After ascending the throne, the first decree issued by Lin Yuan was to open the imperial examination, select talents, and manage the country.
The imperial examination system has existed since ancient times. Since the Han Dynasty, there have been the examination system and the expedition system. In the Sui Dynasty, there was only the Jinshi Ke.
"When I wait for a student, I will naturally be promoted to the imperial examination." The students were discussing, "The imperial examination system has existed since ancient times. Isn't it the same in the Yuan Dynasty? Why do you look so sad?"
Someone also echoed: "Your Majesty's move is to soothe the hearts of scholars in the world. If everyone wants to be an official, and seeks an official, there is no way for the poor family to advance, and the country will have no peace!"
The person on the other side said: "My family has been an official for generations, and it has existed since ancient times. How can I be compared with the poor son of a poor family!"
"That's right! Your Majesty wants to hold the imperial examinations, and I will not stop you, but I am also a famous family, and I never rely on the imperial examinations to advance!"
"This is humiliating my family!"
Zhou Rong passed by at this time with a look of disdain on his face.
"Young Master Zhou has a good heart, I don't know what to teach you?" Someone stopped Zhou Rong from going, "Young Master Zhou has already been used by His Majesty, so naturally he doesn't like me waiting for a dispute over the imperial examination."
Some people also spoke for Zhou Rong: "What did Zhou Gongzi say wrong at the literary meeting before? I have always learned from books, saying that it is to govern the country, but only rhetoric. Governing a country starts with a single step, implements it, and knows the suffering of the people. If you know how businessmen are doing business, if you don’t, how can you govern the country? Do you govern the country at home?!”
Zhou Rong stepped forward and handed over the students who spoke for him: "Thank you Brother Zhao for your help, but Zhou Rong also has something to say."
"What do you have to say? It's still the same old rhetoric." Someone dismissed, "I think it's you who is talking about it, right?"
Zhou Rong smiled and said, "Everyone, you are all the pillars of the country, and you have great talents. You are familiar with poetry, books, history, and classics. What you learned from childhood is the way to govern the country, and you see it as the people's livelihood since childhood.
Someone said: "You say something human."
Zhou Rong: "Your Majesty opened the imperial examination, is it wrong?"
No one dares to speak up and say that the emperor is right or wrong, that is what the officials do, and that is their duty.
But when the white-bodied people talk about the emperor's right or wrong, they are guilty of the following, and being caught is a capital offense.
Zhou Rong said with a smile: "When you can go to the court and discuss the right and wrong of Your Majesty, let's talk with Rong again."
"Rong still has something to do, take a step first, you are free."
Zhou Rong didn't look sideways, strode forward, only the children surnamed Zhao who spoke for him followed.
Zhao Lin followed Zhou Rong and whispered, "Why did you offend them all?"
Zhou Rong sneered: "What do I have to fear when I offend them? Incompetent people only know how to enjoy themselves. I have never left home in this life, I have never seen rice fields, I don't know old farmers, and I don't know people's livelihood. What's the use of friendship with them?"
"You... hey!" Zhao Lin, "Where are you going now?"
Zhou Rong walked out of the Shizi Building and said to Zhao Lin, "Go see Your Majesty."
Zhao Lin's eyes widened: "Are the rumors true? Are you really being used by His Majesty? On Tuesday, you really soared into the sky!"
Zhou Rong looked grim and said to Zhao Lin, "Brother Zhao, I have a word for you."
Zhao Lin was solemn, upright, dressed, and cupped his hands: "Please enlighten me."
Zhou Rong: "Your Majesty will not use children from aristocratic families. Your Majesty must use people with lofty ideals. Your Majesty has ambitions. I will be a loyal minister, a straight minister. Only by being loyal to Your Majesty and the Ming Dynasty will we have the opportunity to be promoted."
"Wenchen remonstrates to the death, military officers fight to the death, so, the country will prosper!"
Zhao Lin widened his eyes, his nostrils slightly opened: "No need for children from aristocratic families..."
Zhou Rong patted Zhao Lin on the shoulder: "Brother Zhao, think about it yourself."
"What nonsense are you playing! Can't you speak clearly?" Zhao Lin shouted at Zhou Rong's back.
