my days with tyrants

Chapter 320

Qian Yi then went to Jinan with an excuse, as to whether he could successfully persuade Tie Xuan to be the victim...

Should be able to!
After all, Tie Xuan hated Yang Feng, a villain and treacherous man.

In fact, it's not just him.

Most of the local officials who are still in office now have feelings for Yang Feng because they want to kill thieves and have no way to recover from it. Give it a try.

And this plan is very feasible.

Yang Feng is strong.

But no matter how strong he is, he can't fight the world alone!
What if it can stimulate the world to turn against it?
After all, the place is controlled by the gentry. No matter how hard Zhu Yuanzhang tried before, he could not change this fact, and he never thought about changing it. If he wanted to, he would not be able to succeed.His success is the result of finally choosing to cooperate with the gentry, such as Liu Ji and Song Lian. Rebels in ancient times must take this step if they want to succeed.

Not suitable for the cooperation of gentlemen...

That is Li Zicheng.

So if the gentry all over the world can collectively regard Yang Feng as an enemy and resist his reforms, what will he do?
Could he still reconquer county by county?Even if he can do this, how many years will it take?During this period, wouldn't the Jianwen court and those vassal kings take the opportunity to rise up?After all, everyone can play with firearms now. Relying on Foshan and the small iron mines in northern Guangdong, Guangdong has even become an important iron smelting base.Now let alone old-fashioned weapons such as rapid-fire guns, matchlock guns and even flintlock guns have begun to be manufactured, and field guns have also begun to be cast.

It can be said that building a strong army is not difficult.

What the Jianwen court needs is only a period of time for stable development.

After all, he has just arrived in Guangdong, so no matter what he does, there is no time to complete it.

As for the princes...

They were just intimidated by Yang Feng's despotic power.

They knew they couldn't beat Yang Feng, and what Yang Feng gave them was barely acceptable, so they chose to compromise, but it didn't mean they just let it go. If Yang Feng really fell into a quagmire of all-out rebellion, then they didn't want to Will stab in the back at critical moments.

Of course, the important thing is to get him into an all-out revolt...

land.

Nothing is more effective than this.

The gentry may not care who is the emperor, or how to choose officials. After all, they can bear Zhu Yuanzhang, but if they move their land, they will be forced to work hard.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang is not so mad!
It is true that Lao Zhu confiscated a lot of homes, forced the aristocratic families to open up wasteland, and set up big prisons from time to time, but he did not sweep them all, he only selected some places, just to find some unlucky ones, and he did not forbid the existence of landlords, At most, he would restrict the landowner to the landowner.It can be said that he did not make a principled mistake. The gentry did not like him, but he did not touch the bottom line, so seeing the face of the butcher knife in his hand, everyone is not intolerable. After all, as a family, everyone knows the most important thing The only thing to do is to be patient.

But the public land law...

Frustrated!
Besides, this matter is not dangerous to Tie Xuan himself.

It's nothing more than being scolded.

It is even possible to increase the official title.

What is it to endure humiliation as a loyal minister and righteous man?
Gongyuan.

"This is the hero of the world!"

Ambassador Yang, just like last time, stood in front of the door admiring the gestures that entered the examination room.

The Enke test has begun.

Because it was only from Yingtianfu, the total number of people participating in the Enke Examination this time was only 1000 or 300, and this was because of the five subjects. In fact, according to the past standards, there were only [-] or [-] people.Now the selection of five subjects has led to a substantial increase in the number of candidates, and besides his [-] students who have applied for five subjects, there are also a large number of non-governmental students who have also been selected.Their selection is just a simple county test, that is, Yang Feng or the little princess gives questions, and then the counties are literate, and those who sign up for it go to the county to learn the test.Of course, the test questions are not stereotyped essays, but just like modern exams, the questions are done according to the subjects you have applied for, and those who score enough will be selected as candidates.

These go directly to the examination.

In fact, it's not just the four new subjects, even the liberal arts, there are also many non-Confucian scholars.

Especially Yang Feng doesn't have any identity.

As long as you can read...

Of course, there must be some screening.

In fact, just give him a book, and then he can read the book, that's it.

As for this book, of course it is the Great Letter, and it is not the full text. Some of the content of the Great Letter was sorted out by the civil servants for Lao Zhu, and the complete vernacular is the Great Letter. Can take the test.Therefore, some low-level subordinates also took the exam, and of course they were willing to have the status of Jinshi, and these people were especially proficient in the law, and they could even write fluently when asked to write articles.

