The first day of February of the new year.

Daming Palace Xuanzheng Palace.

Today is the Great Dynasty Gathering, and it is also the first time at the beginning of the new year, requiring that the seven officials in Beijing and above need to go to the Xuanzheng Hall of the Daming Palace to listen to the politics.

There were hundreds of people, from the first and second grades of sauce purple, the third, fourth and fifth grades of evergreen, and then to the sixth and seventh grades of officials in dark green official robes, which was quite spectacular.

Due to the large number of personnel, some seven-rank officials could only stand outside the threshold of the Xuanzheng Hall to listen to the government.

When the personnel arrive, the prince of the prison country is in place.

To the great surprise of all the officials present, the opening remarks of the prince of the prison state were to let the edict proclamator read a number of edicts in the palace.

The first edict was to establish the Imperial Ministry of Education, abolish the establishment of the Hanlin Academy, and merge it into the Ministry of Education.

The Ministry of Education is a scholar, and the Confucianism of the Beijing Normal School is Zheng, and the great Confucian Confucius is the director, and the original instructor Fang Zhiyao and Xu Zhuxin are respectively appointed as the left and right attendants.

After the edict was read, the court was in an uproar.

Hundreds of officials in Wuyang were stunned, ignoring the ban of the court, and sighed one after another.

The establishment of a special education department is unheard of, and such an exceptional promotion and appointment of cadres is unprecedented.

The second edict has to do with the establishment of the Ministry of Education.

The Imperial Military Academy and the Imperial Taixue were set up in Beijing, similar to the Central Military University and Central University in later generations.

In the future, all state capitals should set up military academies and university halls under the state to train professionals for the country.

The current purpose of the Ministry of Education is to train and nurture all kinds of talents, in addition to military and political circles, there are also professionals engaged in economic and people's livelihood.

The specific vision of the crown prince, the current focus of education is divided into two parts.

The first is basic education, all kinds of education starting from children, and encouraging non-governmental schools.

The second is adult education, targeted literacy classes, one-year and half-year professional skills training.

He brought the whole set of plans and basic frameworks of education for later generations.

The first stage is from the central government to the state capitals, the second stage is from the state capitals to the counties, and the third stage is to penetrate into the townships, towns, and villages below the county level.

This program is too large and requires a lot of faculty.

The prince asked the whole society to mobilize, but anyone who has been close to private school education can enter the teaching team after assessment.

All the teachers eat the imperial grain, and the state pays them every month according to the establishment, and the salaries are all allocated by the special funds of the imperial court.

Everyone sweated for the prince.

How much money is needed to support this?

Regarding the establishment of the Ministry of Education and the implementation of the education policy, the prince made a precept in the Xuanzheng Palace.

"Everyone, education is the foundation of the country, whether the empire can be passed on for a long time, smoothly and safely, education plays the role of the cornerstone, this is a ten-year plan, a hundred-year plan, and the cheapest national defense expenditure of the empire, everything is difficult at the beginning, but no matter how many difficulties and obstacles, we must persevere, and the idea of running a school will never waver."

The prince's categorical tone fully demonstrates another important measure of the New Deal.

One wave has not settled, and another wave has risen.

The next edict was to develop people's livelihood, do industry, and invigorate commercial flow.

The prince focused on economic construction and expanded the scale and authority of the Ministry of Industry.

Ma Feihai, the former left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, was officially appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Lei Jingtian, the head of the former Ministry of Engineering, Fang Wenguang and others, are listed as left and right attendants, and concurrently serve as the chief supervisor of the Mineral Resources Department and the Construction Department.

The Department of Commerce and Trade was newly established, temporarily subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, and Zheng Shaoqiu, the former deacon of Jiqiao Grain City, served as the chief supervisor.

In terms of social class treatment, the prince emphasized the principle of official recruitment, only recognized loyalty and ability, passed formal examinations, was fair and fair, and did not ask about the candidate's background, whether it was a scholar or a Shu clan, with real talent and ability.

The status of businessmen is improved in the whole society, and the children of businessmen are educated, appointed, and promoted, etc., and they are treated equally with scholars.

This completely subverts people's previous worldview and level of cognition.

The promulgation of the prince's edict naturally attracted opposition from the major wealthy families.

And many businessmen, ordinary people, and children of the Hanmen Shu clan resolutely support it.

Yuan Zhi knows very well in his heart that whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world.

In the current Empire of the Final Jin Dynasty, more than 95 percent of the people are ordinary people at the bottom, and they would rather offend the powerful ministers of the wealthy families than let the common people lose hope.

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The next day, the east palace west study.

The prince is immersed in reviewing the various places.

At the beginning of the new year, Yuan Zhi was obviously busy.

Ji Hong, the Secret Guard Governor, is making a report before the case.

"Over the years, especially recently, the secret guard system has been quite effective in eradicating the strongholds of the vassal kings in Beijing, and the entire Chang'an City has uprooted a total of twelve liaison dens left by them, and captured and killed more than 200 people."

The prince was noncommittal when he heard this.

He believed that under his own pressure, Ji Hong and the entire secret guard system would inevitably chase after the vassal king's intelligence network like mad dogs, and they would be able to achieve major gains in a short period of time.

If this kind of material is put into the future, it is estimated that several movies of bloody massacres in the rivers and lakes can be made.

But Yuan Zhi didn't care about that.

Political struggle or class struggle is incomparably cruel, not to mention the existence of a vassal king, which in itself shakes the country's foundation.

How is it possible to be merciful to them?

"Over there in the Western Regions, what's the overall situation?" The crown prince asked Wei Changjin, the governor of the Zhan Mansion who was standing next to him.

Wei Changjin replied: "It is being gradually implemented according to His Highness's order. ”

This ambiguous answer made the crown prince's eyebrows lift, "Be specific." ”

Seeing that the crown prince was angry, Wei Changjin continued to reply:

"After Lord Cao Keying arrived at the Guazhou Mansion, he immediately convened the officials of the county, county, and prefecture levels under the jurisdiction of the Guazhou Mansion for consultations, and there were quite a few officials who received the notice, but they did not arrive."

"This Lord Cao is also very powerful, if they don't come, he will patrol from place to place, and when he arrives at a place, he will cut off the heads of a group of officials, especially the chief officials."

"Therefore, Guazhou's current evaluation of Lord Cao Keying is polarized."

"The people in the Dunhuang area of Guazhou all say that Lord Cao Keying is a good official who asks for the people's life, but the officialdom says that he is an executioner, is... It was sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to specifically eliminate dissidents and kill people. ”

When the prince heard this, he sneered, and sneered:

"Lone sent someone to kill them? Hmph, they don't pee and take pictures, what are they, it's too lonely, where does this prince have the spare time, go and compete with them! ”

"Lord Cao arrived in Guazhou, abandoning the number of days delayed on the road, it is a winter plus a new year, four months, he dares to use such bloody and ruthless means to suppress strongly, he should get Guo Shuai's strong support."

"Your Highness is wise." Wei Changjin nodded and said:

"That's true, when Guo Shuai set up the camp in Dunhuang, it was also killing two birds with one stone, in addition to protecting the Western Regions military station in Guazhou, another purpose is to deter those who plan to do wrong, at least Ye Yinting, the general of the Guazhou Daoxing Battalion, dare not stir the wind."