I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 454 I want Confucian scholars to learn practical things. If you don’t benefit the people when you are an official, it is better to go home and sell kudzu!

The emperor also mentioned some other things in the "Xiu Xue Yao", which made the reform very different!

The emperor wants to give these imperial students money and food.

Tai students receive ten hu millet of millet per month, county students receive [-] hu millet of millet per month, and county students receive [-] hu millet of millet per month.

Calculated in this way, the money and food distributed to these 15 students alone is equivalent to 70 million yuan. The annual income of Dahan Da Sinong and Shaofu is only 20 billion, and the balance is only [-] billion.

This means that just for the new policy of building schools, the emperor will spend a quarter of the Han's savings.

This emperor is really a big deal.

It's almost luxurious!

Even Wang Ji, the imperial edict, felt that one hundred thousand scholars were too many.

"Although the addition of more than [-] scholars is a ground-breaking achievement, what does Your Majesty want to have so many scholars...?"

"Of course I don't want them to debate scriptures all day long in Taixue and Junxue. Although the books of sages may contain some great meanings, they cannot withstand the hard study of hundreds of thousands of Confucian scholars all day long."

"I hope they can become the pillars of the Han Dynasty, not only understand the subtle meanings in the saints' classics, but also benefit the people of the world!"

To benefit the people of the world?

The three old men and one young man present were all Confucian scholars. After hearing the emperor's words, they immediately felt refreshed.

I don’t know why, but if the emperor wants Confucian scholars to “benefit the common people,” it actually makes these old Confucian scholars, buried among old papers, a little excited.

The four Confucian scholars in the palace sat firmly on the couch, their bodies moving forward, as if they had returned to the time in the monastery, listening carefully to the emperor's explanation of his ideas.

This involves the content of the academic system

In all Xiang studies, half of the time is spent studying Confucian classics, and the other half is spent studying any one of arithmetic, engineering, agriculture, law, and art of war.

The lecturers who teach Confucian classics are naturally Confucian scholars and Confucian teachers, and the lecturers who teach other knowledge are officials affiliated with various government offices.

For example, Bing Cao teaches military science, Nong Cao teaches agriculture, Fa Cao teaches law, and so on.

In addition to Confucianism, other societies will also gradually print out textbooks and assign them to different schools of thought - from easy to difficult.

Regardless of whether it is a county school, a county school, or a university, all students are only allowed to attend school for three years.

After three years, you can be admitted to a higher-level school, or you can go to a private private school to study on your own or suspend your studies.

When Liu He said this, he paused deliberately to let a few people slowly digest what he just said.

Compared with the education system of later generations, today's education system is extremely rough, but it is also the limit of what can be achieved under current conditions.

Just like spending half of your time studying Confucian classics, from the perspective of future generations, this is still a waste of time.

But this was a compromise that Liu He had to make in the Han Dynasty. If Liu He proposed to abolish Confucianism, the four people in front of him would kill him, the tyrant, on the spot.

Liu He could only carry out reforms, not revolution.

Reform can come from the top down, but revolution must come from the bottom up.

But among today's big men, there is no foundation for revolution.

"Your Majesty, although we want Confucian scholars to benefit the people, it is probably not an easy task for Confucian scholars in the world to learn such trivial things." Wang Shi said.

"My dear friends, I would like to ask you, if you are such young students, if you have such an opportunity, are you willing to learn it?" Liu He asked with a smile.

"This..." Several old people were suddenly speechless.

"Su Qing, if you can learn the geography and topography of the countries in the Western Regions at Taixue, would you be willing to learn it?"

"Gong Qing, if you can learn the study of criminal law at Taixue, would you be willing to learn it?"

"Master Wang, if I could learn the art of war at Taixue, would you be willing to learn it?" Liu He asked three times in a row, stopping the three old men.

After they became officials, they also learned this knowledge from subordinate officials in the government office, but it would be a good thing if they could learn it earlier.

Liu He saw the hesitant expressions on several people's faces and knew that he had guessed correctly.

In the Han Dynasty at this time, after Dong Zhongshu proposed "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", the status of Confucianism increased rapidly, surpassing the other hundreds of schools of thought.

However, because the time mentioned was not long ago, reading scriptures had not yet become the only way to become an official. Many officials relied on other skills to get into official positions.

The responsible Confucian scholars of the Han Dynasty still emphasized the Six Arts of the Gentleman, which was different from those sour scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties who only worked in eight-legged essays.

Just like Wang Ji, he is a genuine Confucian scholar, but he is also a good man in charge of military affairs, and he can even pay attention to the birth and marriage of the people.

It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the only criterion for selecting talents was truly based on the "eight-legged essay".

Before that, Confucian scholars were still willing to deal with practical matters, but they just became officials first and then studied politics.

The Han Dynasty was also a critical period for the transformation of the civil servant group: from letting a hundred flowers flourish to being only knowledgeable in Confucianism.

Therefore, Liu He must seize this key opportunity and reverse this bad trend as much as possible.

There was nothing wrong with Confucius' Confucianism, but what was wrong was the misuse of it by later generations.

After all, the students taught by Confucius included intellectuals like Zixia, businessmen like Zigong, and loyal ministers like Zilu.

"How about it? Are any of you dear friends willing to learn?" Liu He asked again.

"If I were 30 years younger, I would be willing to learn from it." Gong Sui said first.

"I also have this intention!" Wang Shi said, stroking his beard.

"The old minister also has this intention." Su Wu replied.

"Wei Chen is also willing." Yu Wuyou also said.

"Exactly, if studying doesn't benefit the people, it's better to go home and sell kudzu!" Liu He said with a smile.

These vulgar words made several ministers stunned at first, but then they felt more and more reasonable and nodded in praise.

Liu He was naturally relieved. He knew it was time to propose the imperial examination system.

"Then the academic system has been settled in this way. Now let me talk about the imperial examination system!"

"promise!"

The emperor had already passed the imperial examination a few months ago.

But the changes seen in the "Imperial Examination Meeting" today are very big, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are shocking.

So Wang Shi and others also sat upright for a while, ready to listen to the emperor's explanation.

The core of the imperial examination system is actually examination.

There is no problem with selecting talents through examinations.

The imperial examination system also had a profound impact on China and the West.

In the original timeline, during the Zhu Ming Dynasty, Europeans learned of the existence of the imperial examination system and were full of praise for it.

Among them, the most talked about among Europeans is the advantage of "open selection and merit-based admission" of the imperial examination.

Subsequently, the European states introduced the advantages of the imperial examination system and thus established their own civil service selection systems.

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