Zhu Houcong bid farewell to his parents and officially embarked on the road to Beijing.

However, at this time, Zhu Houcong didn't know that in history he was another Ming emperor of Zhengde Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houcan is only seven years old now, and for many people, it is still the era of naughty children.

However, Zhu Houcong had already shown extraordinary intelligence and was familiar with Confucian classics such as "The Book of Filial Piety" and "The Great Learning". At the request of his father, he had already begun to participate in presiding the royal palace ceremonies and sacrificial activities.

In general, Zhu Houcan's father Zhu Youting paid great attention to the education of Zhu Houcan, so that the young Zhu Houcan already had a basic Confucian cultural foundation and knew how to abide by Confucian etiquette and laws. He was well-known in Huguang.

This is also why civil servants chose Emperor Zhengde as emperor in history after he was killed.

When the officials in the capital took Zhu Houzhao's will to declare that he would go to Beijing to study, although Zhu Houzeng bid farewell to his parents with tears, he did not cry like a child of the same age. It seemed that at a young age, he had already understood the truth that the emperor's destiny could not be violated.

However, at this time, Zhu Houcan was not familiar with the current emperor Zhu Houzhao. He only knew that he was Zhu Houzhao's cousin, but he had also heard many ruthless rumors about his cousin.

Therefore, when Zhu Houcong first saw Zhu Houzhao, she was still a little scared and nervous.

However, Zhu Houcong was glad that there were many royal children who came to Beijing with him. He believed that as long as he abides by the rules, his emperor cousin should not notice him.

But in fact, when Zhu Houzhao met these royal children, the first question was not whether King Ning's descendants had come, but Zhu Houguan was the first question.

"Where is Prince Xing?"

When Zhu Houcan heard this, he had to stand up and said, "I have seen Your Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao then recognized what the young Jiajing Zhuhoutang looked like. Seeing that he seemed much calmer than other royal children, he couldn't help but think in his heart, no wonder this person was chosen as emperor by Yang Tinghe, and no wonder this person was better than civil servants in the grand ceremony. Now his demeanor is different from others.

But Zhu Houzhao knew that his cousin had high IQ and strategy, otherwise he would not have been able to play civil servants without relying on eunuchs. Although he was defeated by civil servant Xu Jie later, during his reign, he controlled the power of the government in his hands, and a series of talents also appeared.

Wen Ru Hai Rui, Zhang Cong, Xia Yan, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun, Yang Bo, Wang Chonggu, Hu Zongxian, Tang Shunzhi, Wu Ruo Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, Chen Lin and others all appeared in the Jiajing Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao naturally would not underestimate Zhu Houcan, who was only seven years old. He just nodded and smiled:

"I heard that you are smart and studious. I will take the test. Let's talk about what calculation thinking is revealed in the art of circumcision, and how much pi is after Zu Chong."

Zhu Houzhao's test was not difficult. These common sense of mathematics were a mathematical achievements that had long appeared in ancient China. The art of circle cutting was the achievement of Liu Wei, a mathematician of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Zu Chongzhi accurately measured the pi to the seventh place after the decimal point. As long as Zhu Houcan really read a lot of books, he would not know it.

But Zhu Hougui turned red at this time. If he had to memorize Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics, or even write eight-legged papers on the spot, he could do it. Even if he could mention Taoist studies that were popular in his hometown of Huguang, he could also get some of them. But now he had asked him to tell him what the art of circumcision is and what the pi is, he had never heard of it.

"Zhu Zailio, tell your uncle, tell him what is the technique of cutting the circle and what is pi." Zhu Houzhao called out his own son Zhu Zailio, and Zhu Zailio recited it without thinking:

"The technique of cutting circles is a method of calculating the area of ​​the circle, and uses it with the idea of ​​limits... and the pi... is from the ancestors' clash..."

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded and patted Zhu Houcan on the shoulder: "You still need to study more. You are a royal family and you don't have the top scorer in the exam. Why do you only read Confucian articles?"

