After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 201 Talent Gap
"Chen, Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an, thank you for the emperor's kindness." The two of them knelt down and bowed.

Luo Guanzhong became a minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and it was considered that the emperor had truly entrusted him with an important responsibility.The Ministry of Personnel has the power to promote, appoint and remove officials, and evaluate them. It can be said that it is a department of real power.

It is extremely rare to be the second-ranked servant of the new division directly.

Luo Guanzhong is over 40 years old this year, and he has performed well with Zhang Shicheng. He is not a young man who is just a fledgling, and Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely not let him start from the bottom.

Zhan Tong, the minister of personnel, was from Wuyuan and did not belong to the Huaixi party.

Therefore, after Luo Guanzhong's passing, he will not be suppressed by the Huaixi party, and it will also facilitate him to promote Southwest officials in the future.

As for Shi Nai'an being arranged as an editor at the Hanlin Academy to help repair the history of the Yuan Dynasty, it was a bit perfunctory.

It seems that it is the emperor who thinks that I am too old to be a great person.Shi Naian sighed in his heart, although I am old, I still have the determination to live a thousand miles.

And now my student Luo Guanzhong and his disciple Li Zian have more real power than me, so where should I put my face?
Although I was depressed, I didn't dare to say it.

"Wei Chen retire!"

……

On Fengtian Temple.

There are two new faces in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, one is Luo Guanzhong and the other is Shi Naian, two novelists.

After the pilgrimage was over, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Recently, we have received memorials from various places submitted by the Zhongshu Province. The Duke of Zheng, Changmao, who was in charge of the development of Qiongzhou, asked the court to recruit scholars and ordinary people who were good at farming. He taught the local indigenous people how to cultivate and educated the local people. people."

"Tang He, who opened the port, also handed over the same memorial. He named the local aborigines the Atayal, because the tribe worshipped 'Atayal', which means warriors and real people. Daming and the locals do not understand the language, and the aborigines still lived there. In the days of slash-and-burn farming and hunting for fish, there is an urgent need for more scholars and farming experts to teach them about farming and language."

"Koryo Gong Hua Yunlong handed over the memorial, saying that the [-] Confucian scholars sent before are far from enough, and more Confucian scholars need to be sent."

"Because of the rapid development in all parts of the southwest, local officials have come forward one after another, saying that there is a lack of talents."

……

"Across the country, there is such a lack of talent!?"

"It's something I've never heard of before."

"There has never been a similar situation in all dynasties. This is the first time in history."

The group of ministers listened, and they discussed it one after another.

"The faster Daming develops, the more obvious the problem of serious shortage of talents will be revealed." Zhu Yuanzhang concluded above, "For this matter, what are your views on this matter, please tell me."

"Your Majesty. It is the first time in history that memorials have been submitted to the imperial court from all over the country to say that there is a shortage of talents." Song Lian stood out of the train and said, "There is no Tang Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, neither in the Song Dynasty, only me. Daming appeared."

"Therefore, this matter is worth thinking about."

Is not this nonsensical?Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this is because of the rapid development of Daming and the rapid expansion of territory." Li Shanchang stepped forward and said.

"Every time the imperial court developed a territory and conquered a piece of land, it needed to dispatch Confucian scholars to educate their culture.

"So there is a shortage of talents, that is an inevitable thing."

"From this point of view, this is a good thing and not a bad thing."

……

"Your Majesty, the talent gap in the southwest is much bigger than in other places." Luo Guanzhong, who had just been able to go to court, stepped forward to speak, "This minister is from the southwest, and he has a better understanding of the situation in the three southwest provinces than the princes in the court. many."

"After the Southwest implemented local tyrants, divided the fields, and spread the crops into the mu, the counties and even the townships became unprecedentedly prosperous."

"Even some people from outside the country vigorously cultivated wasteland on the wasteland, and then relocated to form a new township. After a new township is formed, special talents are needed to manage it in the past, and they cannot be selected from the common people. After all, their culture is not high."

"The black households who used to hide in the deep mountains have descended one after another. With the addition of immigrants and the naturalization of ethnic minorities, the population of the southwest has skyrocketed. The bottom management personnel, the same as before, have not increased."

"Previously, they only managed hundreds of people, but now they need to manage tens of thousands of people, almost at the county level. Those Baochang and Jia are already de facto county magistrates. At their level, It is impossible to be a county magistrate at all. The previous county has almost reached the state level. The original county magistrate is already the de facto prefect."

"In the past, the low-level management personnel were not highly literate, and even some low-level officials were still illiterate."

"Not bad." Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard the words, "It seems that Southwest needs talents more than other places."

"And the problems in the southwest must be paid enough attention to by the imperial court." Luo Guanzhong said, "Even if the southwest region develops rapidly, it will be in vain if it is poorly managed. The more the population, the higher the requirements for the ability of local officials."

"Your Majesty, the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty, although they all flourished, there was no shortage of talents." Liu Bowen stood up and said, "That's because the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties was gradually formed, and it took decades or even a hundred years. The development time of the company is gradual, so there will be no talent gap. The rapid development of Southwest China is only within a few months.”

"It took a few months to form a prosperous scene, and of course there will be a shortage of talents."

"Not bad!"

"Not bad!"

"The emperor was able to make a flourishing world appear in the southwest in just a few months, far surpassing Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty."

"And Hua Yunlong conquered Goryeo within a month, and the emperor far surpassed Emperor Wu of Han in martial arts."

"The emperor is really the first holy monarch through the ages."

"The phenomenon of talent shortage in Daming is the performance of the emperor Shengming."

When the ministers heard the words, they all said.

"Don't say that there is a shortage of talents all over the country, even our Ministry of Industry is in urgent need." Shan Anren said, "The Ministry of Industry is making steel and making more efforts to make magic machine guns, although the craftsmen are working day and night. dry, but the output still can’t keep up.”

"Also, Shanxi is vigorously mining coal mines, and more skilled workers are needed for mining and transportation."

"I'm about to ask the emperor for an order to add more staff to the Armament Bureau and the Gunpowder Bureau."

"It seems that I am Ming, and I must immediately increase the intensity of talent training." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The previous dynasties have not paid enough attention to talent training. We pay more attention than the previous emperors, which is also forced by the situation."

"Although we also attached great importance to the cultivation of talents in the past, it was obviously not strong enough to meet the huge demand for talents from the imperial court."

"Do you have any good suggestions for increasing talent training?"

(End of this chapter)