It is really difficult to govern a country. If it can be as simple as playing games, it would be better to build a base and develop its power, then explode the troops, and finally a wave of people went over and live together.

But in fact, governing a country is not as simple as playing games. Instead, it is really as mentioned in the "Tao Te Ching". Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food.

The bigger the country, the more this happens.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was very large. Whether in terms of population or area, in the 13th year of Chongzhen, there was only one such thing in the world.

All the rest is slag.

The problem is that the 13th year of Chongzhen is different from 2003, and it is not even comparable to 1903.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, there were no telegrams, telephones, and networks. Although the train was built, its speed was much worse than the speed of a horse running. If it was to be dead, it would be similar to that of a mule.

In this case, if you accidentally manage this country, if you really play around with the war, you don’t have to do anything else. You act as a firefighter all day long and completely destroy the entire country and fight again.

But it is impossible to hit it again. The people of the Ming Dynasty are not NPCs, and they will not be resurrected after being dead and reset. If they die, they will die.

It would be no benefit to Emperor Chongzhen himself, even if it was less restrictive.

So at the beginning, he killed Jiannu and stabilized the situation, Emperor Chongzhen chose to take his time.

This time, the change to the imperial examination is the first step.

What is the most expensive thing in the 21st century? It is talent!

What was the most expensive thing in the 13th year of Chongzhen? It is also a talent!

Wen Tiren is old, Shi Fenglai is old, and even the Zhuangli House, who just played a scoundrel in front of him, is actually no longer young.

Even if these people can hold on, they will be almost done if they last for another ten or eight years. What if they last for another twenty years?

Those who should retreat will eventually have to retreat, and then a group of new people will still have to come up.

But in my pitifully few historical knowledge, I didn’t remember that a few reliable officials could believe it!

Especially the area of ​​the Ming Dynasty is much larger than before. The local management needed by Liaodong and Nurkandusi alone has to be calculated in units of thousands or tens of thousands, not to mention other territory.

For example, North Korea, no matter how small it is, it is also a peninsula territory. The officials needed on it are also in units of thousands, or even tens of thousands.

The most troublesome thing is that the imperial examinations are once every three years! And the number of people admitted is only 300!

More importantly, even if these 300 people are admitted, they cannot be arranged directly to be an official in the local area.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen always shouted at me when the Ming Dynasty was missing to become an official, but he knew in his heart that it was not a matter of training a qualified official.

At least you have to walk in the eight parts for a period of time, observe how the big guys play, and only after passing the study will they be transferred to the place.

Only in this way can we ensure that these officials will not be influenced by the masters and other minor officials after they arrive at the place, and will become like human-shaped stamps.

As for local clan forces or other confusing issues, it depends on the skills of each official. After graduating from the six departments, it is still not possible to play with local forces, and it deserves to die!

But no matter what, the problem of lack of people has always existed like this, and it is not easy to solve in a short period of time. Those who want to be officials are lacking, and those who lack qualified officials.

If it weren't for this reason, why did Emperor Chongzhen add Enko five or six times from the first year of Chongzhen to the thirteenth year?

After thinking carefully for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen finally made a difficult decision.

In the social sciences, the proportion of math questions in the provincial, county and palace examinations must be increased from zero to about ten percent.

If you weren't worried that these scholars from the Ming Dynasty would be too serious, Emperor Chongzhen even wanted to add the topics of the study of the Investigation of Things, and finally achieve the integration of the three major subjects of the Jinshi and Mingzai, and the study of things.

After hearing what Emperor Chongzhen thought, Meng Shaoyu felt a pain.

If the ratio of calculation and learning is not increased, Emperor Chongzhen changed the three-year imperial examination to two years, which would be his own political achievements. If he increased the ratio of calculation and learning, he would have to be scolded.

The left and right are not pleasing.

After thinking for a while, Meng Shaoyu spoke: "Your Majesty, if the proportion of mathematics has been increased now, then the spring examination and autumn examinations of the 13th year of Chongzhen?"

Emperor Chongzhen said: "If you don't teach, you will be punished, you will be abused. I have no intention of killing you without teaching, and it is even more impossible for me to leave no time for the students of the Ming Dynasty.

Let’s do this. The imperial examinations from the 13th to the 17th year of Chongzhen will be held according to the original imperial examination rules. After the 17th year of Chongzhen, the proportion of mathematics and education will be increased during the exam.

As for social science, we will add some simple subjects to study and do not use them for the exam for the time being."

From the 13th to the 17th year of Chongzhen, there were three spring taboos and three autumn examinations, and the time span reached five years.

If these guys cannot start learning mathematics in five years, then these scholars can only be said to be a group of slaughter who study hard and there is no need to pay attention to it.

After Emperor Chongzhen’s transformation, the biggest difference between Daming and Miqing was that the academic atmosphere was open.

People are studying any Neo-Confucianism and psychology, and even the Huang-Lao theory and the Legalist theory and the Mohist theory have begun to emerge.

It can be foreseeable that if this academic openness continues, it is not necessarily difficult to reappear the controversy of hundreds of schools of thought.

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply ordered: "Meng Aiqing prepares, I intend to make public the collection of books in the imperial history."

