Chapter 236: Promotion
After an hour, Yang Side dragged his fatigue into the hall to pay tribute to Zhu Jun. Mu Gong. Yunnan, coordinated the relationship between the ethnic groups in Yunnan, and could not come back in a few months. Zhou Mubai is now in charge of the development zone and would have interfered in some cabinet affairs. However, now Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian are all about to build development zones. Zhou Mubai has set out to inspect the six northern provinces and supervise the preparations for the development zones in each province. Therefore, the burden of hundreds of memorials in the cabinet every day falls on Yang Side, and he still feels that there is not enough manpower.
"Yang Qing, your complexion has been much worse recently. Have you taken the medicine I gave a few days ago?" Zhu Jun saw this important minister who was still a gentleman and full of energy two years ago, now his face was full of sallow and old age. He couldn't help but feel pity and waved to the eunuch to bring a chair and ask Yang Side to sit down.
"I've eaten it all, and I've been in a much better spirit recently." Yang Sideyan responded insincerely.
Zhu Jun didn't believe it. He didn't see him for a few days, so he said, "Why don't you do this? I'll allow Yang Qing to take a few days off and rest at home. I'll be here to handle the memorials these days. When will my face be rosy? Then I'll report to the cabinet. A few medicinal herbs presented by Annanguo a few days ago. I'll send them to your house later."
"No, no, thank the emperor for his love. I have been used to it in the cabinet over the years, but I am not used to it. Besides, this is not a long-term solution. In recent years, the emperor has expanded his territory, and the number of prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty has increased day by day, so there are more things. The emperor may wish to add a few grand senators, so that I can also steal some free time."
Zhu Jun smiled and said, "I have this meaning. It's a pity that talent is rare. How could there be so many people who will be happy for a while?"
Yang Side smiled lightly and said, "It was originally good for the emperor to conduct scientific examinations, but in this way, all scholars must start with minor officials. It will be decades later when they become officials. Instead, the cabinet and various ministries lacked officials, and the weak ministers have an idea."
"It would be better for the emperor to hold another exam. All officials and officials must participate in this way to select outstanding people to enter the court directly. In this way, the emperor will choose a few available talents from this group of people and be selected as cabinet calls. If you do well, you will be awarded the bachelor's title. If you do not do well, you will be sent back to each department."
Zhu Jun clapped his legs and said, "This subject is called promotion. Well, it's a good idea. My dear will be there in the past few days. I want to personally unleash my assistants for you."
Yang Side nodded and said, "The emperor urgently summons the empress to come. Is there anything else to explain?"
Zhu Jun then remembered this and said, "I almost forgot that I have summoned you to discuss with you to open up a new battlefield. Come on, go and get the map."
Yang Side hurriedly said, "The emperor, the empress do not understand military territory."
"This is not a military. Come here." Zhu Jun spread out the map, squinted his eyes and gently tapped his fingers on the location of Liaodong: "The foundation of the Qing Dynasty is here." Zhu Jun amplified his voice: "Baishan and black water. Thousands of miles of Liaodong. Once our army can advance to Liaodong, the entire Qing court will be shocked. All the main forces of the Qing army will come out of the pass to defend Liaodong."
Zhu Jun pointed to the two rivers in Jiangxi again: "Now the elite of the Qing army is here. The commander of the army, Obai, has experienced many battles. I would like to think that he is a reckless person. I never thought that he would withdraw from Hunan and move to Jiangxi. This alone shows that he is not a tough and unscheming person. Therefore, if the Ming army wants to break through the north and go east to advance to Jiangnan, it must transfer Obai and 400,000 Qing troops. Attacking Liaodong is the best way. The Qing court would rather lose Jiangnan than abandon Liaodong."
Yang Side nodded, attacked the west and sent troops to the east and threatened Liaodong on the Korean border, causing the main force of the Qing army to go north to deploy defenses. There would be omissions in the defense line in the south of the Yangtze River. The Ming army in the six provinces had a chance.
"Emperor. Although this plan is wonderful, but North Korea is more than thousands of miles away from the sea. I'm afraid...
Zhu Jun smiled and landed his fingertips in the direction of Japan: "What's the difficulty? Japan is mediocre and obedient. I will use Japan as a springboard to march into Korea. As long as North Korea is attached, the Oriental Navy travels back and forth across the North Sea and is eyeing Liaodong. I am not afraid of Oboi reluctance to protect the north."
"I have decided to patrol the coast of the East China Sea with the two navy in a few days to accomplish this.
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"Your Majesty, are you going to Japan?" Yang Side was stunned and advised: "If you let the two generals of Liu Er and Liu Guoxuan do these things, why do you need the emperor to go there in person? The emperor's body of ten thousand golds should not be taken into danger."
Zhu Jun curled his lips and said disapprovingly: "How can you stay in the palace all day long? You always have to go out for a walk. It is also good to see the sky and the sea are high. I am not a porcelain bottle. Can't you even stand any bumps and bumps?" Zhu Jun's tone eased a little: "You don't have to worry about these things. I took advantage of this opportunity to hold a promotion examination and select several assistants for you. I can only go out to sea with confidence if I keep you in charge. Do you understand?"
