His reasoning is also very powerful, many famous ministers in the past dynasties have noticed the lack of experience of officials from the imperial examination, and they are often easily deceived by the local slippery officials, so many famous ministers have purged the rule of officials, and the Ming Dynasty even directly issued an official guide to the incoming magistrates, called "New Official Track Fan". Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

However, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and the means of the petty officials are endless, and it is impossible for a single book to put the officials at the top in the struggle against the petty officials, and the officials who can hold the petty officials are either arrogant and unreasonable, or they are old bureaucrats.

Therefore, what Zhu Jinglun said is that making officials alternate officers is indeed a way to greatly improve the experience level of new officials.

It's just that this method infringes on the interests of the scholar class, and even if it is reasonable, they can't accept it.

"The alternate officials of the imperial court, at most, are also donors, and I have never heard the truth that Xu officials are directly asked to do it, which of the Xu officials is not a slippery villain, and the court officials are appointed officials, how can they be alternates from these people?"

The squires sent by the counties to petition objected, but they spoke only in the capacity of the officials, and used the idea of inferiority in the customs as an excuse, and refused to mention in the slightest the subject that affected their own interests.

Zhu Jinglun said with a smile: "Now these officials may have some stinky problems, but I see that after the abolition of their household registration, many people have begun to read the books of sages. I think the books of the sages can edify people, right? ”

Since these people are playing with themselves, Zhu Jinglun is also good at this, who dares to say that the sage book cannot educate people, it is a big rebellion.

The faces of the old stubborn ones were flushed, but they couldn't find a chance to refute them for a while.

"In short, you can't let the officials be officials, and let these people control the government decrees for generations, isn't it child's play?"

An excited old guy shouted fiercely, and a group of people echoed it, and the more they talked, the more excited they became, as if the country would be no longer a country.

When their emotions became more and more angry and were about to get out of control, Zhu Jinglun stood up slowly, these people looked at him, and slowly lowered their voices, knowing that Zhu Jinglun was going to speak, maybe to give them an explanation.

"Did I say that some people should hold the position for generations? Now there are no more officials in Guangdong, and they are also scholars. For scholars like you, whether their children and grandchildren can hold official positions depends on their abilities. I plan to draw up a constitution that in the future, all government officials must pass an examination, the same as the imperial examination. The children of peasants can take the test, the children of merchants can take the test, and the children of landlords and squires can also take the test. In the future, there will be no petty officials, officials are alternate officials, and there is only a distinction between officials and alternate officials in the official government, and there is no distinction between officials and officials. ”

After speaking, Zhu Jinglun waved his hand: "You guys discuss it yourself, we will discuss it after the meal, if you have any high opinions, this official will listen to you!" ”

After saying that, he threw down this group of old guys who were still digesting Zhu Jinglun's statement, and walked out of the class room, he knew that these people needed to discuss with each other now, they would discuss a result, and then give it to Zhu Jinglun, they had the confidence to ask Zhu Jinglun, because they organized tens of thousands of villagers in the countryside, and they used these villagers to put pressure on Zhu Jinglun, so they would send people to petition, they thought they had the capital to speak.

This is what Zhu Jinglun didn't expect, he didn't expect these people to learn to protect their own interests so quickly, and what made him happy was that these people didn't act brutally and didn't make an action to besiege the county seat, otherwise they would have to bleed like a river. Sure enough, organized forces are responsible, and if it were a group of unorganized displaced people, I am afraid that a riot would have started a long time ago.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that they are squires, they have always had a high political status, and they also have a tradition of petitioning the government, this tradition is very good, Zhu Jinglun feels that it is necessary to maintain it, as for whether they will become stronger and more organized because of this, and threaten the government at every turn, Zhu Jinglun is not worried at all.

Participating in and influencing political operations through the organization of interest groups is a basic characteristic of modern politics, and since Zhu Jinglun wants to promote Chinese society toward modernity, how can he suppress the organization of such interest groups, not to mention the organization of some old squires who are more rational and responsible, and the only thing we should worry about is the kind of organization of careerists inciting the homeless.

