Chen Muzhi is like a traveling frog in Wanli.

Every once in a while, there will be letters across the ocean, sending a few letters to Wanli, with some souvenirs.

The souvenir of the 11th year of Wanli came a little later than before, and it took a long time for the Toyo military government to make sure that there was no plague in Asia, and then sent the fleet back.

This time, Chen Mu's main purpose in the letter was twofold, one was to remind the imperial court that it was time to select a minister to succeed him in charge of the East; The second is to ask the emperor how the education reform in the country is going.

Education reform is definitely the proudest thing for Wanli.

There are many things that the Ming Empire can take, whether it is the invincible sail warships on the world ocean or the Beiyang Land Division of Hubu Europa, the airship Flying Fish rising in the north of the Saibei, and the Qinglong military column traveling in the Saine, all of which are unparalleled in the world, but these are not Wanli's own achievements.

His merit is that he has registered, repaired, reorganized, and built more than 5,000 primary schools in the two capitals and 13 provinces.

These primary schools have not yet produced any graduates, but it can enroll hundreds of thousands of school-age children and teenagers in the world every year, which is an absolute achievement in Wanli's view, even if it is close to emptying the inner treasury for this purpose.

Chen Mu asked about the education reform, which really scratched his itch through the Great East Ocean, and he wrote a long letter on the same day, boasting to Chen Mu about his reform experience - in fact, there is no experience, only spending money, the imperial court spends money, the East Factory Supervision Officials, Jinyi Wei supervises the East Factory, the West Factory supervises the Jinyi Guard, and the Imperial History supervises the West Factory, forming a closed loop in a circle.

Use a lot of manpower to ensure that financial resources are not consumed.

The excited Wanli stopped writing the letter in Tsinghua Garden, and from time to time he had to stand up and take steps to praise himself.

He is indeed worthy of pride, this kind of great joy in his heart can not be shared, he can't even help but tell him before Chen Mu returns to China, the Ming Empire will build a wood-iron composite track to every inch of land that can be repaired, and even waved his hand in the letter to tell Chen Mu that the railway in the northeast is left for him to come back to repair, and it will be repaired all the way to Wangxia Prefecture in the future.

Although all this is still just a beautiful blueprint in Daming, in fact, in addition to the Wulianghai Railway and the two sections of the Yanqingwei to Datong Railway that can really be put into use within a year or two, they are mainly concentrated in the relatively flat North China Plain.

Henan is not easy to repair to the west after Kaifeng Mansion, it is easy to repair the road, and even the difficulty of using the existing railway to repair down is easier than the previous official road repair, but the terrain is slightly more complicated, and it is useless to repair the road, and the green dragon cannot go up.

The current Qinglong does not have the ability to climb the slope, it does, as long as it is a slope that cannot be distinguished by the naked eye, it can go up.

But the gentle slope that people can feel is generally impossible to climb.

The only kind of Qinglong locomotive that can climb a gentle slope is an early pursuit of speed and capacity of the model, the front of the car is small, the load is small, the speed is fast, can take three lathe workers including the royal one, eight passengers a day 990 miles, this speed can be called a hurricane, right? But this is the maximum number of people it can carry, because its design was not intended to add a carriage, the passenger compartment is integrated with the cab and the front of the locomotive, and the original design intention was to replace one or two horses with a carriage with a steam engine.

After loading five carriages, its speed was even slower than the fifteen carriages of the latest Qinglong Military Train.

But Wanli doesn't care about these, there are no problems in his eyes, and the meaning of all problems is to be overcome.

Halfway through writing a letter to Chen Mu, Wan Li Ye had a big brain to find Zhang Juzheng, and talk to Zhang Gelao, who was half in seclusion at home, about education reform, and he planned to change the imperial examination before the first batch of primary school students completed the school system.

Sometimes this person is alive with a heart.

In the past, Zhang Juzheng has always been reluctant to let go of power, firstly, the external conditions do not allow it, and secondly, he also has this heart in his heart, and he always feels that he should be like this, and it is okay to give power to the emperor if he can't do it one day.

As for the consequences and the end, Zhang Juzheng didn't think about it.

It's not that I don't know how to think about it, or I don't know how to know but I deliberately don't want to, but there is no need to think about it.

What he said but didn't say, what he didn't do, and what he didn't do, when it came to him, what else was there to think about?

As the saying goes, life is a ding, a death is a marquis, and a dead marquis is not a marquis - Zhang Juzheng really doesn't want to be sealed.

That's like giving Chen Mu an overseas king, he has always given it to others, sealed himself, and dropped the price.

However, this time, let Chen Shigong treat and recuperate, and suddenly idle, but Zhang Juzheng's heart also paused, as if he finally saw the results of the reform: he seemed to be able to do it when he was idle.

Although the chosen successor is not mature enough, he seems to have a good mind.

Don't get me wrong, Zhang Juzheng has transcended the status of the first assistant and college student, and the successor he selected is neither Zhang Siwei of the Shanxi Gang, nor Shen Shixing, who is not strong enough, if the successor is them, then Zhang Juzheng will start to prepare to change some rules to make the rules of officialdom more suitable for the successor to take power.

But he didn't, he never represented the interests of the civilian clique, and he was not ready to create a powerful minister from the civilian clique after him, and the successor he chose was the Wanli Emperor.

Although he has watched Wanli fool around in the past two years, in the actions of the Daxing Railway and the Great Iron Factory, Zhang Juzheng has seen some new things.

Of course, this time Wanli entered Zhang Juzheng's house without notice, which also made Wanli see some new things.

This afternoon, Zhang Ju was compiling books in the study, and he saw You Qi coming to report in a panic: "Master, the eunuch has sealed the street in front of the door and sent the police." ”

Zhang Juzheng put down his pen and said in a daze: "Your Majesty is coming?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a eunuch had already reported in front of the house with a high-pitched and loud voice.

Shocked, Zhang Juzheng hurriedly asked You Qi to call the whole family and go to the front yard to meet the emperor.

In the courtyard of Zhang Ge's hometown, the military eunuchs and the Imperial Forest Army have been standing in groups of three in various pavilions and pavilions, ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, holding a golden gourd and wearing a golden golden ancestor walking armor The heavily armed Han general stood by the pool, wearing a crimson python robe covered with short-sleeved chain mail, wearing a hanging chain mail skirt, wearing a copper-patterned high-topped bowl, a lightly armed royal forest warrior with a copper-patterned high-topped bowl on his shoulder, carrying a sheath royal forest sword on his shoulders and standing left and right, as well as a middle-dressed brocade bird gun carrying a composite cuirass on his shoulders and wearing a composite cuirass.

At the moment, the big sleeves of the bright yellow sun and moon robe were tied up by the arms, shaped like a military uniform, and Wanli, who was covered with a dragon pattern composite cuirass, raised his hand to untie the bowl, and took off the helmet with the red tassel hanging from the bowl and handed it to the eunuch holding the dust behind him, and walked leisurely with his hands behind his back to look at the courtyard of Zhang Juzheng's house.

He raised his hand and stroked the square lamp covered with glass in front of the rockery, knocked it lightly twice, looked at the strange stones in the courtyard and the servants who came and went and knelt down to worship the three columns on the left and the three columns on the right, and shook his head with a complicated expression.