Cabinet Office.

Liu Yan listened to Song Yingxing's report, pondered for a while, and then asked, "What did Zhao Min, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, say?" ”

"Elder Qiqi, Zhao Butang felt that there was some truth in the opinion of the lower officials, but he was not sure of his idea, so he asked the lower officials to come over and report to the elder of the pavilion."

Liu Yan shook his head, this Zhao Min is still too cautious.

In fact, the way that Song Yingxing thought of was very simple, that is, to concentrate on assault training.

First, recruit a large number of scholars from all over the country who have not been admitted to the examination, conduct "cramming" training for these scholars with new teaching materials, and then let them become familiar with the process of new education and the desired results in a short period of time, so that they can be sent to various places to take up posts.

As for whether these scholars can pay attention to the meaning and whether they can become a qualified teacher in a new school, Song Yingxing doesn't care.

The most important thing now is to build a new education system across the country, first build the shelves, make this new education system work properly, and then gradually fine-tune it.

Liu Yan still agrees with this method very much in his heart, in fact, Song Yingxing's method is exactly the same as the method of the red regime in later generations to eradicate illiteracy. First of all, a large number of so-called teachers were trained by surprise, and some of these teachers were even illiterate themselves, but through rote memorization, they memorized a large number of new word shapes, and when they wrote, it was like drawing, and they could only recognize a general idea and know the approximate pronunciation.

Even such teachers can still take up their posts, but because at that time in later generations, there were too few literate people in the whole country, so they could only catch ducks on the shelves, and eradicate illiteracy over and over again, round by round, and finally the number of illiterate people in the country was greatly reduced.

And now Liu Yan is facing the situation is almost like this, the whole Ming Dynasty, can be proficient in teaching a variety of new courses of gentlemen are very few, now to promote new education in the country, it is necessary to expand Mr. Teaching, even if he himself is ignorant of new education, and even a black eye, as long as he can read words, can read according to the book, or even read word by word according to the book, then it's okay!

In fact, the education system in ancient China is a "cramming" method, first let students learn the knowledge by rote, do not understand it, do not agree with it, do not understand it, write it down, and wait until the future age, experience growth, learning growth, you can naturally understand the truth, many of the previous incomprehensible truth, to a certain age to understand.

It's like what later generations said: a bullet shot when you were young hits your own eyebrows many years later!

So Liu Yan said to Song Yingxing: "Song Shilang's method, my father thinks it can be implemented." However, when selecting a teacher, he must be screened, and anyone who disagrees with the new policy, regardless of his knowledge, will not be appointed. ”

Song Yingxing was overjoyed when he saw that Liu Yan agreed, and immediately clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, the lower official is personally staring at this time." ”

At first, Liu Yan appointed Song Yingxing as the director of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, temporarily in charge of the Department of Education. After Song Yingxing took office, it only took one month to refresh all kinds of textbooks for new-style learning, and also filled the gaps in agricultural affairs, handicrafts and other categories of textbooks.

Liu Yan was overjoyed when he heard the news, and directly ordered Song Yingxing to be promoted from the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the waiter, and he was still in charge of the Department of Education.

At this time, with the full rollout of the new policy, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has also carried out a comprehensive combing of the new education system.

At this time, the new education system is divided into three levels from bottom to top: county school, government school (Zhili state school), and Taoist school (each province).

Taoism is equivalent to the university stage in later generations, and it is already a place to study various knowledge and various technologies.

According to the classification of the content taught in specific new schools, county schools are the same everywhere, teaching basic subjects such as literacy, general knowledge, and the Four Books and Five Classics.

At the level of Fuxue and Zhili Prefecture Studies, they began to be classified, including literary schools that studied subsets of classics and history, schools that taught various handicraft techniques, schools that taught business knowledge, schools that taught agricultural knowledge, and so on.

And to the Tao, it is still the same as the Fuxue, divided into various professional schools, but the research is deeper, under Liu Yan's plan, Taoism will be used as the cradle of the future Daming's technology research and development, technical reserves, and technical personnel training.

Then Liu Yan smiled and asked Song Yingxing to sit down and asked, "How are the preparations for the construction of new schools in various places now?" ”

Song Yingxing has been busy with these things during this time, and all kinds of data are in his mind, so he immediately said: "Elder Qiyuge, now all the prefectures and counties in Shandong and Beizhili have all popularized new schools, and all school-age students have basically been enrolled. ”

"Shanxi, Henan, Xuanfu three new school popularization, about a three to four percent, the current three to Xuanfu situation is the best, Shanxi, Henan because of the war, the current priority is the people's livelihood, so the popularity of new schools is slow."

"As for the rest of the prefectures, there is only one to two percent of the penetration rate."

Song Yingxing was worried that Liu Yan was unhappy, and hurriedly said: "But the elder does not need to worry, at present, the imperial court has sufficient financial resources, with the gradual implementation of the new policy, the popularization of new schools will be faster and faster, and the lower officials estimate that in another three to five years, I will be able to build a new education system in an all-round way." ”

Liu Yan nodded, in fact, three to five years is already very fast, you must know that at this time, the Ming Dynasty has just stood up from the war to exterminate Li Zicheng, and the people in many places are even having difficulty in basic survival, and it is impossible and unrealistic to popularize new education at this time.

