Chapter 129 Motivation

This is also the last promise given by Yu Xiaotian to Chongzhen. Chongzhen has now changed back to the letter king. After listening to it, his heart is bitter, but he also breathed a long sigh of relief. He is very clear about the mentality of those in power. The existence of people like him is undoubtedly a mental illness of Yu Xiaotian. If it were his words, he is also willing to You will not leave your own life.

So these days, he has been secretly worried that Yu Xiaotian will lose his promise. After his meditation, after leaving him for a year and a half, he will find a head to kill his whole family, and eventually kill their whole family, and casually tell the death or other reasons. At that time, no one can do anything.

But after listening to Yu Xiaotian's whispered promise today, he didn't know why, but he still believed Yu Xiaotian's words and settled down.

Since he saw Yu Xiaotian's first face, he has gradually understood Yu Xiaotian's character in recent years. Yu Xiaotian is definitely not a soft-hearted person. For those who dare to fight against him, he can be said to be cruel. No one hundred thousand enemies who have died in his hands over the years should have at least tens of thousands. Of.

But at the same time, he also knows that Yu Xiaotian is a man who keeps his promises. Generally speaking, as long as he promises, he will rarely eat his words and become fat. Even his enemies have to admit that now Yu Xiaotian has repeatedly promised him that as long as he is safe after his meditation, he will not be embarrassed with him, so Chongzhen will be in love with each other. Xinyu Xiaotian is not deliberately lying to him.

If Yu Xiaotian forced him to sit in the Zen position when he entered Beijing a few years ago, then with Chongzhen's character, he would definitely rather be broken than a tile at that time. Even if the whole family died, he would never agree to Yu Xiaotian's request.

But after a few years, Chongzhen's character has gradually been flattened in this forbidden life, and there is no longer the same spirit as before. Now he has no illusions about the revitalization of the Ming Dynasty. He has accompanied his wife and children every day, which has made him used to this kind of life. He opened He began to be afraid of losing the family affection he had in the end, and began to think more about their future.

Since Daming has died in name and reality, it is meaningless for him to continue to stay here as this kind of puppet emperor. Instead, it is better to completely let go, end the Ming Dynasty, and give the world to Yu Xiaotian to sit. He only wants to save the lives of a few children. In addition, he will never do what he wants to do. .

Since everything is irreparable now, what's the point of continuing to miss this palace and the throne? Now he is no longer a high emperor. Although he knows that after arriving in Quanzhou, he can only be confined to the royal palace and continue to be the bird in the cage, as long as he can keep him Those children are better than living a life of miscariousness now.

Yu Xiaotian also reached an agreement with him in private, that is, if Chongzhen is willing, then Yu Xiaotian can give his sons a chance to change their faces and hide their identities. After the future situation stabilizes, he can give them a freedom and give them a chance to return to the outside world, and even It allows them to make achievements in the world.

But the premise is that they will keep their promise and never reveal their identity to outsiders, otherwise everything will become empty talk. Even if they don't kill them, they can only return to their cage and will never be free.

This is already a special out-of-law kindness for an outdated abandoned emperor family. Chongzhen also knows that it is extremely valuable for Yu Xiaotian to agree to these conditions. As for more things, he does not dare to expect.

With the end of the Zen Ceremony, Chongzhen's abdication officially gave the throne to Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian changed the name of the country to Dazhong and Chengtian, which also completely announced the end of the reign of the Ming Dynasty and the end of an era. The whole China has officially entered a new era.

Although there are still many people who do not agree with Yu Xiaotian's accession to the throne and assassinate Yu Xiaotian twice a day in an attempt to prevent him from ascending to the throne, they still failed to stop the historical wheel from marching forward. Under the control of Xiaotian, China began to enter a new period.

Once Yu Xiaotian came to power, in addition to maintain stability in various places, he sacrificed butcher knives to those opponents, killed a large number of political enemies who tried to put him to death, and extinguished dozens of armed rebellions in various places that tried to fight against him openly. It took half a year to stabilize the situation, leaving only Some hostile forces in various places had no choice but to turn into underground activities, but they could not turn over much.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian insisted on adopting a high-pressure policy for these forces that tried to resist his rule and intend to restore the Ming Dynasty, and never in vain. He implicated many powerful and nobles of the previous dynasty, gradually eliminated these local forces and gradually stabilized his rule over the country.

After Yu Xiaotian ascended the throne, he immediately banned the status of the capital of Nanjing, and abolished all the original set of government institutions in Nanjing. The original officials were hired on the basis of merit and transferred to other places. In addition, for most of the officials who were waiting to die, they were invited to go home separately and did not occupy the pit. Shit, a lot of officials were suddenly laid off, leaving a lot of expenses.

The original Nanzhili was divided into two, re-establishing two provinces, one Anhui and one Jiangsu. In the newly pacified Liaodong, two provinces were set up, one Jilin Province and one Liaoning Province. As for the later Heilongjiang Province, it was temporarily under the management of Liaoning Province due to the cold weather and sparse population.

