For the Governor's Mansion of Jinshan.

The bounty order of the Governor's House of British Canada is not very threatening, and it is a group of white adventurers, and the threat is not great.

Here's the point.

The war has begun!

When the news came back to Zhongdu.

At this time, it was already winter.

Winters in Jiangnan are not as cold as in the north.

But it's actually quite difficult.

"Your Majesty, the excerpt of Lin Minghe, the governor of Jinshan, has come up, can you see it? The Britons have already begun to make moves, but now the trouble of the Jinshan Governor's Mansion is not only this, there are too few talents who are willing to go to the New World to be officials."

It was Peng Jun who spoke.

These days, he is troubled by sending officials to serve in the Great Northeast, Great Northwest, South Seas, Australia, New World and other places.

These places are wild places.

It's too unpopular with the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there are very few local intellectuals, and many of them are simply illiterate peasants.

There are too few officials, which makes Peng Jun, the right prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, very troubled.

Zhu Daohua put down the fold in his hand and looked at Gu Song, the left prime minister on the side.

"Lao Gu, what do you say about this? Northeast China now has four provinces: Liaoxi Province, Liaodong Province, Liaobei Province, and Heilongjiang Province, plus the two Governor's Offices of the Governor of Xing'an and the Governor's Office of Northern Xinjiang and the Sakhalin Island Development Company, and there are two provinces in the Northwest of China, namely Xiyu Province and Mengxi Province, and there are several provinces that need to be built in Nanyang. The territory of the New World is also expanding, and there will be a lot of officials at that time, these places are all wild places, and the number of officials needed is large, and now there is a gap of more than 6,000, and at least tens of thousands of officials will be sent to these places in the future, you say, where can we get so many officials? ”

"Your Majesty, tens of thousands of officials is not a small number, at that time, there were only tens of thousands of officials in the whole country of Taqing, and the ministers thought that relying on the secondment of officials from various provinces was not a long-term solution after all, and they had to find another way."

Of course, in Daming, there is no worry about finding someone to be an official.

Now the Ming court is piecing together and can't find anyone.

Mainly because the officials who are now sent to these fringe areas are people from the bureaucracy.

Those people already have officials, and they are definitely not willing to go to the bitter cold land thousands of miles away to be officials.

Even if there is a level increase, it is not very attractive.

Because the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were linked to local economic development and taxation.

What oil and water can these wild lands have?

"Your Majesty, it's better to open an Enke and recruit scholars who are willing to go to the Northeast, Northwest, Nanyang, and New World as officials." Peng Jun suggested.

He had the idea for a long time.

It's just that now the number of people recruited for the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty has also dropped.

After all, this imperial examination is not the college entrance examination, and if you pass the examination, you will not go to university but become an official.

Nowadays, all parts of the Ming Dynasty, except for Shaanxi and Gansu, are still under military control for the time being, and Inner and Outer Mongolia, Western Regions Province, and Tubo Province have not yet completed the provincial system.

In other places, "constitutionalism" has already been implemented.

Except for the first provincial exam.

Every year, the number of places for officials to be admitted has also become very limited and scarce.

In large provinces such as Guangdong and Sichuan, the imperial examination is only held once every three years, and the number of scholars each time is not more than 1,000 - the current Ming Dynasty has won the show. Officials must be conferred immediately, and most of the officials in the provinces are a turnip and a pit. There are really a few vacancies every year, so it is difficult to seek an office.

If 50,000 official positions are allocated to Han at once, I am afraid that many official fans and scholars will celebrate.

Even if you want to go thousands of miles to become an official, many people must be willing.

Emperor Zhu frowned and thought about it in his heart.

"That's right, it's to recruit some people to supplement the new territories as officials, then open an Enke, but this Enkezhen thinks that it can't be the same as ordinary imperial examinations, after all, the officials in these places have a lot of things to manage. You have to recruit some practical talents, so let's do it, Xiucai accounts for one percent, and the rest will recruit five subjects, including martial arts Xiucai, Ming Law, Ming Calculation, Tongwen, and Engineering. ”

Peng Jun's face changed: "Your Majesty, Wen Xiucai only accounts for one percent, isn't it too little?"

Wen Xiucai is mostly a Confucian scholar.

And Wu Xiucai is mostly a student of the military academy.

As for the other subjects, they are all under the domain of the students of the new university.

He knew it well.

Those officials who have official experience in the New World, Northeast China, and other places will have extra points in future promotions.

All at once, tens of thousands of new blood from the bureaucracy poured in.

And the proportion of Confucian scholars was greatly reduced.

This.

Zhu Daohua said coldly: "These bitter cold and wild places don't need to show talents, what they need is hard work!" ”

Peng Jun frowned: "But it's impossible to recruit more than 30,000 Mingfa, Mingsuan, Tongwen, and engineering students at once, right?" Daming has so many practical talents? ”

Zhu Daohua's face was as pale as iron, and he had no intention of backing down: "I don't plan to open Enke immediately, and now I announce it." Exams will start next fall...... Now that many academies, colleges and universities have been opened in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, as well as schools that provide accelerated education, there is more than a year for scholars who want to seek official positions to prepare, and they can always learn a little bit of fur, right? ”

He categorically added: "Anyone who has a college diploma and passes this Enke exam must be reused!" ”

Peng Jun and Gu Song are both bright in their hearts now.

Emperor Zhu Daohua Zhu is ready to let go of new students, and after Enke next year, I am afraid that there will be a large number of students who have graduated from university and will enter the officialdom.

A new force in the Ming officialdom is about to be formed!

However, Peng Jun and Gu Song, the leaders of the Hunan Party and the Guangdong Party respectively, have already seen this day.

How could they be unprepared?

So now the Ming Dynasty is domestic.

There are also many universities that combine the old and the new jointly run by local wealthy families.

For example, Yuelu Academy in Hunan.

Cantonese Academy in Guangdong.

Liangjiang University Hall in Shanghai.

All are universities of a similar nature.

The two civil officials of the Ming Dynasty glanced at each other, and Peng Jun said, "Your Majesty, the minister has another suggestion." Since this time Enke is to select officials for more than a dozen new provinces, it should not be limited to local restrictions, but to meritocracy, and should not be limited to 16 provinces, all the places under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, the people under the age of 27, have not violated the royal law, and are not among the eternal immortals, can take the exam, and decide whether to enter or not by the score. ”

"That's as it should be."

Emperor Zhu thought for a moment and nodded, "That's it, this Enke exam will be handled by the University Scholars and the Propaganda Department." ”

He thought for a moment and said, "In addition, this time, the officials who are admitted to Enke will also participate in a three-month military training, and the place they are going to is not peaceful, so they need to master some military knowledge." ”

(End of chapter)