I am the king of the dead

Zhu Zhanqian approved the memorial to the posthumous title, and said with a sneer: "In Gu's view, it doesn't need to be so complicated. It can be regarded as two kinds of official selection systems."

"One is hereditary replacement, such as the current clan and nobles. The second is that officials are selected by officials. No matter what the name is, they are actually selected by officials."

"Even if it is only considered as a system of selecting officials, it is hereditary."

Luo Bingzhong was taken aback when he heard the words, and just about to say something wise, he suddenly realized what his Highness was saying, and said rather horrified: "Your Highness, this is not fun to watch!"

Examination, Jiupin Zhongzheng, Imperial Examination, Enyin, officials who have changed their tricks to select officials, aren't the officials elected by officials colluding?

"What's not to look at?" Zhu Zhanqian angrily slapped the memorial in his hand on the table, and said with a sneer: "A single hereditary prince of Zhide, afraid of a group of officials choosing officials?"

"Look!"

Luo Bingzhong shook his head repeatedly and said, "I don't want to watch it!"

"Gu let you see!" Zhu Zhan said angrily: "Gu let you see, you have to watch!"

"The first type is hereditary, and the second type is official selection." Zhu Zhanqin stretched out two fingers, gradually merging them together and said: "You see, no matter what kind of official selection is, it will eventually use a Different ways, evolved into the first kind of hereditary."

Luo Bingzhong was full of confusion and said: "How did this official selection become hereditary?"

"Look at the probation system. The probation comes and goes. Is it the relatives of the procurator? The harm of the foreign relatives in the Han Dynasty is shocking."

"Look at the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which lasted hundreds of years, and finally carried forward the aristocratic family. Is the power to select officials firmly in the hands of their aristocratic family? Is this hereditary?"

"When it came to the imperial examination system, it started to talk about favors."

"Su Dongpo didn't say anything about the Song Dynasty. The official system of the Song Dynasty, even Hu Shangshu's study is confused. There are three redundancy and two accumulations in the Song Dynasty. One of them is redundant officials. The officials of the Song Dynasty accounted for [-]%. He is not redundant. Officials are the ones to blame!"

Luo Bingzhong said in a low voice: "Your Highness, is it possible? I mean, is there a possibility that Hu Shangshu can study and understand the official system of the Song Dynasty, but he is just too lazy to talk about it and pretends to be confused?"

Hu Shangshu is very good at pretending to be confused. This is well known in the world. It is already a big problem to understand the official system in the Song Dynasty.

"Arrogance, right?" Zhu Zhanqian glared angrily!

Luo Bingzhong hurriedly said: "No, I dare not, Your Highness will continue."

Zhu Zhanqian thought for a while and said, "What did Gu say just now? Oh, yes, the hereditary selection of officials in the Song Dynasty is over."

"When we come to Daming, the favor is reduced, but isn't it still the same?"

"All kinds of private schools, academies, and family studies are dazzling. A few days ago, the three streets of Gongyuan were an eye-opener. They are in the capital, a good place, at the foot of the emperor!"

"Students from a poor family can only study hard in the cold window. How can they see the exam questions in advance? Or bribe the promotion officials to cheat in the examination room?"

"Hey, the sons of wealthy businessmen and wealthy businessmen who are powerful and powerful, can see it in advance, and there are special ghostwriters. You only need to memorize it by rote, and you can win the exam, or you can simply cheat in the examination room."

"Can scholars' copying be called copying?"

Zhu Zhanqian put his two fingers together again, staring at those two fingers with piercing eyes, and said in a daze: "Look, is there a bridge from official selection to hereditary succession? This is also one of the root causes of the corruption of officials in all dynasties."

Luo Bingzhong really understood, and said in a sincerely convinced way: "Your Highness is brilliant!"

Zhu Zhanqian's ability to see the essence through phenomena is really not bad, and what His Highness said makes sense.

The ultimate goal of all official elections is to become hereditary.

There is indeed an invisible bridge closely connected with each other.

"Being an official in a different place, Santong avoids it. Although it can fight corruption, it only treats the symptoms but not the root cause." Zhu Zhanqian said helplessly.

Luo Bingzhong hesitated for a while and said: "Then according to His Highness, the selection of officials is the root of the corruption of officials, so how can we cure it?"

"Elected officials?"

Zhu Zhanqian was taken aback, then shook his head violently and said, "Luo Changshi, you are really humorous."

"Ah?" Luo Bingzhong's eyes were a little confused. This official election is not good, so the elected officials are humorous?

Zhu Zhanqian rubbed his chin and said, "In the Roman Empire, when Empress Purkelia proclaimed her reign, the provinces of Rome began to openly sell official positions to those who were willing to buy them."

"If you want to plunder Helles Puntus, you can buy all the official positions in this province, and you can also buy the official positions in Macedonia or Thrace..."

"If you want to buy a Roman emperor, you can't, because Empress Pulkelia is married to the emperor."

"Justinian was a more promising emperor in the Roman Empire. He issued a decree to stop the corruption of buying officials."

