More than 1,000 students from the three provinces gathered in Nanjing, bringing some prosperity to the nascent Chinese Empire, after all, the gentry class, traditional scholars will come to participate in the imperial examination only if they agree with you, otherwise it will be like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, forcing students to take the examination and no one will come.

The Ministry of Education attaches great importance to the opening of Xuanwu Dengji Enke and the Imperial University this time, because this is one of the most important matters presided over by the Ministry of Education this year, except for the two ceremonies.

The Ministry of Education is set up according to the traditional Ministry of Etiquette, which is in charge of educational affairs, etiquette affairs, etc., and since the Empire does not currently have a Ministry of Foreign Affairs that deals with foreign affairs, the Ministry of Education is temporarily responsible for foreign affairs. As a result, the Ministry of Education has established the Department of Ceremonies, the Department of Ancestral Priests, the Department of Student Affairs, and the Department of Foreign Affairs, in addition to the General Affairs Department of all major ministries.

The Department of Academic Affairs is responsible for the affairs of the imperial examinations, the hosting of the Imperial University, and the supervision of local academic affairs.

At present, there are not many foreign affairs in the empire, and there are relatively few times to deal with various countries, and some are also controlled by Lin Zhe personally, so the current foreign affairs department in the Ministry of Education can only be said to be in vain, although the priest is in charge of the ritual system, but the current enthronement ceremony and the Dingdu ceremony have passed, and the rest is just trivial things and other trivial things, so they can only stand aside, and the Ministry of Etiquette deals with some small things, which have nothing to do with military affairs.

Therefore, at present, the most important task in the Ministry of Education is to host education, and naturally the Department of Student Affairs has become the most important department in the Ministry of Education.

In order to welcome the first imperial examination, the Department of Student Affairs was busy early!

One of the most important is to formulate the test paper for the general examination. It is led by the Department of Student Affairs, and the two military academies of the sea and land are also involved. A total of examination papers have been developed for the general examination.

Lin Zhe looked at the test paper handed over by Jiang Daoquan and found that this test paper was generally similar to the test paper of the township test. They are all divided into four major subjects and four minor subjects, but they are much more difficult than the township test.

Putting down the test paper, Lin Zhe said: "Well, let's take the test according to this paper!" ”

Jiang Daoquan said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Lin Zhe actually didn't pay much attention to this imperial examination, but he was more concerned about the establishment of imperial universities and provincial middle schools.

In the reform of the education system planned by Lin Zhe, the imperial examination always had to change, because according to the previous imperial examination, it was only held once every three years. There are only a few hundred people admitted at a time, which can meet the needs of the officials of the empire today, and the current official system of the empire is not the kind of the former Qing and Ming dynasties.

This can be seen from the fact that the empire has not determined the official grade system until now, Lin Zhe does not intend to engage in any official grades such as seven-grade county orders and four-grade prefects, he wants to integrate the two groups of officials and officials and directly establish a national civil service system.

And this kind of thing is not without precedent, because the official system of the business zone before was not the traditional official system, before Lin Zhe's rebellion. There is actually only one official official in the business zone, that is, Lin Zhe's 'business zone supervisor', as for the other administrative officials. Although some of them also had different ranks, strictly speaking, they were not officials registered with the imperial court, but Lin Zhe's personal staff or employees of the yamen of the business district.

So this also caused the business zone in addition to Lin Zhe. There are no officials or officials in the traditional sense, only employees. Strictly speaking, the director of the patrol department of the business district and the ordinary patrol officer. There is no difference in status.

And Lin Zhe also wanted to extend this kind of civil servants in the trade zone to the entire empire, so he was reluctant to determine the rank of officials, and at the same time, when establishing central departments, he adopted the ranks of ministries, divisions, divisions, sections, and section members. At the same time, it also encouraged local governments to follow the example of the central ministries to establish various institutions, such as the county yali at the most basic level, and changed the original county government offices and other institutions into various sections, and divided them into financial departments, civil affairs departments, patrol police sections, education departments and other departments.

This kind of highly volatile bureaucratic reform would have been difficult to implement in a mature country, but in the newly established Chinese Empire, where everything was built from scratch, everything was possible, and Lin Zhe could boldly formulate the ideal systems in his own way.

However, the civil service system has great advantages over the previous bureaucratic system, but it also brings a problem, that is, the number of civil servants will increase significantly.

Although it is not too necessary to ask too much about the quality of basic civil servants, at the very least, it must be people who have read books, preferably people who have read new books, and if the students in the original government schools and county schools in various places can receive new education, then it is a very good supplement.

The reform of the official system and the reform of education actually complement each other, and the reform of the official system also needs to supplement the talents after the education reform, and in contrast, the education reform also needs the changes brought about by the reform of the official system to attract students to take the initiative to devote themselves to new disciplines.

As long as the students of Guangzhou University know that they can become officials after entering the new school and succeeding in their studies, then in the tradition of the Chinese's extreme desire to become officials, a large number of students will compete to learn new subjects.

It is better to attract students to take the initiative to learn modern scientific knowledge than to force them to study various subjects, and this is the joint core of regulatory reform and educational reform.

