"Husband, it's late at night. You are old and your body is not as strong as before. Get some rest early." The old wife's warm words warmed Peng Shiwang's heart. Tenderness flashed through his heart. After so many years of wind, frost, rain and snow,
She spends all her time with herself, never complains, only cares. What more can a husband ask for in a wife like this!
"Madam, you should rest first. After writing this pamphlet for your husband, go and have a rest. The emperor's favor is like the ocean, so we have to fight for it!" He said softly.
This statement comes from the bottom of my heart.
As a disciple of Huang Daozhou and a famous scholar, Peng Shiwang had integrity. He once joined Yang Tinglin's rebel army to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. After Yang Tinglin died, he rescued his son and raised him. Later, he entered Shi Kefa's account. Because he saw that the Hongguang Dynasty was too corrupt, he lived in seclusion in Ningdu.
Yi Tang originally planned to live in the wilderness and spend the rest of his life. But he did not know how to get the favor of the Holy Family and was appointed as the Minister of the newly established Ministry of Education.
It is said that the emperor accidentally saw a poem written by him, "Gao Shi Pavilion Inscription on the Wall": "Since Zuo of the Han Dynasty was overthrown, the temple of Mr. Zuo was left in ruins. The land was buried in the place of literature, and the dew sat beside the water and clouds. The earth was abandoned and the bones were covered with moss.
"Fragrance. The oriole hangs alone, as soon as the setting sun passes." People investigated his life and praised: "How can such a loyal and righteous person hide among the people? Transfer him to the center." All of a sudden, the carp jumped.
Longmen became the Minister of Education.
Of course, there was a reason why the emperor could see his poems. It was due to the power of Wang Wanshi, the favorite minister around the crown prince. In fact, the crown prince Zhu Ruofeng has been cultivating his own power since he took office, and placed many people in various ministries.
He was a close confidant. The old emperor could see through this. However, he was already in his twilight years. Sooner or later, the country would belong to his son. He would not tell anyone if he saw through it. This time, he gave his son a huge favor and directly appointed Peng Shiwang as an educator.
Ministry of Finance.
Peng Shiwang, who was honest by nature, didn't understand so many twists and turns. He just felt that the emperor had suddenly appointed him as a second-rank official. The emperor's kindness was profound, and he could only repay it by working hard. He really worked hard, stayed up late at night, and was still writing memorials.
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"Alas! I am loyal to my country, and I am loyal to my husband, how can I dare to sleep first?" Under the candlelight, a weak and slender figure rubbed ink for him.
Seeing that his old wife refused to sleep first, Peng Shiwang was moved and wrote quickly:
"Peng Shiwang, Secretary of the Ministry of Education, would like to report that in order to subsidize poor children to enter the Mongolian school, two additional civil servant examinations were added:
I am a rotten Confucian with little knowledge. I am burdened with the heavy responsibility of education. I am worried day and night. My plan for a hundred years is based on education. I only exhaust the thousands of considerations of a foolish man. I admire the profound and profound.
Your Majesty has put an end to the bad smell, restored China, forged ahead with determination, reformed the bad government, benevolent and benevolent, and carefully implemented it. All my subjects should be grateful for the grace of Mu, and be born as a wise man. How lucky you are! The cycle of governing chaos is like the movement of yin and yang.
When kun and yin are extremely strong, yang is born, and when qian yang is extremely strong, yin begins. To make the country escape from the cycle and prosper without declining, the only way is education.
The first step in education is to establish virtue. If you want to establish virtue, you must first learn calligraphy. Nowadays, the tuition fees in enlightenment schools are very expensive, and it is difficult for poor families to survive. Children who drop out of school are everywhere. Therefore, there are more scholars.
In a wealthy and prosperous family, there are few students from poor families. If things go on like this, the people above will become wiser and the people below will become stupider. It is difficult for the people to be wise, so how can the articles of Confucius and Mencius be spread, and how can the imperial decree be promoted?
