Liu Jin was reading the newspaper leisurely, enjoying the leisure time on the weekend.
Since he joined the cabinet, Liu Jin has been very busy. There are too many big and small things in the court. It is better to deal with national affairs. Sometimes, intrigues, political calculations and the like are the most headaches and pains.
Things of the mind.
There are too many people eyeing the position of Chief Minister of the Cabinet, and even more people want to replace it.
Fortunately, Emperor Hongzhi was a good emperor. If there was another emperor, Liu Jin felt that he would have to retire early after working for a few years.
"The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has finally been completed and opened to traffic. It is really not easy. In this era, a century project as majestic as the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has been completed. It is really not easy."
Reading the newspaper, Liu Jin also sighed.
It is now the twenty-eighth year of Hongzhi. Counting the time, I have already traveled through time for eighteen years. I am already thirty-six years old. In a few years, I will be forty, the age when I know my destiny.
Considering that the average life expectancy in ancient times was less than forty years old, you will almost become a grandfather in the next few years.
"Father~"
I really thought about becoming a grandfather, so Liu Jin’s eldest son Liu Xin came over.
Liu Xin is the first child born to Liu Jin and Xu Waner, and is also the eldest son of the Liu family. There are several younger brothers and sisters under him, Liu Da, Liu Cheng, Liu Yu, Liu Ren, Liu Yi, Liu Qing, in total
Seven sons and four daughters.
From the perspective of future generations, Liu Jin was quite productive, but for the famous celebrities of this period, Liu Jin could only be regarded as average. After all, there were only two women. Xu Waner gave birth to five children for Liu Jin, and Li
Zhen gave birth to six children to Liu Jin, which reached the general standard of this period.
Thanks to the improvement of medical technology and reproductive technology in the Ming Dynasty, and the popularization of concepts, every household in the Ming Dynasty gave birth to more children, ranging from five or six to seven or eight, and more than a dozen were very common.
A seeder like Zhu Houzhao had many women and liked to sow. Now he has more than 100 sons, making him the most prolific prince among all dynasties.
So the most troublesome thing for Emperor Hongzhi now is to name his grandson. There is no way, the old Zhu family has its own set of rules for naming.
First of all, the second character must be based on seniority. Zhu Houzhao belongs to the generation with the character Hou, and his son belongs to the generation with the character "Zai" according to what Zhu Yuanzhang decided for his descendants.
Next is the most troublesome thing. The royal family of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to the principle of the mutual generation of the five elements, that is, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, water generates wood, and wood generates fire. This principle of the five elements generates each other in a cyclical manner.
Therefore, the descendants of Lao Zhu's family also follow this principle when choosing their names. The first three characters must have the corresponding radical or have the corresponding meaning in it.
For example, Emperor Hongzhi's name was Zhu Youtang. He had the character for "you" and the character for "wood". Because his father, Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jianshen, had the third character for "water", which means "wood". So when he came to Zhu Youtang, he had the character for "wood".
When it comes to Zhu Houzhao, according to the principle of wood making fire, the third character of Zhu Houzhao, "zhao", means fire.
As for Zhu Houzhao's son, according to the five elements principle of fire giving birth to earth, when naming Zhu Houzhong's son, the third one must have earth.
That is to say, Zhu Houzhao's sons are basically called Zhu Zai or something, with a name with the native character Pang.
Fortunately, it’s a character with the radical “earth”. There are a lot of characters next to the radical “earth” and it’s relatively easy to pick. If it’s a character with the radical “gold”, I guess the periodic table of elements won’t be enough, because this thing is so versatile.
Already.
But even so, Emperor Hongzhi is still suffering from a headache. Zhu Houzhao is the sower. He is only responsible for sowing seeds, naming, and taking care of the children. It is none of his business.
"What's going on?"
Liu Jin looked at his son and then motioned for him to sit on a chair aside to talk.
Liu Xin is now fifteen years old and is already a big young man. He looks more like his mother Xu Waner, with delicate features and delicate features, but lacks a bit of masculinity.
However, he is still very smart. His mother, Xu Waner, came from the wealthy Dingguo family. She has always been extremely strict with the education of the children at home. She is not the kind of loving mother who often loses her children. On the contrary, Liu Jin, relatively
He is more doting on his children, and often takes them out to watch football games and the like when he has free time.
Therefore, all of Liu Jin's children are well-educated and do not have any dandy habits at all.
