Cutting 1719

Chapter 633

"Essentially speaking, education itself is also an investment of resources. Most of the talents cultivated by a few broken books are just decadent scribes who can read a few words, but they are not the talents needed for national construction."

In the imperial study room, Ning Yu looked at Cui Wancai, Li Fu, Ning Zhongquan and others in front of him, and said these words calmly, without taking these people in front of him as the so-called decadent scribes who could only read a few words '.

Of course, these people here will not go to the edge of the horns. In fact, they have been in charge of the country's affairs for a long time, and the things they have experienced are naturally unimaginable for ordinary people. They will not regard special cases as common situations, and The understanding of traditional Confucianism is actually much deeper than that of Emperor Ning.

Cui Wancai still agrees with Ning Yu's meaning very much in his heart, but he is unwilling to say some things so bluntly. As for Li Fu, as the representative of Jiangxi Shilin, he disagrees somewhat, and bluntly said: "What your majesty said may make sense, but The changes in the economic system for thousands of years have already converged into this furnace, and the reform of the imperial examination can still be baited by official positions, but there is no way to start the reform of education."

Ning Yu's face was serious, he was not unhappy because of these words, in fact Li Fu's words made sense, the reason why he was able to force the reform of the imperial examination system at the beginning was because Emperor Ning really had a big stick in his hand On the other hand, because of the reform of the imperial examination system, ten times or even dozens of times the number of admission places can be used every year to win people's hearts, but even so, there has been an accident.

Of course, in the eyes of these Confucian gentlemen, they are naturally not fighting for their own interests, but purely for the sake of maintaining the sage's orthodoxy, which is a great 'sacrifice'.

But this time there is a big difference. Although Emperor Ning still has a big stick, he has lost the benefits that can win people's hearts. Even for ordinary people who can really benefit, they don't understand the new education at all the benefits of.

What?Reading can be an official?What a joke, it's all about the old man's business, if you want me to pay, don't dream!

That's right, the essence of Xinxue education is to improve the overall quality of the national population. This kind of thing is of little significance to ordinary people, because there are not so many high-income jobs that can support the cost of this kind of education. If After learning, you can only go to the ground to plan food, so learning this is a waste of money.

The reason why Ning Yu didn't propose to reform education from the beginning, but only reformed the imperial examinations, was not because he didn't want to change the status quo in one fell swoop, but because he had to eat food one bite at a time, and eating too much at once would only choke himself to death.

And the reason why he judged that the time is right now is because after ten years of development, the Industrial Revolution of Dachu has created a large number of industrial jobs and urgently needs a large number of talents. He has to let the wind out.

Ning Yu pondered for a while before explaining slowly: "I know that some things cannot be solved overnight, such as the issue of national education in front of me, but in my opinion, when thinking about this kind of development issue, the thinking must be more long-term. , may wish to deal with some things first."

Cui Wancai nodded immediately, and sighed softly: "I also agree, if you have to change it in the future, it is better to make it slowly now, at least you can better control the change."

Everyone was silent. They would not blindly oppose these things. In fact, everyone was very clear about the benefits that could be obtained from the education reform.

Ning Yu said with a soft smile: "I can now clearly tell everyone that in the future, Dachu will implement compulsory education nationwide, and then we will follow the template of Huangcheng Public School to build a complete grassroots education. There is a primary school in every township, a junior high school in every county, and a high school in every prefecture, so as to select talents for our universities.”

"At that time, any school-age child is obliged to study, and this will be written into the law. Of course, all elementary school tuition fees will be free. As for junior high school and high school, partial fees will be used."

Everyone quickly calculated silently in their hearts, and shook their heads in horror, but Li Fu smiled wryly: "If we popularize education in this way, I'm afraid it won't be enough if the imperial court's property is sold out."

Ning Yu shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "This matter requires the court to bear most of the costs. As for the construction of higher education and vocational education in addition to basic education, these need to be charged. Then in the future These students can not only enter universities by signing up for examinations, but also enter vocational colleges to provide relevant talents for industrialization."

"In addition, I gave the old scholars ten years to adjust. Now that the new learning is going to be fully popularized, I will naturally not continue to retain the old subject examination places. All the imperial examinations will be fully reformed into civil service examinations, which will be held once a year. , the number of admissions is limited to the number of places recruited by the various ministries and localities of the imperial court that year, and the content of the examination will be selected from the scope of new studies."

Speaking of this, Ning Yu showed a smile on his face, "Of course, I think that a man should not bury his head in the papers all day long, but should do some practical things, that is, there is another rule that the civil service examination is limited to 30 years old Under the age, and each student can only take the exam three times, if he fails three times, he will be 33 years old, so don't waste time and energy any more."

When everyone heard this, they were stunned. This time the reform is much more ruthless than before. Like this, almost all the old scholars who are rich and poor are probably dumbfounded. Ruined.

Sure enough, when he understood the emperor's thoughts, Li Fu's face suddenly showed a stunned expression. He walked forward at once, then knelt on the ground, and let out a mournful cry: "Your Majesty, this move is undoubtedly If I want to completely cut off my lineage of sages and sages, if I don’t agree, the scholars of the world will never agree.”

Compared with the state ten years ago, Ning Yu now has enough confidence, he just glanced at Li Fu lightly, and then sighed: "I have no intention of exterminating Confucius and Mencius, but I just hope that some things can return In his original position, Confucianism is certainly useful, but it is a philosophy after all, but it cannot be used as a guide for state affairs.”

"But. But"

Li Fu was dumbfounded. It's not that he didn't know how to refute, but at this moment, what's the point of his rebuttal?

In fact, this is not just the judgment of the emperor, but the consensus of the ruling and opposition parties in the past few years. All the officials who came out of the new learning system have almost surpassed the traditional scholars in terms of governance ability and efficiency. In addition, these people He is more rational about the development of industry and commerce, instead of being confused like the old scholars.

