In the 21st century, the information received by an ordinary person in a day is equivalent to the information received by ordinary people in this era in a year.

In many villages, ordinary people work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Day after day, year after year.

The scope of their activities is limited to one county, and they have no official documents, so they can't go out if they want to.

These are still men, and if they were women, they would rarely travel a radius of fifty miles from birth to death.

It is this backward ecological environment that has nurtured generations of ordinary people and formed the ancient country of China.

They are simple, they are industrious, they are simple, even humble to the point of cowardice.

Even the ruling class of this era did not have much richer life, and the information they received was in the whole pure ecological environment.

So in this era, a good article can make people famous for eternity, and a good poem can go a long way.

Zhu Zhanji's "Juvenile China Theory" was circulated in the following days at a speed that surpassed this era.

The imperial court newspaper published the article on the front page without changing a word, and it was quickly passed down from one level to another.

At the same time, Zhu Zhanji's other speeches were also published in the Di Bao.

In addition to Zhu Zhanji's speech, Jian Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, all commented on Zhu Zhanji's speech.

This kind of comment is certainly not critical, and at any time, the speech of the ruler will only be admired.

However, their comments also represent their attitudes.

Jian Yi's comments are still relatively conservative, he just spoke highly of the idea of Zhu Zhanji's "Juvenile China Theory", and believed that His Royal Highness Taisun put the education of young people in the most important position, which was a blessing for the Ming Dynasty.

However, he has a conservative attitude toward the educational reform and the reform of the selection of officials that Zhu Zhanji wants to carry out.

It's not that he wants to oppose Zhu Zhanji's reforms, it's just that as the head of a hundred officials, as the most important official in the country's selection of officials, he can't be radical.

If even he, the official secretary, becomes radical, the policy of official selection, which affects the stability of the Ming Dynasty, is easy to get out of control.

The steps are too big, and it's easy to pull the eggs!

Therefore, as a secretary of the ministry, he can only stabilize the situation and firmly control the connection and balance from the emperor to the hundred officials.

Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, was much more radical, and in addition to greatly praising "The Theory of Juvenile China," he also seriously analyzed the positive significance of Zhu Zhanji's education reform and official selection reform.

He believes that the professionalization of officials will be an important step in promoting the development of the Ming Dynasty, so that those incompetent officials who are dead and incompetent will no longer have a foothold.

He is the secretary of the household department, and he is also the busiest official in the imperial court, and the household department is a pragmatic department, and he is the most disgusted when he encounters those officials who can only retreat and often make mistakes.

On the contrary, although Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is a narrow-minded and capable person, the position where he sits does not allow him to speak at will.

He personally agrees with reform, but he cannot directly support Zhu Zhanji, but wants to pour cold water on reform.

In his comments, he expressed his hope for reform, but at the same time hoped that it would not be rushed.

Because the education system and the official selection mechanism of the Ming Dynasty are all very important, we cannot reform rashly, but can only take it step by step and see it step by step.

Now the Ministry of War is presided over by Huang Fu, who is a hardcore Taisun party, and of course he actively responded to Zhu Zhanji's speech.

He believes that it is not possible to change the use of civil servants to preside over the military department, but all civil servants should be delegated to the army to train for a few years, understand the operation of the lower levels, and then take up posts in the military department.

Moreover, he immediately made a decision to send the officers below the fifth rank of the military department to the army from all over the country in turn to train for three years.

Gu Zuo of the Criminal Department put more pen and ink on praising Zhu Zhanji's "Juvenile China Theory", and he spared no effort to advocate that Zhu Zhanji's article was written with majestic and profound intentions, and would become a beacon to guide the development of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the reform of officials, he only said a few words, believing that the professional training and selection of officials can greatly speed up the work efficiency of officials, and the Criminal Department will fully support His Highness's reform.

There is also the Ministry of Industry, they have always been Zhu Zhanji's most trusted department, because of Zhu Zhanji's support, although their status is still at the end of the six, but their scale is already the first of the six.

In today's imperial court, in addition to the army and internal supervision, the Ministry of Industry is already the third largest department.

They are the most supportive of the professionalization of officials, because if an official who does not understand technology goes to the Ministry of Industry, I am afraid that he will not contribute at all, and will only drag down his own work.

The chief officials of the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Department of General Administration and other departments also made speeches in the Di Bao, although they had some doubts about the education reform, but they all strongly supported the professionalization of officials.

For example, Wu Zhong, an architectural expert, was appointed as the secretary of the Criminal Department, and for ten months, he was not even sentenced to death. To say that it sounds good is kind, and to say that it is bad is to be confused.

Putting a layman in an inappropriate position has a more serious impact on the court than a corrupt official.

