manynovel Chapter 1183 The Most Significant Achievement
Chapter 1183 The Most Significant Achievement
Chapter 1183 The Most Significant Achievement
West Hall of Zhongshu.
"Congratulations, Prime Minister! Congratulations, Prime Minister! The Guiyi Army was able to reach Lanzhou by boat, all thanks to the Prime Minister's planning!"
As soon as Cai Jing got the news, he was the first to congratulate Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Fan Yu, Wang Hou and the others did a good job!"
Cai Jing said: "There were many people in the court who questioned the Prime Minister before. Now we should publicize this matter."
"At the same time, Jing has another plan to offer to the Prime Minister!"
"What's the plan?"
Cai Jing said: "The people in Beijing have the custom of listening to stories. We can change this into storytelling and publicize it. Let the court stage a play and perform it on the streets so that the people can know about the heroic deeds of the Guiyi Army returning east."
Zhang Yue felt that Cai Jing was still very smart and always wanted to be ahead of himself in everything.
"You can do what you want with this matter, but don't go too far, or the people will be unhappy."
Cai Jing smiled and said, "Don't worry, Prime Minister. I can find someone in Beijing who is good at writing to write it, and then ask a storyteller to tell it. After that, I can change it into opera and shadow play, so that the people can watch it without spending a penny."
Zhang Yue nodded slowly and used the influence of storytelling and drama to publicize the heroic feat of the Guiyi Army's return to the east among the people.
It is indeed a good move.
Although Cai Jing was now compiling the daily records, he was also working in Zhang Yue's Official System Detailed Planning Office.
During the Han Dynasty, the prime minister was allowed to set up his own government office, and at that time the prime minister had great power, but later this was no longer allowed.
The Office for Detailed Planning of Official Regulations is just like the Office for Regulations of the Three Departments under Wang Anshi in the past. It selects the talents that Wang Anshi wants to find and appoints them into the Office for Detailed Planning of Official Regulations.
At that time, in addition to Wang Anshi, Chen Shengzhi also served as the head of the Regulations Office of the Three Departments.
But now, there is only Zhang Yue in charge of the Official System Detailed Planning Office.
Later, most of the backbones of the New Party came from the Three Departments, and Zhang Yue had the same plan. He recruited whatever talents he wanted to the Official System Detailed Department in the name of "revising the official system".
This place became a place for him to train and observe talents. At the same time, if he had any matters to do, he would directly instruct the people from the Official System Detailed Planning Office to handle them.
Moreover, after Zhang Yue's Yuanfeng New Deal, the establishment of the Imperial College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the establishment and supervision of Anjifang and Youcifang were all handled by the Office of Official System Detailed Planning. Now that Cai Jing wants to eulogize the return of the Guiyi Army to the east, he will also handle this matter through the Office of Official System Detailed Planning.
The Official System Detailed Planning Office was just separated from his own West Hall by a wall, and was involved in the formulation of all matters. Its role was almost the same as that of the Inspector of the Five Offices of the Secretariat, but it only took orders from Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue said to Cai Jing: "Of all the people, Yuan Chang, you are the one who does things most to my liking."
Cai Jing was surprised and delighted and said, "I am unworthy of this, Yuan Chang."
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After Cai Jing left, the judge of the Imperial College, Su Song, arrived. Zhang Yue said to Su Song, "Zirong, the fifth year of Yuanfeng is not far away."
"If we want to plan for the grand examination in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, then the provincial examination in the fourth year of Yuanfeng should provide a model for scholars all over the world. If so, the grand strategy should be made in the third year of Yuanfeng."
What is the imperial examination?
Future court officials are selected through ideology.
Su Song said, "Nowadays, the theory of Chinese characters is no longer allowed to be taught in the Imperial College. At the same time, the "Mao Shi Yi" and "Shang Shu Yi" of the Three Classics New Interpretations are also difficult to promote. I will leave the "Zhou Guan Xin Yi" as the program for next year. I wonder if the Prime Minister has any other instructions?"
