Well, after going around and around, the topic has returned to the original point, the holding of this year's autumn festival. It's as if what a few people were talking about just now seems to be nonsense, but of course this is not the case, even Sun Chengzong, who just joined in, doesn't think so.

How can it be said that revising the Confucian classics, extracting the essence from the commentaries of the predecessors, and making remarks that are in line with the development of the world, is tantamount to a change in the philosophy and standards of national rule.

After a high degree of unification of ministers on fundamental issues such as the guiding ideology of governing the country, the three of them finally had the heart to sit down and discuss such technical issues as the imperial examination.

Among them, although Sun Chengzong is now a military minister, he is still a literati in his bones, and he is also very concerned about the imperial examinations he has experienced.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the sub-examination of the last imperial examination is very good, and now the imperial departments have increased greatly, and the professionalism of various departments has also increased, especially the Dadu Governor's Mansion, which is even more thirsty for talent, and the local city defense army and the four central headquarters need a lot, why don't you start this year's imperial examination from the autumn and take the sub-examination?" Sun Chengzong was the first to speak.

At the beginning, the Metropolitan Governor's Office divided 5,000 pairs of Jinshi and Juren who had a slight military experience, which consolidated the infrastructure of the entire field army and improved the overall cultural quality.

Especially this time, the entire Ming Dynasty, all provinces, all at the same time to implement the reform of the military system of the guard, these scholars and talents are the backbone, Zhu Youxiao initially brought out the 800 Yulin, only the upper management, the real work, or these people.

It is precisely because of these 5,000 people that Zhu Youxiao dared to carry out it boldly with confidence, and with prior planning and samples, coupled with high-quality executors, the military reform seemed to be huge, but in fact it was much easier than the land reform.

Sun Chengzong predicted that by the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the land reform would be completed throughout the country, and each province would set up a city defense army of 50,000 men to complete the construction of a new military system.

It is precisely because of the great benefits he received from it that he suggested that the examination should be divided into subjects, and even go deep into the lifting class, anyway, when the time comes, it will be given to Jinshi and raise people's fame, and the content of the examination is not so important, the same status, the same treatment, the same promotion, but the content of the work is different, as long as it is an official, the specific form of the Ming people will not care.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks it's inappropriate." However, Xu Guangqi raised an objection, "In the second year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty issued an order to let all the people in the world come to Beijing to participate in the palace examination, and then all the 50,000 people were recruited. ”

Speaking of which, Xu Guangqi glanced at the emperor with some weirdness, one of the three major problems of the former Song Dynasty was redundant officials, however, the former Song Dynasty imperial examination was not as developed as the Ming Dynasty, and the number of people was not as good as the Ming Dynasty.

There are not enough teachers, there is not enough police, there are not enough township officials, there are not enough law enforcement officers, there is not enough imperial history, and there are not enough judges, such problems are often reflected by the prefect and county orders below, which makes Xu Guangqi very headache, all the people in the world have been recruited, and there are not enough people, where to supplement?

The number of scholars in the world is far better than that of the previous dynasty, but there is a shortage of manpower, and there is far from the problem of redundant officials, which is really strange.

Retracting his eyes, Xu Guangqi continued, "Therefore, at this time, before the Autumn Festival, no one signed up for the Spring Festival. Only when the autumn festival is over, in addition to the results, will people participate in the spring festival of the coming year. Most of these talents who participated in the autumn festival this year are new talents, and they are very young, if His Majesty takes the examination by subject and examines other content, I am afraid that with their experience and study time, they do not have the energy to dabble in others. ”

In the entire Ming Dynasty, with Zhu Youxiao's degree of decentralization and single-mindedness, 50,000 people were simply not enough, and a large number of older, mature and stable Xiucai were also recruited. Anyway, according to the latest regulations of the Ming Dynasty, although the three kinds of merit of Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi are high, they do not affect the promotion of the career.

Such a regulation has impressed some talents who have tried and failed repeatedly, so that they can actively participate in the officialdom and work hard. Under such circumstances, a large number of outstanding talents soon emerged, and the most prominent one of them had already achieved the position of county commander, and what he took over was the position of Yuncheng county magistrate vacated by Yan Yingyuan.

Without these old talents who have spent time and experience to accumulate the depth and breadth of knowledge, it is really impossible for the new talents to stand out in the broad scope of Zhu Youxiao's examination, and they will all have to squeeze into the Ming Liberal Arts similar to the Confucian classics.

This is contrary to Zhu Youxiao's idea, not to mention, the number of people admitted to the first subject of Mingwen is still limited.

