novelraw Chapter 389
Chapter 389
Juzi from all over the country came to Beijing one after another in late January.In this year's Chunwei, content such as numerology and investigation of objects accounted for about [-]% of the total.The Juren who won the Qiuwei last year was not bad, and he was fully prepared for the examinations of numerology and gewu.However, the previous exams, especially those who just studied behind closed doors and sprinted for the Spring Festival, and did not pay attention to the great changes in the scientific examination, have stumbled in this Spring Festival.After leaving the examination room, there were quite a few people who beat their chests and cried bitterly, and a few people went crazy.
During the spring period, the prince stepped up and ran around the training room of Huangzhuang and civil and military officials as if nothing had happened.The sage once thought that if the crown prince scattered the subordinates of the Eastern Palace, it would be because he wanted to win over new scholars who had entered the officialdom in Chunwei. After all, the subordinates of the Eastern Palace were all appointed by himself.There were also clever scholars who found out that the prince had dispersed his subjects, and sent letters to the princess's natal family in a roundabout way.The Shi family didn't dare to accept the submission without authorization, and declined to go back.Mrs. Shi went to the palace to ask her daughter about this matter, and the princess did not dare to make up for the prince on this matter.
After the prince returned to the palace under the moonlight, the concubine told the prince about the matter, and waited for him to make a charter to do things.
The prince thought about it and said: "Tell the Shi family, no matter who it is, don't accept a letter of submission. You see, since the empress dowager, saints have always praised their relatives highly, and they are talented and worthy of use. People will never be idle. But if they do something that shouldn't be done, the punishment will be severe. Even the vassals are scattered, so why would they want these people who don't know their character and level. "
The princess nodded, and then worried about the prince not having a confidant of his own.
She thought and thought, and asked the prince in a low voice, "Ming Yun, it is said that a good guy has three gangs, you alone, how can you succeed in the future?"
"Qingqing, it's not that I don't want to have my own team and confidants, but I can't have it alone. I can concentrate on doing things alone and don't have private correspondence with courtiers. Only then can the sage be at ease, and only then can I believe that Gu is really looking forward to his long life. Sui really doesn't covet his position."
Shi Shi understood that what the couple can and should do now is to gain the trust of the sage, and more trust.
The prince is hiding from the scholars of Chunwei, but the saint thinks that the prince should join the selection of Jinshi.The prince looked at the sage's proposal and thought to himself, the depths of human nature are just a bit indescribably cheap.The more things he didn't want to touch, the more the saint stuffed them into his hands.In the previous life of the original body, he recruited and supported Xinke scholars, which caused the saint to be turned into a tiger by three people, and his suspicions aggravated.
"Father, do you really want your son to write the questions for this imperial examination?"
The saint nodded, "You come out with one first, so you don't need to talk about it."
"it is good."
The prince was grinding the ink himself while thinking with half-closed eyes. When the ink was finished, he took up a pen and wrote a palace examination question that would deceive all Chunwei Gongshi——
"On the role of gentry tax exemption in land annexation and its benefits to self-cultivating farmers."
The sage looked at the majestic and heavy regular script of the prince and praised him first. As expected of his own son, after 20 years of hard work in calligraphy, he was finally able to write such good characters that can be handed down from generation to generation.
But this is the topic?The sage has a toothache, whether it is tax exemption for gentry or land annexation, is it good for self-cultivating farmers?
The sage thought so and asked.
"Chengxian, what are the benefits of self-cultivating farmers?"
"No longer tied to the land, you can go to the weaving workshop and other work."
"Wait a minute, what good is this?"
"Of course it's a good thing. With personal freedom, the people living in the city are engaged in all walks of life. Most of them don't have land, and they live well."
"But the people in the city basically have the skills to make a living."
"If you don't, just go to school. Scholars, farmers, businessmen, can learn to farm, and can learn other things."
That's not right, the prince's circle of people answered the question, and the saint's heart was itchy.
"Chengxian, tell the truth to the emperor, what do you want to do with such a palace test question? What purpose do you want to achieve?"
"Father, the last time I left the city for more than ten miles, I only found the ninth family of farmers with their own land. The timing of Taizu's establishment of the dynasty was that the cultivated land of the previous dynasty was concentrated in the hands of a few people after a hundred years of annexation. In the face of drought and floods, more and more farmers lost their land. In the end, refugees screamed all over the world, disrupting the general order. It is only a hundred years now, and the situation around Gyeonggi is like this. I am afraid that it will happen again in a hundred years. The past events of land annexation. Droughts and floods cannot be prevented by manpower. Father, sons and ministers are willing to follow you, create a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world for future generations, and curb land annexation. Make those gentry who own a thousand acres of land dare not Then I want to own [-] acres."
