Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 388 Planning for Basic Education
"Strategy!"

"Killed, he really killed!"

In the government office of Menghua Prefecture, Yunnan, when the capital had already decided how to deal with Sun Chuanting, Mu Yi also ran into the study in the backyard in a hurry.

Hong Chengchou, who was practicing calligraphy, paused his pen and said calmly:

"Did you kill Liu Yuyou, or did you kill Pan Shiliang?"

"No, he killed more than 70 gentry in Chengdu!" Mu Yi ran into the study excitedly, and told what Sun Chuanting did in Chengdu.

What he said made Hong Chengchou's heart completely confused, and he couldn't practice his calligraphy anymore.

Hong Chengchou put the pen back on the pen holder, frowned and said, "Kill the gentry?"

Obviously, Hong Chengchou did not expect that after Sun Chuanting got the Shangfang sword, the target of the sword would be a gentry in Sichuan.

It is true that this is done once and for all, but it is undoubtedly a gamble on the official career.

Once the capital can't bear the pressure, Sun Chuanting will be like this for the rest of his life.

In Hong Chengchou's view, this approach is undoubtedly very stupid.

His childhood experience told him that if he has no money or power, he is doomed to be bullied, so he does not believe that Sun Chuanting is just out to vent his anger.

"He must have other plans..." Hong Chengchou's expression was uncertain, and finally he thought about the behavior of King Qi and the emperor, and then narrowed his eyes.

"Jing Lue, from this point of view, Sun Chuanting's official career has come to an end. Without him, Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng alone will never be your opponents in Jing Lue."

After Hong Chengchou's training over the years, Mu Yi has been convinced of Hong Chengchou, and naturally hopes to follow Hong Chengchou to a high position.

Hong Chengchou has said many times before that his biggest opponent in the first assistant is Sun Chuanting. Now that Sun Chuanting is self-destructing, Hong Chengchou will be unimpeded.

"No!" Hong Chengchou picked up the brush again, continued to practice calligraphy, and explained:

"If it's someone else, or only Wan Sui is in that position, Sun Chuanting is indeed self-destructing his future, but I don't dare to say anything about his current behavior, but there is one person who will definitely appreciate him."

"Who?" Mu Yi paused, not daring to think that there would be someone willing to use a sword against a gentry.

"His Royal Highness King Qi is probably already preparing for Sun Chuanting's resurgence in the future." Hong Chengchou responded by practicing calligraphy, and Mu Yi was also at a loss for words for a while.

If Hong Chengchou talked about others, he still had something to refute, but once he talked about King Qi, Sun Chuanting's actions might really win the favor of King Qi Zhu Youjian.

Mu Yi knew very well that as long as King Qi didn't want Sun Chuanting's official career to be interrupted, then Sun Chuanting would not be able to break his own path no matter how he went.

Therefore, he thought that Sun Chuanting's self-destructive move suddenly became an act Sun Chuanting took the initiative to please King Qi.

Both he and Hong Chengchou wanted to go to one place, because in their view, it is impossible for people in this world to have people who would cut their own future for the sake of the people and the court.

Sun Chuanting is just a speculator...

"Jing Lue, if you say that, Sun Chuanting..." Mu Yi said three points, but Hong Chengchou said flatly:
"At best, he will be demoted for the sake of the people, but even if he is demoted, it is probably just His Royal Highness Qi giving him a short rest. Before we pacify Myanmar, His Royal Highness will still arrange for him to recover Uszang."

"But in this case, it's impossible for him to compare to your achievements in managing and explaining, right?" Mu Yi could see clearly that U-Tsang could not be comparable to Burma.

"Hmm..." Hong Chengchou didn't show timidity, but he had a premonition in his heart that after Myanmar was cleaned up, there was a high probability that he would be transferred back to the capital.

Although this sign is not very obvious, he can roughly guess it.

At that time, he will be trapped in the capital, and Sun Chuanting has been managing the Northwest for a long time. Maybe after cleaning up Uzang, Sun Chuanting can go on to recover the Western Regions and Mobei.

In this way, his achievements are not as good as Sun Chuanting's.

What's more, he was trapped in the capital, and he also served as the six ministers at the beginning, so it was impossible for him to join the cabinet directly.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting is still his competitor...

