Daming Military Empire

Chapter 477 Educational Issues
After dealing with the matter of technological development, Zhu Cijiong unconsciously ran back to the Kunning Palace to amuse children. It is not that he intends to neglect politics, but that the daily political affairs are handled by the cabinet chief assistant Xu Guangqi and the cabinet prime minister Zhu Youjian. , he basically doesn't have to worry too much.

Among the emperors of all dynasties, he can be regarded as the most diligent one, because he has insisted on the early court since he succeeded to the throne. If there is no special reason, the early court is almost every day.

This sounds simple, but it is very difficult to do. Getting up at four or five o'clock in the morning to deal with government affairs is not something ordinary people can persist in. Therefore, there are very few emperors in the past who can insist on going to court every morning. There are many people in the early morning.

For example, in Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", there is a sentence "The spring night is bitter and the short day is high, and the king will not go to court early."

Of course, the early court is not the only criterion for judging whether an emperor is diligent or not. Many people prefer to use the review of memorials as an example. If an emperor reads the memorials every day, forgets to eat and sleep, loses weight day by day, and even vomits blood, that is called Diligent too!
Speaking of reviewing memorials, Zhu Cijiong is simply an emperor who is too lazy to scare people, because he has no habit of reviewing memorials since he took the throne. At the beginning, it was because he was too young to review memorials. Later, it was entirely because of him. I don't like to sit there and review the memorials, so I specially set up a cabinet minister to review the memorials on his behalf.

Is it right to do this?From the perspective of the laws and regulations inherited in the past dynasties, it is wrong for him to do so, but in terms of actual effects, he is not wrong at all.

Generally, what is written in memorials is actually mostly about daily government affairs, ranging from large yamen in the capital to small ones in local prefectures and counties.

For example, the Ministry of Households is going to distribute the salaries of officials, the Ministry of Officials is going to appoint and dismiss an official, this prefecture is going to execute a group of prisoners, that prefecture wants to build roads, etc. How huge is the Ming Dynasty? There are only dozens or hundreds, and there are thousands in the state and county governments. There may be only a few major events in a day, but there are not many small events.

When Zhu Cijiong first succeeded to the throne, his daily memorials were no less than [-] copies, and now it is as many as [-] or [-] copies a day. If he went to review the memorials every day, he would probably have to bury them in the memorial pile from morning to night. Time to take care of other things.

In fact, as long as there are institutional constraints on daily affairs, the key to a country lies in the development of economy, military, culture, technology, etc. If an emperor focuses his energy on handling daily affairs, then the country will stagnate , or even regression.

Perhaps this is the reason why the feudal dynasties are gradually declining. Of course, Zhu Cijiong has no time to sum up this, because his two sons are too busy.

No, after a few days of relaxation, the empress dowagers of the two palaces started nagging again. The two princes grew up day by day, and a lot of concubines in the harem were pregnant. Should the emperor think about children? What about the education problem?

Naturally, this issue must be considered. In future generations, ordinary people will regard the education of their children as the top priority, let alone now that he is still an emperor.

In fact, an emperor does not need to personally teach his children. There have been institutions dedicated to serving the children of the royal family in all dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, this institution was called Zhan Shifu.

The main function of this Zhan Shifu is to teach and counsel the prince.

However, since the mid-Ming Dynasty, Zhan Shifu has mostly become the transfer rank of Hanlin officials, and the prince's lecturer and attendant are generally served by court officials concurrently.

Like the present Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi is Huang Daozhou. Zhu Cijiong didn't want him to teach the prince, but because there was no suitable position to promote Huang Daozhou's rank at that time, so he was assigned Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi. Title, to raise his rank to the third grade, but in fact he is still in charge of the Imperial College.

At that time, the prince was still missing, so Zhu Cijiong naturally didn't need to think about these things, but now it's different, the education of the prince is a major national event, and it can't be sloppy at all.

Shouldn't the affairs of Zhan Shifu be simply handed over to Huang Daozhou?Zhu Cijiong thought about it, but still felt something was wrong.

To say that Huang Daozhou's knowledge is very profound, it is enough to be the prince's teacher, but his character is too extreme, if he teaches the prince to be as stubborn as he is, it will not be the blessing of Ming Dynasty!

then what should we do?Huang Daozhou is quite capable of handling affairs. Under his promotion, Chinese culture has the potential to become the mainstream culture in the world today. Zhu Cijiong is still very satisfied with this, and now he has given his Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi It is very inappropriate, you must know that the Guozijian sacrificial wine is only from the fourth grade.

After much deliberation, Zhu Cijiong decided that he might as well be promoted. Anyway, the Zhan Shifu can't make him responsible. He doesn't want his sons to be as stubborn as donkeys in the future.

However, Zhu Cijiong checked the setting of the official position and found that there was no place for Zodiac Zhou!
Logically speaking, the most suitable place to promote him is the Ministry of Rites. However, Qian Shisheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Fan Jingwen, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, are both role models of officials. is impossible.

As for the Minister of Rites, let alone Xu Guangqi's position cannot be changed as long as Xu Guangqi is in court.

This problem is entangled. If there is no position, Huang Daozhou can't be moved away. It's not suitable to fuck him. What should I do?

Zhu Cijiong thought hard for a few days, and finally thought of a way, that is to set up a yamen for Huang Daozhou, a yamen equivalent to six departments, so that he can be promoted to the official second-rank minister.

He did not make such a decision because he was overheated and acted indiscriminately. No one stipulated that the imperial court could only have six departments. The Ming Dynasty just followed the old system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, that is, the system of three provinces and six departments.

For example, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the Hu Weiyong case to influence the prime minister, completely dismissed the officials of Zhongshu Province, and assigned the power of Zhongshu Province to the six departments.

The founder of the country can abolish the three provinces, and the rejuvenation leader can naturally increase the number of yamen. In fact, with the expansion and development of Ming Dynasty, many departments have been overwhelmed.

Like the Ministry of Households, it not only manages the salaries of hundreds of thousands of officials, but also manages the finances of thousands of prefectures and counties. Daming now has two capitals and 35 provinces, two Zhili prefectures, and countless merchants. Even if the department is doubled in size, it will not be able to handle it.

Another example is the Guozijian. In the past, it was enough to manage the Gongsheng students. Now it not only has to manage the Gongsheng students, but also the enlightenment education in various places, the imperial examinations of the vassal states, and the promotion of Han culture. There are so many things, just a small one. How can the yamen manage it.

Why do you say that the Guozijian Yamen is small?Because Guozijian has only one Jijiu from the fourth rank, and one official from the sixth rank, and there are less than ten sesame officials below the seventh rank!
(End of this chapter)