Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Unlike Admiral Wang Guoxing's external Jinyiwei, Admiral Lin Huanyu's Jinyiwei is internal. In addition to those messy things, the investigation of officials' corruption is also under Lin Huanyu's department.

For five full years, not many corrupt moths have been caught, and the average year is only about two hundred years. Doesn't this mean that Jin Yiwei is incompetent?

But Jinyiwei is an amazing organization. It seems to be extremely powerful, but it doesn't have its own thoughts. It almost always does things according to the emperor's will.

Just like the famous Ji Gang, if there was no connivance and hints from Zhu Lao Si, the early Ji Gang would have dared to be so arrogant?I'm afraid he will end up like Ma Shun long ago!

That is to say, if Emperor Chongzhen didn't instruct Jin Yiwei to do something to frame him, Jin Yiwei would be like a transparent person more often than not. Apart from silently recording what they saw and heard, they would not take the initiative to frame him.

This gave Lin Huanyu a headache, because if he couldn't catch anyone, Jin Yiwei would have no sense of existence, and the Jin Yiwei who has no sense of existence is still the Jin Yiwei who can stop children from crying at night...

Emperor Chongzhen didn't have a headache, and even expected the current situation long ago.

What is corruption for?

It can’t be purely for the purpose of harming the people. After all, there must be people with abnormal brains in this world, but those who can study and become officials and pass the assessment of the Ministry of Officials are basically quite normal—the purpose of being an official is to Get promoted and get rich!

Corruption continued from the early Ming Dynasty to the Tianqi period, because the salaries of officials were so appallingly low that they were already struggling to support their own family, not to mention hiring a lot of officials and servants.

In addition, if you want to be promoted, you have to constantly send some ice charcoal to teach respect, how can you send money if you are not greedy?Want to get promoted and get rich if you don't give it away?

The reason why later generations are constantly corrupt is because the price of corruption is too small to punish the nine races, and even the death penalty is not easy to sentence, or a bunch of mindless people come out and talk about human rights and democracy. .

This problem did not exist during the reign of Chongzhen—firstly, the salaries of officials were greatly increased by Emperor Chongzhen, and the expenditure of officials was also included in the appropriation of the national treasury. .

In addition, in this era, apart from the Emperor Chongzhen, the rest are all the people, so no one talks about issues such as human rights and cooking oil, and the corrupt will be killed if they are killed.

Secondly, the promotion of officials is no longer determined by the recommendation of the superior, but by the Ministry of Officials based on the Beijing inspection every three years, so it is unnecessary to even send ice and charcoal to pay respects.

The most important thing is the existence of Shen Mingting. The officials who died of corruption will not only be infamous for thousands of years, but will even implicate the three clans. The cost of corruption is too great.

The cost of corruption is so high that very few people in the officialdom are willing to take the risk of being corrupted for years after being beheaded, so Jin Yiwei feels a little idle.

What really concerned Emperor Chongzhen was the population explosion.

Some people always think that the growth rate of population is a normal curve, but in fact, in peacetime and when people are willing to have children, population growth is not a curve but a straight-up rocket.

For example, in the early days of the founding of the country, the flower growers of later generations, because the government encouraged childbirth and the people were willing to have more children, took only 30 years from the population of [-] million at the founding of the country to one billion. During this period, several wars were fought and natural disasters were experienced.

Daming obviously did not have to experience famine, and natural disasters have gradually decreased with the passage of 17 years in Chongzhen. Coupled with the strong desire of the people to have children, and the prohibition of drowning newborns, the population has increased from about [-] million in the three years of Chongzhen. Skyrocketed to [-] million.

No one thought that the population growth would be so fast, including the deduction of Zhongji Temple, which did not predict the population explosion at this speed.

There is an old saying in later generations that once the greatest difficulty is divided by the base of 13 billion, it will become insignificant. Similarly, no matter how small the problem is multiplied by the base of 13 billion, it will become a huge problem.

This sentence is the same in Daming, the gap between [-] million and [-] million is definitely not just a number, but the difference between heaven and earth.

The benefits brought by the population explosion to Da Ming are extremely obvious - it is obvious that he has his own reasons for concentrating on big things, and without foreign troubles and those patients who are rolling around, Da Ming can obviously concentrate more power to do what he wants do things.

Such as various projects.

Not all projects are dangerous and deadly, and barbarian labor is not always inexhaustible. Those projects that are relatively safe and relatively easy are internally digested by the people of Ming Dynasty.

As for things like farming, because the income from farming is not as much as that earned from working, many people have begun to give up farming and turn to work with various projects.

