Zhenwu Tianxia: Summon Yuwen Chengdu at the beginning

Chapter 224 Reform follow-up
All the important court officials were forced by Qin Wei to stay overnight in the front hall of the imperial city. The next morning, the governor's office of the five armies and the six ministers left the imperial city with the imperial decree and official documents of the cabinet in their hands.

Then there was a lot of nonsense.

Starting from the six yamen, within an hour, all kinds of news spread throughout the entire capital, and spread towards all directions of the capital at an unbelievable speed.

However, compared with the dissemination of news, the transmission of official documents by the imperial court was faster. Under Qin Wei's will, all post stations distributed official documents to all states, prefectures and counties at a speed of eight hundred miles.

In just five days, the official document on the promotion of Yanwu Pavilion and taxation reform was delivered to all the prefectures and counties in Dali.

In the face of the sudden official document, the government offices and county government offices in various places were in a panic again.

The prefects and county magistrates looked at the official documents, sweating profusely.

It's okay to say that the promotion of Yanwu Pavilion, if Chaotang asks them to do it, they just do it.

However, this tax reform has a great impact, and they don't know how much trouble it will cause once it is implemented.

However, Qin Wei's decree requires that all the prefectures and counties in the country should measure all the world within three months, that is to say, they only have three months. Sabotage, that is to punish the three clans.

"Why is this, Your Majesty?"

"Does Your Majesty want to force against the people of the world?"

The first thought of many officials when they saw the official document was that the emperor Qin Wei was crazy.

However, the crazier things had just begun. While the prefects and county magistrates were still hesitating, waist cards were delivered to them one after another.

The waist card of the Imperial City Division!
This means that the Secretary of the Imperial City is already in place, and if he dares to violate the law, he will report it to His Majesty the Emperor.

Qin Wei is well aware of the local government's passive sabotage routine, and knows that the officials of the imperial court are the biggest obstacles to tax reform, because all officials are tax-exempt and privileged, and if Qin Wei wants to carry out tax reform, he must first subdue these officials.

The waist badge of Huangcheng Division is a whip, which drives the officials away.

Holding the badge of the Imperial City Division, prefects and county magistrates from all over the country finally had to start measuring the land.

However, the day after the official document was issued, Qin Wei came to the Imperial College.

Accompanied by Confucian Master Yan Zhen, Confucian Young Master Wang Shouren, and Guozijian Jijiu Fu Chengyi.

After everyone saw the ceremony, Qin Wei toured Dali Guozijian accompanied by the three of them.

Looking at the groups of scholars in the Imperial College and the literary atmosphere behind him, Qin Wei felt very satisfied.

Dali's scholars are not that kind of nerds, nor are they a bunch of rotten scholars.

In Dali, scholars have two paths to follow, one is to pass the imperial examination to become an official in the court, and the other is to study Confucian classics painstakingly and become a Confucian cultivator.

In fact, in Guozijian, Confucianism cultivators are more popular than officials, which may be influenced by Yan Zhen.

"Fu Aiqing, how many students and professors are there in the Guozijian?"

Qin Wei looked at the towering library and asked casually.

"Returning to Your Majesty, there are currently more than [-] students in the Imperial College, and more than [-] professors." Fu Chengyi said.

Qin Wei's expression moved slightly.

There are only [-] students, but [-] professors.

This may sound a bit wrong, but in fact this is the real situation of Guozijian.

There are few students because it is not easy to be admitted to the Imperial College, and there are many professors because these professors are Confucian scholars.

Professors do not refer to university professors, but refer to faculty members in government schools, who are divided into doctors, teaching assistants, and direct lecturers.

According to different subjects taught, the grades are not exactly the same. For example, a doctor of Guozixue is at the top of the fifth rank, a doctor of Taixue is at the top of the sixth rank, a doctor of legal science is at the bottom of the eighth rank, and a doctor of calligraphy and arithmetic is at the ninth rank. Down.

