In the blink of an eye, it was already the end of the nineth year of Baili.

Maritime trade was in full swing, and as more and more Ming merchants embraced this maritime era, a large amount of sea gold and silver poured into the Ming Dynasty.

Although a large amount of gold and silver pushed up commodity prices, it also effectively activated the consumer market in the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of domestic sales workshops emerged like mushrooms after a rain.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 100 workshops appear nationwide every month, and a large majority of them are not traditional family workshops, but recruit a certain number of workers.

The monthly money of a skilled female weaver has increased from four liang to eight liang, and it may not be able to recruit people. Some areas have already experienced labor shortages.

Many smart businessmen also saw the business opportunities, but many vocational training institutions have emerged to deliver qualified workers to some workshops.

Thanks to the huge consumer market, many folk crafts have been used commercially, and some workshop owners have begun to pay attention to the direction of mechanization development.

The Ming Dynasty was undoubtedly the biggest winner. Whether it was goods sold overseas or goods sold to ordinary people, they all received a fixed commodity tax.

This year, the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty exceeded 50 million taels of silver, once again setting a new record for the Ming Dynasty's fiscal.

The healthy finance of the Ming Dynasty undoubtedly gave Lin Yeran the capital to deepen reform.

Shanxi's rule of law construction encountered some obstacles, but the court's position was firm. The practice style of Shanghai Rui's "killing gods when encountering gods, killing Buddha when encountering Buddhas" has led to Shanxi's legal system construction becoming a benchmark for the whole country.

After Shanxi achieved pilot results, Lin Qingran did not soon promote the rule of law construction across the country, but only added four pilot areas: Northern Zhili, Southern Zhili, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to push the rule of law to the whole country immediately, but that this matter cannot be rushed. After all, legal talents have not yet been reserved.

In fact, many social chronic diseases are not solved without methods, but they are not equipped with corresponding talents and sufficient force. Even if the system is good, it will undoubtedly be implemented.

For example, Liu Jin made two mistakes when he rectified the military camp: one was that the officials sent by Zhou Dong, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, just wanted to go down and make money; the other was that he actually did not have enough force to accomplish this.

Liu Banshan’s release of dogs and bites Shen Hui cannot be regarded as an isolated case, but a problem that must be encountered in the law enforcement process. Only bloody law enforcement personnel can effectively carry out the rule of law construction.

That's true. Although Hai Rui and voices from all over the world repeatedly asked him to push Shanxi's legal system to the whole country, he still only signed the expansion law of the four places.

When Lin Weiran clearly promoted the construction of the rule of law, he also directly expressed a tone to the outside world: "If you want to make a fortune, don't be an official!"

Although the fastest way to achieve wealth growth in history is to become an official, from the property that Yan Song and Xu Jie were seized, you can see the speed and scale of how much money you make as an official make.

In just a few decades, it has gathered unimaginable wealth and has also been on the throne of the richest man in the world.

It is just that the establishment of the ICAC is not only to combat the problem of corruption, but also to eliminate internal classes, give true equality to Chinese people, and allow wealth to flow benignly within.

Lin Weiran knew that the most difficult thing in judicial construction was top-level design. While promoting the rule of law in Shanxi, Chen Yiqin was also asking Chen Yiqin to preside over the Legislative Council matters.

If you want to completely get rid of the rule of man and solve the problem that everyone can only solve problems by finding relationships, you must establish a code that involves all aspects.

Although the Ming Dynasty law has collected the classics of China for thousands of years, this one is ultimately produced from the feudal era of governing the people, and the aspects involved cannot meet the current needs.

That's why the Ming Dynasty next issued a complete code, including the Company Law and the Labor Law that conform to the development of the times. This is the most important part of the current rule of law construction.

With the arrival of the end of the year, envoys from various countries gathered in the capital and gave a generous gift to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The envoys from various countries had already seen the times clearly and knew who was the real helm of this empire, so they also gave Lin Qingran a great gift.

Thanks to the Ming Dynasty's promotion to the new generation of maritime overlords, more and more foreign vassals came from thousands of miles away. There were vassal kings of the South China Sea, England and Portugal from the West, and countries from the American continent.

Envoy.

