However, since Li Tianjing opened his mouth today, he didn't plan to let Chongzhen prevaricate so simply. Under his stubborn fighting, Zhu Youzhen had to make a slight concession.

"In this way, the gold and silver collected by Jiangnan last year was about 670,000 taels, of which 350,000 taels had been folded into the military attache moon of the two capitals. The remaining 320,000 taels will be used for additional education funds this year, in addition to being used as an occasional need.

The funds were used for the construction of 100 primary schools, 10 secondary schools and two universities. Two universities are located in Tianjin and Shanghai. There are 10 middle schools, two each in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, and one each in Jeju, Taiwan, Hainan, and Guangzhou.

In the case of elementary schools, 20 schools will be built in Jeju, Taiwan, Hainan, and Shanghai, and the remaining 20 will be built in the overseas islands of Ryukyu, Palawan, Boni, and Ambuna.

As for the shortage of teachers in these newly built primary schools, outstanding students were selected from the southern provinces to teach. Secondary school teachers and university teachers are directly transferred to the post of Lifter or Non-commissioned Officer.

Those who are willing to go to overseas elementary schools to work as teachers will have an annual salary of 100 taels and a travel allowance of 20 taels per year.

Other teachers teaching in the Mainland are also entitled to these benefits in addition to their annual salaries. However, the above benefits can only be enjoyed after completing 3 years of teaching experience, and those who abandon their jobs in the middle of the job are not entitled to these benefits.

Those who do not accept the assignment to teach shall be exempted from the preferential treatment of free food and shall retain the right to be exempted from the preferential treatment of Ding. In addition, it is forbidden to participate in scientific research for three years. ”

got 100,000 taels of silver from Chongzhen, and finally made Li Tianjing satisfied with his voice. Huang Liji and others didn't care, Chongzhen's treatment of those students and people who did not accept the imperial court's edicts, after all, there would not be many students and people who did not accept the imperial court's orders. To their relief, the money didn't have to be withdrawn from their funds.

After solving the problem of Li Tianjing, Zhu Youzhen quickly brought up Feng Zhenlu's matter again. This time, he didn't ask everyone's opinions again, but directly picked out and said: "Since you feel that there is no suitable position in the court for the time being, then it is up to me to make a decision."

After the lifting of the sea ban, it is clear that customs and foreign affairs will increase day by day in the future. In the past, it was the City Ship Division, the Shiyi Pavilion, and the local Kaido that were in charge of these affairs, but I thought it was too scattered.

If something happens at the coastal port, it must be sent back to the capital to be handled. Moreover, there is no unified yamen in the capital to make centralized decisions, so the handling of foreign trade affairs is often inconsistent, and the change of an official is equivalent to a change of way of doing things.

In this way, the local officials below are at a loss, and foreign businessmen seem to think that I have gone back on my word, which is not the way of a big country to go back on its word.

Therefore, I intend to unify the management of customs, Tongwenguan, foreign affairs, overseas patrol offices, and town guard offices in one yamen.

On the one hand, it can facilitate the handling of various affairs, and on the other hand, it can also put an end to local fraud and smuggling trade.

I intend to call this new department the Prime Minister's Yamen for Customs and Foreign Affairs, with Scholar Feng as the chief officer of the new Yamen.

The funds for this new yamen will be allocated from the customs, and there is no need for the household department to allocate additional funds. Of course, the yamen will be directly subordinate to me, and there will be no direct relationship with the cabinet. What do you think, gentlemen? ”

Customs and foreign affairs, the few ministers present here are naturally not interested. Although the customs collected a lot of money and grain last year, neither the cabinet nor the officials of the six ministries knew what the specific amount was.

Whether it was Zheng Zhilong and others, or the maritime merchants in the southeast, although they complained that the tariffs and ship taxes were too high, no one was willing to tell the actual amount they were collected. After all, after they were charged high taxes, they still made a lot of profits, and this kind of thing is obviously not enough for outsiders.

Therefore, whether it is the cabinet or the six ministries, they still estimate the customs revenue at a slightly higher level than 200,000 taels in previous years.

Compared with the unstable tax of the customs, it is obvious that the fixed annual 1 million taels of gold and silver are more eye-catching.

Because the customs revenue is not stable enough, even if it is used as private money by the emperor, the officials in the court have not been criticized much. Those who attacked the emperor for collecting customs taxes did not have more remarks about attacking the collection of gold and silver.

Now Chongzhen is willing to set up a new department with customs revenues, which has always been the management of commercial and foreign affairs that these officials do not pay attention to, so the opposition is not so loud.

For Huang Liji, since he can't stop Feng Quan from returning to the court, it is naturally the most suitable to arrange a remote and unpopular position for him as much as possible.