Anyone can see the benefits of the professionalization of officials, but why did no one do it before? One is the cost problem, and the other is that all officials only learn Confucianism.

They all learn the same knowledge, and then being an official is to do things according to the rules based on previous experience, so they don't care if the official understands it or not.

Because the real thing is not done by the officials, but by the officials.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty are not professional, but the officials are all passed down from father to son, and the professional ones cannot be more professional.

If Zhu Zhanji wants to professionalize officials, he must carry out educational reform. Education is a century-old plan, and even if it can be popularized within 20 years from now, it will be very difficult to promote this policy.

Therefore, this group of officials can see very clearly that this incident will not have a great impact on them, because by that time, they may have already returned to their hometowns.

This is also the main reason why there is no direct opposition from officials, and if their rights and interests are directly touched, even if Zhu Zhanji is the grandson of the prison state, there will be countless officials who will oppose this policy.

Just when Zhu Zhanji's "Juvenile China Says" set off a boiling in Daming, hundreds of thousands of students across the country were inspired by this article.

Then, the entire Ming Dynasty was quickly attracted by the unveiling of the list from all over the world.

From the Hongwu period to the Yongle period, the number of students increased more than tenfold because of the national peace and security.

In the first year of Hongwu, there were only 2,000 students who participated in the national examination, and almost every one of these people was awarded an official position.

In the second year of Yongle, more than 10,000 students participated in the examination, and because of the delay in the Battle of Jingjing, the number of students who took the examination that year reached 14,938, and the difference between 62 people reached 15,000.

Subsequently, the number of candidates for the annual examination rose repeatedly, and a total of 20,000 rooms were built for students across the country to take the examination.

Moreover, Daming's scientific examination is not just one subject, carefully divided, there are a total of fifty-one classification exams.

It's just that, in addition to the scientific examination, most of the examinations in other disciplines can only be officials, not officials.

For example, the doctors of the Tai Hospital, the accountants of the household department, the head catchers of the criminal department, the martial champions of the military department, and the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, they were all promoted to officials through this kind of examination.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty actually did not lack professional talents, but raised the status of Confucianism too high and suppressed the official path of other disciplines.

In the first examination of the Ming Dynasty, the acceptance rate was almost 100%.

But by the Yongle years, the acceptance rate had dropped to about 10 percent. At present, the total number of people in each session of the examination is about 167,000, and the number of the top three jinshi selected is about 1,300.

Moreover, this is still a student who has been eliminated after the county test, the government test, and the township test.

According to the admission rate of the township examination, which is about 5 percent, it can be calculated that the number of talents in Daming has reached 300,000, and the total number of people raised has exceeded 20,000.

At the unveiling of the list in late August, some people were happy and some were worried. And most of the lifters who were in the middle of the lift, and decided to participate in the examination, began to pack their bags one by one and prepared to go to the capital to prepare for the exam.

In the examination next spring, His Royal Highness Taisun added overseas current affairs and arithmetic, although the proportion is not large, but for the students who have crossed the single-plank bridge, it will be more certain to learn a little more.

And all the books on overseas current affairs, as well as arithmetic, are of course the most complete in Yingtianfu.

Although the cost of going to the capital will be greater, it will be greater to be able to discuss and learn together with students from all over the country.

After the list was revealed, the officials of the Ministry of Rites who had been quarantined since the beginning of August, whether they were the outer curtain officials, the inner curtain officials, or the chief examiners, all seemed to have fought a difficult battle.

In the past nearly a month, everyone has been confined in a circle, except for the examiner, who has a little freedom and can move around the courtyard, and the inner curtain official and the outer curtain official Wang are not king, which is no different from being in prison.

The officials who reviewed the examination papers were in prison for nearly a month. Although the outer curtain officials presided over the invigilation, they were subject to stricter control after the invigilation than the inner curtain officials.

At this time, of course, Zhu Zhanji also has to offer a good condolences, as long as there is no fraud, the reward that should be commended, and the holiday that should be taken off.

At the end of August, Zhu Zhanji also met with the examiners who were invigilating the examination in Yingtianfu and expressed his condolences to them.

Xie Fu has been feasting on guests in the past few days, because the two brothers of the Xie family, Xie Zhen lived up to expectations and won the first place in the Tianfu Township Test.

Although Xie Zhenliang is not as good as his brother, he is also on the list and is in a high position.

Xie Zhenfang, who has been pregnant for more than three months, is very happy for her brother, but at this time, she misses her husband who is thousands of miles away.

The Xie family is full of scholars, his father is a Confucian, his mother is Ouyang Xiu, she is also a famous talented woman, and her uncle is the first genius of the Ming Dynasty.

The Xie Zhen period is known as the rising star of the Ming Dynasty, not only brilliant, but also graceful.

