The consternation of the ministers was expected by Zhu Houwei, but he didn't come up with such a fucking solution, and it was the Manchu ministers who came up with such a bastard's splicing question.

But the ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were also forced, and there was no way to get to the time of the Manchu Dynasty, the four books and the five classics were all badly examined, and every sentence in the book was tested once or even several times, that is to say, there was no question to come out, so what to do, I don't know who had the idea, so the puzzle appeared......

It is completely conceivable that the candidates who take the spelling test for the first time, how desperate they are in their hearts, and the two sentences that are not related to each other can become the topic, how do you let them take the test, and from what direction to solve the problem......

But is Zhu Houwei wrong?

The ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could come up with such a solution, and if the Ming Dynasty continued to use the Four Books and Five Classics to write questions, it would not be the same in the end, and they would face a situation where there was no title to come up with.

"In my eyes, if Confucianism in the cloak of science is imprisoning thoughts, then Baguwen is restricting the talents of readers, every time I think of Baguwen, I really can't understand the true meaning of Emperor Taizu, do you think so?"

"Your Majesty said yes." Liang Chu sighed: "Although I don't want to admit it, the old minister also has to say that these eight scientific research methods do limit the talents of scholars, so that they can only make articles within a limited framework, and it is naturally difficult to show their knowledge."

"Liang Aiqing has this feeling, and I am very relieved." Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "I like Confucianism, because in my eyes, Confucianism has merit for national studies, but I don't like science, because there are too many constraints on science, and it is a joke to save heavenly principles and destroy people's desires."

Originally, I planned to spend my life to change and restore Confucianism to the style of the Tang and Song dynasties, after all, in my eyes, Confucianism is not just four books and five classics.

The significance of cultural inheritance lies in preserving its essence and removing its dross, rather than blindly reading dead books and dead books.

Now that you Aiqing think that my words are not unreasonable, then I have decided! ”

The ministers bowed their heads.

"I have decided to abolish the eight-share liberal arts examination system, and the imperial examination system will be changed from a merit system to a grading system......"

Liang Chu was puzzled: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the grading system?"

"Liang Aiqing doesn't need to be anxious, I will explain." Zhu Houwei said indifferently: "I like Confucianism without imprisoned thoughts, but I know more clearly that Confucianism is not the only learning in this world, and I do not want to restore the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is meaningless."

But in my opinion, there are too many Confucian scholars who are out of the imperial examination are mediocre people who can't take care of the politics of the world, and the reason for this is that these scholars study for the sake of the imperial examination, of course, this is not wrong, but they only know the scholars who are poor and poor, they know the subtle words of the sages, and they can make beautiful and good articles.

But they don't understand people's livelihood, finance, or justice, and if they want to know this, they can only wait until they step into the officialdom to learn slowly, which is why county officials and state officials rely more on their staff to govern local government affairs.

However, officials who control power are the most likely to lose themselves, and when they stay in the big dye vat of officialdom for a long time, they are corrupted and assimilated, and then it becomes the norm to join forces.

You Aiqing is now a first-class minister of the Ming Dynasty, and I also know that what you think of is the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, which can make the Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations, and it is you who can be a famous minister for the ages, but the top important minister is just an unattainable existence for the people, and it is the gorgeous appearance of the Ming Dynasty, which makes people look up.

The Ming Dynasty is like a giant ship in the sea, which requires the courtiers to steer the ship and sail the Ming into the distance, while the local officials are the grassroots and have the most contact with the people, and the ordinary people's cognitive identity with the government and even the royal family also comes from them.

If these grassroots officials are rotten, they are rotten at the root, and the people will be hostile to the government, and even think that it is the royal family who has made their lives miserable.

Officials who only think about making money should be killed, and mediocre officials who are incapable should be cleared, corruption is a matter of conduct, and mediocrity is a matter of ability.

It is one thing whether there is an effect on whether it is effective or not, but the ability can be screened.

And the screening method is the reform of the imperial examination system!

The new imperial examination will be officially implemented from the sixth year of Jiajing's examination, and these two years will be a buffer period for scholars all over the world.

The new imperial examination will be based on Confucianism, and candidates need to take two articles in the four books, one article in the Five Classics, and one article on strategy, which are called the main four subjects, in addition to the four main subjects.

Candidates in the four subjects of arithmetic, gewu, finance and economics, and military affairs choose two as auxiliary assessments, and I call this assessment method four plus two. ”

The ministers nodded secretly, the emperor's reform of the new imperial examination did not shake the fundamental position of Confucianism, and the abolition of the eight-share scholar system is indeed the release of the scholars' thoughts, which is reasonable.

As for why there are four auxiliary subjects, the ministers can also understand that they just want to select talents who are classified and can really handle government affairs.

For example, if a candidate chooses finance and economics, then as long as he can go out smoothly, then the official positions arranged must be related to finance, such as tax department, audit department, etc.

If this was changed to the official system, it would not be very interesting to play such a set of imperial examination system, but now after the reform of the official system, governance is more focused, so there is a market.

And the ministers also understand that the officialdom promotion system will also change in the future, for example, officials from the low-level county tax department will inevitably climb in the financial system such as the tax department, and it is unlikely that there will be a possibility of jumping from the financial system to the civil or military system, in other words, the Ming Dynasty's court push system is estimated to exist in name only.

Now the ministers have discovered an ironclad fact, that is, the emperor's scheming is too deep......

In the midst of strategizing, it is the people of Emperor Jiajing who are talking about the decisive victory thousands of miles away, step by step, and unknowingly completed such an earth-shattering change!

"As for the simpler scoring system, in the past, the same examiner would hand over the examination to the examiner for review if he felt that he was qualified.

What I had in mind was a grading system, in which the imperial court appointed twenty fellow examiners, each of whom had five points of authority to score the four main subjects.

For example, if a fellow examiner thinks the essay is well written, he gives the highest score of 5, but the other thinks the writing is very average, and only gives 1 or 2 points in the end.

The total score of the twenty examiners is 100 points, and the test papers of the candidates who get 60 points can be sent directly to the examiner......"

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