My Daming New Empire

During these three years, all children received four subjects of education: Mandarin, Mathematics, Physical Geography, and Gewu.

Mandarin learns pinyin from the very beginning, simple literacy, and can read a simple article.

Mathematics should learn simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and be able to settle simple accounts.

In terms of physical geography, it is necessary to understand the climate characteristics of various places, natural phenomena, and the best crops for different lands.

As for Gewu, it is to let all children know how to make and use simple tools, including some scientific principles.

In the first year of Zhengtong, about [-] basic schools were established across the country, and the teachers in these schools were ordinary scholars and scholars.

All scholars must teach for three years before being admitted to Juren, and must pass the standard, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the next scientific examination.

At that time, [-] girls' schools were established in cities above the county level across the country, and the teachers of these girls' schools were all maids who had been abolished from the palace.

Girls' schools, like boys' schools, offer three years of free basic education.Although three years cannot teach too much knowledge, it can ensure that all people are not blind and can use the Ming dictionary to learn more characters.

The Ming Dynasty dictionary was vigorously promoted nationwide after the concubines of the public made phonetic annotations for Chinese characters.

This dictionary is not much different from the Xinhua dictionary of later generations, but it is simpler.However, after decades of additions, the dictionary has become thicker and richer in content.

Zhu Zhanji also knows that three years is not enough to complete basic education, but he can't help it.Although the economy of Ming Dynasty has developed very well, the number of teachers and literati in the whole country, including economic strength, cannot provide nine-year free compulsory education.

Even in three years, many scholars have been used as teachers, which has added a lot of burden to the country.

After three years, children who are willing to receive education and children from wealthy families can continue to study and learn follow-up knowledge.

Forty years have passed, and the basic schools in Daming have grown to more than 40 boys' schools and nearly [-] girls' schools.

These schools have become the largest department of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites is now larger than the Ministry of Industry.

Just for its own power, the Ministry of Rites is also trying its best to promote the construction and development of the school.

It is precisely because of this environment that the literacy rate of Daming has been greatly improved. From the original literacy rate of less than 40.00%, it has now exceeded [-]%.

In a few decades, now that those illiterate old people have passed away, Zhu Zhanji believes that the literacy rate of people over ten years old can be raised to more than 90.00%.

The popularization of this kind of education has another advantage, that is, the status of Confucianism has been greatly weakened.

In the past, when people went to school, they would associate reading with Confucianism, because what they learned from childhood was Confucianism.

But now, children learn pinyin, mathematics, physical geography, and Gewu from the very beginning, all of which have little to do with Confucianism.

Now, no one associates literacy with Confucianism.

The emancipation of the minds of the people and the laying of the foundation for education are the basis for the great Ming Dynasty to take off, and it is also the basis for the rapid development of all walks of life.

When he returned to the palace in the evening, Zhu Zhanji saw all the information he wanted to see, and when all the information was gathered together, Zhu Zhanji was angry, but also cast a shadow in his heart.

Hu Shun is the grandson of Hu Yan. Although this Confucian disciple has limitations in ability, there is absolutely no doubt about his loyalty.

During his two-year tenure as the military supervisor in Hezhong, he questioned some of the Zheng family's behavior in his monthly work report.

However, these did not make some officials of the Ministry of National Defense pay attention to it, because the Zheng family's power was too great, and some suspicions were suspected of being hearsay.

The current Daming does not allow rumors to play a role. If you want to report, you must have evidence, or you will directly sue if you put yourself in danger.

Hu Shun didn't have a reason for doing so, he just raised some doubts in his work report, but the Ministry of National Defense didn't pay attention to it.

From these work reports, Zhu Zhanji was able to clearly figure out a context from beginning to end, that is, although Zheng Hong did not violate the law, he definitely committed dereliction of duty.

As the guardian of the west gate of the empire, it is difficult to continue to trust such a governor.

Zhu Zhanji took a closer look at the other honorable forces in the Governor's Mansion in Hezhong, because it is necessary to maintain a balance and prevent one family from dominating. There are at least three large forces in the Hezhong area, and the other two serve as vice-governors.

