Zhu Houzhao's face became solemn, his brows were tightly locked, and he glanced at Yuan Zongru and Liu Yu.

Yuan Zongru and Liu Yu both lowered their heads.

"In that case, you all talk about whether you have done this thing of learning or not, and to tell you the truth, I will not do anything to you."

Zhu Houzhao stood up, he could see that now these civil servants were already a little afraid of themselves, afraid that they would cut off their heads and kill people if they disagreed.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to get up and walk to the gate of the palace, with his back to these ministers, so as not to be too afraid when these ministers looked at themselves head-on, and they were too afraid to tell the truth.

"The matter of revitalizing the school is naturally to be done, to educate the world Li Shu, so that everyone knows and good manners, this is a moral government, but to force the sons of the common people to enroll, it is inevitable that some strong people are difficult, increase the burden of the Li people, Your Majesty wants to let the people of the world know the meaning of its education, and let the people of Li get the benefits of education, in the eyes of the ministers, if you ban the compulsory order, it is up to the people's voluntariness."

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, said a word at this time.

He knew that the implementation of universal education and the transformation of the people of the Ming Dynasty into scholars was the ideal of His Majesty the Emperor in front of him.

But he had to admit in his heart that His Majesty the Emperor's ideals were sometimes as empty as his own ideals of establishing a Datong society.

It is difficult for ordinary people to have the consciousness of cultivating their next generation before they are rich, and even for ordinary people, even if it is a difficult thing to feed children, and now the imperial court has to let them take on the responsibility of educating children, which is obviously embarrassing for ordinary people, although it is free education, but for ordinary people, children are not children raised at home, but also labor.

The minister also thought that the establishment of social studies and higher primary schools continued, and even schools could be set up in the prefecture, provinces and South Beijing Divisions in the future, so as to teach the world's scholars, but what kind of knowledge these scholars should be used by the imperial court still needs to be determined;

In addition, in order to promote the scholars who are willing to study in the Ming Dynasty to learn new learning instead of taking Confucianism and Zhuzi as the legal system, the minister thinks that the imperial examination should be abolished!

Then those who graduated from various universities in Beijing and even Guozijian were directly conferred officials, so that the world's scholars could enthusiastically enter the new school. ”

Liu Yu, the deputy assistant to the cabinet, knew that the shortcomings of the academic and political reform he had exposed today had aroused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Zhu Houzhao, but when he proposed the abolition of the imperial examination at this time, he wanted to tell Zhu Houzhao that he did not intend to oppose His Majesty the Emperor, nor did he not understand His Majesty the Emperor's purpose.

Abolish the imperial examinations?

Liu Yu's words were like a scorching thunder exploding in the narrow cabinet and the celebrant duty room.

No one would have thought that this cabinet scholar, who had just been the first to sing the praises of the national education that His Majesty the Emperor had painstakingly managed, would now directly fire at the imperial examination system and directly threaten to abolish the imperial examination!

Zhu Houzhao himself was really frightened by Liu Yu's words, but he didn't expect Liu Yu to directly propose to abolish the imperial examination.

He had to admit that after he deliberately cultivated the bureaucratic capitalist group and even let the bureaucratic capitalists take control of the government instead of the traditional gentry, these civil officials with bureaucratic capitalist backgrounds began to be a little different from the conservative civil officials in the past, and even dared to say such a thing as abolishing the imperial examination.

Of course, it is not excluded that some cunning civil officials only want to blindly favor themselves, and deliberately pick what they want to hear.

Although it is not shocking to die, as long as it is said that the emperor's heart is in the heart, it will naturally be valued by the emperor, and the consequences after the cannon are naturally borne by the emperor, after all, he is just making a suggestion, and the person who makes the decision is the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao did not show an expression of wanting to abolish the imperial examination, as an emperor above 10,000 people, sometimes it is necessary to hide foolishness and clumsiness, or let people easily find their own pulse.

Zhu Houzhao didn't turn around, thinking to see how the other civil officials reacted.

Yuan Zongru didn't expect that Liu Yu, the deputy assistant of the cabinet who had just taken the lead in bombarding the reform of national education, would bombard the imperial examination system again in the blink of an eye, and couldn't help but directly retort:

"The minister thinks that the imperial examination should not be abolished, a dynasty has been carrying out the imperial examination for many years, and all the soldiers and people in the world regard this as a guideline, and this system can also maintain the hearts of the people;

Second, if the imperial examination is abolished, wouldn't it be impossible for the world's scholars to serve the country, and they can't be allowed to go back to learn arithmetic like children! ”

"But now the talents selected by the imperial examination are mostly good at empty talk and practice, and they don't know the worries and joys of the people, and they don't know the loyalty and treachery of the court, and most of them are used and manipulated by the officials, and there are even many people who are willing to be used by the officials to enrich themselves! In today's imperial examinations, most of the selected talents are scholars, and those who have made meritorious contributions need to be selected by the new scholars! ”

Liu Yu, deputy assistant to the cabinet, retorted.