Xie Zhenfang has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he is not unusual about scholars, so at that time, he took a fancy to the down-to-earth, calm, sturdy and powerful Yang Dao.

Yang Shiqi is now accompanying the prince in the other courtyard, and there is only a group of women in charge of the capital.

Xie Zhenfang's family education is very strict, has the demeanor of everyone, married into the Yang family, and is deeply valued by Yang Dao's grandmother and mother.

Although there is no man in the Yang family, the Yang family and the Xie family live on the same street, not far apart, and the Xie family takes care of them.

Xie Zhenfang not only did not suffer a little grievance in the Yang family, but even took over the power of the housekeeper.

It was only because she was found out that she was pregnant, and the grandmother and mother of the Yang family were afraid that she would be tired, so they took over the mundane things again and let her raise the baby with peace of mind.

Newly married Yan'er, her husband went overseas, how could she not miss it for several years......

And on the American continent, Yang Dao also deeply misses his family in the capital.

After the fleet arrived on the Dongzhou continent, it came into contact with more and more natives. Some of these natives are somewhat similar to the Ming people, but more of them are completely different from the Ming people, and they can't understand their speech at all.

However, with the experience of contact with the indigenous people in Nanzhou and Nanyang regions, the well-intentioned Ming people quickly became familiar with these indigenous people.

It's just that the natives here are very poor, and they only sell animal skins, not even gold.

And they have no writing, no currency, they all barter. They didn't have what Da Ming wanted in their hands, but the iron tools in Da Ming's hands were the goods they dreamed of.

The natives here did not have anything that the Ming was interested in, so the army was not willing to delay here, but only sent a team of 3,000 people to land, and the others continued to go south.

These 3,000 men, led by the commander Di Pingxia and carrying a hundred carts, landed from the bay (Seattle) marked by His Highness, and followed a trail in the mountains, all the way east along the middle of the Dongzhou continent.

The cart was loaded with only a small amount of food, and most of the rest were various supplies, as well as some supplies exchanged with the natives.

This route was delineated by Zhu Zhanji, because from the west to the east of the United States, the saddest thing is not only the mountains, but also the rivers.

The central rivers of the United States are crisscrossed, and when there are no boats, a small river is a great obstacle.

If you want to travel from the west to the east, only along the northern part of the United States, southern Canada, the rivers are the least.

And starting from North Dakota, the entire American continent is a vast fertile land.

Their goal was to head east along the Great Lakes, avoiding the Appalachian Mountains that cover most of the United States, and to the seaside in the east.

Zhu Zhanji expected them to cross the American continent in a year's time, and then join up with the fleet that crossed the southern continent of Dongzhou in the waters near New York in the east.

Their task is to find out the situation in the middle of the Dongzhou continent, because the weather in the north is cold, and there is no empire here now, only a small tribe.

Even a tribe of tens of thousands of people did not dare to be arrogant in the face of the muskets of the Ming army.

When Spain invaded South America, more than a hundred people were able to directly wipe out the huge Inca Empire, and the combat effectiveness of these natives was not worth mentioning at all.

Although Di Pingxia only had 3,000 soldiers, there were ten generals in the team who had graduated from Yulin Weixue. They don't have the task of mapping out the situation, but mainly draw a precise map.

The army continued southward, and in later San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places, it docked to measure the depth of the water and trade with the local tribes.

It was also here that they learned that there was a huge country in the south through difficult communication with the local tribes.

Hou Xian knew very well that in this land, the only people who could be called a great power were the Aztecs in the south.

Although they also found some scattered gold mines along the coast, the Ming fleet did not have time to pan for gold, they just wrote down the location and sailed all the way south.

Due to the headwinds, it took them a month to reach their intended location in the southern part of the Northern Continent, which was later the Salina Cruz of Mexico.

The reason why he chose to land here is because Zhu Zhanji has always had huge doubts and wanted to uncover the secret of this history.

Native Americans' ties to Asia are inextricably linked, but most of them have been overshadowed by history.

The only evidence left is the Olmec civilization in Mexico, known as the mother of Indian culture.

The Olmec civilization is found in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Dating from the beginning of the 1st century BC to the 3rd century BC, it is the earliest known Indian civilization.

This civilization has a very close relationship with China, and in the twentieth century, American archaeologists found 16 statues and 6 pieces of jade gui in the sacrificial center of the Olmec site in Mexico, on which are engraved with words, the names of the ancestors of the Yin people: Chiyou, Shaohao, Diyu, Jiandi, Duowu, Qi, Xiangtu, Wang Hai, Shangjia, etc.

Moreover, their totem worship is exactly the same as that of the Dongyi people during the ancient Chinese Yin Shang period, and there is much evidence that they are the descendants of the Yin merchants who were defeated and expelled.

