Great Ming National Teacher

Li Yunya persuaded Zhu Youjian to donate Xiyuan to be the headquarters of the cabinet: "You take out this garden and donate it to the country. In the future, I will take you to see the stars and the sea!"

Now Zhu Youjian can only go to the dark with Li Yunya, and he is willing to delegate power, so the garden naturally has nothing to be stingy about. Besides, he has been worrying about state affairs since he took the throne, and he has no chance or mood to go to the garden. play.

With his approval, Li Yunya immediately invited the best garden masters to design a blueprint, and then construction workers quickly moved in to rebuild the Taiye Pool on the original basis. The so-called Taiye Pool was established in the Jin Dynasty. It existed in Beijing when it was the capital. Later, in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, three large lakes were excavated, namely the North Sea, Zhonghai, and South China Sea, which are known to later generations. At that time, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di excavated the South China Sea and piled up the excavated earthwork. In the north of the Forbidden City, Longevity Mountain is formed, on which the Chongzhen Emperor in history hanged himself.

Li Yunya rebuilt the Taiye Pond, first repairing the wall, completely separating it from the Forbidden City next to it, calling himself a space, rebuilding the buildings on the shore, and moving all the original Xizhifang, Shangbaojian, and Imperial Prison away. , new office buildings for various ministries and commissions.

Among them, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense are all located in Beihai, and the emperor will preside over the office here in the future.The rest of the Ministry will be in the South China Sea, led by Li Yunya, and working on Qionghua Island.Zhonghai established the Taihe Palace. At the beginning, end, and end of each year, the emperor and the prime minister brought all the heads of ministries to hold court meetings here.The Forbidden City was completely given to Zhu Youjian as his own residence and no longer had a political function.

Although it is said that the two share a share, Li Yunya still brings Zhu Youjian to participate in everything, and Zhu Youjian will also look for him for his affairs. In fact, Zhu Youjian is good at military affairs, supervision, and diplomacy. Not interested, he prefers the civil affairs of the cabinet, so Li Yunya arranged a room for him in the Chongzhi Hall, let him live here, all the ministries will be sent here, and the two will study and decide together.

Living in the Chongzhi Palace, there is also no need for eunuchs and maids to serve them. Li Yunya sent them all out, set up a separate office, and transferred some literate young people to work as secretaries to record memorials and organize files.

Li Yunya drew a big cake containing stars and sea fillings. Zhu Youjian was so stimulated that he turned into a young man with vitality. He got up early every day to practice swords with Wang Zhengnan, and after breakfast with Li Yunya, he started to work. After reading the memorials sent by categories, they came to Li Yunya with their arms in their arms.

"The note handed over by Hong Chengchou said that many scholars from the south of the Yangtze River went to Nanjing to mourn the imperial mausoleum and the Confucian Temple, inciting the people to rebel, and collectively resisting taxes. This has caused several conflicts." Zhu Youjian threw the memorial on the table. , "It's just like the Guozijian students making troubles a few days ago! If you don't study hard and contribute to the country, you will do this!"

Li Yunya took the notebook and wrote instructions below with a red pen: "In troubled times, the law must be followed, and everything should be handled according to the law."

Seeing that Li Yunya closed the memorial after only writing twelve characters, Zhu Youjian was worried: "Can you write like this?"

Li Yunya smiled and said: "Writing these twelve characters is already very good. I don't even need to write these twelve characters. If I have to make decisions on everything, what do I want him to do as a minister of public security? Could it be that such a high salary was given to him in vain? It’s just because Pepsi was so rough and the matter was so important that I returned, Hong Chengchou is a smart man, he knows what to do.”

Hong Chengchou is not only a smart man, but also a ruthless man, the most ruthless. When he countered the rebellion in the Northwest, he often called the leaders of the peasant army who had surrendered to invite them to dinner. Well, at the end of the day, he didn't even give people a full meal, even if he was greedy, Li Yunya asked him to replace Sun Chuanting as the Minister of Public Security because of his fancy.

Following the failure of Chongzhen's four-year Wen Tiren coup, almost the entire scholar-official class was completely disappointed with Zhu Youjian. Since they confronted Li Yunya, they collectively resigned from office, supported rogues, and forced a coup in the palace. Li Yunya shattered one by one, ending in their failure!

Now that Li Yunya's reform of the national system that has been passed down for more than 2000 years has touched their bottom line even more, they have no courage to rebel directly, they can only encourage and assist other forces to rebel. Thirty to fifty thousand people were beaten to ashes, and this result made them even more terrified. Fighting with force did not work, and fighting with literature began again. The Jiangnan area began to resist and evade taxes on a large scale.

After Li Yunya abolished the six ministries, the agricultural tax was also collected by the Ministry of Public Security, and finally was allocated by the Ministry of Finance. Landlords, officials and gentry used all means to evade taxes. Therefore, if the property under your name exceeds one million mu, you don't have to pay a centimeter or a copper plate.

