Night.

"Your Majesty, I can tell you clearly, this is the future Ming Dynasty."

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

This is the first time the two have met alone since he killed the tribute envoy in front of Chengtian Gate last time.

Of course, it's not entirely alone.

After all, someone's daughter is still there, but there is really no one else in Yang Feng's office, because the matter discussed by the two is classified at a confidential level, not to mention Jinyiwei, even cronies and eunuchs can't listen to it.

Eunuchs are also not insured.

Zhu Yuanzhang is dead, but the eunuchs still have to live, so there is a possibility of leaking secrets when interests are needed, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself does not dare to guarantee whether the eunuchs around him have been bought, and bribing the eunuchs to stare at the emperor is the basic operation of the ministers of the past dynasties, so many eunuchs who know which one has been bought, so even the eunuchs dare not fully trust it......

To be precise, the emperor has no one to trust.

Otherwise, the emperors would call themselves loners, and they would really be loners.

No one can be trusted.

His Majesty the Emperor did not rely on trust, but on supervision and balance.

Rely on power.

And now what he is talking to Yang Feng is related to the future court pattern of the Ming Dynasty, and in a sense, it is the future route of the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of thing must be kept absolutely secret.

"You're going to set up a civilian government, that's right, we were all civil at that time.

You are not wrong to choose Confucianism.

After all, you don't have any other choice, at this time, Confucianism is indeed the least bad, compared to other messes, they are indeed the most suitable choice at the moment.

But.

You shouldn't be alone.

Yes, you left the checks and balances.

Use military generals to balance civil officials, and honors and nobles to balance scholars.

But too little.

It looks really good to use the honors to balance the civil officials, and to use the civil officials to balance the nobles, but the nobles of any dynasty are the first to be strong, and then they are gradually weakened, after all, they are not weak, and it is difficult for the emperor to feel at ease. And civil officials have always gradually become stronger, after all, it is difficult to use military generals and nobles in peacetime, and civil officials who govern the country are important, and the emperor is not afraid that they will rebel.

Then the balance is gradually broken.

And your current imperial examination system has completely degenerated into a Confucian scholar, and your civil officials are Confucianists, and in the end, the strong civil official group has actually become a powerful Confucian group.

They became one voice to speak.

In the latter part of your second generation, you have already had to start using eunuchs to make up for the lack of nobles.

But the honors are getting worse and worse.

Your descendants have to gradually increase their dependence on eunuchs, until in the end, there is only one option left to use eunuchs to check and balance civil officials, so that it becomes the eunuch you least want to see in politics, and it has developed to the peak, that Wei Zhongxian. The emperor at that time was actually very smart, although he was ridiculed by later generations as a carpenter emperor who was a plaything, but in fact, because he didn't want to directly confront the civil officials, he pushed Wei Zhongxian out to be a biting dog. Then he became a faint monarch who ignored the government and politics, let him sell his official position outside to ensure the finances, and let him take over his son to control the government to check and balance the Qingliu group known as the Donglin Party.

In the end, it's because he has no other choice.

You dug a hole for them from the very beginning.

They can't jump out.

All the systems you have formulated now will eventually become an ancestral system that they cannot overthrow, and the laws of the ancestors cannot be changed.

So, your choice is right, your checks and balances are right, the fault is too little, one-to-one is very fragile, the triangle is stable, you need to support a non-Confucian group in the civil service.

Split the civil service.

Establish a civilian government, but split the civil officials, so that in addition to the Confucian civil officials, there is another civil official under other ideologies that is strong enough to check and balance, so that with the addition of the noble military general group, your descendants can avoid the same as in the original history, and in the end even a common people who instigated the people to revolt could not be killed. Ge Chengcheng, the leader of the Suzhou anti-tax campaign, was an ordinary weaver, but after the emperor ordered him to be executed, he was treated as a hero in the prison and served until the emperor died, he was not dead, and was finally released. The protection of officials at all levels, and the protection of the local gentry, can make it impossible for the imperial power to decide the life and death of a common man.

And the emperor sent the civil officials of the governor Caoyun, and even dared to bribe the thieves in the prison and frame the emperor's tax collectors as bandits and kill them.

This is the consequence of a single family.