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou was not so eager to destroy Burma any more. He pretended not to care and asked:
"How is the preparation of the Gunpowder Bureau? How long will it take to repair the road?"

"According to the previous plan, the Gunpowder Bureau will be put into operation in Dongyue, and the road will be widened to Longchuan in about two years." Mu Yi couldn't help it anymore, after all, fighting is to gain military merit.

"Hmm..." Hong Chengchou didn't directly say to repair slowly, but just responded.

There are many ways to delay the construction period, and speaking out directly will dampen the enthusiasm of the generals below to make military achievements and the morale of the army.

"Speed ​​up the construction period, and count the number of people in the Lijiang prefectures in western Yunnan, and wait for Burma to be conquered, and the people in the mountainous areas will be relocated to Burma."

"Yes! Don't worry!" Mu Yi responded decisively.

As the Mu family that has been entrenched in Lijiang for hundreds of years, Mu Yi naturally knows that there are many mineral deposits in northwest Yunnan.

At this time, if all the other families in western and northwestern Yunnan were moved to Burma, the Mu family would be the only family in the end.

He doesn't fight for land, he fights for mineral deposits.

It was Hong Chengchou who instructed him, because Hong Chengchou had figured out the general policy formulated by Zhu Youjian. In short, whoever annexed more land would be the first bird. As long as he is the first bird, he will always be beaten one day.

"Go down and do business..."

"Yes, I will retire at the end..."

Hong Chengchou continued to practice calligraphy, Mu Yi also returned the gift and retreated slowly.

The conversation between the two was just a small episode in the general situation. The real embarrassing thing was how to deal with the consequences of Sun Chuanting beheading the gentry in a fit of anger.

It was already October when the news from Sichuan reached Jiangnan. Although Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian had sent people to punish Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting's actions still made the gentry's scalp tingle.

The powerful gentry are not good enough to deal with the army, but the court needs them to collect taxes and convey news.

Therefore, the dissatisfaction of the gentry was directly displayed in the submission of the autumn tax and land tax...

"Shangshu in Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and Jiangxi suspended the payment of taxes, and many memorials were made by Enke officials..."

On the ninth day of October, when Zhu Youjian pushed a thick stack of memorials in front of him, Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan who were standing in the study seemed particularly hesitant.

When Sun Chuanting killed the gentry in Chengdu, they knew that this year's autumn tax would be difficult to collect.

When they thought about it at that time, they felt that Zhu Youjian would also think about it and would not embarrass them.

It's just that at the moment, Zhu Youjian pretends to be confused and asks them deliberately.

"The local gentry complained and delayed the payment of autumn grain taxes. This was a very common thing in the past. In recent years, it has been paid on time because the local officials are serious about their work."

"This year's delay in tax payment is inseparable from the dereliction of duty of local officials."

Gu Bingqian bowed and said what was in his heart in a very cryptic way.

Everyone knows that there are no officials in Ming Dynasty right now, only officials, and all the subordinate officials are preparing for the Enke exam in five days.

This Enke is held together by the whole country, and only after passing Enke can one become a second-ninth-rank official and receive a salary.

Therefore, it is the three 10,000+ officials who entered the officialdom in Yanshan that actually did the facts.

Gu Bingqian was saying that the local officials had neglected their duties, but in fact he was saying that the officials of the Yanshan faction colluded with the local gentry and delayed the collection of taxes.

This point can be seen from many Yanshan officials who speak out for the gentry.

Generally speaking, Gu Bingqian is reminding Zhu Youjian that the Yanshan officials he trained by himself are now showing dissenters, let alone Gu party officials?

The thing about the autumn tax is not that the people in the center don't want to collect it, but that the local officials don't want to collect it.

Local officials were afraid of people like Sun Chuanting who would fight against corruption, and local gentry were also afraid of people like Sun Chuanting who would kill people at every turn.

All of this, to put it bluntly, is the aftermath of Sun Chuanting's murder of the gentry in Chengdu.

Zhu Youjian wanted to use this incident to beat the gentry, but he didn't want the gentry to turn around and join local officials to threaten him.

This kind of thing and method was often used by the powerful gentry during the Hongwu and Yongle years, and the methods of these two emperors also told Zhu Youjian how to deal with this situation.

"Enke will end in five days. Apart from the subordinate staff, nearly 20 scholars from all over the capital gathered in the capital this time."