"That's a real problem!" Zhu Youxiao pondered.

Seeing the emperor's expression, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but say, "Autumn will be in September next year, and there are only ten months left before now, which is a bit short, I'm afraid that the lifters don't have this time to study, if the announcement is made in the first half of this year, they still have some time to find textbooks to study." ”

These words made Zhu Youxiao's old face red, in the first half of the year, when he was in Guihua City, he was indeed asked by Xu Guangqi about the imperial examination, but it was involved in the land reform issue at that time, and he also had to lead the army into the Jurchen, so he had no time to think about this problem, so he withheld the fold, and planned to think about it after settling down, but he didn't think about it until he returned to Beijing.

It wasn't until Xu Guangqi suddenly asked this time that he took it out to discuss one or two, and even attracted Sun Chengzong.

Zhu Youxiao was thick-skinned, just reddened, but he didn't answer, did he want him to say directly, Lao Tzu forgot about this matter.

"Then the autumn will not be divided into subjects, just like last year, let's do it in the spring." Sun Chengzong thought about it and changed his suggestion.

"Chunqiu....... I don't know how many people will come to participate in the lift, and I don't know if the admitted jinshi will be enough to fill the gap in officials." Xu Guangqi said quietly, his tone full of worry.

However, this is also true, except for a few who are confident, or who come to experience the atmosphere of the Gongyuan examination, most of them will not participate in the spring festival for the first time, but will wait a few years to consolidate their knowledge in participating. After missing the number of lifters accumulated over the years, it is indeed worrying about how many people will come to the spring festival in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and it is also a sub-subject exam that has never been seen before.

I'm afraid these lifters will stay for a few years, choose what they are good at, what they like, and then spend time learning. Thinking so, Xu Guangqi suddenly became pessimistic.

Nowadays, the Ming officialdom is different from the past, a place, there are a lot of official positions that need to be held by Jinshi, several positions in the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and five in the local government, and the local city defense army also needs a lot, according to the admission quota of only more than 300 in the past year, it is simply not enough.

What's even sadder is that it is still unknown whether there will be so many people to participate in the imperial examination in the following years.

This is a question in front of everyone, and after being pointed out by Xu Guangqi, it attracted Zhu Youxiao's attention.

The imperial examination is good, but after all, it has lasted for more than a thousand years, and in Zhu Youxiao's current period of using a large number of officials, the speed of talent training is not enough. No, it should not be that the imperial examination is not enough, but that the education is not strong enough to produce enough students to participate in the imperial examination.

"There are still too few private schools in the school, and there are too few students, so I can't expand the scale of admission." Zhu Youxiao pointed out the key point.

"Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, even if His Majesty decrees the construction of schools this year, it is only the most basic enlightenment education popularization, and if you really want to see results, I am afraid it will be more than ten years later." Xu Guangqi also sighed, there has never been such a moment, he feels that there are too few scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and the previous emperors did not invest enough in reading.

"Next year, next year, the cabinet's focus will be on the investment and construction of education, books, school houses, students, teachers, all at once, starting from each village, each village according to the size of the population, sending teachers of different numbers to enlightenment. There are five years of primary school and five years of middle school, of which the middle school is divided into three years of junior high school and two years of high school. Ten years later, after completing high school, the college entrance examination is implemented, and those who successfully pass will be awarded the merit of Xiucai. ”

Zhu Youxiao closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened his eyes and said his decision. After the word college entrance examination came out, he seemed to have sensed the resentment from future generations of students.

Shiver!

After shuddering, he continued, "Xiucai is not divided into grades, there are all those who have passed the college entrance examination, and they are not given food and rice, etc., they cannot be exempted, and other officials who do not kneel are retained. ”

After high school, Zhu Youxiao was not established for the time being, first, there were no teachers of this level, and second, the depth of knowledge had not yet reached this point at this time, natural science had not arrived, and Confucianism had already had a set of traditions for so many years.

In the future, Zhu Youxiao planned to make the township examination and the meeting examination like this, the township examination was a provincial examination, and the number of people who passed the examination was distributed by the province, and the number of people admitted was also determined by the province according to the needs of the province.

The examination is the national examination, and the examination is a jinshi, which is uniformly distributed by the state. In the future, universities will be set up after the college entrance examination and before the township examination, and the knowledge of various subjects will be taught, including the content of the imperial examination. In this way, the college entrance examination, the township examination, and the general examination are just the third class merit, which not only takes into account the current imperial examination system, but also connects with the university system of later generations.

As for whether it is good or bad, Zhu Youxiao doesn't know, so let's talk about it for the time being.