"North and South Rankings?" The old man thought for a while, sat down casually in a place in the hall, and said seriously, "Since it is a national scientific examination, and everyone is treated fairly and fairly, why should we divide the Northern and Southern Rankings? If the Southerners are strong, and there is a separate Northern Ranking, how can it be done?
Isn’t it partial? Isn’t it unfair to the southerners?”
Zhu Yunxi sat down next to the old man and whispered, "My grandson actually thinks that the more we pursue absolute fairness, the more we pursue absolute fairness, but there is no real fairness and justice!"
"The purpose of the state's recruitment of scholars is to give hope to scholars from all over the country and to give people everywhere a way to advance. The south has a large population and a prosperous society. In several provinces in the north, after decades of war, people's livelihood has long been in decline. How can it be easy to prosper despite all the waste?"
"You have always told your grandson that when you are an emperor, you make decisions for the people of the world and provide justice to the people of the world. But the imperial examination is a bowl of water. If you blindly seek absolute fairness, how can you be fair?"
"Furthermore, in the thirty years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more and more Southern officials have been serving in the imperial court. The so-called people's hearts are not as old as they used to be. In this scientific examination, the examiners took the papers according to their own preferences. This is proof! In a few years,
, when the southern officials become more powerful, they will not take over the northern scholars!"
"The south is strong and the north is weak. If this happens, won't it mean that the north and the south will be separated?"
Zhu Yunxi's words made the old man nod his head repeatedly.
The old man took education seriously. From the early days of Hongwu, he began to support education and train children from poor families to study. The best students he trained were sent directly to the Imperial College of the Capital, and the second-rate students were sent to the Imperial College of the Capital.
The Ming Dynasty relied on the economic Northern Expedition in the south, especially the financial resources of the cotton and grain-producing areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, to expel the Tartars and regain the north and unify the north and the south. However, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the old man has not relaxed his suppression of the wealthy landlords in the south of the Yangtze River.
I have never been at ease with the bureaucratic group behind these wealthy families. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the official group in eastern Zhejiang dared to directly compete with the old-school bureaucrats in Huaixi, demanding the right to speak and official power.
"The so-called recruitment of scholars should be equal to the rain and dew!" Zhu Yunxi continued to laugh, "otherwise, both sides will be resentful!"
"From the perspective of the court, there are officials from both the north and the south, so one side will not dominate!"
Speaking of this, Zhu Yunxi sighed slightly, "Since my grandson came to the throne, many things have really fallen on his shoulders. Only my grandson can understand the difficulties that the emperor has endured in these years!"
"The north and the south were unified during the Ming Dynasty, but the north and the south are far from being related to each other." Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly, "Several provinces in the north were ruled by the Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties for nearly four hundred years. In fact, to be precise, since the fall of the Tang Dynasty,
, the north fell into a bitter battle, struggle, and integration with the nomadic tribes.”
"Then the Jin, Yuan and Southern Song Dynasties attacked for hundreds of years!" At this point, Zhu Yunxi sighed again, "The country names are different, but the people fighting and fighting on both sides are Han children, each serving his own master and each loyal to his country. Bei said
The south is a barbarian, the south is a fake barbarian and the north is a fake!"
"When the Yuan Dynasty unified the world, the northern and southern Han people divided and ruled. To put it bluntly, my grandson, after hundreds of years of division, the southerners and northerners may have different aspirations for belonging, right?"
"Grandpa Huang, you have finally regained Yanyun and rebuilt China. Both the north and the south are Chinese people. In the eyes of my grandson, there must be no more dissatisfaction."
"In the thirty years of our reign, Grandpa Emperor, you have walked on thin ice and won the hearts of the scholars in your hometown. You immigrated to the withered land in the north and implemented educational and imperial examinations in the frontiers for the purpose of integrating the north and the south!"
"The purpose of opening the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was to select talents for the country, both in the north and the south, and to unite the north and the south."
