When Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, has the heart to do something, then this matter must enjoy the highest priority.

In almost a few days, the Cabinet prepared a draft of the plan and site selection for the establishment of the school, including the size of the first batch of students.

Each of the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang has built a children's school and a young school, and Nanjing, Nanchang, and Hangzhou have each built a youth school.

The enrollment threshold for children is under 12 years old, and the maximum number of students is 300; The enrollment line for young students is over 12 years old and under 15 years old, and the number of students is also 300; For the time being, the youth school is not open to the private direct recruitment, all Confucian students who have been recommended by the provincial government and county teachings can go to the provincial capital with a voucher to enroll, as long as they are under 30 years old, 15 years old or older, and there is no limit to the number of students. Finally, no matter how many school-age children you have in a school-age household, only one child can enjoy free schooling, even if you want to spend money to send your child to school.

As for why there is this third article, it is specifically for the first two.

In the early days of the later generations, there was a phenomenon of corruption, called driving a Mercedes-Benz to receive a subsistence allowance.

In the same way, the vast majority of the first batch of students enrolled in government-run schools will definitely be powerful landlords in the local prefectures and counties, although their children are already literate and literate, but they can always save them a sum of money for tutoring.

Moreover, as long as anything is put in front of an official office, then in this period in ancient times, the people will rush to it, and people want to see it.

In this year, it is inevitable that there will be many children in the family with conditions, and there are naturally different age groups, so they must make a choice.

Children's learning, young learning, and youth learning, these wealthy families can only choose one school to enter.

The heavenly family values the eldest son, and the people love the child.

Although these landlords are not from the heavenly family, their furniture is rich, and the most important thing is naturally to cultivate a combat force that can help the family, so Qingxue, as the chief of the three schools, will become their first choice.

In this way, it can be regarded as making way for children to learn and learn less.

In the province, they overcrowded the places for the children of ordinary people.

There are more than 30 prefectures, that is, more than 30 schools for children and children. The plan is full of more than 20,000 students, a huge number that the powerful landlord class cannot digest.

Once the shelves are set up, all that's left is to fill them in.

Zhu Yunwen originally wanted to take the opportunity of this education to relax the defense of men and women so that girls could also go to school, but he was unanimously opposed by the four members of the cabinet.

The saying that 'women can hold up half the sky' is not what should be advocated in this era at all.

Women can be enrolled, so will there be equivalent qualification examiners in the future?

The officialdom of the pit is already limited, and thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge, and they are giving away the rights that have been exclusive to men for thousands of years, which is not good.

The cabinet will not agree, and the court will not agree, because the scholars of the world will not agree.

It's not a matter of urgency, don't make the place a miasma.

Although as long as Zhu Yunwen is willing, he can forcibly implement it, but it is all a disadvantage and no benefit, he naturally will not do it, and the cabinet is against it, so he will keep his mouth shut.

After this incident, Zhu Yunwen remembered the punctuation again, and this idea was unanimously praised by the cabinet.

There is no punctuation in ancient edicts, documents, etc., and if the sentence is not broken, if the sentence is not broken, then it will be read out as two worlds of different meanings, and it is easy to make a big oolong.

Therefore, when the ancients sometimes wrote the script, they would increase the pen and ink where the text should be stopped, for fear that the emperor would not understand it and understand the wrong meaning.

Punctuation is implemented for segmentation, at the right time.

After the pre-school affairs are discussed, all that remains is the teaching materials and the selection of teachers.

Choosing a teacher is the easiest, but there are hundreds of wandering students who are idle all day long.

Except for the cadre echelon of the center of Hanlin Xuezheng and the rest of the Hanlin students are responsible for teachers of different teaching materials according to their respective strengths, although there are still some places that are insufficient, and the local government can supplement them.

In addition, the military guard offices of the provincial governments selected several skilled martial arts instructors to serve as so-called military training instructors, and each school had an hour of physical training in the daily curriculum.

