After the posthumous title was decided, the first thing Xiong Yan did after he ascended the throne was considered to be over.

After that, except for occasionally interfering in the government affairs, he was always on the verge of watching.

At Xiong Yan's request, the cabinet formulated its first five-year plan and announced it nationwide.

In the past five years, Xiong Yan rarely took the initiative to deal with state affairs, and most of the time, he just watched quietly.

However, although Xiong Yan himself was not in charge of the matter, his power gradually grew.

When the first five-year plan is over, of course it is the second five-year plan and the third five-year plan.

When Xiong Yan did not interfere in the government affairs much, the civil servants themselves split.

In the past, civil servants had an extremely powerful opponent. Under the pressure of this opponent, all civil servants had to unite and fight against foreign enemies together. This opponent was called the Emperor.

However, after Xiong Yan succeeded to the throne, he rarely took the initiative to intervene in the government affairs. However, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet had to take the initiative to move towards Xiong Yan.

Only with the help of Xiong Yan's identity can these great ministers of the cabinet be justified in command of civil servants all over the world.

You should know that even Zhang Juzheng, the most powerful minister of the Dameng Dynasty, was able to suppress his ministers with the help of Master Wanli.

Otherwise, it may be difficult for the civil servants below to succeed, but they are more than enough to fail, and they can do nothing in a minute.

So, before we knew it, the civil servants in the court were divided into two factions, namely the cabinet sect, the monks' sect.

The cabinet faction is all the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and they are also the highest core of civil servants outside Xiong Yan. When Xiong Yan is not in charge of the matter, their rights are almost the greatest in the world.

The Shangshu School is headed by the Six Ministers of the House. Compared with the noble Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, they are more like working in actual work.

The craftsman of the five-year plan was a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, but the actual executor was a local bureaucrat and a minister of the six ministries.

Xiong Yan is the supervisor and the referee standing by. Every time the five-year plan is over, if the plan is completed perfectly, Xiong Yan will continue to remain silent.

If the plan is short, Xiong Yan will follow the public opinion and cut off one or two or even three or four Grand Secretary.

In the blink of an eye, Xiong Yan ascended the throne for a hundred years. Over the past century, Xiong Yan rarely came to do something in person, but the entire government was well controlled by him.

The Shangshu Sect checked and balanced the cabinet faction, civil officials fought internally, and civil officials fought with military generals. For a whole hundred years, the combat effectiveness of civil officials was unobstructed.

I can only say that fighting with the sky, the earth, and the people have endless fun!

However, just as the civil servants and the gentlemen kept staring at the military generals, staring at the opposing factions, and fighting fiercely, new forces rose up!

This new force is nothing else, it is just ordinary people.

Before, almost all the senior officials of the Great Chu were from powerful families and sects.

Even if it was not, after becoming a high-ranking official, the family automatically became a powerful family.

However, when education was fully popularized, especially after various learning methods were sold at a low price, and the prices of books continued to drop, Dachu had officially entered the stage of reading for the whole nation.

At this stage, even farmers who have been farming for the rest of their lives will write their own names and recognize dozens of words.

To this day, even the most basic and important compulsory education has emerged!

At the beginning, the years of compulsory education were only one year. Now, the years of compulsory education have reached a full nine years.

At the same time, against the backdrop of Xiong Yan's continuous printing and issuance of money, the total amount of money in Dachu has increased from about 2 trillion taels a hundred years ago to 20 trillion today.

From the perspective of the total amount of money, the total value of one tael of silver now is only one tenth of what it was a hundred years ago. But in many cases, the account is not calculated in this way.

After printing money continuously, the money in the hands of farmers finally increased a lot. After the price of books was further reduced, the years of compulsory education increased to nine years, and the study of the whole nation was finally fully realized.

Nowadays, under the premise that the difficulty of the exam remains unchanged, the number of children is increasing, and it is finally worthless. Even if it is related, it cannot be a minor official. Only scholars can start with minor official.

As for wanting to become an official directly, the threshold is even higher, and you must be a juren.

There is no way, there are too many scholars. Even if the educational resources that ordinary people enjoy cannot be compared with wealthy families, the base of ordinary people is too large. Even if only one genius appears among the ten thousand ordinary people, one accumulation of them is enough for the children of aristocratic families to be unable to bear it.

In front of the rapidly expanding official backgrounds of ordinary people, the previous cabinet faction and the Shangshu faction have all become one faction.

