My Daming New Empire

Moreover, because Florence of the Medici family has the support of Ming Dynasty, the Papal State dare not directly deal with Florence, which further reduces the prestige of the Papal State.

Now, the speed of ideological emancipation of Europeans is accelerating, but Zhu Zhanji does not have an effective means to induce their ideological transformation, and only relies on political, military, and economic means to restrict them, which is not safe.

Moreover, there are irreconcilable contradictions between the liberation of the mind and the current ruling structure of Ming Dynasty. This kind of liberation of the mind can even directly affect the social stability of Ming Dynasty.

As the emperor, Zhu Zhanji, in addition to stabilizing the rule of the Han people over the world, of course hopes that his descendants can also rule forever.

However, he had to guard against the influence of the ideological emancipation of the European Renaissance on Ming Dynasty.

But at this time, he saw a bright spot in Zhang Han, a young man's mind, which gave him some inspiration.

Of course, Zhang Han is not like Marx, who put forward the theory of capital now.

However, based on the ruling structure of Ming Dynasty and the structure of European theocracy, he wrote the core point of view of class theory.

Although this thought is immature, it allowed Zhu Zhanji to see a direction of how to induce the transformation of human thinking.

That's class!

Chapter 26 Foundations of Social Stability

Ying Tianfu.royal palace.Be careful.

After the early court, when the chief officials were waiting for the officials of Honglu Temple to announce the disbandment of the court, Zhu Zhanji spoke first. "Today at noon, I will not receive foreign officials. I just want to discuss some issues with your dear ministers. Your dear ministers will stay in the palace for dinner and then hold a Sutra banquet."

Since the orthodox dynasty, the imperial court feasts have been in vain.What Zhu Zhanji looks down on the most are those old antiques who only hold the ancestral tablets and never lose them.

Even today's officials, if they don't have some basic skills, have no hope of being promoted.

During the Hongwu Dynasty, as long as Confucian disciples could read and write, they could enter the Guozijian and become candidates for officials.

In the Yongle Dynasty, only Juren or above could enter the Guozijian.

This is mainly because there are more and more scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and the selection is of course more stringent.

But at this time, the imperial court had not dug the foundation of Confucianism.

But in the Zhengtong Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji proposed the specialization of officials. To be an official in the Ministry of Industry, you must understand technology;

In this way, although there are more and more official positions, but if you only understand Confucian classics, you will naturally not be an official.

Especially those Confucian scholars who don't touch the spring water with their ten fingers and can't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks, they will never be able to become local officials.

As a result, the court's atmosphere of emphasizing current affairs has become stronger and stronger.

Jingyan was originally a lecture seat specially set up by emperors since the Han and Tang Dynasties for lectures on scriptures and history, and it began to be valued in the Song Dynasty.

In the original history, because of Zhu Zhanji's early death and Yingzong's accession to the throne, Sanyang carried forward this system and became the main way for the children of the royal family to receive education.

The lecturers are composed of officials from the six ministers and other officials, and there are also personnel who exhibit books, serve ceremonies, offer services, and praise.In addition to the sutra banquet three times a month, there are also daily lectures, which are only used to read the officials, cabinets, and bachelors, and do not need to wait for officials such as ceremonies. There are four or six lectures on officials. , only in understanding Yi Xiao.The ritual of daily lectures is much simpler than that of Jingyan, or it is called Xiaojingyan or Xiaojiao.

Since then, Jingyan lectures have been institutionalized, and positions such as Hanlin Bachelor, Hanlin Attendant, etc. are dedicated to Confucian academic propaganda, which has influenced generation after generation of emperors.

But now Zhu Zhanji did not die early, and he also tried every means to expand the influence of other academics.Although Confucianism is a prominent school, it does not have a complete strategy for practical governance, so it is gradually declining.

Since the Zhengtong Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji has built more than fifty universities in Yingtianfu.

Some of these universities specialize in finance and accounting, some in ideological education, some in physics, and so on.There are also different types of recruits. Children of soldiers naturally go to military academies, and there are schools specially built for nobles and clans.

