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"Regret..." After hearing this, Guang Haijun repeated it in a low voice, and seemed to be asking himself, looking at the roof with a dull look.

Thinking about what I have experienced in this life, there are no smooth times. At the beginning, he was not valued by his father, but later he finally came to power. The rise of the Qing Dynasty from Liaodong was nothing. As a result, the Ming Dynasty suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Sarhu. After that battle, I felt that I had clearly seen the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and thought that the Ming Empire was at the end of its rope.

It was based on this judgment that I made my choice. But...but...who would have thought that even the capital city of Ming Dynasty was invaded by the Qing Dynasty, but in the end it was still able to come back to life, and actually defeated the Qing Dynasty completely, and was even driven into the sea, and fled to the Japanese country like a bereaved dog. Come……

Seeing that Lord Guanghai was silent, Wu Daji asked coldly: "North Korea has been made angry by His Highness. The country is in ruins and the foundation of the ancestors is not preserved. Does Your Highness regret it?"

"Hahaha..." Lord Guanghai suddenly burst out laughing after hearing this. Contrary to the weak way he spoke before, it seemed as if he had exhausted all his strength.

After a while, he looked at Wu Daji, stared into his eyes and replied decisively: "If I had to do it over again, Gu's decision would still not change. Regret? Is regret useful? It's just a winner and a loser. The Qing Dynasty defeated the Ming Dynasty, so you guys probably came to add to Gu Ying’s toes again, should you say Gu Ying Ming? Hahaha..."

Anger flashed on Wu Daji's face when he heard this. He took a few steps forward, grabbed Guang Haijun's collar, and stared at him angrily, as if he wanted to eat Guang Haijun.

However, Lord Guanghai was not afraid at all. He looked back at Wu Daji's eyes with a cold face and just stared silently.

In the end, Wu Daji didn't make any further moves. He relaxed his hand and let go of Mr. Guang Hai, turned around and left without any hesitation.

The moment he stepped out of the door, laughter suddenly came from the room, with pride, arrogance, and madness...

When Wu Daji heard it, he paused and seemed to want to turn around and go in. However, he did not turn around in the end, but strode away. I don't know if it was because I was far away or something else, but I felt that the laughter behind me quickly weakened.

That night, someone came to report that Lord Guanghae was dead.

When Wu Daji heard this, he was not surprised. He kept doing whatever he had to do. It seemed that the person who died was not the former king of North Korea, so he reacted as if the person who died was a passerby.

The news of Guanghai-kun's death also reached Toyotomi Kunisatsu's ears. He felt emotional, but did not express any further.

Toyotomi Kunimatsu's current situation is the same as Gwanghae-kun's. He is under surveillance and has lost his freedom. However, his living conditions are better than Gwanghae-kun's. At this time, he actually regretted inviting the wolf into the house. He was not sure, if the Japanese were really defeated by the Manchus, would his brand name still be useful to the Manchu emperor? If it is of no use, wouldn't it just be under house arrest like it is now? But if the Manchu Qing Dynasty was suppressed by the Tokugawa Shogunate, he could at least be certain that he would never survive!

If I had known this, I would have lived peacefully. How wonderful it would have been!

Whether these two people from the Japanese country really regret it or they really don’t regret it, it actually doesn’t matter. But the Emperor of Ming Dynasty can be sure that he will never regret it.

The eight years of Chongzhen will pass in the blink of an eye. This year is both good and bad for Emperor Chongzhen!

I learned through the chat group that the Chinese New Year is almost here, but there is no snow in Shanxi and Shaanxi. This means that there are likely to be natural disasters in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces next spring, and prevention must be carried out in advance.

Because of this, Emperor Chongzhen went to Xu Guangqi's house in person to see how he was recuperating, and then consulted about the agricultural affairs in Qin and Jin. After all, Xu Guangqi was at least an authority in agriculture. Of course, Ming Dynasty has actually had a disaster relief system since its founding. Emperor Chongzhen took the current situation into consideration and started preparations first.

In the original history, in February of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Shanxi suffered from successive years of drought and insect disasters, and then in March, another great famine occurred. At that time, the hungry people had no food and had to eat bark, grass and leaves. When the bark and grass leaves are gone, people can eat them.

