This day was the day when Zhu Youzhen convened the cabinet and the two houses to hold a court discussion on new-style education and new-style schools.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen did not linger on Yuan Guifei and He Guiren for long, and got up to wash his sideburns when the rooster broke dawn.

Just after breakfast, Wang Chengen came to Zhu Youzhen according to the usual practice: "Your Majesty, Ma Shiying left the capital at the beginning of yesterday's unitary hour, and only Ruan Dayue, the secretary of the military department, sent him off, and the two talked in the long pavilion for half an hour. ”

"These two people are wearing a pair of pants, they have been famous comrades since the first emperor's brother, where did Ruan Dayue go after sending Ma Shiying?" Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"When I went to Li Mingrui's house, there was a lot of laughter inside, and I didn't come back until three o'clock."

After Wang Chengen finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen's heart couldn't help but tighten, and then he smiled with relief, and said in his heart:

"This Ruan Dayue, there has never been a record of going to Li Mingrui's mansion before, and now after sending Ma Shiying away at five o'clock in the afternoon, he went to someone's house to laugh debauchery until nine o'clock in the evening, why didn't Li Mingrui beat him out, it must have been Ma Shiying's idea, it's really a superfluous move! Don't worry about them, King Hui and King Yong, as well as the queen and Gao Hongtu, keep an eye on them. ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Wang Chengen nodded and said yes and retreated.

At that time, Xu Zhaohua, the celebrant and supervisor, walked over: "Father, the ministers who participated in the court meeting have all arrived. ”

Zhu Youzhen only nodded lightly, didn't say anything to Xu Zhaohua, and saw that the new celebrant Yu Ling'er was also on the side, so he ordered:

"You can go with you, there are some important points of the court discussion that I will check when the time comes."

Not long after speaking, Zhu Youzhen came to the place of the court meeting, the first assistant of the cabinet, Gao Hongtu, the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University and the secretary of the Ministry of Household Qu Shiyun, the scholar of the East Pavilion University and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites Huang Daozhou, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites Huang Zongxi, the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry and the Daming Industrial School of sacrificial wine Bi Maokang, the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry and the Daming Academy of Engineering Zhengfang Yizhi, the secretary of the Daming Academy of Sciences and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy Zhang Dai and other officials involved in the academic and educational fields of the Ming Dynasty were busy coming to salute as soon as they saw the appearance of Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen.

"Excuse me, today is the court meeting of the monarch and the ministers, not a ceremony, give me a seat!"

When Zhu Youzhen said this, the ministers naturally hurriedly thanked him.

"Since before the Northern Expedition, I have this idea, the things of the world's soldiers and even the lives of the people have been different from before, I Daming not only only need people with high morality and courtesy, but also need more guns, cannons, guns and bullets, warships and even money management, people, and animal talents, the previous education of the Ming Dynasty emphasized self-cultivation and light practicality, heavy industry and light enlightenment, and now I want to practice new education and establish a new style of school, what do you think about Aiqing, you can speak freely."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, said first: "What Your Majesty said is very true, and today is not the same situation as before, those who are strong and strong can win the world, and the imperial court is in urgent need of craftsmen with good skills and even officials who understand money and law, but the imperial examination is the right way to elect officials in the world, and the people recognize it, and the hundred officials also recognize it, so Weichen believes that the imperial examination cannot be abolished, and the new school can supplement it." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, he knew that Gao Hongtu would say this, so he said:

"I didn't say that I wanted to abolish the imperial examination, what I want to do now is a new type of education and a new style of school, and now there are four ways to elect officials in the Ming Dynasty, subjects (i.e., imperial examinations), schools, recommendations, and Quanxu, I mean to add one more on top of these four paths, and it will be temporarily named the examination.

That is, primary schools are set up in each county, which can be referred to as primary schools; There are secondary schools in each province, higher schools in various provinces, and university halls in Beijing and Dabu thoroughfares.

The primary school is divided into four subjects: Chinese language, arithmetic, nature, and society.

