No matter how many people cursed, what was supposed to come still came. The three-year scientific examination was finally cancelled. There were many scholars in the Ministry of Rites kneeling on the ground and crying loudly.
However, the situation was irreversible. The three-year imperial examination was directly changed to a yearly examination. At the same time, in order to take care of some scholars who had already achieved fame, the imperial court also gave certain preferential treatment. All scholars could directly take the examination without taking the examination. Admitted as an official.
As a result, those who were promising an official career suddenly lost all hope, while a group of successful people happily packed their bags.
In the new official law promulgated by the imperial court, there is a very detailed explanation of the official system. The official system is different from ordinary servants. In the new law, the official system is divided into ten grades. Except for the ninth-grade sesame official, these ten grades They are officials. Although they are called officials in name, in essence, officials are still included in the category of officials, or they are the reserve team of officials. Although they are temporarily doing low-level work, they have already established their identity. A complete transformation.
In fact, what scholars care about most is status and face. On this point, the court gave considerable care.
In addition, the salaries of all civil servants will be paid by the imperial court. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has established an experience department in each Chief Secretary, which will further expand the functions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. From now on, whether it is the first or tenth grade, The civil servants are also included in the assessment of the Ministry of Civil Service.
This is equivalent to giving everyone a system. Without the system, you are a low-income person. With the system, you will have dignity and hope.
The successive moves made people happy and worried. Those Jinshi, Juren, or scholars who had excellent exams were extremely dissatisfied and criticized them. However, Jinshi and Juren had no worries for the time being, and the imperial court would still appoint officials. , so it¡¯s just the vent of grief over the death of a rabbit and a fox. Those who criticize the most are those who think they have a chance to be on the college entrance examination list. They have a great chance to rise to the top in one step, but now they have to start from the bottom, and their interests are seriously damaged. It is not enough to express their anger without scolding them.
Of course, most people are happy.
In addition to being exempted from corvee and being given certain small privileges, most scholars will have no future if they fail to pass the examination or become a Jinshi. Everyone in the world is keen to be an official, but many people are not good enough in the examination. There are hundreds of thousands of people and millions of people competing for thousands of single-plank bridges that do not have quotas. Now the imperial court has opened up sources of examinations, which means that everyone has a greater chance of becoming an official. In the future, It¡¯s no longer about who writes better articles, but who does the job better.
At the same time, the imperial court also gave admission to some low-level qualifications and encouraged the former servants. In other words, even if you are an ordinary clerk, clerk or even a handyman, as long as you are willing to take the exam, the imperial court will They will also be willing to provide some preferential policies. After all, they have rich experience, but their cultural level is often not as good as that of scholars. As long as they are willing to work hard, they still have the opportunity to become a regular employee.
Several measures made officials all over the world lament, but unfortunately, they found that apart from complaining, they seemed to not get much response. The scholars began to distance themselves based on their own interests, not to mention the bad blood among the scholars. , even in the most basic county government offices, the chiefs often criticize the imperial government's national policies, but the clerks, clerks and even the handymen below remain silent. Being silent means that they do not agree, because the interests of both parties have been Inconsistent.
However, the officials are all nobles. On the surface, they are responsible for the management of local or ministry, but it is the lower class who really do the work. The collective support of the national policies of the imperial court makes these people in addition to borrowing money every day. Drinking to soothe one's sorrows, or lashing out and scolding, seems unlikely to accomplish anything.
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Next, came the reform of the imperial military system. Military household offices in various places were abolished and the military household system was changed to a recruitment system. This national policy was also promulgated after several months of discussions between Liu Chengfeng and three bachelors of the cabinet. There will be opposition to any national policy, and this time is no exception. The most fierce opposition is from the local hereditary military attaches. These hereditary households of thousands or hundreds of households have suddenly become mere commanders, and they cannot hold official positions. Naturally, they would be furious if there was a possibility of hereditary rule, but they still could not become popular. At least this national policy was widely supported by military households.
The millions of military households in the Ming Dynasty were extremely miserable. They were tied to the land and were reduced from so-called military households to tenant farmers. They were exploited by the military attach¨¦s. They had been farmers for generations and had no hope of leaving their country of citizenship. Once they encountered During the war, he had to be forced to fight, and he narrowly escaped death. However, most of the rewards from the court fell into the pockets of the military attach¨¦s.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????? At most, you can just be your own tenant farmer. Anyway, farming for landlords is still farming, and farming for military attach¨¦s is still farming, but this is not the case.In recent years, the emergence of a large number of workshops has made working as a fashionable thing. Everyone knows that working is more profitable. It is often hard to find food on the land for a year, and the family does not even have enough to eat. However, working not only cannot support the family I can barely put food on the table and have some savings.