Based on this core, the Ministry of Education not only established the Imperial University, but also prepared to establish new schools in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui provinces.

Based on the original government school and county school, the original county school was changed to a county primary school, and the government school was changed to a middle school.

In the case of middle school, students are also recruited for the time being, but the academic requirements are much higher, and in the future, primary school graduates will be mainly taken for the exam.

As for the government schools below the county level, there is no official plan for the time being, and private schools in various regions can set their own teaching content!

The county elementary schools and prefectural middle schools, which are preparing to be established on a large scale, are in fact empty shelves at present, except for the traditional scriptures. In addition to history and policy, students have to learn all the major subjects on their own.

Why? Because there are no teachers......

Ever since July and August I learned that Enko was going to take a check. The students of county schools and government schools in various places began to study hard in various subjects, but the old master who taught them did not know anything. Therefore, the biggest role of the old master is to read the textbook aloud, and as for the explanation, it is definitely not good.

In other words, in order to learn new subjects, students have to rely on themselves to learn from books, which is quite difficult.

There is no way, there are only a few modern physics and chemistry in the whole of China, and the Ministry of Education can't even find a few teachers from the Imperial University, so they can only hire foreigners. I borrowed a lecturer from the officers of the sea and land.

As for the teachers in primary and secondary schools in various places, there are no now, and the first batch of teachers will only appear after those self-taught students stay in the school to teach.

After the establishment of the prefectural elementary school and the prefectural middle school, in order to bridge the level of secondary school to the university level, and at the same time considering that the current so-called prefectural middle school is also of a very low level, which is different from the middle school of later generations, the Ministry of Education plans to set up three more higher secondary schools to serve as university preparatory schools.

That is, Hangzhou High School, Shanghai High School, Nanjing High School.

The recruited students are temporarily open to the whole society. As long as those who pass the assessment can be enrolled, of course, this is only temporary, and in the next few years, when the local middle schools are on the right track and can provide a certain source of students. Its enrollment is inevitably dominated by middle school students from all over the world.

After graduating from the three high schools, students can apply for Imperial University or other universities that will be established separately in the future.

In this way, the entire education system is relatively perfect!

It's just that for the current Chinese empire, it is easy to formulate this system. It's also easy to run each school, anyway, if there is a place. Students don't have to worry, the biggest problem is: there are no teachers!

It's hard to get started. Anyway, Lin Zhe doesn't expect to get out of the modern education system in two or three years, now he just needs to make a start, as for the talents that are urgently needed now, he mainly has to rely on Enke this time.

After careful preparations, on September 20, the Xuanwu Dengji Enke Examination was officially held, and more than 900 students from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui and even Jiangxi, Fujian, Henan and other provinces secretly ran over to participate in the examination.

After a fierce competition, the list was released ten days later, and one hundred and fifty Chinese-style candidates were decided, and they will become the Jinshi of the first imperial examination of the Chinese Empire, well, it may also be the last batch of Jinshi, with the improvement of the education system, the future imperial examination will definitely be replaced by the civil service examination, so it is really difficult to say how many sessions this imperial examination can be held.

When the list was released, some people were happy, some people were crying, whether it was the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the past hundreds of years or the imperial examination of the Chinese Empire, which had changed its flavor this time, it still has sacred significance for these scholars who took the examination.

On the Qinhuai River, Chen Luoyun drank cup after cup, and Dong Li and Wen Changlin on the side also drank with him!

This time he tried the test, Chen Luoyun couldn't continue the good luck of the township test, and he fell off the list!

And Dong Li is much luckier, although he is only ranked one hundred and twenty-six in the third class, but he has finally succeeded, and there is a palace test after the examination, and he may be able to go further in the palace examination when the time comes, he dare not think about being ranked first, but he can still hope for the second class.

Chen Luoyun poured another cup, and then laughed: "Our six classmates and friends took the exam, only Dong Li and I took the Zhongxiang exam, and now there is only Dong Li in the middle school exam, and there are more than 4,000 people in Zhejiang who applied for the Enke exam, and there are only 36 people in the middle today. ”

Laughing and laughing, these tears have already flowed out!

Dong Li didn't know what to say, he was the one who won the test, so he was naturally happy in his heart, but he couldn't be happy when he saw his friend like this.

can only accompany Chen Luoyun to drink silently!

On the contrary, Wen Changlin persuaded on the side, Wen Changlin was even more unbearable than him, and he failed in the township examination, but because he did well in the physics exam, he could enter the Imperial University without examination, and he was barely a promising person.

However, after Chen Luoyun fell, the way out in the future is probably a little difficult, although there is an urgent shortage of imperial officials now, and the Organization Department of the Cabinet has issued a notice to those who have fallen into the ranks, saying that they can choose the best to replace them.

However, the positions that can be taken out are naturally small officials and small positions, either the section chiefs of local governments and counties, the directors and the like, or the staff members of various sections of the central organs, in short, don't expect to be the prefect of the county or the prefect in one step.

This is good to say for some people with little ambition, and they will gladly accept it, but it is difficult for people like Chen Luoyun who are bent on becoming a junior and thus rising to the top.

After drinking for a while, Wen Changlin said, "Brother Chen, why don't you come to Imperial University too?" (To be continued......)