Although the history of the late Ming Dynasty was influenced by the factors of the Little Ice Age, man-made disasters were the main cause. If the officials and the people were united, what could happen to the Little Ice Age?

The original Emperor Chongzhen actually understood this truth. On the 10th day of the fifth lunar month of the following year, he issued an edict to the world: I uphold the way of heaven and bow down to control all directions. I think of these soldiers and civilians, who are not innocent. It is only because of corrupt officials, cunning, years of famine, hunger and cold, and forced me to do wrong. for. One or two are ignorant, and gradually threaten to follow the crowd. Over the past few years, countless innocent people have been killed. I am heartbroken and sympathize with you, and I sleep peacefully...

However, so what if he knew? With his ability, there is no way he can turn the tide! Only a soul from the next generation with a golden thigh can turn things around in just a few years. Therefore, the Chinese civilization has been able to avoid disaster and remain at the top of the world.

In this dimension, Nanyang is already the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although the vassal king has been sealed off, there is a shortage of everything in the vassal state, except for food. Grain from Southeast Asia was continuously sent back to China in exchange for the large number of products produced due to the emergence of the steam engine. It was a mutually beneficial and win-win move.

Having said that, at the end of the eighth year of Chongzhen, except for the possibility of natural disasters, there is basically good news in other aspects. The most direct thing is that the treasury revenue has increased greatly again. However, the large increase this time was a bit beyond everyone's expectations.

It was originally thought that with the new vassal state and the further expansion of overseas trade, tax revenue from sea trade would always remain the number one source of national treasury revenue. As a result, as soon as the statistical results came out, after the implementation of the new salt policy, the revenue from salt tax increased by leaps and bounds, even exceeding the growth rate of sea trade tax revenue!

Seeing this result, Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers all smiled with joy. Before this, they had never thought that the salt tax could collect so much!

"Your Majesty's salt policy is really great!" Wen Tiren praised to his face without hesitation, "The revenue from salt tax in this first year has reached tens of millions of taels, almost three times the amount. many!"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled after hearing this, and he was also happy in his heart. He replied with a smile: "This is actually nothing. We have such a large population in Ming Dynasty, and salt is a necessity, so how can it be possible that there is only a small salt tax like in the past! My new policy , which fundamentally attacks private salt. The price of official salt is actually lower than that of private salt, which directly squeezes out the market of private salt. In this way, the revenue from salt tax will be obvious. I believe that next year’s salt tax will be higher than that of private salt. More this year!”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Wen Tiren happily flattered him again. At this time, he had the feeling that the emperor would make money. Of course, he really knew how to make money. He, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, should not be too comfortable. Got it!

In the Wenhua Hall, the other courtiers were similar, and they were all cheerful. Among them, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Household Affairs, was the most deeply moved.

In the early years, every time when the Chinese New Year was coming, it was the time when he, the Minister of Household Affairs, had the most headaches. Rats could starve to death in the national treasury, but everywhere needed money to celebrate the New Year. At that time, I didn’t know how to spend the New Year.

It seems that since the Jianlu invaded the capital, the emperor seemed to have been stimulated. From then on, each year became better and better, and the end of each year became a moment that people looked forward to. In the past, no one would have believed the state treasury revenue at the end of this year.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers below and said with a smile: "Although the revenue from the treasury has increased a lot, this money is not enough for my plan. We must continue to work hard in the coming year!"

Wen Tiren and others did not find this strange at all. Money, who would have too much?

The emperor can make money, but he can also spend money!

After receiving the response from the ministers, Emperor Chongzhen said: "The foundation of our strong Ming Dynasty lies in education. Therefore, I decided to continue to invest in education. Compared with before, I decided to build a new yamen system to specifically Used to manage Daming Education..."

Upon hearing this, Wen Tiren and others were not surprised, but also a little surprised.

The emperor attaches great importance to the education of the people of Ming Dynasty, and they all know this. This can be seen just from the fact that children's schools were established throughout the Ming Dynasty and school-age children were admitted to study for free. Such a thing has never happened before.