The matter of selecting teachers is easy to arrange, and the cabinet of teaching materials and the Hanlin Academy held a four-day seminar, and according to the requirements of Zhu Yunwen's four main courses, it can be regarded as a general direction.

Chinese culture is the most simple, more than 4,000 years of civilization, the literary classics are vast, the content from shallow to deep is selected, children can take the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and the like, and then from shallow to deep to "Tang and Song Dynasty Poetry" and other more relaxed entertainment literature.

For the less-studied Chinese studies course, it is necessary to extend some articles containing the thoughts of the ancients or deeper literary works, such as "The Book of Songs", "Chu Ci", "Spring and Autumn", and the Four Books and Five Classics, which are not liked by Zhu Yunwen but still represent Chinese culture.

The Chinese studies course of Qingxue, began to select some important celebrities in the history of the article, quotations collection, so that this group of students who are already half the size of the child can experience the deeper understanding of this article, the cabinet is currently planning to select Xunzi, Mozi, Han Feizi, Ram and other sages of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, as well as Cao Cao, Liu Xian, Chen Shou and other Wei and Jin monarchs. In modern times, there are Wen Tianxiang, Wang Anshi, Ahma and other famous ministers of the Song and Yuan dynasties.

In the current dynasty, there are more Emperor Taizu Gao and Zhu Yunwen, the current emperor.

The last two were added by Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, who brazenly asked for them.

And the lesson of mathematics made the Hanlin Academy toss and scratch its head for a while to come up with a catalog.

Liu Zheng's "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic Notes", Jia Xian's "Yellow Emperor's Nine Chapters of Algorithm Finegrass", Yang Hui's "Detailed Explanation of Nine Chapters of Algorithm", Zu Chongzhi's "Daming Calendar", Qin Jiushao's "Nine Chapters of Mathematics", etc., were all selected and systematically sorted out by the Hanlin Academy.

"Subtraction, multiplication and division, multiplication and square, multiplication and square, trioblique product, plus and minus square, pi ......"

Zhu Yunwen pinched this catalog of mathematics and nodded, in mathematics, ancient China was not afraid of Europeans at all, it can only be said that these things were used too little in the field of science in ancient times, and they were not used at all in major state affairs, to put it bluntly, that is, mathematics is a thing that cannot affect the development of the country in the eyes of the ancients, and it is not liked by the ancients, so it will gradually be put on the shelf.

"From shallow to deep, you should arrange according to the difficulty of learning."

Mathematics is the foundation of science and technology, but Zhu Yunwen is not a professional teacher after all, and he himself does not know how to teach systematically, so he can only be appointed to the cabinet and the Hanlin Academy.

"However, I only made one request, and I left a lot of heavenly mathematical knowledge back, which must be applied, and it is not in vain that our ancestors bothered to compile it."

Several people responded.

After mathematics comes the history, and it is also the easiest piece.

There is no history in children's schooling, and children under the age of twelve teach which subject to history. The history is thick and bloody, Zhu Yunwen has no intention of embellishing and beautifying, let alone erasing some history, which is the worst crime committed against the entire nation, and after death, he will have no face to see his ancestors.

"I have only one requirement for the history class, and that is to be pragmatic."

Zhu Yunwen's attitude is unswerving: "Right and wrong should not be judged by us, we are only responsible for sorting out and editing into a book, the teachers of the history course should really tell our children the original appearance of the history, as for how to look at the problems and events in history, let these children learn to think independently." ”

The lesson of ideology and politics is also relatively simple, and the children's semester is called ideological morality, which is nothing more than some small stories, small fables, etc., and the story of lying on the ice and seeking the twenty-four filial piety of the carp.

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, humility and courtesy. These are all things to learn when they were children, and stories such as the word forbearance were cut down by the Hanlin Academy.

The emperor didn't like to herd sheep, so they had to learn to raise wolves!

Because in the political class of the young semester, the first sentence on the title page is a sentence from Zhu Yunwen, the emperor.

"The size of the territory of the Ming Dynasty depends on the youth of my Ming Dynasty, and how big the heart of the young man is, how big my Ming is."

