Although in the past two years, the use of gravel, sand and stone to build hard or semi-hard official roads has replaced the old rammed earth official roads up and down the Ming Dynasty, these roads are still not very smooth, and the carriage ride still seems a little bumpy.

Wang Fuzhi in the carriage, looking at the scenery outside the window, seemed a little absent-minded, he only accepted the emperor's special invitation to enter the court as an official two years ago, before that, he has been teaching in the academy, in fact, according to his original intention, he preferred to return to his hometown to establish the academy, in his hometown to spread practical learning, but in the end, he still received the emperor's special edict.

Today he had to put aside the affairs of the Ministry of Rites and travel with His Majesty, as a chamberlain of the Ministry of Rites, he is now in charge of academic administration, but today His Majesty invited him to visit the countryside to visit social studies.

Wang Fuzhi is no stranger to social studies, social studies is just a place to teach people to read, write, and arithmetic, law and etiquette, strictly speaking, it is not a school, at most it is a place where the people can read. But even so, since His Majesty ascended the throne, social studies have been vigorously promoted throughout the country, in order to restore the situation that no one in the world was illiterate before Jiashen again. Even the reason for moving the capital was partly to raise funds for the establishment of a social science - the grain was used as a rice for social scientists. I guess it's to know the progress of the current establishment of social studies. Otherwise, an ordinary social school student would not have been able to let His Majesty go in person.

However, in Wang Fuzhi's heart, he has always wanted to suggest to the emperor to reopen the imperial examination - it has been two years since Xingqian, but the Ming Dynasty still has not opened the imperial examination, could it be that His Majesty is really unwilling to open the imperial examination again? The imperial examination, this is the way to advance for the world's scholars. Thinking of this, the expression on his face immediately became much more serious. Just then the carriage stopped. Soon one of the guards got out of the car, opened the door, and said.

"Wang Shilang, we're here."

After getting out of the car, what appeared in front of Wang Fuzhi was a courtyard that was not too inconspicuous. The plaque on the gate reads "Zhangzhuang Social Studies", but it is just an ordinary rural social science, and there is a social science like this in every village in Daming. After His Majesty ascended the throne last year, he ordered all prefectures, prefectures, and counties to establish social studies, and to visit famous teachers.

Since then, social studies have risen in the Ming Dynasty, and the prosperity of the social society has also allowed many scholars in the Ming Dynasty to find a livelihood. Of course, this livelihood is only temporary, and in the future, many of them will still go to participate in scientific expeditions, provided of course that the imperial court reopens scientific expeditions.

But when will His Majesty agree to the resumption of the scientific examination?

It stands to reason that after the establishment of the new dynasty, the first thing was to immediately open Enke and show grace to the world, so as to stabilize the hearts of the world's scholars, but His Majesty did the opposite and has not opened Enke so far.

At this moment, Wang Fuzhi saw His Majesty, and Zhu Mingzhong smiled when he saw Wang Fuzhi coming over.

"Wang Qing, although the road has been basically renovated in the past two years, it can't be compared with the asphalt in Jingshi. Even if there is a four-wheeled carriage, there are still some bumps, and there will be enough asphalt in the future, and when the time comes, the hard road will still have to be repaired, and Wang Qing will work the way. ”

After all, China's official roads have never been as smooth as they are now, and the reason why they are reluctant to abolish forced labor is because the renovation of official roads requires a large amount of labor every year, and once it is abolished, the improvement of more than 100,000 kilometers of official roads across the country will be a considerable expense every year. However, in the future, forced labor will definitely be abolished, but by that time, these official roads will also have to be turned into "highways", and toll roads in the 17th century were used to maintain the maintenance of official roads.

"Panic! Your Majesty has worked tirelessly to come here, and the ministers have no reason to work hard. ”

Wang Fuzhi hurriedly replied.

There are often only one or two teachers in the rural social studies, because it is the time for class, so when the two of them entered, there was no one in the rural social studies with only a few houses, and Wang Fuzhi, who was by His Majesty's side, asked quietly,

"How did Your Majesty know about this place?"

"Because it's the poorest here!"

His Majesty's answer made Wang Fuzhi slightly stunned, and for a while, he didn't know how to answer.

The poorest here!

Looking at these gray brick houses and listening to the sound of reading coming from them, Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"A while ago, I heard that in order to let students study, Mr. Sociology here not only took out his own rice to buy pen, ink and paper for the children in the village, but also deliberately took out his house as a social study, so I came here to have a look, which can be regarded as a private visit to Weifu!"

In the 17th century, it was still possible for the emperor to go on patrol, after all, at this time, few people knew the emperor's appearance. Just like now, Zhu Mingzhong's dress looks more like a gentry, and there is no difference between Wang Fuzhi and ordinary scholars.

"The kids are still in class. Then we won't disturb their lessons. And Nong, you are my Ming Dynasty's Xuezheng, you can tell me, when did this social science flourish? ”

Zhu Mingzhong looked at his surroundings and asked as he walked.