However, after the death of Li Xian, Marquis of Fengcheng and Song Jie, Marquis of Xining, who were enfeoffed there, the three families have now formed a close marriage relationship because of their marriage.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know how effective this kind of marriage was, but he knew very well that it was his own negligence, which led to the emergence of a warlord force in Ming Dynasty.

Today's Hezhong Governor's Mansion Daming has more than 150 million civilians, 15 main troops, and [-] auxiliary troops.In addition to the [-] main army, the [-] auxiliary army branch is stationed in the outskirts. In the heart of the river, the three forces control nearly [-] troops.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji doesn't believe that everyone will have dissent, even if Zheng Hong wants to rebel, I'm afraid their own family forces will oppose it.

This is because of the confidence given to him by the honorary system of the Ming Dynasty. Now the descendants of these families, the legitimate sons are all in Yingtianfu, and most of the underage children are still studying in Yingtianfu.

After Zhu Zhanji read the information, he ordered Li Zifeng to say: "Let me keep an eye on the people from these three families first, and when the information from the General Administration Department and the Advisory Information Department arrives, if there is any discrepancy, immediately control them. In addition, use the secret agents of the Department of General Administration and the Ministry of National Defense to keep an eye on Zheng Hong and report the situation of the army in the Hezhong area."

These are just in case, under the aura of Daming at its peak, no soldiers and common people would be sincerely willing to betray Daming.

In the Governor's Mansion in Hezhong, when telegrams were delivered, the telegraph machine in the telegraph office in the city had almost no time to spare.

After these instructions were translated by the staff of the Telegraph Bureau, they were quickly passed on to Zheng Hong.

Their Zheng family has been stationed in Hezhong for 42 years. For the first 20 years, Li Xian, Marquis of Fengcheng, who was born in a young army, and Song Hu, Marquis of Xining, who was a lieutenant-in-law, were all loyal to the emperor.

However, when the older generation passed away, it has now grown to the third and fourth generations. They enjoy the present glory and wealth more, and they are in cahoots with Zheng Hong, the current Governor of Hezhong.

They will not have the heart of rebellion, because each of them has been educated in Yingtian Mansion and understands how powerful Ming Dynasty is.

But under Zheng Hong's deliberate win over, the three families continued to marry and their relationship became closer and closer.

Although the telegraph office is controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is easy for Zheng Hong to arrange a few people to enter.

Seeing the collected information, Zheng Hong immediately panicked.Because these instructions come from different agencies, and the only one who can activate these agencies at the same time is the emperor who is aloof.

It doesn't matter if the emperor doesn't know about this matter, if it is necessary to investigate, what he has done in these years is definitely not loyal.

And he didn't dare to test the emperor's bottom line, whether he could tolerate him.

At this time, he didn't care about his eldest son Zheng Ying who was still in Yingtian Mansion, nor did he care about the dozen or so grandchildren of his family who were studying in Ying Tian Mansion.

At the first moment, what he thought of was to cut off the telegraph line between Hezhong and Yingtianfu, first cut off the emperor's eyes and ears, and then make a long-term plan.

"Come here, Commander Zheng Fang of Chuan Kangju, Commander of Sailan Zheng Bo."

At this time, he would never dare to use other people to act. The only ones he could trust were his son and his personal guards.

In front of Daming and Zheng Hong, his weight is too light.

Only by cutting the telegraph lines would he buy time to tie everyone to his boat.As long as the established facts are established and those people cannot disembark, he can control the army and negotiate terms with the emperor.

Zheng Fang and Zheng Bo were not incompetent people. They already knew the general situation when the Telegraph Bureau was sending and receiving endless telegrams today and people from all walks of life took action.

The two brothers came to the main hall of the Governor's Mansion worriedly, and were led into Zheng Hong's study by the guards.

Zheng Hong, who was sitting behind the big case, lost his previous momentum and looked much older.But at this time, he still cheered up and pretended to be confident.

"Fang'er, this Hu Shun, as the staff officer of the Hezhong Army, not only refused to obey his father, but also repeatedly slandered His Majesty. I order you to immediately send someone to detain them and put them in prison. Bo'er, you take it easy and lead the Governor's Mansion with two hundred Guard, I want you to cut off the telegraph line between Kangju and Yingtianfu before sunset."