In Yingtianfu in February of the 19th year of Yongle, almost all the people were caught in the shock caused by the trial operation of the train.

Only two, or up to four, copper plates are needed to get on the bus and enjoy it. As a result, this four-car train, from the beginning of trial operation, has been extremely popular.

Many people don't want to travel at all, just to enjoy the fun of riding in the car, and take the trouble to ride again and again.

So much so that more than half a month has passed, and the train has not really taken on its due function.

It's not like a city train, but like a roller coaster in a playground.

The Ministry of Industry is also working overtime to build more locomotives and more carriages, hoping to put trains on several other lines into operation as soon as possible.

However, in the whole country, the biggest impact is the spring festival to be held in March.

As the only channel to change one's own destiny in the feudal era, the importance of the imperial examination is self-evident.

Many people in later generations compared the imperial examination with the college entrance examination, which is actually a big mistake.

Although being admitted to university can change one's own destiny, it is far inferior to the imperial examination. Because the imperial examination has changed not only its own destiny, but also the upward step of this rigid class positioned by birth.

In later generations, all the people were equal, but now there is a clear distinction between the peasants and the industrial and commercial classes.

Being admitted to a university only gives you a platform, but the imperial examination is to turn a low-level person into a top-class person.

The content of today's imperial examination is basically Confucian scriptures, with the "Four Books" text as the title, and the format of the article is eight-strand text, and the interpretation must be based on Zhu Xi's "Notes on the Four Books".

The Commentary on the Four Books is a collection of commentaries on the classics of the University, the Mean, the Analects, and Mencius.

Zhu Xi was ambitious as a young man, but because his political position and ideological concepts were contrary to those in power, his career was quite bumpy.

Not to mention his private morality, based on this book alone, he can indeed be regarded as a generation.

In Zhu Zhanji's view, many of his ideas are actually very backward, but in this era, no one can analyze the entire social level and relationship so clearly in the Confucian scriptures and meanings like him.

Zhu Xi's profundity lies in the fact that he placed Confucius and Mencius in the authentic sect, and at the same time sorted out the five elements of Yin and Yang of Dong Zhongshu, the views of Zhang Zai, Zhou Dunyi, and Ercheng, as well as the Buddhist concept of extinguishing desires and the philosophical and speculative spirit of Taoism, and carefully and meticulously constructed a profound Neo-Confucian system.

The shortcomings of Confucianism in terms of world view and methodology were overcome.

This also makes the doctrines of Buddha and Tao no longer shake it, and it will take the initiative to move closer.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, from the Mengyuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the trend of the integration of the three religions was actually the foundation he laid at that time.

For hundreds of years from the Song Dynasty to modern times, the "Records of Recent Thoughts", "Four Books or Questions", and "Notes on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" have always been regarded as orthodox.

This fully shows that Zhu Xi's concept is not only very compatible with the people in power and the patriarchal system, but also complements the structure of the whole society.

What Zhu Zhanji wants to break is the monopoly of Confucianism, but he does not want to subvert Confucian thought.

In fact, sitting in the position of the crown prince, enjoying the love of all the people and enjoying vested interests, how could he dismantle his own platform.

Therefore, it is Confucianism, not Confucianism, that needs to be changed.

Only Confucianism can support the cultural heritage of a vast empire of great unification and a common cultural sphere.

Taoism and Buddhism, although they have many profound philosophical thoughts, cannot be counted on because they do not have a cohesive system.

Zhu Zhanji now hopes that once they are clear, they will be able to come up with a more efficient and cohesive doctrine of truth.

He doesn't have the luxury of hoping to make a Marxism, and that's not realistic.

But as long as it can be used by the Ming Dynasty, break the Confucian prison thought, and conform to the teachings of the development interests of the Ming Dynasty, it is enough.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, the Yingtianfu Tribute Courtyard, which had been vacant for more than half a year, opened its doors to welcome guests after being cleaned up.

Nearly 20,000 people from all over the Ming Dynasty, including Cochin and North Korea, moved into the number room with their bags on their backs.

The triennial spring festival officially kicked off.

On March 15, when the Gongyuan held its last examination, Zhu Zhanji officially promulgated the "Order on Compulsory Service for the Children of the Honorable Scholars" at the court meeting.

The promulgation of this Taisun Decree was not easy, because since it was mentioned in the first month, it was opposed by many nobles.

Even Zhang Fu felt that Zhu Zhanji was a little too radical.

Although starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, several emperors have been very strict against military generals. But whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, they are all suppressing, co-opting, and supporting.

