Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 377: The imperial examination for the release of slaves in medicine, the national policy of supporting the vassal state cannot be shaken (Happy New Year’s Day)

Changes in folk ideological trends are ultimately due to education.

Newspapers are the best way for people to understand the world. If they are educated and can read newspapers, they will naturally accept new trends of thought.

After nearly fifty years of development, the newspaper industry has become very mature.

After the survival of the fittest in the market, integration and adjustment, there are twenty major private newspaper groups, covering all countries in the world.

Rural people also read newspapers and listen to plays in the fields.

In the 49th year of Jingtai's reign, folk songs were born. The new singing method was refuted by the traditional singing style and was considered to be obscene singing method.

The scholar-bureaucrats thought it was indecent and too white.

But folk songs are the product of the New Culture Movement. Literature and art are no longer monopolized by scholar-bureaucrats, but have flown into the homes of ordinary people. Whether it is good or not is decided by the people.

People really don’t understand traditional operas such as Peking Opera and Kun Opera.

The New Culture doesn’t even talk about common rhythms anymore, so bear with it; you do operas, which at least have allusions and are fairly elegant, so bear with it; you do folk songs, but they are for the common people, who are uneducated and can’t ask for much, so bear with it. .

He was scolded miserably by the public.

Therefore, three circles are formed among the people. The high-end people play poetry and poetry, the middle-level intellectuals listen to operas and watch stage plays, and the lower-class people listen to folk songs.

Suddenly, folk songs became popular all over the country.

Sure enough, in the 55th year of Jingtai, the first pop song was born.

China's singing and dancing are still leading the world. In this era, men also danced. It was normal to dance together after drinking too much. Rich families had many dancers.

Like basketball, each province has a provincial team, and a second-level provincial team is established in the second largest city in the province as a supplementary area for players.

Although these things are considered low-level in the eyes of traditional scholar-bureaucrats and cannot be put on the stage, after all, the knowledge of the people is limited, and even those who are too advanced cannot understand them.

The first pop singer in the Ming Dynasty was forced to commit suicide by jumping off a building.

Seeing that they had strong earning power, they started beauty pageants, talent competitions, and catwalk shows to select some handsome men and beautiful women to make money.

It’s because there are too many fans and we need to make money.

Folk songs spread to the palace, and the emperor agreed to invite folk singers to perform at the Wanshou Festival banquet.

Scholar-officials really can't appreciate this thing.

Then every city would host one, and the league company would divide the country into five regions and establish a two-level league system.

Folk songs came into being. Each local dialect has its own tune and singing method, which is deeply loved by the local people.

What the scholar-bureaucrats played was high-end, and it sounded high-end. The problem was that everyone had limited knowledge and couldn't understand it.

It used to be a despicable occupation, but the emperor had already proved to them that singing and dancing were not only not despicable occupations, but also essential skills for boys and girls.

New culture and traditional culture collide again.

But people like it because the words are simple, easy to understand, catchy, and pleasant to listen to.

This statement was generally recognized by scholar-bureaucrats.

But what the hell are you doing with a piece of vernacular lyrics that has no dialogue and makes no sense? Insulting Han culture!

In the past, these were things played by the rich and powerful, but with the promotion of education, everyone across the country can learn them.

Don’t think that there is no singing and dancing in China.

Traditional scholar-officials asked three questions about the soul: Do you understand the meaning of the scriptures? Understand poetry? Do you understand the culture?

The New Culture scholars weakly replied that times are different now. The imperial memorials are all written in the vernacular of the New Culture. The debate between the ancient and the new is meaningless.

After all, there is no television broadcast these days.

After all these years, they have reluctantly accepted low-level things like Peking Opera, and now that even lower-level ones appear, they almost curse.

Many young people spontaneously listened to this popular song and found that it sounded good when played and sung on guitar. More and more people had this idea, which directly caused a big explosion among the people.

The scholar-bureaucrats insisted that we should put an end to such uneducated, unnutritious, and useless singing methods and return to the ancient singing methods.

But this is not the case for scholar-bureaucrats.

Singing and dancing competitions have more spectators than sports competitions.

Many outstanding talents have emerged among the people.

In recent years, the emperor has organized various sports leagues, including a singing and dancing league, which is similar to a singing and dancing talent show and awards bonuses.

