Chapter 2066, life must have goals, the court must have direction 1
Inside the study room of the Qianqing Palace.
I haven’t been to this Shangshufang for three years. It’s still exactly the same as before. Nothing has changed. It’s just that in three years, things have changed. People discussing things here have changed one after another. The iron-clad Shangshufang is , the official book of flowing water.
From Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Zhang Mao when he first became a minister and participated in this small meeting, to later Zhong Zhong, Liu Daxia, Zhu Fu, and then to Han Wen, Mao Ji, and Jiang Mian.
It is really like the water of the Yangtze River, rolling eastward, and we are just a wave in this long river of history.
Of course, it is already very good to be able to become a wave in the long river of history. At least it is famous in history. Compared with countless people in history who have not even left their names, this is also a great thing. .
Look at the current Shang Shufang, there are Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, Zhong Fan, Li Kun, Tong Rui, Fang Yongliang, Liang Chu, Wang Qiong, Qiao Yu and Yang Yun, the Australian Duke of the Fifth Army Governor's Office. There are too many new faces. .
In just about thirty years, several batches have been replaced, but it is not too frequent. Generally speaking, it is relatively stable. Basically, they were replaced after the ministers died of old age or illness, and some were really in poor health. Had to retire.
Time flies so fast.
Back then, Yang Yundu, the Grand Duke of Australia, was still a strong man in his thirties, but now he is already an old man in his sixties, who can no longer lift a knife or ride a horse.
Back then, Yang Tinghe was Zhu Houzhao's teacher. He was young, promising and full of knowledge. Now he is almost seventy years old.
The same is true for myself. The young man who was less than 20 years old when he traveled through time has already reached the age of five now.
"Lao Wang is still in his hometown in Zhejiang. By the beginning of next year, his filial piety period will also expire."
Soon, Liu Jin thought of Wang Shouren, and he also went to observe his filial piety.
It's similar to Liu Jin. Observing filial piety is really observing filial piety. I haven't heard that he wrote memorials to Emperor Hongzhi or anything. I guess he is still studying things at home, studying bamboos and so on.
Because he traveled back in time, Wang Shouren's official career was really smooth. He rose through the ranks and became a cabinet minister at a young age. He climbed much faster than his father, Wang Huadu.
At this moment, not only Liu Jin looked at what everyone was thinking about, Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing, Liang Chu, Tong Rui, Fang Yongliang and others also looked at Liu Jin, as if waiting patiently for something.
"This Liu Jin is not Korean."
Yang Tinghe couldn't help but talk about it in his heart.
The goal he has always strived for is to become the chief minister of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers.
However, after so many years, when I am very close to this goal, I am only one step away from achieving it, and I will end up regretting it for the rest of my life.
How can a person who is almost seventy years old compare with young people like Liu Jin? With Liu Jin's current situation, if nothing else, just working casually for another ten years would be enough to drag him to death.
Thinking of this, Yang Tinghe felt helpless. He wasted too much time at home. Those were the most important years of his life, but he could only read at home.
Perhaps only when Zhu Houzhao becomes emperor can his former teacher be reused, but with the relationship between Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao, he is basically incomparable.
"Fortunately, my son is promising and is also the number one scholar. I hope to realize my long-cherished wish in the future."
Yang Tinghe thought of his son Yang Shen.
Yang Shen, like Liu Jin, was also the number one scholar. He became the number one scholar at a young age. He has been doing very well over the years. This time he was also transferred to Southern Zhili to become the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture. He was already a fourth-rank official.
Already.
What I have to do is to pave the way for him before leaving the center of power and pull him up as much as possible.
It only took more than ten years for Liu Jin to go from winning the first prize in the examination to becoming the chief minister of the cabinet. The speed was beyond imagination.
My own sons are not bad either. They are both number one and no one is worse than the other.
Father and son Yang Tinghe and Yang Shen, and father and son Wang Hua and Wang Shouren, these two father and son pairs can be regarded as the most awesome father and son combination in the Ming Dynasty today.
Yang Tinghe felt that compared with Liu Jin, he was always inferior and there was a gap, but his son was much better than Liu Jin's son.
His own son was the number one scholar, but none of Liu Jin's sons seemed to have taken the imperial examination. They were either sent overseas by Liu Jin, or went to manage trading firms, factories, etc.
In this regard, he is much stronger than Liu Jin.
This Liu Jin may be a little confused. Otherwise, if his son goes to school and takes the imperial examination, and no one comes to take over from now on, how can the Liu family maintain its current glory in the future?
In the Ming Dynasty, all wealth was just a cloud, and only power was the most important thing. If there was no one in the court, no matter how huge the wealth was, it would disappear.
