People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 678: Old Zhu understands his son’s thoughts!
They began to mock the imperial examination system because they could not gain benefits from it. They began to criticize it because they could not gain benefits from the college entrance examination.

The real power of the imperial examination system lies in the fact that it provides ordinary people with a channel for upward mobility, and it is a relatively fair and just path.

If there was a Nine-Rank System like the Wei State during the Three Kingdoms period, it would be very easy. As long as there was a celebrity in your family, you could become an official. It would be very easy because many people would help to maintain this system.

Because this is everyone's cake, no one wants this cake to be divided up by others. I don't need to work too hard to get many people who have benefited from this part to follow me to protect this cake. It's that simple.

All of this depends on how powerful your family is. If your family has no power, you will be a commoner all your life, and even your descendants will be commoners for generations to come. There is no way for you to rise.

But the imperial examination system provided such a good way.

Even though the imperial examination system had so many problems, what cannot be denied is that it was precisely because of the popularity of the imperial examination system that those legal groups no longer had such strong monopoly power.

Most of the officials who have risen from the grassroots level can give full play to their talents and make the dynasty more vibrant. This is what Chen Han is going to do now.

Since the eight-legged essay has not yet been truly finalized, it is very simple. We must never allow these eight-legged essays, which will cause many people to get into trouble in the future, to completely disappear from the world. The imperial examination system can still continue. As long as more people can accept this set, we can completely come up with another set.

In fact, the people don’t care too much about politics. They always hope that they can become officials. As for ideas, the people don’t believe in them. In fact, the people’s idea is very simple, which is how to make them eat more food.

As for other things, are they important to them?

It doesn't really matter.

This is also the reason why Chen Han must promote education.

Because if there is no education and more people have knowledge, there will be more people who don’t know how to choose when faced with choices, and they won’t even know how to live like a human being.

Because many ordinary people actually don’t know what they should do.

All he knew in his life was growing crops in the fields, and that was the only way he could survive.

Even if education does not have such a powerful ability to make a person instantly become a useful person, as long as he understands that he can do something else and exert his subjective initiative, this is the real source of talent.

If we only rely on the imperial examination, it would be difficult to discover true talents.

After all, geniuses are all good at certain subjects.

It is simply impossible for many geniuses to pass the imperial examination system.

Sometimes these geniuses can be as timid as mice and drool when they see people.

But in certain specific industries, these colorful lights can play a huge role.

This is something that the imperial examination system cannot address.

The reason why Chen Han wants to build a university is that he hopes that such talents will not have to go through the imperial examination system. As long as they can cope with the pace of university, they can all come to Daming Engineering College.

Now Chen Han is immersed in these things and lives a very fulfilling life.

The reason why Zhu Biao was worried was that it seemed that many people were complaining about the appearance of disaster victims.

After seeing the expression on Zhu Biao's face, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Boss, do you know what the biggest difference between you and your son-in-law is?"

After hearing what Chen Han said, Zhu Biao started to organize words in his mind, but he still didn't know what words to use to describe it.

Seeing that Zhu Biao did not speak, Zhu Yuanzhang spoke out himself: "The biggest difference is that you are too law-abiding. You want everything to be under the constraints of the law."

After hearing what his father said, Zhu Biao suddenly felt that it seemed to be right. He did have problems in this area. It was not his fault, but because after so many years of experiments, he found that most of the time, he needed to abide by objective laws in order to make more things controllable.

Although Chen Han's way of doing things is good, it is somewhat unorthodox. If an all-knowing and omnipotent talent like Chen Han really appears again, all the problems of the Ming Dynasty can be easily solved.

It is precisely because many people cannot act like Chen Han that it is so precious.

Zhu Biao was not mistaken. Zhu Yuanzhang was actually supporting Chen Han so that he could remain in control no matter what happened. This was what Zhu Yuanzhang most wanted his descendants to do.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that Chen Han was right. For Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Han was now a helper for his children and grandchildren so that they could live a good life in the future without having to work too hard.

If people all over the world could know how much potential the Ming Dynasty has in the future, would they still need to be so worried?

Since there is no need, are the common people so stupid that they must think about how to bring down the Ming Dynasty?

This is a non-existent problem. It is a very simple truth. If Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even understand this, then he had lived in vain.

To be honest, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't really agree with Chen Han's opinion at the beginning. Only after knowing that Chen Han had solved most of the problems did he realize that Chen Han was right. Since he did not have the knowledge of the next six or seven hundred years, he should admit defeat.

The only thing he was thankful for now was that Chen Han didn't seem to show much curiosity about power. He even felt that everything he had was due to power and he must cherish it all.

That's why he's working so hard now.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang had always seen this and had always liked Chen Han very much.

That's why he said such words to his son Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao is indeed very outstanding, but he does not seem to understand that many things do not necessarily have to be done under the constraints of the law in order to be done well.

Chen Han's current situation has indeed crossed some bottom lines at times, but that is a necessary measure. Zhu Yuanzhang thinks that this is how it should be, otherwise the whole world will be in chaos.

