However, although it was a few days before the official decree was issued, in fact, in the early dynasty when Yun Xi said this, the ministers who had a heart already knew that this matter was unstoppable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty still has a lot of power in his hands after all, unless he touches the bottom line of all officials and causes a backlash, otherwise any policy that Yun Xi wants to implement can be implemented, it's just a big deal to slow down. Of course, an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang can still implement the policy if he touches the bottom line of all officials, so this special case will not be discussed.

In addition, Yun Xi came up and announced it directly in the early dynasty, instead of discussing it privately with the four auxiliary officials and relevant officials as in the last time he proposed the regulations for the protection of military marriages, and after discussing it, he issued a draft will. Therefore, it is imperative to show that Yunxi is imperative.

If the conditions for these two aspects are complete, the system must be implemented.

So after the official decree, everyone immediately devoted themselves to another more important thing: competing for as many admission places as possible for their hometown.

In this way, not only was the time of the early dynasty completely occupied, but even the Qianqing Palace was in the matter of distributing the quota to Yun Xi after the daily recital was handled.

Yun Xi already has a plan on how to allocate the quota at the provincial level. At this time, there were still few people admitted to each subject of the imperial examination, generally less than 100 people, and Yunxi took 100 people as the standard, first distributed to 14 provincial-level administrative units in a basic and equal manner, and then according to the population, as well as to appease the original imperial examination provinces, and other factors, and finally adjusted to:

Seventeen people in Zhili, eleven people in Zheqi, nine people in Chixi, six people in Xingjian, nine people in Huguang, six people in Guangdong, three people in Guangxi, two people in Yunnan, five people in Bashu, six people in Henan, ten people in Shandong, four people in Beiping, six people in Shanse, and six people in Sanqin. A hundred people in total.

Among them, Zhili has the largest number of places because of the largest number of people and a large territory; Huguang is the two lakes and two provinces in later generations, and Yunxi reserved the quota for splitting into two provinces, so the quota is more; In the same way, Shandong Yunxi reserved a quota for the northeastern provinces (Liaodong was counted as part of Shandong at this time).

After the quota came out, there were naturally many dissatisfied people. Everyone felt that there were too few places in their hometown and too many places elsewhere. Among them, the key attacks were naturally Huguang and Shandong.

At this time, although Huguang is a large place, there are more than 5 million talents, and Zhejiang has more than 14 million; There is also Bashu, there are only more than 2 million people in total, and we have more than 7 million people in Xixi! There is also Shandong, although Shandong is the most populous province in the north, but it will not be able to have ten places.

Yun Xi made repeated adjustments and repeated deliberations before announcing the final results. Among them, although there are many places in the direct subordination, the population is nearly 20 million, and if the quota is divided into 30 places according to the population, there are actually not many, and many officials from the direct subordination are not satisfied.

Although the ministers were not satisfied with the quota, because they could not form a joint force, Yun Xi still succeeded in issuing this quota, and announced that from next year's meeting, this proportion will be used to admit tributes.

The officials were going to continue arguing, but Yun Xi immediately threw out the matter of the determination of the quota of each state capital.

In this way, the officials of the same province who had just stood together and hated the same enemy immediately split, demolished each other, and fought for more places for their hometowns with red faces.

Yun Xi happened to take this opportunity to tear apart the factions of the officials in the DPRK and China, so he did not make a conclusion for a long time, but announced that this year's township examination would not be admitted according to the quota of the state capital, and would wait until three years later.

Yun Xi sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai and watched the officials below arguing, and did not come to a conclusion. Until the second year of Jianye, there were still people arguing about this, but this is all for later.

Another move by Yun Xi was to announce the establishment of Jianghuai Province. With Fengyang Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Anqing Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, and Xuzhou, Hezhou, and Chuzhou Prefecture, the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture and Huai'an Prefecture was adjusted, and Jianghuai Province was established, and the provincial capital was set in Fengyang. Basically, it does not include the area north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in the area of Yangzhou City.

The scope of the current two provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui was determined during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was very unreasonable, and Nanjing was known as the "provincial capital of Eucalyptus". I don't care why he hasn't corrected it later, anyway, now that he's in charge, he will divide it according to a more reasonable method.

Then Yun Xi allocated five of the places in the Zhili area to Jianghuai Province. Although the population of Jianghuai Province is slightly larger, considering that there is Fengyang Mansion, the ministers are silent.

The original Central Capital Left-behind Division was reorganized into the Jianghuai Provincial Political Envoy Division, the Inspectorate Envoy Division, and the Metropolitan Command Envoy Division.

If it is left to the future generations, these few people who are divided are poor places, and the local people have to protest to the end; However, in this era, the provincial level was not as autonomous as the state government in terms of financial autonomy, and disaster relief and other things could only be mobilized by the central government and the local government, which basically had no impact on the people, so there were also officials who asked for the people's lives to protest.

