Daming: At the beginning, the big snow dragon rides to create a martial arts court

"In the case of the Nanzhou massacre, Dashanren's family was exiled, and the whole family died on the road to exile. However, Dashanren had a son who was adopted by a cousin when he was 14 years old. That son was named Zhou Xin."

"Zhou Xin? The scholar who died in the scholar poisoning case?"

Zhu Qiyu sighed:

"This is his motive for committing the crime? It's justifiable. He knew that the murderer was so powerful that he couldn't commit the crime with his own ability. He could only use his own death to reveal the truth of the year. But he was only poisoned by one person, and he didn't get much attention. , It’s just that those poisoned scholars are too innocent.”

Zhu Qiyu seemed to be able to understand Zhou Xin's despair, and the grievance was hard to appeal, so he could only use this method.

Indeed, as he expected, the group of scholars were poisoned, which attracted the attention of the court, and then he faked the illusion that he was killed, leaving the word Penglai in the record.

Di Renjie shook his head silently, and handed over a file: "Your Majesty, this is the hometown of the poisoned scholar."

"Nation?"

Zhu Qiyu was a little confused for a while, what does it have to do with this case and his hometown?

Ganzhou, Yunzhou, Nanzhou, Xizhou, Huzhou, Luozhou.

All are from those six states.

"Your Majesty, these are the six states with the fewest Jinshi in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Ganzhou, the least, has only eight Jinshi in the past hundred years, and Zhejiang Province, the most, has produced 1000 and 900 Jinshi. The second Jiangzhou was born. There are [-] Jinshi, and the third Tianzhou has more than [-] Jinshi."

Di Renjie sighed, "The sum of Jinshi born in the last six states in the past hundred years is only [-]% of that born in the third-ranked state."

Zhu Qiyu frowned slightly. He remembered an event that happened in the time of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. During the triennial examination, the imperial court announced a list of 52 people, but they were called Gongshi, similar to Jinshi now.

After reading the top and bottom of the list, those who are interested found an astonishing pattern—from the No.1 Song Cong to the last Liu Zixin, among the 52 people on the list, all They are from the south, and no one from the north is on the list!

The furious northern scholars and some squires reported to Zhu Yuanzhang that the chief examiner Liu Sanwu and others "privately owned their hometowns" and deliberately favored the southerners, so only the southerners were admitted.

If this is the case, this is an unprecedented case of fraud in the examination room.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately ordered the chief examiner Liu Sanwu to be dismissed and suspended, and at the same time ordered twelve officials including Zhang Xin to review the test papers.

20 days later, Zhang Xin reported to the emperor the results of investigation 053:

The grades of southern scholars are indeed significantly better than those of northern scholars. Even Liu Zixin, the 52nd southerner on the list, has significantly better grades than the best-ranked northern scholar.

This truth is obviously not satisfactory to Zhu Yuanzhang. At this time, the imperial examination results are already second, and the most important thing is that the results must balance the north and the south.

In a rage, Zhu Yuanzhang executed two batches of 20 examiners including Bai Xinwu, the deputy examiner, and Zhang Xin, the reexaminer, and hundreds of other examiners were implicated to varying degrees.

After several months of tossing, under Zhu Yuanzhang's direct intervention, generals were selected from among those who failed, and a list of 61 people was drawn up, with the southerners and the northerners basically balanced.

Today, four of the top five Jinshi states in Ming Dynasty are all southern states. These states have one thing in common, a developed economy and a higher level of education than other states.

Among Ganzhou, Yunzhou, Nanzhou, Xizhou, Huzhou, and Luozhou, there are four southern states and two northern states, all of which are poor and have low levels of education.

As time went on, the gap began to widen again, this time, it was not a question of North and South, but a question of economically developed and less developed regions.

This is not just a question of economics and education level, but also a question of examiners.

Chapter 87 Fair!fair!Still fucking fair!

Fairness is not there.

The emperor didn't want all the scholars to come from Zhejiang, Jiangzhou, Tianzhou and other states, but in fact, the court was full of officials from these states, and most of the examiners, examiners, and examiners were from these states. They don't take care of students from this state, so it's hard to take care of people from other states.

There is no first place in writing. To evaluate the quality of an article is an extremely subjective thing. Unless it is a well-known masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages, you can always find some faults.

Originally, the level of education was slightly low, and there was also the partiality of the examiners, the officials who set the questions, and the officials who marked the papers, forming a vicious circle.

