my days with tyrants

Chapter 151 It's a demon who wants to confuse Sheng Ting

night.

"Your Majesty, I can tell you clearly that this is the future Ming Dynasty."

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

This was the first time that the two met alone after committing suicide in front of Chengtian Gate last time.

Of course, not entirely alone.

After all, the family's daughter is still there, but other than that, there is really no one else in Yang Feng's office, because the confidentiality level of the two people's discussions, not to mention the Jin Yiwei, even the trusted eunuchs can't listen.

Eunuchs are not safe either.

Zhu Yuanzhang is dead, but the eunuchs still have to live, so there is also the possibility of leaking secrets when the interests need it, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself can't guarantee whether the eunuchs around him have been bribed, and the bribed eunuchs stared at the emperor. It is the basic operation of the ministers of the past dynasties. There are so many eunuchs who know which one has been bribed, so even the eunuchs dare not fully trust...

To be precise, the emperor had no one he could trust.

Otherwise, the emperor would claim to be a loner, and they are really a loner.

Can't trust anyone.

The emperor did not rely on trust, but on supervision and checks and balances.

Rely on tactics.

But now what he is talking about with Yang Feng is related to the future court structure of Ming Dynasty, in a sense it is the future route of Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing must be kept absolutely secret.

"You want to establish a civilian government, that's right, we were all civilian governments at that time.

You are indeed right to choose Confucianism.

After all, you have no other choice. If it is bad at this time, Confucianism is indeed the least bad. Compared with other messes, they are indeed the most suitable choice at present.

but.

You should not be alone.

Yes, you left checks and balances.

Use military generals to check and balance civil officials, and use honors to check and balance scholars.

But too little.

It does look good to check and balance civil servants with nobles and nobles, but the nobles of any dynasty are strong at first, and then gradually weaken. After all, they are not weak, and the emperor can hardly feel at ease.The civil servants have always gradually become stronger. After all, it is difficult for military generals to be useful in peacetime, but the civil servants who govern the country are important. Similarly, the emperor is not afraid that they will rebel.

Then one ebbs and another ebbs and flows, and the balance gradually breaks.

And your current imperial examination system has been completely reduced to Confucianism for selecting scholars. Your civil officials are Confucianists. In the end, the strong civil official group has actually become a strong Confucian student group.

They became one voice speaking.

In the late period of your second generation, you had to start using eunuchs to make up for the lack of nobles.

But Xungui is getting worse and worse.

Your descendants have to gradually increase their dependence on eunuchs, until finally there is only one choice to use eunuchs to check and balance civil servants. In this way, you will become the last eunuch you want to see interfering in politics, and it will develop to the peak, that is Wei Zhongxian.The emperor at that time was actually very smart. Although he was ridiculed by later generations as a carpenter emperor who played with things and lost his mind, in fact he pushed Wei Zhongxian to be a biting dog because he didn't want to directly confront the civil servants.Then he would be a stupid king who ignored the government, and let him sell his officials to ensure finances, and let him take over his son to control the government to check and balance the Qingliu Group known as the Donglin Party.

After all, it was because he had no other choice at all.

You dug them a hole from the start.

They can't jump out.

All the systems you make now will eventually become the ancestral system that they cannot overthrow, and the laws established by the ancestors cannot be changed.

Therefore, your choice is correct, and your design of checks and balances is also correct. There are too few mistakes, and one-to-one is very fragile, and the triangle is stable. You need to support a non-Confucian group among the civil servants.

Split civil servants.

Establish a civilian government, but split the civil servants, let the Confucian civil servants have one more civil servants under other ideological systems who are powerful enough to check and balance, so that together with the group of honorable generals, your descendants can avoid the same as in the original history, and finally Even a commoner who instigates a civil uprising cannot be killed.Ge Chengcheng, the leader of the anti-tax crime in Suzhou, was an ordinary weaver, but after the emperor ordered him to be executed, he was confessed as a hero in the prison and served him until the emperor was dead.The protection of officials at all levels up and down, and the protection of local gentry, can make the imperial power even unable to decide the life and death of a commoner.

And the civil servants sent by the emperor to supervise the water transport even dared to bribe the thieves in the prison, and framed the emperor's tax collectors as bandits and killed them.