In the final analysis, this is not the prime minister's yamen, which is not to manage a group of businessmen and foreigners, and these affairs are not as important in his eyes as the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee established earlier.

So after a few words of blocking, the cabinet meeting finally approved the establishment of the prime minister's yamen and arranged a new position for Feng Quan.

Zhu Youzhen then continued: "There must be many vacancies in the setting of the new yamen, and there have always been few new branch scholars willing to take up positions in the City Department and Tongwen Hall.

Therefore, I plan to hold an examination this year to recruit vacancies for the Prime Minister's Yamen and Customs and Excise Department. Although this examination is not a formal imperial examination, all qualified students, lifters, or current officials below the sixth rank can register for the examination.

I plan to have the Ministry of Rites, Yenching University, and Jinling University co-chair this exam, do you think it is appropriate? ”

The establishment of a new yamen was naturally to supplement the manpower, but Chongzhen did not draw from the six ministries and local officials, and wanted to recruit openly in the form of examinations, which was quite too fanfare, but it did not arouse other ideas of these ministers.

Li Tianjing, who was in charge of education, couldn't help but dutifully ask: "How many people does Your Majesty plan to recruit, and how should the scope and content of the examination be stipulated?" Are there any additional time requirements? ”

Zhu Youzhen replied casually: "The time is on April 15, and the number of recruits is between 300-400, is the scope and content of the exam?" To manage customs affairs, it is natural to know geometry and mathematics, and it is better to have a certain knowledge of physics and chemistry.

The Prime Minister's Yamen was mainly responsible for dealing with foreign merchants, so being able to speak foreign languages was naturally a priority, followed by being able to write in the vernacular. It's okay, and those foreigners can't understand it.

In fact, in my opinion, the Ministry of Rites only needs to be responsible for the examination process, and the test questions of the exam will be left to Yenching University and Jinling University to each other. ”

After hearing what Chongzhen said about the exam, the ministers didn't have any thoughts about this prime minister's yamen. These superficial contents are obviously not suitable for the appetite of those scholars who study hard.

It is estimated that only those students and people who really can't bear the pain of the imperial examination will want to take the shortcut of the prime minister's yamen. However, it is difficult for this kind of miscellaneous officer who does not follow the right path to be promoted to the fifth grade.

Li Tianjing wrote down Chongzhen's request and said that he would go to convey the order to the officials of the Ministry of Rites in a while. As for the examination rules, application requirements, and the place and time of the examination, after the Ministry of Rites is determined, it will be sent to the Daming Times for public publication.

Toward the end of the meeting, Zhu Youzhen made one last request, that is, he hoped that the cabinet ministers would have good discussions with the departments in charge and then draw up an annual plan, which he hoped would be seen in a week's time, so as to understand what the ministries planned to do this year.

Chongzhen's words suddenly made these ministers a little stunned, last year the emperor asked all counties, prefectures, and provinces to submit annual plans, which made the six ministries and the cabinet much easier. At least they have a rough idea of what is going on locally.

What they are most satisfied with is that since it is a plan reported by each locality, when the inspection is carried out at the end of the year, the central center does not have to bother sending personnel to the local area to see anything, and just check the past one by one according to the plan provided by the locality.

But they didn't expect the noose to fall on their heads so quickly. The annual work plan of the six ministries and the cabinet, this is obviously also a good thing that Chongzhen will use to beat them in the future.

Although they were a little reluctant, the ministers who had just praised this way had to pinch their noses and agree to the emperor's request, preparing to submit their annual work plans seven days later.

Huang Liji mentioned to Chongzhen at the end, "Your Majesty, spring is about to begin, and the leaders of the right-wing Mongolian tribes have been in the capital for almost a month.

Now that the things that need to be done have been done, it is better to ask them to go back to the grassland first, so as not to disturb the civilians in the capital. It also prevents them from making any uncontrollable things after the lack of control of the tribesmen in the grassland. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and then replied: "And in February, I am saying that the trade agreement between Liu Jingting and the left and right Mongolian ministries is about to be negotiated. Besides, the reclamation groups from Shaanxi and Shanxi to the grasslands outside the Guanxi have not yet been formed, so it is better to keep them for a few more days until we are ready.

Although these Mongol leaders were straightforward, their agreements with the imperial court were often repeated, and they had one attitude in the capital, but after they returned, they were persuaded a few words, and they could not be said to have become another attitude.

As for saying that they disturb the people, then let the lords of the capital take turns to feast these Mongolian leaders, and they will have to deal with each other often in the future, and it is not bad to contact them now.

With these noble banquets, I think these leaders will have little effort to harass the people of the capital. ”