Since this year, Sanding has a new definition.

In the past, Sanding A refers to the township test, the meeting test, and the palace test, and even won the first place.

In the history of the imperial examination, there were extremely few such people.

The strange thing is that not only these top students who are even in the middle school, but even the champions of each subject, the final achievements seem to be average. In history, it is often not the champion who ends up with greater fame.

On the contrary, it was the Jiajing Dynasty, and the situation seemed to be different.

The first prime minister, Minister of State Fei Hong, was the champion of Chenghua for 23 years.

The second Zhang Fujing is the leader of Zhengde for 16 years.

Zhang Bi skipped it.

And the current Yang Shen is also the champion of Zhengde for six years.

As for the future...... Sanding Jia has a new meaning, which is the first of the three directions.

At the ceremony, Tan Lun, Shen Kun, and Wang Chonggu were called to the hall together.

Today, it is also the three of them who are qualified to take the royal road and leave through the middle gate of the noon gate.

Among the three, Shen Kun is the oldest, and he and the emperor were actually born in the same year.

Zhu Houxi also looked at him with interest: judging from the answer sheet, it was completely unsystematic and standardized research, purely because he was too erudite.

This is a person who is genuinely interested in all sorts of miscellaneous things.

"Tan Zili." Zhu Houxi spoke to Tan Lun first, "You don't have a subject to take the exam." After returning to his hometown to report the good news, he will be consecrated when he comes back and start his training. ”

Tan Lun thanked him.

Now that there are fewer and fewer scenes at the ceremony, the emperor just looks at them face to face.

And Shen Kun and Wang Chonggu, there are still subjects to prepare, and they are qualified to participate in the examination of the enterprise and the new science and technology of the Academy of Sciences, and they went to the Huangming Assets Bureau and the Boyan Institute to prepare for the exam, respectively, and they are treated equally.

For the people of the capital, the subsequent Sanding Jia parade was just a bustle.

However, for the people of the world, the new academic system and the new examination syllabus, which were subsequently published in Ming Pao on March 15, were even more important.

This time, the Ministry of Culture and Education made it clear that there will be no major changes to the examination system and syllabus in the future.

After more than ten years, the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty has been transformed and is called science.

Matching with this is the academic system of social studies primary, middle school, and university. Graduates from primary school, middle school, and university will all have a degree certificate of scholar, scholar, and bachelor's degree respectively.

This proves that, like the previous texts of origin, it is an officially recognized level of learning.

Due to the emergence of the township examination and the general examination, the imperial examination has gradually transformed into a channel for the imperial court to select high-level talents.

The imperial court and local officials were recruited from the ordinary court, and there was another kind of public examination, which was taken regardless of the main and secondary lists, as long as there was a corresponding degree certificate.

At the level of the imperial examination, after changing the name to science, it will be divided into disciplines in the future. Starting from the township examination, there are currently official courses, business courses, and science courses. In the future, there may also be liberal arts, agriculture, engineering, and arts.

To sum up: literacy is the beginning of becoming a national talent from all walks of life, and a degree certificate is the basis for judging the level of talent from all walks of life. From scholars, scholars, and bachelors to masters on the deputy list of the examination and doctors on the main list of the examination, there are more forks in the middle of the road of the imperial examination, and they can also be diverted into the job in advance.

This is also a new standard that Daming is building: making talent more measurable, with a widely recognized degree certificate, talent flow, more worthy of "the world's heroes are all in the middle".

There will naturally be a lot of discussion among the people.

What will those old talents and old people think in the future?

There are a large number of talented people at the bottom, and there are signs of depreciation in their birth status, which is annoying to them.

In the future, the two capitals will be changed to specialized study abroad institutions. The children of the powerful also have to complete their basic education before giving places to directly enter the provincial universities to compete, which is not as refreshing as the direct favor of the country and the prince of the country or even the official position of the direct favor in the past.

In the past, the folk academies in various places were all great Confucians, and they had rich book resources and academic teachers, and they would get twice the result with half the effort when they took the imperial examination, and they would also face a new situation in the future. If you have not graduated from a government university, you will not have a bachelor's degree. If you want to take the new type of imperial examination, it is better to go to the government university system to learn the knowledge of each subject.