The gap between Ganzhou, Yunzhou and other states and Zhejiang and Jiangzhou is getting bigger and bigger.

For each imperial examination, each state in Zhejiang and Jiangzhou can produce one or two hundred Jinshi, while Ganzhou and Yunzhou can only produce one or two.

Such a gap is desperate.

This is no longer a question of the gap between education and the economy.

Zhu Qiyu suddenly realized.

"No wonder you beg me to forgive the murderer's innocence. The murderer is all the poisoned scholars."

"I admit that they succeeded."

"I will definitely pay more attention to these poisoned scholars. In the imperial examinations, the examiners will be less partial, or dare not show favoritism."

"According to the usual practice in previous years, among the more than 70 people, only [-]% of the scholars can be taken at most."

"But if the exams are judged fairly, at least it can be more, maybe it can reach [-]%, maybe it can reach [-]%."

Zhu Qiyu let out a long sigh: "Zhou Xin, you are amazing. You can kill two birds with one stone. You can not only avenge your relatives, but also bring justice to the selection of scholars."

"Fairness! Redress!"

Di Renjie knelt heavily: "Your Majesty, Zhou Xin spent three years traveling all over the six states, looking for scholars, and I saw that his feet were covered with calluses."

"It's too difficult for scholars from these states to obtain scholars. The reason why they agreed to Zhou Xin's plan is just for fairness. Please forgive them for their innocence¨.!"

"Your Majesty, please forgive them for their innocence." Bao Zheng also knelt down.

Zhu Qiyu was slightly silent: "I promise you, forgive them for their innocence."

"I will do it fair! Fair! It's still fucking fair!"

He will not be like Zhu Yuanzhang, selecting generals from short stature to forcibly achieve a balance. It was at the beginning of the founding of the country. In order to maintain the stability of the country, a balance between the north and the south was needed, but now it is not the beginning of the founding of the country. Now he can only choose soldiers fairly.

"Your Majesty, Shengming!"

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Since ancient times, political power has emerged from the barrel of a gun. Zhu Qiyu naturally agrees with this point. After the two powerful emperors Taizu and Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty, why did the emperor of the Ming Dynasty gradually lose power and was even faintly restrained by the cabinet? It was precisely because of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty A little bit lost the ability to control the military power.

According to the original development of history, the changes in the civil fortress almost wiped out the elites of the Ming military general Xungui Group, which was originally relied on by the emperor, which led to the collapse of the Xungui Group and the rise of literati.

The Ming emperor lost direct control over the army. As a result, when facing the cabinet, the emperor's power was greatly affected.

Of course, now the Emperor Ming still has the ability to control military power.

According to historical development, it was Yu Qian who was the admiral of the Beijing camp and turned the tide. From then on, the status of the Ministry of War began to rise.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies at the beginning to check and balance each other. The Governor's Office of the Five Armies had the right to command the troops, while the Ministry of War had the right to deploy troops. Both powers belonged to the emperor.

After the Tumu Fortress Change, the Ministry of War began to gradually intervene in the appointment and removal of generals, the training and management of garrisons in various places, and firmly controlled these powers in the hands of the Ministry of War.

And these powers all belonged to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion before, and the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion only had the right to manage military households and farmland.

The Ministry of War cut off all the meat of the five armies' governor's mansion piece by piece.

Later, the management of military households and farmland began to be assigned to the Ministry of War.After that, the Dudu's Mansion of the Five Armies completely became a vain military institution, without any power anymore.

This also marked the gradual loss of the emperor's military power.

Without the defense of the capital, Yu Qian was still an ordinary Minister of the Ministry of War. Although the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion lost a large number of nobles, the power belonging to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion still existed, but those positions were still vacant, and Zhu Qiyu did not appoint anyone.

These nobles are jumping up and down to fill those positions during this time.

It's a pity that in Zhang Zhong's case, many nobles were implicated, and they were much more peaceful.

It's just that Zhu Qiyu is too dissatisfied with Daming's current army and needs reform.

The reform began with the emperor's pro-military and 26 guards.

Habayashi's resident school.

In front of Nuo Da's barracks, several soldiers were standing with long guns, but they were a little loose.

Dressed in casual clothes, with more than a dozen imperial guards casually behind him, Zhu Qiyu got off his horse and walked towards the barracks.

