Qian Yi then went to Jinan for an excuse. As for whether he could successfully persuade Tie Xuan to be the victim...
It should work!
After all, Tie Xuan also hates evildoers and sycophants like Yang Feng.
In fact, it's not just him.
Most of the local officials who are still in office have feelings for Yang Feng because they are determined to kill the thief and cannot save him. If they really see the hope of hoeing the traitor, as long as they are not completely self-destructive, they will not be able to help but feel guilty.
The thought of giving it a try.
This plan is very feasible.
Yang Feng is strong.
But no matter how strong he is, he can't defeat the world with one person!
What if it can stimulate the whole world to rebel?
In the final analysis, the place is controlled by the gentry. No matter how hard Zhu Yuanzhang tried before, he could not change this fact, and he never thought about changing it. If he had this intention, he would not succeed. His success was due to his final choice to cooperate with the gentry.
As a result, ancient rebels such as Liu Ji and Song Lian had to take this step if they wanted to succeed.
Not suitable for cooperation with the gentry...
That is Li Zicheng.
So if the gentry all over the world could collectively regard Yang Feng as his enemy and all resist his reforms, what would he do?
Could he still reconquer one county after another? Even if he could do this, how many years would it take? During this period, wouldn’t the Jianwen court and the vassal kings take advantage of the opportunity to rise to prominence? After all, firearms are all used now.
Guangdong is already an important iron smelting base thanks to the small iron mines in Foshan and northern Guangdong. In the past, more than half of the Ming Dynasty's civilian smelting output was in Guangdong. Now let alone old-fashioned weapons such as rapid-fire cannons, matchlock guns and even
Flintlock muskets have begun to be manufactured, and field cannons have also begun to be cast.
It can be said that it is not difficult to build a strong army.
What the Jianwen court needed was just a period of time for stable development.
After all, he had just arrived in Guangdong and had no time to complete whatever he did.
As for the feudal princes...
They were just frightened by Yang Feng's lewd power.
They knew they couldn't defeat Yang Feng, and what Yang Feng gave them could barely accept, so they chose to compromise, but it didn't mean they would just give up. If Yang Feng really fell into a quagmire of all-out resistance, then it wasn't like they wouldn't.
He will stab you in the back at a critical moment.
Of course, the important thing is to plunge him into a full-scale resistance...
land.
Nothing can be more effective than this.
The gentry may not care who becomes the emperor or how officials are selected. After all, they can tolerate even Zhu Yuanzhang, but touching their land means forcing them to fight to the death.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang was not so crazy!
Lao Zhu did indeed confiscate a lot of homes, forcing aristocratic families to open up wasteland, and imprisoning them from time to time, but he did not do it all in one go. He only selected some places, just looking for the unlucky ones, and he did not prohibit the landlords from existing.
The most he can do is restrict it. Landlords are still landowners. It can be said that he did not make a principled mistake. The gentry did not like him, but he did not touch the bottom line. Therefore, considering the face of the butcher knife in his hand, it is not that everyone can't bear it. After all,
Anyone from a wealthy family knows that the most important thing is to be patient.
But the public land law...
Crazy!
Besides, this matter is not dangerous to Tie Xuan himself.
It's nothing more than getting scolded.
It is even possible to be promoted to an official position.
What does it mean to endure humiliation and bear the burden of being a loyal minister?
Gongyuan.
"This is the hero of the world!"
Like last time, Ambassador Yang was in front of the door admiring those who walked into the examination room.
The Enke Examination has begun.
Because they are only from Yingtianfu, the total number of people participating in the Enke Examination this time is only 1,200, and this is because of the five subjects. In fact, according to past standards, there are only 200 or 300 people. Now
The selection of scholars in the five subjects led to a significant increase in the number of candidates. In addition to his 500 students who applied for the five subjects, a large number of private students were also selected. Their selection was simply a county examination, that is,
Yang Feng or the little princess set the questions, and then those who were literate in each county and signed up to take the exam were taken to the county school. The test questions were of course either eight-part essays, or just like modern exams, they were based on the subjects they applied for, and those with enough scores were selected.
To lift people up.
These will directly participate in the examination.
In fact, there are not only four new subjects, but also many non-Confucian students in liberal arts.
Especially Yang Feng does not prohibit any identity.
As long as you can read...
Of course, there must be some screening.
In fact, just give him a book, and then he can read the book out, that's it.
