"Let their children and grandchildren rise to a higher social status? How do you speak? Zhu Di asked curiously.

"Your Highness, if you want to improve your status now, there are only two paths. One is through military exploits, but being a soldier is the business of military households, which has little to do with businessmen. Besides, now that the vitality of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has been greatly damaged, there is no large-scale war to fight, so it is impossible to take the road of war exploits. ”

"Another way is to take the imperial examination. Although the status of merchants in the Song and Yuan dynasties was improved, so that they were no longer lowly status, it was impossible to participate in the imperial examination. So for now, the only way out for the children and grandchildren of merchants is to inherit the property and then continue to have a low social status. ”

"However, businessmen are wealthy people, and they are not satisfied with their low social status, and they also want to be treated like scholars, but they have no way out. That's why they have to work hard to build a good relationship with the doctor. But if His Highness can let their children and grandchildren participate in the imperial examination, then no matter how much money you let them come up with, they will not have the slightest complaint, and they will even be grateful to His Highness. Hu Ye said.

"Let their children and grandchildren participate in the imperial examinations? As you said, although businessmen can make money very much, their social status is still low, and even if they get rid of their lowly status, they must not participate in the imperial examination, otherwise they will mess up the court. Jin Zhong's head was like a rattle, vigorously denying Hu Ye's remarks, as if he had done it with Hu Ye today.

"Your Highness, since you can regard the Mongols as equal to the Han Chinese, why can't you treat the Han as equal? They are all sons and daughters of China, why should they be dwarfs? Could it be because they're businessmen? ”

Hu Ye ignored Jin Zhong's rebuttal, knowing that he might be dissatisfied with his little child, and talked loudly in front of King Yan.

"I'm also against this kind of hierarchy, but it's been around for thousands of years, and it's impossible to say it's abandoned. Besides, even if I am willing, my father will not be willing, the Manchu Dynasty will not be willing, and the scholars of the whole world will not be willing. ”

Zhu Di hesitated for a moment and said with some confusion.

"Your Highness, do you think that if these merchants take out half of the silver from the treasury, can they change the emperor's mind? If they could come up with more silver than the state treasury, would the Manchu civil and military forces agree? If they take out twice the amount of silver from the treasury, will they be able to stop the hearts of the scholars of the world? Hu Ye said with a wicked smile.

"Can they really take so much silver?"

Zhu Di asked with some disbelieving.

"Your Highness, eighty percent of the wealth in the world is in the hands of two adults, and half of these two adults are merchants, do you think they can take it? His Royal Highness has heard of Shen Wansan, who was sent to Yunnan by Emperor Hongwu, who was a rich lord of the country, known as the first rich man of the Ming Dynasty. His money is definitely much more than the Ming treasury, although it is difficult to find a rich businessman like Shen Wansan in the world, but there are many people who have a lot of money. ”

"Businessmen are nothing more than profit, as long as they have enough benefits, it is worth spending more money, and it is a great temptation to let their children and grandchildren embark on a career in office." Hu Ye said hesitantly.

"I think you're a good businessman." After listening to Hu Ye's method, Zhu Di felt that there was some truth, so he made fun of Hu Ye.

"Your Highness, you have wronged people, my white hat is very valuable, and I have suffered a great loss in exchange for only thirty-three women. Originally, I wanted to ask you for some silver flowers today, but seeing that His Highness is also stretched, I won't mention it. If those profiteers find out that there is a loser like me, they are guaranteed to drown me with saliva. How can Your Highness say that I am a qualified businessman. Hu Ye shook his head and said.

"I paid the money with one hand, and you haven't delivered it yet. Isn't this equivalent to an empty glove white wolf? And say you're not a qualified businessman? I've built a big house, and you're a big one. ”

Zhu Di personally brought a rag to wipe off the tea on the table, and the anger just now was indeed a little big.

Oh, my God! Hu Ye felt that he had been planted in Zhu Di's hands in this life, so he gave him a white hat, but he didn't expect that he would also wronged himself for being a white wolf with empty gloves. How thick does it have to be to say such a thing, Hu Ye could only pray silently, "God, come and have an earthquake that shakes me back to the twenty-first century, I can't stay here anymore." ”

After praying silently, Hu Ye can only return to reality, life still has to live, and if he wants to return to the 21st century, he can only live for another 600 years.

"By the way, Your Highness, why did you give me such a big mansion, even if it is a few hundred people, it will not be a problem." Hu Ye asked cautiously.

Ever since he knew that there was a courtyard house behind the Nameless Mansion, Hu Ye had always been very worried, for fear that Zhu Di would arrange some conspiracy for him, and he thought that Zhu Di could do anything.

"Hehe, I can only tell you that when I took over the general's mansion, a master appeared, and he whispered a few words in my ear, and as for what he said, I am inconvenient to say. The next time he is in Yujian, he can ask in person. Zhu Di also sold Guanzi.

He admired Hu Ye's knowledge-seeking eyes, which made a person who looked like a prodigy look at him with a desire to learn, and Zhu Di felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Superior!"

Hu Ye repeated Zhu Di's words, and a figure suddenly appeared in his mind. He has white hair on his head, has a sloppy face, holds a floating dust in one hand and a crutch in the other. This seems to be the old fairy that Lao Qian said.

Oh my God, this liar is so powerful that he even dared to deceive the future Ming Chengzu, and he successfully deceived Ming Chengzu. Hu Ye felt that if he really had the opportunity to meet this old liar, he must learn from him and learn the trick of deception, and he would definitely be able to use it in the future. For example, cheating girls and the like, being able to hook up with a girl from the Ming Dynasty seems to be very fulfilling.

"Okay, I'll talk about it later. Since these merchants were rich, and they were willing to spend money for their children and grandchildren, the only problem at present was how to get their fathers and emperors, as well as the Manchu civil and military forces, to agree to let their children and grandchildren take the imperial examinations. After appreciating Hu Ye's curiosity, Zhu Di stopped in moderation and shifted the topic to the main topic.

Hu Ye really bowed to him, this Zhu Di's means of governing people are really high, Hu Ye really wanted to ask what the master said to Zhu Di. But Zhu Di opened the topic, which made Hu Ye's curiosity stop abruptly, so he had to reply stupidly, "It's nothing more than Chen saying that he is powerful, I think there are so many literati in His Highness's mansion, it shouldn't be a problem to write two good articles." ”

And the most important of them is to give examples, and the poet fairy Li Taibai is a typical example. Back then, he was unable to participate in the imperial examination because of a businessman, which made the officialdom lose such a great poet. If he can be allowed to participate in the imperial examination, he will definitely be the champion and the first. ”

"Therefore, if these people continue to be excluded from the imperial examination, maybe a lot of talents like Li Taibai will be buried, which will be a loss for the Ming Dynasty."

"Then it is to wait for the first person on both sides to eat crabs, and the imperial court can first try to let some merchants participate in the imperial examination to see if there are talents in it. And these businessmen can also see if their children and grandchildren are suitable for this path. In fact, this kind of win-win thing should have been implemented a long time ago, and there is no need to wait until today. Hu Ye said slowly.

Hu Ye knew that according to the wisdom of the ancients, he would definitely see the benefits of doing this, so someone must have thought of such a method before, but because there were too many conservative people, they could only seal such a method. And I have to be this person who pushes through the old and brings forth the new. This is the first fire that Hu Ye added to the Ming Dynasty, not just to contribute to Zhu Di.