Barrow, Boyle, Huygens are at the level of big scientists, and of course the Ming can't dig them up.

Because it is impossible for Daming to give them a higher academic status, they are already academic leaders in related fields in Cambridge, Oxford and Leiden respectively, Daming invited them, can they all be the presidents of the newly established Nanjing University?

However, the ready-made academic leaders can't dig up, and those future bulls and today's potential stocks have accumulated momentum from Daming's mission to England and international humanitarian assistance (and also buying and selling to make money).

In particular, the "Great Plague of London" finally disappeared at the end of August of that year, a month earlier than in history. This month's fierce pursuit of the poor, of course, is the credit of the various disinfectants sold by Daming, but it has made a lot of fame.

It's like some of Pfizer's special drugs that came out before the plague was about to end naturally, waving and shouting at the tail of the defeated enemy. As a result, Europeans feel more and more that Daming is absolutely ahead in the fields of medicine and chemistry.

The fleet was finally stranded in Europe until October, a month or two longer than originally planned, in order to wait for the news that "the plague was ended by the Ming Dynasty" to spread more, further build momentum, and wipe out the monetization potential of talent attraction.

Finally, he made a stop in Lisbon before setting sail south for another voyage of at least nine months around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa along the Atlantic Ocean.

In the end, because the monsoon was not very rushed, I waited a little in the middle, and it took more than ten months to sail, and I arrived in Nanjing around the Mid-Autumn Festival in August of the seventh year of Xiaokang.

……

The timeline is finally closed.

In the city of Nanjing, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the well-off for seven years.

Zhu Shuren not only waited for the emperor to finally return to Beijing after a year and a half of southern tour, but also waited for the group of future potential scientists in Europe introduced by Newton to serve the Ming Dynasty.

He himself has already made a decision in his mind that in the second seven-year plan for the future, he will focus on the reform of Daming's internal affairs and farming on the innovation of science, education, and personnel systems.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of "scholars from all over the world to come to the court", Zhu Shuren directly gave a banquet in the Forbidden City of Nanjing and held a scientific event that was enough to be recorded in history by later generations.

Of course, before the banquet, he still respected his son, closed the door first, talked to Zhu Ciyu, and told him his plan.

The atmosphere of the family banquet was very relaxed, only Zhu Shuren took Zhu Yuchan, Fang Ziling, and Zhu Ciyu also brought his queen, and there were no outsiders.

The reason why Fang Ziling was also brought with her was because Fang Ziling was in charge of a lot of work at the Daming Academy after all, and she also raised and taught Zhu Ciyu back then, and Zhu Ciyu's science and engineering education when he was a child came from Fang Ziling. Now to discuss the construction of science and education in the Ming Dynasty, Fang Ziling cannot get around it.

At the family banquet, Zhu Shuren first took some other old accounts, paved the way a little, and only asked his son if he was having fun outside for a year and a half. Obviously, the battle with the Vietnamese was over, and in the end, the road dragged on for more than half a year.

“…… How, is Lushan Waterfall magnificent? Is there anything as spectacular as what Master Qinglian wrote? Escape the summer and enjoy the cool on Lushan, don't have a wild fun, I haven't been to Lushan to cool off in my life.

I heard that this time Lushan summer vacation also built a mountain road with bluestone steps? That can be fully utilized, after a few years of midsummer leisure, I, a mountain and wild scattered people, should also go to escape the summer, every year always go to the museum in Jiangning Town to see the flowers and plants to escape the heat, but also very tired. ”

Zhu Ciyu was most afraid that his father would ask him about this, he was an emperor after the government, and finally the government inspection was completed, and he played for so long, and his father had never played, so it was indeed a bit unfilial.

was pinched by his father, and he had no choice but to laugh with him, saying that he should be filial: "My father has worked hard enough for this world, and he should travel all over the world if he wants to." It's still that the child is not capable enough, so that the father is worried too much. ”

Zhu Shuren didn't really want to beat his son, so he accepted it when he saw it: "How can Lone not worry?" This time, it was spread that the Spaniards were slaughtering our Han people in Luzon, and sooner or later next year, Zheng Chenggong would take action to solve Luzon.

Don't think that my Ming Dynasty has been stable in all directions, the remnants of the Northwest Tatars, the Dzungars, and the Northern Rakshasa may fight with my Ming in the future. At least these two old enemies are subdued, so that the father can spread all this and go out for pleasure without worry.

In addition, we must not use military force to recklessly, but must give the people a recuperation and recuperation, and reform internal affairs, and every step must not be taken for five or six years. ”

The more Zhu Ciyu listened, the more ashamed he became, his father was so worried, and as the emperor, he really should try to speed up the process.