"Take this scientific examination as an example. The candidates are all from the south. If I want to be elected to the Southern Conservatory of Science, I will still choose students from Jiangnan. Wouldn't it be true that students from the north will never get ahead?"
"The rankings are divided into north and south. My grandson also knows that it is unfair to the Jiangnan scholars who have outstanding talents and learning. But for the sake of balance, my grandson can only be cruel and become this evil person."
The old man listened silently, until Zhu Yunxi finished speaking, then he slowly patted his shoulders a few times with his big hand, and said with a smile, "This is how you govern a country!" After that, he added, "After the Han Dynasty, the north and the south faced each other for four hundred years.
After five hundred years of fighting between the north and the south. I, the Ming Dynasty, unified the north and the south. If we continue to separate the two sides, then what's the point of the damn Ming Dynasty!"
"You are the emperor, I will do as you say!"
Zhu Yunxi knew that his idea may not be perfect.
But it is only applicable to the present moment.
In fact, historically, the North-South issue has always been a hidden problem of the Ming Dynasty, and was even one of the driving forces behind the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
Why didn't the south rebel in the late Ming Dynasty? Is it just because there was enough food and money? But the north had no harvest and sold its sons and daughters?
If it were just like this, wouldn't it be enough to bring in food from the south and distribute it?
The fact is that most of the court officials were from the south, and the Ming Dynasty's finances were depleted. How could these south officials be willing to use food from their hometowns to help the victims in the north? How could they be willing to throw the money from the south of the Yangtze River into the bottomless pit in the north.
When the Ming Dynasty couldn't even pay for military pay, the military pay for training the army, the pay for annihilating Li Chuang and others, and the Liao pay for Liaodong required a nationwide showdown. But in the south, it was just a show. The money was spent again and again.
It fell on the heads of the northerners all over. So at the end of the Ming Dynasty, wars broke out all over the north.
All the reasons behind this are caused by the dominance of a faction of bureaucrats in the court.
What do ordinary people know? These officials who are studying are all doing this for their own immediate interests.
At this time, the old man looked at Zhu Yunxi again and said with a smile, "Now you know how difficult it is to be the emperor, right? I tell you, it is not easy to be the emperor, and there will be times when you will suffer even more in the future!"
"What are you afraid of when your grandson is in trouble? You are always there to take care of him!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
"Hmph! We can still stay with you forever, and there's no telling what day we'll let him go!" The old man laughed.
As he said that, the old man suddenly changed the topic, "How do you deal with the uninterested examiners in this scientific examination?"
Zhu Yunxi thought about it, "Grandpa Huang, what do you mean?"
"The northern scholars are making trouble because they don't trust the imperial court. The examiners think they have lost face, but in fact, it is Ming Dynasty that has lost face!" The old man said sternly, "We can tolerate everything else, but we cannot allow Ming Dynasty to lose face.
People’s hearts!”
"That Zhang Xin, it's obvious from the first glance that he's not a man of good fortune. He keeps talking about fairness, but in reality he's full of evil. Bad things happen to him!"
"You can take care of the others. This Zhang Xin is too late for us!"
"Grandpa Huang, is Ling Chi going too far?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
Zhang Xin made a mistake and deserved to die, and he could be used to take the blame for the imperial examination.
But in Zhu Yunxi's opinion, Ling Chi was a little too bloody.
"How did we give birth to such a soft-hearted person like you?" The old man shook his head and said, "He is full of calculations and turns the country's recruitment of scholars into selfish desires. He even divides the north and the south. He also colludes with other colleagues to suppress northern scholars.
.In our opinion, lighting sky lanterns is light!”
After saying that, the old man thought about it and curled his lips and said, "Seeing that you are the emperor, I will give you three points of face, and Ling Chi will be cut in half!"
"As for Liu Sanwu and others...?"
Zhu Yunxi pondered for a moment, "Remove those who should be dismissed, and exile those who should be exiled!"
This chapter has been completed!