First Prince of Ming Dynasty

The rest of the officials of the household department are not qualified to hear the emperor's personal sentence on them. With the decree that more than 500 people were beheaded, the minister of the Ministry of punishment led the decree to go, and the hall was instantly filled with the sorrow of rabbits, foxes, and things hurting others. atmosphere.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the officials and said: "The most precious thing on a fox is fur, the most precious flesh and blood on cattle and sheep, and what is the most precious thing on a human being? The solar terms are the bones. Wang Qing and others cherish and love themselves, so don't go astray! "

All the officials bowed their heads to express their respect for the hadith, and Zhu Yuanzhang stopped wasting words with them. He had already said what should be said, and those who did not listen would have their own fate.

After today's court meeting ended, Zhu Biao was not in the mood to watch more than five hundred people be beheaded, so he followed Zhu Yuanzhang back to the imperial study.

Li Shanchang saw that the father and son above had left, so he also had to go back to the Ministry of Education to deploy manpower to plug the gap in the household department.

Yang Xian walked out of Fengtian Hall, ready to see what happened to those officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, who dared to check his own background, and didn't even think about his ass being clean.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his son walked to the imperial garden. Zhu Biao looked at his father and said, "Rectification of the officials will not happen overnight, so you don't have to worry about them."

Zhu Yuanzhang supported the flower bed and said: "We know this, but I just feel sorry for them. It took decades of hard work to climb to a high position. If you make a mistake in one step, you will never come back."

After the father and son walked around, Zhu Biao said: "The imperial examination is just around the corner, and the emperor has already thought about the content of the imperial examination."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Where do we know this, let Liu Bowen write a few and submit them, and let's pick the one we like."

Zhu Biao nodded with a smile: "The three hundred candidates for the imperial examination can just fill the vacancies in the household department."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so: "We plan to let them go to Shanxi for an experience with you. After all, they know how to read and write, so they can help you deal with immigration affairs."

After hearing this, Zhu Biao thought that his father was worried about himself: "Father, my ministers are sure to do a good job in relocating people. All parties in the court are in urgent need of talents. Instead of handing them over to my ministers, it is better to put them in the hands that need more people." The place."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "Most of them are the children of aristocratic families who didn't know the daily necessities since they were young. They may have done a good job in knowledge, but we don't feel relieved if we let them go directly to work!"

Zhu Yuanzhang folded his hands behind his back: "It is the best test to deal with the emigration with you. Let them take a good look at the sufferings of the people at the bottom of our Ming Dynasty, so that they will know how to deal with local affairs in the future. These are not things that can be learned from the Four Books. Learned from the Five Classics."

Zhu Biao smiled, and the melody of educated youth going to the countryside rang in his mind. After knowing what his father meant, Zhu Biao had no intention of refusing.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked back at his son and said, "It doesn't matter what their origins are when you get there, you'll have to do all the dirty work on them, and take a good look at their appearance."

Zhu Biao nodded in agreement, and the father and son walked around a few times before Zhu Yuanzhang had to go back to work, and Zhu Biao also had to go and see about the imperial examination.

Zhu Biao went back to the East Palace to change his clothes, and then went to Song Lian's side first. He learned that dozens of candidates from the north came over in the past two days, and some of them happened to be in special circumstances. Song Lian was going to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions.

It turned out that among the candidates who came from the north this time, they were all recommended by local officials, and four of them belonged to the children of yamen servants. They should not have been recommended, but the local officials also specially wrote a letter.

The above explained the local situation. Except for the children of the officials' families, there are no other suitable people in Juxian County, so I have to recommend it here. If you don't agree, it can be invalidated.

After thinking about it, Zhu Biao decided to agree. Zhu Biao knew that place. It belonged to the northernmost border, and the living conditions were bad. It was really difficult to find other candidates.

In ancient times, there were actually political trials. Prisoners, monks, Taoist priests, businessmen, prostitutes, You, Li, Zao, and their descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.

The first two are easy to understand, but the last two are somewhat puzzling. Officials and arresters can be regarded as members of the public family anyway, so how come their descendants are not even eligible for the imperial examination.

Song Lian explained that because the job of arresting people is a kind of bad behavior, a job that offends people, and a kind of cheap business.

Always arresting people, always dealing with bad people and bad things, decent people are destined to disdain this, so they can only let the untouchables do it. Those who do bad things can only be bad people.

Zhu Biao was a little speechless, but the reality is true. Most of the local officials are like this. Sometimes it is true that no one can be found. How to govern the local thugs.

Zhu marked that the security guards of ancient Greek city-states were also made by slaves. If citizens committed crimes, slaves with low status should arrest them. Whenever a citizens' meeting is held, many lazy citizens who refuse to come out to the meeting are also driven out by slaves with ropes

It seems that ancient civilizations all have something in common, but Zhu Biao intends to elevate the status of officials. Those who were born in imperial examinations are at least officials, not officials.

The difference between officials and officials is like the difference between heaven and earth. Officials generally work until the end of the masters of the county government. They are local snakes serving officials, county magistrates with iron-clad camps, and they are the ones who have not changed from generation to generation.

Zhu Biao wanted to give the officials some channels for advancement. They may not have enough talent and learning, but they are experts in managing local people, collecting grain and paying taxes, etc. It would be okay if they could become a county magistrate.

The county magistrate of a certain place doesn't really need any talents. After all, the place he manages is only big, and it's not a TV series, and he doesn't have so many cases for him to settle.

But the county magistrate is the most important grassroots official in Ming Dynasty, so he must have a sufficient understanding of the local people's livelihood.

This is precisely the biggest problem for officials with imperial examination backgrounds. Their vision is too big.

Most of the Jinshi recruiters are eager to find connections after they become county magistrates. In fact, local affairs are still handled by the servants, and a habit has been formed from generation to generation. Overhead county magistrate.

Zhu Biao valued talents in imperial examinations, but he valued talents who could do practical things more. There are always people who can read the Four Books and Five Classics, but there are not many talents who can help Zhu Biao manage the place well.

Of course, it is impossible to raise them all at once, and it is also impossible to let them stay in the local area for promotion, otherwise they will form local forces, and their grades and the difficulty of promotion will also be restricted.

And it's not something that should be done now, but Zhu Biao also has to prepare well. This kind of thing belongs to breaking the old system, and it is not an easy thing.

My father is a person who values ​​the system, and the literati will not agree. After all, this is a preemption of their position, and this matter is not only beneficial, but also has many disadvantages. Zhu Biao himself needs to carefully weigh it. The pros and cons are not something that can be decided in a flash.

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