Soon, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to implement a new style of imperial examinations in the Central Plains, which added a large number of basic knowledge of modern primary schools and topics on the governance of local facts, rather than the establishment of official positions based on the eight strands.

At the same time as the introduction of the new imperial examination, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also withdrew from the corresponding textbooks, otherwise, those literati would not have understood what the examination was!

For example, if you say what is the shape of the earth, isn't it difficult for those literati to answer this kind of question?

However, these literati still have talents, have the perseverance to persist for so long to master the eight strands of literature, and their own learning ability and willpower are very strong, which is commonly known as superior IQ.

What this kind of talent lacks is only the guidance of knowledge direction.

In fact, when the Taiping Army and the Manchu Empire expanded, they had already begun to systematically restructure the educational knowledge system.

In the new imperial examination, in addition to the usual knowledge system, the idea of loyalty to the monarch on the Taiping doctrine was also added, which is somewhat similar to the ideological and political education in later generations and foreign theological education.

It's similar to what core ideas are emphasized in later generations, it's just brainwashing at the spiritual level, and Hong Tiancheng from later generations will not give up this aspect of education.

He himself is a Han Chinese, and his rule over the Central Plains region is a bonus.

Through this new style of imperial examination and ideological and political education of loyalty, the Taiping Heavenly Congress selected and allocated available talents in batches, and then sent them to serve in the localities, replacing the officials who were held by the local gentry who were appointed by various deputies and temporary.

Of course, if you don't want to be kicked out of your official position by the new regime, you have to study hard, as long as you are willing to work hard and be loyal enough, it is easier for an acting official to become a regular official than a poor child who participates in the imperial examination.

After all, Hong Tiancheng also has to take care of the mood of the gentry in the world.

In this way, Hong Tiancheng slowly took back the rights from the gentry in a way of boiling frogs in warm water, and it was time to take back the benefits promised to the gentry class in order to quickly flatten the Manchu Empire.

It's just that this fault is very hidden and very humane, and it will not arouse too much resentment among the gentry, and taking away the official body is not taking away their land, and the gentry class cannot work hard.

As for the phenomenon of land annexation of the gentry class, it was not a problem for Hong Tiancheng at all, and the first batch of Southeast Asian immigration plans had already begun to be formulated!

After the fall of the Manchus, the center of gravity of the Taiping army shifted to Dzungar and Southeast Asia, and, of course, the Kingdom of Korea and the island states of Japan.

As soon as the Manchu Empire fell, the Korean Kingdom sent people to Beijing to kneel and lick the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Hong Tiancheng was not polite, and directly sent troops to integrate it into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom despite the opposition of the Korean Kingdom......

The Taiping army completely occupied the Korean kingdom in a month with only one division of troops......

The Korean kingdom has long been seriously sinicized in this era, and many people even have their hearts set on the superior life of the Han people in the Central Plains, at this time the life of the Korean people is very hard, not having enough to eat is the norm, and starving to death is not a new thing!

Coupled with the weakness of the Korean army, it was easily conquered by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Even the Manchu Empire was annexed, and it was naturally not a problem to swallow a close Korea.

After the annexation of Korea, Hong Tiancheng sent the main force of the Taiping Army to Southeast Asia and Zungar, which would be another cooperation between the Russian Empire and the Taiping Army, and Southeast Asia was simply slaughtered and enslaved!

In the face of Southeast Asian monkeys, the policy of the Taiping army was simple, surrender or die.

If you dare to fight guerrilla warfare, then all the old people and women will be killed, leaving ignorant children who are no more than high wheels to be transported to orphanages established in China for collective enslavement education......

Although the countries of Southeast Asia are weak, there are many people, and the people there don't know if the living environment is too good, they feel good about themselves when they are full of food and drink, and they would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix, and in the face of the coercion of the Taiping Army, the superficial surrender is better than anyone else, but when it comes to territorial issues, they are all like cockfights!

Then, as a matter of course, the war happened.

Naturally, the Southeast Asian countries were not the opponents of the Taiping Army in a head-on battle, but the recalcitrant troops of the Southeast Asian countries relied on jungles and other tropical areas to constantly deal with the Taiping Army, and the backward transportation conditions there also limited the rapid advance of the Taiping Army.

The Taiping army could only slowly advance and occupy it step by step, and then slaughter!

If you don't engage in massacres, the logistics of the Taiping Army will definitely be stabbed!

Just as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was expanding greatly, the Japanese island nation of Edo welcomed batch after batch of ships loaded with flintlock pistols and munitions.

Portuguese merchants and colonists returned to the American colonies with large quantities of Japanese silver, and they sold flintlock pistols that had been obsolete!

The Japanese Edo shogunate is not a fool, they naturally heard about such a big event as the fall of the Manchu Empire, so the Japanese Edo shogunate ignored the resistance of the people, intensified exploitation, and came to buy advanced flintlock muskets to update and replace their iron artillery troops, and at the same time, they even trumpeted the theory of the survival of the Japanese Yamato nation at the samurai level!

To put it simply, in order to maintain its position and guard against the invasion of the Taiping Army, the Japanese Edo shogunate made great preparations for military force.

And the main body of the Japanese armed forces in this era is naturally the samurai class.

The Edo shogunate did not carry out the Meiji Restoration, let alone establish a new army, and only the samurai could be strengthened.

The spirit of bushido ushered in the glory of the second spring in an environment that was needed by those in power!

A large number of ronin samurai were given new jobs, and the Edo shogunate, in order to save money, established a system similar to a professional army outside the traditional samurai system, and instead of distributing land to loyal samurai, the landless and impoverished ronin samurai were summoned to woo them in a situation where they were paid.

Of course, this is indispensable to brainwash the extreme bushido spirit.

These ronin samurai with high force value were naturally incorporated into the hand-to-hand combat unit, and those with low force value used longbows or flintlock pistols, and were called iron cannon samurai and longbow samurai by the Edo shogunate......

In fact, it was to give the samurai class a symbol of honor, which was different from the iron cannon and bow and arrow ashigaru, which did not have much social status......

In this way, the Edo shogunate formed a samurai army of tens of thousands before the Taiping fleet landed!

If you add the samurai and ashigaru troops of the original daimyo in various places, the entire island of Japan can easily come up with more than 100,000 soldiers.

Of course, this is just the total, and most of them are scattered all over the island of Japan.