Prospering the People Is Suffering, Losing the People Is Suffering!
100,000 candidates.
This number was terrifying.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also greatly impacted.
he muttered.
"Although there are thousands of scholars participating in the imperial examination every year, only a few hundred are accepted.”
"I really didn't expect that if the Imperial Examination was accumulated for 500 years, there would actually be so many High Scholars.”
"How much f * cking money and food do we have to pay for these officials?”
"If we lead 100,000 soldiers to war, those people can even help us expand our territory, kill our enemies, snatch the spoils of war, and guard the country.”
"These 100,000 high school candidates don't know how to solve cases. They only know how to talk and do useless eight-legged essays. They don't know how to govern the country either.”
"If we raise 100,000 pigs and 100,000 cows, they can still eat.”
Mao Xiang:
Comparing Juren with pigs and cattle.
This was probably not good, right?
He pretended not to hear her and looked at the hollow window on the wall of the examination hall, peeping at the spring scenery outside.
He thought,"
This kind of brain-racking thing.
He could not get involved.
Moreover, the Brocade Guard was just a sharp blade by the Emperor's side. A sharp blade did not need to have a brain. It only needed to execute the mission perfectly.
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"Your Highness, it's still too early for you to be shocked.”
Tidas blew at the boiling tea with a calm expression and took a sip.
"Isn't our Great Ming already considered an official after getting into the High Scholar examination?”
"They enjoy all kinds of privileges.”
"Being favored by the law, not being able to kneel when meeting officials, not being able to kneel in the yamen, and so on.”
"Most importantly, they can be exempted from taxes and corvee.”
"One hundred thousand candidates are exempted from taxes and corvee. How much of a burden is this for the country?”
Zhu Biao opened his mouth and stammered,
" S-Sir, this is the number of candidates accumulated through the five hundred years of the imperial examination system. In reality, no one can live to be five hundred years old, which means that there are no hundred thousand candidates. Therefore, the burden on the country is not very heavy."
Tidas could not help but laugh. He shook his head and placed the empty teacup on the table.
Zhu Biao consciously poured tea for Tidas.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, even if it is impossible for our Great Ming to have 100,000 Juren at the same time, with 60 years as the time limit, Great Ming can have nearly 10,000 Juren at the same time.”
Zhu Biao paused.
The teapot kept pouring out tea.
The tea in the teacup was about to spill out.
Tidas patted his wrist.
Zhu Biao immediately came back to his senses.
He hurriedly lifted the teapot and barely stopped the tea before it overflowed.
Zhu Biao stuttered apologetically,
" S-Sorry, Sir. I was just stunned. It's fine if there are nearly 10,000 High Scholars in 500 years, but you said that there are nearly 10,000 High Scholars in 60 years. This is really…"
"Allow me to drink some tea to calm myself down.”
Tidas could not help but tease,
"You're stunned just like that?"
"Previously, we only counted the number of High Scholars. We haven't counted the number of Elementary Scholars yet."
"Pfft!"
Zhu Biao was so frightened that he spat out a mouthful of tea. He quickly wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and said,"Mister, what you said today was truly shocking. BenGong was impolite.”
Zhu Yuanzhang secretly saw this scene and shook his head.
"Our son is already so old, but he's still so unstable. It seems that he still needs more experience.”
"Like me. I'm very calm."
"So what if there are more High Scholars? It's just tens of thousands of High Scholars. We can still afford to raise them.”
In the end, he muttered softly," At least, it's much less than the nearly 100,000 candidates.”
Mao Xiang was speechless.
Zhu Biao wiped the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief and wiped the table that was wet.
Tidas was interrupted, and his thoughts were stuck.
"Where was I?"
Zhu Biao held his handkerchief and placed his hands on his legs, sitting like an obedient primary school student.
He replied honestly,
"You mentioned Scholar."
"Scholar…Although there were many High Scholars, it was impossible to have more than Elementary Scholars. With sixty years as the deadline, there were close to ten thousand High Scholars, so the number of Elementary Scholars was even more uncountable.”
"Think about it. The privileges of a scholar are already very high. They can also be exempted from corvee and do not have to pay public grain.”
"What's worth noting here is…"
"Exemption from taxes doesn't mean exemption from taxes for a scholar, but exemption from taxes for a scholar's family.”
"And Lin Sheng can also receive tuition fees from the country every year.”
"This means that the country has to provide for those Linsheng.”
"More importantly, some scholars and scholars colluded with the landlord because they could exempt the public grain. They put the landlord's money and grain under their own name and helped the landlord exempt that portion of money and grain, thus benefiting from it.”
Zhu Biao was furious.
"Preposterous!"
"The Imperial Examination is meant to select talents to govern the people.”
"However, not only did this group of people not do anything, but they also took bribes and perverted the law, harming the interests of the country.”
"These people are really hateful!"
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in a corner of the inner hall, was so angry that his face turned red and veins popped out on his forehead.
"Damn it!"
"Those corrupt officials deserve to die!"
Zhu Yuanzhang cursed in a low voice.
He had always hated corrupt officials.
It was these corrupt officials who had caused the country to be in a foul mood.
Therefore, he hated corrupt officials and made many laws to punish those corrupt officials.
However, what Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that those small scholars and Juren would also do such things that harmed the interests of the country.
It seemed that his eight-legged essay selection and the Confucianism of the Four Books and Five Classics had not stuffed into the minds of these scholars at all.
They were still greedy.
Tidas leaned back in the chair at the back and chose a comfortable position. He continued,
"The country's financial income mostly depends on agricultural taxes and other income.”
"It's provided by the people at the bottom.”
"Ordinary people rely on the land to cultivate. It's difficult for them to even support themselves.”
"They still have to provide food to support so many officials.”
"Because of this, Zhang Yanghao once said that it is hard for the people to prosper and hard for the people to die.”
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's defense was completely broken.
He was born at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. When he was young, his family was poor. He even helped the landlord herd cattle for a meal.
Because his family was too poor.
More than half of his family had starved to death.
After that, he even had to become a monk and beg for food.
It was precisely because he started from the bottom.
Therefore, he knew very well how difficult it was for the people at the bottom.
He also hated those corrupt officials who plundered the people's wealth.
" The country is prosperous. With the exploitation and plundering of the corrupt officials, the commoners are living a miserable life. They barely manage to survive. The country is in chaos and destruction, and the commoners are still living a miserable life because of the war and turmoil.”
"I know that it's not easy for the common people, that's why I punished the corrupt officials so severely. It's not enough for those corrupt officials to be skinned and beheaded a hundred times.”
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