Chapter 139(1/2)
Yinzhen looked at Cao Zhen frequently, and his unexpected and surprised eyes happened to fall into Yinreng's eyes.
Yinreng quietly flipped through the book in his hand, observing him with all his heart, and secretly guessed that the fourth brother did not seem to be an alien, but rather a bit like...
【What is it like?】
Xiaomei asked Yinreng tremblingly, but it never expected that Yinzhen would expose himself and let his elder friends discover it!
Yongzheng has been the emperor for more than ten years, and many people have criticized him. The most relished thing is his petty mind. However, as an emperor, he is naturally suspicious. How could he expose his lifeline to the noses of his elder friends? With Yinzhen's caution, this shouldn't be!
Baihu mumbled and didn't know what he was mumbling.
Yinzhen was sensitive, and the prince was peeking at him, and he was not without feeling.
After reading the book records, Cao Zhen said to Yinreng: "It is found that in the late emperor's reign, in order to solve the problem of the Yellow River flood, he was selected as an exception for officials who knew how to control the river. This group of officials' scriptures is not as good as the rest of the prison students, but the advantage is that they know how to control the river, so they were promoted to office by making an exception."
The Yellow River will accumulate every year. In order to manage the river channels, a lot of money will be invested in the national treasury to clean up the silt and support local officials to manage the rivers.
"In addition, the most famous special science recruitment is the erudition and great scholarship opened by the emperor."
The purpose is to win over the Han scholars, absorb Confucianism, and maintain rule.
Yinreng knew these reasons well, and with these records, he thought: "Then if Khan Ama persuaded him to open a special subject and recruit more professional talents, it would become a shackle that could break the eight-legged essay scholars."
"The eight-legged scholar is based on its stability, convenient governance, and convenient review of documents," Yinzhen said.
The initial eight-legged scholarship was set up to facilitate the examination and to achieve the goal of fair recruitment of more talents for the court. However, the number of these recruitment tests was huge, and a standard was required for the examination. The uncertainty of the paper score was too large, and the gap was too large, which was unfair. Therefore, in order to facilitate the examination and to facilitate review, there was a way to measure the quality of the candidates' articles. The eight-legged scholarship style was favored by the rulers at that time.
When the eight-legged essay was first implemented, no one would have thought that a hundred years later, scholars spent all their energy on studying the study of how to write the eight-legged essay in order to cope with the exam. In order to cope with the exam, they would spend all their energy on studying the best essays. This puts the cart before the horse and the disadvantages became more and more obvious.
Those who pass the exam write well but don’t necessarily know how to do things.
Yinzhen also proposed the disadvantage of abolishing the eight-legged essay, in order to tell Yinreng: This is not something that can be done in one or two days.
Yinreng nodded: "Although it can't be done in a day or two, it's a good way to get out of the predicament over time."
"The second brother of the prince is preparing to submit a petition to ask Khan Ama to open a special department?"
Yinzhen raised his eyebrows. Since he exposed himself in front of Yinreng, he seemed to have no intention of hiding his weakness. The third brother is a fool. At this moment, he couldn't figure it out. Cao Zhen is Yinreng's man again, and all the initiative fell into the hands of the crown prince Yinreng.
Yinzhen was not a risky person. He would take the initiative to expose himself, for the purpose of being a "virtuous king" in this life.
Now that he talks with the prince is tied to the same boat as he and the prince, which is also a kind of "rejection".
The prince had his handle in his hand. If he joined forces with him, he would be able to live a stable life under the prince's wings in the future. What Yinzhen had to do was to make an idea at a critical moment, show that he was very powerful, and could help Yinreng.
He had observed the crown prince Yinreng in this life for several years and was very satisfied with the crown prince's nature.
He did not stick to small profits and focused on national affairs, had a broad vision and was able to be friendly to his brothers. These points were enough to make Yinzhen take some actions to attract Yinreng's attention.
To put it aside, to join forces earlier. Judging from the recent learning progress, Yinzhen already knew where Yinreng’s pattern was. It is precisely because of this that compared to the boss who was impatient and lacked in wisdom and was versatile among the court officials, the crown prince Yinreng in this life was the most suitable person to inherit the throne of Khan Ama. Therefore, even if he did not continue to be the emperor, Yinzhen would not let the boss, and the eighth brother came to inherit the throne.
Yinzhen figured it out and planned to throw out an olive branch to lure the prince to take the initiative to pull him onto his "boat".
However, Yinzhen also knew that if Khan Ama did not kill his son, even if his son made a huge mistake, it would be a ban.
