Xia Yunyi suddenly couldn't react, he looked at the emperor a little blankly and asked, "Then after they withdraw from the association, they have nothing to do with the Youth Society?" And what is the position of the commissioner? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at him and said: "I think that as a society that leads the progress of the young people of the Ming Dynasty, it is best not to be associated with officialdom, otherwise this organization will sooner or later degenerate into a tool for party struggle."

Only when the Youth Society is pure, independent, and detached can it have a more impartial stance and attract more neutral young people to join.

As for those who have withdrawn from the Youth Society, if they are interested in continuing their political activities, they can join the Scientific Progressive Party or the New Donglin Party. I believe that those two political parties will be more suitable for those who want to enter the public service.

As for the membership of the Youth Society, since the Youth Society is an organization, it should have the appearance of an organization. And since it is an organization, there must be a management structure.

I don't want anyone within the Society to have a talk, but I also don't want the Society to be a loose gathering and chatting club.

Therefore, I intend to implement the management of the committee in the society, elect three permanent members from each province, and then select a number of members from the schools, the army, and the workers, and set up a large committee with a total of 129 members.

Fifteen executive members are then selected from these 129 members to form the Standing Committee. The major matters of the society are decided by discussion and voting by the large committee, and the minor matters are decided by the standing committee..."

Regarding the rules set by the emperor, Xia Yunyi didn't have much opinion. After all, it was the first time he had heard of such an organization as the Society.

However, the method for the withdrawal of members of the society formulated by the emperor made him feel a little lost.

However, before he could fully recover his senses, Zhu Youzhen continued: "Although the purpose of the Youth Society is to lead the youth of the Ming Dynasty to reform the society, in terms of practical affairs, it is mainly to do two things. One is public opinion; The second is education. ”

"Public opinion and education? Isn't this the job of the Daming Times and the Ministry of Rites? Xia Yunyi asked a little unclear

Zhu Youzhen immediately explained: "You are right, the Ming Times and the Ministry of Rites are in charge of public opinion and education work, but this does not mean that the Youth Society cannot meddle in it.

First of all, the Daming Times is aimed at those who are literate and have a certain amount of spending power, but in my Daming, there are more than sixty percent of the people who are illiterate.

Moreover, most of these illiterate people live in rural areas where information is closed, and they have little access to outside information, and some of them have probably never left the country for the rest of their lives, within 30 miles of their homes.

For these people, they don't dare to say anything in the imperial court, and what is written in the Daming Times is not as effective as what an old Xiucai living in the village or the local landlord says.

For the imperial court, the reason why we want to change this society is to make the life of the people of the Ming Dynasty better. But if the people of the Ming Dynasty don't know anything about what we say or do, then how can we expect that they will support the reform policies we have introduced?

And the landlords and gentry who suffered from the imperial reforms held control over more than sixty percent of the country's population.

As long as they wished, they could cut off the connection between the court and the people, and not let the people know about the policies of the court; It is also possible to distort the policies of the imperial court and convey the opposite content to the common people, thus inciting the common people to oppose the reform of the imperial court.

Therefore, only by publicizing the policy content of the imperial court to the people will they understand why the imperial court is reforming, what the purpose of the reform is, and what kind of benefits they will gain from the process of reform.

If this kind of work is handed over to the Daming Times or the local government, I think it will not have much effect, but will cause disturbance to the people. For we cannot expect a ruler to go down to the countryside without seeking some benefit for himself.

Therefore, this kind of propaganda work can only be handed over to the youth society without official status, and the enthusiasm of the youth to change the country can promote these things, and of course it can save a lot of money for the imperial court.

Therefore, after the formation of the Youth Society, the first task was to go deep into the countryside, explain and explain the policies of the imperial court to the people in the countryside, and then give feedback back to the people's demands and views.

In this way, the imperial court can get the broadest support for promoting reforms, and the imperial court can correct those reform measures that are not suitable for the actual situation in a timely manner. ”

Although Xia Yunyi was a little square, his brain was not ossified, and Chongzhen's explanation suddenly woke him up.

He only thought about it for a moment, and then suddenly asked the emperor: "Then the education problem that Your Majesty wants the young people to learn to undertake should also be the establishment of primary schools in the countryside and the work of eradicating illiteracy among the common people."

The establishment of primary schools in the villages by members of the Youth Society is an opportunity not only to solve the problem of education in the villages, but also to complete the propaganda work of the reform policy, which is indeed a way to kill two birds with one stone.

