Chapter 481 The scapegoat who was manipulated


Chapter 481 The scapegoat who was manipulated by others

Zhang Juzheng’s new policy rectified academic affairs, from maritime schools to entrusting special training. What Zhu Yijun wanted was universal education so that every child could In terms of academics, as soon as he proposed it, Zhang Juzheng immediately vetoed it and couldn't do it.

Publish basic education, Zhu Yijun mentioned it, Zhang Juzheng used Kaihai and Zhenwu to prevaricate the emperor. At that time, the navy was raised from 30,000 to 90,000 people. Basic education was popularized and the navy was expanded. Even more expensive. (Chapter 390)

Commissioned special training requires the same training as the Maritime School and the Craftsman School. The court will pay half of it, and the students will pay half of it themselves. If the student can go to Suiyuan and do it for nine years, he will take the exam. After three years of success, the imperial court's half does not have to pay back the money and can still receive the imperial salary.

This incident will break the monopoly of official positions and power by powerful right-wingers and rural gentry. The real act of digging up people's ancestral graves will provide another way for poor coolies to rise.

And the most important thing is to inject fresh blood into the stagnant water of the court.

This will inevitably arouse strong opposition from the powerful right-wingers, but which of Zhang Juzheng's content about his father-in-law, examinations, academic affairs, etc. has not actually harmed the interests of these people?

Zhang Juzheng has long ago offended everyone he could offend, including the supreme emperor.

The court is still discussing with the ministers. There are two things that put the courtiers in a dilemma, the engineering regiment camp and Zhang Juzheng's new academic policy.

There are three things that are being actively promoted, the expansion of Yanxing Tower, profits tax and the increase in production of Xishan Coal Bureau.

The Chi Road from Datong Prefecture to the capital of the Ming Dynasty has been built, and the 7.5-horsepower steam engine has been put on the road. Although there is not much cargo and the production capacity is limited, horse-drawn rail cars can also pull coal!

The coal mining incident of Xishan Coal Bureau, instead of reducing production, has continued to increase production with the emergence of the Ministry of War Huitongguanyi's acceptance bill, which made Ke Dao Yan Guan furious.

The Ministry of Industry was just vague before, but now it has stepped up coal mining. It is really outrageous. It is simply riding on the face of the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is really intolerable. This is intolerable!

But the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology have no good way to deal with the Ministry of Industry, because there is Wang Cifu in the court who acts as a protective umbrella for the Ministry of Industry! Wang Chonggu's slanderous words have deceived His Majesty, and he has to engage in government-industrial alliances even at the expense of the sweet air.

For Ke Dao Yan Guan, Wang Chonggu has already gone far beyond the killing line and is already on par with Yan Song!

“This year’s profit tax revenue is less than 300 taels of silver.” Feng Bao talked about the difficulties in implementing the profits tax. He asked with confusion: “Your Majesty, why is this profit tax more expensive than silver? Is the ban still effective? "

Logically speaking, the silver ban should be more effective than the income tax, because the silver ban completely prohibits the circulation of gold and silver, and even prohibits the flow of gold and silver overseas, but gold and silver still cannot be stopped every year. The leakage is carried out through various means, making it difficult to guard against.

Now that the profits tax has been introduced, the problem of the outflow of precious metals has been solved.

More than 1,000 coastal defense inspections have been carried out in the Ming Dynasty. According to recent reports, no one will carry yellow, silver, red copper, and silver coins to the sea on a large scale.

“Because there were no coastal defense inspections on the sea before, one thing is completely prohibited = not prohibited at all.” Zhu Yijun explained the logic. It is faster to solve the problem if you have a formula.

There was no coastal defense inspection before, only the Yuegang City Shipping Department. As long as you bribed the clerks inspected by the City Shipping Department, you can flow out smoothly. Now you need to bribe the coastal defense inspection who detects smuggling, Yuegang City Shipping Department Pay Office and Yuegang City The shipping department inspected the minor officials. Practical experience in the Ming Dynasty told Zhu Yijun that those who could do this were those with hands and eyes.

Rebellion directly, why smuggling?

Wang Chonggu has rich experience as a traitor. How did the Jin Party take advantage of it in the first place? Isn’t it a failure of supervision?

