Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 552
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If we give in this time and abolish the ancestral system of "only students are not allowed" according to the requirements of those students, will these students who have tasted the sweetness ask for more in the future?
If we give in this time and follow the requirements of those students and resume the old routine of obtaining scholars through the imperial examination, will the future advancement of the people of Ming Dynasty be blocked again?Will the right to speak be monopolized by those scholars again?

Yes, allowing Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming to take the blame can indeed eliminate those students, but when Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming have ended up with "the cunning rabbit died and the lackeys cooked", who will be willing to devote themselves to Daming in the future?

For example, the Hongwu Dynasty's North and South List case, the civil servants of the Zhengde Dynasty killed the commander of Jinyiwei Ma Shun, and the Chongzhen Dynasty sold the first assistant at a price that was well known to everyone except the Chongzhen Emperor. There are many such things in history. staged.

Zhu Jinsong naturally didn't want these bad things to happen again.

After laughing haha, Zhu Jinsong snorted coldly and said: "Right is right, wrong is wrong, they are obviously wrong, why do you two seem to be at fault in the court?"

Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming looked at each other again and tentatively said, "Your Majesty, there are so many people in this world..."

Zhu Jinsong waved his hand directly, and asked back with a smile, "You have a lot of people? Let me ask you, is this world the world of the world, or the world of those scholars?"

Zeng Cheng was choked and speechless.

Before the Great Song Dynasty, the world was ruled by the emperor in name, but in fact it was ruled by powerful families.

After bowing his head and pondering for a while, Emperor Zhu suddenly raised his head, and said in a deep voice: "Transfer Sauron's camp to Shangluo from Heilongjiang."

After hearing the news, Emperor Zhu laughed suddenly, and the expression on his face gradually became ferocious.

Instead of causing the collapse of the feudal lords again, Tokugawa Jiaqi felt that it would be better to allocate some of these places, and strive to increase the chances of allocating the places to ordinary people with reading talents through the method of attaching restrictions.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu's question itself has a problem-the scholar-bureaucrats can say that they are the people of the world, so this world is the world of the people of the world.

Successful usurper?

Emperor Zhu also thought about the problems that Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming thought of. Emperor Zhu also knew what kind of sensation a big case involving nearly 10 people would cause in Daming—even if someone stood up and raised the banner of rebellion. No wonder!
Of course, from the point of view of an emperor, it is actually a good thing that the law does not blame the public, and it is actually a good thing to allow some people to dig the dam. Without the backdrop of bitterness, who can know what sweetness is like? ?
However, Emperor Zhu finally decided to deal with them all.

Emperor Zhu's move to transfer Sauron's camp to Shangluo was to tell everyone clearly: If you have the guts, you will directly rebel!

The so-called law does not blame the public is actually more like the relationship between floods and dams.

Even though Zhang Dequan, who had been standing behind Emperor Zhu, complied, his heart was filled with turmoil. Among the many armies of the Ming Dynasty, there were two special armies. One was the First Army stationed outside the capital, and its three subordinates Among the infantry divisions, all the troops of the first division came from Shandong Chief Envoy, and the first regiment under it was composed entirely of soldiers from Ningyang County. Another special army was the Sauron Battalion.

From the name, the Sauron Battalion is a battalion-level army, but in actual organization, the Sauron Battalion is a complete division-level organization, and all the soldiers of this army are from the Sauron Department. In the end, it is equipped and trained according to the standard equipment and training of a type A mountain division.

The so-called "students" refer to all the students from the county school to the university - Daming mandated that all children must receive complete social studies and county school education, but it is not mandatory for prefectural schools and universities, because Ming Dynasty Can't afford that much money.

After Zeng Cheng and Liu Heming left Qianqing Palace, Emperor Zhu, who was full of powerlessness, also slumped on the chair and began to think in his heart.

In other words, some remnants of feudal dynasties were deliberately left behind by Emperor Zhu.

Domineering is actually a word that has been used badly, not to mention that in "Three Kingdoms·Wei Zhi·Jiang Ji Biography" there is a sentence "husband'domineering', the clear commandment of "Book", "Dream of Red Mansions" No.70 There was also a sentence in one episode, "I only coax the old lady to like it, and if he likes it, he will be a tyrant."

