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Chapter 1273 Useless
Wanli hadn't been to the minister's house much.

As an orthodox otaku, he rarely even has the chance to go out of the house. Firstly, he is too lazy to go, and secondly, he doesn't have much chance to go.

Usually it is to go out of the palace to worship the world, and because I snatched a suite from my grandfather two years ago, so I have a second suite in Beijing, so I occasionally go out to the Forbidden City to play in Tsinghua Garden. Except for these two places, the huge There is no place for him in Beijing.

In fact, Wanli asked his tools to go to other people's homes several times. The first time was to go to the mansion of Chen Mu, the commander of the Nanyang Guard. Later, according to the tools, the mansion was really not bad, and it definitely had nothing to do with Huagui. , but there are a lot of novelties, and then they simply sent tool people to move the things to their homes.

When the emperor was a little older, he felt that this kind of behavior was not good, so Chen Mu didn't have the same knowledge as him. Otherwise, what if someone else jumped back in a panic?
Later, he only sent tools to other people's houses to look around, and brought back a few good things if they found them, and didn't want to empty them all.

General Qi's sword and General Ma's armor all came from this way.

But in fact, he went to the minister's house in person only once, and it was the first in Jinghaibo's mansion. Just last year, he gave Xiao Hailong his childhood toy Huode Xingjun. A snow lion was piled up in front of the gate of Haifu for him to see.

At that time, this invitation made Wanli tangled in Qianqing Palace for a long time: I am the emperor, you little Hailong build a snow lion and let me go to see me, wouldn't I be very embarrassing?
He went anyway, after all... I really want to see it.

Hey, chicken break, where is the reservedness of the emperor!
At first, he looked around on the street outside the gate of the mansion. After all, there are women's relatives all over Jinghaibo's mansion. It's not good for him to go in, as only Hai Long and Hai Hu are on the street. Talking, later Wanli wanted to go in to see if there were any novelties in the mansion. Anyway, everyone in the mansion was on the street, so he went in for a stroll by himself.

To be honest, it is quite disappointing. There is nothing good in the mansion. Chen Mu is not at home. There are not even guns and cannons in the house. The money was spent, but there was a stable and a large granary in the mansion. In the stable were [-] war horses from all over the world, both Eastern and Western.

Wanli pinched his fingers to calculate the salary of Chen Mu's family, and counted the food and clothing expenses of the mansion's 27 people, eighteen horses, six dogs, and three cats, thinking that the Chen mansion needed to build a big granary.

The salaries of Bo Shilu of Jinghai, important ministers of Beiyang, Minister of the East, and Zuo Dudu, plus the salaries of two imperial wives, each salary here can support seventy or eighty people a year.

What disappointed Wanli was that the Jinghaibo mansion didn't look like Chen Mu's usual new style, but it was pretty good and in line with the rules, but it didn't have the feeling of a new era.

The only thing that could make Wanli's eyes shine was the pitiful set of rags covered iron armor and waist knife. The iron leaves were almost rotten.

When going out, Lord Wanli rolled up the treasured knife on the treasure armor, sandwiched it between the ribs and walked away.

The eldest lady and the second lady didn't dare to say anything when they saw this outside the gate of the mansion, so Chen Hailong said nothing, and pulled Wanli away.

He said, look, the iron leaves of your father's precious armor are about to rot, and the knife is not worn properly, so you have to take it back and mend it, or it will not look good.

Anyway, almost half a year has passed, and the Jinghaibo mansion has not seen the emperor intending to return the repaired treasure armor and sword.

Zhang Juzheng's mansion is more innovative, with the use of electric lights, steam engine in the house, the boiler is full of heat, the rockery and rocks in the yard, gold and jade artifacts, calligraphy and painting antiques in the house are full of everything, and the popularity is also very strong.

"Teacher, is this Xiyi horse a gift from Bo Jinghai? My family also has a few." Wanli said with a smile in his heart, his horse looks better than the one in Zhang Juzheng's house: "Then who gave this horse, my family has it." Can't recognize it."

"Return to Your Majesty, this was sent by Liaodong General Li. He is fighting in the frontier. If I don't accept what I send, he will have doubts in his heart."

Wanli shook his head, not because Zhang Juzheng took bribes, but because he realized that Li Chengliang had never given him anything...too much!
"Your Majesty is here this time, but what's the matter?"

Zhang Juzheng didn't think that Wanli's silent visit was just to see these things in his house, and Wanli said as if he had just realized: "The student came here this time to ask the teacher if he has any suggestions for reform, such as the reform of the imperial examination. .”

reform.

Imperial examination reform.

Contrary to Wanli's expectation, Zhang Juzheng didn't sound optimistic about it, but he asked the emperor back to the study, "Your Majesty must have a plan in mind when he raised this matter. Why do you want to reform the imperial examinations? Where is the reform?"

"Students integrate rural studies and social studies into official studies, and teach students new textbooks. When they graduate, they will become the new blood of the empire. I want to use the imperial examination to absorb them, but today's imperial examination... the eight-legged essay test is not at all innovative. Things, some more theory?"

Seeing entering the study, Zhang Juzheng ordered You Qi to get some sweets, he knew that the emperor liked sweets.

After entering the study, Zhang Juzheng first asked Wanli to sit down in the chief seat where he usually sat, and then sat down on the side chair, saying: "Your Majesty is talented and intelligent, and he has already touched the key points. The imperial examination is to select talents from all over the world. But stereotyped essays cannot be changed, unless His Majesty can find something more suitable than it."

"I have read the elementary school textbooks, but I don't know what the students who have completed their studies will be like. Before that, I can't make more comments."

"Why is this?"

In Wanli's eyes, stereotyped essays are indeed a useless thing, and there is no new idea in the rigid dogma.

"What's the difference between your Majesty's reviewing the manuscripts of civilian officials and those of military officials? Qi Shuai, who is better than literati, and Chen Shuai, who has passed the martial arts exam, are not counted. What's the difference?"

Wanli suddenly felt a little embarrassed for some reason. He was still very afraid of Zhang Juzheng, so he said cautiously: "The civil official's memorial is well-organized, and there is a line that breaks the title. Just read this sentence for the meaning of the whole article. If you are not interested, just throw it aside?"

Zhang Juzheng curled his beard and smiled: "Your Majesty is right, I also feel the same way, the handwriting of the military attache is different, they talk about this thing in the first paragraph, and that thing in the next paragraph. It would take a lot of time to read the whole article verbatim, and this is what stereotypes are for.”

"But other than that, stereotyped essays are useless, teacher."

Zhang Juzheng's eyes were firm: "Your Majesty, what the imperial court wants is that it is useless."

(End of this chapter)