The Ming Dynasty originally did not have a position of study and administration, only the study of the imperial history, the Ming system to the imperial history of the Admiral of the two Beijing schools, one post each, and one additional person in Nanjing at the end of Wanli. His position is to supervise the two capitals and the county school of Zhili Prefecture. Zhu Mingzhong changed it to the Admiral Xuezheng and was concurrently served by the Ministry of Rites, and in his plan, the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites in the future would be shifted to education.

"Hui Gongzi, when Meng Yuan entered the Kou for decades, so that my Chinese morale is declining, morality is declining, so Emperor Gao in the second year of Hongwu issued an edict to run schools around the country, Emperor Gao once told the whole country "to govern the education first, filial piety to the school-based, although the Beijing teacher has too learning, and the world school is not prosperous, it is advisable to order the counties and counties are all schools, extend the Confucianism, teach the apprentices, talk about the holy way, so that people are getting more and more moon-changing, in order to restore the old king," after the eight years of Hongwu edict in the province, "the past into the Zhou world, the family is familiar, the party has an itch, so the people are all accustomed to learning, is filial piety and customs are beautiful." , now there are schools in Beijing and the county, and the people of the township community have not seen filial piety, it is advisable to have a division to change social studies, extend the teacher Confucianism to teach the children of the people, and guide the people to be good and vulgar is also "......"

Wang Fuzhi thought for a moment and replied, he chose the most correct answer - the original intention of Emperor Gao to hold social studies, of course, he did not forget to mention His Majesty.

"The reason why Your Majesty is so prosperous in social studies is also because of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Kou, which has caused my Chinese morale to be declining day by day and morality day by day.

Of course, this is also an official answer, and it is also an inevitability, after all, whether it is Emperor Gao or His Majesty, they are all facing almost the same environment, so they all choose without exception - to educate the people.

However, compared with Emperor Gao, His Majesty is more radical, and attaches more importance to the popularization of social science, according to His Majesty's requirements, the Ming Dynasty must achieve a village and a community, and must achieve "all households in the city who do not learn, and there are no people who do not learn in the family", only by doing this, can the Ming Dynasty be prosperous again, and can sweep away the Hu Feng in the world. In order to fulfill this requirement of the imperial court, the local government mainly promoted social studies by encouraging, persuading, and forcing the children of the public to attend school.

It is also thanks to this almost mandatory requirement, in just three years, the Ming Dynasty has realized that most villages in the country have built social studies, but there is still a certain distance from "all the households in the Yi are not learning, and there are no people who are not learning", but in Wang Fuzhi's view, at most in another three years, this goal will be achieved - at the same time that the grain is changed to Sheshi Lu rice, the imperial court and the government have also increased their investment in social science, according to the plan of the imperial court, 500,000 taels will be invested in this year and next year for the construction of 15,000 social studies in the country, Each social school will have 6 classrooms with the main room as the main body and 6 side rooms as the teacher's residence, office space, and library. Now the Ming Dynasty's emphasis on social science far exceeds that of previous dynasties, and even more than the importance attached to the imperial examination to scholars in the past.

"Well, the reason why my Ming Dynasty was able to sweep away the Tartar spirit was because of social studies, but you said, why is my Ming Dynasty's social studies going on and out of fashion, and it is difficult to maintain coherence?"

Through the crack in the window, Zhu Mingzhong can see that the students in social studies are of different ages, and not only that, but they also have different levels of learning, which is also a characteristic of social studies, because there is often only one social teacher in social studies.

"Hui Gongzi, in the next view, the reason why this is so, there are three reasons, one is that it is difficult to ensure the funds for running the school, the imperial court and the government do not have special funds to establish and maintain social studies, many social schools are simply built with abandoned temples and official offices, such as Chenghua Nan'an prefect Zhang Bi "destroyed the obscene temple, hundreds of districts, built for social studies." As for these two things, that is, although the imperial court has issued many edicts, it has not established a corresponding and complete assessment and inspection system for the implementation of social studies, and local officials lack specific methods for investigating the establishment of social studies, and whether the management of social studies is lax or not depends entirely on the officials' understanding of social studies. In addition, the rise and fall of social studies did not have a great impact on the political future of officials, so many local officials regarded this matter as a matter of last resort and did not take it seriously. ”

Wang Fuzhi's answer made Zhu Mingzhong nod his head in disbelief, but he knew that this was not the most critical place, listening to the reading of the students in the classroom, Zhu Mingzhong motioned for him to continue.

As for the third most critical, it is that my Ming social studies focus on moral education, attach importance to education, and set up teachers "not for teaching, but for children......

Suddenly, Wang Fuzhi seemed to know the answer, and the words in his mouth suddenly paused, and he seemed to have understood why His Majesty brought him to social studies, not just "sudden thoughts", but wanted to tell him here in social studies, what is the most important thing in the world now.

What is the most important thing for Daming?

Is it Kaienke, the grace of the world?

Of course not!