However, after the Ming Dynasty occupied Paris, it had no time to take care of England.
Because the Ming army quickly destroyed France with blitzkrieg and captured most of the fresh troops of the European Grand Alliance.
Although it is very fast, there are also problems caused by rapid resolution.
That is, the territory that was quickly occupied by Nuo Da needs to be slowly digested.
Otherwise, if the Ming Dynasty gathers troops to attack England again, or even chases them to America, it will cause too much military burden and make the rear unstable.
Once the frontline operations encounter setbacks, it is easy to cause a fire in the backyard.
Therefore, the Ming army did not launch any major offensives, and did not even occupy southern Europe, which was already empty of troops. Instead, they rested and recuperated and consolidated the results of the occupied areas.
These were the requirements Zhu Youxiao and his ministers made to Zhu Cizhuo after careful consideration.
The Ming Empire, which already had a very large territory and was already very rich in resources, naturally did not need to use gambling to conquer the world. It had to be a steady and steady attack.
"Oil is the resource that the imperial court needs most now! We can only continue to use troops after the oil reserves have grown enough to be used. Otherwise, it will be difficult to achieve the effect of quickly resolving the war!"
Privy Council envoy Zhang Huangyan talked about the importance of oil to Zhu Youxiao when the Ming army destroyed France and discussed the next military deployment.
Zhu Youxiao naturally had no doubts about this and just said: "It seems that we need to increase investment in oil exploration. Fortunately, Ming Dynasty now has a vast territory, so we don't have to worry about oil exploration."
"What major oil fields have been explored so far?"
Zhu Youxiao asked because of this.
"Your Majesty, since the strategy for developing mineral resources is to focus on the areas outside the Customs, the current explorations are mainly outside the Customs. Among them, large oil fields have been discovered in Sakhalin Island, Siberia, Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan), and Ural Province. What I mean is to focus on exploiting the oil fields in Al-Khasa and Ural provinces first, so that after the oil is refined and processed, it will be easier to transport to the front lines for use;”
"In addition, we should not be in a hurry to annex Southern Europe. Instead, we should eliminate the Ottoman Empire as soon as possible and annex the Arabian Islands. The oil there is rich and can be used as a resource base to support our army's continued westward and southward march in the future."
Wen Tiren replied.
"That makes sense! However, once it is discovered that the areas that have been unified by the Ming Dynasty are rich in oil, Han people will be relocated to the area as soon as possible, and the Han people will be relocated by setting up factories, so that the area will completely become a land of the Han family! According to the Yuan Fu’s suggestion is to continue to immigrate to the Kazakhstan and Ural areas, where larger-scale factories must be established one after another. If the funds are not enough, funds must be raised from the whole society.”
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said.
At this time, Zhang Tongchang followed up and said: "The first step is to increase oil production and reserves, and the second step is to establish a ruling foundation in the newly annexed Europe as soon as possible to prepare for the complete unification of the Eurasian continent, the Americas, and Africa;
Therefore, in my opinion, we must continue to break the concept of Han people settling down and relocating, and mobilize more Han people to go out. The imperial court must invest more in sending out young talents and educating them;
Therefore, Your Majesty, please consider whether the court can discuss whether to increase the number of years of free civilian education in the country to nine years, and directly train officials in the direction of foreign officials. They will take exams as soon as they graduate. After passing the exam, they will Directly assigned as an official! "
"Then the imperial examination system must continue to be reformed!"
"I suggest that for the long-term interests of the Han family, we should not take the personal wishes of the scholars too seriously, but should take the needs of the country as the principle and arrange for the scholars to serve as officials in various places;
"In the past, there were too many scholars, and the external territory was not very vast. Therefore, the demand for scholars was not particularly large. The situation at that time was still that there were few officials and many scholars. Naturally, priority could be given to those who were willing to serve as officials overseas. Taxis go overseas;”
"But it's different now. There are too many official positions that are lacking people overseas! Europe is a big country. After the Western nobles have been wiped out, many more official positions need to be added. From top to bottom, we Han people have to replace them. I want to be an official!
"So, we can no longer rely on voluntariness. As long as you take the provincial examination and obtain the status of a civil servant, and after graduating from various universities, you should be directly assigned as an official. The joint examination and the palace examination should be cancelled."
Lu Xiangsheng suggested at this time.
"This is a big deal. Cancellation of the joint examination and the palace examination means that there will no longer be Jinshi in the future. I am afraid that the scholars in the world will not agree."
Wen Tiren said.
