novelraw Chapter 449 The Iron-Blooded Emperor 45 Part 1
Chapter 449 The Iron-Blooded Emperor 45 Part 1
Jagged Emperor 45
Fanwaiyi
In the official history and unofficial history of Dajing, Emperor Jingren occupies a lot of space.The historians of the later generations of Dajing have given him a very high evaluation in terms of Wenzhiwugong, among thousands of emperors who have been up and down for thousands of years.
Emperor Jingren reigned for 33 years, not long or short, but he changed the thinking of the common people and officials in Dajing, changed the social atmosphere of Dajing, and left a rich and colorful picture scroll in the annals of history.
In terms of culture and governance, every young child in Dajing has the opportunity to study for free, and the common people receive free medical care. As long as they are diligent, it is very easy to obtain a life of adequate food and clothing.
In terms of opening up territory, he not only surpassed his father Emperor Wuzong, but also surpassed Tai/zu who established the Dajing Dynasty, and expanded the territory several times.
There are also Western historians who criticize him as a cruel murderer.The evidence is compared with the territory of Emperor Wudi of Dajing.After Emperor Ren succeeded to the throne, he expanded wildly for more than 20 years. While annexing many countries around Dajing, he also exterminated the people living in those countries.
Such remarks, in addition to causing various debates in the historian circles, whether the Western colonial history contains the blood of the indigenous people, did not lower the status of Emperor Jingren in the history of emperors.
Instead, he was a historian who criticized Emperor Jingren as a murderous demon king, and was threatened by Emperor Jingren's fanatical fans by sending them blades and bullets.
Emperor Jingren not only held an important position in history, but also his empress, the eldest son Tugen, Prince Yi Tudan, the assistant prince Tucheng, and the queen who succeeded him. The first princess Jinzhu.
Under the pampering of Emperor Jingren and his wife, the princess raised Dajing's female status to a position similar to that of the Tang Dynasty.Girls can not only go to school at the age of five like boys.When she was 17 years old, she actually won the favor of the Supreme Emperor and the saint, and led a large group of women of the same age to take part in the imperial examination with men.From the county examination to the general examination, there were indeed women who won the Jinshi by virtue of their own talents.
Some well-educated people who are familiar with history will point to official history records and share with others that women and men study together, which is clearly a policy that existed before Emperor Jingren came to the throne.
But if there is evidence like this, no one is willing to believe it.
Those women who obtained official positions through imperial examinations seldom became the chief officials of the counties and counties below.At the beginning, most of them got an auxiliary petty official position in the Royal Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy of Medicine, Royal Library, etc.Gradually, they can often be seen at the low-level officials of the Sixth Ministry.Even later, more and more women participated in the imperial examination, and even by virtue of their paper test scores, they were able to beat men in the county examination, and they were no different from men in Qiuwei.This has attracted more voices of opposition and boycotts from inside and outside the court, and the officials in the court began to reject the female officials who have already served.
This Princess Jinzhu speaks a lot to the abdicated Supreme Emperor, Emperor Jingren, and her brother Emperor Jingrui who has already enthroned as a saint.With the help of her elder brothers Jing Ruidi, Prince Yi and Prince Fu, she led the talented women to debate for a month with representatives from all walks of life who opposed women's official career in the Wenhua Palace, and finally won the debate comprehensively. .
With the support of three generations of royal emperors, the Dajing cabinet introduced a policy that female officials must occupy a certain proportion of the six ministries, otherwise the evaluation of the chief official will be directly judged as good or low.In the examinations of the Academy of Sciences of Gewu and Mathematics, students are admitted based on their test scores, and a large number of female scholars have emerged in the scientific community.
In less than 30 years, a woman from a well-off family, with the support of the queen, and the leadership of the princess and the upper-class ladies, began to walk out of the house. Dajing's various fields give full play to their ingenuity and become an indispensable part of the development of the empire.
Emperor Jingren not only made Princess Jinzhu too pampered, but also brought many conceptual changes to Dajing.For example, the emperor no longer holds a three-year draft, supplements with servants, and no longer purchases the method of castration of young children.The servants who are willing to enter the palace to serve the emperor are also recruited after the age of 15 by virtue of cultural class assessment and ability assessment.
Ordinary servants do not need to be clean, and they can enter the royal family to work after signing a confidential service contract with the royal family.But to enter some special and important positions, you need to cleanse yourself, and you must pass strict examinations before you can be qualified.