So Liu Yan nodded and said: "Three to five years, the time is okay, but the Education Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs must also adjust the policy in real time and vigorously promote it." ”

In fact, there is another sentence that Liu Yan did not say, that is, Liu Yan is ready to fully build a new-style education system, and after the original old-style private school and official education system of the Ming Dynasty is replaced, the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty will be linked to the new education.

At that time, if you want to gain fame, you must memorize the four books and five classics, and you can only write eight strands of text, it is impossible to get fame, and you must be proficient in all kinds of practical learning.

If you want to enter the Ministry of Agriculture, you must have a diploma from an agricultural school, if you want to enter the Ministry of National Defense, you must get a graduation certificate from Yanwutang, and if you want to enter the Ministry of Finance, you must have a diploma from a finance school.

Only by obtaining the graduation certificate of various junior colleges can you be eligible to participate in the special imperial examination of the imperial court. At that time, the imperial imperial examination will also imitate the public ~ civil servant examination of later generations, and organize a series of examinations by category, rather than using a test paper to complete the examination.

In the future of the Ming Dynasty, it will be professional talents, doing professional things, so as to completely put an end to the Donglin Party, who can only talk rhetorically, can only write beautiful articles, but can not do anything practical at all.

"Hmm."

Liu Yan secretly said in his heart: "The first step of the Long March is to establish a new education system first, and then talk about other things." ”

Later, Liu Yan realized that it is estimated that when the imperial examination is reformed in the future, it will be turbulent again, but these are all later words, and it is better to consider the current problems first.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

"Elder Ge, please speak."

Liu Yan asked: "The imperial court has implemented a new style of education with great fanfare, what do the great Confucian scholars in various places think, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs can give feedback?" ”

Liu Yan still has another worry, that is, the new education has raised the knowledge of the previous craftsmen, merchants, generals and other classes too high, and it has basically been on an equal footing with the words of the so-called sages, and those Confucian scholars will definitely oppose it in their hearts.

Not to mention the current situation where Confucianism is dominant, that is, when the Qin Dynasty was at the beginning, Confucianism was only one of the hundred schools, and Confucianism had already begun to crowd out the rest of the schools, and even pointed fingers at Qin Shi Huang's behavior.

Song Yingxing said: "Ge Lao Mingjian, scholars and Confucians from all over the country do have a lot of complaints about the new education, and some people have begun to gather before to criticize the new policy of the imperial court by writing poems and articles. ”

It's just that with the continuous implementation of the new policies in various places, the imperial court needs more and more scholars, and many of them are teaching in new-style schools or serving in various trading companies, and many Confucian students have tasted the benefits and earned silver, so the opposition among Confucian scholars is much smaller now. At least on the side of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there is no opposition to it. ”

Liu Yan nodded, if this is the case, it would be good, so it can also be seen that the reason why those Confucian students oppose the new education is nothing more than that they are worried that what they have learned will be replaced by the new education.

And when they were able to reap the benefits of the New Deal, the opposition naturally dissipated a lot. In the final analysis, it is still the interests that dictate.

However, Liu Yan knew the faces of those Confucian scholars very well, so after Song Yingxing said goodbye, Liu Yan found Wang Wenzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Zhao Min, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and said to the two: "I heard that there were Confucian scholars who openly opposed the new education of the imperial court, and the two scholars should keep in mind that from now on, all Confucian students who gather to oppose the new education will be removed from the imperial court, and those so-called great Confucians who participate in it will also cancel all qualifications and rights to join the WTO!" ”

Wang Wenzhen and Zhao Min immediately received the order, Liu Yan was a heavy hand, and soon the voices of opposition to the new education in various places were calm, and there were some court officials who opposed the new education, and the officials and departments also dealt with them regardless of their positions, or dismissed or demoted.

At this moment, the voices opposing the new education completely disappeared. However, at this time, Wu Guojin, the secretary of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, suddenly received a piece of information, immediately frowned, and immediately called Yao Guangming, the commander of the Nanzhen Fusi, and ordered him to immediately rush to the provinces south of the Yangtze River to investigate.

"Now there is an undercurrent surging in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, you should immediately take someone to take a trip, and you must strictly investigate it to the end."

Yao Guangming read this information and said, "Impossible, right? Now that the new policy and military reform policy have been fully rolled out in the north, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Nanzhili and Sichuan are also fully implemented, and there are still people secretly conspiring to make trouble to resist the new policy and military reform. ”

Wu Guojin sneered and said: "I'm afraid those people don't have bad brains, they are all proficient, but they are fascinated by those yellow and white things, and they can't see the current situation clearly!" ”

"Then do you need to report to the elder pavilion at this time?"

Wu Guojin said: "Don't report for the time being, you go and come back quickly, get detailed information first, and then report to the elder of the pavilion." ”

"What if something happens to Jiangnan during this period?"

"Xiucai rebelled, it won't work for three years, not to mention a group of short-sighted people who will only stare at their immediate interests, there is time, you can go!"

"Yes."