The scholars were beaten out of the yamen, and Fu Yin personally walked to the front of the hall, and he bowed his head: "Mr. Yang, the scholars have maliciously made trouble, and they have learned a lesson, you see this case......"

Yangzi touched his mouth and nose that was still bleeding, "Lord Fu Yin, the scholars are willful, although they have been punished, but the grass people are beaten by the officials, how should they be handled?" ”

"Servant? Which of you did it? The official asked you to invite Mr. Yang, how dare you be rude to Mr. Yang? The government officials' eyes swept fiercely over the faces of the officials one by one, "Who did it?" Stand out! ”

The official who beat people "poofed" and knelt in front of Fu Yin, "Your Excellency, ......"

"You're so daring!" Fu Yin nodded to the servant.

The official kneeled in front of Yangzi, "The villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, you have a lot of adults, so bypass the villain!" ”

"My lord? Haha, I'm just a grass farmer, just running a newspaper, what kind of adult is it? ”

"In front of the villain, you are the adult, the biggest adult." The servant prostrated like a shallot on the pound.

Yangzi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Forget it, since you have admitted your mistake, I will not investigate it deeply, in the future, anyone who goes to the newspaper to make trouble, I hope you will be severely punished." ”

"That's nature, that's nature."

After Yangzi returned to the newspaper hall, there were often brocade guards hanging around the newspaper hall, and everyone knew that the owner of the newspaper hall was really not Yangzi, and it seemed that the water in the newspaper hall was too deep.

As always, newspapers publish all kinds of political articles, which literati can argue about, but only in newspapers.

At the beginning of the debate over whether to dissolve the Zongren Mansion, there was a lot of opposition, but talented people from all walks of life found that it would be better to support the dissolution of the Zongren Mansion if their articles were to be published in the newspapers.

While this kind of article was being debated in the newspapers, the front page of "Ming Pao" carried a message: The imperial court was about to set up a normal school in each of the five prefectures of Jingshi, Jinan, Kaifeng, Taiyuan, and Xi'an, to recruit students who were talented and above, to learn scientific knowledge, and to study for one year.

Once the students are admitted to the normal colleges and universities in various places, food, clothing and housing will be provided by the imperial court free of charge, and after graduation, they will go to various parts of the province to serve as primary and secondary school teachers, and the teachers will enjoy half of the local county order.

For scientific knowledge, many students do not understand, but the imperial court provides food, clothing and housing, which immediately attracts a large number of poor students, and in the future, as a teacher in primary and secondary schools, they will also enjoy half of the county order, which is also very attractive to people who have tried and failed, after all, they will receive the money issued by the imperial court.

However, the talents soon discovered that the requirements for students in various normal colleges and universities are also very strict, and those who have a certain scientific foundation are preferred, and if they are all scientifically illiterate, they need Xiucai who is under the age of 40 and is determined to teach for life.

For a time, in the capital of the five northern provinces, books related to science were snapped up by the talents, and the talents who did not buy science books had to keep their old faces and wait for their companions to borrow books to read when they went to bed in the second half of the night.

In the miscellaneous discussion of "Ming Pao", it also turned to the establishment of a normal higher education school, and the matter of dissolving the Zongren Mansion came to an end for the time being.

After two postponements, the entrance examination for the normal colleges and universities in the five northern provinces is set for the eighth day of the lunar month.

Beizhili Normal High School, enrollment is extremely hot, because there are many students in the country to stay in Beijing, plus Beizhili itself has a lot of students, originally only 2,000 students were enrolled, but more than 5,000 students came to take the exam.

The entrance exam is divided into two rounds, the first round of the exam is conducted individually, and there is only one question, and the organizer randomly draws a science test question from the sea of questions, as long as the respondent is not ignorant, it will be considered a pass.

Students who have passed the test can leave their names, places of origin and addresses, and then they can go back to prepare for the retest.

The question of the re-examination is a science test paper, the test paper is written in the vernacular, and it is full of science test questions, although the science test questions are simple, but they are varied, such as: What color is the leaf? Why? What material is cement fired from? Why can green vegetables and tofu be safe? Wait a minute.

The population of Beizhili has exceeded 10 million, so the number of students enrolled is relatively large, reaching 2,000, while other provinces are recruiting 1,000 students.

Seeing the results of the academy, Zhu Youzhen was dumbfounded, the 2,000 students admitted by Beizhili were calculated with 100 points on the paper, and the average score was less than 15 points, and the highest score was only 26 points.

Zhu Youzhen thinks about it, now they don't have a scientific foundation, the key is to study in the next year, and in the future, when the teachers are sufficient, they can return to school to restudy.

During this period of time, Zhu Youzhen has not heard anything outside the window, and he nested in the Daming Academy of Sciences, and worked with the scientific masters of the Academy of Sciences to compile the textbooks of the Normal School.

There are three textbooks: math, science and physical education.

Zhu Youzhen plans that in the future, middle school teachers should be divided into different subjects, and physics, chemistry, biology, geography, and other disciplines must be designed separately.

When he was at the Academy of Sciences, Zhu Youzhen met with President Xu Guangqi, and Xu Guangqi proposed to Zhu Youzhen that a notched aiming device be designed for artillery and flintlock pistols.

