It wasn't until the door of Liu Bowen's house that the King of Chu turned over and got off the cow and walked into the gate of the Sincerity Bofu with his hands behind his back.

Liu Li was watering the flowers in the yard, and when she saw Zhu Zhen, she smiled sweetly: "Uncle Xiao, it's early." ”

"Well, early." Zhu Zhen took out a beautifully packaged small box from his sleeve, threw it to her and said, "This is a dim sum in the palace, I will bring it to you by the way to taste, if you don't like it, throw it away." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Xiao, Uncle Xiao is so nice." Liu Li happily took it, opened it, and couldn't help exclaiming. "Wow, that's a pretty snack."

"Hmph, I haven't seen the world, and there are more styles of dim sum in the palace." Zhu Zhen walked into the study with his hands behind his back proudly.

"Don't eat it." As soon as the king of Chu entered the door, Liu Xiang snatched the small box of palace snacks from Liu Li's hand.

"Give it to me." Liu Li stretched out his hand to snatch it back.

"You forgot you gave him laxative candy!" Liu Xiang said in a low voice: "If he can't keep it, he will take revenge!" ”

"yes." Only then did Liu Li remember the candy he had given to the King of Chu to eat. It's still the medicine he caught according to his prescription.

"However, the one I gave him the day before yesterday is fine." Liu Li whispered.

After all, no one will carry laxative candy all day long, what if they accidentally eat it themselves.

"Anyway, that man is very bad, you don't want to eat his things, and it's better not to talk to him." Liu Xiang fire, anti-theft, anti-old six roads.

"He is our little uncle, you have to respect your elders." Liu Li shook his head.

"He, elder?" Liu Xiang was disdainful.

But he didn't pay attention, and Liu Li snatched the dim sum back......

After Liu Li succeeded, he ran away.

"Get it back for me." Liu Xiang chased after him.

"Second aunt, my brother robbed me of food again." Liu Li didn't hurry up and made a killer move, and said with tears in her eyes.

"Liu Xiang, you're itchy again, aren't you?" Liu Jing's daughter-in-law, who was washing clothes, immediately glared angrily.

"Count you ruthless...... Liu Xiang braked urgently, not daring to cross the thunder pool for half a step.

~~

In the study, Liu Bowen had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Zhu Zhen, he smiled sweeter than his granddaughter.

"Come, hurry up and tell me how the landlords in Jiangnan are demons, right?" As soon as Zhu Zhen sat down, he asked with a smile.

"I've said it all, and I don't know much." His Royal Highness the King of Chu first issued a disclaimer before saying:

"Probably, it seems, they monopolized the imperial examinations and then took power. and then desperately seek benefits for the Jiangnan region and help his hometown pay less taxes or something. As a result, the drought in the northwest was severe, and the people had no way to live. The Northeast has been fighting fiercely with the Tartars for many years, and they are also indifferent, and the imperial court can't collect Liao Liao from them......

"As a result, when the Ming Dynasty died and the Qing army entered the customs, they woke up suddenly, and it was too late to resist desperately, and they were killed to the core, and hundreds of millions of wealth were all cheapened by the Tartars."

"Alas, it's really stupid, short-sighted......" Liu Ji sighed when he heard this: "The old man's comrade Zhedong, how did he become such an idiot worm?" ”

"It may be that after the Four Books and Five Classics have become a stepping stone to fame, scholars will no longer have the public heart to serve the country and the people, and only the selfishness of 'having their own golden house in the book' will remain." Zhu Zhen speculated wildly.

The little historical knowledge in his stomach was obviously not enough to help him give the right answer.

"So, the imperial court has resumed the imperial examination?" Liu Bowen asked softly.

"Restored." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "I don't know exactly when it was restored, but I know that the later officials were all born in the imperial examination, and they can't be officials in other ways." ”

"How do you mean that the civil officials have mastered the imperial court?" Liu Bowen said with a moving expression.

"Yes." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "The civilian officials first grasped the administrative power and financial power, and later also firmly grasped the military power through the military department. I remember that two hundred years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the most powerful general of the imperial court, a general comparable to Xu Da, called himself a 'door puppy' in the door form to the civil chief. When entering and leaving the Prime Minister's Mansion, he even had a tooth with his porter servants.

"By the end of the dynasty, the civil officials had become even more severe, and even high-ranking military attachés such as the general army had to be restrained by low-level civilian officials. The third-rank military attache should kneel and talk to the seven-rank patrol, and if he made the slightest mistake, he would be whipped. But no matter how martial arts are practiced, they are all used to it. ”

"Well, isn't that nonsense?" Liu Bowen shook his head when he heard this:

"Although the current atmosphere of emphasizing military force over literature is also very bad, the kind of atmosphere of respecting literature and overthrowing military force as mentioned by His Highness is even more harmful. Once there is something in the world and the country needs brave generals who are not afraid of sacrifice, can it be obtained? The husband has nothing to do and is as cheap as a cow and horse, and he wants to donate his life if he has something, so why treat it thinly, and the responsibility is thick? ”

"What Master said is true, but please don't use literary language," Zhu Zhen said, "I don't understand it very well." ”

"You're embarrassed to say it." Liu Bowen said angrily: "If you want to be respected, you can't say it too plainly, and it's convenient for us to make a fool of yourself." ”

Saying that, he glanced at him and said, "If you are as full of vernaculars as your father, who believes that you are Liu Bowen's apprentice?" ”

"Uh-oh." Zhu Zhen nodded vigorously. "I'm going to study hard."

"That's pretty much it." Liu Bowen asked a little puzzled:

"It's good to say that civilian officials can control the financial power of the political power, but how did they also snatch the military power? The Ming Dynasty is not the Great Song Dynasty, and it did not emphasize literature and suppress martial arts. Heavy military and light literature is about the same. ”

This is true. Boss Zhu was born as a military general, and he relied on martial artists to win the world. Naturally, intentionally or unintentionally, they will give preferential treatment to military attachés.

For example, the "Da Ming Law" stipulates that in all official affairs, as long as the matter involves military officers, even if it is a matter of 'lawlessness and injustice' against the military officer, all legal departments from the central to the local government have no right to intervene. It can only be handled by the Metropolitan Governor's Office and the Metropolitan Commander's Envoy.

In addition, most of the officers of this era were the founding heroes, and the general army had the reputation of 'liehou', and their system was extremely respectful.

So even Liu Bowen, when he heard that he would be 'extremely noble and cheap' in the future, felt incredible.

"The teacher has to find the answer to this question himself." Zhu Zhen shook his head, his knowledge was not enough to explain the original reason. can only throw bricks and lead the way:

"Personally, I think it may have something to do with the longevity of the peace. It may also be hereditary with military attachés, and one generation is not as good as the next; Civil officials have to go through brutal layers of imperial examinations, and the survival of the fittest is related to the elite. ”

"Hmm." Liu Bowen bowed his head and said: "There is some truth. ”

~~

In the morning, Liu Ji asked questions and Zhu Zhen answered......

At lunchtime, Liu Ji still refused to let go of Zhu Zhen and asked him how the civilian officials grasped the military power step by step.

Zhu Zhen was thinking hard when he suddenly heard the voice of the second senior brother outside the door.

"Father, the third prince of the Weiguo Mansion is looking for His Royal Highness outside, saying that there is an urgent matter."

P.S. Keep writing, let's read it tomorrow morning.

(End of chapter)