At that time, the power of supervision was dominated by one family and was under the control of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Later, with Zhenwu, the generals had the power, and memorials did not need to be detained by the Ministry of War for a few days before being submitted. There were also admirals and ministers, and there was control among the three parties. Under this situation, Xuan Weijun and Li Chengliang's family members were immediately left with no chance. They had to either accept court supervision or die.

The leaders of the Jin Party, Yang Bo and Gao Gong, wanted to remove the Supervisor of Ceremonies from the beginning. In this supervision, another important link was missing.

The three parties control each other, which is a chaotic triangle. No one knows whether the other party has formed a secret alliance, and no one knows whether the other party will step on his head to gain power. The triangle has stability because a chain of suspicion can be established. .

How much profit tax was confiscated, but the circulation problem of Dabai Silver has been partially alleviated. This is good news. The throughput of the City Shipping Department has been further improved. The ship tickets of Yanxinglou Trading House have all It increased by five silver coins.

Feng Bao is a very qualified actor. There are some issues that he really doesn’t understand. Some of them are hiding his clumsiness. Sometimes Zhu Yijun can’t tell whether Feng Bao is pretending to be stupid along with the performance.

On March 12, the tenth year of Wanli, the sky was as blue as water, because there had just been a spring rain, making the sky clean and translucent. The spring sky was like a sapphire, and everyone was breathing heavily. With the fresh air, the big chimneys in Xishan began to puff out clouds and smoke. It didn't take a day for the coal smoke to cover the entire capital. When Zhu Yijun went out, he wore a mask and walked to the Wenhua Hall to work.

Zhang Juzheng brought his ministers to attend the ceremony, which happened once every ten years. People in the court came and went. Your Majesty has reached the peak of spring and autumn, and everything in the empire is prosperous. Only the two dark clouds at the beginning have covered it. Half the sky, one is that His Majesty is too good at studying, the other is that His Majesty is not doing his job properly.

"The ceremony of Prince Lu's wedding has been determined." Zhang Juzheng took out a memorial from the Ministry of Etiquette. The preparations for the much-anticipated wedding of Prince Lu have been completed, and it is still a wedding ceremony in the emperor's frugal style.

Coral is made of red branches boiled with dye, pearls and various gemstones are made of fired glass, gold, silver and jewelry are all made of copper, lead and tin alloys. These things are not even new, they were made by the emperor. Wedding inventory.

Real gold and silver are only ten taels of gold, fifty taels of silver, and ten taels of pearls.

Accordingly, there are twelve beauties from all over the world, and all countries have paid a lot of tribute to them.

The ministers looked at His Majesty the Emperor. His Majesty still kept those fakes and used them a second time...

I have seen stingy people, but I have never seen such stingy people. According to legend Pixiu, who could only enter but not come out, was eclipsed in front of His Majesty.

“Just follow the memorial from the Ministry of Rites.” Zhu Yijun picked up the treasure of Wanli and covered it with the memorial from the Ministry of Rites. Zhu Yijun was as happy as a child. He was a child to begin with and couldn’t hide it in his heart. thing.

Zhu Yijun envied this younger brother in real name. He was really living a very happy life.

"We must not let go of martial arts practice in the future." After Zhu Yijun finished approving the memorial, he still reminded Zhu Yixi that good health is very important. Play and play, don't let your body collapse. You can only watch the good times. Weeping.

“I will obey His Majesty’s holy orders!” Zhu Yixuan obeyed the orders with great interest. For the sake of a happy life in the rest of his life, he would not stop practicing martial arts.

Hai Rui took out a memorial, sighed and said: "Yesterday, His Majesty unleashed the wrath of thunder and ordered the Imperial Procuratorate to supervise the Censor Hong Siqi. Hong Siqi was so ashamed and angry that he submitted a memorial requesting to be appointed official."

"What happened?" Son?" Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites, asked very curiously, why did your Majesty give the order? How the instructions are given makes people directly take up their posts, and it is somewhat confusing to have no beginning or end.

"The day before yesterday, Hong Siqi presented seventeen points on state affairs, totaling 3,500 words, quoting scriptures and a lot, and was scolded by His Majesty." Wang Guoguang was not so polite. He was not giving orders. It's a curse word.