Thinking of this, Yang Tinghe suddenly felt very happy. He seemed to be no worse than Liu Jin. At least his sons were quite promising. Three generations of his Yang family had produced seven Jinshi, but the Liu Jin family was not.
But soon, Yang Tinghe couldn't be happy anymore.
It seems that Liu Jin also has a hereditary iron rice bowl, the Duke of Liao. His son does not need to take the imperial examination. In the future, he can directly inherit the title and pass it on from generation to generation.
Although Liu Jin is said to be a civil servant, he is actually a representative of the military generals group. He has obtained an iron rice bowl, so his son naturally does not need to work so hard to take the imperial examination.
Thinking about it, with Liu Jin's current identity and status, it may not be appropriate for his son to continue taking the imperial examination. After all, in the future, the eldest son will be the Duke of Liao and work in the army, while the other sons will work as civil servants.
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What would the emperor think?
Thinking of this, Yang Tinghe couldn't help but admire Liu Jin.
Liu Jin must have thought of this a long time ago, so he had no intention of letting his son take the imperial examination from the beginning. He was studying in a new school. He also arranged to go to overseas colonies, where there were relatively more people.
It has developed much more.
The key is that it is safer and will not be implicated by Ming Dynasty. All eggs are not put in one basket.
"It's so high~ It's indeed Liu Jin!"
Suddenly, Yang Tinghe admired Liu Jin very much. Liu Jin probably had already thought of a way out in the future. The funny thing was that he was still laughing at Liu Jin in his heart just now.
"Alas~"
Sighing in his heart, Yang Tinghe stopped thinking about these things.
"Your Majesty, in the winter of the year before last, there was a severe cold in our Ming Dynasty. For almost a whole year last year, there was no rain in the north of our country, and there was an extreme drought. The drought led to a large-scale outbreak of plague, which brought huge losses and losses to our Ming Dynasty.
Influence."
"I believe that our country should attach great importance to this matter, take prevention measures from many aspects, and establish a complete defense and prevention mechanism. The most critical point is to improve our country's medical system."
"Nowadays, our Ming Dynasty is vast and sparsely populated. The land is vast, but the population is sparse. The growth of the population is a very important thing. But for the growth of the population, in addition to having enough food, it is more important to continuously improve medical technology.
, improve the medical system and popularize some basic medical knowledge."
Liu Jin took out a memorial, stood up and spoke respectfully to Emperor Hongzhi.
For Liu Jin, if he is not in his position and does not pursue political affairs, and when his servants are worried about keeping filial piety, he naturally has to put down everything.
Once again, he became the chief minister of the cabinet, and he was respected and trusted by the emperor. In his position, he naturally had to be loyal to the emperor and seek welfare for the people. This is the principle of his life and work.
The Ming Dynasty has developed to this point, and it is no longer the original Ming Dynasty. It can no longer use the previous methods and methods to govern the Ming Dynasty.
Rather, we should learn more from later generations and gradually lead Ming Dynasty into a modern and technological society.
There are many things to do, including medical care, technology, education, economy, culture, institutions, etc.
There are some things that Liu Jin feels he can't do, but what he can do, he naturally has to do now.
For example, medical treatment is something that can be done,
Medical care is related to health and the average life expectancy of a country.
Looking at the future, the average life expectancy of people in developed countries has generally exceeded 80 years, while in underdeveloped and backward areas, in many places, the average life expectancy is only 40 or 50 years old. The gap is very large.
The reason for this is that the differences in medical technology, related technologies, facilities, etc. are too different, so there is such a huge gap.
With the development of the Ming Dynasty, living standards have been greatly improved, especially the grain production has greatly increased. In terms of food, the people of the Ming Dynasty have no problem.
But in terms of medical technology, Ming Dynasty is still far from enough.
"As for newborns, in the Beijing-Tianjin region of the Ming Dynasty, because hospitals and medical clinics are very common and the technology is the most advanced, people's concepts have also changed a lot."
"Therefore, in our Beijing-Tianjin region of the Ming Dynasty, the neonatal mortality rate is very low, only a few thousandths. And most of the children can grow up, and the mortality rate is greatly reduced."
"But this is only limited to the Beijing-Tianjin area of our Ming Dynasty. In many areas of our Ming Dynasty, medical technology and conditions are still very rudimentary, and people's concepts are similar to before."
"The neonatal mortality rate is very high, and the premature death rate is also very high. Often, only about 60 to 70 percent of ten children can be raised as adults."
"So I believe that from now on, we should vigorously improve and develop medical technology, improve the medical system, and spread hospitals to every township in the Ming Dynasty."
