Fulin's younger brother is the little emperor of Shunzhi.
Jin Dongzhu has maintained close correspondence with Shunzhi in the past two years-this is of course what Zhu Cihong meant!
Jin Dongzhu, also known as Dongguo Gege, is now Shunzhi's nominal sister, and to some extent determines Emperor Shunzhi's study issues.
So Shunzhi had to be patient and correspond with this top student sister, and often hinted in his letters that Jin Dongzhu should not send any more French textbooks to Beijing. French is really difficult to learn!
Moreover, Nalan Mingzhu, Suo'etu, and Gao Sai's French is much better than that of Shunzhi. Every time Aunt Bumubutai saw the test papers of the four of them, she would inevitably scold Shunzhi.
Shunzhi often boasted to Dongzhu in his letters about how good he was in arithmetic, and he could do all addition, subtraction, multiplication and division! This Shunzhi may be a partial subject, good at arithmetic, so-so in Chinese, and terrible in French.
However, in the letter Dongzhu just received, Shunzhi no longer complained that French was too difficult, because Shunzhi was preparing for his wedding, so he did not have classes during this time.
Emperor Amadorgun and Queen Mother Bumbutai chose a beautiful Mongolian cousin for him, named Meng Guqing, who was the daughter of Bumbutai's brother Wu Keshan, but Shunzhi didn't seem to like this woman very much.
In addition, Shunzhi also told Dongguo that he was already a father! His concubine Bi Shihe gave birth to a son for him and named him Niu Niu. However, Niu Niu was not in good health and always got sick...
Finally, Shunzhi also urged Dongguo in the letter to hurry up and try to give Zhu Cihong a son as soon as possible!
Emperor Zhu doesn't have a legitimate son yet, so Dongguo's son still has a chance!
After reading the letter written by Fulin, Zhu Cixiang glanced at Dongzhu (Dongguan) whose face was a little warm, smiled and said: "You are still young and your body has not grown up yet. This is not the time to be a mother."
"Oh..." The little girl's face suddenly turned red into an apple.
Zhu Cixiang looked at her shy look and had the urge to take a bite, but he still held it back.
He brought Dong Ge Ge to his side not just for the convenience of his mouth, but for the convenience of leading Shunzhi into trouble!
Zhu Cihong knew that Dorgon suffered from a serious illness last year, and he was ill from August to November before he got better. But it's not much better. It's still being raised in Beijing these days, and it doesn't look like it will last long.
As soon as Dorgon died, the Qing Dynasty immediately changed!
If Shunzhi can regain power in this natural change, then the turning point in the decline of the Qing Dynasty will come.
Therefore, Zhu Cixiang has been using Dongguo Gege to influence Emperor Shunzhi in Beijing these days, trying to lead him on the path of reducing vassal status and centralizing power.
Centralization of power sometimes strengthens a country's power, and sometimes it seriously weakens the country's power. The specific outcome depends on the situation.
As for this situation, we first have to see if the person who centralized the power is clear enough! If you meet a wise king like Zhu Cixiang, it would be better to centralize power a little more. But Shunzhi doesn’t work!
Secondly, it depends on whether the non-centralized feudal or collegial political system is functioning well. If it operates well, it means that the system meets the needs of development and progress. If it is reformed rashly, it will inevitably be counterproductive. The "strong regent plus nine-banner collegial" system that Dorgon built for the Qing Dynasty has been working well so far. Although power was not concentrated in the hands of Dorgon, it also prevented internal conflagration within the Eight Banners of Manchuria. The Eight Banners have few people. If there is a fight, many elite soldiers and generals will surely die.
Even if there is no violent merger like the "Tianjing Incident", Shunzhi will definitely cleanse the three flags of Liangbai and Zhenglan after seizing power, and will also attack the banners outside Guanwai controlled by Duduo - Nine Banners Guanwai Gushan has already formed its own The system can even be regarded as an independent flag. Dorgon relied on the Zhengbai and Bordered Green flags he personally controlled, the Zhenglan and Guanwai Jiuqi Gushan controlled by Duduo, and the Bordered White flag controlled by Azige, which could well maintain the Qing Dynasty under the collegial system.