The court is also happy to see this situation.

After a large number of people went to work, a large amount of land was vacated for distribution. It did not appear that no one was farming the land as Emperor Chongzhen had originally imagined, but a certain balance was maintained to a certain extent.

In addition to a certain degree of price increases.

Because there are fewer people farming, although there is still so much food, but because more people need to buy food, the price of food will inevitably start to rise.

The most direct consequence of the rise in food prices is the increase in labor costs in workshops, which is then passed on to the commodity sales process.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the price rises, Zhongji Temple has already deduced the occurrence of this situation, because there is no market economy in Ming Dynasty, so everything is still within the controllable range.

The only thing that troubled Emperor Chongzhen and the court chiefs was education.

To illustrate with a simple example, between the fifth year of Chongzhen and the 30th year of Chongzhen, the textbooks of sociology were changed ten times, the textbooks of county and state schools were changed ten times, and the textbooks of universities were changed three times.

The reason is very simple. The bigwigs of the Daming Royal Academy combined their own research and proposed various theorems and laws, all of which were named "Chongzhen Theorem" and "Chongzhen Law". , and then write the textbook.

Almost every year, new theorems and laws are being introduced, which makes the big bosses of the Ministry of Rites pluck their hair out one by one.

Now that these theorems and laws have appeared, the previous teaching materials have to be changed, but how?What age group should accept what content?

Crossing the river by feeling the stones, the price you pay is that the textbooks will have to be rewritten every three to two years.

Ni Yuanlu's hair was already grizzled at such a young age, and the Ministry of Rites and the professors from the Royal Academy and Capital University were almost in pain and happiness.

Emperor Chongzhen refused to put the word Chongzhen in front of various theorems and laws, and at the same time proved the true fragrance law of Mr. Wang Jingze, the teacher of human philosophy, with practical actions.

Then, the Ministry of Rites began to have a headache for sociology.

It's not that I'm worried about the funding for the construction of the Social Sciences. On this issue, the Ministry of Household Affairs and Emperor Chongzhen have reached a rare agreement, and the budget has never been stuck.

The real headache is the teachers.

The students who graduated from Beijing University were basically divided up by other universities, and there was no way to allocate extra manpower to state and county schools.

Moreover, the original scholars and juren obviously cannot teach in sociology anymore, because the content they teach can no longer keep up with the content of the textbooks, let alone the content of the exam.

The final result is that there are schools, there are students, and there are not enough teachers.

The flat-headed brother who traveled through time doesn't care much about anything else, even if Daming will be defeated by his descendants one day, anyway, the foundation has been laid for them now, even if he loses, his flesh will still be rotten. It's in the pot.

What Emperor Chongzhen cared about was education. As later generations said, no matter how poor you are, you can't have poor education. Emperor Chongzhen proved his importance to education with practical actions.

Since the fifth year of Chongzhen until now, apart from the continuous appropriation from the national treasury, Emperor Chongzhen’s internal funds have subsidized nearly tens of millions of taels of silver for education. Converted into the finances of future generations, it is almost tens of billions thrown on education. .

And the people of Daming also agree with this point.

The common people are not fools, whoever really thinks the common people are stupid is the real fool.

There are thousands of millet in the book, there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book. These simple and straightforward sayings to encourage learning have appeared in the Central Plains hundreds of years ago Hall.

Who is so stupid? It’s true that joining the army is the first choice for Ming Dynasty now, but joining the army is not only required to be innocent but not as simple as a criminal record. As early as 20 years ago in Chongzhen, it was already required that soldiers must graduate from a county school.

This is simply the first time in history. I have never heard of any dynasty that has such a request in history. However, it appeared in such a grandiose manner in Daming, and what appeared was so reasonable and legal...

Leaving aside the mandatory requirements of joining the army, no matter whether you are in politics or business, or enter the government as a small official, you also have requirements for learning. Those who are educated can discuss everything, and those who are not educated should do what they want. It’s okay to be willing to farm, to do business, or to immigrate overseas. Anyway, it’s hopeless to join the army and politics.

Not to mention the university that everyone admires. The most basic requirement for admission is to pass the state school exam before you have the opportunity to enter the university.

Reading can change fate, and the real benefits are right in front of you. Even if there are no famous sayings to encourage learning, those people who are not stupid at all are naturally willing to let their children go to school, even if they get their own money, let alone various subsidies.

Teaching children to read is almost an instinct engraved in the bones of Zhongyuan Tangkou, which cannot be changed.