New Shun 1730

"It just so happens that the envoys of the Rakshasa Kingdom have not yet arrived in the capital. Among the Rakshasa people, your name, Liu Yu, is still loud enough. Since you think that the war against Japan is a waste of effort, then you should stay and scare the Rakshasa people. Assist Duke Qi to sign the Northwest Border Treaty."

"The Rakshasa people are very familiar with you and know your abilities best. Seeing that you are not the main general to fight against Japan, they must think that you stay in the capital to deal with possible conflicts between our dynasty and the Rakshasa."

After the emperor agreed that Liu Yu would not directly command the naval battle against Japan, his mind was also bright, and he quickly thought of such a suitable position.

Originally, he was still worried about what kind of posture he needed to make the Rakshasa believe that the Celestial Empire might go to war with the Rakshasa for the pastures of Junggar.

Now that Liu Yu is not going to the sea, based on the several exchanges between Liu Yu and the Rakshasa Kingdom, and the battle of Pingzheng that he fought for the Rakshasa envoy, Liu Yu was left to mobilize more than 10,000 people to make a gesture to resist.

"When your marriage leave is over, go to the Privy Council every day. You and the Privy Councilor, one on land and one on sea, will jointly manage the military affairs against Japan. Since you think that the Navy Department also needs a special logistics department for logistics and baggage transportation, you should set it up first and recommend someone to be the head of this logistics department."

"This is a special matter. In the future, the military selection of land and sea forces will have its own system and regulations."

It seems that Liu Yu has been assigned a lot of tasks at once, but neither Liu Yu nor the emperor thinks that this is something that cannot be pulled away.

Liu Yu was so troubled in Tosa that it is unlikely that there will be any accidents in the war against Japan; the negotiation with Luosha was also blackmailed by the Duke of Qi, and Liu Yu only needed to show up and use the sword in his hand when blackmailing.

Liu Yu didn't care much about these meaningless things. A good fighter has no glorious reputation. The war against Japan is not a gamble on the fate of the country. In Liu Yu's view, it is about the same difficulty as the transformation of the land and the flow in the southwest, so he didn't care.

What he was concerned about was whether the emperor was really going to use money to build practical schools?

"Your Majesty said that if the Japanese were to pay compensation, he would have to spend one million taels to build practical schools? Does your Majesty have a plan?"

Li Gan smiled and said, "This is a good thing for you to talk about. Let me ask you, why did Emperor Taizong build the Wude Palace back then?"

Liu Yu thought that the Yongjia and Yongkang schools must have felt that the Four Books and Five Classics were a bit outdated, and they were not able to change Confucianism. They could not break it but could not establish it, and they could not "annotate the Six Classics". They did not dare to be enemies with the scholars in the world or even raise the banner of protecting the world to unite the gentry and landlord class, so they could only compromise like this.

But it was not easy to tell the emperor about these things, so he had to say: "It was too difficult to establish our dynasty. We suffered a lot from the cannons of the Eastern Tartars, and the cannons of the Eastern Tartars actually originated from the Dengzhou mutiny. Later, when we fought with the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, the Japanese iron cannon foot soldiers, the Portuguese musketeers, and the black guards of the Zheng family showed that Western knowledge was useful in military affairs. So you have foresight?"

Li Gan shook his head slightly, stretched out a finger and said: "You only know one thing, not the other. Practical learning is naturally useful. Emperor Taizong also said that practical learning should be promoted."

"But how to promote it? If it is too big, it will not be promoted, and the world will definitely oppose it. Therefore, Emperor Taizong had to promote it only among good families, and did not hinder the scientific research of scholars all over the world. The road of promotion runs parallel without chaos. "

"When I was a child, there were Western missionaries teaching knowledge. Don't I know the great use of practical learning? But which is more important, the great use or the great harm? The scholars in the world have spent their whole lives studying classics. Do you want practical learning to surpass the words of the saints? Emperor Taizong said that the Ming Dynasty won the world by the imperial examination in the Yuan Shao period; the current dynasty won the world by the imperial examination after the establishment of the Xi'an system. "

"The word "promote" should be deeply understood. Spreading it across the country is not prosperity, but chaos. "

Liu Yu naturally understood this truth. In the situation back then, if Dashun dared to promote practical learning when fighting for the world, the Manchus would hold high the banner of the saint Mingjiao, and then there would be no need to fight, just lie down and die.

In the end, the foundation of the Sanshe Method and Wude Palace of the Good Family Camp School was left, but that was the end. It couldn't go any further.

So this is what Liu Yu wanted to ask, how to promote practical learning?

Seeing Liu Yu's puzzled face, Li Gan smiled and said, "I remember what you said before about dividing the cake. I can't touch the cake that has been divided. But if I learn practical knowledge, I will have no cake to eat, and I am afraid it will be difficult to prosper. Fortunately, due to military reform and the construction of the navy, there are more cakes to share." "Besides, it is not good to spread the stall too much. In the ancient three dynasties, there was a school system, and Wang Jinggong's three-house system also originated from this. It can be promoted throughout the country, but it is not easy. Therefore, it is only promoted in Liangjiazizhong, Jingcheng, Songjiang, and Jinghai." "Jinghai is newly built, and there is no obstacle; Songjiang is mostly merchants, and I allow their children to learn practical knowledge Serve the country. The capital is right in front of me, give them more cakes to eat; good family children are learning practical knowledge, just slightly change the textbooks to go deeper. "

"As for other places, nothing will be moved; the number of candidates in each province will not be moved; the number of candidates in the imperial examination will not be moved."

"Jinghai Palace will be returned to the capital and merged into the military school of Wude Palace, with only infantry, artillery, sea, and cavalry. The navy will study in Beijing for one year and go to Weihai for another year to practice on board. What do you think, my dear ministers?"

