The twelfth year of Chongzhen is almost the first year of system construction under Liu Ximing's system.

After returning to Beijing, Liu Ximing discussed with Huang Zonghui, Du Liangji and others at night, and formulated many systems, which could be promulgated by the Luzon General's Mansion in May of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

In order to further standardize the official system, Liu Ximing also carried out a major reform of the education system after referring to the opinions of many parties.

Since then, all those who want to enter the military system must pass the imperial examination to qualify.

Of course, this imperial examination is not another imperial examination.

In Liu Ximing's system, the general's government set up three levels of schools, namely township school, county school and government school, corresponding to primary school, junior high school and high school respectively.

Those who have completed the nine-year township school and county school education and passed the examination are called Tongsheng, and those who have completed the three-year government school examination are called Xiucai.

After the school, you must enter the Taixue school for five years, and if you graduate, you are called a lifter.

After being promoted, if you want to engage in politics, you can apply for the Guozijian examination, and after graduation, you can obtain a Jinshi degree and directly serve as an official.

Of course, people can also apply for the official selection examination without taking the jinshi examination.

The difference is that the Jinshi Conferral Officer is directly awarded to the eight officials, and after working for a period of time, they can be transferred to the Jiupin Administrative Officer or Affairs Officer.

On the other hand, the promotion can only start from nine officials, and the promotion is much slower.

If you don't want to go into politics, you can also engage in a career freely, and if you want to study science and technology, you can apply for each Taixue graduate school separately, and after graduation, you will be called a doctorate.

Regarding education, Liu Ximing still agrees with Uncle Mao's understanding.

Therefore, in his regulations, the semester for lifting people should be five years, the first year of which should be assigned to work in the countryside or in the factory, otherwise such high-level intellectuals would easily be ignorant of human suffering.

On the night of May 17, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, in the Fengtai Inn in the port area of Qianzhou City, Morales was writing hard under the bright whale oil lamp, and his face was full of excitement.

"Dear Fernando, at this moment I am writing to you in the Philippines, thousands of miles away, which was originally a Philippine colony of the Empire, but has now been replaced by a regime called the General's Mansion of Luzon."

"Forgive me for using the word regime to describe it, because neither the use of force nor the armed force can describe its greatness as far as I can see, although neither Bishop Reyes nor Lieutenant Colonel Carlos think so."

"In their eyes, it is a place of evil, with God's curse flowing. However, it seems to me that it is a beacon of civilization in the world, and you can never believe what I see here. ”

"Needless to say, the tall walls, the neat streets, the people who are richly dressed and full of laughter. Even the place where we stayed called the inn was so clean and tidy.

"The most important thing is that the literati are the rulers of the country instead of the aristocracy, can you believe it, people do not need to rely on blood, they only need talent and morality to hold official positions, God is above, this is a miracle."

"According to an official document from the Luzon General's Office that I have just obtained, it is unimaginable in Europe that every person with a certain level of education can use his or her skills to obtain an official position and thus obtain a decent income in the government department."

"It is said that this system, which they called the imperial examination, has been practiced in the East for nearly a thousand years, and God is above, and such a great system has eclipsed the whole of European civilization in the face of its light."

"In addition, people here generally do not have a single religion, they worship their ancestors more, but unlike the barbarians in places like Africa, people here choose their beliefs very rationally."

"On their altars, all of them are ancestors who have made great contributions to their own nation or who have performed very well in their morals, although they are not taught by religion, but I have reason to believe that it is through such worship that they have fulfilled all the tasks that religion can accomplish, and there is no negative effect of religion."

"Forgive me for my lack of piety, but you know, as a scholar, I am more interested in research than in prayer, and all this makes me so anxious to meet their general, my Excellency, who I have reason to believe should be at least a learned duke."

"It is said that they are from a place called China in the north, and I hope that I will be able to visit it for myself in my lifetime, and I enclose some translated documents that I hope will be useful to your research, your friend, Morales."

Next door to Morales, in the same two large wooden rooms painted with white putty, Bishop Reyes and Lieutenant Colonel Carlos were also writing letters to distant partners or superiors.

However, in Reyes's letters, Luzon has been labeled a heretic, and judging from the experience of Bishop Melcho, what the General's Mansion did was nothing short of a blasphemy against God.