It is true that the party struggle was serious in the late Ming Dynasty, but the party struggle did not affect the dominance of the civil and official families, because they were all educated by an ideological system.

They are all Confucians. ”

Yang Feng said.

He had to fundamentally bewitch Zhu Yuanzhang.

"If I have other options, do you think I like to let them dominate? The imperial examination was stopped from the fourth year of Hongwu, and it was not reopened until the seventeenth year of Hongwu, what have I been doing in the past ten years, isn't it just looking for a usable one?

I didn't find it.

I searched for more than ten years, and in the end only they were available. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"That's because you're just looking for a group of minions that you can do.

That's why you see them as the best fit. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Humph!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

"You just admit it, you don't want to find a real talent to govern the country at all, you just want to find a group of minions who can protect your family and the world for you and legally guarantee you the Zhu family's country, you have such glasses, of course you can only see them, but in fact, are they really the only ones?

Are they really unique?

What do they have?

Reading and literacy?

As long as there are more schools, anyone can read and write, and we don't have anyone who can't read and write, and this is a matter of education.

Are they more ethical?

This thing is not an ideological problem, Confucianism does advocate famous ministers in history and say that they are Confucians, but how many of them can actually be real Confucians? Before the Tang Dynasty, they were all families, and the families did learn Confucianism, but they learned everything, Confucianism was only a part of their knowledge, and other military science, arithmetic, engineering and even medicine, they learned what was useful.

Then Confucianism took out that they had studied Confucianism and said that they were all Confucians.

Confucianism was truly exclusive to the Song Dynasty.

Those loyal and righteous men did not become loyal and righteous because they learned Confucianism, but they were originally loyal and righteous soldiers.

It's a matter of personal morality.

In the same way, there are many people who have committed treason and defected to the enemy.

What you fancy is just that they can give you a set of monarchs and ministers to solidify the imperial power, and then you can use this to make everyone accept your Zhu family's world, submit to it for generations, and be your Zhu family's slaves. ”

Yang Feng said unceremoniously.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, obviously very unhappy, after all, he was told by this bastard to think about it.

"Of course, this is your Ming's business, and I am a bystander, but even if I am a bystander, I must remind you that to do so is to re-embark on the path that those dynasties have taken, and they have all perished without exception. Since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted out that Hou Ning, the prime minister, has a kind of thing, there is no such family in this land, and people are just waiting for the decline of the dynasty, and then overthrow him and replace it with a new dynasty.

No one wants to be a slave all the time.

We all have backbones.

Later, the alien race that replaced your Ming Dynasty played even more ruthlessly than you on this point, and they not only continued to respect Confucianism, but also completely turned Confucianism into a slave family.

All the civil and military generals were proud to be called servants in front of the emperor.

Their Confucianism is no longer thoughtless.

The only thing that can be done is to explain the dominance of imperial power according to the Confucian texts.

Tell everyone to be the emperor's slave.

Even more than half of the books were burned, leaving only the science books that were useful for slavery, and even some of the history books that had to be left behind were heavily tampered with. But it was still useless, and in less than two hundred years, there had been continuous rebellions, and even finally led to a rebellion that almost perished, and it was still suppressed with the help of the Taixi people. But since then, it has not been their final say in the world, but the Han important ministers who took advantage of the suppression of the rebellion to rise, and the division of the feudal towns is almost the same, all thanks to a heroine who is proficient in power, it barely lasted for a few more decades, and the heroine died and perished immediately.

They enslaved them to this point, and in the end they lasted about the same time as the Ming Dynasty.

This thing is really useless.

What Confucianism can do, in fact, any other thought can do.

In that case, why don't you rely on them?

Explain your legitimacy?

Do you need it?

You are not those who relied on usurping the throne and bullying orphans and widows, it can be said that all dynasties, you are the most righteous in winning the country, you don't need to rely on any ideological explanation, you are enough to expel the Tartars and rebuild the rivers and mountains.

That being the case, why not try to build a better system?

For example, the imperial examination.

Why only Confucian students?

Why not divide it into multiple subjects, such as setting the current examination as a separate liberal arts, and then taking the military department, engineering department, and even agriculture, medicine, and business at the same time, so that all of them can be jinshi in the final examination, and they can all be officials, and they can also be promoted, so that in addition to Confucianism, a group of miscellaneous officials has been formed, and the civil officials are no longer the dominant Confucian family.

