Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Over time, after more than thirty years, craftsmen still considered themselves to be of low status and unworthy of taking the imperial examinations.

It is accepted that the term "scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans" encompasses all of them.

In fact, the late emperor hated officials first, and businessmen secondly.

He did not set up separate household registrations for these two types of people, let alone rank them in order.

The late emperor loved peasants the most and loved to reduce their burdens.

For example, the land tax was the lowest in the Hongwu period among all dynasties.

It’s just that the late emperor was too naive.

No matter how much he wants to love and respect farmers, when it comes to implementation at the grassroots level, those who honestly farm the land still live the hardest lives.

According to Xu, during the entire Ming Dynasty, the actual order was scholars, merchants, workers, and farmers.

The literati are always the group of people who live the best. The financial backers behind them are the big merchants from the south of the Yangtze River who do business all over the country under the name of landlords.

The big merchants made a fortune thanks to the various policies favored by the scholars and officials in the court, and their lives were very good.

Craftsmen have skills but cannot earn a lot of money. They are frequently summoned by the imperial court and can barely make ends meet.

Only the majority of self-cultivating farmers had the hardest life. Natural disasters, man-made calamities, corvee labor and taxes all weighed heavily on them.

You can say whatever you want.

Even if a ninth-rank official is not corrupt and does not accept regular wages, his life is better than that of a poor farmer who has to dig for food in the fields, depend on the weather for food every season, and perform countless corvee labor every year.

Now that farmers have high-yield crops like sweet potatoes, they can slow down their work and get by.

The only ones left are the craftsmen who are very wronged.

Especially those craftsmen who are specialized in this field.

They work hard but become the most lowly people.

Just bully the honest people.

This is clearly a strategy used by the literati to fool the people.

These people consider themselves inferior and dare not make any demands or fight for any rights.

Another thing is that everyone in the entire Ming Dynasty tacitly accepted that they were of low status.

Even if there are smart people among them, it will be difficult for them to take part in scientific expeditions once they realize that they are not actually good enough.

In the first stage of the imperial examination - the county examination, applicants had to be guaranteed by a student on government stipend in the county, and every five candidates from the county had to provide a joint guarantee, in order to prevent candidates from being of lowly origin from sneaking in.

If it is confirmed that the candidate is of low status, then the candidate's title will be revoked and he will be sentenced to exile.

The other four candidates were punished together and were not allowed to take the imperial examination for the rest of their lives.

In order to avoid the risk of being implicated, no student would act as a guarantor for a craftsman.

There will not be any candidates from the county to guarantee them.

This division of the lower classes and the higher classes among the people completely cut off the path to taking the imperial examinations for anyone except the commoners.

Without so many people competing for the few remaining Jinshi positions, the vested interests will not propose improvements even if they are aware of the tricks involved.

"After hearing what you said, it's not just the craftsmen who are wronged, the stoves and soldiers are the same!"

Zhu Di was a soldier who loved fighting. From a natural military perspective, he felt that in this matter, the military households were more wronged than the artisans.

If Xu hadn't told him, he really wouldn't have remembered why no soldiers took the imperial examination.

Large garrisons all had schools for elementary education, and military children could go to school. He had always thought that everyone was not good at studying and could not pass the exam, so no one took the exam.

Just like him, if he were to take the imperial examination, he would keep silent.

So, it’s his father’s fault again?

Is this matter of good and bad classes corrupt?

"It's almost the same. I didn't say before that we can't change. Your father is not a person who listens to advice."

Xu replied very practically.

"So we're going to change it now?"

It’s not that Zhu Di didn’t want to change it, but it wasn’t his job to do it anyway.

It seems that now many things of his father have been completely overturned. I feel that his father's glorious image is collapsing bit by bit.

"Isn't it already being changed? Especially for the military households. What do you think the Imperial College is for? Bo——"

Xu found the silly Zhu Di very cute and leaned over to give him a kiss.

"My queen is truly worthy of the reputation of being a female scholar. Your Majesty, I am ashamed of myself!! I am slow to realize it again!"

Zhu Di touched his face and pulled Xu to sit in his arms.

"No, the emperor is blessed with great fortune, nothing can stop him!"

Xu's music.

Regarding the matter of adding the military examination, Zhu Gaochi actually didn't think that far ahead.

He told her that his original intention was to reserve some military generals.

Who could have known that Zhu Di would expand it into the Imperial College while yelling in the court?

This is a stroke of genius, the painting is so wonderful that it is beyond words.

Except that the military power is now in the hands of the Zhu family.

In the future, all the people trained in the Imperial College will be direct descendants of the Zhu family.

And it will continue.

This incident also curbed the court officials' efforts to reach out to the army, making their plan to send civil servants to control the army directly thwarted.

"It has to work. Some people may not be able to teach, and they may not be loyal to our Zhu family."

Zhu Di was not as optimistic as Xu.

"The Imperial College recruits students every year, every three years. After three years, among the thousand people, there are only one or two who are useful? Every year, there are more than a thousand students graduating from the Imperial College. After ten or twenty years, you can calculate this number."

Xu reminded us to think long-term.

"Fuck, dozens? Hundreds of thousands?"

Zhu Di almost fell off the stool while holding Xu in his arms.

"They are useless and not on the same page with us. How many more can we have? We have led these people to fight in the south, north and west for more than ten years. When they are well trained, we will be able to use them. By then, we will not be constrained by the court officials. What we should worry about is that the descendants of the Zhu family will not indulge in war in the future."

Xu always thinks far ahead.

But she stopped her wandering thoughts in time.

She will just take care of her grandchildren for the rest of their lives. Can she still crawl out from underground and roar at their grandchildren's grandchildren if they ruin the family business?

"Why do I feel like you're talking about me when you say that?"

Zhu Di felt very much implied.

"Your Majesty, this is a great achievement. What are you thinking about? Let's go, let's eat first, and then we can write to Big Fatty. There are not so many remnants of the former Yuan Dynasty now, and the Zhang family members that the late emperor hated are all dead. It doesn't matter if they are deposed. We are magnanimous."

Xu jumped up, pulled Zhu Di up, and walked out.

"Oh fine."

"Oh, by the way, 20th brother Zhu Song, 21st brother Zhu Mo, 22nd brother Zhu Ying, 23rd brother Zhu Gao, 24th brother Zhu Dong, 25th brother Zhu Xi, 17th brother's two children Zhu Panyan and Zhu Panye, when do you plan to let them go?"

"Didn't I tell you yet?"

"No, I mentioned half of the enemy situation last time, but I forgot about it later. I just remembered it now."

"Then you can remind me to arrange it together this time. It will be fine if it is about the same time as ours."

"it is good."

[Small science: Ma, Xu, and Zhang were all famous empresses in the Ming Dynasty. All three were known for their virtues, but the records about Xu were more focused on saying that she was well-read and well-versed in literature. It is said that when she was young, she could read ten lines at a glance and remember everything she read. She was known as a "female scholar". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, scholars generally referred to students who passed the lowest level of examinations, which is what we often call scholars.]

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