The whole world is an NPC

Chapter 387
"If you choose the right question, you can choose the person you want. For example, if there is a shortage of people in the imperial court who understand farming, you can ask questions related to farming. If you want officials who know how to manage water, you can ask questions related to water control. Before the imperial examination, The emperor should know what kind of official you want. Instead of randomly picking out a sentence from the Four Books and Five Classics as a title, that would be completely nonsense."

Wu Taizu was sweating, he was just messing around.

"Hey, I should have talked to you a few days ago."

"The last one, isn't there still a palace test? You can change the topic of the palace test."

"Yes, yes, I forgot that."

"Now that the Wu Dynasty has just started, the most important thing is to resume production so that people can have enough food. You might as well ask some questions related to farming, and then send the selected people to various places to serve as magistrates, especially major grain-producing counties, and let them take care of it. Take care of farming. When the peasants are full, no one will cause trouble. After two or three years, the Wu Dynasty will be stable. At that time, my grandfather will see what kind of officials the court lacks. If there is a serious shortage of certain officials, it can still be done. Find a title, open Enke temporarily, and take the exam again. This title can be a grandfather's birthday, a saint's birthday, etc., and it can be anything that makes people feel that it should be celebrated."

"Good! Good!"

"In fact, the imperial examination was originally intended to prevent the aristocratic family from monopolizing power. There is another way to deal with the aristocratic family."

"What is it?"

"One of the important reasons why the aristocratic family has been prosperous for a hundred years is that it has been rooted in one place for a long time. The local people have been used to obeying the words of the aristocratic family for 100 or 200 years. Organize an army of tens of thousands of people. Only in this way has it become a taboo in the court.

Therefore, an easy way is to find a way to get them to move.For example, if a family from Guanzhong moves to Tongzhou or Jeju, once they move there, they will inevitably form a conflict of interest with the local family.The aristocratic families of the two places are crowded together, first of all they have to fight among themselves.After being unrooted, it will take another 100 years for them to re-form the climate.Then let them move again.One move is enough to turn a big family into a middle family, and a middle family into a small family.

If they don't want to move, let them all move to the capital in the name of reward.Let them all come under our noses to consume.There is only one family in one place, and he will grow stronger.There are more than a dozen families in one place, and no one can develop. "

"Wonderful!" Wu Taizu slapped the table and laughed.

Xueying talked eloquently in the imperial study, and those who eavesdropped behind the screen were drenched in cold sweat.

The queen, the prince, the concubine, Quanying, Wenying, Wuying, and Uncle Ye were all hiding there, wondering if Xueying had an affair with Yang Heng, but they heard such a conversation.

The queen and the princess were so anxious to hear that, they were afraid that the emperor would really let their natal family move.

Wenying laughed secretly, his sister's move was really bad, and he liked it.He is also very happy to scold scholars.

Wu Ying's clothes were soaked in sweat. For the first time, he realized that compared with his sister, he seemed to be inferior to nothing.He was glad that his sister was a woman, otherwise, what would happen to their brothers?
The prince and Quanying were fascinated by what they heard.Quan Ying thought to herself: This is the real imperial mind.This is what an emperor should be like, easily playing with the world in his palm.

"Aristocratic families are divided into civil servants and military generals. Civilian families are easy to guard against. They usually don't start rebelling. At most, they follow suit and help, such as the four major families in Guanzhong. Among the aristocratic families, the most important thing to guard against is the military generals, such as our family. "

"Yep!"

"A family of military generals has military power in their hands. Whenever they have the opportunity, they are often the first to rebel, and it is easy to succeed. For example, our family is like this."

"Hehe, Xueer is right."

"So, we have to prevent others from imitating our family."

"How to prevent it?"

"First, implement multi-son inheritance. Take our Ye family as an example. The main reason why the Ye family can continue to grow is that the eldest son inherits all military power. If the marquis is divided into three earls from the first generation The son inherits. By the second generation, there will be nine viscounts, and by the third generation, there will be 27 barons. In that case, by the third generation, the Ye family will almost disappear.

We can use this method to disintegrate the power of the princes who founded the country within three generations. "

"Good way, what if other families are like ours?"

"This kind of family should not give military power any more, only to false nobles. The second is to abolish the hereditary inheritance and adopt demotion to the nobles. Inherit the title once, and downgrade it by one level. At most five generations, the title will be reduced to the common people. In this way, the military general family Naturally disintegrated."

"This is not easy!"

"If it's not easy to do, you have to do it."

"Does the royal family do the same?"

"Yes, our family doesn't take the lead, how can we do it? Grandpa, have you thought about how many members of the royal family there will be in the next three generations of the Ye family, and how many people will there be in the next five generations?"

The old man shook his head.

"Hey, there are more than 100 people in Qifang now, so count as 100 people. If everyone has ten children like the third uncle, there will be 1000 people in the Ye family in the next generation, and 1 people in the next generation. There were 10 people in the four generations. If each person enshrined a village, the entire Wu Dynasty would not be able to seal it. If each person was given 1000 taels of silver per year, the annual tax revenue of the Wu Dynasty would not be able to support the Ye family. When the fifth generation of the Ye family was born, the dynasty naturally collapsed."

The old man was stunned.

"Look, how can we not cancel the hereditary?"

"Cancel! It must be cancelled!" The old man jumped up anxiously when he heard this.He couldn't tolerate the disappearance of the Ye family in less than four generations.

Uncle Ye was dumbfounded. How many of his children have become negative models?With a few words from his niece, his hereditary prince will be gone?
Everyone behind the screen was terrified.

"By the way, grandfather, why did you call me here today?" Xueying asked, and she forgot why she came here.

"That's not important." Wu Taizu didn't care whether his granddaughter liked Yang Heng or not?

He originally wanted to use his official position to test Xueying's attitude towards Yang Heng.

"Oh!" Xueying cried out.Heart said: not important?Then you still call me here?This old man has cat disease.Xueying stretched her waist.

"Grandfather, is there anything else? I'm going back."

"Okay! Go back and play first." The old man is very upset now, thinking about what his granddaughter said today.

Xueying left slowly.

The prince and the others looked at each other for a while, then pushed aside the screen and came out.

Wu Taizu came back to his senses, glanced at them sternly, and said, "You are not allowed to reveal a single word of what you heard today."

"Yes!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

What Xueying said today, is it okay to let it out?
"The prince and Quanying stay, you all go back." Taizu Wu drove away.

The others left dejectedly.

Wu Taizu said: "You have heard what Xueer said, what do you think?"

"Xue'er is far-sighted, I think we should do what she says." Quan Ying said decisively.

"What Xue'er said is beneficial to my court." The prince said.

(End of this chapter)