New Chinese Empire, Forbidden City.
After the celebration at the university grounds is over, everyone will return to the Golden Luang Temple and begin the next major event, entrusting hundreds of officials.
Although the new Chinese empire is an emerging country, it is not inferior in terms of talent reserves. It is even different from those countries that rely on the struggle for hegemony to win the world. Basically, the first generation of founding heroes were all the same. The generals of Jiangshan can play in Jiangshan, but they are not good at running the country.
The new Chinese empire is different, thanks to Yang Sichang’s deep network in Daming, and Tianxia Academy has been successfully developed in Daming for many years, and has cultivated tens of thousands of talents, so it is not only high-level officials, but also the kind of grass-roots officials. , All are well-staffed.
So the next step was to smoothly select the civil and military officials, including the cabinet, six books and so on.
But since it is a new dynasty, and it is also a new dynasty with Yang Shanlu participating, it is naturally different from the previous dynasties, and the most prominent change is the addition of many new departments, and this change is more Since the beginning of the past dynasties, it has been much more radical.
For example, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the post of prime minister has been established, but at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, considering that the prime minister was too powerful, the prime minister was removed and a cabinet was established instead, but the overall change was still small.
But now it's different. After repeated research by Yang Shanlu and his father Yang Sichang, five new departments were added in one go... From the original six to eleven!
The five newly established departments are the Ministry of Education and Talents (the Ministry of Education in later generations), the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (similar to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in later generations), the Ministry of Supervision, and the Ministry of Agriculture.
It is also obvious that the Ministry of Education is ranked first (separated from the Ministry of Etiquette, which was in charge of private schools and imperial examinations).
In this era, taking Daming as an example, out of 100 adults, only less than 5% of them have been educated. The rest of them can't even write their own names, and they just keep fingerprints on everything. Yes, and the education level of the new Chinese empire is almost the same.
So how can such a national education level promote the development of the times? It is imperative to establish the Ministry of Education for Talents.
And according to Yang Shanlu’s vision, he will also implement compulsory education at that time. Although limited to the current financial resources, it is impossible to implement nine-year compulsory education like later generations, but Yang Shanlu feels that the most basic three-year system will be implemented. Compulsory education is still necessary!
Let each doll learn 500 words in three years (learn one word in two days), can simply add, subtract, multiply and divide, and write a simple letter. After completing the basic enlightenment education, they will have more openness. The opportunity to see the world with our eyes gives us more choices for the future path of life. This is his responsibility to the society as a traverser!
As for the reason for this, the reason is very simple... just to give them a chance! Or from a macro level, the Chinese are not stupid, but many people do not have the opportunity to study! I can only be blind and illiterate!
Think about it, when those poor families are forced by life, a few-year-old dolls have to pick up a hatchet, cut pigs and weeds, herd cattle and sheep, busy with their livelihoods, and then they will not be able to step into the gate of the school all their lives until they get old At the time, how can you expect that among them, an ancestor Chongzhi, or Guo Shoujing or Sun Simiao would be born
Therefore, in order to achieve this, the "New Chinese Law" that will be promulgated throughout the country will be written in the form of law, that is, it will be mandatory to stipulate that all children in the new Chinese empire shall be from six to seven years old. It is about to start receiving compulsory education! Go to college to study! (The famous Tang Dynasty medical scientist Sun Simiao was "schooling at the age of seven") Anyone who violates it will be punished in corvee!
Of course Yang Shanlu also knows that although the policies are good, many poor families can't afford their children's school expenses, so what should we do? At this time, the large sums of wealth plundered from Europe will play a strong supporting role...
At that time, Yang Shanlu will stipulate that children who go to school should pay tuition and miscellaneous fees, such as buying pens, ink, paper and so on, or even please Mr., all for nothing!
Even as long as you go to the academy to go to school, there will be a free lunch at noon! It’s still a meaty lunch! So I believe those poor families, even for this free lunch, will send their dolls to study, right? After all, who doesn't want their children to get ahead? There was no such condition before, but what about now
And this is why Yang Shanlu listed the Yucai Department separately and ranked first! He does not expect that under his impetus, the country will rise to the sky one step at a time and run into the era of technology! What kind of lights and phones can all be realized! That is unrealistic!
However, he hopes that under his promotion, national education can achieve a substantial leap, and the overall quality of the people will be greatly improved. The entire country can develop into a powerful country in science and technology and a country in humanities in a relatively short period of time! This is Yang Shanlu's goal!
And here can be the simplest example, for example, the later generation of Xiaori/Ben, although he was defeated so badly after the eight-year war of resistance, even his country was bombed by the original/bullet! Domestic young people are as rare as giant pandas, but why can they rise so quickly
This has a lot to do with the fact that they have basically completed the system of education for all at that time, and there is no illiterate system in China.
The so-called mastering skills to control the barbarians, since Xiaori/ben has achieved such good results in practice, why can't we use it? So Yang Shanlu is willing to work hard for this!