They are more proficient in the law than those pure Confucian scholars.

They also know the gains and losses of government orders.

Among Yang Feng's students, there were some who specialized in studying law.

In short, liberal arts Jinshi may not necessarily be in the pockets of those Confucian scholars.

This set of reformed imperial examinations is actually a modern civil service examination. Because there are enough Jinshi selected, they will enter the officialdom as second officials, and then they will be promoted based on their grades. Finally, they will pass the imperial examinations, and then newcomers will continue to enter the officialdom. Officialdom, push those Confucian officials away.

It is estimated that in less than ten years, whether it is the court or local officials, they will all be newcomers.

"This generation is enough, but Germany may not be able to."

Zhang Xianzong said.

He is the boss of civil servants now.

Although in fact he has already been scolded bloody by Confucian scholars.

However, scolding him belongs to scolding him, but the civil servants are also very clear that if their group can participate in the government, it can only rely on him, so it is still regarded as the core.As for him, he has been in Wutai Mountain for these years anyway, so he still doesn't understand the significance of these reforms, and when he was Zhu Yunxi, he was involved in many future designs.

He is indeed a Confucian scholar.

And it's still number two!
But now he is actually about to abandon Confucianism.

"You are just saying that virtue or talent is the priority in selecting officials. Then the question arises. Confucian scholars pay more attention to virtue, but in fact, after becoming an official, how many people can not be corrupt and pervert the law? Taizu peeled the bark and grass, could it be blocked? Confucian scholars corrupted the law after becoming an official? You can go back and count how many of the Jinshi who were selected by the Taizu in the previous imperial examinations were truly clean? I’m afraid not even half of them? Noble character so you don't take money and pervert the law, not because of Taizu's skinned grass?

Most of them are afraid of peeling real grass, right?

Therefore, it is impractical to select virtue through the imperial examination.

Well-written articles have nothing to do with their moral character.

Qin Hui is still a Jinshi!
Are his articles well written?Even his handwriting is very good, but do these have anything to do with his character?Morality cannot be tested in the imperial examination. The selection of officials by the imperial examination is based on morality, which seems to be a high-sounding thing, but in fact the officials selected have nothing to do with morality.

But it is much more practical to select officials based on talents.

After all, their talents can really be seen through their grades.

As for corruption and perverting the law, since corruption and perverting the law are inevitable in the end, and they all have to be deterred by peeling grass, why not choose someone who is talented?
Besides, if you don't read the books of sages and sages, is it immoral?
I am afraid that more than half of the loyal ministers and righteous men have not read the books of sages since ancient times. "

Yang Feng said.

"Then how to avoid corrupt officials, should we continue to learn from Taizu's peeling of real grass?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"This one……"

Yang Feng was inevitably a little depressed.

"If there is really no other way, we can only continue peeling the real grass."

He said with emotion.

This is really helpless, the only thing that can be done is to peel the real grass. Fortunately, people in this era are still very simple. The most ruthless, even just killing the three clans is enough. In the final analysis, corrupt officials have to kill the whole family to have a deterrent effect.

Otherwise they are not afraid.

Sacrifice one of me, happy generations.

It is to kill the whole family, so that as long as they are arrested for corrupting the law, the whole family will go on the road together.

tyrant?

Feudal dynasty, why not be a tyrant?
Besides, it wasn't him who did it, it was Her Majesty the Queen who wanted to be a tyrant.

And at this moment, at the distant Marco Polo Bridge, Zhu Di was looking back at the city behind him with complicated eyes.

The city wall stands in the sun.

He has called the city home for more than ten years.

But now, he will go thousands of miles away, to that distant grassland, to build his new home.

Beside him, Zhu Gaoxu, who was obviously depressed, was riding a horse, wearing armor, and walked by with confusion. Since being beaten by Yang Feng, Zhu Gaoxu has obviously matured a lot.Before and after him are long teams, horses, camels, and carriages, and not only people, but also carts of materials, even craftsmen's machinery.

They officially started westward.

Zhu Di's whole family followed his seven thousand guards.

Of course, these guards are also accompanied by their families.

