Wanli Youming

Chapter 341

Chapter 341

late at night.

The formerly noisy dormitory of Daming Governance Academy returned to silence, only the sound of snoring suppressed Xueluo's voice one after another.

Ye Xianggao in the school turned over at this moment.

He, who only knew Zhu Ben's content during the day today, couldn't help but glance at the scribe's sword hanging on the stick.

The so-called Zhu version is of course the memorial version that has been approved by the imperial court.

Like a decree.

And because the content of the memorial book is not to deal with Ye Xianggao, it is because of his words that he has given the decree of respecting scholars and encouraging students.

Therefore, all the scholars in the ruling school breathed a sigh of relief for him, and lamented that His Majesty is indeed not a king who cannot accept words.

But Ye Xianggao himself was not so excited. After staring at Bai Mengmeng's outside, he put on his clothes rustlingly, lit the candle lamp, and took down the scribe's sword.

Swish!

Ye Xianggao pulled out the scribe sword.

He is the number one scholar hand-picked and awarded by the official editor, so he has his own independent courtyard, so he doesn't have to worry about making noise.

With a squeak, Ye Xianggao pushed open the door, and danced with the sword in the courtyard for a while, when he was tired from dancing and was about to go back to the house to rest, he heard a slap from the next door.

Ye Xianggao also followed the sound and walked through the Moon Cave Gate. He was surprised to see that Li Tingji, who also had his own independent courtyard, was drawing a bow and shooting arrows under the moonlight and snow.

"Your Majesty really accepted your words, and he really wanted to respect the status of scholars. It's just that according to the imperial decree, if scholars really want to be distinguished from the common people, they need to go out and make meritorious deeds. There are still hereditary officials and nobility, and they all have to go out."

"Isn't it worthwhile to stand up and stand up in the pass?"

Li Tingji saw that the person who came was Ye Xianggao, so after Ye Xianggao came, he started talking.

Ye Xianggao looked at the arrows that fell on the snow and said, "This shows that your majesty has great ambitions, not only to become the king of Zhongxing!"

"Don't be overjoyed."

Because Ye Xianggao has always had a good relationship with him, and they are still from the same hometown, and it is late at night, there are only two of them, and the scholar style of the Ming Dynasty always advocated bold and outspoken words, so Li Tingji just said this bluntly.

Ye Xianggao smiled and said, "How can this be considered a great feat! While directly making a plan to conquer Burma, it would be considered a great feat by mobilizing [-] troops and millions of civilians to carry out the conquest; now it is just to encourage scholars to go out and learn by themselves." It's just Ban Dingyuan, but how many people are willing to be Ban Dingyuan?"

"Yes!"

"How many people are willing to be Ban Dingyuan?"

"However, Your Majesty admires martial arts too much, and now he encourages literati to worship martial arts and make meritorious deeds, instead of emphasizing the way of internal sages. Doesn't it mean that those who want to be ministers in the future must also have martial arts?"

Li Tingji said with emotion.

Ye Xianggao looked at Li Tingji: "Your Majesty should mean this! Fame is obtained from the horse, and the fame obtained by studying will only get subsidized food from the court, but if you want to be famous, you have to make contributions to the country. In this way Only in this way can we ensure that the country will not be left with too much food and no officials to confer due to the increasing number of scholar-officials and bureaucrats. As long as the territory continues to expand, there will be no shortage of new taxes to collect, and no shortage of new officials to fill."

Whoosh!

Li Tingji shot another arrow, but it fell to the ground again.

Li Tingji shook his head, and said to Ye Xianggao: "However, you are right. Your Majesty has great ambitions. He does not hesitate to use people's desire for wealth to lure literati to do dangerous things for the sake of Ming Dynasty's eternal prosperity." Things!"

"It seems that you, brother Zhang, don't approve of the emperor's progress."

Ye Xianggao laughed.