The Roman Church would either abandon the land or support the Spanish king in his conquest, but Reyes's letters were sad when he thought of the thousands of miles of journey and the strength of Luzon's army.

As for Carlos, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, who was originally quite radical, is now a little sluggish, and his words are full of pessimistic arguments.

Since watching a flag-raising ceremony in Qianzhou City early in the morning and the regular training exposed by the Flying Bear Brigade, Carlos has no longer had any illusions about the empire recovering this side of the land.

"They have better weapons than we do, and the kind of six-inch guns that they have in their fleet are even more powerful than our 48-pounder guns."

"Their soldiers are not inferior to the elite of our country, these days, as far as I have observed, their training methods are unheard of, the intensity of training is far greater than that of our country, and they do not have a rule that only nobles can serve as officers, and ordinary soldiers can also be promoted to generals, so the morale of the soldiers is very high."

"Now my concern is not the loss of Luzon, but the question of how long the islands like Medan can hold on. However, I have reason to believe that the reason why the Luzon people did not attack Medan was probably to secure trade with us, so this can be regarded as good news. ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, I request to remain in Luzon for a certain period of time, and although they are keeping all the advanced technology secret, I believe that there will always be a time when I will relax, and that will be when I will dedicate myself to the Empire."

No one cared about Morales and the others except the spies of the military bureau, because by May 20, something even more exciting had happened.

After several days of delay, the specific reports about Cebu and other places were finally placed on the desks of Prime Minister Su Jin and General Governor Chen Yiding, and they were relieved to find that the Spaniards had only brought reinforcements of more than 700 troops.

In this way, the Northern Expedition could be carried out.

On May 20, under the leadership of Su Jin and Chen Yiding, all the Fubo Division held a swearing-in meeting on Victory Square, and walked out of Nanhua Gate to board the battleship in accordance with the way of military parade.

In addition to the personnel defending Luzon, 6,000 soldiers of the Fubo Division, together with 2,000 soldiers of a battalion of the Flying Bear Brigade, drove 3 third-class battleships, 10 cruisers, captured Karak medium battleships, 21 frigates and other small warships all the way to the north.

After Liujia Shipyard came to Luzon with Su Jin and Chen Yiding, it was directly expanded on the basis of the original Spanish Shipyard.

Although the construction of battleships was not as convenient as in Liujiacun because of the timber, the wealthy Luzon General's Mansion still directly built 2 cruisers and 5 frigates in more than 8 months.

The strength of the Fubo Division was further expanded.

The Northern Expedition will briefly repair the city of Kunzhou, the northernmost part of Luzon, and then go straight to Taiwan.

On the first day of June, the fleet led by You Degao and Zhao Jingyong had already marched to Taitung, southeast of Taiwan, which was called Dingzhou by Luzon.

In order to seek good fortune, Su Jin connected the names of these places to the word Qiankun Ding.

Here, in order to support the attack on Taiwan, the General's Mansion had built a small fortress in advance, stationed with a Qu 120 soldiers.

Don't look at the small fortress, it is enough for Taiwan at the moment.

Because at this time, the Dutch and Spaniards built only such small fortresses on the island of Taiwan.

For example, in northern Taiwan, where You Degao and others were about to attack, the Spaniards built several strongholds such as San Salvador, Santo Domingo, Fort Guard, Fort Evacuation, and Fort Barrel Fang in Jicoop and Tamsui, but the total number of troops was only more than 300 people.

It is conceivable how big these cities can be, the largest such as Santo Domingo City, the circumference is only about 400 meters, which is why You Degao calls it a local chicken tile dog.

In contrast, the strength of the Dutch in Taiwan was much stronger, and the number of troops in Lanza City and Chichicheng City was maintained at about 1,200 all year round, and it was increased to 2,800 when Guo Ye attacked Taiwan twenty years later.

However, it was just these people who forced the 25,000 soldiers to lose a small half of their troops, which shows the gap between the firearms unit and the cold weapons unit.

None of this was a problem for the Luzon army, and after resupplying at Dingzhou and avoiding a storm, the fleet marched north along the coast of the island of Taiwan on the fourth day of June.