After some discussion, Zhao Yu set six principles for peace negotiation: neither humble nor arrogant, reasonable and beneficial, not a minister, no tribute, no land, and no harmony. This is not only an iron law that must be observed, but also the bottom line for conducting peace talks. However, since it is a business negotiation, it is necessary to have a certain degree of flexibility, and it is necessary to make concessions on issues that do not violate the principles. However, he demanded that the terms of the peace talks be drawn up in detail, and that they should not be afraid of cumbersomeness; in the negotiations with Liao and Jin in those years, it was because of the difference in understanding that the demarcation of the border was not clear, and the two sides continued to clash over the situation.

Zhao Yu also repeatedly emphasized that don't just care about face and don't care, don't let people easily wave your hand in order to show the style of a big country. This will not only bring bad consequences to the negotiations, but even harm future generations, you must know that there are too many such examples from ancient times to the present. When it's good, you can do anything, once you have a bad relationship, who still misses your love, it's the master who turns his face and doesn't recognize people, and you still can't say it, who made you agree to it at the beginning, and if you want to get it back, you often have to pay a greater price.

In addition, Zhao Hao asked that when negotiating, although we should pay attention to our image, we must make noise when it is critical, we must make noise when we should make trouble, we must make trouble when we should make trouble, lift the table and smash the bench, and even play tricks, but we can't give in easily. With this, we must pay attention to reciprocity, and we must not be pressed by the opponent in momentum, and they must return the kick if they punch us. In fact, at the moment, he has already taken advantage of a small advantage, saying that both sides have sent the right minister as the chief envoy, and Meng Yuan has always respected the right, and they are half a level higher in their positions.

However, it can also be seen from the urgency of Meng Yuan's peace negotiations, and of course the meaning of intimidation is not ruled out, after all, the original battle of conquering Jiangnan was completed under the auspices of Boyan, and it was he who accepted the surrender of the Song court, which gave Meng Yuan a natural psychological advantage. Therefore, Zhao Yu decided to redeem himself, and he had to be extremely tough first, otherwise his subordinates would inevitably be weak-hearted, and they would be suppressed by the opponent in terms of momentum, and where would they get the confidence when negotiating.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it has successively negotiated with Liao, Western Xia, Jin and Mongolia, but each time it ended in loss of power and humiliation of the country. And this time, the little emperor gave them peace of mind, he would never give in to Mongolia, and he had already made up his mind to talk about not succeeding in fighting, and this courage to fight alone was enough to make them feel emotional. And at this moment, the Song army has once again completed the expansion and training, and the 300,000 troops are waiting along the river, which also gives them enough confidence, and they no longer have to negotiate with the enemy country with apprehension or the feeling that the strong man will never return......

After discussing the military affairs and peace negotiations in the southwest, it was already past noon, but several people had no intention of retreating. Zhao Hao understood when he thought about it, there must be something to be said yet, so he could only let them rub it, and he was not reluctant to eat this meal, but he couldn't sleep in the afternoon. However, he didn't instigate, so the dining room was decorated, and the good wine and food were entertained. In the afternoon, the weather was even hotter, and Wang De also prepared an ice basin and arranged herbal tea, sour plum soup and other things to relieve heat and heat.

In two months, the autumn test will be held, and according to the rules, the imperial court will send a senior member to instruct the state capitals to preside over the township examination. This is no bigger than the place where the butt was in Qiongzhou, and the whole island heard the shouting, and the scholars all came to the Fucheng exam in a hurry! Now that the place is bigger, but there are no planes or high-speed rail, we have to give notice in advance, but we can't put it aside when we get to Lin'an, so we can only hold a preliminary examination first, that is, a township test held by the state government.

In order to prevent someone from cheating, the central government should send people to supervise, and some places are thousands of miles away, and it takes a lot of time on the road, so you have to leave in advance. The inspectors need to be personally selected and appointed by the emperor, so the imperial examination is a big project, and it is much more lively than the current college entrance examination. So they wanted Zhao Yu to decide on a personal choice, and anyway, the Queen Mother had to send them back to ask.

However, Zhao Yu feels that although the current imperial examination system is somewhat improved compared with the previous dynasty, for example, in order to resist the phenomenon of asking for entrustment and submitting contributions, the vague name system is adopted, and all the information and information that may cheat are sealed by the candidates, such as their names and places of origin, so that the examiner and the examiner cannot know whose each paper is; Each imperial examination requires the state to use a large amount of financial, material and human resources, which is set at a three-year ratio. In addition, some changes have been made to stylized articles and exam subjects. However, he still felt that it was not enough to achieve the goal of selecting talents for the country.

