"Why is Enko only open to Suncheon!"

"Aren't I a scholar of the Ming Dynasty?!"

"King Qi is a disaster to the country, and his crime should be punished!"

"If you want to open Enco, you should treat everyone equally!"

On the first day of October, with the implementation of the new policy, the new policy that was the first to be impeached, as everyone expected, was indeed limited to Enko, who was confined to Suncheonfu.

Since there are not many people living in Xicheng, and the courtyard built by the Ministry of Industry can accommodate more than 100,000 people, it is undoubtedly selected as the Enke examination site.

It's just that outside the Enke examination room, countless scholars who came to Shuntianfu to participate in Enke were politely rejected by the officials, and when more and more people began to be politely refused, the riot inevitably broke out.

Tens of thousands of scholars began to complain, which suddenly made the Enke examination room in the west of the capital extremely noisy.

As the situation became uncontrollable, the sound of armor and footsteps sounded at the same time, and the ranks of the Enko officers and soldiers were forcibly separated.

"Beep-"

The sound of the wooden whistle was so piercing that many of the soldiers covered their ears.

With a hint of horror, they looked at the soldiers and horses of the Shangzhi Gong Guard Battalion in front of them, and behind the soldiers and horses of the Gong Guard Camp was Sun Shoufa, who was riding on horseback and wearing armor.

Facing the street congested by tens of thousands of soldiers, he frowned slightly, and then glanced at the general of the Gongwei battalion next to him.

The general comprehended, immediately pulled out the riding gun, and after applying the medicine, he pulled the trigger on the sky.

"Bang-"

The sound of the guns made some of the soldiers pale, and before they could react, a large group of soldiers and horses from the Gongwei battalion appeared in the streets and alleys, forcibly separating them, and squeezing out a foot-wide road in the streets.

"Long live the message!"

Sun Shoufa suddenly spoke, and all the scholars who were close to him looked at him, and he said indifferently:

"This Enke is different from the previous Enke, but if you want to participate, you can enter the examination room in Beihe Lane, Xicheng!"

Enko opened?!

Some of the soldiers who heard Sun Shoufa's words were stunned, and at the same time, many soldiers from the Gongwei battalion also began to spread their voices.

The continuous sound made thousands of scholars understand what happened, and the people who reacted began to squeeze towards Beihe Lane in the north of Xicheng.

The vacated long road has become a shortcut to Beihe Lane quickly, and in this regard, the soldiers of the Gongwei Battalion have made one gap after another, and the soldiers are also rushing towards the gap.

Half an hour later, most of the troublemakers rushed to Beihe Lane, and hundreds of courtyards became the places where they would take the test.

However, when they were arranged to enter the examination room, they were stunned when they walked into the examination room.

It's just because it's too simple compared to the vast majority of the guest examination rooms they've ever participated in.

It is said to be an examination room, but in fact it is a private house where no people live in.

They were placed in groups of ten by the invigilators, and they were placed in private houses, and this coming and going was delayed for an hour.

finally sat in the examination room, but when the paper for the examination was handed out, they were all confused.

[What is the most secure construction structure in civil construction?] 】

[What are the correct steps and proportions when building cement roads?] 】

[Regarding the "Oyster Cultivation Method", please select the correct answer from the following three points......]

"What is this......"

Looking at the whole test paper on civil construction, the scholars everywhere were stunned.

They all looked up at the examiner, but the examiner said indifferently:

"This time, Enke will take a total of civil engineering, mathematics, people's livelihood, economics, policy theory, and politics, and each subject will take two hours, and now it is the first exam, civil engineering, ......."

What is it? What is the rest of the story?

Listening to the examiner who used the same language but said different meanings, all the students were stunned, but the examiner said indifferently:

"You still have seven quarters of an hour to ......"

Angry, helpless, incomprehensible......

All kinds of emotions have been pressed by time, and in order to become officials, this group of students who were encouraged by others could only start to answer the questions head-on.

It's just that this kind of hard-headed solution is tantamount to throwing a primary school student into a calculus contest and not knowing anything at first glance.

However, some scholars who had read some miscellaneous books were somewhat familiar with the Luoyang Bridge built with oysters in Quanzhou, so they began to answer the "method of planting oysters and consolidating the foundation", and from these answers, it can be seen that the questions of the examination are all about construction.

It's just that being able to see it and being able to answer it are two different things.

