jdhmnovel Chapter 411 Our Biao'er has gone astray too!
Chapter 411 Our Biao'er has gone astray too!
After Zhu Biao followed Yang Shaofeng around Dengzhou Prefecture and saw the medical school, prefectural school, county school, and community school, Zhu Biao suddenly felt uneasy.
Look at Dengzhou Prefecture, and then look at the capital.
How many primary schools are there in Beijing?
In terms of city size, three or five Dengzhou prefectures combined are not as large as the capital.
However, when it comes to the importance attached to primary schools, even three or five cities in the capital combined cannot match the importance attached to Dengzhou Prefecture.
So what were the officials in the Ministry of Works who were in charge of planning the capital doing?
The more Zhu Biao thought about it, the more upset he became.
We must build a few more primary schools in the capital.
Each state and county must also build several primary schools within the city limits.
Although Hu Yuan was not a good person, and the community schools he established were more of a vanity project than a practical one, the Ming Dynasty was able to turn community schools into a real project.
One primary school per village!
We also need to copy that rule my brother-in-law came up with about having to practice riding and archery from the community school to the county school to the prefectural school.
Strive to ensure that the Ming Dynasty will be filled with highly skilled and capable laborers!
Especially at night, after Zhu Biao saw the trade and tax reports from the border market again, he could no longer suppress his urge to expand schools and train more scholars and warriors.
the next day!
This is only the second day that the market has been open!
The commercial tax alone reached 15,876 strings of cash, which was several times higher than the first day!
Even if we don’t aim for more each day than the previous day, just maintaining 10,000 strings of cash in commercial tax every day would amount to more than 3 million strings of cash in a year.
Based on his brother-in-law's theory that "meat leaves a layer of oil on your hands," Zhu Biao could hardly imagine how much benefit these three million strings of cash could bring to the Ming Dynasty!
No, we must cultivate more scholars like my brother-in-law.
As I said before, I don't expect everyone to be as capable as my brother-in-law, just half as capable as him would be enough!
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Just as Zhu Biao was pondering how to cultivate more well-rounded talents in both literature and martial arts, the Emperor Zhu was in a fit of rage.
"I'm so angry!"
"First came the plow case, then the Sun Gupu rebellion case, and then the blank seal case."
"Now, damn it, they've dragged the descendants of the Northern Confucian scholars and Zhu Xi into this again!"
"How long has it been since Hu Yuan was driven out of the Central Plains? The people are living in misery, and how long have they been living in abject poverty?"
"I've forgotten everything!"
"We really want to rip their hearts and guts out and see if their hearts are truly black!"
"Damn it, what exactly do they want from us to be satisfied?!"
Seeing the furious Emperor Zhu, Li Shanchang wanted to stand up and say, "Don't just take their money, you should also take out their entire clan."
Heaven have mercy, who knows how I felt when I saw the words "commanded by the Left Chancellor of the Central Secretariat"?
In that instant, I saw the list of nine clans flashing in the Book of Life and Death!
If it weren't for the fact that Yang Fuma asked me what the name of the Left Chancellor of the Central Secretariat was, wouldn't this big black urn have been firmly pinned down on me?
Damn it, now I understand how Liu Bowen felt.
I feel the same way!
Sitting next to Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen was secretly pleased.
Old Li, Old Li, you've always been curious about why I, Old Liu, am so ruthless.
This time, Lao Liu, I'll see what you, Lao Li, choose!
"We have already issued the decree."
Emperor Zhu managed to calm himself down and said, "Have Xia Yu arrest and interrogate Zhu Kang and Kong Xixue."
"We don't care who gets implicated in the end. If we find one, we'll kill one. If we find two, we'll kill both."
"We really don't believe it, none of these people are afraid of death!"
After a slight pause, Emperor Zhu suddenly snorted coldly and said, "Have they been promoting a kid surnamed Fang lately?"
"He was quick-witted from a young age, and his knowledge grew thicker every day, earning him the nickname 'Little Han Yu'."
"That's quite a feat! A mere teenager dares to praise someone like that, isn't he afraid of biting his tongue?"
Upon hearing Emperor Zhu's words, Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen's expressions immediately turned somewhat unpleasant.
For Li Shanchang, these people first had his entire family's names flash on the Book of Life and Death, and now they were frantically praising a kid who was only ten years old. This was clearly a provocation against him, the Left Chancellor of the Central Secretariat.
Liu Bowen's understanding was even deeper than Li Shanchang's.
After all, one's own family members' names flash more often in the Book of Life and Death.
And that's exactly how these people praised themselves back then.
After a long silence, Liu Bowen bowed to Emperor Zhu and said, "Your Majesty, a mere child is nothing to worry about."
“Even the descendants of Master Zhu and the scholars of Confucius are not worth worrying about.”
"The most important thing right now is to bring the worship of Confucius back under the control of the imperial court."
"As for the other people involved in the case, those who should be killed should be killed, and those who should not be killed can be made to work while wearing shackles."
Li Shanchang immediately cupped his hands in agreement and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that what Mr. Qingtian said is reasonable."
"Right now is the time for the local examinations, and in a while there will be the provincial examinations, the metropolitan examinations, and the palace examinations. The matter of worshipping Confucius should not be delayed for too long."
"However, it's better not to kill those officials for now. After all, the Empty Seal Case is not yet closed. It's better to wait until Kong Xixue and Zhu Kang have confessed and the Empty Seal Case is completely closed before taking any action."
"In addition, I believe that the proposal made by the Imperial Son-in-Law in his memorial to publish the court's movements every ten days and distribute them to the Imperial Academy, prefectural schools and county schools in various places is feasible."
"Especially this case of blank seals, why not use it as the opening piece for a publication that tracks the movements of the imperial court?"
"It will also let students from all over the country know why the imperial court had to kill so many officials at once."
"So that they might be misled by the words of the thieves, thinking that the superiors are intolerant of people, or that these corrupt officials have some kind of hardship."
Liu Bowen added, "I second that. In particular, what the Imperial Son-in-Law said in his memorial—that Confucius is Confucius and the Duke Yansheng is the Duke Yansheng—is especially important."
"The fact that the Ministry of Rites was responsible for the public sacrifice to Confucius was to demonstrate the importance that the dynasty placed on education."
"Punishing Kong Xixue is to demonstrate the importance that the nation attaches to the law."
"The two should not be confused in the first place."
"Without this publication, I'm afraid many people would have been incited and manipulated by those scoundrels."
After a slight pause, Liu Bowen added, "However, this publication was proposed by the Prince Consort, and we truly do not know how such a publication should be published. Perhaps... we should send someone to inquire with the Prince Consort first?"
Emperor Zhu wanted to express his agreement.
Just thinking about the memorials submitted by Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao gave Emperor Zhu a headache.
Our Biao'er has gone astray too!
Tell me, how old is he?
They've actually learned to run away from home!
She must have learned bad habits from that bastard!