Once Dorgon died, the only person who could take over as Shunzhi's "new Ama" was Duduo. If Duduo becomes Shunzhi's new Ama, then Zhu Cixiang's Northern Expedition will not be easy to fight!
In addition to encouraging Shunzhi to reduce vassal status and centralize power, Zhu Cixiang also wanted to use Dongguo to get Shunzhi to pick up the imperial examination system.
"Dongzhu, did you say last time that Fulin wanted to know how to take the Taixue Examination here?"
Jin Dongzhu was stunned, did I say that? No! Why would brother Fulin ask this question? He hates exams the most...
Zhu Cixiang smiled and said, "Dongzhu, I have asked Bijiucheng to compile a set of the imperial examination methods for our Ming Dynasty. You can copy it later and send it to Fulin. Our Ming Dynasty has been prosperous in the past two years, and it depends on this. A method for selecting candidates for the imperial examination?"
In fact, the Ming Dynasty's Taixue Examination and the Official Examination are completely different things. Passing the Taixue Examination does not mean that you can become an official, and the difficulty of the Official Examination is much lower than that of the Taixue Examination. If you simply want to become a ninth-grade official, the best choice is to take the civil service examination at the local provincial, prefectural (state) levels or the imperial court.
Of course, in the future, the official future of officials with diplomas from Taixue, Jingxue, Jiangwutang and Naval Academy (they must take the official examination to become civil servants of the Ming Dynasty) will be much better than those without these four diplomas. ——The Capital School, the Martial Arts Academy and the Naval Academy have all been established for several years, and some graduates have begun to become officials one after another. But Taixue has not officially opened yet, because the exams and teachers (majors) are still self-taught!
According to the plan, the first Taixue Entrance Examination and Bachelor's Degree Examination will be held next year, in February of the fifth year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the basic "Four Books and Five Classics", the examination content is "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian" and mathematics. In addition, Taipei students also need to assess the six arts.
This Imperial College was actually not established to train officials, but to train scholars. Of course, it was not opposed to those who excelled in learning and became officials.
However, in the imperial examination methods of the Ming Dynasty compiled by Bijiucheng, the Taixue Examination was equated with the Imperial Examination, and the Official Examination was equated with the Civil Service Examination.
That is to say, the Taixue examination is used to select talented scholars and let them study in Taixue for three years. After passing the graduation examination, they can be assigned official positions. Basically, after the imperial examination, they add three years of Taixue. , it can be regarded as an improved imperial examination.
The reason why Zhu Cixiang wanted to promote this "improved imperial examination" to Shunzhi was to promote the sinicization of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, centralization and sinicization are linked together, because the essence of sinicization is Confucianization, and after one or two thousand years of transformation, Confucianism has become a study (teaching) that maintains the monarchy system in terms of world view, values and outlook on life. Sent.
The regency plus collegial system now implemented by Dorgon in the Qing Dynasty was actually developed from Manchu tribal politics. It is a Manchu tradition, not a Confucian tradition.
If Shunzhi wanted to change the "Emperor Amar plus Nine Banners Collegiate" to the emperor's centralization of power, then he would have to go to Manchuria for sinicization. While cleaning up the six banners of old Manchuria (excluding the two yellow flags), he would also reuse Han Confucian officials.
As far as Zhu Cixiang knows, in the Qing Dynasty, many Han Confucian officials have become officials through the green flag channel.
When Dorgon was alive, these people were of course the people who were encircled by Huang Ama, but once Dorgon died, Duduo, who had been the governor of the Northeast for a long time, might not be able to smoothly take over the plate with the green flag. If Shunzhi can now show his attitude of "advocating Confucianism and obeying Confucius", then the green flag will fall to Shunzhi after Dorgon's death... With their support, and the basic base of the two yellow flags , Shunzhi can have a fight with Duoduo!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong said to Dongzhu again: "Dongzhu, I asked Qian Qianyi and others to compile a "Second Chapter of Zizheng", which summarizes the gains and losses of governance in the Song, Yuan and this dynasty for more than 200 years. It is worth reading. Look, you can also recommend it to Fulin."
Regardless of whether the content in "The Second Chapter of Zizheng" compiled by the great scholar Qian Qianyi was correct or not, Shunzhi only had to pretend to read it, which showed that he valued Confucian officials!