Seeing this, Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, also said:

"It is not important whether the imperial examination is abolished or not, the important thing is that the imperial court must have the method of selecting scholars, and if the imperial examination is abolished, there must be a new method of selecting scholars.

"It is still the same as the current system, those who are in the middle can directly elect officials, those who are promoted can choose to participate in the hall examination, or they can choose to enter Beijing Normal University for further study and election of officials, and after the higher primary school, when there are schools at all levels, they can finally enter the university directly, and those who graduate from the university can also directly elect officials."

After Wang Hua finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao turned around:

"Very good, even if the imperial examination can not be abolished suddenly, the Ming Dynasty has been on the right path for a hundred years, it is not just a simple way to take scholars, but many people use this means of making a living, from the old Confucianism in the countryside to the clear stream in the court, all of them make a living by teaching scriptures and articles, and the court can not cut off their way of life;

However, this new system of learning has been further improved, and I have played by Liu Qing:

No longer forcing the children of the common people to go to school, perhaps the first thing I and the people should do now is to let the people of the world not suffer from hunger and poverty, if people have surplus food and do not have to bear the pain of taxes, how can parents not let their children study more;

The edict decrees that each government can add several middle schools according to the number of students under its local jurisdiction, middle school primary and advanced, in addition to Chinese arithmetic, the primary ones need to have history, geography, politics, physics, chemistry, biology, and martial arts;

You should all now understand what knowledge is covered in these courses, and those who are advanced can choose one of the other seven subjects except arithmetic in the national studies, and after graduating from high school, they can take the higher education examination, which will be presided over by the provinces, and the same as the hometown examination of the imperial examination, and those who pass the examination can sign up to become university students by volunteering, and the universities of the empire will recruit them in the provinces according to the students' grades, and the number of admissions will also be determined by the universities themselves. ”

"Your Majesty, is the above policy still implemented in Nanzhili for the time being? The minister thought that only the new school system of primary schools, middle schools, and universities should be implemented in Nanzhili for the time being, and the rest of the provinces should temporarily order the local government to set up primary schools, so as to save money, after all, except for Nanzhili, other regions will still focus on the imperial examination, and it is not very beneficial to set up secondary schools and universities now. ”

Wang Qiong of the household management department said.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Quasi-play!" But you can issue an edict to the world, and allow the folk squires to build their own academies to study, and those who are excellent in learning will be rewarded by the Association! ”

"Yes!"

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, and other civil officials all bowed their hands, and all the ministers were very happy about Zhu Houzhao's sudden and clear decree to allow the people of the world to build academies, after all, for these literati who were born as scholars, being able to build academies meant that they could justifiably open imperial examination training classes to make money.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that even if he encouraged Confucian scholars to open academies, he would only open imperial examination training courses, after all, the imperial examination training courses made money and had more profits, but Zhu Houzhao should also be able to have a few famous scholars and scholars who did not focus on fame and fortune to open some academies with the function of studying social sciences, and that could be regarded as a university.

Not long after the end of the school council, the decree on the establishment of a higher primary school to facilitate the continuing education of students who have graduated from social studies was officially announced, and at the same time, the Ministry of Household Affairs also began to allocate money and stipulate that part of the tax could be attributed to local self-use as education funds.

As a result, all the local officials in the world have built new-style schools, the purpose is to take the opportunity to make money or let the above see their political achievements, in short, no matter what kind of original intention, higher primary schools have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

In addition, the Zhengde Emperor explicitly allowed the private construction of academies, so the world's Confucian scholars did not praise it, and built academies one after another, and the number of academies increased greatly for a time.

However, because Zhu Houzhao no longer issued an edict to force schoolchildren to enroll, many children of wealthy or wealthy families are still enrolled in higher primary schools in various places, and because the teachers of these higher primary schools are old Confucians recruited by officials in the local government, and the family members also hope that their children will learn Confucianism and go through the imperial examination, so these higher primary schools have also become imperial examination training classes.

This is especially true of privately established academies, which basically explain the Confucian scriptures and teachings every day, and are basically imperial examination training courses.

However, Zhu Houzhao believes that although in the short term, because the people of the world only know that participating in the imperial examination to gain fame is the right way, the academic circles are still mainly studying Confucian scriptures and teachings, but as he deliberately reuses the talents educated by the new education in politics, this trend will definitely change.

However, Zhu Houzhao feels that it is more important for him to increase the wealth value of the Ming Dynasty, so that the people are getting richer and richer, so that the people are not so utilitarian about receiving education, so that they gradually realize that receiving education is not to promote and make a fortune, but to improve their own quality, better understand themselves, and give full play to their own value.

Only by allowing the people of the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to receive education and take the initiative to think about how to obtain interests other than material interests can the innovative consciousness and innovation ability of the Chinese nation be stimulated.

But it will certainly take a long time for the people to understand, because when a person is still struggling to survive, you can't persuade him to give up his utilitarian heart.

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