The October Imperial Examination was held as scheduled, and the imperial examination at this time was not as modern people understood that only one article was needed to become a jinshi and become a champion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In fact, there are a number of professional subjects, and the "regular subject" is a permanent subject, similar to today's college entrance examination 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 practical "etiquette" college examination, "Three History" refers to the "Historical Records", two "Han Books" and "Three Kingdoms", which can be understood as a special examination of history, "Three Rites" refers to the "Zhou Rites", "Rites" and "Rites" in the Thirteen Classics, which can be regarded as a specialized examination of etiquette theory, and "Three Transmissions" refers to "Zuo Chuan" and "Ram Biography" and "The Biography of Liang Liang", which can be regarded as a special examination for the history books of the Ministry of Scripture, and "Ming Characters" is a character examination.

"Ming Jing" refers to the unified examination of all scriptures, which can be regarded as a traditional examination of scriptures and exegesis, and "Ming Law" is a legal examination. Regarding "Jinshi" and "Ming Jing", it is necessary to say a few more words. Since the Tang Dynasty, the two major subjects have been valued the most, and among the two major subjects, the Jinshi Department is the most. The reason is very simple: those who are in the middle of the rank are very optimistic in their future careers, 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.

The imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty relaxed the scope of admission and role. In the Song Dynasty, Jinshi was divided into three classes: the first class was called Jinshi and the first; The second class is called Jinshi origin; The third class is given to the same Jinshi background. The Song Dynasty established a three-level examination system once every three years. After the palace examination, there is no need to go through the examination of the Ministry of Officials, and the official is directly awarded. Song Taizu also ordered that after the examination, it was not allowed to call the examiner a teacher or call himself a protégé. In this way, all those who are in rank become protégés of the Son of Heaven. After the palace examination, the list will be released in the top three. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the emperor also held the ceremony of announcing the rank of the Dengke Jinshi, and gave a banquet in Qiongyuan, so it was called the Qionglin banquet, and the later generations followed suit, and then became customized.

Because the scope of the imperial examination is too narrow, although the conditions have been relaxed, there are only more than 500 scholars who can go to the ministry examination, and in the past, each subject has reached this number, and only a dozen people can participate in the palace examination after screening. After reading the papers, everyone felt that it was unsatisfactory, but they could not empty the list, otherwise they would not only lose the significance of the imperial examination and select talents, but also disappoint the scholars, and even make the little emperor who opened the department for the first time lose face. So after several meetings with the chief executives, it was decided that the general should be drawn up, and the list was drawn up and reported to the saint.

At the beginning of the course, Zhao Yu knew that the form of the imperial examination was greater than the reality, which was to show his attitude towards scholars and a compromise in disguise. And he also read the test papers this time, and there was really nothing outstanding, and he wanted to rather empty the list than abuse it. But in the end, he gave up this idea, and took the scholars who participated in the palace examination as the first class, the top 50 who participated in the ministry examination as the second class, and gave 50 scholars over 40 to the jinshi background.

However, this time the list did not rank like the previous Kaike, let alone hand-picked champions, list eyes and tanhua, which can be regarded as breaking the precedent since the opening of the Great Song Dynasty. Most of the scholars who referred to this batch came from Qiongzhou, and half of them were among the scholars, more than the sum of the previous sessions of the Song Dynasty. Although everyone knows that they have occupied the light of the Xing Dynasty and Qianqiong, they are still very grateful to the little emperor, and many people cried bitterly in the palace and said that they would never live up to the emperor's grace.

As for those who failed the list, Zhao Hao did not treat them all to study in the national prison, and they will take the exam again when they open next year. Those scholars who came across the sea were still a little sour, thinking that they were better educated than these scholars in the wilderness, and if they caught up, they would not fall off the list, but after hearing the news, they could be considered to be at ease and prepare for the exam with peace of mind.

Zhao Hao arranged it like this, and of course the unsuccessful scholars were happy, because they knew that they would go to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, and the state would issue customs coupons to solve the travel expenses and food and lodging during the examination, and the high school students would be awarded officials to earn wages, but the unsuccessful ones had to bear their own travel expenses to go home, but it was different when they entered the Guozijian. And if you want to enter the country to study, it was also extremely difficult in the past, not the second generation of officials, but also to have a good academic career.