In fact, there are a large group of professors in Dali. Starting from the Imperial College, there are more than [-] professors in prefectural schools and county schools. These talents are the backbone of Dali Confucianism.

However, most of them are just hanging jobs and have no teaching tasks.

In other words, most professors only take their salaries and do not work.

This is why the Imperial College has more than 4000 professors.

Qin Wei was not dissatisfied with this, but he felt that it was a bit wasteful for so many people not to work.

Qin Wei thought for a while and said, "The tax reform has already started. When the tax reform is over, I plan to carry out the reform of the imperial examinations and government schools!"

"How does Your Majesty plan to reform?" Yan Zhen beside her couldn't help asking.

Now he is a little afraid of Qin Wei, His Majesty the Emperor, not because of how powerful Qin Wei is, but because Qin Wei can do things.

It has only been a long time since he was enthroned, and tax reform is going to be carried out. This is really not something ordinary people can do.

Qin Wei said with a smile: "The reform of government schools can be divided into three steps. The first step is to send government schools to the countryside. To put it simply, government schools are established in every village, that is, township schools. Township schools do not teach Confucian classics. It’s just enlightenment, mainly based on reading, literacy and arithmetic.”

"The second step is the reform of county schools, based on Confucian classics, adding medicine, arithmetic, astronomy, geography and other subjects."

"The third step is the selection of officials and the reform of the imperial examination. In the future, the official rank will be increased from twelve ranks, and the ranks will be set for government offices, county government officials, and servants."

"The selection of officials is based on the imperial examination. All states, prefectures, and counties can conduct imperial examinations. The content of the examination is mainly based on specific positions."

Qin Wei has many ideas. The so-called government school reform is to eliminate illiteracy, but it is still too early to talk about literacy. Even if there are schools all over Dali, it is difficult to achieve 100% literacy.

His idea is to make the literacy rate of all the people in Dali reach 30.00% within ten years and 30% within 80.00 years.

As for compulsory education, don't think about it for the time being, and we will talk about it when the time comes. After all, compulsory education costs too much.

If common people can't even afford pens, ink, paper and inkstones, how can they talk about compulsory education?

The reform of the imperial examination was established by Qin Wei referring to the civil servant examination system in his previous life, and included minor officials.

Small officials are the foundation of the imperial court, iron-clad yamen, flowing officials.

In a county government, the county magistrate is the biggest official, but it is the small officials and government servants who actually handle affairs. They have direct contact with the people, and they represent the court in front of the people.

If you want to rule the world, you must get rid of the diseases of officials and Xu.

Qin Wei's imperial examination is to solve this problem.

Of course, Qin Wei also understands that it is difficult to change this problem, but even if it is just a little change, it will be a great thing for all the people in Dali.

After Yan Zhen listened to his words, she fell into a daze.

Is this okay?
Sounds good, but it seems difficult to do.

It is definitely a good thing for government schools to go to the countryside, but the money spent on building so many rural schools is incalculable, and the maintenance of so many rural schools requires even more money.

"Your Majesty, governing a big country is like cooking a small dish! Everything should be done gradually," Yan Zhen said.

Qin Wei glanced at him, "It takes ten years to grow trees, and a hundred years to cultivate people. I plan to complete the reform of official education within ten years, but I plan to start the reform of imperial examinations within three years."

"Three years is the time limit set by me. Three years of turmoil are exchanged for Dali's century of prosperity in the future. It is worth it."

"Even if the world is turned against me, I will create a bright and bright universe again!"

Qin Wei has already made a plan, and inherited the throne in a legitimate way, which saved him a lot of trouble, but there are many internal disadvantages in Dali, Qin Wei plans to use all the saved manpower and material resources on the reform of Dali.

Now he is not afraid of someone rebelling, and he even hopes that someone will rebel, just for him to clean up some of the dirt inside Dali.

