Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 813 Pattern
Chen Qianfu asked them back, do you want to go back to the way you were before?Even if the imperial court grants you special privileges, even if you continue to evade taxes, your actual burden will be even greater than it is now.

Moreover, as in Henan, the Yellow River, which hangs above the ground, bursts its embankments and overflows at every turn, causing constant floods, causing even greater losses to the landlords and gentry.

Even in the Central Plains, how many cities and villages, the former landlords and powerful gentry are now completely extinct, why?

Natural disasters, famine, and war.

"The big river is dissatisfied and the small river is also dissatisfied. If the country is not stable and prosperous, how can the common people be rich and clothed?" Chen Qianfu asked everyone.

Prince Zhu Hongjia also stood up to make a conclusion at this time, saying that the sage is magnanimous and kind, and treats the gentry and common people generously. Although the policy has been changed, it is only changed for the better. For everyone's benefit, less taxes are paid, the place is stable, and there will be no major turmoil or famine.

Now whether it is relocating local gentry to fill Gyeonggi, or relocating common people to emigrate to the border, the imperial court is also for the overall situation, and at the same time has made a lot of compensation for everyone. The most basic one is to move to Gyeonggi and border areas. Replenishment of land, especially those who go to the frontier, is exchanged for a few acres. If there is no land, the land can be divided into grants, and the land can be purchased at low interest rates in installments, etc.

The gentry pays food together or works together as a errand, neither is to humiliate everyone, but to jointly build and maintain their own homeland, and to work together as a errand does not mean paying money and working as a errand, but the court pays money to hire everyone to repair the river, and the repair is also their own river. , to protect their own homes and fields, and now the money is given at market wages.

If even this is not enough, then the scholar has to reflect on his own situation.

"We have to have a pattern, and the pattern must be opened!"

When the young prince said the word pattern, he still bowed his head and pondered what many representatives of juren in their 40s and [-]s said.

The word "pattern" is quite new, but they also understand Chen Qianfu's subtext, don't toast or eat fine wine, don't cherish such a good policy now, when the court restores the old rules before, then everyone don't regret it, even If everyone resists and strikes for exams, your achievements will be revoked, your qualifications for exams will be banned, or your whole family will be moved to the outskirts, or as long as you don’t do anything, then the Yellow River will flood, the river will burst its embankment, and you will be wiped out. Instead, they are the ones who suffered the most disaster.

And on the second day of the meeting.

The prince promulgated several new policies at the meeting of the remaining court.

First, starting from next year's general examination, the South, North, and Central rankings will be canceled, and Jinshi will no longer be awarded according to the North and South rankings, but quotas will be admitted by each province.

In the three capitals and eighteen provinces in the Central Plains, the number of admissions is determined according to the population. Although the exams are the same, the admissions are made by provinces, and the total number of admissions this year is also set. The total number of admissions in the three capitals and eighteen provinces is 360 Jinshi were admitted, and the other four special provinces plus 63 provinces outside the customs, each province gave three places, a total of [-] people.

For next year's Jinshi, a total of 420 three Jinshi will be admitted. Compared with the previous few subjects, more than 1000 will be admitted at every turn, and if Enke is added, the admission rate will be greatly reduced.

Especially for the provinces of Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Fujian, and Zhejiang, which are major provinces of imperial examinations, this provincial quota will make them more introverted. The candidates in their provinces can only compete for the number of Jinshi in their own province. If Jiangxi only has two There are ten Jinshi quotas, even if the No. 20 in Jiangxi has much better grades than other provinces, it cannot be admitted.

This is obviously out of the consideration of great unification, which is a step further than the North-South Ranking and the North-South Middle Ranking.

In addition, the prince also announced that the provinces will add a new provincial-level institution, the Education Commissioner Division, in addition to the Chief Commissioner Division and the Procuratorate Division. An official who manages schools in the province.

Tixue only cares about examinations and education and ignores civil affairs. Governors and governors are no longer allowed to interfere with Tixue’s affairs. All affairs involving schools and students are under the management of Tixue.

