"...Those who rule the world together are scholar-bureaucrats. Today's scholars have improper habits and want to see the shortcomings quickly. Now if I want upright men to practice and restore the way, what method can be used?"
The Donglu were originally barbarians, with a narrow territory and few people. Once the troops invaded Shunbing and the three Koreas failed to defend them, what's the reason?
At present, Sanxie, Dengjin and other places have heavy troops to defend the east. The enemy cannot be destroyed, the troops cannot be withdrawn, and the pay cannot be reduced. Now that we want to destroy the enemy and restore our territory, what strategy will work?
That is to say, the tax on farmers and merchants, which is the source of income, has been repeatedly discussed and recommended, but has no actual effect. What is the reason?
The Eastern Han Dynasty was not annihilated quickly, and the people's disasters continued. Floods and droughts also occurred frequently, and the northwest was plagued by disasters. How could we save and eliminate them?
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, military officials were regarded as Zhongshu Ling and Privy Council envoys, and there seemed to be no clear distinction between civil and military affairs. My great ancestor, Emperor Gao, once made Zhiting the chief administrative officer and Dianshi the capital, but why is it so unbreakable now?
Mr. Erdos has been paying attention to world affairs for a long time, and he answered every paragraph without hesitation. I will read it personally. "
In the Huangji Hall in the Forbidden City, Huang Liji, the chief minister of the cabinet, was reading an imperial edict to more than 400 tributes who came to participate in the palace examination. This imperial edict included the strategy for the six palace examinations. This time the policy issues were all drawn up by Zhu Youjian himself. Nizi has already passed the first three questions... and did very well! If it weren't for the fact that Nizi couldn't write and couldn't take part in the imperial examination, the number one scholar this time would definitely be Nizi's.
In addition to the three questions that Nizi had passed, Zhu Youjian also selected three questions from the palace examination questions in the seventh year of Chongzhen in his previous life. After slight changes, he made up a total of six questions to test the tribute scholars in the fourth year of Chongzhen.
The reason why two questions were missed (there were a total of 8 questions in the palace examination in the seventh year of Chongzhen in the previous life) is because the remaining two questions were about bandits and military expenditures, and the other was about inserting Han tribes.
The rogue bandits haven't become big yet. I don't know which mountains in Shaanxi are hiding, and they may become grass bandits, so they can't be used for the test.
As for the Han Dynasty... Zhu Youjian himself has already given the standard answer - just pack the widow of Hutu Dunhan into the harem! What else is there to test?
Two of the three questions selected by Zhu Youjian, namely the fourth and fifth questions, have also been changed. The fourth question originally asked about the Salt Farming Law, but it was changed to the two agricultural and commercial taxes - this is a bit of an attempt to speak out!
Zhu Youjian made a promise last year that as long as God provides food, he would not push the system of paying grain and taxes for both officials and gentry beyond the eight prefectures of North Zhili and the four towns of Xuan, Da, Yan and Ning. But now God doesn’t reward me with food!
The fifth question originally asked how to eliminate bandits and pirates, but also included disasters. Now it mainly asks how to eliminate the fatal threats caused by natural disasters.
The natural disasters are becoming more and more severe and have begun to shake the foundation of the Ming Empire! We must come up with a complete set of disaster relief methods as soon as possible.
As for the last question, it is about the combination of civil and military skills and the promotion of talents in an eclectic way. Nowadays, it is very meaningful, because the Zhangqian Army and the Dianqian Army are "civil and military", and Zhu Youjian now uses people in an eclectic way.
After Huang Liji finished reading the imperial edict, the palace examination began!
More than 400 tributes, including those who did not want to go to high school, were now seated at a small table. The four treasures of the study were placed on the table. In front of Zhu Youjian and several ministers, they began to write papers.
Niu Jinxing, who inexplicably got second place in the Aptitude Test, had already copied down the topic read by Huang Liji on a piece of white paper, and then he sighed - not because he didn't know how to do it, but because he could do it, and he could do it. Well done!
It seems like this is life! It was for the lives of those who were wrapped in horse leather in the Ming Dynasty... When he thought of death, Niu Jinxing felt sad in his heart. He picked up his pen and began to write an article. The words he wrote were the words in "Xunzi. Yi Bing": Check the death drum, defend against death. The bridle, hundreds of officials died in their posts, and the scholar-bureaucrats died in their ranks!
"The death row of scholar-bureaucrats" is Niu Jinxing's answer! Not the answer to a certain question, but the answers to the six questions asked by Zhu Youjian!
