradition of valuing only Confucianism.

The Industrial Revolution has quietly begun to sprout, but it still needs to be accumulated. The tension is very clear, without the accumulation of precipitation, how unreliable it is to make cars and airplanes oil in minutes, and it can only be imagined.

Fortunately, everything is starting to change happily.

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The first day of the first month of the first month of 1638 is destined to be a day that will go down in history because of this day during the New Year's ceremony. The Manchu Empress Dowager Bulbutai brought the two-year-old little emperor Fulin to Beijing to ask for surrender, and all the lands in the south and southwest of the Yangtze River have been reunited.

Zhang Li summoned Bulbutai and accepted the surrender of the Manchus. As a condition for pardoning the Jurchens, Zhang Zhang demanded that all the Jurchens move to Guannai, and the Eight Banners completely broke the establishment and were properly resettled in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

The most striking event of the New Year's celebration was the arrival of the Ryukyu Kingdom King Sho to pay tribute. Under the deterrence of the Shin Ming Dynasty, the Satsuma Domain of Japan had withdrawn its troops from the Ryukyus, and Japan was mired in a protracted civil war – all of which, of course, was a source of joy for the Tension ......

In an atmosphere of joy and joy, Zhang Li announced that he would provide a large amount of arms to the Ryukyu Kingdom in the coming year, and would continue to provide it with assistance in all aspects.

The continued existence of a country that can compete with Japan is obviously a great good thing for China. Off the coast of Japan, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" is setting sail.

In a few hundred years, I don't know what kind of tension the world will become, and it is impossible to guess. But what can be done at the moment, then it must be done well. What the first island chain, the second island chain all go to hell - ah, no, keep locking up for brother, lock up Japan......

Zhang Li and the Shang clan formally signed a "Ryukyu Trade and Friendship Treaty", in which the Ryukyu Kingdom once again clarified the status of the Ryukyu Kingdom as an eternal independence, and clearly stipulated that if the security of the Ryukyus was in trouble, the Shinmei Kingdom would unconditionally support it.

The treaty alone may be able to maintain friendly relations between the two countries for decades or even one or two hundred years, but the so-called "treaty is violated" cannot be completely believed in the treaty.

Therefore, there is such a clause in the treaty - in view of the sparse population and lack of labor in the Ryukyu Kingdom, in the future, the people who illegally allocate troops in the Xinming Kingdom will be settled in the Ryukyus every year.

Of course, these prisoners were already punished for leaving their homeland, and their status in the Ryukyus was exactly the same as that of the local people. At the same time, as a supplement to this article, Chinese officially became the second language of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

In Shang's view, Ryukyu was originally a poor and weak country, and the Shinming Kingdom provided a lot of aid on the one hand, and imported labor on the other hand, this picture is simply too beautiful to look at!

At the same time, the treaty also stipulated that the Ryukyus would "sell" the port of Naha to the Shinmei Kingdom for 1,000 taels of silver, which is still prosperous but far less famous than later generations. Originally, the Shang family wanted to give Naha to the Xinming Kingdom, but Zhang Zhang insisted on paying - the transaction is much more reliable than the cession, and there will never be controversy in the future, just like the Alaska where Midi bought Lao Maozi, even if the price of cabbage, Lao Maozi didn't care about releasing half a fart.

With the constraints of the treaty, a large number of Han Chinese as the base of the population, and finally a permanent military port, it is believed that this first island chain seems to be in place.

After the New Year's celebration, Zhang Li personally sent the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shang, to the port of Tianjin. After waving goodbye, Zhang Li looked at the Ryukyu fleet that gradually disappeared from sight, and couldn't help but feel some feelings in his heart:

That's all I can do, and I hope that the deplorable history of future generations will never happen again--

Good luck in China, good luck in the motherland! (To be continued.) )