Daming Military Empire

Chapter 183 Implementing the New Deal
The dust of the Jiaxu Branch Palace examination has settled, and the preparations for the Liaodong Special Zone are almost in progress. Zhu Cijiong began to introduce a series of new policies:
First of all, it is natural to establish the Liaodong Special Zone to separate Haizhou, Gaizhou, Guangning, Guanning, Dingliao Zhongzuowei and other counties in the Liaohe Plain from the Liaodong Army Town to form Zhili Fengtian Prefecture, which specializes in agricultural production and takes into account industry. Develop and build it into a new granary in the north of Daming.

Then promote education for all, and establish enlightenment schools in all prefectures, counties and townships in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty. The schools mainly teach elementary courses such as "Three Character Classics" and "Thousand Character Classics". study for three years.

Finally, the Daming Institute of Firearms was renamed as the Daming Institute of Engineering, and majors such as artillery manufacturing, musket manufacturing, machine manufacturing, and arithmetic geometry were established. It is tentatively scheduled to be held every three years, and each session recruits [-] children. After passing the assessment, they can enter the Ministry of Industry , the Ministry of Household Affairs and relevant local government offices.

There are too many yamen and officials involved in such an important decision, so it is not possible for Zhu Cijiong to carry it out with a few imperial edicts, it must be passed through the imperial court.

This morning, when everything was finished, Zhu Cijiong began to read the New Deal with the ceremonial officials of Honglu Temple.

He is actually quite nervous in his heart. Although he has replaced almost [-]% of the officials in the court, and the remaining ones are loyal and patriotic on the surface, but who can guarantee that they are all selfless saints? It's impossible to be single minded, but do these people dare to jump out and sing the opposite?
Fortunately, after all, these people are covered with a layer of loyalty and patriotism, so when they read the first article, no one jumped out to object. At most, a few people frowned slightly afterward. If you have to object to the loss of transshipment costs, then it is not a matter of patriotism, but of ulterior motives.

No one said anything about the second one. Civilizing the common people is a good thing after all. Although it costs some money, it is not their money. There is no need to meddle in other people's business.

When reading the third article, some people's faces started to look wrong. Isn't this a blatant promotion of barbarian learning? Come on, if you can become an official after learning barbarian learning, isn't this trying to shake the dominance of Confucianism!

Zhu Cijiong saw that many old men's faces were starting to turn green, and they seemed to jump out to choose others and eat them. He quickly used his trump card, stood up and said loudly: "It's not early today, everyone should go back and think about the New Deal. If you have any suggestions, you can submit them all, and I will carefully consider them and retire."

After all, turn around and leave!

Many old men were wrongly choked to death by his blow, and after working hard for a long time, they were about to jump out to make a direct remonstrance, but in the end, they retreated!

Zhu Cijiong knew that it would not be that simple to promote Western learning, but there was no other way than pushing it forward. The great powers were developing rapidly, and Ming had to catch up.To develop the economy, it is not enough to rely solely on the enlightenment of Confucian sages. Those are just castles in the sky and fantasy. We must promote science and promote the development of productive forces so that the economy can develop.

What should come will always come. Zhu Cijiong didn't just sit there and wait for those old stubborns to come to him to seek death and life. It seems that there should be no objection to the construction of Liaodong and the promotion of universal education. He immediately issued an order:
Order the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Industry to jointly handle the construction of Liaodong, immediately organize civilians to start migrating, arrange relevant officials to work in Fengtian Prefecture, prepare for the construction of the Beijing-Liaodong Railway, and prepare related agricultural production facilities.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households jointly handle issues related to education for all, immediately allocate funds to build schools in township pavilions in various prefectures, counties, recruit children from all over the country to prepare to teach students, and print various elementary books as teaching materials.

Zhu Cijiong just asked Cao Huachun to arrange for someone to deliver the decree, and after a while Cao Huachun said loudly outside: "Report to the emperor, there is a memorial."

So fast, Zhu Cijiong's heart skipped a beat, these old guys are really not afraid of death!
If you can hide from the first day of the junior high school but not the fifteenth day, if you can hide from the morning court, you can't hide from the memorial, Zhu Cijiong gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Come in."

Cao Huachun took the memorial, walked in with a bow, and handed it to Zhu Cijiong with both hands.

Zhu Cijiong took a closer look and found that there was only one copy. It didn't look like an organized resistance movement. He sighed slightly, took the memorial and opened it to look.

As soon as he glanced at it, his face was filled with astonishment. This memorial was not written by those stubborn old men in the court at all, but by Sun Chengzong far away in Liaodong!

Zhu Cijiong wants to establish Zhili Fengtian Mansion in Liaodong. Naturally, he must communicate with Sun Chengzong first. Sun Chengzong has no objection. He has already begun to arrange the relocation of various military stations in Liaodong to the Guangning Jin line and Tieling Liaohai line, but it involves 40 people. When the army was on defense, he asked a question, how should North Korea deal with it?

Zhu Cijiong also had a hard time deciding on this question. Let’s fight. It seems that North Korea has always respected Ming Dynasty and paid tribute every year. Even when they established a king, they had to ask Ming Dynasty for instructions. Well, it seems that they have already fallen to Houjin's side. Huang Taiji has been away for almost half a year now, and they didn't say anything to Daming. It doesn't make it clear that he still regards himself as Houjin's vassal state !
I don’t have a very good impression of Zhu Cijiong in North Korea. They are really not hateful in later generations. One will repay his kindness, and the other Yelang is arrogant. He doesn’t take Huaxia seriously at all. If they dare to do this now, he will definitely not hesitate. Send troops to destroy this group of sticks. The question is that they have not done anything now, they just keep silent. Are you really going to send a large army to destroy them?
Zhu Cijiong thought about it, and decided to educate them first, and then don't blame him for being cruel if they refuse to obey.

