In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 255
As soon as Shi Songzhi finished speaking, someone among the scholars kneeling in the crowd suddenly jumped up and rushed directly to Huang Ziran: "Huang Ziran, it turns out that you are lying to us. Can't people from our countryside be officials?"

He screamed and rushed over, directly wrestling with Huang Ziran.

Someone in the crowd got up again and shouted: "Your Majesty cancels shade compensation and measures grain fields. These are all damages to the interests of the rich and noble officials. No wonder they want to encourage us to oppose the imperial court. We have been fooled."

I've been fooled, many people in the crowd think about it, it seems that this is the case.

After all, many scholars are from ordinary people.

And at this time, everyone knew that the situation was not good.

But only Qin Zhuo knows that the emperor's entrustment has long been arranged here.

"Kill Huang Ziran." Suddenly someone shouted.

Then there was a sudden commotion in the kneeling crowd, and many people rushed over to wrestle with Huang Ziran.

The scene suddenly became a mess.

The forced palace incident in the third year of Baoqing shocked the scholars and officials all over the world.

Emperor Zhao Yurui directly killed two people outside the palace gate, showing his thunderous tactics and his uncompromising intention.

Afterwards, it was found out that several Fengci officials conspired with the listed Tai students to rebel, and Zhao Yurui was even more vicious and merciless.

Xue Ji, Lin Jie and other ancestral officials executed all their families and confiscated everything.

Huang naturally kills the family.

Xue Shaoci died and confiscated his family property.

Liang Bingzhu family.

In Zeng Shizhong, Zheng Sunci died and his family property was confiscated. Chen Wei, Wang Mai, Zeng Conglong and others were dismissed from office, their family property was confiscated and sent to Jeju Island.

On that day, more than 30 officials knelt on the ground to participate in the group invitation. All the participants were dismissed from office, their property was confiscated, and they were sent to Jeju Island.

This reduced the number of officials in the upper court by more than one-third.

Among the other scholars, the repeat offender Huang Ziran punished the family, Huang Hong, Zhou Datong and others were sentenced to death, and their family property was confiscated.

There were more than 60 candidates on the list, more than half of them were deprived of their honors and were barred from participating in the imperial examination for life and generations.

In addition, from among those who failed the list, dozens of people were replaced based on their performance, and most of them were from ordinary people.

In addition, other participating candidates, who have more than [-] acres of grain fields at home, will be deprived of their honor and fame, and will not be able to participate in the imperial examination for life.

Except for Lin'an, there are participants in other places, and all are treated similarly.

The leader will be killed, and those with more grain fields will be deprived of their fame.

The emperors Zhao and Rui suppressed it with iron blood and showed no mercy. This made everyone understand that they would never compromise on the matter of measuring the grain fields.

This matter subsided quickly. Many scholars, officials and landlords in the world dared not speak out. Some people have secretly called Zhao and Rui the most brutal tyrants in the Song Dynasty.

But so what?Zhao Yurui firmly grasped the military power, and the throne was extremely secure.

Beginning in April, people from all over the country spread the word that this incident was caused by officials' hereditary opposition to the emperor's abolition of shade subsidies and making them pay taxes. The emperor's original intention was to cancel the number of shade subsidies and give more to ordinary people. The opportunity to be an official allows the rich to pay more taxes and reduce taxes for the common people. The imperial court is studying tax reduction matters.

Some of these things were passed on by the local Jinyiwei, some by the local capital, and some new officials from various places. Zhao and Rui made full use of their propaganda power to single out the conflicts between landlords and poor people, hereditary officials and ordinary people.

There are two biggest beneficiaries of this incident, first of all, Shi Songzhi, who should have betrayed him long ago.

Afterwards, Shi Songzhi became magistrate of Xiangyang Prefecture and was promoted from general judge to magistrate.

Zhao Yurui asked him to prepare grain in Xiangyang, expand the granary, and repair the city defense of Xiangyang at the same time.

Xiangyang continued its life for the Southern Song Dynasty for decades in history, but it was once breached and still had shortcomings. It was originally Meng Gong who proposed to repair the city defense of Xiangyang.

Now hand it over to Shi Songzhi, who was very good at farming and preparing food in history, so he just made good use of his strengths.

The second one is Qian Hongzu.