"I will never let the emperor down." Yang Side was very moved.
The cabinet's order was released, and the promotion examination was held immediately. All officials in the official examination can participate. The top three can be admitted to the cabinet counselor, but the qualifications can be promoted according to the official rankings and grades, and they are also appointed as counselors first. A year later, if there is no fault, they can be promoted. For a time, the minor officials who passed the examination were all ready to try their skills, just waiting to try their skills.
The examination room was located in the three major academies of Yangming, Cheng Zhu and Donglin, Haidu. Three days later, the minor officials who had their own paper and pen entered the examination room. Outside the academies, there were the Ming army garrisons listed as the snakes. In the academies, officials from six ministries jointly supervised the examination. The questions of the examination papers were set by the emperor himself, and only the policy theory and practical studies were tested. The examination period was one day. After the time of application, the examiner collected the papers anonymously and handed over to the six ministries to select and pass the exam. Then the Ministry of Personnel found dozens of outstanding people from the qualified exam papers and submitted them to Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun then found the top three from the dozens of excellent exam papers.
The civil servant system of the Ming Dynasty was improved and mature. Now under Zhu Jun's reform, it has gradually become an over-the-top civil servant system. Those who passed the imperial examination no longer became officials, but were officials first. Officials were civil servants in later generations. Only after these people did well could they be selected. In this way, all the minor officials who were originally not able to read a basket were replaced with well-educated scholars, which was of great help to manage the operation of the state system.
Zhu Jun planned to use this promotion as a precedent, and would be held every three years from now on. Therefore, the results were so grand, just like the imperial examination, and the exams were also announced. Until the time of the election, the examiners began to collect the papers. The candidates were full of confidence, shook their heads and sighed, and the enclosed test papers were quickly sent to the sixth department's paper reviewers to select.
A few days later, dozens of test papers fell on Zhu Jun's imperial case. Zhu Jun looked at it roughly and admired one of the strategies of Wang Chengzhi. Zhu Jun's strategies were very broad, and his name was "The Wealth of the Country". No matter what you say, you should be considered qualified as a good suggestion. Wang Chengzhi's opening article was very attractive, "There is no scholar in the country, no scholar, no farmer, no strong worker, no businessman, no scholar, no scholar, no farmer, no businessman, no difference between the master and the end, all are equal."
The article is followed by this topic, explaining that a country cannot become a country without scholars, and a country without ruling classes will lose its constraints. Without agricultural countries, there will be no stability. The uprisings in all dynasties have been due to the fact that the country has no grain available and farmers have no food to eat. Without industrial countries, there will be no strong state, and without commercial countries, there will be no prosperity and strength. In this case, the country should not deliberately cut off the division of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and should be treated equally.
In order to have a prosperous country, we must first have scholars to rely on and manage the country effectively. Secondly, we must develop agriculture so that everyone can have food to eat. On this basis, we will develop industry so that everyone can get more industrial products and strengthen military forces to prevent foreign enemies from invasion. Then we must develop commerce and make money flow, etc.
This answer is very similar to Zhu Jun's idea of establishing a country. Therefore, Zhu Jun read it several times and couldn't help but put the test paper on the table and shook his head and smiled bitterly. Needless to say, this person must have learned the heart. Among these dozens of test papers, learning the heart accounts for two-thirds. In a few years, the entire court will sooner or later be dominated by learning the heart. After all, the only one who can do things is the only one who can do things. The rest of Cheng Zhu and Donglin are useful in doing public opinion and scolding the court's governance. Empty talk about the world is their place of use. Now the situation in Haidu is very good.
Interestingly, the Xinxue faction occupied various key departments, but among the people, Cheng Zhu and Donglin had the best reputation. Many people always shook their heads when they talked about Xinxue. The reason was that people who were Xinxue were doing things, and they had to be scolded when doing things, while Cheng Zhu and Donglin were scolding people. If you didn’t do well here and there, you would have a halo of pleading for the people. They all became wise men and wise men. After all, they were just one sentence. Those who did things would always be scolded, and those who didn’t do things were always the noblest.
Zhu Jun pondered for a moment, then looked at Wang Chengzhi's test paper. Real studies was an exam issued by Zhu Jun himself. No matter any official, he had to write down his skills and his own experiences when taking the exam. In this way, qualified people with their own strengths could be awarded positions according to their individuals. Those who know river engineering can go to open rivers, those who know machinery can go to the development zone yamen, and those who know calculation can go to the Ministry of Revenue. Wang Chengzhi's actual studies test paper is very interesting, with only a few words written on it - there are a lot of things to do, so I can't list them one by one. Please forgive me.
"Haha..." Zhu Jun laughed. This man turned out to be a crazy student. Oh, it's a pity. Zhu Jun didn't have a good impression of the crazy student. He couldn't help but shake his head again, put Wang Chengzhi's test paper back into the roll, and just wanted to give him a pass. Then he pondered for a moment, took out Wang Chengzhi's test paper, and attracted an eunuch and said, "Go to the Ministry of Personnel to see if there is a file named Wang Chengzhi, and transfer his merit test paper to me."
Chapter completed!