The imperial examinations in the early Song Dynasty basically inherited the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and they were still the two major systems of regular science and system science. "Standing subjects" are permanent subjects, similar to today's college entrance examinations and other public examinations, and the state stipulates the outline, content, time and specific procedures. In addition to the Jinshi Branch, there are also various subjects, including the Nine Classics, the Five Classics, the Kaiyuan Ceremony, the Three History, the Three Rites, the Three Transmissions, the Ming Classics, the Ming Law, the Ming Characters and other subjects.

The so-called Nine Classics, that is, the nine Confucian classics set by the Tang Dynasty, the Five Classics are the five Confucian classics determined in the Western Han Dynasty, the Kaiyuan Ceremony is a large-scale book of rites compiled by the Tang Dynasty, and it can also be regarded as a specialized examination of practical etiquette. The Three Rites refer to the "Zhou Li", "Etiquette" and "Book of Rites" in the Thirteen Classics, which can be regarded as a specialized examination of etiquette theory; The three passes refer to the "Zuo Chuan", "The Ram Biography" and "The Liang Biography", which can be regarded as a special examination for the history of the scriptures, the Ming Jing refers to the unified examination of all the scriptures, and can be regarded as the examination of traditional scriptures and exegesis, "Ming Law" is a law examination, and "Ming Zi" is a character examination.

The system is a small-scale examination presided over by the emperor himself, this form of examination originated from the shooting strategy of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has been very common, to the Song Dynasty, gradually formed some "regular" nature of the subject, that is, the subject questions that are often repeated in the examination. Although the scope is not large, the qualifications of candidates for the examination are very broad, whether they are incumbent officials or small people in the mountains, they can be recommended by the prime minister and important ministers to take the examination, and those who have already passed the jinshi can also take the examination.

The virtuous and virtuous Fang Zheng set up by Taizu can speak outright, the scriptures are excellent and profound, and the teachers can be teachers, and the detailed and idle officials are able to reach the three subjects of education; The virtuous and virtuous Fangzheng who was able to speak outright, the broad tomb is clear in education, the talent and knowledge are in the body, and the detailed officials can make the six subjects of politics, insight and strategy, and military planning and far-sightedness, all inherited from the Tang Dynasty. These should be similar to the modern entry exams.

After all, Zhao Yu has presided over the imperial examination twice, and he found that the question types of the ancient imperial examination are surprisingly similar to those in modern times, and it should be said that it has long been inherited. And the amount of questions in the scientific examination is quite large, unlike what we imagine that you can get fame by answering a paper, and the Jinshi needs to "test one poem, one poem, one comment, five strategies, ten posts of the Analects, and ten articles of Moyi on the Spring and Autumn Period or the Book of Rites". Among them, poetry, fu, and theory are the most important.

The so-called "post" is called "Tijing", which is like filling in the blanks and dictating of modern test papers. The examiner selects a page from the scriptures and prints one line on the test paper. Based on this line of text, candidates are asked to fill in the context associated with it; Moyi is a simple question and answer question that revolves around the meaning of the scriptures and commentaries; Policy questioning, that is, discussion, according to the examiner's questions about economic or political affairs, candidates express their opinions and put forward countermeasures, and the scope is wide, including politics, education, production, management, etc.

These three items belong to piggybacking in the Jinshi test, not very important, but they are very important in the Ming Jing subject, almost all of the subject exam, otherwise why do Jinshi Li look down on the Ming Jing and the first, just because most of the Ming Jing is memorized, not like the Jinshi can be brilliant. Because of the large number of questions in the exam, whether it is the township exam or the general exam, the lifters have to stay in the examination room for three or four days before they can answer all the content.

From the basic content of the exam, it can be seen that ancient students are similar to modern times, and they have not jumped out of the confines of exam-oriented education, and the drawbacks of "what is learned is not used, and what is used is not learned" has never been solved. After arriving in Nandu, because the content of the test was very narrow, in order to distinguish between high and low grades, the examiner not only prescribed standard answers, but also set up various fixed procedures to restrict them.

