From the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen to the thirtieth year of Chongzhen, in a full five years, the officials who were pulled out to peel the skin and grass and bring their families were less than a thousand in total.

This number is incredibly large on the side of the European barbarians, but it is pitifully small in the Ming Empire.

Because there are few villains in European barbarian countries and they pay attention to human rights and aristocratic preferential treatment, there are actually few corrupt officials who are really sent to the beheading platform.

The land area and population of the Ming Dynasty directly led to the extremely large number of officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the number of officials was so large that even the officials were unwilling to count.

The average number of 200 beheadings a year who were pulled to behead because of corruption directly made the officials begin to wonder if these goods had really changed their temperament - compared to the early years, tens of thousands of heads fell to the ground at every turn, and in recent years, they have been pitiful!

However, no matter how much you doubt, it is useless, not only the officials suspect that the officials have changed their temperament, but Lin Huanyu, the big head of Jinyiwei, began to doubt life, and once thought that Jinyiwei was in decline in his hands?

Different from Admiral Wang Guoxing's external Jinyiwei, Admiral Lin Huanyu's Jinyiwei part is internal, in addition to those messy and broken things, things like corruption among the investigating officials also belong to Lin Huanyu's department.

In the whole five years, not many corrupt moths have been caught, and the average year is only about 200 years, doesn't this mean that Jinyiwei is incompetent?

But the institution of Jinyiwei is very magical, it seems to be awesome to the extreme, but it has no thoughts of its own, and almost all of them are doing things according to the emperor's intentions.

Just like the famous Ji Gang, if there was no connivance and hint from Zhu Laosi, how dare the early Ji Gang be so arrogant? I'm afraid that I will end up like Ma Shun a long time ago!

In other words, if Emperor Chongzhen didn't instruct Jinyiwei to do something to frame him, Jinyiwei would be like a transparent person more often, in addition to silently recording what he saw and heard, they would not take the initiative to frame him.

This gave Lin Huanyu a headache, because if he couldn't catch someone, Jinyiwei would have no sense of existence, and Jinyiwei, who had no sense of existence, was still the Jinyiwei who could stop children crying at night......

Emperor Chongzhen didn't have a headache, and even had already expected the current situation.

What is corruption for?

It can't be just to mutilate the people, after all, there must be people with abnormal brains in this world, but those who can study and then mix into officials and pass the assessment of the officials are basically relatively normal - being an official is to be promoted and make a fortune!

From the early Ming Dynasty to the Apocalypse, corruption continued because the officials' salaries were so low that they were stretched to support their families, not to mention hiring a large number of officials and servants.

In addition, if you want to be promoted, you have to keep sending some ice charcoal and the like, how can you send silver if you are not greedy? If you don't send it, you still want to be promoted and make a fortune?

The reason why corruption continued in later generations is because the cost of corruption is too small, and it is not easy to punish the nine clans, and even the death penalty is not very easy to sentence, otherwise it will be a bunch of brainless people who come out and talk crookedly about human rights and democracy.

This problem did not exist during the Chongzhen period - first of all, the officials' salaries were greatly increased by Emperor Chongzhen, and the expenditures of the officials were also included in the treasury allocation, which were all fixed, and basically no longer needed the officials to pay for themselves.

In addition, in this era, except for Emperor Chongzhen who is the lord, the rest are all the people, so no one talks about human rights and problems such as boiling oil, and the corrupt will be killed.

Secondly, the promotion of officials is no longer determined by the promotion of Shangguan, but by the Ministry of Officials according to the Jingcha once every three years, so it is not even necessary to send ice and charcoal to the top for filial piety.

The most important thing is the existence of the Affirmation Pavilion, after the officials who died because of corruption died, not only did they die for 10,000 years, but they even had to be unlucky with the three clans, so the cost of corruption was too great.

The cost of corruption is too high, and few people in the officialdom are willing to risk corruption after killing their heads for thousands of years, so Jinyiwei feels a little idle.

What really made Emperor Chongzhen care was the population boom.

There are always some people who think that the rate of population growth is a normal curve, but in fact, in times of peace and when people are willing to have children, population growth is not a curve but a rocket that rises in a straight line.