How should we educate them? Is it okay to make them pay tribute as before?

Zhu Cijiong always felt that this was a little inappropriate, and they had nothing to lose by being a vassal, and paying tribute was just a formality, and Da Ming gave more in return.This kind of vassal state with no real interests can be said to be useless at all. When they were beaten, Daming had to send troops to protect them. The Korean War in Wanli was a terrible one. In order to protect this little brother, Daming Liaodong Town lost With 60% of the military force, the defense ability is not as good as before, so that after the rise of the Jin Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also suffered a serious economic deficit. It can be said that the demise of the Ming Dynasty began with this war!
Such a chicken rib is really a headache, and the gang of stubborn old people in the court is even more headache. How did this headache come together?
Thinking about it, Zhu Cijiong suddenly had an idea, if those old stubborns were allowed to deal with North Korea, wouldn't the two headaches be solved.

With this idea in mind, Zhu Cijiong immediately began to analyze that the purpose of those stubborn old people in the imperial court to prevent the promotion of Western learning was to maintain the dominance of Confucianism. The reason why North Korea had a headache was because they only surrendered in form and did not regard themselves as a part of Ming Dynasty.

Can those old stubborn people turn North Korea into a true vassal state of Ming Dynasty?able!

There is a method called cultural aggression. Assimilating them is more effective than beating them to the ground. After beating them to the ground, they can still get up. After a few generations, they will heal their scars and forget the pain, and continue to fight against you; Assimilating them will be different, they will all become members of Daming, what else is there, nothing will be left.

Is this a bit whimsical?If it was the Chongzhen Dynasty, it would be whimsical, but now it is the Chongzheng Dynasty, with hundreds of thousands of troops pressing up, if you don't accept it, you will be destroyed if you don't accept it!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong let out a sigh, and said loudly: "Cao Huachun, immediately tell Huang Daozhou to come and see you."

Cao Huachun took the order to leave, and Huang Daozhou came to see him soon, Zhu Cijiong saw his generosity, and couldn't help laughing inwardly: "Hey hey hey, if you want to play with me, you will die or live, you are so beautiful."

Although Huang Daozhou was upset, he still did the basic etiquette very well. As soon as he came in, he gave a standard big salute and said loudly: "My humble minister will see the emperor."

Zhu Cijiong walked forward with a smile, held his arm and said, "Oh, Huang Aiqing is not polite, please get up, get up quickly."

Huang Daozhou stood up inexplicably, the so-called stretching out his hand does not hit the smiling face, let alone the emperor, but it is impossible to use this little trick to win over him so that he will not take the lead in opposing Western learning!
He didn't want to get angry right away, so he could only hang his neck and say: "I don't know what the emperor wants to do with this humble minister?"

Zhu Cijiong pretended to admire and said: "Huang Aiqing is rigorous in her studies and has profound knowledge. She is really a role model for scholars. I need Huang Aiqing's help for a major matter here. I wonder if Huang Aiqing is willing to help me with this?"

Big thing, of course it's a big thing, you have to put the knowledge of sages and sages behind you, how big is this thing, help, hmph, there is no door!

Huang Daozhou still stuck his neck and said: "Don't dare to be praised by the emperor, dare to ask what is the big event that the emperor said?"

Zhu Cijiong asked without answering: "Does Huang Aiqing have the confidence to educate the barbarians with the teachings of sages?"

If you want to give me a problem, then I will answer you a problem. Huang Daozhou replied directly: "It depends on whether the barbarians listen to the teachings. If you listen to the teachings honestly, the humble ministers will naturally be able to teach them. If you are stubborn , Refusing to listen to the teaching, that humble minister can do nothing."

Zhu Cijiong immediately applauded and said: "Okay, this is what you said, I guarantee that they will always listen to the teaching, if you can't teach them, what should you do?"

Hmph, talk nonsense with me, then talk nonsense, can you talk nonsense until I forget the teachings of sages and sages!Huang Daozhou patted his chest and promised: "As long as the barbarians listen to the teachings honestly, I guarantee that I can teach them and transform them. If I can't, I will kneel and die in front of the sages!"

Zhu Cijiong said happily: "Okay, then I will leave this matter to Huang Aiqing, and Huang Aiqing stepped forward to accept the decision."

Huang Daozhou didn't expect that the emperor would prepare so many tricks. After the nonsense, he would be appointed as an official. Can a small official make me humiliate the learning of sages and sages?

He knelt down expressionlessly, and muttered in his heart: "Seal it, seal it, I'll talk about it after I seal it."

Zhu Cijiong shouted without hesitation: "Cao Huachun, draft an order."

Cao Huachun hurried in, prepared a blank edict, and waited with a pen.

Zhu Cijiong said loudly: "Propose Zhan Shifu's young Zhan Shi Huang Daozhou as Zhan Shifu's Zhan Shi, and he is in charge of the Guozijian offering wine, and is responsible for educating the barbarians. I admire this."

Cao Huachun wrote there in a hurry, and Huang Daozhou kowtowed to express his gratitude: "I thank the emperor for his kindness, my emperor, long live, long live, long live."

After he finished shouting, a piece of imperial decree had already been handed over. Huang Daozhou took the imperial decree with both hands, but he was still firm in his heart: "Huh, you are a third-rank official, what a great official, no matter how big an official is, don't want me to insult the sage's learning!" !"

(End of this chapter)