System, help me become the empress

Chapter 148 Establishing a University (Two in One)

At this time, only Xu Youxi and Du Zhiyi were left in the meeting hall.

After everyone had left for a while, Xu Youxi slowly began to persuade: "Master Du, if you really have any good ideas in the future, you can bring them up with me first, there is no need to make yourself an enemy too obviously."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern, but today's imperial court also needs people like me, doesn't it?"

Du Zhiyi also looked that his emotional intelligence was not high, but he was actually more transparent than anyone else.

It was as if Jin Yiwei had already given a helping hand before he sent people to various places to liquidate the land, and settled the people and the matter.He never resisted such things, on the contrary, he would take the initiative to help Jin Yiwei cover up.

Du Zhiyi is actually very clear that he has only one principle, which is to make the Dagan country better and better, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Let's say that.

Xu Youxi brought Du Zhiyi back to the imperial court, and even directly appointed him as the Secretary of the Household Department. He didn't have many ups and downs in his heart. After years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he has become indifferent to fame and fortune. He only hopes to do his best to ensure the benefit of the people. .

Until Du Zhiyi saw with his own eyes, how the new emperor led the Shenjiying to become stronger, how he led Wen Deyi to establish the Shengong Bureau, and even had the courage to start an office when the national treasury was empty. study.

This incident made him feel hopeful. He thought that the best future for Daqian was just the rule of ZTE. Until he met Xu Youxi, he suddenly discovered that with his barren imagination, he had completely Can't imagine what the future will look like.

But he is inexplicably sure that the glory of Daqian must have just begun!
From then on, Du Zhiyi slowly began to cooperate with the new emperor in his own way.

When Xu Youxi complained of illness for the first time and asked the Supreme Emperor to take her place in the early court, he also panicked for a moment, worrying whether the Empress was really imprisoned by the Supreme Emperor.

Countless thoughts of how to rebel with Xu Youxi even popped up in his mind repeatedly.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm, and the new emperor just left Shangjing temporarily to deal with matters, so he will guard the country for His Majesty, for example, be optimistic about the Supreme Emperor and all the officials, and not let them do anything wrong.

For example, when the new emperor left Shangjing under the pretext of 'calling illness' for the second time, not only he had experience, but the rest of the ministers also cooperated with the Supreme Emperor in acting.

Until, the news of His Majesty's assassination came from Shangjing.

At that time, all the officials knew very well how important Shangjing was, and how important the existence of the Shenji Battalion was to 'guarding the safety of Shangjing'!But at the same time, everyone has never agreed so tacitly that everyone in the Shenji Camp must be mobilized to protect His Majesty's safe return at all costs!
Du Zhiyi sighed.

In fact, he also knew that what he said just now made him an enemy, and he was a little impulsive, but when he remembered that His Majesty had encountered such a dangerous situation, he couldn't bear it!

Your Majesty is the hope of Daqian, and he must not be hurt by a few scumbags.

……

When Xu Youxi looked up, he was surprised to find that Master Du was distracted, and deliberately increased his voice: "Master Du, although I arranged for you to participate in the legislation of the "Land Law", you should try your best to read as much as possible, and don't affect their legislation. No matter how selfish Chen Huishi and the others are, they dare not fool me in this regard."

"Yes, Your Majesty. Excuse me, if Your Majesty really wants to convert all the 'private land' in the world into 'public land', the most difficult problem to solve is not the private landowners, but those clans that own a lot of land." Du Replied respectfully.

"Well, I will consider what Master Du said, but there is really no rush for this matter." Xu Youxi had no choice, "It is already the beginning of May, and the Ministry of Households will collect the summer tax in June, Master Du, get ready. In the first half of this year, I haven't heard of any natural disasters, so the local harvest should not be too bad. The farmers in Jishan, Hunan, planted late this year, so the summer tax should be reduced first."

"Yes."

"After the Ministry of Households collects taxes, wherever the 'one whip method' is tried out, part of the tax money needs to be collected to purchase grain locally as a reserve and establish a grain reserve. Try to encourage people everywhere to use 'paper notes' to offset taxes. If Lord Du finds out Taxes in some areas are all silver, so there must be problems.”

"At the beginning of June, I have to trouble Mr. Du to personally go to the Jiangnan and Lianghu areas to investigate the implementation of the 'One Whip Law'. At the same time, compare the different reactions between the Jiangnan and Lianghu areas after the reform, and focus on the 'Land Reform' and the Lianghu areas. What is the effect of the 'military system reform'."

