The eyes of the Great Tomorrow are set on the South Seas, so there is a wind there.

But as far as Daming itself is concerned, there is no need to care much about it.

August is the time to hold the township examination, and the scholars are concerned about the science and technology.

Since Jiajing changed the syllabus and school system in the eighth year, I am afraid that this year is only another node.

In Guangdong, Hai Rui, who is 17 years old, is also preparing for the exam, and his classmates at Guangzhou Fu Middle School are worried.

"This examination system will be changed every three years, when will it be changed?"

"Hey, I'm afraid this year is the last year that is easy to win......"

From the official documents issued by the Ministry of Rites, the system of primary schools, middle schools, and universities in the provinces and counties of the Ming Dynasty has been constructed. Starting next year, although the provincial township examinations will still be conducted every year, since many new official positions have been fully selected since the full implementation of the new law, the number of admission places in the township examination will be renegotiated in the adjustment plan of the provincial political envoys every year.

Although there is no mention of reducing the number of places, everyone knows that the channel for newcomers brought about by the implementation of the new law is narrowing.

Or change.

"What does it mean to explore the degree and academic system of universities in various provinces, to explore the combination of township examinations and provincial university entrance examinations, and to explore the unified recruitment system for selecting talents for different academic qualifications other than Jinshi?"

"Didn't the newspapers say it? Originally, if you pass the government examination during the four years of middle school, you will be born as a student, but then there are three paths. The first is to start from Jiupin as a student. The second is to directly take the township test. The third is to go to the university to take the college examination, and after that, you can enter the university, and after five years of study, you can also be a positive leader. Think about it, what has been the situation in the past three years? ”

Hearing this person's question, it was Hai Rui who opened his mouth and replied: "There are township exams every year, and not many people go to the university." ”

"What Ru Xian said is exactly what he said!" The man patted his leg, "After five years of study, it is also a positive example, why are not many people willing to go?" Isn't it because you can try again every year in the township test? ”

The other person sighed faintly: "I'm afraid that there will be a conclusion after the major power policy meeting." In my opinion, not only will the number of places on the main list be reduced every year, but also a threshold will be set for age and the number of exams! To put it bluntly, the Zhengbang is for talented talents, and the road is narrow, but straight and fast! But most of the people who read in the world are middle-aged people, and they can only rely on hard study. Whether it is to take the township examination for five consecutive years and still not get on the list, or to go to the university for five years to have a positive list of people, the court intends to these people this time. ”

“…… What does it mean to select talents for different academic qualifications other than Jinshi? ”

"It's simpler." Hai Rui started reading in a new-style elementary school, and now he can see through it at a glance, "Students, people, and then to give a position is not the same as in the past." Not to mention the rest, the recommendation of officials and the selection of officials will change. ”

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to years of war, Zhu Yuanzhang once used the recommendation system to supplement many officials in a short period of time.

In the past few years, the new law has added so many official positions, in fact, it is also through the recommendation of officials and the selection of officials, which not only fills the gap of so many new official positions in a short period of time, but also attracts many officials to support the new law.

Now that the new law has been firmly established, it is natural that it will enter a more standardized stage.

Not only Guangdong is now concerned about these matters, but also the students of all provinces. And in the capital, many people have coined two words: nine product test, eight product test.

"It's apt." Zhu Houxi smiled after hearing this, and then looked at Yan Song, "Really do you want to be a scholar of the Ministry of Culture and Education for another three years?" ”

Yan Song looked loyal: "Three years is too short, and students in various provinces are not very clear about this new academic system." The minister just set up a shelf and entered the State Hall without shame. In another three years, the minister can do all three things well. The Ministry of Culture and Education was newly established, and if the Ministry of Dissertation and Education Affairs was in charge, the minister should also be in charge. ”

"It's okay, then let's continue to suffer your father and son first."

"How can a minister be bitter, this degree degree, university system, and unified recruitment are all the plans of His Majesty's predecessors. The minister is fortunate to help His Majesty try it, but it is a matter of leaving a legacy in history, and he can't ask for it. Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust! ”

Zhu Houxi is naturally very familiar with the school system, as well as the national examination.

The current Daming students can't say that they have entered the era of volumes, but they are indeed going to start taking a different route. A set of four books and five classics is not conducive to the development of more fields in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Now, the test can be called six or seven tests, so those who are born in people and show talents are naturally eight and nine tests.

There is no way to directly go to the stage of recruitment according to the position, and the gap between the initial award of Jinshi and Xiucai is too large, these are still practical problems: people must always be motivated and hopeful.

In fact, the solution is not impossible: refer to the previous system of governance.

Jinshi can be awarded seven grades at the beginning, but he can no longer be directly a county magistrate or something like in the past, and grassroots training cannot be lacking.

In this way, in actual work, Jinshi, Juren, and Xiucai are all grassroots affairs. When it comes to the selection, Jinshi will have an advantage just because the initial grade is enough.

Yan Song was willing to do this because he found that the emperor was wary of him. I don't know if it was the move of promoting and supporting the backward when he was in Zhejiang, which made the emperor feel that he was ambitious.