Fortunately, he also knows his father very well, and he thinks that he is planning to make a heavy hand again, so he has to foreshadow. So he also cooperated straightforwardly:

"The child is stupid, I don't know if my father has any magic methods that can speed up this process, so that Siyi can be solved faster, so that it will not be a trouble for me? Whether it is to innovate the wealth, or to make great efforts to promote the virtuous and mediocre, the child must be strict with the law. ”

Zhu Shuren took a sip of the wine glass, and said on the way: "The financial endowment has changed the law, the hard bones have been gnawed for the time being, and the abolition of the division has been tried for many years, and all the southern provinces have been promoted. In the future, as long as it continues to be promoted to the north, it can be fine-tuned slowly.

The imperial court tax system cannot be changed overnight, it has just been changed a few years ago, and the more stable it is in the future, the more authoritative it can be. It's better not to move for twenty years.

At present, the key to reforming maladministration lies in employing people and in science and education. The method of the imperial examination has been used for thousands of years, and there is nothing wrong with the imperial examination itself, but the mistake lies in the fact that the subjects tested cannot keep pace with the times.

Eight-strand articles, theoretically, can only examine whether a person knows virtue or not, and even cannot examine whether he knows and does virtue in the unity of knowledge and action, and knows virtue and acts virtuously. As for talent, what kind of practical talent can be examined by the eight shares?

Since the imperial examination can be added to the martial arts examination since the former Song Dynasty, it is natural that in the future, it will also keep pace with the times, add other subjects, and from then on be divided into categories, and each subject will choose its own talents. During the Tang and Song dynasties, there were clear laws and calculations, but unfortunately later the Jinshi family was dominant, and all branches were gradually abolished except for martial arts.

Now we are facing great changes unseen in a thousand years, and we should remove the old and preserve the good, reform the old and make the new, eliminate the indiscriminate, and add new learning. It just so happened that the Academy of Sciences recruited a lot of talented people and made up some subjects.

Lone plans to build a new school in Nanjing first, and spend several years cultivating new talents. When these talented people graduate, they will open new courses, and they will be promoted at the same time as Jinshi courses. ”

Zhu Ciyu listened patiently, and he agreed with this statement in his heart, not because of his father's prestige, but from the bottom of his heart.

Because Zhu Ciyu himself received a science and engineering education since he was a child, Fang Ziling taught him a lot of mathematics and physics, as well as naturalist knowledge, Zhu Ciyu's academic horizons are actually much broader than many corrupt Confucian ministers in the court.

So when he heard this, he immediately echoed excitedly: "This idea is good, father, I don't know this idea...... Do you still want to announce it to the world, or can you use it as your own idea and push it to the cabinet? ”

Zhu Shuren paused for a rare moment and smiled with relief: "You are twenty-two, and you will be twenty-three after the New Year." Before the pro-government, the posture of respecting the old and respecting the virtuous was enough, and now it is time to stand up for himself. ”

Zhu Ciyu was stunned, and hurriedly said that he would bring this matter up, and then ask his father to express his support in the court.

After settling down on his thoughts, Zhu Ciyu thought about it again, and actually asked for advice with political wisdom: "There is actually a time lag of several years between the establishment of a new school and the opening of a new department for the imperial examination.

In this case, in order to make a gradual progression so that the opponents do not form a violent resistance, can the two things be announced separately? ”

When Zhu Shuren heard this, he nodded with rare relief: "Yes, I think very well, I already pay attention to dividing the forces of opponents." However, this is something that my father has also thought of, but unfortunately, the Scottish Department may not have the lifespan of these years.

After all, he is highly respected, and he and Gu fully support it, and the new policy is easy to be determined. After all, his father has not been the leader of the literary world of the Ming Dynasty for a few days, and he needs a few more scholars who have long been famous for his literary reputation to express his support for this matter. ”

Only then did Zhu Ciyu thoroughly understand his father's good intentions.

Shi Kefa is 67 years old this year, and he has not been to the court to deal with government affairs for several years, and he is purely in name, and he retires in a nursing home in Jiangning every day.

I heard that my condition has worsened this year, and my health is very bad, if I first set up Nanjing University, wait for the first batch of science and engineering graduates of Nanjing University to come out in a few years, and then discuss the topic of opening new subject examinations, then Shi Kefa may not live until then.

Let Shi Kefa exert the last bit of appeal for Daming.

……

A few days later, at another court meeting of the Nanjing Imperial Court, Gu Yanwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in charge of cultural and educational work, formally proposed the establishment of "Nanjing University", hoping that the imperial court would adapt to the times, keep pace with the times, and establish a new school.

In addition to Gu Yanwu, Wu Weiye, who has been promoted to other noble and idle positions, also expressed his secondment and added some details of the recital.

Wu Weiye used to be Zhu Shuren's nominal mentor when he was in Guozijian, and later after Zhu Shuren took power, he also made him the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he was promoted and transferred before Gu Yanwu made up for it.