"Crosshair and Door!" Zhu Youzhen immediately thought of the firearms of later generations.

With the crosshairs and cover doors, the accuracy of firearms will be greatly improved, and this improvement will depend on the mechanics rather than the proficiency of the gunners themselves, which will shorten the training time of the #gunners.

Zhu Youzhen asked Xu Guangqi to personally go to the research and development personnel of the Firearms Bureau, instruct the research and development personnel, and install the front sight and cover door on the firearms, and he returned to the Qianqing Palace with satisfaction.

His eight reforms, the government soldier system has been abolished, the government soldiers who have lost their land have emigrated to Liaoning Province, compulsory education has been implemented, and the first newspaper of the Ming Dynasty has been publicly issued.

For the rest of the items, except for the fact that national equality requires a long process of adaptation, the biggest resistance does not come from industry and commerce, nor from Shilin, but from the clans, especially the princes in various places.

On December 18, two uninvited guests came to the Qianqing Palace.

These two people are Zhu Changhao, the Rui King of Hanzhong, and Zhu Changxun, the Fu King of Luoyang.

According to the new policy of the Ming Dynasty, after the dissolution of the clan mansion and the lifting of the ban on the children of the clan, the princes whose fiefs are in various places can return to Beijing to celebrate on their own in the New Yuan, but they still have to stay in the fiefdom at ordinary times.

"Haha, when did the two uncles return to Beijing?" Zhu Youzhen let the two into the main hall.

"It's only been two days since I returned to Beijing." On the chair of King Zhu Changxun, King Fu, his fat body occupies all the space on the chair surface.

"The two uncles have been working hard all the way, why don't they rest in the palace for a few more days? I just returned to Beijing, and I am going to come to Qianqing Palace to visit the juniors, how can I be at peace in my heart? Zhu Youzhen asked the eunuchs to serve tea to the two princes.

"Hey!" Zhu Changhao sighed, "It's not that other princes come to the door crying and begging!" ”

"Crying and begging?" Zhu Youzhen immediately understood, it must be for the sake of the clan, King Rui and King Fu are his own uncles, and they have the closest blood relationship, so the other princes encouraged them to come to advise, no matter how bad it is, you can also inquire about the rumors, "Two uncles, this is the Qianqing Palace, let's close the door and talk about our own words, what do you want?" ”

"Your Majesty, do all land have to pay agricultural tax?" Zhu Changxun tentatively.

"This is the foundation of the New Deal, and it must not be shaken!" Zhu Youzhen's attitude was extremely resolute, "Uncle Fuwang's family has a big business, and in Henan, I am afraid it is one of the largest households, and he still cares about this agricultural tax?" ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers have been rewarded with land by Lord Wanli, and it is indeed a lot, but there are many descendants of the ministers, and once they are distributed, I am afraid that it will be a little difficult to feed them." Zhu Changxun no longer has the arrogance of last time, he seems to have learned to cry poor.

Why do you have no money to raise many children? Zhu Youzhen scolded for a while, "Uncle Fu Wang, now the fertile land of the Ming Dynasty is gradually concentrated in the hands of clans and large households, with the increase of the clan population, this trend is still developing, if the big households do not pay taxes, then where will the imperial court get food?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's good that the population of the clan is increasing, but the population of the common people is also increasing, aren't they paying more food?" King Fu is still playing a side game.

"Without land, what do they pay taxes? Could it be that Uncle Fu Wang hopes that the civil uprising in Shaanxi will happen again in Henan? In case of a civil uprising in Henan, then Uncle Fu's loss, I'm afraid it won't be this tax, right? ”

"Your Majesty, relying on renting land, they can also support their families, and the civil uprising in Shaanxi is because of the severe drought for several consecutive years, and the crops in northern Shaanxi have not been harvested."

"The people can feed themselves, but what about the court? Where does the imperial court get food? Is it necessary for the imperial court to increase taxes on these people who are barely making ends meet? ”

“……”

"Official coercion # civil rebellion, two uncles and princes, which dynasty ended not because of land annexation? Now that I have not taken back your land, but only asked you to pay taxes according to the number of acres of land, you are distressed? In case of a civil uprising, which dynasty will have good fruit to eat? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is also able to support his family!" Zhu Changhao cried with a sad face, his land is in Hanzhong, which is the land of mountains and rivers, and the place is barren, which is not as big as the great cause of the Fu Wangye's family.

"Uncle Rui Wang, in the past two years in the cement factory, I haven't saved a lot of money, right? Isn't this silver as good as the taxes on the farmland? ”

"This ......" Zhu Changhao was speechless for a while, he and Zhu Youzhen co-founded the cement factory in Shaanxi, and he did save a lot of silver in the past two years, but compared with Zhu Changxun, he is still a well-off family.

"Uncle Rui Wang wants to see the shape clearly, the court needs enough food to support the hundred officials and the army, in the year of famine, but also to help the people, if Uncle Rui wants silver, he should not hold on to the land, but to keep up with industry and commerce, you look at this cement factory, it has already made you save a lot of money, if you set up a few more factories......"

"What does His Majesty mean, is it to let the ministers and others run more factories?" Zhu Changxun heard the doorway.