The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 831 Rende's First Imperial Examination

Under the order of Ding Yi, Zhao Dashan came here specifically for the wealth of the Mu family, and broke through Wuding City immediately.

After entering the city, he learned from a rebel soldier that Sha Dingzhou was planning to bury all the wealth under the underground mountain first, but before he could do it, Zhao Dashan's soldiers rushed in.

"Come and have a look." Zhao Dashan was also surprised that it took more than 40 days to transport the wealth.

On the way, he asked the rebel prisoner: "Have you checked and checked, how much property is there?"

"Only Wan knows." The other party cried.

When they were transported out of Kunming, Wan's inspected them once, but many civilians and even guards stole some of them. It must be less in Wuding, but it is only a drop in the bucket.

When Zhao Dashan arrived at one of the places, he was also shocked.

They use sacks to hold them, which is a kind of local rattan frame made of rattan. The local people call them sacks, and each sack is one hundred catties when filled.

Gold, red gold, amber, Buddha Capstone, etc., all kinds of treasures are piled together in boxes full of boxes.

For these treasures alone, a total of 125000 boxes belonged to the Mu family, and 30000 boxes were plundered from Kunming.

Zhao Dashan didn't even know how to calculate the price.

There are more than 1000 boxes of gold alone, totaling 10,000+ catties.

In addition to these, there are more than 3000 million taels of silver, piled up into dozens of piles of silver mountains. If Zhao Dashan didn't attack, they planned to bury them in the ground first.

There are countless other treasures, such as silk and cotton.

This was still left after the city was broken, and many rebels took it privately and fled around.

Afterwards, Zhao Dashan counted and counted, and Mao estimated that according to the value of Yunnan at that time, the sum of all these wealth was worth [-] million silver.

No wonder in history Li Dingguo was rich and well-off, and the Qing Dynasty was full of power. At that time, after the Western Army came in and broke Li Dingzhou, most of them should have fallen into the hands of the Western Army.

Of course, most of the treasures cannot be converted into cash in a short period of time. For example, the Mu family has stored a large amount of amber, Buddha capstones, and various treasures and curios, which are difficult to sell all at once and turn them into cash.

It is not easy to transport so much wealth away. Fortunately, they have waterways to travel, leaving some of them for local reconstruction, first transported to Guizhou, and then transported to the capital from Guizhou Zhenyuan Water Post Road.

It took more than half a year to transport it to the capital, and Ruan Wenlong, the Ministry of Finance, smiled crookedly.

Their big work is probably the richest dynasty since the founding of each dynasty, and Ruan Wenlong feels that the money is being spent more and more.

Zhao Dashan originally wanted to calm down Yunnan before leaving, but the imperial court issued an edict in mid-April.

The imperial decree said that if Yunnan had already been captured, Yang Weizhi would be left as the commander-in-chief of Chuxiong, with [-] troops stationed in Chuxiong and central Yunnan.

Wu Chaozhong was the commander-in-chief of Dali. He led [-] soldiers to guard Dali, and controlled Heqing Mansion and other places in the north.

All ministries only retain the original [-] cadres, and then select and train again among the local recruits and the soldiers who surrendered this time.

If it has not been laid down, then call in Guangxi soldiers.

This kind of imperial decree is rare, Zhao Dashan knew that the emperor was afraid of his mistakes, and was very moved.

In April, Zhao Dashan took Mu Tianbo and his family back to Beijing.

When they came to the capital in mid-June, Mu Tianbo didn't even meet Ding Yi, and was sent directly to Jeju Island by his family.

In the same June, the first imperial examination in the first year of Rende started in the whole country, which aroused the attention and shock of the whole world.

When did the imperial examination start? Later generations have their own opinions, but generally speaking, everyone agrees that before the Han Dynasty, it was basically a hereditary system of "Shiqing Shilu".Under this system, even if there is some kind of recommendation and selection, it basically does not go beyond the scope of the patriarchal family.Nominations and selections to high positions beyond the net of hereditary blood relations can only be extremely accidental exceptions.

Therefore, before the Han Dynasty, being an official was nothing more than a few hereditary methods such as nobles, blood, and clan.

There are various theories about the creation of imperial examinations in later generations. Some say that the Han Dynasty, because the Han Dynasty had scholars (maocai), Mingjing, Mingfa, Virtuous Founder, Xiaolian and many subjects. , so some scholars believe that the imperial examination system began in the Han Dynasty.

It is also said that the Sui Dynasty established the Jinshi Department as the beginning of the imperial examination system. In the third year of Daye (607), Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty appointed ten imperial examination candidates. It is the beginning of the Jinshike) system, and the emergence of the Jinshike is the symbol of the origin of the imperial examination system.

However, the most important features of the imperial examination system are: [-]. The ultimatum is self-responsive. Scholars can sign up for the exam without having to be recommended by officials; [-]. The exam is held regularly; [-]. The exam is strict.The official selection system in the Sui Dynasty did not have the above three characteristics.The imperial edicts of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty both stated that scholars who participated in the selection of officials still had to be recommended by senior officials first, and the system did not give them the right to vote for themselves.

There were three separate elections in the Sui Dynasty, all of which were held by the emperor's temporary decree, and there was no system for holding them regularly.As for the edict in the seventh year of the Kaihuang (587) on the three tributes from the prefectures, it was the same as when the prefectures and counties promoted tributes to the imperial court every year in the Han Dynasty. The number of people was small and the examination was not important. National exam.If the above three points were not used as the symbol of the imperial examination system, then the imperial examination system in the Han Dynasty would also be the imperial examination system.Therefore, some people think that the large-scale formal imperial examination system came into being in the Tang Dynasty, not in the Sui Dynasty.

