Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 408 Replacement of old and new

"Do you dislike the environment of the official school, or do you dislike something else?"

Since Zhu Zhanhe had been in the palace since he was a child, Zhu Gaoxu thought that he played truant because he disliked the official school environment.

"No..." Zhu Zhanhe lowered his head and whispered: "You said they didn't know my identity, but as soon as I went there they said that the second child and I were the emperor's grandsons, and they came up to fawn over us one by one."

"That's why I skipped school with my second child, but we can learn on our own according to our interests."

Before Zhu Zhanhe entered the official school, Zhu Gaoxu told him that no one in the official school knew him and that he could make friends in the official school as much as he wanted.

However, the reality is that after he entered the official school last year, his identity was spread to all the official schools in Beijing on the first day of school. The powerful officials from all walks of life sent their children to the official school where Zhu Zhanhe studied, and everyone came to show their favor to him. .

Under such an environment, Zhu Zhanhe naturally couldn't read anymore, so he chose to take Zhu Zhanqi to skip school, stay in a private room in a teahouse in the inner city every day, and read the textbooks according to his own interests.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that this guy skipped school because of such a thing, so his expression softened.

"You said you learn by yourself as you like, but what if you encounter someone you don't know how to learn?"

"My slave, take your orders..." Yishiha sighed helplessly, and after returning the gift, he led the two naughty boys out of the Chunhe Hall.

After they left, Zhu Gaoxu also returned to his seat and continued to work on the memorial.

Now that they are studying under the New Deal faction, and they are proficient in Confucianism, based on the quality of New Deal officials, the two sides may be fighting for a long time.

"Who knows when it will come back?" Xie Jin asked Yang Shiqi, and Yang Shiqi became silent after hearing this.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Zhanhe, but Zhu Zhanhe said: "I don't see you at all on weekdays, and mother doesn't allow us to come to Chunhe Hall to disturb you, so how can I tell you?"

"The implementation of the New Deal lasted until Zheng He arrived in Nanjing. Fortunately, we have thoroughly understood the official textbooks. Even if the textbooks are changed, the children in our hometown can still guarantee the high school entrance examination."

After he finished speaking, he turned to Yi Shiha and said, "You are more tired these days, so help me take care of them. If anything goes wrong, deal with it immediately."

"But it's my problem." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then said calmly:
"Since you can't go to official school, you can continue to take extra classes outside. It's not good to stay in the palace all the time."

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but be speechless. He knew the average wages of people in Nanjing today.

"As long as something happens to Ji Gang, the officials who bribed him will be prosecuted, and Li Zhigang cannot escape..."

"Second brother..." Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Zhanqi. Hearing this, Zhu Zhanqi looked at Zhu Zhanhe. Seeing that Zhu Zhanhe was not looking at him, he whispered: "That's it."

"Yes, them!" Zhu Zhanhe replied honestly: "I heard them say that they are all candidates waiting for the imperial examination. When they came to the capital to live permanently, they didn't have enough money, so they came to make up lessons with us, the rich and powerful, to earn money. "

"Have you started to pay attention to official studies..."

"Them?" Zhu Gaoxu wondered, could it be that Zhu Zhanhe hired a group of people?

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu felt relieved and turned his attention to Zhu Zhanhe and his two brothers.

Obviously, although the officials did not want the court to implement the New Deal in Jiangnan, they also knew that the New Deal would inevitably be implemented in Jiangnan.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu leaned forward and said, "You guys go back."

"Then hire someone to teach us." Zhu Zhanhe saw that Zhu Gaoxu's tone was softer, so he answered with a louder voice.

Zhu Gaoxu doesn't think it is necessary to let the two boys go to the fields to show off like Zhu Zhanji in history. For an emperor who cares about the people, he knows the suffering of farmers without farming, and he also exempts himself from taxes, not like Zhu Zhanji. , while talking about the suffering of the people, at the same time not reducing taxes at all.

"Your identity has been exposed, which I didn't consider, but why don't you come to me?"

However, compared with the mediocre power of this supreme power, the officials in the capital who are below the supreme power seem a little hesitant.

"I think His Majesty should be thinking of cleaning up the rules and order to rectify Southern Zhili and Zhejiang."

"Also, Li Zhigang thought that he would be fine if he gave up his position, but now I see that he is probably just His Majesty's pawn against Ji Gang."

"One hundred essays a day." Zhu Zhanhe's voice couldn't help but become softer. After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu admired these candidates who dared to help others make up lessons.

When Zhu Gaoxu said these words, Zhu Zhanhe and Zhu Zhanqi immediately turned pale.

