Reform is a must, otherwise Li Xinchen doesn't want Bashu to drag his bloated body to conquer the world, and if many of the problems that have been exposed are not solved now, they will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future, and it may be too late when Li Xinchen really sits on the world.

Therefore, although Li Xinchen cannot carry out drastic reforms, some systems that are obviously lagging behind the times still need to be changed. However, if you want to reform, you must have enough talents, especially those with enough experience and innovative ideas, which is what Bashu lacks the most. The civil officials of the entire Bashu are already busy now, who still has the heart to think about how to reform, so Li Xinchen must need more people.

Xu Ling has always been straightforward: "I heard that His Highness is preparing to build an academy? ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly: "Chengdu College is in preparation, and there will be corresponding construction in Hanzhong and Bajun, which is the most important thing besides spring ploughing." ”

"The preparations in Hanzhong are in full swing, and the old man has already seen it." Xu Ling said lightly, he came to Chengdu from Xiangyang to Hanzhong, and he also measured Li Xinchen's land along the way, "Your Highness is so anxious to see me, an old man, it must be because of this incident." ”

"That's right," Li Xinchen didn't bend with Xu Ling, "I also asked Xiao Mugong to take up the post of the head of Chengdu College to recruit talents and educate children." ”

Xu Ling and Yao Cha were a little surprised, in their opinion, Li Xinchen should want Xu Ling to re-enter the court to take charge of education, but they didn't expect that Li Xinchen would just hand over the position of mountain chief to Xu Ling.

This made Yao Cha breathe a sigh of relief, but also Xu Ling's temper, you must know that Xu Ling does not plan to hold any court position after returning to his hometown, the position of the mountain chief seems to be appointed by the government, but the academy itself is beyond the government, and the mountain chief is naturally not among the officials of the government.

Of course, there is also Xu Ling's careful thinking in this, if he directly holds a position in Li Xinchen's court, I don't know how to write about him in the history books, but this teaching and educating people is different, no one has ever accused a person who is wholeheartedly presiding over education.

Xu Ling said in a deep voice: "Taking Chengdu College as an example, the college was created, not to mention the lack of Mr., and the schoolchildren have not begun to recruit, if you start from Mengxue, then it will take at least ten years to cultivate qualified talents." ”

"Ten years is too long, and we don't have to start all from scratch." Li Xinchen waved his hand, "When recruiting students, we have to do a certain level test, which should include familiarity with Mongolian textbooks such as "Cangjie Chapter" and "Thousand Character Text", familiarity with poetry and songs, and even older ones should also test their personal opinions on current politics, economy, military and culture. ”

Xu Ling and Yao Cha looked at each other in surprise, they didn't expect that Li Xinchen had taken these aspects into account, but just from the reality of this era, there are many obviously unrealistic, in the troubled times, those who can read and write are actually some children of the family, if Li Xinchen follows this recruitment method, I am afraid that only the children of the family can enter the academy to study.

And Li Xinchen obviously took this into account: "Therefore, in the academy, we also need to add literacy courses for all the people in the whole society, and send people out, not limited to the academy." Now that Bashu has become peaceful, and it is in the slack season, if we act quickly, we can implement this matter before spring ploughing. ”

Xu Ling's eyes widened, only to feel a stream of hot blood rushing up to his chest.

Under the big trees, in the fields, and in the downtown area, everywhere are people who take advantage of their free time to read and write, what a spectacular and fascinating picture!

However, Xu Ling is not naïve to the point of ignoring anything, as a person who has traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River to collect poetry, he knows very well that it is not only the lack of money and war that curbs folk learning and education, but also a large part of the reason is that the current Jiupin Zhongzheng bureaucratic system has limited the opportunity of "going out and entering the phase" to the family and the poor family, and ordinary people have no chance to emerge at all, so for them, It is better to take the time to study hard, than to think about how to plant a third of an acre of land under your feet.

Since Li Xinchen put forward such an idea, it means that he must have also considered how to solve this problem.

"Once the three colleges in Chengdu, Bajun and Hanzhong are successfully opened, the following local governments will also open colleges. Students in the local colleges have the opportunity to enter these three higher colleges through examinations and internships, and then the government selects a sufficient number of talents from them each year. Li Xinchen then said.

In Li Xinchen's view, the imperial examination system should be a relatively fair talent selection system invented in ancient China, even the examination system of later generations actually evolved from the imperial examination, the imperial examination may have many unreasonable places, but in any case, this is the most able to ensure the fairness and justice of the talent selection system.

Especially in the Tang and Song dynasties, when the imperial examination was not yet rigid, it can be said that this system made outstanding contributions to the emergence of talents in these two dynasties.

But at least at this stage, Li Xinchen does not have the ability to implement the imperial examination system step by step, and he can come to this day step by step, and the southeast Shi clan, the Bashu family and the strong support of the Guanlong group are inseparable, and if the imperial examination system is implemented rashly, it will undoubtedly fundamentally challenge the existence of the family.

In fact, the imperial examination system was not a bad thing for the family at the beginning, because in the troubled times, only the family could still maintain the education of its children, so when the Sui and Tang dynasties first implemented the imperial examination system, the real outstanding were actually the children of the old family groups such as the Guanlong family and the Shandong family.

But with the gradual tranquility of society, the children of the poor family and even the ordinary people of Qianshou also began to realize the importance of reading and learning, then it was the time when the family declined, after all, the family has no way to guarantee that each generation is an outstanding genius, and even in most cases the proportion of the family is relatively high, so "rich but three generations", to the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the family naturally faded out of history.

Li Xinchen would not be naïve to think that Xu Ling and Yang Su, who are also like human spirits, can't see the clues, so everything has to be figured out slowly, and starting from the academy, first through this method to give the ordinary people below a way to advance, it will naturally enhance the family's sense of crisis at the same time, it will not cause them too much disgust.

It's nothing more than boiling a frog in warm water.

Of course, Xu Ling understands the arduousness of the task that Li Xinchen explained, and of course, if it is done well, it will really be a legend for eternity.