Zhu Houzhao said that and asked Zhu Houcong and others to retreat.

Today's meeting with the royal family and children who entered Beijing was nothing to Zhu Houzhao, but this incident brought great shock to Zhu Houcan's heart.

Zhu Houcong has always been a proud person, but he could detect that His Majesty the Emperor was not optimistic about his talents, and seemed to know less than the little prince around him.

"Did King Ning send his son to Beijing?"

At this time, Zhu Houzhao suddenly asked Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, that although the son of the vassal king was summoned to Beijing to study in the palace, the purpose of educating the Zhu family's children according to his own will, he also had the intention of trying these vassal kings.

After all, the reforms now have violated the interests of many people, especially the interests of many gentry and officials. Many literati and gentry naturally cannot be eliminated according to the instigation of the vassal kings to rebel. Zhu Houzhao hopes that by summoning the descendants of these vassal kings to study in the palace, these vassal kings will know that the court has become alert and not overdo it.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao knew that he could not stop Ning Wang from doing so.

After all, Ning Wang has been preparing for so many years now, and there are many officials who have been bribed and colluded with by him. Naturally, it is impossible to stop.

"I've sent it! When I was greeting His Majesty just now, the fat man on the right was the second son of King Ning," replied Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile, thinking that King Ning could really tolerate it like King Yan Zhu Di, but he forgot that his emperor was not Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Houcong and Zhu Zailei and other royal children began to enroll on August 16 after the Mid-Autumn Festival in the ninth year of Zhengde. Although they were royal children, the palace school they studied was much more luxurious than folk society, but the procedures and content of schooling were basically the same as those of folk society.

Zhu Houcon is not unfamiliar with him. He has seen some children going to school with cloth bags and schoolbags in Huguang every day. He is very envious and wants to get out of school with a few playmates like a commoner's child, but he did not expect that one day he would go to school with other children of the royal family like a commoner in Huguang.

But what made Zhu Houcong feel inferior was that his Xing Prince's Mansion did not give him much money, so he could not show off himself in front of other royal children, nor could he buy new canvas bags on the market. They were not popular in the palace, and the eunuchs in the inner court were not very intimate with him.

On the contrary, Zhu Houcon discovered that the second son of the Ning Prince's Mansion was very popular with the eunuchs below because the second son of the Ning Prince's Mansion was very rich and generous, which made Zhu Houzhao feel even more inferior.

Of course, what he was even more resentful was that the knowledge he was proud of did not attract the attention of His Majesty the Emperor, and even the eldest son of the emperor who was only four years old around him knew more than he did.

Therefore, Zhu Houcong studied very seriously in the palace. It was from this moment that he began to receive mathematics, education in physics, chemistry, biology, economy, etc. in addition to Confucianism, as well as education about the country.

Zhu Houzhao also took the time to come to the palace school. Just like when he inspected the social school area of ​​Shuntian Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty, he would teach these students who were still in the basic education stage a thought class, and talk about the history of the Ming Dynasty instilling the concepts of some countries and nations.

Zhu Houzhao personally shook hands with the members of the Ming Young Pioneers in each school one by one, and tied red scarves to them with other accompanying officials.

Because of his cultural foundation and his diligence, Zhu Houcong also had excellent academic performance in Gongxue, and directly became a member of the first Youth Pioneer Team of Gongxue.

When Zhu Houcan saw Zhu Houzhao tied a red scarf on himself, he felt extremely proud. He knew the meaning of the red scarf, which meant that it was a corner of the flag stained with blood from countless heroes of the Ming Dynasty. When he put on a red scarf and became a member of the Young Pioneers, he would become a young hero in the future.

Zhu Houzhao was also very happy when he saw Zhu Houcan's excited and excited expression. He knew that he had put some things in the future in the basic education of the Ming Dynasty and indeed had the same motivational effect. He believed that this would make more young and simple children want to make their grades better and want to be praised by their teachers.