Most of the scholars were autistic in the process of doing the questions, but compared to them, the Yanshan scholars who were in the original examination room worked hard to write and answer the questions they had learned one by one.

When it came to some civil engineering drawing questions, they even took out a wooden ruler and the pencil prepared in the examination room and began to draw.

At the end of the day, those who can do the questions have all been completed, and those who can't do it have accepted their fate.

"Bell!"

With the ringing of the examination bell, the coaxing scholars who walked into the examination room with their heads held high all walked out dejectedly and brought out a message.

In the afternoon, I will take a test in arithmetic, that is, arithmetic.

Although many of them were confident in their arithmetic, when they went to the exam room in the afternoon, they looked at the pages full of Arabic numerals and various questions about geometry, equations, and functions, and they had renewed their self-doubt.

On the second day, they were finally able to barely answer some questions about people's livelihood and economy, and the policy and politics on the fourth day also regained some confidence.

However, after completing the six exams in three days, many of them also understood.

In fact, this Enke is a promotion path specially prepared for Yanshan students, and they are just fooled and coaxed.

Many scholars who analyzed this place began to recall who instigated them to come to the examination room, but due to the complicated friendship between the scholars, few people could recall it for a while.

Helplessly, tens of thousands of students rested for the night, and many of them had no hope that they could be on the list, so they chose to pack up and go home.

This kind of behavior, like the flu, constantly infects the people around it.

On the fifth day after the end of the exam, when Enke announced the list of students, there were only about 100 people left to watch.

However, their onlookers did not cause any miracles, and none of the hundreds of people made the list, and such an answer made the popularity of the people behind the scenes ruined......

"Is this group of people all rubbish?! Tens of thousands of people don't even have a single person on the list?! ”

In a courtyard study in Dongjiang Rice Lane in the capital, the angry Yao Zongwen scolded, and the official in front of him explained:

"My lord, this is not to blame them, this time in addition to the format of the eight shares, the question is not the same as what the scholars have learned, so naturally it will not be on the list."

Hearing this, Yao Zongwen gritted his teeth and continued to ask:

"What about the other parties? And what about the nobles? Didn't they all encourage people to take the HKCEE? Didn't even get on? ”

"Didn't go to the ......," the official shook his head and sighed, and Yao Zongwen walked left and right in the study after hearing it, and finally stopped and said:

"Since Enke can't pass the examination, in the imperial examination the year after tomorrow, my children from eastern Zhejiang must win the first place!"

"Yes......" The official responded when he heard this, and when the parties touched their noses, Zhu Youzhen was laughing......

"Good! Unexpectedly, more than 5,300 people were qualified. ”

In the study room of King Qi's mansion, when Zhu Youzhen looked at the thick volume of Zhongbang papers, his eyes were full of joy.

For this group of Yanshan students, he didn't care which of them was in high school, he only cared about the number of more than 5,000 people.

After examination screening, they have at least their own knowledge reserves and political and economic opinions.

In this way, he was sent to the Military Department, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Salt Department and the Tea Department as grassroots officials, which at least gave Zhu Youzhen confidence.

As for the more than 30,000 people who did not make the list, they can also follow the delegation as a scribe.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked up at the person in front of him.

I saw that in front of him, Gu Bingqian was standing respectfully in place, and he couldn't see that he was the leader of the Qi King Party above the court.

"This time things are well done, have the officials needed by the two divisions and the two ministries and one temple at all levels been calculated?"

Zhu Youzhen put the document on the table and asked casually, while Gu Bingqian responded to his words with a flattering smile:

"Forget it, there are three officials in the criminal department in the county, four people in the military department, and three people in Dali Temple."

"The two divisions mainly control the salt farms and tea farms, each according to the size of the number of people, 272 Daming tea farms, 54 salt farms, a total of 1,240 officials, more than 7,000 scribes......"

There are more than 1,600 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and according to Gu Bingqian's words, at least ten new officials have been added to each county, totaling 16,000 people.

You must know that this number is already a lot, and during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there were only 27,800 civil and military officials in the country.

After that, although it gradually increased, by the Zhengde period, the number of civil officials was only 20,000, and the number of military attaches was about 80,000.

At present, the number of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty is only 38,000, and the number of military attaches has decreased due to Zhu Youzhen's abolition of the guard system, and there are less than 25,000.