What's more, many things have to be done professionally after all. ”

Yang Feng said.

That's what he's really for.

Fooled Zhu Yuanzhang into dividing the imperial examination into subjects, and then used miscellaneous subjects to divide the power of Confucianism.

That's the most ruthless.

And it has a basis for implementation.

First of all, relying on the military department will definitely get the support of the military general group, and now the children of hereditary military attachés are supposed to be assessed, and then confirm whether they are attacked, so they will be included in the imperial examination and let them take the martial arts examination.

And the craftsmen themselves have the channel of being officials in the camp, and now they are just included in the imperial examination, and they are directly allowed to take the engineering jinshi examination.

There is also medicine.

Doctors can also be admitted as doctors.

Local medicine, Huimin Pharmacy, all the way to Tai Hospital, this is a line.

Now it is also included in the imperial examination, so that they can become medical scholars.

No matter what Jinshi is, he is Jinshi.

They can all enter the officialdom, and then they will be promoted, but they will definitely be excluded by the liberal arts scholars, and even discriminated against, after all, it is still unbearable for them to let the Confucian scholars and craftsmen stand side by side, but this is what they want, they will automatically group together when they are excluded, and eventually form a bureaucracy that competes with Confucianism.

Then there is the checks and balances between the two groups.

These miscellaneous scholars are really useful, and they are more useful than those pure Confucian scholars.

Moreover, the foundation of Confucianism was landlords.

After all, farming reads heirlooms.

However, the foundation of miscellaneous scholars is different, and they will inevitably become the spokesperson of industry and commerce.

That's it.

Emerging industrial and commercial groups can be truly supported.

"I'll think about it."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat there and said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, do you still need to think about this? Let's not talk about anything else, the three departments of soldiering, engineering, and medicine can even be said to have existed, but they are not in the imperial examination, and now they have been changed to the imperial examination, and the big deal is that there is a difference in the number of jinshi. For example, there are 200 liberal arts exams, 100 military exams, 50 engineering exams, and 50 medical exams, but no matter what subject, it is the same as a jinshi, and there can be no difference between being an official in the future. Here it is necessary to distinguish the difference between the hereditary military generals of the guard and the Wu Jinshi, who are still civilian officials, but they are mainly based on the yamen of the military department, including other yamen related to the army. ”

Yang Feng continued to bewitch him.

The military department, the military preparation road......

Of course, there is no military preparation road at present, but now there are sub-patrol roads, and there are more than 40 roads that are patrolled by deputy envoys of the judicial department to inspect the military preparations.

Therefore, they should act as soldiers.

Of course, as a co-optation of military generals, the military science and technology jinshi must be selected by the guards at the beginning, and the guards in each place have their own schools, and the people who go to school are basically the children of officers, and they select and send people, and these people are admitted to the jinshi. As for the assessment of their hereditary military positions, it must still be in the past, this hereditary system is the foundation of Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, and he will not move it easily.

Gotta take your time.

But first, we have to get the military science and technology out of the army.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang could not agree immediately, this reform involves too much and needs to be reformed on a large scale in the current imperial examination system, which has just been perfected......

Actually, it's not perfect.

After all, those who can make the north and south lists must not be said to be perfect.

In this case, it will take a lot of courage to change it.

However, the key is whether Zhu Yuanzhang can give up his illusions about Confucianism, which is actually understandable, after all, the emperor thinks about the world and will continue forever, and Confucianism is indeed the most suitable for them, and it is normal for him to choose Confucianism. But Yang Feng did not want him to abandon Confucianism, Confucianism is still the main body of his civil servants, but the dominance of Confucianism will endanger his imperial power in the end, so he should patch the loopholes of this system.

Of course, Yang Feng made him think that he was just a patch for a vulnerability, but in fact, it would not be a patch if it really developed.

A new generation of ideas will be born.

A new generation of officials will also grow.

At that time, how could the Confucian ability be sustained, the future emperor, after all, still depends on who has the ability, they may not have Zhu Yuanzhang's foresight, if the officials from the miscellaneous scholars show the strength of remote Confucian officials, then the future emperor will not be reused?