Zhang Yue said: "Now the Imperial College has already taught Mencius and the Doctrine of the Mean. In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, these will be included in the program of the provincial examination. In the future, the Imperial College will test the classics on these three classics."
"The last is the study of practical application, which is comparable to the study of classics and history!"
There are now 2,400 students in the Imperial College.
The system of upper, middle and lower dormitories was basically followed, which was the policy of Wang Anshi and Zhang Yue at that time. The upper dormitories had 100 people, and those who passed the internal examination of the Imperial College and had grades, the first grade could be appointed as officials, the second grade was exempted from the provincial examination, and the third grade was exempted from the examination for the provincial examination.
Three hundred people from the middle dormitory passed the exam and were admitted to the upper dormitory.
Finally, there were 2,000 people in the lower house.
At the same time, the teaching method is still divided into two parts according to the Suhu teaching method: the interpretation of scriptures and the management of affairs.
This is a teaching method founded by Hu Yuan.
The meaning of the classics is the study of classics, which is also the study of the essence of the classics.
The practical application of knowledge refers to disciplines such as history, law, martial arts, water conservancy, medicine, mathematics, governance of the people, and craftsmanship, that is, practical knowledge.
In addition, there are medicine, painting, etc., which are not included in the upper, middle and lower dormitories of the Imperial College, but are also subjects of the Imperial College.
Zhang Yue stipulated that students of the Imperial College should study both classics and government affairs. In the internal examinations of the Imperial College, classics and practical application were given equal weight.
Among the students of the Imperial College today, the largest number of people study History Studies, followed by Law Studies, Civil Affairs Studies, and Military Studies.
In fact, using classics and history to train officials has been a consistent method used by the First Emperor two thousand years after him.
Even today, when you move up from grassroots positions to middle and senior management positions, you find that the two subjects of philosophy and history that you thought were useless when you were studying now play a huge role in management.
Scriptures and philosophy are about values and ideology.
History is about human nature and institutions. What happened in history will still happen today.
So philosophy and history seem useless, but they are actually useful. For Zhang Yue, a science student from a poor family, he must be pragmatic when looking for a job, but philosophy and history have too narrow a scope of employment, so they are definitely not in his consideration.
Of course, those students whose families have mines can calmly choose these two seemingly useless sciences. They can just let their subordinates handle the specific affairs, and they don't have to think about the specific work at all. On the contrary, these two subjects are exactly what managers need to master.
Therefore, it is not surprising that most Tai students studied classics and history.
However, Zhang Yue has always advocated the inclusion of history into Mingti Zhai, that is, any student should study both classics and history, and then choose another practical subject, so that the entire teaching system for officials can be considered complete.
Why?
Because the effort must be put beyond poetry.
You can't go straight for these two subjects just to become an official.
Therefore, he prefers to use officials like Su Song, Shen Kuo and Xu Guangqi of the Ming Dynasty. Although Shen Kuo has a low EQ, he is really capable of doing things and has no bad intentions.
When Su Song heard Zhang Yue's idea of reforming the imperial examination system for next year, he could understand it all.
After listening to Zhang Yue's instructions, Su Song said, "I will go back and do what the Prime Minister ordered."
"There is one more thing. The candidate Huang Shang recommended by the Prime Minister has now been admitted as a middle-ranking student."
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Are you really talented?"
Su Song said: "He is indeed a talent. He ranked first in all subjects in the Imperial College examination this time."
"That's good. Of course, I saw that he was starving and cold, and as a scholar, I helped him as much as I could. It's best that he has this talent."
Su Song smiled and said, "We are all scholars, and since we all have the same ancestor, we should be close to each other."
After hearing Su Song's words, Zhang Yue smiled and said, "That's right."
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As they were talking, an eunuch arrived and said, "My Lord, the 20,000 Guiyi troops and the people of the Long family have returned to Lanzhou. Your Majesty asks you to discuss the aftermath."
