The courtyard is a little deep, and the song is inaudible.

When Qin Mu came out of the small courtyard covered with flowers and trees, it was the time of afternoon, and in the spring cloud, the catkins flew over the gallery, and the pear petals floated all over the lotus pot next to the gallery.

At present, the situation in Japan is basically under control, and the North Sea Fleet has basically stopped intervening in Japan's war;

Although Sakai Tadashi did not have the talent of Abe Tadaaki, the general trend was now very favorable to the Tokugawa shogunate, and the daimyo did not dare to oppose the Tokugawa shogunate again, and in this case, he and Masayuki Hoshina and others could barely manage the shogunate.

However, due to the policy of expelling ronin promulgated by the Tokugawa shogunate, a large number of samurai who had lost their source of livelihood defected to Yui Masayuki, and with the support of the Kyoto Imperial Court, Yui Masayuki's rebellion was not completely extinguished, and he was retreating in the direction of Kyoto step by step.

As a result, Japan was roughly divided into two camps, with the Tokugawa shogunate on one side and Yui Masayuki's Sekigahara army supported by the Japanese emperor on the other.

At the beginning, the purpose of letting Ye not control zhì Xingzi was to prevent the situation in Japan from getting out of control, and to play the banner of Xingzi, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as a last resort. Now it seems that Xingzi's move is not needed for the time being.

Qin Mu recalled the song "Empty Cicada" she played, as well as the harmony song, which was also quite flavorful, well, the queen herself was also very tasteful.

Qin Mu drove back to the Great Qin Palace, and received a report from the Indian side.

The fold was personally sent by Gu Junen, the squire of the military department, and after Qin Mu read it, he asked, "What does Gu Qing think about this?" ”

Gu Junen said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that my Great Qin can temporarily watch the fire from the other side, and it is difficult to determine what will evolve between the Mughal and the Dzungar in the end, but after the monk easily obtained the rich land of the two provinces, I want him to return to the Western Regions, I'm afraid he is unwilling." These two males compete. After all, it is necessary to decide the winner or loser. ”

"Gu Qing thinks whoever has a better chance of winning."

"When the Dzungar army entered India, the ministers expected to be somewhat unaccustomed, and the Mughals had an advantage in this regard. But now, Aurangzeb's two brothers have been proclaimed emperors, internal and external troubles, and there is a sea like the wind in the south, Aurangzeb is not in the right position, and his prestige has not been established after usurping the throne. In the battle with the Sangha, Aurangzeb could only win and not lose, and once he suffered a heavy setback, his reign was very likely to fall apart. Therefore, the minister thought that if there were no more actual forces to join, the chances of victory for the Sangha would be greater. ”

"Other forces" Qin was not asking, but talking to himself while thinking.

No doubt. The other forces that Gu Junen refers to are the Safavid dynasty of Persia, which stretched from Khorasan in the east when the Persian Empire was at its strongest. to the Euphrates River in the west, to the Karakum Desert and the Aral Sea in the north, and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea in the south;

It covers all of Iran and most of Iraq. Parts of the Caucasus, Turkmenistan, western Afghanistan. In southern Uzbekistan, during the Abbasid period, the territory reached as far as Kurdistan and Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey.

Safa was the only country in Central Asia that could stand up to the Sunni Ottoman Empire, with whom the war for Baghdad lasted 150 years.

They also had the ability to send troops to fight for Kandahar and even the Indus Valley, which was later Pakistan.

Now the Dzungar army has entered the Indus Valley, and the war with the Mughals, or more precisely, with Aurangzeb is in full swing.

Qin Mu never wanted the Safavid Empire to be this fisherman.

Qin asked people to bring the map, and then said: "In order to prevent the Safavid Dynasty from coming to be a fisherman, first send an order to let Hai Rufeng send some warships north to the Arabian Sea, and once the time is ripe, first seize the Sindh region, the port of Karachi next to the mouth of the Indus River, and if necessary, use this place as a base to support the Dzungar Department." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Now the Dzungar Ministry is very obedient, holding a butcher's knife to Islamize in the Western Regions, clean and neat, this alone, Qin Mu feels very satisfied.

If Dzungaria occupied northern India, they would definitely become stronger, and would they still be so obedient then?

