novelonline Chapter 577 A Miraculous Happened
Chapter 577 A Miraculous Happened
Chapter 577 A Miraculous Happened
Xia Yuanji enters the palace.
Play against Zhu Di.
However, there seemed to be no conversation between the monarch and his ministers, so Xia Yuanji left.
Immediately after the edict was issued, Xia Yuanji was ordered to be the Minister of the Ministry of Education, and he will take office recently.
The reason why Zhu Di didn't have a detailed talk with Xia Yuanji.
In fact, this is also due to Zhu Di's grasp of Xia Yuanji. After all, the monarch and his subjects have been for so many years. If it were someone else, the last time would be enough to make Xia Yuanji die without a place to bury him.
But in the end, Xia Yuanji was no more than an official, and soon accepted the responsibility of supervising the construction of the Shinto.
It's not because of Zhu Di's selfishness, but for people like Zhu Di, different people have different intentions for the same thing, so they will naturally treat it differently.
Although people often say that a gentleman doesn't care about his deeds.
But in the actual situation, it is completely different. Zhu Di at least knows that Xia Yuanji is reliable in his work, and he doesn't have any overly sinister intentions. The reason why the last incident happened is just the thinking of a scholar in Xia Yuanji's bones. .
It would be an exaggeration to say that there were any ulterior motives.
This time, all the ministers publicly recommended Xia Yuanji as the Minister of the New Ministry, which is considered to be the result of everyone's expectations.
On the one hand, the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion have a deep relationship with Xia Yuanji, and they have been strongly recommended by Liu Guan, the Minister of Rites. The qualifications of other ministries and halls are far inferior to Xia Yuanji. Seconded.
As for the other ministers, especially those Qingliu, not to mention that Qingliu in the court has become a rare species under repeated blows. bet.
But thinking about it carefully, apart from Xia Yuanji, which one of the remaining candidates is not the best friend of the New Deal?
All of them have already engraved the words that I want to kill the gentry on their faces. It is better for Xia Yuanji to let such a person be the new minister.
Although Xia Yuanji has both ends of the head, he is still secretive after all, still holding the pipa to half cover his face, saying a few high-sounding words on the surface, but if he does something else, the ghost knows if he is a guy who is going to smash the Confucius Temple.
Therefore, the public recommendation of the court meeting can be said to be one-sided. Since Zhu Di ascended the throne, the court meeting has never been as unanimous as it was yesterday.
In the process of meeting the saint, Xia Yuanji actually already had some thoughts about the new department in his heart. After all, he had talked with his son last night, and he probably understood the goal of the new department.
Things in this world are generally like this. If you teach someone who has no experience in handling things, he may be at a loss and don't know what to do.
But for those who have experience in handling affairs, especially Xia Yuanji, who has been in the ups and downs of the officialdom and has mastered a department for more than ten years, in fact, no matter what he does, he has not started to do it, but he already has a plan in his heart.
The main responsibilities of the new department are nothing more than the curriculum, university halls, and public schools. In addition to the management of countless new classrooms, there may be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of teachers in the future.
Then, in order to run things in an orderly manner, then it is necessary to formulate its own charter for the Xinbutang. Not to mention other things, each chief minister must set up a corresponding clean-up department!
In addition, set up a director and a doctor in charge of money and food, set up a supervisory department, and a literature selection department in charge of curriculum. With a framework, responsibilities are well differentiated, and then, one thing is to be done. .
First calculate the approximate budget, and then ask for money and food. After that, order the provincial officials to recruit teachers, and select some chief officials and deputy officials of the school. On the capital side, it is the Wenxuan Department that contacts the universities and is responsible for the formulation of the curriculum.
The reason why the colleges are invited to advise on the syllabus is because in essence, in the schools in all states and counties in the future, the outstanding students will be admitted to the colleges to continue their studies.
If you can't meet the requirements of the various colleges for future students, work behind closed doors, and wait until the time is right to train them, but the colleges are not satisfied, and disputes will inevitably arise.
Therefore, well-known schools such as medical school, arithmetic school, official school, martial arts school, engineering school, railway school, and maritime policy school all gathered together.
As for other colleges, after all, the influence is not enough to take care of them all.
In addition, the third thing Natsuhara Yoshito did on the Ministry of Education's side was to plan the Normal School, and this was also the top priority!
After all... the current method of using scholars to teach is only a temporary method and cannot last for a long time.
On this point, Xia Yuanji is well aware that any thing that forces everyone to do it will always have good results at first, but as time goes by, people will definitely try their best to find loopholes, and then try their best to get rid of it. spoil it.
This is just like the Guozixue in the period of Emperor Taizu Gao. Under the pressure of Emperor Taizu Gao, the supervisors had to study in Guozixue, but after a long time, everyone slacked off, so that the Guozixue , is now overgrown with weeds.
If you really want to implement one thing and get long-term support, then... it is not to persecute a group of unwilling people, but to have a group that depends on this for survival, and they are the key to this national policy For staunch supporters, whoever smashes their jobs is going against one hundred and one million waterworkers.