Business and taxes are more involved. In addition to the shops run by various servants, there are also many private salt, private iron and other shady businesses. Most of them are local gentry and guard officers colluding with each other to operate together. , We cannot live together!Huge interest groups began to fight back, so scholars went on strike one after another, burned books in front of the Confucian temple, incited the common people to besiege the police station, and caused wars everywhere.

After Hong Chengchou got Li Yunya's [-]-character comment, he urgently dispatched [-] armed police from Beizhili to the south. Whether you are a scholar or a scholar, no matter what kind of high-ranking officials you have been in the past, you will be punished and executed on the spot in accordance with the Public Security Law.

Without Li Yunya, in more than ten years, the Qing army entered the pass and went south, and began to raise butcher knives, bloody suppression, most of these people cut off their braids in public, and begged for mercy from the Manchu butcher, except for a few with backbone. The ability to play tricks with the Ming Dynasty will no longer be there by then.

Within a month, Hong Chengchou notified the central government that he had beheaded 78 first offenders, four of whom were from Jinshi background, 360 and eight people who had achieved meritorious service, and more than [-] scholars. The whole country was shocked.

These scholars dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out. They secretly wrote books at home and described the current Ming Dynasty as the darkest era in history. The country would soon collapse and perish. There is nowhere to show it... and pointed out that the root of all evils is the national teacher Li Yunya, calling on all the knights in the world to stand up and kill the national teacher to clarify the universe.

Li Yunya wanted to compete with these people for the right to speak. He sent the Daming Marquis newspaper to various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River to explain the new learning, and distributed 100 million taels of money to the Ministry of Education, so that Xu Ji, the son of Xu Guangqi, who is the Minister of Education, To build public schools in various places, there must be primary schools in the county, middle schools in the state capital, and universities in the province, and the teaching syllabus must be specified, the textbooks of each subject should be compiled, published and published, and it is stipulated that no fees will be charged to those who can enroll , the teacher’s repairs, textbooks and other expenses are all paid by the state. Students only need to bring their own paper, pens, and food. It is also stipulated that in the future, they must have at least a primary school degree when they are admitted to the new system. The new system will not recognize the scholars and candidates who have passed the examination!

Naturally, the scholar-bureaucrat class was even more dissatisfied with this, and they were extremely resentful. They repeatedly belittled the new learning, saying that these are just strange skills, heresy, and not the learning of saints.The vast majority of families, those with good conditions, still read the Four Books and Five Classics.

But there are many people from poor families, and many still send their children to schools to receive new education.

Reading is not an easy task these days. It is very common to find a book in the whole village. Those who can read and write, and can add and subtract within a hundred are considered very knowledgeable. In the new school, you only need to bring it to the police station. You can go to school with the issued household registration book, and you can take the printed textbooks for nothing. This kind of good thing is not worth mentioning for the official class. It's better for a child to know a few more words and be able to be sent to the city to be a buddy in the future, than to stick to a few acres of land with the whole family in the countryside!

As a result, elementary schools across the country began to operate in full swing, and the enrollment situation was much better than Li Yunya expected.

With a very contemptuous attitude, the gentry class defined the new learning as "low learning", something that only lowly mud legs can learn, and it can't be compared with their own teachings of Confucius and Mencius and the learning of sages.

The position of public opinion cannot be lost. Li Yunya published articles in the Daming Hou Daily several times in a row, pointing out that the way of Confucius and Mencius became the mainstream knowledge only after Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty deposed a hundred schools of thought to respect Confucianism. The old learning, Confucius and Mencius are saints, and Laozi is a saint among saints. The new learning is compatible with Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism and other schools of thought, and it is also the learning of saints.

His statement was naturally scoffed at by the majority of the scholar-bureaucrat class, but many scholars still listened to it, and specially obtained a set of elementary school textbooks for research.

At the same time, Li Yunya began to promote the "consistency of classical Chinese", that is, how to speak in daily life, how to write in the article, there is no need to pursue inheritance and transformation, and there is no need to pursue four or six parallel styles, let alone throw away the book bag, and advocate the use of simplified characters. Chinese characters have evolved over thousands of years. After several major changes in seal script and regular script, Li Yunya asked the Ministry of Education to simplify and modify a large number of characters that were too cumbersome and had more than [-] strokes, so as to facilitate popularization and achieve popularization of education.

He clearly wrote in the newspaper that as a national teacher, when he taught the four-year-old prince Zhu Cihong, he used the new learning, that is, simplified characters. set.

When the literati read the news in their newspapers, they all scolded the demon way not only for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, but also for the entire nation’s thousand-year-old cultural heritage. The blood of the demon way, I wish I could immediately lead a million soldiers to go to Beijing to capture the demon way, and blow my bones to ashes. In less than a year, all kinds of novels and paintings describing the monster way spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and Li Yunya was described as a charmer. With the art of breaking sleeves and the habit of cutting off sleeves, he seduced the emperor Zhu Youjian, and he had to eat 99 children's hearts and livers every day to make medicine. Damn!