After Xue Chongxun summoned the new ordnance superintendent Cheng Xiao Dan, he was rewarded with the position of the fourth superintendent, and asked him to do two things at a clear price: the first is relatively easy, to create a durable and reliable subway cannon, and the Shenji Department has developed four usable cannons before, and the metallurgical technology is expected to improve in the near future, this matter is already visible; The second one is more difficult, to create an unrifled arquebus, Xue Chongxun drew the schematic diagram, and Jian yì Xiao Dan used iron sheets to forge the barrel, but this kind of thing is unprecedented, and Xue Chongxun himself can't figure it out, he feels that it is difficult to succeed, otherwise he will not use the four-rank official position as a bargaining chip.

If Xiao Dan really wants to let weapons enter the hot era, he will probably not be stingy with Hou Xue Chongxun. It was only the beginning of the eighth century AD, and the overall technical level of mankind was already very backward, and even gunpowder had not been officially used before, but Xue Chongxun had tinkered with coke and cement, and even artillery, which gave him self-confidence after the successful attempt, and felt that it was possible to make a great leap forward in some fields.

The advantage of developing technology is that it only needs money and resources, and it will not involve too much, and some countries that used hot weapons in the nineteenth century were still serfdom, and the Jin Dynasty now has a mature feudal system, what else do you need to worry about? In contrast, Xue Chongxun was more cautious when reforming the order and rules, and although the current imperial examination was only an improvement, he had to think a lot.

Xue Chongxun wanted to follow his own wishes in the imperial examination system, but after weighing it, he decided to use the conservative rules of change: the minister advocated it, and then the emperor "approved" and "supported" it.

Scholars with political ambitions and ideals will have their own understanding and ideas of the world, and then realize it through guò as an official, and even the romantic Li Bai also has the ideal of retiring after clarifying the United States, but he is actually not good at politics. So in many cases, the state has to carry out a new policy, and the process is as follows: after a group of like-minded ministers have taken power, an important minister puts forward a proposition and argues it, and the emperor supports it, and then it begins to be implemented.

Xue Chongxun planned to do this, looking for a minister to preside over this imperial examination innovation. In this way, if the law is not good, it is nominally a mistake of some courtiers in terms of political views, and it has nothing to do with the regime of the Great Jin, and the responsibility can be borne by some ministers, and there is room for buffer and recovery; If the emperor personally presides over it, once it fails, the Jin court itself will not be able to do it, at least in terms of saying that. For example, in the "Biography of Wang Mang" that Xue Chongxun is familiar with, Wang Mang said that the emperor personally promulgated a series of erroneous holy decrees, which led to the collapse of the economy, and the angry world's target was directly aimed at the regime of the new dynasty, and he felt that it was not as good as Liu Han.

In today's imperial court, the most important ministers are none other than ten people from the two yamen of the cabinet and the political affairs hall, one is Xue Chongxun's henchmen, and the other is the two generations of elders who have enough prestige and power. If it is selected among the six people in the political affairs hall, it can only be presided over by Zhang Shuo, whose father's official position was very low before, Zhang Shuo himself was born in the imperial examination, with first-class literary style and ability, and he also likes to write books; There are four members in the cabinet, Du Xian is good at fighting, and his literary skills are slightly inferior; Wang Changling does not seem to be very supportive of the new imperial examination; Zhang Jiuling and Su Jin are more suitable, and their qualifications are similar, but Su Jin has the first merit.

After Xue Chongxun weighed it, he felt that it would be smoother for Su Jin to preside over it, he at least supported Xue Chongxun wholeheartedly, and would not go back and forth to Zhou Xuan when doing specific things, which would be more beneficial to Xue Chongxun to realize his ideas.

However, although the cabinet bachelors are involved in the important affairs of the military aircraft, the grade is only five grades, and Su Jin is no exception. It doesn't seem too strict to let a five-grade official preside over the innovation of the world's scientific expeditions. Therefore, Xue Chongxun had to make a lot of preparations before starting business.

Before that, he affirmed Du Xian's contribution to the capture of Yingzhou, and the consideration at that time was not only the military weight of the Northeast and the prevention of Hebei Huhua, but also to lay a theoretical foundation for Du Xianam's promotion.

Soon Xue Chongxun issued an order to let Du Xian step down from the honorary military attache rank of the Sixteenth Guard of the Southern Ya and be promoted to the crown prince of the East Palace from the second grade. As for Xue Chongxun not having a prince, it doesn't matter, what prince Shaobao himself is a false title, and he doesn't have to do anything. Not having to do anything does not mean that it is useless, the effect is to improve the grade of Du Xianam. He, a bureaucrat who has the real power of a fifth-grade bachelor, hangs on the rank of a second-grade bachelor, which in itself is improving the status of the cabinet bachelor.

There is also the credit of opening up the territory as a reason, and the upgrade of Du Siam is understandable; There is a person from the second rank in the cabinet bachelor, and when Su Jin proposes to change the imperial examination, Xue Chongxun will be able to logically mention Su Jin to the second grade, and Su Jin himself has the merit of supporting the establishment, and no one will criticize him if he is promoted to the second grade, otherwise you can still say that people are wrong to support the establishment?

After Xue Chongxun designed the steps, he began to conceive the framework of the new imperial examination. The continuous changes in the imperial examination system through the Song and Ming dynasties have gradually developed to maturity, and no one except Xue Chongxun can come up with a reasonable method out of thin air at once, and Xue Chongxun has to figure it out himself.

