This one...... Sounds like a bit of a point. Eh, how could the words of the great god not be reasonable!

Zhu Jishi thought repeatedly, and now the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are mainly produced by the imperial examination, and most of the people who are admitted to the imperial examination are members of the gentry and landlord class. In other words, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were composed of gentry and landlords, and the representatives were naturally the fundamental interests of the gentry landlords!

The capitalists and new-style intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty have been growing stronger in the past nearly 1o years. If we only talk about financial resources and contribution to taxes. The bourgeoisie has passed the gentry landlords. Now in the nearly 300 million annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty,,, if you take into account the net profit of the royal consortium as high as tens of millions of yuan a year and the huge assets and wealth at its disposal, it can be said that industry and commerce have been the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the influence of industrial and commercial capitalists in politics is far inferior to that of the gentry and landlords if the emperor Zhu Jishi is not considered. Because the gentry and landlords' main duty was not to manage the land, but to take the examination to become officials, and before the age of 26, these people were bent on becoming officials, and their number was far greater than that of the capitalists, especially the big capitalists. Just the gentry who have become civil officials, the total number is no less than 4o thousand! There is no way to balance the big bourgeoisie with a small number.

Similarly, most of the emperors of all dynasties in history had no way to say that these scholars and gentry had no way to share the world with scholars.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi took a deep breath: "Friedrich, thank you for taking the time to solve my doubts, for your advice." I'll seriously consider it. ”

Engels smiled slightly. Stood up. "Your Majesty, my construction is like this, if there is nothing to do, please allow me to leave first, the work of the royal consortium is very busy."

"Okay, so be it." Zhu Jishi got up and sent the mentor out of the Jinshen Palace, but he didn't let Miao Peilin and the others leave. It seems that today's discussion is not over yet.

"Lao Zheng. Miao Yusan, what do you think? "The matter of voting and election is a big matter, and Zhu Jishi certainly needs to solicit opinions from a wide range of people, and he must not act rashly.

When Zheng Hong heard Zhu Jishi call out his name, he knew that he couldn't hide, so he had to smile and said, "Your Majesty, the minister feels it...... Compulsory education is not so difficult, your Sacred Heart is dictatorial, and one will go down. Who would dare to disagree? Those who shake the pencil are poor sour people who have no backbone, grab a few. If you can't do it, you will make an example, and no one will dare to pick a bone in the egg.

In addition, the General Association for the Promotion of Industry and the following chambers of commerce can also pay more money to run some practical middle schools, for primary school graduates to learn some high skills, now we are most lacking in the Ming Dynasty is the skilled workers of the machine industry, their wages are much higher than ordinary craftsmen. ”

Zheng Wangye avoided the election, only talked about how to promote compulsory education, and also raised the issue of establishing a practical middle school, in fact, the practical middle school and the ordinary middle school have long been a supplementary part of the compulsory education plan, otherwise the planned education funds will not be as high as 6ooo yuan This money is not all used for four-year compulsory primary schools, but also includes the follow-up training and education of primary school graduates, according to the plan, about 2o% of compulsory primary school graduates should be able to continue to learn technology and knowledge.

The Ministry of Education estimates that if 80,000 people graduate from the four-year compulsory primary school system every year, 160,000 people will be able to go on to various secondary schools and practical secondary schools. This number is not said to be in 1856, even more than 15o years later, and it does not look too little. From this, it can be seen how great the population pressure of the Ming Empire is at the moment! The 80,000 people to graduate from the four-year compulsory primary school are boys only, not including the dolls whose families can afford to go to private schools......

What an old fox! Zhu Jishi listened to Zheng Hong's construction but sighed in his heart: This Zheng Wang Ye will avoid the important now!

He looked at Miao Peilin again, Miao Peilin was wrinkling his eyebrows and shaking his head: "It's not okay to arrest and kill people, you can't do this, you can't do this...... The emperor's permission for the people to run a newspaper is to open the way, how can he shout and kill because of a little disagreement? And even if you kill a few and catch a few, there will still be resistance when compulsory education is implemented at the local level.

