Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 203 Broken the lifeblood of the Kong family
Jinan Fucheng.

Hanyuan hall.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Science and Technology has already drawn up the examination questions for this year's imperial examination, please give your majesty an order."

Ning Zongyin, Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, stood up and went out, holding a large stack of exam questions in his hand.

"Hand it up."

Hearing Ning Zongyin's words, Su Hao said indifferently, it's already September, it's already very late for the exam questions to come out at this time, after he ascended the throne, he asked the department to start preparing for the imperial examination, after all, what is it to win people's hearts? The means are not as effective as the imperial examination, especially when it comes to attracting wealthy families from all over the world. Only when they are allowed to enter the court of Daqi will they truly support Daqi.

As for why it took four or five months, apart from the attack by Daming, the main reason was that the imperial examination was the first of its kind, and no one had any experience at all. After learning some of the test experience of later generations, the specifications of the test papers were sorted out.

In addition to the professional knowledge of various companies, there is also management ability to be tested. After all, after passing the test, they all have to be officials. Although professional ability is important, management ability is even more important. In addition, he also prepared sub-subjects The exam is divided into six subjects, corresponding to six parts.

Although he supported the schools of thought, he did not set up corresponding departments for the schools of thought. The civil service system is still the six departments and five temples. Except for the speech officer, all civil positions are under the six departments and five temples. Hundreds of schools are all in this Shura field, how much they can compete for depends entirely on the ability of their own school.

Of course, each school of thought also has its own focus on departments. For example, the examination papers of the Ministry of Punishment are naturally for the examination of the law, which is the territory of the Legalists, and the Ministry of Industry is naturally the territory of the Mohist School and other minority schools. Everyone is desperate.

He believes that in order to compete for more positions, each school will definitely strive to expand the knowledge system of its own school to adapt to the official positions in the court, and a group of officials with professional knowledge will emerge in a few years.

It's not like Daming, who all learn Confucianism. Even if they pass the Jinshi exam, they still don't understand anything except Confucianism. They can only rely on the subordinates. .

To deal with floods, you have to cram for the time being, and look at the experience of predecessors in flood control. Letting drought prevention is also a piece of shit, and you don't even know how much the project will cost, so let the small officials below do it.

After flipping through it a few times, Su Hao continued: "The selection of scholars through the imperial examination is related to the lifeline of the imperial court, and all ministries must fully cooperate."

"The ministers obey the order."

Hearing Su Hao's words, the civil servants all bowed in response.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the regulations for the military examination have been drawn up by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. Your Majesty will ask for your order."

At this time, Liang Ping also got up and went out.

"Ah."

Su Hao nodded his head and said, "Martial arts are very important and cannot be ignored."

Although it is difficult to recruit real strong fighters in martial arts, there is no problem for second-rate fighters. After all, fighters of this level can only be regarded as having a status in the county, and many people still have ambitions.

Before Daqi was in a precarious state of perishing at any time, he did not hold martial arts, because in the state at that time, even if it was held, not many people would participate.

But now that Da Qi has gained a firm foothold, there should be many people who want to speculate, especially now that Da Ming values ​​civility more than martial arts, Da Qi's martial arts should attract many fighters to come.

After dealing with some miscellaneous matters, the morning court was over, and all civil and military officials retired.

...

"Liao Qing, I asked you to collect all kinds of spells, how are you doing now?"

After returning to Zichen Hall, Su Hao summoned Liao Qing. With the buffer time of five years, he naturally couldn't waste it. Apart from strengthening his troops, he also wanted to strengthen his own strength.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I have already collected some left-handed methods, including Yin-walking method, ghost-raising secret technique, corpse-raising technique, wall-penetrating technique, shadow-stepping technique..."

Liao Qing reported a series of heretical techniques.

Listening to Liao Qing's report of heretical techniques, Su Hao waved his hands and said, "Put it in the black ice platform and let the people below exchange it."

There are quite a lot of spells, but unfortunately for him, they are completely useless. Learning these spells basically has little impact on his strength, but is just a waste of time and energy.

For him now, there are not many ways to make a qualitative change in his strength. He is now in the realm of martial arts masters. Even if he is not No.1, he can still be ranked in the top ten. A martial artist in the realm, he can also remain undefeated.

Now there are only two ways he wants to go further, one is to make a breakthrough in martial arts and be promoted to the Xiantian Grandmaster. , allowing him to save three to five years of penance, but it will take a long time to advance to the innate realm.