These more sensible old fellows finally negotiated a charter, and they demanded:

First, Zhu Jinglun could not select officials from among these officials, because their reason was that these people had the habit of being slippery and petty officials, which would pollute the atmosphere of officialdom, but they did not prevent the descendants of these officials from taking the examination to become officials. They kind of made a small concession.

Second, if the government wants to take the examination of officials (alternate officials), it must treat them equally, whether they are the children of minor officials or the children of good officials, they must take the examination together, and they cannot become officials without examinations. And when they ask for exams, they supervise them, and they must witness the marking.

These people's worries are not groundless, although the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties is the fairest system in the rule of officials, but the Qing Dynasty is somewhat different from other dynasties, the children of the Eight Banners have various privileges, one of which is that you can be an official without passing the exam, such as if you really can't pass the exam, you can start with the pen sticker, this post type of work is also to handle documents, documents, and the sword and pen officials in the yamen do the same, but it is not a Xu official, but a serious official has a grade, although it is only seven, eight or nine grades and the like, but the promotion speed is fast, It was the Qing court that specially left the "Eight Banners' Origin Road".

Obviously, this system is very unfair, and the Han gentry class is not without opinions, but there is nothing they can do. Now they feared that the descendants of those officials would have similar privileges, so they asked everyone to take the exam together, and they had great confidence in their children's ability to take the exam.

Third, they proposed that the government of Guangdong could not appoint donor officials!

Donating officials, this is the blow to the merchant class, the merchant class has huge wealth, it is easier to buy an official hat for the children, but most of the time, the donation official only has an alternate title, whether you can get the real shortage, but not the money can solve the thing, but the need for considerable connections, the thirteen lines of businessmen are all rich and rival the country, all with red tops on their heads, but none of them can be really shortage, all are empty shelves, and the real ones who can get the real shortage through donating officials are often the children of the squire, because they have connections, connections in officialdom.

The three charters not only blocked the way for the old officials to become officials, but also blocked the way to open the back door for their children, and suppressed the rich merchant class.

For their request, Zhu Jinglun agreed. Not only did he agree, but he was afraid that they would repent, so he immediately called the scribe and made a contract to sign and pledge it.

In fact, Zhu Jinglun originally had the idea of selecting some obedient old officials to be officials, but since the squires were opposed and willing to use this method of negotiation to solve complex political problems, then what reason did Zhu Jinglun have to refuse, and all kinds of problems would continue to appear in the future during the reform, if they could be solved in this peaceful and civilized way, it would greatly reduce the cost and reduce unnecessary bloodshed and sacrifice. This is a great tribute to his political wisdom, and this revolution will surely go down in the annals of human civilization as much as the Glorious Revolution in England.

In addition, the reason why these people are willing to negotiate with Zhu Jinglun, who has now begun to divide one side, at least shows that they have considered Zhu Jinglun's idea of controlling Guangdong to a certain extent, or that they saw the weakness of the Qing Dynasty and found that as long as Zhu Jinglun did not rebel, the Qing court would allow him to continue to be so divided, so it was necessary for them to form influence on Zhu Jinglun's government in their hometown. By making himself into a heart in Cao Ying's heart in Han's endurance and humiliation, will you continue to hold power.

Zhu Jinglun felt that although these squires were still neutral in their attitudes and remained neutral between themselves and the Qing court, the balance had tilted slightly to Zhu Jinglun's side, because Zhu Jinglun was the one who was in charge of them now, and the county officials were not as good as the current ones, and they understood it very well.

Zhu Jinglun believes that it is very necessary to add a weighty weight to their tilted scales, that is, to really let their children enter the government at all levels in batches, join their own ruling groups, and become a part of their own vested interest groups, and the reason why any reform will fail is often because they have not cultivated a group of vested interests.

