Zhu Youzhen was talking, and he couldn't help but be a little angry. This feeling of being controlled by others is very uncomfortable, especially by local state and county officials, and even the gentry and landlords.

How to break the game, Zhu Youzhen also has his own set of plans.

During the feudal period, ordinary officials in prefectures, counties or more grass-roots areas often had a strong control over the local people.

At the heart of this control is education.

If you put aside the layers of outer wrapping, after being called class, rules, and power, there is only this one question that is naked in front of Zhu Youzhen.

Why didn't the imperial power go to the countryside, Zhu Youzhen actually thought about it.

To put it bluntly, education has not kept up, in today's Ming Dynasty, it is actually a very luxurious thing for people to receive education, and this luxury is first manifested in the human factor.

You must know that every young man is a rare strong laborer in the family of the Ming people, if this strong laborer wants to study, under today's system.

Gentleman's reading, almost means that it is directly separated from farming and labor, and every official of the Ming Dynasty, or a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, needs a large number of people to pull out the food in their mouths and save it to feed.

Regardless of how much money and time it costs for a young schoolchild to pass the traditional imperial examination step by step, from being a child, showing talents, and lifting people, even this simple reduction of one labor force and an increase in food rations for one person.

It's no longer something that an ordinary family of the Ming people can afford.

Not to mention the strong disparity between private and private schools, where children of official families can visit local teachers at a very young age, or their parents can pay for famous teachers to teach at home.

And what about the people?

Even the peasant people who lack a strong labor force may be broken, and even the official schools opened by the Ming court in various places may not be able to afford it.

You must know that in the final analysis, it is still an agrarian society, and industrialization has only budded under the influence of Zhu Youzhen's forcible opening of the science and technology tree.

So a bold idea suddenly sprung up in Zhu Youzhen's mind.

I saw him open his mouth and say: "I have been troubled by this so-called problem of the imperial power not going to the countryside for a long time, and I have also thought about it for a long time, and finally I found that the so-called imperial power does not go to the countryside is actually difficult to educate in the countryside. ”

The officials in the audience were a little puzzled, but the Ministry of Rites, which is now the department directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, came to Zongdao for a while, but they were a little thoughtful.

And Huang Liji suddenly showed a happy look, and he seemed to immediately understand the final solution to the problem that he had been difficult to see through before.

"As long as we can solve the problem of education, so that every Ming ordinary person can have access to education, and ensure that their children have the right to receive education, then in the long run, this kind of low-level officials fooling the people will gradually disappear."

"What I want is a local state and county yamen that serves the local people, not an official who spends his days thinking about how to enjoy himself, how to fish the people, and how to make benefits from the locality; I am afraid that there is no shortage of talents who want to become officials, I am not afraid of being embarrassed, and I dare to give more young officials the opportunity to try and make mistakes, so that they can make great achievements. ”

Zhu Youzhen's words are like an initiation, although there is no deafening sound, but it has an uplifting effect.

But at this moment, Guo Yunhou of the household department suddenly interjected and said: "What Your Majesty said, the ministers are quite emotional, and as a scholar, Wei Chen even feels that if you can really let every child of the Ming people have the right to obtain the qualification to be educated, then my Ming will really shine forever and live forever..."

Halfway through the words, Guo Yunhou suddenly showed a hint of tightness on his face and twisted it.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, "I called you here today to let you speak freely, this is not a hall of words by me, but a hall of discussion where ideas from all walks of life converge, you can say whatever you want." ”

Seeing this, Guo Yunhou gave up his twist and said boldly.

"Wei Chen doesn't know if His Majesty has calculated how much silver taels it will cost to build a new school in the Ming Dynasty and let all school-age children enter the school to study... How many teachers should I invite, and whether I know if there are enough teachers to teach the new school."

Guo Yunhou's words naturally pointed out the biggest hidden danger of Zhu Youzhen's move from a practical point of view.

It's money.

Where does the money come from?

Although Da Ming now has the subsidy of the Royal Tax Office and the surplus of the previous raided officials.

Although the current life is not tight, it is far from being as rich as the country and the people, if he acts rashly, Guo Yunhou is also worried that this move will drag down the expenses of other aspects of the Ming court.

At that time, the emperor will not have enough money in his pocket, and he will inevitably come to his Guo Yunhou's pocket.

That is, the treasury.

How could Zhu Youzhen not see Guo Yunhou's careful thoughts.

bluntly said: "The problem of new education is not destined to be achieved in a day or two, and the promotion of this matter will not be rolled out in a comprehensive way, Guo Aiqing's words are also reasonable, and for me, the problem of silver is far inferior to that of teachers, I call it the problem of educational resources." ”

"Therefore, I plan to take advantage of this opportunity to hold a large-scale national resource census and industrial survey in Daming again in the next period of time."

Zhu Youzhen paused when he said this, and looked at Li Xiangming, who is currently the director of the Royal Bureau of Statistics, and Li Xiangming, who was originally immersed in waving the wolf brush in his hand to record, seemed to wonder why the voice on the stage suddenly paused.

After raising his head, he happened to meet Zhu Youzhen's gaze, and under the four eyes, Li Xiangming suddenly realized that this so-called census survey was not the purview of his Royal Bureau of Statistics?

So he got up from his seat.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said, "Let me introduce you Aiqing, this is Li Xiangming, who I have just assigned to the Royal Bureau of Statistics, who has a good background and has taken several short-term courses at the Daming Royal Academy of Sciences and the Daming Royal Academy of Management. ”

"Excellent performance, I poached it from the Royal Academy of Sciences."

Li Xiangming's age is not very old, he is a lot younger than the other officials present, and Li Xiangming, who is just in his early thirties this year, is obviously a little immature.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was not stage frightened, "Thanks to His Majesty's trust, Li will firmly perform the duties of the Royal Bureau of Statistics in the future, and I hope that there will be more trouble for you in the future." ”

And Huang Liji, who was on the side, almost couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Secretly: "It's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers.."