"But if it is not cancelled, the scholars in the world will still be willing to cross the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops, take the national examination and the palace examination, become a Jinshi, and then continue to take the ministry examination. They have to fight for it with hundreds or even thousands of people in the pass. He wants an official position, but refuses to go outside the customs!"
"Afraid of hardship, unwilling to leave home too far, and just want to stay in a gentle and wealthy hometown, how can this be done! The country has been raising scholars for three hundred years, and it is not raising a group of uncles!"
Lu Xiangsheng said: "Otherwise, the Jinshi subject will be retained, but after becoming a Jinshi, officials will no longer be awarded. If you want to be an official, you will have to take a special official selection examination just like the juren. Once you get the official status, you will Want to be sent abroad! If you want to stay in the country, you can only study, do business, or work in agriculture. You can't be an official anyway! If you want to be an official, you must first be a member of the Xingming Society, and obey the arrangements of the court. You can go wherever you want to be an official. Where can I be an official? In short, if you want to be an official, you have to accept the arrangements of the court!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Since it is for the benefit of the Han family, you cannot be soft-hearted!"
"There is a shortage of officials outside now. Once places like America and Africa are annexed in the future, there will be even more shortages! All Han people are obliged to dedicate themselves to the country. Starting from the moment they are promoted, they must obey the arrangement of the imperial court and become officials. The Jinshi Department will be abolished directly. In addition, There are examinations for master's degree candidates and doctoral candidates. These two types of postgraduate qualifications are the two types of academic titles that candidates in various fields of science can advance to after graduation. They can also be called degrees. Examiners can advance to these two types of postgraduate qualifications as a test for outstanding scientific research talents. The selection means that even if you get these two honors, you will not be selected as an official by the imperial court, but you will stay in the pass to study. If you really have outstanding knowledge, you can use this method without having to go outside to become an official."
"Then we have to strictly limit the enrollment ratio of such graduate students. Most of them will go to various places to become officials."
Lu Xiangsheng replied.
"Of course! Now the situation has really changed. The world has begun to lack people to be officials, instead of having officials to be filled."
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said with a smile.
"There is nothing we can do about it. It is better to force the Han people to serve as officials abroad, just like forcing the clan nobles to go overseas to serve as kings. It is better than to continue to let the Xiyi people continue to rule us. Otherwise, wouldn't the newly opened territories be in vain? Has it been opened?”
Wen Tiren smiled.
"Many people just don't dare to go out. When the court forces them to go out, they will find that the world after going out is so delicious! For example, the man named Xu Qianxue who went to England became the son-in-law of the local king and was made an earl. Since it was Lu Qing who proposed this matter, Lu Qing will report accordingly. However, when the time comes, he will inevitably be criticized and cursed by the emperor, so I must be prepared."
Zhu Youxiao continued.
Scholar-officials such as Lu Xiangsheng who were able to rise to high positions accepted the philosophy of Xingming Society and succeeded in restraining their selfish desires. Scholar-officials who wanted the world to be a public institution naturally did not care so much about their personal fortunes and misfortunes. Therefore, , at this time, he stood up and replied: "For the benefit of the Han family of the Ming Dynasty, I will do whatever I want to do without hesitation!"
The assistant ministers that Zhu Youxiao still uses today naturally have the same philosophy of governing the country as him, so the other assistant ministers did not say anything else.
Next, further reform of the system of imperial examinations and talent selection was promulgated in the form of imperial edicts.
Officials such as the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Rites, which are responsible for the specific implementation of this kind of system reform, naturally dare not comment.
But when this decree was made known to the world, it caused a great response.
After all, the joint examination and the palace examination have been carried out for hundreds of years, and many people are accustomed to the life path of passing the joint examination and the palace examination after the provincial examination.
It's good now, the general examination and palace examination are gone.
Moreover, candidates can directly take the official selection examination, and once they pass the examination, they can be directly appointed as officials.
This greatly disappointed many talented scholars who claimed to be the country's talents. They needed to distinguish between high and low in terms of fame.
What's more, literati are inherently indifferent to each other.
"The system of the imperial court is being reformed. This is really a reform that does not allow the emergence of academic elites in the imperial court. It is enough if there is no number one scholar, number two, or top pick. Now, even Jinshi has been abolished. From now on, all scholars in the world will be promoted. Son, how can you know who is good or bad like this?"
Fujian Jieyuan Zou Zhongquan complained to Shen Yongqi because of this matter.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty no longer has the titles of No. 1 Scholar, No. 2 Scholar, and No. 3 Scholar. Even the number of First-Class Scholars has increased to hundreds. Therefore, Jieyuan Scholars from various provinces have become the most prestigious category of scholars.