Zhu Zhanji's children were educated in special schools since they were young. Although they also received the influence of Confucianism, this is just a discipline, which is equivalent to the ideology and morality of later generations.

But what really accounted for most of the assessment results was mathematics, studying things, and natural things.

If Confucianism wants to influence princes and grandchildren, yes, you go to school to teach, and there is only one class every three days.

But like mathematics and Gewu, there is one class a day, which is more important, and they all come out without comparison.

Of course, it is not that Zhu Zhanji does not pay attention to Confucianism. In fact, Zhu Zhanji still pays more attention to the human relations and class of Confucianism.

In those noble schools and civilian schools, there are not many of these classes.

But for princes and grandchildren, what they should learn more is the art of emperors, political wisdom, and balance of power.

If any prince has been poisoned by Confucianism and believes that Confucianism can govern the world, Zhu Zhanji will slap him directly to wake him up.

Although the chief officials don't know what the topic is today, everyone is used to the Sutra feast that Zhu Zhanji often holds.

In fact, the present Jingyan is no longer the exposition of the Confucianism propaganda.

Today's Jingyan is more like an academic discussion, a storm of ideas for the future development of Ming Dynasty.

For example, Confucianism attaches the most importance to the ancestral system, which cannot be changed.But for Zhu Zhanji, there is no such statement. Even the rules set by himself often change according to the changes of the current situation when the background has changed.

All the officials had a plain breakfast in the Wuying Hall, and one by one they lined up to enter the Jinshen Hall.

At this time, Zhang Han, who hadn't slept all night, was already waiting outside the Jinshen Hall holding his manuscript.

After receiving the notice from the palace last night, he didn't understand how some of his thoughts would alarm the emperor's grandfather.

Because of his pity for the alien race, he was afraid that he would displease the emperor's grandparents, so he was very nervous.But in his heart, he still has a sense of excitement.

He doesn't think he is wrong, he always believes that any kind of civilization should have its advanced side.

If Ming wants to develop, it cannot rest on its laurels, work behind closed doors, and accept different ideas.

He received the notice last night and brought many of the articles he had sorted out recently into the palace.

There are articles he wrote before, as well as many thoughts he wrote on the way home after his experience in Europe.

He wanted to use these to convince his imperial ancestors to relax the restrictions and exploitation of those white people, although most of those white people didn't know that they were being exploited by Ming Dynasty.

The eldest brother Zhang Hai looked at him who was a little nervous, and at first he smiled and comforted him: "Second brother, don't worry, we are the grandsons of the emperor's grandfather after all, even if we do something wrong, we will be scolded at most."

However, Zhu Zhanji did not give them a meal for breakfast, but just asked them to wait outside the Jinshen Hall.

Then, almost all the main ministers of the imperial court came.The speaker, the prime minister, the secretary-general, the chief officials of various ministries, and His Majesty's cabinet members, with a scale of nearly a hundred people, made Zhang Hai, who was standing outside the hall, a little confused.

He didn't think that the incident caused by his younger brother would alarm everyone. He thought that something important happened in the court today, so there was this impromptu meeting.

But soon, after all the officials went in, Li Liang's trembling figure came in front of their brothers. "Your Highness, please come in with this old servant."

Zhang Hai is resident in the capital and is familiar with Li Liang.He didn't dare to neglect this old man who had served his grandfather all his life. "Grandpa Li, all the important officials of the court are in the palace now, the emperor's patriarch will let us in at this time?"

Li Liang smiled and sighed, "Don't worry, His Majesty won't do anything to you..."

After receiving this comforting sentence, Zhang Hai felt relieved.But Zhang Han thought that his grandfather wanted to force him with a large number of people, so he followed Li Liang and entered the hall with a spirit of fearing death.

Hundreds of ministers filled the seats in the hall, and the cabinet members were not bad today, crowding around the high platform under Zhu Zhanji's dragon chair.