Wang Daokun also asked curiously: "How did you reprimand him?"

How can His Majesty curse someone? That's called reprimanding.

The atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty has been ruined by His Majesty, and everyone is happy.

Hai Rui took out the original memorial and handed it to all the Ming Gongs. They looked at it one by one and found that the memorial was written by Zhu. It contained 3,500 words and seventeen items in total, one of which was useful. None of them.

Wang Chonggu suppressed his laughter and read out Zhu Pi's words: "I have known the blunt words you played since I was a child, just like a child learning to memorize familiar words. If you are a child and have no control over your words, you will You are not a child at this age. Such an article comes from the mouth of a court official. It is sad! Just what you said in the memorial shows how shallow your knowledge is. There are even three typos. I have picked them out for you. The procuratorate will know about it in the next chapter. It is best to destroy the memorial to prevent others from laughing at you for being a vegetarian. You should study more articles and read newspapers on weekdays. "

This is indeed an unpleasant curse. Hong Siqi is thirty-four years old, and he is full of it. The memorials and memorials are all for children to recite for enlightenment. Destroy them secretly so that no one can see them and make fun of you. If you have little knowledge and cannot understand other people's articles, you can read miscellaneous newspapers to increase your knowledge.

Wan Shihe couldn't help but think of the scene when he was reprimanded by the emperor. It was really hard to look back on the past, but His Majesty had never scolded him like that. He just called him a cheap Confucian. At that time, Wan Shihe He was indeed a cheap Confucian, which Wan Shihe did not deny, but he was braver than Wang Zhigao and stayed in the court.

He is what he is today, relying entirely on his own efforts and serious study.

If he were a shameless scholar, he would probably hang himself instead of becoming an official. It would be too shameful to live.

The key point is that your majesty is right...

Many of the contents in this memorial are similar to what your majesty learned when he was ten years old. There are 3,500 words, 17 articles, each word. There is nothing but Huaiyuan people, who have their own opinions in the long speech. There is no mention of Qi Shuai and Jingying, but there are insinuations, such as saying that the army's expedition is unbenevolent and unjust, and will inevitably cause evil and violate the harmony of nature.

The purpose is self-evident.

I dare not name names, I dare not even say that there is a problem in the Beijing camp, so this memorial is really weird. The reason why I dare not name names is very simple. The general is leading 80,000 elite troops on an expedition, and he is really impeaching people randomly and annoying. When the general leads his troops back to the capital, who can resist the Qing emperor?

"If you want to become an official, then you should become an official." Zhang Juzheng wrote the floating notes, handed the memorial to Feng Bao, and sent it to the emperor.

Zhu Yijun allowed him to become an official, and he became an official after being scolded for a few times. Even after being scolded so many times, he was still as stubborn as a weed and grew up vigorously. He had no ability to withstand pressure. What should he do? official? Go home and sell sweet potatoes.

Zhu Yijun handed the memorial to Feng Bao and said: "It is a good thing to promote literature, advocate the rule of literature, devote ourselves to education, and establish learning and literature. Why should we use force to promote literature? When we promote literature, why? Can't Zhenwu be promoted? During the Yongle period, during the Northern Expedition to Tatars and the establishment of the Yongle Grand Ceremony, it was a kind of confusion to talk about civil and military affairs as opposed to each other. I only saw it with my own eyes, including Tan Lun, Yin Zhengmao, Liang Menglong, Zeng Shengwu, etc. The ministers and ministers are all in order to bring peace to the world with martial arts, and to bring peace to the country with military disciplines."

"We need not use them in conjunction with each other in the future."

"I will obey the Holy Instructions." Zhang Juzheng led his ministers to obey the orders of the leader. Civilization and military affairs are not contradictory. Civilization and military affairs never have to be contradictory, nor do they rise and fall one after another. However, the scholar-bureaucrats are always deliberately creating this kind of opposition.

Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites, took out a memorial and said: "The Shah's envoy sent me this year to ask if the court can sell some carved Arabic books, carved wooden knives, ink, paper and other items to the Mughal Kingdom. Money is easy to say, the more the better, the more the better.”

