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Chapter 170: Cutting off the Robe and Breaking the Ties (Subscription Request)

At this point, Lu Jing smiled and said, "Yes, this is the second thing I want to do."

The historical background of the Dayu Dynasty is actually very similar to the Ming Dynasty in Lu Jing's previous life.

As the feudal dynasty system has developed to this day, the functions of government offices have actually become very comprehensive.

Although the functions of the office are comprehensive, they are not actually fully utilized.

The first reason is that the salary is insufficient.

Only the prefectures along the big rivers have permanent water conservancy offices to handle related affairs. There are almost no such offices in other places, and the functions are taken over by the county magistrate.

If there is a disaster year or a drought or flood year, many places can only leave it to fate.

The second problem is that there are problems with the selection of officials in the court.

The Jinshi selected in the imperial examination were all assessed through the eight-legged essay test, although there were a very small number of geniuses who could easily master the imperial examination and also had expertise in other subjects besides the imperial examination classics.

But this greatly limits the potential of the people of Central Continent.

This is simply like a "shackle" imposed on the people of Central China.

So Lu Jing planned to reform the imperial examination system.

Eight-legged essay is no longer used as the standard for selecting officials.

He wanted to build one professional academy after another, and then select candidates from the top students in these academies to take the big exams and thus select officials.

Let professional people do professional things.

All of these require money, but Dayu is actually not short of money nowadays.

Even today, Dayu has no shortage of talents.

There are talents like Gao Gelao and Zhang Gelao in the cabinet, and even more talented people like Hai Gangfeng, Gu Xiancheng, and Gu Longwu.

Zhongzhou has never lacked talent.

It’s just that many people don’t have the opportunity or platform to display their abilities.

Lu Jing stood up and waved his sleeves when he was excited: "Promote all industries, promote education, and promote the human race! In less than a hundred years, we will reach heaven!!"

Lu Jing suddenly raised his arm and pointed at the sky, saying in a loud voice: "Mortals can go there too!"

mortal……

Go to heaven?
This idea stunned Lord Zhang.

It is indeed a pioneering work for mortals to be able to go beyond the sky.

Zhang Ge Lao wondered, "What can ordinary people do if they go there?"

Those celestial beings all have the ability to pollute the minds of living beings. Not to mention mortals, even practitioners at a lower level will have their minds bewitched by the evil power of the celestial beings.

Otherwise, why would Zulong and Tian Khan work so hard to build the "Great Wall of Humanity" and the "Boundary Guard Pass"?
Lu Jing smiled and said, "In such a prosperous era, as long as there are no termites causing trouble, the population of Central Continent will surely rise to an unimaginable number. I'm afraid it will be more than one hundred million."

"And if we want to select warriors from among the hundreds of millions of people, even if we use the methods of cultivators to transform them... that's not a bad idea."

Fantasy version of Astarte!
have you heard of it?

Thinking of this, Lu Jing smiled in his heart.

Lu Jing continued to paint a big picture: "We humans will step out of this small world and use the power of mankind to transform barren stars one after another and make them prosperous. By then, the number of humans will reach millions, tens of millions!"

"The crowd of celestial beings! You will be buried by us in the end!"

Zhang Ge Lao: "Tens of millions of people..."

I didn't expect this kid's ambitions to be so lofty.

He had never even thought about problems from the perspective of this world. The perspective from which he thought about problems... had actually soared to the sea of ​​stars.

The difference in thinking level naturally determines the size of the strategy.

In comparison, the various strategies previously used against the Dayu court seemed as childish as village decrees.

What a great courage!

Zhang Ge Lao praised him, and then said realistically: "I have to admire your lofty ambitions, but no matter how lofty your ambitions are, you still need to solve the problems at hand. Now Dayu's School of Mind, School of Principle, Confucian Classics and even Taoism are all ready to join forces to refute you and ruin your reputation!"

Being in disgrace is not just an adjective, nor is it a situation.

He is a real harm.

Those Taoist monks have taken possession of some of Dayu's luck and are also extremely aggressive towards people's hearts.

In many historical stories of debates, the debaters were criticized by their opponents, lost their reputation, and finally died in depression and died tragically soon after.

Lu Jing laughed again when he heard this and said, "I admit that those scholars are very good at talking. But do you really think that I won't kill people just because I put on this governor's uniform?"

"I can kill monsters! I can also kill humans!"

"I'll beat these idiots with one punch each!"

Zhang Ge Lao's face suddenly changed: "Nonsense! You are cutting yourself off from the scholar community!"

Zhang Ge Lao was a scholar after all. Although he was indeed talented, he was still shackled by the current era. As a scholar, he felt that those who read the Four Books and Five Classics were very upright.

But in fact, it is people with integrity who become scholars.

Instead of becoming a person of integrity through reading.

For those people with integrity, the Confucian books that have been changed beyond recognition are actually harmful to them.

And when this erroneous knowledge is mastered by those with backbone, the harm it causes is even greater.

So, just kill him!
I thought of the "Crying Temple Case" in my previous life, in which as many as ten thousand scholars were involved, and they were all arrested and killed.

From then on, no more scholars caused trouble.

After all, it's because of habit.

