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Speaking of which, Qian Qianyi took the initiative to surrender shortly after Liu Sheng took control of Nanjing, and later took the lead in drafting the "Discussing the Ming Dynasty", which was already hated by some scholars.

But after all, they are only a small group of scholars who are foolish, loyal and wise.

If people in the world mistakenly think that he was the one who suggested that Liu Sheng cancel the imperial examination, the people who hate him will be all the "older generation" scholars in the world - people who studied hard for many years in a poor family just to pass the imperial examination and become an official, but because of his suggestion, he was Years of hard work have been wasted, how can you not hate him?

Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi subconsciously wanted to refute Liu Sheng's words.

As soon as he raised his head, he met Liu Sheng's deep and sharp gaze, as well as the vague smile at the corner of his mouth.

He understood immediately.

Liu Sheng deliberately used his words to draw the conclusion that "official education declined due to the selection of scholars through the imperial examination."

If he refuted Liu Sheng, let alone whether he could refute it, even if he won the argument, wouldn't he be resented by Liu Sheng?

If scholars all over the world hate him, the most they can do is verbally criticize him, which will not kill him; but if Liu Sheng hates him, then they will really use knives and guns.

With his mind wandering, Qian Qianyi realized that he was probably going to end up on the road of Da Yi Chengchen.

He simply gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Your Majesty is wise and wise. The decline of official education in the previous Ming Dynasty was indeed mainly due to the selection of scholars through the imperial examination. Therefore, if we want to establish a system of educating talents in schools, we must abolish the imperial examination!"

Hearing Qian Qianyi say these words, many officials in the Wenhua Palace looked sideways, showing surprise and even shock.

Even Li Changwen is no exception.

Liu Sheng's mouth showed a bright smile.

What is awareness of current affairs?

Qian Qianyi This is called knowing current affairs.

At the same time, Liu Sheng also understood why many emperors liked to use sycophants, especially those with brains and ability, because such people are good at figuring out and catering to the holy will, and it is really comfortable to use them.

Some of the ministers present at the meeting came to their senses and immediately couldn't help but admonish.

"Your Majesty, the imperial examination has been a tradition for thousands of years, and it is the expectation of scholars all over the world. We must not cancel it!"

"There may be disadvantages in selecting scholars through the imperial examination, but generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."

"If the imperial examination is not used to select talents, how will the imperial court select talents? We can't restore the recommendation system, right?"

"···"

Liu Sheng had no intention of directly canceling the imperial examination. He just borrowed Qian Qianyi's words to come to that conclusion. In addition to revealing to the ministers that he had such thoughts, the second step was to test.

Although there were no important ministers such as ministers and ministers among the opponents at this time, there were not many in number.

And these are only people from the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Finance, not all courtiers. This shows the great resistance to canceling the imperial examination.

Having achieved his goal, Liu Sheng waved his hands and said: "The pros and cons of the imperial examination, as well as whether to cancel the imperial examination, can be discussed another day.

But regardless of whether the imperial examination is used to select scholars, the imperial court has said that schools will be established, so the ministers should discuss the school system in the documents. "

With Liu Sheng's prestige, he had already said this, so naturally no one dared to entangle himself with the imperial examination. They all immediately took the documents in hand and discussed the school system above.

Da'ei's school system was still based on Liu Sheng's reference to the school system of later generations, but some adaptive changes were made.

Generally speaking, Dawei schools will be divided into three years from low to high: junior primary school for three years, high school for three years, junior high school for three years, high school for three years, and finally college for three to five years.

As for the scale of local government-run schools, it is tentatively determined that each township has at least one junior primary school; each county has at least two junior primary schools and one senior primary school.

Each prefectural city has at least two junior high schools and one high school; each provincial city has at least two high schools and one university.

This requirement can be said to be very low.

Because it had only been two years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the country had not yet been truly unified, even if the court attached great importance to education, the funds it could allocate were quite limited. Not to mention, school education in Dayei no longer only teaches Confucianism like the official schools of the pre-Ming Dynasty, but science.