Now that Yan Shifan has "committed something", instead of being attacked by others, it is better for him to take a step back and take on this heavy responsibility that will offend many officials and scholars in a short period of time.

Cutting the power of officials to promote and show talents, so that the scholars feel more confused about the science journey, this is not a pleasing thing, but it is only close to His Majesty's heart.

Only Yan Song, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, knew how much the emperor attached importance to this new system, and even split the Ministry of Rites into the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Culture and Education.

Maybe he has this tendency to go to the lonely minister, so that the emperor will be wary of him.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is a conference in the National Policy Hall.

Yan Song came over in advance to inform Zhu Houxi about the reactions of various places after the reform of the school system, and now that he has finished expressing his attitude, he will retire and go to the National Policy Hall to wait for the meeting.

Zhu Houxi lowered his head and looked at the new map in front of him.

After more than two years, Zhang Fujing's request at that time evolved into a national provincial-level political region adjustment, and now a draft that the current national policy holders believe is okay has finally been formed.

As long as Zhu Houxi nods his head at the national policy meeting to be waited, this draft will be discussed and determined at the national policy meeting at the end of the year.

At present, this draft can be called the five border regions of the two capitals and 16 provinces.

The two capitals are naturally Beijing and Nanjing. They directly became provincial-level political districts, and they still have permanent ministries and offices. However, the day-to-day civil affairs of Beijing and Nanjing were presided over by Beijing Zhaoyin and Nanjing Zhaoyin, which were lower than those of other provinces.

Under Beijing, only a part of Shuntianfu was included. Under Nanjing, in addition to Yingtianfu in Liyang and Gaochun counties, there is also Zhenjiang Mansion.

The two special titles of Nanzhili and Beizhili will no longer exist, and Beizhili will become Hebei Province after Beijing, Xuanda, Baoanzhou, and Yanqing Prefecture are removed. This new Hebei province also includes Baoding, Zhuozhou and other counties that originally belonged to the southern part of Shuntianfu.

Nanzhili became two high-ranking officials north of the river, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Fengyang four prefectures and Huaiyang Province, too large Fengyang Prefecture was also split into three prefectures, and then according to the needs of the future governance of Huanghuai, some small provincial prefectures were set up, and the province was located in Huai'an.

In addition to Nanjing, the remaining part of the Yangtze River included Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Ningguo, Huizhou, Chizhou, Taiping, Anqing, Luzhou, Chuzhou, and Guangdezhou, which together became a new Jiangning Province, and the province was located in Suzhou.

In addition, the rest of the political envoys were renamed provinces, which can be regarded as a title that the political envoys were actually subject to the control of the governors of the provinces. In the province, there are departments for political administration, inspection, command, criminal commissioning, public security, and taxation.

At the provincial level, the division between military and political affairs in the border towns in the past was not clear, and five military and civilian districts were set up: Ninggan, Xuanda, Jiliao, Hainan, and Taiwan. Among them, Taiyuan Town is a special case, because everyone knows that His Majesty's intention to reinstate and expel the northern captives has been decided, and there may not be a separate Taiyuan Town in the future. The two special cases of Hainan and Taiwan are in the consideration of His Majesty's need to go through the ocean.

With two capitals, sixteen provinces and five border districts, Daming has a total of 23 provincial-level administrative regions.

Although the Nanjing Ministries and Offices are still set up, the meaning of Beijing's side has been very clear: Similar to the establishment of staff officers in the military affairs meeting, the Nanjing Ministries and Offices, since they are idle posts of mixed grades before and on the way to the office, they do not have real power, and only give the right to advise the staff officers in the field of civil affairs, which can be called the "Nanjing Sixth Science and Technology Commission".

No, now it's the Eighth Science and Technology Commission.

The two more provinces in Nanjing have satisfied many of the three or four products of the Ming Dynasty for a few more steps to the pavilion. The extra batch of provincial-level official positions is enough for many people to suppress some of the little ninety-nine in the hearts of the officials and gentry of the various prefectures in Nanzhili.

And Nanjing, since it is a backup, prepare it. The hardware facilities and personnel are all there, and Daming can still pay this money to raise this group of officials. Could it be that the strategic purpose of making suggestions and suggestions could not be realized, and in case of any situation in Beijing, the emperor took some people to Nanjing to quickly establish a new team with existing personnel?

Huaiyang and Jiangning provinces also surround Nanjing.

Zhu Houxi felt that there was no problem on the general surface, after all, it was the result of their discussion for more than two years.

In the future, if some prefectures and counties are transferred from one province to another, it will be fine-tuned.

Entering the second decade of the Jiajing Dynasty, the phased pattern of the Ming Dynasty will be determined.

In the National Policy Hall, there are snacks and mooncakes on the table in front of each counselor.

Today is not only an important national policy meeting, but also the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After Zhu Houxi arrived at the National Policy Hall, the atmosphere of today's meeting was relatively relaxed.