Guozijian was originally established in the Sui Dynasty, and was the educational management organ and the highest institution of learning in ancient Chinese society, which had two functions, one is the function of the state management organ, and the other is the function of the highest institution of learning in the country. Compared with "Taixue", the establishment of Guozixue is not only the highest institution of learning in the state to teach scriptures and meanings, but also undertakes more of the functions of national education management.

At the same time, Guozijian and Taixue can also be called each other, after the emergence of "Guozijian", the different meanings of "Xue" and "Jian" illustrate the different division of labor between the two in undertaking the two functions, "Xue" is the function of imparting knowledge, pointing to education and the highest institution; "Supervision" refers to the function of supervision and supervision, which refers to the national education management. Therefore, Taixue is often used to refer to Guozijian.

The Taixue system in the Song Dynasty was relatively complete, recruiting from the outstanding children of officials and civilians below the eighth grade. However, most of these students were attached to Guozijian, but they did not show up for class, only the teacher lived in the prison, and Guozijian was reduced to a simple examination place. During the examination period, Guozijian summons students from all over the world to take the exam, and the best ones are selected. At this time, the prison was quite overcrowded. At the end of the exam, the clouds will disappear, and the excitement will be for a while, and the loneliness will be eternal.

Guozijian has become an institution with the name of education, but not the reality of education. In order to curb this outrageous phenomenon, it was later stipulated that inmates must attend 500 days of classes before they were eligible to take the examination, but unfortunately it was not long after it was implemented. At that time, in addition to Guozijian, there were also three halls of Guangwen, Taixue, and Law—to accommodate students from all over the world who came to Beijing to prepare for the exam, and there were more than 1,000 people at most times. But it's still in vain, and when there is no exam, there are only twenty or thirty people in the third hall who live in it temporarily, and it can only be regarded as a cram school for Guozijian.

The law of change during the reign of Shenzong achieved Taixue for the second time. Wang Anshi not only expanded the enrollment of Taixue, but also reformed the employment system and implemented the "three-rounding method". That is, the Tai credit is divided into three categories: outer house, inner house, and upper house, among which those with excellent grades in the upper house can be directly selected as officials. This move contains the meaning of raising a scholar and taking a scholar, which is similar to Tian Qi's Jixia School Palace during the Warring States Period. It can also be compared to pre-university, undergraduate, and graduate students at today's universities.

In the second year of Yuanfeng, Taixue had eighty fasts, each fast has five wings, which can accommodate 30 people; There are 2,000 people in the outer house, 200 people in the inner house, and only more than 100 people in the upper house. Later, although the new law was repealed, Taixue was not affected. During the Huizong period, some of the new laws were restored, and the quota of students from the outer house was increased to 3,000, 600 from the inner house, and 200 from the upper house. In addition to Taixue's regular Confucian education, there are also medicine, law, martial arts, arithmetic, Taoism, calligraphy, and painting.

100 martial arts students, mainly focusing on the art of war; There is no quota for law students, and they mainly learn to adjugate cases and legal orders, and pay equal attention to cases and laws; 200 students, studying the Nine Chapters, the calendar, and astronomy; The students of calligraphy also learn the three bodies of seal, li, and grass, and the painting students are divided into Buddhism, figures, landscapes and other subjects; There are 300 medical students, divided into three departments: Fangmai (internal medicine), acupuncture, and ulcer, and each department is led by a professor; Taoist students have studied Taoist classics such as "Tao Te Ching" and "Zhuangzi", which is not unrelated to the Song royal family's admiration of Taoism at that time.

According to the current statement, Guozijian is the modern Ministry of Education and a comprehensive university under its name, and after the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, Guozijian naturally did not exist, and Xingchao was busy with his life, of course, he would not think about reconstruction. Zhao understood the importance of scholars in the country, not only managing the country on behalf of the emperor and maintaining the operation of the state apparatus, but also the disseminators of culture and the leaders of the behavior of the grassroots people.

Therefore, the restoration of the Guozijian is in the interests of the scholars, and it is also in the interests of the royal family represented by Zhao Yu. However, after shouting for a long time, the corresponding officials were also appointed, and the Fucheng Confucian Temple was expanded as the residence of the Guozijian, but there were too few students, so it was basically vacant now and did not play a role. The unsuccessful students who participated in the ministry examination this time can be their first batch of students.