Zhou Rong raised his hand and shook his back to Zhao Lin: "It's boring to say it too clearly."
Zhou Rong walked into the palace gate. He looked up at the doorpost and then at the steps.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the children of the Zhou family had been living in the countryside and farming together with farmers. He knew that people's livelihood was difficult, and that farmers would still be old and helpless when they farmed all their lives. When he was young, his only dream was to one day be able to enter this country. The palace gate, stretches aspirations, and dedicates his blood to the king.
However, in the Yuan Dynasty, a traitor was in power, and even loyal officials of the family were designed to be killed.
Not to mention the Han Chinese.
He had no idea of serving the country, but he couldn't implement it.
Now that the new dynasty has been established and the new king has ascended the throne, he knows who he should be loyal to.
He wants to be a straight minister, a loyal minister.
Lin Yuan watched Zhou Rong salute him, he smiled and said, "Don't bow down, come and sit, come to me."
Zhou Rong walked to Lin Yuan's side.
Lin Yuan took his hand: "I have something for you to do."
Zhou Rong hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, it's okay to say it, and the grass people will never refuse."
Lin Yuan smiled and said: "There is no need to rush the family in advance, but regarding the school, I want to call you the governor of the government. This is a new official. From the sixth rank, if you think the official is small, it is best to say it at this time."
Zhou Rong said eagerly, "His Majesty said with a smile that no subject has ever thought of a low official."
Lin Yuan took a sip of tea: "This is the best way, I want you to promote the official school, so that the children of the common people can read and write."
Zhou Rong looked at the teacup and asked, "Your Majesty... the grass people are stupid."
Lin Yuan looked at Zhou Rong: "Where are you stupid?"
Zhou Rong: "If Your Majesty pursues official studies, you will definitely not find Caomin. Caomin has no name. Whether it is Lord Zheng, Lord Wu, or even Prime Minister of Song, they are more suitable than ministers. There must be a reason why Your Majesty is looking for Caomin."
"Promoting government schools will inevitably lead to infamy." Lin Yuan looked at him with eyes like torches, "For a long time, the knowledge of writing has been monopolized by the upper class, even the poor family is only three generations without officials."
"To implement a government school today is tantamount to competing with aristocratic families for food. If you promise, you will be in a dangerous situation."
Lin Yuan added: "Besides, it's not just the school, there is another important thing."
"Making words." Lin Yuan looked at Zhou Rong.
As soon as these two words came out, Zhou Rong was so shocked that his liver and gallbladder were split.
Lin Yuan smiled: "You might do it? Would you dare to do it?"
Zhou Rong pursed his lips and said, "If the grass people obey, all the scholars in the world will be enemies with me, and I can't wait to slash me with a thousand knives."
Lin Yuan: "You dare?"
Zhou Rong raised his head, looked directly into Lin Yuan's eyes, and said word by word, "Zhou Rong dares!"
"Okay!" Lin Yuan ordered, "Come on to the wine! I want to get drunk with Zhou Qing!"
"Such courage, such courage, Zhou Rong, if you can succeed, I will definitely honor you as a minister!"
The two were half-drunk but not drunk, Zhou Rong asked, "Your Majesty, why did Your Majesty choose Caomin?"
Lin Yuan's face was flushed. He hadn't drank for a long time, and now it's not enough to drink a little: "Those who are not afraid of death and dare to give up everything in the name of Zhou Rong, it is rare for a person like you."
Zhou Rong smiled bitterly: "His Majesty put the minister in a desperate situation."
Lin Yuan: "Do you have the confidence to survive in a desperate situation?"
Zhou Rong was lying on the table: "Wei Chen waited for this time, and waited for a full ten years. Even if there is a dragon pond and tiger den in front of him, the minister is willing to go to it, just ask your majesty's kindness, don't... Don't settle the family's grievances after the minister's success. , take the head of the minister."
Lin Yuan laughed loudly: "How do you say that I am outside? You say that I am a tyrant, a tyrant, why should you be afraid of mediocrity?!"
Zhou Rong: "Your mouth is like a sword..."
