Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

While his father and brother were recovering from illness, Lu Mou took advantage of the opportunity to take over the power and carried out several drastic reforms.

First of all, it is to reform the salt policy, officially issue a decree to cancel the Tsunami system, and completely nationalize salt.

In each county, a salt monopoly bureau was set up. At a slightly floating price across the country, there was a monopoly bureau under the control of the government to directly wholesale to all vendors. Not only has the country gained huge profits, but it has also cracked down on the high price of salt and made salt affordable for the people.

After the riots by salt merchants in Yancheng, no one among the salt merchants dared to stand up and oppose again. The salt farm under the control of the court obediently obeyed the orders. The Jiangnan salt farm, which was not under the control of the court, quickly and quietly transferred the family property to prevent the regent who was crazy about poverty from ransacking his home again.

The second reform was to implement a compulsory military service system throughout the Ming Dynasty in order to relieve the shortage of military resources.

It is stipulated that all men over the age of 18 are obliged to perform military service.

But this is not the kind of coercion that he used to do before. He stipulated generous military pay. It also stipulates that after five years of service, you can be honorably discharged.

During this period, his family members can also enjoy five years of exemption from service payment, and a retirement payment after retirement. The land he contracted was exempted from service fees for life until his death.

Evading military service will remove his right to do any future work and will also subject him to three years in prison.

As soon as this method came out, the world was shocked. We don’t talk about feelings, we only talk about treatment. In war, there are dividends for seizures, rewards for killing enemies, pensions for casualties, and kind treatment when retired. So why don’t young people actively join the army and make money?
What's wrong with dying in battle? Death in battle can earn a lot of wealth for relatives and family members, so it's worth it.

This is what Chinese men are like. When they live, they are caring for their parents at the top and their wives and children at the bottom. As long as I can get a lifetime of prosperity for my parents, wife and children, it's worth losing my life.

Then, Lu Mou implemented it again, subdividing the twelve hours into twenty-four hours, referred to as hours. They no longer used obscure branches as names, but directly replaced them with numbers, which was eventually simplified to twenty-four hours. . According to the principle of sixty years, every hour is set to sixty minutes. In this way, time is no longer a blur of a few breaths, something approximate, something approximate, but accurate to the minute.

For this reason, the Manufacturing Office followed the Regent's ideas and created the first real clock.

Of course, this is not the result of Lu Mou’s golden touch.

In fact, the originators of clocks are Su Song and Han Gonglian in the Song Dynasty. They have invented instruments that are extremely close to clocks. The two of them are honored as the originators of world watches.

Lu Mou just made some appropriate improvements.

Therefore, in subsequent wars, Xiao Anzi always carried a huge clock and accompanied Lu Mou on the battlefield.

Only ten years later, the Manufacturing Office, which had been renamed the Ming Academy of Sciences, produced a lightweight and convenient pocket watch, freeing Xiao Lizi.

But unfortunately, Xiao Lizi has become accustomed to carrying things on his shoulders wherever he goes. So sometimes, Xiao Lizi couldn't resist, so he just carried a table and followed closely behind the regent.

At the same time, more and more scholars and officials returned from the south and north of the Yangtze River, and the streamlined government offices at all levels could no longer accommodate them. In fact, it was Lu Mou who deliberately did not want those officials who had the Donglin brand behind them to participate in politics.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty Senate was opened in Shiwang Street, the original palace of the old Qin prince.

Aren’t those Donglin officials fond of blaming each other and arguing for the sake of opposition? I will provide you with a place for bickering, a cup of tea, and free melon seeds for cigarettes. Go there and bicker.

So those officials, with their generous salaries, leisurely walked into the Senate early in the morning to debate current policies and measures, and lived a fulfilling and peaceful life. As for everyone discussing the pros and cons of the policy, the court would be happy to adopt it. Okay, just treat it like you farted. But let’s not forget that Lu Mou’s method also has a purpose that he originally wanted to achieve, that is, because it is a platform to demonstrate the pros and cons of policies, it also allows many new and old policies to be corrected, making It is more suitable for this era and the thinking of people of this era.

Later, with the passage of time, those officials in the imperial court who were too old and retired were also placed here. Not only were they given a retirement package to show that the imperial court did not forget their contributions, but also Chun Donglin could be given a pension. There were strange voices in the Senate of Party officials.

Invisibly, they actually limited the power of the cabinet and suppressed its influence.

All the scholars from the south of the Yangtze River were thrown into Chen Que's alien Imperial College to receive education. If you have a good education, you will have a bright future; if you have a bad education, you will be prepared to die there.

Therefore, the final agreement here is that after all scholars pass the imperial examination, they must be reshaped and trained here, otherwise you will not be qualified to participate in the imperial examination.

In this way, this place slowly evolved into a training base for civil servants.

He also formally stipulated that the imperial examination system should be reformed, but only a little bit. That is, the eight-part article was still the main body of the imperial examination, and the thoughts of Confucius and Saints were still the main body, but other content examinations were added.

His reasons are absolutely lofty and stand on the moral high ground of scholars and scholars, making it impossible for you to refute. That is, Confucius’s collection of classics and history needs to be taken seriously, but the other six arts of Confucius cannot be underestimated. We need a comprehensive and profound understanding of Kong Sheng’s thoughts. For example, among the six arts, driving, archery, and counting are key.

I want you to be proficient in the knowledge of saints and use it as a reference for the imperial examination. You have no objection.

If you object, then you are not a disciple of the saints and you are not worthy to participate in the imperial examination. Get out of here.

In this reform of boiling a frog in warm water, putting pressure on Confucius and Saint, and using one's own spear to attack one's own shield, the imperial examination has changed, and the proportion of reference points in the other five subjects has become higher and higher. Without strong opposition from anyone, we began to develop towards selecting comprehensive and practical talents.

In the end, as a matter of course, the eight-part system was completely abolished.

During this period, Li Chuang was in the south of the Yangtze River. Since the Ming army could not get reinforcements from the northern army, it was devastated all the way and had almost swept across the entire south of the Yangtze River.

With the overt and covert cooperation of Qian Tonghe, who was left behind in Nanjing, and Wang Chengen, the guarding eunuch, three of the four towns in Jiangbei have been wiped out, and only Gao Jie is still struggling to hold on.

Regarding Jiangnan Snowflake's urgent request for help, the regent had already informed about it, and when the emperor returned to the throne, he would throw it into the trash can in the name of reply.

But Li Chuang also had some problems, that is, the southerners were unwilling to join Li Chuang's army and were wasted in constant battles, causing Li Chuang's increasingly serious shortage of troops. He had no choice but to constantly mobilize troops from Shaanxi to go south to maintain his rule over the increasingly larger occupied areas.

Now, Li Chuang has the idea of ​​taking over Nanjing and establishing it as the capital. Even if Nanjing cannot be taken, they are still planning to build the capital in Xiangfan, and they will rule across the river from the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for Gu Junen's firm opposition, Li Zicheng would have moved his entire hometown in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.

In view of this situation, Lu Mou decided that after the Yellow River freezes next spring, the entire army will adjust and dispatch and launch a comprehensive attack on Shaanxi. Li Chuang, who is still in the hands of Gao Yigong and has nearly 300,000 soldiers, must not be allowed to All the old people have gone south.

You have to be careful when using him. If you really let go of the three hundred thousand yuan, Jiangnan will really be wiped out. (End of chapter)