However, the Indian culture of later generations was completely destroyed, and no more conclusive evidence can be found. Now that the Spaniards could not come again, Zhu Zhanji also wanted to find more evidence and then rule "justly" over the Aztecs who ruled the region.

The number of this expedition reached 6,000 people, and in addition to 5,000 soldiers, there were also 1,000 old farmers, doctors, and botanists.

This is one of the two largest civilizations on the American continent today, and the Ming will devote more energy here.

As long as the Aztecs can be converted to their hearts and recognize the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they will conquer the entire North American continent in the future, and they will get twice the result with half the effort.

Of course, if they are not convinced, five thousand soldiers will be enough to destroy their entire country.

Therefore, the leader of this team is Yi Xin himself, and he will first go to La Venta on the east coast, where he will look for evidence that the local natives are of the same ethnic group as the Ming Dynasty.

Whether or not he could find it, he would then head all the way north to Tenochtitlan (later Mexico City).

Of course, Zhu Zhanji pushed everything to "Magellan" again. It is said that Magellan once found almost the same buildings and people in this place as the Ming Dynasty, and there are also the same writings.

No one dares to question Zhu Zhanji, and it cannot be said that everyone is convinced, but no one will go against Zhu Zhanji's orders and act on his own.

Listening to Zhu Zhanji's words, even if there is a mistake, there will be no problem.

But if you don't listen to Zhu Zhanji, even if you have merit, it's your fault.

The number of the fleet was a third less, and the ships were a third less. Still, the rest of the people were still in high spirits, as most of them knew that their final destination was coming.

Just look at the map, it is not far from the south of Mexico to Peru, although you need to pass through the equatorial windless zone, but the destination is close at hand, no matter how slow, it can be reached in more than half a month.

The main destination of the fleet was simply Peru, where the Inca Empire was not only the richest country in the Americas, but also the origin of rubber, for which rubber was their first target, followed by gold and corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers.

Hou Xian would lead a large army to make contact with the Incas here, and only a fleet equipped with a steam engine would bypass the southernmost part of South America and draw a detailed map of the east coast.

Yang Dao will be a member of the expeditionary force, in addition to missing his relatives, he is also worried about one thing, that is, there is not much coal.

Along the way, steam galleons equipped with steam engines had more maneuverability and more power to resist the weather than other boats, so they also took on more responsibilities.

However, the ship's carrying capacity is limited, and now only one-fifth of the coal on board is left.

When they arrived in the Inca Empire, their first task was to find a coal mine, otherwise, they would only rely on burning wood, and soldiers would need to go ashore along the way to cut wood, which would be time-consuming and labor-intensive.

"Mr. Qian, Commander Liao sent a herald ship to summon your lordship to discuss matters."

"Got it." Yang Dao took out a stack of marching plans from the drawer and put them in his arms.

Liao Zhi was the only commander sent by the First Fleet, and he also went to Europa with His Highness.

As commander of the First Fleet, he was in charge of a fleet of steam galleons that were not yet widely available. And this time, he will also be the commander of the East Coast Quest of Dongzhou.

The Ming Dynasty only tried to install a total of 12 first-class warships and 48 second-class warships, and this time when they went to sea, they sent half of the steam sailing ships and the other half to conduct tests in the offshore sea.

With such reuse, Liao Zhi certainly knows that the responsibility is great.

Although his ability is average, he is not a famous general, but he is open-minded, respects the opinions of his subordinates, and is good at integrating the relationships between his subordinates.

For Yang Dao and the top students who graduated from Yulin Weixue, he didn't dare to slack off, because in addition to Yulin Weixue's most mysterious mapping skills today, many of the knowledge they mastered were blocked by the imperial court.

In the three years he went to Europa, he saw the ability of Yang Dao and the others, and they would always discuss together when they encountered problems, and never acted arbitrarily.

Although the soldiers of Yulin Weixue today are still middle and low-level generals, but this is because they are still young, and in another ten or twenty years, after they are promoted, I am afraid they will become the most united and powerful gang in the Ming Dynasty.

Because they will all be true protégés of the Son of Heaven in the future......

Because of the proximity of the herald, the rollers on both sides of the stern have been hoisted up, leaving room for the herald's side.

Yang Dao climbed down the soft ladder and got onto the boat.

The three soldiers removed the hooks from the boat and allowed the herald ship to break away from the battleship. When they reached a safe position, they immediately hoisted the sails again, adjusted the sail direction, and let the herald ship sail towards the main ship.

Yang Dao has been looking at the sea and sky in the distance with some obsession, at this time he didn't know that his wife was already pregnant with his child, and when he went back, the child would probably call his father.

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