Yan Song is a Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, and Xia Yan are both from Jiangxi, belonging to fellow villagers in the officialdom, according to the historical trajectory, this guy should still be in Yuanzhou Mansion at this time, but Zhu Houwei can forget anyone, how can he forget Yan Weizhong, who is known as the head of the six traitors in the Ming Dynasty!

Such a person has to be kept close to the side to observe, and when there is any change, it will click immediately!

So he returned to his hometown due to illness, so Yan Song's luck in the opposition exploded, and he was recalled to the capital to become a student in the Hanlin Academy.

Hanlin Academy is a noble yamen, known as the place of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has a tradition of not entering the cabinet, Yan Song, who ranked fifth in the imperial examination high school, entered the Hanlin Academy, which is the most normal.

In the original history, Xia Yan was nine years later than Yan Song, but Yan Song delayed his career for ten years due to illness.

Yan Song took advantage of the relationship between himself and Xia Yan is fellow villagers to fight desperately, Xia Yan also promoted Yan Song many times for the sake of his fellow villagers, but he didn't expect that Yan Song, who was carried up by him, was a vicious wolf.

But now history has been reversed, Yan Song is already a Hanlin attendant, and the future is bright, and Xia Yan is just a move to enter Beijing to catch the exam, because of his fellow villagers, so Xia Yan took the initiative to meet Yan Song, and brought his friend Zhang Cong, whom he met after entering Beijing.

Zhang Cong is almost forty years old, from the fifteenth year of Hongzhi to the examination of Jiajing Emperor Enke this time, if he falls again, then it will be the fifth time that Sun Shan has been defeated.

If you don't know what it means to be a late bloomer and what it means to be speculative, then take a look at Zhang Cong's resume and you may be deeply inspired.

This guy has taken the examination seven times in history, and it was not until the fifteenth year of Zhengde that he won the second-class jinshi, and the ranking is not high, and then it took less than 20 years to directly become the first assistant of the cabinet!

The speed of promotion can be called terrifying, and the reason why he can be promoted so fast is four simple words.

Jane is in the heart of the emperor!

In other words, this guy is a good sycophant, and he can do things for Emperor Jiajing, and he does it so that Emperor Daojun is very happy.

The most famous event in the Jiajing Dynasty was none other than the 'Great Discussion Ceremony', that is, Emperor Jiajing wanted to make his father Xingxian Wang emperor, but the ministers led by Yang Tinghe refused, and Jiajing had to give Emperor Hongzhi a son, calling his father the emperor's uncle.

The 'Great Discussion Ceremony' can be regarded as the pinnacle duel between the imperial power and the power of the Ming Dynasty, and the only thing that can be compared with it is the 'fighting for the country' of the Wanli Dynasty.

However, Emperor Jiajing, who didn't sit on the throne under his buttocks, could not be the opponent of the ministers, so he pretended to be dead and dragged on.

But no matter how it drags on, the matter has to be resolved, so Zhang Cong, who saw the opportunity, appeared on the stage and cited scriptures to prove the legitimacy of Emperor Jiajing's posthumous title of Xingxian as the emperor, which naturally caused an uproar in Shilin.

It can be said that Zhang Cong's move was to separate himself from Shilin, and it can even be said that he betrayed Confucianism, but Zhang Cong, who was forty-five years old at that time, obviously couldn't care so much, in order to be able to rise to the top, he did not hesitate to choose to cater to the emperor, so as to fight for a bright future for himself.

Zhang Cong succeeded, Qingyun Road appeared at the bottom of his feet, and Emperor Jiajing completely won the victory of this game of ministers!

Zhang Cong, who is now sitting on Xia Yan's right, drinks with his head down, bows his head and eats vegetables, no matter what Xia Yan and Yan Song say, they are all expressionless and unfazed.

"What Brother Gongjin said is very reasonable." Yan Song opened his mouth and said, "But has Gong Jin ever thought about the commonality of these things you said?"

Xia Yan smiled and said: "Today, I am young but ambitious, I know that the army is erosive and change it, and I know the troubles of the vassal kings in various places, so I summoned the vassal kings to enter the Beijing circle, and saw that the treasury was empty and could not make ends meet, so I used salt administration and commercial taxes to increase the treasury.

Yan Song laughed and said: "Yes, it's a disadvantage, at least a disadvantage in the eyes of Jinshang!"

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, what is the maladministration in the eyes of Jinshang?

For Xia Yan, a scholar who has not yet come out, it is their lifelong pursuit to change and rejuvenate the society with their own will, as a person, they naturally care about national affairs, and they naturally have their own understanding of the world's maladministration, and most of them have thought about how to get rid of the maladministration if they can one day preside over the world's politics, but it is obvious that nine out of ten officials will forget their original intention when they really reach a high position.

Because they themselves have become the beneficiaries of bad governance, they have become a member of the civil interest group, and since it is beneficial to themselves, why should they change?

What's more, change will inevitably offend the ministers, which is not in line with the golden mean of being an official and being the same as the dust.

But no matter what, at least now Zhang Cong still has the original intention, he is different from Zhang Cong, Zhang Cong is old, if he doesn't get into the subject, then he will have to wait for three years, and he will not be confused in three years, so he doesn't want anything else now, what he is thinking about is the middle test, and then find a chance to study!

Yan Song took a sip of wine, sandwiched a chopsticks and fish, and said: "There are many maladministrations in this world, such as soldiers, eunuchs, land contributions, and hidden households...... These are all malpractices, if you want to change them now, can you change them? However, Yan can boldly guess that when he went to take the palace examination today, the exam questions he saw were related to the maladministration of the world! ”

Zhang Cong's eyes lit up suddenly, and he immediately returned to normal.

Xia Yan also showed a thoughtful look, no matter what, Yan Song was a third-rank jinshi, and his judgment could not be ignored.

"As for the policy of this test, Yan thinks it must be related to the development of education and business taxes!"

"I want to hear about it." Xia Yan arched his hand.

Yan Song smiled lightly: "The reason is very simple, today took care of the vassal king, but did not touch the world's foreign surname magnates, because the vassal king is his own family, and now he has cleaned up his own family, outsiders can't say anything, but don't forget, the vassal king is also a magnate, and the magnate is one."

After taking care of the vassal king, will the magnates with different surnames worry that one day the knife will be slashed on their heads, so the magnates will definitely be very vigilant, collude up and down, be prepared to contingency, and even jump off the wall in a hurry!

And what the Son of Heaven needs to do at this time is to dilute the influence of the vassal king's affairs, so as to lower the vigilance of the magnates.

Is it that I want to ask the world to raise the prince, the feudal king has cooked, and the next step is to cook the nobles, isn't that ridiculous? ”

Xia Yan sighed and said: "In the lower ignorance, what Brother Yan said is really enlightening, and a word wakes up people in this dream......"

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