Zhang Yue said, "Thank you for your help."
Upon hearing the news, Su Song stood up and congratulated Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue accepted it and immediately left the West Hall.
Zhang Yue walked to the door and subconsciously glanced towards the Privy Council, but saw Feng Jing and others were also going out.
It is cold in late autumn.
Someone put a thick coat on Feng Jingzheng.
Zhang Yue saluted Feng Jing from a distance, and Feng Jing nodded indifferently, then walked forward with his hands behind his back.
The two of them walked to each side, clearly separated, and went to the main hall together.
The two were more than ten meters apart, still talking from a distance. Feng Jing said, "Shiguan, you win again this time!"
Zhang Yue said: "I don't deserve it. Thanks to the Prime Minister for his advice."
Feng Jing smiled. When they were halfway there, Cai Que also walked out of the East Hall of the Secretariat.
Cai Que glanced at the attitude of Zhang Yue and Feng Jing. Cai Que and Feng Jing were now in-laws, and they had a very good relationship, but he did not want to offend Zhang Yue, so he stepped a few steps behind them and did not stand beside them.
Feng Jing said to Zhang Yue: "The historian is still young. I was also young before, but the historian has never been old."
"I've seen many young people say they will never regret it, but I've never heard an old person my age say they don't regret it."
"History Museum, a word of good advice, remember it in your heart, think twice before you act."
Zhang Yue knew that Feng Jing still felt that he was not wrong, so he said: "Mr. Feng, the mountains shine when the stones contain jade, and the rivers shine when the water contains pearls. A wonderful sentence can make the whole article shine. From the victory in Lanzhou to the return of the Yi Army to the east, my achievements so far, aren't these enough to embellish it?"
Feng Jing nodded and said nothing.
Zhang Yue knew that he didn't win. Feng Jing was a humble official. He looked very solemn and although he didn't say much, he always spoke to the point.
Of course Feng Jing would not admit defeat, and Zhang Yue did not think that he could defeat the opponent with just a few words and repeated victories.
Several people arrived at the hall, and after a while Wang Gui arrived, and several people saluted him.
Wang Gui looked at Zhang Yue. The successful return of the Guiyi Army to the east this time would surely make his words carry more weight in front of the emperor.
Wang Gui smiled and said a few words, all of which were flattery and meaningless.
Zhang Yue was neither humble nor responsive. At their level, people tend to return to basics and stop pretending in some areas.
At his stage in life, from the perspective of Maslow's five needs, Zhang Yue only has self-realization left.
As for respect from others and a sense of security, nothing is included in this list. He doesn't even care about the evaluation of future generations or how history books write about him.
The same goes for Wang Anshi and Sima Guang.
Wang Anshi often said that no one understood him, so he wrote a poem.
Danqing and I are two illusory bodies that will turn into dust in the flow of this world.
Just know that this thing is not other things, don’t ask whether people today are the same as people in the past.
Therefore, it is difficult for ordinary people to understand their persistence.
A moment later, the official palace.
At this moment, he said with great enthusiasm: "Although the Guiyi Army was massacred, more than 20,000 people still returned to their homeland. I am really ecstatic."
"Tens of thousands of people still miss the Han Dynasty and are willing to return one after another, which also moves me."
Zhang Yue smiled after hearing this. Guan Jia was also a person who pursued "self-realization".
At the level of emperor, the only thing that moved him in the world was his obsession with reviving the Song Dynasty and restoring the glory of the Han and Tang dynasties.
The emperor looked at Zhang Yue and said, "You have made the greatest contribution to this matter! Without your foresight and your coordination over a long distance, how could the 20,000 people return home alive?"
"What a wise decision!"
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I do not have any foresight or insight. I only know one sentence: 'Know your shortcomings and strive to make progress, look far ahead and work hard'."
(End of this chapter)