Zhu Qizhen is determined to make some big moves this time, and the reform of the military guard is just the beginning, and everything in Nanjing City must be torn down and restarted.

Just when Li Zhen went to rectify the various guards, Yuan Bin was not idle, and all the Jinyi guards were dispatched, arresting people everywhere.

The group suspected of rebellion has long been cut down, and now those arrested are those who have been caught along the vine, been linked, or have been reported by others, and it is really problematic to find out.

From the coastal areas of Fuzhou and Guangzhou, Zhu Ji has also begun to act, and a large number of officials and gentry suspected of smuggling and collaborating with the enemy were taken down, and then sent people to escort them back to Nanjing.

In just a few days, more than 300 officials have been found to be involved, and the number of people implicated has exceeded 10,000, and this number is increasing every day.

Among these officials, there are civil servants, military generals, and even those who have retired and are ready to spend their old age in peace, who have also been taken out of their homes.

All of a sudden, the entire officialdom in Jiangnan was panicked, and even some people wrote a suicide note and stayed at home before going to duty in the morning.

Yu Qian didn't pretend to control the water anymore, and threw the affairs of Huai'an Mansion to Wang Yonghe, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and he rushed to Nanjing non-stop.

However, Rao was prepared for a long time, and when he saw the list, he was still shocked after all.

"Your Majesty, the situation must not expand any further, otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Zhu Qizhen looked disapproving, and said: "These people I have arrested are all conclusive evidence, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, those who should be exempted are exempted, those who should be closed, and those who should be killed, why not?" ”

"This ...... The law does not blame the public, this eucalyptus is widely implicated, and the minister thinks that it is best to ...... Press it down. ”

"The law does not blame the public?"

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but smile and asked, "When Emperor Taizu was the emperor, why didn't he say that he didn't blame the public?" ”

Yu Qian was directly stunned, the famous four eucalyptus in the Hongwu period, each eucalyptus involved tens of thousands of people, is it ......

He glanced at Zhu Qizhen cautiously, and secretly said in his heart, could it be that this is the inheritance of the old Zhu family, and he has the blood of being a tyrant in his body?

Zhu Qizhen put away his smile and continued: "The law is the law, and there has never been a saying that the law does not blame the public, otherwise, where is fairness and justice?" ”

"But...... The imperial court is the time to employ people......"

Yu Qian didn't want to excuse these people, he just thought that there were too many people involved, if all the people were killed, half of the officials in Jiangnan would be missing out of thin air, how would they operate?

Zhu Qizhen didn't wait for him to finish speaking, then interrupted: "You are wrong, Daming has never lacked talents, it's just that too many talents have been submerged and wasted, this is the new policy measures I have drafted in recent days, you can take a look!" ”

Yu Qian took a stack of self-manuscript paper, and the first page said that the military guard was restructured, and he himself was the secretary of the military department, so he was naturally the most concerned about the problems of the army, so he read it carefully.

At first, I was a little confused and confused, but the more I looked at it, the more shocked I became.

The emperor actually wanted to abandon all the tuntian system left by Emperor Taizu and replace it with a conscription system.

In addition, there is no longer any restriction on the household registration of the common people, and there will be no distinction between peasant households and military households in the future.

Streamline the number of troops, allow the old, weak, sick and disabled and other military households who are not suitable to continue to serve as soldiers to retire from the army and make a living for themselves, and the imperial court will give a certain subsidy, and then increase military spending, strengthen military training, and update weapons and equipment......

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Seeing this, Yu Qian couldn't help but say: "The emperor's innovative measures are all aimed at the shortcomings of the current army, but if they are implemented, they ...... I'm afraid it's a little difficult......"

"Tell me, what's the difficulty?"