“Didn’t it mean that the Mughal Kingdom and the Ottomans prohibited the printing of all kinds of scriptures, only copies?” Zhu Yijun was stunned. This request from the Shah envoy was unacceptable. It is in line with Daming's understanding of them.

Because of the sacredness of the scriptures, they must be copied sincerely to reflect the firmness of the faith. For this reason, Emperor Akbar and the Ottoman Sultan repeatedly issued bans to prohibit the spread of printing technology. A very widespread statement.

The special envoy from Taixi and the reply letter from the Ming Dynasty’s special envoy to Taixi all said this. Literary prison? It requires writing. In a world with only manuscripts, the price of knowledge will be infinitely expensive, and it can only be the exclusive privilege of nobles.

At that time, Zhu Yijun also said that the literary prison of the Qing Dynasty could not even be cured. In the Arab world, the root cause could be treated directly. In Korea and Japan, Chinese characters served as class barriers. In the Arab world, even knowledge was Uncirculated.

Because the imperial court was lagging behind in dealing with problems due to the inevitable rigidity of the system, the Literary Prison of the Qing Dynasty was only set off after it had already caused bad consequences. The impact had already been caused, and the anti-traitor speech had already Wherever it spreads, literary prisons treat the symptoms but not the root cause, while the Arab world directly prohibits the spread of knowledge.

"Your Majesty, this is a rumor deliberately created by the Taixi people. In fact, the Ottoman Kingdom and the Mughal Kingdom did not have the conditions for engraving." Wan Shihe explained the details in detail, which are not in the scriptures. requirements for printing, and were never so ordered by the Ottoman Sultans and Mughal kings.

Wan Shihe showed three pieces of evidence.

In the second year of Wanli, when the Ottoman Sultan Murad III came to power, he had an engraving-printed edict. The content of the edict was to tell everyone to change the king. The content was not outstanding, but it was engraving; the other was in Arabic. "Euclid's Calculation of Pi"; there is also an edict protecting the rights of Thai and Spanish merchants to sell "precious printed books and pamphlets in Arabic". This edict is very long and has been carefully translated by the consulate.

These three pieces of evidence were presented directly to His Majesty and translated.

“Currently, people’s desire for knowledge is the same, regardless of region. Even the content of this Arabic “Euclidean” is rudimentary, full of typos and errors, and there are not enough letters and lines. "Clearly, any of us scholars in the Ming Dynasty do not think it has any meaning when they see books of this quality, but books are still hot commodities and extremely expensive." Wan Shihe explained the current plight of the Mughal Kingdom. .

At this time, Wan Shihe also admitted that the liberal school improved by Lin Fucheng had something to it. The Arab world lacked material conditions and did not have the vertical and horizontal scale of printing. In fact, in the palace, There are still a small number of prints in circulation, but the quality is so poor, that's why manuscripts became popular.

Movable type printing is not that powerful, because in order to print with movable type, the type selector, singer, and engraver must all be literate, otherwise errors and omissions will occur. In this era, for high-level talents, printing was a chore.

"So what the Shah envoy means is to ask Ming Dynasty to help with printing? It seems that there are only two people in the Ming Dynasty Consulate who can understand Arabic." Zhu Yijun felt that he could approve it, but it was also difficult for Ming Dynasty to do it.

"Your Majesty, in fact, our Ming Dynasty still has people who are proficient in this." Wan Shihe bowed his head and said.

The Quanzhou Pu family, descendants of Arabs, even affected the fate of the Song and Yuan dynasties. The Song Dynasty was not kind to the people, but it was not kind to the Arabs like the Quanzhou Pu family. Later, the Quanzhou Pu family treated the Arabs who had fled to Quanzhou. All the Zhao family members were sold to Kublai Khan in exchange for official positions. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang prohibited the Quanzhou Pu family from participating in the imperial examination. The Quanzhou Pu family often changed their surnames to Zhao and Wu.

When Wan Shihe talked about these, he mainly talked about the vertical scale. The Southern Song Dynasty had already communicated with the Arab world, and also talked about the horizontal scale. The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty also had to do business with the cannibals.

"That's right." Zhu Yijun really does all kinds of business. Book printing is a profitable business. It's profitable, not shabby.