This normal school is like this. They try their best to recruit students. After graduation, they will enter various public schools as teachers. They have to apply what they have learned. This is what they will eat in the future. The public schools are their parents, so they can attract more students. Enrollment of more schoolchildren is their performance and the basis for them to receive money and food.
In this way, if one day, this group of peaches and plums is full of peaches and plums, if someone tells them that public schools are to be abolished, they may be the first to jump up and will never back down.
Therefore, the scale of this normal university hall must be large enough, and the department hall must be presided over in person, and it must not be handed over to others.
After finishing these few things, it is actually the link of negotiation.
Office school, in addition to allocating money and food from the imperial court, is essentially to solve the problem of school children. School children can learn to read and master arithmetic, which is of course beneficial.
But these benefits are not enough to make people forge ahead.
The problem now is that there are indeed many colleges in the capital, but compared to the whole world, the number of students these colleges can recruit is a drop in the bucket.
In fact, colleges are now more or less profitable. On the one hand, it comes from tuition fees, and on the other hand, it also comes from subsidies.
Therefore, Xia Yuanji's idea is that this university hall must be expanded, or in other words, all the chief ministers in the world try their best to have two to three university halls.In this way, it provides convenience for local school children to continue their studies. Second, it also means that the number of school places enrolled each year has also greatly increased.
If you want to enter a university, it is like an imperial examination. After a year, there are only a few thousands of places. For the vast majority of students, this is an unattainable existence. Naturally, it cuts off the possibility of entering school. Heart.
But if there are [-] or even tens of thousands of posts every year, and after entering the university, there is a bright future, then... it will be completely different.
In the final analysis, apart from building schools, the new ministry's responsibility is to encourage learning. It is impossible to teach the children of soldiers and civilians all over the world to enroll with a few official documents. This is the same as encouraging people to read sage books in the past. , who is willing to read?
After roughly finalizing these, the new department hall can finally maintain its operation.
Xia Yuanji went to various memorials again, all the above-mentioned matters, and invited some officials to enter the new department. After all, he was old and could not do everything by himself, so he must have some useful people as his right and left hands.
After Zhu Di read his melodies, he was very happy, and without saying anything, he directly commented on the melodies.
After this matter was dispatched to handle it, the capital city has been peaceful recently.
But precisely because of the peace, people always feel as if something is missing.
The daily residence newspapers are almost all lackluster news, which makes people feel a bit dull.
The only lively one might be Qixia.
Here in Qixia, there are many buildings, and there are too many businesses that have set up their headquarters here, so it looks extraordinarily lively.
Especially on the side of Zouma Street, where merchants often come and go, it can be said that it is very lively every day.
These days, even Zhang Anshi came here every now and then.
He doesn't talk about business ethics.
At first, people couldn't help but be delighted to see His Royal Highness King Song coming here in person. After all, His Royal Highness Song Wang was already very popular among the merchants.
What's more, His Royal Highness Song Wang condescends to come here, and it makes the merchants feel proud.
This Zouma Street is actually a place where bulk commodities are traded.
However, the delivery of bulk commodities is time-consuming and labor-intensive after all.
When many merchants buy and sell, they don't have to wait, so they directly place a business order and make a direct transaction here. As long as the paper is signed and the gold and silver are delivered, the agreement will be considered effective, and then they can find time to pick up the goods.
Over time, some people saw the way, and with the frequent transactions, some people didn't even pick up the goods, but directly signed a subscription order with others, turned around, and if the market was good, they would resell the order at a high price Get out and grab the difference.
Here, a group of special groups have begun to appear, that is, those who buy and sell various orders. In addition, the market is good these days, so many people have made money.
Of course, there are many people who lose money, but... they are willing to gamble and admit defeat.
Zhang Anshi probably understood the rules.
The reason why Zouma Street is famous is because there is an exchange for business orders here, and this exchange is jointly established by dozens of the largest commercial firms in Ming Dynasty.
Because of these big merchants, each of them has a big business, especially the leading Qixia Commercial Bank. With their guarantee, it is natural that everyone can trust it.
It is said that the daily trading volume here is astonishing. When the market is good, it can even exceed tens of millions of taels of silver in a day.
Zhang Anshi came almost every now and then.
Soon everyone found out the tricks.
For example, the last time, King Song came down and walked around, and soon the bulk of white sugar on the market began to be purchased.
Then within a few days, news spread that the bulk of the sugar purchase was actually due to a fire at the largest sugar workshop in Luzon. As soon as the news came out, the price of sugar immediately skyrocketed.
Immediately afterwards, it was heard that His Royal Highness King Song had earned more than 200 million taels of silver in just a few days.
As businessmen, their sense of smell is the keenest. For them, even a little bit of clues may be invaluable information.So everyone's eyes undoubtedly fell on His Royal Highness King Song.
Early this morning, Zhang Anshi came here again as a routine, still shouting and hugging, ordinary people are not allowed to approach, but he just came and walked around, and then went back, there seems to be nothing special.
But obviously everyone has seen some clues, so many people have started to closely follow every move in the market, waiting to see what His Royal Highness Song Wang asked someone to buy, so they can follow suit.
