Chapter 671: The World Shook Again: Free Field

Although Li Xuan does not plan to change the mode of the imperial examination now, the two imperial examination models of Jinshi and Doctor will be an important way to elect officials in the Tang Dynasty for many years to come.

But Li Xuan can decide what the content of the imperial examination is!

However, if you want to really promote the content of the imperial examination on a large scale, you must have a large number of qualified candidates, and it cannot be said that just a few people know the basic physical chemistry, and all the test questions will be turned into science content!

In addition to the imperial examination, there is another very important reason why Li Xuan wants to promote modern education, that is, the development of Datang today needs more high-quality talents.

Today, this training model, which only relies on private schools, private academies, and government schools, is destined to be unsatisfying, and he needs a more efficient education system.

For this reason, Li Xuan has decided to increase the scale of juvenile academies in various places, and the reason why the juvenile cadets are increased instead of the young military camp is not included is because the young military camp has always been expanding in scale, and due to the limitation of students, it is impossible to expand to how big!

In the second half of last year, Li Xuan had already approved the establishment of two new young military camps, the Guangzhou Young Military Camp and the Ganzhou Young Military Camp, and in the first half of this year, Li Xuan approved the establishment of the Shaoyang Young Military Camp, the Guiyang Young Military Camp, and the Ganzhou Young Military Camp.

Up to now, these young military camps, which are directly under the royal management and only recruit orphans, have been expanded to eight, of which seven are sub-camps of young military camps responsible for low-end education, and one is responsible for the general camp of Zhaoqing, which is responsible for both middle and high schools.

There are more than 2,000 orphans in school!

Among them, only the general camp of Zhaoqing Young Military Camp, the number of students has reached more than 600!

However, after all, the young military camp is not an ordinary academy, its students are only limited to orphans, and ordinary students are not accepted.

In the young barracks, tuition fees are exempted, and even food and drink are free, which is basically equivalent to the royal family adopting them and providing education, and the cost required here is actually not a small amount, and it cannot be expanded too indefinitely.

Therefore, ordinary students are not accepted.

The positioning of the young military camp is relatively special, the first thing is to cultivate talents who are loyal to the royal family and loyal to the emperor, these people are orphans, for them, the young military camp is their home, and the emperor Li Xuan is their father, as long as the operation is done properly, Li Xuan will be able to get a large number of 'adopted sons' in the future.

And these students in the young military camp will become officials, officers, and scientists in the future, and they will all be social elites, and with the support of such a group of people, Li Tang Jiangshan will be more stable.

However, the young military camp cannot replace general education, so the children's academies in various places must continue to develop, and they must continue to open on a large scale!

In mid-July, Li Xuan issued a holy decree to the world, in order to solve the problem of poor people in various places unable to study, requiring all prefectures under the rule of the Tang Dynasty to prepare at least one juvenile college.

At the same time, the school system of the juvenile academy was increased from the first grade to the sixth grade, and at the same time, a certain age limit was imposed on the students, and students who were at least eight years old and under the age of sixteen were recruited.

Three new colleges of higher learning were established in Wuzhou, Guangzhou, and Guiyang, with a duration of grades 7 to 12.

This is basically the system of the fire young military camp, not only to follow the school system, but also to refer to the young military camp in other aspects, for example, those with excellent learning ability can be promoted to the senior grade in advance after passing the assessment.

However, because of the shortage of educational resources, in order to expand the source of students, take care of the children of the poor, young students and colleges of higher learning, are free of tuition, so the requirements for students are also quite high, and students who cannot be upgraded for a long time will be persuaded to quit, and if they don't want to be persuaded to quit, then they need to pay tuition, and the tuition fee is not low.

However, Li Xuan still did not directly confer merit on these graduates, because this would break the current balance of the imperial examination!

If you want to gain fame, you need to participate in the imperial examination!

After all, he, Li Xuan, can't give all these new-generation students a fame, even if it's a showman, he can't give it indiscriminately.

Because under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, even if it is a showman, he is qualified to be an official!

In response to Li Xuan's policy of promoting education, the Ministry of Industry also instructed many factories under his command to prepare to set up a school specializing in training technical talents.

After completing your studies, you can join the major factories under the Ministry of Industry to become a technician, and the study period is only one year.

This is actually a technical school, which trains middle and lower-level technical personnel, and does not involve those senior engineers, who are trained by the science college in Guozijian.

Although many people in the Faculty of Science have gone to participate in the imperial examination, in fact, many of the people in the doctoral department will eventually go to work in the Ministry of Engineering and become technocrats.

Moreover, the number of students admitted to the doctoral program is actually not very large, only more than 80 a year, but there are hundreds of students in the Faculty of Science, and there are people who continue to apply for the examination every year.

If you can't be an official, you can be an engineer!

And if you are an engineer, you can still be an official!