"The main reason is that he was born Jin Taifu and died with the posthumous title of Wenzheng, which is enough to be prominent! Why do the scholar-bureaucrats have to work so hard to become more noble people? Just for the eternal prosperity of the Ming Dynasty? To use the more noble hereditary military titles, Induce them to do such a dangerous thing!"

"Your Majesty can't accept that everything has its own reason for decline and glory? It's not possible, Your Majesty will perish in this life, so why is this so?"

Li Tingji looked back at Ye Xianggao and said, and drew his bow again.

"Don't practice! I'll shoot an arrow for you. If you eat too much, you won't be able to chew it, and it will easily hurt your tendons."

Ye Xianggao snatched Li Tingji's bow and arrow, and only for a while, after letting go, he saw an arrow wobbly stuck in the archery target, shaking off a lot of snow.

The son of a military family, he is obviously better at archery than Li Tingji, who was born in a sea merchant.

Ye Xianggao asked at this time: "You don't agree, why practice archery so hard late at night?"

"These are the six arts of a gentleman, how can we relax? You can't just practice because the court doesn't take the exam!"

Li Tingji withdrew his half-protruded tongue, and asked Ye Xianggao back with a blushing face.

Ye Xianggao yawned, then left with a smile.

……

It is not very difficult to deal with the mentality that the scholar-bureaucrats need to be nobler than the common people. Zhu Yijun can completely combine this with the mentality of deliberately making the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty conservative and introverted while actively expanding and aggressive, and using the mentality of the scholars to seek nobility, let them Work harder and contribute to the court.

Because Zhu Yijun didn't intend to eliminate the nobles in the country, he just didn't like the nobles who only knew about their nests.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun doesn't mind common people becoming nobles through studying, and he is even willing to let ordinary people become higher-ranking nobles through studying, but the price is higher. In that case, he can become a hereditary nobleman like Duke Duke of the Empire, and he can even posthumously become a prince.

Anyway, at this point in the development of the times, the difference between a king and a duke is only that the economic interests are greater, and he can no longer hold real power, but it is just a false name.

Zhu Yijun's structure is not so pedantic that he thinks that Wang Jue really has to be the same as the ancients.

However, the ruling ministers and the officials of the Ke Dao were not good at dissuading them, and they did not cause too much controversy. They said that the emperor could not give the scholars the opportunity to make military meritorious deeds. After all, no one wanted to be scolded to death by the scholars all over the world. The ministers of the DPRK and China blocked the way for them to cross the class through military meritorious service.

What is really controversial in the Zhengshitang is another matter, and it is the matter of some governors acting as officials and advocating the establishment of practical affairs in the local area.

Because this is different from the quasi-scholar who became a dignitary through overseas meritorious service, this is a real robbing of the flesh of the private gentry and aristocratic family in China!

Originally, the imperial store was enough to make them dissatisfied, and the government also personally came down to compete for business profits. Isn't this killing the gentry all over the world? !

It's just that people like Lu Kun, Jin Xuezeng, and Shen Li did just that!

Although they are also members of the scholar-bureaucrats, civil servants, and landlords, they are also members of the ruling class who safeguard the interests of the country. Therefore, they are based on the interests of the country and the long-term interests of the landlord class. Under the influence of the government, the bold ones have to personally set up practical affairs in the name of the government.

"Your Majesty, I object to this!"

"As soon as this example is opened, can the local governor change the law and expand the treasury to compete with the central court?"

"If things go on like this, even though these big officials in the frontier are not vassals, they are indeed vassals, and the country will not be a country!"

The privy envoy Fang Fengshi objected to this at first, and spoke out in front of the imperial court.

However, he is not so mercenary because he is a reformer and enlightened person, because he opposed it because he was competing with the gentry. He thought that the imperial power would be greatly affected by this.

As a remnant of Zhang Juzheng's party, he advocates doing his best for the emperor, and he is unwilling to have a situation where the local governor will be able to fight against the court because of the increase in financial power.

(End of this chapter)