The third day of October in the second year of the New Year of the Han Dynasty.
Lingnan Prefecture, Panyu County.
Winter has already entered in the north in October, and it should be late autumn in the south of the Yangtze River in October. However, in Lingnan in October, apart from the slight coolness brought by the sea breeze, people really don't feel much cold.
When we arrived at the market outside the pier, the cries of sales and smiling faces made people feel like it was still spring.
"Take a walk and take a look. The freshly baked biscuits are hot!"
"The crabs we just caught from the sea today are blue crabs!"
"The 20-year-old trees on Meiling are the best to use for house repairs!"
The noise in the market spread all the way from the wharf of Panyu County to the capital of Lingnan Prefecture.
Unlike other local administrative offices that are often separated, Lingnan Prefecture was newly established, so at the beginning of its establishment, it was considered that its main role was to coordinate and strengthen the management of the scattered Lingnan Prefecture. Therefore, Lingnan Prefecture and Panyu County Prefecture were
As well as the yamen of the six departments stationed in Lingnan, they are neatly located in the renovated Panyu City, giving this old Lingnan city that was established as early as the time of Qin Shihuang a new vitality.
The second year of the New Year of the Han Dynasty can definitely be regarded as the calmest year after the founding of the Han Dynasty.
At least that's the case for now.
After the beginning of spring at the beginning of the year, His Majesty beheaded hundreds of leaders of the rebellious aristocratic families in Jiangnan, Dongting and other places in Jiankang Mansion. Among them, the leading heads of several aristocratic families were sentenced to the death penalty of Lingchi. This directly shocked everyone inside and outside the imperial court. The aristocratic families
The system fell apart almost overnight.
For most of the aristocratic families who have a wait-and-see attitude, what they expect more is that after His Majesty overthrows these aristocratic families, he will have to use their manpower and material resources to complete the liquidation of the Jiangnan aristocratic families. However, they forget that His Majesty does not only have aristocratic families in his hands.
, not only the Southeastern family. In the end, with the help of the free labor force of academicians and the violence of the army, these problems were successfully solved.
Since then, college scholars began to enter the stage of history as a new political force, and aristocratic families gradually withdrew. The aristocratic families no longer pursued direct competition for power, but began to seek to send their children to academies, and even jointly established local governments with local governments.
's academy.
Just this summer, the imperial court introduced the imperial examination system, and determined that the talent selected by the imperial court would pass the imperial examination. This overturned the previous agreement between Li Xinchen and the family. According to the original agreement, the proportion of students in the academy should be
It is increasing year by year, but the rate of increase is still within the control of the family. However, the introduction of the imperial examination system means that the selection of talents in the future will have nothing to do with the family. The imperial court is the one who sets the questions and the final recruiter.
, will determine all processes of talent inspection and recruitment.
Children of aristocratic families will take the imperial examinations like ordinary students, gain fame, and gain opportunities to enter the officialdom.
Perhaps in many people's imagination, the imperial examination was nothing more than a thunder on the ground, which suddenly broke the previous monopoly of the aristocratic families. However, under the shock of the bloody storm and the huge number of people in the late spring, the aristocratic families finally acquiesced to this result. Otherwise, otherwise
, the Han armies that have been fully deployed in various places will rush in and chop off their heads without hesitation.
No one dares to ignore Liu's lessons learned from the past.
With the establishment of the imperial examination system, academies have sprung up all over the country. Even in Lingnan, which many people regard as a deserted land, Panyu County, Lingnan State Academy, Panyu County Academy, Nanhai County Academy and other large and small
In the private academies, the sound of books is audible. For the first time, people at the bottom of this era realized that they could read and write with their own abilities. Even if they did not become officials, they could still join merchants and run workshops.
You can learn a skill in an academy, and you can even enter a military academy run by the army to directly seek the possibility of joining the army as a general.
"It's new every day, it's new every day." Lifting his tea cup and listening to the noise outside, Lingnan Prefecture Governor Hou said with a smile, "In the past two years, Lingnan has almost become a different Lingnan that I don't recognize."
"Ten years later, I'm afraid that if you and I walk through this landscape again, we will all suspect that we have gone to the wrong place." The great Han Zuodu Censor Fu laughed loudly. He still held the string of Buddhist beads in his hand, but compared with
When Li Xingchen first met Fu, the beads were much rounder and smoother.
For Fu, Lingnan is not a strange land, but now that he has returned to Lingnan, he can only lament how fast things are changing.
With the development of trade in the Han Dynasty, Panyu County has become an important seaport in Lingnan and even the entire south. The newly formed Nanyang Navy also chose this place as a foothold to continue conquering the ocean southward.
This time Fu was ordered to inspect the Lingnan officialdom. With the stability of the Han Dynasty, the two temporary positions of governor and governor have been abolished. Instead, the censorship station is composed of left capital censor and right capital censor respectively.
The regular inspection team led by the team will be responsible for verifying local taxation and government affairs items whenever they visit a place, as well as inspecting public sentiment and reporting directly to the court.
Moreover, Li Xingchen made full use of the contradiction between the north and the south that still exists in the court. Generally, the left capital censor and his subordinate officials who were born in the south are in charge of the north, and the right capital censor and their subordinate officials who were born in the north are in charge of the south.
Yushitai has been touring the world for two rounds, and this is the first time that Fu has returned to Lingnan.
Since it was Fu who came here, the main purpose of the court this time was not to inspect officials. Fu's main purpose this time was to supervise a batch of equipment shipped from the north, which were newly produced muskets.
Although the sun is still shining brightly in Lingnan, the gathered troops have undoubtedly told everyone that the imperial court has run out of patience with Lin Yi, who has been provoking on the border.
For a long time, because of the existence of Linyi, it was even difficult for the Han Dynasty to maintain the rule of Rinan County. Especially at the beginning of the year, after Li Xun led his troops north to take control of Jiangling, the Han army adopted a comprehensive contraction strategy in Lingnan, so that the Han army was unable to maintain its rule in Rinan County.
The short-lived rule established once again fell apart.
But anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Han Dynasty is now in a period of rapid expansion. The previous internal contraction was simply because of the rebellion in the family, which led Li Xingchen to draw troops from Lingnan nearby. After all, the main force on the northern front was not to be taken lightly.
Otherwise, it is very likely that the original aristocratic family will be in chaos and turn into internal and external troubles.
But now that the Han Dynasty has completely stabilized due to Li Xingchen's suppression and win-over, the people's focus is no longer on the struggle between the court and the aristocratic families, but on what benefits the court's new policy can bring to them. After all, this is a short period of time.
The short period of peace, which lasted for more than half a year, can definitely be regarded as a period of rapid change.
The imperial court continues to introduce new policies, and everything points to the problems that the people urgently need to solve.