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said that it was not only Meng Shaoyu, but also Guo Yunhou was a little excited.

Where was the imperial history sect built during the Jiajing period?

Just like the Shiqu Pavilion of the Old Liu family, the imperial history houses documents such as records, hadiths, jade plates, edicts and other documents of emperors of the Ming Dynasty, as well as a large number of classics plundered by the royal family.

Many classics that have been out of print or even lost are likely to be found in the Imperial History!

Among them are the copy of the "Yongle Encyclopedia" copied during the Jiajing period, and it is even possible to find the original version of the rumor that was buried in Yongling!

After taking a deep breath, Meng Shaoyu simply bowed and said, "I will report to Your Majesty, please come to the Emperor's Secretariat to copy the classics!"

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "What I want is not to copy one, but to copy all the secrets and print them out a few more copies.

The two capitals and 13 provinces, plus Nurkandus, Duogansi, Wusizang, Xinming Island, Luzon, Korea and other places, all places have set up bookkeeping pavilions to preserve them for the world to read them."

After forcibly pressing the excitement in his heart, Meng Shaoyu bowed and opposed: "Your Majesty think twice!"

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen's curious eyes coming, Meng Shaoyu said carefully: "I'll tell Your Majesty that the imperial history has a lot of books, and there are even many secrets that are not passed down, or some secrets are involved.

Your Majesty loves the people. It was a good thing to open the royal collection of books for the people of the world to read, but if some of the secrets were passed on?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "This, I will arrange for someone to keep an eye on it. Some things that are not suitable for being disclosed now will definitely not be disclosed now. Don't worry, my dear."

In fact, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, there is nothing that cannot be made public. Even if it is hidden now, it will be exposed sooner or later.

However, Meng Shaoyu’s concern is not wrong. There are so many emperors ahead of him. Who of these guys has no dark history?

It would be fine if the old winners, the old Liu family, the old Yang family, the Li family, and the old Zhao family were released. It has nothing to do with me anyway, but what about the old Zhu family?

Although I don’t care much about the black history of the fifteen emperors above, I just let it go, right?

After considering for a while, Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, should you take this opportunity to collect some classics from the people again?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "I have this plan, and take advantage of this opportunity to copy the classics and see what kind of isolated books there are among the people, and copy them a few more copies.

After the copy was finished, I originally gave it to his master and collected the copy in various bookstores in the world, so as to avoid the loss of classics in the future."

Meng Shaoyu was even more excited.

In addition to his opinion being adopted by Emperor Chongzhen, he also copied more classics and included them in the Tianxia Book Pavilion because Emperor Chongzhen proposed.

What's this?

This is definitely the civilized governance! Only in prosperous times can one have civilized governance!

After considering it, Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this book pavilion?"

After Emperor Chongzhen said no, he simply ordered Wang Chengen: "Go to find Master Wen and Master Lai, and Minister of Works Xue Fengxiang to come to the palace to see me."

Why did Emperor Chongzhen summon these people into the palace? Guo Yunhou and Meng Shaoyu can even think of it with their butts.

Meng Shaoyu didn't care. He wanted Emperor Chongzhen to make a little more disturbing about this matter, but Guo Yunhou felt relieved after a slight pain.

As the Minister of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty, what are you most afraid of?

Not to mention the Minister of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty, no one who is linked to the word "bank" in all dynasties is not afraid of being short of money!

But I am different. The most difficult thing to endure was the period from the Year of the Tianqi period to the early Chongzhen period. Later, I rarely had time to lack money.

Especially now, a large amount of silver is piled up in the treasury, and from time to time, it has to be taken out and taken care of.

Not to mention the two capitals and thirteen provinces and several other places have built book pavilions, even if the number is increased several times, the current treasury can support it!

Moreover, the emperor spent the money. When he thought about leading troops out to roam next time, he would have better reasons to object, right?

Kill two birds with one stone!

Wen Tiren and Lai Zongdao were very confused and could not understand why Emperor Chongzhen summoned the two of them into the palace with Xue Fengxiang, the Minister of Works, who could not be beaten by eight poles.

After hearing Meng Shaoyu's words, the three confused people suddenly became excited.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even from the strong Qin Dynasty to the old Song Dynasty, who has a book that doesn’t treasure like it?

Even the royal family is no exception. A lot of classics were collected, but they were all placed in the royal secret store to eat ashes. No one ever thought of engraving countless copies of these classics and making them public to the world.

The time I was in office had become such a big deal. No matter how foolishly I wrote it in later history books, the contributions of these people could not be erased!

Even if they support Emperor Chongzhen in the battle and kill people everywhere, they will not change the contributions of them, and they will even be able to make a better choice for this!

But after calming down, Wen Tiren still bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is too much involved, and we still need to make a long-term plan."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "One person is short-sighted, three people are the leader. Wen Aiqing and Lai Aiqing will discuss it first. When the meeting is about to be held, it will be discussed at the court meeting."

After saying goodbye and leaving the palace, Wen Tiren stroked his beard with a smile and said, "This is worth my life!"

He came to the sect to make fun of him: "The emperor of Fu Bi pacified the world, and he encountered such a grand event again. Master Wen Ge is really envious of others!
To be continued...