Chapter 291: Changes Unseen in a Thousand Years
Chen Zhengtai believed that the Guiyi King Tuli would help with this.
It's not that this brother is really reliable.
But after all, he made the lure.
Even if Tuli sensed the intentions of the Chen family, he would take the plan into account. In the eyes of the Hu people, the Han people went deep into the desert, which is a joke in itself, and in all dynasties, there is no Han power that can really take root in the desert.
Therefore, for Tuli, the newly rising grassland tribes are his henchmen, not the Chen family.
In the early stage, he relied on the help of the Turks to build the city, but once it formed a scale and aroused the fear of the Turks, he could only rely on himself.
Everything was safe, but in the middle of the month, a will was sent.
This news is enough to shake Chang'an...... Li Shimin's steps were so fast that he caught almost everyone off guard.
The new system of imperial examinations was drawn up and announced to the world.
In the past, the imperial examination was just an examination organized by the imperial court, and there was no institutional guarantee, nor did it go deep into the state capital.
This kind of imperial examination is more of a formality.
In fact, this can also be understood, any system without a stratum that widely supports it has no vitality.
Obviously, Chen Zhengtai made some suggestions to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin also accepted them, and then relied on this policy to choose to expand the scale of the imperial examination.
Datang divided the imperial examination into three levels: county examination, township examination, and general examination. Unlike the previous recommendations, anyone who wants to take the high school entrance examination must first take the prefectural, state, and township examinations, and then take the general examination.
Those who are tested in the county are children.
The Zhongzhou tester is a showman.
Those who test in the countryside are lifted people.
Those who pass the examination are Jinshi.
All this was modeled after the examination methods of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.
From the beginning of Xiucai, high school students have meritorious fame, and when they get meritorious fame, they have the right to exempt a certain amount of land from taxation.
Those who have made meritorious contributions to others can be awarded officials, starting from the nine grades, and awarded real positions. As for those who enter the scholars, they start from the seven grades.
It also stipulates that if an official of the imperial court is above the third grade, if he does not have a meritorious name, he shall not be promoted except by the emperor's special decree.
All the exams are unified, in addition to the necessary scriptures and historical articles, there is also a certain amount of arithmetic and some common sense knowledge.
The number of words in the articles on classics and history is limited, and the topics are mainly in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Analects, which should not only fit the meaning of the scriptures, but also be able to discuss today's political affairs...... There are even restrictions on the genre.
In fact, such an imperial examination is almost the same as the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
After all, the mainstream readers of this era are still familiar with the scriptures and history, and if they don't take this as the main content of the exam, they are afraid that the world will be in chaos, and to a certain extent, this is also a compromise.
Of course, it is not entirely useless to write such an article.
In fact, this kind of article is the most test of a person's level of depth, you must not only be familiar with the four books and five classics, but also be able to use words skillfully, and at the same time have enough wisdom to make an article with arguments and arguments in a short period of time, but all those who can pass the test are all people who are rich and rich.
If such a person composes poems and lyrics, he has such an ability to understand and accept, even if he is an official in the future, he actually has an excellent ability to accept it.
Of course...... It's just that later, these scholars and doctors have gone astray.
It's just that the main contradiction at the moment is essentially the contradiction between the imperial power and the world, and as for the contradictions that will arise in the future of this emerging scholar class, it is obviously a matter of the future.
At least in terms of a safe direction, any emerging class may not be able to lose its tail in the future, compared to the current world clan controlling everything, for Li Shimin, it is imperative to promote the imperial examination.
As for the content of other exams, although they do not account for the main part, arithmetic and the so-called general education test are also a highlight, for example, in the general education test, some content from Chen's textbooks is introduced, although it is not cited much.
In fact, it doesn't matter what you take the exam, what is really shocking is that this time the imperial examination directly touched the tentacles to the prefecture and county.
In other words, Datang is no longer as simple as giving birth to decades of talents, Mingjing, and Jinshi every three years.
Every year, there will be a lot of talents, people, and every three years, there will also be Jinshi popping up, the scope is wide, and it involves the fate of even a county student.
