late at night.
The once noisy building of the Ming Dynasty Ruling Academy has returned to tranquility, with only the sound of snoring suppressing the sound of falling snow.
Ye Xianggao in the school turned over at this moment.
He only learned about the contents of Zhu Ben during the day, so he couldn't help but take a look at the scribe's sword hanging on the pedestal.
The so-called Zhu version is naturally the memorial version that has been approved by the imperial court.
Like an imperial edict.
The content of this memorial is not to deal with Ye Xianggao, but because of his words, it is a benevolence to encourage scholars and scholars.
Therefore, the Guanzheng Jinshi in the ruling school breathed a sigh of relief for him, and lamented that His Majesty was indeed not a king who could not accept his words.
But Ye Xianggao himself was not that excited. After just staring at the white outside, he put on his clothes rustlingly, lit the candle, and took off the scribe's sword.
Uh-huh!
Ye Xianggao drew the scribe's sword.
He was the hand-picked number one scholar and was officially awarded the title of editor, so he had his own independent courtyard, so he didn't have to worry about making noise to anyone.
With a creak, Ye Xianggao opened the door and danced with his sword in the snow for a while in the courtyard. When he was tired from dancing and was about to go back to the house to rest, he heard a snap from next door.
Ye Xianggao followed the sound and walked through the Moon Cave Gate, and was surprised to see Li Tingji, the second-ranked man who also had his own independent courtyard, drawing his bow and shooting arrows under the moonlight and snow.
"Your Majesty actually accepted your words, and was very willing to respect the status of scholars. However, according to the imperial edict, if a scholar really wants to be distinguished from the common people, he must go out and make contributions, whether it is exemption from military service. There are still hereditary officials and nobility, and they all have to go out."
"Isn't it worthy of honoring one's words and virtues in Guan?"
Li Tingji saw that the person coming was Ye Xianggao, and he started talking after Ye Xianggao arrived.
Ye Xianggao looked at the missing arrow that fell all over the snow, and said, "This shows that your Majesty has great ambitions, and he is not just the king of Zhongxing!"
"Don't be so overjoyed."
Because Ye Xianggao had always had a good relationship with him, they were fellow villagers, and it was late at night, so they were just the two of them, and the Ming Dynasty had always valued boldness and outspokenness, so Li Tingji just said this.
Ye Xianggao smiled and said: "How can this be considered a great achievement! It is a great achievement to directly order the conquest of Burma and at the same time mobilize a hundred thousand troops and millions of civilians to carry out the conquest; now it is just to encourage the scholars to go out and learn on their own. It’s just Ban Dingyuan, how many people are willing to do Ban Dingyuan?”
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"yes!"
"How many people are willing to do Ban Dingyuan?"
"However, Your Majesty worships martial arts too much, and now he encourages scribes to worship martial arts and make meritorious deeds instead of the inner sage. Doesn't it mean that those who want to be ministers in the future must also have martial arts skills?"
Li Tingji said with emotion.
Ye Xianggao looked at Li Tingji: "That's what your Majesty probably meant! Fame can only be gained from horses. Those gained by studying will only get subsidized food from the court, but to be distinguished, you have to make contributions to the country yourself. In this way Only by this can we ensure that the country will not be starved of food and have no officials to appoint because of the increasing number of scholar-bureaucrats and bureaucrats. As long as the territory continues to expand, there will be no shortage of new taxes to levy and no shortage of new officials to fill."
Whoosh!
Li Tingji shot another arrow, but it fell to the ground again.
Li Tingji shook his head and said to Ye Xianggao: "However, you are right. Your Majesty has great ambitions. He is for the eternal prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and he does not hesitate to take advantage of people's desire for wealth and induce scholar-bureaucrats to do dangerous things. Things!"
"It seems that you, Brother Zhang, do not approve of the emperor's progress."
Ye Xianggao smiled.
