Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1550, endless trouble

The people of the Ming Dynasty were enjoying the prosperity and prosperity of the peaceful and prosperous age, but in the court and the public, as Emperor Hongzhi announced that he would greatly reduce the number of scientific examination places in Nanzhili, all the officials from the south of the Yangtze River and those who were related to them were in the entire court hall. The old officials were completely blown away.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, there have been many talented people in Jiangnan, and there have been a large number of talented people. How can the incident in Nanjing implicate the scholars in Jiangnan."

"The imperial examinations in the south of the Yangtze River are extremely difficult, just like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Now that the number of places in the imperial examinations has been greatly reduced, the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River will never have a bright future!"

The new day's court meeting had just begun, and Xiao Jing finished talking. Immediately, an official from Jiangnan stood up and told how difficult it was to take the imperial examination in Jiangnan. He also emphasized that Jiangnan has many talented people since ancient times. Examination quota.

"Yes, Your Majesty, since ancient times, there have been many talents in the south of the Yangtze River, and they have always been the mainstay of my Ming Dynasty. Now that the number of scientific examination places has been greatly reduced, my Ming Dynasty may miss a lot of pillars in governing the country in the future."

"Your Majesty, the incident in Nanjing was committed by the leading gentry. Now that they have been punished by law, the incident has passed. How could the incident in Nanjing implicate the entire Jiangnan scholar community?"

"Scholars from the south of the Yangtze River are so loyal and talented. It is not my dynasty's blessing to miss the talents from the south of the Yangtze River!"

"Your Majesty, Nanjing is the old capital of our dynasty, and Fengyang in Nanzhili is the ancestral land of our dynasty. It should be treated generously. This drastic reduction in the number of scientific examination places will inevitably lead to the decline of talents in the ancestral land, and the country will be in turmoil and the people will be in dire straits. what."

One after another, officials from the south of the Yangtze River stood up and strongly opposed the reduction of the number of scientific examination places in Nanzhili.

In this matter, they absolutely cannot give in half a step. It has been a month since Emperor Hongzhi announced the matter, but officials from Jiangnan in the imperial court will stand up every time they meet.

They mobilized all the forces and relationships they could, and strongly opposed this matter. They not only shouted about it every day at the court meeting, but also from all over the Ming Dynasty, officials from the south of the Yangtze River and officials with relatives wrote letters to Hongzhi The emperor, the memorials like snowflakes almost flooded Emperor Hongzhi's Qianqing Palace.

There is also an endless posture. As long as Emperor Hongzhi does not revoke this decree for a day, they will continue to make trouble like this every day. They are annoying.

Let’s talk about the officials of Jiangnan nationality, there are really many, not only the government and the public, but also a large number of officials of Jiangnan nationality among the officials of various places in Ming Dynasty, and they have been writing letters to Emperor Hongzhi, making it clear An attitude that this matter is not playing anymore.

"Here we go again~"

Liu Jin was a little speechless, and now he really poked a hornet's nest.

In the past, those Jiangnan officials were suppressed. Although they responded and impeached Liu Jin continuously, they did not have an endless attitude.

Now that Jiangnan's reliable quota is drastically reduced, it can be regarded as completely angering these officials from Jiangnan. Of course, it also shows how hard this move has hit them.

The number of places in the scientific examination has been greatly reduced, which means that in Nanzhili, it will become more and more difficult to take the examination in the future.

In itself, Jiangnan is already hell-level difficulty, and now it is even more difficult. It will be as difficult as heaven for Jiangnan to obtain fame in the future, and I don't know how many scholars will die.

The foundation of the Jiangnan gentry class is to rely on the imperial examination system. Without this, the Jiangnan gentry class is tantamount to being sucked out of the pot, and it will gradually weaken over time.

After this, from the imperial court to the local government, the number of officials from the south of the Yangtze River will drop significantly, and the right to speak will become less and less. If you want to control the government and the public as before, it will be even more impossible to rely on political means to obtain monopoly benefits. Just let it go.

"This is going to be endless~"

Zhang Mao, Li Dongyang, Liu Jian and others also closed their eyes helplessly.

It's a good court meeting. I've been fighting over this matter for a while. The officials from Jiangnan are completely crazy.

"Your Majesty, I have impeached Liu Jin, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Wang Shouren, the governor of Nanzhili. Liu Jin bent the law for personal gain, and covered up Wang Shouren in the same year. Wang Shouren couldn't escape the responsibility for such a major event in Nanjing, but Liu Jin did not take any punishment. .”

"The minister also impeached Liu Jin, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. Since Liu Jin became the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he has acted unfairly and deliberately suppressed our Jiangnan officials, making it hopeless for our Jiangnan officials to be promoted."

"My minister impeached Liu Jin, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. As an important minister of the imperial court, he has a huge industry, is as rich as the enemy, and competes with the people for profit!"

