Zuo Zongtang's sense of smell has nothing to say, otherwise he would not have been able to hold the position of the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and he would have taken so much power. However, he took over the power of civil governance, but he did not get involved in military power, so no matter how great his power was, he would not threaten Emperor Zhu. And the first assistant who can't threaten the emperor can, of course, can have a long-term official fortune. He knew that even if he was sent to Beijing by Zhu Jishi to do business, he would not lose the position of Zaifu after he came back - looking at the current Ming political arena, there are only two people who can replace him, one is Zheng Hong, the king of Yanping, and the other is Han Si, who has just been crowned the king of Guilin County. Although the two of them are martial artists, they have the ability and prestige to sit firmly in the position of first assistant. It's just that King Gongcheng of Yanping wants to retire, as for Han Si...... The Western Regions is still inseparable from his town.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zuo Zongtang still decided to brake quietly, and see how Emperor Zhu got compulsory education. When he went to Shanxi this time, he inevitably had to have a headache for these people.

At this time, in the palace, Zhu Jishi was holding a pile of newspapers and looking at them one by one. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that most of the newspaper readers of this era belonged to the upper middle class who could afford to send their children to private schools, and the issue of compulsory education did not attract much attention from them, and it was not as eye-catching as the locust plague in Shanxi, the Western Qing Dynasty in the Western Regions, and the war in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

And the few commentaries are the same as what Luo Zenan said, all of which seem to be quite correct, but absolutely unrealizable, and the spearhead of opposition is the compulsory and charging of compulsory education, according to the above point of view, since compulsory education is compulsory. Then there should be no charge. If you want to be charged. It shouldn't be forced...... In short, it seems that a fee-based compulsory education is worse than no compulsory education at all!

Pan Zuyin walked to Emperor Zhu with a pile of newspapers in his hand, and put the newspapers on the imperial case: "Your Majesty, this is the local newspaper of Yingtianfu and Shanghai, and there are also many articles on compulsory education. The meaning is similar, and they all have a lot of complaints about the fees for compulsory education. ”

Zhu Jishi's face was indifferent, and he said lightly: "I also know that it is wrong to charge for compulsory education, but compulsory education without charging fees." I can't give it! In Zhong, tell me about it, which is better compared to compulsory education with fees and compulsory education without it? ”

Pan Zuyin smiled: "Of course, it's better than nothing." ”

Something is better than nothing! Emperor Zhu also thought so, even a compulsory education dominated by the gentry was better than no compulsory education.

However, there are major events involving the right to dispose of 50 or 60 million education funds, as well as countless positions of primary school principals, vice principals, and teachers. Of course, Emperor Zhu couldn't just listen to Luo Zenan's words and make a decision -- who didn't know that the Xianghu faction to which Luo Zenan belonged was based on the gentry, and it was not strange for him to look towards the gentry.

Emperor Zhu's national policy was to promote the transformation of the gentry class, of course, these gentry could not be allowed to make too much money on compulsory education, let alone let them take advantage of the east wind of large-scale education to further expand their power in the countryside.

Thus at the moment. The political enemy of the Xianghu faction, Miao Peilin, the secretary of the colonial department. Zheng Hong, president of the General Association for the Promotion of Industry and Commerce, and Liu Peng, general manager of the Siberian Development Company, were all sitting opposite Emperor Zhu Da. In addition, the bearded foreigner Friedrich. Engels was sitting beside Emperor Zhu with his brows twisted, full of the breath of a great sage of Taixi - he is actually the right angle today, what compulsory education, what civil society, what constitutional assembly, all came from Taixi, where are these here in the East? Now that I have a problem, of course, I will find this Taixi sage to solve my doubts.

"Prime Minister Luo's method is obviously the only way to work, and politics is always full of deals and compromises. But ......"

Engels seemed to be in a trance, and since returning from the Korean expedition, he began to think about how to prevent the bureaucrats from replacing the original exploiting class and continuing to ride on the heads of the people to exercise power - North Korea seems to be facing such a prospect, the original exploiting class has been overthrown, and the Zhu Dynasty officials who replaced them, although they do not own assets (land), still take 40% of the surplus value from the hard work of the peasants, and Engels believes that they will definitely take more surplus value in the future!