"Uh... I think it's great." Liu Yu thought, for what purpose, this can be thought of, it's nothing more than strengthening the rule.

Giving people in the capital more opportunities and making them the pillars of officers will actually make the military power more stable. Rule the world with the capital and ensure that the capital is loyal.

A loyal capital is a force that can turn the world around.

As for Songjiang, there is no need to mention it. It is just to tie the merchants to the imperial power. Good family children are the basic base and cannot be moved, but there are few people, so the textbooks can be changed directly, and there is a previous foundation, so there will not be too much trouble. There are not many people in Jinghai now, just to give Liu Yu face. After all, a lot of money has been spent there before, and it cannot be thrown away in vain.

After the military reform, once these years have been survived, the old army will be completely disbanded, and the money each soldier has to bear will increase.

As a decent profession, officers have been included in this parallel "alternative imperial examination system" and can be regarded as eating official food.

Both new and old schools eat official food. The emperor is in the middle to balance, and he has also won over the most capable people in the world who rebel.

If you don't have culture to rebel, you can only be the pioneer of the king, which is impossible. In the eyes of the emperor, the imperial examination plus the new school officers have pulled those who are capable of rebellion into the official meal, and they can restrain each other and last for a long time.

The emperor's sharing of the pie is nothing more than sharing of the financial pie. It seems that the emperor is still confident in expanding financial resources in the future.

This has no effect on Liu Yu's plan, neither good nor bad.

But he still wants to mention it.

"Your Majesty, this practical study is not only for becoming an officer. Such as agronomy, handicrafts, smelting, casting... these should also be taken seriously."

Li Gan laughed and said, "I knew you would ask this. When you followed the old wisdom of Wu Hou, you said that you wanted to make the people of the capital interested in practical studies. Flying, smelting, casting, agronomy and textiles are naturally within the scope of practical studies."

"I have already decided to build an academy of sciences in the Tsinghua Garden of the previous dynasty. All Western countries have academies of sciences, and I also want to build one. I said it at the beginning. Now it can finally be done. "

"Since it is to be built in the capital, it is a good place. First, it was built by Qi Wanwuqinghou of the previous dynasty. In the past, it was known as "Qinghua Garden with heavy tides in front and behind, and the misty waters are the best in the capital. If it is based on water, it should be the best in the north of Jianghuai." It is indeed a perfect place for learning. "

"Second, it is empty anyway, and no one is willing to build a garden there. Those who do practical learning should know that you don't talk about chaos, power, strangeness and gods, and it is just right to suppress it. "

"Liu Yu already knew about the case of Qinghua Garden. The garden of the other courtyard of the Duke of Qi's mansion was nearby. Except for the Duke of Yi, who was allocated a good place like Jishuitan, the other nobles did not have such a large garden and water source in the capital, so they had to run to the vicinity of Haidian to build gardens.

The so-called "power, chaos, strangeness and gods" of the emperor was the case of the Chongzhen Dynasty. Xue Guoguan gave Emperor Chongzhen an idea: the country is in danger and trapped by gold and silver. Civil and military officials, princes and nobles have received the grace of the country, and they should share the country's worries and pay silver and grain.

Wuqinghou's Qinghua Garden is known as the first garden in Huaibei. Who doesn't know it? In addition, when the brothers were fighting for property, Wuqinghou was the first to be attacked. As a result, Wuqinghou died. After his death, the nobles and relatives also made a story of "Jiulian Bodhisattva asked the emperor to cut off his descendants", which scared Chongzhen so much that he dared not ask the nobles and relatives for money again.

Therefore, although this garden is good, none of the nobles of Dashun are willing to take it. They let it go to waste. They really think that this broken place is unlucky and want to leave it to the emperor.

But the emperors of Dashun were all stingy. They had no money to build it before recuperation. When Li Gan completed the recuperation, he was thinking about expanding the territory and leaving a name for himself, so this place has been empty.

For Liu Yu, building an academy of sciences in this place, from the perspective of his past life, was actually something he was willing to accept.

But Li Gan's next words completely confused Liu Yu.

"I have sent your practical teacher Dai Jinxian, along with Lang Shining and other Westerners, to recruit people who are familiar with Western architecture, and build a Western building there as an academy of sciences."

This operation made Liu Yu speechless.

"Your Majesty, didn't you distinguish between practical learning and Western learning? If you did, why did you have to build Western-style buildings? Wouldn't that disgust the literati?"

Li Gan asked back: "Why, do you still want to put businessmen and scholars on the same level? You, use your brain and think about it. The Northern Confucian school has always supported practical learning, but practical learning should be based on Confucianism and not practical learning. Such Confucian scholars cannot pass the imperial examinations as well as those who study hard, and cannot compare with those who have learned little from the words of the saints in practical learning. Instead, they are neither successful nor unsuccessful."

"How can I build an academy of sciences without making them look down on the literati? Moreover, if people think that I am going to build another "Wu De Palace" to divide the imperial examination quota, the Confucian public opinion will certainly be in an uproar However, we will fall into the debate over which is more important, 'practical learning' or 'righteousness'. "

"It is better to build a Western-style building directly to let the scholars know that I will not use them to compete for the imperial examination quota, nor will it affect the Confucian righteousness, and save the debate over which is more important, practical learning or righteousness."

"The doctor of the Imperial College is the fifth rank; the doctor of the Academy of Sciences is the fifth rank. They are all one level lower. To show that the Six Classics are more important and practical learning is less important, and that the architectural skills are lewd and imported, which is not right, so there will be no debate. I can only do this. If you think it is too little, you can invest money to support it. This is your personal action."

"You can provide more support, but it has nothing to do with me, and it must not be related to me. I am the emperor, do you understand?"