The banquet was held late into the night, and in a dark corner of the mansion, a figure sneaked out of the back door.

Then, I came to the Panwang Mansion.

That night, a group of horsemen rode out of the city, each with a package on their backs, and took advantage of the darkness of the night to gallop all the way north......

On the second day, the news of the night banquet in Shangguan's Mansion spread throughout the imperial court.

It is no wonder that dozens of local officials and junior and medium-sized officials of the DPRK have gathered in a mansion to hold a banquet, and it is difficult to spread the word, especially those who have no money to pay bribes but want to climb up, secretly playing the role of propaganda.

Originally, local officials could not easily leave their places of service without orders from the imperial court, but the composition of dozens of local officials was complicated, so all officials and departments had no choice but to turn a blind eye and remain silent.

Before the local officials could return to their places of duty, an edict was issued from the Zichen Hall and addressed to the whole country.

The content is that the Ministry of Education was formally established, with Kong Shangxian serving as the secretary of the Ministry of Education, and recruiting readers from all over the country to give lectures in various villages and towns across the country to teach civilians to read and write!

Every month, the local government will hold a literacy conference, the content is very simple, randomly select a hundred words on the "Enlightenment Manual", as long as you can recognize sixty to be qualified, the government will issue a literacy certificate, but also reward one or two silver, and in the future, only those who have a literacy certificate are eligible to be promoted to the title.

At the same time, each county has set up a school, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, and all those with excellent grades can enter the study, and the Ministry of Education will organize an examination every year to select outstanding talents to report to the imperial court and assign them to local government posts.

And for Mr. Teaching, for every ten civilians in the church, you can get one or two silver, and when you accumulate to three hundred, you can become a three-star lord and obtain the qualification of the Ministry of Education, among which the gentleman who teaches the most students will be awarded a five-star lord and directly become the right attendant of the Ministry of Education!

All of a sudden, the news spread like a hurricane throughout the entire Cangguo, from the high-ranking officials and nobles to the common people, all of them were boiling!

Originally, there were nearly 3,000 scholars in the Cangguo State, most of whom were concentrated in the six major gates, and a few were scattered in various small families.

Historically, based on the policy of ignoring the people and maintaining the rule of the upper aristocracy, the imperial court did not allow civilians to read and write, and civilians did not care, because reading and literacy did not help civilians to improve their lives, and they couldn't be officials anyway, so why waste money?

But now it's different, the state actually encourages civilian literacy, and there are all kinds of generous rewards!

Even, become an official!

This can't help but make some civilians who were originally hopeless to join the army find a road full of dawn again!

For a time, in all villages and towns, the people rejoiced and rushed to tell each other, and no one suspected that this decree was mixed with water, because in the past month and a half, every new policy promulgated by the imperial court has been implemented in an orderly manner, and the common people have also received immediate benefits, and the credibility of the imperial court and the government has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After all, in a country where ordinary people can get knighthoods, what bizarre decree can't be trusted?

Even, there are some small families secretly happy, to say that the most scholars are at home, there is none other than these small families, because the good official positions are occupied by the four major gates, they can only pick up some soup and bones, it is already very good to become a Lang official in the department, and the official positions that are qualified to go to the court to discuss matters are even rarer, often in a family, there are dozens of scholars, but only a few people can become officials.

Mr. Teacher, who teaches civilians to read and write, seems to be tailor-made for them, and it is the time for everyone to come into play!

This can't help but remind people that the vacant official positions of the Tian and Zhang families have been undecided for a long time, is it that His Majesty the Emperor is deliberately leaving a place for everyone?

In any case, anyway, most of the official positions of the Ministry of Education must be chosen among the outstanding teachers, and the edict even stipulates that the gentleman who teaches the most students will be directly appointed as the right attendant, and this official position is definitely not able to run!

As a result, the small families that smelled the fishy smell gathered the people in the family who could read and write, and began to dispatch and arrange, rubbing shoulders with each other, ready to fight!

The complete opposite is the four major gate valves.

When they learned the news, the four major gates were first shocked, and then they were creepy from the heart.

As a gate valve, of course they know where their advantages are, originally when the Tian family and the Zhang family had an accident, they didn't really panic, after all, the Tian and Zhang families collaborated with the enemy for the second time and committed treason, and they died by themselves, no wonder anyone, so the remaining four gate valves all looked at it with a normal heart, and even secretly were happy that the family had two less competitors.

All this is because the family gate valve still maintains a monopoly position, and His Majesty the Emperor has to rely on the family door valve to govern the country!

But now, the emperor wants to teach those lowly commoners to read and write!

Moreover, the edict made it very clear that the Ministry of Education should be established and outstanding talents should be selected from those civilians, although it was only a local petty official, and it did not clearly state that it would suppress the family gatekeeper, but once it was implemented, a fool could think of what the result was!

Once there are more civilian readers, for the gate valve, it will gradually decline, and the status will not be guaranteed, or it will be directly cut through the chaos by the emperor's quick knife, and just find a reason to raid the family and exterminate the family!

This is not unfounded, from the current emperor ascended the throne, all kinds of preferential treatment for civilians, and disgust with the gate valve, it can be seen that it is really possible to let the common people govern the country and let the gate valve fall!

"Smack-"

In the royal family's mansion, Wang Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood in the hall with a gloomy face, with an annoyed face, and a pile of broken porcelain pieces on the ground, as well as several trembling slaves kneeling in the broken porcelain pieces, one of the slaves had blood flowing from his head all the time, and he didn't dare to say a word.

This is already the fifth vase smashed.

No one dared to pick up the broken porcelain pieces on the floor, because just now, a little concubine who was favored on weekdays came to comfort her, and was dragged out by the head of the house, chopped and fed to the dog.

"Nonsense! Put the cart before the horse! Put back the clock! Wang Ying's face turned red, and he walked up and down the hall, and when he saw that the servant next to him was not pleasing to the eye, he kicked him down in the broken porcelain.

Just as he reached out and picked up the sixth vase, about to smash it down, the housekeeper of the house hurried over.

"Dog thing? Are you tired of living too! Wang Ying glared angrily, lifted the vase with his hand, and was about to smash it on the butler's head.

Suddenly, the housekeeper was terrified and trembled: "The master of the house is angry! The head of the house is angry! The right minister is here, and the little one is coming! ”

Wang Ying raised the vase high, the anger on his face gradually subsided, and he frowned: "Fan Hongji? What is that old guy doing? ”