If the 16,000 officials are increased in one go, plus the more than 30,000 scribes who need to be distributed, as well as nearly 400,000 servants, soldiers and horses, then whether the Ming Dynasty's finances can support it, Gu Bingqian is also skeptical.

But so what? What he wants to keep is his position, and as for the problem of the treasury, it will naturally be solved by the head of the household.

"What do you think is the difficulty in getting rid of the scribes?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Gu Bingqian, wanting to know from him some of the opinions of the scholars and doctors of this era on Xu officials.

There are more than 2 million officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there must be a good way to dismantle them and use them.

"The matter of the officials, this ...... Xia Guan didn't know whether to say it or not. ”

Gu Bingqian hesitated, and Zhu Youzhen, who was looking at it, frowned: "Say"

"There are more than 2 million officials in the state capital and county, and they have continued to change since the Hongwu Dynasty, and it is not so easy to move them......" Gu Bingqian looked at Zhu Youzhen's face and explained:

"For more than 200 years, most of them have long become local tycoons, colluding with various parties and uniting with businessmen."

"His Highness wants to move them, and they naturally don't dare to go against His Highness on the surface, but it's hard to say in private."

"Even if Your Highness wants to change, how many officials can you change?"

"They run official schools, and among the official schools, since the Hongzhi period, most of them are children of official families."

"Even if Your Highness cleans up this group of officials and recruits them, you still have to use them."

"Although there are many scholars in my Ming Dynasty, there are very few who do not have the background of the officials, not to mention that even if they do not have the background of the officials, they also have the background of local clans and gentry."

"You mean you can't move?" Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes, a little unhappy.

"Naturally, you can move, but it's best to boil frogs in warm water and make them ......disappear year by year before you know it," Gu Bingqian quickly explained.

"Just as this year, after Enko, more than 30,000 scribes were decentralized, and if so many people were thrown into one place, it would be enough to run a province."

"According to His Royal Highness's arrangement in Yanshan, at most seven years, all officials in the world can be replaced."

"However, His Highness also needs to guard against the fact that the officials' families and localities seem to be co-opting these Yanshan-born students......"

Gu Bingqian said cautiously, but Zhu Youzhen frowned when he heard it.

He didn't have so much time to wait for the normal change of the officials, according to Yanshan's reserves, six years of the Apocalypse plus seven years of the Apocalypse, at most 170,000 students graduated.

Among these 170,000 students, even if there are 150,000 who serve as officials, they are at most arranged in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beizhili.

But the problem is that when the drought broke out in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the eastern Sichuan region of Sichuan was also affected.

The grassroots level must be replaced in order to reduce the proportion of corruption, improve the efficiency of work, and prevent the people from starving to the stomach and eventually being forced to rebel because of the ineffective disaster relief.

As for Zhu Youzhen, in terms of his character and ideas of taking the initiative to help the poor in his previous life, he can kill Xu Hongru and other cults, as well as the northern and southern barbarians, but let him kill those who were forced to rebel because of his poor disaster relief, which is a bit of a test for himself.

One is to take the initiative and the other is to be forced.

For the former, he killed the killer in order to maintain the safety of the Ming Dynasty and the people, and there is no need to blame himself, but what about the latter?

Obviously, it was his Zhu family's poor rule that left the people without food, and finally had to rebel, and he had to lead troops to suppress it? What is this? To maintain their rule?

As a modern soul, a complex body of the largest landlord class in ancient times, Zhu Youzhen had to face a very complicated situation, and if he did something to slaughter hungry people for the sake of rule, then he was no different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath, and then said with a firm gaze:

"The officials are powerful, but the world belongs to the people and the court."

"Those who stand in my way can be killed, and those who hinder me should be punished."

"It's not that the imperial court wants to compromise with the imperial court, it's that the imperial court wants to compromise with the imperial court."

"There are thousands of scholars in the world, I don't believe that if he is ruined, there will be no other family to take over!"

Zhu Youzhen's words made Gu Bingqian not know how to answer, but hesitated for a moment, and then said:

"If Your Highness really wants to do this, then it is best to keep a group of scribes by your side, so as not to disobey the local yang and yin."

"Okay, you can step down" Zhu Youzhen sat down, signaling Gu Bingqian to retreat, and Gu Bingqian also returned the salute, and then slowly withdrew from the study.

After he withdrew, Zhu Youzhen wanted to deal with the military report, but just got the military report in his hand, and pulled it back.

