Zhou Lang found that even if Wang Fuqian died, the imperial examination was still Zhou Lang's biggest heart disease.

To be sure, there are a thousand inconsistencies with the imperial examination system, but compared to the system of selecting government officials in most countries in this era, the imperial examination is still the fairest. The British are popular in the system of buying officials, civil officials, military generals, and the famous Wellington climbed up all the way to buy officials, of course, he does have real skills. It was only after the French Revolution that the aristocratic monopoly of power began to break in Europe.

The imperial examination is because the world's scholars are attached to and cared about, from the bottom of the scholars to the emperor at the top of the imperial examination as a top priority, so the imperial examination is the same as the college entrance examination in later generations, almost the only fair thing in the corrupt feudal dynasty, although there are always various kinds of fraud in the field, but compared with the overall corruption of officialdom, the imperial examination system itself is already extremely clean.

It is precisely because of this kind of attention that Zhou Lang, the founding emperor, wants to take the imperial examination, which is like stepping on the tail of all civil officials. The prestige of the founding emperor can indeed do most things, only a few things can not be done, Zhou Lang knows a story that happened to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang because of Mencius's dissatisfaction with the idea of "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light", and he wanted to move Mencius out of the Confucian Temple, "depose Mencius and enjoy the Confucian Temple", and prevent the world's scholars from worshiping this sub-sage.

Ministers raised their voices in opposition. Zhu Yuanzhang took a tough attitude, saying that whoever dared to oppose it would be executed for the crime of "great disrespect".

Most of the officials were silent, but someone always stood up, and Qian Tang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, insisted on entering the palace to intercede for Mencius, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Jinwu guards to shoot him alive in front of the palace. Qian Tang was hit by two arrows on each shoulder, blood flowed, and he still broke into the palace. Zhu Yuanzhang admired him as a man, and finally exempted Mencius from dismissal.

Zhou Lang thought that he would never be as arrogant and unreasonable as Zhu Yuanzhang, and he found that the reform of the imperial examination, I am afraid that in the psychology of scholars, it is really the same level as the removal of Mencius, unless he is sure enough, he will never touch the scale of the imperial examination.

When agreeing to Wang Fuqian, Zhou Lang finally thought of an alternative: to include the imperial examination in systematic education.

Let the imperial examination be neither the highest nor the lowest link, but as an important intermediate link.

The imperial examination was divided into the hospital examination, the township examination, the general examination and the palace examination, which Zhou Lang broke up and integrated into the school education system.

At present, schools are not yet able to achieve universal education, which is not a problem that can be solved by issuing a decree or investing money, and there is simply not enough professional talent. The rapid expansion of real school education, in fact, is a matter of more than ten years, Zhou Lang invited the Academy of Sciences from France in the third year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, opened the first normal school, and then the teaching force grew rapidly. By now, there is a new school in at least every county across the country. The textbooks are all directly translated from Western textbooks, and now they can be written on their own.

But one county and one school, obviously far from enough, Austria's Maria Theresia in 1748 after retaining her throne in the humiliating way of land reparations, promulgated a six-year compulsory education law, Austrians have since begun to carry out comprehensive universal education, Queen Theresie said, civilization will eventually triumph over barbarism, she said barbarism is Prussia, from Austria savagely snatched the Prussian king of Silesia Frevice II, unfortunately, the barbarians in the eyes of this queen also followed, In the competition between the German states, Prussia, which was still militaristic, defeated Austria with artistism.

More than half a century has passed since the beginning of Queen Tracy's reforms, and it can be said that the new generation of Austrians and Prussians has surpassed all other countries of their time in terms of education.

Compulsory education can only be done through efficient and intensively managed schools, and it is impossible to rely on private schools and tutors to teach face-to-face education, and the national strength of Britain cannot do it, let alone China, which has a very low level of industrialization.

Therefore, Zhou Lang decided to combine the imperial examination, which has a strong attraction to scholars, with the school education, stipulating that after passing the college examination, that is, after the examination to show talents, you can enter the official school to study, and then step by step towards officialdom. It is obviously much easier to rely on talent than to take the examination for people and scholars. Moreover, in the traditional imperial examination, the college examination is also the first step, so as to ensure that the vast majority of scholars with a high level of intelligence can be covered by school education.

This is tantamount to giving traditional scholars a more convenient channel to officialdom, and after the launch, not only did it not cause opposition, but it was supported by low-level scholars. However, there are still opponents, and these opponents are not motivated by the utilitarian purpose of serving as officials in the imperial examinations, but always oppose the content of school education. This is a group of Confucianism and Taoist defenders, these defenders have a very strong foundation, from the old masters in the countryside to the important ministers of the imperial court, this is a group of ideological diehards, it is difficult to change.

In order to appease the dissatisfaction of these people, Zhou Lang did not cancel the situation of the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination in the imperial examination. However, from the stage of showing talents, the township test, the meeting test and the palace test have really become a situation. Coupled with the fact that government schools are an easier way to train civil servants, there are very few people who cling to the traditional imperial examinations.