Sometimes the absence of legal constraints is a constraint, because no one knows where the boundary is, so no one dares to break through this wall easily, which is the biggest constraint. The reason why Chen Han has formulated so many new rules and they have become the rules that everyone thinks can be implemented is because Chen Han has indeed achieved great success. Everyone thinks this is right and everyone thinks that such rules are the most normal, and that is enough.

Zhu Yuanzhang patted Zhu Biao on the shoulder and said, "It's a good thing that you hope your father will live a hundred years. Who doesn't want to live a hundred years? But your father has to go see your mother. When Chen Han arrives, that monkey boy will let you walk behind your father. This is the greatest luck for your father.

"People say that the greatest pain in life is to see your loved ones die. I, your father, have seen many such things in my life, so I don't want to see them happen to you. If you understand this, you should work hard and don't let your father worry."

When Zhu Biao heard his father say this, his eyes turned red for some reason.

Although the father and son saw each other every day over the years, most of their conversations were about how to govern the world. At that time, Zhu Biao always felt that this was what his father wanted to see most, but now he sees his father finally slowly bending down, and he finally sees his old side.

Zhu Biao finally realized that he had not done what a son should do over the years.

His father had put a lot of effort into ensuring the security of his future throne. Not only did he send all his adult brothers to other places to guard the border, he also rarely had the chance to meet them.

He once complained about why his father treated his brothers like that. Isn't it good for the family to stay together?

As he came to power, he understood why he had to do this, because once one is tainted with power, it would be a huge hassle to get rid of it.

It is really difficult for people to get rid of their greedy desires, including himself.

He is now just a crown prince regent, but he has already begun to think about how he would change the world if one day he had the final say over all the affairs of the world.

Even just now he was still thinking about how he would face the world if his father passed away.

Because it is easy to imagine that something is right in front of you, that you have to clean up your father's mess, because your father did many things that he shouldn't have done when he was in power.

If he wanted to do something big, he had to put the world in order. However, he knew very well that it would take a lot of time just to figure out these things. He blamed his father for leaving him with so many unnecessary troubles when he was emperor.

Because these troublesome things will definitely make me waste most of my time in order to deal with them. I am 35 years old now, and it is impossible to have more experience after middle age.

But he couldn't imagine that he would have the same physical condition as his father. His father had such an iron body when he was on horseback fighting, but he couldn't.

His father was the chosen one but he felt that he was not good enough.

And now he realized that his father had thought of everything, and Chen Han was his father's choice.

Just like what my father said, if we only think about putting all these people under the constraints of the law, it is impossible, because many people don’t want to be constrained at all.

On the contrary, Chen Han's method was very effective. He used high salaries as a trap to automatically lock these people in, making them feel that the salary was too high and they dared not make mistakes easily.

The performance evaluation system has determined that if these people do nothing, they will face very severe assessments, and by then they will have no hope of keeping their official positions.

This invisible pressure is the reason why these people dare not easily try to challenge Chen Han's bottom line. They know very well that Chen Han's current reforms will definitely make many people stand on Chen Han's side, because these people have truly felt the benefits of Chen Han, so even if they know that their descendants may also face such a test in the future.

But they still believe that Chen Han can give them a better life. Perhaps this is the formation of confidence.

"Your father's greatest achievement now is that I discovered this little monkey boy Chen Han for you. He is so good. He is full of energy every day and just wants to make our Ming Dynasty better. This child is a gift from Shang Tian to us.

"I know what you are thinking. You are my son. Even though you look like a scholar now, you once fought on the battlefield with your father.

"No man who has been on the battlefield wants to be just a king who defends the status quo. You also want to expand your territory, right?"

I didn't expect that my little thoughts were completely seen through by my father. Even though I'm so old, I still feel a little embarrassed after hearing my father's comments, "Dad, you're right."

Hahaha……

Zhu Yuanzhang burst out laughing.

He felt very happy that he could still keenly understand his son's thoughts, which was actually a good thing.

If his son only wants to be a king who maintains the status quo all his life, then no matter how powerful Chen Han is, it will be useless.

Because that monkey boy Chen Han once told him that if there was no emperor with a pioneering spirit to cooperate with him, he would not be able to make much progress even if he tried his best.

After all, you are just one person. If you have to rely on yourself for everything, how many nails can you hammer into the wall even if you are made of iron?

It is precisely because he understands these things that Chen Han can be more rational.

Chen Han used to think that as a time traveler, he could do everything well, and everyone else just had to cooperate with him, but now he understands that this is not the case.

If he does not have a strong backing, that is, an emperor who truly wants to reform the country, where will his authority come from?

Since the current situation is that I cannot become emperor, it is necessary to support an emperor who supports reform. This is what I have to do.

And now Zhu Yuanzhang is testing Zhu Biao for Chen Han to see if Zhu Biao is a qualified emperor who can expand the territory.

Now this experiment shows that Zhu Biao is still qualified, because Zhu Biao actually feels a little worried when he sees himself getting old.

Zhu Yuanzhang certainly knew what Zhu Biao was worried about.

As a mature politician, Zhu Biao would never be too sad because someone had to go. He should know that even if Chen Han came, it would not be possible for him to live a hundred years. At most, he could live a few more years. However, Zhu Biao would have to walk the road ahead by himself. Even Chen Han could not predict the future now...

(End of this chapter)