And students from all over the country, scholars and juren who commit crimes must first report to them for promotion, and they will be dismissed from their merits, and then handed over to the judicial department for disposal, and no longer need to report to the Ministry of Rites.

This admiral Xuezheng was the former head of the Tixue Office. Before Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty first set up the Confucianism Tijusi under the Buzhengshisi, and set up the Tixueguan. Zhili used a supervisory censor to serve as an academic officer.

Jingtai year was abolished, and Tianshun was restored.

Generally speaking, the previous promotion officials were not as high as the current ones, regardless of their rank or function.

Now they are directly at the same level as the two divisions, and neither the governor nor the governor can interfere with their duties. Although they are not imperial censors, they have a detached position in the local area, a bit of the detachment of the admiral stationed in the defense camp.

Tixue envoys are now self-contained. Although they are local officials, they are not under the jurisdiction of the governor, which is very special.

From the abolition of the north-south rankings to the provincial quotas, and then to the trial of the official examination, and then the establishment of a special education envoy, and the abolition of the original county government student student system in various places, and changed it to the elementary school system with basic education, and the enrollment of high school students. It is a middle and high school mainly for young graduates and scholars.

Because the imperial examinations are held every three years, and the imperial examinations and official examinations are related to officials, the term of Xuezheng is fixed for three years. Generally, they are not re-elected, but change provinces or posts.

Such a big event was announced in a very low-key manner in the court, and it was announced and promulgated in the newspaper soon.

"The three divisions have been restored in the province again. The division of learning has replaced the division of commanders. Civil affairs have replaced military affairs. Culture and education have flourished. It's a good thing."

In a teahouse in Xuecheng, a group of candidate candidates are drinking tea and reading newspapers. Yao Yanqidao from Wucheng, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

His elder brother Yao Yan said, "This matter is so big, how come it was announced so quietly?"

Liu Zizhuang from Huanggang, Hubei said, "I think this may be the will of a saint. It is impossible for the crown prince to directly issue such a big event, right?"

He was Liu Yuanzhan's fellow imperial examiner in the first year of Chongzhen. He was a few years younger than Liu, but he was also in his 40s. I also took the exam with my cousin Cao Benrong.

He studied in Wenjin Academy for many years, and later traveled to Huangzhou Hedong Academy with his cousin. He studied hard for [-] years. This time he came to Beijing to take the exam, but unexpectedly encountered the most rigorous subject since the establishment of the Shaotian Dynasty.

In the past, more than 1000 Jinshi were admitted at one time. Shao Tianchao has opened the Changke twice and the Enke twice, and thousands of Jinshi have been admitted to the four subjects.

As a result, this year’s third regular examination only admitted more than 400 people, and the admission was still divided into provinces. Although Hubei Province is not as good as the scholars in Jiangxi and Jiangnan, it is still considered a hometown of humanities. This year, more than 8000 scholars participated in the provincial examination. , but the final acceptance rate was only over 100, an acceptance rate of [-]%, which was surprisingly low.

But now it was hard to pick one out of a hundred to come to Beijing to take the exam. As a result, more than 100 of them had to compete for more than a dozen Jinshi places, with a [-]% acceptance rate.

Although it is five times higher than that of the provincial examination, the more than 100 candidates were all killed by thousands of troops.

Obviously, the imperial examination system has undergone great changes. In the past six years, admissions were open, and Enke was added to Chang Ke. The number of admissions in Chang Ke was equivalent to the previous few subjects, but now The number of students has been reduced several times. Although it should be said that the number of admissions before has been restored, the gap is too great.

Especially the provincial quota, which basically means more pressure on those big provinces.

Moreover, the admission rate of the next provincial examination will start to reduce the number of admissions, and the quota will be strictly divided into provinces. Even in the large provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, no more than [-] candidates will be admitted in one subject.

Correspondingly, the civil servant examination added by the imperial court is also called the civil service examination. However, those who have graduated from high school and have achieved the title of scholar and above can apply for the examination. take an exam.

This civil service examination even directly recruits people according to their positions, and recruits people according to their positions.

There are nine grades and eighteen grades for officials, and there are nine grades and eighteen grades for officials, which are called Liuwai Nine Grades.