The system of one empress and two concubines for saints was also established from Emperor Jingren.The prince still has a side concubine, but there is no side concubine who enjoys the imperial order below the county king.Starting with members of the clan, after the royal family canceled subsidies for concubine children, the prefectures began to have fewer concubine children.
Then those who are affected are the nobles. These nobles who owe the imperial court have to reduce the number of concubines, limit the number of concubines and concubines to reduce living expenses in order to keep their titles, keep their official positions, etc., in order to pay off their debts. Spend.
Qingliu scholar-bureaucrats who were born in the imperial examination, and above the third-rank official, can have one wife and one concubine according to the old system.But among these people, many of them are framed by Qingliu's respect for the principles of nature and human desires. If they want to flaunt that they are not inferior to others in terms of self-cultivation and family management, and if they want to seek better development in their careers, they have to bury these deep desires.
As for those low-ranking officials with humble backgrounds or low family backgrounds, who have not made any contribution to the country, taking concubines is a violation of the system.Even if you can't do self-cultivation, you still expect these people with bad character to rule the country and the world?For the sake of official career, it is rare for officials to take concubines, and with it, it is difficult to see any family with children born to concubines.
Only merchant families will have concubine children born.But absolutely no one dares to call concubines the title of concubine, and call those women who gave birth to concubine children as aunts.
The reason is that it violates the law of Da Jing.
Those who are light will be punished by the government for flouting the law, and those who are serious will be accused of trespassing the system and ransacking the family.
In the laws of Dajing, many clauses that did not appear before have become the curse of clan laws in various places.For example, clan law has no right to deprive clan members of their lives, lynching clan members is not allowed, and patriarchs and elders have no right to buy and sell clan members.
For trafficking, the buyer and the seller are equally punished.
In addition, parents cannot abuse their children. Once the government judges that they have abused their children, the parents will be deprived of custody, and the children will be taken away and handed over to the Royal Salesian for upbringing.Parents who have confessed their crimes and have a good attitude can visit their children once a month.
People often judge whether an era is a prosperous age by saying that there is no hunger on the road and the house is not closed at night, and it is also a word of praise for a prosperous age.However, with the efforts of three generations of emperors, Dajing has indeed achieved that there are no hungry people on the road.And the capital also canceled the curfew after Emperor Jingren's great victory in the west.The crime cases in the capital did not increase because of the lifting of the curfew.A few years later, curfews were lifted in many places in Dajing.
In the year when Emperor Jingren was enthroned, Dajing's steam locomotives had already connected various provincial capitals.The north-south thoroughfare, the east-west passage, the rapid progress, no longer exists in the myth.
Economists who study the history of Dajing's development are most interested in Dajing's currency.Representatives are one penny and two penny banknotes. A certain amount of these banknotes are put into the market every year, and they are more and more exquisitely made, and the cost is always above two pennies.It quietly replaced the copper coins that the people are accustomed to using, and also eliminated the inconvenient iron coins.
Dajing also has a kind of silver dollar, which is cast and stamped.The peony, the national flower of Dajing, is on the one yuan silver coin, the chrysanthemum on the half yuan, and the plum blossom on one corner. The three patterns have not changed since they were introduced.The silver content is always one tael, half a tael, and a tenth of a fine silver.No matter how worn it is, you can go to the houses of all levels in Dajing at any time, and exchange the old for the new for free, and replace it with silver coins of equivalent value.
But if the silver coin is broken, it will take a firefight.
As for the banknotes with larger denominations, they are printed by the household department of Dajing according to the tax revenue of the previous year.Common denominations are ten taels, 20 taels, and 50 taels.
If you use banknotes of more than one hundred taels, you need to show your identity certificate.
Ordinary people in Gyeonggi, a family of five, can add up to less than a hundred taels of silver for the basic necessities of the year.
For those who dare to forge bank notes, Dajing's laws and regulations are more serious than officials' corruption and dereliction of duty.
Many people say that the people living in the period of Emperor Jingren and Emperor Jingrui were the happiest.But let the scholars of Dajing say that it was Emperor Jingwu and Emperor Jingren who laid the foundation, so that Emperor Jingrui and his subsequent emperors only need to follow the policies of Emperor Wu and Emperor Ren to make Dajing In the eyes of the Western powers, it has always been invincible.