In the south study, Li Yunzhong clasped his hands slightly and asked Lu Jianying: "Lifu, you are the first assistant of the court, I rely on you to ask a question, see if you can answer it?" ”

Lu Jianying thought that the emperor was going to test his own knowledge, so he replied confidently: "Please ask the emperor to ask the question, and Weichen will do his best." ”

Li Yunzhong asked, "Do you know how many prisoners there are in the country?" ”

Prisoner? Lu Jianying was puzzled and replied: "Weichen doesn't know, but the emperor should ask the relevant officials." ”

Li Yunzhong said: "Okay, you go and call Shen Baozhen, the waiter of the Criminal Department, and I will see if he can answer." ”

After a while, Shen Baozhen came by order.

Li Yunzhong said: "Shen Baozhen, do you know how many prisoners there are in the world?" ”

Shen Baozhen was more honest and replied respectfully: "Weichen doesn't know, there are more than 20 provinces in the world, more than 100 state capitals, thousands of counties and towns, I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands of prisoners, why is the emperor asking this?" ”

Li Yunzhong sighed: "Hundreds of thousands of prisoners! The amount of food consumed every day is also astronomical, and I plan to relocate them to another place, so that they can cultivate the land and mine and be self-sufficient, what do you think? ”

Before Shen Baozhen could speak, Lu Jianying replied first: "Your Majesty, don't do it!" Prisons are widely distributed throughout the country, and some prisoners have only been sentenced to a few months' imprisonment, and they are not released after they have been assembled. ”

"That's right!" Li Yunzhong nodded and said, "Then how about gathering death row prisoners?" ”

Shen Baozhen said: "The emperor thinks twice, most of the condemned prisoners are loud thieves, or some unruly people. If they do not obey the discipline, they will be told to farm and mine. It is extremely difficult, and it is necessary to prevent them from killing officials and rebelling. It is also necessary to arrange heavy troops, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Li Yunzhong ordered: "That's it, first gather a thousand death row prisoners across the country and send them to Beizhou." ”

The northern state is Alaska, and Li Yunzhong has already sent 3,000 people to garrison and hand over to Russia.

Lu Jianying said secretly: So that's the case! I said that the emperor asked about the prisoners for no reason, and it turned out that this was the idea.

Li Yunzhong said to Shen Baozhen, who was stunned in place: "You still haven't prepared yet!" ”

Shen Baozhen woke up and retreated.

Lu Jianying is completely helpless against this emperor, and all kinds of rebellious whimsy emerge in endlessly, and he can't persuade him. If this continues, I am afraid that Confucian orthodoxy will also be attacked, and I have to think of a way to completely stop the emperor's idea.

Lu Jianying looked left and right, there was only one palace maid left, isn't this a great opportunity!

"Your Majesty, Weichen wants to talk to the emperor about what is in his heart."

Li Yunzhong was stunned and said, "What do you think in your heart? Lord Lu also speaks from his heart? ”

Lu Jianying said with a smile: "The emperor has always treated Weichen well, and does not treat Weichen as a slave, Weichen is very grateful, so he wants to talk to the emperor about his heart." "Stuck heel

Li Yunzhong smiled: "Okay! Good! I just like to listen to my heart. Let's talk like old friends, since we are friends, let's not distinguish between superior and inferior, come to someone! Sit! ”

Lu Jianying did not shirk. sat directly on the chair and said: "The emperor is wise, and Weichen will talk to the emperor about the imperial examination." ”

Li Yunzhong understood. It turned out that this old fox wanted to persuade me to pay attention to the imperial examination.

"Tell me, I'll listen."

Lu Jianying asked: "Can the emperor know why the previous dynasties attached importance to the imperial examination. ”

Li Yunzhong didn't know. immediately smiled: "That's not to recruit talents, Tang and Song are like this." However, the Ming and Qing dynasties attached great importance to the eight shares and poisoned the talents, and these scholars could be harmed by the eight shares, and they studied hard for ten years, and in the end they couldn't understand bullshit, they could only chant poems against each other, and they talked about national events in general, and they didn't even understand the unity of knowledge and action. ”

Lu Jianying complimented: "The emperor is really wise, but from the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty to Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty, how many smart monarchs, Yongle Emperor, Kangqian ...... Emperor, can't they think of this, why don't they change, the emperor has thought about the reason? ”

Li Yunzhong pondered for a while, and didn't know what Lu Jianying meant?

"Liv is saying that they did it on purpose?"

Lu Jianying praised: "Not bad! Deliberately, in ancient times, rebellions were mostly made by smart people, but the most important thing in the world is smart people, if you don't find something for them to do, every day to rebel, which king can sleep peacefully! Even if the wise ones are as wise as Kangxi, the eight shares are like a cage, lock all the smart people in the world in it, let them study the eight shares, so that they will not think about rebellion, and the rest are all reckless and rough people, how can they succeed! ”

Li Yunzhong sneered: "For the sake of a dynasty, poison the world's scholars!" What a bastard. ”

Lu Jianying asked, "Why did the emperor say this?" ”

Li Yunzhong said: "Don't say anything else, let's just say that the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu in the early Han Dynasty were not only powerful, 400,000 knights, this force can be four times more than when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the Han soldiers were less than four times less than the late Ming Dynasty, the late Ming Dynasty only guarded the Shanhaiguan one, and the Han Dynasty guarded the Great Wall, to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han army drove straight in, sealed the wolf Juxu, and the Huns fled in embarrassment, like a lost dog, and even fled to Europe to establish a country, hum! Eight shares mislead the country and the people! ”

Lu Jianying is completely desperate, this emperor's thinking is different from ordinary people! Others think about their own glory and wealth, he thinks about the glory and wealth of the people of the world, others think about the emperor of a family of all generations, he thinks about the strength of the whole country for all generations, is this wisdom and courage or neurosis?

"Your Majesty, it will be bad for you to do this, ambitious people are plotting to usurp the throne, so how will the emperor deal with it?"

Li Yunzhong said: "You mean, after a hundred years, my descendants are not as wise as me, and they lost their lives when they met a smart person, right?" ”

Lu Jianying nodded, and said secretly: At that time, I am afraid that it will not be the life of one person, but the life of the whole clan, even the nine clans!

Li Yunzhong said: "Then open up the people's style, open the style of speech, expand supervision, all the officials in the world, including the emperor, have a sense of awe, then they will not do wrong things, and they will not dare to do wrong things, so that all of them will be united, how the country will not be strong and how not prosperous!" ”

Lu Jianying shook his head and couldn't help sneering: "The monarch's authority is sluggish, and the courtiers dare to supervise the emperor, that is, the monarch is not a monarch, the minister is not a minister, is there always an ethical outline?" Will the world not be disrupted! ”

Li Yunzhong said: "Definitely! If everyone in the world understands the truth and understands the righteousness, even if there are one or two careerists, how can it be done? ”

Lu Jianying was disheartened, the emperor and the emperor were not protected, what were you doing with it?

"Is the emperor really going to do this?"

Li Yunzhong nodded and said: "The world is the world of the people of the world, I am just a cloth cloth, it is a blessing to have such glory, how dare you ask for anything?" ”

Lu Jianying knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "The emperor and the minister, please allow the ministers to return to their hometowns and retire for the rest of their lives!" ”

Suddenly, a loud shout came from outside the hall: "No! (To be continued......)