As for this book, it is of course the Da Gao, not the full text. Some of the content of the Da Gao was slightly edited by Wen Chen for Lao Zhu. The complete vernacular version is the Da Gao Wu Chen, so as long as you can read the Da Gao Wu Chen, you are considered qualified, and then you can
You can take the exam. So some low-level subordinates also take the exam. Of course, they are also willing to have the status of Jinshi. These people are especially proficient in the law, and they can even write articles fluently.
They are more proficient in the law than those pure Confucian scholars.
They also know the pros and cons of government orders.
Among Yang Feng's students, some originally specialized in studying law.
In short, liberal arts scholarships may not necessarily be the prizes of those Confucian scholars.
This reformed imperial examination is actually the modern civil service examination. Because enough Jinshi are selected, they will enter the officialdom as assistant second officers, and then be promoted based on their performance, and finally pass the imperial examinations one after another, and then new people will continue to enter.
Officialdom, push away those Confucian officials.
It is estimated that within ten years, both the imperial court and local officials will be filled with newcomers.
"This generation is enough, but virtue may not be enough."
Zhang Xianzong said.
He is now the boss of civil servants.
Although in fact he has been scolded bloody by Confucian scholars.
Even if you scold him, you should scold him, but the civil servants also know very well that if their group can still participate in the government, it can only rely on him, so it is still regarded as the core. As for him, he is also in Wutai Mountain after all.
After all these years, I still don’t understand the significance of these reforms, and during Zhu Yunxi’s time, many future designs were connected with him.
He is indeed a Confucian scholar.
And it’s still ranked second!
But now he is actually about to abandon Confucianism.
"You are just saying that when selecting officials, morality or talent should be given priority. So here comes the question. What Confucian scholars pay most attention to is morality, but in fact, after becoming an official, how many of them will not be corrupt and pervert the law? Taizu peeled off the skin to make the grass, can he block it?
Were Confucian scholars corrupt and perverting the law after becoming officials? You can go back and count how many of Taizu's imperial examination candidates were truly incorruptible? I'm afraid not even half of them were honest. Even among these incorruptible ones, some of them did so because they studied the ways of sages.
Is it because of your noble character that you don't take bribes and bend the law, rather than because Taizu peeled off the skin and made the grass?
Most people are afraid of peeling off the skin, right?
Therefore, it is unrealistic to select virtue through the imperial examination.
The fact that the article is well written has nothing to do with their moral character.
Qin Hui is still a Jinshi!
Are his articles well written? Even his calligraphy is very good, but do these have anything to do with his moral character? The imperial examination cannot test moral character. The imperial examination selects officials based on virtue. It seems to be a high-sounding thing, but in fact the elected officials are not the same.
Morality has nothing to do with it.
But selecting officials based on their talents is much more practical.
After all, their talents can really be seen through their results.
As for corruption and perversion of the law, since corruption and perversion of the law are inevitable in the end, and they all have to be frightened by peeling off the skin and getting the grass, why not choose someone who is talented?
Besides, doesn’t it mean that if you don’t read the books of sages, then you have no virtue?
I am afraid that most of the loyal ministers and righteous people from ancient times have not read the books of sages."
Yang Feng said.
"Then how to avoid corrupt officials? Should we continue to learn from Taizu's method of peeling off skin and making grass?"
Zhang Xianzong said.
"this……"
Yang Feng was inevitably a little melancholy.
"If there is really no other way, we can only continue to peel the grass."
He said with emotion.
There is really no way around this. The only thing that can be done is to peel off the skin and make the grass. Fortunately, people in this era are still very simple. If he peels off the skin and makes the grass, he will gain support, not to mention that there are also people who confiscate their homes and kill the nine tribes. The latter is
The most ruthless one, even just killing three clans is enough. After all, corrupt officials have to kill the whole family to be a deterrent.
Otherwise they are really not afraid.
Sacrificing me alone will bring happiness to several generations.
The purpose is to kill the whole family, so that if they are caught taking bribes and violating the law, the whole family will go on the road together.
tyrant?
Feudal dynasty, why not be a tyrant?
Besides, it wasn’t him who did it, it was Her Majesty the Queen who wanted to be a tyrant.
At this moment, at the distant Marco Polo Bridge, Zhu Di was looking back at the city behind him with complicated eyes.
The city walls stand tall in the sunshine.
He has called this city home for more than ten years.
But now, he will go thousands of miles away to build his new home on that distant grassland.
Beside him, Zhu Gaoxu, who was obviously depressed, was riding a horse, wearing armor, and walked past with confusion. Since being beaten by Yang Feng, Zhu Gaoxu had obviously matured a lot. Behind him were a long team of people on horseback and riders.
There were camels and carriages, and not just people, but carts of supplies, and even craftsmen’s machinery.
They officially started heading west.
