Tang Mingren thought that he was an old man who had been around the court for many years.
And after leaving the court, I spent so much time exploring the mall.
Logically speaking, one should not be deceived so easily, but now he felt that he was likely to be deceived by Chen Changfeng.
In the court today, Chen Changfeng's plan was to make the emperor decide to take the imperial examination and weaken the power of the second and third princes.
He, Tang Mingren, was the first to stand up and make the suggestion, but he did not fail to block Chen Changfeng's gun.
Why do you still act like you have to pay for it yourself now?
"Don't worry, I'm not asking for your family fortune, Mr. Tang." Chen Changfeng said with a smile.
Of course he would not ask for Tang Mingren's property.
But if Chen Changfeng were to pay for it himself, that would be even more impossible.
Chen Changfeng certainly had to find a way since he didn't want to pay for it, and he had to pay the military expenses promised to the emperor.
For example, let Tang Mingren make some patterns with ice cubes.
"Then what the prince means..." Tang Mingren looked at Chen Changfeng with a confused expression.
If you don’t ask for money from yourself, then why are you telling yourself this?
Tang Mingren didn't quite understand what Chen Changfeng meant.
"Yesterday I showed Mr. Tang how to make ice cubes. Mr. Tang must have been busy yesterday, right?" Chen Changfeng asked with a smile.
Tang Mingren nodded, of course he was not idle.
The entire Tang Mansion was busy until late at night, and even Tang Mingren himself made several pieces of ice.
At that time, Tang Mingren was extremely happy.
Now that you can make ice yourself, will you still have to spend money to buy it from Zhao Guo in the future?
Are you still worried about being threatened by the third prince?
Could it be that the way he asked for money had something to do with the ice?
But apart from relieving the heat in summer, what else can ice cubes do?
"His Royal Highness, Your Majesty asked His Highness to come over." Chen Changfeng was about to explain his plan to Tang Mingren when Liu Xi suddenly walked in from outside.
He said that the emperor wanted to see him.
Chen Changfeng nodded, knowing that the emperor must be looking for him for the matter just now.
"Mr. Tang, please go back first and wait for me to come over from Father before I can discuss this matter with you in detail." Chen Changfeng and Tang Mingren handed over their hands.
Tang Mingren nodded blankly, then handed over and left.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, your Majesty seems a little angry. When you go in later, please don't irritate Your Majesty anymore." Liu Xi whispered beside Chen Changfeng.
Chen Changfeng nodded slightly, why was the emperor angry?
Isn't it because the emperor thought his proposal was good, but the officials were firmly opposed to it.
The emperor realized that the Ming Empire did not have the final say alone.
Chen Changfeng walked to the upper study, and Liu Xi closed the door and left. Only Chen Changfeng and the emperor were left in the upper study.
"Father." Chen Changfeng saluted the emperor.
The emperor raised his head slightly, glanced at Chen Changfeng, and said, "Tell me how you are going to handle your imperial examination and appointment."
"You have just seen that if your specific method is not convincing, no one will agree." Although the emperor used the excuse of launching a war with the Chu Empire, he strongly wanted to eliminate half of the redundant officials and generals.
But the emperor was even more worried that if this approach was not convincing and handled properly, big trouble would really occur.
Especially those redundant generals who have stayed in the army for so many years, no matter what, some people will follow them.
If it really irritated them, maybe the Ming Empire itself would be in chaos first.
At that time, the emperor would either forcefully suppress these generals, or deal with Chen Changfeng and others who advocated imperial examinations.
"Father, I have written all of this method in a booklet. Father can take a look at it now." Chen Changfeng took out another booklet from his arms.
The emperor was stunned. He suddenly realized that Chen Changfeng had even guessed that he would summon him privately.
So I'm even prepared.
The emperor opened the pamphlet prepared by Chen Changfeng and was stunned by the first sentence.
"The people are water, and the king is the boat. Water can carry the boat, but it can also overturn it!" The emperor slowly read, and his shocked eyes fell on Chen Changfeng.
The emperor never thought that Chen Changfeng could say such words.
The emperor had been emperor for so many years. At first, he thought that as long as he captured the officials around him, he would capture the entire world.
But later he slowly understood that the Ming Dynasty does not belong to him as the emperor, nor to the officials in the court, but to the people of the Ming Dynasty.
"Father, my son and ministers have just said it in the court. The Ming Dynasty's current official appointment system is very inappropriate. No one who can be an official is powerful and well-connected."
"As for ordinary people, even if they have great talents, they can only be buried under this system."
"The imperial examination gives all the people an opportunity to jump up the social ladder. Although this opportunity is very slim, it can give all the people something to look forward to."
"The people of the world will definitely be grateful for the kindness of my father." Chen Changfeng did not explain that sentence to the emperor.
The emperor is not a fool and would not know the meaning of that sentence.
"As for those redundant officials and generals, Changfeng, you have to know that they are all vested interests and are not so easy to compromise. Moreover, even those officials who have not been dismissed are strongly opposed to this matter, because taking an official position through the imperial examination is detrimental to
For them, it means their interests have been harmed." The emperor said slowly.
Recruiting officials through the imperial examination is good for the people of the world, it is good for rectifying the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and it is good for him, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but it is definitely not what the civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty want to see.
Who doesn’t want his descendants, relatives and friends to become officials in the Ming Dynasty with just a word from him?
Take the imperial examination?
What should I do if I fail?
"Father, you can continue reading." Chen Changfeng did not explain, but asked the emperor to continue reading.
The emperor was stunned and looked at the content below with suspicion.
"The imperial examination is held once a year."
"The number of official quotas each year is divided into half by imperial examination and half by recommendation."
"Recommended as an official, each official can be exempted from the examination if he recommends one person during his term of office."
"If there is more than one person, they must participate in the imperial examination in the same year."
"If the recommended quota is not satisfied, all the remaining quota will be allocated to the imperial examination, and the number of officials who will be admitted through the imperial examination will be increased."
The emperor nodded secretly.
He secretly thought that Chen Changfeng had really thought carefully, otherwise he would not have dared to say anything about getting an official position through the imperial examination in the Tai Chi Hall.
An official can only recommend one person to be an official without taking the examination.
And if you want to recommend other people, the recommended people can only take the imperial examination like ordinary people.
This will be nothing at first, but as time goes by, more and more students will take the imperial examination and become officials.
Soon it will be spread all over the court and yamen everywhere.
Because each official can only recommend so many people, a fixed number.
If the number of people recommended for official positions is not enough, all the remaining places will be transferred to the imperial examination to increase the number of officials.
Good guy, he built the plank road openly but secretly visited the old warehouse.
Once the majority of officials who have taken the imperial examinations in the imperial court account for the majority, the recommendation system can be abolished directly.
"Boy, how can you be so insidious?" The emperor looked at Chen Changfeng with a smile on his face.
The emperor had long wanted to abolish the Ming Dynasty's recommendation system.
In the court and in various government offices, there is no ordinary person who is in charge.
This is not the root of the empire's longevity, but the bane of its demise.
But if the emperor proposed it, all the officials would always oppose it.
The emperor had always wanted to do this, but could not find a suitable opportunity.
But today, Chen Changfeng took advantage of the border military report and the empty treasury of the Ministry of Revenue to block the mouths of all the officials.
Next, they ostensibly appease officials, but in fact they take action to eradicate the recommendation system.