Chapter 799 0794 [I live at the head of the Yangtze River]
At the second imperial court meeting when Zhu Ming ascended the throne, the ceremony official read the edict directly on the spot.
"The Taishi Academy of the Ming Dynasty took charge of the three museums of national history, astronomy, and geography. The edict said: The official of Chun is Taishi, who is in charge of the celestial calendar..."
The imperial edict format of the New Ming Dynasty directly followed the Song Dynasty, and there was no such thing as "carrying the emperor to heaven".
The whole is in three sections:
First, the title.
Second, content.
Third, date and stamp.
This edict was read out, and no one objected because Ju Ming was restoring ancient rituals.
To put it simply, it means setting up a Taishi Yuan, with the highest officer being Taishi Ling.
It has three libraries under its jurisdiction: National History, Astronomy, and Geography, and all related institutions are merged into these three libraries.
The Hanlin Academy was once again weakened, leaving only a group of literary artists.
Some technical officials engaged in astronomy and geography were directly promoted to the level of Beijing officials.
Shen Hui, the last number one scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, recalled the capital to serve as Taishi Ling.
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"This is Shen Kuo's drawing of flying birds that I compiled," Zhu Guoxiang pointed to a stack of manuscript paper. "The scholars in the planetarium can understand it at a glance. If there are any omissions or omissions, let them fill in the blanks. These scholars are already very accomplished. .”
Ju Ming curled his lips: "Are you really going to leave?"
Zhu Guoxiang said: "I just went to inspect the site, design the villa, and relax."
The next morning.
Zhu Guoxiang took his wife, concubines, and children, escorted by three hundred imperial guards, and sailed to Shaanxi.
Shen Hui was serving as the prefect of Kaide in Puyang and immediately returned to Beijing after receiving the transfer order.
Before going through the formalities for promotion, Shen Hui was recruited into the palace to perform a duel.
Ju Ming asked: "Is Shen Kuo your great-uncle?"
Shen Hui replied: "Great uncle."
Shen Kuo's biological mother belonged to Xuxian, and his father came to have a son in old age, so he had a very high seniority in the Shen family.
Ju Ming asked again: "Did your father publish "Mengxi Bi Tan"?"
"Of course." Shen Hui said.
Ju Ming asked again: "How much have you learned from your great-uncle?"
"To give you a rough idea," Shen Hui held a stack of manuscripts, "These are all written by great-uncle during his lifetime, and some of them are also collected in the museum."
Ju Ming asked the eunuch to take the manuscript over and read it carefully for a while. He found that Shen Kuo had been to the Liao Kingdom. He also recorded the geography of the Liao Kingdom in detail along the way and asked the emperor to strengthen border defense in Hebei.
After closing the manuscript, Ju Ming praised: "Your political achievements are outstanding. In just one year, you completed the work of allocating children and arranging acres in Kaide Mansion."
Shen Hui said: "It is not the work of one year, nor the work of one person. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the previous prefect measured the acres of land, which had laid a solid foundation. After I took office, I personally led people to inspect and verify, and corrected my husband's mistakes. Tian Shi made many mistakes. After receiving the imperial decree at the beginning of last year, he immediately started to divide the land into acres and reform the officials."
"What mistakes did you correct your predecessor?" Ju Ming asked.
Shen Hui said: "In order to acquire land quickly, officials in various counties are often greedy for more. In particular, subordinate officials colluded with the gentry to conceal the land acres of the rich, but pointed out the barren slopes as fertile land and spread it over the heads of many small people. Even their families Small landowners with hundreds of acres of land were also being apportioned by subordinate officials. The people complained that it was difficult to allocate acres to small landowners, so I personally visited various counties and punished several wealthy families!"
Ju Ming smiled and said: "Excellent!"
Shen Hui likes to brag and talk big, and will never stop talking until his words are shocking. He also speaks and acts fiercely and doesn't like to follow the rules, especially when he is poor.
Before he was admitted to the top exam, the entire Shen family was already in decline, and he was rarely looked down upon by others. Once he felt he was insulted, Shen Hui would retaliate even more, and he had offended people everywhere since he was a boy.