Of course, Xiong Yan took action secretly and then took action with a slap in his mind. The power among the civil servants of the court was temporarily balanced.

The noble families relied on their resources to occupy a high position, but the bottom was occupied by more and more mud legs, with many geniuses.

In addition, Xiong Yan, the emperor who was staring at him in secret, was in balance with each other.

"At this moment, Gu finally has some choice. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how powerful you are, you don't have the right to choose, it's meaningless."

Some people say that I am a high-ranking official, and I can decide the life and death of thousands of people with just one policy, so I am very happy and I am very happy. But the question is, do you have the right to choose?

Some people say, I am a genius, I have been the number one in the class since I was a child. I started learning foreign languages ​​when I was three years old, and I started learning quadratic equations when I was four years old... I am only twelve years old this year, and I am already the top scorer in the college entrance examination. I am a super genius!

The same question asked, do you have the right to choose?

"With your strength and your current status, how could you not have the right to choose?" Lihua, who was standing beside her, said with a smile.

At this moment, Lihua had long become the queen. A hundred years ago, before Xiong Yan ascended the throne, she was the crown princess. Later, when Xiong Yan ascended the throne, she became the queen directly.

But unfortunately, so far, the queen has no son or daughter. In fact, not only her, but also other concubines, but also have no son or daughter so far.

Of course, the problem is not with these concubines, but with Xiong Yan.

Xiong Yan is too strong. If you want to have a son, the concubine must be very strong, and at least she must be a true immortal.

If you are not even a true immortal, it will be difficult to get pregnant. This is an objective condition.

In addition, as an ancient man, it is not so easy to have a son. Without damaging the foundation, the right time, place, and people must be complete in order to give birth to descendants with powerful concubines.

This is why many ancient people have no descendants.

"I seemed strong before, but I still had no choice. Most of the civil servants who govern the world came from aristocratic families. Even if they were not aristocratic families, they would quickly become aristocratic families after becoming an official."

"At that time, even if I found an opportunity to properly and legally eliminate several ministers, it would have no meaning. The newly promoted family was still the aristocratic family."

As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. A person’s style of behavior usually depends on where he stands.

As a noble family or the first generation of noble family heads, some may occasionally betray their own class, but they are the minority after all. This is why Xiong Yan has always maintained a small and transparent state before.

If he really wants to manage it, of course he can control it, but the effective time is limited.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, when he was alive, he fought with corrupt officials all his life and finally had some effect. But as soon as he died, he was counterattacked. His efforts during his lifetime were completely useless.

This change with a very short effective time is useless. If there are too many times, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below, it may be completely useless.

"But now, ordinary people have really grown up. It is precisely because they have grown up that the aristocratic families are becoming more and more loyal to the court. This is not that they are really loyal, but that the situation is like this."

The general trend of the rise of ordinary people is already very obvious. Under national education, geniuses among ordinary people are emerging one after another.

The base is too large, even if the average probability of geniuses appearing is smaller than that of aristocratic families, the actual number of geniuses is still far more than that of aristocratic families.

Faced with this situation, if the sons of aristocratic families or the first generation of aristocratic families do not want to lose their power, the best way is of course to be loyal to the court and use the general trend of the court to suppress, win over and divide the geniuses among ordinary people.

"This is the general trend. Following the general trend can achieve twice the result with half the effort. A person who fights against the general trend will eventually be crushed by the general trend. With the printing of money and compulsory education, the rise of ordinary people is the current general trend."

However, playing with the general trend is risky. If you are not careful, it will cause trouble and kill yourself. It is normal.

The general trend of the rise of ordinary people in front of him was slowly cultivated by Xiong Yan for more than a hundred years.

Without Yicheng County, and without the original Yicheng County, one county would not be able to support one county with a province.

Without so many qualified teachers, compulsory education is nonsense! If you can’t even do compulsory education, then don’t think about the whole people’s reading, the whole people’s martial arts, and even the whole people’s immortality.

Looking back on the experience over the past century, Xiong Yan also felt relaxed for a moment.

It is not easy. Even though Xiong Yan has a profound cultivation and extraordinary strength, he still feels powerless when facing countless bureaucrats from Da Chu.

Even as the emperor and even if he is amazing, he can only kill one or some civil servants at best.

But at this moment, the children of aristocratic families have to be loyal to each other in the face of the threat of mud legs. Ordinary people must be loyal to each other in order to rise.

When all civil officials are loyal to the emperor, whatever the emperor says is what he says! Such an emperor will be happy to do!
Chapter completed!