In the Guangzhou Mansion, after Zhang Fuking led the officials to pay homage to the emperor, a banquet was held at the governor's Yamen.

The full name of the Governor's Yamen is the Governor's Office.

If it is a governor's yamen in another province, apart from the secretary who sits in the governor's model camp, there is actually only one civilian official in the entire governor's yamen, and that is the governor himself.

The rest are all the governor's staff or non-staff personnel employed by the governor himself.

But the Guangdong Governor and the Metropolitan Procuratorate now have a total of 136 people.

The governor Zhang Fujing was appointed as the right deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his rank was the third rank.

Under him, the Guangdong Governor's Yamen currently has no officials above the sixth rank. That's because, below the sixth rank, Guangdong can make its own selections.

And the current governor's office itself only needs to carry out official business with the chief envoys' department, the command and envoys' department, the punishment department, the public security department, the taxation department, and the capital inspection department. Each department has its own independent government office, and the governor's subordinate officials

Just need to connect with them.

At the provincial level, it stands to reason that the Governor-General's Office and the Government-General's Office are both local constitutional supervision departments at the same level. The head of the Guangdong Government-General's Office theoretically has to supervise the performance of duties by Zhang Fujing and other departments.

But this is because Zhang Fujing's current qualifications are not enough, because according to the design, Guangdong will have a governor in the future.

The grade of this governor must be higher than that of Zuo Buzheng, who is currently in the second grade, and reach the second grade.

Therefore, the current government reform is not the end yet. Zhang Fujing thought about what Liang Chu said that day about "the merits of the Ancestral Temple" and seriously said to the senior officials he invited to the governor's government office today:

"Guangdong is the place where new laws are being tried out. Your Majesty's practical studies and dialectics are inspiring to Fu Jing. He has benefited a lot from thinking about it. He has truly learned the true teachings of the great truth!"

Zhang Fujing bowed his hands to the north and said solemnly, "Thanks to His Majesty's holy grace and the high regard of the imperial court, the Guangdong Provincial Examination can be held once a year! The provincial exam is appointed by the imperial court to take the examiner, but the Guangdong Academy Examination selects candidates. I believe that Guangdong should take the exam

New learning!”

As soon as the words fell, everyone had different expressions.

Encore was opened this year, but the total number of candidates passed the examination in the province in one year will not be too many.

The difficulty of taking the examination is very high, and each province has a fixed quota. During the Hongxi reign of Renzong, the quota for provincial examinations was stipulated:

The quota for Nanjing Imperial College and South Zhili is 80; the quota for Beijing Imperial College and North Zhili is 80; the quota for Jiangxi is 50, Zhejiang is 45, Fujian is 45, Huguang is 40, Guangdong is 40, and Henan and

Sichuan has thirty-five each, Shaanxi and Shanxi, Shandong have thirty each, Guangxi has twenty...

Even if Guangdong set up a deputy list last year and this year, the total number of new candidates in Guangdong was less than 200.

For the huge number of official positions that Guangdong has decided to create, this is nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

At present, many people who have been candidates for vacancies in the past have come to Guangdong. Many people from other provinces have been recommended to Guangdong to serve as officials. There are also many people who have been appointed as supervisors, but it is not enough.

After the reform of the government offices in Guangdong this year, the total number of officials who have actually taken up their posts is less than 4,000. Most of them are officials with good reputations in the previous three-level yamen of the provinces, prefectures and counties. The yamen officials were awarded from the ninth grade to the eighth grade.

Now Zhang Fujing said that Guangdong will have to take a new academic examination for the academic examination next year. No one knows what chain reaction it will cause.

Academic administration used to be in the Department of Prosecution and Prosecution, but now it has been moved to the Department of Chief Affairs and Envoys, and is under the responsibility of its lower ceremonial hall.

Zhang En, the governor of Guangdong Province, hesitated and said: "Next year, taxes and servitude will be separated. In addition to not allowing the wealthy gentry to hide their fields, they will collect land taxes according to the rights of the land. They must strictly abide by the preferential and exemption policy, and the servitude and labor service will be divided among the peasants."

Mu Futai, the real tough battle is about to begin. Is it inappropriate to order all prefectures and counties to take practical studies at this time?"