However, this incident caused a huge response among the youth group. They believe that young people are the trend and the avant-garde. Let’s not talk about whether pop songs are good or not. This is also a culture. The emperor supports equality in literature and art, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior. Well, why do you give people ratings?

At the beginning, it was just a discussion within a small circle.

Yes, you should learn it from the beginning of school.

Teams from each province will play in their own region first, then take turns playing in each city. Two winning teams will be selected to start the national competition, which will ultimately determine the overall champion.

To this end, Tang poetry and Song lyrics were recomposed to music and turned into new folk songs.

But today's folk songs are more like the singing style of "Farewell", with old words and new tunes.

Like Song lyrics, they are all sung, and there are strict requirements for dancing when singing. This is etiquette.

Second-level teams also make money by playing local games.

The league has been running for more than 40 years, and Ming Dynasty already has a very complete competition system.

The emperor also knows that folk art is divided into layers, but in art, it is better to enjoy it alone than to enjoy it by everyone. Everyone has his or her own interests, and only then can new sparks be created by the collision of various circles.

In order to take care of the emotions of the ticket-buying audience, the game lasts one hour and is divided into four quarters of 15 minutes. The total duration of a game is about three and a half hours.

Because the tickets are expensive.

The basketball court is so small that it can only accommodate 2,000 people. If the tickets are sold at a low price, you will lose money.

In order to balance the development of regional sports, the center divides all projects, and each city has one project.

Because the purchasing power of football events is not great, people can’t stand it if they come to a city every day.

The league has developed very maturely over the years. From the initial losses, it has become completely profitable.

In order to win, teams have long discovered that black people have amazing athletic abilities. Over the years, they have been looking for black people with amazing athletic abilities and bought teams to support them.

Through connections, the black man’s household registration was managed, and then he appeared in the second-level league. He gradually entered the provincial team and entered the league through the draft.

There are some dark faces on every team these days.

Logically speaking, his athletic ability is amazing, he can run and dunk, which is so cool to watch.

But the local audience didn’t buy it.

In recent years, many leagues have experienced ticket refund incidents. Audiences also need a sense of immersion when watching football, but they really can't be immersed in Big Black.

The team is also ruthless, performing skin grafting surgery on black people and implanting yellow skin.

Some teams have begun to think about how to implant black people's athletic talents into Akito, and a medical team has already conducted secret experiments.

Except for Ming people, it is not valuable to anyone from any country. As long as there is a buyer, they can buy it.

Except for the three major sports, in which Akito is not good, Akito is very good in other sports. Akito is good at technical skills. Things like human limits are indeed not Akito's strength.

To put it bluntly, black people are physically stronger but have no brains. White people are physically stronger than yellow people, but have poor endurance and brains.

All races have their own advantages, and there is no distinction between them.

For example, if Einstein was locked up and fed to pigs since he was a child, he would never become a scientist.

It is always said that black people have no brains, and there are many black scientists.

Ming Dynasty is all-encompassing, so it is getting stronger and stronger.

Many black people also rose to prominence in the Ming Dynasty and were also engineers, earning 6000 yuan a month. There were also black generals in the army.

The most powerful Leonardo da Vinci became a third-rank official in the Ming Dynasty, and his future prospects are limitless.

All countries in the world have talented people serving the Ming Dynasty.

This is the national policy set by the emperor.

Regardless of family background, status, or skin color, people are promoted only based on their talents and virtues. Ming Dynasty used a broad mind to tolerate talents from all over the world.

It is worth mentioning that in the forty-seventh year of Ming Dynasty in Jingtai, the first appendicitis operation was successful. From then on, Ming Dynasty entered the era of surgery.

In the 50th year of Jingtai, Xiang Zhong suffered from unbearable pain from hemorrhoids. The operation was successful and he recovered very well after the operation.

The hospital also has a surgery department.

The first royal hospital of the Ming Dynasty was established in the 50th year of Jingtai. The imperial doctors of the imperial hospital personally conducted consultations and treated patients from all over the world for difficult and complicated diseases.

This is a specialist clinic, but the concept of specialists has not yet been born. The most powerful one is the surgery department.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no concept of Western medicine. Surgery was called Ming medicine, which was only distinguished from traditional Chinese medicine.

The pharmaceutical industry is now highly developed.

Needless to say, there are many traditional Chinese medicines that are common in later generations. There are also many Western medicines. The most noteworthy one is penicillin, which was discovered by a private pharmaceutical factory in the 49th year of Jingtai. It is penicillin!

