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Chapter 507 Nanjing University
The existence of Barrow, Boyle, and Huygens who are now great scientists, of course, Daming can't dig them out.

Because it is impossible for Daming to grant them a higher academic status. They are already academic leaders in related fields in Cambridge, Oxford and Leiden respectively. It is impossible for Daming to invite them and let them be the presidents of the newly-built Nanjing University. ?

However, ready-made academic leaders can't dig them out. Those future big stars and current potential stocks, with the momentum accumulated by Daming's mission to England and international humanitarian assistance (and also making money from business), are ready to be dug up. .

In particular, the "Great Plague of London" finally disappeared at the end of August of that year, a month earlier than in history.This month's fierce pursuit of poor bandits is of course the credit of the various disinfectants sold by Daming, but it has solidly gained a lot of fame.

It's like some special medicines from Pfizer that emerged before the natural end of the plague, waving the flag and shouting at the tail of the defeated enemy.As a result, Europeans increasingly feel that Ming is absolutely leading in the fields of medicine and chemistry.

The fleet finally stayed in Europe until October, a month or two longer than the original plan, in order to wait for the news that "the plague was ended by Ming Dynasty" to spread further, to further create momentum and attract talents. Realization potential is wiped out.

Finally, there was a replenishment stop in Lisbon, and then sailed south, along the vast Atlantic Ocean around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and started another round of voyage that lasted at least nine months.

In the end, because the monsoon was not in a hurry, we waited a little in the middle, and the voyage took a total of more than ten months. We arrived in Nanjing around the Mid-Autumn Festival in August in the seventh year of Xiaokang.

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The timeline is finally closing.

In the city of Nanjing, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the seventh year of a well-off society.

Zhu Shuren not only waited for the emperor who had been on the southern tour for a year and a half to finally return to Beijing, but also waited for the group of future potential European scientists introduced by Newton to join Daming.
He himself has already made a decision in his heart. In the second seven-year plan in the future, the focus of the reform of the Ming Dynasty's internal affairs and farming will be on the innovation of science, education and personnel systems.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of "scholars from all over the world coming to court", Zhu Shuren gave a big banquet directly in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and held a scientific event that would be recorded in the annals of history by later generations.

Of course, before giving the banquet, he still respected his son, closed the door first, had a heart-to-heart talk with Zhu Ciyu, and shared his plan.

The atmosphere of the family banquet was very relaxed, only Zhu Shuren brought Zhu Yuchan, Fang Ziling, and Zhu Ciyu brought his queen, there were no outsiders.

The reason why Fang Ziling was also brought along was because Fang Ziling was in charge of a lot of work at the Daming Academy of Sciences after all, and she also raised and taught Zhu Ciyu back then. Zhu Ciyu's science and engineering education when he was a child came from Fang Ziling.Now to discuss Daming's science and education construction, Fang Ziling couldn't avoid it.

At the family banquet, Zhu Shuren took some other old accounts first, set the scene a little bit, and only asked his son if he had a good time outside in the past year and a half.Obviously the battle with the Vietnamese was over, and the road dragged on for more than half a year.

"...How about it, is the Lushan Waterfall magnificent? Is it as magnificent as what Scholar Qinglian wrote? It's a bit of wild fun to escape the summer heat on Lushan Mountain. I have never gone to Lushan Mountain to cool off in my life.

I heard that this time Lushan Mountain also specially built a mountain path with bluestone steps?It must be fully utilized. After a few years, when I have free time in midsummer, I, a loose man in the mountains, should also go to escape the heat. Every year, I always go to the museum in Jiangning Town to look at flowers and plants to escape the heat, and I am very tired. "

Zhu Ciyu was most afraid that his father would ask him about it. He was an emperor who took charge of the government and went on a tour. Finally, after the government inspection was completed, Chunwan still played for so long, and his own father had never played, so it was indeed a bit unfilial.

Being caught by his father, he had no choice but to laugh along with him, saying that he should be filial: "Father has worked hard for this world for a long time, and he should travel around the world if he wants to. It's still because the child is not capable enough, let the father worry more .”

Zhu Shuren didn't really want to beat his son, so he accepted it as soon as he saw it: "How can I not worry about it? Now spread in Guangdong and Guangxi that the Spaniards slaughtered my Han people in Luzon, and Zheng Chenggong will solve Luzon sooner or later next year.

Don't think that my Ming Dynasty is already stable in all directions. The remnants of the Northwest Tatars, the Junggar people, and the northern Rakshasa may all fight against my Ming Dynasty in the future.At least by defeating these two old enemies, I can let go of all this as a father, and go out and have fun with peace of mind.

In addition, we must not resort to militarism, we must give the people a rest, and we must reform the internal affairs, and each step should not take five or six years. "

The more Zhu Ciyu heard it, the more ashamed he became. His father was so worried. As the emperor, he should try to speed up the process.

