Although for the emperor, the 40s are already in the late stage of the reign, but for the officialdom, the 40s are considered young to enter the cabinet.

However, this is also a phenomenon that Zhu Youxiao is willing to see now, the empire needs a group of young officials to forge ahead, and now is not the time to be conservative and maintain stability.

It is not only the cabinet that needs fresh blood, but even the six ministries and the field of scientific research.

Among the academicians of the Ming Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in addition to Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, Galileo and a number of other scientific giants who can be called the most dazzling scientific giants of this era are already dying, and even many have had to leave the front line of scientific research and turn to the rear of the education work.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Ministry of Rites to invest heavily in supporting the research of young scientists, and asked the department to strengthen the popularization of natural science education in the field of basic education.

Zhu Youxiao planned to let the school department re-improve the imperial examination, refer to the modern college entrance examination system, and cancel the main mode of the imperial examination with the eight-strand essay as the main mode of the examination of the four books and five classics of Confucianism.

With the increasing number of officials in charge who have received new ideas and new education, the basic conditions have been met to fundamentally change the dominance of Confucianism in the field of orthodox ideology and education in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao will not worry about how much social unrest will be caused by changing the format of the imperial examination.

The previous Ming teaching was divided into two systems, one is to raise the industry, the other is enlightenment, the textbooks and teaching methods between the two systems are different, and now the new education in Yang Tinglin, Zhang Dai and Wei Min'er and other people have occupied the basic education in the field of enlightenment, and even in higher education, that is, can directly be an official, it has also penetrated through the form of universities.

It's just that the current examination for fame is still based on the eight-share scholar, and now the change in the way of taking the scholar is also in response to the call of the new scholar who has received a university education.

Of course, there are also objections, especially those so-called Confucian scholars, who have obtained all the privileges in officialdom and business in their lifetimes from their own great weapons, that is, the familiarity of the Four Books and the Five Classics and a complete set of education systems.

Now, the imperial court has changed the standard of the Eight Shares of Shiwen and Shishi, which is equivalent to depriving them of the last barrier to enjoy a superior life in this world.

It's a pity that His Majesty has already eliminated the Confucian sect of the Northern Sect, and the Confucian generations have long since lost their backbone, so there is no other way than to complain psychologically or resign from office.

However, Zhu Youxiao also considered the feelings of those of them who still only read four books, so he did not directly eliminate the eight shares of the scholars, but chose to downplay them.

Zhu Youxiao plans to imitate the current college entrance examination model and divide the imperial examination into arts and sciences, which is no longer necessary for the Ming Dynasty, which has entered mechanical warfare in the martial arts examination.

The so-called liberal arts and sciences examination is naturally divided into liberal arts and sciences, and both liberal arts and sciences have several courses, each of which adopts a 100-point system.

The content of the liberal arts examination is divided into six subjects: literature, history, current affairs and economics, arithmetic, foreign languages, and geography, of which foreign languages are an elective course among the non-Chinese departments in the world today.

In this way, even the liberal arts are no longer dominated by Confucianism, even if Confucianism occupies a lot of content in the literature, only the part of the examination of scriptures only occupies ten points, and the eight strands of literature occupy forty points, but the requirements are no longer limited to the four books and five classics as the topic, to the current hot topic as the topic, candidates can also play the Confucianism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zhuzi Doctrine to the fullest, as long as the format conforms to the eight-strand text, the scoring criteria are only based on whether the logic is rigorous, whether the opening question is novel, and whether the literary style is outstanding is the three elements.

In addition to the three subjects of physics, chemistry and biology, the science subjects also take three subjects of arithmetic, literature and history, so it can be said that literature and history and arithmetic are the main subjects of both arts and sciences.

When the new imperial examination reform plan came out, it really caused an uproar!

There are those who angrily drop out of school and say that they will no longer start a career in this life, and there are also those who still can't reduce their enthusiasm for fame and have to learn new disciplines while scolding.

The school department also immediately issued an order, immediately asking the deputy envoys of the political envoys to divide the students of the state capital and county school palaces and schools who have achieved merit and those who have not achieved merit into two subjects, arts and sciences, and ordered students from all over the country to take the initiative to go to the state capital and county school palace to register whether they are studying liberal arts or repair.

Many children of traditional Confucianism, that is, scholars, have chosen liberal arts, after all, for them, even if there is more history, geography, current affairs and economics, and a foreign language, it is better than learning physics, chemistry and biology.

As for how to prepare for the new imperial examination, Zhu Youxiao also specially asked the school department to promulgate the syllabus for the next examination in the 32nd year of the Apocalypse.

The form of the temple examination is not necessary, and it is still mainly based on consultation.

At the same time, for the township examination, the hospital examination and even the prefectural and county examinations, the examination syllabus is also promulgated by the deputy envoy of the school and the official of the main hall of each prefecture and county, that is, the prefect or the prefect of the prefecture.

This also allows students to revise according to the syllabus.

However, what many students will not expect is that because many local officials are almost all former science experts, they are also very good at literature and history, and they have been officials for so many years, and they also have rich experience in current affairs and economics, so it is difficult to write liberal arts questions except for foreign languages.

On the contrary, because many magistrates do not know the natural sciences or know very little, they are very simple, for example, in the test questions of the Fuxue Science Gewu in the Tianshui Mansion of Gansu Province, there is a simple kick of how many suns there are in the sky.

Even in a large imperial examination province like Nanzhili, the questions in the science questions of the college examination are just simple questions such as chopsticks inserted into the water and what is the reason why they seem to be broken into two.

On the contrary, in the liberal arts, in order to show their rich knowledge, many officials put the special questions out of the tricky, and finally got a course of history, and some officials directly came up with the question of why Nanzhaoguo died, and many candidates were confused about this.

By the thirty-second year of the Apocalypse, even the Liberal Arts Huiyuan only got a score of 494, while the average score of the Science Gongshi after the Science Examination was above 500.

As a result, this has also promoted more and more adults to switch to literature and science, but this is also in the hands of Zhu Youxiao, after all, the most basic thing in a country is scientific production, followed by the shaping of the noble soul.

Of course, these are all later words, and at this time, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao still had to focus on the war in the Southeast Asian Peninsula.