I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 418

Later, Li Tian and the others discussed the school's location and teaching staff.

The problem of site selection is easy to solve. As long as the money is in place, it is basically not a problem. In addition, Li Tian has positioned it as a national policy.

With Li Tian's support, even the palace can be demolished as he pleases, and this issue was quickly finalized.

However, the selection of teaching staff is not so easy to handle.

Dozens of schools, even if one teacher teaches fifty students, at least two thousand people who have read poetry and books are needed to act as teachers.

Unfortunately, the exam will be held in February and March next year. At this time, there are a large number of scholars in the capital who are rushing for the exam.

Based on the fact that the Ming Dynasty recruited three to five hundred Jinshi each time, and the admission rate was about 5000%, there were about three to five thousand scholars in the capital at this time.

Most of these people will be eliminated.

Some people may prepare for the exam again and plan to fight again in the coming year, but most of them may return to their hometowns to find a job as a teacher or a local official.

These people have been killed by thousands of troops to the end. Although they were eliminated in the end, at least they are all elite talents with the status of a scholar.

If they were allowed to leave like this, it would be a waste of human resources.

If all of them can stay in the capital to be employed as teachers, it will not only contribute to the future education of Daming, but also give them a temporary place to stay so that they have the opportunity to participate in the next examination.

It is estimated that many people will be moved by such a good thing with multiple actions.

In the end, Li Tian also suggested that the tribute students of the Imperial College should also take turns to go to the school as guest lecturers.

At first, Yang Shiqi and others didn't quite agree.

What is a Gongsheng? They are Ming's reserve talents, they are the country's future reserve officials, and they will be high officials in the future. How can they delay their studies for trivial matters?

But Li Tian was very disgusted with this cliché, and immediately said
"What does it mean to apply what you have learned? If what they have learned is not useful, then what is the use of what they have learned."

Speaking of excitement, Li Tian ordered,
"If the Gongsheng students of Guozijian do not have more than three months' experience in teaching and educating people, they will not be hired!"

Once the imperial decree is issued, it is tantamount to a final conclusion and cannot be changed.

Yang Shiqi and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, all very speechless.

But Li Tian didn't think there was anything wrong with his will.

Most of the students in Guozijian are the children of nobles. Some of them may have the opportunity to be reused by the court after staying there for two or three years because of their family relationship.

Some have stayed for seven or eight years and still have nothing to do.

The imperial court also spends a lot of money and food to feed them every year, which is a waste of behavior.

So let them waste time on meaningless waiting, it is better to let them use their remaining heat and do what they should do.

In his opinion, in the course of three or four years of study, if this person is really talented, taking a few months or half a year to be a teacher will not have much influence on him at all.

If he failed to be admitted to Jinshi because of the delay of these few months, it can only show that he is not the material at all, and raising him is also a waste of the court's food.

In fact, there is another reason why Li Tian did this.

That is, the Guozijian at this time not only has many Ming students studying in it, but also many students from Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Siam, and even Persia.

In addition to foreigners, many of them are children of ethnic minorities.

If these foreign students can be used as teachers, it will be very helpful to increase students' knowledge and broaden their horizons.

And they can also learn more about the Central Plains culture in the process of teaching, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Guozijian has a very long history. Since the Jin Dynasty, Guozijian has existed.

The Guozixue under the Guozijian can be described as the highest institution of the dynasty.

Students all over the world are proud to join it.

This is not only because Guozixue is the highest institution of learning, but also because the chief of Guozijian has the right to directly recommend outstanding tribute students to become officials.

And Guozixue is taught by senior officials in the court. As their disciples, they are more likely to be valued by the court than other students.

Once an ordinary student enters Guozixue, it is tantamount to insurance for his official career, and his chances of becoming an official are much greater.

If the family is richer and more powerful, then entering Guozixue is tantamount to directly becoming a substitute official.

At the very beginning, Guozixue hadn't become popular yet, and the number of students studying in it was no more than 200 at most.

But with the passage of time, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the number of supervisors in Nanjing Guozijian has reached the highest peak in history, with 9000 people.

However, the imperial court only recruits three to five hundred people as officials every three years. Such a huge base, compared with the number of hundreds of people recruited, seems very bloated.

At this time, Guozixue has long since lost its name and lost its due role when it was first established.

Although it is still the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty.

But such a huge and somewhat bloated organization is impossible to cultivate real talents.

This is also the reason why Li Tian is so painful that he wants to clean up and rectify the Guozijian and Guozixue.

As the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian, Kong Yanjin can be regarded as the common teacher of these Gongsheng students, and his status is not unreasonable.

But there was nothing he could do about Li Tian's will.

He wanted to say something fair for his students, but he didn't know what to say.

Making Gongsheng from Guozijian a teacher in a new-style school is only Li Tian's first step.

In his vision, Guozixue in the future will become a comprehensive university institution where talents from all over the world gather.

These students will inevitably be impacted by new ideas in their thinking during the teaching process.

It is the main purpose of Li Tian's decree that they can make due changes under the impact of new ideas.

Although the venue, teaching content, and teaching staff have all been finalized, compulsory education is a very important matter, and it cannot be done in a day or two.

Several people discussed until late at night before finally finalizing various major issues.

Yang Shiqi and others will naturally discuss the remaining corner issues in detail, so there is no need for Li Tian to participate.

Leaving a few of them to continue discussing, Li Tian leisurely returned to the bedroom and fell asleep, as if everything had nothing to do with it.

(End of this chapter)