When Xie Jin said this, Yang Shiqi frowned and said, "We don't have to chase and fight Li Zhigang. He has already left the field anyway."

"Is it okay to just hire someone to teach?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned, but Zhu Zhanhe said, "I think they can teach better than the official school teachers."

"In your spare time, you can also go for a walk in the countryside outside the city. After all, you haven't seen it very often."

Even after ten years of vigorous development, the average wage in Nanjing has only increased from 20 wen per day during the Hongwu period to 25 wen today.

In the waterside pavilion not far from the imperial city, as Xie Jin picked up the teacup and took a sip, his words were recognized by Yang Shiqi, Hu Guang, Hu Yan, Jin Youzi and others.

If according to Zhu Zhanhe's saying of one hundred coins a day, one person is responsible for five or six people, it means that they have at least one hundred coins in income every day, which is three guan of money in a month and thirty-six guan in a year.

"As for the measurement of acres implemented by the New Deal, as long as we remove it cleanly, there will be no problem. It is just an advantage to the East Palace."

"How much is the course price?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that even cram schools would appear, although it was still in a personal way.

"If you don't fight, I will fight."

"Although they have many people making up classes, the courses are taught separately, so one of them can teach five or six people."

Huang Fu's words against Zhu Zhanji were not wrong at all.

Therefore, they publicly resisted the New Deal, but secretly learned faster than anyone else.

Moreover, judging from Zhu Zhanhe's description, this situation is not unique.

In other words, a candidate preparing for the imperial examination can earn four or five labor wages just by making up extra classes.

But that's okay. If they continue to live in the past, they will be annexed by the New Deal faction.

"We can seize this opportunity and use the matter of overthrowing Ji Gang to deal with the group of people in Lianghuai and eastern Zhejiang."

He narrowed his eyes and seemed to have thought of how to target Ji Gang.

But he didn't know that not long after he finished speaking, someone had reached Ji Gang's ears.

"Oh!"

The tea cup was smashed on the table. Ji Gang, who had just returned home to rest, gritted his teeth: "I haven't even gone to deal with him, but they actually dare to think of dealing with me."

"Godfather, what should we do now?" A member of the imperial guard Qianhu official bowed to Ji Gang, but he was much older than Ji Gang.

"I don't believe they have nothing to do with it. Then isn't Jie Jin revising his books?"

"Find someone to plant something, I don't believe I can't deal with them."

Ji Gang's face was ferocious: "Send someone else to tell Chen Ying that as long as you have the handle, don't hesitate and impeach them severely."

"Xie Jin... don't think you can beat me after reading sages' books for several years!"

"Yes!" Qian Huguan agreed, and slowly retreated under Ji Gang's eyes.

After he left, the water in the entire capital began to be deliberately muddied, and Wang Yan told Zhu Di all this.

When the news came, Zhu Di was finishing his political affairs at West Point Gate and had just arrived at Jiyan Hall.

Looking at Queen Xu's Zi Palace, Zhu Di put the yellow paper in his hand into the brazier, his face illuminated by the fire was uncertain.

"Let them make trouble. If the second brother can't take care of it, I will step out and take care of it."

"Yes..." Wang Yan nodded and exited Jiyan Hall. After he left, only Zhu Di, who kept burning yellow paper, was left in Jiyan Hall.

In the following time, Jiang Zuo continued to attack Ji Gang, and Ji Gang and Chen Ying blocked them one by one.

Regarding this news, Zhu Gaoxu just listened and took a look, and did not end immediately, because the current fire was not big enough, and even if it burned, it would not be able to burn the amount he wanted.

These days, he is constantly adding personal items into "Yongle Dadian", and various historical records written in the pre-Qin tone are stuffed into "Yongle Dadian".

His behavior was noticed by Yao Guangxiao, but the old monk didn't say anything, and he didn't even read the catalogs of the books he mixed with.

After all, as far as the book list is concerned, there are more than 20,000 volumes of books that need to be written. The catalogue alone is 60 volumes, and the total number of books is at least 10,000. It collects nearly 8,000 ancient and modern books.

With such a huge workload, the old monk was so busy that his feet could not touch the ground. On the contrary, although Xie Jin was known as the "first talented man", he did not interfere with the completion of the book.

"Your Highness, this Jie Jin only allowed the people below to copy it. Even if the content contained something to impeach the imperial court, he ignored it. If these contents were compiled into "Leishu", wouldn't it make future generations laugh?"

In early February, after a month of revision work, Sun Cheng finally endured Jin's lack of understanding of Jin's work attitude and chose to file a complaint in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

In Zhu Gaoxu's memory, Sun Cheng was a good-tempered person, but now he was actually angered by Jie Jin, which actually made him find it very interesting.

