The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 858 Unlocking the Wisdom of the People

Ding Yi could not be seen in the palace in August.

After Zhang Shenyan left, Lu Daqi was selected as the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Lu Daqi appointed Huang Zongxi to succeed the minister of the Ministry of Justice.

According to the Dagan Code, from now on, the chief assistant of the cabinet is equivalent to the prime minister, and his power has greatly increased, which made Ding Yi feel a lot easier.

Ding Yi handed over the important affairs of the court to the cabinet, and fled the palace under the pretext of summer vacation.

After the first and second years of Rende's operation, Dagan's cabinet is fully capable of handling domestic affairs.

Although officials above the third rank and heavyweight expenditures must be instructed by Ding Yi.

But recently, there is no operation of officials above the third rank, and we can wait for Ding Yi to come back to talk about it.

The important expenses of the imperial court were completely handed over to the cabinet by Ding Yi.

If it involves less than 10 taels of silver, the Ministry of Finance will handle it by itself. If it is more than [-] and less than a million, it will be reported to the first and second assistants. If one of the two objects objects, it will be left to Ding Yi to come back and handle it.

More than a million taels of silver will be left to Ding Yi to deal with.

In fact, the most important expenditures of Daqian are education, medical care, and infrastructure. These three items have been approved years ago, so there are basically no important expenditures in the second half of the year.

Ding Yi directly excused himself from the summer heat and left.

Since he ascended the throne, Ding Yi has valued science and technology the most, followed by education.

Science and technology are used to enhance national strength, and education is to open up the wisdom of the people.

No matter what kind of reform, it is necessary to open up the wisdom of the people.

Without broad popular support, any reform will fail.

Therefore, in Ding Yi's eyes, education is the top priority.

At about eleven o'clock in the morning, Ding Yi, Hong Anshu, Zhong Xian and others rode to Wanping Primary School.

The primary school covers an area of ​​more than 100 mu, with classrooms on the east, teachers’ dormitory and school cafeteria on the west, and the north is still under construction, preparing for the school’s construction.

There were two small officials from the school at the gate, and when they saw them riding over in splendid clothes, they were also taken aback: "Who are you looking for?"

Before Hong Anshu finished speaking, Ding Yi signaled Zhong Xian with his eyes, Zhong Xian stepped forward and handed over a gold coin: "My master, I want to see my son."

The little official on the left saw the gold coin's eyes lit up, but immediately seemed to want to do something about the law code, and immediately became furious: "Don't hurt me, don't hurt me if you want to die."

The little official on the other side rolled his eyes and reached out to grab it.

Take it first and then report it, isn't it going to make a fortune?

Officials who report bribers also want to get rich.

The little official on the left grabbed his hand: "What are you doing? You don't want to live anymore?"

"Take it first, then report him." The little official on the right whispered.

"Don't do such immoral things." The little official on the left said in a low voice, what if he reported it first?People have horses.

The two looked at each other, and the one on the right quickly withdrew his hand.

"The horses stay outside. You go in and don't run around and cause trouble. Have you read the Dagan Code? If you cause trouble at school, you will be sentenced."

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir." Ding Yi laughed quickly.

Zhong Xian also put away the gold coins.

Ding Yi was very happy in his heart, it was wonderful to report each other, no one dared to accept things easily.

Several people successfully entered the school, facing a playground.

There are thirty students on the playground, and they are being divided into three teams and walking in the queue.

This kind of queue teachers are veterans who have returned after retiring.

"Turn left, walk in unison." The teacher shouted loudly, and the students also walked in style.

Ding Yi watched it for a while, and felt that this group of elementary school students went quite well.

"How many classes like this are there in elementary school?" Ding Yi asked Hong Anshu.

"One queue lesson, one equestrian lesson, and one archery lesson every week."

There will be a shooting class in middle school, usually in the fourth grade, starting around the age of 12.

They walked east along the playground, and on the other side there was a running track, and there were also thirty students training horses.

Only then did Ding Yi know that there are 30 people in a class here.

The equestrian is also taught by retired sergeants, otherwise Ding Yi's teachers would not be enough.

The horses are all Mongolian short-legged horses, and they rode on them throughout the elementary school year, walking around adaptively.

I started jogging in the second year of elementary school.

The graduation exam is to ride a horse and run 100 meters within [-] breaths (seconds).

This requirement is very low, and it will pass with a little speed.

The middle school graduation exam is a little more difficult. You have to complete simple riding and shooting, run across the middle of 20 meters in 100 seconds, shoot five arrows at a human-sized target, and hit at least one arrow to pass.