"But this decree of Justinian had not been in force for a year, and he himself, disregarding the decree already written and the humiliation it would bring, began to negotiate the price of official positions with more scruples than before. .”

"Moreover, they were not secretly sold to dignitaries. The places where officials were sold were in the square of the market. Although those who bought official positions swore an oath to settle down the herdsmen, they still looted everything more cruelly than before. "

Luo Bingzhong said in surprise: "Your Highness still knows Roman history?"

Zhu Zhanqian said solemnly: "I understand a little bit."

"Gu is the Prince of the Ming Dynasty. Although the history of Rome translated by the Maritime Hall is a bit bizarre, you can still get rid of the chaff and save the chaff, and see some tricks."

"The Central Plains Dynasty also sold officials to buy nobles. The Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty sold officials in the West Garden, and all the marquises in Guannei sold them. Local officials were twice as expensive as Beijing officials, because there was oil and water in the local area."

"When the two Song Dynasties changed, Song Huizong and Cai Jing, [-] Suo Zhimi Pavilion, [-] Guan passed the judgment."

"Tsk tsk, as your Majesty said, there is really nothing new under the sun."

Of course, Luo Bingzhong understood the meaning of Zhu Zhanqian's long speech, that is, Rome and the Central Plains dynasty have similarities with minor differences, and they lead to the same goal by different routes.

He was full of doubts and said: "Your Highness has said so much, does this have anything to do with elected officials and elected officials?"

Zhu Zhanqian stretched out two more fingers and said, "The ultimate goal of selecting officials is hereditary, you understand."

"Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty sold their officials to sell their titles. Do you think they thought about it for themselves? Isn't it true that the selection of officials has become hereditary, and since they can't be controlled, it's better to sell them for some money."

"Selling officials and nobles is the result, not the cause, of corrupt officials."

"Once you start selling officials and nobles, it means that the lineage of officials selected and selected officials has been completely completed. For example, Yue Wu and Mu Yuefei used to work as long-term workers in the family of Han Qi, a prime minister, tsk tsk."

"Isn't it a kind of elected official?"

"Elected officials and elected officials, who is this citizen?"

"The powerful and powerful, the rich and the rich, who occupy the distribution position, have a unique advantage in this process of electing officials."

"Once the transition from officially elected officials to popularly elected officials, the group of officially elected officials who are committed to hereditary transformation, I am afraid that they will be happy, and they don't have to work hard for it, and they will be in place in one step."

"There was a proverb in the Roman Empire that a man was born in Rome."

Luo Bingzhong immediately answered, "Some people are born as mules and horses."

Zhu Zhanqian was stunned for a moment before he understood Luo Bingzhong's homonym, and laughed long, this Luo Bingzhong is really interesting.

Even though Fatih had already conquered Constantinople and proclaimed himself emperor, calling himself the Ottoman Empire, even the Holy Roman Empire, which had seven electors in Taixi, Ming never called them empires.

In the eyes of Daming's scholars of etiquette, they are also worthy of being called an empire?

Rome has stretched for more than a thousand years and can be called an empire. Other countries are not worthy of being called an empire.

Zhu Zhanqian laughed for a long time before saying, "So, don't bring up the issue of elected officials again."

"You, Luo Bingzhong, are the memorial archway of Prince Xiang's mansion. You go out to discuss the administration of officials, and you talk about elected officials. Others think you are a dreamer of the Imperial Academy."

Luo Bingzhong said worriedly: "Your Highness, the minister is stupid. The selection of officials will eventually become hereditary. This is the root of the corruption of officials. How can we cure it?"

Zhu Zhanqian shook his head and said: "There is no cure, but ensuring the integrity of the imperial examination system and the fairness of the provincial and general examinations can ease the process of hereditaryization."

"Da Ming is going to perish anyway, it will be a matter of time."

"Or there is a way to isolate this nephew."

Luo Bingzhong stared and asked, "Does this have something to do with His Majesty's wisdom?"

"Of course it does!"

Zhu Zhanqian said clearly: "The second way to prevent hereditary is to greatly increase the number of scholars, so that it will be even more difficult for officials to be hereditary!"

"If you think about it, is it much less likely to choose one of your own disciples from among a hundred scholars than from among 1 scholars?"

"It's just like fishing. If there are a hundred fish in the pond, and you put one fish in, it's already very difficult to catch the fish you put in."

"But there are [-] fish in your pond. If you put one fish in, wouldn't it be even more difficult to catch the fish you put in?"

"Your Majesty's farm law, including publishing and promoting popular characters at the beginning, and now encouraging the establishment of handicraft workshops in Daming farms, are all increasing the number of fish in fish ponds."

Luo Bingzhong smacked these words seriously, and said solemnly: "Your Highness is wise."

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhu Zhanqian immediately said: "A prince who doesn't distinguish between grains is alone, just looking at these decrees of His Majesty, if he understands something."

Luo Bingzhong stretched out two fingers and said: "Your Highness, I still don't understand how the selection of officials is hereditary?"