As for how the subjects and courses in schools at all levels will be roughly set up, this document also has a preliminary plan.

Many ministers attending the meeting noticed that the Confucian-related content such as the Four Books and Five Classics taught in official schools in the past was placed in the "Chinese" subject, and it was not all Chinese.

Because Chinese subjects also teach poetry, official document writing and other content.

As for the specific settings of school subjects at all levels, take junior primary school as an example: only two subjects, Chinese and mathematics, are offered.

The upper primary schools offer six subjects: Chinese, mathematics, art, music, physical education, and science. Chinese and mathematics are the main subjects, and the other four are secondary subjects. They occupy very few class hours, basically one day a week or one day a day. The look is better than nothing.

The junior high school offers a total of eleven courses including Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, ideological and political education, geography, art, music, and physical education.

However, only the first eight subjects are main courses, and the last three are secondary courses. The test scores for the secondary courses are only for reference and will not be used to determine upgrades or further studies.

The school conducts regular exams, and in order for students to advance, they must obtain a certain score in the final exam.

The same goes for higher education.

When seeing this, some officials couldn't help but frown, feeling that there are too many junior high school courses, and it is easy for students to learn more miscellaneously than to be proficient.

But when they continued to look back, they discovered that Liu Sheng had already considered it.

Because in high school, in addition to Chinese and mathematics, which are still compulsory main courses, the other six main courses are divided into two categories: physics, chemistry, and biology as science subjects, and history, geography, and ideological and political education as liberal arts subjects. Students only need to choose Just study in the liberal arts and sciences category.

As for university courses, this document did not mention it, but Nanjing University is about to start its semester. Officials can easily learn about the courses offered by Nanjing University as long as they are interested...

Jiang Dejing could see that the school system in the documents was quite mature and complete, but he still had many doubts about how the imperial court would use this method to select talents in the future.

Seeing that Qian Qianyi, Wang Duo and others had no intention of asking, Jiang Dejing could only sigh lightly, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, can these students who have been trained through the school system take part in the imperial examination?

In other words, what is the difference between them and the Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren and Jinshi who were selected through the imperial examination?

In the future, when the imperial court selects officials, should they be selected from among these people, or from among candidates and Jinshi? "

The other ministers in the palace were shocked when they heard this, because they knew that Jiang Dejing had got to the point.

Liu Sheng said: "This is not what we want to discuss today, but since Minister Jiang asked about it, I might as well talk about it first.

In my opinion, the imperial examination is actually a kind of examination, and the school is a place to cultivate talents. The two are not the same thing, so they do not hinder each other.

In other words, a scholar can receive scientific education in school and be promoted according to the school system, but in the meantime, he can also take the imperial examination if he wants to. ",

Hearing this, many officials in the Wenhua Palace, including Li Changwen, looked thoughtful.

Think about the difference between the school system and the pre-Ming government system.

In fact, you don’t need to think too much about it, the difference is very obvious - in the former Ming Dynasty, official schools relied on the imperial examination to select students; while upgrading and further education in the school system were determined by another set of examinations, which were completely separate from the imperial examination.

After thinking about this, many officials couldn't help but their eyes lit up, thinking that this move was really wonderful.

But there is also a key issue involved here, even a core issue, and that is how to select officials.

For a moment, all the ministers in the hall looked at Liu Sheng with a listening attitude, waiting for his answer.

Liu Sheng met the eyes of the ministers, smiled slightly and said: "As for how to select officials for the imperial court, it is actually very simple. Just take the exam."

Have another exam?

Almost no one thought of this answer and couldn't help but be stunned.

Immediately, they imagined the life of scholars under Liu Sheng's talent selection system, and suddenly felt numb.

I thought to myself: If His Majesty is right, if future generations of scholars want to be officials, won't they have to be "roasted"? (End of chapter)