Fortunately, he knew his father well, and guessed that this was going to be another heavy hand, so he had to lay the groundwork.So he cooperated directly:

"My child is stupid. I don't know if my father has any magic method to speed up this process, so that the Siyi can be solved faster, so that I won't be troubled by my Ming Dynasty? Whether it is to innovate wealth, or to make every effort to rule the Jin and the good and eliminate the mediocre, the child must be strict. .”

Zhu Shuren picked up his wine glass and took a sip, and continued to say, "Wealth reform, the hard nuts and bolts have been gnawed away for the time being. The abolishment of Ding and separation of registration has been tried for many years, and all southern provinces have promoted it. In the future, we only need to continue to promote it in the north and slowly fine-tune it." That's it.

The tax system of the imperial court cannot be changed overnight. It was just changed a few years ago, and the more stable the follow-up, the more authority it can establish.It's best not to move for 20 years.

Right now, the key to reforming bad governance lies in employing people and science and education.The method of imperial examination has been used for thousands of years. There is nothing wrong with the imperial examination itself, but the fault lies in the fact that the subjects tested cannot keep pace with the times.

Stereotyped essays can theoretically only examine whether a person knows virtue or not, and cannot even examine whether he has the unity of knowledge and action, and whether he knows virtue and acts morally.As for talent, hehe, what practical talents can be detected by stereotyped writing?
Since the imperial examinations have been able to join the martial arts examinations since the former Song Dynasty, it is natural to keep pace with the times in the future and add other subjects.In the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were clear laws and clear calculations, but unfortunately later the Jinshi family dominated, and all disciplines except martial arts were gradually abolished.

Now that we are facing major changes unseen in a millennium, we should discard the chaff and keep the essence, reform the old, eliminate the waste, and add new learning.It just so happened that this time the Academy of Sciences has recruited many talented people to make up some subjects.

Gu intends to build a new school in Nanjing first, and spend several years cultivating talents for the new school.When these talented scholars graduate, new subjects will be added, which will be developed simultaneously with Jinshi subjects. "

Zhu Ciyu listened patiently. He agreed with this statement in his heart, not because of his father's prestige, but from the bottom of his heart.

Because Zhu Ciyu himself was educated in science and engineering since he was a child, Fang Ziling taught him a lot of mathematics and physics, as well as natural history knowledge. Zhu Ciyu's academic horizon is actually much broader than that of many corrupt ministers in the court.

So when he heard the words, he immediately echoed excitedly: "This idea is good, father, I don't know this idea... Should you announce it to the world, or can you use it as your own idea and push it forward to the cabinet?"

Zhu Shuren paused for a rare moment, and smiled relievedly: "You are already 22, and you will be 23 after the Chinese New Year. Before taking office, the attitude of respecting the elderly and respecting the virtuous is enough, and now it is time to stand on your own."

Zhu Ciyu was stunned, and quickly said that he had proposed this matter, and he would just ask his father to express his support in the court later.

After making up his mind, Zhu Ciyu changed his mind again, and actually asked for advice with political wisdom: "There is a time difference of several years between the establishment of a new school and the opening of a new subject in the imperial examination.

That being the case, in order to proceed step by step and prevent opponents from forming a group to violently resist, can these two matters be announced separately? "

Zhu Shuren nodded in relief when he heard the words: "That's right, I've thought very well, and I've already paid attention to dividing the forces of opponents. However, my father also thought of this point, but it's a pity that the Shi Ge Department may not have a few years left." life expectancy.

After all, he is highly respected, and with his full support together with Gu, the New Deal is easy to be nailed down.After all, my father hadn't been the leader of the Ming Dynasty's literary world for a few days, so I needed a few more famous scholars who had long lost their literary names to express their support for this matter. "

Only then did Zhu Ciyu fully understand his father's good intentions.

Shi Kefa is 67 years old this year. He hasn't been in court for several years to handle government affairs. He is just a name and lives in a nursing home in Jiangning every day.

I heard that his illness has worsened this year, and his health is very bad. If Nanjing University is established first, and the first batch of science and engineering graduates from Nanjing University come out in a few years, and then discuss the topic of new subject examinations, then Shi Kefa may not survive until then .

Let Shi Kefa play the last bit of appeal for Daming.

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A few days later, at another court meeting of the Nanjing court, Gu Yanwu, Minister of Rites in charge of cultural and educational work, formally proposed the establishment of "Nanjing University".

In addition to Gu Yanwu, Wu Weiye, who has been promoted to other noble and idle positions, also expressed his second opinion and added some details of the request.

Wu Weiye used to be Zhu Shuren's nominal mentor when he was in the Imperial College, and later Zhu Shuren also let him be the Minister of Rites after he took power, and Gu Yanwu made up for him after he was promoted and left.

