open sea

Chapter 663 Spring Bamboo Shoots
Chen Mu couldn't wait for a better rocket, so he could only let Yin Zhengmao's subordinate Li Xi's Qi Jimei fleet be a guinea pig for a while, and see the results after trying it out.

In fact, the northern route from Daming to North America is no longer a wilderness, at least there are still a few people, for example, there must be a small hundred households within a thousand miles along the coast, although this hundred households may not have enough staff , The Banner Army is cold and hungry, or it may be that the Banner Army itself has never been to Daming where it serves.

For example, Magui set up ten islands and thousands of households in the Heishui Mohe Islands. There are hundreds of households on the ten slightly larger islands, with military villages and banner troops. Except for the hundred households and the general banner officials, all the banner troops are local Heishui Mohe Jurchens, and few of them can speak Chinese, but they all know that as soon as the imperial ship arrives, they will bring them walruses from the igloo. The meat is boiled and eaten.

In return, every ship passing there will leave some spices, and if there are no spices, give something else, such as a few bolts of cotton cloth, five catties of gunpowder, three sabers, two helmets, a Huangming flag or a small decoration Products and the like, and even helping people with a few Chinese names is also a reward.

Of course, the best thing for the local area is books, regardless of whether it is a storybook or the Four Books and Five Classics. People who cross the sea by boat often bring a lot of books to kill time. Since the customs has very strict requirements for books to go to sea, what they can bring out The types of books are strictly divided, most of which are traditional enlightenment books, Nanyang printed hero stories, myths and stories spread in the Central Plains, or Taoist and Buddhist classics. All functional books are not allowed to be taken out even if they teach how to farm.

But it's still a great gift idea.

Xu Jue's letter was nothing important, it was just chatting with Chen Mu about what he saw and heard during his trip to the south.

After the Lecture Hall and the Lecture Academy appeared one after another, the country gentry in the middle school couldn't sit still anymore.

The squires in this era are different from those in the Republic of China. The first thing they need is culture. After all, during the Republic of China, intellectuals all moved to the cities, which led to a sharp decrease in local grassroots intellectuals, but this will be different.

Gentlemen are usually said together.

People are educated, and they study hard for ten years to become one of ten thousand scholars. They are normal scholars. The worst scholars are probably children. This is the bottom. His ancestral graves were dug out by his fellow villagers, and he barely managed to do well in the official career. He retired and returned to his hometown. He became a gentry because he was well-off, prestigious and respected in the village.

Some people have nothing to do after becoming gentry, and they are also old. They have land, leisure and clan. One of the things most of them will do is to build a social school, so that the children of the clan and fellow villagers can receive a good education, and they can change their destiny in the future. Be a master.

Another group of people have jobs after becoming gentry, so that they can be teachers, running around the world to give lectures and spread their ideas.

But the form has changed in the past two years. The majority of gentry found that education is not as powerful as the martial arts hall and the liberal arts academy. They teach hundreds of people a year. The lecture hall was subconsciously added by Sai Lugong. In fact, the majority of gentry did not realize how good the lecture hall was. Although it belonged to a system, its influence was obviously not as good as Xu Ge's Songjiang Lecture Academy.

Although there were only three Jinshi students in the imperial examination this year in the first lecture, Mr. Xu Ge originally thought that more than 200 students would account for at least a hundred Jinshi, but it turned out that there were only three. Those three students had to study hard at home for ten years before entering. The students of the School of Liberal Arts, but that is because of partial subjects, in fact, the students of the School of Liberal Arts all did well in the exam.

Now that the School of Literary Arts has added the six compulsory courses of Taige style writing and policy theory, Mr. Xu is trying his best to compete for the imperial examination rate.

The result of this is that a large number of colleges have sprung up in the two capitals, the eleventh and the thirteen provinces. Most of the colleges run by the gentry are the same as the Lecture Academy, and most of them are jointly run by the local gentry under the name of a prefecture.But there are still some gentry whose talents are not in the imperial examinations, especially those who believe in "the daily use of the common people is the way", and a large number of educated gentry devote themselves to the cause of learning first and then teaching.

For example, the gentry who loves to visit kilns jointly established the Yangzhou Prefecture Performing Arts Academy with rich merchants from Yangzhou. The endless gentry personally acted as instructors, teaching poetry, song, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and various musical instruments and dances, and directly provided services to the girls under the thin horse mothers. Advanced learning channels are provided.

Some people set up the Suzhou Craftsman Academy and invited master craftsmen to teach iron smelting, jewellery, pottery and brick firing, and even famous architects to teach house building, which was laughed at by the times. .

In short, it’s a mess. They all learn to set subjects and semesters like a liberal arts college.

Of course, they are more so-so, neither good nor bad. Chen Mu is more optimistic about these colleges.

But he didn't really care about it.

The earliest junior college in Chinese history was founded by Emperor Han Ling in the first year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Select the preferred delivery.

Without the emancipation of the mind at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there would be no strong, deep, generous and desolate Jian'an character.

They are a bunch of old folks from the Ming Dynasty.

The gentry have a good job to do, don't care if they do it well, Chen Mu knows that sooner or later the big waves will wash away the sand and leave a few pieces of real gold.

Sitting in the shade of a tree in the school grounds of the Beiyang Military Mansion holding a letter, Chen Mu felt that his vanity was greatly satisfied.

But what he cares more about are the two things mentioned in the last paragraph of Xu Jue's letter, not in the thirteen provinces, but in Beijing.

Since these days, the imperial court has been in court every day. Although the emperor is not in charge, he is in court every day. Empress Dowager Li has no objection to this, which caused an uproar among the courtiers.

Because Zhang Juzheng used to consider that the emperor needed to pay attention to his studies, so he set the rule to go to court every three, six, and nine times a month, that is, he only went to court for three days and gave lectures for seven days every ten days. Now he goes to court in person every day, and Trying to give orders in the court meeting, carrying and distributing the treasured sword of Armorica, it has been tried and tested.

Fortunately, the emperor didn't make any outrageous decisions. Anyway, the government is not decided in the court council. Everyone is human, so what can be decided by talking all over the place?
The real decision-making is submitted to the imperial court at noon by the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies.

For this reason, Zhang Juzheng wrote a letter in the mourning hall to urge the emperor to study, and Empress Dowager Li wrote back specifically to explain that the emperor did not delay his studies, and there was no harm in increasing the number of court visits.

In fact, the emperor is having a temper tantrum with Queen Mother Li recently.

The Empress Dowager didn't mind the emperor going to court every day, but she couldn't miss the daily talk. The time was arranged from the afternoon to two hours after sunset. The little emperor had no complaints about this, but he showed great enthusiasm. Resist, and the matter in dispute has nothing to do with the Japanese teaching and the upper court.

What is the emperor fighting for?
What Wanli is fighting for is to add two sets of clothes to the emperor in the court ritual system, one set of bright yellow sun and moon Beiyang military uniform, and the other set is the full set of emperor's armor for the commander-in-chief. This is simply an absurd act of emulating Emperor Wuzong .

However, Xiao Wanli has his own set of theories. Although he can't understand the Queen Mother, he still fights in his own way: no new clothes, no daily lectures!
Even if you spend the same amount of time secretly reading books in the secret room every day, there is no daily lecture!

In fact, what the queen mother cared about was not that the emperor wanted to add two new clothes to herself.

Instead, in the letter sent by the emperor Feng Bao to the queen mother, the use of these two sets of clothes was clearly stated: the son of tomorrow will wear such armor, fully armed, and parade the army when the Dongyang Fleet and the Wanli set sail in Tianjin !

(End of this chapter)