In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, confined the people to a county with the Lijia system and the Yellow Book system, and made the legal power of the world completely concentrated in the emperor's life by means of the factory guard system and the abolition of the prime minister's power into six parts. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose in doing this was to turn Daming into a society in which the emperor maintained order, the army and the people lived a good life by guarding their own acres and thirds of land, and the people of all walks of life performed their duties.

But with the passage of time and the development of productive forces, the social blueprint planned by Zhu Yuanzhang has been broken again and again.

Eunuchs have become an important force to check and balance civil officials, and the cabinet came into being, without the name of the prime minister, but with the fact of the prime minister.

The growth of the displaced people and the expansion of the merchant scale made the Lijia system collapse long ago.

Especially now, with the migration of a large number of people to Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Baoding, Jinan and other places, and the migration of a large number of people to Guanwai and Nanyang, the so-called yellow books and household registration are almost completely useless.

The local county government had no way to move to the Yellow Book to find the corresponding hukou, and almost all the villagers in the newly built villages outside the customs were from a single county.

"Many systems are to be changed, and today's Ming is no longer the Ming that the ancestors imagined, and now the top priority is to reform the official system, the six ministries must be subdivided, and the administrative authority of the cabinet can be expanded;

At that time, more than ten departments can't let me decide everything, and I will definitely die of fatigue, but the legislative power and judicial power are separated, and every major case must be tried by the three legal divisions.

The cabinet is not allowed to interfere with these three institutions, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple are directly responsible to me! ”

At this time, outside the Forbidden City was a noisy city, with constant whistles and shouts, but inside the palace walls it was as quiet as it was two hundred years ago.

Zhu Youxiao, the ruler of the empire, was idly coiled up his robe at his waist, sitting barefoot on a gold brick, holding a new high-grade fountain pen from the Royal Industrial Company in his hand, and writing various political words on a low table.

There were countless piles of waste paper on the ground, and Queen Zhang Yan patiently personally spread these waste papers one by one and stacked them in a wooden box. It's not that Queen Zhang Yan is reluctant to discard these waste papers to be thrifty, but that she has been with each other for several years so that she already understands the temperament of her husband, and she suddenly got up to find the contents of the waste paper he threw away before.

As a modern time-traveler and the most powerful person in this empire, Zhu Youxiao has a lot of new ideas and wants to bring new things to the Ming Dynasty, but it is not a simple matter to put these new ideas into practice and be accepted by the entire Ming bureaucracy and the people.

Under normal circumstances, Zhu Youxiao would not suddenly throw what he thought of to the cabinet or the Sixth Ministry to implement, because in this case, he would often be strongly opposed by the old school, and even some reformists, and Zhu Youxiao would not be convincing because he was not fully prepared.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao would rather give his thoughts to Zhang Yan first.

Zhang Yan does not pay attention to the court and abides by the iron law of the harem not to interfere in politics and will not raise objections or supportive opinions, she is more often a listener to Zhu Youxiao, and the listener Zhu Youxiao describes the future of the Ming Dynasty to her.

"The ministry should not be under the cabinet, he is in charge of the rise and fall of the officials in the world, and the control of the officials is equivalent to the control of the appointment of the officials in the world, and this power must be controlled by me.

The Ministry of Rites was only responsible for rituals and propaganda and education, and a separate school was established to manage educational affairs, and the Honglu Temple and the Huitong Hall were merged into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to manage the contacts and affairs of foreign vassal states, and the part of the Ministry of Rites responsible for foreign affairs was also transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Then, the Ministry of Industry had to be separated from the Ministry of Communications, which was specifically responsible for the construction of roads in the world, and then the Ministry of Water Resources to control the control of water in the world, and the Ministry of Industry was only responsible for the construction of palaces and other public facilities, and the scientific research units such as the Ordnance Department and the Royal Academy of Engineering were separated from the Ministry of Science and Technology to be under the newly established Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Households had to be separated from the Ministry of Finance......"

When Zhu Youxiao said this, Queen Zhang Yan couldn't help but come over, grabbed Zhu Youxiao's arm, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, according to your division, will there be more scholars and servants in the future, isn't Your Majesty worried that my Ming Dynasty is redundant, and repeat the disadvantages of the two Song Dynasty?" ”

"Concubine Ai reminded me very much, but I don't have to worry about the redundancy of the organization, I have always been in short supply of officials.

