Chapter 360

"Meet the Commander!"

Cheng Shijie thought a lot, even if he didn't do anything, would there be fewer deaths?

The answer is yes, absolutely not, definitely no.

In history, the Later Jin Dynasty was founded by the Qing Dynasty, invaded several times, and the soldiers were in the direction of the front, and the blood flowed like a river. And the Ming Empire's internal drought, locust plague, waterlogging, hail plague, endless natural disasters and man-made disasters forced the peasants to ruin their families, and finally in order to survive, the rod rose up, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan, everywhere beacon fires, killing rivers of blood.

Human life is cheaper than ants in such troubled times, and after a brutal fight, Li Zicheng finally entered Beijing and sent the Ming Empire, which lasted for nearly three hundred years, to the grave. Then, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Li Zicheng was defeated, and barbarism once again defeated civilization, Jiading three massacres, Yangzhou ten days, Huguang filled Sichuan...... Half of the flowers and trees were stained with blood.

This is the end of the Ming Dynasty, an era of corpses, mountains of blood, sea of blood and fire, and an era when life is as cheap as ants. This is Cheng Shijie's responsibility, and he can't escape it.

The Confucianism represented the tradition of the small-scale peasant economy, hoping to make the whole society static, with men plowing the fields and women spinning at home, for generations to come.

Cheng Shijie represents the era of industrial economy, at least in eastern Liaodong, the industrial revolution has begun, it requires women to leave home and participate more in industrial production, and in order to do this, women must be liberated first.

The one that the rotten Confucians insisted on was outdated, and even without Cheng Shijie, sooner or later Westerners would tell them with strong ships and cannons that the one they insisted on was outdated.

It is a man who can't give up and escape because it's too difficult to make money, and he can't throw away his child because he is too ugly, and he can't retrain the trumpet because the child is too stupid.

Cheng Shijie thought about escaping, but the problem is that there are some things he can't escape, just like Jin Qiao'er and Yang Wan'er, even if Cheng Shijie really didn't think about taking the two of them into the house, but in the past four years, who dares to think about Yang Wan'er and Jin Qiao'er in Liaodong?

In almost everyone's hearts, Jin Qiaoer and Yang Wan'er, including Yang Yunniang, and Gu Ziyi, are all Cheng Shijie's women, no matter whether Cheng Shijie really possesses them or not, they can only belong to Cheng Shijie.

Regardless of whether Cheng Shijie is anti-minded or not, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court, Cheng Shijie is a thief, because Cheng Shijie has enough strength to rebel.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhang Yu, Li Xin, Chen Guodong and others: "Actually, I also understand the soldiers, the soldiers of the Ning Navy drank blood and chewed grass roots at the border pass, their bloody clothes were armor, and their flesh and blood were used as shields, and they fought bloodily, and finally took the initiative to the side of Daming, but as a result, their gang of rotten Confucians took the initiative to hand over the initiative, in exchange for me as a soldier of the Ning Navy, and I am not willing to work for this country anymore...... Da Ming, the number of qi is really exhausted! ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Once, Ben Shuai thought that as long as he could defeat the Jiannu and the Mongol Tatars and eliminate the displaced people, he would be able to save the country and drag it back from the edge of the cliff, and you and I have been working hard for this." However, it is only now that I have discovered that the most terrible enemy of this country is not the Jiannu, let alone the outcasts, but the high-ranking civil and military ministers in the center, and the corrupt gentry all over the country! ”

Zhang Yu was excited, Cheng Shijie was able to think about all this, it was great. Except for Cheng Shijie, no one can shoulder this heavy responsibility.

Although the crown prince is still in Liaodong......