"With Khan Amati, wouldn't that obviously expose Gu's thoughts?" Yinreng thought deeply: "I think it's better to be more roundabout."
Yinzhi: "..."
"My second brother has come to the library to read these. Khan Ama won't know what you are doing," Yinzhen unknowingly changed his name.
Cao Zhen sorted out all the books he had read and retelled the key content he had read one by one for Yinreng.
Yinzhen's eyes gradually became complicated: Unexpectedly, Cao Yin's youngest son who died early was a genius who could never forget his eyes. Such talents were probably even better than Hengchen (Zhang Tingyu).
Thinking of the cabinet chief promoted in his previous life, Yinzhen felt a delicate mood.
Hengchen is the same age as the boss, and should still be studying hard now!
Cao Zhen showed Yinzhen so much that his hair was so angry.
He felt like a poor little rabbit, staring at by a wild beast.
In order to find a sense of security, Cao Zhen was closer to Yinreng, just like when he was young, two little quails, who were warming each other with His Royal Highness. Now when he was staying next to His Royal Highness, he felt that someone was covering his head and someone was holding him while the sky fell. It was so safe.
Yinzhi had no specificity when reading books. After reading for a while, Yinreng asked him to practice writing quietly.
After roughly reading the information from the library and discussing it with Xiaomei, Yinreng formally determined the first and second steps to improve the imperial examination and abandon the eight-legged essay combat plan.
The first step is to add special subjects to give more professional talents the opportunity to become Jinshi.
The second step is to gradually reduce the proportion of the eight-legged essays in the test scores, so that it becomes one of the subjects, thereby reducing the impact of eight-legged essays and preparing for the final abolition of eight-legged essays.
The third step is to completely abolish the eight-legged essay to obtain scholars and reform the imperial examination.
Why can the exam be used only to select officials?
Why do everyone's goal of becoming an official?
Which one of them does not need an exam to select elites?
In Yinreng's ideal, the future schools of the Qing Dynasty will bloom everywhere, integrating the imperial examinations into the school, so as to select talents in the school, and finally establish a "threshold" for all walks of life. This is the method that meets the correct national conditions and can push corresponding talents to all walks of life across the country.
Of course, this ideal was also presented by Xiaomei and taught to Yinreng.
In Xiaomei's information, the healthy and orderly development of talent training and selection are called "middle school entrance examination" and "college entrance examination".
After being selected, you will not be a direct official, but enter the respective fields of these talents and give full play to their strengths. However, it is not rigid. As long as students are willing to spend time studying and have good grades, they will naturally be able to obtain the "qualification certificate" in these industries.
Yinreng will take a look at such an ideal operating system.
Just like Confucius yearned for the "Age of Great Harmony" during the Warring States Period, Yinreng also yearned for a country like Xiaomei's telling, but he only yearned for it without immersing it into reality. Because the actual situation of distinct classes since ancient times destined that what Xiaomei said became a "imagination" like Confucius imagined the "Age of Great Harmony".
Xiaomei is not completely helpless. At least the fresh knowledge it brings has gained insight and is of great reference value.
Yinreng wrote down his one-year plan, five-year plan, ten-year plan... one by one in his diary. He also asked someone to create a box to hold the diary after another he wrote, and sealed the diary intact with the material that is inseparable from water and fire.
After getting through these things, Yinreng was ready to extend his tentative hand to the Ministry of Revenue.
Both ministers of the Ministry of Revenue cried to Khan Ama, but he had never forgotten this matter!
The Ministry of Revenue manages the national accounts, and the court's financial appropriations are all calculated by them. They are responsible for any other department that needs to be supplemented.
Yinreng asked Chen Mengqiu to present some of the grain yield he has developed so far. Although no better varieties have been developed, three natural fertilizer formulas have been developed.
In addition to bird droppings, livestock manure, fish bones, it also has fruit peels, plants, etc.
Then Yinreng submitted a report to Kangxi, applying to put the verified effective natural fertilizer into production and use it as soon as possible to grow grain.
He also mentioned: "The people of the Qing Dynasty have some at home but don't have much land in their hands. If you want to harvest good grain and get the court to receive more grain taxes, the best way is to change the taxes based on the family heads to taxes based on land, which is the so-called dimes to be distributed to acres."
In this way, people with more land pay more taxes, and people with less land pay less taxes. People with less land will no longer dare to have children because of the "population tax". The population of the Qing Dynasty will usher in a major wave of growth.
