Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1525 Department of Education

Before ascension to the throne, people like Hu Zhao and Cai Yong were the busiest people. They didn't want any mistakes in the procedures. After all, this was the ceremony of the establishment of the Ming dynasty.

That's why Mujing dared to let go of it. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he directly took down the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry, and he felt much more at ease.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Industry is not a major ministry, but it is very important to Mujing's New Deal plan. The Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of the world's agriculture, and agriculture represents food.

Only when Mujing has sufficient food, can the New Deal not be affected by any natural disasters, and those aristocratic families, gentry and rich families will not be given the opportunity to use food as a threat.

Aristocratic families, gentry and powerful families are like a large and small net, which is already in this world, intertwined and criss-crossed, there is no way to sort it out, and they have taken root in every county, the population and land they control, Still a big head.

Unless Mu Jing completely opposes them, clears the fields, and counts the population, otherwise, within ten or eight years, there is no way to influence them.

Even if their foundation is broken, as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the background of aristocratic families can still allow them to maintain their glory for decades.

They have enough population to support them. Even if the New Deal is implemented at the local level, they still have many servants and tenants, and there is still food in the granary.

This is their advantage.

Now Mujing doesn't ask for their food, nor their population, relying on the support of the people in the world, relying on sufficient food reserves, naturally there is no need to ask them.

But once there are some natural disasters that cause problems in the harvest, then for the sake of the overall situation, Mu Jing may have to bow his head. Once he bows his head, problems will immediately arise in the New Deal.

So Mujing took down the Ministry of Agriculture first.

With the Ministry of Agriculture in charge and ensuring that there will be no problems with the food every year, he has enough confidence to promote the development of his New Deal, and he will crush anyone who dares to block his footsteps.

It's that strong.

As for the Ministry of Industry, the development of the new era requires the Ministry of Industry. The existence of the Ministry of Industry paves the way for the future industrial revolution.

The existence of Mujing is a bug that belongs to this world, and the development of this era for the next 2000 years in that history has clearly appeared in Mujing's mind.

What he has to do is to speed up the development, so that the development of human beings will avoid some wrong paths. History only started the industrial revolution in the [-]th and [-]th centuries.

As for Mujing, he plans to start the industry from now on.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture are very important to Mu Jing, and he is already very satisfied with eating two of them in one go.

But man is a dissatisfied animal after all.

Greed is instinct.

With such a great opportunity, Hu Zhao, Cai Yong, and the others are too busy to touch the ground. If he can't take advantage of this opportunity to increase his advantage, the road ahead will be even more difficult.

So the next thing he wants to conquer is the Department of Education.

Management of the Ministry of Etiquette and Etiquette of the Department of Education.

The Ministry of Rites is now in charge of Cai Yong, and Cai Yong is in charge of the Ministry of Rites. There is no one in the world. In the world of scholars, his reputation is called the second, and he is not the first.

Even if there are only one or two people who can be compared with him.

The Department of Education was led by Mujing at the beginning, and Cai Yong established it himself. Cai Yong is absolutely concerned about the development of education. If he hadn't been involved in the battle between the Liu family and himself, he would not have taken the wrong position. She will be exiled to Nanzhong by Mujing.

But even though he was in Nanzhong, he was still very concerned about education. Now, in the Department of Education, many people are great scholars invited by him.

At present, for the Ming Dynasty, not to mention other things, the five states in Southwest China and the five states in Jingxiang, every county has a county school, and every state has almost established a university.

Among them, Hongdumen School, Lumenshan School, Nanzhong School, Hanzhong School, and Tianfu School established in Shuzhou have also gained fame in the past two years.

Hongdumen School is the best developed, after all, it is supported by the government, and Mujing has invested in it without knowing how much money, now there is a main school, established in Nanshan, Yudu, and seven state schools.

Every year, students from county schools are selected to enter Hongdu School.

Moreover, Hongdu School does not only teach Confucianism. There is Confucianism, Mathematics and Physics, and miscellaneous subjects. The so-called miscellaneous subjects are agriculture, public affairs, medicine and other types of subjects.

This is what Mujing laid the foundation for Hongdu School.

However, because Cai Yong accepted Hongdu School, Hongdu School still focuses on Confucianism subjects. After all, the concept of studying to become an official has been passed down for thousands of years.