Perhaps it was Gu Bingqian's words that made Zhu Youzhen struggle in his heart, and for a while he began to reflect on whether to do this.

He doesn't want to be a person at both ends of the road, but it's hard to take back such a thing as political policy.

The Xu Officials Group is one of the biggest helpers to support the civil official group, just like Gu Bingqian said, they have served as officials since the Hongwu period, and they have great influence in the local area.

There is a way for officials to be promoted, and the camp officials are stationed.

The stability of the officials in the local area determines that all forces need them, use them to tie up officials, and then maintain the interests of local tyrants.

Now that he, Zhu Youzhen, is going to move this plate, if he is not careful, maybe things will be out of his control.

At that time, he had no choice but to start military management in advance.

"......" thought of the more than 800,000 troops in his hands, as well as the soon-to-be-established Soldiers and Horses Division and the officials of the Criminal Department, Zhu Youzhen had some confidence.

Changing the officials of one province or even two provinces every year, so that the grassroots team of Daming will always be in a young and vigorous state, is what Zhu Youzhen needs most.

He is not afraid that the students in Yanshan will form gangs, nor will they be corrupt, but he is afraid that they will not do anything.

As long as they can do things, Zhu Youzhen can slowly survive the seventeen-year disaster, and then replace them with Yanshan students.

"Your Highness......"

"Come in."

Just as Zhu Youzhen was making a decision, Man Gui's voice sounded at the door, and Zhu Youzhen also returned to his seat after being summoned.

As soon as he sat down, Man Gui also walked into the study, still holding a handwritten book in his hand.

"Your Highness, Hong Jinglue and Sun Jingliu have sent letters." Man Gui presented the handwritten book with both hands, and Zhu Youzhen also reached out to take it, and subconsciously opened Sun Chuanting's handwritten book first.

Sun Chuanting's personality is stubborn, and his handwriting is also straightforward, so for Zhu Youzhen, reading his handwriting is easy and comfortable.

In the handbook, Sun Chuanting mainly talked about taking over the city and power of the Lijiang Mu clan in the south of Duogan, and the other was to train the ten battalions of Duogan with Cao Wenzhao.

In the end, Sun Chuanting gave a reply to all the circumstances of Duogan, including the population and the number of cattle and horses.

Since there are few Tibetans in Duogan and many Ming soldiers, it is not difficult to count.

According to statistics, there are more than 154,600 Tibetans, more than 35,000 Mongolians, and more than 2,000 Han Chinese, totaling less than 192,000.

The huge Duogan, only such a few people, it sounds really incredible, but fortunately, Zhu Youzhen has been prepared.

He then looked down, and he didn't look closely at the number of yaks and sheep after that.

Although yaks can also farm, they are too inefficient and far inferior to buffaloes and cattle.

"Tell Sun Chuanting to leave the Han and Mongols in the local area, and the others, if they want, can move to Zhenfan and Zhangye for grazing, and the court will provide grain, and each household will be given a one-time grain stamp of 12 stones."

"Yes......"

Zhu Youzhen decided the whereabouts of more than 100,000 Tibetans with a light sentence, but this was not a forced migration.

Those who want to go can go, and those who don't go are not forced.

Anyway, when the drought comes, without Zhu Youzhen's organization, a large number of refugees will squeeze towards Qinghai.

Not to mention anything else, in the Xiningwei area, Zhu Youzhen's memory is a good place that has not encountered a major drought.

Even if a large number of people return after the drought is over, at least they can make the area more prosperous.

Thinking about the pros and cons, Zhu Youzhen tore open Hong Chengchou's letter, and then glanced at it, with a smile on his face.

"Hong Chengchou can read my thoughts, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with choosing him to guard the southwest."

"After that, Annan and Sanxuan Liuwei will be handed over to him, and it is estimated that there will be no mistakes."

"But in order for Annan not to break away from my Daming, I still have to make preparations first."

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen put down the handwriting in his hand and instructed Man Gui:

"Tell Shen Tingyang that the gold and silver mines in various parts of the old port should be intensified, and the cement factory should first satisfy the local people, and send them back to Daming if there are officials who are skilled in managing the cement factory."

"Then transfer three million catties of gunpowder from Yanshan to Shanxi and Sichuan, and send orders to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to widen the post road between Sichuan, Shaanxi and Sichuan."

"The officials of the cement factory who returned to Daming are staying in Yunnan now."

