"Who can be handsome?"
When Zhu Yijun was in the Wenhua Palace, he told Zhang Juzheng Chen Lin's concerns.
Zhang Juzheng also had some enlightenment and secretly thought about the content of Zhu Yijun's question just now.
Zhang Juzheng was different from other central government officials in that he attached great importance to the imperial armament and was willing to give military attaches greater power so that they could have greater room to perform.
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng said after hearing this: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, since this Chen Lin has realized that the empire should have a talented person, this person may be able to be cultivated."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "I also have this intention, and I am willing to accept his words. I will set up a Military and Political Academy as a place for reserve governors to further their studies, and they will be taught by experienced border ministers!"
"In addition, we also regularly select outstanding candidates from the local military commanders and send them to the Military Academy to study, and then transfer to civilian positions in the future. This way, they can avoid slacking off due to lack of actual promotion for a long time, and secondly, they can be promoted to civilian positions to release their military power. , to prevent more and more servants who can fight; thirdly, it can also use its actual fighting talents to make up for the disadvantage of having too many soldiers and not knowing how to fight."
"In the early days of this dynasty, there were examples of military generals being transferred to civilian posts. The King of Zhongshan once transferred his military attache to the civil service of Zhongshu. In the past Song Dynasty, there were also examples of King E and King Qi being transferred to deputy privy envoys. What your Majesty said is indeed a good policy. Minister Do as you are told.”
"It's just that I'm afraid the scholars will be dissatisfied, especially the civil servants who hold the power of command. They think that they have studied hard for more than ten years and have made many military achievements. Why should they have the opportunity to take charge of the military department with the military men?"
"In this way, it may be that those who eventually took the military examination did so for the convenience of changing their official career to civil service, rather than because they were really not good at the imperial examination."
"And this will make the people selected for the martial arts examination mostly be those with outstanding literary talents, but those who are not strong in cavalry and archery. This is because the current imperial martial arts selection actually emphasizes the literary test of saints' knowledge, and it is only necessary to pass the cavalry, archery and swordsmanship. The emphasis on civility and martial arts is why most scholars do not choose martial arts but choose literature. However, if the distinction between civil and military is broken, there will be those who are afraid of the difficulty of being selected in literature and choose martial arts instead."
"In this case, people who are not outstanding in literary talent but are good at riding and shooting may have a harder time passing the martial arts exam or becoming a martial arts scholar."
Zhang Juzheng replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this. He understood what Zhang Juzheng meant.
It's just that the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty have always been very difficult.
Especially the liberal arts examination.
Because culture is more important than martial arts, many people choose the liberal arts examination, so that there are actually many losers in the liberal arts examination.
A large proportion of people fail to pass the exam in their lifetime. It’s just that history doesn’t record the stories of losers.
Therefore, it gives people the impression that it is easy for a literati in history to obtain fame.
In fact, some provinces have only produced a few Jinshi in the entire Ming Dynasty's hundreds of years of imperial examination history. Considering that each province has a fixed number of dozens of candidates for each examination, it can be said that most of the candidates in some provinces did not succeed in the end. Able to become a Jinshi.
But now, once the boundary between military officers and civil servants is broken, many scholars who are unwilling to take the liberal arts examination, especially those from better families and with the conditions to practice martial arts, will directly switch to the martial arts examination. They will take a shortcut and directly take the martial arts examination first and then take the martial arts examination. From military service to civilian service.
Anyway, they are related as children from well-off families, and it is not difficult to switch from martial arts to literature after mixing military skills.
But if this is the case, it will make it more difficult for many children from military backgrounds or middle- and lower-class military families to be discovered by the court through military examinations.
After all, once the majority of scholars enter the martial arts examination, it will raise the admission threshold for the martial arts examination.
In fact, serious involution has always been a phenomenon in China.
Especially in the middle and late dynasties, historically, the imperial examinations originally included highly professional subjects such as mathematics and medicine to recruit technical officials. However, they were later gradually canceled because many scholars only regarded taking these subjects as a form of entrance examination. Job shortcuts.
Many scholars in arithmetic, medicine, and law, once they obtained official positions, put their majors aside and seriously pursued an official career.
Originally, the imperial court wanted to have more technocrats, but instead it ended up with a lot more people who had to compete for central and local power officials. The so-called technocrats had long since actively assimilated into bureaucrats without any technical accumulation.
Otherwise Zhang Juzheng would not have thought of this.