In the 52nd year of Jingtai, it was officially made and sold nationwide with excellent results.

For this miraculous penicillin alone, the emperor gave a gold talisman and personally inscribed the name of this pharmaceutical factory, naming it as a royal drug dealer and supplying special medicines to the royal family.

The emperor was so generous that all private pharmaceutical companies followed suit.

As of the 17th year of Jingtai's reign, there were as many as 30 private pharmaceutical factories and drug research institutes and laboratories, more than half of which were funded by the emperor.

Soon, members of the antibiotic family were constantly being filled in, and antibiotics such as streptomycin, chloramphenicol, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline were continuously produced.

In terms of medicines, it has been almost fifty years since the emperor proposed the concept of finished medicines.

The emperor increased investment every year.

It took fifty years of investment regardless of cost to usher in the explosive prosperity of the pharmaceutical industry.

After seeing the results, the emperor not only did not receive any reward, but instead invested the profits further into pharmaceutical factories and research and development.

The emperor's cumulative investment in the pharmaceutical industry exceeds 10 billion, and the emperor's cumulative investment in the entire medical industry exceeds 100 billion.

This was the emperor's personal investment.

What about the court?

In the early years, the imperial court did not invest much. It was not until it saw the dividends of the pharmaceutical industry that it followed suit. The entire medical industry is a social welfare industry, and investment is basically supported by the central government.

As of Jingtai's 300th year, the state's total investment in the medical industry exceeded billion.

The number of employees in the medical industry has exceeded 100 million.

There is still a huge gap in doctors, pharmacists, R&D personnel, etc. In order to supplement talents, the emperor requires each province to establish at least two medical universities and encourage private students to pursue medicine and education.

The response from the public has been enthusiastic, but training a doctor is not something that happens overnight, it takes little by little training.

When it comes to penicillin, we have to talk about infusion technology.

The emperor went from secret research to open and honest research on infusion technology. Today, it has been very, very perfect.

From the production, sterilization, transportation, and application of needles, syringes, and medicine bottles, the entire industry is completely complete.

Even the emperor has been taking nutritional injections in recent years.

In infusion, the most lacking thing is not medicine, but blood.

In fact, Ming Dynasty was not lacking at all.

In the forty-fifth year of Jingtai, the central government announced that the buying and selling of blood was prohibited and people were encouraged to donate blood free of charge.

That is to say, there is no money for donating blood.

When blood transfusion first developed, hospitals were short of blood and had to buy it from the public. Young people would secretly sell blood in order to buy luxury goods.

This resulted in the formation of an industrial chain of selling, selling, and selling black blood.

Don't talk about nonsense. There's nothing wrong with blood.

Therefore, the central government issued a policy to directly cut off the black industry chain and not allow selling blood.

But Ming Dynasty is really not short of money.

The number of officially registered slaves in the Ming Dynasty is currently around 3 million, which is definitely a lot more.

One pipe per person is enough.

There is no refrigeration technology now, otherwise it would be sold.

Which private hospital doesn't keep blood cows? The slaves purchased by the hospital are used as mobile blood stations.

Infusion technology is not only useful for people, but also for plants. It can be used to spray medicine on trees and save seriously ill trees.

This technology is used in all walks of life and has a very high penetration rate.

The reduction in population mortality in the Ming Dynasty is directly related to the development of medical care.

It is compulsory for all Ming Dynasties to pay for medical insurance.

If you are sick, you can go to the hospital for treatment, so you can recover from minor illnesses and die from serious illnesses, and the average life expectancy will naturally increase.

But private hospitals are all private.

The attitude towards patients with insurance is very bad because they don’t make money, or they make little money.

There are also many doctor-patient disputes in this era.

Everything goes to court and is decided in accordance with the law. The referee is the center, and there is no business at all.

But those who run the hospital are all high-ranking officials. They seem to have nothing to do with the central government, but in fact they are inextricably linked and have backers behind them.

After all, the common people have little power, and in the end they just let it go and consider themselves unlucky.

Once it reached the emperor's ears.

The emperor wanted to rectify the entire medical industry, but was dissuaded by the central government. If he wanted to develop, he had to give freedom to the people. The medical industry did have many problems, but the rapid development was visible to the naked eye.

The worst case scenario is to amend the law and provide patients with more compensation.

This matter cannot be settled.

The longer he was the emperor, the more helpless Zhu Qiyu felt.

