Although I don’t know why the old Zhao family was pushed to the throne of the emperor by the times, Su Yonglin is basically certain that Zhao Gou now has good teeth, good appetite, good health, delicious food, and there is no possibility of abdicating the throne in a short time. I don’t have this idea for the time being.
Although he has been crowned a prince, there seems to be still some distance before he will abdicate and cease to be emperor.
In any case, this power is still in Zhao Gou's own hands.
It may be that Su Yonglin overthrew the Jin Dynasty and permanently changed the direction of history. Zhao Gou no longer abdicated sadly because of the Jin army's southward movement and lost interest in being emperor.
But no matter what, Su Yonglin got the answer he wanted, and it seemed that Tang Situi also got the answer he wanted.
So Su Yonglin then chatted with Tang Situi about some trade matters between the two sides, indicating which trade points should be opened, how the two sides should trade, clear customs and taxes, and so on.
During this process, Tang Sihui vaguely talked about the private salt in Haizhou. Su Yonglin pretended not to know and was very surprised.
"What? Is there such a thing? Don't worry, Mr. Tang, I will definitely send someone to investigate. I will never tolerate adultery."
At that time, Tang Sihui felt that Su Yonglin's acting skills had plummeted and were completely different from before.
Is this perfunctory?
It's just perfunctory, right?
It is conceivable that Su Yonglin had no intention of dealing with this matter seriously at all, and even the matter of Haizhou's private salt was Su Yonglin's behind the scenes.
However, Tang Sidui adhered to Zhao Gou's wishes, but could not say it clearly, nor could he fall out with the Ming Empire over this, so he had to swallow his breath and planned to severely punish the private salt dealers in Chuzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty when he returned, and indirectly attack Haizhou. The proliferation of personal information.
If I can’t deal with Mingguo, I can’t deal with you?
Having said that, Zhao Gou previously ordered the Chuzhou government to crack down on illegal salt dealers, but the crackdowns came again and again. Not only did the illegal salt in Chuzhou not disappear, but it spread to more places.
According to his eyeliner's report, the previous attacks were more of a show-off, and the real big ones were not touched at all. The unlucky ones were just some small fish and shrimps.
After those small fish and shrimps were unlucky, more shares of private salt were transferred to the hands of domestic private salt dealers controlled by certain high-ranking officials. Instead, they helped them complete the integration of industrial resources and made the private salt industry circulate more smoothly. .
This is not possible. These guys are colluding together to resist Lin'an's orders. They are really audacious.
What's more important is that Tang Situi can't get any benefit from this.
So I really can't swallow this breath.
After the private meeting between Tang Sidui and Su Yonglin, Su Yonglin publicly met Tang Sidui. At the public meeting, he formally signed a friendship agreement with Emperor Zhao Gou of the Song Dynasty as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and formally established an alliance that would last forever for generations to come. for allies.
Other issues with scraps are no longer a problem.
After formally meeting with the three East Asian countries and signing various treaties, the existence of the Ming Empire has been [internationally certified], and it is a widely recognized responsible power.
And all this is just the beginning for the Ming Empire.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin, in addition to obtaining international certification and establishing the Ming Empire's dominance in East Asia, the most important thing was to sort out the internal affairs and allow the Ming Empire's new government agencies to operate normally without causing trouble.
On this point, everyone agrees.
Therefore, at the court meeting on the third day after the founding of the Ming Empire, Kong Zheng, the Minister of Rites, proposed to Su Yonglin to officially open a subject to obtain scholars.
Regarding this suggestion, Su Yonglin had no reason or necessity to refuse. Opening a subject to obtain scholars was indeed a symbolic act for the Ming Empire to officially establish its dominance in the Central Plains.
I don't know how many people are waiting for the Ming Empire's first opening of subjects.
Therefore, Su Yonglin agreed to this request at the court meeting and announced that the first imperial examination in the Ming Empire would officially begin in March of Yangchun in the second year of Hongwu.
