Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 181 About the Enke Examination in the 18th Year of Chongzhen
For the aggressors, there is no need to be grateful. As for the fallacy that you will be reborn after being colonized, there is no need to say much. The good point of view of rape after being raped can only show that the point of view is abnormal.

Whether it is the previous Song Dynasty or the current Ming Dynasty, this era is a chaotic era of transformation into a new mode of production.

Song is because the backward regime of Yuan and Meng replaced him, and Yuan was worse than Qing, and he insisted on treating people in different ways, and he was not so motivated to enter the peak era of small peasant economy.

This gave a farmer like Zhu Yuanzhang an opportunity to rebuild the economic and political order of the small farmers. The dynasty established by the farmers was naturally a dynasty whose main purpose was to maintain the economic and social stability of the small farmers, but the sons of the farmers were no longer farmers. Their successors I will helplessly watch the Han people under this empire use their wisdom to give birth to new production methods again.

And as the ruler of the empire, he must either modify his political system according to the development of the times, or be overthrown by new forces.

But the most inappropriate way is to be interfered by external forces, to be stopped before he breaks out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, or to be forcibly turned into a wounded butterfly.

What's worse is that this foreign force is still a more backward civilization, so before this force is assimilated, it will inevitably destroy hundreds of years of development.

Zhu Youjian knew that the current dispute between the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was actually a dispute between the North and South blocs, and furthermore, it was a struggle between the advocates of the conservative small-scale peasant economy and the new forces who hoped for change.

Dorgon and other Manchu Qing military aristocrats’ greatest insight was to rule the world and build a prosperous dynasty that belonged to them. Make your own contribution to the stability of the new dynasty.

However, the Jiangnan chaebols, low-level gentry, and common people that Zhu Youjian relied on wanted to continue to do business in a safe and stable manner, to study in peace and quiet, and to earn a living by farming honestly.

Naturally, they did not have the awareness and insight to let China enter the industrial civilization, and Zhu Youjian did not require their people in this era to have insight beyond this era, which would be too difficult after all.

But at least they all hope that the existing state of peace will not be broken, and they do not want to be victims of the establishment of the new dynasty. After all, in the future, even if the Manchus really become the Qing Dynasty that dominates the world, it will be difficult for people like them to be separated. Sufficient interests, and the interests they currently hold will be deprived of by the new big landlords and big bureaucrats.

They are just saving themselves, not seeking change.

Chaotic times always return to stability, and when the old balance is broken, a new balance must be established. Whether it is rebuilding or self-saving, one party will always be eliminated.

What Zhu Youjian and the Southern Group behind him have to do now is to save themselves, but as a posterity, he hopes that through the purpose of self-help, the Southern Group behind him can change for self-help. External pressure should not become the cause of a group's degeneration , instead making the update faster.

In his previous life, Zhu Youjian was a deeply rooted student who was educated by a certain Juche ideology. Naturally, the most basic habit was to do every step in a down-to-earth manner. As the so-called crossing the river by feeling for the stones, what he is doing now is to pragmatically let the things behind him The Southern Bloc can ultimately defeat the entire Northern Bloc.

From a pragmatic point of view, whether it is economic strength, popular support for imperial rule, or national consciousness, the southern bloc that I represent can defeat the northern bloc. The accumulation and some bloat and corruption are not as full of vitality as the new regime of the Northern Group.

But at least it can draw a tie with the northern group, and another Southern Song Dynasty will appear.

As long as there is a Southern Ming like the Southern Song Dynasty, Daming still has a chance to transform in the south.

In history, the Southern Song Dynasty encountered a Yuan after the Jin Dynasty, and its fate is not without tragedy. Now if the Ming Dynasty survives for another hundred years in the form of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian does not believe that there will be another one after the Qing Dynasty. nomadic regime.

Even if it does appear, it would be a good deal to fight for another hundred years of opportunity for the Han regime. If history allows the Qing Dynasty to be Ming again, he will have passed away by then, so naturally there is no other way.

But at least as long as Zhu Youjian is still alive, Daming will not be allowed to stop changing for a day.

Zhu Youjian pulled the reins, and the horses under his command stopped on the school field of the Second Guards Army.

Now is the time when the situation is changing. As an emperor, although he has no time to go to the front line to strategize, he naturally cannot stay in the deep palace all the time. As an emperor, he also needs to start practicing bow horses and firearms. prepare for the worst.

The Second Military Academy of the Guards Army was the original Nanjing Jingying Campus, and the area is naturally not small. Now Zhu Youjian is either staying in the Qianqing Palace or staying here, and has close contact with the officers of the Guards Army.

The first, second and third armies of the Imperial Guards in the Ming Dynasty were military groups composed of common people and scholars, in line with Zhu Youjian's concept of being led by intellectuals and the people at the bottom as the main force. The misconception of not serving as a soldier enhances the sense of honor of soldiers. The Han soldiers are strong because those who follow them must be sons of good families, but now the Qing army is strong because most of the officers and main cavalrymen of the Manchu Eight Banners are nobles. This is the profound meaning of scholars enriching the army.

Although Enke in the 18th year of Chongzhen has repeatedly postponed the date due to the possible lack of time to take care of the northern scholars moving south, but up to now, the examination has come to an end.

In order to encourage scholars from all over the world to join the army, Zhu Youjian has issued an edict before, and scholars who join the army can still participate in the Enke Exam.

Therefore, in addition to the First Corps of the Guards Army and some scholars who no longer considered their fame due to combat, many scholars in the Guards Army took part in the test, especially the No. [-] Guards Army currently stationed in Nanjing. Second Army.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian even personally held a banquet for the candidates of the Second Guards Army to show his importance to them.

Huang Daozhou, the newly-appointed left servant of the Ministry of Rites, naturally knew Zhu Youjian's deep meaning. No one believes that His Majesty will use this to severely punish the officials in charge of the examination.

As soon as Zhu Youjian came back from the school, he got the admission list from Huang Daozhou, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites. He suddenly saw that Xia Wanchun's name was ranked seventh, and he couldn't help laughing: "This son is only fifteen. Juren?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Xia Wanchun is the son of Xia Yunyi, the former head of the Ministry of Officials. It is rumored that he learned scriptures at the age of five, poetry at the age of seven, studied under Chen Zilong, and entered school at the age of nine. He is a rare child prodigy in the world. He was in senior high school. Of course, since I set up the Dingding, there are quite a few people who are so intelligent, such as Yang Gong from Shu, and Zhang Gong from Chu..."

Zhu Youjian saw that Huang Daozhou was afraid that he would suspect that he was presiding over the cheating in the scientific examination and would try his best to defend himself, so he interrupted him: "Stop talking, Huang Shilang, let me ask you, how long has it been since Daming had a talent who won the triple prize?"

"Weichen understands His Majesty's meaning, I'm going to change the ranking and publish the list again!" Huang Daozhou hurriedly took the roster from Zhu Youjian and ran out of Qianqing Palace.

　Remarks: I have not found any information to prove whether Xia Wanchun, the national youth hero, was born as a juren. For the sake of the plot, I can only admit that he was a juren before. With his talent, he has poems and essays left in the world. It is not impossible for him to be a juren.If you disagree that he is Juren's book friend, please don't get entangled, it is a novel after all.It is really urgent, Zhu Youjian can give him a juren first because of political needs.

　　
　
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