The boundaries between officials and officials still exist, but they are not the same as before.

"You said that the change is so big this time, could it be caused by the Henan test strike case?" Liu Zizhuang asked.

Liu Yuanzhan thinks this has nothing to do with the resignation of the candidates in Henan. "I think it is good to change it now. Before that, more than 1000 people were admitted at one time. This Jinshi is too worthless. In just a few years, thousands of new subjects have been admitted. The imperial court How can there be so many official vacancies?"

"Nowadays, there is one subject every three years. Even if the quota is divided into provinces, there are only 200 records in total. It is only more than 30 in ten years. It is rare to be precious. If Jinshi is everywhere, then we will not have [-] years of hard study. significance!"

These words backfired on the approval of Wu Cheng and the Yao family brothers.

Their brothers also studied hard for 20 years in the cold window before they passed the imperial examination, and it was a good talk for a while that the brothers were also ranked in the same list. If the imperial examination became too easy, then they had studied for so many years in vain.

"These new rules must be the will of the saints."

"Where is the saint now? Is he really not going back to Beijing this year?"

"I heard it's in Lanzhou."

"I heard that I've arrived in Liangzhou."

"I heard that I have arrived in Dunhuang, where I will receive envoys from various countries in the Western Regions."

Liu Zizhuang suddenly asked Liu Yuanzhan, "You Henan Juzi, don't you have any plans recently?"

"No." Liu Yuanzhan shook his head directly.

"I heard that some of you Henan scholars planned to send a letter to the public?"

"Someone mentioned this before, but no one responded." Liu Yuanzhan said, in fact, someone did propose to take a bus to write a letter during the test in Beijing.But after Zheng Sanjun and other thirteen ministers above the third grade were executed, and tens of thousands of people were implicated in ransacking their homes and exiled, no one mentioned this matter again.

Especially after the prince and Chen Qianfu had a discussion with them, everyone is now planning to prepare for the exam and compete for the number of Jinshi in the new department that has dropped sharply. No one wants to stroke the tiger's beard at this time.

The Yao family brothers said on the side, "Everyone should calm down a little bit recently."

"His Royal Highness is very sincere. We can't agree to it in person. It's another way behind the scenes." Liu Zizhuang also said.

The gray-haired 50-year-old Juren Liu Yuanzhan was a little helpless, "What His Royal Highness said is very reasonable. We really can't toast and not eat fine wine. In the past years, there was really nothing to reminisce about. Whether you are good or not, think about it carefully. The current policy is also very good, but the expansion of the imperial court is too rapid now, and a large number of immigrants are garrisoning the border, even if the family has land, they can’t find any race.”

"Indeed, not to mention the lack of people for farming, we also lack people for mining and workshops. Now we buy overseas slaves, which are cheap and easy to use. The imperial government's policy only restricts Han Chinese slaves, but does not restrict Rong Di Hu Yi slaves." Yao Ting It is said that they come from Zhejiang. Now the industry and commerce is booming there. Even the planting industry uses a lot of slaves. The tenants and long-term laborers in the past either divide the land into self-cultivation farmers or enter workshops and factories, or move to border areas to distribute. The land grant has gone, and there is a shortage of labor everywhere, so you can only buy it.

"Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion, arrested more than 200 million people, and there are 200 million people in the inland provinces, why not just sell them all into slaves, won't this also immediately alleviate the huge manpower shortage? Let alone these people If they are sold as slaves, their properties will be confiscated, and the imperial court will be able to increase their income. Their fields can also be sold to the local scholars and common people. Isn’t this a multiplicity of actions? Why is your majesty not willing?”

"The sage is kind." Liu Zizhuang replied.

Liu Yuanzhan thinks that this kind of policy may be directly aimed at millions, which may cause a full-scale riot. The emperor's policy is milder, which can divide and disintegrate them.

However, I also felt that if those millions were sold directly into slavery, it would indeed be able to greatly alleviate the serious manpower shortage problem. In the long run, it would also solve some hidden dangers in the Northwest once and for all.

(End of this chapter)