Wan Shihe didn't mention this matter suddenly, it was mainly for the sake of the next matter to be discussed.

"Guang Jian Social Studies." Zhang Juzheng took out a memorial and looked a little hesitant. Ming Dynasty did not have the capital to carry out universal basic education. Zhang Juzheng really wanted to do it, but he couldn't do it. It just can't be done. This is a compromise and appeasement approach. But it's hard to say what kind of disturbance this new academic and political approach will cause when it is rolled out.

"How about waiting for Qi Shuai's triumphant return?" Zhang Juzheng held the memorial and did not open it, but prepared to take it back. This was path dependent. He had waited many times before. Without ballast, Zhang Juzheng panicked.

Profits tax and land restoration, these two things have already stimulated the right to be aggressive, although the land restoration is secretive.

"I don't think there is a need to wait." Wang Chonggu said: "How big of a deal is it to dispatch the capital camp? According to the water schedule, the navy will only be back in town for a hundred days. The powerful are right and they are human. They are also afraid of death. There is nothing to fear. "

The Ming Dynasty Navy is patrolling the Japanese country, and the Ming Dynasty Jingying is conquering Hetao. It seems that the Ming Dynasty does not have ballast stones, and the implementation of the decree needs to be postponed, but Wang Chonggu Station Looking at it from the perspective of Shi Yaohao, I don’t think this is a big deal.

"Although they did not join hands, there is a general consensus." Zhang Juzheng shook his head and prepared to take the memorial back. It was better to wait for Qi Jiguang's return.

“It’s better to take root in the Engineer Regiment Camp first.” Wang Chonggu proposed a compromise method. It needs to be piloted after all. Then try it on the Engineer Regiment Camp. The labor intensity of the Engineer Regiment Camp is extremely high. , in this environment, there is still something to be learned from reading, and that is the talent that can be made. We can select out the bad students on a large scale and cultivate talents.

Filtering out the scum cannot filter out the scum, but the fulfillment of the training contract can filter out the scum.

Zhang Juzheng stopped taking back the memorial. He hesitated, but still took it back, and said with a sad face: "Let's forget it."

Wang Chonggu thought about it and said: "Let's try it in the engineering camp first, and then extend it to the government, factory, and regiments. In this way, it can be regarded as Xu Xing's plan, not too hasty. "

"It's still too difficult," Zhang Juzheng said with a troubled expression.

Wang Chonggu thought for a while and said, "What's so difficult about this? Bring it to me."

Zhang Juzheng handed the memorial to Wang Chonggu. Wang Chonggu looked at it for a long time and said with certainty: " What’s so difficult about this? Let’s try it in the Engineer Regiment Camp first. Anyway, we can copy it from the experience of the Jingying Military Academy.” It is difficult to achieve. About 30% of the Jinshi in the court are from military households, and the remaining 70% are from civilians. There are suspected to be too many cheap Confucians in the court, and the engineering corps camp is also a military household.

The funds are sufficient, 200,000 silver, and the 70,000-strong engineer regiment and battalion can select 3,000 students, which is enough. As long as the pilot can be successful, it can be spread out bit by bit.

“Try it?” Zhang Juzheng still had doubts, but still wanted to give it a try.

Wang Chonggu and Zhang Juzheng communicated on details, such as pre-school selection, admission, training time, training contract, etc., especially on the penalty for breach of contract. Wang Chonggu and Zhang Juzheng had some different opinions. Wang Chonggu believed that a fine should be paid. A fine of five hundred, sixty silver for repairing, and a fine of thirty thousand silver. If you can't afford the compensation, you will be directly exiled. If you go, you have to go, and if you don't go, you have to go.

Zhang Juzheng's opinion is traditional punishments such as erasure of fame, never use of merit, and no favors for three generations.

The fine is simple and straightforward, and you have to pay off the debt throughout your life.

Wang Chonggu's opinion made the courtiers frown. Wang Chonggu was a bit too shady.

In addition to Suiyuan, the scope of the commissioned academic administration also includes overseas governor-general offices such as Luzon, Jiugang, Nagasaki, and Ryukyu. These contracts are realized through the Maritime School, which can be regarded as a dual-regulation pilot.