As for the people in the world that Emperor Zhu said?
Of course, the people in the world are not limited to literati and aristocratic families, but literati and aristocratic families can use the right to speak they control to package them as representatives of the people in the world.

This has also created a very miraculous phenomenon. If you grab someone on the street and ask a question, they may all graduate from the county school, but only a small part of them have actually completed the prefectural school or even just the prefectural school. Those who have completed college are even rarer.

In fact, Tokugawa Jiaqi also knew in his heart that even if he could successfully usurp the throne, it would be impossible to control the entire Wa Kingdom in a short period of time, even if it was to ensure that the Wa Kingdom would not be chaotic. Speaking of which, there is no way to achieve real fairness and justice in the allocation of the number of dispatched envoys, and it can only be allocated according to the existing model.

After a long silence, Zeng Cheng bowed slightly and replied: "Your Majesty's heart is for the people of the world, but the people of the world may not understand your majesty's painstaking efforts."

When the flood comes, the dam that anyone is responsible for will have the risk of breaking the dam. Only by strictly implementing the responsibility to everyone can everyone be urged to work hard to strengthen the dam.

At the same time, it is also the world of scholar-bureaucrats.

After the Song Dynasty, the world was still ruled by the emperor in name, but in fact it had become the world of scholar-bureaucrats.

As long as there are conditions, I'm afraid that he doesn't have any conditions.

In Japan, it is a consistent and glorious tradition to go down against the top.

It’s just that Zhang Dequan had just sent out Emperor Zhu’s decree, but Ke Zhiming, who hurried to the palace, brought even worse news: “Many students from the Imperial College and the Capital University have gathered outside the palace to demand that Your Majesty abolish the Imperial Palace. Many officials in Beijing were also involved in Emperor Zu's original prohibition of "only students are not allowed to speak out"! In addition..."

Although Emperor Zhu has been working hard to change, Daming still failed to completely get rid of some characteristics of the feudal dynasty.

As for the limited conditions given by Tokugawa Iezari, two places must be allocated to talented civilian scholars... Can this be considered a condition?
Shimadzu Hisamitsu and Matsudaira Nobuobu immediately took the lead and said: "Hayi! I will follow the general's orders!"

Emperor Zhu's words were quite stable, but what fell on Zeng Cheng's ears was as scary as thunder on the ground.

Is there any difference between scholar-officials and aristocratic families?

Emperor Zhu chuckled, not only did not pay attention to Zeng Cheng's persuasion, but stood up directly, paced slowly and said, "It doesn't matter what I say, and what you say doesn't matter, those who want to ride It doesn't matter what the people who are domineering over the people say, but the people who really have the final say are the tens of thousands of people in Daming—even if those bastards can deceive the people for a while, I will only recite their names for a few years. The common people have seen their true colors clearly, and they will naturally give me justice."

After hearing Tokugawa Iezari's additional conditions, all the feudal lords and daimyos present breathed a sigh of relief.

The royal family of the Wa Kingdom needs to part with them. They don't care whether the envoys sent out are materials for reading and learning. They only care about the aristocratic content of the envoys.

More importantly, the two armies, the First Imperial Guard Army and the Sauron Battalion, have always respected Emperor Zhu as gods. Even the governor Liu Heming can't command them!

Another example is the punishment of peeling real grass and implicating family members and even clansmen—since you have been saluted by the people, you should be mentally prepared to be peeled and real grass for embezzling 60 taels of silver.

Even if Tokugawa Ieqi just holds all the quotas of sending envoys from the imperial court, these feudal lords and daimyos will be quite dissatisfied. If there are scholars who do not have enough aristocratic content, these vassal lords and daimyo may not only be dissatisfied, but may cause the vassals to collapse again.

The First Army of the Imperial Guards plus Sauron's Battalion, although its strength is only over 4 people, its combat capability is the top among all the armies of Ming Dynasty. Just a division-level Sauron Battalion can be tough A full army!

Because the Tokugawa family has not succeeded in usurping the throne, Guanggejian is still the nominal king of the Japanese kingdom, and the Edo shogunate can hold power, but it is inferior to Guanggejian in terms of status, and Guanggejian Ren was also the lord of the Wa Kingdom conferred by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, so the distribution of the number of envoys sent by the Wa Kingdom to the Ming Dynasty naturally cannot avoid Guanggejianren.