Yu Qian nodded and said, "One is military spending, if there is no tuntian, where will a large amount of military expenditure come from?" This alone is not enough to take out all the taxes of the imperial court every year, and this is only in peacetime, if there is a war, the cost will at least triple. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Of course I have thought about this problem you said, since it is a reform, it must be changed in an all-round way, and it is definitely not enough to change the army alone, therefore, Shinong Industry and Commerce, I have changed it all at once, and next, the imperial court will encourage the people to vigorously develop industry and commerce, especially overseas trade, with silver, you can pay more taxes, and you can afford to raise the army of the Ming Dynasty!" Only when the army is strong, others dare not covet the thousands of miles of the Ming Dynasty, in order to better protect the people of the world, when the time comes, my Ming merchant ships go outside to do business, people will look up to you! ”

"What the emperor said makes sense, it's just ...... The minister believed that if we wanted to develop industry and commerce, the most important problem was to let the people have enough to eat, and only when they were full could they have the strength to do other things, and the most important thing at the moment was to solve the land problem. ”

Yu Qian's worries are reasonable, since the Ming Dynasty has been a hundred years old, the major princes and nobles, officials and gentry, have been vying to annex the land, and the poor land in the hands of the people has long been taken away by these people through various means.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I also mentioned this problem, you can see for yourself!" ”

Yu Qian lowered his head and continued to look through the plan book in his hand.

Sure enough, on the second page, it was written about the land.

All the land was re-measured, registered, and the land confiscated by the imperial court was redistributed according to the population, and the land that was previously annexed by the families of the big landlords through improper means was returned unconditionally, otherwise it would be punished as a protest.

Moreover, the land tax was also changed in the future, from the poll tax to the acre tax.

That is to say, the more land you have at home, the more taxes you pay, and this number is floating, the larger the number of acres, the higher the tax rate.

In this case, hoarding land is no longer a wise move, otherwise the meagre income will not be enough to pay taxes.

After reading this page, Yu Qian's two eyebrows were directly twisted.

I have to admit that this idea is very good, if it can be implemented, it will definitely improve the living standards of the people, and even improve the strength of the entire Ming Dynasty.

But the problem is that this measure will hurt the landlords and gentry, who have formed a huge community of interests from ordinary squires to princes and nobles, and if their interests are damaged, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Although the whole world is not the king's land, and the nominal emperor is the largest, the emperor is also a man, not a god.

The reason why the emperor was the largest was because of the support of the gentry class.

And the reason why these will support the emperor is because the emperor can protect their interests.

When the emperor no longer protects their interests, or even takes measures to harm their interests, will these people still support the emperor as before?

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Yu Qian was even uneasy in his heart, and continued to turn the next page.

This page talks about the official evaluation system.

It probably means that below the nine-grade officials, there are three grades of officials: tenth, eleventh, and twelveth.

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Moreover, the assessment of officials is universal, and those who have passed the assessment and have excellent results can be promoted to nine-rank officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, the smallest official was not the seventh-rank Zhixian, and there were also auxiliary officials such as the county and the patrol inspector below the county, which were the eighth and ninth grades, which were the lowest officials.

There are officials under the officials, that is, clerks, such as the pawn, the secretary, the ambassador of the river station, the post officer, etc.

Although the word official is often referred to together, the two are heaven and earth.

There is a gap between officials and officials that can never be crossed, and although they are all paid by the imperial court, there is no way to promote between the two.

The official is through the imperial examination, and you can climb step by step from the bottom to the top, and how high you can climb depends on your own ability.

But a clerk can only be an official forever, and he will still be an official for a lifetime.

But now, the passage has been opened, and officials can also be officials, which is incredible.

Thinking about it again, this is also very good, it can stimulate the motivation of the low-level officials, otherwise, there will be no hope for the rest of your life, it is just a matter of eating and waiting for death, where is the enthusiasm?

The more Yu Qian looked at it, the more shocked he became, and when he opened the next page, his eyes were about to fall out.

Change the imperial examination and cancel the eight-share scholar!

What the fuck is this...... Your Majesty, you want to rebel!

Make your old Zhu family's rebellion!

What is the eight-strand takeshi, it is the root of the Ming Dynasty!

Are you ...... now? Say cancel, cancel, what about trouble?

It is conceivable that once this edict is issued, the world will inevitably be in chaos, and the time will be ...... The consequences are dire......

There are still a few pages in the back, but Yu Qian is not in the mood to read them at all.

"Your Majesty, about the implementation of the new policy...... The minister thinks that you should be cautious and think slowly, as for these radical measures, please think twice! ”

Zhu Qizhen smiled and asked, "I want to ask you one thing first, do you say that my new policy is good?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's no longer a question of whether it's good or not, the New Deal ......"

"You answer me first, whether it's good or not!"

Yu Qian had no choice but to reply: "The new deal is good, but it is not suitable for the current ...... The situation ......"

