Chapter 89 Visit
Chen Muzhi was like a traveling frog to Wanli.
Every once in a while, letters would cross the ocean, sending a few letters to Wanli and accompanying some souvenirs.
The souvenirs from the eleventh year of Wanli came later than before. It took a long time for the Dongyang Military Palace to confirm that there was no plague in Asia, so it sent a fleet back.
This time, Chen Mu's main purpose in the letter was two. One was to remind the court that it was time to select ministers who replaced him in charge of the East; the other was to ask the emperor how the domestic education reform was going.
Education reform is definitely the most proud thing that Wanli is.
The Ming Empire could have many things to do, whether it was the invincible sailing warships on the world ocean, the Beiyang Continental Division of Tiger Stepping Europa, the airships and flying fishes rising in the north of the Frontier, and the Qinglong Army sailing in the Subir, they were all unparalleled in the world, but these were not Wanli's own achievements.
His achievements were the integration of officials, people and scholars, and they registered, repaired, adapted, and built more than 5,000 primary schools in the two capitals and 13 provinces.
There is no graduate of these primary schools yet, but it can enroll more than 100,000 children and teenagers of the age of the world every year. This is an absolute achievement in Wanli's opinion, and even if it is time to get the inner treasury close to time for this, it is still unwilling to take time.
When Chen Mu asked about education reform, he really scratched his itch through the East Ocean. On the same day, he wrote a long letter, boasting to Chen Mu about his reform experience, but he actually had no experience, but only spent money. The court spent money, the East Factory supervised the East Factory, the West Factory supervised the East Factory, and the West Factory supervised the Embroidered Yiwei, and the Censor supervised the West Factory, forming a closed loop.
Use a lot of manpower to ensure that financial resources are not consumed extra.
The excited Wanli wrote the letter at Tsinghua Park, and from time to time he stood up and walked around to praise him.
He is indeed worthy of pride. This kind of suppression cannot be shared in his heart. He couldn't help but tell Chen Mu before he returned to the country that the Ming Empire would build the wooden and iron composite track to every inch of land that could be repaired. He even waved his hand and told Chen Mu in the letter that the Northeast railway would be left for him to come back to repair and would be built to Wangxia Prefecture in the future.
Although all this is still a beautiful blueprint in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, in addition to the Wulianghai Railway and the two sections of railways from Yanqingwei to Datong, which can be put into use within one or two years, it is mainly concentrated in the relatively flat North China Plain.
It is difficult to repair the roads when passing Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan, and it is easy to repair the roads. It is even easier to use the existing railways to repair downwards than before. However, the terrain is a little more complicated, and it is useless to repair the roads, so the Qinglong cannot get up.
The current Qinglong does not have the ability to climb slopes. It has it. It can go up any slope that cannot be distinguished by human eyes.
But the gentle slopes that people can feel are generally unable to climb.
The only Qinglong front that can climb a gentle slope is a model that pursues speed and transportation capacity in the early days. The front of the car has a small weight, a small load and a fast speed. It can carry three drivers, including the driver, and eight passengers travel 990 miles a day. This speed can be called a rush, right? But this is its maximum number of people, because the original intention of the design did not intend to add a trailer carriage. The passenger compartment is integrated with the cab and the front. The original intention of the design is to replace a horse or two with a steam engine carriage.
After mounting five carriages, its speed is even slower than the latest Qinglong Army hangs fifteen carriages.
But Wanli doesn't care about these things, he has no problems in his eyes, and the meaning of all problems is overcome.
Halfway through writing a letter to Chen Mu, Wanli Master was puzzled and wanted to go to Zhang Juzheng to talk about education reform with Zhang Ge Lao who was half retired. He planned to change the imperial examination before the first batch of primary school students completed the school system.
Sometimes this person is just a heart when he is alive.
In the past, Zhang Juzheng was reluctant to delegate power. First, external conditions did not allow it, and second, he also had this spirit in his heart. He always felt that he should do this. It would be okay to delegate power to the emperor one day if he couldn't do it one day.
As for the consequences and consequences, Zhang Juzheng never thought about them.
It’s not that I don’t know how to think, I don’t know how to know but I don’t think about it, but that there is no need to think about it.
What you said and did not say, did not do, and some did not. As for his part, what else can you think about?
As the saying goes, if you are a cauldron in life, you will be a marquis and you will be granted a marquis if you are a marquis. If you are a marquis and don’t have a marquis, you really don’t want to be granted a marquis.
It was like giving Chen Mu an overseas king. He had always been the ones he had given to others, and he had already given himself a discount.
However, this time, Chen Shigong was relieved and he suddenly became idle, which made Zhang Juzheng's heart pause, as if he had finally seen the results of the reform: he seemed to be able to do it even when he was idle.
Although the selected successor is not mature enough, it seems to be very thoughtful.
Don't get me wrong. Zhang Juzheng has surpassed the position of a college student. The successor he chose is neither Zhang Siwei from the Shanxi Gang nor Shen Shixing, who is not strong enough. If the successor is them, then Zhang Juzheng will start to change some rules to make the rules of the officialdom more suitable for the successor to take power.
But he did not. What he represented was never the interests of the civil servant group, nor was he prepared to create a powerful minister from the civil servant group after himself. The successor he chose was Emperor Wanli.
Although he has watched Wanli make trouble in the past two years, Zhang Juzheng has seen something new in the actions of Daxing Railway and Dafa Iron Factory.
Of course, this time, Wanli entered Zhang Juzheng's house without notice, which also allowed Wanli to see some new things.
This afternoon, Zhang Ju was editing books in the study, and saw You Qi coming to report in a panic: "Master, the military eunuch blocked the street in front of the door and sent a police officer."
Zhang Juzheng put down his pen and said in a daze: "Your Majesty is coming?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an eunuch had already heard the door in front of the mansion with a loud and loud voice.
Zhang Juzheng was so shocked that he asked You Qi to call the whole family and go to the front yard to pay homage to the emperor.
In the courtyard of Zhangge's hometown, the military eunuchs and the Imperial Guards had stood in groups of three people in various pavilions, towers, 10 steps, 5 steps, whistle. The heavy-armed general wearing golden gourds with golden armor stood beside the pool, wearing a scarlet python robe and a short-sleeved chain mail, a chair mail skirt, a light-armed imperial warrior wearing a copper pattern and a high-topped bowl helmet, a sheathed imperial guard standing on his shoulders with a large sword in his shoulders, and a middle-robed brocade bird gunner with a bird gun with a composite breastplate on his shoulders and a bird gunner with a bird gunman wearing a composite breastplate on his shoulders and walked up to the platform pavilion and looked down on his left and right.
At the moment, the big sleeves of the bright yellow sun and moon robe were tied up by arms, and Wanli, who was wearing a dragon pattern and a breastplate, raised his hand to untied the bowl and the helmet, held the helmet with a red tassel hanging from the bowl and handed it to the eunuch holding the whisk behind him, and looked at the yard of Zhang Juzheng's house with his hands behind his back.
Chapter completed!