Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 337

There were two Guozijian in the Ming Dynasty, one in Nanjing and the other in Beijing. Compared with the Guozijian in Beijing, the scale of Nanjing seems to be larger, but the configuration of the two places is basically the same.

In addition to the main entrance, the auditorium (Yilun hall) and other main buildings, there are six halls in the prison, which are straightforward, sincere, advocating wisdom, cultivating Taoism, justice, and broad industry.These six classrooms are actually classrooms, which are equivalent to several classes in the current school.

Guozijian has one Jijiu (principal) with a grade of Cong Sanpin, who is in charge of all aspects of work.

There are two Si Ye (vice principals), with a rank of Cong Sipin, who are in charge of specific work. In fact, the two vice principals of the Guozijian are mainly in charge.

One supervisor (dean of academic affairs), from the sixth grade, is in charge of academic regulations and supervises teaching.

In addition, there are many doctors (professors), teaching assistants, Xuezheng, and Xuelu.

During the reign of Chongzhen, the number of students in the Guozijian became less and less, and it was almost deserted compared with the tens of thousands of people in the heyday of the previous dynasty. However, it was not without students, and there are still hundreds of students in it now.

At this time, Zhu Youjian and a group of ministers and supervisors were listening to Li Jing's speech in a classroom.

Looking at the dejected eyes of the supervisors, Li Jing stood in front of the hall and said loudly: "I know you are a little disappointed. You feel that you have lost the opportunity to make progress this time if you don't take the stereotype test and the Four Books and Five Classics."

Seeing that all the supervisors were silent for a while, Li Jing smiled and said: "You are wrong, do you think the talents selected by stereotyped scholars are of any use? Let me tell you the truth, the people who passed the exam are not as good as those you learned in the Imperial College. Something works.

We, Ming Dynasty, only valued the imperial examinations, but ignored that the talents selected through the imperial examinations are of no use at all. For example, if the Ministry of Households needs to employ people, do you know what the Ministry of Households does? "

Seeing some supervisors shaking their heads and others nodding, Li Jing continued with a smile: "The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of the country's money, food, taxes, and can be said to be in charge of the country's lifeline. It is the most important department of the imperial court. What kind of department does such an important department need? What about the person in charge of the work? I think that the person in charge of the household department should not have selfish distractions first, and should not worry about putting the country's money and food in their own pockets."

Hearing what Li Jing said bluntly, everyone let out a burst of laughter.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing continued: "But it is not enough to have a selfless heart, you have to be proficient in business. What kind of business do the household staff need to be proficient in? I think you have to be able to settle accounts first, right? No way, how do you collect taxes?"

Everyone laughed again when they heard the words.

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "Just now I said that the Ministry of Households is still in charge of grain collection, but when collecting grain, the actual situation of each place must be taken into consideration. It doesn't mean that I set a target for you, and you have to follow this figure. Collect it. We all know that there have been many natural disasters these years, and this year Shanxi has experienced a severe drought, so how to collect grain taxes in Shanxi must be carefully considered by the Ministry of Household Affairs. In some places with severe drought, there may be no harvest, and ordinary people may not even have food. If you can’t eat anymore, if you go to collect grain at this time, won’t you force the people to rebel?”

Everyone nodded silently.

Sighing, Li Jing continued: "I hope our officials can be more flexible in doing things, and can't ignore the life and death of the people in order to complete the quota. When encountering such a situation, not only can we not collect food from these places, but we have to send them to these places. The local government distributes food for disaster relief, so that the common people can survive.”

Zhu Youjian, who was listening attentively to Li Jing's speech in front of the hall, nodded slightly when he heard this.

Li Jing sighed and continued: "What I just said is just a situation that is easier to deal with, the facts are there, you can only do this.

But sometimes the actual situation is far more complicated than what we see and hear. Some local officials conceal the disaster situation for their own examination results, and some officials may even exaggerate the disaster situation for personal gain. At this time, officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs are needed. To have a pair of discerning eyes, to conduct field trips to places.But you have to have professional knowledge when doing inspections. If you don’t know anything about farming time and agronomy, it’s useless to read it. "

Speaking of this, Li Jing pointed to the supervisors and said, "Can you learn what I said from the Four Books and Five Classics? I'm afraid you can't?"

All the prison students nodded at the same time.

Li Jing smiled and continued: "You may not know that Daming is now preparing to promulgate new laws and decrees, some of which have already been promulgated, and some of which have not yet been promulgated. I suggest you take a good look at these decrees. If you can If you understand the benefits of these decrees, you will understand why I abolished the stereotyped selection of scholars and did not test the things in the Four Books and Five Classics.

After you understand these principles, I hope you can seize the time to learn practical knowledge.The emperor is about to go to Shanxi for inspection, and before leaving, he came here to visit everyone with only one purpose, and that is to hope that everyone can learn something useful.Here I promise to everyone that as long as you study hard and learn a skill, I will definitely arrange suitable positions for you. "

All the prison students were overjoyed when they heard this.

These people are not stupid, so they naturally understand what Li Jing said.