In the major factories under the Ministry of Industry, many engineers are of the grade, and the grade is not low.

Datang wants to set up juvenile colleges and colleges of higher learning, which has also caused a certain amount of turmoil, but compared with the influence of the court, it is not as good.

Juvenile colleges, colleges and universities, just running schools, although the school system is a little strange, the content of learning is more miscellaneous, but running a school is always a good thing, and it is free, and at the same time, it is not said that the direct awarding of fame and fame, those scholars and gentry can not object to it.

Therefore, unlike the issue of the morning newspaper, which caused a major stir, the establishment of juvenile colleges in various state capitals also caused some discussion, but soon no one paid much attention to it.

As for the Chao Bao, with the first issue of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper being printed and distributed in various places, it soon spread throughout the entire Tang Dynasty, and almost every article published on it was able to cause a lot of discussion.

One of the most important is nothing more than the tax exemption of wasteland!

It's not just those ordinary people who began to grind their fists and palms and prepare to reclaim wasteland, even some landlords and gentry with rich families are also preparing to organize people to open up wasteland.

This is a tax advantage, and it is a rare and incomparable benefit on the ground of Datang!

In the past, if you steal a little tax casually, it will immediately attract those tax officials and even tax inspection teams who have been cut a thousand times, and they will be fined for the lightest, and the worst will be imprisoned or even exterminated.

And now, there is a fair and honest tax exemption, how can this kind of good thing be missed?

So, this summer, almost the entire Datang rule is discussing the matter of land reclamation!

And Li Xuan was afraid that this summer would not be hot enough, so he added a fire to this summer, and announced the 'rent-to-purchase order' in the second issue of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper!

It was announced in the rent-to-purchase order that landless peasants could buy a certain amount of official land after registering their applications locally!

Peasants who are renting official land, as long as their families are landless, can also apply to buy official land.

It is not news that you can buy official land, because a large amount of official land was also rented to landless peasants in the past, and it is also possible to buy official land by private individuals.

The important thing is that when buying land, you can choose to pay in installments, and the annual installment payment can be paid directly with the output of the current year, and the share paid each year is about the same as the annual rent for renting official land, and after ten consecutive installments, this official land will belong to the peasants.

Although it is said that after choosing to pay in installments, the total price of paying land rent for ten consecutive years must be much higher than that of the Tian family, but the account cannot be calculated in this way, first of all, the vast majority of peasants cannot come up with this money to buy land, and there is no landlord who will be stupid to let the peasants rent instead of buying.

At the same time, the annual installment payment figure is actually the same as the land rent on the market, that is to say, the peasants rent other private land, and after renting it for ten years, the land is still someone else's, but if it is rented official land, the land will be their own after ten years.

Ten years later, the land was directly owned by the peasants, and the landless peasants were able to become landed peasants, which was a great benefit to many landless peasants.

In ancient times, the peasants' dedication to land was beyond the imagination of later generations, and in order to be able to share a piece of land, countless poor children now have to join the army even if they have broken their heads.

However, the standard for joining the army is getting higher and higher, and it is difficult to enlist in the army if the physical condition is not up to standard.

Therefore, now Li Xuan is preparing to buy official land in installments, and is ready to further stimulate the peasants and make them more supportive of the Tang Dynasty.

As for saying that the official field is not enough?

Impossible!

Before the Tang Dynasty occupied Guizhou Liangguang, at least more than half of the land in these places was concentrated in the hands of the clan and the gentry, and after the Tang Dynasty came, the land of the clan was naturally confiscated, and a small part of it became the imperial village owned by the royal family, and most of it became the official land directly under the management of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Then the Tang Dynasty is particularly fond of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, and the land obtained by the raid is also included in the official land managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, plus some of the official fields originally owned by the local government of the Ming Dynasty, so in today's Tang Dynasty, in fact, the Ministry of Agriculture is the largest landlord, owning nearly 15% of the cultivated land under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty and the continuous extermination of the family, the total number of official fields is still increasing.

More importantly, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, all land that does not belong to private individuals is official land, and the development in these years is still relatively low, and there is a large amount of ownerless land in the wilderness, and whose land does this land belong to? Naturally, it belongs to the government!

In the past, most of these official lands were directly leased to those landless peasants for farming, and a small part was used to distribute them to soldiers!

Now, it has been added to the rent-to-purchase order, ready to be sold to those landless peasants in installments!

In this way, although on the surface the Tang Dynasty will lose a large amount of official land, but what does the Tang Dynasty want so much official land for, Li Xuan does not expect much money from these lands, what he needs is to feed more people on these lands and contribute more taxes and soldiers to the Tang Dynasty.

This is the value of land to rulers!

As soon as the rent-to-purchase order came out, because of its installment payment model, it was almost equivalent to free land distribution, and the resulting influence was no less than the previous tax exemption for land reclamation, which instantly detonated the public opinion of the whole world!