However, Zhu Youzhen still selected Huang Zongxi, who advocated valuing agriculture and commerce and neo-Confucianism, as the chief examiner of the examination.

Huang Zongxi was one of the more radical and less conservative officials in Confucianism.

Although Zhu Youzhen did not first carry out drastic reform of the imperial examination system in order to ensure that there would be no further turmoil in the rear during the Northern Expedition.

However, Zhu Youzhen can decide whether the new alternate civil servants will still be just famous ministers of science, and there is no Wang Xuemen through the selection of the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner of the examination.

Moreover, in order to keep the civil officials alive and vigorous, Zhu Youzhen specially instructed Huang Zongxi to admit those who have the edge and the idea of pushing through the old and bringing forth the new in the article as jinshi.

Today's Ming Dynasty needs vigor, and it needs reformist young officials who dare to dare to do things, and it does not need a middle-of-the-road minister.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen abandoned the habit of the imperial examination system, which has always been fond of taking articles that are plain and stable, with bland and irrelevant views.

Even so, these officials who may be selected may be stunned young people who are full of enthusiasm but have no life experience, and Zhu Youzhen also feels that it doesn't matter, because what is needed within the civilian bureaucratic group is not stability but warriors who dare to think about their own class interests.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also increased the number of Jinshi admissions again.

This time, the number of Imperial Jinshi admission places directly exceeded 800!

A very important way to break the elite education and implement civilian education so that the elite class loses its advantage over the cultural monopoly and educational monopoly is to lower the threshold for the common people to enter the bureaucratic class.

Just as later generations reduced the difficulty of university admission, now Zhu Youzhen has increased the number of Jinshi admission places is also a way.

As for the hidden worry that this method will lead to the growth of the gentry class and the increasing number of groups enjoying the privilege of not paying food for the gentry, Zhu Youzhen is not worried about it now.

Because in the short years after the Northern Expedition, the first thing he planned to do was to take action against the privilege of the gentry not paying food.

Now he has military power in his hands and financial power in his hands, and the officials at the grass-roots level who are close to the people are gradually being replaced by demobilized officers and soldiers of his own Guards, and now he only has to wait for the victory of the Northern Expedition to promote a group of officials who are determined to reform to implement his own policy of further reform.

Zhu Youzhen did not believe that among so many officials in the Ming Dynasty, there was not a single reformer.

On this day on the seventh day of the first month of October.

In the morning light, the outline of the Forbidden City of Nanjing began to gradually emerge under the gray sky.

Zhu Youzhen held the sword of the Son of Heaven, rode a war horse in gold armor, and wore the emperor's robe, and walked towards the square outside the Huangji Gate.

At this time, the second army of the Ming Guards, a total of 150,000 horses, had all gathered in the square outside the Huangji Gate.

The vermilion Chongzhen Type 22 rifled guns were held tightly in the hands of the infantry soldiers, and they were lined up in a straight line and stretched directly out of view.

Grass-green rifled guns were also lined up in front of the artillery camp, and the muzzles of the guns pointed directly at the northern sky, looking majestic under the azure sky.

The army soldiers are all red mandarin duck battle robes, waist-length armor and leather boots, white gloves and red tasseled steel helmets, and the navy soldiers are all pure white tweed clothes and black boots, all of them are standing majestically on the square.

On the Yangtze River, there is a huge treasure ship warship that took two years to rebuild, a third-class sail battleship "Chengyi Bo", and other warships that fill the entire Yangtze River side by side on the river.

The battleship was also full of naval soldiers, and the trumpets sounded and the drums thundered.

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

This time, because it was the Northern Expedition, for the shame of Xue himself losing the northern capital, Zhu Youzhen decided to conquer in person, so he led the army north, so as soon as he rode his horse to the center of the square, he first raised the sword of the Son of Heaven into the sky, and roared.

The soldiers all responded, shouting like thunder.

"Sacrifice the flag!"

Zhu Youzhen stopped roaring, and after giving an order, Qin Zuoming, who was with Zhu Youzhen, shouted: "Bring it up!" ”

Thanks to Zhou Ze's help, the Ming Jinyi Wei hoe team was able to secretly arrest Le Kedehun in Beijing in July this year and escorted him all the way to Nanjing.

Zhu Youzhen was worried that there was no sacrificial flag during the Northern Expedition, so he ordered someone to slowly put this Luck Dehun in the edict to torture and squeeze out its full value, and now it was brought to Huangjimen Square and brought to Zhu Youzhen.

"Jianyu was originally a Tunguska barbarian, the Ming Dynasty took pity on the misery of its people, and specially fed it with the benevolence of China to feed the civilization, and sealed its official authority, but who knew that he did not know the grace of my Han family, only the heart of the snake and scorpion, and the ambition of the tiger and wolf, and now it is even more stealing from my northern capital of the Ming Dynasty and harming the northern Han people in the fire and water. Reclaim the Northern Capital! ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he asked Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to read his 20 charges, and then he himself walked towards Luck Dehun with a sword:

"Today, the head of Yier sacrifices the flag, and the time for my revenge will start from here!"

"Zhou Ze, that dog minion turned out to be one of yours?"

Luck Dehun only asked, but as soon as his words fell, Zhu Youzhen's sword was also cut down.

Puff said.

Luckedhun's head rolled to the ground, blood gushing out.

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

For a moment, the Guards' morale rose again, and they shouted.

"Let's go!"

Zhu Youzhen raised the sword of the Son of Heaven and came out first, Qin Zuoming and Zhang Tongchang of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, as well as the civil and military officials and internal officials and servants who accompanied Zhu Youzhen and the noble Qi Deqian all came with him.

The warships on the Yangtze River also began to start and raise their sails.

According to Zhu Youzhen's deployment, the Second Army of the Guards Army will land in Liaodong with the help of the Guards Navy, and will be mainly responsible for fighting outside the customs and blocking the retreat of the Manchus.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen would disembark in Yangzhou after boarding the ship in Zhenjiang, and then personally lead the First Army of the Guards Army to the north by land.

That is to say, in this Northern Expedition, the First Army of the Guards Army will undertake the main combat mission, and the troops will be directed at the North Zhili.

In addition, the Third Guards Army would directly cross the Yellow River north to recover the northern part of Henan, and then move north.

The Fourth Army of the Guards Army will march north from the two directions of Wuchang and Xiangyang.

The Seventh Guards Army was to move north from Baoning Province to Hanzhong, responsible for recovering Gansu and the western part of Shaanxi.

The Northern Expedition of the Ming Empire can be described as a five-way army attacking together, with a total of 1 million troops, including Gao Yigong and other exterminators in addition to the Guards as the main force, as well as Li Dingguo's extermination army.

From the southeast coast to the southwest interior, there are large armies, countless grains, grasses, chariots and horses began to appear in an endless stream on the official roads in various places, from the northernmost Henan Kaifeng, Shandong Denglai to the southernmost Guangdong Qiongzhou and Dongfan Island, all appeared by the Northern Expedition propaganda.

I don't know when the Northern Expedition of the Ming Empire has been a war in which the whole army participates in the participation of the whole people.

(End of chapter)