Especially as he got older, his energy declined and he could no longer manage many things. He could only place his hope in his grandson Zhu Youqi.

When he succeeds to the throne, he will take action on these bastards.

The rapid development of the medical industry has driven the development of related industrial chains.

The most intuitive thing is that with the rapid development of the forensic industry, forensic medicine is now called forensic medicine. It is no longer only responsible for investigating cases, but is also used for human research.

Anthropology was proposed by a folk author as early as the 25th year of Jingtai.

Since then, the development of human body science has entered the fast lane.

However, in the twenty-fifth year of Jingtai, the emperor adopted a series of policies that improved the social status of forensic medicine.

We also encourage and support private students to engage in the forensic industry. Anthropology is a university subject worth studying.

He also regarded Hua Tuo and Song Ci as the founders of anthropology, anatomy, and surgery.

With the emperor's backing, life for forensic doctors is easier.

In order to let people understand the forensic industry, there is a required course in universities, which is anthropology, but it only has one credit, and two classes are taken in one semester. The main purpose is to let people understand anthropology and stop discriminating against this profession.

There is a huge gap in civilian forensic talents.

The emperor also posthumously named Hua Tuo and Song Ci kings and conducted large-scale sacrifices, but there was still little response from the people.

How can any normal child learn this thing?

In fact, human body research is the best opportunity now, because there were many slaves in the Ming Dynasty, and slaves who committed serious crimes could be used for forensic research.

But it must be a serious crime and must be approved.

The Ming Dynasty used slaves for nearly fifty years.

There were voices among the people to free slaves, believing that slaves were innocent and everyone was equal.

Such saints can be found everywhere.

The center was dismissive at first, but the voice became louder and louder, even becoming arrogant.

The emperor issued an order to those who wanted to free slaves to see the China River. Without the dedication of the slaves, would you repair it?

All those who spoke out were banned from taking the imperial examination.

The folk voices stopped abruptly.

However, the central government soon issued an order to appropriately upgrade the status of slaves.

There were as many as 3 million slaves in the Ming Dynasty, of which official slaves accounted for the majority. Because of construction in various places, it was cost-effective to use slaves.

Over the years, the center has been freeing slaves.

Some slaves who contributed to the Ming Dynasty were not only released, but also issued Ming status, land, tools, even shops and other benefits, and some even served as officials.

The total number of freed slaves is estimated to be around 3000 million.

After the imperial edict was issued, the treatment of slaves was improved, the lives of slaves were ensured as much as possible, and the living environment of slaves was improved.

As for the release of slaves, the Central Committee has also discussed it.

But the emperor disagreed, believing that these were all foreigners who had been enslaved by the Ming Dynasty. Freeing hundreds of millions of slaves at once would cause serious social conflicts.

This kind of contradiction will sow the seeds of division and cause social instability in the future.

But the important ministers in the court were not worried.

Looking at the slaves freed over the years, their sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty far exceeds that of their mother country. Besides, we must believe in the assimilation ability of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty was best at assimilating foreign races.

No matter what your skin color is, as long as you live in the third generation of the Ming Dynasty, you will completely become a Ming Dynasty person and will never change.

The prince and grandson also supported the release of slaves, because in the next twenty years, there would be no major projects in the Ming Dynasty and there would be no need for so many slaves.

And turning slaves into a population, these slaves are skilled workers, which will greatly improve the operation of factories. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty wants to build railways for the vassal country. These people can be laborers, which has many benefits.

The point is that the center has to bear the food and drink expenses of the official slaves, which is a big expense.

In the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, the central government issued an order to relax the system of slaves' contribution to the Ming Dynasty and allow slaves to be granted Ming status.

The first batch of people to be released were slaves who had worked for the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years and were transferred to the Ming Dynasty.

The number is as high as 3700 million.

The imperial court was responsible for proper placement and issuing merit cards to them. The imperial court recognized their contribution to the Ming Dynasty, not slaves.

This is to rectify their names.

This move is to win the hearts and minds of slaves.

The central plan is to continue to release slaves in the next ten years and control the number of official slaves at around 5000 million, as long as they can be used for infrastructure construction.

In the future, the center will no longer purchase slaves from outside. As for private slaves, the center also feels that it should be appropriately reduced. During the Jingtai Dynasty, the most important thing was education, water conservancy, roads, and Chinese culture.