Since everyone wants to kill Qian Hongzu, Zhao Yurui wants to add a seal, and announce to the whole country that Qian Hongzu has done a good job in Zhangtian, Fujian. Qian Shiying, Zu Gang's son in his early twenties, played the ninth-rank eunuch order.

Qian Shiying began to participate in the solution test at the age of 14. He failed twice, and this time he failed again. The emperor also specially granted Qian Hongzu 20 mu of high-quality grain fields in Beijing, exempted from tax for 20 years, and after [-] years, the final tax of Qian Yishi was [-]%.

That is to say, as long as this land is in the hands of the Qian family, it will always be taxed at [-]%.

The news spread and shocked the world. This is like telling the officials all over the world that you help me to do a good job, and I don't hesitate to reward you. If you go against me, you will be ransacking your family and exterminating your family.

On the other hand, because of Huang Zirantai's student affairs, the palace examination was postponed for more than half a month.

At the end of February, the Daqing Hall was changed to Jiqing Hall, and Zhao Yurui's first palace examination after ascending the throne arrived.

The imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty was too small, and the Daqing Palace was often changed, so Zhao and Rui couldn't help it.

There were more than 500 people in the palace examination this time, but the Jiqing Hall couldn't hold it, and the tables were placed outside.

The palace examination only examines policy, and policy is to discuss the policy issues of the imperial court and offer advice to the imperial court.

This year's topic is 'On the benefits and harms to the country of measuring grain fields and checking grain taxes. ' and 'Pros, Cons and Consequences of Salt Tax Reform'

The emperor will come to the palace in person for the palace examination, and will test Chinese-style tributes.

Because of Huang Ziran's matter, of course everyone knows how to write it, and measuring grain fields, checking grain tax, salt tax and other things are really beneficial to the country and the people.

The students in the audience worked hard to write, trying to write the greatest benefits to the country, and almost ignored the harm to the country.

Only a few students mentioned that it would cause opposition from the landlord class and the landed bureaucratic class, and it would easily cause turmoil, but they said that as long as the court handled it well, it should not be a big problem.

In the end, Zhao Yurui still felt that Huang Pu, a student from Fujian, wrote the best, so he was selected as the champion.

Zhao Yurui changed the previous rules and summoned the number one scholar, the second place, and Tanhua individually.

The rest of Jinshi, in groups of ten, were summoned in batches and had lunch together at the same time.

During the whole month of March, new scholars were summoned.

Everyone had the opportunity to have a few words with the emperor, which made the current Jinshi very excited and unexpected.

The emperor and everyone will discuss the strategy of governing the country and the strategy of serving the people. After that, everyone will gather and attend classes for three months, and then distribute them to various places and become officials.

The Song Yuan was different from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a "Shi Brown Test" for winning Jinshi, which was equivalent to an observation period. Except for the top three, that is, the number one scholar, the second place, and Tanhua, they could be directly appointed officials, and the others had to go through the "Hanlin Academy" Selected by the Imperial Academy, and passed the entrance examination as a "Hanlin Shujishi", and then entered the Imperial Academy to study for three years, and after graduation, he served as an official in the Sixth Ministry.

"Jinshi background" who have not passed the "selection" can go to the local government to serve as officials.

The third-class "from the same Jinshi background" went to the provinces to "wait for vacancies" to wait for vacant positions.Or directly appoint officials to serve in remote and remote counties.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty was the most tolerant of scholars (the last Jinshi, and those who passed the provincial examination can also become officials). After passing the Jinshi examination, they could go to the local government to serve as officials, usually starting from the ninth rank.

This time, Zhao and Rui were different. They met and chatted first, and then attended classes for three months.

The teachers in the class included Qiao Xingjian, Chen Guiyi, Wei Liaoweng and other important officials in the court. Zhao Yurui also took time to attend ten classes.

The newly recruited more than 500 Jinshi are tantamount to the real disciples of the emperor.

In these three months, I mainly learned a few points.

First, the general trend of the world, the pressure and enemies around Da Song, let these young officials know what the biggest threat to Da Song is.

Second, what are the main responsibilities of local officials? Constructing water conservancy projects, farming farmland to store grain, and ensuring production are the first elements, and the most important thing is to let ordinary people live with food and clothing.

Third, how to complete various tasks of the imperial court in time and ensure the food supply of the local garrison.

Fourth, you need to know the general plan and direction of the imperial court's local construction in the next few years.