When Gu Yanwu was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, the focus of his work and political achievements was on diplomacy, while when Wu Weiye was in charge, the focus of his political achievements was on culture and education. Therefore, let Gu Yanwu and Wu Weiye be each other's expressions together, and this suggestion is more convincing.

Because several major leaders in the academic community supported the establishment of the new school, the first round of the game in the court also went relatively smoothly, and no one directly jumped out to oppose it.

And Zhu Ciyu also pretended to say that the matter was very high, and he wanted to ask for the opinion of the Cabinet Department.

Everyone saw that Shi Kefa, who had not come to the court for a long time, was actually carried here today, how could they not know that this was the little emperor who was determined to forge ahead and wanted to promote reform.

Shi Kefa expressed his support in public, and in the end, Zhu Shuren also decided that the intention of "starting to prepare for a new school" was finalized first.

Anyway, it's just a school-running intention, and I haven't said anything about what to do in the future, how to arrange personnel, and how to treat it. Since everything is still unclear, even if there is an old fox who wants to object, he will not jump out at this time.

Zhu Ciyu announced that after he went back, he would let the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry discuss the preparations for the new school, come up with a detailed plan, and focus on discussing this topic in the next few court meetings.

……

The practice of the Ming Dynasty was generally three days, but in fact, if it was not a difficult autumn, it would generally only decrease and not increase. For example, Wanli is a typical person who often does not go to court, and Chongzhen has increased the frequency of work because he is about to die in the country.

If it is still peaceful today, the emperor will still have a three-day dynasty, or an occasional interval. Now because the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry are busy, and it is necessary to discuss the detailed plan, Zhu Ciyu will reduce the burden on the courtiers, and the subsequent times will be every other time in the court, and it will be reported every six days.

Because there was plenty of time left for discussion, within just two rounds of court meetings, relevant news inevitably began to spread in Nanjing.

In fact, the old foxes at the top can still stand still, but some of the grassroots impulsive talents who are most likely to be used as guns can't sit still. Some people began to talk about the government and politics, and felt that it was not good to rush into holding a new school.

Some people also got the news that the imperial court had recently recruited a group of scholars from the West who were engaged in arithmetic and physics, and that they would combine Chinese and Western studies with the people of the Academy of Sciences to undertake the teaching and research work of Nanjing University in the future. Maybe the talents and prisoners will have to be disciplined by those vulgar scholars who don't know the Four Books and the Five Classics in the future.

Even more exaggerated news was spread, and it was even said that the imperial court planned to abolish the old-style imperial examinations, and even the entrance examination for new schools in the future, only the assessment of arithmetic and other studies of physical objects, and the absence of the examination of the Four Books and Five Classics.

As a result, a large group of prisoners and students with meritorious achievements at the grassroots level such as Xiucai were used as guns, some wanted to "write on the bus", and some wanted to criticize the evils of the times, causing some fragmentary conflicts in the city of Nanjing.

The imperial court didn't respond positively at first, because it was originally a non-existent thing, and there was nothing to respond to. About eighteen days later, the preliminary idea of running a school at Nanjing University was sorted out, and the imperial court made it clear to the world, and then came to settle the rumors during this time.

Then, inside and outside Nanjing, hundreds of Xiucai and prisoners were arrested, and dozens of people were also involved in the surrounding Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, and Changzhou. It was all Jinyiwei who got conclusive evidence.

At first, Shilin was in an uproar, thinking that it was another spy who had politically brutalized the scholars. But in the end, the handling opinions given by the imperial court were very clear: it was not allowed to evaluate the gains and losses of the imperial government, but it was not allowed to spread rumors, and the decree that the imperial court did not intend to introduce at all was fabricated and deducted from the imperial court.

And the crime of these people is precisely to spread rumors.

Because according to the plan for running Nanjing University announced by the imperial court, the imperial court did not plan to abolish the old subjects of the imperial examination, which is still completely gone.

The imperial court did not say that scholars who would enter Nanjing University in the future could have no merit at all, which is also a rumor.

According to the current new policy, in order to prevent management chaos and too large a gap, the tentative admission threshold of Nanjing University should be compared with that of Guozijian. Therefore, at the very least, you must have a talent and fame before you can take the entrance exam.

After graduating from Nanjing University, he was treated as a teacher according to the Guozi Supervisor, which is equivalent to lifting people, and he can participate in the subsequent official examination. Of course, you can also directly wait for the equivalent of lifting people, and in the future, you will go to the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Household to line up and wait for vacancies.

After all, the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, theoretically, after the examination was raised, you could queue up to be an official, but in the later period, the flood of people became more and more serious, and you often queued up for a lifetime and could not rank an official position, so you have to take the Jinshi examination, and only after taking the Jinshi examination can you basically ensure that there is a high probability of actually awarding an official position.

The vacancy of NTU graduates is theoretically the same reason.

(End of chapter)