I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 387 Improving the Organization
The fourth year of Jianwu, 1725 AD.

Early August.

In the Forbidden City of Nanjing during the Ming Dynasty, since the first court meeting in Fengtian Hall, the cabinet and central ministries have moved to the Forbidden City for their offices.

In the Huagai Hall, Zhu Yijiong is discussing matters with his cabinet ministers.

Wang Li said: "Your Majesty, now that the country has just been established and everything is in ruins, it is time for Taichang Temple to be re-erected."

Liang Wenxuan nodded: "Taichang Temple should indeed be reestablished. "Zuo Zhuan" says: The most important thing in the country lies in worship and military service."

Lu Youlong also said: "Your Majesty does not like sacrifices, and feels that it is a waste of time for the people and money. This is common sense. But if we want to promote benevolent government and create a prosperous age, the prerequisite is still only four words: respect the heaven and the ancestor."

Respecting Heaven and Dharma Ancestor means fearing God and respecting ancestors.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" records: "There are no two ways to respect Heaven and Dharma ancestors."

The plaque hung in Zhu Yijiong's Qianqing Palace also writes these four-character mantras.

This is not engaging in feudal superstition, nor is it deliberately showing the majesty of the emperor. It is just the most simple and pure belief value of this era.

Not only that, even in later generations, these four-character mantras will continue to influence later generations of society.

Therefore, the external manifestation of these four-character mantra as the core cannot be discarded, otherwise the country will fall into chaos.

Have you ever heard of the collapse of rituals and music?

Zhu Yijiong thought carefully for a moment, and then nodded: "The major affairs of the country are sacrifice and military affairs. In this case, then Taichang Temple and its director of sacrifices will be restored. But the sacrifices must be reformed. Since sacrifices are to pray for the people of the country, how can they be wantonly extravagant and wasteful? Is it a waste of money and people?"

It is Zhu Yijiong’s request that people and money should not be wasted.

"The minister obeys the order!"

The four cabinet ministers had no objections.

The emperor should reform the sacrificial rituals, which is right, because the current sacrificial rituals are indeed cumbersome. It seems to restore the ancient rituals, but it is extremely wasteful for the people and money.

Moreover, this was a sin committed by Emperor Jiajing of the former Ming Dynasty. Take the sacrifice of heaven and earth as an example. It turns out that the altar of heaven and earth in the early Ming Dynasty was indeed separate.

When Lao Zhu founded the country, he followed ancient rituals and went to the north and south of Purple Mountain to worship heaven and earth at the summer solstice and winter solstice respectively.

Not only are the etiquette extremely cumbersome, but they also have to travel a long way back and forth between the two places.

Lao Zhu couldn't stand it after only one visit, so he immediately made reforms and merged the Temple of Heaven and Earth into one place.The reason is that heaven and earth are like parents, how can children worship their parents separately?
However, Lao Zhu's original intention should be to reduce the cost of sacrifices, not to perform repeated sacrifices, and to reduce the waste of people and money.

After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, he did not change the ancestral system set by his father.

Until Jiajing came, in order to compete for the right to speak with the civil servant group to which Yang Tinghe belonged, a big ceremony was launched.Then all the original rituals and sacrifices were changed into a mess. One of them was to re-separate the heaven and earth altar for sacrifices and continue to follow the ancient rituals.

Well, it wastes people and money.

Jiajing Jiajingjiajingjiajing really didn’t mean to blackmail him.

Only for this reason, at least we have to change back to the rules set by Lao Zhu, and for good reasons, follow the ancestral system.

However, these are what Taichang Temple should do later.

Now, since Taichang Temple is to be rebuilt, Zhu Yijiong fortunately also issued an order:
With the cabinet having full authority to establish Taichang Temple, Zongren's Mansion, and Taiyuan Hospital, the Qin Tian Jian was officially merged into the Planetarium under the Ming Academy of Sciences, and the original Qin Tian Jian's official office was changed to the official office of the Ming Academy of Sciences.

This decree can basically be regarded as further improving the organizational structure of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to Taichang Temple, Zhu Yijiong also planned to build the Zongren Mansion and Taiyuan Hospital.

The former is a special institution that manages the royal family. Although the emperor now has two sons, they are still babies.But as the number of descendants increased and the royal family gradually prospered, the existence of the clan mansion became necessary.

Unrestricted royal clans are almost devastating to the country.

Speaking of which, there is indeed no real kin of the emperor now. Zhu Yijiong once sent Jin Yiwei to look for them secretly, but found nothing.

The locals only said that the entire village had fled, and there was no news yet. He was most likely dead. In a war-torn place, people are most likely to die. Even if they are not dead, they don’t know where they can hide their names.

Zhu Yijiong could only rely on his memory and built an ancestral temple for him in private, without even making him a king.Because it was difficult to find an excuse, I just made him a prince and promised him a good life.

In this way, it can be regarded as the most benevolent and righteous.

As the hospital for medical treatment in the palace, Zhu Yijiong had already established it in the palace, but it had never been officially appointed.

Now, Zhu Yijiong is a supplementary appointment, and he also has no intention to imitate the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so he only builds a hospital in the palace.The specific details will have to wait until the cabinet builds the framework first.

In addition, there is no need for other ministries such as Zhan Shifu and Hanlin Academy, because Zhu Yijiong feels that these ministries are really useless.