As a result, the number of people seeking fame through the imperial examination has suddenly increased tenfold, hundredfold, or even thousandfold, and once the number of people increases, it will inevitably lead to the fact that even a small person who shows off his talent and fame will have his own demands and consciously defend the interest group of the imperial examination.
They will spontaneously exclude those who have no fame, forming a closed chain of contempt, and then the best will appear on the stage, and with the support of a broad mass base, such as a large number of lifters and talents, they will begin to push the entire Datang into a new stage.
No one knows whether this is good or bad.
But at least, it's moving.
As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar.
His Majesty's move obviously made many people dumbfounded.
However, Li Shimin obviously still left a hole for the Shi clan, after all, the current literacy and hyphenation are still the patents of these Shi clans, at least for now, the chances of the children of the Shi clan winning the test are very high.
As a result, although many people can see that by virtue of their grace and recommendation to be selected as officials, they will inevitably be excluded in the future, and even those who have no merit will be increasingly marginalized in the court, and the clans have begun to complain.
Can be at least ...... These grievances did not turn into the driving force for the overthrow of the Tang Dynasty.
What's more, the current emperor is the world that he got immediately, and the generals in the army, nine times out of ten, were personally brought out by him, and his prestige in the army is not comparable to that of ordinary emperors.
If you really want to make any rash moves, it's just a snap of your fingers.
It's just that there are still many ministers who are in the middle of the song and oppose the imperial examination.
Of course, there may not be no people who are in favor, and a group of ministers led by Wei Zheng also expressed their support, believing that this is the way to enter the poor and cannot be tried.
After that, a statute on the imperial examination began to be made known to the world, and fraud in the imperial examination would be regarded as a complicity and anti-crime, and the state and county officials also determined their powers and responsibilities.
In order to promote the work of this imperial examination, the imperial court sent a large number of imperial histories and began to inspect the Quartet.
Li Shimin held a court meeting for seven consecutive days, and on the first day, hundreds of people went out to oppose it, and Li Shimin scolded these opposing ministers in the palace, and exiled the leaders to Lingnan.
On the second day, there were fewer opponents, but they only made some complaints.
Li Shimin scolded the hall in high spirits for three hours, and his mouth was like a river.
On the third and fourth days......
Those who opposed it came to the fore were impeached one after another, and their faults were discovered, and some were directly dismissed from office, while others were directly sent to prison for punishment.
Until the seventh day, hundreds of officials said that the imperial examination is beneficial to the country and is really good governance, and the difference between the Tang Dynasty and the previous dynasty is also.
Everyone has given examples of the gains and losses of the rise and fall of the past dynasties, and all of them praise His Majesty's sage.
The ministers expressed their rejoicing, of course...... Li Shimin felt that there were a few guys, although they also sang praises, but they were suspected of being weird, so they scolded the palace again.
Chen Zhengtai also followed the brigade and participated in seven court meetings in a row, seven times, and his ears were full of words from the teacher to scold the minister, from the three emperors and five emperors to the Sui Yang Emperor, up and down for three thousand years, citing countless examples, and then starting from the origin of other people's families, didn't your Yang family attack Xiang Yu at the beginning, and ran to divide Xiang Yu's corpse to get a great merit, and was sealed and waited? What kind of poetry and books are heirlooms, if there is no ancestor who made the battle exploits of dividing the corpse, how can you come to today. Your royal family......
Chen Zhengtai is a little suspicious of life, the teacher's abundant physical strength is the material guarantee of the seven consecutive court meetings, it seems that once he has an iron heart in everything, he will never let anyone question it, who dares to question, not only tear his face, humiliate the temple, but also find ways to find guilt, deposed and imprisoned.
Sure enough, the nature of the country is easy to change, and the gentle appearance in the past is deceiving, once the fundamental interests are touched, the teacher will not mind coming to Xuanwumen again.
Secular morality is not the standard for evaluating emperors at all.
Chen Zhengtai still felt that his ears were buzzing, and the sharp rebuke of his teacher seemed to be still lingering in his ears, so he had to smile bitterly, this is really just, and he can only obey one word.
In fact, he hoped to turn the content of the imperial examination into the content of the textbook.
However, obviously, even Li Shimin may not be able to fully agree with the set in the textbook sincerely.
Thousands of years of accumulated habits, how can they be changed?
