Chapter 663: Madness

"The ministers don't dare, I just hope that the emperor will think twice, now the musket team is extremely powerful, in case there are generals who have different intentions, this will be a great threat to the emperor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Fiji said loudly.

Pang Yukun was also a little worried, he said: "Your Majesty, if you continue to improve the status of the army, I am afraid that it will make the generals more and more arrogant, and if you are arrogant in your heart, you will despise the imperial power." ”

Xiao Ming naturally understands that this is the malaise of the feudal army, after all, the army in this era is just the private soldiers of the generals.

It's just that what these officials can't see through is that they are making the army royal, and in the future, he can completely punish the generals without the army acting rashly.

Moreover, these two people obviously avoided the important and trivialized, and the decree they proposed was to improve the status of the soldiers, so that the soldiers could enjoy more convenience among the people.

This convenience is similar to the modern station window with a special passage for military personnel, and military employment is given priority.

After pondering for a while, he said directly: "I am afraid that you Aiqing have misunderstood what I mean, this decree is by no means to promote the arrogance of the generals, but to let more ordinary soldiers feel the court's understanding of them, so that they can understand that they are fighting abroad, and the court is for their sake, so that the people can enthusiastically join the army to expand the territory for the imperial court and defend against foreign enemies for the Great Chongqing State."

Fiji and Pang Yukun glanced at each other, and he said; "Your Majesty, it is enough for the soldiers to have a daily salary, and the lower officials think that even without these soldiers, they can still fight for the imperial court, and give the soldiers so much convenience, how do you feel about Shinong Industry and Commerce? Didn't they do their part for the emperor? ”

Speaking of Shinong Industry and Commerce, Xiao Ming chuckled, today's Western countries seem to have entered the modern state model, and the Great Chongqing State is still a strict hierarchy, which will seriously limit the vitality of the development of the Great Chongqing State.

He said; "Fei Ge Lao mentioned that I remembered that I decided to cancel the title of Shinong Industry and Commerce, and from then on, the people of all walks of life in the Dayu Kingdom of Shinong Industry and Commerce were called civilians!"

"Civilians!" Fiji was shocked, and he said, "What a civilian! ”

"All the people under his rule are equal, they are commoners." Xiao Ming said lightly, he expected the shock of Fiji and the others.

Since ancient times, Shinong industry and commerce have been the solidified class of all dynasties, and the status of scholars is the highest, so there are all inferior products, only the reading is high, and the status of merchants is the lowest, so commerce is suppressed in the feudal dynasty.

Of course, Xiao Ming does not deny that this kind of system is very beneficial to the development of the feudal dynasty, after all, the feudal dynasty based on agriculture needs grain rather than treacherous and cunning businessmen who do not produce.

However, times are changing, and for him, many systems of the Great Chongqing State are no longer suitable to compete with the Western national systems of this era.

Perhaps he could defeat the Western countries with the advantage of science and technology, but the backward feudal system would eventually drag him down and dominate the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

"How can this be, how can these lowly businessmen be on an equal footing with scholars."

"Yes, Shinong industry and commerce are the ancestral family laws that have been handed down, how can it be said that it will change."

"Your Majesty, you can't."

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As soon as Xiao Ming's words fell, the court immediately exploded, especially the officials from Chang'an who were like dead parents.

Although Pang Yukun and other reformist officials were dissatisfied in their hearts, they were more accustomed to Xiao Ming's strange ideas.

But even so, they now have some ideas, in the past, Xiao Ming only promoted the status of merchants and craftsmen, but now Xiao Ming directly denied the status of scholars.

There was a mess in the council hall, Xiao Ming was indifferent, these two things were the two things he wanted to mainly promote.

Before he said these two things, he had expected to meet with fierce opposition, so he knew that he could not do it overnight, and he was afraid that he would have to spend some days with these officials.

Now there is only one Zhao Wangbei left to achieve reunification, and he is implementing these two policies at this time precisely to prepare for the development after reunification.

The purpose of improving the status of soldiers was to allow the Great Yu State to form a martial atmosphere, and being too heavy on the culture was a malaise of the feudal dynasty, and he had to bring this ill back.

The abolition of the four classes of Shinong, industry and commerce is for balanced development, so that being an official will no longer be the only way out for scholars.

So for Xiao Ming, these two items are very important.

In the contemporary Qing Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom, they were all knocked open by Western artillery before they passively changed and learned from the West.

Because of the suffering and the danger of losing the country, at this time, from the royal family to the people, they were aware of the need for change, but now the Great Chongqing has not been invaded by the advanced civilization of the West, and neither the officials nor the people can take the initiative to participate in the change at this time.

This kind of change can only be carried out by him on his own initiative, which is why he became emperor.

Only when he has the supreme imperial power can he carry out reforms, otherwise those who demand changes will die without a place to hide.

After all, now that he has met the opposition of so many officials when he issued such an edict with the authority of the emperor, it is conceivable that he has moved the horror of other people's cheese.

But the reaction of the officials has made Xiao Ming more determined to reform, and he has been analyzing the current situation in Dayu these days.

On the whole, there is still a scholarly class that has not fallen into loneliness, and the commoner class has not yet reached a strong stage, so his implementation of this kind of decree will be opposed by the collective, because he touches the interests of these scholarly class.

"Shut up!" The council hall has become a vegetable market, Xiao Ming suddenly scolded.

The angry words suddenly quieted down the court, and then Xiao Ming stood up, and he said loudly: "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking?" Speaking of the sky, you are not for yourself! Ten years of hard study in the cold window will have a day of extremely popular ministers, you are not reconciled, why are these businessmen full of copper ugliness, who are planting mud legs, on an equal footing with you, right? ”

Xiao Ming said as he walked from the dragon chair to the front of Fiji and other officials.

"It's just that you don't want to think about it, without these businessmen to contribute money and efforts, can this Youzhou and Jinling City be defeated so smoothly? If there are no people to join the army, how can I fight with King Zhao, and what the Great Yu Kingdom has become like before, you have forgotten! Could it be that I can't follow the old path of the previous emperor!"

Turning to Pang Yukun, Xiao Ming pointed at Pang Yukun and scolded: "Pang Shoufu, you have studied for so long in the Bowen Academy for nothing, and all of them have been returned to me, do you still have a little bit of the enterprising spirit you used to be?" ”

Pang Yukun lowered his head in shame, now that the war is going well, seeing the unification of the north, many officials have begun to think about their status and interests, and have forgotten the aggressiveness in the difficult period.

was scolded by Xiao Ming, and he was suddenly drunk.