Although nearly [-]% of the internal energy in his dantian is now filled, most of it is the effect of spiritual ginseng, but such things as spiritual ginseng are hard to come by, and it is lucky to get one. Can only rely on time to suffer.

Another method is to obtain the foundation building method of Taoism to make up for his shortcomings in magic. After he is promoted to a martial arts master, as long as it is not a fierce battle, the usual use of magic will not hurt his body.

However, in order to make up for the lack of energy after refining mana, he usually has to consume a lot of internal energy to nourish his body. This has seriously affected his accumulation of internal energy and slowed down the time for him to advance to the innate realm. After all, he is now using It took quite a long time for the natal paper figurine to review the memorial.

So after completing the basic law, he can consume less internal energy and be promoted to the innate level of martial arts faster. More importantly, the limit of martial arts all the way to the innate level is the limit. If he wants to break through in the future, he can only rely on enlightenment points.

However, it is very difficult to stack up to the limit with enlightenment points, even if you don’t point anything else, the enlightenment points consumed on the way of martial arts alone is an astronomical figure. Before, the pure Yang Wuji Kung Fu used 9720 points to comprehend the innate realm, and Forcibly comprehending the skills of the next level would have to be multiplied tenfold, and that would cost nearly one hundred thousand points.

Now his enlightenment points are only more than 4000, most of which were donated by King Heng's family. He won the entire Shandong, and the enlightenment points he obtained were only 300 to [-]. Even if he won the entire Ming Dynasty, at most two [-] million, this still has to be based on the situation where everyone is stubbornly resisting. If too many people surrender, there may not be so many.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to rely on enlightenment and martial arts all the time, and Taoist practice is different. Although there may not be innate skills in this world, there must be skills outside the world. After all, Pan Ning, the city god of Jinan, also said , Mantian gods and Buddhas really exist.

But the outside world may not have martial arts, so martial arts is only for a while, and Taoism is for a lifetime, unless he intends to stay in this world for the rest of his life, but this world has no possibility of longevity, which is doomed to him. May stay here until old age dies.

Thinking of this, Su Hao asked again: "What does the Laoshan faction say?"

In fact, after he proclaimed himself emperor, he asked Liao Qing to search for Taoist foundation-building methods and practice methods, and the largest Taoist school in Shandong is the Laoshan School, so he sent Liao Qing to seek the method a few months ago.

It is said that the Laoshan School was passed down from Qiu Chuji, but it was only 80 or [-] years since the establishment of the school. However, because of the profound Taoism of the founder of the establishment of the school, now all the Taoist temples in Shandong are in love with the Laoshan School, so he did not let Liao Qing use it. strong.

"Return to Your Majesty, those stinky bull noses are still stubbornly refusing to hand over their exercises."

Liao Qing shook his head. Although Su Hao now occupies Shandong, in the eyes of those Taoist priests in Laoshan, Su Hao is still not successful. Taoist people have never participated in the change of dynasty, because the risk is too great, and if they are not careful, the inheritance will be severed. .

"If you refuse, forget it."

Hearing this, Su Hao waved his hands: "In the future, they will take the initiative to hand it in."

He was not very surprised by this result. Although he has gained a firm foothold now, he is far away from becoming the new co-lord of the world. Moreover, there is no sign of the end of the dynasty in Daming, so naturally he will not Giving him exercises at the risk of severing the inheritance.

However, as long as Daqi's power expands, these Taoist priests will naturally take the initiative to hand in their exercises. This is the tacit understanding between dynasties and Taoism.

...

Since Su Hao ordered the banning of Confucianism, many Confucian academies have been shut down, and the great Confucianists in the academies have chosen to flee Shandong one after another.

But for the local students, great Confucianists can leave, but they can’t. The children of wealthy families dare not leave. The family is here. If they all leave, then Da Qi will not keep their family, and the poor family Students have no choice, after all, they have money to travel all over the world, but without money it is difficult to move an inch.

It’s just that the Confucian Academy is gone, and students rarely join the Academy of the Hundred Schools of Philosophy, mainly because not many people are optimistic about Daqi. Once Daqi is destroyed, the students who join the Academy of the Hundred Schools of Philosophy will not be good end.

However, some time ago, the news of Da Qi and Da Ming's negotiation of peace spread, which made Wu Mathematicians change their views on Da Qi, and with the news of the imperial examination and martial arts, the whole Shandong was boiling instantly, especially the people who were originally withered. The various academies of various schools have ushered in a wave of enrollment.

