dognovel Chapter 539 This bastard is like a donkey.
Chapter 539 This bastard is like a donkey.
November 12th, the fourth year of Hongwu (1386), sunny.
According to the thermometer data produced by the College of Chemical Engineering and the College of Medicine at the University of Denzhou, the temperature that day should have been around minus five degrees Celsius.
Yang Shaofeng tightened his robe and turned to Emperor Zhu, who was sitting on his horse, and said, "Father-in-law, it's time to set off."
Emperor Zhu glanced deeply at the distant city of Laizhou and replied, "Let's go!"
After passing Laizhou Prefecture, the next stop is Changyi, then Qingzhou, Jinan, and then Ningyang County.
According to the original itinerary, Emperor Zhu and Empress Ma would rest for one day in Changyi, two days each in Qingzhou and Jinan Prefecture, and five days in Ningyang County before setting off from Ningyang County to return to the capital before the Lunar New Year.
However, after the incident involving the illegal coal mines in Laizhou Prefecture, Emperor Zhu no longer cared whether he could return to the capital before the Lunar New Year.
According to Emperor Zhu, it's easy for us to return to the capital, but with corrupt officials like Huo Lingyue and Pang Zhen still around, ordinary people will have a hard time surviving until the Lunar New Year. It's easy for us to remain blind, but what about the people who can't survive?
"The mines must be brought under the control of the imperial court."
Before arriving in Jinan, Emperor Zhu suddenly said, "Even if we are to allow those gentry to participate in mining, we must strengthen supervision."
"At the very least, we must find a way to ensure that people can live and receive their wages, instead of ending up like those illegal coal mines in Laizhou."
"If you have any ideas, why not tell us?"
Yang Shaofeng glanced at the distant Jinan city wall, then at the Zhu Emperor beside him, and couldn't help but point to his own nose, asking, "Son-in-law? What's the solution?"
Old Deng, you overestimate me!
That gentleman once said that contradictions exist in the process of the development of all things and run through the entire process of the development of every thing.
Before the large-scale development of workshops and honeycomb briquettes, the main problems of the Ming Dynasty were concentrated on the contradictions between the Zhu Emperor, who longed for stability, the court, the people, and the gentry group that was frantically annexing land.
As workshops emerged on a large scale, and honeycomb briquettes, harvesters, cement, and other products gradually became more widespread, the main problem of the Ming Dynasty became the contradiction between backward productivity and people's desire for a better life.
The gentry group, or the emerging capitalist class, hopes to earn more profits.
Ordinary people hope to live a stable and better life.
There is a struggle between these two groups because the interests of the gentry and the common people are inherently contradictory.
However, the two also share a certain degree of similarity, namely, they are both constrained by backward productive forces.
After clarifying the issues involved, and then looking back at the problem itself, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: in order to protect the interests of ordinary people, it is inevitable to harm the interests of the capitalist class.
If something similar to a labor union is created, it's difficult to guarantee the union's integrity, that is, whether the union can wholeheartedly consider the interests of the people.
Yang Shaofeng shook his head helplessly and sighed, "Well... I really don't have any good ideas on how to handle this."
"In addition to having local officials strengthen management and include this aspect in their promotion assessment, we should also set up a separate government office to speak for the people and be specifically responsible for reviewing the employment situation of each workshop."
"But these things are so numerous and complicated, my mind is also a mess."
"Why don't we let the Duke of Han and the Earl of Chengyi study it first?"
Emperor Zhu glanced at Yang Shaofeng with annoyance and snorted coldly, "One jin of small dragon balls."
One pound?
Who do you think you are?
Such a troublesome problem can be solved with just one pound of small dragon balls?
Even if you have a 1,000 or 10,000 jin (500 kg) small dragon ball, it won't make a difference!
Yang Shaofeng rolled his eyes slightly and said, "Father-in-law, this is a problem that even if you tied the Duke of Han and the Earl of Chengyi together, you still wouldn't be able to solve, let alone me."
After a slight sigh, Yang Shaofeng recounted the remaining parts of the theory of contradiction to Emperor Zhu.
"The contradictions between the court and the gentry, between the gentry and the common people, and between the court and the common people—all these contradictions ultimately boil down to one word: money."
"Even if you gave me a thousand or ten thousand catties of Xiaolongtuan, I still couldn't make everyone stop loving money."
"After all, human greed is unstoppable."
"The only solution is what Confucius said: education for all."
"Then there is what Master Cheng and Master Zhu said about preserving heavenly principles and eliminating human desires."
"On the one hand, we used the law to restrain the greed of the gentry, and on the other hand, we widely promoted education and used reputation and virtue to control them."
"As for a temporary solution..."
Yang Shaofeng hesitated and said, "Then we can only add another government office to specifically monitor the workforce in the workshops, but this office has to avoid dealing with the government and gentry, which is actually quite troublesome."
As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Emperor Zhu fell silent.
Although this scoundrel did nothing human, he was right about one thing: human greed is unstoppable; we can only try to restrain it.
After a long silence, Emperor Zhu sighed heavily again.
Forget it, let Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen handle these matters.
As for that bastard next to me...
Emperor Zhu glared angrily at Yang Shaofeng.
This dog is like a donkey; it won't move when led, and it will back down when beaten. It won't work properly unless it gets something like a small dragon's group as a reward.
We'll have to get our sister to figure out a way to teach him a lesson.
Having made up his mind, Emperor Zhu snorted again and ordered, "Let's go, let's enter the city."
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When Emperor Zhu and his son-in-law Yang Shaofeng arrived in Jinan Prefecture, Wang Guangyang, the Shandong Provincial Governor, was pacing around the Provincial Governor's Office.
"The imperial examination system will be completely abolished in ten years, and a special imperial examination will be held every year for the next ten years."
This is an official document drafted by the Secretariat and stamped with the seal of the Emperor Zhu by His Highness the Crown Prince.
In other words, by the fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign, the Ming Dynasty would no longer have any imperial examinations, and instead, there would be official examinations as mentioned in official documents.
Moreover, the civil service examination was not implemented starting in the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign, but rather gradually rolled out in the fifth year of Hongwu's reign, with Ningyang County and Dengzhou Prefecture serving as pilot areas. This was also an opportunity to complete the plan to add smaller government offices between counties and villages.
This is quite normal.
Adding a smaller government office between the prefecture/county level and the village/community level would indeed strengthen the government's control over the local area.
Even from the perspective of ordinary people, the addition of this small government office has certain benefits.
Ningyang County is a pilot county directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Secretariat.
With Yang the Madman in charge in Dengzhou Prefecture, neither the Shandong Provincial Administration Commission nor the Central Secretariat wanted to get involved in Dengzhou Prefecture's affairs.
These two locations are perfect for pilot projects.
But who the hell can explain to me what this abolition of the imperial examination system is all about?
Wang Guangyang felt that His Highness the Crown Prince, the Duke of Han, and the Earl of Chengyi must be suffering from some serious illness.
Abolishing the imperial examination system is easy, since whoever is the emperor has the final say. His Highness the Crown Prince is the executive vice emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and if he says he wants to abolish the imperial examination system, Emperor Zhu would most likely not object.
The question is, was the imperial examination system so easily abolished?
Historically, there have been instances where the imperial examination system was abolished.
However, the person who abolished the imperial examination system was Zhao Ji, who was also the founder of the "Slender Gold" calligraphy style.
This guy's reputation is so bad it's not just bad, it's bad enough to be known from miles away.
Now that His Highness the Crown Prince wants to abolish the imperial examination system again, what exactly are you Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen doing?