Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Among the impoverished people in Northern Zhili, bald or cropped heads are particularly common, because neither the wigs nor the hats, which have soared in value, are not affordable for the poor.

Even if it is a turban, not everyone has one—after all, these days, some people are so poor that they don’t even have any clothes, and there are many families who wear a pair of trousers and a set of clothes.

There are even people who have no clothes to wear, and work in the fields at night wearing shorts, so as not to be seen and humiliated during the day.

Fortunately, after Du Yinxi and Zhang Kuang came to power in Beizhili, this situation improved rapidly.

Beizhili was not originally a poor place. It was so embarrassing before, mostly because of disasters such as military disasters and plagues.

Now that the military disaster has basically disappeared, after the Ming Dynasty regained Beizhili, in order to alleviate the difficulty of upgrading the people, it also used Dabi materials transferred from the south to provide labor relief. Relief.

Let the common people repair cities, roads, ditches, etc., in exchange for money, grain, cloth and other sustaining materials.

Otherwise, even if there are briquettes and coal stoves promoted by the imperial court, many people in Beizhili will freeze to death this winter...
Zhang Kuang returned to the Governor's Yamen, entered the backyard where he lived, and asked his maid to bring warm wine and drink a few cups to relieve his fatigue.

The weather in Beizhili is too cold. He is from the south and suffers from tuberculosis. Although he has been cured by His Majesty's magic medicine, his life is no longer endangered, but his constitution is still weak and he is very afraid of the cold.

Of course, the most important thing is that his alcoholism is hard to change. Even if he is restrained, he can't help but have a few drinks occasionally.

While drinking, the counselor of the Communication Department of Qianya came over with a sealed envelope and said, "Report to Futai, this is a telegram just sent by the supervisor's telecommunications team, and it is for you Futai." .”

Although the Ming Dynasty established the position of governor as a third-rank official in the borderlands during the Jiajing period, it did not have any requirements for the personnel of the governor's office.

Generally speaking, the governor, like the governor, relies on temporarily hired staff to assist in handling the work.

After all, whether it is the governor or the governor, there are many powerful affairs, which cannot be handled by one person.

When Zhu Yuxi appointed the governors of the northern provinces before, she made changes in response to this matter, and established the governor's subordinate officials system.

The reference is the modern system of the Qing Dynasty in the later generations, and ten departments of communication, legal affairs, degree support, agriculture and animal husbandry, industry and commerce, rites, officials, households, education, and police were established in the governor's office.

Each department appoints one counselor (from the seventh rank), one Zuo Li (from the eighth rank), one to three secretarial officers (from the ninth rank), and two to ten officials.

Officials of the Tenth Section mainly assist the governor in handling related affairs and communicate with the relevant government offices, and cannot directly intervene in one aspect of affairs.

Among them, the legal department and the police department are still in vain at this time. Even if the relevant new policies are implemented in the future, these two departments only have the power to communicate with the courts and patrol departments of the province.

The governor has the right to mobilize the provincial patrol police, but he has no right to intervene in the court's handling of the case.

If the governor needs military power, he can only be temporarily appointed by the court.

Even if it is temporarily appointed, under normal circumstances, the imperial court only gives the governor the right to mobilize the garrison of the province, and does not give him the right to mobilize the border guards.

That is to say, Auntie Zhu completely cut off the governor's judicial power, cut off more than half of the military power, and only guaranteed the governor's administrative power...

Zhang Kuang saw that the sealing seal on the envelope was intact, so he opened it to look at the telegram documents inside.

The telegram was not long, Zhang Kuang read it quickly, but couldn't help frowning, and said, "The imperial court has created a problem for me."

The communications counselor didn't speak, because Zhang Kuang would ask him if necessary.If it's not something he should know, if he asks rashly, it will break the rules and regulations.

Sure enough, Zhang Kuang looked away from the telegram and said, "Go and let Wang Canzhi come over."

All ten departments work in the front office, so it's just a matter of calling people.

Not long after the communications counselor left, a middle-aged man in his thirties came over.

This person is Wang Canzhi, the second elder brother of Wang Fu.

There are three sons employed by the Hengyang Wang family dynasty in Hunan. The eldest son Wang Jiezhi and the third son Wang Fuzhi are already Juren. Only the second son Wang Shenzhi is the least famous.

Wang Jiezhi stayed in Hunan and did not come out, Wang Fuzhi was recruited by Du Yinxi, and Zhang Kuang recruited Wang Canzhi to become a subject counselor in the governor's yamen.