Ning Yu snorted coldly, waved his sleeves, and said in a deep voice: "All the merits and demerits of what I have done will be judged by future generations. The selection examination for national civil servants has become a foregone conclusion. The traditional imperial examinations will be completely abolished starting next year. The traditional scriptures and biography will be attributed to the one course of Chinese, and the score ratio is no different from other subjects.”

"I am not doing it for myself, and I will never just do it for the royal family. I hope that Da Chu can cultivate more elite talents. Only through science and technology, business management, and military service, etc., can we truly change the status quo of the country. Instead of thinking over and over again with the words of the ancestors all day long!"

"Is Your Majesty acting in too much of a hurry? If there is trouble in the world."

"Back then, I only dared to march, so what now? I won't hide it from you. The country is at peace now, and the reform of the National Defense Forces has basically been completed. If there are those crazy people who dare to jump out and try their own methods, I don't mind teaching them to use bullets and bayonets. Be a man!"

When Ning Yu's murderous words spread, the most intuitive impact was that there were more than dozens of people who chose to resign in the court the next day, and the leader of them was Cifu Li Fu, and this was his second choice Resignation, different from the previous one, this time Ning Yu didn't even make three requests and three concessions, and approved Li Fu to return to his hometown in Jiangxi for the elderly.

Just after Xu Enping, the deputy director of the attendant's room, announced the emperor's oral order, Li Fu stood aside with a lonely expression, and his students also stood behind, with a little fear and trepidation on their faces, and some People have a little bit of indignation.

"Mu Tanggong, this time is really too impulsive. Your resignation may make the New Party villains in the court proud." Xu Enping sighed slightly, and the New Party villains he mentioned were those who supported the reform of the imperial examination. Officials, they are naturally very happy about the resignation of Li Fu and others, after all, many positions have been vacated.

In fact, Li Fu was more or less regretful at this time. The reason why he resigned with so many people was originally to hope that the emperor could take back his life, but he never thought that the emperor would be so heartless this time and ignore him at all. His face just told him to go home - when he thought of this, his face became a little ugly.

Seeing that Li Fu was still going his own way, Xu Enping stopped persuading him, bowed his hands in salute, and then turned away.

After Xu Enping left, one of Li Fu's students couldn't bear it any longer. He glanced outside the door and said angrily: "The teacher is in the second assistant position and is good at state affairs, but now he is so disliked by the emperor. Not even three requests and three concessions, it really makes people lose face, isn't the teacher's virtue not enough?"

However, Li Fu sighed for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "It's meaningless to talk about it now. His Majesty's imperial examination reform itself has already given in once, and now there is no strong enemy in the country, and the authority can't be increased. Naturally. I won't let it go again—but for a teacher, how can I let it go when I'm in the second place?"

Hearing the teacher's words, the disciple couldn't help but said: "But if this is the case, His Majesty will be too disrespectful to me and other scholars. If this policy is fully passed, I am afraid that the severance of the orthodoxy in the future will only be around the corner. But why, among the princes in the court, only the teacher came out to resist the remonstrance?"

Li Fu walked into the hall with his hands behind his back, and quickly ordered his servants to pack their luggage. After everything was arranged in an orderly manner, he called his students to the study room, and said softly: "Hey, after all, this It's been a while, and now the reform of the National Defense Forces has been fully completed, and His Majesty's ability to control the army is so high that it can be said that no emperor can compare with His Majesty in this regard. The ability to reset the table, this is where His Majesty's confidence lies."

Speaking of this, Li Fu took a sip of tea and said leisurely: "As for the so-called princes of the court, where are there other princes? Most of the court is now ministers of the New Party. They have risen rapidly in the past few years, but ours But there has been no movement, and many people have even been deposed by the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and their faces couldn't help being a little ugly, and many people even let out a sigh of hatred. The situation was so corrupt, it really made them, the gentlemen of the literati, a little disheartened.

Li Fu has been keeping a cold eye on the expressions of the audience, but seeing this moment, he feels somewhat lost in his heart. It seems that even the disciples he personally taught in the past are helpless at this time, and he doesn't know where to go with his usual energy of talking Now, maybe I really have to go back to my hometown to farm earlier. Thinking of this, Li Fu suddenly became a little disheartened.

Three days later, Li Fu took his family out of the city and left Nanjing. They will return to their hometown in Jiangxi by boat from the pier. There are not many people who saw them off, only some old friends and disciples came to see them off. As for the emperor, he just sent An attendant came to see them off, and the scene was somewhat bleak for a while.

After Li Fu left, the city of Nanjing did not become quiet. On the contrary, after a series of newspapers such as "Qingliu Daily", "Business Daily", "Nanjing News" were published, it caused a new round of boiling in the city. However, these newspapers were not very opposed to the further reform of the imperial examinations, but believed that it would be difficult to popularize basic education in a short period of time, while the "Shilin Daily" euphemistically stated that the privileges of scholars should not be completely abolished, at least a little room should be left.

In the traditional society in the past, whether it was "Tian Shelang in the morning and Tianzitang in the evening", or "the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu", it was a kind of value promotion for scholars at that time. So that scholars have become a class above other people, with various privileges.

However, when Ning Yu abolished the privileges of scholars at various levels, there was only one possibility left for scholars, which was to pass the imperial examination to become an official. If there is no possibility of success, then others will look at him more or less highly, maybe one of the lucky ones will become the master?
However, when the brand-new civil servant examination was introduced, coupled with the age limit and number of examination restrictions, the dreams of all scholars were suddenly shattered, especially those older scholars, and many people jumped straight away. Jumped into the Qinhuai River!
(End of this chapter)