After Hong Chengchou found Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou and other bigwigs to study together, he came to a conclusion that these people who were building railways could not participate in the capture of slaves.

It’s not that Hong Chengchou didn’t want to catch more barbarians, but that these people went to catch barbarians, and the remaining railway construction personnel still had insufficient problems.

The most tricky person is Emperor Chongzhen. No matter what it is for, he said, and he will abolish the corvee service directly.

The most direct consequence of the abolition of corvee labor is to recruit people to pay money to work, and they cannot be used to death.

If these people run away to catch the barbarians, let alone the problems of dying on the road and during the process of catching the barbarians, the whole lot of work left behind is enough to make people feel troublesome.

However, Emperor Chongzhen never thought about how troubles Hong Chengchou and others had, and he still had a headache!

It was said that it was a change in the imperial examination system and other things, but it was hard to say how effective it was.

This kind of change will take at least many years to see the effect, and what I am most anxious about is the time.

I have not completely changed the imperial examinations for fourteen years, but I have opened up several gaps with one hammer and one stick, and I am far from achieving the goal I want.

I didn't say anything, I still have to continue digging a hole.

Emperor Chongzhen, who had finally been idle and did not have to worry about the court and military chopping, once again focused his attention on the internal problems of the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the entire process of singing the cold songs in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the most deadly little glacier natural disaster, there are only a few main problems left.

One is the issue of the vassal kings, and now this issue is basically no longer a problem.

As the progress of the migration of the vassal kings and the people overseas was implemented little by little, the large tracts of land and a large number of newly vacant posts were enough to make the Ming Dynasty half easier.

Rebellions in various places and Jiannu outside the pass are even more of a problem. Rebellions in various places rebelled because they had no food. This problem basically did not exist after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne.

As for Jiannu, there are many remaining Jiannu now, but now they are fighting with the Maonu in Nuergandusi, so how can they still have the courage to look south to the Ming Dynasty?

Apart from these difficult problems, the rest are the problems in the imperial examination.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen had already reduced all the preferential treatments from scholars to Jinshi through discussions in the court, it was the same as treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

The biggest problem is that the population base of the Ming Dynasty was too large!

Unlike the original history of the rebellion and the Jiannu purge, which only had tens of millions of people left, the current population base of the Ming Dynasty has reached the 200 million mark.

The sociology that Emperor Chongzhen had re-created before also gave Emperor Chongzhen a heavy blow to this point.

The base of the population of 200 million, even if only one-quarter of children of appropriate age, is 80 million.

Even if only one percent of children can achieve scholarships in these 80 million, there will be eight million. If you want to be a juren, you will probably have about one million.

Calculate based on the calculation of a juren giving 50 acres of preferential land, multiplying one million by fifty acres, isn’t it 50 million acres?

If you count it, it will have an area of ​​more than 30,000 square kilometers.

If the concept of more than 30,000 square kilometers is unclear, then isn’t it much simpler to use the area of ​​two Chengdu cities to describe it?

You know, the ten small countries with the last ten land areas in the later generations combined are less than 30,000 square kilometers!

The Ming Dynasty is not so bad, it is considered as Nuergandus and Xinmingbird, and it is not a problem to have a few more than 30,000 square kilometers.

The problem is that it is not just that there is no tax revenue in these places, but that the population of the Ming Dynasty has always been in a positive growth situation.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, it was 200 million. How much should it be in the 30th year of Chongzhen? What about the 50th year of Chongzhen?

Positive population growth means that the number of children of appropriate age will increase, and mandatory sociology will ensure that the number of scholars in the Ming Dynasty will continue to increase.

Now we only need to consider the issue of one million juren. What if we wait for a few more decades? What if we go for a hundred or two years?

If tens of millions of Juren appeared, there would be no need to do anything else in the Ming Dynasty. Just thinking about how to appease these Juren is enough. Do you expect that the descendants of future generations are all flat-headed brothers like themselves?