At present, it is wartime, and the conditions for running a school are insufficient, so Zhao Yu decided to run a school with the purpose of 'applying what he has learned to promote learning', and Guozijian only restores the five subjects of scripture, law, arithmetic, medicine and martial arts for the time being, which are the most needed at present. Martial arts is also quite important, under the current atmosphere it is still a difficult thing to let the soldiers enlist in the army, but the army is in urgent need of people who are familiar with military affairs, proficient in strategy and campaign planning, and surveying, staff officers, political work and other professions need people with a certain degree of cultural accomplishment......

Entering November, several major events have been dealt with, the rainy season in Qiongzhou has ended, at this time the first new army has been in camp for a year, Zhao Yu ordered them to form a formation to carry out trekking training around the island. This training is not only to test what they have learned in the past year, but also to allow them to complete the relevant drills such as field marching, camping, survival, and building field fortifications, requiring them to walk the entire island on foot within one month and complete the corresponding training plan.

On the other hand, it was also time to recruit the second batch of new troops, in view of the current situation and the experience gained in the training of the first batch of new troops, the new army barracks were also fully completed, and Zhao Yu decided to expand the second batch of recruitment plans and recruit an additional 3,000 soldiers. In addition, since the new regulations have already been implemented throughout the army and all units have already completed basic training, he decided to conduct rotation training for the officers at the grassroots level of all departments for six months every year, so that they can familiarize themselves with the use of muskets and the use of basic tactics, and strengthen their understanding of the new regulations and regulations.

In addition, middle- and high-ranking generals and colonels will also undergo a one-year training in the barracks, at which they will not only complete the study of basic knowledge such as topographic survey, map identification, city building techniques, use of firearms, and military documents, but will also learn the organization and command of campaigns and battles, the combined command of various arms of the armed forces, and the coordinated operations between the various services. Zhao Hao has no way to do this, and most of the senior officers in various departments are veterans who have been in the army for many years, and they can still know how to march and deploy troops and dispatch generals. In the past, they did not understand the basic knowledge of the ranks, and they still led the troops through several rounds of training and the experience accumulated in the past two years.

Now that the whole army is facing a change of equipment, a large number of new weapons will be added, and the tactics of response will also change dramatically. In this way, the past experience and knowledge of those middle and high-ranking officers are not enough, and some officers cannot even read maps, and even more lack the ability to organize and command, so it is necessary to update their knowledge and learn new tactics. If you are still incompetent after studying, you can only be eliminated from the army. At the same time, Jiang Xuan's Shangju Navy Academy has been set up and has begun to carry out training for various departments. In addition, 10,000 new recruits are planned to be recruited and added to the various armies as needed after completing basic training at the new training base.

By the end of the month, the two taxes had been collected, and since the tax holiday for the first batch of immigrants to the island had expired, a total of 800,000 stone of rice and 200,000 yuan of silver had been collected this year. 120,000 yuan of commercial tax revenue; More than 3,100,000 tariffs, most of which were the proceeds of confiscation of goods from merchants; However, the salt tax of the Department of Monetary Affairs is as high as more than 4 million yuan, of course, 90% of which is the income from 'export', and there are more than 100,000 yuan of miscellaneous taxes. Combined with the proceeds from the seizure of the northern expedition, the total income this year is about 13 million guan.

The collection is a lot, but the expenses are also huge, of which the military expenditure is still the largest, accounting for about forty percent; The resettlement of migrants is also a big one, spending more than one million yuan; In addition, the salaries and subsidies of officials are also 700,000 yuan. Then there is the investment in infrastructure construction and disaster relief in Qiongzhou. However, there was no deficit this year, and there were still 3 million yuan in the treasury and more than 600,000 stone of grain, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and no one expected that such a small land could have a surplus under the management of the little emperor.

Although the little emperor did not include the tariffs in the Zuo Treasury as agreed this year, there are forty percent of the salt in hand, and everyone estimates that His Majesty's income must be more than three million. Zhao Yu only cried poor when he heard the discussion, saying that the cost of building the new army barracks and the firearms produced by the craftsman's workshop came from the inner treasury, plus the expenses of the inner palace and various rewards, his little money had already been spent, and it was all supported by the foundation of the previous years.

But Zhao Yu was very disdainful in his heart, although he spent a lot this year, but the savings of Zuo Zangku also exceeded 10 million, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is rich and rivals the country, he knows that if his plan can be implemented smoothly and the strategic layout is completed, then the situation will change greatly in a few years......