After determining the warship system of the new sailor, the next step is to determine the establishment of the new-style sailor.

According to the regular establishment of the Daming Naval Division, there is usually no fixed number of warships and types of warships, mainly based on the preferences of the leading generals.

Therefore, at this time in the council hall, Liu Yan proposed to completely fix the establishment of the new-style naval division, mainly with the No. 1 Fu ship and the No. 2 Fu ship as the main warships, with every five ships as a detachment, four detachments as a squadron, and five squadrons as a fleet.

Of course, in each specific fleet, the types of warships of each squadron should also be adjusted according to local conditions, according to the financial resources of the imperial court, and the strength of the enemy army.

"The shipyard first determines the drawings of the new No. 1 Fu ship and the new No. 2 Fu ship, and after the drawings are correct, it can build several model warships and sail to sea for testing."

Song Wanli nodded and said: "Elder Ge rest assured, after the new warship goes to sea and passes seaworthy, his subordinates will definitely report to Elder Ge and the imperial court." ”

Liu Yan nodded with a smile, and then said to Song Wanli and the others: "Okay, the shipyard will be entrusted to you, my father will lead the troops to return first, and when the new-style No. 1 and No. 2 ships are seaworthy, my father will come over to watch." ”

"Yes, congratulations to the elder pavilion!"

Then Liu Yan and Miao Shao led more than 1,000 soldiers to the north to Lingshanwei, and stayed overnight in Lingshanwei, where they lived in the mansion where Liu Yan presided over Lingshanwei before, and in the middle of the night Liu Yan and Miao Shao drank in the backyard of the mansion, and sighed a lot.

Early the next morning, Liu Yan and Miao Shao led their troops back to Beijing, and when the brigade arrived in Beijing on 12 July, they summoned the Ministry of National Defense

Shang Shu Tian Hui discussed the preparation for the construction of the Ming Dynasty's new sailors and supported the shipyard to improve the new Fu ship, and was busy until the evening, when Liu Yan left the palace from the cabinet office, took a carriage, and returned home accompanied by the escort of the brigade.

In the mansion of Lu Guogong on Qipan Street, Liu Yan had dinner with Wang Yunhe's mother and son, as well as Shang Shan and Ruoshui sisters.

In fact, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty at this time, although Shang Shan and Ruoshui are sisters like Wang Yunhe, Liu Yan did not treat each other differently, but after all, the two are concubines, and they cannot eat at the same table with Liu Yan and Wang Yunhe's mother and son.

At first, Shang Shan and Ruoshui were persuaded by Liu Yan and Wang Yunhe, but they also insisted on not wanting to go to the table, thinking that they could not hold Liu Yan back, so as not to let the political enemies of the DPRK and China use this as an excuse to attack Liu Yan.

But Liu Yan then feigned anger and said: "If you don't eat at the table, then don't eat, you will all be hungry!" ”

In this way, Shang Shan and Ruoshui were barely on the table, and the family had dinner together.

"Husband, this time I went to Lingshanwei, can I go to Wangjiazhuang, Dapanbao and other places?"

"Naturally, I went."

Liu Yan immediately explained the situation that Taishan Wang Jing, Chen Jiangshi and others were no longer resident in Wangjiazhuang, Dapanbao and other places, and briefly told everyone.

Wang Yunhe immediately sighed: "I really can't imagine that when my father and I were in Wangjiazhuang, we were just guarding a Wanfu oil mill to make a living, but I didn't want to meet my husband and achieve today's family business and achievements!" ”

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Yes, the current things no one could have thought of before, and the future things are not clear now, as long as we live the present and be worthy of it."

The heart is fine. ”

Wang Yunhe said with a smile: "My husband has also become a philosopher, this is to run a school and teach!" ”

Liu Yan said: "I am naturally not good at running schools and teaching, but I intend to recruit a group of talents to enter the court." ”

"Don't go through the imperial examination?"

"Don't go through the imperial examination!"

Liu Yan knows very well that although the end of the Ming Dynasty was a troubled era, all kinds of talents emerging in this era are also endless. It can even be said that even the talents in science and technology, humanities and other aspects that emerged in the last few decades of the Ming Dynasty far exceeded the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was a veritable backwater, and a huge sauce vat soaked the whole of China into a dead place of ignorance and ignorance!

