To promote education, Lao Zhu did not just think about it, but also put it into action.

Originally, when Lao Zhu founded the Ming Dynasty, he founded social studies to enlighten children under the age of fifteen.

Of course, this sociology was not invented by Lao Zhu, it was something that existed in the Yuan Dynasty, and Lao Zhu just changed it and used it.

It's just that social studies is only a very basic kind of education, not only does it not teach much, but even the teachers are all part-time local talents, and there is no money at all.

These talented teachers teach students, and at most they can receive some gifts from children's families.

But the problem is that there can be a few rich people in Shangguan's social school, and their gifts can be worth a few dollars, so that the teacher will not starve to death.

Therefore, this kind of knowledge popularization can teach a small number of poor geniuses at most, and it is not realistic to really want to use it as a means of education popularization.

However, although it is not feasible for the government to run social studies, it is still feasible to implement the education method envisioned by Lao Zhu based on social studies.

During this period of time, Lao Zhu asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household to jointly approve a lot of social science schools in various places, and planned to use this as a basis to get the venue out first.

After the venue is ready, the next step should be to separate a separate department from the Ministry of Rites to take charge of education.

Lao Zhu has thought about the candidate for the person in charge of education, and that is the current head of the household department, Ni Yuanlu.

Ni Yuanlu is more responsible, in order to coordinate the income and expenditure of Daming, he is now full of thoughts about how to make money.

is a good calligrapher, dealing with money full of copper smell every day, Lao Zhu feels a little uncomfortable.

Therefore, transferring him to the future education department to focus on education is definitely good news for Ni Yuanlu.

The establishment of the Ministry of Education will inevitably move many people's cakes, so it will certainly be hindered a lot.

And Ni Yuanlu has been beaten by the household, and now he has already lost the arrogance and pedantry of the literati, and now he has become the kind of person who is honest but has a very flexible bottom line.

Coupled with his high status among the literati and his extensive connections, it is simply perfect for him to sit in the Ministry of Education.

As for the medical side, this is simpler, the previous Huimin Pharmacy has been rebuilt by Wu Youke, and when the time comes, a department will be re-established and Wu Youke will be in charge.

In addition to this, there is agriculture, with the realization of the technologies of the first industrial revolution one by one, there will definitely be an explosive growth in agricultural technology, and after saving a lot of manpower, there will definitely be explosive growth in commerce.

Therefore, these two industries must also set up a separate department to supervise, and they may even need to be the main business of the imperial court.

In this way, if so many departments are established at once, the functions of the three secretaries and six ministries will certainly be greatly weakened, and the functions of these departments will certainly have to be readjusted at that time.

In short, the matter of governing the country affects the whole body, even if Lao Zhu is strong, he can't do everything, so he can only set a rough framework first, and then wait for the people behind him to slowly fill in.

But although it is a framework, it must be stable, otherwise if it is not arranged well, there will definitely be a lot of chaos in the future.

And these things can only be done by Lao Zhu himself, after all, Chongzhen he really can't count on it, if he doesn't get it right, he will leave, leaving Chongzhen a mess, and if he can't live two generations, Chongzhen's vein will have to be ousted from the throne.

Although Lao Zhu doesn't value the throne much now, he doesn't want the foundation he has worked so hard to lay to be stolen directly.

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Time passed little by little, and the time of three months was fleeting, and the time soon came to April of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

Just when Lao Zhu was still in full swing to lay the foundation for the future of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji also gathered all the troops and prepared to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Jiannu can be said to be a soldier for all the people, and almost all the forces that can be gathered have been gathered.

Among them, there are a total of 100,000 elites of the Eight Banners of the Jiannu Headquarters, and 200,000 ordinary soldiers, a total of 300,000 horses.

The Mongol soldiers were also forced to send 200,000 troops, plus the generals of the Ming Dynasty, about 150,000 horses.

This time, Jiannu launched this war with the strength of the whole country, and the number of troops reached an astonishing 650,000, which can be said to be a complete desperate gamble.

The current Huang Taiji is like a gambler who loses red eyes, and he bets all his chips.

If this battle is lost, then Jiannu will have no future at all, not to mention competing with Daming to dominate the world, they will not even have the opportunity to survive in a corner of peace.

And in this regard, Huang Taiji has no choice.

How Li Zicheng lost, he already knew, after learning that Daming could mass-produce that kind of firearm with a long range, Huang Taiji knew that he had no way out.

The strength of the Eight Banners lies in their personal combat power, and with this kind of firearm, their personal combat power will be weakened to the extreme.

And if it's just that, forget it, after his personal combat power is leveled, he still has the overall quality of the Qing Dynasty, and he is not inferior to the Ming Dynasty, and in the case of having a firearm, he is not without the power to fight.

But the crux of the matter is that Da Ming has that kind of fire, but he Da Qing does not have it.

In this way, after Daming has all changed this kind of firearms, and then launches an offensive against them, then he Daqing will only be crushed.

Huang Taiji didn't think about postponing the attack and imitating a firearm like Daming.

But the crux of the matter is that they can't seem to control this thing, and the people he sent to Daming used dozens of lives to get a so-called Minne rifle from Daming.

When he gave the rifle to the craftsmen, the results were uninimitable.

Those craftsmen simply couldn't understand why the Mine rifle could hit so far with the same thing.

Some of the same guns that they had made were not only not far away, but also had no accuracy at all.

Although some master craftsmen later experimented with the problem of rifling, the key is that the rifling is pulled by hand, even if those master craftsmen are exhausted, the output of dozens of them in a month is at most, which is a drop in the bucket.

But if they didn't have to do it by hand, they couldn't think of a better way, so they got stuck here for a while.

Although they are given time, they are also able to figure out manual rifling broaching machines.

But the crux of the matter is that the Qing Dynasty has no time.

The main combat troops of the Ming Dynasty have begun to fully replace with new muskets, and if they finish changing their equipment, they will definitely do something to them.

At that time, what will Huang Taiji do to resist the main battle force of the Ming Dynasty?

What's more, the important thing is that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is like a different person.

In just over half a year, all the rebellions in the Ming Dynasty were put to rest.

And after the rebellion was quelled, the foundation of the Ming Dynasty began to break out in an all-round way, and if it dragged on, the Ming Dynasty would only get stronger and stronger, and Huang Taiji would not be able to drag it out at all.

Therefore, Huang Taiji, who had no choice but to take advantage of the fact that the Daming firearms were not completely redressed, launched a decisive battle against the Ming Dynasty in a desperate manner.