Zhang Fujing killed twice in Guangdong and had two military exploits to defeat the Portuguese. At this time, his reputation was already quite strong.

Hearing this, he did not directly refute Zhang En, but asked Sun Jiao: "Master Hou, what do you think?"

Sun Jiao chuckled: "I came to Guangdong just to supervise the restructuring of the Yamen Office. If my daughter hadn't been young, she would have returned to Beijing to resume her duties. I don't need to say anything about studying politics in Guangdong."

Sun Jiao, who had brought the good news back to the capital at the beginning of the year, was blessed with a daughter at this advanced age and was only one month old.

He planned to stay in a warmer place in Guangdong until the spring flowers bloom before returning to Beijing.

Zhang Fujing ignored his excuse and continued to ask with a smile: "Master Hou is also a scholar. I wonder what your majesty's experience is in the three principles of heaven, matter, and man, as well as the dialectical method?"

Sun Jiao glanced at him helplessly.

Fortunately, I only asked him about his thoughts on the knowledge itself and did not involve specific policy decisions in Guangdong Province.

Sun Jiao, the head of state, could only heave a long sigh: "In my whole life of studying, I have never seen anyone as talented as your Majesty. The three principles of heaven, matter, and human beings are connected with each other, and the two words "practice" are indeed like the brilliant sound of the great road, which is deafening and enlightening.

, which is thought-provoking. Dialectics is also a good way to conduct yourself in the world and govern your country."

Zhang En looked at them both with a complicated expression.

What to play?

One of you was promoted by the emperor, and the other is the head of state.

Whether the new knowledge proposed by His Majesty can withstand the scrutiny of the world is one thing, but that itself is not important.

However, the New Party deduced the basis for the reform from the theory of the three principles of nature, things, and humans and the dialectical method. This sentence, "The foundation of the state system cannot be changed lightly, and the laws used by the state should be constantly changed in accordance with the principles." This is what touches the nerves of many people.

This is the right to explain whether changes are necessary to the current situation.

Guangdong is now starting to take new studies, which is to help the new party promote this knowledge.

At present, Neo-Confucianism is still orthodox. It is a knowledge that many scholars have studied for countless years, using it to take exams in imperial examinations, and to make friends and discuss it.

This new set of knowledge draws on the strengths of others within the framework of Neo-Confucianism, and seems to integrate more knowledge very well on the surface.

If there is no new law, then people who study knowledge all over the world may try to contribute their own efforts in the process of adding bricks, annotations and publicity, so as to invite famous scholars.

But now that there are new laws and new knowledge has been proposed, the timing is a bit coincidental.

Fei Hong, Sun Jiao, and Wang Shouren are not in the center. Did this new knowledge really come from His Majesty, or was it carefully prepared by the new party headed by Yang Tinghe and proposed in His Majesty's name?

"Yong Xiu, when you were involved in the debate between mind science and Neo-Confucianism, what do you think of the three principles of heaven, matter, and human beings?" Zhang Fujing asked Yang Shen again.

Yang Shen, who has been promoted to the third rank of the Chief Envoy and the Chief of the Liting Hall, said flatly: "With this knowledge, even Wang Bo'an would be speechless. This is a blessing for the Confucian school. Why can't Guangdong be the first in the world?"

Zhang En was speechless. You are Yang Ting and his son. You were so reckless before.

Yang Shen looked at Gui E again: "Brother Zishi, you are in charge of the household office. How are the taxes on Guangdong's land tax this year?"

Gui E's little eyes were full of excitement. He really liked the feeling of opening and closing now.

"Although this year we only edited and reviewed the scientific regulations, and the miscellaneous offices have not yet been reorganized, Tianfu has carried on with the power of Futai last year. Guangdong Tianfu has collected more than 1.7 million dan this year, more than 600,000 dan more than in previous years.

Ten thousand shi! If there is no major disaster next year, we can add at least 600,000 to 700,000 shi."

Gui E sighed: "After the Qing Dynasty, the amount of land that should be allocated to Guangdong more than doubled, and that doesn't even count..."

He did not finish his words. At the beginning of the Guangdong Kingdom, there were more than 230,000 hectares of farmland. Now, after more than a hundred years of cultivation, the actual total farmland area should be 30,000 to 40,000 hectares more. But correspondingly, tens of thousands of hectares of it have become Wei

The farmland.