Only in this way can military power be stabilized.

However, Zhu Zhanji's current promulgation of this "Order on Compulsory Service for the Children of Honorable Persons" is aimed at all nobles and military generals.

Even Zhu Zhanji's most trusted nobles and generals now have a lot of opinions on this.

However, Zhu Zhanji had already prepared and took out the development of Nanzhou, Dongzhou, and Xizhou as bait.

Today's three places have long been regarded as golden treasures by the nobles, and they will be developed only when Zhu Di's class returns to the dynasty.

Who will develop? Of course, it's these nobles, the generals.

But can you leave these things to these gentlemen? However, with such an analysis, the opposition has weakened considerably.

At the same time, Zheng Neng, who returned from Beiming Mountain, was appointed by Zhu Zhanji as the commander of Yulinwei, who was responsible for clearing the security of the capital.

Zheng Neng didn't want to take this offended job. However, Zhu Zhanji did not allow him to shirk it, and took the post of governor of Samarkand to hang Zheng Neng.

Zheng Heng wants to be the governor of Samarkand, how can it be without paying a little price.

They became orphans, so that Zhu Zhanji could rest assured that he would serve as the governor of Samarkand.

Zheng Neng also knew that he had no choice but to act as the knife in Zhu Zhanji's hand.

Under his resolute actions, in more than ten days, he arrested more than 100 children who were bullying people in the capital. Some things that could have been big or small are now being judged heavily.

It should be a board to be beaten, a board to be served, a hard time to be served, and a prison sentence to be imposed.

And this time, it didn't work for anyone to intercede. Whether it is the son of the general soldier or the grandson of the national prince, all of them will be disposed of in accordance with the law.

Although he didn't kill anyone, it also made those gentlemen tremble. In just half a month, the atmosphere in the capital has improved a lot.

This time, no matter how favored the children of those noble families are, they also know that Zhu Zhanji is serious.

What's more, although they spoil some family members, they may not have the idea of hoping for their sons to become talents. Anyway, it's just throwing it into the barracks for a year or two of training, and this time no one will object.

After dealing with this matter, Zhu Zhanji temporarily focused on the child's education.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Zhanji's fourteen five-year-old children were all arranged to study at the foot of Zhongshan outside the capital near Xiaoling.

This is the ancestral mausoleum, and no one else can approach it, nor can they break ground casually.

At the beginning, Zhu Zhanji wanted to build a school for his children, but he was opposed by Lu Zhen.

However, construction is under construction here, and a polytechnic college alone covers an area of more than two square kilometers.

Moreover, the internal supervisor is also building a mausoleum for Zhu Di, and construction is being started everywhere. It was just a garden-style primary school that was built in such a big way, which was inconspicuous at the time.

By the time Lu Zhen found out, all the houses had already been built here. He has no choice but to do about it, the construction has already started, and he can't demolish the house, not to mention that the demolition will also start.

The area of this garden is not large, only three acres of land, and it is located between the front lake and Yulin Weixue at the foot of the mountain. In addition, dozens of acres of land are reserved by the lake. Now there are still few direct underage children, and when there are grandchildren in the future, there will be more of them.

What's more, there are only primary schools now, and there will be middle schools and universities in the future, so it is not possible to reserve enough land.

Outsiders were a little puzzled at first that Zhu Zhanji was not teaching in the palace, but when they saw that Dongying Crown Prince Akihito was also arranged to study here, they seemed to understand a little in their hearts.

In addition to arranging for Akihito to study at the Qianhu Academy, Zhu Zhanji also arranged a separate courtyard for Qiuzi on the shore of Crescent Lake not far from the south.

Akihito: They all take classes for three days in a row and play for one day. During these three days, all the children were not allowed to leave the school, and they were fed and housed.

If you are reluctant to be a mother, you can visit for a while at noon and evening every day.

There is no other meaning in this arrangement, and it is not to give the children a happy childhood, the key is to have an excuse for Akiko to go out often and send it to the door.

Zhu Zhanji, the head of this royal Mengxue, asked Lan Yan to serve as the head, because only she knew better what the school was like in later generations and what were the shortcomings of this school.

Because the children were still young, the fifteen children were divided into a class, and instead of being taught by the Confucians, the concubines began to teach them the alphabet.

There are only fifteen children in this Mengxue, but that doesn't mean that there are only fifteen students, in fact, the number of students here is more than two hundred.

It's just that the other students are already adults, and they are the palace maids in the palace.