For example, in the early days of the founding of the country, because the government encouraged childbearing and the people were willing to have more children, it took only 30 years to go from 500 million to 1 billion people at the time of the founding of the country - during which there were several wars and natural disasters.

The Ming Dynasty obviously did not have to experience famine, and the natural disasters slowly decreased with the passage of Chongzhen's seventeen years, coupled with the strong desire of the people to have children, as well as the prohibition of drowning newborns, the population has skyrocketed from about 200 million in Chongzhen's three years to 500 million.

No one expected that the population would grow so fast, and neither the deduction of the Central Temple nor the deduction of the Central Temple had predicted a population explosion of this speed.

There is an old saying in later generations that once the great difficulty is divided by the base of 1.3 billion, it will become insignificant, and in the same way, no matter how small the problem is multiplied by the base of 1.3 billion, it will become a big problem.

This sentence is the same in Daming, the difference between 200 million and 500 million is definitely not just a number, but the difference between heaven and earth.

The benefits brought by the population explosion to Daming are extremely obvious - there is obviously a reason for concentrating on big things, and without external troubles and those crooked patients, Daming can obviously concentrate more forces to do what he wants to do.

For example, all kinds of projects.

Not all projects are dangerous and deadly, and barbarian labor is not inexhaustible forever, and those relatively safe and relatively easy projects have been digested by the people of the Ming Dynasty.

As for farming, because the income from farming is not as much as the money earned from working, many people have begun to give up farming and work with various projects.

The court was also happy to see this situation.

After a large number of people ran to work, a large amount of land was vacated for distribution, and there was no such situation as no one cultivated the land as originally envisioned by Emperor Chongzhen, but a certain balance was maintained to a certain extent.

Except for a certain increase in prices.

Because there are fewer people who farm the land, although there is still so much grain, because there are more people who need to buy grain, the price of grain will inevitably begin to rise.

The most direct consequence of the increase in food prices is the increase in labor costs in workshops, which in turn is passed on to the sales of goods.

In fact, it doesn't matter if prices rise, the Zhongji Hall has already deduced the occurrence of this situation, because there is no market economy in the Ming Dynasty, so everything is still under control.

The only thing that gave Emperor Chongzhen and the court bigwigs a headache was education.

To illustrate with the simplest example, between the fifth and thirty years of Chongzhen, the textbooks of social studies were changed ten times, the textbooks of county and state studies were changed ten times, and the textbooks of universities were changed three times.

The reason is very simple, those bigwigs of the Ming Royal Academy combined their own research and proposed all kinds of theorems and laws, all of which were named "Chongzhen's theorem" and "Chongzhen's law", and then written into the textbook.

Almost every year, new theorems and laws are introduced, so that the bigwigs of the Ministry of Rites are picking their hair one by one.

Since these theorems and laws have appeared, the previous textbooks have to be changed, but how to change them? What content should be accepted for what age groups?

The price paid for crossing the river by feeling the stones is that the textbook will have to be rebuilt every three or two years.

The young Ni Yuanlu already had gray hair, and the professors of the Ministry of Rites, the Royal Academy and the Beijing University were almost all in pain and happy.

Emperor Chongzhen refused to put the word Chongzhen in front of various theorems and laws, and on the other hand, he proved the law of true fragrance of Mr. Wang Jingze, the tutor of human philosophy, with practical actions.

Then, the Ministry of Rites began to have a headache for social studies.

It's not that I'm worried about the construction of the social school, but the household department has rarely reached an agreement with Emperor Chongzhen on this issue, and has never been stuck in the budget.

It's the faculty that's really a headache.

The students who graduated from Jingcheng University were basically divided among other universities, and there was no surplus manpower to be assigned to state and county schools.

Moreover, the original talents and lifters are obviously no longer able to teach in social studies, because the content they teach can no longer keep up with the content of the textbooks, let alone the content of the exams.

The end result is that there are schools, there are students, and there are not enough teachers.

Brother Pingtou who crossed over didn't care too much about anything else, and he didn't even care too much if Da Ming would be defeated by his children and grandchildren one day, anyway, the current foundation had been laid for them, even if he was defeated, the meat would be rotten in the pot.

