"How is the preparation of Beijing Normal University, and can it open as scheduled in February next year?" Liu Jun asked the new Secretary of Academic Affairs.

The Department of Academic Affairs is a new institution, separated from the former Ministry of Rites, and is in charge of education throughout the country. The first task of the Academic Affairs Department after its establishment was to prepare for the establishment of Beijing Normal University.

Jingshi University is the Guozijian of the Ming Dynasty. But it is not exactly Guozijian, the Guozijian of the Ming Dynasty also followed the previous dynasties and was the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty. There are not only Beijing Guozijian but also Nanjing Guozijian, known as the South Prison and the North Prison, Guozijian was once huge, with many prisoners, and at the most, the number of people exceeded 10,000.

However, by the time of the late Ming Dynasty, it was no longer as grand as it once was.

The new dynasty of the Han Dynasty was established, and hundreds of officials also asked for the establishment of the national superintendent. But Liu Jun did not agree, the Ming Dynasty's Guozijian studied the Four Books and Five Classics, and also studied the Laws and Regulations, the number of books, etc. But in general, Liu Jun was not satisfied with the teaching method of Ming Guozijian.

As the highest institution of learning in the imperial court, Liu Jun hopes that this school will teach real talents that the country needs, rather than a group of historical bricks. There are too many people like that, and the state doesn't need to spend a lot of effort to cultivate a group of them. On the contrary, the imperial court is now in dire need of some real grassroots officials and officials.

The Ming, like previous dynasties, only managed officials, not officials. The official is a streamliner, but the official is a family. As a result, after reading the Four Books and Five Classics for decades, and studying the old paper piles for many years, many officials can only do eight shares, and they don't know anything about general affairs. Therefore, before taking office, it is necessary to hire a number of masters, and when they take office, the real political affairs are actually handed over to the masters.

What is the use of such an official?

Liu Jun hopes that the court officials can be more responsible and more active, not just a group of people who occupy positions and don't and don't understand anything.

That's why he reformed the imperial examinations, but that wasn't enough.

Liu Jun will never directly release those new scholars who have passed the imperial examination, which is irresponsible to the imperial court and the local people.

Liu Jun wants to let these jinshi go back to the furnace to renovate. They will undergo professional training before taking up their duties at Beijing Normal University. They also have to go through an internship period in the yamen before they can be appointed officials.

However, even if Liu Jun increases the admission rate of the imperial examination, three thousand people and six hundred jinshi in three years are far from enough for today's favored empire.

Moreover, Liu Jun also has a plan, planning to serve as a future official, at least first, those officials who have been selected by the imperial court from the imperial examination and then trained by the scholars.

Take back the office of the officials from the hands of the local families of officials.

We can't break the status quo of the generations of officials, and we want to change the local officialdom. It's hard.

This year is the first imperial examination, so Liu Jun is also very atmospheric to record 5,000 people who failed in the township examination, and after the trial, Liu Jun also plans to admit all more than 2,000 people who have failed to raise the list, and then add 600 jinshi, all of whom will be sent to Beijing Normal University for further study.

The first batch of 8,000 students will be welcomed by the newly opened Beijing Normal University next year. After two years of study, all of these 8,000 people will go to various ministries in Gyeonggi to serve as officials for one year. I went to work as a local clerk for another year.

After two years of study and two years of internship, he was officially appointed as an officer.

Jinshi will start from the county second Yin and third Yin of the county such as the county Cheng and the main book, and will not directly take any of the county leaders. And those who lift people. It will start with the township mayor, town mayor, and county warden.

It turned out that in the Ming Dynasty, there were only four official officials in a county, and even the wardens just did not enter the stream.

But now Liu Jun has included the county warden in the scope of officials. And the six-room scribes in each county are also included in the official system. In addition, the county court, the county police sub-bureau, the prefectural education sub-bureau, the prefectural taxation sub-bureau and other institutions have been added, and the heads of each department are also considered low-level officials.

Officials are also included in the system of state officials. Liu Jun believes that it is extremely necessary to break the strict boundaries of officials in the past.

The Han Dynasty was also below the county level, and officially set up townships and towns throughout the country, bringing the level of state management to the next level. Breaking the tradition of the imperial power not being lower than the county in the past, the imperial court will be in charge of the township level in the future.

