Chapter 744: The Transformation of Guozijian

Along with the Liaodong Military Region and the Northern Military Region, there are also the Liaodong Political Envoy Division, the Nuer Ganbu Political Envoy Division, the Mongolian Political Envoy Division, and the Shanbei Political Envoy Division.

Among them, the Liaodong Political Envoy Division includes the areas outside the customs of the Daning Metropolitan Division and the Liaodong Metropolitan Division; The Nuer Ganbu Political Envoy Division is the territory of the Nuer Gandu Division; The Mongolian Diplomatic Envoys included the Hetao region and the Hala Horin region; The political envoy of Shanbei is the area between the inner Great Wall and the outer Great Wall, mainly the area of Shanxi Xingdu Division and Wanquan Capital Division.

Among the four newly established political envoys, officials at all levels were all from the six colleges under the jurisdiction of the Jiangwutang, namely, the Xingnongyuan, the Xinghuyuan, the Xingliyuan, the Xingjun Yuan, the Xinggong Yuan, and the Law and Punishment Yuan.

Over the years, the six colleges have reserved a large number of reserve talents, and now they are being used in the newly formed four political departments, so that those personnel have a stage to display their talents.

The proposal to appoint students from the six major academies of Jiangwutang to serve as officials of the four political envoys of Liaodong did not meet with resistance in the imperial court, and the Liaodong political envoys, Nuer Ganbu political envoys, and Mongolian political envoys did not have local government and county yamen, so there was no entanglement of interests of all parties in the imperial court.

Although there were local government and county yamen in the original area of the Shanbei Political Envoy Division, the local yamen were greatly damaged by the war over the past year or so, and many officials were surrendered to Tatar and Warat either they were killed, and there was a large shortage of officials, so that Li Yuntian's policy could be implemented smoothly.

The main reason is that all the forces of the imperial court are vying for the vacant official positions in the Beizhili area, although the Beizhili suffered a short time of military disaster, but the disaster is the most serious, the local officials are dead and fleeing, and the officials who can really stay are less than thirty percent.

Compared with the ordinary Shanbei Political Envoy Division, officials from all sides of the imperial court naturally preferred the prosperous and wealthy Beizhili, which reduced the resistance for the students of the Jiangwutang to enter the Shanbei Political Envoy Division.

Even if Li Yuntian has a lot of reserve talents to call on, it is still stretched compared to the vast territory of the Shanbei Political Envoy Division, the Mongolian Political Envoy Division, the Liaodong Political Envoy Division, and the Nuer Ganbu Political Envoy Division, and it can barely make the local local government and county yamen operate.

Li Yuntian can't do anything about this situation, he has already transferred a group of officials with several years of political experience from Jiaozhi to sit in the four political envoys, these officials are also from the six major academies of Jiangwutang, and they are students of the first and second phases, and they can already take charge of themselves after a few years of tempering in Jiaozhi.

At the same time, the preparations for the Xiaowu Army's Guanxi Qinglong Battalion and the Daming Water Division were also being carried out in an orderly manner.

Turpan and other countries retreated after receiving the holy decree of Emperor Xuande, they originally thought that the Ming Dynasty would destroy the invading Kwantan army, no one thought that Emperor Xuande would let those Kwantan army go, so they had to retreat, otherwise they would be attacked by the joint attack of the Shaanxi, Gansu and Ming armies and the Kwantan army.

As the chief officer of the Qinglong Battalion in Guanxi of the Xiaowu Army, Li Yuntian handed over the newly promoted nobles and third-class Fengtian Yiyun of the Xiaowu Army to promote the sincerity and righteousness of Wu Bolu Minen, and led 10,000 Xiaowu troops to enter Dunhuang City.

In order to prepare for the establishment of the Daming Naval Division, Li Yuntian played Emperor Xuande to abolish the coastal coastal defense posts, convert the military households of the coastal defense posts into civilian households, and select sergeants who met the requirements from the soldiers of the coastal defense posts to form the three fleets of the naval division, and the rest of the soldiers were dismissed as people.

According to the order from north to south, the three fleets of the Navy Division are the Sea Dragon Fleet, and the fleet base is located in Jiaoao Port, Shandong; Sea Eagle fleet, the fleet base is located in Ningbo Port, Zhejiang; The Seawolf Fleet, the fleet base is located in the harbor of Cochindo.

Among the three major fleets of the naval division, the strongest comprehensive strength is the Sea Wolf Fleet, which is to escort the merchant fleets of the South Sea countries, followed by the Sea Eagle Fleet, which defends the southeast coast, and the Sea Dragon Fleet, which is responsible for protecting Gyeonggi, is the weakest.

