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The day after seizing Huai'an, he couldn't wait for those boats to slowly pass through the Tianfeikou lock, so he led the first cavalry brigade and three infantry brigades directly south, followed by tens of thousands of troops pushing various supplies with small carts, which felt like the People's Liberation Army during the Huaihai Campaign. And his next stop was Baoying, but before he arrived at Baoying, the defenders and people who came to meet him arrived there, and then His Majesty the Emperor's army marched into Baoying in a mighty roar amid the cheers of all the people, and then went south to Gaoyou, but encountered the first organized attack at the head of the realm......

"The people are not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death!"

Under the pressure of the four soldiers, the two lifters howled like mad dogs.

Just now these two warriors in the crowd to welcome His Majesty the Emperor, threw two stones at Yang Feng, the accuracy is also quite high, the two stones one after the other smashed Liang Cheng two meters away from him on the head, pity on the battlefield with the emperor invincible, just Jiannu killed more than a hundred Liang Du commanders, at this time is covering his head there to see that he is about to go crazy, not only these two, there are more than a dozen attempted catapults behind, because the stone was thrown on the ground as fast as possible, at this time is trembling in the face of the soldier's bayonet.

Yang Feng looked at them quietly.

"Next year, Kaienko!"

Then he said lightly.

The two men who were howling suddenly stopped howling and looked at His Majesty the Emperor with incredulous eyes.

"The Holy Son of Heaven is coming to the court, and I am hopeful of the Ming Dynasty."

The slingers suddenly fell to the ground, and then bowed to the ground with tears of excitement, shouting in a somewhat choked and trembling voice.

"Then what do they do!"

Yang Feng smiled and pointed to the two stupid lifters and said.

"These two people are disobedient and criminal, and the crime is not punishable!"

A slinger said righteously.

"I'll leave it to you, don't let me down!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

A dozen or so slingers swarmed up without hesitation, and in the midst of the cursing and crying and begging for mercy of the two unfortunate ones, while reprimanding with righteousness and awe, they beat fiercely with all the weapons they could find in their hands, such as stones and sticks, and one of them also raised the tablet of Confucius that he was holding in his arms, and smashed them down, and the two lifters were beaten by their companions, and soon their voices became weaker and weaker, and it didn't take long for them to stop moving, and they were lying in the mud covered in blood, and convulsed from time to time.

"Your Majesty, the living staff has already executed these two traitors for Your Majesty, for the sake of the law of the country, please issue an order to punish their nine clans!"

A showman said awe-inspiringly.

As he spoke, he wiped the blood from his face.

"Forget it, I didn't really hurt me, just punish him, and their nine clans don't have to be implicated!"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty is merciful, and virtue is worthy of heaven and earth!"

Na Xiucai hurriedly lay there and shouted.

Then the other scholars also lay there one after another, touting His Majesty the Holy Lord Mingjun with all kinds of gorgeous rhetoric, just in the midst of their praise, Yang Feng controlled the rhinoceros under his seat, and slowly walked over from the front, those scholars lay there, until the back of His Majesty the Emperor was invisible, then they got up one by one, and looked at each other somewhat embarrassed, of course, their faces were also honed, and after only a few seconds, they happily looked forward to next year's Enke, as for the two unlucky guys, At this time, the convulsions finally stopped.

Yang Feng will open Enke.

But it won't be the old imperial examination, and it won't be the only one for these scholars to refer to, let alone be admitted to the scholars to make these green worms officials.

He wants to carry out the imperial examination for all levels of society, or it can also be said to be the civil service examination, and then select a new class of officials from it, don't think that only these scholars are literate at this time, the literacy rate of Daming is indeed not high, but it is also the highest country in this era, and it is indeed these scholars who can write Bagu articles, but Yang Feng is not taking the Bagu article, I really think that this world will not be able to turn without these rotten Confucianism?

There are still people who can read and write.

The North Koreans have described that in the south of the Yangtze River, the children encountered in the fields are literate, although he may exaggerate a little, but one-tenth should be about the same, this literacy means that he can understand and write most of the commonly used words, and Yang Feng's requirements for the first generation of officials who came out of the examination are so much, as for the ability to deal with specific affairs......

That can't be worse than the ones in the back, right?

And the officials in the future, it will depend on the performance of these officials, if they are really talented, they will definitely stand out, and then they can be promoted to a higher level.

Of course, there will definitely be some inevitable problems with this system, but at least in this era of worse than rotten, this is already the least rotten, and even the officers in Europe are directly spending money to buy it at this time! No matter how you calculate it, this is more advanced than those in Europe who directly spend money to buy official positions from the king.

And he does not say that all officials are produced in this way in the future.

Don't forget that he still has the Imperial Estate.

