Taihe Palace.
" By the will of the heavens, the emperor has decreed that the world has just been settled, and the imperial examination will be held. This imperial examination will only select scholars…"
"Xue Qing, this is a grand national ceremony, so you can't be negligent.”
Zhu Cixuan sat on the dragon throne and said to a civil official who was receiving the imperial edict.
Since they were prepared to take action against the Donglin Party, it was time to start the reform of the education system and Confucian culture!
The Confucian culture was broad and profound. It was originally a literature that was worthy of praise, but later scholars misinterpreted the Confucian classics and did not understand flexibility, causing great disaster.
"Thank you, Lord!"
Xue Yuan still understood that every time he was the chief examiner, he would receive a large number of students. Even if they were not his henchmen, they were his connections. This was truly the grace of the Emperor. Countless people wanted to fight for this position, so he immediately thanked him.
However, it seemed like he still had something to say.
Zhu Cixuan saw this and smiled.”
"Yes, but isn't the position of a scholar a little low?”
Xue Yuan asked. Now, Zhu Cixuan had made the rules. The rank of a scholar was comparable to that of a chief official, the rank of a juren was comparable to that of a county magistrate, and the rank of a jinshi was comparable to that of a county director.
Zhu Cixuan laughed and said,"It's not considered low."”
Zhu Cixuan stood up, his deep eyes glimmering. He looked at the ministers and said,""Since ancient times, the imperial examination has been taking scholars. The moment a scholar comes out, he will be a seventh-grade scholar. This kind of preferential treatment has caused all the scholars in the world to have the same thought.”
"But these scholars who have studied hard for decades are all very old when they come out. Thirty years old is considered young, so how many officials can they hold after they come out? Usually, a Jinshi would only be a second-term county magistrate, and a first-term magistrate would retire.”
"These officials have been studying for decades, but they are not diligent and can't distinguish between grain and water. He knew nothing about politics, law, and culture, so he could only hire a private advisor to govern. Not only did he lose power, but he was also corrupt and formed a network.”
"And the central government has to be a Jinshi to be a minister, which leads to the rapid promotion of Jinshi. Often, in a few years, they will be promoted to the cabinet in the blink of an eye.”
Zhu Cixuan sneered.
Most of the scholars taught by the eight-legged essay had rigid thinking and did not know how to adapt. They were really useless.
To change all of this, he had to start with the imperial examination system.
"In the future, scholars will also be tested for eight-part essay, but the questions must be novel and related to the current situation. The eight-part essay also needed to be reformed. It was better to be concise and clear than to be full of words. After the scholar must serve as a Dian Li, after three years can take the examination of Juren and Jinshi.”
The eight-part essay was something that many scholars in the Ming Dynasty had studied for their entire lives. If they suddenly stopped taking the exam, it would make many children collapse.
Others have studied hard for ten or twenty years. If you suddenly say that you don't want to take the exam, wouldn't that cut off the path of a scholar?
Among these scholars, there were still many talents. He could not kill everyone with a single rod.
Moreover, if they were to start a new school rashly, they would not be able to nurture talents without three to five years of learning…
The current situation was turbulent, and there was a lack of officials everywhere. In three to five years, the day lily would be cold.
"But the fishing vessels and the hearts of the people in Shilin…"
The ministers began to discuss.
"Fishermen? Why should I care?"
General Yue Fei had not been idle. He had been helping Zhu Cixuan train his soldiers!
With 300,000 strong men training day and night, it would not be long before they had a certain amount of combat strength.
He had collected a lot of weapons and armor when he was exterminating Li Zicheng. They were all ready-made! This unit had already taken shape!
Gradually, the number of troops under Zhu Cixuan's control had exceeded 500,000!
With such strength, what was there to worry about?
"The scholar has been an official for three years and has gone through some training. He has a certain understanding of politics, law, and culture! The examination questions for the High Scholar examination required one to choose a topic from these aspects. At this time, there was no eight-part essay examination, so one could speak freely. Zhen will also announce this to the world."
Zhu Cixuan made this decision after careful consideration.
Since the eight-legged essay scholar's thinking was rigid, then I would pull these people's thinking on the right track and keep pace with the times by serving as a minor official for three years.
Only those who passed the examination could take the examination.
After passing the Juren examination, he would serve as a Tingchang (equivalent to a township head or a town mayor) for three years. He would manage a small place and temper himself. Those who passed the examination could continue to pass the Jinshi examination.
To be admitted to the Jinshi examination, the questions had to involve astronomy, geography, local customs, calculations, and so on…
The difficulty of the questions would not be too high, and the admission rate of Jinshi would also increase.
However, the admitted Jinshi, can only serve as the main book, county prime minister and other eight or nine officials.
This was equivalent to the officials who were selected. They were all talents who had gone through tempering step by step.
Compared to before, he was much stronger.
On Earth, the scholars of the Song Dynasty were only ninth-grade officials, so even after a hundred years, there were still people who went to the cliff mountain.
In the Ming Dynasty, after taking the Jinshi examination and getting a gold plate in the Imperial Academy, one would become a seventh-grade civil official.
Civil officials ran amuck and became a malignant tumor of the country. Everyone knew that the disaster of the aristocratic families was the greatest, but who knew about the disaster of the Confucian civil officials since the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, and the independence of the Confucian scholars?
Huang Zongxi's " Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu " was clearly against the monarchical system and proposed that " the monarch is the greatest harm to the world." This was a group of fully-fledged civil officials who had begun to turn against the guests and the court. Some people even thought that this was progress.
Then the aristocratic system, the usurpation of the imperial power, the discussion of the aristocratic families, the aristocratic parliament, and the constitution of the monarch, wouldn't it be more advanced than this?
A mediocre person was not enough to understand the truth. Zhu Cixuan had his own basis for judgment.
As for the development of science, the expansion of the scientific group and the cancer of the future, it was still too early to worry about it.
"Minister Xue, just do it. Zhen will be your strongest backing!”
Zhu Cixuan looked at Xue Yuan and nodded slightly.
This Xue Yuan was a minor official that he had promoted from the local government. He was very talented and had an innovative spirit. Therefore, the reform of the imperial examination system was handed over to him to implement.
"This lowly subject obeys the decree!"
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