The time needed to reform the education system was much longer than the time needed to reform the military.
Xiao Ruxun could easily set up a military school to train his own officers to control the military and prevent civil officials from interfering with the military. However, it was not so easy to set up a school and learn it.
Schools are being built in the three southeastern provinces. The central government is urgently training teachers who have mastered Pinyin to teach children to read and write in schools in the three southeastern provinces. Xiao Ruxun has set a ten-year education reform plan.
He wanted to train the first batch of officials under the new education system within ten years. He wanted to use the civil service examination plan and test for each position. He wanted to gradually replace the imperial examination style of becoming a county magistrate.
How could the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people in a county be placed in the hands of a person who had only studied for a few decades?
The preferential terms attached to the imperial examination would also no longer exist. The imperial examination would still be the imperial examination but the inside would be completely changed.
Once the new education system gained a foothold, you would not be willing? You want tax exemption? You want preferential treatment?
Fine, there are so many scholars in the world, do you think you are missing one?
Using the land reform to train the scholars and scholars could stabilize the situation for a while. However, if he wanted to completely wipe out the power of the imperial examination system, he had to replace the current imperial examination system with a new system.
That was why Xiao Ruxun did not mention the imperial examination. Instead, he started a huge purge and killed those who tried to force him to reopen the imperial examination and the selection. He swept away the remaining political power of the former Ming Dynasty and let those who still had other thoughts think about their own weight.
He did so much so that the tragedy would not repeat itself.
If all of this happened again after his death, it would be too much of a pity.
He had to try his best to leave behind a reliable successor. At least under the premise of absolute righteousness, the Emperor could do many things.
As for after that … humans were not immortals, how could they see so far?
Xiao Ruxun thought for a while and thought of the story of Zhu Di raising Zhu Zhanji. He decided to personally raise Zhenbang by his side and let his father take care of Yingying.
After that, no matter how busy he was with government affairs, Xiao Ruxun did not relax his discipline on Zhenbang.
When he met with the ministers in the court, he put Zhenbang in the side hall to practice calligraphy. When he was in the study, he had Zhenbang practice calligraphy on a small table beside him.
After an hour of studying and a quarter of an hour of rest, he held Zhenbang's hand and took him out for a walk to relax his eyes and rest.
At noon, he took Zhenbang to eat together. After eating, he had an elderly female official take Zhenbang to a side room to take an afternoon nap. He also took a short nap. In the afternoon, he had a few reliable eunuchs take turns to accompany Zhenbang to play ball games in the Imperial Garden. After playing for two hours, they came back to take a bath and waited for him to come for dinner.
If the state affairs were too busy, Xiao Ruxun would arrange for the ministers to have lunch and dinner in the palace. He would also take some time to have lunch with the ministers. He would take for lunch. After lunch, he would continue to discuss state affairs with the ministers. After that he. After he had, he would be to.
The news of Xiao Ruxun personally raising and teaching Zhen Bang quickly spread throughout the court. At this sensitive moment when the Empress was about to give birth, many officials realized why the Emperor was doing this.
. "The Crown Prince's position cannot be shaken."
This was the intent that Xiao Ruxun conveyed to the officials. He wanted them to be at ease and not think about those useless things.
The officials in the central government had lost the power of their local financial resources and connections. They became unprecedentedly weak.
They only had official positions and power. They had no other power and no confidence to challenge the Emperor. They were like the old masters who had been frightened out of their wits by the massacres of the early Qing. They were not only frightened, but they also had no financial resources or manpower to back them up. They were completely controlled by Xiao Ruxun. Xiao Ruxun did not need to divide them to stabilize his position.
The ministers had never thought that Xiao Ruxun would be able to do it so thoroughly and straightforwardly. So much so that before that moment came, they could not believe that they had become the subordinates of such a powerful emperor. They had no ability to resist, and could only listen to the decree.
They had money, but not that much money. They had land, but not that much land. Most of their families were in Jing and were not allowed to go to other places. If they wanted to go, they had to resign and live in seclusion. They could not use their local relatives to buy land because the local officials were all the claws of the central government.
