Wanli Youming

Chapter 71
"Who can be handsome?"

When Zhu Yijun was in the Wenhua Palace, he told Zhang Juzheng about Chen Lin's worries.

Zhang Juzheng was quite enlightened, secretly recalling the content of Zhu Yijun's question just now.

Zhang Juzheng is different from the general civil servants in the central government. He attaches great importance to the military equipment of the empire, and is willing to give the military officers more power, so that the military officers can have more room to play.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng said after hearing this: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, since this Chen Lin realizes that the empire should have a handsome talent, then this person may be able to be cultivated."

Zhu Yijun nodded: "I also have the same intention, and I agree with his words. Set up a military and political academy as a place for reserve governors to study, and they will be taught by experienced border officials!"

"In addition, we also regularly select outstanding people from the local general army, let them study in the Military and Political Academy, and then transfer to civilian positions in the future. , to avoid the increasing number of soldiers who can fight; thirdly, they can also use their actual combat talents to make up for the shortcomings of too many soldiers who don’t know how to fight.”

"At the beginning of this dynasty, there was a case where military generals were transferred to civil positions. The King of Zhongshan used military officers to transfer to Zhongshu civil positions. In the Song Dynasty, there were also cases in which King E and King Qi were transferred to deputy envoys. Your Majesty's words are indeed a good policy. Your Majesty Follow orders."

"It's just that I'm afraid it will make people dissatisfied, especially the civil servants who hold the commanding power. They think that they have studied hard for more than ten years and have made military exploits repeatedly. Why should they have the same opportunity as the warriors to control the military?"

"In this way, it may be possible that those who finally take the military examination will also take the military examination for the convenience of changing their official career to a civil position, rather than because they are really bad at the imperial examination."

"And in this way, most of the people selected for the martial arts examination will be those who are talented in literature, and those who are not strong in riding and shooting. Because the current imperial court military selection actually pays attention to the literary test of sage knowledge, it is enough to pass the riding and shooting swordsman. Wen is more important than martial arts, which makes many scholars choose literary selection instead of military selection, but if the difference between civil and military is broken, there must be those who are afraid of the difficulty of the literary selection and choose military selection."

"If this is the case, it may be even more difficult for those who are not outstanding in writing but excellent in riding and shooting to win the martial arts examination or martial arts Jinshi."

Zhang Juzheng replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, he understood what Zhang Juzheng meant.

It is nothing more than that the imperial examinations in Ming Dynasty have always been very curly.

Especially the liberal arts examination.

Because culture is more valuable than martial arts, many people choose civil examinations, so that there are actually many losers in civil examinations.

Those who can't pass the exam in a lifetime account for a large proportion. It's just that history doesn't record the stories of losers.

Therefore, it gives people a feeling that it seems easy for a literati in history to obtain fame.

In fact, in some provinces, there were only a few Jinshi in the history of imperial examinations in the entire Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. Based on the fact that each province has a fixed quota of dozens of candidates for each session, it can be said that most of the candidates in some provinces did not end up with the highest number of candidates. Can be a Jinshi.

But now, once the boundary between military officers and civilian officials is broken, many scholars who are unwilling to go to the civil examination papers, especially those with better family backgrounds and conditions for martial arts training, will directly transfer to the military imperial examination. From military to civilian.

Anyway, they have something to do with being children from a good family, and it is not difficult to transfer from martial arts to literary with mixed military achievements.

It's just that if this is the case, it will make it more difficult for many children from military backgrounds or middle- and lower-level military households to be discovered by the court through martial arts.

After all, once the majority of scholars come to martial arts, it will raise the admission threshold for martial arts exams.

In fact, serious involution in the land of Huaxia has always existed.

Especially in the middle and late dynasties, historically there were highly specialized subjects such as mathematics and medicine in the imperial examinations to recruit technical officials, but the reason why they were canceled one after another was that many scholars only took these subjects as a way of entering the examination. official shortcut.

Many scholars who studied mathematics, medicine, and law, once they got official positions, put aside their majors and went to earnestly pursue official careers.

Originally, the imperial court wanted to have more technical bureaucrats, but in the end there were many more people who wanted to compete with the central and local officials for real power. The so-called technical bureaucrats had already actively assimilated into bureaucrats without any technical accumulation.

