Others think how majestic the founding emperor is, but only Zhu Yuanzhang himself knows how difficult his situation is!

This difficulty is not that he can't sit still in the position of emperor, but what he wants, not just for him to be the emperor, but for his descendants to be emperors in peace, not to mention thousands of generations, at least for a few generations!

He didn't want the Ming Dynasty he created to end up like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, or like the Wei and Jin dynasties. Even if it's like the former Song, it's not what he likes.

However, the situation in the past few years since the founding of the People's Republic of China has not satisfied him.

First of all, the former Yuan has not been extinguished, and I always think about the Central Plains.

In addition, the Japanese along the coast are also a big disaster, a few years ago, even the envoys he sent to the Japanese kingdom were killed by the prince of the Japanese kingdom. Although the generals asked for a crusade against the Wa Kingdom, he took into account the example of the former Yuan, so he endured it.

That's it, in fact, not the main thing.

For him, the main thing is the lack of loyal, reliable and talented people.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but turn over again.

The talent thing has really been bothering him for too long.

When the world has not yet been conquered, as long as it is a talent, regardless of civil or military, all accept it.

The ten ranks of officials, officials, monks, Taoists, doctors, workers, craftsmen, prostitutes, Confucians, and beggars, and the Confucianism in the second and last ranks, Zhu Yuanzhang all wanted. Of course, this must have nothing to do with his background as a beggar.

Under his thirst for talent, he is famous for his investment, and the people around him also recommend him. But this alone is not enough.

Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also found that under the recommendation system, nepotism, mercenary and other drawbacks are becoming more and more serious. For this reason, he finally chose the imperial examination system of the former Central Plains Dynasty to select talents.

As a result, because of the early recommendation system, most of the talented people were recommended to the imperial court as officials; Most of those who participated in the imperial examination were hairy boys, and basically few of them could do things.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the three-level method of doing things for the old, middle and young, that is, using the method of the old man leading the newcomer, trying to solve the disadvantages of the poor use of talents brought about by the imperial examination system, he did not expect that the original problems were not solved, and new problems were discovered.

In the early years of Hongwu, the imperial examination system lacked various fair rules and regulations, and made the imperial examination a place for fraud.

Zhu Yuanzhang was disappointed, so he had no choice but to announce the suspension of the imperial examination system and the resumption of the recommendation system. If the original historical development was followed, he would have considered it for ten years before introducing a relatively fair and mature imperial examination system in one fell swoop.

Under the resumption of the recommendation system, even if Zhu Yuanzhang just told Song Lian how good the recommendation system is, and took Zhang Liangxiao He as an example, he was very worried in his heart.

Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong have a very good relationship, they are still in-laws, they are in a high position in the Ming Dynasty, and those talents recommended by them are also around them, and a huge force has been formed.

When the magistrates come to Beijing, they will visit them.

Local things are also reported to them first, and then it is decided whether to report to him, the emperor.

Although for now, those things that have not been reported to him are not big deals. But Zhu Yuanzhang saw that this kind of sign was very bad.

When he was in power, he could suppress these courtiers, but what if he was gone?

Also, the officials in the court today are either officials in the former Yuan Dynasty, or scholars who grew up in the former Yuan Dynasty, all of them are contaminated with the customs and habits of the former Yuan, and corruption is simply daily life!

For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang was ruthless and announced that whoever dared to be greedy would be stripped of skin and grass for more than sixty taels of silver. It's not just talking, it's actually been done.

He had to guard against it, because he had personally experienced how corrupt officials forced the people to rebel under corrupt officials. If you want the Ming Dynasty to have long-term peace and stability, you must not tolerate the rampant behavior of corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

If it were possible, Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't want to use these officials who were deeply influenced by the former yuan. But what about the talent that replaces them? Where is the talent?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn over again.

Queen Ma, who was sleeping next to him, felt that Zhu Yuanzhang was baking pancakes, so she asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the star change has happened, and it is useless to think about it." Only when you have a good rest can you handle government affairs well, right? ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard it, he turned his head, looked at his wife, and replied to her: "In two days, you can reveal it to Jing Jing and let her be prepared, right?" ”

His plan to marry Zhu Jingjing to Li Shanchang's eldest son had already been mentioned to Queen Ma. I hope that after doing this, I can make Li Shanchang grateful, think more about him, and think about the court.

Queen Ma didn't expect him to say this, and after waiting for a while, she said: "Jing Jing is a sensible child, it should be no problem!" I'll talk to her after that. ”

Li Shanchang's eldest son, Li Qi, is much older than Zhu Jingjing, and he is still a second marriage, speaking of which, he is a little wronged by Zhu Jingjing. However, since the father has already decided, it can only be like this.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened, but did not speak, and in his mind, Li Shanchang's face appeared.

I have to say that Li Shanchang is indeed a talent, and he used to be his right-hand man. If he assists him wholeheartedly, has no selfishness, recommends useful talents, and is truly used by the court, then he is still his minister.

However, Li Shanchang's performance in the past few years has not satisfied him at all, and he is even so close to Hu Weiyong, what are the civil officials going to do together? I hope that he will recognize his identity and not get too close to other civil and military officials after forming a marriage with him. If necessary, you still have to knock him down!

If in the original history, Zhu Yuanzhang first married his daughter to the Li family, and then asked people to impeach Li Shanchang, saying that he did not respect the emperor and punished Li Shanchang and reduced his salary, but in the end, even after he beat him, it did not go as he wanted.

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Zhu Jingjing didn't come to Liujia Village, Zhang Yifan found out at the first time. But he didn't particularly care about it at first because he was busy. After waiting for a few days, Zhu Jingjing still didn't show up, so he was a little strange.

Thinking about what would happen in the ninth year of Hongwu, Zhang Yifan remembered that there seemed to be an empty seal, but this had nothing to do with Xungui, and it should have nothing to do with Jingjing.

But no matter what, Zhang Yifan was still a little worried, so he asked someone about the situation, and then he knew what star changes there were.

In this regard, he was naturally quite speechless, isn't it just a normal astronomical phenomenon, this ancient person is really!

It seems that the honorifies may be affected, and it seems that it is also possible.

Thinking so, Zhang Yifan didn't worry too much and continued to be busy with the affairs of Liujia Village.

With the labor support of several surrounding villages, it took about a month for Liujia Village to finally complete the big changes.

When the renovation of Liujia Village entered the final stage, Zhang Yifan began to miss Zhu Jingjing, thinking that after such a long time, did he take the initiative to go to Zheng Guogong's mansion to have a look?

Thinking of doing it, early the next morning, Zhang Yifan packed up, changed into new clothes, and set off in an ox cart, accompanied by Da Niu and Erniu.