During the reform, he established his imperial power. After the reform, the whole Dali will be his voice.

With one word, the world obeys.

He didn't even think about overthrowing Dali's feudal system, he just wanted to give ordinary people more opportunities to rise and make use of Dali's population advantage.

With a huge population base and a reasonable talent selection system, Dali will definitely produce countless talented people.

It's not that everyone is like a dragon, but that everyone has a chance to become a dragon.

With the Yitian Chessboard, Qin Wei is not afraid that someone will be strong enough to threaten him, so he naturally hopes that more powerful talents will emerge from Dali.

If Dali can have tens of thousands of innate warriors in the future, then why should he be afraid of Qiongtian Sea Territory and Dongfang Clan?

Qin Wei's words made Yan Zhen and Fu Chengyi look at each other in blank dismay.

It's not like they haven't seen a crazy emperor before. When the old emperor implemented the martial law, he was crazy enough.But compared with Qin Wei today, Shangwu Ling is nothing more than a piece of cake.

Yan Zhen thought for a while, then looked at Wang Shouren next to her, but Wang Shouren didn't care what Qin Wei said at all.

The chess pieces are Qin Wei's most staunch supporters, they have absolute loyalty to Qin Wei, they will give advice for Qin Wei, but they will not influence Qin Wei's decision.

Wang Shouren also couldn't understand Qin Wei's specific thoughts, but this did not prevent him from supporting Qin Wei.

Seeing Wang Shouren like this, Yan Zhen didn't know what to say for a while.

Wang Shouren is his most valued inheritor, and in his opinion, the future of Dali Confucianism lies in Wang Shouren.

After pondering for a while, Yan Zhen said, "I will fully support Your Majesty!"

Fu Chengyi next to him was in disbelief when he heard the words.

Pros and cons are not important, what is important is that there are many unstable factors in Qin Wei's thinking, based on his understanding of Yan Zhen, Yan Zhen is a person who does not like turmoil.

Currently Dali Confucianism Cultivator is in a very good situation, and all the contestants are good. Logically speaking, Yan Zhen has no reason to support Qin Wei's reform.

But now Yan Zhen actually wanted to fully support Qin Wei, which made Fu Chengyi unable to understand.

"With Master's words, I feel relieved."

"Right now, I happen to have one thing that needs my master's support." Qin Wei said with a smile.

"Just do as His Majesty tells you." Yan Zhen said.

Qin Wei looked up at the clear sky, and said with a smile: "I need the Imperial Academy to prepare three thousand students who can enter the court as officials."

"Uh! Your Majesty why?" Yan Zhen asked in surprise.

"There is never a shortage of people who are not open-eyed in this world. There must be a lot of dirty people among the officials in all states, prefectures and counties. I really hope that after I cut them off, the students of the Imperial College can step up and continue the reform of the court." Qin Wei explained.

From top to bottom, Dali Chaotang's current dominance over the local area is still very strong, but it is inevitable that some people will obey others.

So Qin Wei had already prepared the butcher knife, and he would never be relentless when it was time to kill.

But some things don't just need to be done by killing people. After killing people, someone needs to do the follow-up things.

Guozijian is the largest training base for officials in Dali. Although the students of Guozijian have no experience in being an official, they are simple and easier to use than those veterans in the officialdom.

That's why Qin Wei thought that when there was a shortage of people, he would let the students from the Imperial Academy take over.

Of course, the students of Guozijian will definitely not be able to hold important positions at the beginning, such as chief officials such as county magistrates and prefects, but it is still possible to be some second officials.

Yan Zhen nodded slightly and said, "I will personally arrange this matter."

"That's very good." Qin Wei nodded.

Yan Zhen is a sensible person, and he now understands that Qin Wei's power is unstoppable now that Dali is in court.

Some things can be said, and some grievances can also be raised, but what should be done must be done according to Qin Wei's requirements.

(End of this chapter)