Even if there were, it was to study in school and cope with various graduation exams in school, while continuing to study traditional Confucian theories and cope with the imperial examinations. These people's natural science knowledge can be guaranteed, so Zhou Lang doesn't care about continuing to leave a situation, plus he promised Wang Fuqian that he will retain the imperial examination system, otherwise he will definitely break with these defenders and completely abolish the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination, these systems are mere formalities.

The traditional education system has expanded dramatically, and continues to expand every year, and schools are no longer institutions for training officials, but institutions for training talents for the whole people. Schools for the training of officials still exist, and they are the schools with the highest quality of education among them, which are called government schools.

Those students who are admitted to government schools are called official students. By accommodating the imperial examinations, the scale and scope of the entrance examinations for official schools have been greatly expanded, and the quality of enrollment has even been greatly improved compared with the past, because in the past, the entrance examinations for official schools, due to the small range of materials, were almost concentrated in the urban industrial and commercial classes, and basically those who were literate and literate could be admitted to the examination, but now they cover the vast number of private school students in the vast rural areas, and the enrollment scale has expanded several times, and the quality of the students has of course been greatly improved.

For this reason, Zhou Lang even made a compromise with tradition and abolished the right of government schools to enroll students independently.

The impact of this compromise was enormous, as it dealt a huge blow to the expanding school education system. In Zhou Lang's school, the Four Books and Five Classics were not taught before, and the natural sciences were the mainstay. Primary education is based on literacy and arithmetic, and there is no room for four books and five classics. In traditional private school education, students need to go through literacy and learn the three character classics, the hundred family names and the thousand-character texts before they can start to read the four books and five classics, and it has been five or six years since they completed them.

Mathematics and natural science education completely crowds out the time of the Four Books and Five Classics, and after the primary school is familiar with these literacy books, after receiving mathematics education, the middle school stage is the education of history, geography and other subjects, and then you can enter the university, in this process, there is no time left for the Four Books and Five Classics.

Now it's different, if students in the school system want to be admitted to the official school, they must study the Four Books and Five Classics, at least in the field of composition, and be able to reach the level of Xiucai, otherwise they will not be admitted to the official school at all. This is clearly unfair to these students, and the new system is detrimental to their interests.

Of course, Zhou Lang's reform cannot be reversed, and it is obviously unscientific to crack down on efficient school education and protect inefficient private school education; Cracking down on school education for the children of industry and commerce and protecting the private school education for the children of peasants is even more inconsistent with Zhou Lang's concept of encouraging industry and commerce.

The purpose of this is to allow students, at least those who are determined to change their family's status through the imperial examinations, to read more classics. Although Confucianism has all kinds of badness, most of them are because Confucianism is tainted with secular habits, not because Confucianism is bad, and Confucianism is fundamentally based on the moral concepts in traditional Chinese culture, not made up by Confucius, before Confucius, Confucianism existed for a long time, but Confucius carried forward the Confucian doctrine.

The ideological field is a battlefield, if you don't occupy it, the enemy will occupy it, and if you don't stuff the officials' minds with courtesy, righteousness, honesty, righteousness, and morality, they will be occupied by other chaotic thoughts, which is not necessarily a good thing.

It may not be impossible to let Confucianism merge with industry and commerce, and let Confucianism merge with modern commercial theory, and the commercial culture of Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore in later generations is called Confucian capitalism, which is not necessarily bad, and it may be the most suitable model for China.

If the students in ordinary schools, through self-study, tutoring, etc., can't even reach the level of talent, this kind of intelligence level is not suitable for being officials, honestly learning technology, being a technical talent may be a better way out, otherwise it is like a group of old masters, snow-dyed temples are still struggling in the imperial examination, it is too sad.

After the inclusion of the imperial examination into school education, it is regarded as the most stubborn core of the traditional field of the imperial examination, and it has also been transformed, Zhou Lang's reform of the traditional administrative system lasted more than 20 years, and it has reached a new and eh, and the reform will continue in the future, but the big changes will not be made, it will only be gradually adjusted on the existing basis, and the results of the reform will also take time to harvest, ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, at least one generation, the officialdom can complete the metabolism, replace it with new blood, the next reform, It fell on the heads of these fresh blood, and it was impossible to say if Zhou Lang was in power at that time. Why did he bother with the hearts of posterity.

With the 20 years of reform of the Great Zhou, China seems to have entered a new era, with rapid industrial growth again, and after a large number of handicraft workshops withdrew from the production field under the impact of the crisis, industrial production became the protagonist of this expansion.

The industrial revolution began to enter a new stage, not only in the traditional textile industry, silk weaving industry, but also began to spread in a wider field, this time the main force, is no longer the hydraulic factory, but began to use steam power on a large scale, the popularization of the steam engine, so that the industrial revolution has entered a new level.

China, a giant country, began the industrial revolution in the age of steam, and the impact on the whole world was unimaginable.