In addition, they would not be surprised if a new yamen was built. Because before this, the emperor had already established a new Ministry of Communications to manage the national infrastructure, and its status was the same as that of the six ministries. In addition, a new Science and Technology Cleaning Department Office was established under the Ministry of Industry.

They were a little surprised that the new yamen that the emperor wanted to establish turned out to be dedicated to managing education. They thought that the emperor already valued education enough compared to other emperors, but they did not expect that the emperor valued education far beyond their imagination.

In the Ming Dynasty, after Taizu founded the country, in terms of education system, there was an Imperial College in the capital, and there were government schools, prefecture schools, county schools, and health schools in the local areas. Although there were school faculty management, in fact, they were only schools. Responsibilities, not educational management institutions.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a full-time organization for education management, but only had specialists. Starting from the first year of Zhengtong, academic advisors were set up to supervise academic affairs. The appointed officials range from ministers of various ministries (from the second rank) to ministers of various ministries (from the fifth rank) to those who are Jinshi. Therefore, there is no fixed grade for academic administration in each province. If one is taught academic administration by a minister, it is regarded as the second rank, and if one is taught academic affairs by a doctor, it is regarded as the fifth rank. However, he must be a Jinshi of the second rank.

In a sense, the position of admiral of academic affairs is more similar to that of an imperial envoy, and it does not refer to all educational institutions in later generations.

Of course, the school still has academic rules. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign, twelve academic rules were issued, and in the Wanli period, the "Admiral's School Official's Edict" was promulgated.

These high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty in the Wenhua Hall are naturally aware of these situations. After all, the people standing in the hall now have all passed the imperial examination and have experienced it personally. Regarding the fact that the emperor attached great importance to education, they would not object with the view that "dumbing down the people is more conducive to rule". Otherwise, when the emperor promotes scientific and technological knowledge, someone will jump out and make trouble.

Of course, in the final analysis, Emperor Chongzhen's prestige was high enough and he could firmly control the court, so he didn't have so many troubles.

I heard Emperor Chongzhen continue to talk about his thoughts above: "It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. The education plan cannot be overemphasized. The future of the Ming Dynasty that I envision is impossible without a large number of scholars. I I have publicly expressed my ambition before that everyone in the Ming Dynasty should have access to books. This is not just talk, and it must not be changed by the situation. Therefore, I feel that based on the current treasury revenue, the Ming Dynasty has the ability to establish a special management The yamen of education is under full-time education management!”

As for what the new Yamen should be like, these ministers have no say. After all, it is the emperor's new idea. They can only listen silently with their ears.

"I have decided to establish a new Department of Education, directly under the Ministry of Rites, led by the Minister of Rites, responsible for education management, mainly for the management of students across the country, as well as the teaching content of all levels of education, school expansion and other education-related content..."

In Emperor Chongzhen's conception, the Education Department was an important yamen under the Ministry of Rites, and the first responsible person was directly designated as the Minister of Rites. This also shows that he attached great importance to the Education Department.

Sun Yuanhua, the Minister of Rites, was very happy after hearing this. Putting the Education Department under his control is equivalent to adding a new piece of power. More importantly, he felt that from now on, he would be the mentor of all scholars, right?

Of course, he also vaguely understood that the reason why the emperor put him in charge was because he was a strong supporter of promoting scientific and technological knowledge. The emperor's intention should also be to focus more on the dissemination and learning of scientific and technological knowledge in education.

In fact, other ministers also understood this. Although Xu Guangqi retired due to illness and returned to his hometown, with the emperor as the largest promoter of scientific and technological knowledge, there would be no possibility of recurrence.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Wen Tiren and others asked several personnel questions about the newly established Education Department. The Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of Communications asked several questions that seemed to involve them, and the emperor got the answer. After the confirmation reply, there was no doubt anymore.

Emperor Chongzhen was not surprised by this. He knew that if the treasury had no revenue, the establishment of a new government office would easily attract opposition. After all, if there were too many monks and too little food, it would be common for monks to fight. But now that the treasury's revenue is increasing year by year, there won't be much of a conflict of interest.

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen decided to send a big red envelope to them all. It is the Chinese New Year, so they must be happy and happy, so that everyone can be successful!

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