Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Chapter 346

In terms of enlightening the wisdom of the people, the sage wants the people to learn 24 filial piety and recite the law; the prince wants to eliminate illiteracy for the whole people, learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and improve the cultural level of the whole people.

No matter what their father and son think, the elders of the cabinet quickly formulated a national literacy plan to open up the wisdom of the people, and added this work to the county magistrate's assessment.

The prince listened to the discussion of several elders, and he found that the elders appointed by the sage were more efficient than those in his previous life. When he was minister of the Ministry of Rites, the ability of those elders was much higher.Including Jia Daishan, no one objected to girls studying.I even think that children should be enlightened at the age of five.As for the time of Enlightenment, you don’t need paper and pen, but use branches to write on the sand, and you will pass quickly.Five, six, and seven-year-old children, regardless of gender, study together.Those who are over eight years old should study separately for men and women.The six-year study plan was quickly listed, not only "Thousand Characters", "Hundred Surnames", "Book of Filial Piety", "Dalu" but also simple arithmetic, using calculation chips, and abacus. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division learning, and farming time, etc.Boys who have completed six years of study, if they continue to study, will have the content of the imperial examination.If you are talented in learning and your family is poor, you can still get funding after being confirmed by the county.Of course, the criteria for assessing the county school also added the requirements for the proportion of students who were rescued to pass the government examination after five years.If you can pass the government examination, you can also get a job teaching in other areas where there is a shortage of professors.

The more the prince listened, the more he admired these contents. At the Dachao meeting, he still needed to contact the Imperial Academy and Jia Amnesty to help him, and debate with people fiercely, in order to achieve his goal.However, the current cabinet bosses settled the matter in less than two hours.Even the points mentioned by Jia Daishan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, have something to say.

All that's left is to wait for the sage to come back and give a "perfect" word.

Taizi looked at the back of the departing cabinet ministers and thought to himself, no wonder the saint was able to use troops many times during his reign.The sage not only quelled the vassal chaos, but also expanded the territory, but the government was always in his hands stably.It wasn't until more than 20 years later that the princes fought for the throne year after year and defeated the chaos. The sage was reluctant to punish his son, which led to the instability of the government.Under internal and external troubles, he had no choice but to sit in Zen.

It seems that I still have too much, too much to learn.Especially the selection of important ministers - which can be used and which should be used. The prince thought about the detailed analysis of the sage last night. As expected, the positions are different, and the height and angle of seeing things are very different.

The prince sorted out the things to do in the morning, and the sage also came back from Chuxiu Palace.The prince smiled and looked carefully at the saint's face.

"Chengxian, what are you looking at?" The sage looked at the prince's probing eyes and was a little puzzled.

"Father, my son would like to know if you have won any stunning beauty. Congratulations to Father."

The sage laughed, and his son was getting closer to him.Compared with the respectful manner of the past, although the question he asked was not like what a son should say to Lao Tzu, and it lacked the respect that a son should have, but in my heart, I was still happy and pleased with my son and myself. so.

"There is no such thing as an overpowering country." The sage replied smoothly, thinking about it, he felt wrong.Fu went on to say: "Chengxian, what you should learn now is to deal with government affairs."

"Father, my son has been studying all morning."

The prince handed the contents of the cabinet discussions he had compiled to the sage.After reading it carefully, the sage added a "Book of Rhymes".

"Add "Book of Rhymes" to the learning content, and you can learn to read by yourself in the future. And let the cabinet consider military camps, and soldiers should also be taught to read."

"Yes." The prince quickly wrote it down.

"It's good for cabinet ministers to add agronomy. Only by planting the farmland well, so that there will be no famine in the world, no hunger in the four fields, and everyone has food and clothing, is the fundamental cornerstone of long-term stability."

The prince listened carefully and actively expressed his views.

"Father, I wonder if we should also include Gewu and other things. I found that every change of farm tools can improve the achievements of farming. There are also guns in the army, and the role played by those craftsmen is more important than that. The small officials who copy in the yamen must be big."

The sage agreed with the prince's point of view. "When it comes to Gewu, many scholars are dismissive. In fact, what the imperial court needs most is an important minister who has a unique ability to study things and can lead alone. Like water control, Jin Fu is needed. People. Like firearms, people like Dai Zi are needed. Those who don’t understand money, food, and agriculture, but only know how to make those beautiful articles and poems, no matter how good they are, they can’t be eaten or worn.”