You said that reading is not for being an official. Maybe some people don’t know why reading is for. Hongdu’s miscellaneous subjects have developed very well, but the new concept is only spread locally. At present, there is no way to influence scholars all over the world. .

Besides Hongdumen School, others such as Lumenshan College, Nanzhong School, Hanzhong School, and Tianfu School are all based on Confucianism.

So Mu Jing had an idea early on, to kick Cai Yong's influence out of the Department of Education. Of course, the Department of Education was founded by Cai Yong after all, so it would be difficult to do it if he thought it would be possible.

Shi Xie is now in charge of the Department of Education.

At the beginning, he became the prefect of Jiaozhi, one of the overlords of Jiaozhou, and the head of the first family of scholars in Jiaozhou. Although Shi Xie was from the frontier of South Vietnam, he was also a leader of scholars.

He once traveled to the Central Plains to study and worship as a master. The great Confucianist in the Central Plains at that time, Liu Tao from Yingchuan was his teacher.

The name Liu Tao sounds a little strange, but among scholars, anyone who is in their thirties has basically heard of it.

He was born in the royal family, after Liu Bo, the second son of King Li of Huainan in Western Han Dynasty Liu Chang, King Zhen of Jibei.

In Yingchuan, a place with a strong academic atmosphere, his way of standing is not by virtue of his status as a royal family, but by virtue of his knowledge.

His accomplishments in "Shangshu" and "Spring and Autumn" are incomparable in the world.

If it wasn't because some people said that he colluded with Bianzhang back then, he died of a hunger strike, looking at the world today, he is also a scholar who can be compared with great Confucian scholars like Cai Yong and Zheng Xuan.

Under the influence of such a teacher, people in the world naturally have a different view of Shi Xie. Although he came from a desolate place in the south, Shi Xie is first-class no matter his background or knowledge.

At the beginning, Mujing entered Jiaozhou mainly for the purpose of going to the sea. After all, only Jiaozhou can get the seaport, so when he attacked Nanzhong, he took advantage of the opportunity to let Gan Ning go out.

Then arrange for someone to talk about Jiang Shixie.

In the end, Shi Xie's whole family surrendered and invited him to enter Yudu. Mujing naturally treated him with more respect. No matter from which aspect, he needed to show his attitude, otherwise no one would dare to surrender himself in the future.

So when Shi Xie came to vote, on the one hand, he could not give Shi Xie military power, and on the other hand, he could not let Shi Xie return to Jiaozhou, so he directly gave him the position of the Department of Education.

Over the years, Shi Xie has done a great job in the Department of Education.

First, he can be regarded as a scholar, not a military commander. Second, the way he used to be a prince is different from that of Cai Yong.

Cai Yong only knows how to use the court, and he is shrewd but lacks dominance. Ke Shixie has been a local prefect, a clan leader, and the overlord of Jiaozhou. His methods are soft and hard. Up and down, all in the hand.

Shi Xie is also a very smart person, otherwise he would not have been able to get to this point. Mu Jing put him in the position of the Department of Education, so he naturally needed to do something to show Mu Jing.

Therefore, over the past few years, he has begun to gradually understand the influence of the Department of Education belonging to Cai Yong, both openly and secretly.

Cai Yong has lost more than half of his control over the Department of Education. Of course, there is also a reason for this. Cai Yong has not been very concerned about power and other things.

What he saw was that the Department of Education was developing well, even better than he expected. In addition, Shi Xie was very strict with his subordinates, but he was very gentle with his superiors. He obeyed Cai Yong's words and never refuted them. Cai Yong didn't have too many reasons to backlash against the Education Department.

Shi Xie took charge of the Education Department, which gave Mu Jing a good opportunity.

It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to grow people.

The New Deal is not just for this generation, but for the future, so he needs the admiration of the Department of Education.

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Mu Jing was not in the official office, but Shi Xie summoned on an octagonal stone pavilion in Hongdumen School.

Hongdumen School in Nanshan County, Yudu, is currently the largest academy in the world. Standing in the condescending pavilion, it is very gratifying to see students wearing blue and white Hanfu school uniforms things.

"Weiyan, try it. This is an old tea from a few years ago. Pu'er tastes better with age. Try it!"

Mu Jing made tea himself, and Shi Xie was a little flattered, but the king gave him a gift, so he took a sip carefully.

The tea art avenue has become more popular in the Ming Dynasty recently.

