Zhu Youzhen listened to the discussion of the cabinet for a long time before he made up his mind and said: "According to the reclassification of official positions by the Ministry of Officials, officials can be divided into transactional positions and technical positions according to their responsibilities.

And for the latter, if a group of incompetent people are allowed to hold the position, it will be a disaster for the imperial court and the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, I thought that the training time of the former could be shortened to 3 months, while the training time of the latter remained unchanged at 6 months. However, officials from Yenching University only need to receive a one-month short-term training.

In addition, in addition to the triennial examination, there will be an annual civil service examination and an examination for the promotion of civil servants to technical officers. The vacancies of these positions are declared by each department to the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Officials organizes examinations in a unified manner.

In addition, students who have obtained diplomas from Yenching University and Jinling University are equivalent to being promoted and can directly take the general examination or civil service examination. ”

When Chongzhen added the last point, the cabinet ministers who originally wanted to oppose it suddenly fell silent. As a Ming bureaucrat with a serious background in the imperial examination, they naturally opposed the method of selecting officials from among the civil servants.

The so-called civil servants are not the officials despised by the Ming officials. These villains with humble status and inferior character were like prostitutes in the eyes of scholars and doctors, and their children were also not allowed to participate in the imperial examination and enter the official career.

Now Chongzhen has changed their name, and they don't even need to participate in the imperial examination, they can directly pass the internal examination to become officials, which is obviously infringing on the interests of scholars all over the world.

These cabinet ministers were also members of the Great Ming Scholars, and they subconsciously wanted to veto the emperor's proposals, as they had done on previous occasions. But after listening to the last condition that Chongzhen said, many people began to hesitate again.

As cabinet members, according to the latest regulations, their children can enter Yenching University and Jinling University without entrance examinations. Although they themselves are quite talented in reading, they have been smooth sailing in the imperial examination, and they have been in their current position after entering the official career.

However, this does not mean that their children and nephews are also the seeds of study, and they can win successes in the imperial examination. As the only way to enter a serious career, the imperial examination has always been noticed by people all over the world. Although up to now, there have been endless incidents of fraud in the science field. However, once the fraud incident is made public, it will be a major case that will alarm the government and the public.

Even as a cabinet minister, if you want to take care of your own children in the imperial examination, you must be afraid of being stabbed out or impeached by your political opponents.

And the reason why the Donglin Party, which is dominated by scholars from the south, has such a great influence in the government and the opposition. The main reason is that most of the people who support the Donglin Party are related to the southern scholars from official families.

Most of the bureaucrats attached to Wei Zhongxian's background were northerners, and many were from humble backgrounds. These officials have no background in their families, and they have no old relatives to build with in the officialdom.

They finally fought their way out of the imperial examination in which thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge and put on an official uniform. In the end, I found that the good places in the court were occupied by those southern scholars. What is even more infuriating is that after these southern scholars and doctors relied on the relationship between teachers and students, old relatives and friends, and occupied the position of good officials with noble status and no responsibility, they also brazenly accused them, the officials who did practical affairs for the imperial court, and were muddy officials who were greedy for money and had a good reputation.

Although these officials from poor families, because they could not compete with these bureaucrats from families in the court, they finally attached themselves to Wei Zhongxian, who represented the imperial power, and severely suppressed the Donglin Party members who represented the interests of officials from noble families. However, the corporal people in the world still stood firm for the Donglin Party members and refuted them as the remnants of the eunuch party.

The main reason for this is that these officials from humble backgrounds, even if they seem to be in power now, control the government independently. But if the children of the later generations cannot go to school, the poor scholars who are poor in the future will have to give up the power in their hands to those bureaucrats from southern families.

Then at that time, a political struggle to overturn the case for the Donglin Party and liquidate the remnants of the eunuch party will break out sooner or later.

Huang Liji is also very aware of this, so he let his son contact the Donglin Party, hoping to reconcile with these Donglin Party members. But his efforts have proven to be futile. The Donglin Party, or the southern scholars who represented the famous families, were not willing to coexist peacefully with these northern scholars from poor families.

In this way, if you want to maintain the stability of the court and the interests of these northern scholars themselves, how to ensure that there are a certain number of northerners in the court who are inclined to their side is particularly crucial.

It is obviously a bad idea to do tricks in the imperial examination, which is the attention of everyone in the world. Urging one's juniors to learn with their hearts, although this is the right way, there are too many uncertain factors.

But now Chongzhen has pointed out to them another shortcut to the south, Yenching University-civil servant-technical official, this road seems to be tortuous, but now everyone doesn't know much, but there is a lot of room to do it. In this way, it can be guaranteed that their loose group, united by the rebellion against the Donglin Party, can maintain enough influence in the DPRK and China, and will not be liquidated by the Donglin Party or the Southern Scholars in the future.