Zhu Zhanqian rummaged through the memorials for a while, took out a memorial and said: "This is the memorial of Liu Yanfu, an academic officer in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He proposed to add an additional round of interviews after the rural examination on the grounds that he was ugly."

Ugly means to be ugly. In Daming, if you are ugly, you can't be the number one scholar, but you can be a Jinshi.

For example, the number one scholar Lang Qiu Jun in the fifth year of Jingtai, some people wanted to remove his number one scholar Lang on the grounds that he was ugly.

The emperor of Ming still gave the number one scholar to Qiu Jun.

After the general examination, there is the palace examination, which is roughly similar to the interview after the general examination.

Zhu Zhan said earnestly: "Can you understand what this interview is trying to do?"

"This Liu Tixue, face to face face to face face to face test, naturally is another test."

"He didn't want to see if he was good-looking. He just wanted to turn the obscure township examination into an anonymous interview."

"For example, Luo Bingzhong is a scholar in Tianjin Wei. He has repeatedly won the provincial examinations and ranked first in the literary examinations every time, but he just can't pass the exam because he is ugly."

"As for whether you are ugly or not, how does the court know? This is usurping His Majesty's authority, and this is the hereditary selection of officials."

"do you understand?"

Luo Bingzhong was in a cold sweat!

Before, he thought that adding a round of interviews after the essay test would rule out ugly people, so that the imperial officials would lessen their teeth and quarrel, which was a pretty good idea.

But when he looked closely, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became. He shivered and said, "What a ruthless scholar!"

"Luo Changshi is so ruthless that he even scolds himself!" Zhu Zhanqian said angrily. Luo Bingzhong was born as a serious Jinshi, not a juren.

Luo Bingzhong shook his head and said, "I am not worthy."

How dare he call himself a scholar, he doesn't know where he came up with such a poisonous strategy.

Zhu Zhanyan threw the memorial in his hand into the trash can and said: "This Liu Tixue finished this memorial, and it was taken by His Majesty's Tiqi. He is the person who took the lead in the fraud case in the Suzhou examination hall."

"Your Majesty is cruel. I'm afraid that he and Xia Shizheng will be thrown into Jiejieyuan together. This memorial is his last."

The township examination only relies on written examinations, and it is relatively fair, because of different backgrounds and different educations. Some people can only study in the Confucian School of the Weisuo, while others study in family studies, and the teacher is a lecturer.

But after the rural examination, adding another round of interviews is definitely a bad strategy.

Luo Bingzhong sorted out the memorial and suddenly asked: "Your Highness said last time that you are preparing the front page, how is the preparation going?"

Zhu Zhanqian's pen paused for a moment and asked, "Luo Changshi, who is Gu?"

Chapter 667 Great freedom, great joy, great joy

"Your Highness is His Majesty's uncle, the most virtuous prince of the Ming Dynasty, the tyrant of the Nanya Dynasty, who was ordered to supervise the country when he was in danger, and the supervisor of the country. The founder of Tartar Kingization is the theory of Libing in the Ming Dynasty, the editor of the theory of self and self, the No.1 advocate of public morality in the Ming Dynasty, and the current supervisor of the country." Luo Bingzhong summarized all the identities of Zhu Zhanqian.

This is the reason why Zhu Zhanqian, as a direct prince and once the first heir to the throne, can still be active in the court.

With so many titles, there may be some rumors that King Xiang was humble and unused, but no one in the whole world takes this seriously.

Because His Royal Highness King Xiang is really good at saving his life.

Zhu Zhanqian shook his head and said: "Remove these identities, Gu is just a cowardly person who is afraid of death, that's all."

Luo Bingzhong's eyes were full of doubts, he shook his head and said, "I don't understand."

Zhu Zhanqian said very solemnly: "No matter what your identity is, it is the name of Gu, and it is a relationship between people. When these relationships are superimposed, it becomes Gu in the eyes of outsiders."

The name Zhu Zhanqian mentioned is identity and relationship.

Zhu Zhanxi continued: "But in fact, I know that I know that the original motive of all this is just to survive."

Back then, the Empress Dowager Sun quickly took the golden seal of King Xiang's treasure from King Xiang's mansion, why didn't Zhu Zhanqian rush from Xiangyang to the capital to succeed her?

He is afraid of death, he knows that going to Beijing is not about succession, but death.

His Royal Highness King Tan succeeds to the throne, as long as the Oirats are repelled, then His Royal Highness King Tan is a well-deserved emperor, but when he enters the capital, he will undoubtedly die.

The Empress Dowager Sun's line, the Chaozhong line, and the Junxun line will not allow him to ascend to the position of great treasure alive.

At the beginning of the Nanya Dynasty's chaos, there was an urgent need for a memorial archway. The Nanya Dynasty successively used the name of Zhu Wengui, the orthodox treasure and the concubine, why didn't they use King Xiang?

The people in the Nan Ya government wanted to use Zhu Zhanqian's name, of course, but Zhu Zhanqian ran away ahead of time!

His Majesty went south to fight against the rebellion. Although he refused in every possible way, he finally sat on the position of supervisor?