Cheng Shijie said: "No matter how hard we work, no matter how much advantage we have on the battlefield, they can always easily erase all this and pry the whole country to the precipice!" When countless people are looking forward to changing their masters to grab greater benefits, the country's gas is really exhausted, and I can't do anything, I really can't do anything! ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie shook his head a little weakly, and said in a low voice: "This country has really reached the point where everything has started all over again. ”

Li Xin said: "Then start from scratch, smash all the jars and jars, send all those rentier classes who don't do things to hell, and smash the old order that has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, and we will start all over again!" ”

Cheng Shijie said very firmly: "Ben Shuai has never lacked the courage to start over, but now the life of being the emperor will definitely not be easy...... They can all call Ben Shuai die without a place to be buried. However, in the face of absolute force, these are paper tigers, and when the time comes, we can tear them to shreds immediately. But ......"

"Dashuai!"

Li Xin shook his head and said: "The subordinates are not persuading the marshal to ascend the throne now, but to let the marshal expose his ambitions!" ”

"Revealing ambition?"

Li Xindao: "Our Ning Navy now controls the entire Liaodong, and the subordinates suggest that the marshal face Liaodong and open the Enke to take the soldiers!" ”

"Kaienkoto?"

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination inherited the system of the five generations and the Jin Dynasty, and the imperial examination system held the township and meeting examinations every three years, which was the main subject. When the emperor personally examined, he could not set up a roster to present, and the special test was called, which was generally successful, so it was called "Enke". Enke began in the Song Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing dynasties also used this system.

Cheng Shijie suddenly realized: "Enke is the emperor's prerogative, this handsome Enke, wouldn't he be smiling and generous?" ”

"That's not the case!"

Li Xin continued: "Now that our Ning Navy has recaptured Shenyang, Tieling, and Fushun, his subordinates have suggested that the marshal reinstate the twenty-five guards, of course, you can follow the example of the four states in southern Liaoning, change the twenty-five guards in Liaodong, and become the twenty-five states in Liaodong, since our last battle of Liaoyang, take Liaoyang City, Liaodong Twenty-five Acropolis, a total of thirteen guards in the hands of our Ning Navy, and now there are twelve more guards, why not set up twelve states, these twelve states, at least twelve are needed to know the state of the five products, and twenty-four people know from the five products, Twenty-four are being sentenced to six grades, twenty-five are seven rank county commanders, and there are several official positions such as the chief officer, county lieutenant, and county officer, with a vacancy of at least more than 100! ”

Cheng Shijie understood what Li Xin meant, the so-called Cisco, refers to the bait used for fishing, if you want the country to have long-term peace and stability, force cannot solve the real problem, Cheng Shijie's real challenge is to defeat these enemies, want to keep the country for a long time.

For the sake of long-term peace and stability, it is necessary to liquidate them, not one or two groups of people, but a whole class, and this class must be removed from the altar and then made up for it, so that they will not be able to turn over! If you want to kill a lot of people, countless people will be separated from their wives and families because of Cheng Shijie, and many of them may be innocent.

Countless people will curse him behind his back, and even want to murder him, but Cheng Shijie must do this, this is the way he will go in the future! Li Xin proposed to him a way to interpret the book, that is, to open the Enke to take the scholar.

Although the Ming Dynasty raised scholars for more than 200 years, a total of 89 imperial examinations were held, according to the later generations of Enke or Zhengke Jinshi together, 42,419, the Ming Dynasty went through 12, 16 emperors, and 17 dynasties. On average, each dynasty is equivalent to 2,495 jinshi, how many scholars were there in the Ming Dynasty?

Data is difficult to collect due to the differences in state capitals, so let's give an example.

Between Chenghua and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the number of students in the country was roughly between 250,000 ~ 350,000, and the actual average admission rate of the national township examination in the same period was roughly 4%, and the total number of people admitted to the township examination in the country was between 1160 ~ 1190, so the number of candidates for each township examination in the country should be more than 29,000, and the average admission rate of the scientific examination should be between 11.6% ~ 8.3%;

After the Ming Dynasty Longqing, the number of students was roughly between 350,000 ~ 500,000, the actual average admission rate of the national township examination in the same period was 3.1%, and the total number of people admitted to the township examination was between 1190 ~ 1415, the number of candidates for each township examination in the country should be between 38,000 ~ 45,000, and the average admission rate of the scientific examination should be between 11% ~ 9%.