Therefore, since the Tang Dynasty, the three main points of the imperial examination have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Scholars can sign up by themselves, and examinations are held regularly and rigorously.

However, as soon as Emperor Dagan came to the throne, he changed the three points of the imperial examination.

Dagan people can sign up by themselves (not even scholars?)

Not to mention the strict examination, because it is not based on the Confucian classics?
Before Ding Yi abolished slavery and let the gentry from all over the country divide their land among slaves, this has aroused strong dissatisfaction among the gentry all over the world. Many gentry's accumulated land for tens of hundreds of years has been divided into more than half.

Then Ding Yi set up taxes in different levels, and the tax was divided into acres. The more fields, the heavier the tax. It can be said that the gentry in the world are now on the opposite side of Ding Yi.

Who doesn't know that fighting the world depends on warriors, and governing the world still depends on scholar-bureaucrats. It's better for you Ding Yi. Now you don't pay attention to the scholars in the world at all, and put ours in the same position as those lowly people such as farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen. You The emperor, do you still want to do it?
The world's scholars are angry, and the place with the most scholars in the world is the Jiangnan area.

Jiangnan is the only place in this era that has not been ravaged by the Manchu Qing soldiers, so the number of surviving scholars is the most. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Ding Yi had not yet left Shandong, and many scholars in the capital went to Jiangnan. Scholars all ran to the south of the Yangtze River again.

So now there are a lot of scholars in Nanjing and other places.

When Ding Yi's new imperial examination policy was posted in various parts of Nanjing, the scholars in Jiangnan were directly fried.

The imperial examinations in Dagan are different from those in previous dynasties, and all vacancies are posted in advance.

You can apply for any position you want to take, but you must first look at your own conditions.

For example, one director of the Nanjing Craftsmanship Bureau of the Ministry of Industry (from the fourth rank), a ten-year craftsman, can make flintlocks and artillery, and two deputy directors (the fifth rank) are five-year craftsmen, who can make Lumi blunderbusses, or artillery .

One director of the Ship and Vehicle Bureau of the Nanjing Division of the Ministry of Industry (cong Sipin), a shipbuilder who has been skilled in the manufacture of third-class battleships and other ships and vehicles for ten years.

Director of the Nanjing Department of the Ministry of Education and Safety (Zheng Sipin), ten years of teaching experience, familiar with mathematics, chemistry, physics, geography, agronomy, machinery and other subjects.

Director of the Nanjing Sili Science Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Safety (Cong Sipin), has been teaching for ten years and is proficient in Confucian classics.

Director of the Minerals Bureau of the Nanjing Division of the Ministry of Energy (Cong Sipin), proficient in the identification and search of various minerals, and has experience in organized mining of large and medium-sized minerals.

Director of the Salt Industry Bureau of the Nanjing Department of the Ministry of Energy (Cong Sipin), proficient in manufacturing, selling, and transporting refined salt and coarse salt, with more than five years of relevant experience.

The director of the Plague and Infection Bureau of the Nanjing Department of the Ministry of Health (Cong Sipin) has rich practical experience in dealing with plague infectious diseases, and is good at diagnosing and treating diseases such as dysentery and diarrhea.

On June 25, Nanjing began to post the imperial examination positions on a large scale from the government to the town to the village. The registration time was before June [-], and the examination was unified in Nanjing on the [-]th.

The first batch of Nanjing (one prefecture plus eight counties) had a total of 260 official positions, the highest being the chief minister of the third grade.

Ding Yi used the governor as the head of a province. It was no longer the governor of the Ming Dynasty, but fixed in a province.

Ding Yi, the left and right political envoys of the third local department, will serve as two high-ranking officials, and he will be the third rank.

Then there are the directors of the departments under the ministries, which are the fourth rank.

The configuration of the basic provinces is exactly the same as that of later generations.

One officer and two officers, and a large number of directors (directors) below, and bureaus are set up in the department.

The same is true for prefectures and prefectures. A magistrate or prefect is the head job, and Tongzhi, Tongju, inspection, and teaching are the deputy posts.

In the county, there are four deputy posts: the magistrate, the county magistrate, the supervisor, the inspector, and the edict.

The prefectures, prefectures and counties correspond to the ministries of the central and central government, and all have branch bureaus.

Because there are 4 ministries in the central\central government, the number of local chief officials has increased significantly. With the addition of deputies from various bureaus, it is estimated that there are more than [-] new officials nationwide this time.

But in fact, most of them are positions prepared for Ding Yi's original officials.

Including the artisans, teachers, and doctors he trained in Lushun, he filled a large number of official routines in the world.

These people have followed him since Lushun, and have worked hard for more than ten years. Now is the time for them to enjoy the results.

Ding Yi has to let the world know that anyone who follows me, Ding Yi, will get substantial benefits.

Didn't you say you want to take an exam?I will let you take the exam. Scholars are not qualified, and if you fail the exam, you can't control me.

Because of the exam, many people in Ming Dynasty may not be able to read, but the people in Ding Yi's side are basically literate.

This is tantamount to radish recruitment, all of which have Ding Yi's own people to sign up.

After June [-], the scholars in Nanjing became agitated.

In addition to a few chief officer positions, there are also some educational positions, and most of them are not even qualified to apply.

At this time, in front of a notice somewhere in Nanjing, nearly a hundred people gathered in front, and the crowd was so dense that those behind couldn't squeeze in.

Fortunately, the notice was very large and the characters were also very large, and there were still people reading it in front of it, so the people behind knew what was written on it.

(End of this chapter)