In Ning Yu's mind, this is a great era, but also an era of rapid change, the British East India Company has been established for decades, and Tsarist Russia will also launch a war against Persia this year, aiming to seize parts of the west and south shores of the Caspian Sea.

Once the whole country is unified, it is necessary to take into account the threat posed by Tsarist Russia that has advanced eastward, as well as the Western powers that have entered the west.

Therefore, Ning Yu will feel a heartfelt sense of urgency, the West will not give him more time to develop wantonly, and he will be so anxious to promote the reform of the New Deal, but for others, it will feel a little incomprehensible, as for being in such a hurry?

"Mr. Cui, China is now in an era of great change, and this great change is not because I Ning Chu raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, but from overseas, from a threat that is not yet visible...... This world is by no means only a corner of China, and in the world of great controversy, it is not only the present that we have to look at. ”

"Our country can even be said to be our civilization, the future rise and fall of survival, completely depends on the position occupied in this era, but our current thinking and education are problematic, it can adapt to the past, but not to the future........"

Ning Yu said a little confused, but Cui Wancai still sensed the impatience, which Ning Yu had never had, even in the face of the Qing court, he had never had such worries.

"The threat Your Majesty is talking about, could it be that it is an overseas Westerner? Although they have some ways, they won't have any chance of winning compared to my thousands of years of Huaxia heritage......"

Even if it is a figure like Cui Wancai, it is difficult to predict the speed of development of the Westerners in the next two hundred years, and it is difficult to predict the possible threat they may have.

The obsession of the Heavenly Empire has been deeply rooted in everyone's heart.

Ning Yu appreciates this calmness and atmosphere, and also hopes to maintain the domineering spirit of the Celestial Empire, but the premise is to fluctuate the gears of fate, so that Huaxia can avoid that humiliating history of sinking.

"Mr. Cui, the current Westerners are on the eve of transformation, their technology, culture and ideas have been gradually adjusted, and they will explode in the next hundred years, you and I may not see it, but our children and grandchildren will have to meet their arrival in a passive way."

Ning Yu sighed softly, "The key they opened is the missing thing I told my husband back then. ”

"Money?"

"That's right, it's capital. It is a monster, capable of devouring everything for its own benefit, but on the other hand it is also powerful, it has been changing the world since its birth, it will become more and more powerful, but its appetite will also grow, from Europe to the Americas, to the Celestial Empire......."

Ning Yu didn't want to continue to popularize the basic knowledge of capital with the other party, and said softly: "In front of capital, all resources will be used to the maximum, but for the Celestial Empire, we seem to have fallen into a strange circle, and the purpose of everything is to maintain, as long as we can get by, we can live forever." ”

"Comfort, you have to be comfortable until you die, our people are not hard enough, but behind this hardship, the court only wants to live comfortably, the so-called prosperity of the two Song Dynasty, how could it not be comfortable?"

The Two Song Dynasty, the prosperous era of Confucianism, is also a history of extreme humiliation for the Han people.

Cui Wancai fell into silence, he somewhat understood Ning Yu's thoughts, the emperor in front of him was by no means equivalent to an ordinary emperor, the so-called world in his heart was really too big.

"I understand that the officials of my Dachu are all reading the essence of Confucianism, they don't understand industry and commerce, and they don't understand how to promote the development of industry and commerce, even if I give lessons to the county commanders, I can only leave them an idea, but they can't do more."

"However, I really hope that these future pillars of Great Chu will not only look at the Confucian classics, but also bend down and take a good look at how the farmers plough the fields, how the merchants do business, see more of the lives of the people, and feel more of the suffering of the people!"

There was not much anger in Ning Yu's words, but more of a sense of powerlessness, although he was the emperor, and he could even be said to be the most powerful person in the world in the future, but he could not really prosper the country with a word, if he wanted to change the status quo, he had to do it little by little, starting from education, ideology, people's livelihood and other fields, and not missing a step.

"What Your Majesty thinks, so does the minister!"

Cui Wancai bowed, he was not persuaded by Ning Yu, but they were originally the same kind of people, that is, they had an inexplicable sense of responsibility for the people and the world, but there was a difference in the thinking of the two of them. But for the people, they all had the same thoughts.