To get back to the point, Liu Yan knows very well that if talents are selected by the imperial examination, many talents will not be able to enter the imperial court at this time and will not be able to contribute their own strength to China.

Therefore, Liu Yan was ready to follow the conquest system of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and first gathered some talents who he could know and were still alive in the form of government decrees, and arranged them to serve in various ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee.

At this time, Wang Yunhe said worriedly: "This move is destined to cause opposition and dissatisfaction among many people in the court, and even His Majesty will oppose it." ”

Liu Yan nodded, if it causes turmoil in the DPRK and China because of the recruitment of talents, this will be a very serious obstacle to the advancement of the new policy and military reform.

"Then I'd better think about it again."

Wang Yunhe said with a smile: "Did you forget the new schools that are being built in various parts of Shandong and in Beizhili?" ”

Liu Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, laughed, and said, "Madame is really my Zhiduoxing!" ”

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Shang Shan and Ruoshui hid their faces and laughed when they saw this, and Wang Yunhe also said: "You, you can praise people, but there is no reality at all." ”

The next day, Liu Yan came to the cabinet office early in the morning, and at this time all the thirteen Shangshu had arrived here, ready to participate in the daily routine "small court meeting", and the policies and major events determined by everyone would be reported to Emperor Chongzhen, and then approved by Emperor Chongzhen.

"There is only one major event today: that is, talents, this prince decided to recruit talents for the Ming Dynasty, Beijing and 13 provinces, technology, agriculture, 100 crafts, historiography, astronomy and geography, as long as there is something outstanding, you can go to the local province, government, county yamen to register, by the government to pay the travel expenses, or send someone to escort, come to the capital!"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and Wang Weizhen, the secretary of the ministry, said worriedly: "What does Elder Ge mean is that as long as these people go to Beijing City and pass the selection and assessment of the imperial court, they can enter the court as officials, and they don't need to take the imperial examination for meritorious service?" I'm afraid that the resistance to this matter will be very big, does Elder Ge think twice? ”

Liu Yan said with a smile: "My father didn't say that he would be an official in the court, but he wanted to arrange all kinds of talents who had been assessed and selected to teach in the new schools in Beizhili and Shandong provinces, and teach his skills to many students, so that I could show a hundred flowers blooming!" ”

In addition, Liu Yan also has a plan, that is, to encourage the talents recruited at that time to publish books and speak, so that many technologies that were originally lost in history can be truly inherited, which is also a manifestation of the strength of the Ming Empire.

When everyone heard this, they thought it was a good idea

It is nothing more than spending some money and food, and then there is a great possibility of harvesting a large number of various talents.

Only Yue Ming, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, said with a smile: "All great talents are inevitably arrogant, and they may not necessarily obey the call of the imperial court, and it seems that they will make a fuss about money, food, fame and fortune." ”

Liu Yan said: "That's right! In addition to giving everyone the travel expenses, as long as he is hired by the imperial court as a gentleman of a new-style school, the monthly salary and treatment can be distributed according to the three products of civil officials, and in addition, he can go out to see the official without worshipping, and have the same status as Xiucai! ”

Everyone gasped, Liu Yan's strength was big enough.

Immediately, Liu Yan discussed the specific details with everyone, and Liu Yan also took out a list and said to Wang Weizhen: "This matter is mainly based on the Ministry of Officials, and all the people on this list must go to Beijing to participate in the selection!" ”

Wang Weizhen hurriedly took over the list, which recorded more than a dozen talents, the first in the first place, is the famous late Ming Dynasty scientific and technological wizard Song Yingxing, he compiled the "Heavenly Creations" summarized the Ming Empire more than 200 years of handicrafts and agriculture of many advanced technologies, and even many technologies to the Opium War in later generations, the Manchus did not master.

This "Heavenly Creation" is also known as the "Encyclopedia of Chinese Craftsmanship in the Seventeenth Century", and even in modern times, it has been translated by Western countries.

In the forty-third year of Wanli, Song Yingxing and his brother Yingsheng went to Nanchang, the provincial capital, to participate in the Yimao Branch Township Examination. Among the more than 10,000 candidates, 29-year-old Song Yingxing won the third place in the province, and his brother ranked sixth. Among the Fengxin Zhusheng, only their brothers were raised, so they were called "Fengxin Ersong".

