"Huang Taichong is good. In places where taxes are high, there should be more places for imperial examinations...a good idea! It is also right to focus on both agriculture and business. Only with the development of industry and commerce can taxes really increase.
In addition, his suggestions on the administration of officials are also very good. Officials should be promoted to strict officials, and eliminated at the bottom. If you can't do things, you should get out!
Grand Duke Luo's method is also very good. Fortunately, the officials and gentry pay taxes as one with the powerful! That's how it should be... OK, this is a straight minister! Mr. Qian, the title of 'Grand Duke' you gave him is really appropriate! The number one scholar in Jinke should be among Huang Taichong and Luo Dagong! "
You have finally been scammed! Qian Qianyi looked at Zhu Cihong, who he had discovered as a direct minister and a capable minister, and said in his heart: This Grand Duke Luo is a treacherous minister. He deliberately caters to you in order to become the number one scholar and a high official! As for that Huang Zongxi, haha, he just has too many ideas, and he dares to speak them out and write them down...otherwise he would have been a Jinshi long ago! This kind of person can be given to a fellow Jinshi and then thrown away in a remote small county.
If he were to win the first prize, he would be bringing trouble to himself. It would be better to use Duke Luo, a treacherous official, as the first prize!
Of course, Qian Qianyi would not tell Zhu Cixiang this clearly...
"Zhang Huangyan is not bad," Zhu Cixiang picked up Zhang Huangyan's paper again and said to Qian Qianyi with a smile, "Although he is not as insightful as Huang Taichong, Zheng Sen, and Luo Dagong, he is still a rare talent... He advocates implementation Regarding the prohibitions, salt, tea, wine and other items are included in the prohibitions and cannot be sold privately. Although it is difficult to implement, the idea is still very good, and the articles are also at the level of first-rate or second-rate."
The "questioning prohibition" proposed by Zhang Huangyan is actually a kind of monopoly. However, instead of delegating the monopoly rights to private traders, the state controls the monopoly rights and obtains huge profits through monopoly sales. Such an approach would not work in Nanming, because the situation faced by Nanming was that the court was weak and the merchants were strong.
However, Zhang Huangyan's ability to write such an article instead of handing in a blank paper has already made his position clear.
In today's exam, in addition to public strikes, many candidates chose to resist passively - handing in blank papers! If you don't know how to do it, it won't break the king's law, right?
So now that I receive the papers from Mingyuan Building, most of them are blank! It can be regarded as a great spectacle in the history of Chinese imperial examinations.
Behind this "spectacle of blank papers" was the passive resistance of the Southeast Scholars - if we consider that many of the candidates who participated in the imperial examination were "insiders" arranged by Zhu Cixiang, and many of them came from the north. The proletarian people who have been exiled from the mainland will not hand in the papers in vain. So the proportion of passive resistance among southeastern scholar-officials is still quite high.
Therefore, if the policy of comprehensive and strict commercial taxation is really implemented in the southeast, there will definitely be a lot of trouble... And in order to deal with the coming troubles, Zhu Cihong must usurp the Donglin Party!
Usurping the throne can wait a little longer, but usurping the party is inevitable!
"Mr. Qian, Mr. Wu, Mr. Gong..." Zhu Cixuan said with a smile, "Although there were many failed exams in this Enke, we can still select a lot of talents. These talents Among them, many are the successors of Donglin. Therefore, I want to take advantage of the opportunity of everyone gathering in Jinling to hold a Donglin Conference to elect the new Three Lords of Donglin and the Seventh Son of Donglin. I don’t know whether the three gentlemen how about?"
Zhu Cixiang had already discussed the idea of convening the Donglin Conference with Qian Qianyi, Wu Meicun, and Gong Dingzi, but it was an idea at that time and now it is an order. Asking them what they think is to ask them to support, not to actually listen to their opinions.
This Donglin Party was usurped by Zhu Cihong!
...
Outside Sanshan Gate, the Qinhuai River is extremely busy with all kinds of boats passing by.
A passenger boat slowly passed by on the river. The passenger boat was very beautifully decorated, luxurious yet elegant. There was also a bare flagpole erected on the bow of the passenger boat.
Master Fan, a talented scholar from Suzhou, looked pale as he sat in the cabin, looking out from the open door and looking straight at the flagpole.
When he came to Nanjing by boat to welcome Enke, the flagpole was hung with the "Juren flag" that he had enjoyed for more than thirty years - a flag with a white background and the inscription "Fan Juren of Wu County" written on it. A big character.
This is not a flag to show one's identity, but a long-term, stable and generous source of income for Fan Yiji's family of more than 30 people!
Fan Yiji was originally from a poor family in Wu County. He was still a poor private school teacher in his thirties. Although he had passed the county and government examinations long ago, he was stuck in the college examination, so he was not even a scholar. The privileges of urbanites in the Ming Dynasty began with scholars. Without the reputation of a scholar, they were ordinary people. So at that time, Fan Yiji was really in despair. If his father-in-law, a butcher, hadn't helped him from time to time, he would have starved to death on the streets of Suzhou.
When he was nearly forty years old, things suddenly turned around. First, he passed the college examination and became a scholar. The next year, he passed the provincial examination and became a scholar!
That's really a carp leaping over the dragon's gate, it's incredible!
Before winning the imperial examination, Fan Yiji was just a scholar who had just escaped from poverty. He was a highly regarded person in Suzhou.
But after winning the exam, it will be a big deal! There were many former students who came to honor him: some gave him land; some gave him shops; and there were also those who lived in dilapidated houses and became servants in order to protect him. In two or three months, Fan Yiji's family will have slaves, maids, money, land, and real estate!
In addition to these, Fan Yiji can also "rent" his Juren signboards to businessmen to avoid taxes. Juren signboards are relatively valuable. There are more businessmen who can be "protected" and their effective use range is wider, so he can give Fan Juren every year. Bringing huge profits to one family - there are hidden rules for this matter, and it cannot be abused too much, otherwise it will be worthless.
But all this ended completely after yesterday's incident at Jiangnan Gongyuan.
When Qian Qianyi personally announced to him that he would be dismissed from the civil service, his family's more than 20 years of wealth and prosperity came to an end, and the sky above his head suddenly collapsed!
When the news reaches Suzhou, it won't take long for his easy-to-find lands, shops, and servants to leave him one by one. He also has no signboard that can be rented out to businessmen to avoid taxes. His students will not recognize him as a penniless gentleman in the blink of an eye...
"Teacher, teacher... it's all the students who have caused trouble for you! The students are sorry for you!"
A trembling voice sounded in Old Master Fan's ears, interrupting Fan Yiji's thoughts. The speaker was Su Jin, the Su Jin from Wu County who was the leading figure in Gongyuan.
Fan Yiji glanced at his "good sir" and smiled bitterly: "What about being involved or not? I just don't deserve to be in the spotlight. How long do you think the tax avoidance rights of candidates and scholars can be maintained? ?”
"Teacher," Su Jin looked at Old Master Fan, "After all, the imperial court still has Mr. Qian Ge and Mr. Hou Ge...and the students also heard that the Donglin Conference will be held soon. Maybe a gentleman will be there soon. The court has the upper hand."
"Hmph!" Fan Yiji sneered, "Have you forgotten who removed us from office? Isn't it the old man Qian Ge? The Donglin Conference, in my opinion, is just in the name of Donglin. The Eunuch Party Congress!"