As far as the ministers knew, it had always been the duty of the gentry to educate the people in the localities. At present, in the villages of the provinces of the Ming and Han dynasties, there are still a large number of clan fields and study fields, most of which are controlled by the gentry, and a considerable part of the income is used for private school studies. These private schools can be combined with compulsory education, so that on the one hand, the burden on the common people can be reduced, and on the other hand, the resistance to the implementation of compulsory education can also be reduced. The most important thing is to solve the livelihood of the village school teacher. Chen, Luo Luoshan, and Hong Xiu have all been school teachers. ”

Or Miao Peilin is old and serious! Zhu Jishi nodded again and again, if his compulsory education kicked the rural school teachers away, and then started a new situation, he was afraid that a considerable number of people would be pushed to the opposite side of him and aggravate social turmoil. These village school teachers, frustrated scholars, also have to give food.

Zhu Jishi said: "Zuo Zongtang and Luo Zenan are ready to recruit teachers in the pilot measures for compulsory education they formulated...... But now, it can be pushed directly to the squire to do it himself. As long as the private school meets the standard, it can hang up the sign of primary school, and the Ministry of Education and the local education department will give a certain subsidy. At the same time, local elections were being held, and the merchants in the city were put in charge of the public bureau to supervise the gentry. Miao Qing, what do you think? ”

In other words, in the future, most of the rural primary schools in the country will be upgraded from private schools, and at the same time, these primary schools will also be controlled by the local gentry, and the state funding and students' tuition fees will also be controlled by the local gentry. In this way, the local gentry who have just received the suppression will definitely take the opportunity to raise their heads. If you don't want these unscrupulous gentry to eat too much fat, it seems that they will have to listen to Engels, to prop up the emerging urban bourgeoisie, to let their agents control the parliament, to review the use of education funds, and to keep an eye on the rich landlords in the countryside!

Miao Peilin shook his head: "If you want to choose, the squire may not lose!" They had more heads than the merchants in the city. ”

Zhu explained: "There can be a tax limit on the right to vote, and in addition, meritorious soldiers and all officials have the right to vote. However, in Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Yingtian, various industrial and commercial taxes are dozens of times higher than agricultural taxes, so the elected legislators must represent the interests of businessmen. And a considerable part of the education funding comes from local taxes, that is, the pockets of these urban businessmen, how can they not keep an eye on it? ”

"Isn't this election going to be more expensive than anyone?" Miao Peilin still shook his head, and didn't seem to approve of it.

"That's the rule!" Zhu Jishi smiled faintly, "The rules are set by me, and now the benefits of compulsory education are given to the squire, and the benefits of the election should naturally be given to the businessmen who pay for them." If it weren't for paying taxes, wouldn't the council be the world of the squires? ”

Emperor Zhu said in his heart, if this is the case, then compulsory education should not be peaceful! Most of the current civil officials are gentry and landlords, and if they are allowed to control the parliament again, will he, the bourgeois emperor, still be able to sit firmly?

Of course, it is not possible to completely hand over the power to the bourgeoisie, maybe those profiteers will have to change their own emperor's life, the best way is to let the profiteers and the inferior gentry contain each other, and they will be arbiters from above, this is what the emperor does!

Miao Peilin still shook his head, "The gentry suffer too much from such an election method, I am afraid that there will be a backlash, and then public opinion will be noisy again." ”

"Public opinion?" Emperor Zhu suddenly smiled and said coldly, "Miao Qing, do you think I really have no way to control public opinion?" Isn't public opinion just a newspaper now? Who runs the newspaper? His tone was already softened, "I have given the gentry great benefits on the issue of compulsory education, and of course I have to get back the original in terms of suffrage." ”

Miao Peilin and Zheng Hong glanced at each other, their brows were tightly wrinkled, the constitution and parliament have been unprecedented in China for thousands of years, and now they have to vote for members, whether this thing is a blessing or a curse, it's really hard to say! (To be continued......)

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