"Listen to what Your Majesty said, is it to change the status quo of the Ming Dynasty and abolish all the powers of the gentry class, instead of killing all the gentry?" Yuan Keli asked.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Exactly." ”

How could it be possible to kill all the gentry? Hong Chengchou, Wen Tiren, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng are also members of the gentry, how can they be killed? For the gentry who are willing to belong to themselves, they naturally regard them as their own people, and for the gentry who hinder them, they naturally have to eradicate them with their hands!

In this way, the minister was relieved. Your Majesty said bluntly that the gentry annexed land without paying taxes for a long time, and even the families of Wen Ge Lao and Hong Da Sima were probably the same. Yuan Keli said again.

Hong Chengchou and Wen Tiren smiled awkwardly and did not say anything.

"So this is a matter of the atmosphere, and what Your Majesty has to do is to change this atmosphere and make a system to prevent this from happening again, and not to eradicate all the gentry on this ground.

Your Majesty, you have to admit that the smartest people in the world are the gentry, and most of the world's talents come from the gentry. Governing the country and the people is inseparable from the gentry. If the gentry are eradicated, who will replace the gentry in ruling the country? ”

Zhu Youzhen said expressionlessly: "There are not only gentry among the scholars, but also many poor scholars who have no hope of the imperial examination. ”

Yuan Keli shook his head and said, "If they become officials, won't they become a new gentry class?" ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "It's different, I will formulate a system, abolish the privileges of the gentry, cancel the system of electing officials in the imperial examination, and anyone must start from the officials. In the future, the officials were one, and the officials were no longer clear and turbid. ”

Those who are admitted to the Jinshi are clear streams, those who fail the examination are turbidity, and the officials are lowly officials, and there is no possibility of becoming an official at all, which is the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. In the future, there is no distinction between officials in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there is no distinction between clear and turbid currents, and all officials have room to rise. With room for growth, officials naturally do not devote all their attention to corruption. In order to be promoted, it is natural to do your own job well.

"If the supervision of officials is in place, it is really a good system." Yuan Keli praised, "But Your Majesty, if the existing gentry are willing to support Your Majesty's revolution, why can't they be used as officials?" Why do you have to use all the poor scholars who have no fame? ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a moment: "If there are gentry who are willing to support my revolution, I am naturally willing to use it." ”

Yuan Keli has a saying that is very right, the smartest and strongest in the world are still from these gentry, after all, they are all tested from thousands of troops, how can the ability be compared to those poor scholars who can't get famous? For the gentry with a good reputation and strong ability, Zhu Youzhen is naturally willing to use them.

"Your Majesty's thoughts, the old minister understands. For those enlightened gentry, who are willing to voluntarily give up the privilege of the field, they can be used by His Majesty. The old minister suggested that it was not necessary to eradicate all the gentry who were not guilty of great crimes, but to reduce their land to commoners, and as long as they could spare their lives, the gentry would not desperately resist His Majesty's revolution, and His Majesty's revolution could be easily completed. And if all the gentry are not eradicated innocently, they will inevitably be strongly rebounded by the gentry, and the ministers are afraid that the world will be in chaos and the army will end up in disaster. Yuan Keli persuaded.

Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath, he understood what Yuan Keli meant, he was afraid that he would be too murderous.

To be honest, Zhu Youzhen did not have a good impression of most of the gentry officials. He always believed that most of the reasons why the Ming Dynasty fell into the realm of death were these gentry officials! All civil officials should be killed, and the words of the previous life before his death were definitely from Zhu Youzhen's heart.

It was precisely because of his disgust with the gentry and officials that in northern Shaanxi and Shandong, Zhu Youzhen unceremoniously used a knife against all officials and gentry, and all yamen officials were dismissed and questioned, and all gentry were confiscated and disposed of.

To be honest, this approach is a bit excessive. Are there any honest people among the officials, and are there good people among the gentry? Naturally, there are, albeit in very small quantities. If all the officials and gentry are eradicated, they will naturally rebound when they are cornered. In the end, as Yuan Keli said, the soldiers were in trouble, and the world was in chaos.

With 100,000 troops in his hands, Zhu Youzhen is naturally not afraid of chaos, but that would consume too much national strength, and countless people would die because of it.

Zhu Youzhen thought hard, and recalled some pictures in his memory. Some of the practices of the red army before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China are worth learning from.

"Well, for the gentry who are willing to give up their fields on their own initiative, if there is no great crime, I can temporarily ignore their past, and for the honest and capable gentry, I will appoint them according to their ability." Zhu Youzhen said slowly.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Yuan Keli said overjoyed. After some talking, he finally won a way out for the gentry of the world, and also avoided a big mess in the Ming Dynasty, how did he be unhappy?

"I naturally know Aiqing's hard work, but even if I listen to Aiqing, I'm afraid many things won't go as Aiqing wants." Zhu Youzhen said meaningfully.

How could they be willing to let the gentry give up all their land privileges? Give up the imperial examination system of selecting officials, and they are even more reluctant to integrate officials! The officials are one, which means that their status is the same as that of lowly officials from now on, how can these self-appointed gentry endure it? So Zhu Youzhen can imagine how many people are secretly plotting against themselves now, plotting against themselves as emperors!

Rebellion, many gentry did not dare. But they will secretly support the rebels. If the anti-thief force develops greatly, such as occupying Nanjing or Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or there are anti-thieves supporting the clan as the emperor, there will inevitably be many gentry involved!

According to Jinyiwei's intelligence, the land south of the Yangtze River is now surging. Many of the gentry were plotting something behind their backs. Although there was no major rebellion in Jiangnan, but Jiangxi's rebellion intensified, just the day before yesterday, Zhu Youzhen received a war report from Jiangxi, Jiangxi governor Yuan Chonghuan defeated Ganzhou, Jiangxi anti-thieves attacked Ji'an Mansion, the three provinces in southern Jiangxi are all owned by anti-thieves, it is said that the number of anti-thieves in Jiangxi has reached more than 200,000!

Just a few years ago, the situation in Jiangxi was still very good, and the peasant army of the uprising was blocked by Yuan Chonghuan in the mountainous area of southern Jiangxi, and within a few months, the situation changed abruptly, and the reason for this Zhu Youzhen had to think deeply. If the Jiangxi rebels captured Nanchang Mansion, went straight down the Yangtze River along Panyang Lake, and went down the Yangtze River to Nanjing, would the gentry in the southeast abandon themselves, the emperor, and surrender to the rebels?

Nothing is impossible!

Yuan Keli naturally didn't know what Zhu Youzhen was thinking: "Your Majesty also said that you want to completely change the system left by Taizu, but you don't know how to change it?" ”

The ancestral system has always been the most important obstacle to preventing the Ming Dynasty from carrying out reforms, and once the imperial court wants to carry out reforms, countless officials will jump out to oppose it in the name of violating the ancestral system. Although Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, has been dead for two hundred years, the system he left behind has stubbornly adhered to the present, and it is impossible for later emperors to change it.

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