On the days when he returned to Beijing, Zhu Yunwen spent most of his time wandering around the Ministry of Industry.

He the emperor attaches great importance to the innovation of craftsmen and technology, and the Ministry of Industry did not disappoint him as an emperor, since the 31st year of Hongwu Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, the Ministry of Industry has successively given birth to many novel technological achievements, in many fields to achieve zero breakthroughs.

But the technology that is really enough to achieve a leap in civilization has not yet been born, which is also where Zhu Yunwen has always been blocked.

Wei Junjun, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was beside Zhu Yunwen, and he was also cautious.

The emperor basically has to come to the Ministry of Industry several times a month, but the Ministry of Industry has not been able to show any achievements in research and development, and he is inevitably a little unable to raise his head.

Whether it is honeycomb coal or cement, they are all researched by craftsmen from the people, but Yu Hengsi of the Ministry of Industry, thousands of skilled craftsmen, none of them can make anything good that makes the emperor's eyes shine.

"If innovation fails, improve it."

A few years ago, Zhu Yunwen said this to Yan Zhenzhi, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry at the time, that if you can't invent any good things that cross the era, you can also improve them on the basis of the technology left by your ancestors, which can be regarded as a kind of progress and achievement.

"Lead movable type printing?"

Yu Hengsi would make a register every year, and as long as there were any novelty things made, they would be recorded in this booklet, waiting for the emperor to read them every month.

And this discovery made Zhu Yunwen stop looking at it.

The printing technology of the Ming Dynasty has always inherited the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the official technology is also inherited from the clay movable type created by Bi Sheng and the method recorded in Shen Kuo Mengxi's pen talk, while the copper movable type invented by the Korean State has been useful by the Ministry of Industry, but it has not been promoted on a large scale, let alone replaced the clay movable type of the official bureau.

Today, artisans who specialize in printing are inspired by the copper movable type, innovating and improving a new technology that is more efficient.

Movable lead type is supplemented by a letterpress printing press, which is far more efficient than clay movable type, and the printed font is full, the strokes are clear, and it is more durable than clay movable type.

"On April 16 of the fifth year of Jianwen, the reformer Zhao Liangsheng."

The register has a clear time and the name of the craftsman, and on this day, Zhu Yunwen was still cruising on the grassland.

It was rare to see the emperor stop, so Wei Jun whispered on the side: "The composition of this lead type is integrated with some other metals, which are extremely hard and very durable, and can be printed quickly and efficiently. ”

"Are there any records of experiments?"

"Yes."

Wei Jun responded: "Since it was put into use, it has been improved while trying it out, and a total of 50 copies of the Book of Songs have been printed in three months. ”

A printing press can print 50 books of poetry in three months, which is quite astonishing in efficiency.

The progress of printing technology belongs to the information revolution, and the most direct impact is that the transfer of knowledge will become cheaper.

"Since it has been verified in practice, then it can be fully promoted, and the government-run yamen of the provinces of the Ministry of Industry will replace the clay movable type with this lead movable type, and when the comprehensive replacement is over, tell me, and I will tell you which books to print."

The Chinese book library is so vast that it is naturally unrealistic to print them all at once, and the main thing is that there is no such energy at the moment, and Zhu Yunwen himself is too lazy to print those books that have little effect on the country at the moment.

The printing of books is the biggest impact on the traditional scholar gate valve.

In ancient times, a group of so-called celebrities with bad intentions advised the king: Do not make the people wise.

The clever deception of the king, saying that once the people are wise, they will shake their rule and question their authority, and their purpose is more to solidify class rights.

Their children can read and write as soon as they are born, while the children of the common people can only farm and become soldiers when they are born.

Then to govern the country, the king can only choose talents from among them, the gate lord class, to serve as officials, and this is the case for generations, without any choice.

Later generations often said that it was difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family, but they did not know that in ancient times, a poor family could never produce a noble son, and a poor family could only produce a rebel revolutionary party.

Why did Bi Sheng study movable type printing not be popularized in the Song Dynasty? The reason why the suppressed can only be recorded in "Dream Creek Pen Talk" is here.

The Song Dynasty was the world of the scholar class, and they controlled all the power of the Song Dynasty from the center to the locality, so they naturally tried their best to suppress the common people from touching knowledge, and cut off the hope of the Zhao Emperor to select materials from the people.

And at this point, Zhu Yunwen has long made it clear that the higher the people's wisdom, the more stable the rule will be.