Lin Yuan: "If you succeed, the aristocratic family will not be afraid. Zhou Rong, what you have to do is to open up a new path. If you succeed, your name will be remembered in the history of the world and will last forever!"
Zhou Rong said loudly, "My minister, obey the order!"
After Zhou Rong was taken to the bedroom by the chamberlain, Lin Yuan washed his face with cold water.
He couldn't let Song Shizhao or Wu Changqing do this. They were all from the upper class. Even Song Shizhao, the most unfortunate one, came from an aristocratic family. They believed that the common people were not worthy of reading the Book of Sages.
When Lin Yuan launched primary schools in Gaoyou and other places, Song Shizhao and the others did not object, because those teachers did not teach the way of governing the country, but the livelihood of the common people.
Lin Yuan asked Zhou Rong to compose characters to simplify the characters according to the current world situation.
This is impacting the cultural foundation of the entire feudal society.
He could think of what the scholars in the world would say about him and Zhou Rong.
Zhou Rong dared to promise him that he had put his life and death aside.
Lin Yuan said to Erliang, "This man is a madman."
Erliang didn't understand, but he still followed suit: "Yeah, he's crazy if he dares to tell you to drink so much."
Lin Yuan laughed.
Erliang said again: "General Chen has been waiting outside for a long time, can you see him tonight?"
Lin Yuan stood up: "See, why don't you see me? I'm in good spirits at this time!"
Two or two reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you should call yourself me."
Lin Yuan: "Don't worry about it, just invite him in."
When Chen Baisong went in, he saw Lin Yuan smiling at him. Lin Yuan's cheeks were blushing, his eyes were moist, and he didn't smile, but he was also affectionate. What's more, he was smiling at this time. Chen Baisong paused, he hadn't looked at Lin Yuan for a long time. .
Lin Yuanchang has changed, his aura has changed, his face has not changed, and God has treated him leniently, and now he still looks like a teenager.
"Your Majesty." Chen Bosong was about to salute when Lin Yuan waved his hand, "Stop salute, come here."
Chen Baisong walked over, he was still wearing armor, walking like the wind, tall and powerful, he fought hard from the blood, grew up on the battlefield, and already had the temperament of a warrior.
"You look a little old." Lin Yuan said suddenly.
Chen Baisong knew that Lin Yuan was drunk, he looked at Lin Yuan and said, "I am also thirty-eight this year."
Lin Yuan: "...Really?"
The ancients were short-lived, with an average age of 40. Even if they were not counted as ordinary people, not many dignitaries lived to their 60s.
What's more, the generals who killed the enemy on the battlefield suffered countless old injuries.
Lin Yuan suddenly said, "You are thirty-eight years old, and you haven't married yet."
Chen Bosong: "I'm too busy to have time."
Lin Yuan: "You are still so upright."
Chen Baisong looked at Lin Yuan with fire in his eyes: "Young master, did you only know now?"
Lin Yuan seemed to be attracted by the fire in Chen Bosong's eyes, and looked at him madly: "I always knew."
Chen Bosong took a breath.
Lin Yuan asked him, "There are so many people around me, but the one I trust most is you."
Chen Bosong closed his eyes: "Chen... I know."
Lin Yuan suddenly asked him, "I ask you, do you dare to commit the following crime?"
Chen Bosong suddenly became dumb.
"I won't marry a wife, and I won't have any children in this life." Lin Yuan suddenly said, "If I have children, what I want is hopeless in this life, this road may be a dead end, do you dare to accompany me? Walk together?"
Chen Baisong opened his mouth, and what he said was loud and clear: "I dare!"
He didn't know when he was thinking, but he just found that he didn't want anyone to be closer to Lin Yuan than himself.
This thought was rooted in his heart, and he had deliberately avoided it for a long time. If Lin Yuan did not marry a wife, he would not marry for a day.
He thought that he would be like this in his life, that he would witness Lin Yuan's arrival on the great treasure and sit on the throne of Kyushu, and he would shed the last drop of blood for Lin Yuan.
Not for the people, not for the world, only for Lin Yuan.
The author has something to say: Chen Bosong has always been very possessive.
Any feelings are like this to the extreme, so his feelings for Lin Yuan are very complicated.