"No need to mention it again! I have made up my mind on this matter!"
As Zhu Ciwei spoke, he ordered: "You first ask me to prepare a Jun order. Starting from next year, the whole province of Japan will begin to hold rural examinations. Each prefecture and county newly designated this year must complete the prefecture and county examination tasks, and in the prefecture and county examinations, In the county examination, the selected talents cannot only be the former shogunate bannermen and imperial family members who belong to the aristocracy! If I find out who has not done so, I will be dismissed from office and exiled!"
Zhu Ciwei also gave orders because of this.
Liu Zongtian could only say yes, but it didn't matter to him. After all, he had become the staff of Zhu Ciwei, the eldest son of the emperor. He didn't have to worry about his future. He was just worried for the eldest son of the emperor and whether he would directly copy the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty to the Japanese country. The Japanese nobles were unwilling.
If Zhu Ciwei had not first appointed Nagasaki and Ezo, two scholars who had been ruled by the Ming Dynasty for a short period of time, and a group of scholars transferred from the country, as officials in various prefectures and counties of the Japanese country, he would not have dared to directly establish a Imperial examination system.
But now the chief officials in each prefecture and county are all scholars who are accustomed to the various systems of the Ming Dynasty. It is not difficult for Zhu Ciwei to implement the imperial examination system.
In the past, the shogunate and local daimyo, in order to please the Ming Dynasty, had vigorously promoted Chinese Confucian education. Therefore, there were also Japanese scholars who could participate in the imperial examination, and the number was not large.
Naturally, there was also a basis for the implementation of the imperial examination system in the Japanese state.
The reason why the previous shogunate and local daimyo did not implement the imperial examination system was naturally to protect the interests of the aristocratic class.
Now, when Zhu Ciwei's order to establish the imperial examination system was issued to all prefectures and counties, and he explicitly ordered local governments not to restrict the origin of applicants, it naturally caused great dissatisfaction among the Japanese aristocracy.
Originally they were disappointed because Zhu Ciwei didn't use them much, and now he wanted to give commoners the opportunity to advance. Each of these nobles began to resent Ming's rule over them.
Some radicals even directly launched a rebellion.
Date Munekatsu, the former daimyo of the Sendai clan, launched a rebellion and decided to establish a new shogunate, proclaiming himself a shogun.
Because the Date Munekatsu clan was at odds with the Tokugawa shogunate and had always had the ambition to replace the Tokugawa shogunate, when the Tokugawa shogunate moved to America, they ignored the Date Munekatsu clan.
And Date Zongsheng, like other daimyo who stayed in Japan, chose to surrender voluntarily after encountering a massive attack by the Ming Dynasty.
Ida Zongsheng had also changed his Chinese name to Yizongsheng, and he was waiting for the Ming Dynasty to re-name him.
But he did not expect that after becoming the governor of Japan, His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, would directly change all the surrendered areas into prefectures and counties. It was inevitable that the areas ruled by his Sendai clan would also be assigned new officials and officials. The new army no longer recognized the status of him and his retainers and samurai.
What he didn't expect now was that His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, directly established the imperial examination system, allowing all civilians to participate in the imperial examination and compete with nobles like himself.
This naturally made Date Munekatsu very angry, and with the support of a group of retainers and samurai who were unwilling to lose their status, they launched a rebellion, trapping and killing the Ming officials in Sendai, and raided the three hundred Ming soldiers stationed here.
However, because the military strength of the two sides was far apart, 300 Ming soldiers were stationed in the city, making it impossible for the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Date clan to break through the city.
As a result, Zhu Ciwei had to dispatch a large army to annihilate him, and eventually the entire army of Date Munekatsu was besieged in the Iwate area.
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Yuan Tai, the sentry officer of the Ming army who was operating a blunderbuss and shooting wildly at the Japanese pirates who were trying to rush to the high ground where he was, did not understand these rebels who were still in the era of queuing to kill, and therefore he was at Date Zongshengsho. When the rebels did not rush up again, while holding a cigarette in their mouths and shooting at the Japanese pirates who came up, he said to his comrades in the company's fire gun group:
"I really don't understand! Why are these Japanese pirates doing this? It's just an imperial examination! What else? Isn't this a normal thing? It must be because of this rebellion! In this case, why did you surrender earlier and reject the rule of the Ming Dynasty? , it is better not to surrender and offer the city before."
The Han military officers of the Ming Dynasty, who had already shouted the slogan "Princes, generals and ministers should be proud of themselves" thousands of years ago, really did not understand the motivations of these Japanese pirates for their rebellion.
Because this imperial examination system, which allows the common people to join the aristocratic class and even the rulers of the empire, has long been deeply rooted in China, and it has become a system that both those in power and ordinary people are accustomed to and think there is no problem.
"That's right! How come these Japanese pirate nobles are so uncivilized that they don't allow commoners to get ahead! Our great ancestors were all born as commoner beggars. There are no born nobles in this world, and there are no people who have always been nobles. The zeitgeist of a gentleman, Killed after five lifetimes, these Japanese pirate nobles are really stubborn and ignorant!"
Yuan Tai's comrade Tan Ping also started talking.
Yuan Tai then lamented: "These Japanese pirate nobles are just a bunch of bullshit who just want to ride on the heads of the common people! Even us Han people with guns don't think there is anything wrong with them. They are good, so they create There is a rebellion, and it’s because we haven’t encountered any major civil unrest. I don’t know what the consequences will be if you force the people hard!”
Although for the Han people, there was nothing wrong with implementing the imperial examination system that allowed civilians to advance to the bureaucratic class, the nobles among the Japanese were indeed unwilling to give up their privileges easily.
It was not until Date Zongsheng's troops were completely annihilated, and all nine of his clans, as well as the nine clans of his retainers, were massacred, that most of the Japanese nobles had to begin to accept the reality that they no longer had the treatment of nobles.
The imperial examination system was thus successfully implemented.
A large number of scholars who were born as civilians in the Japanese country thus obtained the status of scholars.
However, considering that the native language and writing of the Japanese country have not been completely eliminated, according to Zhu Youxiao's requirements, within a hundred years, there will still be a threshold for Japanese scholars and people to come to Ming Dynasty to study or find jobs, and even Japanese people At present, it is not possible to serve as an official in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao naturally did this to prevent Japanese people with dissident intentions from stealing imperial power.
The implementation of the imperial examination system was only the first step in Zhu Ciwei's sinicization in the Japanese country.
Next, Zhu Ciwei will also divide the land in Japan.
This naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Japanese nobles, and they resolutely launched several rebellions. Fortunately, they were all put down in the end.
The Japanese nobles completely lost their privileged status.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty completely established a civilian society without local nobles in Japan, which greatly increased the income of civilians in Japan and led to economic recovery in Japan.
The volume of goods sold in Ming Dynasty to Japan has also increased significantly.
After completing the land distribution, all Zhu Ciwei had to do according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions was to consolidate the re-established ruling system in Japan.
First of all, Zhu Ciwei continued to severely crack down on ambitious Japanese nobles, basically executing anyone who was found to be ambitious.
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Every day, a group of Japanese nobles who attempted independence and restoration were executed on the newly built execution platform in Edo Castle.
Secondly, Zhu Ciwei also ordered that all Japanese people should be easy to obey and forbid Japanese people from teaching Japanese language. He also ordered officials at all levels to use coercion and inducement to destroy the local cultural symbols of Japan, add Chinese literature halls, and popularize Chinese Confucian education for Japanese civilians.
