Chapter 217 [Preparation Before Departure]

Ao Bai had never been abroad in his previous life, and he could only have some understanding of foreign countries through movies and TV series. He was curious about what ancient Europe would look like.

In China, he has nothing to do, he is at home every day with his wife and children, and when he has an important issue, he goes to the palace to discuss decision-making, he wants to have a higher goal.

After going home and asking for the opinions of his wives, in addition to Anna, Su Meng'er and Phoenix are also ready to go to Europe with him. Anna has just given birth, and Hai Lanzhu and Yao Qianyu are about to start confinement again. Once safety measures are not taken, it is very easy to get pregnant. This is also why so many people died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, and the population increased by the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Huang Jianxiang and Huang Feihong can already call dad and mom. Phoenix hasn't been out for a long time in order to see the child, Ao Bai took the initiative to take her out, and the two wives with the highest martial arts can also become Ao Bai's help.

Li Yan wants to take Hongyan with him. The two have a good relationship, but they have never been married, and at present, Li Yan is living an ascetic ascetic life, in order to be able to practice the tenth layer of the golden bell jar as soon as possible, he must see what the effect of the tenth layer is. Hongyan went to Europe together as a doctor, preparing a large number of medicinal materials for the people who practiced the golden bell jar, and it can be said that she came to sell medicine when she arrived in Europe.

In addition to these preparations, Jinyiwei also invited several Miao people from Miao Jiang.

The imperial court's pacification policy against Miao Jiang had an effect, reducing taxes, providing economic assistance, and starting trade. Qinglong Wang Bao has a good reputation, and he personally went to appease the Miao people and dealt with the corrupt officials there. There is also a small episode in it, because Wang Bao rescued a Miao girl and achieved a good marriage.

As long as those black sheep are resolved, and in addition, no national contradiction can be alleviated without discrimination. Miao people can now also go to Han schools to study, and after consulting them, new schools have been opened in Yunnan and Guizhou Miaojiang. This allows the children of the Miao people to have a book to read. Having received the benefits, the Miao people are no longer so hostile to the Ming Dynasty.

These Miao people are not simple, they are all good at Gu. Not all Miao people can play Gu, only the Gu Miao clan is proficient in the use of Gu.

After listening to the explanation of Gu poison, Li Yan was very interested and proposed: "I don't know what Gu poison is, take me as an experiment, right?" ”

"How can anyone volunteer to let people fall into Gu, are you crazy?" Ao Bai looked at the Miao woman in her thirties and said with a wry smile: "This eldest sister, he is a general in the court, he has practiced too much kung fu, and his brain is funny, so let's experiment with others." ”

The Miao woman asked, "What kind of kung fu did this adult practice?" ”

Li Yan said truthfully: "I can't remember that there are many husbands in the outer house, but the inner house is the ninth floor of the Golden Bell Jar. ”

Miao Nu shook her head and said, "That's not good, if the internal kung fu is practiced to a certain extent, the Gu worm will not be able to survive, and if the Gu fails, he will be counterattacked." ”

I didn't expect the golden bell jar to have this benefit, so Ao Bai casually found a young man in the house and said, "Take this one to demonstrate." ”

Jia Ding was stunned for a moment and exclaimed, "My lord...... Don't play with me like that, right? ”

Ao Bai said: "If you can't die, you will be rewarded for everything, and you will be the best family...... That, the eldest sister lightly touched it, don't kill him. Can this be solved after it is ordered? ”

"Yes."

As soon as he heard it, Xiao Jiading was not so afraid.

Gu is not airborne, it must have a medium, either it touches people's bodies, or it allows Gu people to touch what people eat. Miao Nu pinched Xiao Jiading's fingers and opened her mouth to mutter. After a while, the family's stomach hurt.

Then Miao Nu asked people to boil three eggs, prepare three unused red threads, and put three eggs in cold water. The Miao girl tied the red rope to the egg, opened the little family's clothes, and stabbed her arm with the tip of a needle, dripping blood onto the egg. After the blood dripped onto the eggs, it melted on the red rope, she picked up the eggs and rolled them around on the stomach of the family, chanting some words and saying some Miao language while rolling, so she took three eggs and rolled them for a while, and asked with a smile: "Do you still have stomach pain?" ”

Jia Ding touched his stomach and said strangely: "Okay, it doesn't hurt at all." ”

Miao Nu said, "Look at those three eggs." ”

When those three eggs were peeled off, they looked normal. But after the egg whites were removed, the yolk was gone, and the yolk part that should have been the yolk was turned out to be a bunch of white bugs that were still wriggling

Everyone who watched swallowed and spitted, and Ao Bai looked at the family and smiled: "Do you have any feelings?" ”

Jia Ding sighed: "I don't want to eat eggs again." ”

The crowd laughed.

I heard that Ao Bai personally commanded the army, and almost all the navy volunteered to go to Europe. They felt that it must be easy to go out with Ao Bai to fight, this is to make meritorious contributions, and after selection, the 50,000 people who will go to the expedition are all elite soldiers and strong generals.

