The student's father has an old friend in Qiongzhou, at the beginning of this year, the student had received a letter from him, because his father had died the year before last, the student received the letter and looked at it on his behalf, the old friend did not seem to know about his father's death, between the verbal greetings, the above also mentioned some things about Qiongzhou. ”

Why do you know the inside story, this can't be explained, Xia Yuan can only make up an excuse and push everything on the dead father.

In these years, the carriages, horses, and mails are slow, and there is only enough love for one person in a lifetime.

A letter received at the beginning of this year does not mean that it was written at the beginning of the year, at least it must have been many months ago, or even the year before last.

He thought about it, if the emperor asked where the letter was, he would say that it was burned in front of my father's grave.

Hearing this answer, Zhu Youzhu paused slightly, and did not ask where the letter was, nor did he doubt Xia Yuan's nonsense.

Two years after his death, his relatives and friends who were far away still didn't know about it, which sounded a little unbelievable, but it was really normal.

Qiongzhou is too far away, nearly 6,000 miles, and has to cross the sea, anything can happen on the way, maybe he sent a letter when he died, but the letter was gone halfway through.

"Your father's old friend is in Qiongzhou?"

"This student doesn't know, the letter didn't mention it, but it's not impossible to think about it, my father is the third year of Hongzhi, and the old friend Xu is the same year as him, and now I'm afraid that the uncle has been."

Speaking of this, Xia Yuan paused at the right time, but Emperor Hongzhi knew very well what this thing wanted to say, but he was afraid that it was gone, after all, the entire Qiongzhou was now full of smoke, and the entire island had fallen into the hands of traitors.

"The reason for the Qiongzhou Rebellion written by Qing on the policy essay paper was originally intended to tell me the inside story in this way, but I didn't believe it at the time."

Emperor Hongzhi's tone was leisurely, "It wasn't until today that this report came, and I didn't know that Qing was a heart for the country, and I also knew that what Qing said was true, Qing only said Qiongzhou, and the actual situation in the entire Lingnan was ten times more tragic than what Qing said." ”

"Students are ashamed."

This is not all clichés, Xia Yuan is really a little ashamed, he didn't expect that what he did would rise to the height of serving the country and the people in the emperor's heart.

It's really embarrassing.

At that time, he thought that the imperial court knew the inside story of the Qiongzhou Rebellion, after all, there had been a gap of several months, and he took it for granted that the question was to test the teaching of tribute students.

But who would have thought that the officials in this year would be so bold that they would treat the court as if they were a child for several months.

Now that I think about it, I can figure it out, it must be that the officials think that they are just bandits, a gang of rabble, and they are not pinched by hand, but not only did they not settle down, but they were also pinched by others.

The lid couldn't be covered, so I had to report it to the imperial court to send troops to solve it.

"It shouldn't be you who is ashamed, but the people of Lingnan. That's it."

Zhu Youzhu sighed a little tiredly, cheered up and asked: "Regarding Qing's theory of governing the country, I have a lot of insights after reading it, and I wanted to wait for the ceremony to be passed on before summoning Qing to inquire, but today's things are complicated, so I asked directly."

Zhu Youzhu had really read the content of the volume about how to govern the country during this time, and after a moment of silence, he asked:

"From the perspective of strategy, I can see that Qing is quite respectful of the change of land and return to the river of the country, and also discusses many pros and cons of changing the land and returning to the stream, but what Qing means is that the reason why the change of land and return to the river of the country is slow is because those Yi people do not bathe in the culture of the Central Plains.

Therefore, some methods were proposed on this matter, such as sending special personnel from the DPRK and the central government, conferring official positions, going deep into the places where the Yi people gathered, educating the Yi people, and then giving some preferential treatment to the Yi people in the imperial examination.

All of you feel that something is a little inappropriate, but I think it is a good policy, and all of you are here today, can you elaborate on it? ”

Xia Yuan was full of spirit when he heard this, this is something to talk about, and the one that goes deep into the grassroots level does not matter, the preferential treatment of the imperial examination is one of the private goods he added, and it is the one that is taken from later generations. I know everything.

