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But the immigrant has been overseas for a long time, and after a long time, his land in the mainland will naturally become the property of his relatives.If the whole family moves, it will be even more difficult to keep, most of them will be taken over by relatives, friends or neighbors.Therefore, dual household registration does not bring any benefits. It is better to go to the overseas government to clarify the household registration.

Moreover, there is currently only one overseas Jinshi quota, and the income of imperial examination immigrants is not high.

Basically, the problem of overseas household registration can be solved, and individual loopholes are ignored.

Today's imperial meeting is basically related to education, after all, the imperial examination has just been passed.

Zhao Han asked: "Officials from the Zhongbang and Beibang areas have written letters one after another, requesting to adjust the number of Jinshi. What do you think?"

"The current ratio between the north and the south has been used since the Ming Dynasty, and I feel that there is no need to change it." Chief Assistant Liu Ziren spoke first.

More than half of the cabinet ministers were from Nanbang, and they echoed Liu Ziren one after another.Some people even said that the Nanbang imperial examination competition is fierce, and the proportion should be increased as appropriate.

However, the Minister of Rites is from Shandong. Wang Diaoding said: "Although the proportions are the same, the regions are different. What's more, Guangnan Province has been added to the middle list, and Xuantu Province (Jilin) ​​has been added to the North List. They are the Mongolians on the grasslands. In principle, it is also possible to participate in the imperial examination. The minister suggested that the ratio of quotas for the examination should be adjusted. Especially in the list, there are more and more outstanding scholars."

In this imperial examination, the scores of scholars from Sichuan and Hunan have exploded significantly.

Especially Sichuan, which has not experienced much war and chaos, not only has the largest population in the province, but also has a solid foundation for imperial examinations.Scholars from Chengdu County and Fushun County took the examination of twelve Jinshi this year, and the rest of the list suffered heavy casualties.

"Change." Zhao Han said.

The officials from the Nanbang area were unwilling to do this, but they could not object to the emperor's opinion, so they could only blow their beards and stare at Wang Tiaoding.

Of course, Zhao Han also made a compromise to increase the number of Jinshi for the next term.

There is no fixed number of Jinshi, which is adjusted according to official vacancies. In the Ming Dynasty, there were between 300 and 400 Jinshi in each session.

The Datong court had a vast territory and required more officials.The number of Jinshi in the next imperial examination will be increased to 451, and a fraction will be given to overseas candidates.

即：南榜进士225人（50%），中榜进士171人（38%），北榜考生54人（12%）。

Although the proportion of Jinshi in Nanbang has decreased, the overall number of Jinshi has increased, and there are actually a few more exams than before.

Zhao Han held a meeting today, not only to talk about these things, but also to do other things.

Zhao Han said: "In provinces like Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangnan, it is not easy for scholars to go to Beijing to catch the exam. I plan to divide the exam into several places. Those who fail the exam can go home nearby, and those who pass the exam can come to Nanjing for the imperial exam."

Everyone looked at each other, even Wang Diaoding was dumbfounded.

The ministers objected one after another, but the objection was ineffective, Zhao Han said with a smile: "It's better to try it for two sessions and see the effect."

Zhao Han's idea is because the land area continues to expand, and it is really not easy for candidates in the marginal provinces.Just going to Beijing to take the exam is a huge administrative expense. If you can take the exam nearby, those who fail the exam will not have to travel too far, and related expenses will also be reduced, and both scholars and the court will benefit.

Of course, the provincial test will definitely not work.

There are three examination areas across the country. The South List Examination is held in Nanjing, the North List Examination is held in Beijing, and the Mid List Examination is held in Baling (Yueyang).

After the three-rank examination, the failed candidates went home directly, and only more than 400 people came to Nanjing for the imperial examination.

The time of the palace examination must be adjusted, and it will be delayed by one and a half months than before.

In the three major examination areas, the chief examiners and marking officers are dispatched by the central government, and the local authorities are responsible for organizing the examinations.

In the future, more test areas will be added, such as overseas attached lists. According to geographical conditions, the attached list exams will be held in Yecheng.The premise is that there are enough overseas candidates and the number of overseas universities is enough, otherwise you will only get a poor number of places forever.

