It can be said that in today's Ming Dynasty, from the rule of law to the distribution of agricultural income and the distribution of land resources, these grassroots ruling rights are controlled by the clan, and even the personal life, property and personal freedom are controlled by the clan, regardless of men and women, from birth to death, marriage, funeral and study to make a living are inseparable from the clan, but they can be separated from the court.

Many officials are extraordinary officials and idealists, but in the end, they all follow the rules and even become the vanguard of the rulers' exploitation of the common people, not because of the pressure of the clan, and sometimes in the eyes of many bureaucrats, the interests of the clan are greater than the interests of the state or even the interests of the nation.

What Zhu Youzhen wants to break now is the clan's right to rule over the grassroots of the Ming Dynasty, so that the central court can truly control the local and even grassroots levels, so that the human, material and financial resources of the entire country can be fully mobilized, and only then can the gentry completely get rid of the control of the gentry over the Ming Dynasty, because the patriarchs of most clan societies are gentry and eunuchs.

As Liu Aiqing said, today's learning emphasizes too much on the art of making arts, and the analysis of learning is just picking up the wisdom of the ancients, emphasizing their own principles and guidelines, and not emphasizing the education of the world, the Ministry of Rites is responsible for the education of the world, and it is necessary to guide the thinking of the people of the world, for the scholars, we must emphasize the way of loyalty and patriotism, and the country will be destroyed, you are all great Confucians, I encourage you to set up academies and pulpits and even literary societies, but we should focus on how to correct the hearts of the people in the world, so that they know the difference between the Han and the Hu people, Knowing what the 5,000-year-old inheritance of China relies on, let them know what the Ming Dynasty represents. ”

When Zhu Youzhen said this, Liu Zongzhou and others also understood, knowing that as officials of the Ministry of Rites, they were nothing more than running academies and literary societies to promote the study of loyalty and patriotism, and guide people to understand the difference between Huayi.

"The literati are serious about learning, but the warriors and the common people need to popularize the way of literacy and education.

There must be a social school in a village, and the social school has an official position of teaching, and every 30 students are assigned a gentleman, and those who serve as Mr. social studies will be given the meritorious name of the child, and the student will be given the meritorious name of the person, and the government will issue the same as the teaching, and it must be implemented.

My requirement is that children over the age of seven must not have no unenrolled children, no matter what household registration the child is, must have completed three years of study, social credit high school junior primary school, each level is divided into three years, three years after the completion of three years, can study in secondary primary school at their own expense can also participate in the imperial examination, the purpose of this is to make the Ming Dynasty, whether it is a rural field or a city town, as long as I am a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, I cannot be illiterate, can not know the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism! ”

Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was quite shocked, and he was even at a loss with excitement.

He didn't expect His Majesty Zhu Youzhen to have an idea, the former set up the Tianxia Academy and the Literary Society, he quite agreed, since the end of Wanli, the Tianxia Academy Forum has flourished again, and teaching has become a common practice, but what he didn't expect was the latter:

"Your Majesty wants to change the system of social studies in the world, and deliberately let all the people in the world be educated, it can't be said that it is not good governance, but in this case, won't it increase the expenditure of the imperial court?"

"This doesn't matter, the dietary specifications in the future will be halved, and there is no need to make dozens of dishes again and again, and it will be changed to a la carte system in the future, and the emperor's pomp is not like this, in addition, the individual income tax after the Ming Dynasty is part of the high income and high income, including the manuscript fee income you get in Guanghua Daily and other newspapers and periodicals, as well as the fees paid by the shopkeepers of various company workshops and other high-paid people are independent of the funds for scholarship, and there will be scenic spots around the country that will be managed by the Ministry of Rites in the future, and the profits earned will also be used as funds for scholarship, It is more than enough to meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty for the children to enroll in school for three years and to educate the teaching students;

In addition, the folk squires are still encouraged to open private schools and academies, and if the head of the private school and the academy is not born to bestow the teaching officer, the private school or the academy is the same as the social science gentleman, and its students are equivalent to social studies students, and can participate in the imperial examination and other selection examinations of the Ming Dynasty, but the private schools and college students are not free of charge, and the government does not provide financial support. ”

When Zhu Youzhen said this, Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Huang Daozhou, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Siren, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, were all very surprised, they did not expect that His Majesty would not hesitate to reduce the specifications of the imperial meal in order to complete such a great cause of student assistance, and also separately allocated tax types to help students.

"Your Majesty's move can not be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented, and it is difficult for the king of the prosperous world to reach the benevolence of Your Majesty.

Huang Daozhou, a famous minister of science, was in charge of the imperial examination and school education affairs full-time, and now he naturally had to express it first, and he was indeed grateful to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly asked Shi Kefa to help Huang Daozhou: "Aiqing doesn't have to be like this, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the Han people to live on the top of the world for all generations, this is what you and I should do, can you have the confidence to promote this next year?" ”

"Your Majesty rest assured, Wechen will not dishonor His Majesty's order, but Wechen has something unclear, what is the fee for the management of scenic spots in the world, is Your Majesty's intention to manage the world's famous attractions by the imperial court, and it is not possible to collect fees?"

Huang Daozhou asked, Zhu Youzhen nodded: "The tomb of the loyal and virtuous ministers, the place of Zhong Lingyuxiu, and the relics of the Xiangxian emperor, all need to be maintained, this is the treasure of the Ming Dynasty and even the entire Han people, and after the road is banned, there must be a lot of tours around, how to maintain it without charging fees, and most of the people who visit the world are wealthy, just collect their small profits to help teach." ”

Zhu Youzhen explained this, Huang Daozhou also understood that most of the people who visited the world's scenic spots were literati and scholars, and His Majesty meant to collect money from literati and scholars again, but His Majesty used this money to fund the literati and scholars to study, and he couldn't say anything.

"In addition, after the implementation of this way, the world of social studies will inevitably be in short supply, the world's scholars have multiple careers, and light teaching, in the future, I will make a will, from the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, all those who have been teaching for three years can directly participate in the township examination, and when marking the papers, it should be marked separately, and there will be no less than 50 people with teaching experience on the examination list, and the township examination in each province will be analogous to this proportion, so that the world's scholars can be enthusiastic about teaching!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Huang Daozhou, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, nodded, and did not refute, in his opinion, His Majesty's move can be regarded as changing the cause of the imperial examination, and the imperial examination, which is most valued by the people of the world, has been thoroughly used as a means to guide the scholars to pursue their careers.

But it is much better than giving people who have not taken the road of career to Jinshi, and since Chongzhen, it has long been due to the disorder of the national system, which has caused a sudden increase in Jinshi, and he naturally has no intention of stopping Zhu Youzhen from doing so.

(End of chapter)