Zhu Di's whole family and seven thousand guards followed him.
Of course, these guards are also accompanied by their families.
It has to be said that these guards were very loyal to Zhu Di. Although the main reason for their loyalty was actually that Zhu Di gave ten hectares of wasteland, four cows, two horses, and twenty sheep to each family who followed the westward journey. As for farm tools,
The seeds are all available, so they can carry them themselves. As for the cattle and sheep, they will be given to them when they go to the Western Regions. This is actually forcing the subjects to donate. King Yan controlled the four capitals in the Western Regions, and most of the subordinates of the four capitals were nomads. Seven thousand
They are just guards. In order to show their loyalty, a few thousand cattle are enough for one family. As for horses, Zhu Di has a huge horse farm himself. The entire Ili Valley is now filled with horses, camels and even cattle and sheep that he collected in various ways last time.
, and the guard led by Taiping was grazing for him.
These seven thousand, plus a guard from Taiping, another guard who had already arrived, and some who joined along the way, Zhu Di had four guards in his hands after arriving in the Western Regions.
There is still one guard left, and Yang Feng will send it to him before the end of next year.
So the guards are all fiefs.
Ten hectares of wasteland is actually one thousand acres, and now one hectare is one hundred acres.
The Ili River Valley and southern Xinjiang are all very good agricultural areas, especially the former. One guard is divided into a thousand acres. Although he has to farm by himself at the beginning, he will definitely be a slave in the future. In fact, there are now guards with slaves. Eventually, it was formed
Similar to European serfdom and fiefdom, and the guards becoming hereditary knights, this system, at least at the beginning, did ensure maximum force.
There are also caravans.
Yang Feng has established the Western Region Development Company, and currently the first armed caravan has been formed.
They are currently mainly focused on trade, but in fact they mainly go to various cities to establish strongholds until they reach the naturalized governor's court, which is where his concubine Gu Lina is stationed in Khujand. These armed caravans are also a supplement to the military force in Zhu Di's hands.
, because Zhu Di would grant them various privileges in his official capacity as King Yan's governor of the Western Regions.
In the future, they will control trade, mining, industry, and even armed robbery in the Western Region.
Although it sounds a bit unpleasant to say this.
But in Yang Feng's plan, the company's armed businessmen, robbery should be an important business in the future.
"King!"
Zheng He walked up to Zhu Di and knelt down to kowtow to him.
He did not follow the westward journey.
Because Yang Feng still had to ask him to go to the West, and his talents were mainly at sea, and there was no place to display them in the Western Regions. It was impossible for Zhu Di to expand to the coast in a short time. However, Yao Guangxiao was determined to follow King Yan to the west. He was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
As the host of King Yan's family temple, of course he still follows him now. After all, King Yan moved to the Western Regions, and the family temple also had to move to the Western Regions.
Master Daoyan can go to the Western Regions to promote Buddhism.
Zhu Di has decided to build a large gratitude temple for Empress Ma in Yili.
He will continue to be the host.
"Get up. Although you and I are far apart, we will eventually see each other."
Zhu Di said.
"No matter where you are, your slaves are the king's slaves. Yang Feng asked your slaves to go to the Western Sea and build a city for the king just behind Timur. I hope the king will come soon. I have studied the Western Seas. Although Timur conquered Persia, the Persians
He did not sincerely surrender and kept waiting for the opportunity of revenge. If the slave went to Persia as a navy to cooperate with him, it would be enough to make him rebel against Timur.
Yang Feng happened to be the one to pay for it, so he paid for all the expenses."
Zheng He said.
So he was pretending to be a public servant for personal gain. Yang Feng asked him to go to the West, and he just went to collude with the Persians.
Zhu Di's ultimate opponent in the Western Regions will ultimately be Timur, and Timur's most important territory is Persia. Deceiving Persia to rebel will undoubtedly give Zhu Di a great boost.
And it was Yang Feng who paid for it.
Spend Yang Feng’s money to do things for Zhu Di!
Zhu Di dismounted and helped him up.
"Ten years, ten years from now, you and I will meet again!"
he said.
At this time his big fat son came over.
"Dad, Guangzhou sent people over to give dad some gifts as a farewell farewell."
Zhu Gaochi said.
Then the person following him held a box and came forward humbly. Zhu Di opened the box and looked at the pile of jewelry inside, especially the various gems shining brightly in the sun...
"He's not giving up yet. In this case, it's his filial piety as a nephew, so he accepts it!"
Zhu Di said.
It's enough to accept it.
Accepting it is equivalent to telling Zhu Yunwen that we are still a family.