Yinreng mentioned many benefits in the memorial, which is obviously a good idea, but the premise of this method must be to prosper in prosperity and the national treasury is rich, and only in the prosperous era will there be a reduction in taxes.
From paying taxes based on registered registered populations to paying taxes based on land, the land needs to be measured nationwide and re-counted. A large number of talents who can measure the land and calculate the land are so large that once it is proposed, the two ministers of the Ministry of Revenue will be the first to jump out and oppose it.
Kangxi rubbed his eyebrows. It was a pleasure and a torture to read the memorials written by Yinreng, because he could always think of convenient solutions, and each item had practical value, but he was proactive without any scruples. When he proposed a solution, he never thought about what kind of trouble he would face and how to solve these problems.
Kangxi suppressed Yinreng's memorial, summoned him over, and advised him earnestly: "'Governing the country is like cooking small fresh food'. Baocheng's matters mentioned were not prepared for a while, and he seemed to be reckless and lose his composure."
Yinreng's eyes lit up: "What if I prepare now?"
"Prepare earlier, you can achieve your goal sooner. Khan Ama, the more you keep it and don't do it, the greater the hidden dangers will be. If the Ministry of Revenue is short of people, why not recruit more people who are proficient in this way to prepare?"
Kangxi thought deeply: If the things mentioned by Baocheng were promoted in a prosperous era, they should be done.
"Don't think I don't know what you want to do," Kangxi warned implicitly: "If you forget the Tao Te Ching again, why not copy it a hundred times."
Yinreng smiled and said, "Khan Ama, Erchen's research institute also lacks people. In the research institute, there are no civil servants who only know how to write articles to do things. Moreover, Erchen heard that you plan to open the ban on the sea after taking it back to Taiwan. Once the ban is released, there will be more trade with outsiders. The national wealth can be accumulated by tariffs, and management must keep up. You have to recruit people."
"Which official did not use the eight-legged essay as a stepping stone when taking the imperial examination? Only after passing the examination did they become familiar with what they should do. It would be a waste to spend a lot of time training people to take exams before. The longer the minister stayed in the Ministry of Rites, the clearer and clearer they understood these things. I didn't see anyone writing the eight-legged essay for you in the memorial you reviewed. That would be so boring!
When Yinreng saw that Khan Ama had exposed him, he did not hide it. He liked to spread his ideas and also liked to discuss government affairs with Khan Ama. It felt that not only Khan Ama was influencing him, but also subtly influenced Khan Ama. The father and son sought common ground while reserving differences. This is how this couple got along with each other.
"Don't be too hasty," Yinreng had the enthusiasm for youth, and Kangxi himself was at the youngest and strongest.
The emperor believed that he was at the helm of the overall situation. He did not take it to the court to speak, but instead summoned the important officials of the cabinet to discuss the matter of adding special departments.
Yinreng blinked at the onlooker Xiaomei: Yes!
[The father of an adult friend just went to the third year and was still motivated. The general direction you proposed was correct, and it was reasonable for him to agree!] Xiaomei shook the tiger's beard and asked Yinreng carefully.
[What are the strange things about the fourth brother? What do you plan to deal with when your elder brother is doing?]
The policy of "spending acres to earn acres" was set up during the Yongzheng period. It was a tax reform developed by Yinzhen and was successfully implemented.
Now, because of the actions of the adult friend, the strategy of "spending acres to earn acres" appeared in front of Kangxi in advance.
Xiaomei didn't care about national affairs, she only cared about Yinzhen's life or death.
[If the father of an adult friend knows about the strangeness of his fourth brother, will the fourth brother be in danger of his life?] Which system would be as miserable as it is, not only should he worry about his older friend, but also about Yinzhen's life.
Yinreng: The fourth brother will show these things, he just predicted that Gu will keep it secret for him, Xiaomei and stupid.
[Xiaomei thinks that it is better for an older friend to communicate with her fourth brother.] Yinreng: Is this the intention of being alone.
If it weren't for the hoarse crying when he asked Xiaomei before, Yinreng wouldn't have never talked to Yinzhen alone.
This time, Xiaomei took the initiative to ask him to communicate with his fourth brother, and Yinreng really went to find Yinzhen.
The two brothers left everyone behind and spoke in the door. Not only was Madam Xu alert to let go of the news outside the door, but Xiaomei also provided all-round protection for their meeting in the house, so that there would be no words to leak out in the communication between them.
Yinreng sat opposite Yinzhen, drinking tea and said, "Since the fourth brother is no longer going to pretend, you might as well say it bluntly. Gu also wants to know that you are still a good brother of Gu."
To be continued...