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Chapter 2814 2816 [Enke Scholar]

Once the Enke reform system was launched, all the gentry, elites, and high-ranking officials knew that they were in trouble.

Unified examinations, seals, transcripts, palace examinations...every link has greatly compressed and restricted their privileges.

In this way, their children will be forced to take the exam with the students of the common people.

However, the children of the gentry, the powerful, and the high-ranking party are in the minority after all, and many of them are gangsters.Once the imperial examinations pass the real talent and learning, they are finished.

In this way, they cannot be officials and have no power in their hands.At that time, if they want to monopolize power and domineering, it will become empty talk.

So of course they are trying their best to oppose it.

However, today is different.

Today's rich state treasury is full, the people are abundant, and there are no strong enemies at the border. It is the time when the national power is at its peak.

However, Li Yu destroyed Danchi and expanded the territory, which is a rare feat in history, and it also won him the respect of thousands of people.

Therefore, today's rich royal family has strength and popular support. Even if those elites, gentry, and high-ranking officials want to oppose it, Li Xi has the ability to suppress them all.

Besides, Li Xi is now using [sausage cutting tactic].

He just reformed the imperial examination.We have neither waged war against these elites or high-ranking officials, nor have we tried to clean them up in large numbers.

So their will to fight is not strong, and they don't want to turn against the royal family for the time being.Therefore, after he opposed it on the upper fold, but was forced to press down by the emperor Li Xi, he had no choice but to surrender.

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Enke officially started in Tiantong in the autumn of [-].

The original imperial examination was only divided into the provincial examination and the general examination.The provincial examinations are held in various provinces, while the general examinations are held in the capital.

Today's Enke has added a children's test, and the test is held in the county government.After passing the exam, you are eligible to be called a child student.Tongsheng passed the provincial examination and became a scholar; a scholar passed the general examination and became a juren; a juren passed the palace examination and became a Jinshi...

After rounds of auditions, when it was time for the test, thousands of talents from all over the country had already gathered in the capital.And their files were placed in front of Li Xi early on.

Their native places, backgrounds, mentorship, relatives and friends, works, etc., are also detailed.

The purpose of Li Yu's selection of scholars in the imperial examination is to suppress the elites and high-level officials and the party. Therefore, the selected talents must naturally get rid of the elites and high-ranking officials and the party, and try to select scholars from poor families.

Because the humble scholar has no foundation in the court and no party members, so he will be loyal to him, the emperor, and will be willing to be used by him.

"Yin'er, your idea is really good." Li Xi looked at the information and said to Xiang Nan with a smile.

After listening to Xiang Nan's reform opinions, [-]% of the scholars selected for the opening of the examination are the children of the common people.

Unlike the previous examinations to obtain scholars, [-]% of them are powerful and high-ranking officials.The well-done imperial examinations have become like pork.

"It's my honor to relieve my father's worries." Xiang Nan bowed and smiled.

Afterwards, after going through the general examination and palace examination, Li Xi selected nearly 300 people, of which the common people accounted for more than [-]%, and the children of nobles and officials accounted for only [-]%.

The children of the common clan were assigned to various positions, such as walking, giving, and managing in the six departments; local officials, Tongzhi, county magistrate, county magistrate...

As for the children of nobles and officials, they were assigned to Hongwen Museum, Taichang Temple, Guozijian and other departments. It sounds like they stayed in the capital, served by the emperor, and they were quite noble, but in fact they were put on the shelf and kept away.

Through this method, Li Yu gradually replaced the powerful and cronies with the children of the common people, further consolidating his rule.

Although it will take a long time to do so, it will not cause major turmoil and will not harm the foundation of the country.

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Li Yu passed the imperial examination and used the children of the common clan to replace the children of the noble clan step by step.

This is a top-down approach.

Xiang Nan introduced farm tools such as Quyuan plow and deep plow to facilitate agricultural production.

The economic base on which the aristocrats and gentry relied was the manor economy.They wantonly annexed land, kept tenant farmers, farmed, grazed, weaved, brewed, etc. in the manor, and were completely self-sufficient in production and life, just like a small imperial court.

Because they have strong financial resources, they often have private arms.Thousands of people, hundreds of people, together, is a very strong force.

When the productivity is underdeveloped, the manor economy does have its advantages.On the one hand, it can concentrate human, financial, and material resources, as the so-called "concentrate strength to do big things", and have a higher ability to resist risks.

Second, in troubled times, the manor also provided a shelter for ordinary people.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the current situation was turbulent and conquests were endless, but those powerful families and gentry could rely on their influence to protect their manors from the invasion of war, so they attracted a large number of refugees to vote.

Now Xiangnan has introduced agricultural tools such as Quyuan plows and deep plows, which have promoted the development of agricultural productivity, improved the production efficiency of self-cultivating farmers and small landlords of the common people, and broken the advantages of the manor economy of the gentry.

With the loss of political advantages and economic advantages, the speed of the downfall of the gentry would naturally be greatly accelerated.

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I have been in Tiantong for 27 years.

Xiang Nan placed a golden clock in front of Li Xi.

"Father, please see~" he said with a smile.

"What is this?" Li Yu looked at the magnificent clock and asked suspiciously.

"This is a clock." Xiang Nan explained, "It can accurately display the time. For example, it is nine thirty, which is six quarters of the century."

Ancient timekeeping was calculated by sundials, moondials, and engraved leaks, so it was not very accurate.In the thirteenth century, England produced the first mechanical clock.

Xiang Nan's clock making was learned from Western craftsmen in the world of "Sword Rain".Originally, I just wanted to learn more skills, but now it has come in handy.

When Li Yu saw this clock, he couldn't help being very surprised, "Yin'er, is the time really so accurate?"

Xiang Nan nodded, "The daily error will not exceed 1 minute."

"Oh, it's really exquisite." Li Yu exclaimed.

For timing tools such as sundials, moondials, and engraved leaks, the error is usually about a quarter of an hour.Fortunately, the pace of life of the ancients was slow, and a difference of ten or eight points is nothing.

Then, after a week of testing, the accuracy of Xiang Nan's clock was recognized by everyone.Therefore, it replaced sundials, moondials, engraved leaks, etc., and became the only timekeeping tool in the palace.

If there is something good on the top, it will be great on the bottom.

Because of this, the fetish of clocks and watches quickly became popular in Beijing, and everyone yearned for it, not knowing what it was.

And at this time, Tiangongfang launched twelve golden clocks for auction in due course.

This move was immediately sought after by powerful families, princes and ministers.They did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy these gorgeous and practical clocks back home.

In the end, a clock was sold for [-] guan, but its cost was less than [-] guan, so expensive that it was actually technology.Xiang Nan also made a fortune as a result.

Subsequently, clocks and watches have also become the flagship products of Tiangongfang, and the supply is simply in short supply.

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(End of this chapter)