The winter sky was covered with dense clouds. Liu Ziguang stood in the gondola of the airship, letting the biting north wind blow against the ear protection of his dog-skin flight cap. It was extremely cold in the sky. Even Masaiu, a pilot who was born in the bitter cold of the northwest, could not bear this.
Due to the low temperature, the skin under the goggles was red from the cold. If it weren't for the thick sheepskin gloves on my hands, I would have been too stiff to hold the joystick.
The flight cabin needs to be equipped with a cold-proof and warm shell and glass windows so that it can meet all-weather operations. Liu Ziguang decided to let Addison start the transformation after returning to Beijing. Now a factory has been built in the southern suburbs of Beijing, specializing in R&D and production, and Liguo
Since the combination of the iron factory's conventional weapons production line, the Qishuyan Machinery Factory's large-scale land warfare weapons production line, and the Jiangnan Shipyard's water warfare weapons production line, a complete military-civilian dual-use production system has begun to take shape, and the prosperous Jiangnan can provide sufficient labor.
and raw materials, I believe it won’t be long before a red shirt regiment with brand new equipment will be born.
What Peng Jianguo said that day is still lingering in Liu Ziguang's ears. It is not a wise thing to avoid the development of hot weapons. Science and technology are always spiraling. If you don't develop, others will develop. Strike first and maintain sufficient technological advantages.
It is absolutely necessary. The Central Plains dynasty has never been an opponent of the barbarian peoples in the north. It is because the technological gap is not large enough to offset the advantages of fast horses and strong bows. Now the opportunity to widen this gap has arisen. As a young Han nationality, in this
In the chaotic world of fragmentation, Liu Ziguang has unknowingly taken it as his own responsibility to expel the Tartars and restore China, instead of being like other time-travelers who regard seizing the throne and seducing beautiful women as his first pursuit.
Liu Ziguang confidently held the railing of the hanging basket and looked at the vast land below. It snowed for the first time this winter last night. The silver-covered land is exceptionally beautiful. The canal is like a crystal jade belt stretching forward. If he didn't have it,
With the emergence of the Qing Dynasty, this troubled land of China may have fallen into the enemy's hands during the Manchu invasion early last year. In addition to plundering and massacres, the barbaric Tatars will cause no life and a sharp decline in the productivity of the entire society.
Good things have been brought to the Chinese nation. The current situation is still grim. The north occupied by the Manchus has not yet been recovered, and the northwest is not peaceful. The newly emerged Xia Kingdom seems to be more ferocious than the Manchus. With the outstanding Sanhema and
Sharp scimitars rampaged across the Western Regions, massacring Han people and plundering land, and there was great intention to continue the Eastern Expedition. The situation in the southeast was more complicated. The sea was filled with warships from various countries, including the Zheng family, the Lu Song Dynasty, the Japanese country, Spain, the Netherlands, etc.
The British are coveting this busy international route and the rich leaf-shaped island. The navy of the Ming Dynasty has begun to decline since the eunuch Sanbao went to the West. Now it is no longer possible to build large-scale lucky ships. Even if it can build so many
So what about ships? Liu Ziguang patted the railing with a reserved smile. In front of airships, no matter how big a warship is, it is just a living coffin floating on the sea. In future wars, airships will be the king!
Before leaving Liguo, Liu Ziguang made a special trip to the tiankeng, the super big pit where the spaceship was hidden. However, he was disappointed to find that the tiankeng had been submerged in a landslide in the summer, and it looked like it had almost been filled up.
Liu Ziguang knew that he would not be able to get anything valuable from the spacecraft for the time being, so he had no choice but to leave in frustration.
With the help of the north wind, Liu Ziguang quickly arrived in the capital. The airship was tied to the top of a seven-story pagoda in the South Factory. The crew and passengers went down the cage-like ladder to the pagoda, and then walked back to the ground. They got on the already prepared
The green baize carriage rushed to the palace to meet the saint.
Seeing Liu Ziguang's return, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed. After seeing the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers, he immediately asked the eunuch to give him a seat and tea. First, he put on an experienced face and smiled and asked Liu Ziguang how he felt as a newlywed. This is not a pot that cannot be opened.
Pot? Liu Ziguang was hesitant to say anything, but the emperor continued to mention this matter reluctantly, saying that the queen was already pregnant, most likely a prince, and asked Liu Ziguang to hurry up and give birth to a daughter so that he could form a family. Liu Ziguang was heartbroken.
You said that I was dragged here before I even had time to have a wedding. How can I have time to help you give birth to a daughter-in-law? Even if I have a daughter in the future, I will not let her marry into the emperor's family. Naturally, I can't say this to my face, so
Liu Ziguang quickly changed the subject and asked Zhu You why he was recruited by the school.
When it came to business, Zhu Youxiao's cheerful face immediately turned into a bitter melon. What happened recently was really troublesome. A good autumn day almost turned into a riot, because all the people on the list were from the south of the Yangtze River, and from the north.
Without exception, all the candidates failed. The dissatisfied northern candidates who suspected fraud angrily tore up the list and gathered at the gate of the Gongyuan to demand an explanation. The candidates' courage came from the secret support of officials from the north.
On the surface, this was a protest against cheating in scientific examinations, but in fact it was a struggle between officials from the south and local officials in Jiangnan.