The minister believes that it is appropriate for the imperial court to bear the tuition fees of poor children. A unified standard can be formulated, and the head of Lijiaxiangfang can be ordered to visit local poor families in his hometown and allow his children to enter the Mongolian Hall when they are old enough. Anyone who violates the rules will be held accountable by their elders.
If the Lord's virtue is pure, the subjects will obey and praise it. If there is a lot of benevolent government, the people will feel it. He who issues an order and sings it all over the world is benevolent!
There is also the method of imperial examination, which was originally used by the country to select officials to govern the world. However, administrative people include not only officials, but also officials. In our dynasty, officials with good grades are called officials, and officials without good grades are officials.
Doing things. Officials are pillars, and officials are rubble; officials are the trunk, and officials are branches; officials are tigers and wolves, and officials are minions. When officials and officials are integrated, politics is formed.
Although today's officials are selected through the imperial examination, most of the civil servants are recruited privately, and the good and the bad are mixed. It is inevitable that there will be some who commit crimes and harm the people. I believe that the appointment of civil servants also requires examinations, and it is appropriate to order each province to study government and divide it into majors.
If you have to take the unified examination, you will not be able to get in. The way of examination is to hire people according to their talents and to avoid personal feelings. If this is the case, respect the people of the world and handle the affairs of the world with caution, and the country will be governed!
The words of a mad man are what the saint chooses. I am lucky enough to be born in the holy world and meet the Lord of Ming. The Holy Ming comes out first and illuminates every detail. Therefore, I dare to speak out without hesitation and use my crazy blindness. However, your majesty tolerates and pays attention to it, and the world
Very lucky!"
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The memorial was passed to the Qianqing Palace. After reading it, the old emperor sighed repeatedly, Peng Shiwang is brave enough to take on the task. I really chose the right person to let him be the Minister of Education!
In the past few years, we have had reforms. Each province has set up a public university to train talents in various fields. At the same time, private universities are also encouraged to set up universities. This can be regarded as solving the problem of high-end education.
However, primary education is seriously insufficient, and more than half of the people at the bottom of the country are illiterate, which seriously affects the transmission of imperial decrees and the spread of Confucius and Mencius.
The first thing Peng Shiwang mentioned was to point out the weakness of primary education: the tuition fees at Mongolian schools are too expensive, and children from poor families cannot afford to go to school.
Two solutions were proposed: one is for the state to set unified standards and bear the educational expenses of poor children; the other is to force children of that age to study in Mongolian schools, and those who violate the rules will be held responsible for their elders.
This is actually compulsory education, and Zhu Hengjia thinks the idea is right. He has always wanted to do this, but the country had financial difficulties before and provided tuition subsidies for poor children. He was unable to do so. After several years of reform, the financial system
There was a huge surplus in the world, and Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes were also circulated, so we had the financial resources to do this.
However, it is not appropriate for the state to set unified standards, mainly because the economic development level of each province is different, and the tuition fees standards also vary.
He thought for a while and replied: "I think it is imperative to force children over six years old to study in Mongolian schools across the country. As for the issue of subsidizing tuition fees for children from poor families, each province's academic administration can set standards according to provincial conditions, and then
Submit it to the Accounts Department to transfer money for settlement.
The second thing Peng Shiwang mentioned was the issue of the qualification examination for civil servants. In most cases, officials only command, but it is the civil servants who directly handle the affairs. Most of these civil servants are recruited through various connections, and their quality varies, and corruption is inevitable.
There are those who bend the law. If officials can be like officials and pass exams before taking office, the disadvantages of nepotism can be solved well and the overall quality of officials can be improved.
Zhu Hengjia felt that Peng Shiwang's idea of organizing unified examinations for each province's academic and political majors was a good idea. It could recruit the talents lacking in each position according to the actual situation of each province. He replied: "This is a very good idea. It will help each province to clarify the situation of each government."
The number of vacant officials in the county will be recruited uniformly.