I think the issues about reform that Brother Zhao mentioned all hit the nail on the head.
If we use a domineering strategy, we can indeed find a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation."
Zhao Ji looked a little unhappy.
He himself feels that the success rate is less than 20%.
As a result, for Ying Wuji, it became a glimmer of hope in the desperate situation.
Ying Wuji asked, "Father! May I ask, if you go all out, how many real positions can be freed up from the royal family that can allow students in the academy to display their talents?"
Zhao Ji thought about it and gave a conservative number: "Five hundred!"
If it were just official positions, the number would definitely be higher.
But those who have no real power, such as squad leaders and sergeants, are not in the eyes of the teachers at all, so they are simply not included.
Squeezing out 500 vacancies from the royal family is almost the limit.
Ying Wuji grinned, "Emptying the royal family for one or two years is fine, but it will definitely rebound in a few years. And five hundred vacancies are definitely enough to recruit talents, but if we want the masters of the hundred schools to stay in the academy wholeheartedly, the number will probably have to be doubled."
one thousand?
Zhao Ji looked unhappy. Even if I squeezed all the members of the royal family dry, I still couldn't come up with this thousand real vacancies.
He subconsciously glanced at Zhao Ning, thinking that Ning kept saying that Ying Wuji was a talented person, but he didn't expect that he was just talking big.
Zhao Ning was also a little puzzled and didn't know why Ying Wuji asked this.
Ying Wuji seemed not to notice the expressions of the two people, and continued to talk: "Another point is that the Zhao clan is indeed the most powerful family in Dali, but no matter how powerful it is, it is impossible for it to be an enemy of all the noble families. I think we should divide them and win them over. As long as we tie them to Zhao's warships, even if Wei and Han are not used to the reform, they will have to hold their noses and tolerate it."
"Well, how to divide and win over?"
Zhao Ji asked cooperatively, but his attitude was a little cold.
Ying Wuji smiled and said, "The nobles that Duke Wen had appointed in the past all became famous clans later on. However, due to the infighting among each other, apart from the royal family, only the three clans of Wei, Han and Li were left. The Li clan's status came from marriage alliances, and it does not have much land.
As for the remaining small families, few of them had fiefdoms comparable to that of the Li family, and they were trembling in the gap between the royal family and Wei and Han.
In other words, they themselves did not feel at ease living in their fiefdoms.
If we say that we want to abolish the hereditary noble system, they will definitely not want to, but if we can promise them benefits, they might offer the management rights of their fiefdoms themselves.”
"Oh? That's quite interesting. Tell me in detail."
Zhao Ji's eyes lit up slightly, of course, just slightly.
Ying Wuji smiled and said, "I have said just now that if we can free up 1,000 vacancies, the Dali Academy will be built, and the official positions will be allocated through the examinations prepared by the masters. We divide the students into ordinary students and personally-taught students. In name, they have equal opportunities to become officials, but everyone knows that personally-taught students have a greater chance of becoming officials.
We will give those small clans quotas for direct disciples. As long as they contribute a real vacancy to the court, they can get double or even triple the quota of direct disciples. Then we will secretly spread some theories about killing Wei and Han, and I think there should be many small clans willing to do so.
Not only that, we can even use the terrain to make them our channel for absorbing refugees from Wei and Han."
“Not bad!”
Zhao Ji's expression eased a little. Dali seldom used its military force abroad, but in fact the soldiers at home were not always idle.
Many small families have disappeared under the oppression of the three major families.
As long as the prestige of the academy's official selection system is established.
For them, it is better to exchange for a greater future than to guard a fiefdom that they don’t know how long they can defend.
With such a promise, there should be many small families willing to do so, and by serving as officials in other places, their fiefdoms can be completely absorbed quickly.
By dividing and attracting others, the pressure faced by the royal family can indeed be reduced to a minimum.
but……
Zhao Ji rubbed his brows and finally couldn't help asking, "So, where do you want me to get this thousand dollars?"
This is the fundamental!
If Ying Wuji continued to use these thousand real men to build castles in the air, he was not sure that he would not beat someone.
Ying Wuji did not answer, but asked another question: "Father! Previously, you were thinking of reforming Zhao's land system to attract refugees from Wei and Han. Is there enough land?"
Zhao Ji frowned slightly: "If iron farm tools are popularized, it will definitely not be enough!"
Dali's iron smelting technology was also in the leading position among the princes of the world. It once liberalized iron farm tools for a period of time in an attempt to increase grain production.
It was later discovered that the people who had received iron farm tools were not more active in public farming, but were more inclined to reclaim wasteland on their own.
This aroused the vigilance of the nobles, so they quickly issued an iron ban and strongly suppressed private land.
This also led to the fact that the popularization of iron farm tools could allow one person to plow several times more land than before.
However, iron tools were still not allowed, because once they were allowed, the interests of the nobles would be weakened.
This is also true for the Zhao clan.
The fundamental reason for political reforms in various countries is the issue of land.
Within the Legalists, there are various schools of thought, with different philosophies, but they all share the same core: abolishing the hereditary aristocracy and reforming the land issue; these two things are absolutely impossible to change.
Zhao Ji's reforms would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the royal family, but he was already prepared to kill people within the royal family.
However, with the popularization of iron farm tools, the upper limit of arable land will definitely increase several times. If we only carry out reforms in Zhaotu, the land will definitely not be enough.
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