Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 352

In addition, although nine-year compulsory education cannot be implemented like later generations, Li Jing still stipulates that children must be sent to schools for a period of education when they reach a certain age, so that children can read and write.

For this reason, Li Jing ordered that the first three years of enlightenment teaching be free. During these three years, children only learn Chinese studies and mathematics, that is, learn to recognize characters and numbers.

As the age of the child grows, each family can decide whether to let the child continue to learn more advanced knowledge according to the situation of each family, that is to say, only after reaching a certain age, will they learn the above specialized knowledge.

The main purpose of Li Jing doing this is to eliminate illiteracy. After all, it is unrealistic to cultivate all the people of Ming Dynasty into talents. Not to mention the lack of financial resources of the country, the current family situation of the people of Ming Dynasty alone does not allow it.

And Li Jing is very clear that even if it is free for three years, most families will still not send their children to school.

This is not to say that Li Jing can solve it with coercive means. After all, Li Jing can't afford to build so many schools, and the existing schools can't accept so many students.

What's more, Daming doesn't have so many teachers yet.

But knowing that the expected goal cannot be achieved, Li Jing still wants to do this, because doing so is laying the foundation for the future. Li Jing believes that as long as he keeps going, more people will be educated, which is the same as It's like snowballing.

In addition, while promoting basic education as much as possible, Li Jing also takes the route of high-end education, and this high-end education is Guozijian.

To say that Li Jing pursues high-end education, one only needs to look at the Guozijian Jijiu (principal) to see it, because since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Guozijian has never had such a high-level principal.

Because this year's Guozijian sacrificial wine is Xu Guangqi, and Xu Guangqi is the second assistant of the cabinet.Even if this secondary assistant doesn't care about anything, even if Xu Guangqi's role as the Guozijian's sacrificial wine is only in name, but at least it can be seen from this how much Li Jing attaches importance to the Guozijian.

At this time, Xu Guangqi finally arrived in Beijing.

From the bottom of his heart, Li Jing really didn't want Xu Guangqi to enter Beijing, because Xu Guangqi was already 77 years old.

It was thousands of miles from Pingyang Mansion to Beijing. Xu Guangqi was so old and asked him to run such a long distance. Li Jing was really worried that Xu Guangqi made some mistakes on the road.

In fact, this is why Li Jing did not let Yuan Keli enter Beijing, because Yuan Keli is also 77 years old.

In Daming, there are only two people who can make Li Jing worry, one is Yuan Keli, and the other is Xu Guangqi.

Yuan Keli is Li Jing's mentor, while Xu Guangqi is Li Jing's national treasure of the Ming Dynasty. Both of them are nearly 80 years old. If you don't pay attention, there may be good or bad. How can Li Jing carelessly?
But Xu Guangqi still came. Xu Guangqi came to Beijing not to become an official, but because he was afraid that his hard work would be damaged.

It took Xu Guangqi five years to finally build the Academy of Sciences. Now that the Academy of Sciences is moving to Beijing, Xu Guangqi is naturally worried. If he is not allowed to witness the safe arrival of the people, materials and equipment of the Academy of Sciences, Xu Guangqi may have trouble sleeping and eating.

These people, materials, and equipment, in Xu Guangqi's words, are all Daming's treasures, and Xu Guangqi will fight with him no matter who is harmed.

Li Jing fully understood Xu Guangqi's mood, so he didn't force him, but Li Jing ordered Gao Qi to ensure Xu Guangqi's safety.

After Gao Qi received Li Jing's order, he was even more unequivocal, and even asked Zhang Chu to lead three thousand soldiers to escort Xu Guangqi and others to Beijing.You must know that when Gao Qi sent people to Beijing to pick him up, he only sent 3000 people. As for the degree of care along the way, he was far more careful than protecting Zhu Youjian.Moreover, in order to ensure that Xu Guangqi would not be tired, the team only traveled a maximum of [-] miles a day.

In this way, it took more than two months for Xu Guangqi and other talents to arrive in the capital.

On the day when Xu Guangqi and others entered Beijing, Li Jing took all the officials out of the city to greet them.

Seeing Xu Guangqi stepping out of the carriage, Li Jingji stepped forward to support Xu Guangqi's arm and said, "Mr. Zixian, you have suffered a lot from the hard work all the way!"

"Hehe, Jimin, you're fine! Very fine!" Xu Guangqi patted the back of Li Jing's hand and said with a smile.

Holding Xu Guangqi's trembling hand, looking at Xu Guangqi's old and haggard face, Li Jing couldn't help but feel sore in his heart. For the sake of Daming's prosperity, this old man really didn't even care about his life.

Seeing Li Jing's emotion, Xu Guangqi said with a smile: "Jimin, don't act like a child. If I can see Daming begin to rejuvenate in my lifetime, even if I die, I will rest in peace."

"What are you talking about, sir, you can live to be at least a hundred years old, and the student will definitely let you see the glory of Ming Dynasty once again shaking the world." Li Jing said hurriedly.

"Hehe, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it, but even if I can't see it, I'm content. Jimin, do your best, and don't disappoint the teachings of Lord Jie Huan." Xu Guangqi shook his head and smiled.

Li Jing nodded vigorously, choked with sobs and said, "Sir, don't worry, old man, the students will live up to the teachings of you and Mr. Yuan."

Patting Li Jing's hand lightly, Xu Guangqi smiled and said, "Let's go, show me our Academy of Sciences."

