"Shooting, royalty, and counting?"

Li Banghua, Fan Jingwen and other old ministers of the former Chongzhen Dynasty were stunned.

Since the Chenghua Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has abandoned the civil and military system after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and changed to eight shares to take scholars, and the main scientific research content is "Four Books" and "Five Classics"; Candidates can only play according to specific annotations and cannot have their own opinions.

And the article must be written in eight strands, the style must not go against the format of the eight strands, not beyond the scope of the "Four Books" and "Five Classics", but also imitate the tone of the sages and convey the thoughts of the sages.

Now that Li Xingzhi has proposed to add archery, royalty, and mathematics to the scientific examination, wouldn't the world's scholars be in an uproar.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Confucius said: The benevolent must have courage, and its main meaning is that the way of civil and military affairs is the opposite, and the combination of civil and military is used, and the long-term art is also, the so-called one is relaxed, and the way of civil and military affairs is also, so the holy master also believes that the combination of civil and military affairs is of great significance for the cultivation of Qi and public governance."

As the "Book of Rites" said: "King Wen ruled with literature, and King Wu used martial arts to go to the disaster of the people, and these are all meritorious to the people." The source of the meaning of the two concepts of "Wen" and "Wu", which are rich in meaning in later generations, was born from the ancient sages King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou, who were respected and admired by the holy masters. ”

Before the meeting of Qilu Jiagu, the holy master once said to Lu Dinggong: "Those who have literary affairs must be armed; Those who have martial arts must have literary preparations", which only kept the country of Lu, and later Confucius's "three capitals", Zhu Shaozhengmao, etc., are also the embodiment of his words "the benevolent must have bravery".

"Therefore, the six arts of the gentleman proposed by the holy teacher, that is, to read people not only to know the scriptures, but also to be proficient in riding archery, arithmetic and other skills, since the civil fort, the decline of martial artists, all the court soldiers, are supervised by civil officials, which is indeed conducive to the control of the imperial court over the local military towns, to prevent the breeding of feudal towns, but the civil and military paths, since the Salhu, Liaodong has been defeated again and again, why not? Military affairs are controlled by civilian officials who are not familiar with military affairs, and the holy ancestors all think that they should combine civil and military affairs, so why should the scholars not practice archery and imperial arts? ”

Li Xingzhi talked eloquently, he is imperative for the reform of the imperial examination system, and he really doesn't want the court to be all old masters who are conservative and only know the poor scriptures.

Xu Yixian echoed: "What the prime minister said is that Zi said: 'The gentleman is the third, I am incompetent: the benevolent are not worried, the knower is not confused, and the brave are not afraid. Zigong said, "The master is also self-assured." "The Mean" also says: wisdom, benevolence, and courage are the three virtues of the world. Isn't it ridiculous that the tributes of the court are greased and powdered, and there is no masculinity at all, and such people are officials? ”

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed a hundred schools, respected Confucianism, but the Confucian students at that time were proficient in the art of the six arts, so they kept the foundation of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years, since the Song Dynasty, all the students have learned Cheng Zhu Lixue, so the Song Dynasty can not defend itself, to my Dynasty Emperor Taizu Gao to implement the literary and martial arts, so there is Emperor Chengzu five deserts, seven to the West, today's world, how can scholars not learn the art of shooting?"

Li Banghua, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, frowned and said: "It is okay to advocate the restoration of the old system, but the technique of taking scholars has lasted for nearly two hundred years, and if you change it rashly, I am afraid that this official will cause a backlash from scholars. ”

"What Li Ge Lao said is very true, so let's do it, this Enke Township Test is still dominated by eight shares, but the palace test must add the archery, royal, and mathematics, and the two auxiliary kings will be invited to play, and the top three in this subject will select the best candidates who are familiar with the six arts of the gentleman."

Li Xingzhi waved his hand, Li Banghua's words are still more pertinent, the significance of this Enke is mainly to stabilize the hearts of the gentry group, and rash changes will only cause dissatisfaction among the readers.

In the situation that there are Wu Sangui and Dongyu in the north and Li Zicheng in the south, Li Xingzhi does not dare to offend the scholars too much, but Li Xingzhi can follow the strategy of buying horse bones with a thousand gold, so that the scholars in the world know that only by being proficient in the six arts of a gentleman can he have the opportunity to become the champion of the Golden Palace.

"Prime Minister, this cabinet thinks, we can also restore the civil and military system during the period of Emperor Taizu, and select some talents who are familiar with military affairs, which does not violate the ancestral teachings of our emperor Ming, students think that Dengzhou Wutang can also be promoted in Shandong and Beizhili, which can not only make more children read and write, but also show that the prime minister is benevolent and loves the people, and these children can also participate in the imperial examination in the future."

Liu Lishun, the first assistant of the cabinet, put forward a proposal to Li Xingzhi to set up a lecture hall.

"What the first minister said is that this matter will be handled by the first minister, and as for the required funds, the prime minister will ask Mr. Xu to allocate two million taels for this matter later."

For thousands of years, the Han people have only followed one path that can get ahead, and that is the way to take the imperial examination. Since the Ming Dynasty, the idea of "civility, nobility and martial arts" has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that the only way for the Han people to hope for a son to become a dragon has become a person in the examination.

The children of rich families are better, but they really can't take the road of the imperial examination and have other means of making a living, and the family still has money to support, while the children of poor families can only study and take the imperial examination if they want to get ahead, or they can only continue to be poor like their parents.

Liu Lishun's proposal was to give the poor families in the areas occupied by the Jingbei Army and the children of the army a hope for advancement, so that those poor and helpless families would naturally be full of gratitude to Li Xingzhi when they saw that their children could have books to read.

"The prime minister's act of great benevolence and righteousness is admired by the lower officials."

Fan Jingwen and other old ministers of the original Chongzhen Dynasty bowed down one by one after taking care of each other, although they were loyal ministers of Chongzhen, but they were also scholars, children of saints, and now Li Xingzhi vigorously promoted education, they naturally supported this matter.

"Okay, the matter of the imperial examination will be approved by the Ministry of Rites Chen Zuo asked the two auxiliary kings to approve, and the chief examiner candidate is also decided by the auxiliary king, but in the next imperial examination, the six arts of the gentleman will be included in the compulsory examination items, this matter will instruct Yan Shenggong to take the lead in responding, he is a great master of Confucianism, with his request, who dares to disobey the world's scholars? First of all, you will draw up another will, abolish the three salaries, and exempt the five provinces of Beizhili, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, and Huguang from taxes for five years. ”

According to the records sent by the Ministry of Households, now the taxes of the Ming Dynasty have been collected to the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

Liu Lishun objected: "Prime Minister, it's just a matter of exempting three salaries, if these five provinces are exempted from taxes for five years, then there will be no complaints in other provinces, in addition, Li Zicheng is ambitious, once the taxes are exempted, the displaced people will inevitably want to go home to cultivate the land, and the lower officials are afraid that Li Zicheng will jump over the wall in a hurry, after all, the army is about to march north, if Li Zicheng attacks Luoyang and Kaifeng, then we will be attacked on both sides, it is better to plan slowly, and after eliminating Wu Sangui, then make a plan, in addition, all of a sudden exempt from the money and grain of these five provinces, the pressure of the imperial court will be too great. ”

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