As of the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai's reign, all 27 billion people in the country spoke Chinese, including the Gan and Mongolian districts, where Chinese characters were also commonly spoken.

Even though the dialects are different, the words written in one stroke are the same.

This is the credit of education.

However, there is a huge shortage of private teachers. There are about 300 million teachers active in the private sector today, which is far less than the social demand.

Most of these teachers are primary school and junior high school teachers. Teachers in high schools, universities, and Taixue are extremely scarce. Old gentlemen who master the classics have extremely high standards and are unwilling to teach in official schools. They all open academies and run their own schools. School.

It is equivalent to an aristocratic school.

In order to encourage the popularization of education, the emperor encouraged the private sector to take the initiative in running schools and pooled the efforts of the central government and the private sector to popularize education.

This results in that there are far more private schools than government schools.

Private schools have strong teachers because they are run by local old diehards with high moral standards. They are well-educated and highly capable, but they are unwilling to work for the central government for various reasons.

In government-run schools, most of the teachers are trained later, and the knowledge mastery between passive learners and active learners is completely incomparable.

Knowledge is not dead.

It is about learning and applying, and learning knowledge is about using it, not taking exams.

There were only two entrance examinations in the Ming Dynasty, one was the college entrance examination and the other was the imperial examination. The college entrance examination was the only way for compulsory education.

The imperial examination is an examination for becoming an official.

For the civil servants who took the imperial examination, the college entrance examination was something they could grasp. Basically, only the top students in the college entrance examination could study the scriptures and then participate in the imperial examination and become officials.

The emperor valued education, and the court naturally attached great importance to talent cultivation.

The explosion of talents in all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty is directly related to the emphasis on education.

From three years of compulsory education to 12 years of compulsory education today, after completing compulsory education, you have to consider your life path, and this choice is left to the students themselves.

If he wanted to pursue an official career, he entered Taixue to study the classics.

If you want to take the path of technical talents, you can further your studies, or you can find a job immediately; if you want to take a corporate administrative position, you can also pursue further studies, or you can find a job directly.

College is not just about being a gangster. It's not okay to let yourself go after college. What you learn in college are life skills. If you don't learn them, you'll be unemployed after graduation.

In addition, there is another way to pass the examination to become a grassroots civil servant, but no one wants to do this now. There is no way for grassroots civil servants to rise, and they are not even as good as the previous officials.

Moreover, it is not an iron rice bowl, but a semi-employment system.

Civil servants at the grassroots level are mostly positions held by military officers who have transferred to other jobs or are promoted to intern positions. If you want to become an official, you must take the imperial examination.

Mingren are all precocious. They usually start first grade at the age of four and take the college entrance examination at the age of sixteen.

A four-year university student and started working at the age of twenty.

If you want to enter politics, you have to take the postgraduate entrance examination. The postgraduate examination is strictly strict in entry and strict in exit. It simulates the imperial examination, which is called the minor imperial examination among the people.

Taixue is not only the study of classics, but also subjects such as chemistry, physics, human body, history, philosophy, etc.

Students can choose to improve their professional skills, or they can switch to politics and concentrate on studying the scriptures.

In the past few years, many people studied the scriptures diligently.

As a result, there was no way to take the imperial examination, because the imperial examination was too complicated. Postgraduate students had to stop joking about participating in the imperial examination. They had to continue studying at the Imperial College and complete their Ph.D. before they could take the imperial examination. They took the first level of the imperial examination and were admitted as scholars.

There are 27 billion people in Ming Dynasty, and 27 billion people want to be officials.

Just know how many volumes there are.

The imperial examination has always been passed, and it became even more difficult during the Jingtai period. Even if the enrollment was expanded, it would be difficult for a single person to pass the exam, let alone a Jinshi.

Because the imperial examination paper is a thief.

The questions are very lively. They are not limited to a few scriptures, but involve all knowledge. Everything can be tested. It depends on who has accumulated more and who has a better life.

After finishing college and going through the test of the imperial examination, those who come up are all elites.

And this was the emperor's original idea.

In fact, in the forty-sixth year of Jingtai, the emperor found that no one was available at the center because the upper and lower passages were closed.

The emperor killed a wave of people, reopened the channels, and attracted a large number of talents from the grassroots level.

We also further tightened the imperial examination system, requiring talents who can apply what they have learned, who are hard-working, who understand economics, and who have the world in mind.

The assessment of grassroots officials has been changed to some extent.

The emperor wants capable people, all-rounders, and geniuses.