Liu Xin respectfully sat on the chair beside him. He was the oldest and the most sensible. He was the eldest son of the family and shouldered many responsibilities. In the future, he would inherit the iron rice bowl of Duke Liu Jin and Liao, so the requirements for him were:
Xu Waner has always been very strict.
"Father, I don't understand why everyone else goes to the academy to study, but I go to Imperial College to study?"
Liu Xin expressed his doubts.
Liu Jin has always implemented a combination of new and old education when it comes to the education of his children. Liu Xin, Liu Da, and Liu Cheng went to a new school, and they went to school with children from ordinary families.
They were not sent to traditional academies to study.
But at the same time, they invited famous Confucians to give them some traditional education at home, which focused more on history, calligraphy, some Confucian classics, classic poetry, etc., which were not entirely in accordance with Confucianism.
Taught by traditional education.
In Liu Jin's view, new learning has the advantages of new learning, and traditional Confucian education also has many merits. Many ideas and spirits are worthy of recognition and inheritance.
The result of this kind of education method is that Liu Xin has now graduated from middle school and is faced with the choice of whether to study in a traditional academy, follow the old routine of eight-legged writing to obtain scholars, or to study in a new type of university.
Liu Jin decisively chose the latter path for his son.
The traditional eight-legged approach to recruiting scholars has greatly restricted people's thinking and bound everything they have to a few Confucian classics. Over the course of thousands of years, it has gone further and further off the mark.
Liu Jin didn't want his children to get out of it, so it was better to study new schools to expand his knowledge and cognition, and what he learned would be useful knowledge and content.
As for the fact that he could not become an official after studying in the new school, Liu Jin did not consider letting his children continue to serve as officials in the Ming Dynasty.
If you get a hereditary job as a prince, you can just pass it on to your son. It is enough if only one person is in the court. There is no need for all the children to go to the court to serve as officials.
This is not allowed by the emperor. You must know that the nobles and family members in the court basically do not serve as officials in the court. Only those with hereditary titles will serve as officials in the court.
It is impossible to say that if you have someone who can control the military and serve as a high-ranking civil servant in the court, it will be easy to change the country's surname.
Therefore, Liu Jin's plan is that in the future, except for his eldest son Liu Xin, all other children will go to the South African colony. The South African colony is completely different from the Ming Dynasty. There is no need to take an imperial examination or worry about the emperor's suspicion.
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Liu Jin is the major shareholder of the South African Colonial Trading Company. The people at the top and bottom of this South African Colonial Trading Company are also people from various shareholder families. Letting his children go here in the future can also consolidate his family's status and control in the South African colony.
It is also necessary to stay away from the stormy power center of Ming Dynasty, stay away from the land of right and wrong, and firmly consolidate one's territory in South Africa, so that the family can survive for a long time.
That is to say, in Liu Jin's plan, the family will be divided into two branches in the future. One is Liu Xin's side, which will inherit his title in the Ming Dynasty and maintain his family's influence in the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, other sons have been going to South Africa to maintain and consolidate their family's status and control in the South African colony, and to maintain influence in the South African colony.
In fact, there is a third branch in Liu Jin's plan, which is the branch dedicated to managing the Liu family's huge wealth.
Liu Jin has extremely huge industries and wealth under his command. Over the years, he has invested in commercial banks, established factories, held shares in the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, and held shares in many colonies, etc.
This wealth is a huge amount beyond imagination, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as being as rich as a country.
From now on, this huge wealth will definitely be handed over to his children to take care of, and he is also thinking about whether to set up a special branch to manage this huge wealth.
"Do you prefer to go to a traditional academy, or do you prefer to read new content?"
Liu Jin looked at his son. He had grown up, had some ideas of his own, and could think about some of his own things.
"In comparison, I still prefer the courses and content in Xinxue."
Liu Xin thought for a while and said.
"That's right, since you like it, then do what you like."
"What others do is their business and has little to do with you. Never follow the crowd, but learn to use your own brain to think about problems."
Liu Jin smiled and said that Liu Jin's education method is naturally a later-generation education method. It advocates guidance and cultivates children's ability and habits of independent thinking and self-learning.
"I understand~"
"Then can I still join the army in the future?"
"I want to join the army and become an imperial soldier."
Liu Xin nodded as if he understood, then thought about it and asked again.
"Of course. When you graduate from Imperial College, I will send you to study at the Royal Military Academy."
Liu Jin smiled and promised.
"marvelous!"
When Liu Xin heard this, he immediately jumped up for joy. Like many young people of this era, he admired soldiers very much and felt that wearing military uniforms was very handsome.
PS: How do you think such a big family should plan for its children?