This is not just an imperial examination issue. Setting the center of the Beibang examination area in Beijing is also increasing Beijing's political influence.

The next step is to divide the country's theaters in detail, increase Beijing's military influence, radiate the Northeast and the grasslands, and consolidate the dominance of the frontier.

Chapter 978 [Military Reform]

The test areas for the list are in Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangnan.Tibet Hepingnan Military and Civil Mansion (Myanmar), if there is an imperial examination for scholars, it is also classified as the middle list.

After the announcement of the test area in Baling, Anhui officials expressed strong opposition.

Anhui was recovered earlier, and there are also important ministers!

The cabinet ministers Zhang Bingwen and Wu Yingji were both from Anhui.What they said at the imperial meeting didn't work, so they hinted that Anhui officials went to Shu, requesting that Anhui be changed to Nanbang examination area.

This kind of behavior made Zhao Han very unhappy.He didn't blame anyone, and in a fit of rage, he changed the test location of the Zhongbang test area to Chengdu.

Officials from Anhui were dumbfounded.

The division of test areas has political significance, and Jiangxi belongs to Nanbang, which has both historical reasons and practical considerations.One is that Jiangxi now has the most officials, and scholars from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are needed to balance the officialdom; the other is that rich people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are everywhere, and Jiangxi officials need to suppress them.

Regardless of how close Jiangxi and Jiangdong are, they have always loved and killed each other in the officialdom, which is an extremely strong check and balance relationship.

The Nanbang is so powerful, Anhui must be included in the middle list, otherwise it will be connected.Anhui, Sichuan, Hunan, and Hubei, the four provinces combined, can barely compete with the Nanbang test area.

Zhang Bingwen and Wu Yingji joined forces with Anhui officials to make troubles, and those officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi were supportive.This means that most of the important ministers joined forces to resist Zhao Han's zone division policy, and they must wield sticks and beat them hard!

Many Anhui students from prefectures and counties can go to Nanjing in a day or two by boat... Now it's cool, they have to go to Chengdu for the exam.

It was just changing the exam location, but the cabinet ministers were frightened into silence. They all knew that the emperor was really angry this time.

No one dared to discuss the matter of the examination area.

Next, is to divide the military area.

The Chinese Military Governor's Mansion, located in Nanjing, has jurisdiction over Jinling Mansion, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong.

The former military governor's mansion, located in Kunming, has jurisdiction over Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangnan, Kham, and Pingnan military and civilian mansions (Myanmar).

The Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, located in Xi'an, governs Shaanxi, Gansu (including Ningxia), and Qinghai. (In the future, the Western Regions will be governed, but the organization will not move westward. Only Xi'an can quickly mobilize food and grass. Neither Gansu nor Xinjiang can support the logistics of the army.)

The Governor's Mansion of the Left Army, located in Shenyang, has jurisdiction over Liaoning, Xuantu (Jilin), and Andong Dufu (Heilongjiang and Siberia).

The Governor's Mansion of the Rear Army, located in Beijing, has jurisdiction over Beiping Mansion, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Mongolian grasslands.

The Naval Governor's Mansion is located in Guangzhou.

The Central Army and the Rear Army are obviously the highest ranks, especially the Rear Army Governor's Mansion, which is responsible for the use of troops in the entire Mongolian region.If it is about the Hetao and Horqin Grasslands, the left army and the right army governor's office must cooperate, which means that the entire north must obey the orders of the rear army left commander.

Establishing the military governor's office in Beijing is to improve Beijing's military status and make Beijing the military center of the entire north.

The left commander of the rear army must be a general who is familiar with the northern war.Needless to say, the separation of the military and the government, to prevent the situation of feudal towns, it is impossible to separate the regime without money and food.

Moreover, the inspectors of the provinces, that is, the armed police system, were half-separated from the Dudu Mansion and handed over to the command and envoys of the provinces.Let them check and balance with the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies. Only when they receive an order from the central military will the inspectors cooperate with the Dudu Mansion to fight.

If there is a rebellion in the Mongolian grasslands, the Anbei Duhufu and Raole Duhufu will solve it on their own.If the Mongolian rebels crossed the Great Wall in a large scale, the Zuo Dudu of the rear army had the right to dispatch patrol soldiers temporarily.