Since the beginning of the junior semester, Yang Shiqi meant to drink a lot of Zhu Yunwen's thoughts and many theoretical golden sentences in political class, and even the learning power and the dream of the Ming Dynasty that he just said a few days ago have been learned and sold.

Learning should start from the doll, and Zhongjun should also start from the doll.

Regarding the teaching materials, Zhu Yunwen followed the cabinet for two more days, and then it was roughly decided.

Crossing the river by feeling the stones, Zhu Yunwen is not a genius, he can create a systematic education system out of thin air, but there are examples of education in later generations, and he can always follow the cabinet, a group of smart people in the world during this period, to discuss together, or that sentence, later discovery, later improvement.

Governance cannot be idealized, and governance also needs to be idealized.

We can't just talk about coming up with a foolproof policy, and then gather thousands of people to meet together every day, and think about whether there will be this loophole, that loophole, and so on before we start to do it, and I hope that the whole problem will not be applied to society again.

Even so, is that a guarantee that there will be no problems?

When the time comes, the time is wasted, the manpower and material resources are wasted, and the matter returns to the original point: that is, after discovery, improvement.

In later generations, there was a central policy research office, a two sessions, and many national policies were implemented and then slowly revised and improved to adapt to society.

This is true for any country in the world.

Whether it is an idealized policy or a utopian fantasy must first be put forward and verified by practice, and if the problem is not big, then it can be completely improved and implemented.

Just because there is a slight problem, we can't be busy clamoring for mediocrity and ignoring it, and then abolishing and implementing a new one.

That's not governing the country, it's playing the house.

"Education is the foundation of the country, there are countless pairs of eyes in the world, and even the slightest problem will be criticized by people and the cabinet, so you must be cautious, and I must also be cautious."

A few people naturally patted their chests again.

Before they could digest this matter, Zhu Yunwen's next sentence made their faces change greatly.

"There are many things in the world and redundant, and I plan to add a new central official office in addition to the six deployment offices."

If you want to have a more efficient central leadership mechanism, you must start by splitting the six parts!

Zhu Yunwen was determined to split the six ministries and reform the central government of the Ming Dynasty.

He is a traverser, born to be an unwavering reformist, the power of the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty is too great, and too centralized, the centralized bureaucracy system will not ensure efficient execution, but will drag and stagnate.

At present, among the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty, the largest power and workload are naturally the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry.

The household department is responsible for the inventory of acres of land, household registration, the collection of various taxes, the management of the four government-run cities of salt, iron, grain and cloth, the summary of the output of various mines, the income of the main river transportation department, and the management of the salt and grain transfer department.

The functions and powers of a department of the household department are equivalent to at least more than ten central institutions in later generations, such a huge workload, coupled with Zhu Yunwen, the emperor's frequent innovation and new tasks, Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the household department, is about to be overwhelmed.

Busy, chaotic is the normal state of work, and therefore inevitably leads to a decline in work efficiency, which will directly lead to the administrative mechanism becoming sluggish.

The main responsibility of the Ministry of Industry should be the research and development of science and technology and the supervision of state-owned projects, rather than spending half of its energy to find auspicious land and build mausoleums for the emperor and his family. It is also necessary to set aside manpower to inspect and repair the tombs of the emperor's ancestors or the ancestors of his mother's family at all times.

In addition to the household department and the Ministry of Industry, the most idle thing in the current Ming Dynasty is nothing more than the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites.

The former has been reduced to being only responsible for conscription, while the latter is only responsible for sacrifice and diplomacy.

"The addition of a new central government office and the addition of officials is another huge expense."

On this point, Zhu Yunwen saw it very openly: "The places that should be streamlined must be streamlined, but don't be stingy with spending money where they should be spent.

Exhaustively, dedicated. These are the humerus of my Da Ming, since they can be loyal ministers, I naturally have to be a Ming Jun. You can't let Qing and the others die of exhaustion in office. ”

A few people naturally thanked Yunyunyun, and then began to discuss how to split the functions and powers of the six departments.