First of all, the content of the scientific examination depends on what kind of talent Xue Chongxun attaches importance to, in his thoughts, etiquette, strategy, and the application of science and technology are the most useful, the former is to lay the foundation of the Heaven and Earth Monarch's Teacher, which is to maintain the basic order of Xue Chongxun's own rule, before he can formulate a set of accepted order, he cannot destroy the original foundation, and he asked himself that he has not reached the realm of weakening his own power, and he can't figure out what motivation people who have already mastered absolute power to promote the "people"; The latter was unprecedented, as the ancients did not realize the role of technology.

In other cultural aspects such as poetry and songs, Xue Chongxun feels that there is no need to take the test at all, and he can develop in the officialdom Shilin, because at this time, everyone has to use these things to show their taste, this is popular, does it not be possible to sing pop songs in modern exams; As for moral character...... As long as he has no experience in the traitor department, it is not easy to discern it, Xue Chongxun didn't think that the group of scholars and doctors who were full of benevolence and morality in the court were noble, and it was difficult for people who were too noble to get into those positions.

decided on the weight, and then Xue Chongxun began to try to design the rules. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial examination system has been messy, such as there are more than 50 subjects, and the examination is not a sufficient condition to stand out, although the examination system has many drawbacks, but the fairness is obviously much better than the Tang Dynasty system; The system that Xue Chongxun intends to learn from is not a set of the Tang Dynasty and the Wu Zhou period, in fact, after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, these things are still operating according to the inertia of the former Tang Dynasty, and what he wants to learn from is the three-level examination of the Ming Dynasty, which is institutionalized and standardized in the rules...... The system of the Ming Dynasty is the most mature rule for the development of feudal centralization; As for the last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, it can only be used as a successful example of the enslavement of the majority of the Han people by the young people, which is even more powerful than Genghis Khan, but after the system is copied, the Huayi is combined, and the tiger is not an anti-dog.

The official imperial examination is level 3, and before entering the imperial examination road, it is necessary to obtain student qualifications, and qualified students are all called Xiucai.

The qualification examination is a three-step process, which is basically copied after the Ming Dynasty with slight changes. The three steps are carried out from the low to the high administrative level, the Jin Dynasty continued the local administrative region on the eve of the fall of Li Tang and divided it into two levels, prefectures and counties, in addition to the "Dao" This level is actually not an administrative level, and there is no institutional yamen in the fifteen provinces of the world, only the central government is appointed to supervise the imperial history of local governance, but it can be set up in the interview and governance office, so as to form a three-level examination.

The first step, as long as it is a person in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Jin Dynasty, the three generations of scholars, farmers, industrialists, merchants, and military people can participate in the record (wider than the Ming Dynasty), and the county orders preside over a very simple entrance examination, mainly to test reading, writing, and arithmetic, that is, people with innocence, literacy, and normal IQ can get started; The second step is to arrange for officials to conduct the state examination by the state assassin history, to participate in this step of the exam, several Xiucai in the county need to guarantee their innocence, the first time because there is no Xiucai produced under the new system, only cancel this step, the content of the test is similar to the first step, the exam questions are slightly more difficult, the key is to read and write and have a little brain, and then confirm that it is a good citizen;

The above are all exams once a year, which is relatively easy. The last step is the triennial examination presided over by the major of the Taoist government and the yamen, and the qualified students are the qualified students of the state school (the state government office does not have a county) and the county school, and they become Xiucai and are qualified to enter the imperial examination, and the content of this step of the examination is also the key to Xue Chongxun's innovation. Three exams, three contents: Jingyi (reading through traditional classics), strategy, and mathematics.

There is no poetry in the content, in fact, even in the last poetry exam in the Ming Dynasty, it is not so important, and it is better than no exam. But after Xue Chongxun changed it to mathematics, it will not be unimportant, because mathematics itself is easy to judge right and wrong, and the answers are standard, and if you don't pass the exam, you will definitely not be able to pass the guò. The operation is also simple, Xue Chongxun can come up with the questions by himself, and then give the examiner the answers, just mark the test papers, even if the examiner himself does not read through "Mathematics", as long as he learns the rules of Arabic numerals, he can also mark the results.

Xue Chongxun's idea, as long as he is a scholar who enters the imperial examination, has a foundation in all aspects. These selected scholars have a foundation in mathematics, and in the future, Xue Chongxun will be able to find people if he wants to set up other science research departments in the Hanlin Academy; Even if people don't have this ambition, it doesn't affect them to specialize in strategy, and there is no harm in using the mathematics they used to learn as an exercise in their thinking.

In addition, in order to reform the fair system in the imperial examination, it was stipulated that the scribe must copy the answer sheet and seal the name before the examination paper was reviewed from the beginning of the qualification examination; All exams do not need to be written in a fixed pattern (except for mathematics), and a word range is set to play freely.

Those who have obtained the qualifications of students and their families are exempt from forced labor, and they no longer need to be sent to repair rivers, fortifications, palaces, transport military rations, and other errands; Outstanding talents who want to make further progress in state and county schools can receive financial subsidies from the state treasury, but they still pay taxes, and people who are really poor and white cannot pay much taxes, and the whole family is exempted from the big burden of levying taxes. Xue Chongxun's idea was to prevent the later students from returning to the landlords and big businessmen, causing financial difficulties. G