Chen Mu mentioned education at the beginning of the letter.

But the statement is extremely realistic. Education is neither for scholars to educate the people in some old-fashioned ways, nor for the new-fashioned people to be equal.

It was to tell the emperor straightforwardly that the Ming Empire needed more people to master knowledge. There were many people in the world who master knowledge, and there would be more and more people, but not enough, it was far behind.

These people are not enough to be officials, military generals, and business, and cannot meet the current needs.

Chen Mu gave two examples. First, the steel output of the Ming Dynasty was pushed forward by steam locomotives and rails. He told the emperor very simply and easily understandably why he thought it was not enough. The times and productivity changed the supply and demand relationship of the world for intellectuals.

The second example he proposed was the Emperor Xinnian's most powerful soldier in the world, the Beiyang Banner Army.

The combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Banner Army is undoubtedly at the cost of the best training and training methods of this era and the cost of a lot of time. Although it is the best, it is not scientific.

The most scientific way of training is to gradually balance the game of cost and benefit. Where did the army spend a year and a half in this era? There is a tradition of training in the Greater China circle, but this does not mean that the whole world is like this. It’s just that when Chen Mu sent troops, he didn’t know that it was all the soldiers. He thought that everyone in the world was practicing.

But in fact, Portugal does not practice troops, England does not practice troops, and the Netherlands does not practice troops. Most countries in the world do not practice troops, and they do not even have a standing army. Which soldier can be practiced? Can knights be considered soldiers?

When Spanish and France train, Philip II's recruits will receive less than three months of training. The French Valois royal cavalry was a unit composed entirely of knights. Their concepts were similar to those of Mamuruque and Ottoman guards, which could be equivalent to training.

Other troops grew up in the war, recruiting, disbanding, recruiting, and then joining, and then disbanding. In the process of disbanding, they formed troops with a little military quality, and the best of them became mercenaries, specializing in killing.

The Beiyang Banner Army has five years of military service, and the training time will take one and a half years, which means only three and a half years of use. It is almost time to retire in one period.

What is the biggest time they spend on training? They are learning knowledge, including military regulations, weapon parameters, tactical strategies, mapping technology, hydrology and geography and other subjects. They almost have to learn what they need to learn in the martial arts lecture hall, but it is just plain.

It involves literacy, mathematics, geography, physics, medicine and even a little chemistry. The flag army can't hear the gunpowder explosion and think that the gods have come to the world.

So they need a year and a half to learn a lot of knowledge during training.

The emperor looked at the letter and lighted the lamp in the Tsinghua Garden palace at night. He was counting the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue because Chen Mu said that he estimated that overseas income now accounts for one-third or even more of the imperial court's annual income. The reason why the Ming Dynasty got enough overseas benefits was that the Ming Dynasty boarded the warship, and it would be difficult to get off when it came up.

Continuous investment and continuous output. Once investment stops, the blow of the collapse of overseas interests will make the Ming Dynasty unable to withstand it.

At this point, Wanli, the genes from his grandfather were inherited. Of course, he was not as good as the ascending Emperor Daojun and the Minister of Revenue. However, his brain data was not easy to pretend to be more than the Minister of Revenue.

He clearly remembered that the annual silver discount of 87 million taels was strange, among which the marine tariffs and the capital transportation of the Three Military Offices had a discount of 24 million taels.

Great changes.

This data seems that the Ming Dynasty's overseas interests do not account for one-third, but in fact they have already accounted for, or even half.

It is not because these assets are circulating internally in the country, but because of Chen Mu's advice to Zhang Juzheng and Wang Guoguang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, before leaving Beijing, the Central Bank.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the income was very high, and the annual income was 30 million taels, but the amount of money was only 20 million taels, and the expenditure was only 40 million taels, because there was no intermediate coordination agency.

For normal income in a certain county, part of the income is intercepted for self-use, and the remainder is paid to a certain prefecture; for income in a certain prefecture, part of the income in a certain prefecture, and the remainder is paid to the province; for income in a certain province, part of the income in a certain prefecture, and the remainder is sent to the Ministry of Revenue; for the Ministry of Revenue, the expenses of the court are arranged: disaster relief funds in Place A, water management funds in Place B, wars outside the border, military expenditures in the border areas, etc.

