"...Those who rule the world together are scholar-bureaucrats. Today's scholars have improper habits and want to see the shortcomings quickly. Now I want upright scholars to practice and restore the way. What method can be used?"

The Donglu were originally barbarians, with a narrow territory and few people. Once the troops invaded Shun Bing and the three Han Dynasties failed to defend them, what's the reason?

At present, Sanxie and Dengjin and other places have heavy troops to defend the east. The enemy cannot be destroyed, the troops cannot be withdrawn, and the pay cannot be reduced. Now that we want to destroy the enemy and restore the territory, what effective strategy is there?

That is to say, the tax on farmers and merchants, which is the source of income, has been repeatedly discussed and recommended, but it has no actual effect. What is the reason?

The extermination of the Eastern Han Dynasty was slow, the people were in constant trouble, floods and droughts were frequent, and the northwest was plagued by disasters. How could we save and eliminate them?

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the military officials were appointed as the secretaries of the Central Committee and the privy secretaries. There seemed to be no clear distinction between civil and military affairs. My great ancestor, Emperor Gao, once used Zhiting as the chief executive and Dianshi as the capital. How can it be unbreakable now?

Mr. Erdos has been paying attention to world affairs for a long time, and he answered every paragraph without reservation. I will read it personally."

In the Huangji Hall of the Forbidden City, Huang Liji, the chief minister of the cabinet, was reading an imperial edict to more than 400 tributes who came to take part in the palace examination. This imperial edict included policy issues for the six palace examinations. The policy issues this time were all Zhu You's.

The first three questions were drawn up by the examiner. Ni Zi has already passed the exam... He did very well in the exam! If it weren't for Ni Zi's inability to write and couldn't take part in the imperial examination, the number one scholar this time would definitely be Ni Zi's.

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In addition to the three questions that Nizi had passed, Zhu Youjian also selected three questions from the palace examination questions in the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign in his previous life. With slight changes, he made up a total of six questions to test the tribute scholars in the fourth year of Chongzhen.

The reason why two questions were missed (there were a total of 8 questions in the palace examination in the seventh year of Chongzhen in the previous life) is because the remaining two questions were about bandits and military expenditures, and the other was about inserting Han tribes.

The rogue bandits haven't become big yet. I don't know which mountains in Shaanxi are hiding, and they may become grass bandits, so they can't be used for the test.

As for the Han Dynasty... Zhu Youjian himself has already given the standard answer - just pack the widow of Hutu Dunhan into the harem! What else is there to test?

Two of the three questions selected by Zhu Youjian, namely the fourth and fifth questions, have also been changed. The fourth question originally asked about the farming salt law, which was changed to the two agricultural and commercial taxes - this

It’s a bit like breaking the skylight and speaking out!

Zhu Youjian made a promise last year that as long as God provides food, he would not push the system of paying grain and taxes for both officials and gentry outside the eight prefectures of North Zhili and the four towns of Xuan, Da, Yan and Ning. But now

God doesn’t reward me with food!

The fifth question originally asked how to eliminate bandits and pirates, and also included disasters. Now it mainly asks how to eliminate the fatal threats caused by natural disasters.

Natural disasters are becoming more and more severe and have begun to shake the foundation of the Ming Empire! A complete set of disaster relief methods must be developed as soon as possible.

As for the last question, it is about the use of both civil and military forces and the promotion of talented people in an eclectic way. Nowadays, it is also very meaningful, because the Zhangqian Army and the Dianqian Army "seem to be indistinguishable from civil and military forces", and the current

Zhu Youjian was indeed eclectic in employing people.

After Huang Liji finished reading the imperial edict, the palace examination began!

More than 400 tributes, including those who did not want to go to high school, were now seated at a small table. The four treasures of the study were placed on the table. In front of Zhu Youjian and several ministers, they began to write papers.

Niu Jinxing, who inexplicably got second place in the Aptitude Test, had already copied down the topic read by Huang Liji on a piece of white paper, and then he sighed - not because he didn't know how to do it, but because he could do it, and he could do it.

Well done!

It seems that this is life! It is for the life of the horse leather corpse of the Ming Dynasty... When he thought of death, Niu Jinxing felt sad in his heart. He picked up his pen and began to write an article. The words he wrote were the words in "Xunzi. The Military Review"

: The death drum, the death bridle, the death of hundreds of officials, the death of the scholar-bureaucrats in the procession!

"The death row of scholar-bureaucrats" is Niu Jinxing's answer! It's not the answer to a certain question, but the answer to the six questions asked by Zhu Youjian!