Yang Tinghe and Fei Hongzhishi, who had the foresight to do so, both spent their main energy on the university colleges in the local provinces, and now more people understand it.

No matter how much they talk and how they express their dissatisfaction, this matter will still be postponed.

Three years.

Three years later, the general examination and the palace examination will be carried out according to the new academic system and the new syllabus.

When it comes to the syllabus, this time is very different.

The difference is that there was no clear syllabus in the past, but only the four books and five classics by default. Later, there were more practical studies and dialectics by His Majesty, more writings by Wang Shouren, Yang Tinghe and others, and more arithmetic that must be examined.

This time, the Ministry of Culture and Education published a clear document and formulated a syllabus in the true sense of the word.

In terms of basic skills, you must know how many words to write, know the grammar, memorize classic poems, and what style articles you can write.

The rest of the homework, what to know in arithmetic, what to know about astronomy and geography, what to know about historical figures, and what to know about the knowledge of physics that has been understood, are all clearly listed in the syllabus.

What's even more important is that a set of textbooks that have been prepared for many years and have been compiled and printed will be published all over the world.

The Four Books and the Five Classics are no longer textbooks that must be read by heart, but they are still reading lists that everyone should be able to grasp when they arrive at the township examination and the general examination.

The impact was enormous.

In addition to the glory of the Emperor Yan, the emperor and the imperial court finally began to establish their own cultural and educational orthodoxy.

This new teaching material is orthodoxy.

The printing press, which appeared many years ago and has been continuously improved, is running at full speed, and the engraving factory in the Beijing Light Industry Park is full of traffic.

This time, all private bookstores can come and buy goods.

The right attendant of the Ministry of Culture and Education was on the spot, and the president of Ming Pao Bank was also on the spot.

"New syllabuses and new textbooks are not for money! The price of each book is geometric, and it is printed on the booklet. There are all over the imperial history, and there are ordinary people, but there are complaints about who hoards goods and sells them at high prices, and the Ministry of Rites and Engraving Department and the Ministry of Commerce will cancel the corresponding licenses! ”

The pricing of teaching materials involves every family who wants their children to pursue their education, and it should not be overlooked.

Pirated prints, counterfeits, and prices from the ground are the most important tasks for the next three years.

"What you should think about is to interpret and dispel doubts. Different textbooks, compiling and inviting celebrities and celebrities, and asking them to annotate them into volumes, can also be marketed to the world. However, whether the annotation is appropriate and there are no errors or omissions, after the book is completed, it must be submitted to the Publication and Engraving Division for approval and issue a book number, so that it can be engraved and marketed. ”

The new teaching materials will bring about a market for teaching aids.

This is not like the previous Four Books and Five Classics, I don't know how many time-tested opinions have been there for thousands of years.

Nowadays, there are many more subjects, especially science, business, etc., and I don't know how many young students are simply confused. In this case, if there are some other reference books, it will naturally be of great use.

It's not that the businessmen don't understand this truth, and they don't need the officials to wake up.

All of a sudden, the Huangming Academy, the Doctoral Research Institute, and some other officials and well-known people among the people had an extra kind of extra income: many businessmen hoped that they would have their spare time to give their own notes on the new textbooks.

Don't say it, don't say it, the thought that in the future it is possible for thousands of students to hold it in their hands and read their opinions, just like other sages whose remarks are regarded as a guideline, many people's hearts are warm.

The merchants are too lazy to care about some old pedants, what is the bad etiquette, the sages are uneasy, the new market!

Now Zhu Houxi is also looking forward to another generation, and when he is old, the scientific talents of Daming will finally be able to usher in a chance to explode.

But at this time, another person also came into his field of vision.

It was Wu Chengen that Shen Kun said when he gave the banquet later.

Zhu Houxi didn't expect that Shen Kun and Wu Chengen were still friends.

From his mouth, Zhu Houxi knew Wu Chengen's previous experience.