In the face of the ancient imperial examination, Zhao Yu also had to smile bitterly, history is really strikingly similar, as long as there is a hundred years of promotion, any examination subject may evolve into a complicated and rigorous program. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the industry has formed a kind of Jingyi style that is not called "Bagu", but is very close to Bagu, and its text not only has a slightly three-part structure, but also has been "confined to the opposite", that is to say, before the Bagu Wen became popular, the Jingyi style has gone through a process similar to the Bagu Wen.

As for the criticism of Baguwen, Zhao Yuji's previous life would be beaten every time there was an education reform, and the disadvantages were self-evident. It is conceivable what kind of scholars who have become bureaucrats through this channel have led to the fact that there are fewer and fewer truly talented scholars among the scholars, and there are many people who are poor and only seek rice and rice. Those who boast of being clear-minded and empty talk are full of the government and the opposition, but they are lackluster and even ignorant in governing the country, creating a situation in which "officials are strong and officials are weak," which opens the door for officials to work together and commit irregularities, and officials collude and cooperate to do evil.

On the other hand, Zhao Yu thought that the setting of the subjects was too biased, and the permanent subjects of the imperial examination mainly included the Ming Jing, Jinshi, Ming Law, Ming Characters, Ming Calculation, etc., which also increased or decreased, such as Erudite Hong Dictionary, Translation, etc., Song Huizong loved calligraphy, and he got a calligraphy and painting department for the old man. In the later period of development, only the Ming Jing and Jinshi were left, and the content they studied was mainly the Confucian classics.

In Zhao Hao's view, it is okay for the officials who passed the imperial examination to be teachers, but they can also teach children to recognize words and talk about the principles of life, and it is estimated that mathematics cannot be taught. This also led to the fact that after he opened a department in Qiongzhou, he had to send them all to Guozijian for re-education, and some old officials would tell them how to be officials and how to govern the people.

In addition, Zhao Yu believes that most of the talents selected by the imperial examination are developing in politics, and it is difficult to say that it is to become officials and gain power. This is also why the scholars are all rushing to enter the Shike, because the future career of the middle jinshi is very optimistic, and they can often climb to the high position of Zaifu, and the future of the Ming Jing is much more bumpy, and there are very few people who can finally become high-ranking officials. At a glance in the other sub-subjects, I knew that even if I passed the exam, I would only be a small business officer for life, and it would be difficult to grasp power.

However, as a visitor from later generations, Zhao Yu has long clearly understood that the development of society does not only need how many officials to participate in management, but also needs the promotion and innovation of science and technology. Officials who rely on reciting poems and writing a few articles are not good, they do not know how to build bridges and roads, do not know how to build water conservancy, dig canals and rivers, and cannot build advanced machinery, but need specialized technical personnel to do it, but they are blocked by the current selection system.

To change this state, Zhao Yu understands that it is necessary to solve it from the system, and the best way is to tilt towards some 'small' disciplines. However, at the current stage of scientific development, he could not expect to divide subjects in detail as in later generations, but he also hoped to add some basic disciplines to the imperial examination, and select technical officials such as Zu Chongzhi and Guo Shoujing.

Of course, Zhao Yu hopes to imitate the modern education system, select people with a certain cultural foundation from a large number of scholars, and then study them in different categories, in order to cultivate all kinds of talents needed, and then the state will grant corresponding official positions. However, it will be very difficult and unrealistic to change in the current social attitudes and conditions.

Especially at present, Jiangnan has not opened a course for more than ten years, and has accumulated a large number of scholars, and he suddenly changed the content and admission method of the scientific examination. However, Zhao Yu felt that no matter how difficult it was, he had to make changes, and that some small categories of subjects should be added to the imperial examination, such as arithmetic, which is the basic discipline of all technological development. In addition, there is medicine, although the Great Song Dynasty already has a system for the selection and training of doctors, it is still not enough, and it should be raised to the national level, rather than only presided over by the Tai Hospital.

In addition, the Guozijian should also be reformed, not only as a school for training officials, but should be set up as a re-education institution, training those scholars who have passed the imperial examination, and then re-studying according to their strengths before they can be conferred officials, rather than being assigned to various places to become officials, which may not only bury real talents, but also may create a group of mediocre officials who do nothing.

Now that the turmoil has just ended, everything is waiting to be rebuilt, but it is also a good time for the system to be rebuilt and reformed, but Zhao Yu knows that more resistance comes from within, because these people are all beneficiaries of the current system, and they are definitely unwilling to make changes. And in order to implement his plan, he knew that he had to convince the people in front of him and get their support before he could turn his idea into reality......