The imperial examination is more difficult than before anyway.

The emperor hopes to roll, and the more he rolls, the more powerful the talents will be.

But as long as you pass the exam, you don't have to worry about finding a job. The Ming Dynasty has a huge talent boom, and there is no particular shortage of talent. But the vassal state is short of talent, so they can go to the vassal state to become officials.

The imperial examinations were divided into the 25th year of Jingtai.

Twenty-five years before Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty imperial examination system maintained the ancient imperial examination system with few changes.

But after that, the difficulty of the imperial examination doubled. Fifty years after Jingtai, the difficulty of the imperial examination was a hundred times that of before.

Those who are killed are all versatile.

Astronomy, geography, military affairs, politics, all of them, domestic history, foreign history, mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology, all must be understood.

Mechanical memory is useless at all. The questions are very weird and the angles are tricky. If you don’t understand them thoroughly, you are likely to fall into a trap.

Although the emperor had no say in the setting of the imperial examination questions, he had to pass the test. If the emperor was not satisfied, he directly dismissed the official position.

Jingtai forty-one years, spring.

The questions set by the question maker were too mechanical. After the emperor read the test paper afterwards, he directly dismissed the question maker from his official position, re-written the questions, and took the exam again.

At that time, he was furious in the court and told such mediocre people to get out of the court. How can such mediocre people govern the country?

Although the emperor did not receive an orthodox emperor's education, he had been studying since he was a child. After reading a series of memorials over the years, there was always some ink in his stomach.

I can’t write poetry, but I can still tell whether the poetry is good or bad.

Since then, the questions have become more flexible and tricky, and can even be described as weird, making candidates want to vomit blood.

And this is exactly what the emperor needs. It requires people's emergency response capabilities. A very important thing for officials in high positions is quick wit.

The emperor liked poetry, and the princess was proficient in poetry. Every time there was a banquet, the emperor would order the princess to come and recite a poem.

He also funded a poetry competition for the Crown Princess, and he read every poem.

He often lamented why there was no poetic talent like Li Du in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Wang Hong, the first assistant, told the emperor that there were so many poets in the Tang Dynasty. Because poetry writing was linked to politics, those who could write poetry could become officials, so literati devoted themselves to writing poetry.

Nowadays, in the Ming Dynasty, the meaning of scriptures is the most important, so most of them are good at writing articles, but they are not good at poetry.

In the 44th year of Jingtai's reign, he passed the imperial examination.

An additional topic was added, writing poetry, limiting the topic, and writing a poem on the spot. The score of the topic is not high. It is also an official encouragement for people to read and write poetry.

The emperor eagerly hoped that the Ming Dynasty could reproduce the grand poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

To be honest, the emperor looked down upon foreign literature.

They are all doggerel, modern language, without artistic conception.

People read it and despise it at the same time. This thing is indeed not worthy of elegance.

Some old scholars even believed that the New Culture Movement was directly related to foreign literature and threatened to ban foreign literature.

The emperor is not against the literature of various countries. They are all good things and there is no harm in learning more about them.

But he still likes ancient poetry.

But he couldn't write, and his daughter-in-law could write, but she couldn't write majestic verses, which made the emperor sigh.

In the 40th year of Jingtai's reign, the emperor funded a poetry festival in the palace, which was attended by the maids, female family members, and the family members of court officials.

The emperor and the officials sat outside the palace and listened to these women reciting poems.

It is a pity that the emperor did not find Li Qingzhao of Ming Dynasty.

Every year after that, the emperor would hold a curtain poetry gathering, and all the participants would be women. Even the emperor would only be outside the palace, making it inconvenient to meet female guests.

The emperor loved poetry but could not write poetry, which made the world laugh.

The Crown Princess's poetic talent became world-famous through the Curtain Poetry Society.

All the important officials in the court knew that the Crown Princess's status in the palace was higher than that of the Prince, because her husband-in-law disliked her, and her son Zhu Youquan was also the most favored.

Zhu Youquan can be established as the grandson and has a direct relationship with the crown princess. There are dozens of emperor's daughters-in-law, but this daughter-in-law is the most pleasing to the eye.

The emperor has zero tolerance for fraud.

In the past, the officials of the DPRK and the Central Government were still able to function, but during the imperial examination in the 35th year of Jingtai, the important officials of the DPRK and the Central Government were involved in fraud. All those involved were guarding the border and would never be hired.