I have to say that these guards are still very loyal to Zhu Di, although the main reason for their loyalty is that Zhu Di gave ten hectares of wasteland, four cows, two horses, and twenty sheep to all the families who followed westward.As for farm tools and seeds, they had to carry them by themselves. As for cattle and sheep, they would give them back when they arrived in the Western Regions. In fact, they forced those subjects to donate them.King Yan controlled the Four Capitals of the Western Regions. Most of the subordinates of the Four Capitals were nomads, and there were only [-] guards. In order to show loyalty, a family of several thousand cows was enough.As for horses, Zhu Di himself has a huge horse farm. The entire Yili River Valley is now filled with horses, camels, and even cattle and sheep that he scavenged in various ways last time, and the guard led by Taiping is for him to graze.

These seven thousand, plus one guard from Taiping, and another guard who had already arrived, and some joined along the way, after Zhu Di arrived in the Western Regions, he had four guards in his hands.

There is one guard left, and Yang Feng will send it to him before the end of next year.

So the guards are all fiefs.

Ten hectares of wasteland is actually one thousand mu, and at this time one hectare is one hundred mu.

The Yili River Valley and Southern Xinjiang are all good agricultural areas, especially the former. A guard is divided into thousands of acres. Although he has to farm by himself at the beginning, he will definitely be a slave in the future. In fact, there are guards with slaves now.In the end, a feud similar to the European serf system was formed, and the guards became hereditary knights. At least at the beginning, this system did ensure maximum force.

There are also caravans.

Yang Feng has established the Western Regions Development Company, and the first armed caravan has been formed.

At present, they mainly focus on trade, but in fact, they mainly go to various cities to establish strongholds, and have been repairing until the naturalization chief lawsuit, which is Khujand where his concubine Gulina is stationed.These armed caravans are also a supplement to Zhu Di's force, because Zhu Di will grant them various privileges in his official capacity as Governor of the Western Regions, King Yan.

In the future, they will control trade, mining, industry, and even armed robbery in the Western Regions.

Although it's a bit harsh to say that.

However, according to Yang Feng's plan, the company's armed businessmen, robbery should be an important business in the future.

"Your Majesty!"

Zheng He walked up to Zhu Di, knelt down and kowtowed to him.

He does not follow westbound.

Because Yang Feng had to ask him to go to the Western Ocean, and his talents were mainly at sea, and there was no place to display them in the Western Regions, and it was impossible for Zhu Di to expand to the coast in a short time.On the contrary, Yao Guangxiao decided to follow King Yan to the west. He was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang as the host of King Yan's family temple. Of course he still follows now. After all, King Yan moved to the Western Regions, and the family temple also moved to the Western Regions.

Master Daoyan can go to the Western Regions to promote Buddhism.

Zhu Di has decided to build a big Baoen Temple in Yili for Empress Ma.

He will continue to host.

"Get up, although you and I are far apart, we will meet each other eventually."

Zhu Di said.

"No matter where the slaves are, they are the slaves of the king. Yang Feng sent the slaves to the west, and they happened to build a city behind Timur for the king. I hope the king will come soon. The slaves have studied the West. Although Timur conquered Persia, the Persians He didn't really surrender, and kept waiting for the opportunity of revenge. If the servants went to Persia with the navy to cooperate with them, it would be enough to make them rebel against Timur.

It happened that Yang Feng paid for it, and he paid for all the expenses. "

Zheng He said.

So he was acting for his own benefit, and Yang Feng wanted him to go to the West, and he just ran to collude with the Persians.

Zhu Di's ultimate opponent in the Western Regions has to be Timur after all, and Timur's most important territory is Persia. Flicking Persia to rebel will undoubtedly give Zhu Di a lot of help.

And it was Yang Feng who paid for it.

Spend Yang Feng's money to do things for Zhu Di!
Zhu Di got off his horse and helped him up.

"Ten years, ten years later, we will meet again!"

He said.

At this time his big fat son came over.

"Daddy, people from Guangzhou sent over to bring some gifts for Daddy."

Zhu Gaochi said.

Then the person behind him held a box, humbly stepped forward, opened the box with Zhu Di, and looked at the pile of jewels inside, especially the gems shining brightly in the sun...

"He still doesn't give up. Since this is the case, it is his filial piety as a nephew. Accept it!"

Zhu Di said.

Accepting is enough.

Accepting it is tantamount to telling Zhu Yunqi that we are still a family.

(End of this chapter)