Zhan Shifu is dedicated to being a teacher for the prince. The prince is still a little baby, so why set up this official office?

Eat dry food?
Moreover, Zhu Yijiong did not intend to just imprison the prince in a deep palace and then establish a breeding education management.He is the founding emperor, and the prince has his own eye on him, so he should be able to succeed, but what will happen in the future?
Why not set up Zhan Shifu and then train generations of Sima Zhong who don't eat minced meat?

Not to mention the Hanlin Academy, its original intention may have been good, but it has completely deteriorated since the mid-Ming Dynasty and has completely become a tool for the advancement (stepping stone) of new scholars.

Zhu Yijiong wants officials who can work hard and do things for the people.Instead of going to the Hanlin Academy to eat dry food, which is not even enough.

The ministers received the imperial edict and hurried back to make preparations.

Next, I am afraid that the cabinet will be very busy, but the emperor wants them to form three ministries at once.The only thing that would be easier would be to change the name of Qin Tian Jian and ask the Ministry of Works to start replacing it with a new plaque.

Time was running out, and Ming Dynasty was busy relocating the central ministry to the Forbidden City and further improving the imperial system. At the same time, officials from various provinces who came to Beijing to take the exams also arrived in Beijing one after another.

August of this year was the first time the Ming Dynasty resumed the three-year subject examination.

Strictly speaking, this examination is the first scientific examination of the Ming Dynasty, because the two previous examinations all recognized those with pseudo-Qing merit, and many Jinshi came to the exam directly with the title of Juren.

And now those who come to Beijing to take the exam are all serious people who have passed the exam all the way from Bai Shen.

It is worth mentioning that the order of scientific examinations in the new Ming Dynasty was reversed from that in the previous Ming Dynasty and the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty, that is, Spring Tribute and Autumn Examination instead of Spring Examination and Autumn Tribute.

The reason is very simple, that is, we are in a hurry, because all scholar titles have been abolished, and we were at war for most of last year, so there is no way to start the course in August. Fortunately, we made mistakes.

But it doesn't matter, such trivial details are nothing to the scholars in the world. In everyone's eyes, only the imperial court reopens the subject to recruit scholars.

Liu Tongxun came to Beijing alone, one month in advance.He had invited Gao Fenghan, but unlike Liu Tongxun, who had a grandfather with two generations of high officials, he declined.

After Liu Tongxun arrived in Beijing, he first visited various major book-selling places in Nanjing, as well as first-hand Ming Dynasty newspapers and monthly newspapers.

"What a book! What a book! Although this book has an unusual name, it is indeed a first-class book. The person who wrote this book will definitely leave his name in history." Liu Tongxun held the "Record of Personal Experiences" and just like that Browse in the bookstore and marvel.

Fan Shouyi's "Personal Experience Record" has long been published by the Propaganda Department and is now popular in Nanjing.

Not only because the book is exquisite in content and records many European events, but also because it was published under the emperor's order, those literati naturally thought about how mysterious this book could be.

After seeing the results, some scholars yelled and cursed, feeling that Fan Shouyi was talking nonsense, inflating the anger of the barbarians and destroying the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, but more scholars were obsessed with it.

It’s not about being obsessed, but rather marveling at the vastness of the world. Besides Ming Dynasty, there are actually so many land countries. These countries are even going overseas to gobble up the world’s wealth and land.

All these things instantly opened the thinking horizons of these young scholars.

Liu Tongxun is right. Regardless of this time and space or another time and space, Fan Shouyi has successfully made his name in history with an autobiography.

"Sir, you have been reading at the door of the store, which is really a bit..." The bookstore owner saw Liu Tongxun fascinated by reading and couldn't help interrupting, but he still spoke politely.

After all, Liu Tongxun only looks at his clothes, so he is either rich or noble.

Liu Tongxun came to his senses and asked immediately: "Excuse me, shopkeeper, how much does this book cost?"

The shopkeeper replied: "Young Master, you're welcome. This "Jianjianlu" is a new book, and the shop also purchases it from the government. The price is tentatively set at twenty taels of silver a piece."

It's two taels of silver. Fortunately, it's not too expensive. "Guoyu" costs one tael of silver.

The number of words in this "Shenjianlu" is much greater than that of "Guoyu", and it writes about continental affairs in great detail, including religious matters.

Liu Tongxun was not short of money, so he paid quickly and bought this year's latest Ming Dynasty Daily and Monthly News.

There have been major events in recent months. First, the emperor sent troops to conquer the Dafo Langji people in order to massacre the Han people overseas, captured Luzon, and established a governor of Luzon to govern.Later, because the Jiangxi case was widely implicated, they directly used the topic to break up large households. If they had more than [-] acres of land, they would divide their families and analyze their property. This caused the scholars to lament and it seemed that many people were arrested.

Liu Tongxun, who returned to the inn, quickly read through the book and was silent for a long time before sighing: "Your Majesty is worthy of being the founding hero of the country... With such a heroic lord, it is just the time for scholars like us to join the court to assist and open up the prosperous Ming Dynasty!"

Liu Tongxun said, already thinking about going to Beijing to take the exam this time.

　"Guoyu" is not the Mandarin version of Mandarin!It is a history book of the Spring and Autumn Period

　　
　
(End of this chapter)