The success of the township test

Encouraged by the Song brothers, they went to Beijing in the autumn of that year to take the Bingchen branch examination in the following year, but they fell to Sun Shan. They decided to try again next time, and in order to prepare for the exam, Song Yingsheng, Song Yingxing and others went to the ancient Bailudong Academy in Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province to study.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the last year of the examination during the reign of Shenzong, Brother Song Yingxing and other candidates in Jiangxi met with Jingshi, but the two brothers still did not pass the first. After that, they tried again in the early years of Tianqi and Chongzhen, but they all failed, and Song Yingxing gave up the idea of the imperial examination.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Song Yingsheng was elected by the Ministry of Officials as the county commander of Tongxiang County, Zhejiang, and Song Yingxing returned to his hometown to serve his mother. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Song Yingxing served as the teacher of Fenyi County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. Faculty members are faculty members who have not yet entered the stream.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Song Yingxing's term of office expired, and he was promoted to the official of the Tingzhou Mansion in Fujian, and was a subordinate official under the provincial observation envoy, in charge of a prison in charge of a prison, commonly known as the criminal hall, also known as the manager.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Song Yingxing's term of office did not expire, and he resigned and returned to Li.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Song Yingxing served as the prefect of Bozhou, Fengyang Prefecture, Nanzhili. After Song Yingxing took office, the state was destroyed by the war, and there was no place to promote the church, and many officials left. Song Yingxing worked hard to rebuild it, so that it took shape at the beginning, and donated funds to build a academy in the city.

Liu Yan estimated that Song Yingxing should be busy in Bozhou now, so he said: "Song Yingxing, the prefect of Bozhou, is himself a five-grade official, and he was directly promoted to the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, responsible for compiling new teaching materials and promoting them in the new schools in Daming, Beijing, and 13 provinces. ”

Wang Weizhen hurriedly agreed.

In addition, in Liu Yan's list, there is another one

The person's name is Zhang Lu, this person was a Confucian in his early years, and during the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in Dongting Mountain for more than ten years, concentrating on studying medical skills.

Zhang Lu's learning attitude is very serious, from young to elderly medical medicine for more than 60 years, tirelessly, and in old age, he still does his studies seriously, without half a point of slackness, so he has written a lot in his life.

Zhang Lu is the author of medical books such as "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", "Introduction to Typhoid Fever", "Analysis of Typhoid Fever and Syndrome", "Zhang's Medical Tong", "Qianjin Fang Yanyi", "Benjing Fengyuan", "Diagnosis of Samadhi" and other medical books.

In history, Zhang Lu returned to his hometown in Suzhou in his later years, opened a medical hall, Ji Cangsheng, called Zhang's medical hall, after his death, inherited to his son Zhang Deng, Zhang Zhuo, Qianlong four years, by Yangzhou eight monsters Zheng Banqiao for Zhang's medical hall inscription plaque called Su Xuantang. That's all for later. However, it is precisely because of these achievements that Zhang Lu is as famous as Yu Chang and Wu Qian, and is known as one of the three major doctors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

It's just that Liu Yan calculated, if he remembers correctly, Zhang Lu was born in 1617 AD, and Zhang Lu is only twenty-six or seven years old this year.

So for Zhang Lu, Liu Yan instructed: "This Zhang Lu can be put in a medical hall in Shandong Province for training first, and if it is available, it can be slowly promoted." ”

Bao Xuezhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Health, clenched his fists and said: "Don't worry, my subordinates will pay attention to this person, so let this Zhang Lu go to the medical hall in Jinan Mansion first." ”

Liu Yan nodded in agreement.

There are many remaining talents in this list, Wang Weizhen looked at them one by one, and Liu Yan remembered

profoundly, he mentioned them one by one, and then according to the aspects that the talents on the list are good at, he explained to the thirteen Shangshu to pay attention to and support.

After the matter was properly discussed, Chen Xinjia provoked the topic and said: "Elder Ge, the General Staff Department and the Shangshu have implemented the new policy in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and at present, only the Northern Zhili and Shandong have been implemented without discount, and the rest of the provinces, prefectures, and counties are completely perfunctory, or even directly ignored, and the imperial court must deal with it!" ”

The smile on Liu Yan's face disappeared immediately, and he said in a cold voice: "Since this is the case, then let's ask Your Majesty to issue an edict!" ”