Zhu Youjian did not respond directly to Gu Bingqian, but reminded him that there are still 10,000+ Enke scholars in the imperial court every year, and 10,000+ of this group of scholars are Yanshan students.

It is true that Yanshan students who have graduated as officials have joined forces with the gentry, but this group of Yanshan students who are about to graduate have no one to win over.

They also have to think about themselves, whether it is the "three fires" who took office in order to consolidate their power after they were devolved to the localities, or they want to coerce the gentry and reap benefits, in short, they need to give the gentry a powerful blow and give Zhu By checking a satisfactory answer sheet.

Two 10,000+ people will be devolved, how many old people can be squeezed out?Zhu Youjian doesn't need to say much about this.

"If you can do it, get out if you can't." This is Zhu Youjian's reply to Gu Bingqian.

Every year, 10,000+ people are waiting for the top position. This year, Zhu Youjian has increased the difficulty and score line of Enke. In this way, how many of these 10,000+ people can pass the selection?

Those who have passed the selection must show a practical attitude if they want a position.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youjian wanted to make Daming's officialdom roll up, and let the people below give up the concept that being an official is an iron rice bowl.

Even if the gentry urged the millions of subordinates to not take the exam, Zhu Youjian still has these two 10,000+ people.

If he relaxes the score line casually, 10,000+ people will immediately be able to help him work.

"There are indeed many people participating in Enke this year, but there are good and bad among them. If the standard is lowered, it may cause chaos in the place..."

Gu Bingqian spoke very openly, but Zhu Youjian didn't care:

"The difference between good and bad depends on the results after decentralization before we can draw a conclusion."

Zhu Youjian doesn't care whether the other party is good or bad. What he cares about is to suppress the arrogance of the gentry first. Don't think that they are great if they control the place, and the court has to be afraid of them.

The officials below are good and bad, so use quantity and frequency to make up for it.

If you can't do it, you can change it. Anyway, there are some people who want to squeeze out their heads and become officials.

His words are not difficult to understand, and Gu Bingqian didn't know how to answer for a while, but Bi Ziyan saw the situation was cold, so he could only stand up and say:
"Although Enke has a large number of people, it takes time to select them."

"The money and rations of the imperial court are not enough. If we wait for Enke officials to be transferred, I am afraid that the salaries of hundreds of officials and the military pay of the army..."

Bi Ziyan didn't make his words too clear, but those present are not stupid.

There are indeed a large number of Enke officials, but it takes time to be selected and delegated, especially for a dynasty as large as Ming Dynasty, it takes one to three months just to rush to take office.

Zhu Youjian can wait, but the salaries of hundreds of officials and the salaries of the army cannot wait for so long.

It is already October, and if it drags on, it will be ten years before the apocalypse.

If such a bad incident as arrears of payment happens, it will have a big blow to the reputation of the imperial court that Zhu Youjian has worked so hard to build.

"Time is not a problem, nor is the situation. Yingzhou has brought in another 200 million taels of silver, and Jiugang has also brought in more than 140 million taels of gold and silver."

"On Xiaoxiyang's side, the six 10,000+ taels of gold sent by Huanglong is still there. Isn't that much silver enough for a salary?"

"What's more, although the Yumajian was implicated in the Sichuan corruption case this year, the tax collection has not fallen. At present, the tax documents of Shanxi, Beizhili, Shaanxi, Liaodong and other places have been compiled, and the tax collection is nearly tens of millions. All taxes have been paid."

"With more than 2000 million taels of silver and the surplus of the state treasury, it should be enough to pay the army, right?"

Zhu Youjian leaned back on the chair, not paying attention to the threat of the gentry.

No matter how strong the gentry is, they will at most make trouble in the south, while the north is still the basic base of the court, and overseas can provide continuous blood transfusion for the court.

The powerful gentry in Beizhili, Shaanxi, Hexi, Liaodong, Shanxi and other places have almost disappeared long ago. Although many rich peasants have become small and medium-sized landlords, their strength is limited and they cannot influence the court.

In addition, Sichuan was hit this time, and the chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places were also wiped out. In fact, in addition to Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places, there are also powerful gentry and tyrants. , other places are under the governance of the imperial court.

Although the six central-southern and southeastern provinces accounted for one-third of the imperial court's taxes, it did not mean that the imperial court could not survive without them.