But in the imperial examination system, Su Yonglin began to take action.
He issued an order to the Ministry of Rites.
[I asked all the officials and learned that the imperial examinations of the Jin Dynasty followed the example of the Song Dynasty. The imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty had changed since Wang Anshi. Before Anshi, the imperial examinations were heavy on poems and essays. After Anshi, the imperial examinations were heavy on the classics and their meanings. However, I thought that the classics and their meanings were the same. , is not enough to govern the country.
I believe that what Anshi did is not conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the country, so he should be deposed. The Ming Dynasty will use classics, policy theory, poetry, and arithmetic as indispensable. Therefore, the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty should be open to all rivers and recruit talented people. How can it be done just because of the simple principles of the classics? Don’t accept it? 】
Su Yonglin's decree caused a stir in the Ministry of Rites.
Kong Zheng rubbed his temples with a bitter look on his face and his head as big as a bucket.
He had long expected that Su Yonglin would definitely mess with the imperial examination system and even change the imperial examination system beyond recognition. However, in order to preserve his position and for the benefit of Beikong, he chose to acquiesce in this outcome.
He originally thought that Su Yonglin would be a little gentler and not make him unable to behave right away, but he never thought that Su Yonglin was still so direct, and he was so fierce when he first came up.
Seeing Su Yonglin's intentions, he wanted to abolish the situation since Wang Anshi that the imperial examinations had focused more on classics and meanings than poems, poems, strategies and theories, abolished this reform measure, and brought back the previous imperial examination model.
Not only did he want to increase the proportion of poetry, poetry and policy theory, and bring the rules for selecting scholars through the imperial examination back to the model of the Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, he might even add some weird things to the imperial examination.
To be honest, every change must have supporters and opponents. No matter whether it is for good or bad, there are people who will stop it.
There was also great resistance when Wang Anshi made reforms, but the imperial examination reform was still passed.
At that time, no one knew whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, but it was a done deal, and the scholars could only forcefully cooperate, abandon poetry and prose, and instead pursue the way of classics and meanings, and began to study hard with their heads and heads shaking, and they could not understand the classics.
It can be said that the gradual rigidification of the imperial examination system in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties was inseparable from the important contribution of this great master.
But now, this is a rule that everyone abides by. You have to change the rules as soon as you come up. Although it is a new dynasty and a new atmosphere, it will not become so big that everyone will be unprepared, right?
So Kong Zheng, on behalf of the Ministry of Rites, petitioned Su Yonglin to postpone the implementation of this rule.
Because he knew he couldn't stop Su Yonglin, he tried to play the emotional card, telling the story of the imperial examination scholars who studied hard for more than ten years in order to pass the imperial examination and serve the country. However, the imperial court suddenly changed the examination subjects.
The scholars will not be able to accept it and will go crazy.
So he asked Su Yonglin if he could postpone the implementation of this strategy for three years. This time the imperial examination would be based on the original rules, and the next time the imperial examination would be based on the new rules, so that everyone could accept it.
Su Yonglin read Kong Zheng's memorial and quite praised him, because this strategy of retreating into advancement not only took into account Su Yonglin's thoughts, but also took care of his own interests.
It's a win-win situation.
However, Su refused.
A win-win situation is not that he and Kong Zheng win together, but that he wins twice.
The imperial examination was of great importance, and his reform plan could not suffer any setbacks.
And as the saying goes, when a new official takes office, he must light up three fires, and when a new emperor ascends the throne, he must light up thirty fires. How could the first fire be extinguished by Kong Zheng's urine?
This does not fit with his powerful persona.
So Su Yonglin rejected Kong Zheng's suggestion——
The new policies of the new dynasty cannot be delayed. If a scholar is unwilling to participate, he can postpone the examination for three years until he is fully prepared. The Ming Dynasty will never shut down the imperial examination.
Good guy, defeating magic with magic is a yes.
Kong Zheng was dizzy and had no choice but to summon his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.