But he was really good at governing the place. During the Southern Song Dynasty, he was sent to Guangxi to engage in the tea horse trade. He could buy three thousand Dali horses a year. After he left, no successor could exceed this number (in the entire Southern Song Dynasty). And he could buy 3,000 Dali horses a year. To appease the barbarians, when he was an official in Guangxi, the chiefs of various ethnic groups never rebelled.
The only shortcoming is that this guy is very timid and will be frightened into making all kinds of mistakes when encountering a war.
Ju Ming asked: "Does Shen Kuo have any descendants alive?"
Shen Hui replied: "Both the eldest son and the second son are deceased. There are several grandchildren, all in Runzhou. Mengxi Garden has been sold off, and there are not many acres left. The life of farming, studying and inheriting the family is difficult. The Shen family and the Zhu family have a hard time. , and occasionally send people to help.”
"Which Zhu family?" Zhu Ming asked.
Shen Hui replied: "After the Zhu family in Huzhou was imprisoned by the Yuanyou Party, no one from the Zhu family will be an official anymore."
Shen Kuo's second daughter-in-law was Zhu Yu's second sister - the same Zhu Yu whom Li Bangyan visited in Hangzhou.
Shen Kuo's successor, Mrs. Zhang, not only beat and insulted her husband, framed her stepson and drove her out of the house, but also abused her own son's wife. The Zhu family was afraid that something might happen to their daughter, so they took Zhu (Shen Kuo's daughter-in-law) back to her parents' home for more than ten years. Until the evil mother-in-law Zhang After his death, the young couple reunited.
Ju Ming asked: "Are any of Shen Kuo's grandchildren good at astronomy and geography?"
Shen Hui shook his head: "No. But the great-grandchildren are still young and there are many smart people."
Ju Ming said: "Then choose a smart great-grandson and send him to Runzhou Official School to study. From now on, he will be recommended all the way to Taixue."
This is already a very preferential treatment for Shen Kuo's descendants, and they will be sent to Taixue without tuition fees. As long as the test scores of Taixue are okay, they will definitely be given a small official position. If the results are excellent, then focus on training.
Shen Hui said: "If Your Majesty wants to search for geniuses, Li Gongzhiyi's only son can be used in a great way."
Li Zhiyi was the one who wrote "I live at the head of the Yangtze River, and you live at the end of the Yangtze River." He was close friends with Shen Kuo and Su Shi.
"Isn't his son too young?" Zhu Ming asked.
Shen Hui said: "He is only twenty-five years old. He was born when Li Gong was seventy-one years old."
Ju Ming really wanted to say "awesome".
Shen Hui said: "This gentleman's name is Li Yaoguang, he is proficient in mathematics. His fortune is not very good, and he is looked down upon by the villagers."
Li Zhiyi's wife was Hu Shuxiu, a poetess, mathematician, and inventor. Her mathematical attainments were so profound that even Shen Kuo asked her for advice.
In his later years, Li Zhiyi was falsely accused by Cai Jing and wanted to die.
Hu Shuxiu inquired about an official in Beijing who had collected Fan Chunren's manuscripts, which could clear her husband's grievances.
So the old woman went to Beijing in person to plead for the loan of the manuscript. After being refused, she paid a large sum of money to bribe a servant and find out where the manuscript was stored.
Then, like a heroine, she sneaked into the official's house, stole the manuscript, and then ran to the Donghua Gate to complain. It caused a sensation in the government and the public at that time, and the Queen Mother took her into the palace.
The children of Li Zhiyi and Hu Shuxiu died one after another, and Hu Shuxiu was so sad that she also died of illness.
When Li Zhiyi was young and lonely, he often went to the stream to be in a daze. The official prostitute Yang Shu admired his talent and went to the stream to play the piano and sing music whenever she had time, and expressed her feelings through lyrics and music.
In a perfect true love, Li Zhiyi ignored the worldly obstacles and married an official prostitute as his second wife.
