Save the Bachelor of Heaven

  Gao Ming breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Xiang Nan had pardoned Gao Kun and the female family members of the Gao family.

  It is already a rare grace for the Gao family to leave behind a ray of incense.

  So he said everything he knew.

  Xiang Nan followed suit and uncovered a group of remnants of senior ministers.

  After that, Gao Xiang, Gao Kun, and the backbone of Gao Xiang's party were publicly punished for malpractice, embezzlement, perverting the law, harming the people, and harming public interests.

   And after death, the head was pickled with lime and passed on to the ten ways of the country as a warning.

  The elimination of Gao Xiang's party effectively deterred the officialdom of the rich dynasty, making those who were lucky enough to become uneasy and curb their greed.

  The downfall of many corrupt officials also won the hearts of the people for Xiang Nan. The common people are all grateful, Qi Kua Xiangnan is a wise king and lord who helped them punish corrupt officials and gave them justice.

  As for the money looted by these corrupt officials, it will be filled into the national treasury.

  Among them, the money seized by the Gao family alone amounted to three million guan. There are also hundreds of thousands of mu of fertile land and hundreds of shops, which can be said to be a big rat.

   No wonder. After all, he has been the prime minister for twenty years, the so-called clearing the magistrate for one year, one hundred thousand snowflakes, not to mention that he has let go of greed.

  Gao Ruyi was very excited when she learned that her father and second brother had been beheaded, and that the remaining third brother and Gao's family were sent to the frontier. She cried for many days.

  Crying that Xiang Nan is really ruthless. He would not have become the prince if he hadn't been supported by the Gao family. Now that he ascended the throne as the emperor, not only did he fail to repay the Gao family, but instead repaid his kindness with hatred, it was really heartless and ungrateful.

  Xiang Nan was disgusted when he heard about it, and demoted Gao Ruyi to a commoner and sent him to the cold palace.

   It is already a kindness for him to save Gao Zhen's life.

  Gao Ruyi is still not satisfied and doesn't know how to be grateful, so don't blame him for being ruthless.

  …

   After punishing Gao Xiang and his party, Xiang Nan issued an imperial edict.

"The case of Gu Ruhui is really higher than Ming's deception of the Mongolian court, and he was jealous of the loyal and good. Now it has finally come to light. However, the virtuous minister has passed away, and I feel ashamed. I hereby pardon Gu Ruhui's crime. I will posthumously grant the title of Zhongguo Duke and give him the Zhongxiao Mausoleum. To comfort the loyal soul, the Lord will carry it out!"

  Chai Mu and Gu Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the imperial decree.

  Zhang Meiniang learned that Gu Ruhui had been rehabilitated, but was worried that Xiang Nan would track down Concubine Gu Shu.

   At that time, her position as queen mother, as well as the Zhang family behind her, may be liquidated.

   Because of this, she was terrified and woke up from nightmares every night, making it difficult to fall asleep.

  Xiang Nan went to visit in person after learning about it.

   "I heard that my mother has been feeling unwell recently. Have you arranged for an imperial doctor to treat her?" He asked.

   "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. Ai's family is fine." Zhang Meiniang's eyes flickered, and she didn't dare to look at Xiang Nan.

   "Queen Mother, regarding the matter of Prime Minister Gao, the child has really been very merciful." Xiang Nan said, "On Gao Ruyi's side, if she hadn't been ungrateful and slandered her behind her back, I wouldn't have demoted her to the cold palace.

  If you really don't want to part with her, how about Erchen release her? "

   "I'm not for her. She doesn't know how to be grateful and slanders His Majesty in private, so she deserves to end up like this." Zhang Meiniang waved her hand, she didn't care about Gao Ruyi's life or death.

   "Your Majesty, before Prime Minister Gao died, do you have anything to say?" Zhang Meiniang asked tentatively, "I heard that General Gu was the one who did it?"

  Xiang Nan nodded, "He personally confessed that he framed General Gu's rebellion, which resulted in the unjust case of the Gu and Chen families being wiped out."

   "What else did he say?" Zhang Meiniang asked again.

   "It's nothing more than nonsense." Xiang Nan curled his lips, "How can a dying person have good things to say?"

   "Yes, yes." Zhang Meiniang nodded after hearing this.

"Mother, take good care of your body, and tell me if you have anything to do." Xiang Nan comforted, "Without your 20 years of teaching and support, I would not be where I am now. My son will firmly remember this , never forget."

  He has never met Concubine Gu Shu, and has no impression of her. But all these years since he came here, he has always had a good relationship with Zhang Meiniang. Moreover, Zhang Meiniang did her best to support him to ascend the throne.

  The so-called people are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless. Naturally, Xiang Nan didn't want to embarrass her.

   Seeing what he said, Zhang Meiniang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

  She has been worrying that Xiang Nan will investigate the cause of his biological mother's death these days, so she is anxious. Now that she understood what Xiang Nan meant, she no longer pursued what happened back then, which made her heart trouble go away.

  …

   After eradicating the traitors and stabilizing the court, Xiang Nan then began to implement educational reforms.

  For example, set up schools in ten townships across the country, and free tuition and textbook fees, so that every child can read as much as possible. And include this in the assessment of officials, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of officials.

For example, in Xizhou, Danchi, and Shuobo in the west; Miaojiang in the southwest, Mohe in the north, Bohai, and Koryo in the east also set up Confucius Institutes to recruit local children and scholars, spread the teachings of sages, and allow them to come to rich To participate in the imperial examination.

For example, publish books such as "Basic Mathematics", "Basic Physics", "Legal System", "Nature", and gradually increase these subjects in the future imperial examinations, so as to select comprehensive talents instead of a group of partial talents who only know what they know. .

  For example, promote simplified characters, punctuation marks, Chinese pinyin, etc., to lower the threshold for people to learn.

  Many traditional characters, the number of characters is extremely large, such as the word "法", written in traditional characters as "灋", there are twenty-one strokes. The simplified "law" has only eight strokes, which greatly simplifies the difficulty of learning.

  For example, adding subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and legal system to Taixue, so that people can see the world with their eyes open, instead of being blinded by Confucianism.

   Such educational reforms will naturally cost a lot of money. Fortunately, Xiang Nan confiscated the property of so many corrupt officials, so he had the money to promote such a big plan.

  Otherwise, he is also a clever woman who cannot cook without rice.

  Under the vigorous promotion of Xiang Nan, more than 10,000 schools have been built across the country, which can benefit hundreds of thousands of students. In time, the literacy rate of the Rich Dynasty will be greatly improved, and the quality of the people will be more guaranteed.

  The rulers of all dynasties like to use the policy of "fooling the people" to prevent the people from thinking, making the people rich, not letting the people be idle, making them busy in production and exhausted, so as to facilitate the rule.

  But Xiang Nan knows that the more educated, richer, and more leisurely the people are, the easier it is to control them.

  Even the boss knows that newcomers and seniors who are about to retire are the most difficult to manage. Only middle-aged people who have been employed for many years and have seniors and juniors are the easiest to manage.

  Because those without property have no perseverance, but those with property have perseverance.

  If the people have nothing, and the barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, they will not be willing to be ruled. It is a common thing to be cornered and forced to go to Liangshan.

  So people often rose up in ancient times, but in modern society, this phenomenon has almost disappeared.