Then go back to the front. So among the five newly established departments, the Ministry of Education and Talents, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education and Talents is ranked first, and the Ministry of Science and Technology is ranked second. In order to apply it, how to transform science and technology into productivity faster and better is the scope of the work of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Yang Shanlu has also planned for this, and that is to implement heavy rewards! When there are inventions and creations, the first to third prizes will be marked according to the different help to the country's people's livelihood. For example, the first prize will reward ten thousand taels of silver!
(According to the price of the New Chinese Empire, twenty taels of silver can be comfortable for a year. As long as there is such an invention, you can wait for it to be delicious and spicy for the rest of your life! You can even travel the world!)
The second prize is five thousand taels, even if it is the lowest third prize, one thousand taels of silver are awarded, and you can live a decent life for the rest of your life!
Then, including those scientists he introduced from Europe, they will all enter the Ministry of Science and Technology to enjoy the treatment of such inventions and creations! Use their ingenuity to become part of the country's booster.
Of course, his father Yang Sichang had doubts about this. After seeing the various inventions of Yang Shanlu (perfume, woolen sweaters, etc.), he certainly supports this, but the question is if the invention is too great. What if the court can’t come up with so much gold and silver? Isn't that dishonest to the people
This depends on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which ranks third. The gold and silver previously earned from Europe can support the compulsory education of the citizens, but this is far from enough. How can we help the new people with tens of millions of people? The empire strengthens its national power and gathers the wealth of the world, which requires the newly established Ministry of Foreign Affairs!
At that time, the responsibility of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be... It is specifically responsible for foreign trade, coordination, leadership, and even warfare. (There is also a polar bear who invaded more than one million square kilometers of our country. There is no lesson yet. Of course, this is the latter. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for all these matters. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a new department to pay attention to these important matters.
Then include the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Agriculture. There is no need to say more. In short, the Ministry of Supervision has replaced the previous Jinyiwei, but it has more powerful functions and is more plausible (the later generations of the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State/Security).
The establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture reflects the idea of non-agricultural instability, which also requires a solid foundation.
So just like that, after Yang Sichang returned to the Jinluan Palace and sat high in the dragon chair, the attendant announced the news, and then hundreds of elites in the hall felt that a new change had arrived!
(Of course, before that, Yang Sichang still had to play three pushes and three transfers. He was really modest and he was reluctant to be the emperor's trick. However, his emperor is already a certainty, so he just took it for a while)
Even in this new revolution, some people are still very happy... such as Liu Zongzhou.
In fact, Liu Zong only came to attend the founding ceremony on Monday, but since he is here, why would Yang Shanlu let him go back? (If Huang Daozhou also cuts Hu, it is estimated that Emperor Chongzhen will blow his beard and stare at him! So Yang Shanlu left one for him)
So after a close conversation with him, Yang Shanlu let his precious daughter-in-law Liu Hongli go out, in the name of helping his granddaughter-in-law to govern the country, this only half-pushed half-way and half agreed to become the official book of the Ministry of Education! Become one of the eleven scholars of the New Empire.
Of course, if Liu Zongzhou's changes were placed in the past, it would be absolutely unimaginable. You must know that when he was in Daming before, he and Yang Sichang were rivals, even worse than not being in contact with each other!
But now... With Yang Shanlu as a lubricant, the two have already let go of their prejudices and shook hands to make peace... They can all be regarded as relatives, and they are all conflicts caused by worrying about the country for the sake of the country's prosperity and strength. , There is no essential conflict, so is there anything irreconcilable
And to be honest, Liu Zongzhou’s talents are only suitable for scholarship, not for being an official (that is, like the official position of the Ming Dynasty he held before, like the minister of the Ministry of Industry (in charge of national transportation, civil engineering, major manufacturing plants...), Zuo Duyu History or something (specially in charge of impeaching people) is not suitable.
At that time, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was in darkness, and it was very popular to accept bribes for a while, and Liu Zongzhou's uprightness couldn't do it.
Including the old Liu’s nature is like a fire, his eyes cannot rub sand, so in the original history, whether he was in the era of Wei Zhongxian, the era of Chongzhen, or even the era of the last Nanming Fuwang, he used a simple literati to disturb him. The darkness of the officialdom can only end up hitting a wall everywhere, and the final fate is all dismissal and dejection, and return home sadly).
But now, he is really suitable as the book of the Ministry of Education and Talents, because the function of the Ministry of Education and Talents is very single, focusing only on education and specializing in learning! This is much more appetizing than what old Liu Tau was a minister of engineering, Zuo Du Yushi and the like before!
In other words, this is also a kind of screw theory. As long as it is placed in the right place, even a screw can play its due role, not to mention Liu Zongzhou, a generation of great scholars and literary masters! If he is appointed as the book of the Ministry of Education and Talents, he can persuade people with morals and suppress the cultural movement!
Then, after the five new additions are set, the next step is about the change of the cabinet system, or that this is the embryonic form of the parliamentary system in the future. (End of this chapter)