After receiving Cui Wancai's support, Ning Yu soon set off a new round of educational reform in the court, or fundamentally began to change the traditional imperial examination system to meet the needs of the future country.

"The imperial examination is a major event of the country, related to the society for thousands of generations, from now on, the imperial examination of Dachu will be comprehensively reformed, changing the imperial examination once every three years to once a year, only the establishment of Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi three levels, all officials in Dachu will be selected through the imperial examination system."

Ning Zhongjing held the edict and read it aloud in the court, his expression was solemn and solemn, but his hands trembled slightly, as if he was holding not an edict, but a declaration of war.

In fact, what he thought was not wrong, because the content of this edict was to declare war on Confucianism in the world!

The ministers in the Fengtian Hall listened quietly, and when they heard that the imperial examination was changed to once a year, some people had doubts at the moment, but when they saw that the court bigwigs had not yet spoken, they were patient at the moment, waiting for the first assistant to continue to finish the rest of the content.

"This reform of the imperial examination will be combined with the reform of the administration of officials......"

When Ning Zhongjing read this, many people felt a little bad, they wanted to say something, but they were frightened back by Ning Yu's cold and stern gaze.

"From the first year of the reform, everyone can participate in our Dachu scientific examination, and those who pass can obtain a Xiucai degree, which can be recognized by the provincial education institutes, and can serve as an official of the local grade who is not in the ranks, responsible for the official affairs of the original officials, and the local position needs to be held for five years, and those with a good official reputation and priority in evaluation can participate in the examination."

"Those who have passed the Xiucai degree and held an official position for five years, and have a good official reputation and priority in the evaluation, and those who have passed the examination can hold local official positions such as county orders and above, or provincial government official positions that do not exceed the five-grade official positions."

When I heard this, the court was already in an uproar, although the ministers had already served as high-ranking officials, but there was potential resistance to this kind of reform, which basically meant that in the past, the kind of Jinshi who was admitted to the Jinshi and entered the Hanlin Academy for ten years of hard work, and then came out from the three-grade and above the superintendent and servant model, completely declared bankrupt.

"Silence! Above the court, how can you be presumptuous! ”

Li Fu shouted in a deep voice, his cold eyes glanced at the noisy ministers, and immediately silenced those ministers, Li Fu was originally an old minister who followed Ning Yu to fight the world, plus he served in the independent Metropolitan Procuratorate, responsible for the supervision of the entire Great Chu bureaucracy, and even more deterrent than the second assistant.

Ning Zhongjing also ignored those officials, but continued to read: "Those who have served as assistant officials in the provincial government for more than three years, and have at least two years of experience as local government officials, can take the Jinshi examination; If you have served as a local magistrate for more than five years, you can also take the Jinshi exam. Only those who pass the Jinshi examination can serve as the chief official of the central ministries and the local chief official. ”

"Of course, these are all slowly deployed in the future, and they will not be restructured all at once, and your current position is still safe......" Ning Yu said slowly, a smile appeared on his face.

"However, in the future, officials in the cabinet, the Executive Yuan, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple must have experience in local governance.

Ning Yu's meaning is very clear, the future Da Chu from top to bottom, you need to climb step by step, even if you are a genius in the exam, even if you can be the champion or even Tanhua with your original strength, you can only be like everyone else in the future, starting from Xiucai as an official, only if the local government is experienced enough, you can participate in the next round of the examination, which is equivalent to turning the imperial examination system into an assessment method for selecting officials.

Ning Zhongjingke continued: "This reform of the imperial examination is not only to reform the method of selecting and using officials, but also to reform the content of the imperial examination. In order to meet the needs of local administration, although the original Confucian essence will still be examined, it will add arithmetic, agriculture, engineering, commerce, and law...... The first-level examination will cover all the examinations, and the examination will be divided into various subject examinations, and official positions will be assigned according to the content and results of the examination. ”

In this reform model, the content of the examination at the first level of Xiucai is not very difficult, so the scope of the assessment will be relatively wide, and the officials should have a certain understanding of arithmetic, agriculture, engineering, commerce, law, etc., in order to serve as officials who deal with the people.