As Jieyuan, Zou Zhongquan naturally has his own pride. The most painful thing in his life is that he was not born decades earlier, but he was able to get the top score in the exam to live up to his talents.
But he didn't expect that the imperial court would no longer even have Jinshi.
This naturally made him even more disappointed.
"What's even more outrageous than this is that if Juzi really wants to prove that he is highly educated, he can no longer rely on Jinshi. He needs to take a master's degree or a doctorate, but after taking the exam, he will not be an official! You said this, learning and not If you don't become an official, then what's the point of proving your talents? I finally understand. The court's intention is very clear. You don't need to be very knowledgeable. As long as you are a civil servant, you can directly take the official selection exam. , waiting to become an official, in this case, the world's scholars don't have to work so hard, and now Juren is also expanding again and again, as long as you are a little more careful and not so stupid, you can become a Juren and become an official."
Shen Yongqi said.
"Why!"
Zou Zhongquan sighed and said: "Even if there is a shortage of officials in the world, the court should screen them, okay! The outstanding ones should be cultivated as prime ministers and assistants, but now there is no distinction between good and bad, and those who are qualified are awarded Officer, is this really beneficial to the country?"
"The above are deliberately trying to avoid forming cliques and using their outstanding qualifications to seek personal gain!"
Shen Yongqi replied.
Zou Zhongquan stopped talking after hearing what Shen Yongqi said.
Next, both of them dutifully took the official selection examination, showing little interest in taking the master's and doctoral examinations and striving for academic progress.
Most scholars made the same choice.
Still choose to be an official.
There is no way, the concept of being good at learning and becoming an official is deeply ingrained.
It won't disappear overnight.
Everyone prefers to be a powerful official.
Only a very small number of people who have no sense of power but really like learning are willing to choose learning.
However, the Ming court deliberately kept it secret and did not announce to the outside world how to carry out new interviews with officials.
As a result, many scholars who took the official selection examination were arranged to serve as officials in Europe and other places.
After Zou Zhongquan took the official selection examination and passed the examination, he was assigned to be the magistrate of Masai County.
After Zou Zhongquan got the order document, he was immediately confused and said without tears: "Oh my God, why is Marseille? Where is Marseille?!"
"In the West, thousands of miles away, if I remember correctly."
Shen Yongqi, who came with him to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to receive the imperial edict and official seal, and also passed the official selection examination, knew more about Marseille because he had studied at the Geology School before, so he answered Zou Zhongquan.
"The West? What kind of wild land is that? What's the difference between this and exile?! I don't want it, I don't want to go there!"
Zou Zhongquan fainted and fell to the ground as he spoke.
In this era, places like Western Europe and France are not fashionable and romantic places in the eyes of the Ming Han people. In their eyes, they are no different from wild and uncivilized places.
Therefore, Zou Zhongquan couldn't accept it for a while.
After all, he was a dignified Jieyuan of the province. If he had been in the previous Ming Dynasty, even if he could not enter the first class, he would still have great hope of becoming a scholar in the Imperial Academy.
Now we are going to an uncivilized wilderness.
No one else could stand it.
At this time, Shen Yongqi also opened and read his order document, and the result was that he was ordered to be the magistrate of Luxembourg.
Shen Yongqi also fainted on the spot.
On the day when the Ministry of Officials issued edicts in large quantities, many candidates fainted or cried after receiving their edicts.
As a result, a scene of human tragedy appeared directly when the officials went out.
The Ming court did not directly announce the specific arrangements for selecting officials, so it was considered a trap for many scholars.
But these scholars cannot go back on their word, because once they go back on their word, they are rebelling against the decree.
It was because some scholars who did not want to be officials, but only wanted to be scholars, were recruited by major scientific research units with generous salaries and high salaries because they continued to take master's and doctoral examinations, and were able to continue to stay in the pass.
For a time, many scholars greatly regretted this and regretted why they did not follow the academic route.
After all, this way you can stay in the customs.
Stay in the prosperous Central Plains.
And this also led to the popularity of taking master's and doctoral examinations in the future.
However, there are still many examiners.
After all, the idea of officialdom has been around for thousands of years.
It’s just that the heat is going down.
Scholars such as Zou Zhongquan and Shen Yongqi who were selected as officials still embarked on their own official careers.
And when they arrived at the place where they were governed, they suddenly felt really fragrant.
"Hey, the climate here is not bad, the terrain is flat, and it looks quite fertile! It's not like a barren, cold or hot and dry place, but it does have a lot to offer."
After Zou Zhongquan arrived in Marseille, he had a different feeling. After getting rid of the sadness on the train, he began to ignite his ambition to realize his ambition here.
