In the Nan study room, Li Yunzhong held his hands slightly and asked Lu Jianying: "Lifu, you are the chief assistant of the dynasty. I rely on you for a question. Can you answer it?"

Lu Jianying thought the emperor wanted to take the exam for his own knowledge, so he answered with confidence: "Please ask the emperor to give the question, I will do my best..."

Li Yunzhong asked: "Do you know how many prisoners are in the country?"

Prisoner? Lu Jianying was confused and replied: "I don't know, but the emperor should ask the relevant officials."

Li Yunzhong said: "Okay, go and call Shen Baozhen, the Minister of Justice, to see if he can answer."

After a while, Shen Baozhen came with the order.

Li Yunzhong said: "Shen Baozhen, do you know how many prisoners are in the world?"

Shen Baozhen replied honestly and respectfully: "I don't know that there are more than 20 provinces, more than 100 prefectures, thousands of counties and towns in the world, and there are probably hundreds of thousands of prisoners. What does the emperor ask about this?"

Li Yunzhong sighed: "Hundreds of thousands of prisoners! The food consumed every day is also astronomical. I plan to place them in another place, let them mine the land and be self-sufficient. What do you think?"

Before Shen Baozhen could speak, Lu Jianying replied first: "Your Majesty, you must not! The prisons in the country are widely distributed. Some prisoners were sentenced to several months of sentence, and they were released after they had gathered together. Moreover, gathering tens of thousands of prisoners in this way would inevitably require labor and pay. This is a big inappropriate move."

"This statement makes sense!" Li Yunzhong nodded and said, "Then let's assemble the death row prisoners, how about it?"

Shen Baozhen said: "The emperor thought twice. Most of the death row prisoners were thieves, or some unruly people who refused to obey discipline and asked them to farm and mine. It was a huge difficulty. They had to be careful of their killing officials and rebelling, and they had to arrange heavy troops, which was not worth the loss!"

Li Yunzhong ordered: "That's all, we must first summon a thousand death row prisoners across the country and send them to Beizhou."

Beizhou is Alaska, and Li Yunzhong has sent 3,000 people to guard and hand over to Russia.

Lu Jianying said intimately: So that's it! I said that the emperor asked the prisoners for no reason, and it turned out that this was the idea.

Li Yunzhong said to Shen Baozhen who was stunned and said, "You can't go down and prepare!"

Shen Baozhen woke up and retreated in response.

Lu Jianying was completely unable to treat the emperor. All kinds of rebellious thoughts emerged one after another, and he could not persuade him. If this continues, Confucian orthodox will probably be hit, so he has to think of a way to completely stop the emperor's idea.

Lu Jianying looked around and found that there was only one palace maid left. Isn’t this an excellent opportunity!

"Emperor, I want to talk to the emperor about my heart."

Li Yunzhong said in a daze: "My heart is what you say? Lord Lu can also say what you say?"

Lu Jianying smiled and said, "The emperor has always treated the humble ministers well and does not treat them as slaves. The humble minister is very grateful, so he wants to tell the emperor what he is thinking."

Li Yunzhong smiled and said, "Okay! OK! I just like to listen to my heart. Let's talk like old friends. Since we are friends, we will not distinguish between the superiority and the inferiority. We will be given a seat!"

Lu Jianying did not refuse, sat directly on the chair and said, "The emperor is wise, so I will talk to the emperor about the imperial examination."

Li Yunzhong understood that this old fox wanted to persuade me to pay attention to the imperial examination.

"Tell me, I'm listening."

Lu Jianying asked: "Your Majesty can tell why all dynasties attach importance to the imperial examination."

Li Yunzhong didn't know how he immediately smiled and said, "That's not for Luo's talent, but for the Tang and Song dynasties, but the Ming and Qing dynasties attached importance to the eight-legged essays and poisoned talents. These scholars were suffering from the eight-legged essays. After ten years of hard study, they ended up being terrible and could only recite poems and write counterfeits. The national affairs were empty and they didn't even understand the unity of knowledge and action."

Lu Jianying complimented: "The emperor is indeed wise, but from Taizu of the Ming Dynasty to Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty, there are so many smart monarchs, Emperor Yongle, Kanggan... Emperor, can they not think of this? Why did they not change? The emperor has thought of the reason?"

Li Yunzhong pondered for a while, but didn't know what Lu Jianying meant?

"Lifu said, they did it on purpose?"

Lu Jianying praised: "Not bad! I'm deliberately doing it. In ancient times, rebellion was mostly done by smart people, but what the world lacked the most is smart people. If you don't find something for them and you can figure out how to rebel every day, which king can sleep peacefully! Even those who are wise as Kangxi are not like this. The eight-legged essays are like cages, locking all the smart people in the world and letting them study the eight-legged essays. In this way, they will not think about rebellion. The rest are all rough people, how can they succeed!"

Li Yunzhong sarcastically said: "For a dynasty, poison the scholars of the world! It's such a bastard."

Lu Jianying asked, "Why did the emperor say this?"

Li Yunzhong said seriously: "If you don't talk about anything else, just talk about the Han Dynasty. In the early Han Dynasty, the Huns were not only powerful, with 400,000 knights. This force was four times more than when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass. The Great Han soldiers were more than four times less than when the late Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, only guarded Shanhaiguan. The Han Dynasty guarded the Great Wall. When Emperor Wu of Han, the Han army marched straight into the city and sealed the wolf's servants. The Huns fled in a panic, like a dog that was lost. Even when they fled to Europe, they could establish a country. Humph! Eight-legged essays were a disaster for the country and the people!"

Lu Jianying was completely desperate. The emperor's thinking was different from that of ordinary people! Others thought of his own glory and wealth, what he thought of the world was glory and wealth, what he thought of was the emperor of a clan and generations, what he thought of was the prosperity of the entire country for generations, is this a great wisdom and courage or a psychopath?

"Your Majesty, it will be a bad thing for you to do this. If ambitions plan to usurp the throne, how will the emperor deal with it?"

Li Yunzhong said: "You mean, a hundred years later, my descendants are not as wise as me. Is it true that I lose my life when I meet a smart person?"

Lu Jianying nodded and said intimately: At that time, it may not be the fate of one person, but the fate of the whole clan, or even the nine clans!

Li Yunzhong said: "Then let's open up the customs of the people, open up the style of the people, and expand supervision. All officials in the world, including me, the emperor, have a sense of awe, and then they will not do wrong things, nor will they dare to do wrong things. In this way, everyone will be united and the country will not be strong or prosperous!"

Lu Jianying shook his head and couldn't help but laugh: "The king is not powerful, and the ministers dare to supervise the emperor. That is, the king is not the king, the minister is not the minister, is there any ethical principles? Isn't the world disrupted!"

Li Yunzhong said: "No! If everyone in the world understands the truth and everyone in the world understands the righteousness, even if there are one or two ambitious people, how can we achieve success?"

Lu Jianying was disheartened. The emperor was not assured. Why did he do it if he was involved?

"The Emperor really intends to do this?"

Li Yunzhong nodded and said, "The world is the world of the world. I am just a commoner. It is a blessing to have such glory. How dare you ask for anything more?"

Lu Jianying knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, "The emperor is old, please allow me to retire and return home to live a life of life!"
Chapter completed!