Because Dagan has already started to fully equip firearms, Ding Yi once considered giving up archery practice, but after thinking about it, bows and arrows are still the mainstream in the neighborhood. It is not a bad thing to learn one more skill, so the school still maintains simple riding and archery training. .

A student's simple studies in middle school and university cannot become an elite archer, but Ding Yi at least let everyone learn archery and horseback riding, so that everyone can be useful if foreign enemies invade in the future.

Ding Yi went around Wanping Primary School and found that there were very few girls. There were only two girls among the 60 students in these two classes.

And seeing that the clothes these two girls are wearing are good, they should be the children of officials or rich people.

These two girls are also not gregarious, basically they are on one side and do not communicate with boys.

When training horsemanship, the teacher didn't dare to touch them, but just pulled the horse and reminded them as much as possible.

"Clamp the horse's belly with your legs, use a little force, don't use too much force, the horse knows that this is for them to run, okay, okay, hold on, the upper body can be bent slightly, keep it stable--"

After looking around, Ding Yi and Hong Anshu went to the principal of the school.

The principal is actually an old scholar in his 50s.

Hong Anshu claimed to be from the Ministry of Education of the capital, and asked him why there are so many girls in the school?

The headmaster murmured: "Both boys and girls don't know each other. Parents don't want girls to go to school, do they?"

When Ding Yi founded the school, he required male and female students in elementary and middle schools to be divided into classes, but because there were too few girls, they could not be divided into classes. Now they are all together.

Like their school, there are only two girls in the whole school, so naturally they can only be with boys, so they can't hold a class together.

Ding Yi was disturbed. There are seven to eight hundred officials in Wanping County, many of them are from Lushun. Don’t their children go to school?
I found out later that the children from Lushun are all grown up, some of them are in middle school, some of them are in college like Ding Yi's son, and only a few are still in primary school.

The two girls in this class are both from the family where Ding Yi Lushun came from.

Ding Yi remained calm, and looked at the school food at noon. It was basically in accordance with the requirements of the court. According to the standards of this era, it was not bad.

Think about it, some places in future generations may not be better than the present.

Several people went to a restaurant in Wanping County at noon to order some dishes.

Ding Yi suddenly saw a [-] or [-]-year-old boy collecting money in the restaurant, and only after asking did he realize that he was the shopkeeper's son.

Hong Anshu called the shopkeeper, why didn't he let his son go to school?

The shopkeeper smiled. My family hired a teacher, and my son has been studying for several years, and he is proficient in reading and writing.

Wait until next year, take the imperial examination, find a suitable position, just take the examination of an official or official, what to study.

He also said that my son can settle accounts. I have seen it this year. There are several officials who can calculate accounts, but they are too far away from the capital, so my son was not allowed to take the test.

Let's see next year, if there is a good position, I'm still young anyway, so I'm not in a hurry.

Ding Yi thought to himself, it is really useless to sit on the dragon chair in the palace every day, you have to come out and run to find out.

After lunch, they hurried to the countryside again without stopping.

This time they ran farther, across the Marco Polo Bridge, to the south where they fought against the Chuangjun.

This place belongs to Liangxiang County, and there is a village called Huangcun, where Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were stationed in those days.

After entering the village, I found that many children in the village did not go to school. Of course, it is one thing to be far from the county seat, but it is another matter whether the children are willing to send them to school.

Now in August, the rice in the fields is growing well, and many young boys are doing farm work in the fields.

Ding Yi rode on his horse and saw a field in front of him surrounded by many people, so he immediately led them there.

I saw a piece of farmland in front of me. There was a family of people beside the farmland. The head of the family was a strong man in his 30s, and he was leading two teenagers, about thirteen or fourteen years old, digging ditches.

The imperial court attached great importance to the construction of water conservancy, and required all grain fields to have qualified ditches. If farmers did not dig them themselves, they would be fined tax and grain.

So the common people dug and sorted out good ditches by themselves.

After the ditches are dug, the tax for two buckets of rice can be exempted that year.

In the past, many ditches were created carelessly by ordinary people, as long as there was water, some did not even make them, preferring to go far away to carry water.

Now the imperial court strictly orders digging, and checks whether it is qualified or not. If it is qualified, it can be exempted from tax. Naturally, the people are willing to do it.

With such measures, the overall situation of the grain fields has improved a lot. The fields are criss-crossed, there are ditches everywhere, and the water source is abundant and easy to get.

Where it is really difficult to dig and where water is scarce, the county will organize help, build water trucks, and even water wells.

When Ding Yi and the others rushed over, there were more than a dozen people surrounding them.

(End of this chapter)