Seeing Liu Zongzhou holding on to the beginning of the question, Tianqi shook his head secretly in his heart, and he also felt helpless about this kind of person who had a habit of finding the root of things. Thinking that the problems currently encountered by the big iron company have been submitted to the Bo Academy and the Holy Academy, they should be able to complete the task automatically and no longer need to work their own, Tianqi decided to have a good discussion with Liu Zongzhou, and ♀ it is also good for people who are uncomfortable if they don't figure out something in their hearts, that is, as long as you convince him, he is a good helper, Xu Guangqi is a good helper in specific matters, and Tianqi also needs a person who can also worry about himself in the balance of the overall situation, and Liu Zongzhou is the best choice after thinking about it.

Tianqi looked at Liu Zongzhou and asked, "Lord Liu, what year is this year?" ”

Liu Zong's weekly account replied a little inexplicably: "Back to the emperor, this year is the sixth year of the Apocalypse. ”

Tianqi nodded and asked Xu Guangqi: "Lord Xu, on that day in the Bo Academy, those Taixi people said that they used their Jesus' birthday to mark the year, and what year should they say this year?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "It should be 1626. ”

Apocalypse nodded and said, "Very well, I understand why the Tessians know more than we do based on this matter, because after they take a time as a benchmark, they don't overturn it repeatedly and just add it up." If you think about it, every time we change the emperor, we have to change the era name, and some emperors have to change several era names when they are in power, and changing the era name has the meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, which means that the idea of governing will change with the change of the era name. In order to prevent this situation from continuing, I put forward the idea that the governance of the country should carry forward the past and forge ahead of the future, and the past, present, and future must be managed. ”

Xu Guangqi also nodded at this time and said: "What the emperor said is very true, that Deng Yuhan said that he graduated from the University of Padua, and the minister asked him what the University of Padua was, whether it was similar to the academy of the Ming Dynasty, and he said that the school has existed for one or two hundred years, which is incomprehensible. ”

Apocalypse said: "Yes, other people's schools have existed for a long time, so the accumulation and inheritance of knowledge are relatively good. It's like repairing a house, we always overturn the foundation of our predecessors and start over, thinking that our own is the best, so that no matter how capable people are, they can't build a few floors. If we do not have the habit of unconditionally overthrowing the foundation of our predecessors, and each generation consciously does things on the basis of the previous generation, and we also have the consciousness of acting as the foundation of the next generation, so that we will inherit the past and open up the future for thousands of years, and our knowledge of the Ming Dynasty will not necessarily be worse than that of the Taixi people. ”

Gao Panlong also smiled bitterly at this time: "When the emperor talked about repairing the house, he reminded the minister that in the matter of repairing the house, our ancestors also had the habit of unconditionally overthrowing their predecessors√ King Su used seven years to build Lutai, and King Su died and Lutai was destroyed; Qin Shi Huang built the Afang Palace, and the overlord of Chu set fire to it. Later, in order to achieve certain purposes, it was even more common to burn the houses of our ancestors, and there were several fires such as Luoyang, Puyang, and Xinye in the Three Kingdoms alone, which shows that our ancestors did have the habit of unconditionally overthrowing the foundation of their predecessors as the emperor said. ”

Tianqi said: "Whether it is an academy or a burning house, it is just a small problem, and in such a major matter as governing the country, our ancestors did not have a good habit of accumulating the experience of their predecessors, and always thought that their own things were the best, and other people's were not very good." Just like Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng and others' views on governing the country such as the Qingmiao Law and the Kaocheng Law, why did they get implemented when they died? Even if there are shortcomings to make up for the use, it is better than a total denial, people are unconditionally accepting, people go unconditionally denying, which shows that we do not have the consciousness of inheriting the past and opening up the future, so I want to gradually advocate these views, so that the Ming Dynasty will continue to accumulate and carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future. ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while and said: "The emperor's words are very reasonable, and it may not be realistic for the minister to fix the era name like the Taixi people, so it is better to take its essence." ”

Tianqi was very happy to see that Liu Zongzhou agreed with his point of view, and thought that in this way, he could let go of some annoying things. Speaking of psychology, Tianqi himself thinks that he is a lazy person, and he doesn't want to go to the court to approve the chapter, so he asks King Xin to do it for him, and he only processes it in batches every ten days, except for major events, of course. I didn't want to worry about trivial matters such as preparing grain and grass for the troops, so I let Sun Chengzong, who was very trusting, do it, and I just asked people to copy it and send it out, saving trouble and worry. Later, I found that there were many troubles in the administration of officials, so I asked Gao Panlong and Yang Lian and other Donglin Party members to do it, anyway, they were loyal and interested in doing it, and they only needed to see it every ten days.

