"A college is a college, and it can't be compared to a university. The power of education must be in the hands of the imperial court, not in the hands of local celebrities. Moreover, it is not known whether the local gentry are standing on the side of the court or the gentry.

The imperial court can prescribe the teaching materials of the academy, but it cannot prescribe people's thoughts. Even if the imperial court needs talents, it is more reliable to train them themselves. Otherwise, what good will a group of scholars who have been led astray by the academy benefit the country?

For the academy, the imperial court should continue to strictly control. However, for those well-known scholars, the cabinet can consult with the Ministry of Rites, give them a nationally recognized scholarly title, and then issue some subsidies on a regular basis, of course, the selection and number must be controlled, they can not speak out for the court, but they can't stand on the side of the gentry to attack the court, I think this is already very good.

As for whether the college will be treated the same as the university in the future, let's wait for one or twenty years..."

Although Chongzhen's tone was flat, he was very firm when he talked about the decision of the academy, and Qian Qianyi quickly understood what the emperor meant. Although the emperor vetoed one of his claims, he did not intend to argue for the academy. To a certain extent, only by maintaining consistency with the emperor can he prevent those political enemies from creating contradictions between him and the emperor, thus emptying him as the head of the cabinet with no prestige.

After sending Qian Qianyi away, Zhu Youzhen was not as relaxed as he seemed on the surface. After several years as an emperor, even if he was a keyboard politician before, he now knows what power it takes to control a country. Military power, personnel power, financial power, and education power are the four most basic powers.

Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, but if you want to control the huge bureaucracy, you must have personnel and financial power. In order to maintain the true character of the regime, it is necessary to educate people who will support the regime.

Before the imperial examination system appeared, the family of gate lords monopolized the inheritance of culture, and the power was constantly changed between the emperor and the family of gate valves. After the emergence of the imperial examination system, the imperial power used the power of the scholars of the Han family to defeat the tradition of the family of the gate lord to control the power, which is also the reality of the decline of the relative power.

From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, successive kings tried to come up with a set of values that respected imperial power and controlled those who read books ideologically, which was the root of the rise of science. It's just that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the rise of the power of the civil and gentry once again hollowed out the imperial power and influenced the power of the regime.

By this time, the feudal ethical order had actually reached its extreme, and no matter how much the emperor tossed, he could not get out of the power cage compiled by the feudal bureaucracy for the imperial power. The way the bureaucracy controls power is by holding the power of education.

Although all the teachings in the Tianxia Academy are the contents of the Four Books Collection, it is the gentry and bureaucrats who instill ideas into the minds of students. Even if there are occasionally one or two talents from the bottom, most of them are overjoyed to be separated from their own class, and only think about how to stand on the same side as their teachers and colleagues, and where to take care of the rest.

The feudal-style academy could not educate the talents needed to build capitalism, and Zhu Youzhen naturally would not give these feudal gentry a chance to turn over. As a latecomer, he was well aware of one thing: the change of state power was never a gentle drizzle, but a violent action by one class to replace the dominance of another.

The reason why these gentry have not shown fierce resistance now, in the final analysis, is that the Ming Dynasty is too weak, and this weakness is not the unilateral weakening of the imperial power, but the weakening of the entire country from top to bottom.

In addition to the embers of prosperity and prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River, it is difficult for the gentry to control the local order under the attack of external troubles and internal troubles in the north of the empire. This is also why when Chongzhen implemented various reforms after ascending the throne, even if it touched the interests of the gentry, the northern gentry still endured it.

Because after the implementation of the reform policy, the restoration of social order in the north is also obvious to all. For the majority of the gentry, they were able to endure this loss of interests, and as long as the country settled down, they would naturally be able to regain these benefits.

It is precisely while these gentry are still patient, Zhu Youzhen should seize the time to establish a school system, as long as this generation of northern gentry children are included in the school system, then Chongzhen's talent base for reforming the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as the initial results.

After Qian Qianyi left, Zhu Youzhen thought for a long time before saying to Lu Qi, who was waiting on the side: "Arrange a time for Guo Shangshu to come and see me..."

The first cabinet edict issued by Qian Qianyi after taking over as the first assistant immediately aroused praise from both the government and the opposition. At any time, it is most popular to sprinkle money on the people. Moreover, although Qian Qianyi failed to persuade the emperor to exempt the arrears of the salt tax, he was able to win the provinces for their own use, which was already a way for the provinces to clear the arrears of the salt tax.

Suddenly, the new first assistant who had just taken the position won a lot of reputation and could be regarded as sitting firmly in his position. At this time, Zhu Youzhen was also nervously discussing with Guo Yunhou the establishment of a state planning commission to formulate a national economic and social development plan.

In the Xiyuan Elite House, Zhu Youzhen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a cup of tea, looked at the continuous rain line outside and said, "... The purpose of establishing the State Planning Commission is to effectively allocate the resources and manpower of the whole country, so as to promote the rapid development of China's industry and agriculture and ultimately meet the needs of the entire country.

Agriculture is the foundation of social stability, and industry is the source of wealth. When there is a problem in a country's agriculture, it will cause social unrest; If industry cannot meet the needs of the people, it will make the people scarce. Therefore, the way to govern the country lies first and foremost in the orderly production of industry and agriculture, and any inappropriate system that hinders industrial and agricultural production should be reformed.

