"Oh? What is Aiqing's good plan? "Zhu Youxiao is interested in the cabinet, the cabinet is all self-assured, high eight dou, usually do not take the emperor in their eyes at all, the court is just a formality, a group of people on the golden palace chirping, the little emperor on the throne as a mud puppet, no wonder Zhu Youxiao has not received a good systematic education since childhood, he grew up under the influence of the market culture of eunuchs and palace maids, and after being a little sensible, he became obsessed with the so-called

"Strange skills and tricks" have no decent ideas for governing the country at all, when Liu Ziguang is not there, the only Xiao Wei Zi who can speak, is also semi-illiterate, and he can't provide any advice at all, so the young Tianzi is in a hurry, so he hurriedly recruits Liu Ziguang back in the honeymoon, hoping that this minister, who often surprises him, can be a blockbuster again.

"Retake the test." Liu Ziguang said lightly.

"Oh." Zhu Youxiao was a little disappointed, this is not a high-level move, it has already been proposed by the minister, and it was immediately rejected by everyone, but it is a major matter of labor and money, not to mention the cost, it is not inevitable to take the test again, and it is not a glorious thing to laugh at the generous Enke of the Apocalypse Dynasty because of fraud, and it is not a glorious thing to take the exam twice, and retaking the exam means admitting that there was fraud in the previous exam, not punishing a few officials, and not going to do it, but the chief examiner punished him with money and money in the court, and half the sky has not collapsed.

Seeing Zhu Youxiao's disappointed eyes, Liu Ziguang just smiled slightly and continued: "In fact, it is more appropriate to call it an additional test, and the original results are not invalid, but just let all the reference exams be taken again according to the new format. ”

"But... According to what Aiqing just said, the lifters in the north are indeed not doing well, even if they take an extra test, what should they do if they can't be on the list? ”

"No, the additional test will no longer test the eight-strand text, but the examination mode that can measure the actual ability, Wechen has already thought about it, in the past, the eight-strand scholars can only take some dead reading poetry and books, and they don't understand the weak scholars who don't know how to tie the chicken, and the weak scholars who can judge the case and be good at being officials are only one or two out of a hundred, what is the use of such a jinshi? At present, it is already a day and night for the Manchu Qing to withdraw from Guanwai, and the Zheng family in the southeast will also return to Shun, and when these two sides are calmed down, the imperial court army will go west to conquer the Xia Kingdom, and I will expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and what I need is a capable person who can go immediately and take office to pacify the party. The Jinshi who was tested with Weichen's method will definitely be of great use. ”

"What Aiqing said is very fast, tell me what is tested in this exam mode?" Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up and he became excited.

"Yes, the examination is divided into three parts: one is the "Commentary", which gives the candidates a question and asks them to write an essay on it, which is to examine the candidates' writing skills, after all, the essay officer still has to pay attention to these; The second is the "Administrative Ability Test", which examines them with some problems often encountered in officials, such as difficult cases, civil disputes, etc., in order to test their ability to be officials, and the third is the "Basic Knowledge", which considers their common knowledge of agriculture, industry, commerce, astronomy, geography, and if they are just nerds who die to study, this item will definitely not pass the test. The above three comprehensive scores can definitely be the talents that can be used by His Majesty. Liu Ziguang talked exaggeratedly and copied the civil service examination of later generations.

"It's so good, Aiqing will hand over this fold tomorrow morning, I want to see who else dares to oppose such a complete strategy."

"The minister has already written, but it is better to be proposed by His Majesty, and the ministers and officials will take out such a note lightly, and they will definitely be criticized to death by the ministers." Liu Ziguang didn't want to be this stunned young man.

"Well, then I will help you mention such a good policy for governing the country, which is a great achievement for me, Aiqing, I owe you a favor." Zhu Youxiao is very happy, because this method proposed by him will definitely impress the ministers, improve the emperor's personal prestige, and let those old guys know that Zhu Youxiao is not a yellow-mouthed boy, but a genius through the ages.

The matter of Qiu Qiu was put aside for the time being, and Zhu Youxiao talked about the war in the southeast again, and now that the war is raging along the coast of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong's powerful naval army has been defeated and retreated one after another under the attack of the naval divisions of Spain, the Netherlands, England and other countries, and the island of Taiwan has fallen, and only a few thousand soldiers of the Zheng family insist on fighting guerrillas on the island, and the situation is very grim.