Emperor Chongzhen cares about education, just like later generations said, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and Emperor Chongzhen has proved his importance to education with practical actions.

Since the beginning of the fifth year of Chongzhen, in addition to the continuous allocation of the state treasury, Emperor Chongzhen's internal funds have subsidized nearly 10,000,000 taels of silver in education, which is converted into the finance of later generations, almost tens of billions of dollars thrown on education.

And the people of Daming also agree with this.

There are no fools among the people, and whoever really thinks that the people are stupid is the real fool.

Chao is Tian Shelang, twilight Tianzi Hall, there are thousands of Zhongsu in the book, there is a golden house in the book, and Yan Ruyu is in the book, these simple and straightforward words of persuasion have appeared in the Central Plains Hall hundreds of years ago.

Who is stupid, the current Ming Dynasty is the first choice to join the army, yes, but joining the army is not only required to be innocent and not as simple as a case record, as early as Chongzhen's 20th year, it has been required that the soldier must graduate from the county school.

This is simply the first time in the world, and history has never heard of any dynasty with such a requirement, but in the Ming Dynasty, it appeared so grandly, and it was so reasonable and legal......

After putting aside the mandatory requirements for joining the army, whether it is in politics or business, or entering the government to be some small officials, there are also requirements for learning, everything with knowledge is easy to discuss, what should you do if you are not educated, you can go to farm, you can do business, you can immigrate overseas, anyway, there is no hope of joining the army and politics.

Not to mention the university that everyone envies, the most basic condition for admission is to pass the state school exam, and then have the opportunity to enter the university.

Reading can change fate, and the real benefits are in front of you, even if there are no famous words of persuasion, those people who are not stupid at all are naturally willing to let their children study, even if they are willing to take money themselves, not to mention all kinds of subsidies.

Reading for children is almost an instinct engraved in the bones of the Central Plains Hall, and it can't be changed.

If you pull out all the halls in the Central Plains and compare them, except for the two dynasties of Mi Qing and Mengyuan, there is no way to say it, and the rest is counted as one, almost all of them.

Look at everyone is the five scum of the war, see that other people's good ones want to learn and learn and then become their own, dare to say that they oppose it will be buried in the soil, the dynasties are almost the same as a bird, there is no progress at all.

Thousands of years of history have brought the most valuable wealth to the Central Plains Tangkou is not history, nor is it any cultural relics and antiques, it is the emphasis on education, openness and self-confidence, and the kind of pride that as long as there are no problems in themselves, everyone has to bow their heads and kneel!

So when the social studies faculty began to show their shortcomings, the Ministry of Rites almost immediately blew up.

Cultivating scholars is actually similar to planting a tree, if it is not planted well from the beginning, it is difficult for the tree to grow tall and strong, and it is even more difficult to grow straight.

Social studies is a small seedling that has just been planted, which belongs to the stage of taking root and sprouting, and if there is a problem at this stage, the county school, the state school, and even the university will have problems.

Of course, the solution to this problem is also very simple, and Beijing Normal University came into being, specializing in training people to teach in schools around the world.

Even if these people can only go from teaching to the Ministry of Rites in the future, it still can't stop a large number of scholars from setting their sights on Beijing Normal University.

Because another consequence of the population explosion is the waste of knowledge, and those who simply read books have become worthless to some extent.

In addition to the problems of people's livelihood and civil governance, the military is also not worry-free.

Now in order to compete for the orders of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the two goods of the North and South Industrial Groups, they can almost beat people's brains into dog brains, and they will fight each other at every turn.

In addition to this, it is clear that the military's focus has now begun to shift.

Tsarist Russia had nothing to pay attention to, and the emigration to Siberia and those areas north of the North Mountains was a matter for the Ministry of Households, and had little to do with the military.

The official is now more concerned about the land that Emperor Chongzhen wants to bury.

It was sandwiched between the Mughal and Ottoman Turkey.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen has capricious capital, since Emperor Chongzhen wants to be buried there, it doesn't matter who belongs to the place now, it must be Ming in the future, anyway, he can't let his emperor bury other people's land.

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