Many sons of important officials in the court have failed to pass the exam for more than ten years and are still working as guards in the palace.

If you are not a Jinshi, you cannot be an official. This is an iron rule.

What the government needs is talent, not mediocrity.

Therefore, all candidates in the Ming Dynasty were top talents, let alone Jinshi.

What college students produce in batches are workers, and the real talents are in the Imperial College.

The Imperial College is completely different from before. In the past, the sons of courtiers and wealthy businessmen went to the Imperial College to further their studies, just waiting for the Yin officials and hanging out.

The current Imperial College is the highest institution of learning.

Those who come in are top talents, and those who leave are pillars of all walks of life.

By the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty had built four new Imperial Colleges, including the Imperial Colleges in Sanjing, for a total of seven Imperial Colleges.

Universities are required to have at least one university in each city.

Taixue is a city.

There are only seven Imperial Colleges.

Ming Dynasty does not distinguish between undergraduate and junior college. Junior college is just to expand enrollment. Now there is no shortage of people in universities, so there is no need to expand enrollment.

In technical industries, there is no need to become a specialist. This will devalue the social status of technical talents and make good talents unwilling to learn technology.

Universities and Taixue are mostly government-run and a small number are joint ventures.

The hub supports joint ventures.

The main reason is to value the faculty of each school. Teachers are the treasures, but those schools are too self-conscious to participate in the joint venture.

The emperor had no choice but to look at the academy with envy.

The old academics in the Imperial Academy are all masters of the same school, such as Chen Xianzhang. Their threshold for accepting disciples is extremely high, and it is not something that an ordinary Imperial College student can get started with.

In recent years, the talent output rate of the Academy has been significantly higher than that of the Imperial Academy.

Those academies engaged in scientific research can be regarded as companies. They build laboratories and conduct research and development, and at the same time they open companies to make money.

The imperial court cannot get involved in this kind of thing.

Only in the initial stage, the emperor invested a batch, and then he could not get involved. Instead, many private investment companies invested in these laboratories.

The emperor once wanted to add the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Medicine, but the court officials stopped him. The cabinet had enough of eight ministries and six temples.

Education, medicine, agriculture, forestry, etc. are indeed important, but elevating them to one department would be a waste of resources.

If education is mentioned, the ministries of agriculture, forestry, commerce, etc. will definitely have ideas. Why should you be promoted from the department to the ministry?

In fact, there are many departments that should be promoted to ministries, but due to administrative costs, the central government only raised justice to the ministerial level, which means that Ming Dynasty is a country ruled by law.

But there are not many officials in the Ministry of Justice, and the Minister is just a decoration.

in the palace.

The old emperor was doing morning exercises, and his grandson Zhu Youquan was holding a towel to serve him.

Zhu Qiyu's muscles have obviously atrophied, but he still maintains a good figure. He has been eating liquid food since he was 60 years old.

"You stupid dad, did you make a mistake again?" Zhu Qiyu took the towel and wiped the sweat on his cheeks.

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson will wipe it for you." Zhu Youqi was attentive.

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly, knowing that his silly son was in trouble. This great grandson would be very arrogant and would not be willing to condescend to serve him.

Zhu Youqi was very clever and could guess some of his father's thoughts from his facial expressions, so he was the most popular among Zhu Qiyu.

"Grandpa Huang, as you said, it is natural for your grandson to serve you. How could he not want to?"

Zhu Youquan said with a smile: "I was busy with things in the past. Grandpa, you know it. How about my grandson asking your grandson-in-law to serve you?"

"Stop it, that wife of yours is a loser. I am afraid that she will break up my old bones, so I told her not to come to Yangxin Hall." Zhu Qiyu was not satisfied with the grandson concubine.

He prefers a poetic talent like the Crown Princess rather than an out-of-control temperament.

But Zhu Youqi likes it. He is also restless. If two restless people come together as a couple, there is no telling what will happen tomorrow.

"hey-hey."

Zhu Youju giggled: "Grandpa, you personally selected your grandson's wife, you should be satisfied."

"Ask her to serve your father and see how he reacts?"

Zhu Qiyu walked into the Yangxin Hall, and Zhu Youquan followed with a smile: "Grandpa, the second brother of the fourth uncle's family is in the Shuzhong Center, and the grandson doesn't know what to do with it."

"Are you trying to be mean?" Zhu Qiyu suddenly stopped.

