Lin Yanchao finally said: "Your Majesty has asked me to ask your ministers in the court whether it is feasible to popularize the law of righteousness in Beijing?" ”

All the courtiers were silent. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

I think that the children of the officials here can receive free education. This is a suggestion that benefits the Beijing officials here. The officials were a little moved.

Of course, Lin Yanchao's suggestion is also general, and the details are debatable.

Chen Jiong, the imperial history of Zuodu, came out of the class and asked: "How to set up a righteous school in Beijing?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "Back to the general constitution, Your Majesty did not have a face-to-face edict, and the following officials have a shallow view, every boy in Yixue will be taught after six years of cultivation." Those who reach it can find a teacher to practice it, and those who do not reach it can also get the teachings of the saints and cultivate benevolence. ”

Chen Wei continued to ask: "What is the use of civilians being raised, except for cultivating virtue?" ”

Lin Yanchao continued: "Open the wisdom of the people, benefit immensely, just one example, can understand the text, can understand the court list text, announcements, you can not be bullied." If the peddlers and pawns on the street of Jingshi can write and count, and praise Confucius and Mencius, the state of etiquette is nothing more than that. ”

Hearing the words "State of Etiquette", all the officials nodded.

Zhang Mengli, the secretary of Dali Temple, asked: "If you say that the popularization of righteousness, then what about the social studies of the two capitals?" What did the court do with it? ”

Lin Yanchao thought for a while and said: "There are government-run and private-run social studies, and the government-private social studies are jointly run by the government and the people, and the government-run social studies are directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites. ”

Lin Yanchao's plan to set up a private school is to serve as a national education, while a private school is a private education, which can be an elite education. If someone dislikes the education of righteousness too much, then they can study in a private school.

"What is the scale of the school?"

"As for the school building, it can be temporarily built with the abandoned treasury of the imperial court, the temple of monks, or private donations, but it is mainly funded by the imperial court. And Yixue, I suggest that we continue to use the method of three rounds, and hire Mengtong in the above, middle and lower rounds. ”

Zhang Mengli asked again: "Where did Master Meng come from?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "There are no students in the capital, and there are many overseers, and they can all be hired as teachers. ”

After all, Lin Yanchao had no experience as a political official, but only proposed a general direction, and many of the details were just taken for granted, and they were generally borrowed from the concept of nine-year compulsory education in later generations, which was not yet combined with the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty. However, he had done a preliminary investigation in advance, and after explaining it to the officials, it was also orderly, and how to do it when the time came was the affairs officer's business.

After Zhang Mengli finished the inquiry, he said to the officials: "Although Lin Zhongyun's mention is lacking in details, it is generally speaking, it is a feasible method. ”

After Lin Yanchao gave up his hand to Zhang Mengli, he asked Pan Sheng and Zhang Siwei: "According to Zongbo and Zhongtang's opinion, is it feasible to set up a righteous school in Beijing?" ”

Pan Sheng, Zhang Siwei said in his heart, the suggestion that the emperor agreed to is inappropriate, and we can't say it directly.

Pan Sheng pinched his beard and said: "This theory was suddenly brought to the court, and it has not been discussed in the ministry before, and the ministry can't say why for a while." What do you think is wrong? ”

After Pan Sheng finished speaking, Ni Guangwan, the secretary of general affairs, came out of the class and said: "In terms of public intentions, Lin Zhongyun's policy is indeed worrying, but the establishment of a righteous school in Liangjing also requires the imperial court to suddenly take out this money, not to mention the expenses for the allocation of start-ups, and the annual salary and public expenses are also a lot. ”

"What's more, if you don't talk about it in three or five years, you may not be able to achieve results in ten years. It is better to expand the number of recruits, and it will not cost the imperial court a penny, but it can have immediate results. ”

After Ni Guangwan finished speaking, Pan Sheng, Zhang Siwei, and many officials all nodded, which was a serious opinion.

The officials present all knew that the 'expansion of enrollment' could make the world's scholars immediately support and win the hearts of the people, and it would not cost the court a penny, which was a benefit, but the disadvantage was that it harmed the common people, and in the long run, it was to quench their thirst. However, the establishment of a righteous school requires the imperial court to spend a long time on the funds for the righteous school, and it will not be able to achieve success in the short term, even if it is a long-term plan to benefit the country and the people?

It is better to have two birds in the forest than one bird in hand, and instead of thinking about the benefits of the future, it is better to focus on the benefits of the present. The country's policy is still stability-oriented, and it is better to spend money without spending money or at all. So Ni Guangwan said this, and many officials applauded.

After Ni Guangwan finished speaking, many officials felt that Lin Yanchao's general trend had gone, and one said: "Lin Zhongyun is inevitably too young, his ideas are good, and he can't help but be more anxious." Even if the court passes the meeting, but the proposal is shelved on the cabinet side, how can it be voted on? ”

Lin Yanchao listened to the opposition of Ni Guangwan and other officials, but he remained silent.

This official came out and said: "Zhu Ziyun is righteous and does not care about his benefits, and he does not care about his merits in cultivating his way. Although the success of the establishment of righteous learning is slow, it is where righteousness lies, and it must be done. ”

At the banquet, Lin Yanchao used this sentence to defeat Zhou Ziyi, and at this moment, there are officials who use this sentence to support Lin Yanchao, which is really ironic.

Although there is one person who supports it, the officials still think in their hearts, saying that, but the policy is eager for quick success, even if there are officials with a conscience, it will not help to come out and make suggestions.

Unexpectedly, after the official finished speaking, another official came out of the class: "The revitalization of culture and education is a matter that the Holy Lord Yuanfu attaches great importance to. The matter of cultivating people, the merit is in the community, and the benefit is in the future! ”

Another official support?

