After the southeastern plague was calmed down, Xie Shen could focus more on the implementation of internal affairs. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The tax reform has already begun to bear fruit, and it is urgent to improve the status of soldiers and craftsmen.

The former can be rewarded through military merits, and there are examples in previous dynasties, which are relatively easy to implement.

The latter has no precedent, and it will not be easy to convince these corrupt people.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao firmly stood on Xie Shen's side and gave Xie Shen enough support. With Zhu Houzhao here, Xie Shen doesn't need to have so many scruples, he can let go of his hands and feet.

The Craftsman Academy was formally established, and everything was modeled after Guozijian, and both the official level and the scale of the academy were no different from Guozijian.

The only difference is that the doctor who holds the Craftsman Academy is not a Confucian with a lot of money, but an experienced craftsman.

These craftsmen are either proficient in a craft, or they have many fantastic ideas that can turn decay into magic. All in all, this shattered everyone's stereotype that the teacher was a Confucian scholar.

The students of the Craftsman Academy are all excellent craftsmen, and they all need to take an exam before admission, and only those who pass can come to the Craftsman Academy to study.

Like Guozijian, the students attend classes on time every day, listen to the lectures of the doctor of craftsmanship, and take small exams every once in a while, and those with the worst test scores will be discouraged.

After three years, all students will take a big exam, and those who pass can be directly conferred.

Of course, most of the official positions granted are in or related to the Ministry of Industry.

For these craftsmen, it is already a great joy to be able to become officials.

These people have their own strengths in specific fields, but relaxation may not be applicable.

And the craftsman academy is obviously cultivating talents in batches, so many graduates can't all be sent to the superintendent, right?

It would be a pity if they were assigned to other yamen and could not make the best use of them.

This matter Xie Shen handed over to Gu Dingchen to push, first, he wanted to investigate Gu Dingchen and see what this person's ability was. Second, I also want to take the opportunity to express an attitude to the Manchu officials, not only I want to improve the status of the craftsman, but also Gu Daxue.

As for adding the craftsman examination to the triennial imperial examination, although it was Xie Shen's wish, it was temporarily abandoned under the strong opposition of the Manchu civil officials.

The civil officials could allow Xie Shen to create a craftsman academy, and that was because Dingtian was the status of Guozijian.

And the prisoners trained by Guozijian have no status within the civil service system.

The traditional way to be an official is nothing more than a few, one is the imperial examination. This is the right road.

Regardless of whether it is a jinshi or a lifter, they all have the qualifications to be officials. Jinshi is an active official, and he will be paid in the current period, and he will be awarded an official as soon as he enters the department. If you are lucky, you can fill the vacancy in a year or two, and if you are unlucky, you may not be able to become an official in three or five years.

The second is to go to prison.

Prisoners who have graduated from Guozijian can also be conferred official positions.

There are also two types of supervisors, the first type of supervisors are the older students in each county. These students generally failed to pass the township examination many times, and it is a waste of time to continue to take the examination, so they choose to retreat and sit in prison for a mixed diploma.

Once Guozijian graduates, he can also be assigned a job. Although the official position is far less good than that of the imperial examination, at least it is also an official.

There is a class difference between officials and people.

The second type of supervisor is the son of a high-ranking official, for example, the son of a certain scholar does not learn and has no skills, and the examination examination will definitely be useless, but in order to commend the contribution of this scholar to the imperial court, the Son of Heaven will allow his son to enter the country to study.

This high-ranking official will definitely graduate smoothly without accident, become a glorious graduate of Guozijian, and go to work smoothly.

This is nothing, the father is a high-ranking official and the son is a master, this is the consensus of people for thousands of years.

In addition to these two, the remaining one is an extremely shameless official position - a herald. Listening to the name, this kind of official is unreliable, in fact, His Majesty the Emperor issued a decree as soon as he was happy, and skipped the legal procedures and directly awarded the official.

This kind of official is generally held by Fang Shiling, and is most despised and resisted by civilian officials.

No matter how beautiful these ministers are, once they fall out of favor, they will be attacked by the civil officials' crazy counterattack, and the end will be extremely miserable.

Xie Shen vigorously promoted the Craftsman Academy, and the status of the students after graduation was equivalent to that of Guozijian graduates, although it was legal, its status was not high, and they could only be second-class officials.

And if the craftsman examination is included in the imperial examination, then wouldn't the craftsmen who ascend to the department be 'craftsmen'? In this way, wouldn't the craftsman be able to justifiably become a high-ranking official?

This, of course, is something that the civil servants do not want to see.

Therefore, they were able to allow Xie Shen to establish a craftsman academy, but they did not allow Xie Shen to run a craftsman to be admitted to the imperial examination.

The reason why Xie Shen insisted so much on elevating the status of a craftsman was to see the lack of creativity of civil officials. Many craftsmen are not only excellent craftsmen, but also have countless wonderful ideas, and if properly guided, they may not be able to invent many epoch-making things.

The Ming Dynasty already had the germ of capital, so why couldn't there be an industrial revolution?

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and only with science and technology can countries make progress.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to change the fate of its demise, engaging in science and technology is the only way out. And all this is done by elevating the status of the craftsman.

Any contradiction in reform is internal, and the resistance is also internal.

Xie Shen knew this for a long time. But he didn't expect the resistance to be so great.

really fell down a He Shilang, and thousands of officials He Shilang stood up......

In Xie Shen's opinion, it was very dangerous for the imperial court to be controlled only by Confucian scholars, who were good at infighting and calculating, and naturally developed into the Donglin Party.

It is more dangerous to completely control the government by the military, and the literati will at most sarcastically ridicule the emperor, and the military generals will rebel if they don't get it right, and it is estimated that the emperor will not be able to let go of this.

Therefore, the civilian and military generals must check and balance each other.

The martial arts of the Tang Dynasty were too prosperous, so there was a division of feudal towns. The literati of the Song Dynasty were too strong, which led to the weakness of the country.

The Ming Dynasty had a tendency to develop towards the Song Dynasty, so it needed to be corrected in time.

The ideal state is to let the literati, warriors, and craftsmen reach a balanced state, and the country has a variety of voices, so as not to deviate.

But it is undoubtedly difficult to achieve.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

If a military general wants to rise, he needs to make continuous contributions, and this requires constant wars.

The southeast has settled down for the time being, and the only way to look at the north and northwest is to look at it.

As for the craftsmen...... In order to improve status, it is necessary to come up with convincing inventions. This is not something that a soap toothbrush can do, it has to be a revolutionary invention such as a flintlock pistol.

It is obvious that the craftsman alone cannot do it, which requires Xie Shen to secretly teach the opportunity.

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