Xu Youxi specially warned: "Master Du, I can't tell anyone about the fact that I am going to send you out in June."

"The minister obeys the order."

Du Zhiyi was also a little helpless, why did he feel that His Majesty seemed to be very worried that something would happen to him.

In fact, it is not so, he has almost grasped the characters of the few people he offended.Although Bao Changnian has many tricks, as long as you don't touch his bottom line, this person won't even let you know when he loses his temper.

Du Zhiyi thought that at most he would make Bao Changnian's teeth itch with anger, and it wouldn't be to the point of 'you're going to die', right?
Meng Zhiqian does things aboveboard and doesn't like petty tricks; Yao Dacheng doesn't have enough brains; the rest of the six parts are assigned various tasks by His Majesty, and every day is already full of chaos. Most likely, these people found out that there was really nothing to write in the memorial one day, so they used it to scold him.

Like Shi Miao Wenzheng, the left governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he really doesn't like him. He hides this person deeply, so he rarely offends him.

"Master Du, if you have nothing else to do, go down first."

"Yes."

Du Zhiyi agreed, while thinking in his heart, he will go to Chen Huishi later, he has to help His Majesty supervise the compilation of the "Land Law".

After Du Zhiyi left, Xu Youxi continued to criticize the memorial. She thought that Rong Yingran would come to her impatiently when she heard the news that the Ministry of Rites was going to set up a 'university', but it didn't.

This can't be done, she still has a lot of demands that she hasn't mentioned!

"Go and invite Minister Rong over."

While Xu Youxi instructed Zhou Yu to learn, she began to write letters to her talented Mo Shiqi.In the past few months, Mo Shiqi has frequently described the reforms she carried out in Shu to her in memorials.

For example, how many public schools were established in Sichuan, and how many female workers were recruited by the public schools;

And how to form the production and operation mode of the factory, how many poor women's fate has been changed by the establishment of the textile factory;

Mo Shiqi encourages women from Shu to join the army, encourages women to read and read, and encourages women who are unhappy in marriage to boldly propose reconciliation;

Seeing Mo Shiqi's various behaviors, Xu Youxi suddenly understood why the system valued Mo Shiqi so much.Mo Shiqi is indeed more sympathetic to the women of this era than she is, and is even willing to do everything possible to help teach those women how to survive by relying on their own abilities.

Even Xu Youxi himself was influenced by Mo Shiqi, and he paid more and more attention to the status and survival of big-time women.

Xu Youxi arranged for Liu Jiye to go to Sichuan some time ago, and asked him to record Mo Shiqi's actions in a complete way, which must be published in "Gan Bao" and known to the world.

At the same time, Xu Youxi defined Mo Shiqi's efforts to improve women's status as one of the most important reforms in the first year of Tianyou, and encouraged officials to follow suit.

Women in Shu are self-reliant and self-reliant, and they should also become a model for women in the world.

While recalling, Xu Youxi told Mo Shiqi in the letter that after the summer tax was collected in June this year, if the "One Whip Method" was carried out smoothly, the next step would be to implement it in Sichuan and Zangzhou.

I hope Mo Shiqi can prepare well in advance.

At the same time, the letter also mentioned relevant content about the land reform in the "Two Lakes Region", and asked Mo Shiqi whether this method would work in Shu Zang.Can Mo Shiqi try to appeal to the landlords of the Sichuan region to support the reform of the imperial court's private land to public land, just like she appealed to the landlords in the Lianghu area.

"Zhou Yuxue, send the letter to the governor of Sichuan and Tibet, Mo Shiqi, and if you receive a reply, please let me know as soon as possible."

After Xu Youxi had dealt with the government affairs at hand, Rong Yingran was also invited to the palace.

Unknowingly, it was evening again. After Xu Youxi rushed back from the Lianghu area, he didn't stop. He was always busy with handling government affairs and assigning the next tasks to various departments.

"My minister bows to His Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live."

Rong Yingran saluted respectfully.

Xu Youxi put down his pen, stared at Rong Yingran for a long time, and then began to find fault: "This time I visited the Lianghu area privately in a micro-service, the journey was extremely dangerous, and I finally returned to the court. So many officials in the court knew that they came to visit me, so why did you allow your lord?" Do you still have to rely on me to ask?"

"..."

It's not that Rong Yingran doesn't care about His Majesty's safety, but he thinks that instead of caring about His Majesty's safety, it's better to join in the fun and see how miserable those who target His Majesty end up.