Before coming, Liu Ziguang and Peng Jinrong had already studied this problem, and now they are naturally able to deal with it with ease. In fact, there has been precedent for such a thing, as far back as the Hongwu period.
The National Examination in Hongwu's 30th year originally went smoothly, but a riot broke out on the day when the results were released. The reason for the riot was that all the candidates on the list were from the south, and there was not even a northerner. This
This was very rare in previous examinations. In Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the unsuccessful northern candidates flocked to the civil service yamen in charge of the imperial examination in droves, demanding that the civil service officials review the examination results.
Explain. They believed that the examiner this time was also from the South, so he falsified the test results and deliberately favored candidates from the South.
At this time, the city of Nanjing suddenly became chaotic. Even if the southerners and northerners were strangers, they seemed to become sworn enemies when they met. Fights often occurred in the city. The people responsible for maintaining public security in the capital
The army quickly moved into the city and tried every means to quell the riot. However, they could use force to stop the violence, but they could not change the antagonism between the northern and southern people, but instead intensified it. This matter soon reached the emperor
Zhu Yuanzhang heard about it. He immediately sent people to appease the troubled northern officials and assured them that the emperor was investigating the matter and would definitely give everyone a satisfactory answer. The excited officials slowly dispersed.
.Then, Zhu Yuanzhang called Liu Sanwu, the examiner of this exam, to learn about the situation.
Liu Sanwu did not do anything on the test paper. The test scores of the candidates were all real. The candidates from the south did indeed do better than the candidates from the north. Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Liu Sanwu had always been upright and was not a person who would bend the law for personal reasons.
He trusted Liu Sanwu's judgment on the candidates' scores, but in order to calm the anger of the northern candidates, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Sanwu to select a few candidates from the north to be included in the list.
Unexpectedly, Liu Sanwu was too stubborn this time. The old master believed that his judgment was fair and selfless, without any mistakes, so he refused to change the test results, so that the Northern Juzi with lower grades would be on the list. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious after hearing this.
Liu Sanwu was really ignorant of current affairs and was so angry that he kicked Liu Sanwu out. He also dismissed several other examiners. When the Northern Examiners heard the news, they all cheered loudly and asked the emperor to bring justice to them.
Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang once again sent other officials to re-examine the results of the exam. However, when he listened to the re-examination report, he found that there were really a few ministers who were not afraid of death. These upright scholars still insisted that the examination papers of Northern Juzi were indeed not as good as
The final conclusion of the Southern Examiners was exactly the same as that of the original examiner Liu Sanwu. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious. He accused the officials of covering up each other and deliberately deceiving him. In a fit of anger, he dismissed these officials and sent them to prison and tortured them severely.
As a result, this matter went too far. When these innocent officials were finally convicted, they were actually linked to the secret rebellion case of Hu Weiyong who formed a clique for personal gain more than ten years ago, and they were all sentenced to death.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally presided over and held another exam. The results of this exam were completely opposite to the previous one. All the 61 candidates selected were from the north, and none was from the south. It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to pacify the north.
People's grievances moved from one extreme to another. From then on, in order to prevent such an incident from happening again, Zhu Yuanzhang set a rule that in the future imperial examinations, the North and South paper examinations would be based on 60% for the South and 100% for the North.
The standard of forty points was used to select officials, so that the number of officials naming people from the north and the south was roughly the same. Therefore, the subsequent imperial examinations were not only based on performance, but also added regional factors, and formed
A conventional system has been established.
But this system did not last long. With the invasion of the Qing Dynasty and the move of the court to the south, who had the energy to do the North-South List? Besides, most of the land in the north was lost to the enemy, and there were few candidates who came to take the exam.
Why bother to open two more papers? Moreover, this year's examination is different from previous years. It is a specially held Enke. The emperor got married and took charge of the government. The Enke was opened to recruit scholars. In addition, the Northern Expedition to Shandong was a great success. The Manchu Qing Dynasty temporarily
The government stopped and asked for peace, but turned a blind eye to the candidates who secretly went from the north to the south to take the exam. As a result, there were quite a lot of candidates from the north in this exam. The candidates in the north have been under the high-pressure rule of aliens for a long time.
, Poetry and books are naturally a bit neglected, and it is reasonable that scores are generally lower than those of candidates from the south, but it is indeed a bit strange that no one is on the list. Those candidates from the north are all passionate men who have their motherland in mind. If there is such a one-sided result,
This list will probably chill most northerners and have a certain impact on the plan to regain their homeland in the north.
The ignorant little emperor naturally didn't know about the old affairs of the North and South Rankings, but the ministers all knew it very well. These officials who were originally from the Sixth Department of Nanjing had always been at odds with the officials who came south from Beijing. Now that such a thing is happening, they will naturally not sit back and watch.
The northern official system has gained new strength, so everyone tacitly refrained from mentioning the old affairs of the northern and southern rankings, and all the concessions made by northern officials were suppressed by the cabinet.
Poor Zhu Youxiao knew that there was a solution to the North-South Ranking invented by his ancestors, but he actually heard about it from Liu Ziguang. After listening to Uncle Zhenwu explain the balance relationship, the little emperor pondered for a moment and said: "In that case,
Just reopen the North and South rankings.
"Your Majesty is wise, but I think there is a better way to solve this matter." Liu Ziguang said confidently.