Chapter 130: Change
General Spo Yoshimi was indeed a great talent, and when he returned, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu handed over the defense of this area of Hakata Bay to him. Spoyi will be fair and meticulous, even in the face of Imagawa Sadayo, his attitude is sincere and calm, not only caring for him, but also discussing strategies with him. With such a gesture, everyone also put their hearts at ease and worked together to make Hakata Bay impregnable.
General Spo Yoshimitsu is not an arrogant person, his rhetoric in front of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has another purpose in itself, that is, to dispel Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's illusions, he knows that after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu flattened the unruly daimyo, his ambitions swelled, and he was influenced by the "Mustang Tai Poem", and wanted to change the tradition of "one line for all generations" and become the new emperor, so he asked Emperor Komatsu to canonize his step-room Hino Yasuko as the mother-to-be, in layman's terms, that is, to the emperor to recognize Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as his stepmother as a godmother, then Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is naturally the emperor's godfather, Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu enjoyed the treatment of the emperor, that is, the emperor's father, in the court and in the rituals, and his sister-in-law Ashikaga Yoshitsu also enjoyed the treatment of the prince when he was in the court. And just now, the tatami mat on which he sat when he met with General Spoyi was painted with a green pattern that can only be used by the emperor and the emperor.
In order to achieve this goal, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu did not hesitate to accept the canonization of the Ming Emperor and called himself the "King of Japan", which was to rely on the Ming Kingdom for foreign aid, and to promote trade with the Ming State, in fact, to expand the influence of the Ming State in the Japanese State; In addition, in order to curry favor with the Ming Kingdom, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also sent troops to fight against the Japanese Invaders, which caused the dissatisfaction of some coastal daimyos, to put it bluntly, the so-called Japanese Invaders, which were raised by these daimyos, although the trade was also profitable, but it was still not as fast as robbing money!
From the bottom of his heart, General Spoyoshi does not agree with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's idea, but he does not object either, if it can be the best, if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter, anyway, the rule of the Muromachi shogunate has been stabilized, and it can be attacked and retreated.
In addition, there is another hidden worry in the heart of General Spo, that is, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu prefers his youngest son, Ashikaga Yoshitsu, although Ashikaga Yoshitsugu is a son-in-law, but he is only eleven years old. And the eldest son Ashikaga Yoshinori is twenty years old, and more importantly, Ashikaga Yoshinori has been given the title of "Shogun of Seiyi", and he has long been surrounded by some followers, of course, Ashikaga Yoshiji also has some followers, so there are often some things between the two, and after the trouble reaches Ashikaga Yoshimitsu here, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu often supports the younger son and reprimands the eldest son for being ignorant, which makes the eldest son very annoyed, and because of this, the relationship between Yoshinori and Yoshiji is not very good. As for their dispute, General Spoyi and the other elders are neutral and calmly observed, because Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is only forty-eight years old this year, in good health, and can live for many years, if Ashikaga Yoshimitsu grows up, and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is willing to let him succeed to the throne. It's just that by that time, Ashikaga Yoshinori will be thirty years old, full of wings, and it is not possible that there will be a tragedy of father and son cannibalism, alas......
In addition, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sent people to North Korea to support Li Fangyuan, and General Spo also knew, but he opposed forcing Li Fangyuan to be a minister, he felt that this kind of false name was irrelevant, and at this time we should work together to deal with a strong enemy, but Ashikaga Yoshimitsu insisted, and General Spo Yoshimi couldn't stop it.
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Capital.
After disposing of the case of the King of Chu and the matter of the expeditionary fleet, Zhu Yunwen began to implement the reforms that he had been thinking about for a long time.
First of all, the Ministry of Taxation was established, in charge of tax collection, including agricultural tax, commercial tax, salt tax, and also in charge of the customs collection of the General Administration of Customs, the first Ministry of Taxation was the original Ministry of Household Lang Tan Bo, he was in charge of the Bank of Communications, presided over the management of scientific research funds of the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture, and made remarkable achievements, so Zhu Yunwen promoted him to the Ministry of Taxation, not only that, Zhu Yunwen also set up tax offices, tax bureaus and tax offices in various political envoys, state capitals, and county seats, and in order to prevent tax resistance, a special tax police was also set up. In this way, the responsibilities of the tax department and the household department are more clearly separated, and the income and expenditure are completely separated, which helps to prevent favoritism and enrichment of personal gains.