The problem of literati being contemptuous is something in their bones, but if a person has a little culture, it is really contempt for the heavens and the earth, and it is the same class, even if it is a cabinet assistant minister and a cabinet official, in their eyes, it is just 'good luck'.

Brush to comment on politics, wine shop to govern the country.

In the future, the students and people of the Ming Dynasty may not even know where the Hanlin Academy is headed, but this will not prevent them from attacking the principles and policies of the imperial court.

When Xie Jin was summoned into the palace, Zhu Yunwen was buried in the middle of the case, writing and drawing with a pen and paper.

"I want to run education."

After nearly six years on the throne, the situation at home and abroad has basically stabilized, and all internal and external troubles have been swept away.

Educate?

Xie Jin was slightly confused, and he didn't quite understand what Zhu Yunwen meant, Daming's current education career has been developing very steadily.

There are lectures in the prefectures and counties, and local Shilin students have places to study, read and write and then participate in the provincial examinations and imperial examinations, and the central government also has the Hanlin Academy. Where does the word about education begin?

"The education I am talking about is not what we are talking about at the moment, and the students of Shilin in Fuxian County are looking for teachers and private schools by themselves."

Zhu Yunwen raised his head and threw a bombshell: "Instead, the government runs schools and builds a more mature education system, starting from children, from teaching and literacy to systematic knowledge impartation, until they grow up and participate in the provincial and national examinations." ”

"The Ministry of Industry has improved movable type printing, I took a look, the results of the experiment are very gratifying, as long as a large number of printing presses are made, hundreds of thousands of books can be printed in a year and a half, so I plan to set up education, first take Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Zhejiang as a pilot, government schools, recruit children over five or six years old, free education."

Teach for free!

Xie Jin was only shocked. He seemed to see a scene of thousands of children holding books and shaking their heads in a bright hall.

This group of children read "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names" for enlightenment, and then the picture turned, and this group of children grew up and began to read "Taizu Record" and "Jianwen Dictionary" again!

"That's why I called you here."

Zhu Yunwen glanced at Xie Jin, and found that the latter looked completely out of mind at this time, so he coughed dissatisfiedly, and the latter suddenly woke up and bowed.

"Your Majesty, but there is an edict, the ministers will bow to the best."

"Education is the foundation of the country, the so-called Yangtze River back wave urges the front wave, our generation will grow old sooner or later, the successor of the back wave must be smarter than us, otherwise the weasel cubs, a litter is not as good as a litter, how can the country progress?"

Zhu Yunwen knocked on the big case and said with a smile: "So I want to compile a set of systematic textbooks for this group of children, you are the editor-in-chief of the "Jianwen Canon", and I am the leading talent in the Ming Dynasty, I want to hear your suggestions on how to choose books for these children." ”

Xie Jin swallowed a mouthful of saliva a little nervously, he knew that his next words would affect the direction of the entire world of Daming in the next few hundred years!

The emperor has always had a lot of city government, and he has always had a lot of opinions in his heart, education is the foundation of the country, and it is impossible for Zhu Yunwen to summon him without any thoughts of drafting.

In this response, we must understand the emperor's preferences.

"The opinion of the minister should be based on erudition."

Xie Jin organized the language, and said carefully and sentencedly: "In the first Hongwu year, the students of the world were enlightened by the books of the ancient sages since they were young, and then read the four books and five classics, and practiced the eight strands of literature to participate in the imperial examination.

Therefore, it is no longer enough to only read the ancient books of the sages, and education should be cited on the side.

Young children must first be literate when they enter school. "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text" and so on. When the children are older, they will be supplemented with other books and lessons......"

Before Xie Jin's words were finished, he saw Zhu Yunwen raise his hand and immediately kept silent.

"My thoughts are a little different from Qing's."

Zhu Yunwen shook his head, the ancients were still too conservative and stubborn when talking about education.

"Qing said, left and right can not get around the Chinese culture, although the Chinese culture is important, but still narrow materials, I want to add new courses in addition to the Chinese culture.

Children should be literate when they enter school, and after they become literate, Chinese culture will only be regarded as one of the main subjects, and there must be special lecturers for mathematics, history, ideology and politics, and auxiliary courses, including craftsmen and soldiers. ”

The blueprint outlined by Zhu Yunwen for Xie Jin was magnificent and magnificent, which made the latter jaw-dropping.

"Four hours a day and in the school, just reading a lesson of Chinese culture is very boring, and it should be a combination of work and rest, and my Confucian students of the Ming Dynasty are powerless, emaciated and weak, and quite unmanly.

