Daming: Is There Imperial Examination Fraud At The Beginning? I Cry As A Candidate During The Test

Chapter 15 It’s hard to prosper the people, and it’s hard to destroy the people!

One hundred thousand people.

This number is not terrible.

Zhu Yuanzhang also received a huge impact.

he muttered.

"Although there are thousands of scholars taking the imperial examination each year, only a few hundred are admitted. We don't think this number is large."

"I didn't expect... We really didn't expect... if the imperial examinations were accumulated for 500 years, there would be so many candidates."

"How much money and food do you need to pay for these officials?"

"We lead a hundred thousand troops to fight, and those people can help us expand our territory, kill our enemies, seize spoils of war, and defend our country."

"This one-hundred-thousand-dollar candidate can't solve cases and do arithmetic. He only knows how to talk and write useless eight-legged essays. He also doesn't know how to govern the country. What do we want these losers to do?"

"We raise 100,000 pigs and 100,000 cows, and they can eat them anyway."

Mao Xiang: ....

Compare a person to a pig or an ox.

I'm afraid this is not good, right?

He pretended not to hear, looking at the hollow windows on the wall of the Gongyuan, peeping at the spring scenery outside.

Thought:

Such a brain-consuming thing.

He can't get involved.

Moreover, their Jin Yiwei are just the sharp blades beside the emperor. The sharp blades do not need to have brains, they only need to perform their tasks perfectly.

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"Your Highness, it's too early for you to be shocked."

Ye Xuan blew the hot tea with a calm face, took a sip and said:

"In our Ming Dynasty, if you pass the exam, isn't it already considered an official?"

"They enjoy all kinds of privileges."

"Being favored by the law, you don't have to kneel down when you meet an official, you don't have to kneel down when you go to a government office, etc."

"Most importantly, they were exempted from taxation and corvée."

"If one hundred thousand people are exempted from taxes and corvee, what kind of burden will this put on the country?"

Zhu Biao opened his mouth and said stutteringly:

"First of all, sir, this is the number of candidates you have accumulated through the 500-year-old imperial examination system. In reality, no one can live to be 500 years old, which means that there are not 100,000 candidates. Therefore, the burden on the country is It’s not very heavy either…”

Ye Xuan laughed, shook his head, and put the empty teacup on the table.

Zhu Biao consciously helped Ye Xuan pour tea.

"Your Highness, even if it is impossible for our Ming Dynasty to have one hundred thousand Juren at the same time, judging from the sixty-year period, the Ming Dynasty can have nearly ten thousand Juren at the same time."

Zhu Biao paused while pouring tea.

The teapot keeps pouring tea.

The tea in the tea cup is about to overflow.

Ye Xuan patted his wrist.

Zhu Biao came to his senses immediately.

He quickly picked up the teapot and reluctantly stopped before the tea overflowed.

Zhu Biao looked apologetic and stammered:

"Huh, I'm sorry, sir, I was confused. There are nearly ten thousand people to be elected... It's enough to have nearly one hundred thousand people to be elected in five hundred years. But you said that within sixty years, there might be nearly ten thousand people to be elected. , this is really......"

"Let me have a sip of tea first to calm down my shock."

Ye Xuan couldn't help but joked:

"Are you shocked?"

"We only counted the number of candidates before, but we haven't counted the number of scholars yet..."

"Pfft——!"

Zhu Biao was so frightened that he spat out a sip of tea, then quickly wiped the corners of his mouth from his sleeve and said repeatedly: "Sir, what you said today is really shocking. I am rude."

Zhu Yuanzhang saw this scene secretly and shook his head.

"Our son is already so old and still so unstable. It seems he still needs more experience."

"Like us, we are very calm."

"The more people we have, the better. So what, there are tens of thousands of people, we can still afford to support them."

Finally, he muttered softly, "At least it is much less than the number of nearly 100,000 people."

Mao Xiang:......

Zhu Biao awkwardly wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief and wiped the spray-wet table.

Ye Xuan was interrupted and his train of thought got stuck.

"Where did I just say?"

Zhu Biao held the handkerchief and put his hands on his legs, sitting honestly like a primary school student.

He replied honestly:

"You just mentioned Xiucai."

"Xiucai...Although there are many people to be promoted, it is impossible to outnumber the scholars. Taking sixty years as a period, the number of people to be promoted is nearly ten thousand, so the number of scholars is even more. countless."

"Think about it, the privileges of a scholar are already very high. They can also be exempted from corvee and don't have to pay public grain."

"That's something worth noting here."

"Exempting taxes does not mean exempting a scholar from taxes, but exempts a scholar's family from taxes."

"And junior students can also receive tuition fees from the state every year."

"This means that the country has to support those rural students."

"What's more important is that some scholars and scholars colluded with landlords on the basis that they could be exempted from public grains, put the landlords' money and grains in their own names, and helped the landlords exempt that part of the money and grains, and profited from it."

Zhu Biao looked angry.

"That's unreasonable!"

"The original purpose of the imperial examination is to select talents and govern the people."

"However, this group of people not only do nothing, they also corrupt and bend the law and harm the interests of the country."

"These people are really hateful!"

In the corner of the inner hall, Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned red with anger, and veins popped out on his forehead.

"Damn it!"

"Those corrupt officials should all die!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he cursed in a low voice.

He has always hated corrupt officials.

It is these corrupt officials who have turned the country into a mess.

Therefore, he hated corrupt officials and made many laws to severely punish those corrupt officials.

However, what Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that those small talents and candidates would also do such things that were corrupt, perverting the law, and damaging the interests of the country.

It seems that his eight-legged approach to recruiting scholars and the Confucianism of the Four Books and Five Classics have not been put into the minds of these scholars at all.

They still want to be greedy.

Ye Xuan leaned back in the chair behind him, chose a comfortable position, and continued:

"Most of the country's fiscal revenue relies on agricultural taxes and other income."

"That is to say, it depends on the people at the bottom."

“Ordinary people rely on land farming and can’t even support themselves.”

"They still have to pay food to support so many officials."

"Because of this, Zhang Yanghao once said, it is hard to prosper the people, and it is hard to destroy the people."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang completely broke his guard.

He was born in the late Yuan Dynasty. When he was a child, his family was poor and he even helped the landlord herd cattle just for a meal.

Because the family is too poor.

Most of the family members starved to death.

Later, he even had to become a monk and beg for food.

Precisely because he started from humble beginnings.

So he knows best the difficulties faced by the people at the bottom.

I also hate those corrupt officials who plunder the people's wealth and anointment even more.

"The country is prosperous, but corrupt officials are exploiting and plundering it. The people live in misery and barely survive. The country is in turmoil and perish. The people still live in misery because of the war and turmoil."

"We know how hard it is for ordinary people, so we punish corrupt officials so severely. Even if those corrupt officials are skinned and beheaded a hundred times, it's not enough."

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