The court bosses don't care about the fall of Taiwan, anyway, it's just a small island hanging overseas, the court is big, and they don't care about that place at all, but they are quite concerned about the Zheng family, who is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty but has been raising troops, and what they have implemented during this time is the strategy of killing people with a knife, and killing the rebellious Zheng family with the knife of a foreign sailor, and now this strategy has been basically realized, and the Zheng family has completely surrendered, accepted the conditions of the court, and was willing to be a Fujian general soldier (the price has dropped again) However, the imperial court agreed, and if there were any soldiers to be sent to Fujian, the command of the Fujian capital would make thousands of rattan soldiers, and how about the foreign warships galloping on the sea, how about the Fujian naval division's several small sampans had already been defeated by the Zheng family, and now it is unrealistic to dispatch the Guangdong naval division and the Zhejiang naval division, and the hydrological geography is not clear, and the chances of the guest army winning the battle are very small, in case these two naval divisions are put into it again, it will be troublesome, and the Ming Dynasty will have no maritime barrier, and the imperial court has drawn a small cake for the Zheng family, but it is difficult to realize even this empty small cake.

A group of ministers who were in the position of corpses and vegetarians couldn't come up with a good idea, so they simply put Zheng Sen aside and ignored them, poor Zheng Gongzi held a piece of empty paper from the court, but he couldn't wait for any substantial assistance, the grief and indignation couldn't do it, a lot of money was spent, and the relationship that should have left was gone, but in the end it was still empty.

The ministers are not in a hurry, the emperor is in a hurry, he heard about the bravery of Taiwan's Zheng family sailors when he was a child, such a strong team can be defeated, it can be seen that the opponent is strong, the Zheng family is finished, Taiwan is finished, then the next turn is not the Ming Dynasty?

Those greedy foreign robbers will definitely not be satisfied with just one Taiwanese. The second thing that the far-sighted Zhu Youxiao recruited Liu Ziguang to discuss was the Taiwan issue, and Liu Ziguang had already made up his mind about this matter, and Taiwan must not lose it!

After listening to the emperor's brief statement of the situation, he said categorically: "Even if the Zheng family has rebelled before, it is also our Ming people, and it depends on the master to fight the dog, those foreigners are now bullying the Zheng family and annexing Taiwan, it is clear that they don't take me Daming in their eyes, if they are allowed to go on like this, sooner or later, their sailors will climb 6, Fujian, Zhejiang." ”

"But now Daming doesn't have a decent sailor, even if he goes all out to rescue the Zheng family, it will be useless." Zhu Youxiao sighed and said.

"It's okay, since the situation is already like this, it's better to temporarily suspend the troops and wait for the ministers' heavenly army to expand a little more, and you can easily defeat those foreign sailors, it is winter now, and it is difficult to fight at sea, and after the beginning of spring, Your Majesty will wait for a long time to receive good news." Liu Ziguang swore and said.

There is no reference on the sea, the airship crew is difficult to grasp the direction, the veterans of the sailors who are familiar with the sea conditions need to cooperate with the ethereal sea, the warships are fast-moving targets, how to sink the enemy ship in this situation, it is a difficult job, although the experience of ambushing the Shanghai sailors last time was somewhat helpful, but it was used to deal with unfamiliar foreign sailors, Liu Ziguang still had no bottom in his heart, according to his idea, this winter should increase the investment in the heavenly army, the production of fully enclosed cabins, more powerful and accurate weapons, and also have to train sailors, aviation units, sailors, ships and airships suitable for sea operations, the coordination of ships and airships also needs to be strengthened, the Zheng family has a lot of good hands good at water warfare, can be used。

Of course, these specific operations do not need to be explained to Zhu Youxiao one by one, Liu Ziguang only needs to tell him what he needs now, how to get the support of the cabinet, the use of troops in the southeast is a major matter, and it is rare to ask for millions of taels of silver, and the imperial court has just received the auction money of Qishuyan Machinery Factory, which is still wealthy, and there is no need to worry about silver, but who will lead the army is a problem, and the Ming Dynasty has no decent sailor generals at all, and no one dares to take this errand in the face of unfamiliar enemies.

"Your Majesty, please relax, and when the time comes, Weichen should come forward." Seeing that Liu Ziguang patted his chest and hit the ticket, the emperor also let go of his heart, patted him on the shoulder and said: "At the critical moment, Aiqing can help me solve my worries." "The conversation between Zhu Youxiao and Liu Ziguang here is just a conversation, if it is to be implemented, it must be approved by the cabinet to build warships, approve silver, and dispatch troops, but it is a huge project, and it is an impossible task without the full cooperation of the court, so everything will not be finalized until tomorrow morning.

Liu Ziguang's words were always a reassuring pill for Zhu Youxiao, who got rid of trivial and troublesome things, Zhu Youxiao smiled and invited Liu Ziguang to take the tracked wind and fire ten-wheeled vehicle he first made to go around the suburbs, Liu Ziguang naturally happily agreed, but just when the two of them were about to leave, a little eunuch ran in without knowing the current affairs and said: "Qiqi, the emperor's concubine, please move over." ”

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"It's Her Royal Highness the eldest princess...... I haven't eaten in three days. The little eunuch said resignedly. The dialogue in this chapter is mainly to set the stage for future episodes.