Chapter 247: Chapter 235 Reform, Reform, Reform!

"Without military merit, one cannot be ennobled; without being a noble, one cannot become a minister," they say. Had these words been uttered during the era of the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty, the speaker would have certainly been whipped to death. In the Ming Dynasty, where military officers automatically ranked two levels below civil officials, whoever said this would definitely have been condemned to death by denunciation!