This is because there is no country in the world whose navy has the ability to attack the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty is very little threatened from the sea, and the Sea Dragon Fleet is actually on the defensive.

The Sea Eagle Fleet and the Sea Wolf Fleet are different, these two fleets can be said to be on the offensive, the Sea Eagle Fleet is mainly responsible for dealing with the Japanese Invaders rampant on the southeast coast, clearing the Japanese bases, and the Sea Wolf Fleet wants to open up the route from the Ming Dynasty to the South Seas and Europe, and shoulders the heaviest task.

In addition to the main bases of these three fleets, Li Yuntian planned to gradually set up sub-bases of water divisions in some natural and excellent ports along the Daming coastline, which were not only to guard the coastal defense line of the Ming Dynasty, but also to facilitate the fleet's training and cruising in the defense area.

Although the three fleets of the naval division have been established, in Li Yuntian's opinion, he is just gathering the soldiers of the sea ships and the coastal defense station, which is far from the standard of the naval division in his mind, and it is necessary to increase capital investment and training.

Because he was the chief officer of Emperor Xuande's imperial order to form the Daming Naval Division, Li Yuntian deservedly assumed the position of the commander of the Naval Division, and the Son Naval Division was naturally assigned to the name of the Jiangwutang, at least until the Naval Division was full-fledged, he would not lightly hand over the power of the Naval Division, lest someone destroy the maritime hegemony of the Ming Dynasty.

As the governor of Jiaozhi and Guangxi, Li Yuntian naturally couldn't ignore the affairs of Jiaozhi and Guangxi, and there were some things in the Metropolitan Procuratorate that needed him, the right deputy of the Imperial History, to preside over the overall situation, so Li Yuntian's life was busier than before.

In June, under the imperial order of Emperor Xuande, the supervisors of the Jingshi Guozijian and the Nanjing Guozijian gathered in Beijing to hold the first "North and South Yong Polemic" in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Guozijian is the central government school after the ancient Sui Dynasty, the highest institution in the ancient education system, due to the implementation of the "Shuangjing system" in the Ming Dynasty, so there are Guozijian in Beijing and Nanjing, usually there are seven categories of Guozixue, Taixue, Guangwenguan, Simenguan, law, calligraphy and arithmetic.

Among them, the Guozijian located in Beijing is called "Beijian" or "Beiyong", that is, the Jingshi Guozijian, and the Guozijian located in Nanjing is called "Nanjian" or "Nanyong", which is called Nanjing Guozijian.

Because Nanjing Guozijian has a long history, it is a large scale, known as "stretching for ten miles, the lights shine together", in addition to the shooting garden, warehouse, sanatorium and storage room, there are more than 2,000 classrooms, dormitories, dormitories and canteens in the school building.

By the end of the first year of Hongxi, there were more than 10,000 students in Nanjing Guozijian, and there were 8,000 or 9,000 students in Jingshi Guozijian.

The administration of Guozijian consists of five halls and six halls, the five halls are the Rope Hall, the Doctor's Hall, the Classics Hall, the Book Hall and the Palm Food Hall, and the six halls are the Frankness Hall, the Monastery Hall, the Chengxin Hall, the Justice Hall, the Chongzhi Hall and the Guangye Hall.

Guozijian mainly studied the "Four Books" and "Five Classics", and also studied the "Encyclopedia of Sex and Reason", the laws and regulations, and the number of books.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Baguwen had not yet risen, and Guozijian had a strong cultural atmosphere, and neighboring countries such as Korea, Ryukyu, Japan and Siam "taught to Mu Wenjiao" and constantly sent students to study, which was unprecedented.

There are four ways to enter the Guozijian to study, namely: the eunuch, the tribute eunuch, the shadow eunuch and the regular eunuch.

Lifting Prison: Those who fail to be selected in the Beijing Examination will be sent to the National Prison by the Hanlin Academy.

Gongjian: The outstanding students selected by various states and counties, that is, Xiucai, enter the Guozijian.

Yin Eunuch: The son of a relative or an official of the third rank or above, or the emperor's grace and enter the national prison.

Routine Supervisor: Donate money to enter the Guozijian, also known as "people's livelihood".

Because the regular eunuch relied on money to enter the Guozijian, so in the Guozijian is the least valued, the lowest status, usually the son of a wealthy businessman, one is to hope that the children can succeed in the Guozijian and be admitted to the imperial examination, and secondly, it is also hoped that they will expand their contacts and establish a circle of interpersonal relationships for future development.

Historically, it was not until the first year of Ming Jingtai that there began to be a prisoner who was imprisoned and studied, also known as Junxiu.