According to Shen Kun, Wu Chengen should not be nearly forty years old and still famous. His wife is the great-granddaughter of Ye Qi, a native of Huai'an, who was a member of the household department during the Hongzhi period. When Ye Qi died, it was Li Dongyang who wrote an epitaph for him. Ye Qi's nephew is also from a Jinshi. Although Wu Chengen's family is a businessman, his wife's family is still very influential in Huai'an.

And Wu Chengen himself has also been reciting since he was a child, and he is very smart.

Shen Kun said that the two of them are very similar, and they both like all kinds of miscellaneous books and knowledge. According to Shen Kun, it's just that most of the things Wu Chengen likes are related to literature and art, painting, calligraphy, Go, poetry, fairies and ghosts......

Rao is like this, Wu Chengen studied in Longxi Academy back then, and he was also very appreciated by the Huai'an prefect.

Shen Kun felt that the emperor attached great importance to miscellaneous studies, and maybe Wu Chengen could also usher in an opportunity that belonged to him, so he mentioned him in front of the emperor.

What kind of friendship is it to recommend friends by taking the opportunity of giving a banquet after the palace examination? Shen Kun was sweating in his heart, but he didn't expect the emperor to be more interested in Wu Chengen than him, and asked a lot of questions.

In the minds of Tan Lun and Wang Chonggu at that time, this was the emperor's opportunity to convey to the scholars his attitude of attaching importance to the direction of the Academy of Sciences - otherwise, how could he "favor" one?

Zhu Houxi is thinking about a question these days: When Wu Chengen comes, should you lend him all the "brain holes" and let him make another "ancient strange text"?

Anyway, he likes fairies, ghosts, lemurs, monkeys, spirits, isn't he?

That's right, Zhu Houxi directly ordered to go to Huai'an to recruit Wu Chengen into Beijing.

Over the years, Zhu Houxi has always had a problem that he doesn't know how to use his strength: how to let the people of the Ming Dynasty remember that there is an achievable goal ahead after his death.

What kind of Datong Party in the world and putting forward this ideal is just that when he is still alive, the great deeds of the ministers in order to leave a name in history may continue to be the momentum of one or two generations, two or three generations.

But if you are already ahead too much, I am afraid that there will still be inertia, and problems will brew inside.

Maybe the steam engine is used very well, industry and commerce are quite developed, and there is no motivation to engage in more powerful technology. In the end, Daming turned into a steampunk Daming and could not enter the more advanced electronic age.

Zhu Houxi couldn't even go to Zheng Kui to talk about internal combustion engines, motors, and computers when the steam engine hadn't even been understood......

What's the difference between that and talking about fairies and ghosts?

But Shen Kun mentioned Wu Chengen, which inspired Zhu Houxi.

If Wu Chengen is allowed to make a move, with his magnificent strength, can he also knead these technologies and pictures that will appear in the future?

Ordinary people can watch the excitement, and people who understand science can vaguely feel that the various technologies and tools in it seem to have their sense.

It's just that when Wu Chengen wrote the character in the book to boast about the baby, he said: My Shunfeng ear is carved with fine gold, and it can be calculated as the mystery of heaven and earth. Plus nine heavens, travel around the universe without falling to the ground clairvoyance. Whatever the clairvoyant eye sees, it is sent to this Shunfeng ear with an invisible path pattern, and it calculates itself and tells me the truth. How can you figure out the power of this physical avenue?

You see, isn't that what it smells like?

It just so happens that Zhu Houxi only knows the general principles of many things, and presents them in this way, and then he will tout it with the respect of the Son of Heaven, and those who are interested will naturally read it carefully.

It is...... When the time comes, will Wu Chengen look at himself with the eyes of gods and ghosts?

In Huai'an Mansion, the news that Shen Kundian was ranked as one of the top three tripods has already spread.

The merchant family produced such a glorious descendant, and his old father naturally cried with joy and feasted guests.

Wu Chengen, as Shen Kun's friend, was also among the guests.