"The Salt and Grain Transshipment Department of the Household Department and the Cao Transportation Department were separated, and the two departments were merged."

The first one to be split is the Transit Envoy Division, which is the most erranded back and forth in the household department.

"The center has added a department of commerce and trade to be responsible for the operation and management of these departments."

Economic reform requires attention to business, so it is imperative to add a special department for the management of commercial circulation.

"The collection of commercial taxes should also be separated from the household department, including the tax collection departments of the four government-run cities of salt, iron, grain and cloth, and the two departments and offices within the authority should be merged to set up the yamen of the General Administration of Taxation in the center."

Commercial taxation is a matter of national basics, and once the tax situation is bad, the control and central authority of the imperial court will decline, which is what Zhu Yunwen values.

"The mining affairs of the provincial mines, including the supervision of Shanxi's government-run coal yards, were split up, and the Ministry of National Resources was added, which was managed by the cabinet."

The four members of the cabinet looked at each other, and Yu Xin laughed.

"In this way, Xia Yuanji will be a lot lighter in the future."

The Department of Transshipment and Taxation was separated, the Department of Commercial Taxation and Taxation was separated, and the mining and coal industries were separated, and the only thing left for the Ministry of Household Affairs to do in the future was to manage the provinces and the Officials Division.

How many acres of land and how many people have household registrations in each province, how much silver is deposited in the state treasury, and how much grain is stored in the official warehouse. How to plan the annual financial revenue and expenditure is the only job of the household department.

Clear authority will be more efficient.

"After dismantling the household department, let's talk about the Ministry of Industry."

Zhu Yunwen said: "The Ministry of Industry is in charge of national infrastructure and is in charge of research and creation. Things such as selecting auspicious places for the emperor to measure feng shui, repairing palaces, and the mausoleums of ancestors in various places will not be handled by the Ministry of Labor in the future.

When the palace needed to be repaired, the royal family paid the Ministry of Industry to recruit workers to do it.

In the future, after my death, any emperor who wants to build a mausoleum for himself will be borne by the royal family.

The ancestral mausoleum of the ancestral land of Fengyang is in charge of the Zongren Mansion and the Imperial Division.

The tomb of King Xu, the mother's home of Empress Xiaoci Gao, is the responsibility of King Xu's mansion itself, and the Ministry of Industry does not need to send people or receive money from the treasury to repair it.

The renovation of the mausoleum of the queen's great-grandfather is also the responsibility of the Guozhang family. ”

There is only so much for the state finance, and where it can be saved, it must be saved.

"The Ministry of Industry is the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, not the Ministry of Industry of my family, the money has to be spent on the blade, and the manpower has to be used on the people, all these jobs have been cut, how many miles of embankments and dams can be repaired every year? How many roads can be built and how many canals can be opened?

In addition to the filial piety of Emperor Taizu Gao, there is no second person in the world who is worthy of letting the Ministry of Industry bother to manage it! ”

Zhu Yunwen has emphasized many times that even if the filial piety tomb is built for a hundred years, he will not feel distressed no matter how much money he spends, because Emperor Hongwu is worthy of it, except for Taizu, no one deserves to let the Ministry of Industry spend the country's money to serve!

Several members of the cabinet were shaken for a while.

The emperor is really ruthless.

Separate the private affairs of the heavenly family from the official affairs of the state, so that the private affairs will have the expenses borne by the private individuals alone, and they will be completely separated from the state. No money? Then don't do it!

"The same is true of the Ministry of Rites."

After cutting the Ministry of Works, Zhu Yunwen followed with a knife and landed on the Ministry of Rites.

"The Ministry of Rites is in charge of sacrificing and receiving envoys and appeasing Fanbang, and the matter of sacrifice will not belong to the Ministry of Rites in the future.

The ancestor worship is operated by the Zongren Mansion, and this day, there will be no sacrifice in the future! ”

Every year, natural disasters continue to be sacrificed to the sky.

That's a fart!

Heavy rains, floods, earthquakes, and wildfires are all inevitable things, and if you sacrifice or not, you will still come.