Rong Yingran still remembers Jiang X who was split into ashes by lightning back then.

Tsk tsk, I just don't know what will happen to that man named Shi Yong.

"Your Majesty is a person blessed by God. Anyone who has any ill intentions towards His Majesty has not suffered from various disasters. I was worried about Your Majesty in Shangjing, and I couldn't sleep day and night. I didn't relax a little until this morning when I received the news that His Majesty returned to Beijing safely." I didn't expect to sleep until now because I was too tired." Rong Yingran started talking nonsense against his conscience.

"Oh."

Xu Youxi believed that he was a ghost.

"Master Rong, did you hear that the Ministry of Rites is going to establish a university in Shangjing?"

"...Master He has already informed the minister."

"A lot of tasks have been assigned by the meeting hall just now. Regarding the establishment of a university, I haven't elaborated yet."

Rong Yingran had long been accustomed to His Majesty's routine, and skillfully took out a pen and paper from his sleeve, ready to take notes: "Please tell me, Your Majesty."

Xu Youxi said: "The first is the issue of university curriculum. I mentioned it to you before. Secondary schools are behind public schools, and universities are second. I plan to skip middle schools and establish a university in advance to be responsible for the education of students over 16 years old."

"As for the university courses, I roughly divide them into the following key subjects for the time being, history and literature, mathematical physics, chemical pharmacy, medical biology, and economic sociology."

"In the later stage, there will be a major about military machinery. But this course, I don't plan to make it public for the time being. At that time, the Shengong Bureau and the Shenji Battalion will select talented students and give classes in turn. .Students who graduate from this course will be assigned to the Shengong Bureau for research and invention, or participate in the design of firearms in the Shenji Camp."

"These subjects definitely need public school courses to lay the foundation. Since the students enrolled in this batch are relatively old, they should be taught at three to five times the speed of public school."

Rong Yingran paused for a moment, then asked, "What if some students can't keep up with the course progress?"

"Survival of the fittest, either drop out of school, or let his family spend more money to study in special classes. Special classes can slow down the teaching progress appropriately, but if the grades are still not up to standard, they will still be dropped out of school."

"One more thing, I will force the clan to send the younger generation of the clan to study in university. Their children's assessment results will determine the amount of court salary they can enjoy in the future. The clan's children who successfully graduate from the university can freely choose whether to Keeping the status of the clan, the imperial court will not intervene too much in its development in the future, whether it is an official or a soldier, the imperial court can even provide suitable jobs for it.”

"Okay, Your Majesty, does the university still recruit civilians?"

"You have to accept. The better the grades and the smarter the students, the more you can accept. In addition to exempting tuition fees for students with excellent grades, scholarships have to be awarded according to the grades after each assessment. In principle, there is no upper age limit in universities. A white-haired old man, if he can get the top grades in the exam, then he can also enter the university."

"If I understand correctly, the scope of university enrollment includes the following three types. The first category is the children of the lord of the subordinate country; the second category is the children of the clan; the third category is some smart people from the people?" Rong Yingran summed it up quickly, and then asked with some uncertainty, "Your Majesty, do you want to take this opportunity to suppress the clan?"

"I have had this kind of idea, but Mr. Rong doesn't have to think too complicated. The original intention of establishing a university has never changed, which is to cultivate talents for Dagan."

"Since the envoys visited Dagan at the beginning of the year, many dependent countries have offered to send their children to Dagan as 'protons'. I am very disgusted with this kind of behavior, but after thinking about it, this is not a kind of propaganda. What about cultural opportunities?"

"I hope that the children of the masters of these dependent countries can understand that Dagan will not be a prison for them, but a great country worthy of their admiration from the bottom of their hearts."

"...The clan has enjoyed the royal salary for so many years, so they should contribute to the construction of the Dagan, right? At least their descendants have to figure out how to write the words 'propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame', instead of just relying on the shadow of their ancestors to do evil among the people .”

Rong Yingran couldn't help thinking that His Majesty might also want to take advantage of this opportunity to cultivate the next generation of the clan in terms of character and ability.

But for the emperors of all dynasties, aren't the more mediocre the children of the clan, the less threatening they are?
"Secondly, today's big cadres are too short of talents. I need universities to change this situation. The threshold for entering a university can be low, but the requirements cannot be relaxed after successfully completing a university. Some things can be solved with money, but There are some things that money can’t compromise on.”

(End of this chapter)