Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Once the Enko reform system was launched, all the noble families, nobles, high ministers and one party knew that they were in trouble.

Unified examination, sealing, transcription, palace examination... every link has greatly compressed and restricted their privileges.

As a result, their children will be forced to take exams with the common people students.

After all, the descendants of noble families, noble families, and high-ranking ministers are in the minority, and many of them are idlers. Once the imperial examination reveals true talent and learning, they are doomed.

As a result, they cannot be officials and have no power in their hands. At that time, any attempt by them to monopolize power and dominate will become empty talk.

So naturally they strongly opposed it.

However, today is different from the past.

Today, the treasury of the Feng Dynasty is full, the people are prosperous, and there are no powerful enemies to disturb the borders. This is the time when the national power is at its peak.

Li Fu destroyed Dan Chi and expanded his territory, which was a rare feat in history and won him the respect of thousands of people.

Therefore, today's royal family of the Feng Dynasty has strength and popular support. Even if the clans, nobles, and high-ranking ministers want to oppose it, Li Zhen has the ability to suppress them all.

Besides, Li Hao is now using the [sausage-cutting tactic].

He just reformed the imperial examination. We have neither started a war with these elites, high-ranking ministers or one party, nor have we tried to clear out their people in large numbers.

Therefore, their will for a decisive battle is not strong, and they do not want to fall out with the Toyoto Imperial Family just yet. Therefore, after Shangzhe objected for a while, but was forcefully suppressed by Emperor Li Hao, he had no choice but to surrender.

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Enke officially started in the autumn of 2006 in Tiantong.

The original imperial examination was only divided into the provincial examination and the general examination. The rural examinations were held in various prefectures, while the general examinations were held in the capital.

Nowadays, Enke has set up a children's examination and takes the examination at the county government. Only after passing the exam can you be qualified to be called a child student. A child student passes the provincial examination and becomes a scholar; a scholar passes the national examination and becomes a scholar; a scholar passes the imperial examination and becomes a scholar...

After rounds of auditions, when it came time for the general examination, thousands of talents from all over the country had gathered in the capital. And their files were placed in front of Li Hao early.

Their place of origin, background, teachers, relatives and friends, works, etc. are also quite detailed.

Li Zhen's purpose of selecting scholars through the imperial examination was to suppress the elites and high-ranking ministers. Therefore, the selected talents must naturally eliminate the powerful elites, high-ranking ministers and cliques, and try to select people from poor families.

Because the poor people had no foundation or party members in the court, they were loyal to the emperor and willing to be used by him.

"Yin'er, your idea is really good." Li Hao looked at the information and said to Xiang Nan with a smile.

After listening to Xiang Nan's reform opinions, 60% of the talents selected for this examination were from the common people.

Unlike the previous scholarships, 90% of them were from powerful families and high-ranking ministers. A well-executed imperial examination turned into a piece of pork.

"It is my honor to be able to relieve my father's worries." Xiang Nan bowed and smiled.

Subsequently, after the joint examination and the palace examination, Li Zuo recruited nearly 300 people, of which more than 70% were from common people and only 30% were from nobles and officials.

The children of the common people were assigned to various positions, such as walking, serving, and being in charge of the six ministries; local officials, magistrates, county magistrates, and county magistrates...

As for the children of nobles and officials, they were assigned to departments such as Hongwen Pavilion, Taichang Temple, and Imperial College. It sounded like they were staying in the capital and serving as the emperor's closest servants, so they were quite noble, but in fact they were put in high cabinets and kept at a distance.

Through this method, Li Zuo gradually replaced the clan members and cronies with children of the common people, further consolidating his rule.

Although this will take a long time, it will not cause major turmoil and will not harm the country.

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Li Zhen passed the imperial examination and used the children of the common people to replace the children of the gentry step by step.

This is a top-down approach.

Xiang Nan introduced agricultural tools such as curved shaft plows and deep plows to facilitate agricultural production.

The economic foundation that the wealthy families and noble families relied on was the manor economy. They wantonly annexed land, raised tenant farmers, farmed, grazed, weaved, brewed, etc. in the manor. They were completely self-sufficient in production and life, just like a small court.

Because they have strong financial resources, they often have private armed forces. Thousands of people, hundreds of people, together, are a very powerful force.

When productivity was underdeveloped, the manor economy did have its advantages. First, it can concentrate human, financial and material resources. As the saying goes, "concentrate efforts to do big things", and the ability to resist risks is higher.

Secondly, in times of trouble, the manor also provided a place for ordinary people to stay.

During the Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the situation was turbulent and conquests continued. However, those noble families and noble families could rely on their influence to protect their manors from the flames of war, so they attracted a large number of refugees.

Nowadays, Xiang Nan has introduced agricultural tools such as the curved shaft plow and deep plow, which has promoted the development of agricultural productivity, improved the production efficiency of homesteaders and small landowners of the common people, and broken the advantages of the gentry's manor economy.

And without the political advantage and the economic advantage, the rate of collapse of the gentry will naturally be greatly accelerated.

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Came to Tiantong for twenty-seven years.

Xiang Nan placed a golden clock in front of Li Su.

"Father, please look~" he said with a smile.

"What is this?" Li Zuo looked at this gorgeous clock and asked doubtfully.

"This is a clock." Xiang Nan explained, "It can accurately display the time. For example, it is nine-thirty now, which is the sixth hour of the hour."

Ancient timekeeping relied on sundial, moondial, and hourglass to calculate time, so it was not very accurate. In the thirteenth century, England produced the first mechanical clock.

Xiang Nan's clock making was learned from Western craftsmen in the world of "Sword Rain". Originally I just wanted to learn more skills, but now it has come in handy.

When Li Hao saw this clock, he couldn't help but be very surprised, "Yin'er, is the time really so accurate?"

Xiang Nan nodded, "The daily error will not exceed one minute."

"Oh, it's so exquisite." Li Hao exclaimed.

Timing tools such as sundials, moondials, and chronometers usually have an error of about a quarter of an hour. Fortunately, the pace of life of the ancients was slow, so a difference of ten or eight points was nothing.

Subsequently, after a week of testing, everyone recognized the accuracy of Xiang Nan's clock. Therefore, it replaced the sundial, moondial, engraved clock, etc., and became the only timekeeping tool in the palace.

What is good at the top will be bad at the bottom.

Because of this, the divine object of clocks quickly became popular in Beijing, making everyone yearn for it without knowing what it was.

At this time, Tiangongfang promptly launched twelve golden clocks for auction.

This move was immediately sought after by wealthy families, princes and ministers. They did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy these gorgeous and practical clocks home.

In the end, one clock sold for 50,000 guan, and its cost was less than 500 guan. The price was actually due to the technology. Xiang Nan also made a lot of money.

Later, watches also became Tiangongfang’s flagship product, and demand simply exceeded supply.

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