From the beginning, Xiao Ruxun had focused on training his own team of officials, recruiting scholars and scholars from all over the country. After education, they were placed in the army as ideological instructors and land reform officials. On the one hand, he strengthened the control of the army, and on the other hand, he trained a new team of officials that opposed the interests of the traditional gentry.
On the other hand, he kept the outstanding people by his side as clerks. Through close observation and assessment, he promoted talents to enrich himself. He made full use of the existing conditions to train these young people to become grass-roots officials. They were loyal enough, and did not have too many ideological burdens and interests involved. They were good candidates for grass-roots officials.
The experienced political officials from Myanmar, the land reform officials, the ideological instructors, and the government team that stayed by his side were gathered together. Together with the existing local government officials, they would maintain a transitional period for a period of time in the future.
After the elimination of Shen Yicheng and the control of the court, the gentry in the southeast would also be suppressed by the land reform, and their economic foundation would be gone.
The biggest beneficiary group of the existing imperial examination system would also disappear. Without a foundation, the opposition of the scholars could be easily eliminated. At that time, it would be time to reform the education system.
Fully absorb the existing scholars as a foundation, cultivate qualified officials, and place them in the local areas, slowly eliminate the old officials. During this period, establish a new talent cultivation method, cultivate new officials, and then open up the sea, walk out, and swallow the vast world.
This was the right way to break the curse.
While marching, Xiao Ruxun designed his future political blueprint. After the power of the old interest groups was basically eliminated by the land reform, it was not difficult to implement such a new system and pull up new interest groups. After breaking the old chains, the Daming Dynasty would see a new world.
For this, he would not hesitate to eliminate opponents and obstacles, and vigorously promote and train supporters, such as the hundred young people who strongly supported Xiao Ruxun's reform of the education system. They had suffered from the imperial examination, and thought that the new system implemented by Xiao Ruxun was very much to their liking.
They also realized that only with the support of Xiao Ruxun could they enter the political arena and get rid of poverty and lowliness. Xiao Ruxun was their only hope, so they were more eager than Xiao Ruxun for this dream to come true.
Among the hundred young people, there were three people who were often accompanied by Xiao Ruxun.
One was Zhou Yao, one was Zhao Xuan, and the other was Chen Siqi.
Zhou Yao was from Guangdong and was a scholar. Zhao Xuan and Chen Siqi were from Huguang and were all scholars. All three of them were from the Han family. They were all 26 years old and had studied the Four Books and Five Classics until they had nothing.
When Xiao Ruxun recruited literate people to work in the army, they were among them. Later, after a series of tests and selections, they stood out and became the focus of attention. Later on, they came into further contact with Xiao Ruxun and were selected to do clerical work like taking notes.
After joining the government affairs team, they came in contact with a lot of local government affairs. Xiao Ruxun also tested them when they came to report the daily government affairs. He wanted to see if they had the potential to become officials in the central government.
They seemed to understand the purpose of Xiao Ruxun's actions and treated Xiao Ruxun's inquiries seriously. After a period of time, Xiao Ruxun figured out their respective development direction.
Zhao Xuan was good at the name of punishment and was very interested in all kinds of disputes. She was quick-witted and good at reasoning. Chen Siqi focused on agricultural affairs. He seemed to have experience in farming and had a deep understanding of the suffering of farmers. He hated the blind command of some local officials who missed the farming season.
As for Zhou Yao, he seemed to be more interested in finance. He also looked for Xiao Ruxun to learn the internal financial management of the Zhennan Army. He learned quickly and could make targeted improvements. He was good at managing accounts and had a certain understanding of people's hearts.
This seemed to have something to do with the experience of his family's 50 mu of land being taken away by the squire and relatives after the death of his parents. He was gloomy and was not afraid to speculate about people's hearts in the worst way.
Previously, when Xiao Ruxun showed Li Wenyuan's letter to the three of them, Zhao Xuan and Chen Siqi both focused on the cruelty and chaos of the land reform, hoping that Xiao Ruxun would restrain them. Zhou Yao, on the other hand, noticed Li Wenyuan's doubts towards Xiao Ruxun and felt that this person should be immediately demoted and punished, never to be used again.
Xiao Ruxun asked him why, and he said, "If this person dares to do something, he will do it again. This is not his duty, so we can't let him succeed. If he sets a precedent, we don't know what trouble he will have in the future. Even if the general is not happy, I have to say that this person must be severely punished."
At that time, Xiao Ruxun confirmed that Zhou Yao was not only good at financial management, but also had what he needed most at the moment.
His vigilance and conjecture toward others.
Perhaps it was because he had been betrayed and hurt by someone he trusted, but he was very sensitive to the slightest malice. This was something Xiao Ruxun needed very much. He needed someone like this to help him analyze some things. After all, it was because he lacked the vigilance in this aspect that he was almost killed by Shen Yichuan's schemes.
Although he had grown a lot after Shen Yicheng's calculation, the stronger the power and the more supporters he had, the more uneasy he was. He knew that these people could not be completely reliable. They all had their own purposes. They needed power, so they followed him, who could provide them with power.
They thought that they could get what they wanted, so they followed him. If they felt that they could not get what they wanted, they would inevitably have dissatisfaction and resistance. After eliminating Shen Yicheng, the common enemy would be eliminated, and there would be internal differences.
At that time, they would know what Xiao Ruxun had done in the Southeast, and they would know that Xiao Ruxun had uprooted their foundation. What would they do at that time?
It was Xiao Ruxun's choice to kill them all first.
He had to be prepared from now on.
Black Water had long begun to investigate the background, hometown, and property of the group of bureaucrats around Xiao Ruxun. Basically, they had an estimate of whether they could unite or would definitely fall out with each other. They had also sent letters to their hometown, but they were all intercepted. It was estimated that it would not take long for them to find out that something was wrong.
No one knew how long they could cover it up.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun really needed people who could plan such things for him. Whether it was Ye Mengxiong or Yuan Huang, they were upright and aboveboard people. He had never had such people around him. But now, he found that he needed such people very much, just like Ji Gang around Zhu Di.
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