What's going on?

But then another official came out and said: "I also think that the matter of righteousness and learning can be done for it, for the sake of the people, and for the people." ”

All the officials looked like the officials of the Ministry of Rites came out to support. How is this going on, why are my officials of Daming suddenly so disciplined? Why did the Ministry of Rites stand on Lin Yanchao's side?

After a while, the officials all suddenly realized that Lin Yanchao mentioned that the Ministry of Rites directly governed the matter of Yixue in Liangjing, which means that the Ministry of Rites has oil and water to fish.

Among the six departments, it is recognized as the poorest in the Ministry of Rites. Before, it was said that the local government would open a school of righteousness, but everyone refused to hold on to the money, but now the Ministry of Rites is directly under the central government, and of course the Ministry of Rites is supported by a hundred. Everyone looked at Lin Yanchao and said in their hearts, this son had proposed to be directly under the Ministry of Rites before, and it turned out that this idea was beaten.

This calculation is too deep.

As for cultural and educational matters, officials from other ministries originally had an indifferent attitude, but now their minds are also active.

An official of the Ministry of Industry said: "The construction of the school building must be supervised by the Ministry of Engineering." ”

"The construction of the school building and the annual allocation of funds for voluntary education should be under the overall expense of our household department." The household official said.

"It is the business of our officials to hire teachers, give miscellaneous duties, appoint the mountain chief, and give official goods." The official of the Ministry said.

The Criminal Department nodded and said: "Then in the capital, if there are parents who do not want their children to go to school, they can be taken by my Criminal Department!" ”

All the officials squinted at each other, and it should be Shuntianfu to take people, and it is not your turn to be in the Criminal Department, you have crossed the line.

All the officials, you say a word, but the officials of the military department stand quietly aside, just to make soy sauce.

Pan Sheng suddenly realized that Lin Yanchao's confidence was here.

Now that Lin Yanchao's wings have been completed in the court discussion, Pan Sheng has no way to directly deny it. As a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, he is a very popular minister, and he is not very enthusiastic about the fact that Yixue is attributed to the Ministry of Rites. He intends to 'expand the number of recruiters', but he is not good at putting this matter on the table, and he can't openly say it in the court meeting, it was instructed by Zhang Juzheng.

Pan Sheng secretly miscalculated, he thought that this time the court meeting was in his own hands, and he was nine out of ten, but he didn't expect it to be a miscalculation, in case what Lin Yanchao said was passed, how would he explain to Zhang Juzheng. Pan Sheng was also too careless, if he had taken precautions before the court meeting, this scene would not have happened.

Even before Pan Sheng, he didn't listen to people's words and sent a post to Lin Yanchao, calculating it against him, and the matter of the court was not in his hands.

Pan Sheng asked Zhang Siwei, "Feng Pan, what do you think should be done?" ”

Zhang Siwei muttered: "Since you are doing righteous learning, you have to look at the money and people. If money is two, why not. ”

Pan Sheng nodded, if the matter of funds is not loosened, then everything will be suspended, this is his last hope.

Pan Sheng asked Liu Si, the left attendant of the household department under the stairs: "Do you have any money to allocate for the establishment of a volunteer school?" ”

Liu Siwen is in the household department, known as the iron rooster, and it is extremely difficult for other yamen to take money from him. Pan Sheng asked him, and he also hoped that Liu Siwen could deny the matter in the name of the household department's lack of money.

Liu Siwen said embarrassedly after leaving the class: "Yes, last year's treasury had a surplus of two million taels, but everyone was staring at it. I look at the five temples, the thirteen political secretaries, and the amount of silver in advance has been set at the court meeting after the Shangyuan Festival, which can't be moved. ”

"Transporting troops to allocate silver, the river yamen is waiting for the silver to build a dam and build a dam, the salary of the Jiubian army is owed for a year, and the wedding of King Lu is imminent, we must also have an explanation for the queen mother......"

"But the establishment of righteous learning is a hundred-year plan, and it is a matter that the Holy God is concerned about. Our household department is tossing left and right, and we have to find a way to do it. It just so happened that next month, the city of Bo Si had a sum of silver arrived, 138,000 taels of whole and zero, this money was originally allocated to Henan Buzheng Department to repair the official office, and make up for the arrears of the imperial court last year, which is so that the officials in Henan suffered a little more, and received the official salary first, as for the yamen, I don't know how to wait for the year of the monkey to repair again. But in this way, 80,000 taels can be allocated, at least for the righteous school in the capital, and build a shelf first. ”

Zhang Siwei smiled and said: "Liu Shilang, I'm afraid that the officials in Henan will find you to file a lawsuit at that time!" ”

Liu Siwen smiled and said, "It's a big deal to hide in the old man's house." ”

All the officials said in unison: "It is a good story to use the money from the repair of the official office to build the school building, and the officials in Henan will not be unreasonable." ”

Zhang Siwei pinched his beard and nodded: "Since the household department is willing to allocate funds, then Lin Zhongyun can be included in the preparation of this proposal, and after everyone holds the pot of preparation, we will present the results of the court meeting to the Son of Heaven!" ”

So the court began the last agenda item, a vote.

The court meeting was a secret ballot, and each of the 37 courtiers present at the meeting received a lot. The name written on the lottery is his name and official position.

Under the steps there is a vermilion pot and a black pot.

Pan Sheng said to the officials holding the lottery sticks: "I think that the enrollment staff should be expanded, and the lottery should be signed to invest in the Zhu pot, and the volunteer school should be set up in Beijing, and the black pot should be cast." ”

After hearing this, the officials held the lottery and threw them into the two pots of vermilion and black one by one.