Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

After going through all the forms, Emperor Chongzhen began to count things about Chunwei—this time Chunwei was supposed to be held in March, but due to various reasons, it has been suppressed until now.

However, the Chunwei in the 13th year of Chongzhen is very different from the previous Chunwei in meaning, because this time Chunwei can be said to be a pilot, or the beginning of the reform of the imperial examination.

Of course, in Chunwei 13 years before Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen did not stop doing things on his own, and the scholars who applied for the election had enough painful memories.

Ever since Emperor Chongzhen copied the fish and bear's paw question from Comrade Yun Ye of Chu State in the first year of Chongzhen, something happened in every imperial examination and Enke.

By the 13th year of Chongzhen, the scholars who took part in the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty had already learned their skills, especially those who took part again after losing their names, basically they were all psychologically prepared.

Now the candidates in the entire capital are waiting anxiously, waiting to see what new demon moths will be brought out by Emperor Chongzhen in this year's spring.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen did not live up to the expectations of these candidates, and asked a big question on the day of the palace examination.

The questions are not difficult, even quite simple, there are only two questions in total.

The first one is just how to look at the real border of immigration, or whether the real border of immigration is a nuisance to the people, because it involves the issue of forced relocation of people.

The requirement is to let these new scholars come up with their own plans, no matter whether it is good or bad, whether it is Legalism or Confucianism or some other method, they have to give one.

The second question is simpler. Why did Jiangnan experience such turmoil after the mass production of yellow books, and how to solve such problems in the future, or how to prevent such things from happening.

I have to admit that these two questions are really the kind of cheating.

The three hundred examinees in the main hall felt that their hearts were about to collapse—it didn’t really matter whether the immigrants were governed by good or evil, after all, those who should be relocated had already been relocated, and the rest were all honestly waiting. moving.

As for the second question, it's even more tricky.

The turmoil in Jiangnan is also a matter?The heads of all the people who have been killed are rolling, and there is not even one who dares to jump out and speak. Come again next time?Who dares to jump?

However, these are only in theory, in practice?

The matter of immigrating to the real side is complementary to the big building of the yellow book - because there is not enough land allocation for the extra population of the big yellow book, it is almost a certainty to go to the real side in the end.

But it is precisely because of this that the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan who have endured the forced relocation of wealthy households and the commercial tax can't bear it anymore.

There are hidden households and escaping households, which can reduce production costs indefinitely, whether it is farming or workshops.

And the big yellow book just solved the two long-standing problems that have accompanied the Ming Dynasty for nearly 200 years, such as hidden households and escaping households, which made the production costs of those rich merchants and landlords infinitely higher—there is no difference between having a Daming household registration and not having a Daming household registration. kind of treatment!

Those who have Ming Dynasty household registration will be questioned by the government in life and death. Those without household registration can only be regarded as savages, whose value is not much higher than that of a donkey, and no one cares at all.

These twists and turns seem complicated, but they are also very simple. After all, analyzing the pros and cons, there is basically not much difference.

What now?

His Majesty the Emperor sitting high on the dragon chair in the hall asked these two questions, how should he answer them?

How to make a good impression on His Majesty the Emperor by not honestly writing it out and giving a solution?How to go smoothly in the future?

But if you really write out all the twists and turns involved in it and give a solution, you will definitely offend a large number of people.

Now the officials and gentlemen in the court will not talk about it, assuming that they are completely in the same heart as the emperor, they will not be so narrow-minded.

But what about the family behind him, and those gentry and wealthy merchants?They don't care too much?

It is impossible to think about it!

Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting high on the dragon chair, was staring at the candidates present, thinking, or writing vigorously, with no expression on his face.

Not only that, but Emperor Chongzhen continued to make trouble for these candidates.

It's okay to take a sip of the tea next to you from time to time, but it's disgusting to get up and down from the imperial steps and walk around the candidates for a few steps.

Candidates feel like scolding.

Just like the student exams of later generations, even if they didn't cheat themselves, the invigilating examiners would feel guilty for no reason when they walked around.

It's good now, this is not an invigilator at all, but my ultimate big boss will come directly to invigilate the exam. The feeling is like hundreds of thousands of beasts galloping past.

It wasn't until the incense burner was finished and many examinees handed in their papers and exited the hall that Emperor Chongzhen said calmly, "Wen Aiqing, Meng Aiqing, Guo Aiqing, Cheng Guogong and British Duke, please review these examination papers with me."

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't want to review these examination papers too much now.

In Emperor Chongzhen's view, these examination papers added together are not as important as "Yongle Dadian".

But there is no way, I don't care about it, if I let Wen Tiren and the others choose directly, I don't know how many people I find pleasing to the eye.

Especially those who are full of inappropriate stomachs are likely to be lost to everyone.

Like Shen Hao last time, if he hadn't picked this guy out by himself, he would have been dethroned long ago.

To Emperor Chongzhen's disappointment, although the test papers this time were all good, there was no test paper similar to Shen Hao's that made people shine. The overall level can only be said to be not bad, but it is definitely not good. It's great.

It's just that this kind of situation is normal - Daming has a lot of geniuses, but it's a bit nonsense to expect to be able to recruit a few in every imperial examination.

Bored, Emperor Chongzhen simply ran to the Royal Academy again.

In the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, the importance of the Royal Academy is not even worse than that of the capital, even if compared with "Yongle Dadian", it is almost the same.

"Yongle Dadian" is the only copy in the world, and only by printing out a few more copies can I feel at ease.

As for the capital, Emperor Chongzhen could say without exaggeration that wherever he went, there was the capital of Daming!

After arriving at the Royal Academy, Emperor Chongzhen found that he had come a bit early—the Royal Academy had no surprises for him.

In fact, it is the same as the matter of talents. After the little things in Emperor Chongzhen's mind were emptied, all that was left was to make demands, and then the Royal Academy would figure out a way, or slowly improve on the previous technologies. A sudden outbreak is basically impossible.

It was those who were sent to study electricity, and after several of them died, these guys also learned well-first take the savages to experiment.

On the contrary, the Agricultural College and the Medical College, which Emperor Chongzhen did not hold much hope for, gave Emperor Chongzhen a little surprise.

The current leader of the Agricultural College is Chen Zuqi. This guy's brain circuit has always been very clear - ever since he was rescued by Emperor Chongzhen in Shaanxi, this guy has been thinking about hybrid grains with all his heart.

Thanks to the blessings of Zheng Zhilong and Tang Wang, the problem is constantly searching for various seeds and sending them back to Daming.

Although many seeds are basically useless to birds, and even found to be a lot of trouble after trying to plant them, there are also many that are somewhat useful.

At the very least, Chen Zuqi has increased the yield of rice to a level of more than four stones through seed hybridization.

If the unit of four stones is not easy to understand, is it easy to understand when it is converted into four hundred kilograms?Or the unit of eight hundred catties?

From the original more than 300 kilograms to [-] kilograms, although the difference in the quantity is only a few tens of kilograms, but considering that this is a unit of per mu, everything becomes very different.

Let alone Emperor Chongzhen, Guo Yunhou, who is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, may not remember how much rice land the Ming Dynasty has now.

But it doesn't matter, as long as you know that Daming has enough land, the gap of tens of catties is enough to support more people!

Even the yield of wheat has increased, although the yield per mu has simply increased by more than 100 catties.