The above are the scientific examinations of the two periods of the Ming Dynasty, and the acceptance rate is about 10%.

With an elimination rate of up to 90 percent, there should be many people who come to Liaodong to try their luck, as long as someone gets an official position on Cheng Shijie's side, then there will definitely be an internal split in the group of scholars.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Those who can only read Bagu Wen are stupid when they read, what is the use of Ben Shuai asking them?" It is not a big problem for them to be officials in the Central Plains, but in Liaodong, do they understand? ”

"Dashuai, what the disciple means is that when you open Enke, you can join arithmetic, Gewu, and there are not a few people who read miscellaneous books in the Ming Dynasty!"

Li Xin muttered: "Encoon is out of the top, as for what the content of the test, it doesn't really matter, when Emperor Taizu Hongwu took scholars with eight strands of literature, and the Ming scholars can only spend their lives studying eight-strand texts, if the handsome man takes arithmetic and takes things from scholars, there will definitely be many people who are proficient in general affairs in the future!" ”

Cheng Shijie accepted Li Xin's opinion and decided to open Enke to take scholars, temporarily set the number of scholars to be 300 people, to give them greater hope, in fact, not only Liaodong needs officials, but also officials are needed on the side of Dayuan, Luzon, and Sumatra!

Cheng Shijie's movements were very fast, the preparatory group for Liaodong Enke was formally established, Cheng Shijie decided to ask Sun Chengzong to be the chief examiner of Liaodong Enke, Sun Chengzong has this qualification and this reputation, even if Xu Guangqi is sick, he must use it, and Li Xin and Sun Zhili are responsible for assisting.

On the front page of the Liaodong Times, Liaodong Weekly, and Liaodong Business Daily, Cheng Shijie prepared to hold an Enke in Liaodong on the sixth day of the first month of September, and 300 scholars were taken and nearly conferred official positions. Cheng Shijie thought that this matter would definitely cause an uproar, and even the whole country would crusade.

However, in fact, this incident did not cause any waves.

Because someone robbed Cheng Shijie's popularity, Cheng Shijie was robbed of the headlines.

Just when the news that Cheng Shijie was preparing to take a scholar in Kaienke in Liaodong reached the capital, but in the same way, the news of Huang Taiji's proclamation of the emperor also reached the capital.

After three resignations and three concessions, Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng, Luo Xiujin and others all expressed their approval. Sakhalian also summoned all the beylers to take an oath of allegiance to the emperor. When the Mongolian Zhubeile heard the news, he also asked for the title of honor, and Huang Taiji agreed. The preparatory activities of the Shangzun were largely ready by the end of March of the 10th year of Tiancong.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the tenth year of Tiancong, on April 11, Huang Taiji set up the Temple of Heaven to worship the sky in Eren Dabu Sannaoer, and changed Eren Dabu Sannao Er to the Temple of Heaven in Shengjing, and then "practiced the position of the Son of Heaven", and was honored as "Emperor Kuanwen Rensheng", and the country was named "Daqing", and changed to Yuan Chongde.

After Nurhachi was the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, he established himself as the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and this year was the first year of Chongde. The emperor has ascended the throne and called the emperor, of course, we can't forget those brothers who fight the world together, Huang Taiji really gave the brothers a reward rain, one is counted as one, all are princes!

Among them, Dai Shan was named Prince Li, Mang Gurtai was still named Prince Cheng although he died, and his son Mai Heli was named the second Prince Cheng. Abatai was also posthumously crowned Prince Gong, Prince Dolgonrui, Prince Duoduoyu, Prince Azigeying, Prince Zilharang Zheng...... The banner owners of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were also all crowned kings, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that these kings were more than a star and a half worse than those of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Fan Wencheng was named prime minister, which is a bit of a deliberate confrontation with the Ming Dynasty, you Lao Zhu killed so many heroes, didn't you just want to sweep the prime minister, a behemoth that restricts imperial power, into the garbage heap?

