Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 203 I regret that I shouldn't have given the imperial examination
Regarding the matter of the imperial examination, to be honest, Liu Dapao really regrets doing it so early that he didn't think about some things clearly in advance.

As a result, now that the exams are all over, there is only the last formal palace exam left, but Chao Wenwu quarreled fiercely because of this, forcing Liu Dapao to be caught in the middle, in a dilemma.

To be honest, the real meaning of imperial examinations has never been to educate the world. The teachings of Confucius and Mencius and the study of sages are for reading, but they are useless for doing things.

To put it bluntly, the core of this thing is to provide a ladder for the middle class of society, the so-called Tianshelang in the morning, and the Tianzitang in the evening, so as to appease the local tyrants, so that after they have some money, the tyrants will go bankrupt and send their children to study. Rather than simply buying real estate.

There are some truths that Liu Dapao gradually understood after traveling. He always thought that the imperial examination was a way for the poor to counterattack. The upward ladder of society is called military merit.

Fighting on the battlefield, no matter whether your family is rich or not, whether you are a general or a grassroots refugee, it is actually the same. As long as the government is not corrupt to the root and falsifies in the entry of military merits, you can rely on military merits It is three points courage and seven points luck.

However, the imperial examination is different, because education has never been fair in ancient and modern China and abroad. How many poor children are there who can pass the exam?
The reason why chiseling a wall to borrow light can be sung through the ages is because of its rarity. The so-called poor family must at least have a door, at least to ensure that there is a field at home, and someone will cultivate the field, at least to ensure that children do not have to worry about being hungry when they are studying. abdomen.

The so-called heirs of farming and reading have always read books by themselves and hired people to cultivate the land. How many of them do farm work during the day and read poetry and books at night?Even if there was such a thing as thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge, how could he have passed the test of some rich sons and brothers who had money to hire tutors?
It has only been more than 40 years since the college entrance examination was resumed in modern society, and there are not many poor students left in Tsinghua University and Peking University, let alone ancient times?What's more, it is the imperial examination with only thirty or forty admission places in three years?
The number of Jinshi is reserved for those who can afford private tutors of great Confucianism, and even those who have been personally tutored by the chief examiners who have written the questions. This is the essence of the so-called family history.

There will definitely be exceptions, but they must be rare. The probability of a blind cat encountering a dead mouse is still very low after all.

The promotion ladder of society determines the attributes of culture, so since Empress Wu Zetian reformed the imperial examination system and entered the so-called large number of children from poor families, the country's ability to fight abroad has actually been going down. Surrounded by foreigners called Dad, in fact, Liu Dapao has always felt that if firearms had not developed by leaps and bounds in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty might not be able to catch up with the Song Dynasty, until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Cannons were also made, and the Eight Banners cavalry were put on heavy armor that the bird guns could not penetrate. The Ming army immediately showed its true colors.

The replacement of military merit by the imperial examination is what really blocks the upward ladder of the lower class. Unless nine-year compulsory education can be implemented in ancient times, cram schools are strictly abolished, and educational resources are allocated equally, otherwise, it will be difficult for poor families to get out. Takako's.

Of course, the imperial examination is also beneficial. Did it break the monopoly of the elites on the bureaucratic class? Liu Dapao also has no ability to provide nine-year compulsory education in the territory. I agree with this.

On the surface, this matter is indeed as Yu Jackie said, it is beneficial to the country, the people and himself.

Yu Minlai provided a number of ladders for advancement, and Yu Guolai played a role in selecting candidates. Those who can pass the imperial examination, even if they are the second-generation rich and second-generation officials, are at least the second-generation rich who study hard. People who study hard will definitely have the same basic ability at work. After all, nerds are a minority. Most 985 students can do better than most junior college students even if they don’t do this major.

As far as I am concerned, it just solves the serious shortage of manpower in his lineage. This group of new scholars can easily become Liu Dapao's lineage and consolidate his rule.

Both Zhao Guangyi and Wu Zetian consolidated their status by expanding the scale of the imperial examination, and they have no reason not to do so.

As a result, there were no problems in the provincial and general examinations, and no one objected to the imperial examination. This thing has been around for hundreds of years, and it is as natural as breathing in politics. No one would consider whether it is correct. The list of Jinshi came out, and suddenly a group of people reacted, so that on the issue of how to arrange these admitted people, the civil and military officials were divided into two factions, and the situation was in turmoil.

It was only at this time that Liu Dapao realized that his Daming already had another promotion ladder that was completely different from the imperial examination: stocks.

The children of the shareholders can join the Chenghai Four Guards as soldiers, especially the children of major shareholders. After joining the Jianguoying, Liu Dapao sent the best of them to study in Europe, and promised that they would give them a bright future when they came back. Kam.

In essence, there is not much difference between them and the Suwei in the Tang Dynasty. As we all know, the Beigong Suwei system and the imperial examination system are in conflict with each other. After Wu Zetian expanded the scope of imperial examination materials, the Suwei system gradually became It died out, and there was almost no such thing in the Song and Ming dynasties. It was picked up again after the Qing Dynasty and used among the Manchus.

So seeing that the list of Jinshi has come out, it is supposed to arrange for them to enter the prime minister's mansion to be the chief bookkeeper of Liu Dapao. After working for a few years, they will have work experience and understand how government affairs and bureaucratic operations are going on. After that, he was released as a local official such as the prefect and county magistrate.

But it finally made the shareholders feel wrong.

The core central power of the Ming court has always been controlled by shareholders!The game between shareholders has always been based on stocks!What's the matter with suddenly getting a group of people who came in through the exam?
Once the staff team is established, what about Jianguoying?Why did the Jianguo camp go, and where should the arrangements be made when the soldiers who had studied in Europe returned?
Isn't this the same as that all things are low-grade but reading is high? Then what is the significance of this so-called bourgeois Ming Dynasty that we have created? !

As a result, the shareholders offered advice one after another. Otherwise, these Jinshi would re-open the Hanlin Academy according to the usual practice, under the temporary management of Liu Dapao's wife, Mrs. Chen, and accompany the emperor to study Confucian classics every day, pondering over poems, songs, calligraphy, and calligraphy. painting and such.

Then, this wave of orthodox officials represented by Yu Chenglong was as anxious as being stepped on the tail.

Three-year-old children know that the empress of the Ming court is a mascot. If this is really arranged, it will be called a joke of slipping the world, and it will shake the foundation of the rule.

(End of this chapter)