Therefore, the officials dispatched at the township level naturally have to be included in the jurisdiction of the imperial court, rather than the election and autonomy of the villages.

After the same advanced studies and internships, the 5,000 outstanding talents who have been selected from the townships will become grassroots officials in thousands of townships and towns across the country if they have the ability to do practical work. Moreover, they have to start from the sub-towns of the township and work their way up step by step, and then it will all depend on their performance appraisal.

Liu Jun believes that these township officials who have passed the imperial examination, have undergone special training and study, and have internships in the central ministry and provincial government officials, and have practical experience, will better manage the township level for the empire.

In the future, these township officials with excellent basic experience will be able to rise step by step to the county level or even the provincial level, so that the officials who have come up from the grassroots level step by step will definitely be better than those old bureaucrats.

County and township officials and officials, in the future, will be selected by the imperial court, and they will all become flow officials, officials are no longer local generations, no longer soil overlords, this is for the rule of officials, for the imperial court, will be extremely helpful, although doing so, will greatly increase the cost of the imperial court, but Liu Jun believes that this cost is worth it.

In the future, the highest university in the central government of Dahan will be Beijing Normal University, and even in the future, some professional classes will be opened, such as the Law School, the Tax College, the Customs College, etc., so that professional departments will have professional officials trained and manage insiders.

In his vision, in the future, all the officials of the Han Dynasty will be selected from the imperial examination, but it will no longer be the original imperial examination.

This year's imperial examination is the first step, and Beijing Normal University is the second step.

"Back to Your Majesty, the school building used by Beijing Normal University is the original school building of Beijian, but the teachers and textbooks have not yet been completed."

Originally, the Department of Academic Affairs planned to directly use Guozijian's teacher, but Liu Jun vetoed it. It is not possible to directly use the teachers of Guozijian, but they can be selected and retained through assessment.

"Select a group of relatively good officials and officials from the various ministries in Gyeonggi and use them as teachers."

"Use the officials of the Gyeonggi Ministry as teachers?" The Secretary of State was taken by surprise.

Liu Jun smiled, "What kind of students do we teach at Beijing Normal University?" All of them are selected by the imperial examination, all of them are the future officials and officials of the country, and we don't need to teach any Four Books and Five Classics, the Four Books and Five Classics will only be elective courses in Beijing Normal University in the future, and they will major in how to be a good official and how to be a good official. I have to teach them how to manage affairs, how to write official documents, how to do things, and so on. ”

To achieve such a requirement, there is no need for officials to teach, so what kind of teaching?

"Your Majesty, how to deal with the prisoners of the former Guozi Prison?"

At its peak, there were tens of thousands of people, and although it is no longer the size it used to be, there are still thousands of people. However, many of them are donors, and many of them are children of former officials.

"That's it. An examination will be held, and the content will be based on the questions of this imperial examination, and those who pass the results will also be admitted to Beijing Normal University to study. Those who fail to pass the grades, where do they come from, where do they go? ”

"In the future, it is forbidden to donate to prisons, and the children of noble officials are not allowed to be stuffed in Jingshi University. Those who can enter Beijing Normal University must be selected through the imperial examination, every student. They are all future officials of the Empire. ”

"When Jingshi University is on the right track, the Department of Academic Affairs can open another university in Luoyang, Jinling, and Chang'an to cultivate outstanding imperial talents."

The provost asked, "Those students who entered Beijing Normal University." Is it an official or an official? ”

"During the study period, they were all just students, and they had no official status. But each student can be given a stipend, and there is also an internship salary for the duration of the internship. Those who have good grades and outstanding performance in their studies can also receive scholarships and grants. So be it. There are 300 scholarships, one per year, and each of them is ten silver dollars per month. There are 800 bursaries of five silver dollars per month. The salary during the internship is half of the official salary of the position. ”

The Secretary of State hurriedly recorded Liu Jun's words word for word.

He was originally an official of the Ministry of Rites, and he was also flattered to be elected as the Secretary of State of Zhengsanpin this time.

Liu Jun attaches great importance to education. Although it is said that more than one million people participated in the children's examination in the imperial examination of the Han Dynasty, the Han has a population of more than 200 million, and there are even more illiterate people.

