Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 359
As a later generation, Sun Xiangfu is well aware of the impact of the imperial examination on ancient times, both good and bad. It gave hope to all scholars. However, because of its heyday, this nation lost a lot of things.

The martial style of the Han and Tang Dynasties gradually disappeared precisely because of the prevalence of imperial examinations.

Scholars completely ruled everything in this nation, and the final result was that the Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, allowing barbarians to rule this nation that should have dominated the world, and let the Chinese civilization that should have developed rapidly and advanced , a brief setback occurred.

What is the root problem?
Everything in the world is for profit, and to put it bluntly, it is profit.

After studying the book and taking the test of fame, you can be a master, and everything else is inferior, so why don't you just study this stuff to your death?
In Sun Xiangfu's view, it's not that the Confucianism studied by these ancient people is so poisonous to people. After all, those who have truly realized the correct thinking advocated in Confucianism are almost all those who have a positive effect on the ancient country.

The poisonous point is that the imperial examination, it just makes people who can read become masters.

Those who can read are not necessarily those who can do things, but what the country needs most are those who can do things.

In this era when local officials dominate most local affairs, a chief official who can do things and a chief official who can only read books but can't do things are in power, and the effect is very different.

Sun Xiangfu believes that since the purpose of the imperial examination is to select officials for the imperial court, it should select officials needed by the country.

He knows how to do things, but he can't realize how many strategies he has in his head. If someone like Zhao Kuo who talks about military affairs on paper, becomes a politician, he will only harm the country.

However, the practical ability of ancient scholars was often poor, because they gave up a lot of other knowledge in order to read good books.
Just like the students who just graduated from school in later generations, they only learned a set of theoretical knowledge. Most people still need their parents to take care of them in their daily lives. Can you directly let him be the leader of a large company?

The result is basically messing up the company, and applying it in ancient times, it is these nerds who will harm the people all over the place.

Therefore, the first thing Sun Xiangfu needs to change is the mode of the imperial examination, and only regard it as an entrance examination for a scholar to obtain an internship in education and politics, which is more in line with the needs of the country.

In the elite society of later generations, what kind of people do companies and government departments like to use the most?

The answer is that in the internship work, the college students who perform better.

These interns with better performance basically have the ability to do the job, and they are very adjustable and adaptable.

The first imperial examination implemented in the Zhenguan Dynasty will have an impact on the entire future of the Tang Dynasty. It is best to establish a good system and set a good direction from the very beginning.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty got rid of the system of promoting filial piety and honesty that led to a large number of aristocratic families, and the Sui Dynasty got rid of the fake imperial examination system that led to the aristocratic families controlling the court, and Sun Xiangfu could not use it.

"Xiao Xiang thinks that anyone who is a scholar can be a good official?"

"This······"

Xiao Yu was at a loss for words. In fact, this question could not be answered at all. There is no good definition of being an official and being a good official.

"So, in order to ensure that the imperial court can get more good officials who can do things and do things as much as possible, after discussing with His Majesty, the lower officials decided to select scholars according to the needs of the imperial court. Moreover, the selection of scholars does not directly let them become officials, but just give them A diploma, with this diploma, they can go to various departments of the imperial court that need manpower to study and practice.

The executives of the department are graded by the supervisor in charge and the brother departments that have affairs with this department. The local interns are graded by the leaders at the higher level and the local people under management.

Only those with high enough scores will be awarded official ranks by the imperial court, and before being appointed as officials, these interns can only receive basic living allowances from the imperial court, which is almost enough to meet basic necessities of life.

Candidates who only got a diploma but did not participate in the implementation do not have any subsidies. "

In the dynasties after the Tang Dynasty, once a scholar got a position in the scientific examination, he would ascend to heaven alone. A scholar would have enough food to eat at birth, and he would be exempted from the tax of the whole family. You can get a good salary.

It is not advisable for these scholars to be promoted to the class of rice worms in an instant through the gate of the imperial examination. It is only natural to get money for working, and for not working.

"This is a good strategy. In this way, no matter whether you are a scholar with talent or not, you can take the exam and try your own knowledge level. The imperial court can use the reference scale to get a feel for the number of talents in the country. end.

And letting those who really want to do things and can do things become officials will keep those people who have learned but not true from the court, and invisibly break the control of high-ranking officials and aristocratic families on the imperial examination. "

As a member of the grassroots class, Ma Zhou had the deepest understanding of what Sun Xiangfu said, and couldn't help but praise him loudly.

After hearing Ma Zhou's admiration, Xiao Yu, who is not low in IQ, quickly figured out everything, and said, "In this case, this article will be deleted directly, so that all applicants can take the exam, but, I am afraid that the test papers need to be prepared more, and the workload of marking the papers will also be huge."