"I've already read the adjustment of the political district, so let's make a draft." Zhu Houxi looked around at them, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "After today, the Qing and other members of this session have also entered the last few months. The six ministries of etiquette, officials, households, soldiers, criminal justice, and industry were changed to eight ministries of etiquette, personnel, civil affairs, finance and taxation, national defense, culture and education, justice, and industry and commerce, plus the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is the new Jiuqing. The Department of Public Security, the Supreme Court, and the Department of Political Affairs report to me. ”

The split of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household made the imperial court two more. After the merger of the General Department of Taxation and Taxation, the new Ministry of Finance and Taxation is the most important authority of the original Ming Household Department. What's more, this year's major policy meeting will decide on the issuance of new money and the establishment of a unified treasury.

As for the Ministry of Criminal Justice, which became the Ministry of Justice, it was in charge of the criminal names of the world and the criminal departments of the provinces. In the past, the authority of the criminal department was eroded by the factory guards. This time, the emperor made it clear that Jinyiwei would only intervene in some big and important cases when they needed to be tried by the divisions.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate was in charge of picketing and impeachment, and the Dali Temple was renamed the Great Court, which would no longer be established only in the capital. In the provincial capitals, prefectures and counties, the Supreme Court will also send personnel to participate in the trial of the sentence sequence as an independent record supervision procedure.

In terms of judicial improvement, Zhu Houxi cannot achieve a better level now, and can only try his best to strengthen his professionalism in this area. In the past, it was the local leaders who had the final say, so how much energy could they spare to try the case?

This session of the national policy meeting is really the most systematic change and tone of the Ming Dynasty.

Inherit many ideas that have been rolled out by the new law, and lay the foundation of the century-old system of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houxi looked at them and said slowly: "Presumably, Qing and the others have gradually realized that this national policy meeting will be an occasion for Daming to set rules, laws, plans, and resolutions on the candidates for important ministers in the future. In addition to the national policy meeting, each has its own duties. In the future, I am afraid that there will be more seats on the national policy meeting, and it seems that it will not be so prominent. ”

The crowd listened silently, and that was indeed the case. In the beginning, there were so many people, and now the counselor is gradually not an important position, but a necessary qualification.

There are nine people in the State Palace, which is the pinnacle of civil affairs. Several important members of the Military Affairs Council are the pinnacle of military and political affairs. A general assistant and a general staff are the emperor's civil and military arms.

"But don't despise the national focus meeting just because it's not so dangerous." Zhu Houxi said solemnly, "What we want to discuss here is a major event that cannot be determined by a few ministers and several important ministers, and it is a major matter of where the Ming Dynasty is going and how the subjects of the world will behave." Here, it is even more a place where quarrels are fought behind closed doors, and then opinions are unified, and even if there is disagreement, it is necessary to follow the collective decision-making. If the national policy meeting is stable, the Ming Dynasty will be stable. ”

Fei Hongmu didn't squint, he knew that the emperor was reminding him of the battle for the seat of the counselor for a period of time.

Who despised it? Everybody knows it very well. Being able to attend the triennial Great Power Policy Conference is the first step leading to the State Hall. Being able to become a heavy Jiuqing in Beijing is the second level. The last level is who can combine qualifications, prestige, and age to become the first person to become a civil servant.

Now the entire Ming Dynasty, above the fourth grade, is fighting for these three steps.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival and before the end of the Great Power Policy Conference, it will be the final decisive battle.

"Don't fight in private and miss an errand. During this time, it is better to prepare some more proposals and discuss them at the major policy meeting. Zhu Houxi finally said, "Whoever comes up and who goes down will still have to be ordered by me after all." As long as you are loyal to the king, the monarch and the minister will always be reunited today. ”

At the "light" state policy meeting, the emperor lightly knocked out the current situation, and once again made it clear to them that the emperor himself had absolute control over the selection of important ministers.

And at this moment, the kings in the capital are not at ease.

Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor gave a banquet to the important ministers in the previous dynasty at noon, and a banquet to the clan relatives in the Qianqing Palace at night.

Among the kings of the capital, there is only one Rui Wang, who lives in the Rui Wangfu in the area of the original Ten Wangfu in the inner city.

Now, King Rui, who has grown to the age of thirteen, and the Xia family have lunch together.

In the afternoon, their mother and son will enter the palace together.

King Rui is no stranger to the Forbidden City. In recent years, he has also been going to enter the palace to study, and he is very familiar with the emperor.

So his mood is a little complicated right now.

"Queen Mother, don't worry about it."

Xia is the queen of the first emperor, and her title has not been deprived, so King Rui can call her the queen mother.

It is precisely because of this that he, the vassal king, is the most special.

Besides, he had a history of being held hostage as a banner and rebelling?

What's more, his biological father was also imprisoned in the Fengyang High Wall because of the rebellion?

Xia only hummed softly.

In the harem, Sun Ming was very busy, constantly directing Zhang Zuo to be busy with this and that.

"Then where is the sacrifice of the eight hundred Dadian?" In her busy schedule, she suddenly asked such a question.

"Back to the queen, I'm in Huguang."

Sun Ming nodded: "Prepare the side hall of Zhongcui Palace in advance." ”

There are one and there are two, Sun Ming, as the queen, suddenly felt a little trance.

How many more will there be in the future?

(End of chapter)