"In the future, the official school will also be changed, and the county school cannot only be entered after the examination." Liu Jun thought about it and said, the official school of the Ming Dynasty was linked to the imperial examination, and the county school was full of those talents who were in the examination. In fact, there is no real teaching in the county school, and the students do not need to stay in the official school all the time, they only need to take a few important exams in the official school. Most of the time, students study in private colleges.

Liu Jun hopes to change this situation, and now that the imperial court has set up the Beijing Normal University, and the selected scholars will be uniformly trained and implemented before appointment, then the original appearance of official learning will have no effect.

"In the future, the Department of Educational Affairs will set up branches throughout the country, with each province setting up an academic affairs department, each prefecture setting up an educational affairs bureau, and a county teaching affairs sub-bureau. All counties and townships should set up schools, but they are not the kind of official schools they used to be, and they must be changed. The imperial court should set up primary schools in all townships across the country, which are divided into junior primary schools and upper primary schools, with three years for junior primary schools and three years for senior primary schools, and junior primary schools are free of charge and universal education. At the beginning of the third year, those who are willing to continue to study, have the conditions to study, and those who have passed the grades will be promoted to the upper primary school.

The county government has a middle school, which is divided into junior high school and high school, which are also three years each. ”

"Your Majesty, is there any difference between this elementary school and the middle school?"

"Of course, there is a difference, this junior primary school is mainly for enlightenment, teaching students to recognize a certain amount of words, and teaching some simple arithmetic and painting. In short, after graduating from junior primary school in three years, we don't require them to be able to be admitted to a show, but they can at least know one or two thousand words, and know some simple arithmetic. ”

This is a very low requirement, but the vast majority of people are not in a position to send their children to private schools for enlightenment, because they also need to prepare paper and pens for their children when they read, and they also have to prepare for teachers to be restrained. Even many children have to help the family, even five or six-year-olds have to do what they can.

But Liu Jun hopes that there will be more children who will not be blind for a lifetime.

In the third year of junior primary school, the imperial court will set up primary schools in each township, and will provide children with lunches, textbooks, paper and pens for reading, and teachers. But only at this point, the child enters school at the age of five, and is only eight years old after the beginning of the third year. They can't do much at home in the past three years, but if they have the opportunity to study for three years, it is still free, and they can even have a free lunch, Liu Jun believes that there will be many families who are willing to let their children go to school.

The cost of this three-year free education will be a lot, but Liu Jun thinks it is worth it.

However, he can only try to persuade the parents of those school-age children to send their children to junior high school, and will not force compulsory education. After all, the conditions of this era are like this, and three years of free education is already considered the extreme.

But if conditions permit, you can also study in high school, junior high school and high school, and even be admitted to Jinling University, Luoyang University, Chang'an University, and even Beijing Normal University in the future.

When the conditions are suitable, the imperial court does not even need to open the imperial examination, and directly uses this school system to cultivate and select talents.

"Your Majesty attaches so much importance to cultivating the wisdom of the people, Shengming!"

"Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, education in the contemporary, benefit in the future. For every subject of the Han Empire, education should be their right, and the imperial court should try to provide the people with the opportunity to be educated. ”

The Secretary of State was greatly moved, the emperor can say such a thing, this vision is indeed not comparable to ordinary people. And as the king of a country, not only to say this, but also to separate educational institutions, and to spend a lot of money to launch three years of free education, this is not just nice to say.

"Your Majesty, is there a three-year free education in the whole country? If there is a primary school in each township, there will be thousands of townships in the country, and tens of thousands of primary school teachers will be needed, and many school buildings will be needed. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, this is the duty of the imperial court. The Imperial Court will do its best to meet the needs of the Secretary for Academic Affairs. ”

In fact, as long as the imperial court can really collect taxes, then although there will be a lot of expenses on education, it can only be said to be a small amount in terms of military and other expenses. Moreover, Liu Jun's current commercial tax has already levied an education surcharge.

This part of the tax, if it is given to the Secretary of Academic Affairs, is already a lot.

For Dahan to take off, it needs a large number of talents. And a person who can't even read a word can be regarded as a talent, that is, a talent, and a greatly discounted talent.

If the three-year free education can be truly promoted, even if a small number of people can complete the three-year free education, it will greatly change the situation in the future.

In the future, whether the army recruits non-commissioned officers and students or those workshops recruit technical personnel, these people who have received three years of primary education will become the best candidates.

Education is the cornerstone of the country! Liu Jun sighed! (To be continued.) )

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