Not so.

It is a county that earns 5,000 taels. First, the county’s salary, reception expenses, county post stations, urgent delivery of food, etc. is reserved, which is normal.

Then, the water management in a certain township was assigned to the county. This year, the yamen runners were sent directly to the Caoyun River yamen; the prefecture was assigned to the prefecture for a certain matter, and the yamen runners were sent directly to the prefecture; a thousand households and a certain guards were assigned to the military affairs, and the yamen runners were sent directly to the yamen runners; the royal family salary was assigned to the royal palace; the camp soldiers were assigned to the camp soldiers;

More than half of the rest will be killed at once, and the rest will not only be sent to the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, the Transportation Deposit, the Inner Deposit, the Taipu Temple, the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Works... all will be sent to it, but he will give it to it in this county.

Finally, the Ministry of Revenue entered the account of a county to transfer the tax on transportation, 200 taels.

It was okay to do this during peacetime, but it was just a big loss and a small amount of account, but the relative central expenditure was also small. But in the war period, the road was not smooth, could the court still collect money? If it could not collect, no one could transport it in. If a chain was dropped, the car could not be driven.

Now that there is a bank, a transfer institution, no one has to go to the magistrate to pay the money. All the money is sent to the provincial Ministry of Revenue Bank. This bank does not open the door to the people, but only pays taxes to the account. Every year, all the money spent and retained in the province will be sent to the Beijing Ministry of Revenue for reporting by telegram. After the Ministry of Revenue is summarized, it will be sent to the cabinet. The court specially left a note to the cabinet.

Finally, the Ministry of Revenue will send the approved notes back quickly, and the bank will allocate funds. All the other silvers will be sent to the capital in two trips.

This has led to a huge increase in taxes, but the expenditure has also increased. In fact, except for shipping, the money is still the same, and there is no change.

But this is definitely less than before. Once the local government communicated with each other, the silver they wanted was distributed. Now there is no note from the cabinet, and no one can approve the money, and the local royal palaces dare not ask for money.

Since the royal family of the Three Feudals of Shanxi was uprooted by Emperor Wanli to India, all the royal families in the world were calmed down, trembling and in panic all day long.

Apart from the founding Taizu and Chengzu, even the Wuzong who went to the battlefield personally may not be as good as the Wanli Ye.

Chen Mu's meaning was very clear that the court needed more excellent soldiers who spent less, and completing basic studies before joining the army was the best way to become an excellent soldier.

In the letter, Chen Mu made suggestions to the emperor on the basic education of the Ming Empire: "After the first batch of Beiyang Banners retired, two to three thousand Banners should no longer serve in the military and will return to the country to need to be placed. They can proficient in reading and writing thousands of characters, be familiar with the military physical training process, understand basic mathematics, some matter principles and mechanical principles, and have enough understanding of newly discovered high-yield crops."

"These retired veterans have seen the world overseas, and more importantly, they have sweated and bleeding for the empire, and have extremely loyalty to His Majesty and are the best primary school teachers in Chen's eyes."

"If they are given a minimum of one child, they can build a primary school in the township. There should be two to three thousand such primary schools in the Ming Dynasty. Every year, there are 30,000 to 50,000 bare-butt children who are over five years old and who are running wildly under the trees in the farmhouse to receive a five-year education. When the primary school education is over, they can help their families farm or continue to go to school, without delaying their farming."

"Elementary schools expand at a rate of more than 2,000 per year, and eventually bring the number of children enrolled in each year to 300,000 to 500,000."

"After receiving such a preliminary education, they have a preliminary understanding of the world, have good understanding and physical fitness, and can enter various professional universities in folk schools to study or continue to study literature. Those who study literature can be more easily integrated than others."

"As a military member can quickly understand military orders and quickly learn how to use various weapons within one month, accept command, understand logistics plans, understand maps, and know the transmission of messages."

"Workers who enter any factory's production line can be familiar with the work flow, proficient in operating and maintaining machines, and produce combined equipment within one month."
Chapter completed!