Because most of the tea in the Ming Dynasty came from Nanzhong.

The surrender of the barbarians was a major event for the Ming Dynasty. In order to resettle the barbarian tribes, Mujing began to teach tea planting. In Nanzhong, the most famous one is Pu'er tea, and more and more people grow it every year.

This is known as the best tea in the world. Tea merchants have gradually formed a scale, selling countless teas every year. How many scholars are interested in good tea, it is hard to find a tea.

The better the tea, the longer it takes for those discerning scholars to have the skill of making tea. Gradually, some people began to explore the art of tea.

In the past, not many people are willing to drink tea soup, but now the tea is the real tea.

"It's really different. Nowadays, many people are looking for new teas to be released and then buy them, but they didn't expect that the taste of this old tea seems to be even better!"

Shi Xie's words were not flattering. The tea tasted better the more he drank it. He is a scholar himself, and tea tasting is also a skill, so he naturally learned a lot.

"Things are not necessarily the newer the better!" Mu Jing smiled: "For example, reading, knowledge needs to be accumulated. The more accumulated, the smarter a person is. In fact, the same is true for tea. It needs to be precipitated. The longer it is accumulated, the more It's delicious!"

"My lord's example, it's a bit unexpected!"

Shi Xie also smiled: "But if you listen carefully, it makes sense!"

"Weiyan, you've done a good job in the Education Department!" Putting down the teacup, Mu Jing directly affirmed him: "In the past few years, the education of the Ming Dynasty has surpassed the peak of the Han Dynasty's 400-year history, and you count as the first contribution!"

When he said this, he was not afraid of people's jokes. For hundreds of years in the Han Dynasty, scholars have found private schools by themselves, or they have studied ethnology, and the only ones above the imperial court are Taixue.

How many scholars can be educated, and reading feels as if it has to be passed down from generation to generation before it can be read.

"It's not my credit. Cai Shenzheng has already completed the foundation laying and planned the things for the next few years. It's also because the king gave them all books and pens and inks. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to build so many schools! "

Shi Xie didn't dare to take credit for it.

Not modesty.

But this credit really cannot be eaten up, and it cannot be eaten up. Nowadays, the education of the Ming Dynasty is the best in the world, with such a scale, Cai Yong is the most credited.

When he was in Luoyang, he established a printing factory, which opened a way for poor scholars to study. The lack of knowledge, those papers, and books are the stepping stones for them to study.

"It's your credit, no one can take it away!"

Mu Jing said in a low voice: "But do you think about the future, how should you go?"

"What does Your Majesty mean?" Shi Xie hesitated. He was not stupid. Mu Jing dragged him here to speak, and he was not in the yamen or court. It was obvious that he had a purpose, but he had to be careful. One step, be careful, otherwise it is easy to go the wrong way.

"Do you know that Gu is going to reform the recommendation system?" Mu Jing opened his mouth, shocked.

"What's wrong with the referral system?"

Shi Xie had heard such rumors before, but he stopped at the court, and after the war, there was nothing to follow.

But now that it was said from Mujing, he was a little nervous.

"inappropriate?"

Mu Jing sneered: "It's very inappropriate. It's backward to recommend this system. A person's knowledge can't be recognized by only one person, and he is qualified to be an official. Maybe he can become an official by creating some reputation. It's too rough, and it's easy to take advantage of people's loopholes!"

He sighed a little, and said: "It is not an honor to be an official, but a responsibility. After they become officials, they need to manage the people and manage the people. That is something that can't be wrong even half a step. One mistake will have to be borne by countless people, so we should be more careful and delicate in selecting talents!"

"Your Majesty, in fact, selecting talents for the Ming Kingdom is not a matter for our Education Department!" Shi Xie gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

"This statement is different!"

Mu Jing shook his head, and said: "The Department of Education is in charge of education, helping people to study, establishing academies, establishing an education system, so that people can learn, and let people enter the academy to study. What is the purpose?"

Shi Xie was silent for a while, he didn't want to do it, but he couldn't avoid many things: "Your Majesty, why bother to speak openly and honestly, what do you want!"

"Simple!"

Mu Jing was also straightforward: "The Department of Education supports the reform of the recommendation system!"

"This will offend Prime Minister Hu, and Cai Shenzheng will also object!" Shi Xie frowned.

(End of this chapter)