Hearing that he was the first, Bi Ziyan went towards the palace to thank His Majesty and the Supervisor, and burst into tears with gratitude.
The reason why Bi Ziyan was recognized by the evaluation team as the first place is because he found out the next stage of Zhang Juzheng's reform: dividing the small family into the whole family.
The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is that land annexation is becoming more and more serious, and a large number of cultivators have become tenant farmers. However, taxation has always been based on household registration. A small number of landlords occupy a large amount of land but only pay a small amount of capitation tax.
Peasants who became tenants also had to pay a small tax. Tenants rented land from nobles and powerful landlords, and paid nearly half of the land rent. The remaining food was not enough to make ends meet. How could they survive if they paid taxes on a per capita basis?
People who go out to work also have to pay a small tax. Farmers going to cities to work became a popular trend in some areas in the late Ming Dynasty. However, after being exploited, how can they save money by working with meager wages and having others to pay taxes?
This point was pointed out vividly by Bi Ziyan, who has experience in grassroots work.
Zhang Juzheng's reforms achieved certain results, but his policies were overturned shortly after his death, leaving many sequelae.
Reform is a system, and it will definitely lead to bad governance if it is just started. The current actual contradictions already require further deepening of the reform.
In less than a month after Zhu Youxiao took charge, Bi Ziyan put down the rebellion and confiscated his family, rectified the capital camp, stabilized the inner and outer courts, promoted reforms, and selected talents through examinations. Step by step, he quickly changed the chaos that had existed since the Wanli Dynasty.
situation.
He knew that his opportunity had come. After struggling for more than thirty years, he finally got the opportunity to realize his ambition in the year when he knew his destiny. How could he let go of such an opportunity?
While I was grateful to the Prince Supervisor for finally discovering my thousand-mile horse, I thought of my good friend Yuan Keli who I had made in my youth.
Bi Ziyan headed south and swore an oath to his distant friend Yuan Ke, determined to improve people's livelihood and finance and benefit millions of families in the Ming Dynasty.
He and Yuan Keli were good friends. In history, both of them shone brightly at this stage, trying to turn the tide. In his previous life, he served as the censor of Youqiandu and the governor of Tianjin, and he and Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, were the horns of each other, specializing in coastal defense.
He repaired warships, managed weapons, built a navy, and once suppressed the White Lotus Rebellion in Hebei and Shandong. There is still a chance of cooperation with Yuan Keli in this life.
He is just fifty years old in this life, but it has been twenty-nine years since he entered the Ming Dynasty. The talented young man became a Jinshi and traveled around to become an old minister. Now this piece of gold is shining.
The crowd was also shocked.
Only Bi Ziyan's younger brother Bi Zisu, several friends bought him for the first place, and he made fifty times as much.
His article has been posted and will be specially printed as a reference document for the cabinet, the Ministry of Revenue and local governors.
Everyone who read it admired his ability and boldness.
Some policies are very down-to-earth, and everyone feels that this is indeed the case after reading them. Bi Ziyan’s economic theory comes from the people and social practice, and can stand the test of practice and time.
But what is even more surprising is that many of his policies are the continuation of Zhang Juzheng's Longwan New Deal. Zhang Juzheng's reforms can be regarded as political mistakes since the middle of Wanli, but everyone knows that the Longwan New Deal did bring the glory of ZTE to the Ming Dynasty.
Now we want to restore Zhang Juzheng’s reputation? Are we going to continue the reform?
The Crown Prince values him very much!
Zhu Youxiao actually wants to be the Bole of this large number of talents.
His current five most powerful supporters, Zhang Weixian, Fang Congzhe, Huang Kezhan, Huang Jiashan, and Li Ruhua, are all in their seventies, and subsequent successors are in urgent need of training.
The top three candidates in this selection exam, Bi Ziyan, Sun Chengzong, and Xu Guangqi, have the potential to be successors, but they need to be inspected and tempered.
However, this examination is only limited to the capital, and it is unfair to the middle and upper-level civil servants across the country. Bi Ziyan has learned that the real talents are not in the temples, but in the rivers and lakes, and in the remote areas. It is imperative to continue the examination and selection.
In addition, the selection of generals and other talents should also be carried out as soon as possible, otherwise more talents and hearts will be lost.
It seems that it is really necessary to establish the Examination Yuan. In the future, those veterans who have retreated to the second line can continue to shine in the Examination Yuan. The experience they have accumulated is a valuable asset.
On that day, Zhu Youxiao specially rewarded ten people, and gave consolation rewards to Feng Quan and Lu Shanji, who were not in the top ten, but could be regarded as writing with some characteristics. Of the two, one was extremely excellent in literary talent, and the other was in military and military affairs.
He has considerable insights into the wealth of the country.
The former, Feng Quan, was the "Little Feng Hanlin" whom many people had just bet on to be in the top three. However, he had a despicable character. After the Qing army entered the customs, the former became a second minister and secretly became a lackey of the Qing court.
The latter, Lu Shanji, had served in the Ministry of Household Affairs and was relatively knowledgeable about military affairs. He was a talent that was highly valued by both Li Ruhua and Sun Chengzong. He was also a very good character. Historically, he fought against the Qing army when he was recovering in Dingxing and defeated the city heroically.
Martyring one's country and becoming famous in history.
Since Zhu Youxiao understands the history of the late Ming Dynasty, not only cannot he reuse people like Feng Quan, he should also try to curb their development and find opportunities to get rid of them to avoid future troubles.
Lu Shanji must be promoted, but he has not yet considered Feng Quan. If he does not promote him, he will be breaking his promise. He can only arrange for him to go to a place where there is plenty of money and wait until he commits a crime before dealing with him.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao thought of Sun Chuanting, who did not appear on the examination list. It turned out that he was still serving as the Yongcheng County Magistrate in Shangqiu, Henan Province, and had been staying in Shangqiu without promotion.
Zhu Youxiao later planned to ask Zhou Jiamo to transfer Sun Chuanting to the capital for special training.
Because Sun Chuanting was only twenty-seven years old at this time, he became a county magistrate after becoming a Jinshi and was not promoted. His official position was too low, and he had to be promoted to a certain level before he could take charge of Shanxi merchant affairs.
Zhu Youxiao also planned to train him to become a unique official in the northwest feudal frontier. Why did Zhu Youxiao attach so much importance to Sun Chuanting? That was because Zhu Youxiao knew that this person was extraordinary in his previous life.
Sun Chuanting was a talented man with many strategies. He was a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli, which was only 2 years in office. In later generations, he was different from slick people like Hong Chengchou. He resolutely cleared the farmland, attacked the land-occupying landlords, and did not hesitate to seize their assets. To return the guards and the people.
In the end, he was impeached by the noble landowners, and was forced to defeat him in a decisive battle without training his troops well.
Maybe if he takes the exam, he will have many ideas on cleaning up farmland and curbing mergers, but it is a pity that he cannot become famous this time.
When he was considering transferring Sun Chuanting back for promotion and serving in the Beijing Army or Shuntian Prefecture, reports of Taichang's illness came from Qianqing Palace.
Taichang's condition worsened.
The person has fallen into a coma.
He knew that his father, Emperor Taichang, was about to die, so he had to make a lot of preparations.
He immediately notified the ministers Tuogu to enter the palace. He, Concubine Li, and other ministers accompanied him in Qianqing Palace, waiting for Taichang to wake up while preparing a very important edict.