Otherwise, Zhang Juzheng would not have thought of this.

"Since this is the case, it seems that before transferring Wu to Wen, the military officer must also take a Literary Examination. Only in this way can people be convinced, and also to avoid people who try to take shortcuts, or get a pass from the college exam and the township exam. Either try to qualify, or fight out from the border town with real swords and guns to obtain the qualification for the test as the commander-in-chief."

After Zhu Yijun said that, he asked: "In this way, the scholars of the world will always be convinced and dare not take shortcuts?"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"This is more conducive to the children of ordinary people who will be in command of His Majesty's army in the future, but it will not prevent the children of ordinary military households from military households from being able to be His Majesty's commander-in-chief in the future."

Zhang Juzheng replied.

"If you think about it, if you have more than a thousand households as a military officer, you won't be able to afford to hire literati to teach you how to read!"

Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Then draw up an edict based on this and issue it to the Ministry of War!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Zhu Yijun originally wanted to talk about the reform of the imperial examination system, but he should not act too hastily. Neo Confucianism still occupies an absolute dominant position. It is better to wait for changes in the social production relations and even the field of thought before considering changing the content of the imperial examination.

"Give Chen Lin my set of Song Edition "Four Books Annotations". He should be able to understand what I mean."

When Zhu Yijun returned to Qianqing Palace, he took out his set of "Four Books Annotations" and handed it to Zhang Hong who was on duty.

Zhang Hong hurriedly bowed his hands and said yes.

After Zhang Juzheng returned to the cabinet, Zhang Siwei handed over a memorial to Zhang Juzheng and said: "Uncle, this is the news of the success of Liaodong, sent to Beijing by the disciple Liu Tai, the censor of Liaodong patrol!"

Zhang Juzheng frowned after hearing this, and said: "The inspector censor has no right to supervise military affairs, nor has the right to report military merits. By doing this, where does he put the governor and the court system?"

Seeing what Zhang Juzheng said, Zhang Siwei couldn't help persuading him: "Maybe it's just eager to repay the credit. Besides, both the governor and the inspector are censors, so it's nothing to say something. Don't be too harsh, uncle."

"This is not a matter of being harsh or not!"

"Because he did well in the exam, the servant specially promoted him as an inspector and went to Liaodong to handle frontier affairs. As a result, he violated the system first as a censor! What kind of reason is this? He can report military merits for the governor today. Will he be able to mobilize soldiers and horses for the governor tomorrow, and dare to kill military officials on behalf of the governor the next day?!"

"What makes sense!"

After Zhang Juzheng said, he went back to his own house, and immediately wrote a private letter reprimanding Liu Tai, but he didn't directly vote to dismiss his student on the grounds of disorderly system, but the words in the letter were quite severe.

Zhang Juzheng has always been strict with his students.

You must know that even Wanli, a student of the emperor, supervised him very closely, let alone other students who did not have the status of a monarch.

It's just that Liu Tai didn't appreciate the strict teacher's affection. As soon as Zhang Juzheng's private letter accusing him arrived in Liaodong, after reading it, he complained on the spot and read it again: "As an inspector, the first thing you do is to refrain. In the future, because of this, there will be state inspectors restricting the power of the governor to command, leading to a major defeat in the war, and damage to the national fortune, and even the country's subjugation! Can you bear the responsibility of this bad system?!"

Although Zhang Juzheng's concerns were indeed manifested in the late Ming Dynasty, it was not once or twice that the inspectors and censors constrained the governor and the border affairs were repeatedly affected. Getting heavier and heavier.

However, after being reprimanded by Zhang Juzheng, Liu Tai did not admit his mistake quickly, but directly published a memorial to impeach Zhang Juzheng.

More than a month later, the 23rd day of the first month of the fourth year of Wanli.

As soon as Zhu Yijun came back from the Jingwei Martial Arts School, Zhang Hong hurried over and said, "My lord! Mr. Yuanfu Zhang was impeached by his protégé Liu Tai!" Fu's mortal sin!"

Zhu Yijun's face darkened after hearing this, and then he sneered and said, "I said a long time ago that Fu Yingzhen is not the last one, and those who don't kill people and oppose him will only become more and more ruthless. Look, this time it's his disciple who exposed his teacher's truth." !"

"Go to Mr. Xuan!"

(End of this chapter)