Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The exception is the former Ming prince Zhu Cihong.Wu Shigong will give him 3 taels of housing expenses, and after Fengyang recovers, he will place his whole family in the Zhu family's hometown to worship the ancestors and guard the grave for the Ming emperor.Moreover, Zhu Cihong's title will only be withdrawn once, and when he is retired to Marquis, he will not be withdrawn again, and will keep this title forever.

Before the founding of the Daping Dynasty, many people, even some officials of the former Ming Dynasty, secretly told Wu Shigong that these remnants of the previous dynasty should be eradicated politically, so as to prevent someone from using them as a call to raise troops to rebel and threaten the rule of the new dynasty. .But in the end, Wu Shigong still chose this relatively "gentle" method of disposal.

It seems that Wu Shigong is kind of a woman, but Wu Shigong also has his own ideas.After all, the number of ambitious royal families of the former Ming Dynasty is relatively small, and many people are content to enjoy themselves, and have no courage to raise their heads to rebel.

And now the general principle of the Daping Dynasty governing the country is-stability.If the royal family of the former Ming Dynasty was killed until blood flowed into rivers, it would always cause a certain amount of panic.Even some former Ming royal families who wanted to surrender had to resist to the end.In this way, it will actually cause the Daping Dynasty to be unstable, and at least it will cost a lot of military and financial resources.

Another point is that the Runing Army rose so fast that it almost accepted all the officials of the former Ming Dynasty.Among these people, it is impossible to tell who has a different heart.If there are those former Ming royal families as an attraction, let some people with different hearts raise their troops to rebel together.The Daping Dynasty can gather and annihilate them, but it can get twice the result with half the effort.

In the final analysis, even if those former Ming royal families really rebelled repeatedly, Wu Shigong could wait until after Nanming, Manchu, Dashun and Daxi were wiped out.Another final solution!Of course, if these former Ming royal families were honest, Wu Shigong would not want to use such cruel methods.

[-]. In the Amnesty Decree.The Manchu and Mongolian tribes are also included.In fact, this is a foreshadowing, laying a certain foundation for Wu Shigong to rule the Mongolian tribes outside the pass and the Liaodong Jurchen with his fictitious "golden family" status.Of course, this must not be made public to the Han people in the world.

Followed by the "Recruitment Order":

The core content of the "Recruiting Talents Order" can also be summed up in one sentence: as long as all scholars with fame and reputation above the scholar level before the establishment of the Daping Dynasty, only need to apply.Anyone can be an official in the Daping Dynasty.

It can be said that once this decree is promulgated, it will shake the whole world.This will wipe out all the scholars in the world.Let the scholars of the world return to their hearts.

Of course, there are two technical problems to be solved here: one is whether there are so many official positions?After all, there are several 10 scholars above the world's scholar; the other is whether the country's financial expenditure can bear it?Because the salary of so many officials will be a huge sum.

Regarding the issue of official positions, many new yamen will be established in the Daping Dynasty.Coupled with the most grassroots government agencies in the local area.It will be devolved from the county level to the township level, which will create 10,000+ new official positions.Moreover, the Daping Dynasty will also establish national schools and medical centers in every township and county. Many scholars will also work in these schools and medical centers after professional training.

As for financial issues, the Daping Dynasty will encourage the development of industry and commerce.Unlike the previous Ming Dynasty, everyone in the Daping Dynasty, including the royal family, will pay taxes.And the amount of industrial and commercial tax will also be increased to one-tenth.

And not all scholars are willing to serve as officials, after all, some people may be old and weak.Or "heart forward".And as time goes by, those redundant officials will naturally be eliminated, and the Daping Dynasty will return to the normal number of officials.

However, in the "Recruitment Order", there are four important changes:

[-]. The imperial examination system.In the next ten years, the imperial examination system, which originally used eight-legged essays, will be gradually reformed, and finally graded examinations and age restrictions will be adopted.

During the Daping Dynasty, education for all will be gradually implemented.As long as the school-age boys will enter the first-level school to study for three years.At the end of the three years, there will be an examination and selection, and some outstanding ones will be selected to enter the second-level school to study.And so on, all the way to the most advanced fifth-level school.This is actually a replica of modern elementary school, high school, junior high school, high school and university.It is through such layers of examinations that outstanding talents are finally selected to serve as court officials.

Of course, the details will not be described in detail.The approach of the Daping Dynasty is not only to select talents, but also to achieve universal literacy.However, this also depends on the financial revenue of the court, and it has to be done step by step.Wu Shigong estimates that if a prototype can be achieved within 20 years, he will be very satisfied.

Second, the content of the imperial examination.In the content of the new imperial examination, at the beginning, the "Four Books and Five Classics" still dominated, and it was claimed that Confucian education was still carried out.But in it, Wu Shigong still stuffed quite a lot of private goods.

The new imperial examinations will be divided into five subjects: literature, moral character, arithmetic, nature and physical fitness.Among them, literature and moral character are of course derived from the "Four Books and Five Classics", and at most some educational content such as loyalty to the monarch, patriotism, and collectivism are added.As for arithmetic and gymnastics, the original imperial examinations did not pay much attention to this, but these two subjects are still among the six Confucian arts, so it is reasonable to add this content.As for nature, it is nothing more than a collection of geometry, physics and chemistry.In order to strengthen students' ability to work after graduation, it is understandable to know some such knowledge, so it has not been opposed by too many people.

In particular, physical skills should be pointed out.Wu Shigong didn't just let the students go to physical education classes, but he integrated military training into the gymnastics subjects.In fact, it is a kind of national military training to prepare for the general mobilization of the whole people in case of occurrence.

It is worth mentioning that all civil and military officials unanimously agreed with Wu Shigong's method of strengthening education.At most, there are some complaints about the settings of certain subjects.

Three, official position setting.Because there are more township-level institutions in the Daping Dynasty, the classification of officials will increase.All new officials will also start from the grassroots, and only those who are particularly outstanding will serve back and forth between the court and the local government.In order to avoid the original imperial examination, once the title of the gold list is inscribed, it will enter the Imperial Academy to be high above, not grounded, and not ignorant of the real situation of the people.

Moreover, the Daping Dynasty will also break the dividing line between officials and officials.The leaders of some officials will become the lowest-level officials, and the outstanding officials can also be promoted to become officials.In fact, this is also a prototype of the modern civil service system.

[-]. Qualifications for appointment as officials.In the Daping Dynasty, in addition to the examination and selection among the graduates of the fifth-level schools, there were also retired over-age military officers who were eligible to serve.This is also a way to improve the status of the military.Of course, craftsmen with the title of master craftsman can also serve as officials, but at most they are technical officials. (To be continued..)