Anyway, no matter what, there must be a solution to this matter. Otherwise, if such a big mess is left for future generations, they will probably scold themselves just like they are scolding Zhu Chongba.

In addition to this headache-inducing problem, there are also problems with social sciences, county schools and even Imperial College, which are also troublesome.

Nowadays, the social sciences in the Ming Dynasty are similar to those in later primary schools, but to the worst, they are actually not much better than kindergartens, and they are even worse than kindergartens.

Even the county schools and even the Imperial College were actually similar to the Emperor Chongzhen’s opinion. In fact, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, the poems and the teachings were very well-trained. As for mathematics, laws, and investigation of things, these knowledge are basically equal to zero.

More importantly, students rely on their spare time to study poetry and books.

This is not possible. The children in later generations all started learning Chinese and mathematics since elementary school, and even added physics and chemistry since junior high school.

As for things like English, Emperor Chongzhen said it doesn’t matter now, the Ming Dynasty is the father of the world, and the Ming Dynasty’s language is the common language of the world.

If you don't believe it, you can ask the indigenous people like Megawa to see if they have any opinions.

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen ordered people to pass on Wen Tiren, Meng Shaoyu and others into the palace.

If you want to take advantage of the society and the Jinshi, you must discuss it with these ministers.

After the reception ceremony and after hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said, Wen Tiren and others fell into deep pain.

How many years have passed?

After the last time the scholars' preferential land was cancelled and the juren's preferential land was reduced to fifty acres, now we are going to start making trouble again?

After thinking for a while, Wen Tiren bowed and said, "Your Majesty, does Your Majesty mean to start with preferential treatment, or to start with social studies?"

Wen Tiren didn't dare to fight any more mystery with Emperor Chongzhen. Such a turbulent thing that would cause bad things would cause. It would be better to open it up.

Emperor Chongzhen kicked the ball back to Wen Tiren with great pleasure: "What if Wen Aiqing wants?"

Wen Tiren said carefully: "I call your Majesty. I think this matter is very involved and is far from a single day's merit. Is it better to make a long-term plan?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "I also know that this matter is not a one-day contribution. Is it not convenient to ask all my dear ministers to discuss it?"

After saying that, Emperor Chongzhen turned his head slightly and ordered: "Sorry someone to tell the queen and the others that I will not have dinner with them today.

Also, let the imperial kitchen prepare some food, and today I will leave my dear friends with me for a simple meal."

Wang Chengen naturally bowed and responded, turned around and ordered people to prepare, while the remaining Wen Tiren and others felt even more distressed.

Emperor Chongzhen did not treat him to dinner many times, but every time it was a headache.

Anyway, based on Wen Tiren's experience, if you don't say a word about this matter today, it's probably not over.

However, what can I do if I stayed for this meal? Could it be that my family has already prepared the food and wanted to go back to have a meal?

The emperor treats guests to dinner. Not to mention that the family has already prepared the meal, even if the house is on fire, it has to be properly not known. We have to force ourselves to finish the meal!

What's even more frustrating is that Emperor Chongzhen just ordered people to notify the imperial kitchen to prepare. Isn't this time period just asking people like me to find ways to come up with ideas?

Anyway, it's a headache.

However, no matter how headaches are, you still have to do what you should do. Otherwise, if Emperor Chongzhen's board fell, who can stand this old man's arms and legs?

After thanking En, Wen Tiren turned his attention to Meng Shaoyu: "How does Lord Meng view social science?"

Meng Shaoyu pondered: "If you add mathematical science and the law of the Ming Dynasty to social science, it would not be impossible.

What should I do after the increase? Should I take the imperial examination? How should I distinguish between the Jinshi and Minglu subjects and Mingsuan subjects?

Taking this as an example, if the content of studying things is added to the county school, how can the subsequent study of studying things be distinguished from the Jinshi school?

Sometimes human resources are poor, and students' energy is limited. If you add Mingju, Mingyu, and study things to the Jinshi exam, the road to the imperial examination will be ten thousand times more difficult."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, but did not say anything, just waiting for Meng Shaoyu to continue speaking.