In addition to Zheng Zhilong and Mao Wenlong, the "Cold-blooded Thirteen Eagles", Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Wu Sangui's four major feudal kings in their previous lives also asked for orders to go on the expedition. If it weren't for the border pass and the good relations with Mongolia, Hari Chagai and Man Gui also wanted to join in the fun.

There are not enough ships of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it would not be impossible for 200,000 troops to set foot in Europe at one time, and then Europe will definitely panic. The date of the voyage was set, and the departure was made at the end of April.

The people of the whole country are full of expectations for this voyage, and they believe that Huang Taifu will definitely bring new development opportunities and wealth to Daming. When he went to the court, "Chongzhen" smiled and said: "Everyone, at the end of this month, we will go west, I wanted to hold a send-off dinner for the generals, but Taifu insisted that he would wait until the victory returned to celebrate, Taifu wanted to stay in Europe for a while, you should help me with your heart, and you can't let the development of the Ming Dynasty stagnate." ”

Li Biao arched his hand and said: "Huang Taifu is in charge of the expedition, this battle will undoubtedly be won, and the ministers will do their best to assist the emperor in handling domestic affairs, please rest assured." The emperor will be the first person in my Ming Dynasty to open up territory in the West, long live the emperor."

A group of people shouted hooray together

He Ru said: "Now there is still a matter that the emperor needs to decide." The date of the imperial examination is approaching, and Weichen thinks that the examination questions of the imperial examination should be revised somewhat? For example, how can I enter by subject? If you continue to use the proposition of the Four Books and Five Classics, I am afraid that it will have an adverse impact on the emerging schools and subjects, and the study of the Four Books and Five Classics cannot continue to be the only way to enter the office. ”

"Chongzhen" said: "Taifu, you must have already thought of a plan in this regard, right?" ”

Ao Bai stood up and arched his hand: "We will not abolish the imperial examination, we only need to change and refine, this time the examination, the four books and the five classics will still be examined, but we must tell the world that this will be the last imperial examination without a subject." In the next imperial examination, the examination questions will be classified in detail, and different sub-subjects will be selected to take the township examination, and each subject will be lifted, and will be entered according to the subject, such as learning the law, and the assessment will be based on the content of the law, supplemented by the four books and five classics, and those who pass the examination will enter the criminal department in the future; If you want to become a historian, you have to read through ancient and modern history...... The purpose of the assessment is professionalism. After this classification, people will be very clear about their ideals and goals, and it is a good thing for anyone to learn a skill. There is a restriction on signing up for the imperial examination, that is, you must complete the earliest six years of compulsory education and obtain a graduation certificate. What do you think? ”

The civil and military officials have no opinion, and many people agree, they all understand the current situation of the imperial court, and what Ao Bai says is what it is.

The imperial examination system cannot be abolished.

From the first year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the Jinshi Department was established, and the imperial examination has a long history in history. The imperial examination is China's fifth greatest invention, which has shaped an important feature of Chinese civilization - the integration of politics and religion, and its Chinese and politics are interdependent and inseparable, and politics is ultimately a cultural order.

During the Wanli period, Matteo Ricci went to China, and an unexpected discovery was that China's imperial examination system realized Plato's "ideal state". Plato said that his ideal state is a state ruled by philosophers, and that only when philosophers become kings or kings become philosophers can mankind be peaceful and prosperous. The Ming intellectual class, the "philosophers", had a wide influence on the rulers of the empire, marking a major difference from the West, and another important fact worth noting is that their entire country was governed by the intellectual class, generally called philosophers. Therefore, in terms of institutional rationality and humanistic psychology, the imperial examination can be said to be deeply rooted. The abolition of the imperial examination can be said to abolish a type of civilization, which will definitely cause a great backlash. So only changes can be made.

The imperial court must put more effort into propaganda to make people understand that as long as they learn a skill and have professional knowledge, even if they cannot enter the ranks, they will be of great use in the future, so that people in their fifties and sixties can be avoided from still taking exams. The imperial examination system of the Eight Shares of Scholars did not realize the "ideal country", but only practiced the most rational political and religious system in the pre-modern world. Therefore, the eight-strand text must be abolished. That is too formulaic, and its meaning is only to imprison people's hearts, suffocate society, and fool the people and mislead the country. The current reform is several hundred years before Kang Youwei put forward the idea of adapting the imperial examination and establishing a new school.

This kind of change is relatively gentle, not to let the literati students never get ahead, but to allow them to learn more knowledge and choose what they like and are good at doing. Such a change will not make people lose the opportunity to soar, but will only have more opportunities.

Some people are not good at endorsement, but they have talent in hand, and if such a person enters the Ministry of Industry, he will be a talent. But let him memorize the four books and five classics to take the imperial examination, and the talent will be buried. Some people are born mathematicians, but they are assigned to the Ministry of Rites, which is also a waste of talent. Xu Guangqi is the most striking example. Now Xu Guangqi is teaching Western studies along the coast, accepting apprentices, building ships and training elite soldiers, and living a very fulfilling life, but it is a pity that the system of taking scholars from eight shares has wasted him decades of time.

Reform will prevent this from happening. The trajectory of Daming's development has completely changed...

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