The common people of the Ming Dynasty were enjoying the prosperity and prosperity of the peaceful age. However, in the government and the public, as Emperor Hongzhi announced that he would drastically reduce the number of scientific examination places in Southern Zhili, the entire court was suddenly filled with officials from Jiangnan and their relatives.
All the officials were completely outraged.
"Your Majesty, there have been many talented people in Jiangnan since ancient times. How can we implicate all the scholars in Jiangnan because of the Nanjing incident?"
"The imperial examinations in Jiangnan are originally extremely difficult, just like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Now that the number of scientific examination places has been drastically reduced, the scholars in Jiangnan will never be able to get ahead!"
A new day of court meetings had just begun. Xiao Jing had just finished speaking. Immediately, officials from Jiangnan stood up and told with tears how difficult it was to take the imperial examination in Jiangnan. They also emphasized that Jiangnan had many talented people since ancient times and could not reduce the number of talents in South Zhili.
Scientific examination quota.
"Yes, Your Majesty, there are many talented people in Jiangnan since ancient times. They have always been the mainstay of our Ming Dynasty. Now that the number of scientific examination places has been drastically reduced, our Ming Dynasty may miss out on a lot of pillars of governance in the future."
"Your Majesty, the Nanjing incident was blamed on a few leading gentry. Now they have been brought to justice and the matter is over. How can the entire Jiangnan gentry be implicated because of the Nanjing incident?"
"The scholars from Jiangnan are many loyal and talented people. It is not a blessing for our dynasty to miss the talents from Jiangnan!"
"Your Majesty, Nanjing is the old capital of our dynasty, and Fengyang in the south of Zhili is the ancestral land of our dynasty. It should be treated favorably. This drastic reduction in the number of scientific examination places will inevitably lead to the decline of talents in the ancestral land, and the country will be in turmoil, and the people will be in dire straits.
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One after another, officials from Jiangnan came forward and strongly opposed the reduction of the number of scientific examination quotas in South Zhili.
They absolutely cannot give in on this matter. It has been a month since Emperor Hongzhi announced this matter, but officials from Jiangnan in the imperial court will come forward every time the court meets.
They mobilized all the power and connections they could mobilize to strongly oppose this matter. Not only did they shout about it every day in the court meeting, but officials from all over the Ming Dynasty, who were from Jiangnan and officials who were related to them, wrote to Hongzhi one after another.
Emperor Hongzhi's Qianqing Palace was almost flooded with memorials like snowflakes.
They also had an endless attitude. As long as Emperor Hongzhi did not revoke this decree, they would continue to make trouble like this every day. Every day, they would not care about other things in the court meeting, but just talk about this matter. The memorials kept going up, so that Emperor Hongzhi saw it.
They are so annoyed.
Speaking of officials from Jiangnan, there are really many. Not only in the court and the public, but also among officials from various places in the Ming Dynasty, there are also a large number of officials from Jiangnan. They have also been writing to Emperor Hongzhi to make it clear.
He had an attitude that this was no longer a game.
"Here we go again~"
Liu Jin was a little speechless. This time he really stirred up a hornet's nest.
In the past, when officials from Jiangnan were suppressed, although they responded and continued to impeach Liu Jin, they did not have an endless attitude.
Now, Jiangnan's reliable quotas have to be drastically reduced, which has completely angered these Jiangnan officials. Of course, it also shows how hard this move will hit them.
The number of places for scientific examinations has been significantly reduced, which means that it will be increasingly difficult for people in Southern Zhili to take the examinations in the future.
In itself, Jiangnan is already a hellish level of difficulty, and now it is even more difficult. It will be extremely difficult to obtain fame in Jiangnan in the future, and I don’t know how many scholars will have to endure it.
The foundation of the Jiangnan gentry class is based on the imperial examination system. Without this, the Jiangnan gentry class is equivalent to a frying pan that has been drained of its salary, and will gradually weaken as time goes by.
From now on, from the imperial court to local governments, the number of officials from Jiangnan will decrease significantly, and their voice will become lower and lower. If you want to control the government and the public as before, it will be even more impossible to rely on political means to obtain monopoly benefits. How can you
Just give it up and let it go.
"This is going to never end~"
Zhang Mao, Li Dongyang, Liu Jian and others also closed their eyes helplessly.
It's a good meeting. We have been arguing about this matter for a while. The officials from Jiangnan are completely crazy. They don't care about anything else and are focusing on this matter every day.
"Your Majesty, I impeach Liu Jin, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Wang Shouren, the chief envoy of Nanzhili. Liu Jin bent the law for personal gain and protected Wang Shouren in the same year. Such a major thing happened in Nanjing. Wang Shouren could not escape the blame, but Liu Jin did not take any punishment.
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"I also impeach Liu Jin, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Since Liu Jin became the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he has acted unfairly and deliberately suppressed my officials from Jiangnan, making it impossible for my officials from Jiangnan to be promoted."
"I impeach Liu Jin, the Minister of Civil Affairs. As an important official of the imperial court, he owns a huge industry, is rich enough to rival the country, and competes with the people for profit!"