They stared at the central officials like tigers watching their prey, hoping that they would make a mistake. If they made a mistake, they would be removed from their posts and the local officials would have a chance to enter the central government.
Xiao Ruxun even planned to push for the policy that officials could not own land when they became officials. When they entered the central government, they would have to move their families to live in Jing. When they retired, the Emperor would grant them land for their retirement.
The time was not yet ripe. Xiao Ruxun wanted to wait until he became a god-like existence. Then he would use his supreme power to completely crush this thousand-year-old tradition.
But even now, the officials were not used to it.
It was a thousand-year-old tradition for officials to buy land. But this tradition was suddenly broken. They could not buy land or they would bring trouble upon themselves. This depression was unbearable, but they could not resist.
Although the Emperor had appointed an Imperial Censor, the difference between the current Imperial Censor and the previous Imperial Censor was so huge that it was hard to believe.
There had to be real evidence to impeach someone. Those who were impeached based on rumors or forged evidence were all demoted.
How could a mad dog bite people?
Not only that, the Emperor had also set up a Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate the officials. At the beginning of the year, the case of Duke Cheng's rebellion put thousands of people to death. Blood flowed like rivers and the court trembled. The Central Bureau of Investigation became famous after this battle and replaced the Imperial Bodyguard as a synonym for fear.
Since then, whenever they saw an official of the Bureau of Investigation wearing an unusual black official robe, they would tremble in fear.
The power of the current Emperor could even be compared to Zhu Yuanzhang.
They finally understood why it was not easy to be an official of the founding Emperor.
But they did not lose hope. After all, even a valiant and fierce person like Zhu Yuanzhang had to die. When he died and the new Emperor ascended the throne, wouldn't everything be the same?
But when the news that the Emperor was personally raising the Crown Prince came out, some people smelled something unusual.
And everything that Xiao Ruxun had done, to a large extent, surpassed their imaginations and was difficult to understand. Even the high-ranking officials in the Cabinet could not guess what the Emperor was going to do next. They had no idea how to deal with it and could only obey the edict.
In any case, Wang Xijue had accepted his fate. He planned to be a mouthpiece and do whatever the Emperor said. He did not think about the prestige of the Grand Secretary or the power of the head of the officials. In any case, the Imperial Censor did not dare to impeach him, so he was happy to be idle and free.
Li Tingji still wanted to do something, so Xiao Ruxun handed over the promotion of horse administration to Li Tingji to be the chief supervisor and began a pilot program in North Zhili.
The results of the initial test were not bad. More than 10,000 families had already accepted the job of horse administration and began to raise horses for the court in exchange for preferential tax policies.
The operation of the national horse farm also officially began. Now that the north was cold, the location of the horse farm needed to be moved slightly south. But fortunately, the Mongolian horses were cold resistant and easy to raise. They had strong vitality and were a little rough, but they were not afraid of freezing to death. This was the best condition for large-scale equipment for cavalry.
The large-scale training of cavalry was officially put on the agenda. Xiao Ruxun gathered the generals of the army, the officials of the General Staff Department, and the Ministry of War to begin a discussion. They reached an initial consensus of training 100,000 cavalry in five years, and the expansion of the cavalry was also steadily advancing.
Now that Jianzhou had been destroyed, the follow-up plan was naturally carried out by Xie He and the others. Xiao Ruxun only needed to issue an edict to appease Chu Ying and the King of Korea, Li Zhi, and the rest of his energy would be used to deal with Yang Yinglong and the southwest chieftain.
Once the southwest chieftain was settled, the land reform of the entire Jiangnan would be a success. The north had been in chaos for years. Not only did the common people have a hard time living, but the gentry also had a hard time. Back when Shanxi was in chaos, the power of the Jin merchants was swept away and almost uprooted. This saved Xiao Ruxun a lot of effort.
The largest gentry group in the north had been destroyed, so it was not that difficult to carry out land reform in the north. Once the south was settled, the north would be a piece of cake.
Once the Great Path was built, the local area would no longer be able to escape the control of the central government. Once the means of transportation and information communication were developed, the situation of the emperor being far away would no longer occur.
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