Because Zhu North Korea has no means to supervise these officials at all, there is no parliament and no freedom of the press, so it can only rely on the Supervisory Yuan in the Zhu North Korean bureaucracy to supervise officials, which is almost like letting the officials supervise themselves...... That's not the way to do it at all!

"I think there must be restraints on power! There must be supervision! ”

Engels collected his thoughts and continued: "At present, China has vaguely formed two classes that are both antagonistic and cooperative -- the bourgeoisie and the gentry and landlord class. Political life in China revolves around the struggle and compromise between these two classes. The previous war against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty was a revolutionary struggle between the bourgeoisie (only one bourgeoisie was Zhu Jishi) and a part of the gentry and landlord class to defeat the diehards of the gentry and landlord class. Throughout the revolutions in European countries, the European bourgeoisie and the European aristocratic landlord class were usually both fighting and compromising, and there were almost no countries that really completely excluded the landed aristocracy from forming a sole dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Constitutionalism and representative systems in Europe are the product of this kind of constraint that is both a struggle and a compromise. ”

This question seems to be a bit on the line!

However, it is also true that in most capitalist countries, there has always been a fierce struggle and close collusion between the traditional aristocracy or the landed aristocracy and the new bourgeoisie. At times, it was the bourgeoisie that wiped out most of the landed aristocracy; In some cases, they are two more collusions; In other places, the new bourgeoisie was attached to the landed aristocracy – as in the case of the current Russian Empire and historical China...... In the current Ming Dynasty, after the war against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the new bourgeoisie continued to grow, and the traditional landed aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie compromised and co-governed. The so-called dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is, in fact, a dictatorship under the leadership of the bourgeoisie.

Endashen paused for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, at the beginning of the restoration of the Ming Empire, you formulated the constitution and introduced it into the parliament. But to this day, there has not been a real election in Daming. Parliamentarians are elected by a small group of big capitalists rather than by a wider range of taxpayers, so they lack representation and authority, and parliament is concerned only with taxation and friendship between government and business...... In other words, the parliament of the Ming Dynasty only represents the interests of the big bourgeoisie, and its power is too small to really play the role of parliament. ”

Yes, the Ming Empire had a constitution, a parliament, and of course a dog-like parliamentarian, but there was never a single poll. The members of the parliaments at all levels in the Ming Dynasty were all elected by a small number of big taxpayers, that is, the big bourgeoisie, and their role was only to allow the big taxpayers to participate in politics and have a bargaining weight with the bureaucrats so that they could better collude together.

The reason for this is, of course, related to Zhu Jishi's pragmatism, and the purpose of his parliament in Guangdong was to facilitate taxation, and the parliament was a place for apportioning taxes and bargaining. Up to now, although the collection of commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty has become more and more standardized, many tax departments jointly managed by the parliament and the government have been established, and many tax collection methods have been moved from the West. But the main function of the parliament is to discuss how to collect taxes.

As for the parliament's role in supervising officials, it seems that it is not as good as the newspapers, and as long as the magistrates have a good relationship with the big capitalists and do not get too much money on them, then there is no possibility of being impeached by the parliament. It's those newspapers with a lot of strange words, and from time to time they will find out a few dirty officials......

"Your Majesty the Emperor," Endashen frowned slightly, as if he was considering his words, "I think you should have studied the elections in Western countries, right?" Your years in England were the culmination of the Chartist movement for universal suffrage among the British people. ”

"Universal suffrage?" Zhu Jishi immediately showed a vigilant expression, universal suffrage represents democracy and freedom, which is not a good thing!

"No, not universal suffrage, but the expansion of the electoral range, with more petty bourgeoisie and intellectuals participating in voting and electoral activities. In this way, they could assume the responsibility of supervising and spurring the parliament, so that the parliament would have greater power, and the emergence of politicians representing the interests of the bourgeoisie would be accelerated, so that the bourgeoisie and the landed aristocracy would form a relationship of mutual restraint. (To be continued......)