As in the past, after opposing the reduction of the number of places in the Southern Zhili Science Examination, everyone began to impeach Liu Jin again. No matter what Liu Jin was like, they would continue to impeach and criticize Liu Jin anyway.
It was Liu Jin who suggested the reduction of the number of places for the scientific examination in Nanzhili. Now he had completely offended them and stirred up a hornet's nest. This memorial to impeach Liu Jin could have drowned Liu Jin.
Now the Jiangnan Scholars have spoken out. As long as they are officials from Jiangnan, if they do not impeach Liu Jin, they will no longer be able to hang out among the Jiangnan Scholars. This shows how much they hate Liu Jin.
Officials from Jiangnan in various places naturally wrote letters to impeach Liu Jin, and most of the daily memorials were to impeach Liu Jin.
The current situation is that after stirring up a hornet's nest, it seems that even the basic morning court service in the court has become difficult to continue. These Jiangnan officials have a completely endless attitude.
"Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, how could they know my good intentions~"
"There is no way out for this stubborn eight-part essay. Although there have been many officials from Jiangnan in history, they are of no use to the country or the people, and they have harmed the entire Ming Dynasty and the entire nation."
"It would be better not to follow the path of eight-legged essays, but to take more new paths. Wouldn't it be nice to have more scientists in the future?"
Liu Jin secretly smiled bitterly in his heart. In fact, he did not have any prejudice against Jiangnan people, but he had clearly seen the future development trend.
The stereotyped approach to recruiting scholars will definitely not last long. It may still be dominant now, but in a few decades or hundreds of years, it will definitely be eliminated by the new learning. Embracing the new learning now will definitely be able to win in the future.
Full of harvest.
When he was impeached, Liu Jin also had an expressionless face and an indifferent attitude. This made the officials from Jiangnan even more angry. People kept coming forward to impeach Liu Jin, and then officials quickly stood up to defend Liu Jin.
A good court meeting suddenly turned into a vegetable market, and the officials just rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
Emperor Hongzhi, who was sitting on the dragon throne, was looking at everything in front of him calmly. "You can make trouble as you please. Anyway, the matter is settled like this."
Recently, the country is peaceful and the people are at peace. Nothing is going on. If you want to make trouble, just make trouble slowly and see what kind of trouble you can cause.
As for important matters, they have always been completed in small meetings in the Chancery's study room.
Let's see how long you can make a big fuss.
The more you make trouble like this, the more unhappy I will be with you.
The noisy Jiangnan officials in the court reminded Emperor Hongzhi of the past. He remembered that when he wanted to do something, the faces of those officials were almost exactly the same as those of the officials in front of him.
Making trouble every day, making trouble every day, anyway, they are making trouble, trying desperately to prevent you from doing certain things, such as levying commercial taxes. The heavyweight ministers are beside Emperor Hongzhi and carefully say that this matter cannot be done this way, how can ordinary people make a living?
Difficult, this tax will make life difficult for everyone.
There are also officials below who will deliberately increase taxes, and will break the bones and suck out the marrow of the common people. In short, they are telling you that if you levy commercial taxes, you won’t be able to collect much money, but it will make the common people miserable.
As for the officials at the middle and lower levels, it is like now, endless petitions, impeachments, remonstrances, etc., which makes people very upset and annoying.
At that time, Emperor Hongzhi trusted these civil servants very much. In addition, the Ming Dynasty was troubled internally and externally. He had many things to do and his health was not very good. He did not have the energy to fight with these people. Many of his inner plans could only be shelved and were played to death by the civil servants.
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It's different now. If you want to make trouble, you can continue to make trouble.
Anyway, the country is peaceful and there are not too many worries. Now I want money and an army. I am in good health and energetic. I can play with you slowly and see how long you can keep making trouble like this.
Emperor Hongzhi just looked at you with no expression on his face, without any expression, and let you continue to make trouble.
Emperor Hongzhi was extremely dissatisfied with their behavior of disregarding national affairs and only pursuing the interests of small groups.
If you wait until you have discussed important matters before discussing this matter, Emperor Hongzhi will think that you still know some of the priorities and can consider the affairs of the country.
However, as soon as the court meeting started, there was commotion every day. If there was no result from the court meeting, he would write memorials and continue the trouble. This attitude and appearance of ignoring national affairs made Emperor Hongzhi extremely dissatisfied.
"Retreat from the court~"
He rolled up his sleeves and looked at the time. It had been half an hour and they weren't done yet. Emperor Hongzhi didn't bother to waste time here and just stood up. When Xiao Jing saw it, he also shouted at the top of his lungs.
The ministers retreated to their respective yamen one after another to go to work, while several important ministers were left behind to continue their small meetings in the Chancery's study room.
"Liu Jin, you've just stirred up a hornet's nest this time~"
On the way, Zhang Mao said to Liu Jin with a gloating smile.
"How do they know my good intentions? Hundreds of years later, the world will definitely say good things about me, but will not remember clowns like them and ignore them."
Liu Jin said very indifferently.
"You are awesome~"
Zhang Mao suddenly had nothing to say, his face was as thick as a wall.
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