This is the consequence of a dominance.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there was indeed serious party struggle, but the party struggle did not affect the dominance of the civil servants, because they were all educated by the same ideological system.

They are all Confucians. "

Yang Feng said.

He had to fundamentally confuse Zhu Yuanzhang.

"If I have other options, do you think I would like to let them dominate? The imperial examination was suspended in the fourth year of Hongwu, and it was not reopened until the 17th year of Hongwu. What have I been doing for more than ten years? usable?

I can't find it.

I have been looking for more than ten years, and finally they are the only ones available. "

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"That's because you only want a group of slaves.

So you just see them as the most suitable. "

Yang Feng said.

"Humph!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

"Just admit it, you didn't even want to find real talents for governing the country. You just wanted to find a group of slaves who could protect your family and guarantee the Zhu family's country from a legal point of view. If you wear such glasses, then Of course you can only see them, but are they really the only ones?

Are they really unique?
what do they have?
Reading and literacy?

As long as there are many schools, everyone can read and write. At that time, there would be no people who could not read and write. This is an education issue.

Are they more moral?

This thing is not an ideological problem. Confucianism does advocate famous officials in history and call them Confucianism, but how many of them are actually Confucianism?Before the Tang Dynasty, they were all aristocratic families. The aristocratic families did learn Confucianism, but they learned everything. Confucianism was only a part of their learning knowledge. Other military science, arithmetic, engineering and even medical divination, they learned what was useful.

Then the Confucianists took out that they had studied Confucianism and said that they were all Confucianists.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that Confucianism truly dominated.

Those loyal ministers and righteous men did not become loyal ministers and righteous men because they learned Confucianism, but they were loyal ministers and righteous men.

This is a matter of personal morality.

Similarly, there are many great Confucianists who defected to the country and defected to the enemy.

What you fancy is that they can give you a set of monarchs and ministers to solidify imperial power, and then you can use this to make everyone accept your Zhu family's world, and from then on, they will submit to you and become your Zhu family's servants. "

Yang Feng said bluntly.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, obviously already very upset, after all, being talked about by this bastard.

"Of course, this is your Ming's business. I am a bystander, but even if I am a bystander, I must remind you that doing so is to re-walk the path that those dynasties have already traveled, and they have all been destroyed without exception. Ever since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang called out that the general and prince Hou Ning had a seed, there is no such family world in this land. People are just waiting for the decline of the dynasty, and then overthrow him and replace it with a new dynasty.

No one wants to be a slave forever.

We all have rebels.

Later, the foreign race that replaced our Ming Dynasty played harder than you on this point. Not only did they continue to respect Confucianism, but they also completely turned Confucianism into a slave family.

All civil servants and generals are proud to be called slaves in front of the emperor.

Their Confucianism no longer has thought.

The only thing that can be done is to explain the dominance of imperial power according to Confucian classics.

Tell everyone to be slaves to the emperor.

Even more than half of the books were burned, leaving only those useful for enslavement, even scientific books were burned, and even some history books that had to be kept were falsified in large quantities.But it was still useless. In less than 200 years, there had been continuous rebellions, and even eventually led to a rebellion that almost died out. It was only suppressed with the help of the Thais and Westerners.But after that, the world is no longer in their hands. Instead, they take advantage of the suppression of the rebellion and the rise of the important officials of the Han people, who are similar to the separatist regimes of the feudal towns. It is only thanks to the emergence of a heroine who is proficient in power and tactics, and barely maintains it for decades. This woman When the Lord dies, he perishes immediately.

They have achieved this level of enslavement, and the final maintenance time is about the same as that of Daming.

This thing is really useless.

What Confucianism can do, in fact, any other thought can do.

So why don't you rely on them?

Explain your country orthodoxy?
Do you need it?

You are not those who came by usurping the throne and bullying orphans and widows. It can be said that you are the most righteous in all dynasties. You don't need any ideological explanations. It is enough for you to expel the Tartars and rebuild the mountains and rivers.

That being the case, why not try to build a better system?

For example, imperial examinations.

Why only Confucian scholars?
Why not divide it into multiple subjects, such as setting the current test as liberal arts, and then take military, engineering, and even agricultural, medical, and business subjects at the same time, so that all of them will be Jinshi in the final test, and they can be officials. Promotion, in this way, in addition to Confucian scholars, a group of miscellaneous officials has been formed, and the Confucian family is no longer the dominant civil official.