The group of them was too conspicuous, and those soldiers immediately showed vigilance. When they walked five or six meters away, although they felt the unusual power, one soldier still held his spear and pointed at Zhu Qiyu and the others: "The important place of the barracks! The idlers wait to stop!"

"put……"

Seeing that a small soldier dared to stop His Majesty, a guard was furious and was about to reprimand him.

Zhu Qiyu raised his hand lightly, and swallowed all the words of the imperial guards. Zhu Qiyu looked at the soldiers slightly with his eyes. He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. He looked at Zhu Qiyu, but he didn't step back.

Zhu Qiyu smiled slightly: "What if I must go in?"

The soldiers were not stupid, they knew that their identities were not simple, but they gritted their teeth: "That's not okay, the barracks (Li Hao) is heavy, and no one is allowed to enter without an order from the Shangguan!"

A hundred households happened to pass by the gate of the barracks, and when they saw Zhu Qiyu and his party being blocked from a distance, they were almost frightened out of their wits.

He has never met Zhu Qiyu, but he recognizes the imperial guards, who else is protected by the imperial guards, except the emperor?

"Tu Hong! Don't get out of the way!"

The hundred households came running at the fastest speed in their lives.

Tu Hong shook his head: "They don't have a warrant, so they can't trespass into the important place of the military camp!"

"You, you, you... you stubborn donkey! Do you know that in front of you is... what a noble person! I order you to get out of the way!"

These hundred households were very clever, and just about to reveal their identities, they saw Zhu Qiyu in casual clothes, so they knew that he didn't want to reveal their identities.

"You guys, pull him away!"

Several soldiers rushed forward to pull Tu Hong away. The soldier had a stubborn expression on his face.

Chapter 88 Kill the chicken and warn the monkey!

"Your name is Tu Hong?"

Zhu Qiyu asked.

"Yes."

Tu Hong nodded.

Hundreds of households were immediately envious. It would be a great future for His Majesty to ask for their names in person.

With hundreds of households leading the way, no one will stop them.

Strolling around in the Habayashiwei barracks, I found that the barracks were fairly orderly, with three or five soldiers gathered together, but I didn't see a single soldier in training.

Zhu Qiyu also knows that in this era, it is difficult to achieve one training per day, and it can even be said that one training every three days can be regarded as a real elite soldier.

To put it simply, the food consumed by a person exercising for a day is definitely different from lying down for a day.

Soldiers train every day and consume too much food to afford.

When he came to the battle drum, Zhu Qiyu turned to look at the hundred households leading the way and asked, "What's your name?"

Baihu was overjoyed, he worked so hard just to please the other party, if he was lucky, he might fall into His Majesty's eyes.

Zheng Hao, who was inexplicably pleasantly surprised, hurriedly saluted extremely respectfully: "My subject, Zheng Hao, has seen His Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Pass my order! Beat the drums and gather the generals!"

dong dong dong dong!

As the sound of drums resounded throughout the barracks, all the generals of 053 with more than one hundred households were in the area where the drums were beating and gathering generals. Immediately, all thousands of households and hundreds of households rushed towards the drums.

In half a quarter of an hour, if any general fails to arrive in time, he will be dealt with by military law. The military law in the army is strict, and very few people dare to try the law by themselves.

After all, it was the emperor's own army, Habayashi Guard, and most of them arrived within half a quarter of an hour.

Beside the war drum, Zhu Qiyu sat on it with a big horse and a golden knife, and the imperial guards guarded both sides of the battle, holding the handle of the knife, and scanned the officers who came in with sharp eyes.

Zheng Hao next to him was still struggling to beat the drums.

The officers here are not qualified to meet the emperor, so they don't know what Zhu Qiyu looks like, but they, like Zheng Hao, know the iconic armor of the Imperial Guard.

It's like Jin Yiwei's iconic flying fish suit.

In addition, Zhu Qiyu sat at the head, dignified and dignified, with a majestic aura, he instantly knew who was sitting next to the drum.

When everyone came over, they couldn't help but lighten their steps, feeling awe-inspiring.

The sudden arrival of the emperor is not a good thing for them.

Soon, including a guard commander, several thousand households, dozens of hundreds of households arrived.

The drumming gradually stopped, and then Zhu Qiyu slowly opened his eyes, the audience was silent, Zhu Qiyu glanced over, and no one dared to look at him.

"Chen Feng, roll call!"

Zhu Qiyu said lightly.