"Tell me in detail why he didn't care..."

Zhu Gaoxu asked curiously, and upon seeing this, Sun Cheng also told the working attitude of Jie Jin and his group of people. "This group of people call themselves clean, but they can only raise problems and let the people below solve them. They obviously have solved the problem but don't solve it. In the end, they push the problem to our side and let us solve it. In addition... …”

Sun Cheng said angrily, and as he spoke, Zhu Gaoxu felt that something was wrong.

He suddenly felt that the so-called Qingliu group of Jie Jin were just those guys in later generations who always liked to give pointers in companies and units, but ended up asking unrealistic questions.

Looking at it like this, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered a certain TV series from his previous life.

In that TV series, except for Zhang Juzheng who can think of some solutions, the others in Qingliu are only responsible for disrupting the situation rather than solving the problem.

To put it bluntly, the clear flow on the mouth is just a fighting posture, pretending to be a good person.

This kind of people have existed since ancient times. Whether in official circles or among the people, there is always a shortage of people who are good at talking and pointing out problems without providing suggestions.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Gaoxu also felt that it was quite right.

When Sanyang became the Grand Bachelor of Diange, did they know that during the Xuande period, the pressure on the common people and the pressure on military households needed to be relieved?
They know it, but they don't say it or do it, and if they don't say it or do it, Zhu Zhanji will naturally not take the initiative to choose to adjust.

On the contrary, after Huang Fu gave Zhu Zhanji a hard time, Zhu Zhanji immediately came to his senses, organized several local raids, and organized the last voyage to the West.

"I know what happened to them. I will increase the number of people who repair books on your side and reduce the number of people who repair books on their side."

"All you have to do is stuff the books I prepared into it."

Zhu Gaoxu told Sun Cheng. Seeing the response, Sun Cheng also bowed his hands angrily: "That minister has retired."

"Back off, don't ruin your health because of this kind of popularity. He won't be happy for a few more years." Zhu Gaoxu comforted Sun Cheng. When Sun Cheng heard this, most of his depression disappeared.

After he left the Chunhe Palace, Yi Shiha bowed to Zhu Gaoxu and said, "Your Highness, a letter has arrived from Guangzhou. Zheng He has arrived in Guangzhou."

"Okay!" After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu breathed a sigh of relief, and Yi Shiha also asked:

"Your Highness, if Zheng He comes back, will he really implement a new policy in Jiangnan?"

"Of course." Zhu Gaoxu said without hesitation, but hesitantly said: "If it is really implemented, the official salary and teaching salary of the New Deal alone will exceed 30 million yuan."

"Can the imperial court... be able to get this money?"

Yishiha's worries are not unreasonable. After all, the current fiscal year of Ming Dynasty is only over 30 million yuan.

If the New Deal were implemented in Jiangnan, the Ming Dynasty's finances would be at least 20 million yuan in expenditure, and the Ming Dynasty could absorb all of this money at most by relying on Zhu Yuanzhang and his two-year voyage to the West.

If that's the case, what about two years from now?
"Check the ratio of teachers to students in Bohai, Liaodong and Shandong this year."

Zhu Gaoxu did not answer directly, but asked Yi Shiha to look through the booklet.

Yi Shiha walked to the bookshelf in confusion, searched for it for a while, took out the book and opened it. He just flipped through it briefly and became speechless.

"Do you understand?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Yi Shiha. Hearing this, Yi Shiha looked at the brochure and then at Zhu Gaoxu. He was speechless for a long time.

However, Zhu Gaoxu calmly picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and said at the same time:

"The largest number of students in Shandong have already graduated. Once they graduate, most teachers will have no students to teach."

"The number of such teachers is about 160,000, and their salary is 3.2 million yuan, accounting for half of the salary of the entire New Deal teachers."

"If we put them into Jiangnan, they can solve the problem of at least two million students."

"On this basis, as long as we recruit tens of thousands more teachers, we can solve the teaching problem in Jiangnan, so we can't spend 30 million yuan at all."

The shortage of teacher resources is often caused by too many students.

However, as the first and second batches of millions of students from Liaodong and Shandong have graduated one after another, most teachers have to face the normal number of tens or hundreds of thousands of students in various places.

The teaching situation in various places has also developed from the original class of forty people to the current class of more than a dozen people.

Under such circumstances, many teachers were actually ready to find another way out, and even many teachers with a keen sense of smell voluntarily resigned and went to middle schools shortly after the announcement.

