Is it difficult to save the Ming Dynasty?

There are different answers in the eyes of different people.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, it was too difficult to save the Ming Dynasty.

He inherited a completely rotten state apparatus that faced too many irreversible vicious circles.

Outside, there were Huang Taiji and Mongol invasions, and inside there were endless peasant uprisings.

Natural disasters have continued one after another, the country's finances have dried up, the credibility of the government has been lost, officials have deviated from morality, businessmen have betrayed the country to seek glory, the people have risen up, and the soldiers have no will to fight.

Such a country, how can you let Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen save it?

The limitations of the times are at such times and at such junctures to show their importance.

Even if it is Zhu Youzhen, who is crossing now, if he can't jump his eyes out of the domestic plate, he won't be able to save Daming.

Unless the reduction is made.

But when you look away from China and look at the world, you will find that everything is already different.

The Netherlands, the sea coachman, has mastered 70% of the world's maritime trade, and the rising star Britain has defeated Spain and Portugal one after another, and is challenging the hegemony of the Dutch at sea, and the empire on which the sun never sets is gradually moving towards the center of the stage of world history.

The world of the seventeenth century was magnificent.

Compared with such a magnificent world, Huang Taiji, what is it?

When Zhu Youzhen turned his eyes to the world and turned his head to look at Huang Taiji, he would only laugh at him with contempt.

Even if the latter is still Da Ming at the moment, he is Zhu Youzhen's biggest enemy.

But Huang Taiji is the same as Emperor Chongzhen in history, his eyes are fixed on the plate in front of him.

Huang Taiji only thinks about destroying the Ming Dynasty, and the only way he can think of is war.

This can't be blamed on him, Nurhachi's thirteen pairs of armor set such a record for such a post, and this achievement stimulated Huang Taiji.

According to this calculation, Huang Taiji has tens of thousands of troops in the Eight Banners, how can he expand his territory by 100,000 miles, right?

Where can the account be counted like this?

Two dollars a pair of gloves The daily income of moving bricks at the construction site is 200, which can be increased by 100 times.

If 500 million can reach 100 million a year in business, it can already be regarded as a genius in the business world.

Huang Taiji and Zhu Youzhen faced the same dilemma, but his land area was too small, and under the high-pressure rule of the Eight Banners system, the Liao people would not oppose him, so the internal worries were just a natural disaster.

In terms of external troubles, there is no foreign trouble, North Korea has been subdued by Huang Taiji, and the Ming Dynasty now does not have the military strength to fight a field war with Houjin, and it is said that Huang Taiji's conditions are much better than Zhu Youzhen.

But Houjin is a little inferior to Daming.

He didn't have an outlet to the sea!

The Dongjiang Town founded by Yuan Keli firmly stuck Huang Taiji's neck, and the warships of the Denglai Navy Division crisscrossed the Bohai Sea all day long, putting an end to all the roads of Huang Taiji's contact with the outside world.

This is the importance of high and low horizons in the overall strategic situation.

The seventeenth century was a world that belonged to the sea, it no longer belonged to the land, it no longer belonged to the traditional agricultural and nomadic civilization, and the hegemony was shifting to the seafaring civilization and to the industrial civilization.

To put it mildly, transfer to colonial civilization!

The dozen or so businessmen on the streets of London never dreamed that a mere permission of tens of thousands of pounds would allow their company to rule over most of the world two hundred years later!

If we only discuss the area of territorial expansion, are the kings of modern Britain greater than the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty?

No one would want to admit it.

The reason is very simple, if you are stained with the light of the times and technology, you can't count yourself as your own ability.

And what Zhu Youzhen needs to reflect on is why they have the times, but we don't!

Not only Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, has to reflect, but everyone in the entire Ming Dynasty from top to bottom must follow suit.

The first step of reflection is to start from Hallym Temple!

"Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, the future of a country depends on the generation of young people, so only by doing a good job in education can we do a good job in the country."