Zhu Yijun looked serious on the stage, while Zhu Yili tilted his head and said in a small voice: "Brother, it seems that the victim has been deceived by Mr. again. Mr. is not hesitating, he is clearly giving me more. Wang Chonggu played a trick, brother, am I right?”

“You are so smart, why are you obsessed with the beauty of the world?” Of course, Zhu Yijun understood that Wang Chonggu lost to his strange victory. Wang Chonggu wanted so much to prove himself, so much that he wanted the Engineer Corps Battalion to be realized, that he subconsciously ignored Zhang Juzheng's trick.

"You really didn't see that it was a trick?" Zhu Yiliu chose to change the topic. Zhu Yiliu also learned a lot from the tricks of cheap Confucianism.

Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said: "Even if it is a trap, Wang Cifu now has to dive in headfirst. No, what nickname do you give people? Wang Cifu is Cifu, what nonsense are you talking about."< br>
Zhu Yiliu said in a low voice: "The courtiers all said that he could not defeat Mr., and was taken advantage of by Mr. to pay back the land."

Wang Chonggu was indeed deceived by Zhang Juzheng at first. They were obviously opposed to returning the fields, but in the end they were the first to take the lead and charge forward. The courtiers all knew that private discussions were normal.

Yang Bo is very accurate in judging people. Wang Chonggu is really irritable, which means he is easily swayed by his emotions. In fact, he is not very afraid of the rebellious ministers and traitors. They are very familiar with the tricks of the rebellious ministers and traitors. Who else is not? What a treacherous traitor!

So even if Wang Chonggu doesn't realize that he has been deceived now, he should figure it out later when the stamp is written and sealed.

Sure enough, as soon as the floating ticket was written, Wang Chonggu's expression changed. The corners of his mouth twitched and his expression became helpless.

Being fooled every day, one after another, the tricks are different.

Wang Chonggu knew very well that he had fallen into Zhang Juzheng's trick of showing weakness this time. He suddenly understood one thing. After he read the book "Please Equalize the Fields", Zhang Juzheng would not be able to let him go. .

Yes, at that moment, he had already completed his turn in the historical changes. From that moment on, Zhang Juzheng would not let him go no matter what. He accepted the certificate of surrender and wanted to get off the ship. , there are no doors.

Wang Chonggu sighed and could only say that he could not break free and could only enjoy it.

“In regard to the official factory’s appeasement of nepotism, I have drawn up a regulation. His Majesty Zhu Pi said it is feasible. This is one of the official factory’s laws. In the future, the official factory selection committee, agency and other officials will need to go through In general, there is only one principle in the selection of official examinations: everyone must take the test, every test must be strict, and every prison must be cautious." Wang Chonggu came up with specific regulations regarding the problems discovered during his inspection of the Yongding Woolen Factory a few days ago.

To enter, you must take an exam. The content of the exam is different from the official selection. The management positions of agency and association are to test professional skills. They also require three to five years of practical experience. A layman can command an expert. In just a few years, the walls fell down and the houses collapsed, and the government and factories created laws, but Wang Chonggu had the capital to turn around, so he was naturally cautious.

Every exam must be strict, so the selection process must be strict. In addition to strict requirements on the questions, the Ministry of Industry must be informed. For selection at the General Office level, His Majesty must be informed of the decision. , this is almost equivalent to the imperial examination. The only problem is that it brings trouble to His Majesty.

Be careful when encountering supervision. The examination method created by the government, factory and group must be strictly implemented. The same straw list as the examination method is used to paste the names, and the names are filled in the book to pass the examination. This supervision also requires visits. The craftsman finally got the result, and there were three accounts, one for the official factory, one for the industry department, and one for the official department. The examination was mainly for officials.

"It is better to kill a chicken with a bull's knife, and to govern a small country, you should also use rituals and music." Wang Chonggu's actions seemed to be a bit too strong. The big stick for passing the law was to hit the officials. Only the general office has an official status, and the rest are mostly officials.

However, Wang Chonggu went to war this time to protect the fledgling government-industrial complex in making laws. This was an extremely important force in the Ming Dynasty's New Deal and a constant source of power for the Ming Dynasty's reforms, which could not be lost.

(End of this chapter)

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