Ke Zhiming's heart trembled, and he bowed and said, "In addition, those students also asked His Majesty to resume the imperial examination!"

Only the remaining number of envoys after the sharing of benefits by all parties can be freely controlled by Tokugawa Jiaqi.

But Zeng Cheng also knew in his heart that since Emperor Zhu asked this question, it meant that the people in the world in Emperor Zhu's eyes were not just the group of scholar-bureaucrats, but all the people in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that Ke Zhiming hesitated, Emperor Zhu couldn't help but snorted coldly: "What else?"

After feeling secretly in his heart, Tokugawa Jiaqi looked around at the feudal lords and daimyos again, and said in a deep voice: "If you agree to this condition, you can prepare your respective candidates for the Ming envoy. If you don't agree Of course, this opportunity to increase the quota has nothing to do with you."

That’s right, the Ming Dynasty could allow peasants to criticize the government, and anyone else could even allow them to publish articles in newspapers to criticize the government, but the group of “students” was the only one that was not allowed to criticize the government.

From a literal point of view, scholar-bureaucrats represent the interests of the entire Confucian scholars, and aristocratic families represent the interests of a certain clan and a certain surname-of course, scholar-bureaucrats from poor backgrounds want to have more rights, while those who have always been superior The aristocratic families are absolutely unwilling to give up their rights and interests, so the two can be said to be contradictory.

A scholar-bureaucrat who does not want to be a family member is not a qualified scholar-bureaucrat.

As for the feudal lords and daimyos in various places, it is much simpler. They neither care about the aristocratic content of the envoys nor the talent for studying, because the envoys they send are all their own family members, and studying in Daming is just They give the children of the family a fast track to climb up.

Of course, there is another one, that is, in Zhu Chongba's time, "all the soldiers and civilians are beneficial to the disease, and the students are not allowed to give advice-if there are any things that the military and the civilian benefit from the disease, Xu should have a secretary, a sage in the field, a strong man with ambition, a simple farmer, a merchant's skill, It can be said. Everyone should not be blocked, but students are not allowed." Emperor Zhu completely preserved the rule.

The shogunate also needs to share part of it, but while the shogunate cares about the content of the nobles, it also cares about whether the sent envoys have the talent to study.

It's not that Tokugawa Iezari didn't think about holding all the quotas of sending envoys in his hands, but after thinking about it again and again, Tokugawa Iezari had to give up this beautiful idea.

But looking at the essence through all the appearances, it is not difficult to find that whether it is a group of scholar-bureaucrats or a family of aristocrats, they essentially want to monopolize the officialdom by monopolizing educational resources, cutting off other people's career paths, and so on. Ensure the circulation of power within their circle.

What if some bastards are allowed to collude to hollow out the dam because of the so-called lawlessness?Just let those bastards go because they have families?
The only result of doing this is that they drag everyone to die together—they drag the common people today, the officials and gentlemen tomorrow, and the emperor Zhu the day after tomorrow?

For example, the people worship the officials - the common people usually just bow their hands and salute when they see the officials and lords, but once the question is opened, the common people should bow to the officials and lords.

That is to say, according to the standards of the previous Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, the current Ming Dynasty may have hundreds of millions of scholars, but the masters of Juren and Jinshi are still rare.

The folks also acquiesce that those scholars who are studying in universities are equivalent to Jinshi masters. Although there is a slight tendency to overflow with the increase in number, no matter how many people are flooded, the status of Jinshi masters is still faintly superior to others.

Since Emperor Zhu re-established Daming, the taxes that could have been overwhelming his family have disappeared, all the food grown by his family has returned to his family, and no landlords have come to ask for rent anymore. , Gone are the days when you wake up hungry in the middle of the night and can only rely on drinking water to satisfy your hunger.

what is this?
This is the great grace of life!
Now these scholars don't want to serve the emperor, but kneel outside the palace, crying and shouting to restore the ancestral system. What do they want to do?
That is to say, according to the standards of the previous Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, the current Ming Dynasty may have hundreds of millions of scholars, but the masters of Juren and Jinshi are still rare.

(End of this chapter)