Therefore, we need an institutional overall plan to plan the economic and social development of our country, so that the imperial court can grasp the economic development of the country, so that we can dispatch resources everywhere when the country needs it.

Of course, according to the current situation in our country, if we rely solely on domestic resources to arrange production, I am afraid it will be difficult to meet the needs of the people. Hides and livestock from Mongolia, furs from Siberia and North America, seafood from the coast of Japan, sugar, rice, coconuts from Taiwan and Southeast Asia, etc.

We must all exchange industrial products for the means of trade in resources, so that they flow to our country. This is another responsibility of the State Planning Commission for the management of external resources. Therefore, although the State Planning Commission will focus on your household department, Feng Quan of the Prime Minister's Yamen will also join the committee to assist you, and the powers and responsibilities of the Planning Commission will be jointly responsible for the household department and the Prime Minister's Yamen..."

After several discussions with the emperor, Guo Yunhou became interested in the State Planning Commission, which he believed had greatly increased the power of the Ministry of Households.

However, he also said to the emperor with some doubts: "Doesn't this planning committee need to let Shoufu join?" So in the future, will this planning committee be accountable to Shousuke or to His Majesty? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the sky that was gradually brightening, and was quiet for a long time before saying: "Qian Muzhai has just taken office, and just being familiar with the mess left by Huang Shoufu is enough for him to be busy. As for Qian Muzhai, the cabinet also needs to know the country's economic situation, and it is also appropriate to copy a copy of the report for him to understand. In addition, I will also arrange for a few new recruits to join the planning committee to assist you in your errands. ”

Guo Yunhou was relieved, and immediately replied to the emperor: "In accordance with Your Majesty's will, the minister will first go back and transfer personnel to prepare a draft five-year industrial and agricultural development plan for Your Majesty's imperial review..."

Listening to Guo Yunhou's footsteps in the distance, Zhu Youzhen turned back to Lu Qi on the side and said: "Spread my edict, transfer Xia Yunyi, Niu Jinxing, Chen Zilong, and Zhang Dai to the former secretariat, and then enter the State Planning Commission to do business..."

At this time, thousands of miles away in Edo Castle, Japan, in a samurai house in Kanda, Tokugawa Tadanaga was bidding farewell to his retainers in plain white.

Tokugawa Tadanaga finally saw it at this moment, and after hurriedly saying a few goodbye words, he took out an unsealed letter from his arms, pushed it onto the tatami mat in front of him, and said indifferently: "Yu Tong Zhujun has already said goodbye, and there are no regrets." Only his wife was far away in the Ming Kingdom and couldn't say goodbye, so he wrote this letter.

I hereby ask you to all the kings, if His Royal Highness the General allows, you can send this letter to the Ming Kingdom, even if the friendship between the kings and me is complete..."

Tokugawa Tadanaga bowed down to everyone, and without waiting for the retainers to reply, he got up and walked into the back hall. After a while, Shichiro, who was wrong for Tadashiga, walked out and announced to a cadre of retainers without crying, "His Royal Highness Tadashi has become a benevolent..."

Only then did Tadacho's retainers burst into tears, and soon the Kasuga Bureau, who was sitting in the next room waiting, arrived, and Tadashiga's farewell letter with his wife and children and the ribs of the disembowelment. Kasuga Bureau took out the letter in the envelope and read it, then quietly put it back again, and said to the people who were waiting on the side: "Okay, then send these two things to the shogunate, and tell your lordships that Tadashi feels guilty of his own sin, and thinks of the father-son relationship of the Great Imperial Palace, and has already cut himself..."

Several elders of the shogunate were arguing over the whereabouts of Tadashiga, and according to the last words of the Great Imperial Palace, Tadashi should be sent to Daming to reunite with his wife. However, the three generations of generals were unwilling to send this younger brother to the Ming Dynasty to get out of their control, and several elders were also worried that the Ming Dynasty would use Zhongchang to interfere in Japan's internal affairs again in the future.

However, when everyone was arguing, the news of Tadashi's suicide suddenly came, and after everyone listened to Tadacho's last letter, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally decided impatiently: "Since he committed suicide himself, then there is no need to discuss whether to let him go to Daming." You have come to deal with the aftermath of the affairs of the Loyal Elders, and this is the end of today's meeting. ”

Seeing that Jiaguang was about to get up and leave, and several old middle schools couldn't help but look at each other, Matsudaira Nobutsuna hurriedly asked: "Since His Royal Highness Tadashi is no longer there, can several of His Royal Highness Tadashi's retainers be activated?" At present, five standing divisions and regiments have been set up in the west, adopting China's military system and training methods. If we do not build up our own standing divisions, I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist the armed forces from the west on the battlefield in the future. ”

Ii Naotaka said with some hesitation: "But if the Standing Division is established, what will the Banner and the Imperial Family do in the future?" We can't afford to support two military systems now, and although the Chinese-style divisions are good, the cost is too great..."

Jiaguang stopped and said without hesitation: "The division is going to be built, and if the money is not enough, lease them the land that the Ming people want." In addition, the shogunate is called upon to be diligent and thrifty, and everyone must contribute one-third of their money..."

After Jiaguang finished speaking, he quickly left the room, and when he was about to walk to the big o, he asked the little surname behind him, "Who did it?" ”

The little surname hurriedly replied: "It's Mrs. Kasuga." ”

Iemitsu nodded and continued walking. In the deep and dark corridor, no one could see what the expression on Iemitsu's face was.