Qin Mu was not sure of this, but as long as it was not allowed to unify central and southern India, Great Qin would have enough ability to contain it. Of course, Qin Mu didn't actually want the Dzungars to unify northern India, what he wanted to see was that the Dzungars occupied the Pakistani region of later generations and maintained a high-risk equilibrium with the Mughal Dynasty, which was more conducive to the Great Qin's checks and balances from it, and also more conducive to the spread of Han culture.

The key is the spread of Han culture, which is an expansion of soft power, which is sometimes more important than military strength, and its impact is more far-reaching and long-lasting.

Qin Mu has always emphasized that cultural expansion cannot lag behind military expansion, and will even be ahead of military expansion in the future.

India is a hodgepodge, and the population is too large, it is unrealistic to turn such a place into the territory of Great Qin, but it can slowly become the largest colony of Great Qin, and to do this, military expansion alone is not enough, cultural influence must be exerted.

When it comes to the literary level, it is impossible not to ask questions about the imperial examination.

After Gu Junen left the Pujia Palace, Qin Mu leaned on the imperial chair and casually said to Liu Ru, who was standing aside and serving Mo: "The imperial examination has lasted for thousands of years, and its impact on the past dynasties can be described as extremely far-reaching. Qin Mu paused when he said this, and then said, "Let's start with the economic aspect, you say, what is the impact of the imperial examination on the social economy?" ”

The Ministry of Rites Examination has just ended, and more than 300 new scholars, led by the prince and the attendants of the Ministry of Rites, are going to visit the memorial halls of the victims in Jiangyin and Yangzhou and take the oath.

In such a period of time, it was normal for the emperor to ask about the imperial examination, but it was a little sudden, and he wanted to ask about the impact on the economy by name, Liu Ru was unprepared, so he had to say truthfully: "Your Majesty, can you allow the maid to think about it first?" ”

"Okay, think about it first."

The question of the imperial examination, in fact, Qin Mu himself didn't need to think about it carefully.

Overall, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the role of the imperial examination was relatively positive.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system has actually been full of ills, and it is quite difficult to return, and the role of the imperial examination has gradually become more harmful than beneficial;

In addition to shackling the minds of literati and creating thousands of pedantic literati like Kong Yiji, the influence on the entire society and the entire nation is also ubiquitous, and its influence has reached a shocking level.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that the original purpose of the imperial examination was only to select some officials.

Qin Mu remembered seeing Yu Qiuyu describe the paradox of the imperial examination system in this way: "Originally, it was to show fairness and deliver encouraging temptation to as many people as possible in the whole society, but as a result, the land of Kyushu became a court for the imperial examination, and a young man who was likely to be literate and literate mortgaged all the successes and failures of his life and the honor and disgrace in it, and the connotation of the imperial examination was greatly overweight; Originally, in order to show authority, many irregular promotion paths outside the imperial examination were blocked, and as a result, families and individuals who had no other choice had to regard the imperial examination as a vicious political battle between you and me, and the rational motive for the creation of the imperial examination gradually deformed. The calmness, objectivity, patience, and peace that the selector should have are gone, replaced by vigorous anxiety, excitement, panic, and hecticism. Isn't it just a little bit of cultural knowledge? Isn't it just to see who is qualified to be an administrative officer? It was so hot and so hot all of a sudden, that it couldn't cool down for more than a thousand years, and almost baked a long period of history out of the smell of fire. ”

All in all, it was originally just for the imperial examination to select some officials, because there were too many decorations and too heavy renderings, which disturbed the hearts of all scholars, and not many people could calm down and do their studies anymore;

The mentality of everyone in the land of Kyushu has been distorted, and everyone regards the middle lift as the greatest honor, only in this way can you prove the value of your life, and other than that, you are nothing.

Therefore, if the imperial examination is not reformed, everyone's mentality will continue to be distorted.

Why can the natural sciences of the West gradually surpass China, is it because the Chinese are not smart enough?

No.

There may be only one answer, Chinese scholars have devoted all their ingenuity, even their life's energy, to the imperial examinations, and they have pierced the hanging beams, chiseled the walls to steal the light, and spent their heads day after day, not for natural science, but for the title of the gold list. If the imperial examination system is not reformed, how will China's natural sciences develop?

(To be continued......)