Dayu is friendly to scholars, but Lu Jing came from the Zhen'an Division. So Lu Jing said sternly: "I am not joking. Not only will I cut myself off from the literati, I will also directly exterminate the so-called literati."

In fact, in terms of circles, the academic circle is even dirtier than the financial circle.

Even in previous lives, there were many supervisors who treated their graduate students like slaves, so much so that when the supervisors' children participated in a science and technology competition, a group of graduate students took part, but in the end they lost!

The reason, of course, is not that there are too many young geniuses.

The main reason is that all of these young geniuses are Stand users.

This existed in both past and present societies, not to mention the scholars in these dynasties.

In order to maintain their position as academic overlords, this group of scholars will certainly launch fierce attacks on the official selection and academy that Lu Jing is about to implement.

In order to avoid trouble, they naturally killed them all.

Zhang Ge Lao's face turned pale when he heard this. He stared at Lu Jing and asked, "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Lu Jing did not insist: "If they are open-minded, I will not make it difficult for them. If your teacher or student wants to come... you'd better persuade them."

At this point, Lu Jing suddenly became righteous and said bluntly: "For the future of the human race! This blood must be shed! I will not show any mercy."

"Lu Jing!!"

Zhang Ge Lao glared at Lu Jing and pointed at him, "I have always regarded you as a friend regardless of age difference, and a good minister who assists the country! You do this... do this!"

Lord Zhang was so angry that he felt dizzy.

"You have not only cut yourself off from the literati, but also from the imperial court! You have even cut yourself off from the human race! If you insist on doing this, then, then you are a tyrant! You...you are forcing me to sever my ties with you!"

Zhang Ge Lao roared angrily.

But as he shouted, his eyes turned red.

Over the years, he had long regarded Lu Jing as a comrade-in-arms who shared the same ideals as him and with whom he could work together.

His friendship with Lu Jing is that of both a teacher and a friend.

But now...

After taking office as the Governor-General of Japan, Lu Jing traveled to Mobei and put forward such "heretical" and "retrograde" ideas.

How could he, who came from a scholarly background, accept this?
Between the two forces, Lord Zhang must make a choice.

But it is so difficult to really make up your mind about this choice... At this moment, Lord Zhang is like his teacher, the former Lord Xu Shaosheng, who owns 240,000 acres of fertile land in Huating.

He thought of Gao Ge Lao, who served in the same cabinet as him.

These people once shared the same ideals with him.

But in the end, they all parted ways because of their own ideals and drifted further and further apart.

He couldn't stand the former cabinet minister Xu Shaosheng's moderation and his pursuit of self-interest at the expense of public resources.

Although Gao Ge Lao, who now holds all the power, is dedicated to the public and promotes new policies, he is arrogant and overbearing, and has conservative thinking.

These two people gradually lost their affection for him.

He even tacitly approved the prosecution of Xu Shaosheng in his hometown of Huating.

Under the control of Yuhang Governor Hu Yuxian, the Xu family in Huating was already in a precarious situation and was not far from ruin.

Where is Lord Gao?

The two of them are now almost like water and fire in the court, and Lord Gao is even instigating to kick him out of the cabinet.

If it weren't for Lu Jing, a powerful foreign aid who spent a lot of money to increase the emperor's favor, Lord Zhang might have been kicked out of the cabinet by Lord Gao long ago.

But now it seems that he has to join forces with Lord Gao to sanction Lu Jing together!

Thinking of this, Zhang Ge Lao's eyes gradually became cold and stern. He questioned Lu Jing: "I will ask you one last time, Lu Jing, are you sure you are against the entire Shilin of Dayu?"

Lu Jing did not evade and said bluntly: "Yes."

"it is good!"

Zhang Ge Lao shouted suddenly, raised his hand to lift the front of his casual clothes, then drew out his sword and slashed it fiercely.

The front piece of coarse cloth was thrown to the ground by Lord Zhang.

Zhang Ge Lao's face was tense, but his eye sockets were red, and hot tears were rolling in his eye sockets: "You and I should have been sworn brothers, working together to assist the emperor and govern the country! But your actions will surely leave an eternal infamy in the history books, and your reputation will be ruined in an instant! And I would not be here today without my mentor in the literati circle!"

“Nothing like this till today!”

Zhang Ge Lao's eyes widened as if he was gathering great strength to make up his mind: "So! You and I! Today! We will sever our ties!"

Lu Jing: "..."

He could actually understand Lord Zhang's emotions.

His life's achievements were largely due to the contributions of Shilin and his mentor.

If he followed Lu Jing in launching the "Shilin Rebellion", the whole world would curse Zhang Ge Lao, calling him ungrateful and an accomplice of the evil.

This kind of infamy would be jointly dealt with by Gao Ge Lao and others, and eventually he would be dismissed from office by the cabinet.

Therefore, whether for public or private reasons, he must make things clear with Lu Jing.

Even after returning this time, he had to issue a statement to express his attitude.

Lu Jing stared at Zhang Ge Lao with deep eyes, stared at him throwing away the coarse cloth in his hand, and stared at him turning around and leaving angrily.

Only when Lord Zhang disappeared did Lu Jing slowly close his eyes.

“The real difficulty begins now.”

Neither the human race nor the demons can tolerate him.

(End of this chapter)