When it comes to the stage of the examination, there will be no more all-round examinations, but the selection of subjects according to individual ability, such as the selection of arithmetic scholars, can be assigned to the financial departments and bureaus of the provincial governments in the future, such as the selection of agricultural scholars, can be assigned to the agricultural departments and bureaus of the provincial governments....... And so on. Of course, although there will be less content in the exam, the difficulty will be appropriately increased.

Ning Yu's idea is very simple, the traditional imperial examination is indeed a good talent selection model, this model is no problem, but the content of the assessment is problematic, so the focus of this reform is to change the content without changing the model, the examination still has to be examined.

"In the future, the imperial examination will be completed jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Organization Department, responsible for the content of the assessment, and of course, the establishment of the Imperial Examination Metropolitan Procuratorate will be responsible for inspecting the relevant political achievements of officials, so as to comprehensively determine the results."

The last nail was completely knocked down, and the ministers at this time were even more fortunate for one thing, that is, they were all courtiers from the dragon generation, and they had skipped these steps, but the successors in the back were not so simple, they would really start from the grassroots level, otherwise there would be no day when they would rise to a high position.

Of course, for Ning Yu, this is also the sweetness he gave to these Conglong ministers, after all, they all got up from blood and fire, and now that they enjoy this preferential treatment, it is not bad.

"But Your Majesty, the current scholars all grew up reading this sage book, and they have not studied mathematics, agriculture, engineering, commerce, law, etc., but they have not studied it seriously, how can they pass the exam?"

Soon, some ministers reported that there were actually some loopholes in this, but many people didn't notice it at the first time.

Ning Yu had a smile on his face, someone reflected it so quickly, and it was not in vain that he tried his best to teach, and said with a smile: "This matter is about education reform, and I would like to ask Shoufu to introduce it to you." ”

Ning Zhongjing immediately picked up another edict and began to read: "In the future, the content of the imperial examination should be jointly drawn up by the Ministry of Education and the Organization Department, in order to cooperate with the new imperial examination system, a comprehensive new university will be gradually established in each province in the next three years, and a new college will be established in each province within ten years for students to study, in addition, private institutions will also be encouraged to establish new colleges, all learning materials should be drawn up and launched by the Ministry of Education, and the original old private schools will not be banned, and can be retained." ”

In Ningyu's vision, education, which requires a lot of money, will naturally not be done in one step, but will be decomposed into decades and gradually improved, and it can still be completed by gritting its teeth to run a comprehensive university in each province in three years, as for the colleges and universities in each province, it will be fully rolled out in about ten years, and the government will not consider it for the time being.

Of course, running an education will cost money, so Ningyu will not take free means, but can only reduce the tuition fee as much as possible, such as the cost of running a school, the central government will bear 30%, the local government will bear about 30%, and the individual students only need to be responsible for 40%, by lowering the threshold, it can also promote some people to enter the university.

As for the comprehensive free compulsory education, it was in Ning Yu's mind for a while, and then he gave up decisively, because with the current population base, even if Ning Chu advanced all the comprehensive taxes, I am afraid it will not be enough, so it can only be used as an alternative plan after the financial expansion in the future.

"All the students will be registered with the Ministry of Education, so as to ensure the construction and use of talents...... During the examination, only the student registration number and the examiner number are recorded, and the examiner is not allowed to inquire about the identity of the student, and the student is not allowed to inquire about the identity of the examiner, and is not allowed to contact him privately after the examination. ”

Ning Yu's words were quiet, in the way of registering and filing student records with the Ministry of Education, which destroyed the old system of sitting on teachers, and also broke this dependence between teachers and students.

In the past scientific examination, the scholar and the examiner is this kind of relationship between the teacher, although the two have never seen each other before the examination, but as long as the scholar is raised, then he has to thank the examiner, confirm the teacher-student relationship, and the student can find the teacher to help in the future, and the teacher is famous, and the student must not resign, so the examiner in the imperial examination era, that is a good errand of the world.

However, now this great good errand is completely gone.

When the ministers heard this, they all showed a wry smile on their faces, this emperor is really clear about being an official.......