"Father, what you said makes sense. Why don't we add some content to this year's autumn? For example, to dig a ditch five hundred feet long, one foot wide, and four feet deep, how much earthwork needs to be dug out?" , How many days will it take? How many peasants will be needed? By extension, how many acres of land can be irrigated with such a ditch.”

"Good idea. The purpose of selecting scholars in the imperial examination is to select talents that the court can use. Even if no one can do it this year, as long as they pass the exam, they will guide those candidates to work hard in this area. Chengxian, you inform the Ministry of Rites The Hanlin Academy will add law and arithmetic to this year's Qiuwei and Boys' Examinations. In the future, the weight of these contents in the examination papers will increase year by year. In ten or 20 years, if you can Taking up half of the examination papers, the selected Jinshi will no longer be sour and rotten who only know how to sing the wind and praise the moon, or people who only know how to talk and can't do practical things."

The prince admired the vision of the sage. The sage is looking forward to Chunwei 20 years later. The content of science will account for half of the exam.This courage, this vision, only the word far-sighted, is suitable for a saint.

The prince did not hesitate to praise the sage, and the sage accepted it all.

Then the sage said to the prince: "Listening to good words will make people feel comfortable. But Chengxian, you must calm your mind in the future, and don't let the flattery of your courtiers influence your judgment."

The prince was a little embarrassed, "Father, my son really thinks that only the word far-sighted can..."

"Chengxian, you are my son. I raised you with my own hands and taught you every day. I know that your words come from the bottom of my heart. Sitting in this position, it is necessary to have a long-term vision, far-sightedness, foresight, and learning from the past. Ah. People have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term worries. For us father and son, whether it is long-term worries or near-term worries, they exist every day, all the time, every moment."

The prince nodded earnestly.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, you are tired all morning, it's time for lunch."

Father and son dine together.After the meal, Liang Jiu came in quietly and said, "Saint, Mo Jiu wants to see the saint."

The prince looked at the saint and stood up, "Father."

"Chengxian, stay and listen together. Let Mo Jiu come in."

What Mo Jiu came in to report surprised the saint and the prince.

Last night, the crown prince asked Mo Jiu to ask the steward of the treasury bureau.Mo Jiu was not ambiguous, and arrested the steward overnight. Before he could torture him, the steward withered and spit out a bunch of inside stories about various departments and bureaus. Even the greed of the Ministry of Internal Affairs involved the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry. The tomb of the saint.

The saint flipped through the interrogation record Mo Jiu handed over, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became. His eyes darkened, ice seemed to freeze between his brows, and his lips were tightly pursed into a line.The servants who are familiar with the saint's expression all know that the saint is very angry.Everyone was trembling, not daring to make a sound, lest they touch the saint's gun.

The sage handed the record to the prince.After the prince looked through it, it was too scary.

"Father, if this is true, half of the palace's annual expenses are squandered or embezzled by these servants. And the matter of the father's tomb, if it is true, only one person involved cannot stay gone."

"Mo Jiu, it's up to you to investigate the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Four Divisions and Eight Bureaus. Cheng Xian, ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment to jointly investigate the matter of the tomb. No one will be let go."

"Yes, Father."

"Yes, saint."

The prince agreed, took a note to write down the matter, and sent a servant to inform the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment to come to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to meet him.After Mo Jiu agreed, he immediately went out to do errands.

Seeing that the saint's face had not recovered, the prince stepped forward to persuade him, "Father, don't be angry. Even when the empress dowager was alive, the four concubines were in charge of the actual palace affairs in the palace for these years. As the saying goes, a The monks carry water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks have no water to drink. It is no easy task to maintain the basic normality of the court."

The sage listened to the prince's persuasion.He slowly calmed down, and knew in his heart that it was because there was no queen in charge of the inner court.Seeing that it is now handed over to the Crown Princess, so many corruptions have been exposed at the beginning of taking over.

"Chengxian, I didn't dare to have a little extravagance these years, but I didn't expect that the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs lived a more luxurious and comfortable life than me. I saved myself, and all of you, and I'm full. Those silverfish."

"Father, we have lived a good life these years. But the money, every cent and penny, is the people's fat and people's anointing, and these moths are absolutely not allowed to devour it. It is Huangzhuang under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As for the temper of the steward, I think it's time to check it out."

"Cha, you can't let any one go. Chengxian, you help the father to keep an eye on it, and let the princess pay more attention. This kind of thing can't happen again in the future."

"Yes, father. These things should be better with a new accounting method. But human nature is greedy, and it is too difficult to keep the heart."

Yes, at any time, it is inevitable that there will be corruption by the powerful.No matter how harsh the law is, it will not be able to prevent the emergence of corruption.