Only when there is a real chaos, the central government will issue a military order, and the left commander of the rear army will take over the entire northern military system and gather the strength of several northern provinces to suppress the rebellion.This situation is a critical state, and it may only happen two or three times in 100 years.

The name of the Governor’s Mansion in Nanjing remains unchanged, but the governors at this time will be renamed Generals in the future, and the prefix “General XX” will be added to distinguish them.

The Central Governor's Mansion has seven divisions of military administration, mission, staff, military law, training, logistics, and equipment.There is also a military meeting in front of the imperial court, which is presided over by the emperor and attended by the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion.

The authority of the Ministry of War has been compressed, but it still controls part of the military expenditure, retains control over the command divisions of the provinces (jurisdiction over the armed police forces), and retains the right to appoint and dismiss senior military officers (must be approved by the Imperial Military Council).

Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, was speechless for a long time after reading the military system reform plan.

Lu Xiangsheng knew very well that with the increase of military students in various troops, the emperor was no longer afraid to suppress those generals.This system has been implemented all the time, and civil servants should not try to suppress generals arbitrarily, even if all the founding ministers are dead.

Moreover, generals are allowed to give up command and enter the Ministry of War as officials.If things go on like this, maybe one day, the Ministry of War will be directly merged with the Dudu's Mansion, leaving only the military region organization like the Sixth Army's Dudu's Mansion—this requires the invention of radio.

The reason why the Ministry of War seized power in the Ming Dynasty was because of the change of Tumubao.

Not only the honorable generals suffered heavy losses, but the northern troops were also killed and injured.In order to defend Beijing, Yu Qian naturally had to seize power, otherwise he would not be able to organize and command the army.But how can the civil servants be willing to spit out the power they have obtained?

Even if Yu Qian wanted to return to the original state, other civil officials would object.

What's more, not only did Yu Qian not recover, but after he kept Beijing, he continued to let the Ministry of War seize more power.He may have good intentions, because the generals were rotten at the time, but his influence lasted until the fall of Ming Dynasty.

The fact that the Ministry of War seized the power of the Dudu Mansion was not the main reason for the Ming army's pull.

The real main reason is the military household guard system, and the civil servants were forced to start reforms, which achieved great results in the mid-Jiajing period, the Longqing period, and the early Wanli period.However, when it encountered financial difficulties, the recruitment system died prematurely, and it became a completely flat servant fighting.

At the end of the day, financial matters!

As for the Datong imperial court, the military academy continued to send graduates.Even if there are a few big defeats, as long as the military academy is still operating normally, officers will continue to be trained.

These military students will form a community of interests. Although the military academy is also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, only the principal is an official of the Ministry of War.The other teachers are all from the army, and the self-identity of military school students must be towards the group of generals.

Zhao Han even wanted to hold a military examination. Every year, the best graduates from the military academy would come to Nanjing to be selected by the emperor as a military jinshi.In this way, military commanders are also disciples of the emperor.

In addition, Beijing's status has been established, the northern cultural center, and the northern military center.

Beiping Prefecture finally looks like a municipality directly under the central government, it was too shabby before.After many years of recovery, the whole prefecture has ten counties under its jurisdiction, with a total population of less than 200 million, which is completely incomparable with another municipality directly under the Central Government (Jinling Prefecture).

After the status is determined, Beijing will definitely develop rapidly.

Xi'an, Shenyang, and Kunming, where the three capitals are located, will also form a siphon effect in the northwest, northeast, and southwest.

If there are frequent chaos in Kangzang, Chengdu will establish a second-level military region.However, in this ghostly climate of the Little Ice Age, it is difficult for Kangzang to think of a big chaos, nothing more than a little trouble. Tubo can be compared with the hard steel of the Tang Dynasty because it has encountered a warm period.

At this moment, the northern army is conquering Mobei, and when the war is over, the military reform will be fully implemented.

……

Zhao Hancai didn't care what the civilian officials thought. He had been planning this military system reform for several years.