Now I'm getting it out again, I'm mad at you!

The news of Huang Taiji's ascension to the throne in Eren Dabu Sannaoer was like a huge meteorite crashing into the sea, stirring up a thousand terrifying waves in the area of Jingshi.

The people in the Gyeonggi area all scolded: "Those Jiannu really don't know how to die, they have let Haiguo Gong fight like this, and dare to call the emperor against the sky?" Wait, Ning Haijun will teach them a hard lesson! ”

Not to mention the aftermath of the great victory in Haizhou and Baliwan, the key is that Shenyang, which was taken away by Jiannu in the first year of the Apocalypse, has just been taken by the Ning Navy for more than three months.

Their general opinion is: Jiannu ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and the bones are itchy, and it is not okay not to rob them!

The people of Gyeonggi were like this, and Emperor Chongzhen was furious. How can the majesty of the Son of Heaven be insulted?

The damn Jiannu dared to defy the heavens and claim the emperor, it was really too deceitful!

In the original historical time and space, Emperor Chongzhen had no way to deal with Huang Taiji, and he had no strength to fight if he wanted to, so he could only get angry. Now it's different, he just had the aftermath of thwarting the 400,000 Mongolian Tartars in Mobei, the most annoying thing is that Jiannu is still the emperor when the Ming Dynasty's national strength gradually recovers and grasps the initiative, isn't this looking for a beating!

When the early dynasty learned the news, Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that he swept a handful of music folds all over the sky on the spot, trembling slightly, and roared angrily: "Damn! Damn it! Jiannu deceives people too much! I will do my best to raze the bullshit Shengjing to the ground, exterminate its nine clans, and make them pay for it! ”

Wen Tiren knelt on the ground and burst into tears: "Your Majesty, Jiannu is going against the sky!" If it can't be destroyed as soon as possible, the Tartars will follow suit, and the face of the Ming Dynasty will be gone, and what face do our ministers have to go to see the ancestors and ancestors! ”

Wang Yingxiong burst into tears and kowtowed again and again: "Your Majesty, there are no two days in the sky, there are no two monarchs in the country, it has been like this since ancient times, Huang Taiji is the emperor against the sky, and the country name is changed to Qing, and it is clear that he wants to replace the Ming Dynasty!" Three hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, how could anyone dare to be so presumptuous! Jiannu humiliated the Ming Dynasty so far, it is all the fault of the ministers, and the ministers deserve death! ”

The anger in Emperor Chongzhen's chest became more and more intense, and he looked at the newly appointed secretary of the military department, Yang Sichang: "Yang Aiqing, what do you think?" ”

Yang Sichang replaced Zhang Fengyi, not long after he became the secretary of the military department, his ass was not hot, but he had already shown a good strategy, so that Emperor Chongzhen sometimes felt that this kid was good, and it was also a good choice for him to replace Zhang Fengyi.

The emperor inquired, Yang Sichang did not dare to slack off, and went out to play: "Wang Cifu is reasonable, there are no two days in the sky, there are no two kings in the country, there are so many wolf ambitions in the world, Huang Taiji said that the emperor just gave them a great opportunity!" According to Weichen's opinion, it is advisable to send the elite of the Tianxiong Army, the Ning Navy, the Jingying and the Guanning Army, and destroy the Jiannu with lightning speed, first, to kill chickens and monkeys, defend the dignity of the Ming Dynasty, and secondly, to cut off the unwanted thoughts of those chaotic ministers and thieves...... It is a matter of life and death for the community, and it is not allowed to happen, sooner rather than later, otherwise a large number of people with wolf ambitions will go to Shengjing to seek refuge in Huang Taiji, and the strength of Jiannu will increase greatly, and it will be difficult to destroy them again, please think twice, Your Majesty! ”

(End of chapter)