Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 450 Hot April
At the beginning of April, after deliberation and the emperor's personal order, the Confidentiality Department arranged for Fan Ruobing to take an examination, which was regarded as a work exam, and finally passed without any accidents, and was awarded the confidentiality driver Yaolang as a fifth-rank Jilu official.

Then Shi Congyun ordered Fan Ruobing to be temporarily appointed in the Confidentiality Department, under Feng Jisheng's dispatch, to be responsible for testing the new pontoon bridge in Shanglinyuan.

On the other hand, logistical preparations have never stopped. In the shipyard by the Bianshui River, large ships are being built, and it is claimed to be for merchants in Luoyang.

The training of the navy and the further expansion of 5000 people have already started.

In the last war, the navy broke through Jingjiang Town, Guizhou, and then went all the way south, taking advantage of the strong ships and guns, breaking through the severe disease along the Guijiang River one after another, directly reaching Panyu, blocking the estuary, approaching the city with troops, and seizing a large number of preparations for the Southern Han Dynasty. Gold and silver treasures, seeds and beauties for fleeing.

The speed and the strength of the soldiers were beyond everyone's expectation. Then they cooperated with the West Road Army to cut off the side of the Southern Han Army and almost wiped out the last resistance force of the Southern Han Kingdom.

This is the first time that the Qin State Navy has fought independently. Before that, it was used as an auxiliary or logistics force of the army.

In particular, the power of the gunboat is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Because of this, when Shi Congyun proposed to advance the military expansion in an orderly manner, with an annual expansion of 25 to [-] troops, and finally keep the number of forbidden troops at around [-], most civil and military personnel agreed to expand the navy first.

Compared with the army, the number of naval forces is still relatively small.

Emperor Shi agreed, but also asked to strengthen the training of the navy and speed up the construction of gunboats.

And the gunboat still needs to make some changes, one is based on the opinions of the soldiers in front, and the other is the businessman Shi Congyun invited back from Guangzhou.

Emperor Shi sent officials to inform them of the destruction of the Southern Han Dynasty and allowed them to continue doing business along the coast. However, in exchange, Shi Congyun paid for the blueprints of their ships and handed them to the craftsmen of the Department of Secrets for research. Based on the strengths of each family, these Arab ships traveled across the ocean all the year round and came to Guangzhou from near the Arabian Sea to do business. They must have their own unique views on ship construction.

Emperor Shi also extracted some information from them about the current situation near the Arabian Sea. Of course, it was purely out of curiosity. For the current people, it was beyond the reach of the whip.

Many things are proceeding in an orderly manner, and the turmoil after the promulgation of the new law has also arrived in an orderly manner.

At the beginning, it was just some opinions, and there were memorials from all over the world, both inside and out, and most of them were more reasonable, but gradually, more and more people began to use the stories of ancient sages and sages, or the allusions of benevolence and righteousness of kings. , saying that the laws on imperial examinations are too strict and do not conform to the way of benevolent emperors.

Later, with more and more memorials in this regard, the words became more and more direct and clear.

Moreover, the frequency of such memorials has also increased significantly.

The more interesting phenomenon is that at the beginning, these memorials were all issued by local officials, but gradually they became more and more issued by Beijing officials.

Emperor Shi was not stupid. He understood that these local officials must be just diverting his attention. Most of them were instigated by the officials in the capital. Folding the local officials just wanted to fiddle with the imperial examinations, and they had no ability. How could they get involved.

It must be these high-ranking officials in the capital who want to stop them, but dare not be the first birds, so they find someone to provoke the trouble. For local officials, if they want to enter the capital and want to improve their official career, they must To curry favor with the high-ranking officials in the capital, find a way to get on the line, everyone has their own plans, and naturally they are in a panic.

Yes, Emperor Shi viciously characterized this behavior as collusion in his heart.

To put it bluntly, the existing bureaucratic group wants to maintain and monopolize interests.

Once these strict imperial examination laws are implemented, many of them will not be able to make a fuss about the imperial examination and seek benefits for their families.

Those with vested interests are the most afraid of fair competition, and they will block this opportunity for fair competition anyway, just because they have a lot of resources in their hands, including money and power.

But money and power are not what Emperor Shi is most worried about, because compared to these, no one can compare to him, a prestigious emperor.

What I fear most is public opinion.
Shi Congyun carefully looked through this type of memorials, checked the names, and found that many of the people who submitted these memorials were from the Ministry of Officials and the Imperial Academy.

Moreover, many of them are people with many disciples and great knowledge.

Needless to say, the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Academy is a national talent pool.

The scariest thing about these people is that they have a large number of fans. To put it bluntly, they are full of peaches and plums. To put it bluntly, they are everywhere. Black people can be called white. In this country, information technology is underdeveloped, education at the bottom is very limited, and literacy Even in a cultured age, it is too easy to confuse people.

Emperor Shi thought about this matter carefully, but did not react for the time being.

But in mid-April, the students of Guozijian also went to the shuffle, saying that they asked him to take back his orders and abolish the laws about the imperial examinations, and compared them with the ancient Ming emperors Yao, Shun and Shangtang, hoping that he would practice benevolence as the emperor.

The most amazing thing is that they also said very righteously in the memorial that they did this for the emperor's reputation in the future, and hoped that he would become the eternal emperor.

Shi Congyun was almost laughed at by the ignorance of these students at the time. They didn't have the brains to think about who they enacted such laws to protect?Isn't it to protect students like them from being bullied by powerful people and taking away opportunities.

However, the students of Guozijian come from all over the world. They are always too young and naive. They have never seen the bloody storm of power struggle. His subordinates are lambs who can be played with at will.

Now it has become the knife of those dignitaries, stabbing towards him.

Emperor Shi knew in his heart that the officials of the Imperial College must have said something to these students to encourage them to do this.

However, he is very busy now. He is preparing for the war in the Southern Tang Dynasty, paying attention to the situation in the Liao Kingdom, and there are changes in the northwest front line. The deployment there must also be adjusted. and many more.

He is too busy with many things, but the state machinery cannot operate without these officials, otherwise he would like to arrest and kill all the people who wrote the letter.

The number of people he ordered to be killed over the years was many, eighty thousand if not one hundred thousand, there was no shortage of them.

Emperor Shi did not respond to the students of the Guozijian, nor did he respond to those memorials.

Only two things were done. On the one hand, let Fu Zhaoyuan and Wang Zhong lead the Imperial Army from the East and West Banners and the Imperial Army from the Inner Palace to stay in the palace permanently;

Safety is one thing, and another thing is to talk about propaganda. Shi Congyun has never been afraid of those old men who are full of peaches and plums. One of the requirements for his Shenhuo Army's selection of people was to have read books, read and write, and engaged in propaganda. Zhanna is really who is afraid of whom!
Emperor Shi not only did not reply to the memorial, but did not relax the policy. On the contrary, he continued to announce in mid-April that in the future, children from official backgrounds would take the imperial examinations.

Now it can be said that another firewood has been loosened into the fire.

But Emperor Shi didn't care, he had never seen any big storms, and he felt keenly that this problem cannot be left to future generations to solve, because they don't have that kind of prestige and cannot suppress others.

And he came all the way here in a bloody storm, and the successive foreign wars went smoothly, which made his prestige extremely high. It is the best choice to use this prestige to solve the hidden dangers in the contemporary era.

The objective law of development in history cannot be changed, but in terms of details, he can make some accelerations.

(End of this chapter)