However, Your Majesty, there is one thing, the student still wants to ask His Majesty to explain a thing or two, I wonder if Your Majesty is willing to agree? ”

Zhu Youzhen was very happy about Xia Yunyi's ability to draw inferences from one another, and he was able to understand his thoughts so quickly, as long as Xia Yunyi could wholeheartedly do the work of the Youth Society, then for him, he would be able to greatly reduce the burden on himself.

"Okay, you can hear it, I will try to meet your requirements." Zhu Youzhen raised his hand at him and said.

Xia Yunyi looked at Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty has set up primary schools in various places, and the primary school textbooks selected not only use simplified characters, punctuation marks, and the format of writing from left to right, but also choose a lot of biased learning that deviates from the way of the sages.

Students just want to ask for advice, what kind of talents does Your Majesty want to educate when he sets up such a primary school? Ignorant of the classics, ignorant of the study of gold and stone, and ignorant of the teachings of the sages, when these students graduate from primary school, will it be difficult for them to enter the scientific field? What is the connection between what they studied and the reforms carried out by the imperial court? ”

For Xia Yunyi's question, it really made Zhu Youzhen ponder for a long time, and he thought about it for a long time before he cautiously organized the language and said: "Yi Zhong should know that farmers plough the fields, and there are still things: plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans." One said.

Naturally, the imperial court should also have a purpose in running schools and education. From Yi Zhong's point of view, if the current county school education is not reformed, can the imperial court obtain a group of talents who can govern the Ming Dynasty into a Datong world? ”

Xia Yunyi thought about it for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not." ”

Zhu Youzhen continued: "So with today's education policy of the Ming Dynasty, can we cultivate a group of talents who can solve the problem of food and clothing for the people of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Xia Yunyi wanted to say yes, but he thought about it again and again, thinking of the officials and gentry he had seen in the local area in the past two years, and finally shook his head and said: "If the imperial court can really select talents among the scholars, the students think that there is still a chance to reproduce the rule of Longwan." However, judging from the current government, it is not yet possible. ”

Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes and said calmly: "Even if it is the rule of Longwan, it still does not solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, otherwise there will be no matter how many people mortgage their ration fields to the landlords and gentry."

The reason why I want to promote reform is not just to create a false name for the rule of Longwan, but to truly solve the problem of food and clothing for the people.

And if we want to solve this problem, we must let the people own a piece of land, and all wealth is obtained from the land in the final analysis.

If eighty percent of the land in the Ming Dynasty is concentrated in the hands of less than thirty percent of the population, then how can the remaining seventy percent of the population rely on twenty percent of the land to feed themselves? At that time, it was only natural for the people to rise up.

My current education in the Ming Dynasty is to guide the world's scholars to enter the scientific field, for the purpose of raising careers. Some people have gone from a drooping boy to a pale hair, and they still refuse to give up, why is this so?

Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng has a poem that says very well: rich families don't need to buy good land, there are thousands of bells in the book. There is no need to erect tall buildings to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book. Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book. Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book. The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and reads the Pentateuch to the window.

The education for the purpose of the imperial examination teaches all those who want to be officials and make a fortune. The only purpose of their study is to be officials, dreaming of becoming famous all over the world, becoming Tian Shelang and ascending to Tianzitang at dusk.

If you become an official, you will naturally get rich, so you will ask Tian Wenshe to let yourself and your family enjoy happiness first. I heard that some officials below have said that Qianli is an official only for money, and if he doesn't get rich as an official, he won't come.

Yi Zhong thought, can such a scholar do things? If they enter the official career, are they willing to change the current court system that is conducive to their official fortune? Do you think I can rely on such a group of people to complete the reform of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Xia Yunyi was silent, and Zhu Youzhen continued: "If we want to eat melons or beans, we must plant them ourselves, and don't think about eating ready-made." Otherwise, you can only taste crooked melons and rotten beans.

The purpose of our primary education is to cultivate a group of people who can do things and support the reform of the imperial court. They are not educated to become officials, and naturally they do not have the luxury of changing their destiny by becoming officials.

In order to change their destiny, they will inevitably support the Ming Dynasty's social system to make changes, so that they can rely on their own hands and minds to change their lives. Only when the people at the bottom are awakened to the idea of wanting to change their fate, will the reform promoted by the imperial court not be ruined, and the reform will have the most solid allies. ”