Especially the central government, since Taizu abolished the prime minister's power and divided it into six departments, the powers of the six ministries have increased, and a single Shangshu and two squires are obviously unable to coordinate the major affairs of my Ming Dynasty, for example, I want to let the children of the entire Ming Dynasty go to school within five years and have to learn enough for five years, if there is no institution dedicated to this matter, just let a few Shangshu squires from the Ministry of Rites come, they are too busy, after all, the Ministry of Rites has to be busy with many responsibilities such as sacrifices, imperial examinations, and controlling public opinion. ”

As soon as Zhu Youxiao mentioned the matter of universal education, the inversion aroused the interest of Queen Zhang Yan.

Born in a civilian family, she was very curious about Zhu Youxiao's way of making every Ming child go to school for five years, so she couldn't help asking:

"Your Majesty, do you really want every child in my Daming Dynasty to be able to go to school? Not only the children of bureaucrats and eunuchs, but also the children of ordinary people, but also written into the Da Ming Law, which mandates that every family must let every child go to school for five years?

But in fact, not all families can afford to send their children to school, maybe one or two can be sent, and if you have five or six children, you have to let five or six children go to school for five years, but I am afraid that the whole family will be dragged down because of this. ”

Seeing that his queen Zhang Yan pouted, very playful and cute, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help pinching her cheeks, then spread out a piece of paper, holding a pen in his hand and writing while saying:

"You see, now I have reduced their servitude, and the taxes have been reduced again and again, and now the household department has made a rough statistics, and now the income of the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty has already been four times the income of the people at the same level in the twentieth year of Wanli, and I only let them bear one percent of the cost of education, and the remaining ninety percent is borne by the local yamen and the central court; In this way, as long as his family is not too capable of giving birth to dozens of cubs, it should not drag down his family.

Of course, after a few years, the imperial court is rich enough to directly implement free five-year compulsory education, maybe not a few years, and next year you can first achieve three-year compulsory education, because starting next year, the first phase of the construction and development of the Ming Dynasty in Java will be announced, and the customs and commercial taxes in Java will be deported into Beijing, and it will be enough to use this money for education at that time. ”

"What I want to do is to let every child in Daming know how to read and understand books, so that more children who could have greater potential can make more contributions to my Daming.

Think about it, if every child can read and write, then many years later, everyone will be able to read and learn etiquette, everyone can express their joys, sorrows and sorrows through words, and they can also achieve improvement through words, and the Ming Dynasty will also have more wise scholars.

In short, my purpose is one, no matter if you are born poor or rich, as long as you live in the Ming Dynasty and are a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, you must be educated. ”

After Zhu Youxiao said this, Queen Zhang Yan was also full of expectations: "In this way, not all the people in the world have become well-educated, but not necessarily, not everyone can learn the Four Books and Five Classics, and they can do eight articles." ”

"I don't want everyone to be a showman after studying;

Concubine Ai is right, this person has his own good things, Luban carpenter is good, Li Bai can compose poems, Emperor Taizong of Tang is good, Wang Anshi is a good prime minister, among these people of my Ming Dynasty, not everyone can be a talented jinshi, they can enter the Royal Academy of Sciences or the affiliated school of the Academy of Engineering for technical study, they can also enter the Hanlin Academy and the Academy of Sciences to study classics and various miscellaneous studies, and they can also take the military academy or the shipbuilding school or the mining school, etc.;

However, to enter these schools, there must be a basic academic exam.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty will not only have the imperial examination, but also all kinds of professional examinations, and the imperial examination is only a kind of official selection examination.

Even if it is the imperial examination, the content of the imperial examination has to change, although the Bagu article can test some extremely smart people, but it will also select a large number of mediocre people who can only take the exam and can't do things.

However, basic education is all about the Four Books and Five Classics and Zhu Zi's thought, and it is not good to suddenly change the content of the examination, and when the basic education method changes, the content of the imperial examination must also change;

Perhaps at that time, the fame of Xiucai and Juren is just a symbol of academic qualifications, for example, those above Xiucai can participate in the examination of what school, and those who are above can choose to be an official of the administrative system after passing the examination, while those who want to be an official of the scientific research system, the judicial system, and the military system must pass other types of examinations.