Wang Anshi is like this, Zhang Juzheng is also like this, Wang Anshi did not change the law long ago a vested interest group that held power, so he was defeated by the old vested interest group, Zhang Juzheng is a powerful minister, and he has also cultivated a large number of henchmen, but these henchmen are not the beneficiaries of the new law, they only support Zhang Juzheng, not the new law, so as soon as Zhang Juzheng dies, his law will be abolished.

Only Shang Ying succeeded, because when Shang Ying died, most of the officials in the court were no longer the old nobles, but the military merit group that had climbed up through military exploits, and these people were vested interests in the new law, and they naturally wanted to defend the new law, even if Shang Yang died, Shang Ying's law would continue to be implemented by these people.

Zhu Jinglun may not be able to win over all the gentry class, but as long as a part of the gentry class turns into a new vested interest group in his own reforms, and puts power in the hands of these people, Zhu Jinglun believes that his reform will be at least half successful.

Therefore, after discussing with the representatives of the squire, he immediately announced that the first alternate official examination would be held before the end of the year, and the content of the examination would be different from the imperial examination, such as the examination of some mathematics and other knowledge, Zhu Jinglun's reason was that these alternate officials would deal with the most specific government affairs, and the work content would not be much different from that of the small officials in the past, and they would be responsible for the discipline of money and grain account books, land registration, etc., if they could not even calculate the accounts, how to carry out these work.

Therefore, a certain knowledge of mathematics is necessary.

After such a big detour, Zhu Jinglun quietly stuffed natural science into the framework of the imperial examination, if these people still want their children to become officials through the imperial examination, then they must let their children learn natural science knowledge, otherwise they will not be able to compare with the children of other classes.

But as soon as the words came out, these old guys immediately jumped up and objected, they said that the exams have always been the four books and five classics, and which exams will rely on the end of the business technique of bookkeeping and abacus.

This time, Zhu Jinglun has also become difficult to speak, he hopes that the old forces can remain rational and negotiate to solve the problem of interests in the reform, but he has a bottom line.

immediately waved the agreement that had just been signed, and scolded them sharply, writing in black and white, and before the ink dried, they had to regret it!

At the same time, he told them that not all the imperial courts had the final say on what to take in the imperial examinations in all dynasties, and when would the small people still have the power to decide the major events of the imperial examinations.

This power is his bottom line, he can't lose it, because this power is the power to make rules, in the reform, Zhu Jinglun will use the system to guide, encourage and even force the old forces to transform, then he must firmly grasp the power to formulate rules and systems, that reform, isn't it all the new forces to make rules, let the old forces make rules to reform, there are no successful examples.

The old guys saw that Zhu Jinglun was angry, and looked at each other and felt that a hard top was not a solution, anyway, they were guaranteed a fair examination, and they believed that the level of their children's reading was far higher than that of any other class, whether it was a poor peasant child or a slippery child of a servant, could they still pass the exam?

If you really can't pass the test, I'm thinking of a way when the time comes. In fact, who cares what to read, the purpose of reading has never been moral, it has long been detached from the purpose of Confucian self-cultivation, and has become a pure examination tool, the only purpose of reading is to be an official, that is, to gain power, is to make his family glorious.

So when Zhu Jinglun walked out impatiently, the squires also left in twos and threes, and then they didn't make any noise, and the gathered villagers were removed, and a storm calmed down.

Soon they found out that Zhu Jinglun had opened a school in every county, called County School, and told the officials that they would let their children come to school and test the content of the county school professors in the future.

Of course, the teachers in the school were the first scholars to be trained from the normal school run by foreigners in the Guangzhou Xue Palace, and the textbooks they taught were directly translated American textbooks, which for the time being only included mathematics and geometry in elementary school, and world history textbooks in high school.

Zhu Jinglun believes that for the children of Xu officials, who are already young, there is no way to get a trick on mathematics and geometry, and they can only learn it directly from elementary school, but history, a humanities subject, even if they start from high school or even college, they can understand it, and the purpose is just to let them understand what the world is like, let them know that there is more than China in this world, and it is just to open their eyes. (To be continued.) )