In order to assume the responsibilities of the Ministry of Households, Zhu Yunwen gave the newly created Ministry of Agriculture such things as land management, persuasion of agricultural mulberry, scientific farming, and the promotion of new varieties and fertilizers, and so on, and the first secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture was Lu Zhen, the head of the Ministry of Households.
In order to improve the status of Dali Temple, Zhu Yunwen renamed it the Ministry of Law, and its chief official is still called Zhengqing, and the adjutant is called Shaoqing, but they have all been raised to a large level, and the Ministry of Justice Zhengqing has been promoted from the third grade to the second grade, which is the same level as the sixth department, and at the same time requires that all judgments of the Criminal Department must be approved by the Ministry of Justice before the case can be decided, and in other major cases, the chief trial is changed from the Criminal Department to the Ministry of Law.
In the end, Zhu Yunwen ordered the weights and measures used in the research of the College of Agriculture and the College of Engineering to be promoted to the whole country, for example, the day was divided into twelve hours, each hour was two hours, each hour was four quarters of an hour, each quarter of an hour was fifteen minutes, and each minute was sixty seconds, and at the same time, the self-striking bell carefully built by the College of Engineering was sent to all parts of the country to unify the time; For example, the length unit is re-defined, three feet is one meter, three meters is one zhang, ten meters per meter, ten centimeters per decimeter, ten millimeters per centimeter, ten silk meters per millimeter, and another 500 meters is one mile, and at the same time, the mold created by the Ministry of Industry will be sent to the whole country; As for the other volumes and weights, they have been set in imitation of later generations, and the temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall, etc. have been clearly stipulated to facilitate unified use across the country.
In order to fill the official vacancies, Zhu Yunwen transferred a large number of Jinshi and Guozijian students from the Hanlin Academy, resulting in vacancies in the Hanlin Academy and Guozijian, so Zhu Yunwen made a special decree to increase the number of Jinshi admissions to 500 this year.
In addition, similar to the reform of martial arts, Zhu Yunwen issued a holy decree to change the name of Guozijian to Taixue, and split it to establish the Imperial University, recruiting outstanding people among the talents and talents, and also accepting special enrollment for the children of the nobles.
Imperial University has four faculties, namely the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Technology, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Law.
And the Taixue left are Hongxue Confucianism, there are more than 30 people, they left some students as their own personal inheritance, which not only reduces their workload, but also improves their teaching enthusiasm, in addition to the teachers in Taixue, also need to regularly go to the main hall to teach the children of the royal family. In this way, Taixue became the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty, but it was very leisurely.
In view of the education of the children of the royal family and the children of the nobles, Zhu Yunwen accepted the suggestion of Zhu Chun, the king of Zongzheng Shu of the Zongren Mansion, and established Jianwen Primary School and Jianwen Middle School, only recruiting the children of the royal family and the children of the nobles, and stipulating that the princes who were divided into other places should send their heirs to Jianwen Primary School or Jianwen Middle School in Beijing to study, of which the primary school is seven to fifteen years old, and the middle school is fifteen to eighteen years old.
As soon as the decree was issued, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and they asked the emperor to cancel the request for the revocation of the title, and finally Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to change it to those who could not graduate from middle school for two consecutive generations, and the title was withdrawn, and the discussion barely subsided.
In the end, Zhu Yunwen secretly ordered Guo Ren, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, to mint silver coins.....
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There was a lot of excitement in the capital, chickens and dogs, but all this had nothing to do with Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, who had arrived at the mouth of the Han River on the emperor's orders and was preparing to board the ship and go ashore to patrol Korea.
On that day, the sun was shining brightly, and the seagulls were flying, and the crowd cheered.