Six questions, one answer. To put it bluntly, the answer is that scholar-bureaucrats must be able to fight! The Ming Dynasty supported hundreds of thousands of scholars. If all of them could fight, the captives would be defeated, the thieves would be eliminated, and military expenses would be saved. No matter how many disasters there are, we would not be afraid of disasters, and no one would dare to point their noses at the scholar-officials and scold them for being shameless. , whoever scolds will be chopped to death!
As long as the scholar-officials can fight, all problems will be solved!
Moreover, all the scholar-bureaucrats at Xunzi's time were able to fight. Why would they come if they couldn't fight? Use it as a gift to the master? Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, there is no shortage of masters!
Li Xin also started to answer questions. He answered each question one by one.
He has three shameless solutions to the scholar-officials. One is to reduce the number of scholar-officials - there are too many scholar-officials now. How dare a scumbag who cannot pass the exam dare to be called a scholar-official? The second is to build schools and promote practical learning - scholar-bureaucrats are not only shameless, but also incompetent!
It is shameless for an incompetent person to occupy the high position of a scholar-bureaucrat!
To solve the problem of shameless scholar-officials, we must improve their ability, not their ability to write articles, but their ability to do practical things! Therefore, the imperial court had to set up schools to teach practical knowledge and let scholar-bureaucrats study in the schools. Only when they learn their skills can they serve the country and realize their shame!
As for the question of whether North Korea would be able to defend due to the overwhelming power of the Eastern captives, Li Xin's answer was that the royal court of North Korea must be protected and the monarch and his ministers must not surrender. As long as the royal court of Korea is not lost and the monarchs and ministers do not surrender, it will not be easy for the Donglu to pacify the Eight Paths of Korea. It might take a long time and get stuck in it.
In order to protect the royal court, monarchs and ministers of Joseon, we must first send the navy to transport capable soldiers and artillery to Ganghwa Island to set up defenses in case of emergencies!
Because Donglu's troops are cunning and swift, like fire and thunder, the navy and elite soldiers of the imperial court must go to Ganghwa Island as soon as possible. They must not move after hearing that Donglu has sent troops... It will be too late!
As for the huge cost of defending the east with heavy troops, Li Xin gave the method to strengthen the training of the Pingliao Army and Tianjin Navy. Strengthen their ability to send troops to fight by sea, so that they can use offense instead of defense, forcing the Donglu to divide their troops and set up defenses to reduce the pressure on Liaoxi and Yanshan.
Regarding the issue of taxes on agriculture and commerce, Li Xin's approach was to do business first and then farm, travel first and then live, and first transport by water and then by land - that is to say, collect commercial taxes first and then collect land taxes. After all, the preferential exemption of land tax was decreed by the late emperor, but there is no basis for the preferential exemption of commercial tax. The collection of business taxes can start from the merchants, that is, setting up cards to collect taxes. The Ming Dynasty already had tax cards, but the number was not large, and there was a rule of three no collections, that is, eunuchs, officials, and scholar-bureaucrats did not collect taxes. Collect, so there is not much tax collected.
Therefore, Li Xin suggested that the "three no-charges" should be abolished first, and water transportation in rivers, lakes and seas should be strictly controlled first, and then tax cards on land should be managed.
As for the commercial taxes in the city, it can be postponed for a while, because the commercial taxes in the city have actually been paid, but they are not paid to the warehouse. Instead, they are received in the pockets of officials at all levels in the name of Chaixin Zaoli Zheyin. Yes - the officials of the Ming Dynasty had low salaries, which only took into account the regular salaries issued by the court, and did not include the various local corvee and in-kind taxes. Most of these corvee and in-kind taxes are collected from industrial and commercial households in the city (originally their corvee and in-kind taxes), so this part of the local commercial tax has always been collected.
Regarding natural disasters, Li Xin's plan was to use commercial tax revenue to purchase grain and rice from Huguang, Sichuan, Jiangxi and other places, and then establish famine relief warehouses in Xiangyang and Nanyang, which were accessible by waterways, to provide relief to the victims.
As for the last question, that is, the problem of civil servants and military officers being inferior, the solution given by Li Xin is to improve the capabilities and cultural level of military attachés. In Li Xin's view, as long as the military attaches' abilities improve and they are all capable of civil and military affairs, civil servants will naturally not dare to look down upon them!
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"Okay! Okay! Okay..."
In the Yuxi Palace, Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty, who was grading the papers, was already applauding the case and startling the two examiners, Shi Fenglai and Qian Qianyi.
Zhu Youjian raised his head, looked at the two surprised examiners and said with a smile: "We finally got a few talents from this competition... One for Niu Jinxing, one for Li Xin, one for Wei Zaode, all of them They are all talented people! The three of them are the ones who passed the first grade!"
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