Xinshun 1730

Chapter 390 Tsinghua Garden

"It just so happens that the envoys of the Raksha Kingdom have not yet arrived in the capital. Among the Raksha people, your name, Liu Yu, is quite resounding. In the battle against the Japanese, since you thought it was a sledgehammer to kill chickens, then you should stay. To frighten the Raksha people. Assist Duke Qi to sign the agreement on the Northwest Territory."

"The Raksha people are very familiar with you and know your abilities best. Seeing that you are not the main general to conquer the Japanese, they must think that you stayed in the capital to deal with the possible conflict between our court and the Raksha."

After the emperor allowed Liu Yu not to directly command the battle against the Japanese sea, his mind was quick and he quickly thought of such a suitable position.

Originally, he still had a headache about what kind of posture he needed to make to convince Luo Sha that the Celestial Dynasty might start a war with Luo Sha for the Junggar ranch.

Now Liu Yu doesn't go to sea, Liu Yu's several exchanges with the Raksha Kingdom, and the battle fought for the Raksha special envoy in the first battle of Pingzhun left Liu Yu as a resistance and mobilized more than [-] people to make a gesture.

"As soon as your marriage leave is over, you will go to the Privy Council every day. You and the Privy Envoy, one land and one sea, will be in charge of the Japanese military plane. Since you think that the logistics and transportation, the Admiralty also needs a special logistics department, so first Build this up and recommend someone to be the head of the logistics department."

"This is a special matter. In the future, the military election of army and navy officers will have its own rules and regulations."

It seemed that a bunch of tasks were assigned to Liu Yu all at once, but neither Liu Yu nor the emperor thought it was something they couldn't get away from.

It is almost impossible for Liu Yu to be tossed about in Tosa in the battle against the Japanese. It is almost impossible for any accidents to happen; Qi Guogong is also responsible for blackmail when negotiating with Luocha. Liu Yu only needs to show his face, and the sword in his hand is .

Liu Yu didn't care much about these meaningless things. Those who are good fighters have no great reputation, and the war against the Japanese was not a gamble on the fate of the country. In Liu Yu's opinion, it was similar to the difficulty of reforming the Southwest to return to the country, and he didn't care.

What he cares about is that the emperor really wants to use money to set up practical schools?

"What your majesty said, if the Japanese pay compensation, you have to spend a million taels to set up a practical school? Does your majesty have a plan?"

Li Gan said with a smile: "I just want to talk to you about this matter. Let me ask you, why did Emperor Taizong establish the Wude Palace back then?"

Liu Yu thought to himself, it must be because the Four Books and Five Classics are a bit outdated, and the Yongjia Yongkang School of Confucianism is incapable of reforming it. To unite the gentry and landlord class with the banner of protecting the world, then there is only such a compromise.

But these things are not easy to talk to the emperor, so I had to say: "It is too difficult to found a country in this dynasty. I have suffered a lot from the cannons of the Donglu, and the cannons of the Donglu actually originated from the Dengzhou Mutiny. After fighting against the false Ming, Japanese iron cannon ashigaru, Portuguese musketeers, and Zheng's black guards all show that Western knowledge is useful in military affairs. So they are far-sighted?"

Li Gan shook his head slightly, stretched out a finger and said, "You only know one thing, not the other. Practical learning is naturally useful, and Emperor Taizong also said back then that practical learning should be promoted."

"But how can it be promoted? If it is too large, it will not be promoted. The whole world will definitely oppose it. Therefore, Emperor Taizong had to implement it only among good families. It will not hinder the way of imperial examinations for scholars all over the world. It will be parallel and not chaotic."

"When I was a child, there were Western missionaries teaching knowledge. Don't I know the great use of practical learning? But the great use, and the great harm, which is more important? The world's scholars are rich and poor. Is it possible that practical learning is better than saints? The words? Emperor Taizong said, Ming took the world, and took the imperial examinations in Yuan Shao;

"The word Xing should be knocked deeply. If it is spread all over the country, it is not Xing, but it is really chaotic."

Liu Yu understands this truth. In the situation back then, when Dashun was fighting for the world, if he dared to promote practical learning, Man Qing would hold high the banner of sage Mingjiao.

In the end, I left a good family with the foundation of learning the Sanshe method and Wude Palace, but that's it, and I can't go any further.

So this is what Liu Yu wants to ask, how to promote practical learning?
Seeing Liu Yu's puzzled expression, Li Gan smiled and said, "I remember what you said about dividing the cakes. I can't move the cakes that have already been divided. But if I have learned the truth, I'm afraid it will be difficult if I don't have any cakes to eat." .Fortunately, thanks to the military reform and the construction of the navy, there are more cakes to share.”

"Furthermore, if the stalls are too large, it is not good. In the three generations of ancient times, there was a school law, and Wang Jinggong's three house law also came from this. It can be implemented throughout the country, but it is not easy to implement. Therefore, it is only implemented among good families. , Beijing, Songjiang, and Jinghai are all around.”

"There is no obstacle to the new construction of Jinghai; there are many merchants in Songjiang, and I allow their children to learn practical knowledge to serve the country. The capital is right in front of my eyes, so give them more cakes to eat; the sons of good families learn practical knowledge, and only slightly modify the textbooks to deepen it."

"As for other places, there will be no change; the number of candidates in each province will not change; the number of imperial examinations will not change."

"Jinghai Palace was returned to the capital and merged into Wude Palace Military Academy. It only divided into steps, artillery, sea and riding. The navy studied in Beijing for one year, and went to Weihai for another year to practice on the ship. What does Ai Qing think?"

"Uh... I think it's wonderful." Liu Yu thought to himself, it's conceivable what the purpose is, it's nothing more than strengthening the rule.