It is worth mentioning that there are as many as ten envoys from Japan this time.

Japan's Warring States history is similar to China. There are many famous names in various places. They are constantly fighting for hegemony, and there are countless wars of all sizes. This situation has lasted for two hundred years.

Due to the fall of Oda Nobunaga, who has the qualifications to compete for the world, and the incompetence of the new general, and the Emperor is a mascot, this situation continues to this day.

However, under the operation of the political monster Lin Weiran, the situation in Japan has changed again.

As Ryuzoji Takanoburi was admitted to the Ming Dynasty's "Kyushu Northern King" and became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it seemed as if it had opened Pandora's box, more and more Japanese daimyos chose Ryuzoji Takanoburi's way.

The Maori family was granted the title of the "Honshu West King" of the Ming Dynasty by relying on their years of silver trade with the United Business Group; the Asai family received the title of the "Honshu Middle King" of the Ming Dynasty; the Nagato family received the title of the "Four Kings"; and the Shima

The Jin family won the "King of Jiuzhou Southern" and so on.

Japan has the tradition of Dubai's strong men, but now they look down on the nameless emperor and generals, so they have become vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

After they received the King, they could only pay a certain amount of coins and provide some personnel every year, and they would receive the protection of the Ming Navy, allowing them to become lords for generations.

After all, not every daimyo has the ambition of Oda Nobunaga to unify the country. They are more considering sticking to their own territory, making their families safe and safe, and becoming the permanent rulers of this land.

It is precisely because of this that after realizing the great benefits of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, they gave up their identity as Japanese daimyo and chose to become kings on their own.

At this point, Japan has actually become one of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the fall of Spain and the Ming Dynasty's most advanced artillery technology, its position as a maritime overlord will be difficult to shake in the next ten years.

But Lin Weiran was not proud of this. Now he has defeated all threat actors at sea. So now he should implement the "distance-distance" policy.

Lin Weiran chose to list key diplomatic targets with England and Portugal. After entertaining Simon, who came from afar, he met with the English envoy.

"Uh... God, it's you, my dear friend Lin!" Earl Robert walked into the duty room and saw Lin Weiran, and immediately raised his eyebrows in shock and said.

Huh?

Seeing this, the diplomats from the two countries who were accompanying him could not help but look at each other.

When Lin Weiran saw that it was Mr. Pea, he smiled and said with a rare smile: "Hi, my friend Mr. Pea, are you doing well over the years?"

"Thank you for your blessing! I inherited my aunt's legacy when I went back and lived a great life! My friend Lin, how are you doing?" Robert still looked like that back then, and he seemed to be straightforward and authentic.

Fate is a very wonderful thing. Lin Weiran deceived Robert to transport a bunch of unsold rags from Master Shen back to Europe, but now he doesn't want to meet here.

But Robert is no longer the curious young man back then, but he is resolutely the Count of the British young man. This time he is on behalf of Queen Elizabeth to visit the Ming Dynasty.

However, nothing seemed to have changed. Mr. Pea was still so passionate and still remembered the only friend he met in the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Qingran also smiled knowingly and nodded gently and said, "When I parted with you back then, I participated in the imperial examination and became an official, and my life was pretty good!"

When the translator heard this, he immediately looked at Lin Weiran with complicated eyes.

Although Robert's return to inherit his aunt's property is envious, Lin Weiran's life so far has become a legend.

"Oh, you are the prime minister of this emperor, it's really amazing!" Robert also realized it and patted his forehead heavily.

Lin Weiran was in a good mood and didn't need to arrange a banquet, but after all, he was a friend who had not seen many years ago. He even invited Robert to his house as a guest.

Robert was also a kind person. He brought his wife to come and gave gifts to Lin Shiran's family.

Wu Qiuyu and others were quite surprised to learn that there was such a strange adventure back then.

But some things were still unstoppable. The embarrassing incident about Lin Weiran's carriage to Dianbai County was revealed, which made three women laugh out loud on the spot.

But I don’t know who was talking too much, but the news even reached Empress Dowager Chen’s ears, which made Empress Dowager Chen laugh when she saw Lin Qiran.