As in the past, after opposing the reduction of the number of places in the Nanzhili scientific examination, everyone began to impeach Liu Jin again. Regardless of what happened to Liu Jin, anyway, we must continue to impeach and attack Liu Jin.

It was Liu Jin who asked to reduce the number of places in the Nanzhili scientific examination. This is a complete offense to them and a hornet's nest. This impeachment of Liu Jin can drown Liu Jin.

Now the Jiangnan Shilin has already spoken out, as long as they are officials from Jiangnan, whoever does not impeach Liu Jin will not be able to mix in the Jiangnan Shilin in the future, which shows how much they hate Liu Jin.

Officials from all over the south of the Yangtze River naturally wrote letters to impeach Liu Jin, and most of the daily memorials were impeachment of Liu Jin.

The current situation is that after stabbing the hornet's nest, it seems that it is difficult for the court to continue the basic morning court. These Jiangnan officials have a completely endless attitude.

"Fortune and misfortune depend on each other, how do they know my good intentions~"

"There is no way out for this deadly stereotyped essay. Although there have been many officials from the south of the Yangtze River in history, they are of no use to the country and the people. They have also harmed the entire Ming Dynasty and the entire nation."

"It's best not to follow the path of stereotyped essays. It's better to take the path of new learning. Wouldn't it be nice to have more scientists in the future?"

Liu Jin smiled wryly in his heart. In fact, he did not have any prejudice against Jiangnan people, but saw clearly the future development trend.

Stereotyped selection of scholars will definitely not last long. It may still occupy a dominant position now, but in a few decades or a hundred years, it will inevitably be eliminated by the new learning. The harvest is full.

After being impeached, Liu Jin was also expressionless, with an indifferent attitude, which made the officials from Jiangnan even more angry. Some people stood up to impeach Liu Jin, and soon some officials stood up to defend Liu Jin.

A good court meeting suddenly turned into a vegetable market, and the officials just rolled up their sleeves and started working.

Emperor Hongzhi, who was sitting on the dragon chair, also looked at everything in front of him indifferently, let's make trouble as you please, anyway, this matter is settled like this.

Recently, it is also Guotai Minan. There is nothing wrong. If you want to make troubles, you can make troubles slowly and see what you can make troubles.

As for important events, anyway, they have always been done in small meetings in Shangshufang.

Let's see when you can make a big fuss.

The more you make trouble like this, the more upset I will be with you.

The noisy Jiangnan officials in the court reminded Emperor Hongzhi of the past, when he wanted to do something, the faces of those officials were almost exactly the same as those of the officials in front of him.

Noisy every day, every day, anyway, it’s just a quarrel, desperate to prevent you from doing certain things, such as the introduction of commercial taxes, the heavyweight ministers are right next to Emperor Hongzhi, saying that this thing can’t be done like this, why do ordinary people make a living? Difficult, this taxation will make life difficult for everyone.

There are also officials below who will deliberately increase taxes, and will beat the bones of the common people and so on.

As for middle- and lower-level officials, it is like now, with endless petitions, impeachments, remonstrances, etc., which makes people upset and annoying.

At that time, Emperor Hongzhi trusted these civil servants very much. Coupled with the internal and external troubles of Ming Dynasty, there were so many things, and his health was not very good. He didn't have the energy to fight these people. of.

It's different now, you can continue to make troubles as you make troubles.

Anyway, the country is peaceful, and there are not too many troubles. Now I want money and money, I want an army, and I have good health and energy. I can play with you slowly and see how long you can fight like this.

Emperor Hongzhi just looked at it like this, with no expression on his face, without any expression, so let you continue to make trouble.

Emperor Hongzhi was extremely displeased with their behavior of disregarding national affairs and only serving the interests of small groups.

If you wait to talk about this matter after discussing important events, Emperor Hongzhi will think that you still know some of the importance and can consider the affairs of the country.

However, as soon as the court meeting was held, there was turmoil every day, and if there was no result at the court meeting, he would write memorials and continue to make trouble. Emperor Hongzhi was extremely dissatisfied with his attitude and appearance regardless of state affairs.

"Retreat~"

Roll up your sleeves to check the time, it's been half an hour, they haven't finished yet, Emperor Hongzhi didn't bother to waste time here, so he just jumped up, Xiao Jing looked at it, and shouted at the top of his voice.

The officials retreated to their respective yamen one after another to go to work. As for the important ministers, they were left behind and went to the Shangshufang to continue the small meeting.

"Liu Jin, you have poked a hornet's nest this time~"

On the way, Zhang Mao talked to Liu Jin with a gloating smile.

"They don't know my good intentions. Hundreds of years later, the world will definitely say that I am good, and they will not remember these clowns and ignore them."

Liu Jin said indifferently.

"You cow~"

Zhang Mao suddenly had nothing to say, his skin was thicker than the wall.

(End of this chapter)