Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 482 Northern Expedition!Northern Expedition! (Part 1)
However, Zhu Youjian still selected Huang Zongxi, who advocated both agriculture and commerce and New Confucianism, as the chief examiner of the examination.

Huang Zongxi can be regarded as a more radical and less conservative official among the Confucian scholars.

Although Zhu Youjian is now in order to ensure that there will be no turmoil in the rear during the Northern Expedition, he does not first carry out drastic reforms to the imperial examination system.

However, Zhu Youjian can decide whether the new candidate civil servants will still be just famous officials of Neo-Confucianism and no Wang Xuemen through the selection of the chief examiner and deputy chief examiner of the conference.

Moreover, in order to keep the civil servants alive and vigorous, Zhu Youjian specifically entrusted Huang Zongxi to admit as Jinshi those who are cutting-edge and innovative in their articles.

Today's Ming Dynasty needs vigor, reformist young officials who dare to break through and do things, and does not need mediocre ministers.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian abandoned the imperial examination system's habit of taking some articles with flat and insignificant views.

Even if it is possible that the selected officials may be full of enthusiasm but have no life experience, Zhu Youjian thinks it doesn't matter, because what the civil official group needs is not stability but warriors who dare to think about their own class interests. .

In addition, Zhu Youjian also increased the number of Jinshi admissions again.

This time, the number of imperial jinshi admissions directly exceeded [-]!

How to break the elite education and implement civilian education, so that the elite will lose the advantages of cultural monopoly and education monopoly, a very important way is to lower the threshold for the common people to enter the bureaucracy.

Just as later generations reduced the difficulty of university admissions, it is also a way for Zhu Youjian to increase the number of Jinshi admissions.

As for the hidden worries that this method will lead to the growth of the gentry class and more and more groups enjoying the privilege of officials and gentry not paying food, Zhu Youjian is not worried now.

Because in the few years after the Northern Expedition, the first thing he planned to do was to deal with the privilege of officials and gentry not paying food.

Now he has military power and financial power in his hands, and the low-level officials who are close to the people are gradually replaced by his own Guards officers and soldiers. Now he only has to wait for the victory of the Northern Expedition to promote a group of officials who are determined to innovate to implement his own further reforms policy only.

Zhu Youjian did not believe that among so many officials in Ming Dynasty, there was not a single reformer.

On the seventh day of October.

In the early morning light, the outline of the Forbidden City in Nanjing began to appear gradually under the gray sky.

Zhu You held the Tianzi Sword, rode a golden armored horse, and dressed in an emperor's uniform, walking towards the square outside the Huangji Gate.

At this time, a total of 15 troops of the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards had all assembled in the square outside the Huangji Gate.

The vermilion Chongzhen Type 22 rifled guns were tightly held by the infantry soldiers, and they lined up in straight lines and stretched out of sight.

Grass-green rifled guns are also lined up in front of the artillery camp, with their muzzles pointing directly at the northern sky, appearing majestic under the blue sky.

The army soldiers are all in red mandarin duck battle robes with waist armor and leather boots, and white gloves and red tasseled steel helmets. The navy soldiers are all in pure white woolen clothes and black boots. They stand majestically on the square.

On the Yangtze River, it took two years to rebuild a huge treasure ship warship, a third-class sailing warship "Sincerity Bo", and other warships lined up on the river to fill the entire Yangtze River.

The battleship was also full of naval soldiers, and the trumpets blared and drums thundered.

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

This time because it was the Northern Expedition, Zhu Youjian decided to go to the north because of the shame of Xue himself for losing the northern capital, so he led the army to the north by himself, so as soon as he rode his horse to the center of the square, he first swung the Tianzi Sword into the sky and roared stand up.

All the soldiers responded, shouting like thunder.

"Sacrificial flag!"

Zhu Youjian stopped roaring, and after he issued an order, Qin Zuoming, who accompanied Zhu Youjian to recruit himself, shouted: "Come on!"

Luck Dehun, the king of Duoluo County in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was escorted up. Thanks to the help of Zhou Ze, the Daming Jinyiwei anti-rape team was able to secretly arrest Luck Dehun in Beijing in July this year and escorted him all the way to Nanjing.

Zhu Youjian was worried that there was no one to sacrifice the flag during the Northern Expedition, so he ordered people to slowly put the Luke Dehun in the imperial prison to torture and squeeze out its full value, and now it was brought to Huangjimen Square, to the In front of Zhu Youjian.

"Jianlu was originally a barbarian from the Tunguska. The Great Ming pitied the misery of its people, and specially fed the civilization with the benevolence of China, and appointed its officials to grant it power. He has a heart of heart and secretly harbors the ambition of tigers and wolves, and now he is stealing the northern capital of our great Ming Dynasty and harming the northern Han people. Today, I have listed twenty crimes against him, and he is about to send troops to the north to exterminate the Tartars! Recover the northern capital!"

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he asked Gao Zhuo, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, to read his twenty crimes, and then he himself walked towards Luck Dehun with a sword:
"Today, I will sacrifice the flag with your head, and I will start from now on when I avenge my Ming Dynasty!"

"That dog slave Zhou Ze is one of yours?"

Luck Dehun only asked a question, but as soon as his words fell, Zhu Youjian's sword also cut off.

Puff said.

Luke Dehun's head rolled to the ground, blood gushing out.

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

For a moment, the morale of the guards was high again, and they shouted.

"set off!"

Zhu Youjian swung the Tianzi Sword and rode out first. Qin Zuoming, Zhang Tongchang's Department of the Imperial Guards, and the civil and military officials who accompanied Zhu Youjian, the internal servants, and the nobleman Qi Dexuan all came with them.

The warships on the Yangtze River also started to start and raised their sails.

According to Zhu Youjian's deployment, the Second Guards Army will land in Liaodong with the help of the Guards Navy. It will be mainly responsible for fighting outside the pass and blocking the retreat of the Manchus.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian will disembark in Yangzhou after boarding the ship in Zhenjiang, and then personally lead the First Guards Army northward by land.

That is to say, in this Northern Expedition, the First Guards Army will undertake the main combat tasks, and the front will be directed at the North Zhili.

In addition, the Third Army of the Guards will directly cross the Yellow River to recover the northern part of Henan, and then go north.

The Fourth Army of the Guards will march north from Wuchang and Xiangyang.

The Seventh Army of the Guards will go north from Baoning Prefecture to Hanzhong to recover Gansu and western Shaanxi.

The Northern Expedition of the Ming Empire can be described as a five-way army attacking together, with a total participation of 100 million troops. In addition to the guards as the main force, there are also Gao Yigong and other anti-barbarian troops and Li Dingguo's anti-bandit army.

From the southeast coast to the southwestern inland, there are large armies gathered, and countless grains, grass, chariots and horses began to appear in an endless stream on the official roads in various places. From the northernmost Denglai, Kaifeng, Shandong, to the southernmost Qiongzhou, Guangdong and Dongfan Island, they were all promoted by the Northern Expedition. language appears.

I don't know when, the Northern Expedition of the Ming Empire has become a war involving the participation of the whole army and the participation of the whole people.

(End of this chapter)