Therefore, appropriate exercises should be added to the daily curriculum, the six arts of the ancient gentleman and the swordsmanship of riding and archery, I think this is very good, take the essence of it, teach these children to strengthen their bodies when they are young, and when they are older, then teach them to play Ge horseback riding, archery and sword-wielding. ”

Physical education class and military training class, these two lessons are quite worth learning in Zhu Yunwen's eyes.

"The last two days of the tenth day of each month are closed, and one month of vacation is given every five months, just in time for the dog days and March nine, which is called the summer and winter holidays. And the day of going to school is from the hour, and it does not stop. The school manages a meal, which can be regarded as saving the people's people's manpower.

The people are bitter and cold, eat bran and drink thin, where can the children's body nutrition keep up, so we can't save the government-run schools in this area. ”

Xie Jin swallowed his saliva frequently, and it took a long time to come back to his senses.

"Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and you can also have a sacred heart and submit to it, but in this way, the cost is quite huge."

"I know."

Compulsory education is still in charge of food, and the people are not rushing to send their children to the school, and the population of the Ming Dynasty is tens of millions, such a huge base, and the financial expenditure of the imperial court is probably higher than the annual military expenditure.

"So I didn't say that I wanted to open the whole country, take my time, just the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi that I said earlier, only one will be built in each prefecture, and if the annual revenue of the treasury is gratifying, then it will be opened every year and done every year.

Ten years we can't do it in every county in the country, then twenty or thirty years, I believe that sooner or later, every child in my Ming Dynasty will be able to go to school and have books to read.

This is my dream, and it is also the dream of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the future, a peddler, pawn, and official will be more talented than the students of today's Hanlin Academy. Only by learning can we acquire knowledge, and only knowledge can strengthen the country and build a dream of the Ming Dynasty with me. ”

Learning to strengthen the country and dream of the Ming Dynasty?

The fresh words that come out of the emperor's mouth are always endless, but the feelings contained in them to help the world are also very touching.

Xie Jin hurriedly took a pen and transcribed it, and felt that a lot of knowledge points could be derived from these two words and filled in the "Jianwen Dictionary".

"Just according to my wishes, let the Qing people compile the teaching materials."

Zhu Yunwen summed up: "The four main courses of Chinese studies, mathematics, youth history, and ideology and politics are divided into three levels: children's learning, young learning, and youth learning, and children's learning is six years old to eleven years old, and young learning is three years from 12 to 14 years old, and Qingxue is three years from 15 to 17 years old.

After the completion of the youth school, I thought that these children could take the big exam, and then I would restructure the Hanlin Academy in Nanjing, as a university, these children passed the big exam, and all of them were admitted to the university for a few more years, and then they returned to their hometowns to participate in the provincial entrance examination. ”

Children's school, children's school, youth school, university.

The provincial entrance examination and the excellent ones will participate in the national examination, which is the promotion route planned by Zhu Yunwen for the future students of Daming.

"After the completion of the school, children can directly participate in the school, the completion of the school must have an exam, and those who fail the test cannot participate in the school, and in the same way, those who do not pass the school can not participate in the university.

Those who take minor courses can participate in the school of supplementary courses without passing the final examination of junior high school, and the same is true for the completion of youth courses. ”

Regardless of how many years it will take for his ideas to be fully implemented, Zhu Yunwen said all of them, first implement the education system systematically, and then slowly fill it in in the future.

"If you don't learn enough knowledge, it's okay if you can't be an official, it's not bad to learn a ship repair technique, otherwise you will learn how to be a soldier and fight, the world is big, there is always a place for them to show their talents, it's really lazy, then go home and farm."

If there are universities, it is natural to have technical schools and military schools.

Government-run schools are free of charge.

Coming through time, Zhu Yunwen's dream is to make this country one day everyone like a dragon!

Knowledge is a prerequisite for the big bang of science and technology, and knowledge is also a necessary foundation for a country to expand rapidly.

People need to learn all their lives, learn cultural knowledge, learn human feelings, and learn to do business and art.

There are many people who have not succeeded in studying hard, but at least they have worked hard, and it is not because heaven and earth are unfair, and it is not their own sin, but lazy people still want to criticize the success of others, that is the biggest mistake.

Zhu Yunwen is now giving everyone in the world the opportunity to be the first assistant and marshal, and whether it can be done depends on their creation in a few decades.