I have now asked Zhang Dai and Wei Min'er to add pinyin to the characters, and correct the reading and writing methods, so that when the compilation of the primary textbooks is completed, the school department is established, and the education system of the prefectures and counties is re-reformed, this set of basic education methods can be implemented immediately.

At least in the first five years, it is necessary to let the scholars not only learn the basic human ethics of Confucianism, but also be able to read and write, be able to count simple numbers, be able to have basic common sense, and after completing the basic education, the outstanding can further their studies, whether they choose to enter the imperial court or the army, they can always find a path that suits them, and those who are unwilling or unable to further their studies can still return to their hometowns to work as farmers or do other things, and even if they are still farmers, they will no longer be fools, and they will no longer be easily instigated and used by cults. They will not be easily oppressed by corrupt officials. ”

After listening to Zhu Youxiao's words, Queen Zhang Yan couldn't help but be substituted first, and had conjectures about the future Ming Dynasty, and couldn't help but fold her hands and say:

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, it is not the ridge that can hear the recitation of poetry, the old and young women and children can read with lamps, scholars can carry three-foot swords, and martial arts can write 10,000 words.

Zhu Youxiao just smiled at this, he wanted to improve the literacy rate and education level of the people of the Ming Dynasty is not just to make the Ming culture and education prosperous, but to develop the potential of the Ming Dynasty, a populous country, so that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty can be fully developed, and then occupy a greater dominant position in the future marine competition, so that it will not lag behind other countries in the next hundreds of years, and can make China no longer rely on the etiquette order in the Confucian law to continue to stage the historical cycle of the change of the dynasty of the country.

Since the seventeenth century, the political society of the whole world has undergone unprecedented changes, not only in political society, but also in religious status and academic thought, which will also lead to major changes in the mode of production.

In this transformation, some nations and countries will begin to fall behind, and some nations and countries will rise as a result, because of factors such as science and inherent production mode, as well as geographical isolation, China will become the former.

But now what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to let this change happen in the Han language circle and in the Ming Dynasty.

Let the Ming Dynasty continue to lead the direction of this world civilization, and if this change is to happen, it must not only start from the change of the mode of production, but also from basic education.

From the basic education stage, every Ming intellectual knows that the way of thinking and the interpretation of rules in this world are not only Confucianism, but also other ways, he can seek answers to life through the study of astrophysics, and he can also obtain the laws of social development by exploring the mysteries of microscopic biology.

In short, in this way, the ideological circle of the Ming Dynasty will be truly rejuvenated and the situation of a hundred flowers competing for glory will be truly realized.

Although many things can only be imagined now, Zhu Youxiao is also beginning to gradually guide, and conniving at the emergence of new ideas, and dilute the absolute ruling authority of Confucius and Mencius Thought, even if it is a political struggle, all officials who intend to attack political opponents on the grounds of disrespecting Confucius and Mencius will not get much support from Zhu Youxiao, and even if someone wants to play the literary prison to attack political opponents by suppressing new wave ideas, Zhu Youxiao will not hesitate to severely punish the whistleblower.

The Ming Dynasty is not the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Youxiao is not worried that someone will question his legitimacy, nor does he need to restrict the development of other ideas in order to strengthen the idea of monarchy.

Therefore, he will not support the Confucian defenders to suppress other ideas for the sake of the dominance of their own Confucian and Mencian thoughts, but Zhu Youxiao will not clearly encourage which ideas to become the dominant ideology of the Ming Dynasty, the essential purpose of Zhu Youxiao's current external propaganda is one, as long as you follow me, you can have more wealth, as long as you are in the Ming Dynasty, you can realize your own dreams.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao doesn't know which kind of thought will become the mainstream of the Ming Dynasty in the future, he may support the existence of his own king, or oppose the existence of this king.

But what is certain is that this mainstream ideology must be related to the main contradiction and the need for interests, and as long as you tie the interests of the entire people with the interests of your own king from the beginning, then you can truly make yourself and your descendants rule the country for a long time.