From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 196 The cattle and horses finally started working
We need to paint a big picture, but it won’t work if we just paint a big picture without any real benefits.

Especially for someone like Emperor Qing who has a special status, the big pie is only temporary, he needs to see real benefits.

So this time, Li Chengqian gave him benefits.

The effect is obvious.

At a court meeting two weeks later, Emperor Qing harshly criticized the six ministries for their inadequate performance. He began by criticizing the Ministry of Personnel for its inadequate supervision of officials, leading to widespread corruption and appalling levels of official embezzlement. He singled out several local officials, ordering the Ministry of Justice to deal with them severely and swiftly. He also lambasted the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue. The grain transport system had remained in the same state for years, with no improvement. With such low efficiency, how could they guarantee the capital's food security and the people's livelihoods? The Ministry of War was also not spared, with several corrupt officials singled out for the Crown Prince's attention.

And Lin Ruofu, look at your reputation, you are like a rat crossing the street. Look at those people you promoted, they are all monsters and demons, causing so much complaints. Can you still do your job as prime minister? If not, replace him. My Daqing does not need a prime minister like you.

Finally, he scolded King Zhao so harshly that he said, "You are a wise king, but you have so many civil servants under you who do nothing but eat and do nothing. They hold poetry gatherings, go to banquets, play with prostitutes, and brag every day." He ordered Guo Baokun, the provincial judge, to investigate and punish them strictly, set up a few examples, and put an end to this unhealthy trend.

………………

During the entire court meeting, no serious business was done, and all I could hear was Emperor Qing cursing.

For a moment, the Daqing court was silent, wondering what was wrong with His Majesty?

Is it time to rectify the administration of officials?

There was no news beforehand!

A group of high-ranking officials left the court in shock and confusion.

What they didn't expect was that Emperor Qing's outburst in the court was just a prelude. The next day, an imperial decree was issued to promote martial arts and open military examinations, which directly smashed a huge hole in the muddy water of the entire Daqing officialdom and caused an uproar.

The status of warriors in this world is already high, but there has never been a fixed rule for warriors to enter officialdom. The channels for entering officialdom are to rely on princes and nobles, and enter the officialdom after being recommended, or to be recruited by departments like the Supervisory Commission. There is no fixed rule.

There is actually an unspoken rule hidden here that warriors have never realized.

This kind of recruitment is targeted recruitment. Once you enter this yamen, you are basically locked in this yamen, and your future prospects are also in this yamen. In addition, warriors recruited from the martial arts world are not trusted by the court. Unlike civil servants, they can be sent out or transferred around. In a sense, this limits the upward space for most warriors within the system.

But once the martial arts school was established and the martial arts examination was held, martial artists would have a formal channel to enter the government, just like civil officials. It might not be noticeable in the short term, but in the long run, a number of talented martial artists would inevitably emerge from the official martial arts school. That would have been fine, but the problem was that the imperial edict stated that the official martial arts school taught not only martial arts, but also basic culture, such as literacy, simple arithmetic, and even document processing and the rules of the yamen. This made those sensitive civil officials smell some kind of danger, and so memorials flew into the Linhu Palace like snowflakes, and then they were all kept.

"Is this what you call a battle for luck?!"

In the Linhu Palace, Emperor Qing slapped the memorials on the table and laughed.

He was in a very good mood, a very good one.

Li Chengqian did not lie to him. He spent ten days to get started with the "Huangji Jingshi Shu Wangqi Pian", three days to sense the luck, and the last two days, he tried to use the national luck to practice. Finally, he realized the BUFF bonus of the national luck, and he became ten years younger.

"That's right, we rule the world from the bottom of our chests. All of you emperors believe in this. Although there are many warriors in this world, from the perspective of luck, the literary luck still outweighs the martial luck. This is because of the imperial examinations and the four major academies. Although the literary luck is strong, it is not in our hands. This time, we want to use the martial luck to suppress the literary luck. Not only do we want to strengthen the martial luck, but we also want to seize the opportunity to seize the literary luck." "Teaching warriors to read through martial arts can actually seize the literary luck?!"

"This is just the first step. Just teach Fan Xian how to do it. He'll have a plan!"

"Why does he have such a way? I don't see what's so special about him."

"Didn't you see his luck?"

"The art of seeing qi is good, but I'm only a beginner, so how can I see it so clearly? For example, I can only see a very small part of you." Having said this, Emperor Qing continued, "I can feel the blessing of Qing's national destiny on me, but I find that the national destiny I can mobilize is too small. What's the reason?!"

Li Chengqian rolled his eyes. "What else do you want? This is the fate of an entire nation. Although you are the emperor, you are only one person. How much fate can you use? It's not that you can mobilize less, but that you only need this much. This is already your limit. Any more and something bad will happen. Too much is as bad as too little!"

"is that so?!"

"Isn't that right? Father, don't look at the abundance of national luck now, but using national luck to assist yourself will consume national luck. This thing is consumable, so we need to gather it."

"Consolidation!"

Emperor Qing raised his head and paced back and forth a few times. "You saw that Fan Xian had extraordinary luck, so you assigned him to compile martial arts textbooks from various regions to improve the cultural capabilities of martial arts."

"It's not about cultural ability, it's about comprehensive ability," Li Chengqian said. "Since Fan Xian is one of us, then it's reasonable for him to seize some of the literary luck from the major academies. What do you think?!"

"In that case, let him try." Emperor Qing nodded, agreeing with Li Chengqian's words. "However, Fan Xian can use it, but there is one thing he needs to pay attention to."

"what?!"

"Shadow, and Wuzhu."

When mentioning Yingzi and Wuzhu, Emperor Qing's expression grew serious. "Yingzi is missing now, but he holds too many secrets. This time, Fan Xian's marriage has caused such a big stir, and I suspect he's secretly fueling it. And Wuzhu, he's a Grandmaster-level fighter and used to be by Fan Xian's side, but he mysteriously disappeared recently. He used to be Ye Qingmei's bodyguard. If Yingzi finds him...!"

"This isn't a big deal," Li Chengqian said. "The shadow is just a knife. If the knife wants to become the one holding it, it's courting death. No matter what it wants to do, as long as we don't do what it wants, it will always jump out. As long as we find a flaw in it, we can solve it. As for Wuzhu, leave it to me."

"Wuzhu is not that easy to deal with."

"Hmph, do you think Si Gu Jian is easy to deal with?!" Li Chengqian laughed. "With Daqing's strength, the situation is already decided. What we need to do now is to accumulate our own strength, and then use unstoppable force to crush them openly. In the face of the situation, all conspiracies and calculations are nothing but paper tigers."

He was in a good mood because, after getting benefits and seeing hope, Emperor Qing really started to work!

Moreover, having accumulated power for more than twenty years, his prestige in the court is far beyond that of himself, the crown prince. Once he starts to get serious, his crushing effect on the court will be amazing.

(End of this chapter)