Wei Liangqing's memorial and the secret report of Deputy Qianhu of Danongzhou Qianhu were placed on Zhu Youxiao's desk.
After reading it, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said to Wei Zhongxian: "These two little guys did a good job.
What do you know?"
What can be done and what cannot be done, the factory minister has taught me well."
Wei Zhongxian smiled and said: "They are all taught well by the Holy Master.
The two of them sometimes mess around, but they will never forget the fact of being loyal to the country."
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Their method is very good.
Although we have a lot of people in the country now, there are still a few if we want to open up overseas territories.
After another ten years, I will have a large number of young people who can Before that, it would be a good idea to hire people from other races.”
Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, we must prevent the number of foreigners from exceeding the number of people in our Ming Dynasty, and we must continue to carry out Chinese education."
Fang Congzhe, Xu Guangqi and others are all disciples of Confucianism, and the idea that people who are not from our race must have different hearts is deeply rooted in their hearts.
However, Confucianism has always believed that if the Yi and Di enter China, China will be destroyed.
As long as they accept Chinese culture, they can be regarded as Chinese, so they are very concerned about educating foreigners.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Master Fang, Master Ye, when the country really has important matters concerning the nation and the people, we still need to ask you.
Why do you have to become an official now?"
It turned out that Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao were two Zhu Youxiao has been asking to become an official for many years, and Zhu Youxiao has been delaying it again and again.
Today is the ninth time that the two of them have asked to become an official, and they can no longer delay it.
Fang Congzhe said with a smile: "I served as chief assistant twice and assisted three generations of emperors for seventeen years.
These last ten years were the most comfortable years for me.
I watched your majesty try his best to promote Confucianism and use examinations and schools to benefit the people of the world.
An easier way to ascend, I often admire His Majesty's far-sightedness in my heart.
The veteran minister and Mr.
Ye are both nearly seventy years old, deaf and blind, and occupying high positions in the court will inevitably feel like a corpse.
Let the ministers and others be even more frightened."
Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that the two of them had decided to leave.
He pondered for a long time and said: "I have a cruel request and want to discuss it with my two beloved ladies."
The two of them were naturally overjoyed when they heard the emperor's loose words.
Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty has orders, and all ministers dare not disobey them."
Fang Congzhe also nodded repeatedly.
Zhu Youxiao said: "I want to appoint Master Ye, the Master of Fine Arts, as the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Education.
He does not have to go to the Yamen to take charge of matters, but just steers the steering wheel for Yang Shangshu.
He will officially take up the official post in three months.
This thing is too unfair to the two beloved ministers. , so I feel embarrassed myself.”
Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao had already passed away at this time in the original history.
The reason why they were still alive and well in this time and space was of course closely related to the fact that they had been serving as the first assistant to the cabinet and had the emperor's trust.
As soon as the emperor said this, the two of them already understood what the emperor meant.
Because the emperor has said before that officials must be able to move up and down.
It is a bad habit to be a minister and then a minister, which is a bad habit and must be criticized.
In fact, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were already much stronger than those of later generations, but the culture of being able to rise up but not down was still quite strong.
Zhu Youxiao felt that it was better to introduce a good example than to preach thousands of great principles.
Now that there are two good examples, he certainly wants to take the opportunity to reverse this bad trend.
Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao prostrated together and said, "I will obey the holy edict."
Zhu Youxiao quickly stepped forward to help the two of them up and said, "I have wronged you two gentlemen."
Ye Xianggao said with a smile: "This matter is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.
It can be said that I am honored to be exposed to your Majesty's behavior.
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How can I say that I am wronged?"
Fang Congzhe also smiled and said: "It is really a blessing for me to be able to contribute my last effort to the imperial court and share my last worries for His Majesty in this seventy-year-old age."
The next day, the emperor issued an order: Fang Congzhe was appointed Grand Master, and Ye Xianggao was appointed Grand Tutor.
Fang Congzhe was removed from the first assistant position in the cabinet, and Ye Xianggao was removed from the second assistant position in the cabinet.
Fang Congzhe was appointed as the left minister of the Ministry of Education, and Ye Xianggao was appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of Education.
Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was appointed as the first assistant of the cabinet, Sun Chengzong, the Minister of War, was appointed as the second assistant of the cabinet, and Yuan Ke, the governor of Denglai, was appointed to the cabinet with the title of Minister of Rites.
This imperial edict shocked officials all over the world.
The former chief minister and second minister of the cabinet actually became ministers of the Ministry of Education.
This gave many officials who were dawdling a strong warning not to think about rising slowly according to seniority.
Since the emperor can appoint even the chief minister of the cabinet as a minister, that magistrate may one day be appointed as a county magistrate or even a magistrate.
Of course, some people with flexible minds also saw a problem.
The emperor paid too much attention to the Ministry of Education.
There was financial support regardless of money before, but now the former first assistant is placed in the position of minister, which is clearly to greatly strengthen the Ministry of Education.
Sure enough, two days later the emperor issued a decree: promulgating the Child Protection Law.
It was implemented nationwide in the 10th year of the Apocalypse.
There are many provisions in the Child Protection Law, the most important of which are two.
One is that after the birth of all babies in the Ming Dynasty, their right to life is immediately protected by the Ming Emperor.
All those who kill babies and minors under the age of fifteen without permission will be treated according to the seriousness of the case.
He will be sentenced to a minimum of ten years of hard labor and a maximum penalty of being cut in half.
The babies mentioned in this law are regardless of gender.
The unauthorized killing mentioned here refers to all active killings unless sentenced to death by the court after committing a crime.
In other words, parents will also be sentenced if they kill their minor children.
In his imperial edict, the emperor particularly severely condemned the habit of drowning female infants in certain places, angrily saying: "Your mother is not a daughter."
The second article is that as long as there is a school within ten miles of where they live, boys aged six to fifteen should study in a primary school for at least one year.
If you have excellent grades and can be recommended to an intermediate school, you must enter the middle school to continue your studies.
If there is any violation, the father will be fined two hundred yuan.
At the same time, girls are encouraged to study in primary schools.
In addition to being able to study for free like boys, parents of each girl who enrolls will be rewarded fifty yuan.
If she is recommended to study in an intermediate school, her parents will be rewarded another hundred yuan.
Thanks to Zhu Youxue's efforts to build schools regardless of cost, 50% of the areas with schools within ten miles of the two capitals have been accounted for, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang accounted for 30%, and Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang, and Fujian accounted for 30%. 20%, but there are relatively few in other provinces, such as Yunnan and Guizhou.
Except for schools in larger cities, there are almost no schools elsewhere.
Of course, the construction of schools in various places is accelerating, and the increase in normal schools has also greatly increased the number of teachers.
However, after all, it is only a few years since the establishment of large-scale teaching.
This thing cannot be completed in a day.
Zhu Youyang also knows that there is no need to rush, but he also knows that the speed of this popularization will become faster and faster
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