Chen Mu couldn't wait for a better rocket, so he could only let Yin Zhengmao's subordinate Li Xi's Qi Jimei fleet be a guinea pig first, and see the results after the trial.

In fact, the northern route from the Ming Dynasty to North Asia and Merica is no longer a wilderness, at least there are still a few people, for example, there must be a small hundred households within thousands of miles along the coast, although this hundred households may be understaffed, the flag army is cold and hungry, or the flag army itself has not come to the Ming Dynasty at all.

For example, Ma Gui set up a ten-island thousand-household establishment in the Heishui Jianya Islands, and there were hundreds of households on the ten slightly larger islands, and the military village and the flag army were all available, but except for the hundred households and the chief flag officer served by the Daming Banner Army, all the flag troops were local Heishui Jin Jurchens, and there were few who could speak Chinese, but they all knew that as long as the imperial court's ship came, they would take out walrus meat from the igloo and cook it for them.

In return, each ship that passed by would leave behind some spices, and if there were no spices, they would give away something else, such as a few pieces of cotton cloth, five catties of gunpowder, three swords, two helmets, an imperial flag or a small ornament, or even a few Chinese names.

Of course, the best for the local is the book, regardless of the words or the four books and five classics, people who cross the sea by boat will bring a lot of books in order to kill time, because the customs have very strict requirements for books to go to sea, the types of books they can bring out have a strict division, most of them are traditional enlightenment books, Nanyang printing hero stories, mythological stories or Taoist Buddhist classics in the Central Plains, all functional books are not allowed to be brought out even if they teach how to farm.

But it's still a great gift.

Xu Jue's letter is nothing important, it is completely a relationship with Chen Mu and tells what he saw and heard during his southward trip.

After the lecture hall and the lecture academy appeared one after another, the squire who was idle in the country couldn't sit still.

The squires of this era are different from the squires of the Republic of China, the first thing to have is culture, after all, the intellectuals of the Republic of China moved into the cities, which led to a sharp decrease in local grassroots intellectuals, but this will be different.

The gentry usually spoke together.

People have culture, study hard for ten years to become one of the best talents, is a normal taxi, the worst taxi is about Tongsheng, this is the bottom, the taxi has taken the official career, became an official, for decades has not been dug off the ancestral grave by the fellow villagers, the official road is barely done, retired back to his hometown, in the township is widely respected and respected, and he became a gentleman.

Some people have nothing to do after becoming gentry, they are also older, they have land, leisure and clans, and one of the things they will do is to build social studies, so that the children of clans and fellow villagers can receive a good education, and they can change their fate in the future and become superior people.

The other part of the people have something to do after becoming gentry, so that they can be teachers, and they run around the world to give lectures and spread their ideas.

But the form has changed in the past two years, and the majority of gentry have found that they have not been able to talk about martial arts and literature, and they teach hundreds of people a year, how much prestige and fame they have - well, in fact, the martial arts hall was subconsciously added by the donkey race, in fact, the majority of the gentry did not find out how good the martial arts hall was, although it belonged to a system, but the influence was obviously not as good as Xu Ge's old Songjiang Lecture Academy.

Although there are a total of 100 Jinshi in the imperial examination this year, Xu Gelao originally thought that more than 200 students could not account for 100 Jinshi, but the result was that they were still students who studied hard at home for ten years before entering the Academy of Literature, but that was because of the bias, in fact, the students of the Academy of Literature did not take the exam well.

Now the Lecture Academy has added six compulsory Taige-style writing and policy courses, and Mr. Xu is riveting enough strength to compete for the imperial examination rate.

As a result, a large number of junior colleges have sprung up in the two capitals, eleven and thirteen provinces, and most of the colleges run by the squires are also the same as those of the lecture institutes, and most of them are run by the local gentry in the name of a government. However, there are still some gentry whose talents are not in the imperial examination, especially some who believe that 'the people's daily use is the way', and a large number of learned gentry devote themselves to the cause of learning first and then teaching.

For example, the gentry who loved to visit the kiln co-founded the Yangzhou Mansion Lingren Courtyard with Yangzhou giants, and the old gentry personally served as teachers, teaching poetry, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, various musical instruments and dances, directly providing advanced training channels for the girls under the mothers of thin horses.

There are also people who have set up the Suzhou Mansion Craftsman Academy, invited master craftsmen, some taught iron smelting, some taught jewelry making, pottery and brick burning, and even invited famous architects to build houses, which was laughed at by the people of the time.

In short, there is a mess, all of them learn to set subjects and semesters in the same way as the Lecture Academy, some good and some bad, there are those who are completely dedicated to free teaching or take pleasure in it, and there are also those who charge very high fees and do not pay attention at all.

Of course, it is more general, neither good nor bad, Chen Mu is more optimistic about these colleges.

He didn't really care about it, though.

The earliest junior college in Chinese history was founded by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty in the first year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, named Hongdu Menxue, offering art courses such as Cifu, ruler, calligraphy, painting, etc., and the children of the common people were selected by the state, county, and three princes.

Without the ideological emancipation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there would have been no vigorous, deep, generous and sad Jian'an style.

Where are these old hats of the Ming Dynasty?

It's good for the gentry to have a serious job, don't care if they do it well or not, Chen Mu knows that sooner or later, the waves will wash the sand, leaving a few pieces of real gold.

Able to integrate personal struggle into and promote the historical process, Chen Mu, who was sitting in the shade of the Beiyang Military Mansion School and holding a letter, only felt that his vanity was greatly satisfied.

However, he was more concerned about the two things mentioned in the last paragraph of Xu Jue's letter, which were not in the thirteen provinces, but in Beijing.

During this period of time, the court went to court every day, although the emperor was not in power, but he went to court every day, and the Empress Dowager Li had no objection to this, which caused an uproar among the courtiers.

Because Zhang Juzheng considered that the emperor needed to pay attention to his studies in the past, he set the rule that he would go to the court every three, sixth, and ninth days every month, that is, only three days of the court and seven days of lectures every ten days.

Fortunately, the emperor didn't make any out-of-the-ordinary decisions, anyway, the government is not decided in the court, Wu Yang is all human beings, what can he decide with all his mouth?

The real decisions are made by the cabinet and the celebrant at noon.

For this reason, Zhang Juzheng wrote a letter in the mourning hall to urge the emperor to study, and the Empress Dowager Li wrote back to explain that the emperor did not delay his studies, and there was no harm in increasing the number of times.

In fact, the emperor has been losing his temper with Empress Dowager Li recently.

The queen mother does not mind the emperor going to the court every day, but the day can not be left behind, the time is arranged from the afternoon to two hours after the sun sets, the little emperor has no complaints about this, but he shows great resistance, and the matter of the dispute has nothing to do with the day and the court.

What is the emperor fighting for?

Wanli is fighting for the addition of two sets of clothes for the emperor in the imperial court ceremony, one set of bright yellow sun and moon Beiyang military uniforms, and the other set of the full set of emperor armor for the chief military officer, which is simply an absurd move to imitate Emperor Wuzong.

However, Xiao Wanli has his own set of theories, although he didn't make sense with the Queen Mother, but he still struggled in his own way: no new clothes, no daily talks!

Even if you spend the same amount of time secretly reading books in the secret room every day, you don't have a daily talk!

In fact, what the Queen Mother cared about was not that the emperor wanted to add two new clothes to herself.

Instead, in the letter presented by Emperor Tuo Feng Bao to the Empress Dowager, the purpose of these two sets of clothes was clearly stated: the Great Tomorrow Son should wear such clothes and armor, fully armed, and parade the army when the Oriental Fleet and the Wanli set sail in Tianjin!