Usually in the form of chatting, I solicited the opinions of the generals returning to Beijing, and based on the situation of the Ministry of War, the Dudu Mansion and the local troops, I drafted an outline myself, asked the generals and civilians of the Dudu Mansion to add details, and finally revised it several times in person.

During the whole process, the civil servants were not disturbed, but they only made occasional insinuations and asked Lu Xiangsheng and others to make some suggestions.

It was another holiday, and it was rare for Zhao Han to relax. He took a walk by himself, and then went to play with Zhu Yuxi.

As he was walking, a boy with a dog bumped into him.

"Father!" The young man stopped quickly, but it was Zhao Kuangji, the fifth prince born to Fei Rumei.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

That Shar Pei barked at the emperor.

Zhao Han glared sharply, and the Shar Pei suddenly lay down, tilted his head and stuck out his tongue.

Zhao Han asked, "Are you walking the dog, or are you going to some dog fighting ring?"

Zhao Kuangji replied: "Reporting to my father, my son intends to go out of the palace."

"No gambling!" Zhao Han reminded.

"I will never gamble." Zhao Kuangji said hastily.

This prince has excellent academic performance and good conduct, but he is also very playful.

Two years ago, when I was out hunting in the city, I met a mangy dog ​​on the way.It is estimated that it is just full moon and is dying of hunger. Zhao Kuangji feels pitiful and wants to take him back to the palace to raise him.

Later, I asked my classmates to appreciate my dog. A classmate said that this kind of dog is the best fighting dog, and there is a secret dog fighting ring outside the city.

Zhao Kuangji ran to check out of curiosity, and sure enough there were many mangy dogs there.Zhao Kuangji felt excited but couldn't bear the dog to get hurt after a dog fight.

Moreover, although Zhao Kuangji often took his own dog to the dog fighting arena to play, he never ended up in a dog fight. He was afraid that his pet dog would get hurt.

The accompanying guards reported the situation, and Zhao Han couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it. He didn't have any hope for this prince.

Excellent in study, but greedy for fun.

He doesn't want to make progress at all in his studies. He can rank in the middle in elementary school, and he can also rank in the middle in middle school. It is estimated that he will also be in the middle in college.Anyway, don't be ashamed of doing too badly in the exam, that's enough, and I never thought of being among the best.

Thrill-seeking, yet kind-hearted.

This kid can't see poor people suffering, not even dogs bleeding.But I couldn't help watching dog fights. After watching a few games, I couldn't bear to watch them. I quietly left halfway, and then went to watch them again next time.

Completely contradictory personality, this kind of person is often indecisive, not what can do great things.If you really let him be the emperor, I am afraid that he will be able to compete with Song Huizong.

Of course, Zhao Kuangji is smart and has a wide range of hobbies, so he might be able to excel in a certain field.

Recently, I have also become obsessed with Cuju, and often walk the dog while juggling the ball.

Classical history, poetry, calligraphy, painting, rhythm, astronomy, geography, mathematics, and physics are also somewhat familiar, but when the level reaches a certain level, they stop studying hard and find other fun.

If he doesn't listen to any education, it's like having ADHD. Let him sit at ease for a long time and feel uncomfortable.

One day when he said that he would travel around the world, Zhao Han would not be surprised.

Chapter 979 [Jinling School of Painting]

Zhao Kuangji set off in a carriage, followed by several palace guards, all the way to a certain mansion west of the Forbidden City.

He was looking for a classmate, both of whom liked dogs.

The classmate's family welcomed him warmly, but they were a little unhappy behind the prince's back.

"Brother Ji, let's play in the dog farm together." Zhao Kuangji shouted as he ran into the inner courtyard.

Zhan Shao walked out of the study with his head downcast: "Your Highness, go by yourself, I have to study at home."

Zhao Kuangji smiled and said, "With your grades, you will definitely be able to get a diploma, but public scholarship students don't even think about it. Anyway, your family is rich, and after you get a diploma, you can go to university at your own expense."

"Ugh!"

Zhan Shao sighed: "My three pet dogs were all killed by my father. They were also stewed into dog meat soup. I was told that I was mutton soup. I drank two full bowls and ate several pieces of dog meat. That night I had to Knowing the truth, I became nauseous and vomited, and vomited out all the jaundice water."