Around the time of the new law in Guangdong, the amount of land subject to land tax in Guangdong increased sharply from just over 70,000 hectares to nearly 200,000 hectares. Isn't it theoretically possible to harvest more than two million shi of grain a year just by maintaining the current land tax collection ratio?

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"As for the commercial taxes collected under the Procurement Law and the Commercial Law, I heard from Chief Zhai that it is more than 230,000 taels, right?"

Gui E looked at Zhai Luan, who had been promoted from the fourth grade to the third grade tax department, and saw him nodding: "This year, the imperial court and various offices in Guangdong spent a total of more than 400,000 taels on purchases. Ten draws

One of them is more than 40,000 taels. On the side of the Shibo Division, since the tribute and trade transactions are all borne by Huang Mingji, the taxes collected by the city transactions are more than 150,000 taels, which is double that of previous years. In addition to many other

The total number of courses is more than 237,500 taels."

The Household Office is only responsible for population and land tax, and the rest is paid by Guangdong itself. The Tax Department is responsible for many miscellaneous taxes besides land tax. In Guangdong, there is also the Municipal Shipping Department.

After hearing this, Yang Shen said: "Guangdong's new law will definitely be implemented! It must be unlucky to have stubborn and greedy people blocking the car. On the contrary, Guangdong has many opportunities to win, and the Jiajing five-year examination will definitely also test practical studies.

, using the method of dialectics, wouldn’t Guangdong Juzi be able to show off his talents?”

Hearing Yang Shen's words, Zhang Fujing nodded and looked at Yang Shen with emotion.

"I have studied a lot of this practical science recently. Among them, physics, I don't know how many great Confucians have dabbled in it throughout the ages. Now it seems that it is closely aligned with the Tao. Physics and human principles are just like the Taoist saying that Tao gives rise to one, one gives birth to two, and two gives birth to two.

Three, three gives birth to all things.”

Yang Shen entered a state of real excitement: "Natural principles give rise to physics and human principles. These physical and human principles are intertwined and flow indefinitely. If no one studies things, the principles of things will not be understood; if no one understands physics and uses it, we will not understand it."

Nowadays, we can only cultivate by slashing and burning. How can we tame cattle and horses, divert water damage to make profits, and follow the calendar to coordinate farming? We know honor and disgrace when we have enough food and clothing, and we know etiquette when we have enough barns. Isn't this principle of human ethics closely related to the principle of all things?"

He showed how quickly he accepted new knowledge because of his own intelligence. Although others nodded secretly, they felt that he was emotionally inclined to accept new knowledge.

But Yang Shen's argument is very clear: "This new knowledge is closely aligned with the principles of heaven and earth, and will surely flourish! Guangdong takes the lead in taking the new learning, and knowledgeable people will only applaud and praise it! I'm afraid this new law is a good opportunity for the prosperity of Guangdong's culture and education!"

Guangdong is discussing whether to test practical studies and dialectics first in the provincial academic examination next year, while Fei Hong's house in Chengdu, Sichuan, is agitated.

"Yang Jiefu did whatever it took to get the new law! Now it seems that he did not hesitate to debate the scriptures with Wang Bo'an at the scripture banquet with the dignity of the first assistant. What kind of face did he have to speak out on behalf of the scholars?"

This angry person pointed his finger at Yang Tinghe for his betrayal of Neo-Confucianism.

Although the core of this practical science is still the three principles of heaven, matter and man, a new thing has been added, which in the eyes of many people has changed beyond recognition.

"If we follow these three principles, then farmers, Mohists, doctors, Yin and Yang... these three religions and nine schools, can't they all be classified as physics and become Confucian disciples? Will these people be able to pass the imperial examination in the future without learning the words of sages and sages?

Opening a new subject and becoming a scholar? In this case, where is the etiquette? Where is the dignity and inferiority?"

"We use strange skills and tricks to enter the house, the world's morals are not ancient, and the evil is always the same! Mr. Fei, you have to do something!"

They all looked at Fei Hong, who was silent. Fei Hong sighed quietly, then looked at them and said: "According to Yang Jiefu, the theory of the three principles of heaven, matter and man and the dialectical method

, This is what Your Majesty has realized.”

Everyone was immediately speechless.
To be continued...