"In this case, it seems that before letting the military attache transfer to civil service, he must also take a literary examination. Only in this way can people be convinced, and to avoid people who try to take shortcuts, or pass the academy examination and provincial examination to obtain the academic examination. To qualify for the examination, or to fight with real swords and guns from Bian Town to obtain the qualification for the general examination as a general soldier."
After Zhu Yijun said this, he asked: "In this way, the scholars in the world will always be convinced and not dare to take shortcuts, right?"
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
"This will be more conducive for the children of common people to command troops for His Majesty in the future, but it will not prevent the children of ordinary military families from joining the military from being able to serve as His Majesty's commanders in the future."
Zhang Juzheng replied.
"Imagine that if the military attache reaches more than a thousand households, he won't be able to afford literati to teach him how to read!"
Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Then use this to prepare an edict and send it to the Ministry of War!"
"I obey the decree!"
Zhu Yijun originally wanted to talk about the reform of the imperial examination, but he thought that he should not act too hastily. Neo-Confucianism still occupies an absolute dominant position. It would be better to wait for changes in social production relations and even the ideological field before considering changing the content of the imperial examination.
"Give Chen Lin my set of the Song edition of the "Four Books Annotations". He should be able to understand what I mean."
When Zhu Yijun returned to Qianqing Palace, he took out his set of "Collected Commentary on Four Books" and handed it to Zhang Hong who was on duty.
Zhang Hong hurriedly raised his hands and said yes.
After Zhang Juzheng returned to the cabinet, Zhang Siwei handed a memorandum to Zhang Juzheng and said: "Uncle, this is the good news from Liaodong that I asked my disciple Liu Tai, the censor of Liaodong patrol, to rush to Beijing!"
After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "The censor has no right to supervise military affairs, nor does he have the right to report military merits. By doing this, where does he place the governor and the court system?"
Seeing what Zhang Juzheng said, Zhang Siwei couldn't help but persuade him: "Perhaps he is just eager to repay his merits, not to mention that both the governor and the inspector are censors, and it doesn't matter if they talk about things. Uncle, please don't be too harsh."
"This is not a matter of being harsh or not!"
"Because he did well in the examination, the servant appointed him as a patrol governor and went to Liaodong to handle border affairs. As a result, as a censor, he violated the rules himself! What kind of logic is this? He can report military merits to the governor today. He Will you be able to mobilize troops and horses for the governor tomorrow, and will you dare to kill military officials on behalf of the governor the next day?!"
"What's the point of this!"
After Zhang Juzheng said this, he went back to his room and immediately wrote a private letter reprimanding Liu Tai. He did not directly propose to dismiss his students for disorderly conduct, but the words used in the letter were quite harsh.
Zhang Juzheng has always been very strict with his students.
You must know that even Wanli, the emperor's student, supervises him very closely, let alone other students who do not have the status of monarch.
However, Liu Tai did not appreciate this strict master. As soon as Zhang Juzheng's private message accusing him arrived in Liaodong, he burst into flames on the spot after reading it, and started gnashing his teeth again: "As a patrol inspector, first of all, make chaos, In the future, due to this, there will be imperial patrols that will restrict the governor's command power, resulting in a huge defeat in the war, damage to the country's destiny, and even the country's demise! Can you bear the responsibility for this bad system?!"
Although Zhang Juzheng's worries did manifest themselves in the late Ming Dynasty, the censors and censors constrained the governors, which caused border affairs to be repeatedly affected not once or twice in the future. It was also true that the large and small censors restricted each other, which led to the deterioration of military affairs. Getting heavier.
But after Liu Tai was reprimanded by Zhang Juzheng, instead of quickly admitting his mistake, Liu Tai directly issued a memorial to impeach Zhang Juzheng.
More than a month later, it was the 23rd day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Wanli.
As soon as Zhu Yijun returned from Jingwei Martial Arts School, Zhang Hong walked over quickly and said: "Your Majesty! Mr. Yuanfu Zhang was impeached by his disciple Liu Tai! He listed several of Mr. Yuanfu Zhang's crimes of disrupting the ancestral system and acting presumptuously. Fu’s great sin!”
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun's face darkened, and then he sneered: "I have long said that Fu Yingzhen is not the last one, and those who do not kill people to oppose will only become more and more cruel. Look, this time it is his disciple who exposed his teacher's background. !”
"Go and come, Mr. Xuan!"