It's a pity that there is no movement at all on the market.
Just when everyone was disappointed.
But someone said: "Today's turnover is not high at all, much less than yesterday's. Speaking of which, yesterday's turnover... is very rare. In one day, it was 300 million taels... …Strange, I didn’t see any major news yesterday.”
At this time, someone seemed to be vigilant, and said nervously: "Yesterday? What were you trading yesterday?"
As long as someone investigates such things, they will immediately realize that someone did not know how to sell wood and buy steel on a large scale yesterday.
It's unbelievable to hear that lumber is being sold.You know, now that railways are being built everywhere, there must be a huge demand for wood, so these days, the prices of certain woods have never come down.
As for steel, of course the price is not low, but in the past year, with the mining of iron ore in many parts of the world, more steel workshops began to be built, so the price of steel, although driven by the railway, remained high. No less, but...compared with other commodities, it is much more stable.
But according to the current situation, it is obvious that someone is behind the scenes and secretly manipulating the market.
But the question is, where is the logic of this market?
Just when everyone is unbelievable, people are scrambling to discuss, and they can't understand it.
Two days later.
"My lord, my lord..."
In Liu Ji Firm, early in the morning, Liu Lu, the boss, was awakened by an urgent voice.
The boss, Liu Lu, rubbed his head, which was still not sober, and stood up with his shoes, and saw the shopkeeper coming in person.
The shopkeeper's face was anxious, and he said face to face: "The latest news, the latest news... Annan's Great Victory, His Royal Highness King of Han in Annan, led the army to open up westward, defeated the main force of the local state, and swept hundreds of miles in one fell swoop. More than [-] towns and cities were seized, and more than [-] thieves were captured. It is said that this time they went straight to the thieves' dens and entered the royal city of this country. There are many forests in these places, many of which are most suitable for making sleepers..."
When Liu Lu heard this, he was taken aback, and the drowsiness on his body disappeared all of a sudden.
Then, I heard the shopkeeper say: "His Royal Highness, the King of Han, has announced that Annan will be the first to build the Annan Railway. Annan Railway Division has been built on the Annan side, and a workshop for sleepers has been built. There is a steady stream of selling by sea, but... the iron ore in Annan is scarce. Just a dozen or so days ago, Annan's business group was preparing to enter Beijing to negotiate large-scale purchases of steel needed for railway construction. In addition, there are custom-made steam locomotives... Now, this Annan business group is on the way."
Liu Lu's expression became serious, he looked at the shopkeeper seriously and said, "What is the scale of this railway?"
The shopkeeper said, "It's quite a lot. Annan is long and narrow, and it's two thousand miles up and down. But once it's connected, the benefits will be enormous. So this time, after the great victory of His Highness the King of Han, it's obvious that he intends to temporarily suspend troops and devote all his energy to this railway. What's more, the income from this land plunder should not be small, and Annan's products are abundant, and there are also a lot of gold and silver. If we borrow some more from the Daming Bank, it will be enough to support the construction of the railway."
"Such a large scale?" Liu Lu was taken aback, showing a bit of shock.
Although railways are being built all over the world, many chief ministers are using the method of finding ore veins in the local area and building iron ore and steel workshops on the spot. limited.
But on Annan's side, such a large-scale railway construction was outsourced due to the lack of steel. It is almost conceivable that there will be a huge steel gap in the future.
Not only that, but according to King Han's temperament, there is a high probability that this railway will eventually be connected to the Daming railway, so...there may be large-scale construction projects in the next few years or even ten years.
This King of Han was indeed as great a feat as in the past rumors, but I have to say that this is definitely a big deal.
Liu Lu frowned, and said thoughtfully, "In this way, iron ore and steel are going to soar?"
The shopkeeper said: "It has already started to rise. It's a pity that a lot of steel products have been bought up a few days ago. There are not many steel products on the market now. All the major workshops are talking about expanding production! But so There is a big gap, how can it be so easy to expand production temporarily? So now the exchange is crazy, and some people say that a few days ago, the person who secretly purchased the steel list, I am afraid this time, will definitely You have to make a lot of money."
"You're talking about His Royal Highness King Song..." Liu Lu subconsciously said after listening.
The shopkeeper said: "It's hard to say. Everyone guesses that it is His Royal Highness Song Wang, but there is no evidence."
"In this way, King Song learned the news in advance." Liu Lu murmured.
The shopkeeper said: "Could it be that His Highness the King of Han communicated with the King of Song in advance?"
"It's possible, but..." Liu Lu thought for a while and said, "In theory, even if the King of Han had communicated the letter in advance, such a big matter must be discussed and discussed by the whole of the King's House. Our firm, It's not that there are no friends in Annan. As long as they discuss it, there should be friends of the old man who will come to the old man to fix the book. It can't be that, such a big matter, His Royal Highness the King of Han kept it secret, and he didn't discuss it with anyone. He only talked with the King of Song Your Highness repairs a letter and announces it suddenly, that’s not how things are done.”
(End of this chapter)