Lin Qingran had a great conversation with Robert, who was straight, and made a decision before leaving, saying, "I would like to forge a deep friendship with the queen, and I want to turn your hand to give the queen a poem!"

"Lin, my friend, I know you are the most talented man in the Ming Dynasty, but your Ming Dynasty poems are too difficult to translate!" Robert knew that the queen did not understand Chinese, so he seemed embarrassed.

Lin Qingran knew this naturally, and wrote the English poem "Tiger" he learned in high school.

Tiger! Tiger! In the forest in the dark

The magnificent fire burning,

What kind of divine hand or heavenly eye is it

Create a mighty state like you?

The fire in your bright eyes

How far is the sky or abyss burning?

...

Although England is not worth worrying about now, having a strong alliance in Europe undoubtedly helped the dominance of the Ming Dynasty and could also better maintain the European market.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival has passed and the tenth year of Baili has begun.

Lin Weiran's reform has not stopped, and the direction of this reform has even pointed to education.

Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang formally designated the eight-legged essay originating from the Yuan Dynasty as the imperial examination style. This style consists of paragraphs such as solving questions, inheriting questions, starting lectures, starting stocks, starting stocks, starting stocks, Chinese stocks, back stocks, and bundling stocks.

The theme of the Eight-Legend Essay must be made on behalf of the sage, that is, to guide the writing of articles with Confucius' thoughts.

Although this form takes into account fairness and writes in a fixed format to facilitate examiners' scoring and reduce fraud, it erases the innovation of ideas.

Just like the dives that are spreading into a mu, they will regard "dividing dives that are spreading into a mu" as an evil school, but will always insist on "exhausting tax on people as the object" as the regular school.

This is precisely because this will lead to a stagnation in the entire social thinking, which will lead to a lack of effective theories for social development.

In addition, the education of heaven, earth, kingdom, family and teacher has led to the prevalence of teacher relations, causing factional struggles in the officialdom, and thus the court has repeatedly staged court struggles.

In view of this, Lin Weiran realized that it was the thing that should be done, that was, in today's big competition, a bombshell was directly thrown out.

Just after the Spring Festival, the court issued this year's "New Regulations on the Imperial Examination".

Unlike previous years, the Ming Dynasty reformed the imperial examination. Except for the content that added other examination content, juren will not be allowed to enter the officialdom directly, but will be admitted to 3,000 people next year.

From 300 places to 300 places, this is a full amount of admissions for the past 30 years, resulting in a significant increase in the admission rate for the next year's examination.

Correspondingly, the following provincial examinations, college examinations and government examinations will naturally release the quotas so that more scholars can gain the reputation of Jinshi and enter the officialdom.

Of course, the consequence of this is that the quality of Jinshi has dropped significantly, and many scholars with low standards will be able to enter the officialdom.

Lin Weiran did not agree with this. Now, officials in the Ming Dynasty were too corrupted by the Four Books and Five Classics. In addition to understanding some great principles, they knew nothing about daily affairs.

Since it is difficult to directly deny the eight-legged essay, the status of the eight-legged essay can also be lowered, so that more flexible scholars can enter the officialdom and inject vitality into the stagnant water of the officialdom.

However, among the 3,000 Jinshi admitted, a large number of them can only serve as ninth-rank officials in the local area, and they will start from the lowest-level officials.

If a truly talented person is naturally promoted by the court. If a nerd who knows nothing, he will always be at the bottom and then slowly be eliminated.

Or the results cannot be seen in the short term, but as time goes by, many people will realize that getting a Jinshi fame is not the end, but that having real talent and knowledge can only be like a fish in the officialdom.

"There are too many places for the three thousand Jinshi quotas!"

"It can't be considered too many. Now the court has many things, and there are few people in all aspects!"

"Maybe this is a good thing, which not only gives more scholars the opportunity to display their talents, but also solves the problem of shortage of staff in the yamen!"

...

As news of the imperial examination reform spread, many people were worried about the sudden expansion of enrollment, but more people expressed their support.

As the economy in various places has developed, not only local yamen need to expand personnel, but many yamen that collect commercial taxes have to increase their staff. The court even decided to add yamen institutions such as the Labor Department, so it is quite necessary to "expand enrollment".
Chapter completed!