Then what is the purpose of your sacrifice to the heavens? Emphasizing the ordination of heaven.

"Chen Sheng and Wu Guang said, 'Princes and generals, rather have a kind.'" ”

Zhu Yunwen's gaze passed, and the faces of the four of them changed abruptly.

The emperor's brain was convulsed again, how could he say such a sentence in a good manner.

"An Tongrong also said, 'The Son of Heaven is the one who is strong and strong.'" ”

Zhu Yunwen said these two words that were extremely taboo in the eyes of the ancients.

"Let the people be enlightened, and the people will naturally no longer believe in the so-called command of heaven, and will not believe in what is the unity of heaven and man, that is, the son of heaven.

Emperor Taizu started from a humble background and defeated so many big landlords, the reason is not because Taizu inherited the mandate of heaven from his old man, but because Taizu obeyed the people's will!

Because Taizu obeys the will of the people, Taizu is strong and strong! Therefore, Taizu won the founding of the world, and I am the Ming Dynasty.

I don't dare to say that there is no need for this, even if I say these two sentences to the world, will it be difficult to achieve the opposite of the whole world? ”

The people may be ignorant, but which of every general and minister of the Ming Dynasty doesn't know these two sentences?

Why didn't they make Zhu Yunwen's rebellion?

Because they know that the people's hearts are towards the court, and the hearts of the army in the army are towards the emperor, even if they take these two sentences to swagger through the market, no one will respond to them.

"A lot of things are actually very simple in nature, and you people complicate him."

Zhu Yunwen's fingers were empty, and the four of them laughed a little embarrassed.

"What emperors and monarchs are in the clouds, so that the people and soldiers can't understand it, thinking that they can't understand it, they will be afraid and afraid, you must know that once they can't eat enough, nothing is terrible in their eyes!

And as long as they are fed, whoever touches their rice bowl, they will fight with whomever they want. ”

Such a simple truth is basically understood by anyone with a little intelligence, but there are still a small number of people who advocate that once the mysterious veil on the emperor's face is removed, the country will be no country.

"The Ministry of Rites is only responsible for diplomacy, and the ancestor worship is handled by the Zongren Mansion, I don't need the blessing of heaven and earth, when Taizu is alive, Taizu is protecting my Daming, in the same way, as long as I live for one day, I will naturally protect my Daming!"

Replace the responsibility of heaven with man!

There is a matter of Jiangxi's flood fighting, and Zhu Yunwen has the confidence to say this.

Whoever is in the position of emperor will have to bear the responsibility of this position!

"As for the establishment of education, it is not under the responsibility of the Ministry of Officials or the Ministry of Ceremonies, but the Ministry of Education has been added, which is under the direct leadership of the Cabinet."

Zhu Yunwen said that he was also a little tired here, so he picked up the tea bowl and drank it all: "At present, that's all I have in mind, subdivide the affairs of each deployment office, each lead a stall, and take care of each thing." The cabinet is under unified leadership and is accountable to me. ”

Officials, rituals, workers, households, soldiers, and criminal punishment are the traditional six ministries, and then the newly established Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of State Resources, the General Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Education, the central yamen has changed from six to ten, and the power of the six ministries has been diluted, but the workload of the cabinet has increased a lot.

The four members of the cabinet thought about it carefully, and felt that it was good to dismantle the six departments, at least there were a lot more positions, the power of the outer court was diluted, and no department had the ability to independently influence the court or the emperor, so they were all happy.

"The number of departments has increased, and their respective responsibilities have been clarified, so the next step is to set a target."

Why did he dismantle the six parts, because Zhu Yunwen planned to add some pressure to them.

That's the government's work plan and performance indicators!

"From the sixth year of Jianwen next year to the tenth year of Jianwen, every five years the cabinet will come up with a detailed work plan to lead and supervise the work of all ministries and departments of the imperial court, and the cabinet and the ministries and departments will sign military orders to me! If it is not completed, they will be removed from their posts and return to their hometowns. ”

The four members of the cabinet looked at each other and smiled bitterly.