Arithmetic is the basic catechesis of arithmetic.

Nature is the mechanism of all things in heaven and earth that can be observed, and society is history, human ethics, money law, and the way of kings and ministers.

As for how to divide it into details, it is natural that it should not be too difficult for primary school students, and they should focus on general knowledge and foundation.

The primary school can be divided into grades, what level each grade needs to reach, and the number of grades to which can be promoted to the middle school, which is also determined by the Ministry of Rites and the two courts.

In middle school, it is naturally subdivided into three subjects: physics, chemistry and biology, and society is subdivided into geography, history and politics.

Secondary school is the stage of laying a solid foundation and the most critical stage of cultivating talents. In the same way that students are divided into students, proliferation, and epistudents, students with different grades will be given different levels according to the different grades selected for the university.

In general, there is a test for primary school to middle school, and an exam for middle school to university, both of which are official examinations, and the government arranges schools to be responsible for selection.

Examinations within the school can be held freely.

The students of the university hall implement the credit system, what is the credit system, I will talk to you in detail later, those who have completed the credits can graduate, they can also apply to enter the provincial examination to select a person at a glance, and after becoming a person, they can also enter Beijing to enter the Beijing Normal University Hall or the Daming Academy of Sciences and the Daming Academy of Engineering to be selected as a jinshi.

Once a student chooses to graduate, he will be reported by the Ministry of Rites to the Ministry of Officials and the General Political Office of the Generalissimo's Office, and the Ministry of Officials and the General Political Office of the Generalissimo's Office will assign their official positions in a unified manner.

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Gao Hongtu, Song Yingxing and other officials had no objections.

After all, they are all running for the first assistant now, and they don't want to offend His Majesty's intentions, but Fang Yizhi still couldn't help asking:

"Your Majesty, where do the students of the primary school come from, and in addition, once they enter the new school, can they still participate in the imperial examination?"

"Huang Zongxi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, I ask you, how many people are studying Mengtong in Daming Social Studies now? How many children are born each year? ”

When Zhu Youzhen asked, Huang Zongxi hurriedly reported the numbers and made a summary: "Even if Your Majesty has repeatedly expanded the number of students, there are only three or four out of ten children who can be born in each county. ”

"Very good, in the future, Your Excellency will not allow those who are talented to enter the new-style primary school twice, so as not to waste the years on the road to the industry, and at the same time, the primary school also allows the children and young daughters of social studies and non-social studies to enroll, and the students of the new school are subsidized by the royal special funds, and I take out half of the income from the internal funds every year to fund their lives, and the Ministry of Rites is responsible for their education expenditures, which shall not be less than half of the annual expenditure."

In modern times, the expenditure on education in developed countries is generally about 4 percent of the total national expenditure, but Zhu Youzhen now requires that the state treasury spend no less than half of its own internal expenses in the new-style schools, and half of its own internal funds, and I have to say that this proportion is very high.

Even the head of the household department, Qu Shiyun, and the head of the Ministry of Rites, Huang Daozhou, were very surprised when they heard this, and thought: It seems that Your Majesty is not planning to build the imperial tomb again.

"The new school has been established, and the arrangement of the new education has to be arranged by the Ministry of Rites, the two academies and the Hanlin Academy, and now there is a key to the number of gentlemen, there are many people who understand the Chinese language, but there are not many people who understand arithmetic and even the principles of natural society, so they can only concentrate on training a group first, and the people of the two academies and the Daming Ordnance Institute and the Daming Industrial School will first concentrate on the new education."

Zhang Dai said something at this time, and Zhu Youzhen also felt that the teacher was also a big problem, so he said:

"Now we must first set up a number of normal schools, the meaning of teachers, you should be able to understand, as the name suggests is to cultivate the gentlemen needed for new education, but there should also be a representative comprehensive university hall, first in Beijing to establish a Beijing Normal University, and then in Nanjing and Beijing to set up a normal school, other normal schools, when the time comes, the details will be arranged, the same is true of other university halls."

(End of chapter)