After the regular supervisors and supervisors stepped into the official career, they could only be conferred official positions such as the state and county governors and the governors and directors of the state capital, and if they got the Beijing positions, they could only be marginalized yamen such as Guanglu Temple and Shanglin Yuan, which were regarded as a different way in the officialdom, and were also despised by those who raised prisons, tribute prisons, and shadow prisons, and were ashamed to be with them.

In Li Yuntian's view, the "North-South Yong Debate" is a grand academic meeting of the Ming Dynasty, representing the highest cultural institutions of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingshi Guozijian and the Nanjing Guozijian will stage a dragon and tiger battle in the capital, which is conducive to promoting the development and prosperity of the Ming culture.

But what Li Yuntian never imagined was that the prisoners of Nanyong and Beiyong actually broke out in a strict conflict in front of everyone in the competition, so that the two sides greeted each other with rude language to the women in each other's families, which caused an uproar in the capital.

Li Yuntian would never have thought that it would be the lecture hall that caused the conflict between Nanyong and Beiyong.

After experiencing initial contempt and ridicule, the inmates of the Jingshi Guozijian gradually realized the practicality of the subjects taught by the Jiangwutang in their contact with the students of the Jiangwutang.

Therefore, more and more prisoners changed their rejection mentality, and went to the lecture hall in private to listen to lectures, and some books of the lecture hall also began to spread in the Guozijian, and many of the prisoners of the Guozijian even gave up the literary examination and took the new martial arts examination, and finally successfully entered the six colleges of the martial arts hall.

Speaking of which, the reason why Jingshi Guozijian was able to go from rejecting the martial arts hall to accepting it so quickly has a great relationship with Li Qingzheng, the former Hanlin scholar.

Li Qingzheng admonished Emperor Hongxi during his illness, and then angered Emperor Hongxi, and under the mediation of Li Yuntian, Li Qingzheng was able to save his life and was demoted to Jiaozhi, but before he left the capital, Emperor Hongxi died suddenly, making the outside world think that he was angry with Emperor Hongxi.

After Emperor Xuande succeeded to the throne, he wanted to execute Li Qingzheng, who offended Emperor Hongxi in public, but it was Li Yuntian who interceded for Li Qingzheng, and Li Qingzheng was able to stay in Jiaozhi.

During Li Yuntian's pacification of the Jiaozhi Rebellion, Li Qingzheng was promoted to the position of Jiaozhi Political Envoy to participate in politics because of his merits, assisting Li Yuntian in handling Jiaozhi government affairs, and then admiring Li Yuntian's personality, and the two turned enemies into friends.

After Jiaozhi was pacified, Li Qingzheng was transferred back to the capital to serve as the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, but he only stayed in the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites for a month before asking Emperor Xuande to resign, on the grounds that his body could not undertake the heavy official duties of the Ministry of Rites, he asked Emperor Xuande for an order, and wanted to be transferred to the national eunuch to cultivate talents for the country.

Emperor Xuande saw that Li Qingzheng had made up his mind, so he agreed to his request and asked him to serve as the sacrificial wine of the prince of the Jingshi Kingdom with the title of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites.

After Li Qingzheng took up the post of priest of the Imperial Palace, he carried out a great reform in the Jingshi Guozijian, and introduced new disciplines such as arithmetic, physics, and chemistry in the Jingshi Guozijian, which was unexpectedly welcomed by the prisoners.

For the prisoners of the Jingshi Guozijian, in this way, they undoubtedly have one more way out, and if they fail to pass the Wenju, they can also take the martial arts examination and step into the official career.

After all, there are only hundreds of Jinshi in the examination every three years, and it is obvious that the vast majority of scholars cannot be named on the gold list, while the number of people admitted to the new martial arts is much more, and the six major colleges of the martial arts hall can admit two or three thousand people per session.

Most importantly, many of the inmates were very interested in arithmetic, physics, chemistry and other subjects in the lecture hall, which gave them a new direction in life.

Afterwards, people have different opinions about the reason why Li Qingzheng gave up the dignified Zuo Shilang of the Daming Rite Department and went to the Guozijian to serve as a sacrificial wine, some people say that he was to repay Li Yuntian's favor, some people say that he was under the secret decree of Emperor Xuande, and some say that he was moved by the new discipline of Jiangwutang......

In fact, it doesn't matter why Li Qingzheng did this, the important thing is that he brought a earth-shaking change to the Jingshi Guozijian, which made the functions of the Jingshi Guozijian undergo a fundamental change, and gradually became the highest institution of learning for the Ming Dynasty to cultivate comprehensive talents, leaving a strong mark in the history of the Jingshi Guozijian, which can be described as a great achievement.