He really wanted to tell Zhu Qizhen that as long as you dare to cancel the imperial examination today, someone will dare to cancel your throne tomorrow!

Zhu Qizhen didn't seem to understand, and asked, "Why is it not suitable?" ”

Yu Qian sighed secretly and said: "Your Majesty, the imperial examination is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, and the whole court, including the ministers, is selected through the imperial examination, this is the foundation of the country, and it can't be moved!" ”

These words are not alarmist, because since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang has attached great importance to the cultivation and treatment of scholars, and personally set up regulations to take the four books and the five classics of Yi, Shu, Poems, Spring and Autumn, and Rites.

Moreover, the difficulty of the eight-strand text is not limited to this, Zhu Yuanzhang believes that readers should read Confucius and Mencius, read Zhu Xi, and cannot play casually, so he asked his text to slightly imitate the Song Jingyi, and then the tone of the ancients was for it, and the body was used to arrange couples, which was called the eight strands.

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Since then, Baguwen has become a lifelong pursuit of readers.

Zhu Qizhen is the most clear about the pros and cons of this system, and Baguwen is often criticized and criticized by later generations, but in the early Ming Dynasty, this system was not useless.

The important role of the imperial examination system is to bring the power of selecting and appointing officials to the central government, avoid the emergence of gate valves, and strengthen the centralization of power and imperial power.

Through the imperial examination system, scholars from all parts of the country have the opportunity to participate in the management of the state, which has promoted social mobility and effectively maintained the situation of great unification. However, in order to fully exploit the role of the imperial examination system, maintaining the fairness of the examination is a key.

Imagine, if the poetry is too subjective, it can easily lead to the disadvantages of candidates asking for help from princes and nobles in the Tang Dynasty.

If the scope of the examination is not limited, students from poor and remote areas will certainly not be able to compete with those from wealthy and developed areas, and in the long run, a vicious circle will be formed, which is not conducive to social stability and national unity.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang will stipulate a fixed format and fixed requirements, which is the eight-strand text.

Through strict format regulations, examiners can quickly make objective evaluations according to the format and content when marking papers.

There is also the scope of the examination, the eight-share examination from the four books and five classics, the scope is narrow, for the poor scholars, these books have a high popularity, easy to obtain, so that the scholars who participate in the imperial examination can basically be on the same running line regardless of whether they are rich or poor, where they are.

Of course, there are also significant drawbacks to this.

If a person whose mind is not very bright, who puts all his energy into the imperial examination, and only cares about burying his head in the four books, the five classics, and the eight stocks, and has a narrow range of knowledge, not only does he not have the ability to govern the country, but he also does not even have the basic ability to live.

Such a person can only become a nerd.

Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang was formulating the imperial examination, he suddenly gave up the eight-strand composition in the final palace examination and changed it to a strategy.

Through strategy, nerds can be excluded, of course, if they are really nerds, there is a high probability that they will not be able to take the palace test.

Even if they are not nerds, because the imperial examination only has eight shares, and scholars can only do eight shares when they are human beings, which leads to them not knowing anything in other aspects, such as natural science, etc., if someone studies these, they will also be regarded as miraculous skills and despised by others.

In this way, although these scholars have read the books of the sages, except for the top ones who can ascend to the temple, most of the others are just ordinary people throughout their lives.

They can't pick up their shoulders, they can't lift their hands, and the knowledge in books can't be eaten.

At most, if you return to your hometown to be a teacher, or go to a big family to be a bookkeeper, you will not have any future in this life, except for being able to barely register your account.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen knows that the imperial examination cannot be rash, what is related to this is the big cake, and the scholars and doctors all over the world are sharing this cake, if they cut a piece less, they may be acceptable, but if you take the cake away, these people will definitely be anxious with you.

"Regarding the imperial examination, I don't want to completely cancel it, but to restructure it, it doesn't make much sense to simply test the school Baguwen, governing the country is not as simple as the Four Books and Five Classics, I give the simplest example, account statistics, can there be in the Four Books and Five Classics?"

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Yu Qian was stunned for a moment and replied: "Account statistics...... It's just some arithmetic problems, not some advanced ......"

Zhu Qizhen suddenly changed his words and said, "Since it is not profound, it must be ...... Your Jinshi background must be more than enough, so let's do it, I gave you a debut question, you do the math, how about it? ”

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