What's more, many things need to be done professionally after all. "

Yang Feng said.

This is his real purpose.

Fooled Zhu Yuanzhang to divide the imperial examinations into subjects, and then used miscellaneous subjects to divide the power of Confucian scholars.

This is the worst.

And it also has the basis for implementation.

First of all, relying on the military department will definitely get the support of the generals group. Now the children of hereditary military officers are supposed to be assessed, and then it is confirmed whether they are attacked. Then they will be included in the imperial examination and let them take the martial arts examination.

And the craftsmen themselves have the channel of being an official in the camp, but now they are just included in the imperial examination, and they are directly asked to take the engineering examination.

And medicine.

A doctor can also become an official by virtue of medicine.

Local medicine, Huimin Pharmacy, all the way to Tai Hospital, this is a line.

Now it is also included in the imperial examination, so that they can become medical scholars.

No matter what Jinshi is a Jinshi.

They can all enter the officialdom, and then get promoted when they should, but they will definitely be squeezed out by liberal arts Jinshi, and even discriminated against. After all, it is unbearable for them to let Confucian scholars and craftsmen stand side by side, but what they want is this , Those who are excluded will automatically form a group, and eventually form a bureaucratic group that competes with Confucian scholars.

Then there are two groups that check and balance each other.

These miscellaneous Jinshi are really useful, they are more useful than those pure Confucian scholars.

Moreover, the foundation of Confucian scholars is the landlord.

After all, farming and reading heirlooms.

But the foundation of Jinshi in miscellaneous subjects is different, and they will inevitably become the spokespersons of industry and commerce.

That's it.

Emerging industrial and commercial groups can get real support.

"Let me think about it."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat there and said deeply.

"Your Majesty, do you need to think about this? Let's not talk about anything else. It can be said that the three subjects of military, engineering, and medicine have always existed, but they are not included in the imperial examination. Now they are changed to the imperial examination. The big deal is that there is a difference in the number of Jinshi. For example Liberal arts exams are two hundred, military exams are one hundred, engineering exams are fifty, and medical exams are fifty, but no matter what the subject is, being a Jinshi is the same, and there will be no difference in being an official in the future. Here we need to distinguish the difference between hereditary generals and Wu Jinshi However, Wu Jinshi is still a civil servant, but they are mainly based on the yamen of the Ministry of War, including other yamen related to the army."

Yang Feng continued to bewitch him.

The Ministry of War, the military preparation road...

Of course, there is no military preparation road now, but now there are patrol roads, and there are more than 40 roads, and deputy envoys of the inspection department are sent to inspect the military preparations. Civil officials like this must first have sufficient military knowledge. Row.

Therefore, they should act as soldiers.

Of course, as a way to win over military commanders, the Bingke Jinshi affirmed at the beginning that the guards would send them to the guards. The guards all over the country had their own schools, and those who went to school were basically the children of military officers.As for the assessment of their hereditary military positions, that must still be in accordance with the past. This hereditary system is the foundation of Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, and he will not move easily.

Gotta take it slow.

But first of all, we have to get out the Bingke Scholars.

However, it is impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to agree immediately. This reform involves too much and requires a large-scale reform of the current imperial examination system, and the current imperial examination system has just been perfected...

In fact, it is not perfect.

After all, those who can make the North and South rankings can't be said to be perfect.

In this case, it will take a lot of courage to change it.

But the key lies in whether Zhu Yuanzhang can give up his fantasy of Confucianism. This is actually understandable. After all, the emperor wanted to live in the world and continue forever, and Confucianism is indeed the most suitable for them. It is normal for him to choose Confucianism.But Yang Feng did not want him to abandon Confucianism. Confucianism is still the main body of his civil servants, but the dominance of Confucianism will eventually endanger his imperial power, so he should patch up the loopholes in this system.

Of course, Yang Feng made him think that it was just a patch for a loophole, but in fact it is no longer a patch if it really develops.

A new generation of ideas will be born.

A new generation of officials will also grow up.

At that time, with the ability of Confucianism, how could it be possible to sustain it? After all, the emperors in the future will depend on who has the ability. They may not have the foresight of Zhu Yuanzhang. Wouldn't future emperors reuse it?
(End of this chapter)