Seeing that the Shen family was full of joy, he was happy for Shen Kun and couldn't help but feel a little depressed. When he saw Shen Kun's father, he also thought of his deceased father.

Both are local businessmen, not very big, but they are also well-off or even wealthy families.

The two businessman fathers also have the same wish, hoping that the younger generation can gain fame and get ahead.

For this reason, Wu Chengen's father named him Chengen, the word Ruzhong, hoping that he can gain fame in the future, inherit the emperor's grace, and be a loyal minister who will leave a name in history.

But until his father died, Wu Chengen still hadn't been able to pass the exam, and Jinshi was naturally even more hopeless.

In the Shen family, Wu Chengen is just a frustrated showman, not the main guest.

Shen Kun's father was there to accompany the local officials in Huai'an Prefecture, and there were also many businessman friends sitting at a table not far from Wu Chengen.

Gossip came to Wu Chengen's ears.

"I heard that it's just a lack of intelligence, and I chose this path to become taller among the shorts."

"Yes, it's not an official exam, and I won't be able to be an official in the future. is doing such a big job, it's like winning the real champion. ”

"If you can't be an official, what's the use?"

Wu Chengen was a little angry for his friends, and said to the scholars and friends at the same table: "Bo Zai will try to win the championship, and now he is still one of the three tripods, and he can compete for the top of the artificial opening system department." I can't say it, after a while, just like the old Tang Guo, the good news spreads frequently, and he is honored as an earl! ”

"I can't say it, I really can't say it! Since His Majesty's reign, he has opened two rounds of the system, and this time only from the business and science disciplines to seal two more heads as earls, and Bozai is the head of science, and this earl has great hope. ”

"Bo Zai is a late bloomer!"

"What nonsense? Now it's not less than forty. You don't see Mr. Zhang, he is forty-seven years old, and once Jane was in the emperor's heart, he soared into the sky! ”

Shen Kun, who has not been able to take the Jinshi exam for many years, most of the scholars who usually come and go are relatively middle and lower.

Strong potential stocks are naturally another circle.

Sitting here now, listening to some of Shen Kun's father's businessman friends sour there, they looked very eyeless, and they naturally shared the same hatred.

And their rhetoric is also very reasonable.

After talking, the table next to him was quiet for a while. It's just that looking at their thoughtful appearance, they don't seem to be ashamed, but are thinking about something new.

After a while, I saw the housekeeper of the Shen family hurriedly coming over, looked around, and then went straight to Wu Chengen's table.

"Wu Xiucai, you are sitting here! Quick, your house has sent someone to find you, there is a holy decree! The father-in-law who came to the post office to deliver the message is waiting at your house! ”

Everyone was startled, and they couldn't help but ask rhetorically in a loud voice: "Holy decree? ”

The voice attracted the prefect of Huai'an and the others sitting over there to also look over.

Wu Chengen was a little dazed: "Steward Shen, isn't it framing me?" ”

"How dare I! Hurry back to your home to receive the order! ”

Wu Chengen didn't understand why, he was a little dizzy now.

And the prefect of Huai'an is also speculating, but it is still calm.

Today, the post office is in charge of the delivery of official documents. At the same time, as an enterprise managed by the Emperor's Assets Bureau, after the emperor dismissed the eunuchs in various places, he also arranged another use for them, that is, they were stationed in various enterprises as supervisory eunuchs.

At the same time, if the emperor had any holy decrees, they would first pass them on through the Tong Post Bureau, and then the supervising eunuchs in the enterprises in various places would deliver the decrees, which would also improve efficiency.

It's just that why is there a special will passed on to a Xiucai here?

It's too unusual, but they shouldn't do anything without knowing why.

After handing over a lot of power to the State Palace, another manifestation of the emperor's increased control over the vast empire was the money bag of the Emperor's Assets Bureau, and the ability to rely on a special bureau to transmit his will directly to various places.

God knows if this Xiucai has another identity in secret, or if something else happened here in Huai'an.

In any case, they also thought that Wu Chengen was indeed related to the emperor's latest long-term plan and the entire country for hundreds of years to come.

(End of chapter)