Then he looked at the old men in front of him, to be honest, he knew a Xie Qian here, and he had seen it when he took the exam.

As for the remaining white-bearded old men, he didn't know who they were, so he simply asked, "I wonder how many pavilion elders think this is inappropriate?" ”

Liu Jian said in a flat tone: "The preferential treatment of the imperial examination, I have never had it since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, once this example is implemented, it will inevitably attract the accusations and criticism of the world's scholars. ”

The things of the world are not unequal.

In his last life, even Xia Yuan himself felt that the preferential treatment of the college entrance examination was very unfair, but after some experience, when he thought about it, he understood what the original intention of this policy was, or where the essence was.

"This elder's worries are not unreasonable, but the preferential treatment of the Yiren imperial examination always outweighs the disadvantages, and the students dare to ask, what is the reason for the Southwest Tusi Rebellion?"

"Since the people of Southwest Yi only know the Tusi but do not know the imperial court, and they are separated from the imperial court, whenever the Tusi has the heart to make trouble, the Yi people will blindly respond."

Xia Yuan then asked, "Then why do you want to deviate from Germany?" ”

Liu Jian just wanted to answer, but then reacted, and said with a straight face: "Your Majesty is teaching you, but now you have become an old man." ”

"Oh."

Xia Yuan sighed, so he had to ask himself and answer:

"Because the Yi people don't bask in the Central Plains culture, they don't have much sense of identity with the Central Plains culture, and they may not even know that there is a court and a Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains.

The source of all this is due to the drawbacks of the Tusi system, or the fetters system.

As far as the students know, this system can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and then used by successive dynasties, but the disadvantages of this system are particularly fatal, and the people who were selected by the imperial court as Tusi were originally local famous families, oh, this is not very appropriate."

Xia Yuan thought about it, but couldn't find the right word, so he could only continue: "Let's call it a famous family, these people are local famous families, and they are all hereditary, only need two or three generations of accumulation, or even no accumulation, they will have supreme authority in their jurisdiction, and they are veritable emperors. Uh, King of the Mountain."

Changed his words, Xia Yuan felt that it didn't seem to be good, and the king also felt a little taboo, he couldn't help but aim at the emperor of His Majesty Dan, and he couldn't see his face clearly if he was too far away.

Seeing that he was looking up at himself, Zhu Youzhu of course knew the reason, so he said loudly: "I think it is quite appropriate to be the emperor of the soil, and the king of the mountain is like a strongman who robs his house." ”

I am relieved to have your words, big brother.

Xia Yuan felt quiet in his heart, and continued: "Those Tusi have the right to kill and seize the Yi people in their respective jurisdictions, and in order to maintain their own status, most of the Tusi have taken extremely cruel and ruthless governance methods against the Yi people in their jurisdictions, so that those Yi people are afraid of them in their hearts, afraid of them, and listen to them.

If the Yiren make a small mistake, they will be sentenced to death by Tusi, with severed hands, severed fingers, gouging out of eyes, palace punishment, and beheading."

Accompanied by Xia Yuan's voice, the faces of several ministers in the hall were a little weird, and Emperor Hongzhi couldn't control his expression.

As for the methods of Tusi to rule the Yi people, they knew, but it was through Wang Shi of Southwest Pilu, as well as the reports of those factory guards.

At that time, after reading those reports, everyone had only one thought in their hearts, Yiren has been suffering for a long time!

Bitter or not, he only wanted to know one thing now.

When Xia Yuan finished introducing the situation of the toast like a few treasures, Zhu Youzhu leaned forward slightly, and his eyes showed a deep look of inquiry.

"I can't help but be surprised at this time, Qing is a person from Shuntianfu, thousands of miles away from Guizhou, how did Qing know about those Tusi things?"

“.”

Xia Yuan's cheeks twitched when he heard this, if I said that my father also had an old friend in Guizhou, and he also sent a letter, do you believe it, Your Majesty?

(End of chapter)