"There is no need for Xiao Xiang to worry about the examination papers. No matter how many examination papers there are, how many newspapers can be passed? There are paper-making workshops and printing workshops, and Dudu Sun can provide as many examination papers as you want, but in terms of grading papers, I'm afraid it will really trouble you. Now, if there are too many officials involved in grading papers, it will be difficult to manage, and I'm afraid that some people will deliberately suppress poor families and promote their own people." Ma Zhou continued to answer Xiao Yu's words.

The number of officials in the imperial court is their greatest advantage. Even if your production settings are perfect, they can destroy them for you through their rights. Once there are a few people with five surnames and seven families People, then, all the candidates from their families will pass, and those from poor families may not even be qualified to become interns.

Regarding this aspect, Sun Xiangfu naturally had a countermeasure long ago, saying, "This is actually not difficult, as long as the anonymous system is adopted, the examiners will not be able to distinguish.

Moreover, our examination papers, in many subjects, are graded according to the standard answers, and the average score is used for strategy or answer questions, that is, each examiner will score one point, remove the highest score, remove the lowest score, and the remaining scores , Calculated by the average, whether the test is good or not, calculated by the score, who can pass or not, it is clear at a glance by looking at the score. "

Hearing this, Xiao Yu was stunned and said, "The system of ambiguous names? That is to say, the examiners don't know which candidate the test paper belongs to?"

Sun Xiangfu smiled and nodded, "Exactly."

Ma Zhou applauded again and said, "Wonderful, if this is the case, it will further reflect my purpose of promoting talents in scientific research."

Xiao Yu understood in seconds, nodded and said, "This way, it's more fair. Let's see if there are any other areas that need to be improved in the system."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu continued to look down, only to see the second item, then shook his head again and said, "Xiao Xiang, I'm afraid that all the plans you made before will have to be overthrown and restarted."

"Why?"

Sun Xiangfu pointed to the second way, "There is a problem with the content of your exam. Although the exam subjects are divided into more than 50 kinds, in fact, except for clear calculation and clear law, which have a certain degree of professionalism, the rest are all items. The subjects are all literature.

The imperial court's imperial examination is not only recruiting teachers of literature, but recruiting talents who can be used by the court in all aspects. Therefore, such as poetry, scriptures, articles, ink meanings, etc., all should be set as one subject. It is enough for their written expression ability to pass the test.

For the rest, it can be classified as one subject.

Mingfa can be classified as a subject.

Even subjects like medicine, engineering, and business can be taken out for exams and can be independently defined as one subject.

Because, if a person reaches a certain level in these professions, he can actually become an official of the imperial court.

For example, in the Department of Mingshu, you only need to master the basic knowledge of characters and have excellent calculation ability. You can enter the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War and other departments in the center, and you can take up positions such as meritorious service in various ministries at the local level, because these officials , In fact, they are all doing calculations, collecting accounts, cashiers, etc., and being able to calculate and write reports is enough.

Candidates who are relatively strong in Ming Law can go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and the Procuratorate of Yushitai.

Medicine, engineering, and business can all play a role for the country in their respective fields. For example, the Weinan New City presided over by King Bin lacks a large number of talents who are good at these three subjects..."

The more Sun Xiangfu talked to the back, the faster Xiao Yu and Ma Zhou nodded. They are in charge of the government and specific affairs, but they know better than Sun Xiangfu what kind of subordinates they need. It is really what Sun Xiangfu said On Xiao Yu's side, there is already a big shortage of people who settle accounts and understand the law.

As for Ma Zhou, talents in industry, commerce, medicine, etc. are in short supply. If laymen bite the bullet and manage things they don't understand, the efficiency and effectiveness will definitely not be as good as those of experts.

However, when Sun Xiangfu uttered his overall plan, Xiao Yu became silent. After staring at Sun Xiangfu with a pair of dim eyes for a long time, he said, "This imperial examination can be done according to Zhengming's idea." However, these ideas have nothing to do with you, they are all designed by the old man and promoted with all his strength, do you understand?"

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was stunned. Could it be that Xiao Yu is also a shameless person who likes to grab other people's copyrights and ideas like Yu Chigong?

Then, Ma Zhou, who had been listening with gusto, pondered for a few seconds with a serious face, bowed his hands solemnly and bowed to Xiao Yu, and said, "Mr. Xiao is highly righteous."

Seeing Ma Zhou's posture, Sun Xiangfu suddenly understood something, hurriedly cupped his hands, and bowed Xiao Yu at ninety degrees in a proper manner.

For the sake of Datang, this old man is going to pay again. Reform has never lacked good methods. However, most of the good methods may not be implemented in the reform, because it will touch the interests of many people.

Sun Xiangfu changed the imperial examination system formed in the former Sui Dynasty beyond recognition, which would deeply touch the interests of the aristocratic family. Even if they were about to enter the dormant period, they might not be able to allow it, because in the long run, it would shake their foundation.

As for Xiao Yu, he chose to stand up and bear the blame of offending all the aristocratic families. This kind of blame is not easy to bear, at least, he will not be able to fulfill his position as a prime minister.

(End of this chapter)