Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Li Yan frowned:

He and Song Xiance had discussed this countless times.

Throughout history, China's system has been evolving.

In the pre-Qin period, due to insufficient productivity, the country's borders at that time were where cities were located.

The nobles brought their own taxis and lived in the city.

Outside the city, there are "savages" who cannot participate in politics.

At that time, the extension of Chinese culture was based on cities.

The emperor divided his ministers into kings.

A gentleman divides nobles into states.

The nobles enfeoffed scholars, overhauled the city-state, and expanded the soil for their country's survival.

Countless princes built cities in the wild and spread Chinese culture bit by bit.

This is feudalism.

(The ancestors have come along the way to shape China, which is really not easy.

If any of you have a middle school history textbook, look through it and you will see that the earliest China was all made up of small dots.

This point is the city.

Then slowly expand your influence, connect the dots, and turn them into surfaces, and thus a territory.

Why did the king personally fight in the pre-Qin period?

It was because the living conditions of the Chinese ancestors at that time were so bad!

For example, Luoyang, the capital of Zhou Dynasty.

Outside Luoyang City, there were more than a dozen named Yi people at that time!

This does not include the Yi people who have not left their names in history.

At that time, the Chinese people were rich, well-fed and well-clothed, but if you were walking in the wild, you would be caught and stripped of all your property...

Forget it, you will all turn into feces...

Cannibalism was very common at that time...

Confucius deleted the Spring and Autumn Period and emphasized etiquette and righteousness.

There were three thousand chapters in Spring and Autumn Period, but after Confucius deleted them, only three hundred chapters remained.

This is called Three Hundred Poems.

Of course, the names of "Spring and Autumn", "Poems" and "Books" were set by Confucius.

I didn't add the book title above.

Why is it called Spring and Autumn?

Because in the third generation, productivity was low.

You can’t fight when farming is busy, you can’t fight when it’s cold, you can’t fight when it’s hot…

This is why in many poems, soldiers sing about going home to harvest wheat.

Due to productivity constraints, most of the campaigns at that time were concentrated in the spring and autumn.

This is also the reason why Guan Zhong's military expedition in winter was so famous - because it was beyond human understanding at the time.

Of course, the reason behind this is that Qi was the first among the vassal states to become rich.

Her productivity was the first to be bronzed.

There were about 3000 feudal states in the Zhou Dynasty, and Qi was the first prince to have a large number of retired soldiers.

This is why the history book of the Three Dynasties is named "Spring and Autumn".

""Qiwei Shangshuwei":

Confucius asked for "Books" and obtained a book written by Dikui, the Yellow Emperor and Yuan Sun, which was handed down to Duke Mu of Qin, totaling 240 and [-] chapters.

This sentence records the number of original historical manuscripts that Confucius obtained.

So why did he excerpt only a small part?

As it was then...

So what do you want him to do?

Is Confucius going to say this——

"Today you ate my people, and I led troops to destroy one of your gathering points?"

"Tomorrow if you steal my wheat, I will lead my troops and beat you up?"

"The day after tomorrow, if you disobey the king's rules and stop my business trip, will I beat you up again?"

or--

"One of my lords declined, and you rushed into the city and used it all as food"?

……

This would make you blind, right?

It is not in line with the teachings of Gaotai!

You have to know that during Confucius' time, those Yi people had already become subjects of the Zhou Dynasty.

Under the conditions at the time, he could only deal with it vaguely——

"Ah, we are all the people of Dazhou, let's move forward hand in hand."

To put it mildly, it is very similar to today’s mainstream...

Madan, I’m going too far again...)

……

Li Yan suddenly remembered the murals on the walls of the Royal University City of the Ming Dynasty...

The monarch led his soldiers to charge into battle and expand the territory...

Isn't it this period?

Li Yan rubbed his chin:

It seems that His Majesty has already anticipated this!

only……

There is no one who can understand what he means...

Li Yan blinked.

He finally understood why the emperor specifically asked Li Zicheng for him and arranged for him to be the head of the Information Agency!

……

Li Yan clenched his fists.

Now that we sit in the position of the Information Agency, we must be the emperor's mouthpiece.

Promoting public opinion that is useful to the emperor is his only mission!

Looking at the pile of manuscripts in front of him, Li Yan frowned and thought hard...

……

The First Emperor unified the world and implemented prefectures and counties. After the abolition of enfeoffments, not long after, the world was ruled by the Han Dynasty.

Since the Han Dynasty, China's policy has always walked on many legs.

This enfeoffment has never been cut off.

During the Han Dynasty, the central government implemented the inspection and examination system.

What is the inspection and examination system?

It means the local government recommends talents to the central government.

That is to say, recommendation.

What is the essence of recommendation?

It’s not the same as the operations of those parties in Jiangnan!

If you want someone to be promoted, first spend some money to buy public opinion.

Once you have a reputation, you won’t get an official position right away!

Therefore, Li Yan is very opposed to this operation.

On this point, he and Song Xiance often quarreled.

Xiaolian......

Promote filial piety and integrity...

To put it bluntly, it is still a game of capital.

These scholars of the Ming Dynasty also followed the same routine...

Is it...

Li Yan suddenly woke up——

Are these people preparing for a big public outcry?

Yes!

Today the officialdom is filled with ministers who are bent on following the emperor.

In fact, since the emperor broke down the barriers between officials and officials and allowed officials to be evaluated for official positions, the privileges of scholars have fallen to the lowest point in history!

The emperor's intention is very clear - to demote talents in any way!

Even if you don't even have the reputation of being a scholar, as long as you can stand out from the huge team of officials.

You can come to the temple as high as you can!

He specifically checked last year's Enke situation.

There are only about thirty people who take the traditional imperial examination.

These people are also responsible for writing and painting.

So far, few have been promoted!

On the contrary, it is those miscellaneous scholars who have entered the university...

At that time, it seemed that after being admitted, he would have to go to the Imperial College to study.

Having fame and not having fame are the same...

However, after only half a year of intensive training, more than 3 officials have been appointed in the assessment after the New Year.

Among them, there are many people who are promoted to third-grade officials as soon as they take office!

As long as these people work hard for two years, they can directly enter the officialdom and become officials.

Officialdom is not an airtight wall!

The emperor's intention to break the imperial examination system monopolized by scholars has become obvious!

Under such circumstances, how could those people give up?

And just...

During the New Year's Day dynasty, the emperor awarded civil and military awards to the entire dynasty, and directly granted these officials in the Ming Dynasty the privilege of allowing certain heirs to study in the Royal University City of the Ming Dynasty...

Li Yan's eyes were bright.

The look of fatigue was gone.

The emperor's hand...

High!

This tied the entire Ming Dynasty to their chariots!