"How many middle schools are registered this year, and how many are enrolled in them?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Yi Shiha, who also rummaged through the booklet in his hand for a while, and finally reported: "The news of this year's registration has not been reported to the capital yet. According to previous years, it should be April before the report can be compiled."

"As for the number of middle school students, the booklet states that there are more than 46,700 students."

"Yeah." Zhu Gaoxu nodded, and then said: "This group of people have a fairly sensitive sense of smell, but those who are not sensitive will suffer..."

"Trouble?" Yi Shiha was stunned for a moment, and then realized: "Aren't you going to throw these 160,000 people into Jiangnan?"

"The benefits of the New Deal cannot always be given to a group of people." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said: "But I will not eliminate them all at once. They still have a chance to catch up."

"Get ready and announce to the official schools all over the world that starting from this year, the official schools will be changed to primary schools. The first month of each year will be the teaching assessment month. The assessment will be conducted every five years. If you fail the exam, you will not be able to continue teaching."

"As for the content of the examination paper, it is mainly based on middle school content."

Zhu Gaoxu planned to make a living for the more than 40,000 people in the middle school. As for the more than 200,000 teachers, they were destined to be eliminated by 160,000.

Zhu Gaoxu admitted that they had made contributions to the Ming Dynasty in the promotion of official education, but in the final analysis, they were trained quickly in five years, and their own knowledge reserves were not considered solid.

Now the Ming Dynasty needs to change from low-quality teaching to high-quality, but the finance does not support the retention of the original low-quality teaching, so the only choice is to eliminate low-quality and use high-quality.

These 160,000 students will not be eliminated at once, but will be eliminated year by year.

Zhu Gaoxu estimates that this process will only last five years. By then, the first batch of more than 20,000 students from the middle school will have graduated, and more than 200,000 students will be able to be deployed.

Not only that, the number of middle school graduates will also increase year by year just like the government schools in the past.

But it is a pity that Zhu Gaoxu's own knowledge reserve can only be maintained at the level of middle school.

Taixue will be transformed into a scientific research college, and popular education will be done in primary schools and middle schools.

From then on, the students of Taixue had to continue to invent and create, and gradually increase the thickness of the teaching materials, and then they were separated into universities.

Whether Zhu Gaoxu could see it on this day, he personally didn't know.

"If these 160,000 people are laid off, where will they go?"

Yi Shiha felt his mouth was dry. This was related to the lives of 160,000 households and nearly one million people.

"They have saved some money over the years. If they still want to continue, they will study in middle school at their own expense. When they graduate from middle school and have enough knowledge to continue teaching in primary and secondary schools, they can naturally continue to teach."

"The number of teachers required in this entire world is only about 400,000, but the imperial court can only support more than 20 people."

Zhu Gaoxu's approach was a bit ruthless, but the reality was that Ming Dynasty could not support so many teachers.

If he wanted to educate more than 200,000 people, he would definitely be willing to educate more than 200,000 people who graduated from middle school instead of those who graduated from primary school. After all, the students taught by the former were of better quality.

"Slave, please go and do it now..."

Yi Shiha was a little sad. The conversation between the two of them decided the jobs of more than 100,000 people.

This is good news for those graduating from high school.

But for those who have graduated from primary school, this is bad news that can cause the world to collapse.

It is foreseeable that after the news of this incident is released, it will definitely cause a lot of repercussions, but Zhu Gaoxu is already prepared.

With the current productivity, he can only improve the quality of teaching to train more students who can read and write at low cost.

Only when the number of students increases can he know whether the mathematical, physical and chemical knowledge he spreads can enable Ming to invent more things.

Zhu Gaoxu lowered his head and continued to deal with the memorial, and the facts were as he expected.

Soon after the decree of the East Palace was issued, many New Deal officials began to communicate.

Most of the current teachers are their relatives and friends, and some are even their teachers.

It is true that looking back now, the quality of their teaching is very poor. Halfway through the lecture, I have to look through the book to find the content to explain.

But the problem is that after all, they are relatives and friends of the officials, and they are also good helpers in training students to participate in the imperial examinations.

What Zhu Gaoxu noticed was already noticed by some people in the New Deal faction, because after no results were seen in Shang Shu, they began to change directions and used Zheng He's imminent return as an excuse to ask the court to implement the New Deal in Jiangnan.

With the population market in Jiangnan, 160,000 teachers can fully serve as teachers locally.

For a time, the entire capital became a mess amid the mutual impeachment between the New Deal, Jiangzuo, Jiangdong, Zhedong, and Jinyiwei. This was the situation Zhu Gaoxu wanted to see...

(End of this chapter)