Zhu Youzhen has already decided to move education, and the signing of the agreement has given him this confidence now.

"Hanlin Academy is the highest university in my Ming Dynasty, but it must be changed, even if it is changed beyond recognition, I heard that there are Cambridge University and Oxford University in the UK, and we must have it in Daming.

Absorbing the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought and integrating the essence of the East and the West, our Hanlin Academy will be renamed Peking University in the future. ”

Huang Jingfang lowered his face: "Your Majesty, this is completely different, the Hanlin Academy is a place for the scholars to study and the next generation, and it is a place for the imperial court to select materials and officials, and what university you are talking about is just a school, and the Hanlin Academy has been changed to a university, so where will we go to place the scholars of the imperial examination in the future?" ”

"Imperial examinations?"

Zhu Youzhen turned his head and said something that almost scared Huang Jingfang to death: "What else do you need for the imperial examination?" ”

"Your Majesty, without the imperial examination, how can the imperial court select officials and educate the people."

"Isn't it two different things to elect officials and go to school to go to school?" Zhu Youzhen said: "Our future education will cover hundreds of schools, do you want a good student of engineering to be an official?" Or are you going to let a person who has a good knowledge of the shipbuilding industry become an official?

There is a specialization in the art industry, and being an official is also a kind of art, don't you like to say what power art you like at every turn, right art and power art, that is, the art of being an official, the craftsman has the art of a craftsman, and Mr. Bookkeeper has the art of Mr. Bookkeeper, which is a different discipline.

In the future, it is necessary to separate the election of officials from education, education is the teaching of talents, and it is the choice of the students whether to be officials or not.

You have to do this as soon as possible, in addition, the current imperial court needs a group of visionary juniors, and I plan to prepare a study abroad plan. ”

Huang Jingfang's head was almost bald: "Your Majesty, what is studying abroad?" ”

"Stay in other countries to learn." Zhu Youzhen explained: "Just go to England, go to their Cambridge and Oxford universities, and your Ministry of Rites will arrange for someone to contact the East India Company to see how much can be arranged."

The cost of studying abroad will be borne by the state for five years, and I will also arrange for a hundred Jinyi guards to go over to protect the safety of these students.

As for the candidates, you are responsible for picking, I just have a requirement, the age is between thirteen and fifteen years old, this age is about the same, if it is too big, many cognitions have been stereotyped, and some ideas are deep-rooted, and you may not be able to learn anything when you go out to study.

It's good to be young, it's malleable, it's more capable of learning, and it's quick to accept new things. ”

What could Huang Jingfang persuade, he could only nod again and again, indicating that he had written it down.

"Oh yes, there's one more thing." Zhu Youzhen remembered something again, stopped and said: "By the way, choose a site in the capital and set up a professional university." ”

"Teach what?"

"English." Zhu Youzhen said: "In the future, we will have to deal with the British people many times, not only English, as long as we have the opportunity to come into contact with foreign Chinese languages, we must be taught, so that our Chinese people can learn more foreign languages, so that they can go abroad for exchanges and strengthen communication in the future."

Look at Zheng Zhilong, a pirate, who can speak four foreign languages! What is this called, this is called hard work, it is called learning.

Even a pirate knows that there is no end to learning, and knows the importance of mastering a few more languages in this era, you must not rest on your laurels, you must learn to go out and see the world more, besides, I can also speak English, don't you say all the time that I am a role model for the world, just learn me first. ”

Huang Jingfang asked curiously: "Your Majesty, when did you learn that English?" ”

Zhu Youzhen grinned.

"Guess."

Looking at the back of Zhu Youzhen leaving, Huang Jingfang smiled bitterly.

The emperor still has this leisure.

Also I guess.

However, the emperor's state was obviously much more relaxed, unlike before, his face was gloomy all day long, and the frightened people did not dare to gasp.

Isn't it a good thing?