Later, Tianqi found that the specific affairs were very complicated, and people who really knew how to do it were needed to give the right and feasible methods, instead of being a nerd who had read for decades and thought that he was making random ideas, and he chose Xu Guangqi, and let this person with more miscellaneous studies form a doctoral college to provide guidance for the specific implementation of various affairs in the DPRK and China. Instead, he was able to find the key to make a decision immediately, which even King Shin praised and thought that it saved him a lot of trouble.

In order to deal with specific affairs, the Bo Academy took ideas, and when carrying out macro planning, Tianqi was ready to gradually hand over to Liu Zongzhou's Holy Academy, and most of the academy were old ministers, experienced and loyal, and they were originally the best candidates, who knew that Liu Zongzhou would not be able to enter the role, and every time there was something, he either couldn't help or was entangled in the details, which made Tianqi very helpless. At first, I thought that Liu Zongzhou was not worthy of the name, but after careful observation, I realized that Liu Zongzhou confused himself with doing specific affairs, and he did not find the right position. So the apocalypse reminded Liu Zongzhou from different events, and today it seems that he has gradually understood the role he should play in the future.

Sure enough, once Liu Zongzhou understood that the Apocalypse was to let the Holy Academy consider the problem from a macro perspective and grasp the overall situation, he immediately put himself in the right position, and when he said that the Apocalypse should not only manage the present but also consider the past predecessors and future descendants, Liu Zongzhou made several good suggestions.

Liu Zongzhou said: "Your Majesty, according to what the emperor said, the ministers should not only consider the ideas of the imperial court, but also try to meet the wishes of the people, and prepare to set up a special place for equal dialogue in the holy academy. In order to satisfy the ideas above and below, it is necessary to know what the upper and lower levels are thinking, but if you want your boss and subordinates to openly say what you really think, it is probably not easy for you to be afraid of your superiors, and it is a common problem for people to be afraid of your superiors, and few people can keep telling the truth under the pressure of your superiors, so the minister suggested that a place for equal dialogue should be set up in the holy academy. ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "Lord Liu's move is very good, there is no distinction between big and small officials when expressing opinions, and there is no distinction between more money and less money, only right and wrong, but unfortunately many times now there is no money and it is not true, the official level crushes people to death□ it is a good thing for adults to set up a place for equal dialogue, after going back, think about the specific regulations, and give it to the newspaper after thinking about it, especially to make the dialogue process reflect one' If you can't tell the truth, a place for dialogue on an equal footing will become a place for subordinates to curry favor with their superiors. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "The emperor can rest assured that the minister will never let the dialogue on an equal footing become a formality, and in order to prevent one side of the dialogue from being afraid of the other, the minister is ready to let someone with a higher status than them preside over it, so as to ensure that everyone tells the truth." ”

Liu Zongzhou means that when the two people in the dialogue have different statuses, let the person with a higher status preside over the guarantee of justice, which seems reasonable, but in fact there are still shortcomings. The purpose of dialogue on an equal footing is to allow people to tell the truth, and then to compare who is right and who is wrong by telling the truth, so that what is right and what is right can exist in a reasonable way to formulate policies ♀ may exist on both the strong side and the weak side, and the moderator is biased towards no one. Even if the host remains neutral and does not favor anyone, everyone tells the truth, who dares to guarantee that the stronger party will not hold a grudge and take revenge on the weaker party in the future?

Tianqi thought for a moment and said, "Lord Liu's idea is good, but it's not perfect, so I have a suggestion, if one of the two sides of the dialogue thinks that direct dialogue will affect him, he can allow someone to talk or debate instead." For example, between superiors and subordinates or between relatives and neighbors, for some entanglements need to be argued, and both parties are embarrassed to go directly to the court to fight a lawsuit, so they find a lawyer to go to the court to theorize instead of themselves. ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while and said, "The minister can write down the emperor's suggestion and let the people in the Holy Academy discuss it." The second suggestion of the minister is to run new schools in various places, just like the Deng Yuhan that Lord Xu said at the beginning, their Taixi school can make knowledge continue to accumulate and pass on from generation to generation in the school, and we can also run such a school ♀ in the Ming Dynasty is also for the emperor's view of carrying forward the past and forging ahead into the future, what is the direction of our ancestors? What kind of life our children and grandchildren need needs needs more people to answer, which is first of all to make more people gain knowledge, and what a few people say is not representative. ”

Liu Zongzhou's idea of running a school in the country is too shocking, there are very few people who read in the Ming Dynasty now, and reading and literacy is a fashion that only a few people can afford to play, and most people are illiterate and blind. It is a huge project to make people in the whole country slowly literate, and it is also a very dangerous project, because as long as people can read and write, they will understand many truths that they do not usually understand, and they will apply the truths they have just understood in their ordinary life. If what he understands is correct, that's a good thing, and if what he understands is a plausible fallacy, it's going to be troublesome.

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "The matter of running the school should be slowed down, at least until you, Lord Liu, have not figured out how to stop the spread of heresy." ”