So a large number of tenants poured into the workshops, which made the land rent lower and lower. In order to retain the tenants, the squires had to give them some preferential treatment. Exploitation gradually reduced a lot, which lightened the burden of rural tenants a lot.
As a result, farming in military households is not only far inferior to working as a farmer, but also inferior to tenant farmers. Military households live in poverty and misery. In addition, compared with other people, they have long had resentments in their hearts. At this time The imperial court issued a sudden decree, which was a disaster for the hereditary military attach¨¦s, but it was a long-lasting drought and sweet rain for the military households.
Even if the military attaches are dissatisfied, do they still want to rebel? If he dares to rebel, who will respond? There is no need to use the army at all, just one or two officers can execute him on the spot.
The implementation of the new law kicked off the three years of Zhengde. A large number of military households were liberated from the land, making the rapidly expanding workshops even more powerful. Reading gradually became fashionable. In the past, studying was limited to officialdom. How can ordinary people bear it? But things are very different now. The opening of examinations to obtain official positions has broadened the channels for them to cross this threshold, making more people willing to let their children and nephews read and write. Of course, more importantly, with the development of the workshop, various scholars The demand for books has also gradually increased. Under this huge demand, scholars have become very popular.
In the past, studying was nothing more than a single-plank bridge to the imperial examination, which was daunting. But now, there are hundreds or thousands of paths. If you learn arithmetic, you can do arithmetic, learn the law, and become a lawyer. It is just ordinary study. You can also find leisurely and well-paid jobs in various workshops when writing. Although the imperial examination is a great future, compared with these immediate benefits, even if you have studied, your income will only be twice or twice as much as if you have not studied. Most people are also willing to accept the popularization of this knowledge.
In addition, the imperial court continued the national policy of the late emperor and vigorously built schools, so the number of people studying and studying increased ten to a hundred times more than before.
In April of the third year of Zhengde, memorials from all over the country were filled with praises. It turned out that the local rebellions and even clan rebellions that everyone was worried about seemed to have become a long-standing joke. In this world, no one cares about who is in power. The most important thing is whether there is a basis for unrest in the world. If public dissatisfaction boils over, no matter how orthodox the court is, it will still rise up and war breaks out. But 90% of the people are satisfied and everyone has something to do. With no food to eat and better expectations for life, the so-called orthodoxy and the so-called morality have all become empty talk.
"The several innovations Liu Chengfeng targeted were just right. They often attracted most people and used them to suppress a small number of people and make a small number of people resentful. Even if they controlled the public opinion of the world, so what? Any court never cares about scolding.
Of course, innovation also takes advantage of the situation. Without the accumulation during the late emperor's time, and if the court did not have enough expenditure, any innovation would be just a joke. If these reforms are put in place now, they may be just right, but if they are put in place twenty years In the past, it may have become a hidden danger of chaos in the world, just like Wang Mang's New Deal. Although the content of the New Deal was advanced, the result was that it accelerated the fall of the new dynasty. The laws of the Ming Dynasty were placed in the Qin and Han Dynasties, which guaranteed to cause chaos in the world.
At the beginning of the fourth year of Zhengde, the entire dynasty was still prosperous, but at this time, Jiao Fang, the cabinet scholar, finally couldn't sit still.
After several years in power, although Jiao Fang did a lot of things in the cabinet, he was not as good as Yang Yiqing in martial arts, and not as good as Li Dongdong in literature. He was neither high nor low, and seemed to have gradually become a dispensable figure. The only good thing was that the regent was It seems that he relies heavily on him.
Today he specifically asked for a leave of absence from the cabinet. Madam Yipin Gaoming came to Beijing from the desert today. Li Ruofan had already given him a name assassination before and asked him to go to discuss matters.
Li Ruofan's identity was a bit embarrassing for both the regent and the court. On the one hand, this powerful woman seemed not only to like living in the palace, but also occasionally returned to her golden tent outside the customs, the Fifteenth Guards of Mongolia. She was quite Because of her reputation, most of the affairs outside the imperial court depended on her, and she would also be consulted on many matters involving the Foreign Guard. On the other hand, her ambiguous relationship with the regent was well known to everyone, and even many military aircraft and the regent had private discussions with her.
This person is different from other princesses. She doesn't want to be a human concubine, but she is in name only, so Jiao Fang has to be careful when dealing with Li Ruofan.
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