However, some nefarious people came out to report, saying that the official prostitute Yang Shu had an affair and gave birth to a son, and also let the illegitimate son deceive the court into pretending to be a favor. With the intervention of Cai Jing, not only took away his favor, but also ordered the mother and son to leave the Li family and forcibly broke up the family. Three mouthfuls.
Li Zhiyi, who is over seventy years old, was forced to live apart from his wife.
He felt that he would not be able to see each other again until he died, so he wrote this poem: I live at the head of the Yangtze River, and you live at the end of the Yangtze River. I miss you every day without seeing you, and drink the water of the Yangtze River together...
Shen Hui said: "Li Yaoguang read all the books at home and was particularly good at mathematics. However, he was not immune to rumors. The locals hated him as an illegitimate son, and his classmates often ridiculed him. He was introverted and taciturn. He did not even take the imperial examination. When I go to take the exam, I only focus on studying knowledge all day long. I passed by his house a few years ago and took the exam on Li Yaoguang's knowledge. If he takes the imperial examination, he will definitely pass the Jinshi."
"It's really a pity." This was the first time Zhu Ming heard the complete version of this story.
If it were made into a drama, it would definitely be widely praised.
In particular, Hu Shuxiu was able to bring Shen Kuo to visit her for advice on mathematics, which was very rare for ancient women. Moreover, at such a young age, in order to avenge her husband, she personally sneaked into the house of a Beijing official to steal the manuscripts, and despite the pressure of Cai Jing, she rescued her husband. .
Zhu Ming planned to recruit Li Yaoguang to the capital to give him a personal test.
If you are really taciturn and well-educated, you can stay with me as a secretary. The current secretary is Fu Zhirou. After many years of following, it is time for you to be sent to a local official.
Shen Hui added: "There is also an old gentleman who is proficient in the geography of the south, especially the geography of Lingnan. He is also familiar with overseas vassal states, and has taught himself new astronomy, geography, mathematics, and physics. A friend corresponded with me and said that this gentleman was in Hangzhou Become a professor at Phoenix Academy."
Of course this is about Zhu Yu.
Zhu Ming nodded and said: "Recruit them into the capital together."
Shen Hui didn't speak anymore and lowered his head to listen to the emperor's instructions.
Ju Ming said: "I'm afraid some people won't be convinced if I ask you to be the Taishi Ling. The "History of the Song Dynasty" and other books have been compiled for several years. You should not interfere, otherwise you will be hated by others. The same is true for the calendar. Your next task , is to quickly mobilize manpower to quickly establish a geographical museum. Then send officials to go to various provinces for on-site surveying and mapping."
"According to the order!"
Shen Hui quickly bowed to accept the order and said: "I also know a little bit about geography. I will set up a geography museum within two months and come up with a set of regulations for surveying and mapping."
Ju Ming said: "If there is a shortage of manpower, you can go to Taixue University to recruit. We tell the students that as long as they perform well in surveying and mapping, they can be directly selected as the Geography Officer. In addition, there will be salary subsidies during field surveying and mapping. The more difficult and remote the place, the more difficult and remote the place. , the salary subsidy will be higher, and the accidental death will be heavily compensated.”
Shen Hui cupped his hands and said, "With such preferential treatment from the officials, I will definitely do my best!"
"Go." Zhu Ming waved.
Shen Hui bowed and resigned, while Zhu Ming lowered his head to read the military report.
Last winter, Ju Ming conveyed military orders to the frontier troops to move forward after spring.
Nowadays, many dangerous fortresses in Yanshan are controlled by the Jin Kingdom. What Zhu Ming means is to let the Ming army directly attack them and build fortresses under the noses of the Jin soldiers.
For example, if the Jin soldiers occupied Xifengkou, the Ming army would build a fort outside Xifengkou.
Firstly, it makes it difficult for the Jin soldiers to invade and plunder wantonly, and secondly, it forces the Jin soldiers to start the war in advance.
In a large area near the foothills of Yanshan Mountain, many refugees have come out to farm one after another. For fear of scaring away the refugees, the government has not taken care of it, but now they have to register and settle in the village.
They also established Baojia, and once they discovered signs of Jin soldiers invading the country, they organized these newly settled people to fortify the walls and clear out the country.