Six questions, one answer. To put it bluntly, the answer is that scholar-bureaucrats must be able to fight! The Ming Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of scholars. If all of them could fight, the captives would be defeated, the thieves would be eliminated, and military expenses would be saved. No matter how many disasters there were,

We are no longer afraid, and no one dares to point their noses at the scholar-bureaucrats and scold them for being shameless. Anyone who scolds them will be hacked to death!

As long as the scholar-officials can fight, all problems will be solved!

Moreover, all the scholar-bureaucrats at Xunzi's time were able to fight. If they couldn't fight, why would they do it? Use it as a master to support them? There is no shortage of masters in any of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period!

Li Xin also started to answer questions. He answered each question one by one.

He has three solutions to the shameless scholar-officials. One is to reduce the number of scholar-officials - there are too many scholar-officials now. Even the scumbags who cannot pass the exam dare to be called scholar-officials? The second is to set up schools and promote practical learning - scholar-officials are not only shameless

, and incompetent!

It is shameless for an incompetent person to occupy the high position of a scholar-bureaucrat!

To solve the problem of the shamelessness of scholar-officials, we must improve their skills, not the ability to write articles, but the ability to do practical things! Therefore, the court had to set up schools to teach practical knowledge, and let the scholar-officials study in schools. Only after they learn their skills can they serve the country.

, only then can you know your shame!

As for the question of whether the Donglu were strong and North Korea would not defend, the answer given by Li Xin was that the North Korean court must be protected and the monarch and his ministers must not surrender. As long as the North Korean court was not lost and the monarch and his ministers did not surrender, the Donglu would be able to pacify the Eight Routes of North Korea.

It won't be easy. It might take a long time and get stuck in it.

In order to protect the royal court and the monarchs of Joseon, we must first send the navy to transport capable soldiers and artillery to Ganghwa Island to set up defenses in case of emergencies!

Because Donglu's troops are cunning and swift, like fire and thunder, the navy and elite soldiers of the imperial court must go to Ganghwa Island as soon as possible. They must not move after hearing that Donglu has sent troops... It will be too late!

As for the huge cost of defending the east with heavy troops, Li Xin gave the method to strengthen the training of the Pingliao Army and the Tianjin Navy. Strengthen their ability to send troops to fight by sea, so that they can attack instead of defend, forcing the Eastern captives to divide their troops and set up defenses.

To reduce the pressure on Liaoxi and Yanshan.

Regarding the issue of taxation on agriculture and commerce, Li Xin's approach was to do business first before farming, travel first and then live, transport by water first and then by land - that is to say, collect commercial taxes first and then collect land taxes. After all, the exemption of land taxes was granted by the first emperor.

Purpose, but there is no basis for preferential or exempted commercial taxes. The collection of commercial taxes can start from business, that is, setting up cards to collect taxes. There were tax cards in the Ming Dynasty, but there were not many in number, and there was a rule of "three no collections"

, that is, eunuchs don’t collect, officials don’t collect, and scholar-bureaucrats don’t collect, so they can’t collect much tax.

Therefore, Li Xin suggested that the "three no-charges" should be abolished first, and water transportation in rivers, lakes and seas should be strictly controlled first, and then tax cards on land should be managed.

As for the commercial taxes in the city, it can be postponed for a while, because the commercial taxes in the city have actually been paid, but they are not paid to the warehouse. Instead, they are received into the pockets of officials at all levels in the name of Chaixin Zaoli Zheyin.

Yes - the low salary for officials in the Ming Dynasty only takes into account the regular salary issued by the court, and does not include the various local corvee and in-kind taxes. And most of these corvees and in-kind taxes are converted into silver.

The industrial and commercial households in the city collect (originally their corvee and physical taxes), so this part of the local business tax has always been collected.

Regarding natural disasters, Li Xin's plan was to use commercial tax revenue to purchase grain and rice from Huguang, Sichuan, Jiangxi and other places, and then establish famine relief warehouses in Xiangyang and Nanyang, which were accessible by waterways, to provide relief to the victims.

As for the last question, that is, the problem of whether the military attache is good or not, the solution given by Li Xin is to improve the military attache's ability and cultural level. In Li Xin's view, as long as the military attache's ability improves, they will all be able to be civilized and military.

Naturally, civil servants dare not look down upon them!

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"Okay! Okay! Okay..."

In the Yuxi Palace, Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty, who was grading papers, was already applauding the case and startling the two examiners, Shi Fenglai and Qian Qianyi.

Zhu Youjian raised his head, looked at the two surprised examiners and said with a smile: "We finally got a few talents from this competition... One for Niu Jinxing, one for Li Xin, one for Wei Zaode, all of them
Chapter completed!