Li Jing wiped the corners of his eyes, turned his head and waved to Xiao Wu. When Xiao Wu saw him, he hurriedly ordered his soldiers to bring the soft sedan over.

"Sir, please get on the sedan chair." Supporting Xu Guangqi, Li Jing said.

Xu Guangqi nodded and got on the soft sedan chair without being polite.

After Xu Guangqi sat down firmly, Li Jing smiled and said: "Sir, I will arrange your residence in the place where you used to live. If you think there is something wrong, please tell the students."

"I don't care about them, I live in the Academy of Sciences, and my family let them figure out their own way. Daming's treasury is empty now, so don't waste money on me." Xu Guangqi said.

Li Jingwen said with a smile: "Don't worry about the family affairs, I have arranged everything, you just need to live comfortably, and the elder brother and several nephews are by your side, just for them to show their filial piety."

Xu Guangqi smiled, tapped Li Jing lightly and said, "You! You are always so careful, and you have so many things to do, so don't worry about such things in the future."

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm sure I won't take care of others, but I must personally take care of the matter between you and Mr. Yuan."

Xu Guangqi smiled slightly and shook his head slightly.

When they arrived at the Guozijian, Li Jing helped Xu Guangqi get off the sedan chair, and then helped Xu Guangqi look around.

The Confucian Temple and the Guozijian Xu Guangqi have been here many times before. After looking around, Xu Guangqi returned and found that the Guozijian has not changed much. What has changed is the Confucian Temple separated by a wall.

The size of the Confucian Temple is about the same as that of the Guozijian, with three courtyards. However, most of the land behind the last courtyard and the non-sacrificial buildings are now included in the Guozijian. In fact, it is included in the Academy of Sciences together with the backyard of the Guozijian.

Pointing to the building of the original Confucian Temple, Li Jing smiled and said: "Sir, the environment here is quiet and suitable for the Academy of Sciences to do research. Are you satisfied with my assignment of this land to the Academy of Sciences?"

"Hehe, I'm afraid you will attract infamy in the future." Xu Guangqi shook his head and smiled.

Li Jing smiled and said: "No, in fact, I put the Academy of Sciences here because I respect the sage Confucius. You must know that the sage Confucius studied knowledge. My descendants inherit the mantle of the predecessors. Studying science can be regarded as following his old man's instructions. Will."

"You are always right." Xu Guangqi said with a smile.

Speaking of which, Xu Guangqi took the lead and carefully checked the structure of the Academy of Sciences.

In fact, the director of the transformation of the Guozijian was the designer of the Pingyang Academy of Sciences, so the Academy of Sciences in Beijing was actually built according to the model of Pingyang Prefecture, but with a larger area and better conditions. After reading it, Xu Guangqi nodded repeatedly.

Seeing that Xu Guangqi was satisfied, Li Jing immediately ordered the researchers of the Academy of Sciences to take the seat and move the materials and equipment he brought into the new residence.

When the main work arrangements were ready, Li Jing called everyone together and said, "Even if our Academy of Sciences is relocated today, it is supposed to hold a ceremony, but I don't want to trouble you, and I guess you don't want to trouble, either. Just keep it simple."

Everyone laughed lightly when they heard this.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing continued: "You are all engaged in research, but I also hope that you can pay attention to education, to train successors and train younger generations, so I beg you to spare time to teach at the Imperial College. As for remuneration, No matter what you ask, I will agree."

"Marshal, it's too polite of you to say that. Without you, we don't know where we are now? I'm just saying, we will do what you say." One person in the crowd got up and said.

Li Jing stretched out his hand to signal the person to sit down, and then said with a smile: "Sir, Li Jing is deeply grateful for the words, but you also have to support your family, right? Doing research and learning can't make your family angry! How about it, Our Academy of Sciences is temporarily affiliated with the Imperial Academy, so I will give you the treatment of a doctor of the Imperial Academy, what do you think?"

"Hehe, Marshal, you still favor us as officials, just because we are afraid that we will not be able to be such officials." The man laughed.

"It's okay, you can just study, teach and educate people with peace of mind, I won't let you worry about those troublesome things." Li Jing smiled.

The man smiled and said, "As long as it doesn't delay my research."

Li Jing nodded with a smile, and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a soldier running excitedly from a distance and beckoning to Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu ran over and said a few words, and then took a letter box.

Then Xiao Wu ran back in a hurry, pulled his skirt lightly, Li Jing was startled, Xiao Wu leaned into Li Jing's ear and whispered a few words, Li Jing immediately showed joy when he heard the words.

Immediately, he took the letter box from Xiao Wu's hand and quickly opened it, then took out a letter, and read it carefully.

After reading it, Li Jing suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahaha, great news, Cao Wenzhao won a big victory in the grassland. The tribes of Outer Mongolia have already been leveled."

"Ah! Congratulations to Commander, and congratulations to Commander." All the ministers were overjoyed when they heard the situation, and stepped forward to congratulate Li Jing.

Li Jing waved his hand and said with a smile to the ministers: "Congratulations, what am I doing? I didn't fight this battle. We should congratulate Cao Wenzhao. Brother Wenzhao is a good general, and his name is indeed well-deserved. He attacked in three ways to attack Mongolia. The three major tribes, after the First World War, the three Mongolian tribes all surrendered, so far, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has no worries, and can attack the Eastern Captives with peace of mind."

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