In addition, he issued an order to send a 30,000 troops led by Meng Fei into the Mongolian grassland, stationed in the area of Guihua City, which was destroyed by the war in previous years, rebuild the city, expand the original Guihua City into a large city, garrisoned by the large and medium-sized army, and send officials here against the whole of Mongolia. The Ministry will exercise management. In the future, the regions of the Mongolian ministries will be established, and the provincial capital will be located in Guihua City.

For the jurisdiction of Mongolia, Yu Xiaotian decided to do it step by step. In the next step, he prepared a large number of immigrants to Mongolia, open up wasteland and farm, gradually increase the number of Han people in the Outer Mongolia area, and then gradually establish Mongolian provinces, and gradually build more cities. Through these cities, Gradually and comprehensively control the Mongolian ministries and finally complete their complete control.

As for whether the Mongolian ministries are happy or willing or not, this is not his business. Now he has strong soldiers. I'm sorry who is disobedient. First, cut off your mutual market rights, and then summon the Mongolian ministries to join the army to fight and destroy them. At this time, Dazhong's military strength is extremely strong. Strong, of course, they are not allowed to turn up a lot of waves.

In addition, for the imperial palace, Yu Xiaotian banned the system of continuing castration and stopped recruiting more eunuchs. The original eunuchs carried out diversion and resettlement and gradually moved them out of the capital to return to their hometown for retirement, leaving only a very small number of eunuchs to be retained in the palace. As for the maids of honor in the original Daming Palace, they were also dismissed and resettled back to their hometowns. , transferred a group of maids in his house in Fujian to the palace.

In this way, there were less than 100 eunuch maids left in the whole palace, far lower than the number of eunuch maids in the previous dynasty, which made the palace suddenly become cold. So many palaces could not be used up at all. Yu Xiaotian issued an order to seal up most of the free palaces, including various In the past, the items in the palace were also sealed in the palace, and could not be unsealed without his will.

He left only a small number of palaces for him and his family and those eunuchs to live in, and let the maids serve in the palace until they are 20 years old, then they can leave the palace to find a mother-in-law to marry out. As for the eunuchs left behind, when they are old, they will be properly placed separately and completely end China. Historically, the deformed eunuch system, and the eunuchs retained now no longer interfere in any government affairs, and those who violate the decree will be severely punished.

Then in the autumn of the first year of Fengtian, Yu Xiaotian did another thing that surprised scholars all over the world, that is, he strongly promoted the reform of the imperial examination system that had been implemented in China for thousands of years.

After repeated arguments and games with officials, Yu Xiaotian launched a new imperial examination system. Although he continued to retain the imperial examination system, in the original imperial examination system, the first mate reduced the proportion of eight shares of literature in the imperial examination, and at the same time, he no longer gave a lot of poetry, songs and other aspects of evaluation. High attention.

However, in the original imperial examination, some new subjects were added, among which the first mate also reduced the knowledge of scriptures and righteousness in the policy question. Instead, the first mate raised the knowledge of political affairs in the policy inquiry as the theme.

The policy mainly covers issues such as economy, people's livelihood, civil administration, administration, management, agriculture, water conservancy, etc. In addition, some questions in industry and commerce are added, and various questions are raised, so that the examinees can put forward their opinions on these practical problems and their countermeasures, and more assessment The students' ability in practice, instead of paying too much attention to their achievements in Moyi, scriptures, scriptures, poetry and other aspects, and write good articles, they may not be able to get good results in the future, but if they have a good performance in time theory and practice, they will get good results in the imperial examination in the future. Achievements.

This forces future readers to give up the previous way of reading dead books and rote learning, but forcing them to open their eyes, pay more attention to various practical knowledge, pay more attention to people's livelihood, economy, industry and other aspects of knowledge, and pay more attention to the actual working ability of officials. .

In addition to the strategy, the assessment of mathematics has been added. If you want to be an official, you can be an official, but in mathematics, you must be proble. Even if it is not too high, at least some knowledge about mathematics must be learned.

This is also a disguised compromise. For the time being, we have to take care of those former scholars. At least we can't completely stand on the opposite side of scholars and govern the country. Now Yu Xiaotian is still inseparable from these old-fashioned scholars. We must leave them a way to advance. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to find them in the future. There are enough people to do things for him, which is also a problem that any dynasty in power has to face, so Yu Xiaotian finally compromised in this regard.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian is still outside the imperial examination system, and a new examination method has been added, that is, a new examination system has been set up under various ministries, which is called professional examination.

Didn't some scholars study poetry and scriptures badly before? However, in some aspects, they are specialized, but this kind of person basically has no chance to win, so they can't embark on an official career. At best, they can only act as small officials and do some things.

But now it's all right. I'll open a new way for you. Aren't you specialized? This is also okay. As long as you have major achievements and have strong professional skills in some aspects, you can go to various departments to take professional examinations.

These professional examinations do not take things such as poetry, but only examine various professional knowledge.

The assessment project set up under the Ministry of Public Administration is mainly administrative management. For those who are proficient in management, you can choose to take the examination of the Ministry of Public Administration. If you do have a good ability in administrative management and have unique views on various relevant practices, you can judge that your knowledge in this area is outstanding. Well, you can be hired. In the future, you can work in the local government. The starting point is slightly lower, but it is also a way to advance.