This situation does exist in later generations, even if you get to undergraduate degree, you will always learn a lot of content, but junior colleges will have much less content.

For example, if you buy calculus, you can’t use this thing if you buy vegetables and cigarettes.

There is also English. As long as you don’t plan to study abroad, many people will never use this thing a few times in their lifetime.

However, if these things are useless at all, it is purely nonsense. The meaning of undergraduate is to cultivate general talents on a large scale, and then start from graduate school to subdividing the talent trend.

But if you know something like this, you know it, but you don’t have much use.

If you can solve these messy problems by yourself, a programmer, it would have long become a national-level vice-national figure. At the most, you have to be a high-ranking official. Even if you are too hard to write code?

In this situation, it is better to listen carefully to the great ideas of an old fox like Meng Shaoyu who has been in the court for many years.

After pondering for a while, Meng Shaoyu continued: "It is better to add the contents of Ming Practice and Ming Dynasties from the society first, and only serve as test questions for scholars and not for juren.

As for the scholars, it will be a matter in the county school. At that time, we can add research to the county school and the prefecture school, and the three subjects of Mingsuan and Minglu are allowed to choose by the students themselves."

Wen Tiren said with a caress, "What Lord Meng means, but after the juren, he has to choose the subject he takes to take?"

Meng Shaoyu nodded and said, "That's true. The exam for the Jinshi exam is a major event in life. Just like the Ming and Investigation subjects in the past few years, the exam questions are actually very suspicious of letting go of water."

Emperor Chongzhen also nodded and said, "The exam questions for Mingsuan and Jujuewu are indeed simpler. The selected Jinshi are not very suitable for the Royal Academy after entering the Royal Academy. They have to study for a period of time.

Meng Aiqing's proposal is a good idea. The Juren has decided the direction he wants to participate in the imperial examination before, so he will not waste too much time. He can also go deeper in his imperial examination direction."

Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, "I am just a little shallow view, and I should not be praised by Your Majesty like this."

Emperor Chongzhen laughed and said, "Since Meng Aiqing proposed a solution, then he can use this as a basis. Let's continue to discuss it. It's much better than me who want to be alone, right?"

Wen Tiren nodded, expressed that he also agreed with Emperor Chongzhen's statement before speaking: "Mr. Meng's proposal is not bad. But these students have subdivided it from the time of Juren. Is it too late?"

Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, "There is indeed a problem. But if it is too early, it will be divided from the time of scholars or earlier. Isn't the students involved too little?"

Wen Tiren nodded and turned to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, it's all right to follow the words of Lord Meng. But the number of juren will become the next big problem."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "I also consider it. I have one million Juren this year, and there will be two million next year. What about ten years later? Will there be ten million?

At that time, how could I have so much land for the Ming Dynasty to distribute to these juren? If we have to divide it, we will inevitably occupy the land of the people. What should we do then?"

Guo Yunhou bowed and said, "I have some ideas when I call you your Majesty."

Emperor Chongzhen laughed and said, "Guo Aiqing may say something directly."

Guo Yun said kindly: "I told Your Majesty that when Taizu was founding, he decided to treat scholars preferentially, such as if the land was not paid taxes.

I believe that scholars and juren are mostly weak scholars who cannot hold their hands and cannot carry them. The purpose of Taizu is mostly to allow these scholars and juren to study with peace of mind without any worries.

However, after a juren was admitted to the Jinshi, he became an official and began to receive the salary of the state. Even if he lost the preferential treatment of the land without paying taxes, it would not affect his livelihood?"

As soon as Guo Yunhou said that, Emperor Chongzhen was happy, and Wen Tiren and Meng Shaoyu's faces were not very good-looking.

According to Guo Yunhou's opinion, it is to wait for the Juren to obtain the Jinshi and collect these preferential fields. Those who should pay taxes must pay the same tax, and those who should do what should do.
Chapter completed!