At Zhu Zhanji's request, all literate palace maids who were over 30 years old but were not released must receive pinyin education.

In the next few years, Zhu Zhanji will open a number of new-style primary schools in Yingtianfu, and these helpless palace maids will be future school teachers.

As long as you learn pinyin, you don't have to wait for the death of the emperor or the amnesty before you can go home, which makes most of the more than 3,000 palace maids in the inner palace flock to it.

In addition to the palace maids who can be listed in front of the nobles, in the entire palace, the palace maids are even lower level than the eunuchs.

Their status is low, they have no human rights, not to mention the nobles, even the eunuchs can bully, and I don't know how many are killed every year.

Moreover, when they entered the palace, they were careless, and most of them were not allowed to leave the palace for the rest of their lives because they understood the obscurity of the harem.

Even if they are released from the palace in old age and decay, their father and mother have already passed away, and some brothers and nephews are pitiful and can still be worshiped until death, but more of them don't even recognize their relatives.

Many palace maids were released from the palace, and they couldn't live by themselves, so they had no choice but to ask to enter the palace and work in the inner library to make a living.

But there are basically young palace maids who have not entered the palace on the Neku side, and they work neatly, so they are naturally treated, and they are inconvenient with their hands and feet, that is, they are begging for a bite to eat and live.

Zhu Zhanji no longer respects women, but he has the idea of equality between men and women in later generations, so he naturally can't stand it.

But he is not the emperor now, and he can't be Zhu Di's home, so let's change the way and find a way out for these palace maids.

Those Confucian students could not have accepted Hanyu Pinyin at first, but they could. In addition to them, there are also those old eunuchs, as long as they are literate, Zhu Zhanji is willing to send them to be a Mengxue teacher.

Of course, the two hundred palace maids are not all, they are just some representatives, they have learned pinyin, and they will teach others when they go back.

These literate palace maids and eunuchs, as long as they are on the side of Tianfu, the people can accept them to teach their children, which is equivalent to accepting this way of education.

Three years, five years, ten years and twenty years, when the first batch of people who have received pinyin education grow up, they will naturally see that pinyin teaches literacy, which will be more effective than rote memorization.

But he hasn't counted it yet, since he uses pinyin to teach in the royal family, how can the common people not learn the same?

In this totalitarian society, his preference is what the whole country should like.

The textbooks for the first grade are very simple, that is, pinyin, picture literacy, and multiplication tables.

In addition to these, Zhu Zhanji also asked the harem concubines to compile a book of 100,000 whys, explaining some natural phenomena in the world and even big truths in an easy-to-understand dialogue way.

This is the best way to cultivate a child's curiosity and even exploration of the unknown.

Zhu Zhanji didn't think that all his children could become talents, but as long as he didn't lag behind, no matter what aspect he showed, it was enough.

There are only fifteen real students in this school, but the number of teachers is several times larger, and each child's personal eunuch and court maid also volunteer in the school, but during the school day, everyone obeys the school rules equally.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't help with education, but he built a playground in the school so that they could have a place to play after class.

Of course, it's inevitable to go out once in a while and steal something fishy.

In this regard, don't say that his concubines, even those civil officials, don't take it seriously, compared with most emperors, Zhu Zhanji's private morality is almost impeccable.

On March 18, the spring festival ended, and Zhu Zhanji's short leisure time also came to an end.

The next month will be his busiest.

The imperial court needs to select more than 1,000 jinshi from these more than 10,000 people, and he also needs to select some seeds from these people.

Now is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, not the end of the Ming Dynasty when there was a flood of talents. Therefore, although the number of candidates for each subject does not exceed 500, the number of candidates exceeds 1,000.

Yongle Dynasty, now after six springs, each time the number of people selected is more than 1,002, all the top three, even if the palace test is deposed, will be screened again with other people, elected as a Jishi, appointed to an official position.

This is mainly due to the fact that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of scholars everywhere and officials everywhere.

However, in recent years, Zhu Zhanji has appointed many craftsmen as officials, and he decided to select this section strictly.

In later generations, only more than 300 people were selected at a time, and he should also do the same, so that those who read know that becoming an official is not only the way to be an official.

(During the Spring Festival, he was busy with affairs, and tomorrow a friend got married, and he had to go to help, and he had to run hundreds of miles to pick up his relatives.) Don't drink at noon tomorrow and try to come back early for updates. Please be considerate, after the ninth day of the new year, the normal update will be resumed, and I will also start to pay off my debts slowly. ）