Village-level autonomy, above the county level is the government, but there is also a Huangzhuang in the middle.

In the future, the managers of the Imperial Village will come from the schools of the royal family, and the students are mainly from the children of martyrs, the descendants of the nobles, in short, all the real descendants of the emperor, they walked out of the royal school, and then put into the most basic level of the Imperial Estate, and then promoted like those civil servant examinations, and finally formed two completely different systems in the officialdom, these two systems restrain each other, supervise each other, plus the civil and full-time supervision agencies, and finally form multiple supervision.

The end of the Ming Dynasty is that Chongzhen, the second middle school, under the flickering of the Donglin Party, destroyed the original situation of mutual restraint between eunuchs and civil officials, and made the civil officials big to the point of unscrupulousness, and as a result, everything that Tianqi pretended to be stupid and stunned to build was ruined.

Yang Feng is now rebuilding this constraint.

And it's still heavier.

Jinyiwei, civil officials, Huangzhuang, civil honors, military ......

Many different forces coexist, and all the emperor needs to do is ensure the balance between the various forces.

Of course, it doesn't mean that it's perfect.

How can there be a perfect system in this world, it will deteriorate after a long time, but at least under the current circumstances, this is the best that Yang Feng can do, and the rest of the matter is to popularize education and solve it by future generations after the enlightenment of people's wisdom. In a truly enlightened society, no matter what problems arise, there will always be people who find the best solution, they are more effective than Yang Feng's poor search and dry fantasy, it is said that His Majesty the Emperor is not a person who really has great wisdom, he is just an open traverser, at most he knows what are the minimum principles. For example, he knows that the cultivator must have his field, which is the minimum principle, so he must achieve this even if he kills a river of blood, but how to grow crops and get a good harvest after the cultivator has his field is not something he needs to consider, nor should he think about.

In the final analysis, in this era of pure and worse than bad, he was able to establish a system that was not very bad, which was enough to make Daming dominant.

It's useless to think about it too much.

In later generations, many wise people could not solve the things, and Emperor Yang, who boasted of his simple mind and developed limbs, was even less in the mood to waste his brain cells, and if he could divide the land, he thought that he was worthy of the common people.

In short, in this way, in the ecstatic shouts of those scholars who thought that the emperor had suddenly changed his sex, and then they could still be admitted to the rank of scholar and official sign, Emperor Yang's army entered Gaoyou again without blood. At this point, it is not possible to continue to move forward for the time being, and then it is the most important fortress of the Shun army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Yangzhou, and because Yang Feng is advancing too fast, the follow-up armies have not kept up, especially those boats full of various materials, at this time they are still slowly passing through the locks, although there is still a large army in front of the army, but after all, they can't catch up with the ship.

You must know that Yangzhou will definitely not surrender without a fight.

Just when the Ming army went south, the army of Lu Shun was also converging towards Yangzhou, and the new Yangzhou Jiedu made Liu Liangzuo under Li Zicheng's strict order, he had to send his family members to the Nanjing Imperial Palace as hostages, and then led his subordinates to abandon Chuzhou to reinforce Yangzhou, plus Li Benshen and Zhang Yingyuan, the total number of defenders in Yangzhou exceeded 200,000. Li Zicheng even transported all the cannons that could be collected to Yangzhou, so that the total number of cannons on the city wall exceeded 200 such a terrifying number, and there were a large number of those gentry who bought them from Macao.

In short, at this time, the Yangzhou city wall was completely turned into a hedgehog by a Hongyi cannon and a furlong machine, it is said that the defenders were equipped with 40,000 arquebuses alone, and there were more than 2,000 expensive wheel muskets, and others such as 10,000 enemies, thunderbolts that are pottery black powder grenades and the like are countless, anyway, Yang Feng can't cross Yangzhou and can't enter the Yangtze River, the canal is close to Yangzhou City to the south, and there is a lock in Guazhou in the south, and this kind of thing is completely non-existent around Yangzhou into the Yangtze River.

Defending Yangzhou is equivalent to defending Nanjing.

In this case, Li Zicheng and the Jiangnan gentry are also out of the way, how much effort to make a lot of effort, really go all out to win the battle of Yangzhou, it is said that all the generals' families were put into the palace as hostages, who dared to retreat The whole family was cut down, of course those soldiers did not dare to do this, then the emperor did not need to fight the people to rebel first, so they can only be motivated by heavy rewards, those Jiangnan gentry who were not upright in the past can be said to be bloodletting, just to pay the Yangzhou defenders a full 10 million taels, after being sacked by Li Zicheng, It is indeed jaw-dropping that they can come up with so much silver.

Of course, these silver can only be distributed after defeating Yang Feng.