Zhu Youquan immediately knelt on the ground: "Grandpa, how dare my grandson? My grandson is telling the truth and there is really nothing he can do about it."

"The second brother, King Qi, said that he wants to occupy all of Poland and needs the help of his mother country."

"Dad means that we are a family, and we will help if we can, but the court officials are opposed to it. Mr. Li Ge said that we have an agreement with you, and the amount of help is enough."

Zhu Qiyu snorted and walked into the hall.

Zhu Youquan didn't dare to get up and crawled to the ground in fear.

He was testing his grandfather's attitude towards the vassal state.

His grandfather was the best to his fourth uncle. The fourth uncle and his three sons were all granted vassal status. This was a rare thing among all vassal kings.

Four great vassals, the real emperor of Eastern Europe.

It is impossible to say that Zhu Jianqi has no ideas.

Zhu Youqi has no relationship with his fourth uncle, and he has never even met his cousins. How can they talk about any relationship?

Now that trains have developed, he even wants to turn the land of the world into a bright land.

Instead of enfeoffing them.

Seeing these vassal states getting stronger day by day, he felt uncomfortable. Those territories that were supposed to be the Ming Dynasty were conquered bit by bit with the support of his grandfather.

"What do you want to do?" Zhu Qiyu sat on the throne.

Zhu Youquan gritted his teeth and said: "My grandson means to support King Qi in occupying Poland as a barrier between the Shang Kingdom and Germany."

"However, over the years, the central government has given free things to the vassal state, while the vassal state has not given any benefits to the central government."

"North Korea and China have great opinions on civil and military matters."

At this point, he paused slightly.

There was silence in the Yangxin Palace. The emperor hated anyone who alienated the feelings between the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states. The enfeoffment of the vassal states was a national policy that he vigorously promoted.

Now, the future heir will shake his national policy.

"My grandson thinks that the vassal state can pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, just like the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu Dynasty..." Zhu Youquan said cautiously.

"Is this what you want, or who taught you?" Zhu Qiyu said expressionlessly.

"My grandson thought about it himself. The main reason is that the vassal state did not pay homage to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty could not hold the vassal state hostage. My grandson does not feel bad about this. He is just worried that when the Ming Dynasty weakens, the vassal state will bite back the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Youquan was still testing the emperor.

"The Ming Dynasty is weakening, and it is normal for the vassal states to bite the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Qiyu was surprisingly not angry: "If you want to maintain the status of the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain state, you need the Ming Dynasty to lead the vassal state in all aspects."

"Grandson, I know what you think."

"I have thought about it since I divided the kings."

"The emperor of the suzerain country is not easy to do. The Ming Dynasty is so vast and anyone can take a bite of it. No matter how much the Ming Dynasty helps them now, no one will remember the goodness of the Ming Dynasty."

"But if you don't help the vassal country, like a world power, won't you rise on your own? Will you not use cannons to blast open the door of Ming Dynasty? Will you not bite Ming Dynasty and enslave Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Qiyu's tone softened: "Grandson, you are a smart man. Go back and think about the purpose of what I did."

"How to maintain the supremacy of the suzerain state instead of fighting with the vassal state."

"Although many vassal states are my children and grandchildren, you are my great-grandson. The Ming Dynasty will be handed over to you one day. I am old and cannot control them for too long."

When Zhu Youquan heard this, it was obvious that the old emperor was also on guard against the vassal state.

But his way of guarding against the vassal state was to force the Ming Dynasty to become stronger.

That's right.

Zhu Qiyu has been worried about whether Ming Dynasty will weaken.

The way to maintain competitiveness is to compete. Whether it is healthy competition or vicious competition, competition is necessary.

The world cannot be dominated by the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the world will stagnate.

If many vassal states were born, many powerful countries would be born.

Then, they will compete with Ming Dynasty for the position of world hegemony.

Daming will force you to work hard.

No matter which one ascends to the throne of the Ming Dynasty, he has to recognize Zhu Qiyu as his ancestor. They are all Ming people and Han people, and their meat will always rot in their own pot.

Therefore, while destroying other civilizations, he also tried his best to support the Han civilization. The reason why he devoted all his support to the vassal state was to support the vassal state into a hegemony, compete with the Ming Dynasty for hegemony, and force the Ming Dynasty to move forward.

This was the emperor's thought. Some people may have guessed it, but the emperor never said it out loud.

(End of this chapter)