Among the ministers, Qian Qianyi originally wanted to stand up against it. However, Changshu Xipu Qian's parenting is not effective, although he has three sons, but they all died. At over 40 years old, he still has no queen under his knees, which can really be regarded as a painful thing for him.

However, he accepted the imperial court's conscription to go to Beijing, not only did his official fortune prosper, but what made him even happier was that the concubine who went to Beijing with him actually had good news.

He only thought about it for a while and understood that if the concubine gave birth to a son for him, by the time the son became an adult, he would already be dying. God knows if this son has the talent to study, and it is too hard to enter the official career through the imperial examination, and he is also a little worried about whether this unborn son can withstand this hardship.

On the contrary, it is the proposition put forward by Chongzhen that seems to be more suitable for the passage of future generations with mediocre talents. Qian Qianyi was unable to decide for a while, and was also silent.

Seeing the silent appearance of the ministers, Zhu Youzhen didn't wait any longer, he raised his left hand and said: "All gentlemen are busy with affairs, so I don't want to continue to analyze this issue, after all, this is not the first time we have discussed this issue." In order to save everyone's time, let's vote by a show of hands. Those who agree raise their hands. ”

Under Chongzhen's gaze, Shi Fenglai and Xu Guangqi raised their left hands one after another, Huang Liji thought for a long time, and finally raised his hand hesitantly.

With Huang Liji taking the lead, other ministers also raised their hands one after another, and finally everyone passed Chongzhen's proposal. Students who graduated from Yenching University were given the status of lifters, and civil servants were promoted to technical officers.

When Huang Liji was about to read the next topic, Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Mr. Huang should wait and read it first, I hope to temporarily insert a discussion content and let several gentlemen discuss it together." ”

After listening to the emperor's words, Huang Liji put down the documents in his hand and said calmly: "I wonder if Your Majesty has any additional issues to discuss?" ”

Zhu Youzhen motioned to Wang Chengen, who was behind him, to take out a stack of documents and send them to several ministers present, and then he spoke: "Jiang Zhongbao, deputy commander-in-chief of the Haihe River Control Project, sent me a summary of the Haihe River Control Project.

According to the repeated arguments of the Haihe River Control Headquarters, they believe that they want to control the Haihe River once and for all, and make effective use of the Haihe River water system, so as to turn harm into benefits and make it a source of water conservancy irrigation for the farmland between Gyeonggi and Shanhaiguan.

In addition to building river dams on tributaries and main streams to expand the flood discharge capacity of downstream rivers entering the sea, it is also necessary to build large and small reservoirs in various favorable areas to regulate the water volume of the Haihe River in the dry and rainy seasons and improve the distribution of irrigation water in farmland.

The large reservoirs they proposed, such as the Yuecheng Reservoir on the Zhanghe River, the Huangbizhuang Reservoir and the Gangnan Reservoir on the Hutuo River, the Zhuzhuang Reservoir and the Lincheng Reservoir on the Fuyang River, a tributary of the Ziya River, and the Hengshanling, Xidayang, and Wangkuai reservoirs on the Daqing River, are all located in the mountainous areas of the upper reaches of the Haihe River and its tributaries, and the cost is not small.

Of course, the biggest investment is still the Guanting Reservoir and Miyun Reservoir in the upper reaches of the Yongding River and Chaobai River. and the state river reservoir on the edge of Jizhou City.

In addition, although the river channel at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Haihe River has been strengthened and widened this year, the exploration team of the Haihe River Control Headquarters has conducted on-the-spot exploration. They believe that the old Haihe River channel alone will not be enough to drain the flood water in time when the Haihe River floods, and will eventually pose a great threat to the newly developed Tianjin Industrial Zone and fertile land on both sides of the river.

Therefore, they suggested that the Fuyang New River should be excavated and the Ziya New River with a total length of 144km directly into the sea; The Yongding New River with a length of 65km was excavated at the tails of the Yongding River, Chaobai River, North Canal and Ji Canal, and entered the sea in Beitang; Zhangwei New River was built in the Wei Canal, with a total length of 2m from the Four Female Temple to Haikou; In the lower reaches of the Daqing River, the 70-kilometer-long Duhe River was excavated and directly entered into the sea through Beidagang..."

Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department who controlled the treasury, suddenly gasped, he opened the document in his hand, and after looking at a number, he couldn't help but shout: "Is Jiang Zhongbao crazy, in 20 years, a total of 150 million yuan can be invested to completely cure the Haihe, does he know how much 150 million is money?" ”