Chapter 50 Rich and Willful
Zhu Youjian's reform plan really shocked Xu Guangqi. It was unimaginable that a young emperor who grew up in the hands of a woman in the deep palace could come up with such a feasible reform plan.
This is a hero who is invincible!
Then what else can hesitate?
As long as you follow this unworldly master and assist him in completing this immortal achievement, you can easily be alongside Zhuge Liang, Fang Mou Duan, Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng and other famous names in history, and be famous in history and immortal forever!
Xu Guangqi was also a scholar who was born in reading books of sages. The ideal of Confucianism to cultivate integrity and govern peace has long been imprinted in his bloodline. It is the lifelong dream that all Confucian scholars are eager to achieve.
However, he sighed and said, "I only regret that I met Your Majesty too late. Now I am old and I will not be able to assist Your Majesty for a long time."
Zhu Youjian encouraged, "The teacher said this is a bad thing. Jiang Shang was still not satisfied with his talent until he was 80 years old. However, once he met King Wen of Zhou, he was defeated by countless people and completed the eternal achievements of destroying Shang and protecting Zhou.
Now the teacher is only 66 years old, fourteen years younger than Jiang Shang. He still has plenty of time to help me complete this life-long achievement. After hundreds of years, can we know that the teacher’s name cannot be ranked alongside Jiang Shang?”
Xu Guangqi's face turned red with excitement. The emperor actually used Jiang Shang, who was recognized as the master of various schools of thought, to inspire him. How could he still control it?
He left his seat and worshiped: "Since Your Majesty has the ambition to set eternal achievements, my minister Xu Guangqi dares not drive you forward? I will devote my life to you until you die and help Your Majesty make such a wonderful contribution!"
"Okay, okay!" Zhu Youjian helped Xu Guangqi up and laughed: "You, my king and his ministers work together, and we will not let the ancients be beautiful, hahaha!"
Next, while recalling the modern university system, Zhu Youjian retelled the words and sentences to Xu Guangqi. Zhu Youjian, who was very enthusiastic, also sold the concepts of polytechnic and compulsory education to Xu Guangqi.
Zhu Youjian said: "I changed the Imperial College Beijing to Yenching University, which is just a small step in education reform. After all, the main purpose of Yenching University is to train reserve officials for the court.
But the four people have scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. What I need in Ming Dynasty is not only official talents, but also talents from industry, agriculture, commerce and even all walks of life.
After the reform of Yenching University begins to show results, I also plan to establish a university of science and technology comparable to that of Yenching University to cultivate talents from all aspects for the construction of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to higher education institutions, I also plan to build 30 primary and secondary schools in Beijing to provide students to more and more higher education institutions in the future.”
Zhu Youjian's thoughts on education reform made Xu Guangqi amazed and admired him very much, but he was also worried that Zhu Youjian's steps were too big and could easily pull the ball. He persuaded: "Your Majesty's enthusiasm for education has really moved me, but education has always been the traditional sphere of influence of the Ministry of Rites. I am worried that Your Majesty's reforms will attract strong opposition from officials of the Ministry of Personnel."
Zhu Youjian snorted coldly: "All the fees for my college of science and technology and primary and secondary schools are handled by my treasury, so I don't have to care about the opinions of the court ministers."
Because the treasury had seven million taels of silver as the foundation, Zhu Youjian became more and more bold in his actions and more contemptuous of the opposition to the court officials.
Nothing else, you are rich and willful!
Moreover, Zhu Youjian has been living in modern times for decades and knows that the education industry is a profitable industry. As long as the colleges of science and technology and primary and secondary schools are effective, no matter how large the investment is, they will make it back several times or dozens of times in the future.
However, as the emperor, Zhu Youjian could be willful, but as the executor of actually promoting education reform, Xu Guangqi could not be willful. If he aroused a wave of large-scale opposition from civil servants and officials, even if he had the emperor's support behind him, it would be difficult to avoid the countless open and hidden arrows shot by the courtiers.
Therefore, Xu Guangqi argued with Zhu Youjian fiercely and argued with Zhu Youjian about specific measures for education reform, so as not to take too much steps to pull the eggs.
Under Xu Guangqi's insistence, Zhu Youjian could only abandon some unrealistic measures and wait for the achievements of education reform to discuss them.
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Tian Ergeng came to the Ganqing Palace again, but the owner of the palace changed from the apocalypse that regarded him as a brother and brother to Chongzhen who had penetrated him into the dust.
Compared with the past, the princes and princes dressed in brocade clothes, Tian Ergeng, who entered the palace today, wore coarse linen clothes, just like the most ordinary people in the capital. His expression changed from being arrogant as before to being haggard and haggard, and he no longer had the spirit of being the commander of the Jinyiwei when he held power.
"Grass people, Tian Ergeng, pay homage to the Emperor!"
Yes, that's right. Tian Ergeng, the former famous left governor and commander of the Jinyiwei, is now a cannibal. He was caught by Luo Yangxing in the unjust case of Huangshan. Because he accepted 50,000 taels of bribes from Wu Kongjia and Wu Rong, he was beaten to the cannibal by Zhu Youjian and was directly demoted to the cannibal.
Zhu Youjian looked at Tian Ergeng for a while, then smiled and said, "For some reason, I look at you in this way, but I like you much more than before."
Emperor, how many words do you mean? Do you think I am not down and out of place, so that I will be a sage for the rest of my life and will never turn over? Then why would you call me into the palace?
Tian Ergeng complained repeatedly, but his face turned into sadness, and he said helplessly: "Your Majesty is happy."
Zhu Youjian came from later generations, how could he not hear the strong anger in Tian Ergeng's words? His face darkened and he said coldly: "Why, do you still dare to have resentment towards me?"
Tian Ergeng was shocked when he heard this. How did the emperor see it? Could it be that he still knows the art of reading the mind?
It is impossible to have no grudges against Chongzhen. Tian Ergeng came from a famous family. His grandfather Tian Le was the prince of the Wanli Dynasty, the Minister of War, and Tian Ergengmeng became the left governor and was promoted to the commander of the Jinyiwei by Wei Zhongxian.
Tian Ergeng and Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing were in love with brothers. People at that time called him Wei Zhongxian's "big son", while Wei Zhongxian and Tianqi were in love with father and son. Therefore, Tian Ergeng was deeply favored by Tianqi. During the Tianqi Dynasty, he wanted to get the wind and rain.
But after Tianqi passed away, Xin Wang ascended the throne, he was beaten to the end in less than a month because of the small Huangshan case, and became a powerless and powerful citizen.
As Wei Zhongxian was demoted to Fengyang to guard the tomb, Tian Ergeng's experience became even worse. Scholars would not say anything. They could only say a few words, which would not cause too much damage to Tian Ergeng, who was very shameless.
The most annoying thing is that the friends and friends who surrounded him in the past all turned against each other. Not only did they not help Tian Ergeng, the grass-roots man, they deliberately showed off their power in front of Tian Ergeng, and enjoyed humiliating Tian Ergeng.
A real man cannot be without power for a day!
The very different experiences of the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty made Tian Ergeng understand this truth, so in the face of Zhu Youjian's questioning, Tian Ergeng took his leave and plucked up his courage: "Go back to Your Majesty! Caomin believes that Your Majesty should not be demoted to Eunuch Wei and value the Donglin Party members. Eunuch Wei is actually a pillar of the court, and all the Donglin Party members can be killed!"
Chapter completed!