No matter how it was discussed, the proceedings of the meeting were there, and the rest of the work could not all make way for the report of the Ministry of Works, so the next day, the Metropolitan Governor forcibly closed the issue, and the next issue of stock pricing was handed over to the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs (which was responsible for supervision) for separate discussions.

Next, the meeting went very smoothly, Xu Shiyang, on behalf of the Ministry of Industry, specially disclosed several new factories that were ready to be put into operation - Hebei Province has abundant coal and iron resources, which is naturally the focus of the Ministry of Industry's future layout, and the southern Liaoning side is mainly inclined to the military industry and shipbuilding industry.

The Ministry of Household announced the specific economic targets for Longdao for four years and finally reviewed the budgets of each department.

The Penal Department announced the establishment of a separate circuit court to conduct a round of inspections and audits of all territories under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governorate, with the support of the military police (reorganized from the Suppression Army) and household officials.

At the same time, the Criminal Department supported the Ministry of War in carrying out continuous large-scale suppression of bandits in all territories under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governorate.

The Ministry of Officials announced new rules for the appointment and evaluation of officials, and at the same time proposed a plan to increase the salaries of officials at all levels.

In addition, the Ministry of Officials also had to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry's share issuance work: the officials at all levels of various departments other than the officials at the level of Shangshu should receive a share of which share of which factory, and the suggestions of the Ministry of Officials were very important.

The last to take the stage was the Ministry of Rites, who first announced the plan to build a new school in Longdao for four years, and then announced that they would determine the method of "imperial examination" in Qi Province in this year:

Grades 1 to 7 are called Upper Primary: 100 points for Chinese, 100 points for Math, and 100 points for Physical Education.

The total score is 300 points.

Grade 7 high school graduates are called Xiucai, and they are admitted to secondary school on the basis of merit through a graduation exam once a year.

Grades 8 to 12 are referred to as secondary schools: 100 in Chinese, 100 in Mathematics, 100 in Physical Education, 50 in History, 100 in Science, and 50 in Politics.

The total score is 500 points.

Grade 12 graduates are the lifters of Qi Province, and they also take an annual examination and are admitted to several institutions of higher learning.

At present, the institutions of higher learning under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office are: Quancheng University in Quancheng; the Jixia School Palace in Qingzhou Mansion; Jining Mansion is a Fengsheng College renovated from the former Fengsheng Mansion.

There are three in total, and if you add the Navy Army University, it is five.

The five universities implement a four-year education system, and the graduates of the 16th grade are Jinshi, the graduates of Quancheng University, Jixia Gakugong and Fengsheng College are Wenjinshi, and the Navy and Army University are Wujinshi, and Wenwu Jinshi is completely equal.

Depending on the situation, the Ministry of Rites is going to build two more institutions of higher learning in Yanjing and Southern Liaoning in Hebei Province, but Longdao will definitely not be able to build them in four years, because the population is insufficient and there are not enough students.

However, both the high school and the middle school had to be rolled out at the same time, so Xu Shiyang helped the Ministry of Rites apply for additional funding from the Metropolitan Governor's Office - the Ministry of Rites also needed to provide some cultural teachers for military schools at all levels of the Ministry of War.

Schools at all levels in Qi Province are allowed to recruit "international students", and Han Chinese students enjoy the same level of treatment as local students, but foreign students such as Goryeo must pay high tuition fees.

The upper primary school in Qi Province is compulsory, and the tuition, textbook fees, and tuition and miscellaneous fees for students above the civilian class are all exempt, and all students in school have food subsidies.

But on the other hand, there is a lot of pressure to study in school, and the annual promotion exam can be the difference between life and death - if you fail the exam, you are not allowed to upgrade. If you fail the overall grade for three consecutive years, you are not allowed to graduate from the upper primary school. If you fail in five years, you will be forced to drop out.

Such an emphasis on test-oriented education is actually not conducive to the all-round development of students, and it may also make Qi Province accidentally let go of many genius talents.

But this approach can raise the average number of students in Qi Province at a much faster rate, and produce more "mediocre talents" for the Governor's Office.

Cramming education, which is also a way to industrialize and mass produce talents.

Students who are eliminated in the course of their studies will enter a junior college, or be assigned to work in factories and other departments at all levels according to their grades (if they want to start their own business or go home to farm, they will also be assigned to him).

However, the Ministry of Rites stressed that within five years, the illiteracy rate among the commoners and above would be reduced to less than 10 per cent, and that all boys and girls of school age between the ages of 7 and 18 should be enrolled in school.

Any commoner who hinders the participation of his children in schooling is tantamount to a crime and will be punished with a reduction in merit - the merit will be reduced to minus 10, and the commoner will be demoted to commoner!

In terms of discipline setting and teaching materials, Xu Shiyang is deeply involved, just like Xu Shiyang is deeply involved in the financial work of the household department.

This is also the reason why schools at all levels in Qi Province can throw all the eight strands, poems and songs into the big pit of language, and also fill in some nationalist literature education to stir it up.

But the problem is that in this era, Qi Province's own scientific background is very weak: for example, the science curriculum in middle school is basically a hodgepodge of elementary physics, chemistry, geography, geometry, and algebra.

After all, there are no physical chemistry talents in Qi Province now, and even those who have this concept may be Xu Shiyang alone.

However, these disciplines are very important and necessary, so Xu Shiyang can only temporarily cram all the knowledge that he knows now or the general things that he can explain into one discipline, and then hope that the people will explore scientific knowledge on their own in the near future, and refine this knowledge into various new disciplines.

All Xu Shiyang can do in it is to sow the seeds and do everything he can to care for the seeds to grow during his lifetime, nothing more.

The most fierce opposition to the establishment of the Jinshi assessment project is the criminal department Shangshu Zhang Mingyi, this Jinshi master from the south of the Yangtze River thinks that Qi Province attaches too much importance to the side of the equation and calculation, and the proportion of the eight shares in the imperial examination is really low and frightening.

A Jinshi who can't even learn the Avenue of the Sage can still be regarded as a Jinshi?

What's more, why are Wu Jinshi and Wen Jinshi completely equal?

Zhang Mingyi has repeatedly proposed increasing the proportion of Chinese subjects in the imperial examinations in Qi Province, and he believes that even if language does not account for the whole number, it should have a decisive proportion to be considered normal—students who fail even language should not be qualified for meritorious service, no matter how well they learn other subjects.

However, in this regard, his opponent is Xu Shiyang.

Xu Shiyang did not have the slightest intention of compromise, and his status in Qi Province was naturally not comparable to Zhang Mingyi, so in the end, the plan of the Ministry of Rites was forcibly passed.

In fact, Zhang Mingyi's opposition seems to be a little too early, he spent too much energy on arguing with Xu Shiyang about the subject of the imperial examination, and when Xu Mujiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, announced the last topic of the year, although Zhang Mingyi was angry, he didn't have much energy to jump out and oppose it.

What's more, this topic is not actually to discuss with anyone, but to directly announce a predetermined result to everyone:

At the beginning of February in the fourth year of Longdao, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was canceled, and the former Metropolitan Governor Xu Muhe was called the King of Qi!