After receiving Zhu Youzhen's reward, Zheng Zhilong couldn't stop thanking him, and he was grateful for the fact that others would not know that he was loyal to the court, but all this was indifferently accepted by Zhu Youzhen.

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhang Lun, who was sitting not far away.

said lightly: "Zheng Zhilong's matter, I thought, Aiqing.. Did you do something out of it? ”

In a word.

Zhang Lun was shocked and quickly knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty! The minister's loyalty to His Majesty can be seen by the sun and the moon, and the minister doesn't know anything about Zheng Zhilong... At yesterday's meeting, a banquet was also set up in accordance with His Majesty's instructions. ”

A lot of things are done when you do them, but what the emperor wants you to do is do it, but you can never say it...

Zhang Lun is well aware of this principle at this moment.

No matter what Zhu Youzhen says, he will never be able to let go.

"Alright... I'm just saying it casually, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble in the future of the Zheng family... When the time comes, Aiqing will pay more attention to Zheng Zhilong.. Let's ask his brothers to play in the capital for a while. ”

The emperor has many methods, and what Zhu Youzhen is doing now is just a little bit of it.

When the power of the Ming Dynasty continued to rise.

Anything that stands in the way of Zhu Youzhen can only be chosen by the path to destruction.

.....

Capital.

The platform of the train station was crowded with people, and most of the people's eyes were mixed with a little uncertainty about the future, and a little more sadness in speculation.

"The master's .. What do you want? The train will depart in a moment! ”

Holding her youngest son in her left hand, and carrying a large flower cloth package in her right hand, the woman couldn't help but say when she looked at the head of the family in a trance.

The man heard a voice.

also hurriedly said: "I didn't think about anything.. Didn't think about anything... I just don't know when we'll be able to come back! ”

"Alas! Whoever is in charge.. I heard from the adults of the imperial court that as long as we want to come back in the future... Every half a month, there will be a boat back to Daming from the immigration area..."

"That's good.."

The man lowered his head and tightened the belongings in his arms.

Leaving home is not a simple matter for the people of the Ming Dynasty. But now it's up to them to think about it, in the face of life and death.

Decisions happen all the time.

It is to stay in Daming, praying that God can pity him and pity him to send some rain down to protect the harvest in his own field.

Or heed the call of the imperial court and went to live in the overseas immigration area.

Everyone who goes there will have a hundred acres of fertile land, even if it is not cultivated by one person. There will also be migrant villages that will be established later to help with farming.

This kind of life, this kind of day.

It is the original picture that many people have only thought of in their dreams.

The physical memory brought by hunger is simply too strong, and there is almost no one in the Ming Dynasty who has not experienced the years of famine, especially those people in the north who have to experience looting from time to time.

Zhu Youzhen can be said to have spent a lot of time, energy, and money in the immigration plan.

There is only one purpose.

Let those Ming territories that now appear on the map of the Ming Dynasty become the real territory of the Ming Dynasty from generation to generation, after all, they are the territories that stay on paper.

In the tide of continuous development in later generations, Zhu Youzhen did not dare to guarantee that after his death... Something else will happen.

But now, he wants to make sure that it is smooth enough.

"Spread Huang Liji."

"Rumor Huang Liji's visit!!" Wang Chengen's voice also had a strong eunuch smell, but this was caused by physical reasons.

No one will feel any weirdness because of this, after all, everyone in this world knows that there are two eunuchs who are the emperor's internal officials... No one dares to say anything!

Huang Liji's steps were hurried.

Audience.. For him, the first minister of the cabinet, it is simply a normal thing.

Not for a while.

Huang Liji, who arrived in the Dongnuan Pavilion, saw Zhu Youzhen, and the first sentence Zhu Youzhen said made Huang Liji stunned.

"Aiqing.. I have something I want to ask you... Nowadays, how many children, talents, and people in the Ming Dynasty have meritorious reputations but no official positions..."

The legacy of the old imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty has always been very serious.

Many scholars in the world, after being sealed by Zhu Youzhen to be an official... In fact, there are some depressed emotions brewing in my heart.

Among them, those who can see a little more will try their best to continue to learn new learning, after all, the new imperial examination of the imperial court also does not take age as an assessment criterion.

If you don't stick to one pattern and reduce talents, how can you not want it because of your age.

But those who can't think about it, and don't understand why the imperial court suppressed the old imperial examination to the point of existence in name only in a few years, are not so active.

Many people are lying directly at home... Became a scoundrel.

Survive on the support of your family all day long. The tax-free preferential treatment of scholars has long been thrown into the trash by Zhu Youzhen, so it is impossible for them to make a lot of money by relying on others to take refuge in their own land as before.

Not to mention, the children and talents who don't have these rights in the first place.

These people are the ones who occupy a larger number of Ming scholars.

Huang Liji couldn't guess why Zhu Youzhen asked this, so he hurriedly said: "Return to Your Majesty.. That's probably more than 100,000 people..."

"100,000?"

That's the amount, it's enough anyway...

Zhu Youzhen immediately said: "The Ming Dynasty is going to send a group of officials to the sea. I decided to focus this time on these scholars who have fame but no official position.."

"Minister! Thank you, the Emperor! ”

As soon as Huang Liji heard this, he immediately wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Zhu Youzhen... How many years have it been! His Majesty in front of him finally remembered.

There is another batch of Daming!

There is also a very large group of scholars, who can't even find a way out...

Education, not just new education... Huang Liji was also forced to take over many traditional schools that he was unwilling to change, and he knew these scholars best.

Nowadays, the so-called fame is nothing more than dust returning to dust.

As long as the emperor is unwilling to change, he will become an official again by studying the books of the sages... It's just the fantasy of this group of readers.

But now, Your Majesty has finally ..

Finally, they can find a way out.

"Oh? Aiqing, please get up first.. Why.. I am a little puzzled, why do the scholars in this world go to great lengths to find fame and fortune from the so-called sage articles? ”

Zhu Youzhen's question, Huang Liji was pleasantly surprised.

But when I asked him to answer... But he couldn't open his mouth for a long time, so he had to mutter: "Maybe.. This is because it has been passed down like this since ancient times! ”