After the ceremony, Zhang Kuang showed the telegram to Wang Canzhi and asked, "What does Li San (Wang Canzhi) think about this matter?"

After reading the telegram, Wang Canzhi frowned—because the imperial court wanted Shuntian Prefecture to implement a three-year compulsory primary school system!
This policy did not emerge independently, but was implemented in Yingtianfu, Shuntianfu, and Chengdufu.It is required that it will be done this spring, and certain results must be seen this autumn.

The specific content of the policy is:
Children aged five to ten in the three prefectures, regardless of gender, are required to attend primary school.Men and women can be divided into classes, and men and women can also be mixed.

Go to school for four consecutive days, take a day off, and so on.

Holidays are available.

Elementary schools not only do not charge tuition fees, but also need to take care of the children for lunch.

If parents do not send school-age children to primary school, the relevant government agencies will fine them one tael a year.

The three-year compulsory primary school system is all allocated by the Ming court, and the funds are transferred for special purposes.

Each primary school must have at least 100 students, and the establishment of a primary school must be approved by the Provincial Education Department and reported to the Ministry of Rites.

In addition, the new textbooks used in primary schools will be published and distributed by the relevant departments of the imperial court.However, teachers (teachers) of various subjects required by primary schools must be recruited by the local government.

Of course, teachers' salaries are also included in the cost of compulsory education.

Moreover, the imperial court directly made regulations on the salaries of primary school teachers. For the time being, ordinary teachers of various subjects will be given three taels of silver per month; The principal gives seven taels of silver per month, and the principal gives ten taels of silver per month.

If there is a part-time job, the salary will be paid according to the highest position.

Now the price of rice in every major city has dropped to two taels and one stone, so this salary is quite good.

Three taels of silver, a little saving, is completely enough for four or five people to spend every month.

What's more, it is rare for a family to completely rely on one person to earn money to support the family.

Of course, comparing the salaries of ordinary teachers with the money earned by private school teachers in some places is not enough.

But compared to other places, the money earned by some private school teachers is not as good as that of ordinary elementary school teachers. …

Which is higher and which is lower depends on the place.

However, some things cannot be done with money.

Wang Shenzhi put the telegram on Zhang Kuang's desk, and said: "Futai, even if the funds are sufficient, the teachers needed for this elementary school may not be easy to recruit. In addition, it is fine to force school-age children to go to school, and girls are also required to go to school." Going to school, this may cause local criticism."

Zhang Kuang said: "I also know about these problems, I came to you to ask if there is a solution."

Compared with the third brother Wang Fuzhi, Wang Shenzhi's intelligence is relatively mediocre.

He thought hard for a moment, frowned and said: "Sir, we can try to recruit local scholars first, if we can't recruit enough, maybe we can use the ideas of the family members of those prisoners.

As for letting girls go to school, I don't know what the result will be.However, if we can separate men and women into classes, use female teachers in girls' classes in primary schools, or even divide a school into two parts for men and women, it may be possible to effectively reduce criticism. "

"Prisoning family members with crimes?" Zhang Kuang showed a thoughtful look, "I'm afraid it may not be useful for me to write a letter on this matter alone. Maybe I should ask the supervisor for help."

The imperial court would definitely not agree to let criminals be teachers directly, and even Zhang Kuang and others were unwilling to do so—since those people served the Qing prisoners, how could they be allowed to be teachers?

On the contrary, the family members of the criminals are probably implicated in the final analysis, and they may consider using them if no one is available.

But whether it will be successful, Zhang Kuang is not sure.

After much deliberation, Zhang Kuang finally said: "Let's first contact the officials of the various prefectures and counties, and ask them to come to the governor's office in the capital to discuss this matter in five days. After the meeting, let them try to recruit teachers from among the local scholars. Give it a try."

"Yes."

Wang Canzhi agreed and went to work immediately.

Shuntian Mansion is not small, and in the next few days, even if all the subject staff are mobilized, it may take a lot of time to notify all places.

Although the two said they wanted to recruit teachers from among the local scholars, they did not report much hope in reality.

Because in today's world, being a teacher is a relatively late choice for scholars.

Not to mention, although the salaries set by elementary schools for teachers are high, they are still relatively low compared to the teachers in the three prefectures, and they are also subject to school control, so they are not free.

Therefore, after Wang Canzhi left, Zhang Kuang rested for a while, and then set off to find Du Yinxi to discuss the matter of asking the family members to be imprisoned, just in case...