The sage wanted to say that the prince was worrying too much, and he wanted to say that the prince was worrying unnecessarily, but he thought that the land that could pay taxes every year was getting less and less, and he swallowed the words when he reached his mouth.The sage thought for a long time before admitting in his heart that his son looked more and more at the world and looked more and more like an emperor.
"If you don't seek a century-old foundation, you have to eliminate hidden dangers that may arise in a hundred years for your descendants." The saint muttered to himself.
"Chengxian, you are right. Taking advantage of the current land annexation, when it is not irreversible, you have curbed this momentum. The court can get more tax money, and it can also leave the foundation of a peaceful and prosperous world for the little suckling pig." .If this thing can be done, it will really be a success for the present and benefit the future, and leave a ten thousand-year foundation for future generations."
After the sage finished speaking, he swept away the people in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and Liang Jiu immediately understood.
"Saint, this old slave will take good care of everyone's mouths and will not say anything about today's events."
"Chengxian, what method do you want to use to make those gentry who own a thousand acres of land dare not want to own an eleven hundred acres?"
"Taxation. Taxation is used to curb the desire of the gentry to own land. No one can benefit from land cultivation after exceeding the number of tax-free acres, and even face punishment. Only by diligently seeking can the tillers keep their land. Farmers who have land, constant production, and surplus grain will support the imperial court and the political situation will be stable.”
"This matter is beneficial to the country and the people, but it is not beneficial to the noble gentry."
"Father, it is also good for honorable gentry. The old saying that Wang Xietangqianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. How many noble gentry families were there 300 years ago? Can the honorable gentry more than a hundred years ago be returned? Is it still there? Father, no one wants to maintain the current vested interests more than these noble gentry, and it will not change for a hundred years or a thousand years. Maybe some people have different opinions on the gentry’s land restriction and tax payment. In the overall situation In the face of long-term interests, they will eventually recognize the situation."
"The Western Expedition is imminent, and I'm afraid that the court will be in turmoil. If too many people from the noble and gentry class don't approve of this new policy, there may be turmoil."
"First of all, those who may oppose the New Deal, those who are short-sighted, corrupt and pervert the law, and those who harm the people will be dismissed and investigated, and their fame and reputation will be cut off. Without fame and titles, they will all be tamed."
saint:……
The sage felt that he was hallucinating, and his son would still do the same thing? !He rubbed his eyes, calmed down, yes——
"it is good!"
The sage gave a big praise, and decided on the topic of the palace examination.
The result of the examination was announced, and the capital was filled with joyful atmosphere.There are quite a few bookmakers opening the market, betting on the top ten in the palace test.If the club member with the highest voice wins the first prize, the odds are 10 to [-], and then to No.[-], [-] to [-].
Without brothels, prostitutes and other pornographic venues, the idle long-haired dudes in the capital all rushed to gamble.For who can win the first prize, there will be so many quarrels on the streets that turn into martial arts every day.Yamen servants walked in groups of three or five, carrying chains and iron rulers all over the street.Seeing that the quarrel turned into a fight, they put chains on them and detained them all back to the yamen.
It would be fine if the common people did not see blood in such a fight, and the yamen would reprimand them and let them go.If the sons of noble officials, especially those who feel that their fathers and ancestors are unusual and powerful, and even dare to embrace the name of their fathers and ancestors with the yamen servants, and ask the servants to help them fight against the yamen servants, then no one's name will matter.Soldiers from the Wucheng Bingma Division patrolled the downtown area in groups of 20, supporting the overwhelmed government servants at any time.In such a situation, even the master and the slaves were dragged to the yamen.
Even a concubine son of Prince Fu was also detained in the Yamen.Being accused of gathering crowds to cause trouble, he was hit ten times first.
Then whoever has a child who fights on the streets of the capital will be impeached by the censor.The content of impeachment has gradually expanded.From the initial street fights of dandies, to the impeachment of lax teaching, and then to the impeachment of the patriarchs who were officials in the imperial court, what invaded the people's fields, what galloping horses trampled on the people's fields, slavery and murder, etc., eight hundred years ago Everything was impeached by the imperial censor.
The Xungui involved in the incident were all stunned by the impeachment, this is not a problem at all.But the sage took it as a matter of punishment and punished it. Whose family's bear child caused trouble, whose family's father and grandparents were grounded, and closed their doors to think about their mistakes.
There is no deadline to confine your feet behind closed doors and think about your mistakes!
What do the censors want to do?
There will inevitably be some playboys in civil servants' homes.The civil servants who were impeached were also reprimanded by the saints in the hall, and then they went home and stopped to think about their mistakes.
What does the saint want to do?
In such a weird court atmosphere, the last hurdle of Jinke Chunwei is ushered in: the palace examination.
When the smug tributes nervously got the test questions in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, almost 100% of them were dumbfounded looking at the test questions.
The civil servants and generals who accompanied the saint to the palace examination were also dumbfounded.