When Li Jing said this, he was actually telling them that as long as everyone studied hard, even if they failed the exam, Li Jing would hire them.

In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, it was not said that one could be released to the outside world as an official after obtaining a high degree of fame. Before taking office, these preparatory officials had to have an internship process. This internship process may take several years.Otherwise, find a group of people who can only read books to serve as magistrates, they can't do anything, the emperors of Ming Dynasty are not so stupid.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court paid less and less attention to internships, and many people who passed the Jinshi examination were directly released as officials, or even served as officials in Beijing.

As a result, many officials who can't do anything are just pretending to be there, so that the officials of Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more incompetent, and they can only play lip service all day long.

Li Jing now lets the supervising students learn practical knowledge directly, which is equivalent to the practice of the preparatory officials in the past.

These people have a foundation of practical learning, and they can get started soon after taking office. In this way, in a few years, the quality of Ming officials will be greatly improved, and at the same time, the time for students to serve as officials will be greatly shortened.

Just as the supervisors were digesting the great news, the soldiers came to report back, and Qian Qianyi and others had already arrived at the square.

Li Jing smiled: "I still have something to say to everyone here, how can those people outside be compared with the students in our Imperial College, let them wait in the square first."

Seeing that Li Jing treats thousands of students as nothing, all the supervisors are silent.

Before seeing Li Jing, these supervisors originally planned to protest outside the palace with Qian Qianyi and others, but Li Jing and the emperor came to the Imperial College in person to explain to them the meaning of canceling stereotyped selection of scholars and not taking the Four Books and Five Classics.

For the supervisors, this face is really too big.

At this moment, looking at Li Jing's attitude towards Qian Qianyi and the others, and his attitude towards them, it is really different.

At this moment, the hearts of the supervisors were really full of pride.

And that's what Li Jing wanted.

In fact, in Li Jing's mind, he didn't really pay attention to these supervising students. Li Jing knew very well that these people had been educated in the Four Books and Five Classics for so many years.Among these hundreds of people, if there are dozens of talents, it is considered too many.

But Li Jing is still going to use these people for nothing but the signboard of the Imperial College.

Li Jing plans to build Guozijian into the highest institution of learning in Ming Dynasty, a talent base, and a cradle for training talents.

Li Jing wanted everyone to know that those who came out of the Daming Imperial Prison were genuine talents.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Jing has ordered the Academy of Sciences in Pingyang Prefecture to be moved back to the capital, so that those talents who have been trained for many years can enter the Imperial College to teach and let them flourish.

Li Jing plans to open courses in the Imperial College based on the subjects studied by the Academy of Sciences, and students can choose which subjects to enroll in according to their own interests.

Li Jing believed that in a few years, the Imperial Academy would definitely be able to train a large number of talents, and then these talents would be enriched to study various sciences in the Academy of Sciences. In this way, the Academy of Sciences and the Imperial Academy could complement each other and grow stronger at the same time.

At the same time, some talents can be sent to various schools to impart various knowledge.

Li Jing believed that after several decades, there would be a qualitative change in the schools all over the Ming Dynasty.

Li Jing explained the long-term plan of the Guozijian to everyone present in detail, and everyone was shaken when they heard it.

It can be said that no one here is a fool, and everyone knows that if they can achieve what Li Jing said, then the power of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be far greater than that of the previous dynasties.

Seeing Li Jing's friendly words, one of the officials accompanying him boldly asked: "My lord's idea is good, but to do what your lord said, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money. With Daming's current treasury revenue, I'm afraid Can't afford to pay that much."

Li Jing had been talking for a long time, and he was the one speaking and everyone was listening. At this moment, someone asked a question, and it was a crucial question. Li Jing couldn't help but feel refreshed.

Looking at the person who spoke, I saw that this person was about forty years old, although his appearance was not unusual, but he exuded a capable spirit.

Li Jing didn't know who this person was, so he turned his attention to Zhou Hengchen, the servant of the official department. Zhou Hengchen hurriedly got up and walked to Li Jing and whispered, "Commander, this person is called Ni Yuanlu, and he was a student who was admitted by Mr. Yuan when he was the chief examiner. , I saw that this person is smart and capable, so I recommended him to Mr. Shen, who recently promoted him to be the chief doctor of the household department."

"Oh?" Li Jing turned his head to look at Ni Yuanlu, and suddenly cupped his hands at Ni Yuanlu and said, "It turned out to be a senior brother, Jimin is disrespectful, please bear with me."

"Brother? Who is the commander in chief?" Ni Yuanlu looked at Li Jing and asked in confusion.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Jimin has been taught by Jie Huangong for ten years. I wonder if he can afford to be your junior?"

"Ah! I don't think the commander-in-chief will be taught by his teacher himself. Yuan Lu is disrespectful. I don't know how is the old man now?" Ni Yuanlu said hurriedly.

Li Jingwen listened to Moran, and after a while, he sighed and said: "Mr. is getting old and his health is not as good as before. A few days ago, he wrote to me saying that he wanted to go back to his hometown in Suizhou, and asked me to resign for him as the chief assistant of the cabinet." .”

(End of this chapter)