However, some of the old heroes from Fengyang are not very satisfied. Chang Sheng found Yun Xi and said: "Your Majesty, in this way, Fengyang is not a place to be directly subordinate, Emperor Taizu values Fengyang very much, not very good." ”

Yun Xi said to him: "I separated Jianghuai Province to take care of Fengyang!" Think about it, Jiangbei has always been barren, and the reading exam has always been inferior to Jiangnan, so can Fengyang be admitted to Fengyang in such a province? ”

"Now that I have divided a province, these four prefectures and three prefectures are not much with Fengyang except for Anqing, so the probability of Fengyang people being admitted to the imperial examination has increased, why is it not good?"

"As for the care of Fengyang, even if the Zhili area is separated, there will be no less."

As soon as Yun Xi's words came out, the people who came out of Fengyang had no opinion, but they still felt that Yun Xi took care of his hometown.

Yun Xi has a plan in his heart, not to take care of his hometown, but to restrict the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be the economic center of the Ming Dynasty in the foreseeable future - even if the capital is moved, the Yangtze River Delta is much more dynamic than Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. The economic foundation determines the superstructure, especially Yunxi's emphasis on overseas trade, and in the future, there will definitely be forces that span the political and business sides in a vain attempt to control the government with a strong economic foundation.

Therefore, Yunxi must restrict officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Historically, the north and south lists were divided, but the officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang dominated the southern list, and only Chixi could compete with them, but in the end, they were in the same stream, so in the end, the notorious Donglin Party controlled the political situation.

Of course, in the end, the reason why the Donglin Party, which did not conform to the interests of the Ming Dynasty, was able to control the political situation was also related to the capital's ineffective public opinion guidance and economic control over Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the north. But although the capital is still in Jiangnan, it cannot be taken lightly.

Yun Xi admitted the imperial examination quota by province and made Jiangbei an independent province, so that the number of imperial examination admission places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was only 23, although it was not a lot, but compared with the population of more than 25 million in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at this time, it was already very small.

After Yunxi, there will be other measures to restrict people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to ensure the highest degree of control over the court.

After that, Yunxi went to Guozijian again, not only to see if there were any talents, but also to inform Guozijian of the sacrificial wine Xu Zongshi, and to select the prisoners of Guozijian in the future, but also according to the proportion of the quota of the imperial examination.

At this time, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was not the only one in the imperial examination, although there were fewer and fewer people who were white officials, but there were still many people who were born as officials in the country, and their official positions were not low, and they could compete with the imperial examinations.

Yunxi didn't want the imperial examination to be dominant, so he also attached great importance to Guozijian. Today, I came to inspect the Guozijian, and after finishing the matter, Yun Xi asked the Guozijian priest Xu Zongshi and said, "Is there a talent to be elected by the Guozijian now?" ”

Xu Zongshi replied: "Why not! Now there is a person, named Chen Shou, who is very capable, and the minister recommended him to His Majesty. ”

Yun Xi said, "Call him over." ”

After a while, a man about thirty years old walked in and knelt down and said, "Student Chen Shou has seen Your Majesty. ”

Yun Xi glanced at him, he looked good, and he could see that he was good at martial arts, so he was satisfied. Yun Xi then called him up, asked him carefully, and learned that he still had a reputation for showing talent, and he could basically answer the questions he asked, and he felt satisfied.

Yun Xi smiled relaxedly: "Ling Zun named you Chen Shou, I hope you will be as famous as Chen Shou in the Three Kingdoms period." ”

Chen Shou said: "Your Majesty, the student's father didn't know that there was a person named Chen Shou during the Three Kingdoms, because the ancestor and uncle died early at a young age, so the father named the student Chen Shou, hoping to live a long life." ”

Yun Xi felt a little embarrassed, just casually said a word and touched someone's privacy, it's still not a good thing, if Yun Xi himself was asked about such a thing, he would probably have scolded in his heart.

But Yun Xi can't apologize as the emperor, even if he apologizes, it will only make Chen Shou more frightened, so Yun Xi said: "How many years have you been out to go to school in Guozijian?" ”

Chen Shou said: "It's been five years since I returned to Your Majesty. ”

Yun Xi continued: "Have you ever been home? ”

Chen Shou said: "No. ”

Yun Xi then said: "Then I will allow you a three-month vacation to return to your hometown to visit relatives." Your family is from Huguang Sui County, so three months should be enough. ”

"Now I will let Xu Xianjiu allow you to graduate. I regard you as a scholar, and when you come back, I will enter the palace and take office. ”

Chen Shou knelt down very happily and said, "Thank you, Lord Longen." "Holidays are not available to every minister, except for bereavement leave, so Chen Shou is very happy that he can go home on vacation.

If Yun Xi hadn't felt that what he had just said was inappropriate and wanted to appease Chen Shou, he wouldn't have allowed a holiday.