It has been three years since basic education was popularized, and next year will be the first four-year graduation period for school children receiving compulsory education. What Zhu Houzhao needs to consider now is how to use this group of school children who received four-year education that the court spent a lot of money to train.

"Your Majesty, according to the data reported by the school department from various provinces, about 1.7 million students will graduate next year. According to the previous regulations, these students will be admitted to county schools in a percentage system. According to previous careers, scholars entering county schools must be students. Now they can only study for four years, which is probably a dissatisfied among all students;

In addition, the number of county schools has not been admitted. In the four years of the county, most of them are not allowed to enter county schools. Therefore, I think that new schools should be built, and each county will set up new schools to collect students from all over the world and teach them, and teach them more in-depth knowledge so that after they become talented people, they will be used by the court!

It is not enough to cultivate talents in the world in ten years, and to cultivate talents in a hundred years. It is necessary to persevere in order to accumulate over time, all the talents in the world will come from the Ming Dynasty!”

The Minister of the School of Education Kang Hai truthfully reported to Zhu Houzhao.

"These millions of school children naturally cannot let them go home to farm, at least most of them cannot be allowed to go home to farm, and the county school cannot change it for a while, and if the magistrate asked the question to give a question, it would probably only publish some eight-part articles;

I will approve what you say, establish a new school and entrust all counties with people-friendly officials to set up new high school schools. I will ask the Ministry of Personnel to immediately appoint a group of waiting officials who are studying at the Beijing University to take up the position of teaching in each county and principal of higher primary schools, so as to be specifically responsible for the establishment of higher primary schools."

Zhu Houzhao knew that in this way, the education expenditure of the imperial court would increase again, but to make the people of the Ming Dynasty stronger, no longer numb or ignorant, Daxing education was necessary, so what should be spent was still to be spent. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty had begun colonial expansion and could earn a lot of property from the Malacca and other regions in the future. These property would probably only be spent on education in the short term.

However, the establishment of Gaodi Primary School is not something that Zhu Houzhao can make a successful decision. Then the cabinet will draw up an order to promulgate the whole world according to Zhu Houzhao's intentions. Next, there will be personnel and financial arrangements.

"Your Majesty, there are so many counties in the world. Each county has to appoint a teacher who manages higher primary schools, and the original teacher must be dispatched to other places to be promoted to magistrates. This is not easy! There are only a hundred juren who are studying in the capital university, and it is not enough to place them as teacher officials in the whole world!

Therefore, I suggest that a group of juren who studied in the Beijing University can be appointed as teachers in the north and south Zhili areas, and be responsible for establishing Gaodi Primary School. However, other areas still order magistrates and teachers in each county to form, and assign them according to the requirements of the court, and order the officials to supervise them. This will make the world understand that the students who come to the Beijing University to study can be directly reused to be taught in the good places like Zhili in the north and south, so as to encourage more students to study in the Beijing University."

Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, truthfully reported the difficulties of the Ministry of Personnel in implementing the establishment of a new school in the cabinet under the will of Zhu Hou in accordance with the will of the cabinet. He did not oppose His Majesty's intention to establish a new school and advocated the major policy of a hundred schools of thought. However, as a pragmatic official, he needed to let the emperor understand that many things are easy to say but difficult to accomplish overnight.

"What Zhang Qing said is reasonable, what do you think about the cabinet and the academic department?"

Zhu Houzhao also knew that implementing universal education in the Ming Dynasty and establishing an education and training system from childhood to adulthood is not a matter of a day or a night. It not only requires more financial support, but also more manpower support. There are many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, but what they lack is normal talents. Peking University was originally a comprehensive university for promoting natural sciences and social sciences, but now it has mainly become a training base for new-style education teacher students.

Even though the Beijing University has relaxed the admission threshold to the level of juren, it still cannot meet the empire's huge demand for normal students. Moreover, due to the existence of the imperial examination system, there are still a large number of students who are unwilling to sign up for the Beijing University but enjoy the official treatment and privileges given by the empire to continue to participate in the imperial examination and palace examination.