If you can add some general knowledge questions, it is already very face-saving.
Chen Zhengtai went back to Erpigou and the first thing he did was to recruit all the teachers.
Apparently...... The imperial court changed its course, and the school had to change if it wanted to survive.
The ancients spoke very well on the surface, but in fact there was no difference from the later generations, although everyone could talk about the truth, but in fact everyone was a realist.
Just as praying to God and Buddha is very popular now, but if those monks and Taoists say that praying to God and Buddha is only to purify the soul, and cannot give you a child, and cannot bless you with wealth, you can try it to ensure that the incense of temples and Taoist temples in this world is all extinct.
It can be seen that nothing can be done with love.
That thing is fooling.
If the school wants to carry forward, it must start from reality and ensure that students get enough fame.
Although the strategy of the imperial examination has come out, the education that can be examined is still in the blank stage after all, and the children of the family who are accustomed to relying on recommendations obviously do not know anything about the exam.
Haha, this is Chen Zhengtai's strength, after all, he is the only person in this world who has experienced cruel test-taking education.
Therefore, as teachers, they should take the lead in starting to receive training, and they should study in a targeted manner, how to do questions, how to write articles on exam questions, how to mark key points, which of the four books must definitely be tested, how to memorize, and how to practice repeatedly.
All of this is knowledge.
Obviously, many people don't understand Chen Zhengtai's set, Li Yifu felt disapproving, and couldn't help but say: "Teacher, can this be done?" If you only memorize and write articles repeatedly......"
"Shut up." Chen Zhengtai actually thought that once this arrangement was made, it would inevitably attract many people's confusion, he didn't think he had time to explain it to everyone who had doubts, some things didn't work, or it was the most intuitive to make the effect first.
So he interrupted him without hesitation: "There is no doubt, everything is left to my arrangement." ”
These words were very crisp and very domineering, and Li Yifu was speechless.
But what Chen Zhengtai said, he could only do.
Although there are too many doubts and unreasonable places in my heart.
After all, his upbringing environment and the methods he had learned in the past were not like this, so when Chen Zhengtai raised this, he had great doubts.
But I can't help it, my arms can't reach my thighs.
Chen Zhengtai made an outline: "First of all, it is necessary to achieve the content of the four books, and be able to memorize them backwards. This must be done by reciting and reciting repeatedly, without missing a word. ”
Everyone was speechless again.
In fact, people in this era pay more attention to the stage of good reading and not seeking to understand.
Of course, no matter how much people study the scriptures, it is impossible to achieve the point where they are truly ripe.
Chen Zhengtai immediately said: "In addition, it is the part of history, which requires that every allusion must be understood, and a question book for exam preparation must be listed, and everyone must study it repeatedly." ”
"Make a fuss...... It is necessary to ask all students to submit six essays a month, write them according to the norms of the examination, and the teachers and teaching assistants should evaluate these essays and distinguish them from each other, the good ones, the good ones, the bad ones, and the bad ones. ”
Chen Zhengtai gushed endlessly and introduced them one by one.
So much so that Li Yifu, Hao Chujun, Gao Zhizhou and others also began to doubt life.
So what's the point of reading?
……
But Chen Zhengtai is secretly happy in his heart, I Chen someone...... I can't imagine that there will be a day when I will pull all the opponents in the world to the field I am best at, and then it will be up to me to beat you scumbags.
He assigned it, and the task of studying was obviously a lot heavier.
Teachers and teaching assistants have not dared to slack off, especially teachers, they are all Jinshi background, the foundation is still very strong, now that they understand Chen Zhengtai's intentions, coupled with the experience of teaching disciples for more than a year, they have begun to follow Chen Zhengtai's instructions, draw up a study plan, as well as a new syllabus.
All this, although full of doubts for them, is handy after all.
The entire school, two or three hundred students, seems to have begun to enter a state of full sprint, and the curriculum of each class has all changed.
Even if it is a science class, the goal it sets is to sprint with the goal of lifting people.
Of course, in the eyes of Li Yifu and others, Chen Zhengtai's standards seem to be set a little high, how many talented people in this world are different, and the scholars here in the university hall, whether it is family education or qualifications, are far inferior to those real children of the world, why can they stand out?
Joke!