If you really want to die, Zhu Youjian can use Enke scholars and the army to trouble them provincially.

Anyway, it only took six years, and even if new gentry grew up in other provinces after six years, this method still worked.

Zhu Youjian was clearly telling Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan not to think that powerful gentry could threaten the court.

Right now, the imperial court doesn't move them, not because they are afraid of them, but because they don't want to break the rules.

But if the gentry wants to break the rules, then Zhu Youjian can only play with him.

If you don't pay taxes according to the rules, then I can only convict indiscriminately without following the rules.

Since no one takes the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" seriously and everyone is playing hooligans, the imperial court can only follow suit.

"Tell the officials of the six southern provinces that regarding the autumn tax, the imperial court will see the summaries of each province before the end of the month, and those who submit the summaries late will no longer need to be officials in office. I don’t know, such a person is not worthy of being an official.”

Zhu Youjian ordered frankly, but he wanted to see if the group of people below were willing to throw away their black hats in order to help the gentry.

"The next official ordered..."

Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan were also helpless, Zhu Youjian's method was really rogue, and it really worked.

It is estimated that after the news is distributed, the local officials who understand the current situation can only confront the gentry and powerful.

The two had no choice but to retreat, and Zhu Youjian also picked up the teacup calmly.

Facts have proved that as long as he doesn't treat the officials and gentry below as powerful people, they can't play rogue with the court.

However, this incident also taught him a lesson, that is, the current rule of Daming is still the same as that of ordinary feudal dynasties, staying in more than 900 counties.

The gentry controlled tens of thousands of market towns and most of the fields in the countryside. Unless the imperial power further descended to the market towns, it would be difficult to solve the problem that the other party wanted to default on money and food.

Although Zhu Youjian can deal with it, he can't stand the other party using this trick every year.

"Basic education still needs to be popularized, and government education still needs to be promoted."

Zhu Youjian murmured, and gradually felt that the 10,000+ people per year was not enough.

Although he said in front of Gu Bingqian and others that it doesn't matter if there are good or bad, in fact he still wants to screen.

The result of his failure to screen for many years is that the corruption rate of this group of students is extremely fast after they are sent down.

With the current strength of Ming Dynasty, it is possible to promote official school education in one province, and the official school in Beizhili has been gradually completed.

Not surprisingly, there will be hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in the first month of next year, but this speed is not enough for Zhu Youjian.

Selecting 10,000 people from 2+ people and selecting 80 to 6 people from [-] million people, the speed, quality, and scale are too different.

"Cheng En!"

Zhu Youjian yelled at the door, and Wang Chengen quickly walked into the study from the door:
"Your Highness..."

He saluted respectfully, while Zhu Youjian thought about what to say, and then organized his words:
"Ask the Ministry of Industry to bring the list of government schools next year, and by the way, ask the Ministry of Households to bring the yellow book of household registration for the three overseas provinces, three prefectures and one department."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen replied, turned around and walked to the door to let people go to work.

This process took about an hour. After Zhu Youjian processed all the memorials, six officials brought more than a dozen volumes and dozens of volumes to the Qi Palace.

Wang Chengen led people to put these books on the table in the meeting hall, and handed over eight books out of dozens of books to Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian simply flipped through it, and put eight books on the table after about half an hour.

Although he can't achieve the photographic memory, his memory is far superior to that of ordinary people, and his reading speed is naturally fast.

After reading it, the situation in various provinces appeared in his mind.

First of all, the three overseas provinces are Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, and Jiugang, and the three southern states are Nanzhou and Dongzhou. The first division is the Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Division.

In three provinces, three prefectures and one division, Jiaozhi has relocated 150 million people, most of whom are from Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong, and a small number of people from Northwest China.

There are still 370 million innocent local people in Cochin. In general, Han people account for less than one-third of the local population.

The situation in Jiugang is slightly better. In the past five years, the number of local Han people has reached 310 million, while the number of natives is less than 500 million, which is close to two-fifths.

Nanzhou and other places are also good, but there are millions of natives, and the number of Han people has reached 29.

The only thing that made Zhu Youjian a little worried was Yingzhou and Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commissioner.

The situation in Yingzhou has suddenly become clear. Yang Wenyue will soon get rid of Tokugawa Hidetada and wipe out the Tokugawa shogunate. By then, nearly 500 million people on the island will be liberated.

