Borrow the day to change the day

The more Zhong Jinwei listened, the more surprised he became, and the more he knew, the more he understood that the situation of the Imperial College was not because of a certain person or a few people's negligence in their duties.

Jijiu, Siye, and Jiancheng were all called in one after another. Although the guards said they were called from home or some place where there was a lot of fun, Zhong Jinwei had lost the initial anger and did not blame them too much, but asked them to do the same. From its own point of view, explain the reason why Guozijian has fallen into such a state.

The three of them naturally tried their best to tell Marquis Zhongxing what they knew while wiping away their cold sweat.Even more detailed, they explained the various reasons why the Guozijian was reduced to the current situation.Because of this, their guilt can be further mitigated.

Zhong Jinwei didn't come out of the Imperial College until it was getting dark.

"Master Hou, do you still want to enter the palace now?" Gu Baichuan asked after seeing Hou Zhongxing's expression very unsightly.

He also heard the detailed reasons why the Guozijian was reduced to such a situation. Although he had heard of some of the reasons, but because he didn't pay attention to this content, he didn't take it to heart.But now that I listened to it with Zhongxinghou, even if he is a fan servant, he still feels that this phenomenon needs to be changed.

Zhong Jinwei raised his head when he heard the words, first looked at the sky, and then replied to Gu Baichuan: "It's getting late today, so I'll go back to my residence first. I want to sort out the information I heard today, and I'll go face to face tomorrow."

"Yes, Lord Hou." Gu Baichuan had no objection, and Lord Hou naturally knew better about how to do things.

Zhong Jinwei didn't speak, and his guards naturally couldn't speak either, and the group walked in silence.

After walking through a bustling street, Zhong Jinwei suddenly sighed with emotion: "The Guozijian was so brilliant in the past, but now it has been reduced to this situation. It is really flourishing and declining!"

There is a basis for what he said. During the Hongwu and Yongle years, the Nanjing Guozijian was large-scale, "extending for ten miles, and the lights were shining."In addition to gardens, warehouses, sanitariums, and storage rooms, there are more than [-] buildings in the school, including classrooms, storage rooms, student dormitories, and canteens.

The number of students has increased to more than 26 in the 8000th year of Hongwu, and nearly 20 in the [-]th year of Yongle, an unprecedented event.At that time, neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Siam and other countries "recommended culture and education" and continuously sent overseas students to study in Guozijian.

Compared with universities such as Oxford and Harvard in later generations, this scale is relatively high but not low.It is with the efforts of so many supervisors that the world's earliest and most extensive encyclopedia "Yongle Dadian" with about 7000 million words was produced!

You know, this is not vernacular. If it is translated into vernacular, how many words will there be!

Thinking of this, Zhong Jinwei couldn't help sighing secretly in his heart, what a pity for "Yongle Dadian", what a pity for Guozijian!

Early the next morning, Zhong Jinwei entered the palace early to ask to see Emperor Chongzhen.

As soon as they met, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and asked Zhong Jinwei: "Master Zhong, the problem of the training progress has been found out, has it been solved?"

In his mind, it must be no problem.But Zhong Jinwei nodded first, then shook his head, which confused him whether it was resolved or not.

"Your Majesty, I have discovered a big problem, which must be resolved immediately." Zhong Jinwei played with a serious expression.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw that Zhong Jinwei said it so seriously, he knew that the matter would not be simple, so he quickly asked, "What's the matter?"

But Zhong Jinwei did not answer directly, but first asked Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, what is the most important basis for a country to be strong? Guns and armaments, or gold and silver wealth?"

Emperor Chongzhen was startled when he heard this, he didn't expect Zhong Jinwei to say such a thing.But before he could answer, Zhong Jinwei had already answered by himself: "I don't think so, it's about talents. With talents, there will be ministers who just said this. But when I went to the Imperial College, I found out why Daming It will flourish!"

He originally wanted to say that he knew why the Ming Dynasty would perish, because the Guozijian, the source of national talents, had been abolished, and the talents of the imperial examinations were controlled by the Fushe, and they would not continue. Definitely going to die.

Emperor Chongzhen said a little surprised: "I know the importance of talents! Why do you want to open a primary school for free? Isn't it just to cultivate talents for Ming Dynasty!"

Zhong Jinwei nodded, affirming this point: "Yes, Your Majesty, but this is only the beginning part of the source. If this path is not straightened out, the newly learned scholars will not have an upward path, and they will eventually fall into poverty." For the imperial examination, read the eight-legged essay again."

"Your Majesty, I found out yesterday that the original Guozijian system was very good, but now it is extremely rotten. Why don't you overthrow it and start over, and..."

Before Zhong Jinwei finished speaking, Emperor Chongzhen confirmed again in surprise: "Master Zhong said that the Guozijian was rotten to the extreme?"

He also thought about using the supervising students of the Imperial College to train teachers of new learning, so as to train new learning talents for Ming Dynasty.

Zhong Jinwei looked at Emperor Chongzhen and asked him: "Your Majesty, at the beginning of your succession, in order to build the imperial mausoleum, the Ministry of Industry denied 26 cases of accepting, and made clear and detailed regulations on accepting supervisors and other accepting cases. ?”

After being reminded by Zhong Jinwei, Emperor Chongzhen remembered, he nodded and said: "There is such a thing, the court had no money at that time, and this matter of accepting prisons has been the practice since the past dynasties, so I will allow it."

Zhong Jinwei shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, there is a saying in my hometown, no matter how hard it is, you can't suffer children, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education. If you pay for it, you can become a supervisor. Using the number of supervisors as a cash cow, this is shaking Ming Dynasty foundation!"

"Ah!" Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help exclaiming when he heard Zhong Jinwei say so seriously, he didn't expect it to be so serious.

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's expression, Zhong Jinwei knew that he didn't fundamentally realize what a stupid thing he had done at that time, so he analyzed it to him: "Your Majesty, although accepting the prison can make the court gather some money, it will make it difficult for the imperial court to collect money." The Guozijian is on the verge of collapse. Frequent openings have caused a substantial increase in the number of people in the Guozijian, which has brought three major hazards."

Emperor Chongzhen's face became serious, and he asked seriously, "Which three major hazards?"

"First, it increases the financial burden of the Imperial College itself. I learned that at the beginning of the founding of the country, when the whole country was waiting for prosperity, every three days a prison student could eat a catty of meat, and each person had three cents of sesame oil per day. Three qian for salt, two qian for sauce, five fen for peppercorns, a small barrel of vinegar per month, and six buckets of rice for those who have wives, but now? That’s why I’m still interested in reading.”

When Zhong Jinwei said this, he emphasized again: "But this is not the most important thing!"