When Gu Yanwu was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, his focus was on diplomacy, while when Wu Weiye was in charge, his focus was on culture and education.Therefore, it is more convincing to let Gu Yanwu and Wu Weiye act as exteriors and interiors of each other.

Because several major leaders in the academic circle supported the establishment of the new school, the first round of games in the court went smoothly, and no one directly jumped out to express their opposition.

And Zhu Ciyu also pretended to say that this is a big matter, and he would like to ask the Shige Department for advice.

Everyone saw that Shi Kefa, who hadn't come to the court for a long time, was actually carried here today. How could they not know that this was the little emperor's determination to forge ahead, and he wanted to promote reforms.

Shi Kefa expressed his support in public, and in the end Zhu Shuren also decided on Haishenzhen, and the intention of "starting preparations for a new study" was finalized first.

Anyway, it's just an intention to run a school. What to do next, how to arrange personnel, how to pay, haven't said anything yet.Since everything is still unclear, even if there is an old fox who wants to object, he will not jump out at this time.

Zhu Ciyu announced that after returning, let the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry discuss the preparations for the new school, come up with a detailed plan, and focus on this topic in the next few court meetings.

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The practice of the Ming Dynasty is generally three days, but in fact, if it is not a difficult autumn, it will generally only decrease and not increase.For example, Wanli typically did not go to court often, while Chongzhen had increased the frequency of going to work because the country was about to perish.

Today the world is still considered peaceful, and the emperor still reigns once every three days, or once in a while.Now, because the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry are relatively busy and need to discuss detailed plans, Zhu Ciyu reduces the burden on the courtiers. In the subsequent few times, he will go to the court every other time and report every six days.

Because there was plenty of time left for discussion, relevant news inevitably began to spread in Nanjing within just two days of the court meeting.

In fact, the old foxes at the top can still sit still, but some impulsive talents at the grassroots level who are most likely to be used as guns can't sit still.Some people began to talk about government affairs, and felt that it was not good to rashly organize new studies.

Some people also got news that the imperial court had recently recruited a group of scholars in mathematics and physics from the West, and they wanted to combine Chinese and Western with people from the Academy of Sciences, and they would jointly undertake the teaching and research work of Nanjing University in the future.Maybe scholars and supervisors will have to be restrained by those vulgar scholars who don't understand the Four Books and Five Classics in the future.

There was even more exaggerated news, and it was even said that the imperial court planned to abolish the old-style imperial examinations, and that in the future, the entrance examinations for new schools would only be assessed for mathematics and other studies of physics, instead of the Four Books and Five Classics.

As a result, a large group of supervising scholars and other low-level academics were used as guns. Some wanted to "post a letter on the bus" and some wanted to criticize the current malpractice, causing some fragmented conflicts in Nanjing.

The imperial court did not respond positively at the beginning, because it was a non-existent matter, so there was nothing to respond to.About [-] days later, Nanjing University's preliminary ideas for running a school were sorted out, and the imperial court made it clear to the world, and then came to settle the rumors during this period.

Then, hundreds of scholars and supervisors were arrested inside and outside Nanjing, and dozens of people were also involved in the surrounding Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and Changzhou.It was Jin Yiwei who got the conclusive evidence.

At first, Shihlin was in an uproar, thinking that the spies were politically killing scholars again.But in the end, the imperial court gave very clear opinions on how to deal with it: it is not that it is not allowed to comment on the gains and losses of the government, but it is not allowed to spread rumors and blame the imperial court for decrees that the imperial court has no intention of issuing.

And the charge of these people is precisely to spread rumors.

Because according to the school-running plan of Nanjing University announced by the imperial court, the imperial court did not intend to abolish the old subjects of the imperial examination, and this is completely unaffected.

The imperial court did not say that scholars who will enter Nanjing University to study in the future can have no fame at all, which is also a rumor.

According to the current new policy, in order to prevent management chaos and too large a gap, the provisional entry threshold for Nanjing University should be compared with that of Guozijian.So at least you must have the fame of a scholar before you can take the entrance examination.

After graduating from Nanjing University, it is compared with the treatment of Guozijian students, which is equivalent to juren, and can participate in the follow-up official examination.Of course, you can also directly serve as a candidate in the equivalent of Juren, and in the future go to the various lines under the Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Industry, and Ministry of Households to wait for vacancies.

After all, in the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, theoretically, after passing the examination, one could wait in line to become an official. However, the flood of candidates became more and more serious in the later period, and often queued up for a lifetime and could not be ranked for an official position. That's why the Jinshi examination was required. Only in this way can we basically ensure a high probability of actually conferring official positions.

In theory, the shortage of graduates from Nantah University is also the same as this.

(End of this chapter)