...

A month passed quickly, and as the time for the imperial examination drew closer, a large number of students gathered in Fucheng, Jinan.

Fuyao Restaurant.

Several students gathered together to discuss the next imperial examination.

"Brother Zhao, which subject are you going to take?"

Holding the wine glass, Ma Yan's eyes were filled with confusion. He studied Confucianism for 20 years, but Su Hao said it would be abolished. The 20 years of hard study became a joke, and he had to start from scratch.

"Criminal Division."

Zhao Shuqing's eyes were also full of confusion, and she said in a low voice: "My cousin once served as the procurator for punishment and punishment. During this time, I have been studying at his home and studying the law."

To be honest, he has no interest in the law at all. His family is a big family in Qingzhou. When he was studying in the academy, he would go out with his friends from time to time. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but now that I have learned the law, is it possible to talk to the little ladies about the punishment for officials visiting brothels?

It's a pity that he still has to study if he doesn't like it, and he has to rush for the exam. This is his responsibility as a member of the family. Being an official, but an official in Daming cannot keep the Zhao family.

"What about you, Brother Ma?"

At this time, Zhuang Xiantao who was on the side asked.

"Huke."

Ma Yan said in a low voice: "I originally wanted to take the examination of the official department, but my father said that the competition for the official department was too fierce, and he was worried that I would not be able to pass the exam, so he asked me to take the household department examination, and invited me to Liu, the head of the household department in his hometown. The master taught me."

"His Majesty's change today, I have spent more than [-] years of hard study in vain."

Zhao Shuqing shook her head and sighed.

"It's all the Kong family's fault!"

Hearing Zhao Shuqing's words, Shi Zhexiong on the side was dissatisfied: "A family who sees who kneels is pretending to be a loyal minister and filial son!"

"At the beginning, we could throw away our yuan and invest in the Ming, but why can't we all vote now, and even wiped His Majesty's face in public, causing us to spend more than [-] years of hard study in vain!"

Listening to Shi Zhexiong's complaints, Zhao Shuqing and the others were speechless. Although they understood the Kong family's choice, after all, Su Hao was just a traitor who could be wiped out at any time. Naturally, it is impossible for Kong's family to be a traitor.

But understanding is understanding. It would be a bit false to say that you don't hate. The Kong family has become a loyal minister and filial son, but the hard study of these people for more than [-] years has been in vain.

What's more, these people originally had fame as scholars, and Su Hao admitted their fame when they rebelled. As a result, when the Kong family came, Su Hao directly abolished Confucianism in a fit of anger. Their fame was natural Then it disappeared.

Although Su Hao didn't set a threshold for this imperial examination, as long as the students who pass the academy assessment can take the exam, it also means that their competition will be very high, especially the sub-examination of six subjects, in which the knowledge of various schools of thought is also tested. .

Even doctors, carpenters, etc. came to get involved, but they knew more about various schools of thought than they did. This made their family's experience and advantages accumulated over tens of hundreds of years disappear.

"Leaving this aside, I heard that each subject will admit hundreds of people. Is this true?"

At this time, Zhuang Xiantao spoke.

"This should be true."

Zhao Shuqing nodded and said: "I heard from my father that His Majesty is going to formalize all the subordinate officials in the third class and six houses in the county as officials, and set up some more official positions, such as the canal officer and medical officer who manage the canals. It’s just that I don’t know the specific situation.”

"However, it is said that even if we pass the exam, we still have to start as a ninth-rank official, and a first-class Jinshi can only be an eighth-rank official."

Hearing Zhao Shuqing's words, the three of them frowned. The Zhao family had the best family background among them, and they were also the most well-informed. Since Zhao Shuqing said so, it is natural that there is no falsehood.

Seeing the faces of the three of Ma Yan, Zhao Shuqing smiled and said: "You don't have to worry, I heard from my father that the promotion here in Daqi is different from that in Ming Dynasty, even the official positions of arresting the head and arresting the fast are still serious officials of the Ministry of Punishment. Promotions, like other officials, are not suppressed."

"That's good."

Hearing this, Ma Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "As long as I can be promoted normally."

In the past, the reason why small officials such as the classics and history of the Ming Dynasty were not favored by scholars was because they had no future. Once they were appointed, they might die without being promoted. The reason for raising flowers and planting grass is that if they can be promoted normally now, they don't mind being a small official in the county.

(End of this chapter)