"When Annan is laid, he will prepare to set up a workshop in Annan and lay post roads to Yunnan and Guangxi."

"Finally, tell Huang Long to prepare a fleet of grain and soldiers and horses, and the fleet of ships going to the West will depart on the first day of the winter month, arrive at the old port in February, and then set off for the Little Western Ocean."

"I want him to take Ceylon and send a fleet to Levia to see if it is feasible to move Levia."

Zhu Youzhen's words were finished, and Man Gui also responded:

"Yes, the Admiral knows."

"Stand down, ask Lu Wenzhao to come to me." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to signal that he could retreat, and Man Gui also stepped back cautiously.

After he stepped back, Zhu Youzhen continued to deal with the military situation, but Man Gui's face became gloomy after he walked out of the study.

"Migration of Levian ......"

Thinking of Zhu Youzhen's words just now, Man Gui returned to his courtyard with a gloomy face, and then asked people to find Lu Wenzhao, while he sat in the study and began to write down Zhu Youzhen's instructions.

A handwritten letter was written by him, about Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, and Shen Tingyang, he did not make a single mistake, and conveyed Zhu Youzhen's military order.

But when the handwriting touched Huang Long, his expression began to be slightly hideous.

He first wrote about the attack on Ceylon and the protection of the Western mission, and then he stopped when it came to Levia.

Just as he stopped, footsteps were heard outside the courtyard.

"Governor, Commander Lu is here."

"Please come in." Man Gui did not hide the handwritten book on the table, but calmly waited for Lu Wenzhao to enter the house.

Lu Wenzhao, who didn't know what was going on, walked into the house, looked at Man Gui who was wrong, and frowned slightly, but still found a place to sit down by himself.

"Your Highness said he was going to talk about the affairs of Levia, you know......"

Man Gui said pointedly, and when Lu Wenzhao heard this, he couldn't help but pause when he was about to pick up the teacup, and then regained his calm.

"I know, this is His Highness's decision, what's wrong?" He pretended to be calm and drank the tea, but this action was noticed by Man Gui.

Man Gui narrowed his eyes, and then said, "If Your Highness goes to Leviia, how should we deal with ourselves?" ”

"It's okay for me to say to Ying Yuan and Huang Long, with military power in our hands, whether it's Long Live or the future new emperor, we will be jealous of us and don't dare to go too far."

"But what about you......"

The words of "......" made Lu Wenzhao silent for a moment.

After a long time, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said with a pretended flat expression: "I just want to do a good job of what His Highness ordered, and be worthy of the world and the court." ”

"Hehe......" Listening to Lu Wenzhao's words, Man Gui chuckled and shook his head, then looked at Lu Wenzhao and said:

"All living beings, who doesn't want to do whatever they want, but it is not easy to do a good job in the affairs of the court and want to protect themselves......"

"What do you mean?" Lu Wenzhao looked at Man Gui with sharp eyes, and his hand unconsciously touched his waist.

"I mean very simply......" Man Gui replied flatly, and stretched out his hand to hold a pen in front of him and added a lot of words.

"That's what I mean." Man Gui pointed the handwritten book towards Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also frowned and got up and came to the desk.

It's just that when he saw the content of the handwriting, especially the last paragraph, his expression changed, and he instantly raised his hand to hold the handle of the knife, and looked directly at Man Gui:

"Your Highness knows, 10,000 of you is not enough to die!"

"But if I don't do it, you'll die!" Man Gui stood up suddenly, his expression hideous.

Lu Wenzhao was speechless for a while, while Man Gui changed his expression in a few seconds, and then put the letter into the envelope as if no one was around, printed with fire paint, and was about to go out of the study to find someone to deliver the letter.

His slow movements seemed to give Lu Wenzhao enough opportunity to kill him.

Not only that, while stumbling with Lu Wenzhao, his movements paused, and he turned his head to look at Lu Wenzhao:

"Think about your wife and children, think about the reason why I did this, and think about who benefits the most......"

"Finally, Your Highness is looking for you." Man Gui glanced at Lu Wenzhao's expression, and wrote lightly:

"If you want to say it, you can say it, but it's better to think it through first."

"Once this step is taken, you can't get it back, if you are targeted in the future, don't regret it."

After that, Man Gui walked out of the study, while Lu Wenzhao clenched the handle of the Yanling knife on his waist......

(End of chapter)