Although many Jinshi had already signed up for the third year of Zhengde, sixth year of Zhengde, and nineth year of Zhengde, after the palace examinations of these three subjects, many Jinshi had been willing to sign up for further study at the Peking University because they saw Zhang Cong and Xia Yan was obviously favored by the emperor.

However, the first batch of graduates of this group of Jinshi, namely the second year of Zhengde and the sixth year of Zhengde, had to be appointed to the Sixth Ministry and the Local Government to hold important official positions. After all, the empire now lacks new-style education talents in administrative and military aspects. Some officials of the Sixth Ministry and local officials were unwilling to let go of these talents after experiencing the ability of Jinshi from the Capital University. They even hoped that the court would appoint more such officials to themselves.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao also understood the difficulties of Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel.

At this time, the cabinet chief Wang Hua and others expressed their agreement one after another. Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded again and said, "Since that's the case, as Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, said, the Ministry of Personnel will first appoint the students of the advanced study at the Beijing University in Zhili to serve as a teacher in the north and south, and set up a new school. However, since it is a higher primary school, you must also learn more subjects. The common sense subject should be divided into two subjects of society and nature, and the specific course outline will be formulated by the department;

How to get students from all counties, villages and towns into higher primary schools? The admission ratio should be based on the maximum education budget of the national treasury and local tax revenue, and calculate how many students from allocated to higher primary schools should be guaranteed to be admitted to higher primary schools after the implementation of higher education nationwide!”

"I will receive the order!" The Minister of the School of Education Kang Hai and the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Wang Qiong stood up and replied in unison.

"Your Majesty, I have something to worry about." At this time, the second assistant to the cabinet, Liu Yu, stood up and said.

Zhu Houzhao hurriedly ordered his explanation.

Liu Yu said: "Last year, I inspected Huguang, Sichuan and other places according to Your Majesty's order, and found that a large number of social sciences still only taught eight-part articles. I asked about the reasons, and they all said that it was the self-decision of the elderly and gentry who were appointed as social sciences. It is said that because the world takes the imperial examination as the right way, and does not teach children the Four Books and Five Classics, and takes the imperial examination as the right way, wouldn't it mislead people's children?

Even if the court orders teach it with its arithmetic common sense, it will be complained by the neighbors and people. Some people even say that if the government had not forced their children to enter school, they would not have allowed their children to go to school, because this would result in no one feeding pigs and sheep at home and no one feeding them!

But the scholars and the people did not know that the court reformed social studies to cultivate various talents, which was a way to benefit the people!

Therefore, I am worried that even if Your Majesty intends to run a new school, the people of the world will not respond actively. Today, scholars and people still know that the imperial examination is the right way to select officials. Therefore, I am worried that even if the new school is established, the wealthy will only let the family children go to the business, while the poor will only let the family children go home to farm or go to the market town to be apprentices, and there are few who really take the exam for the new school."

"As the second assistant said, I was ordered to inspect Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi in March, and when I investigated the loss of population, I found that since the forced social education, the number of missing children in various places has increased a lot, because they were forced to go to school by the government during the day, and were forced to work by their family members at night and killed by their wild beasts and snakes or other reasons. Ignorants are also because they have disappeared after school or disappeared after school;

Although Your Majesty intends to give kindness to the common people, he will spare no money to educate them. However, few people have good fortune and kindness, either because their parents are cruel or because their parents cannot, so that their children have no joy when they are young;

In addition, there are also officials who are corrupt and greedy, and so on, so many common people's sons are forced to be recruited by the government as children. Some handsome people are sold out. The people dare not speak out. In order to avoid forced education, some families have moved into the mountains;

It was originally good governance but became evil politics;

I think if a new school is set up again, if Your Majesty force the sons of the common people to take the exam, it will probably make the common people more disgusted and even arouse civil unrest. If the new school is not set up, no one will take the exam even if it is set up. At that time, it will only cost money and increase the redundant staff of the court."
Chapter completed!