Fifth, watch the water conservancy canal facilities in Lin'an Grain Field on the spot, and understand the importance of grain production and storage.

After these three months, Jinshi can be regarded as an eye-opener, and it will be of great help to them when they come to the place to serve as magistrates.

In ancient times, one could become an official if one passed the Jinshi examination. If one did not have the ability to govern the local area, one might not be able to do a good job.

Now after three months of class, these people have at least learned some experience in governing the local area, and the court's requirements for them, and they will not mess around easily.

In the third year of Baoqing, Zhao Yurui took advantage of the matter of measuring the fields to kill many local officials, promoted a group at the same time, and replaced a group with Jinshi. There were especially many young officials in the Song Dynasty this year.
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At the beginning of April, Zhao Yurui brought Niu Bao and others to Phoenix Mountain.

Since the year before last, Zhao Yurui has slowly moved the Firearms Bureau of Jeju Island to Lin'an. The location was chosen at the foot of Phoenix Mountain. At first, five miles around Phoenix Mountain was designated as a restricted area. Later, when they found that it was not enough, they moved it to another ten miles, and then mobilized Fifty thousand civilians built three walls ten miles away along Fenghuang Mountain, and set up many traps, which were guarded by the Li Pingbao Shenji Army.

It took one and a half years for the pre-ground construction project, iron furnace construction, storage warehouse construction and other infrastructure. It was not until the beginning of this year that the Firearms Bureau of Jeju Island was officially moved over.

The main craftsmen of the Firearms Bureau are now given official status, and they usually live on Phoenix Mountain. The entire Firearms Bureau now has more than 3000 craftsmen households, and there is a group for every [-] households. Long as Cong Jiupin.

Every thousand households set up a division, and the division set up Yuanwailang Zhengqipin, and under the official name of Yuanwailang in the Southern Song Dynasty, three deputy members were added from Qipin.

The person in charge of the Firearms Bureau is the servant, from the third rank, and the four deputies are Langzhong, ranging from the fifth rank to the fourth rank.

There are more than 3000 households in the Firearms Bureau, and the establishment is 62 officials, and each of the remaining households has at least one official.

Officials of artisans and households can be hereditary. After the death of their father, sons can be hereditary officials as long as they are skilled and pass the examination.

There are also fathers and sons who are both officials. Anyway, as long as they pass the skills, they can be officials without participating in the imperial examination.

Firearms Bureau officials are not airborne, all promoted internally.

For example, if a team leader dies of illness, other officials will be promoted to officials after passing the assessment.

In addition, for skilled craftsmen who have no official positions for the time being, they can enjoy official salary after passing the assessment.

For example, if you are just a clerk, but you have excellent skills and there are no vacancies for official positions, you can get an extra salary if you are excellent in the assessment every three years, and you can enjoy the treatment of a ninth-rank official, and you can get an additional salary in three years.

Zhao and Rui should be the best emperors in the history of the Song Dynasty, and even in all dynasties and generations, who directly included all craftsmen who were willing to serve the country into the establishment and were raised by the court.

There are more than 3000 artisan households in the capital, and each household can receive two stones of rice per month, as well as other salt, sugar, and even tea, so there is no need to worry about life.

Now the craftsmen in the Song Dynasty are no worse than officials regardless of their status and treatment, which makes the craftsmen work more seriously for the court.

Of course, when Zhao Yurui first started recruiting craftsmen a few years ago, many craftsmen across the country ignored them, and now some craftsmen have regretted it.

Because in addition to the relatively loose conditions in the past two years, craftsmen who have not been recruited as officials now want to serve the court, and they need to go through special and strict assessments, which increases the difficulty.

Zhao Yurui arrived at the barracks of the Shenji Army first, and Li Pingbao had already brought a group of people to wait for him.

The barracks were built along the outer wall of Phoenix Mountain. They had to pass through the barracks before they could reach the main entrance of the Firearms Bureau.

After entering, you have to go through three walls, and behind each wall there are soldiers patrolling with dogs 24 hours a day.

Zhao Yurui should be the first emperor to raise dogs on a large scale in ancient times.

Whether he is in Jeju Island or the Craftsman Bureau, he has a lot of dogs.

Because dogs are more sensitive than humans, it is very effective to take dogs on patrol.

As soon as Zhao and Rui entered the Firearms Bureau, they could hear a cannon in the distance, and the south should be testing the cannon.

(End of this chapter)