After so many years of war, according to Zhu Youjian's estimation, at least 300 million people of the shogunate died in the war.

But even so, the activities of the Han people are still limited to Kyushu, Shikoku, Shimane, Osaka and other places on the main island, and the number is no more than [-].

Not to mention the Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commissioner. Compared with the millions of natives on the island, the scale of more than [-] Han people is very rare.

During Huanglong's expedition this time, many natives on the island staged riots, but fortunately Lu Xiangsheng quelled them one by one, but the losses of some factories were real.

The three prefectures of Taining, Duoyan, and Daning outside the customs have a total of less than 70 people, while the Ryukyu Prefecture has received nearly 300 million people.

Counting it together, if you add the three prefectures of Taining and Ryukyu, during those nine years, the Ming Dynasty moved a total of more than 900 million people overseas and outside the customs.

Migration of so many people in ten years is already an amazing data in the history of migration. Although many of these places were migrations near the coast of Daming, Daming did expand the basic base of Han people.

However, the Ryukyu Prefecture is already saturated, and the migration of Jiaozhi and Yingzhou can only increase slowly. The only places that can accommodate the migration of Han people on a large scale are probably only Burma, Jiugang, Nanzhou and the Northeast.

Times have limited Ming Dynasty. Even though the six major shipyards of Ming Dynasty are launching hundreds of cargo ships every year, the scale of official overseas migration is basically limited to between 100 million and 150 million people.

To expand, the fourth version of the steam engine must be successfully researched and then loaded onto a ship.

However, the main population of Ming Dynasty's overseas migration was Guangdong and Fujian, two large provinces with dense populations and insufficient land resources.

However, after relocation right now, the population of Guangdong and Fujian has dropped by half. When the severe drought passes, the local people may not be willing to relocate.

As a result, Zhu Youjian could only focus on Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

These three populous provinces together accounted for nearly one-half of the population of Ming Dynasty. Although the economy and trade were developed, they would be very powerless to accept the relocation in the face of the second stage of severe drought three years later.

If Zhu Youjian remembered correctly, after the severe drought came, the price of rice in the south of the Yangtze River soared from five hundred cash per stone to one tael nine silver per stone, an increase of nearly four times.

In this case, in order to survive, most people can only migrate.

So what Zhu Youjian has to do is to win Toungoo within three years, recover the Northeast, support the feudal clans to gain a firm foothold in South Asia, and win South Asia, a market with a population of hundreds of millions.

Governance is inevitable to expand the territory, and Zhu Youjian has to deepen the governance, so that the imperial power will be devolved to those tens of thousands of market towns.

Even if there are only ten people in a market town, the demand will reach tens of thousands of people, not to mention that with the implementation of basic education, Daming needs millions of people to teach.

The current scale cannot be satisfied by the imperial court. It is Zhu Youjian's job to promote education and lay the foundation for the Ming Dynasty in a few years.

The gold and silver worth tens of millions of taels accumulated in the national treasury will also be spent through these people.

Thinking of this, he picked up the list of official schools planned by the Ministry of Industry.

According to the list, six provinces including Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Hexi, and Liaodong will build more than 7000 government schools, large and small, in the next year. More than 100 teaching sessions are required, and more than 1000 students' schooling problems can be solved.

Taken together, these more than 7000 government schools require nearly 40 teachers, which can satisfy more than 500 million government school students.

But at the same time, the supporting expenditure will reach 37 taels, and this is only a small part of the construction. The big part is 600 million taels of teaching salary and food silver.

These six provinces plus Beizhili, education expenditure will reach 800 million taels.

In other words, Zhu Youjian had to find a way to solve the gap of more than 800 million taels and the source of the more than 40 taels.

The source of teaching is simple, and those who fail Enke are recruited to serve as teachers. Anyway, the first stage of official education is basic arithmetic and literacy.

As for the gap of more than 800 million taels of silver...

Zhu Youjian got up slowly. He set his sights on the Iwami silver mine in Yingzhou, and slowly moved down to the old port and Nanzhou, then looked at the South Asian market, and finally put it on the gold mine marked in the south of Levia. Supervisor of the Southern Kunlun Supervisory Envoy.

"We can only rely on them..."

　Happy New Years Eve everyone in advance...

　　Working overtime today, the second update is estimated to be around 10:30 in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)