"The main thing is that he was born as a Taifu of the Jin Dynasty and died as a posthumous title of Wenzheng. It is already prestigious enough! Why should the scholar-bureaucrats work so hard to strive for a more noble person? Just so that the Ming Dynasty can prosper forever? Instead of using hereditary military titles that can be more noble, Luring them into doing such a dangerous thing!"
"Your Majesty, can't you accept that everything has its own destiny? It's not like your Majesty's country will be destroyed in this life, so why bother?"
Li Tingji looked back at Ye Xianggao and said, and drew his bow again.
"Stop practicing! I will shoot an arrow for you. If you bite off more than you can chew, you will easily injure your muscles."
Ye Xianggao snatched away Li Tingji's bow and arrow, and only for a moment. After letting go, he saw an arrow stuck precariously on the target, shaking off a lot of snow.
He was born into a military family and was obviously better at archery than Li Tingji, who was born as a maritime merchant.
Ye Xianggao asked at this time: "If you don't agree, why do you practice archery so late at night?"
"These are the six arts of a gentleman, how can we relax? We can't stop practicing just because the court doesn't take exams!"
Li Tingji retracted his half-protruded tongue and asked Ye Xianggao with a red face.
Ye Xianggao yawned, and then left here with a smile.
…
It is not very difficult to deal with the mentality of scholar-officials who need to be nobler than the common people. Zhu Yijun can completely combine this with the mentality of intending to make the scholar-officials of the Ming Dynasty conservative and introverted while actively expanding and enterprising, and use the mentality of scholars to seek nobility to make them Work harder and contribute to the court.
Because Zhu Yijun did not intend to eliminate the nobility in the country, he just didn't like the nobility who only knew how to be in trouble.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun does not mind the common people becoming nobles through studying. He is even willing to let ordinary people become higher-level nobles through studying. However, the price is higher. At least they must dare to go out and create greater achievements for the country and the nation. With such value, you can become a hereditary noble like the Duke of the Empire, and you can even be granted the title of king.
Anyway, the times have developed to this point. The difference between a king and a duke is only that they have greater economic benefits. They can no longer hold real power, it is just a false name.
Zhu Yijun's structure is not so pedantic that he thinks that the prince really has to be like the ancients, and he will not be awarded unless he has the same surname.
The ruling ministers and the ministers of science and education were not easy to remonstrate and did not cause too much controversy. They said that the emperor could not give scholars the opportunity to achieve military merit and be knighted. After all, no one wanted to be scolded to death by the scholars in the world. The ministers in the court blocked the way for them to cross the class through military merit.
What is really controversial in the political hall is another matter, which is the initiative of some governors to set up local affairs in their official capacity.
Because this is different from a quasi-literary becoming a nobleman by making meritorious service overseas and opening up frontiers. This is actually robbing the private gentry and wealthy families of their flesh at home!
Originally, the imperial shop was enough to make them dissatisfied, but the government also personally went to fight for business profits. Wouldn't this cost the lives of the gentry all over the world? !
It’s just that people like Lu Kun, Jin Xuezeng, and Shen Li did this!
Although they are also members of the scholar-bureaucrats, civil servants, and landlords, they are also members of the ruling class that safeguards national interests. Therefore, based on national interests and the long-term interests of the landlord class, they are loyal to Zhang Xue’s practical thoughts when the emperor believes in them. Under the influence, some boldly decided to set up practical work in person in the name of the government.
"Your Majesty, I object!"
"Once this case is established, wouldn't the local governor be able to expand the vassal treasury in a different way and compete with the central court?"
"If this continues, although these feudal officials are not princes, they are actually princes, and the country will not be a country!"
The Privy Councilor Fang was the first to object to this, and then spoke out in front of the emperor.
However, as a reforming and liberal person, he was not so profit-seeking, because he opposed it because he was competing with the gentry for profit. He thought that the imperial power would be greatly affected by this.
As a remnant of Zhang Juzheng's party, he believed in doing his best for the emperor and was unwilling to see the situation where the local governors would be able to compete with the government because of their increased financial power.