Giving the people in the capital more outlets and allowing them to become the pillars of the military officers actually stabilized the military power.Rule the world with the capital and make sure the capital is loyal.

A loyal capital is a force capable of turning the world around.

As for Songjiang, needless to say, he just wanted to tie the merchants to the imperial power.Liangjiazi is the basic set, which cannot be changed, but there are few people, and the teaching materials can be changed directly, and with the previous foundation, there will be no big disturbances.There are not many people in Jinghai now, just to save face for Liu Yu. After all, he spent a lot of money there before, so he can't throw it away for nothing.

After the military reform, once the old army has survived the past few years, and the old army has been completely dismantled, the money shared by each soldier has increased.

As a decent profession, military officers can be regarded as included in this parallel "alternative imperial examination system", and they can be regarded as eating from the official family.

Both new learning and old learning are fed by officials, and the emperor is in the middle to balance, which can be regarded as winning over the most capable rebels in the world.

If you don't have the culture to rebel, you can only be a pioneer for the king, and nothing will happen.In the eyes of the emperor, the addition of new military officers to the imperial examination brought those capable of rebellion into the official ranks, and they could restrain each other and last for a long time.

The splitting of the pie that the emperor said was nothing more than the splitting of the financial pie. It seems that the emperor still has confidence in developing financial resources in the future.

This has no effect on Liu Yu's plan, neither good nor bad.

But he still wanted to mention one thing.

"Your Majesty, this practical learning is not just for being an officer. Such as agriculture, handicrafts, smelting, casting... These should also be taken seriously."

Li Gan laughed loudly and said: "I knew it, you would definitely ask this. When you imitated the old wisdom of Marquis Wu, you said that you should make the people of the capital interested in real students. The flying to the sky, smelting and casting, and agriculture and textiles are all natural. It is also within the scope of practical science.”

"I have already decided to build an academy of sciences in the Tsinghua Garden of the previous dynasty. All Western countries have academies of sciences, and I want to build one myself. I said it at the beginning, and now I can finally do it."

"Since it is to be built in the capital, it is a good place. One is built by the former Qi Wanwu Qinghou. In the past, it was known as 'Tsinghua Garden with heavy tides before and after, and it is the most famous garden in the capital. If In terms of water, the north of the Jianghuai River should also be number one, and it is indeed an excellent place for learning."

"Two things...the place is empty and empty, and no one is willing to build a garden there. If you are a practical learner, you should know that you don't talk nonsense and blame gods, and it is also suitable for Zhenyi Town."

Liu Yu already knew about the public case of Tsinghua University.The garden of the other courtyard of Duke Qi's mansion is nearby. Except for their family, Yiguo, who went to such a good place as Jishuitan, the rest of the nobles did not have such a large garden and water source in the capital, so they had to build gardens near Haidian.

The emperor's so-called "force chaos and strange gods" is the case of the Chongzhen Dynasty.Xue Guoguan gave Emperor Chongzhen an idea: the country is in danger and trapped in gold and silver.Civil and military officials, kings, grandchildren, and relatives have been greatly favored by the state, so they should share the country's worries and give money and food.

The Tsinghua Garden of Wu Qinghou is known as the No. [-] garden in Huaibei, who knows who doesn't know?In addition, the brothers fought for property, so Wu Qinghou was the first to take the knife. As a result, Wu Qinghou died. Xungui's relatives asked for money.

Therefore, although this garden is good, none of the nobles in Dashun would like to have it, and let it fall into disrepair. They really feel that this dilapidated place is unlucky, and they all want to leave it to the emperor.

But these generations of emperors in Dashun have been digging and searching one by one. Before recuperating and recuperating, they had no money to build, but when they came to Li Gan to recuperate, they were thinking about expanding the territory and leaving behind a name. This place has always been vacant.

For Liu Yu, the establishment of the Academy of Sciences in this place is actually quite willing to accept it from the emotional point of view of the previous life.

But Li Gan's next words completely confused Liu Yu.

"I have sent your practical teacher Dai Jinxian, along with Castiglione and other Westerners, to recruit Western architects, and build a Western building there as an Academy of Sciences."

This operation made Liu Yu speechless all of a sudden.

"Didn't Your Majesty separate practical learning from Western learning? If so, why bother to build Western architecture? Isn't this disgusting to scholar-bureaucrats?"

Li Gan asked rhetorically, "Why, do you still want business and literati to rank together? You, you, use your brains and think about it carefully. The Northern Confucianism has always supported practical learning, but practical learning should be based on Confucianism and practical learning should be at the end. This kind of Confucian students are not as good as those who study hard in the imperial examination, and they are not as good as those who have learned little about the words of the sages. On the contrary, they are not successful."

"If I build the Academy of Sciences, if I don't make them less important than the scholar-bureaucrats, how can I make it happen? Besides, if people think that I want to build another "Wu De Palace" or something like that, and divide up the number of imperial examinations, the public opinion of scholars will be in an uproar, and they will fall into "practical learning". In the debate over who is the basis of 'Dayi'."

"It's better to build a Western-style building directly, so that the scholar-bureaucrats understand that I will not use them to grab the imperial examination places, and it will not affect the righteousness of Confucianism, and save the debate on who is more important than practical learning or righteousness."

"Dr. Guozijian is at the fifth rank; a doctor at the Academy of Sciences is at the fifth rank. They are all inferior. To show the Six Classics is more important than practical learning. There is no controversy about this. If you can do this, if you think it’s too little, you can invest money to support it, this is your own work.”

"You can contribute more, but it has nothing to do with me, let alone have anything to do with me. I am the Son of Heaven, do you understand?"

(End of this chapter)