Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

After a brief arrangement, Emperor Jing happily asked, "I wonder if it's a boy or a girl?"

"Your Majesty, don't be anxious. We'll only know once it's born," Fang Zheng Yi chuckled. "Besides, I have another piece of good news for you."

"Another piece of good news? Tell me quickly."

Emperor Jing was currently feeling refreshed and completely at ease.

"Your subject... has also been blessed over here!"

"Haha, that's good, that's... what!" Emperor Jing was taken aback. "Miao Han is also pregnant!"

"She is." Fang Zheng Yi smiled, pursing his lips. "I only found out recently, and after confirming, I came to the palace to share the good news as soon as possible."

Emperor Jing paced back and forth, his face beaming with joy, almost overflowing.

Fang Zheng Yi also chuckled foolishly, as it was his first time seeing the Emperor so out of composure.

"Double happiness... this is double happiness!"

Emperor Jing laughed heartily, walked up to Fang Zheng Yi, and patted him hard on the shoulder!

"I bestow upon you a thousand bolts of brocade, and a hundred acres of fertile land, to be allocated from the imperial estates. When you return, take more tonics from the palace. Remember to tell Miao Han to take good care of herself and not to move around carelessly. Also, send a few imperial physicians over, in case she falls ill."

Fang Zheng Yi smiled, "Thank you, Your Majesty, but I have already prepared everything needed in the Princess's residence, as for rewards..."

"This is a reward for Miao Han, what does it have to do with you!" Emperor Jing glared, brooking no argument.

Originally, he just wanted to be modest, so Fang Zheng Yi quickly shut his mouth.

Awesome! Living off a woman is truly wonderful!

After Emperor Jing finished speaking, he sat back in his original position with a chuckle: "You two have finally given me something to be happy about. Bringing two great pieces of good news at once is truly rare."

"Father, don't be anxious, it's just a child, right? In the future, your son will give birth to seventeen or eighteen more, it's not a difficult task!" Li Yuan Zhao said smugly.

As he spoke, he glanced at Fang Zheng Yi, hinting.

Quickly send over two more sets of new clothes.

Fang Zheng Yi nodded slightly.

Men really do like dress-up games, everyone is the same....

Although Li Yuan Zhao was smug, Emperor Jing was in a particularly good mood, nodding with a gratified expression.

Give birth, the more the merrier!

Just don't be like himself, only raising one beast, his lungs are about to explode with anger, and he has no choice.

When Emperor Jing's emotions gradually calmed down, Fang Zheng Yi took out a memorial from his waist and handed it up.

"Your Majesty, the Academy of Sciences and the Academy are mostly built and can be put into use."

"The next step is to recruit people from the common people. Students should be selected from the common people. This is a rough outline of the regulations, please review it, Your Majesty."

Emperor Jing took the memorial and began to read it.

It was densely filled with various school rules, regulations, subjects, grades, and the criteria for selecting students into the Academy of Sciences.

"What do you mean by these basic and advanced classes?" Emperor Jing asked, puzzled.

Fang Zheng Yi said, "Your Majesty, this is just a simple classification. Students newly enrolled from the common people will inevitably have a poor foundation, so everyone must enroll in the basic class. Only after passing the exam can they advance to the advanced class, and then gradually pass exams until they reach the vocational college level. Graduates who pass their thesis or have made inventions can enter the Royal Academy of Sciences or stay at the school to teach."

"Of course, if there are exceptionally talented individuals among them, it is also possible to skip grades, and it is not impossible to advance directly from the basic class to the vocational college."

There was nothing above that, and he didn't plan to set it up according to his plan.

Although Taoyuan County had some savings, it could barely support the establishment of the Academy of Sciences.

But overall, everything was still in a basic state, and various systems still needed to be adjusted through exploration.

"Good, the planning is quite meticulous, then you can go directly to handle it first."

"Your Majesty, there is still a problem that requires Your Majesty's support," Fang Zheng Yi said.

"I am recruiting students from the common people, but the common people are divided into large and small households. Everyone has their own duties and can only do the work of their ancestors."

"But after the students are trained in the basic class, they must be shuffled and cultivated according to their talents and aspirations. If this is the case, I am afraid it will cause criticism in the court."

"Therefore, I implore Your Majesty to give the enrolled students a chance to change their household registration, so that they can study with peace of mind and avoid fear."

The so-called household categories are divided into four major categories: military households, civilian households, artisan households, and salt households, with smaller categories and subdivisions, all recorded in the Yellow Register.

All households can participate in the imperial examination, but if they fail... they can only do their own profession for the rest of their lives and cannot change it.

Of course, reality is reality, and there are always loopholes to exploit, and it is not so strict and rigid.

But the Academy is different. Large-scale enrollment and changes in household registration will inevitably lead to criticism in the court, so we must pave the way for students in advance and eliminate future troubles.

Emperor Jing was in a great mood at the moment, and it was the perfect time to make demands.

But after thinking for a long time, Emperor Jing still looked somewhat embarrassed.

This was an ancestral system, which had been implemented in this way from ancient times to the present.

"Since students in the Academy study in different categories, can't students be selected separately from each industry?"

Fang Zheng Yi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, that would be too rigid and extremely inefficient."

"The common people say that turtles are originally the same species as soft-shelled turtles, and the sons of mice dig holes. But in my opinion, this is entirely a slander against people. People's talents are not entirely determined by their origins. Even a mediocre blacksmith has the potential to become a general who has fought a hundred battles. This is also one of the reasons why I strongly demanded the establishment of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy, to select these talented people. If everything is done according to the old rules, this matter will be difficult to handle."

"That's right! Father! What Lao Fang said is correct, my talent lies on the battlefield, but unfortunately, there is no place for me to use it today!" Li Yuan Zhao couldn't help but shout.

Emperor Jing glared fiercely, then rubbed his forehead.

"Zheng Yi, you have really given me a difficult problem. Once the precedent is set, I don't know how many people in the court will have objections, and all the pressure will be on me."

Fang Zheng Yi's expression froze.

Originally, he thought that taking advantage of the good news to mention this matter would make it easier to handle, and it shouldn't be too difficult to open a separate channel for the Academy.

But this time, he obviously underestimated the power of the ancestral system.

After thinking for a moment, Fang Zheng Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that there is a place called Tianzhu."

"What does this matter have to do with Tianzhu?" Emperor Jing asked.

"Please listen to me, Your Majesty. In Tianzhu, from the moment a person is born, they are divided into four classes according to bloodline: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. This system is called caste."

"These four classes of people can only stay within their own class for the rest of their lives, with no hope of advancement. The upper-class people treat the lower-class people like pigs and dogs, and the lower-class people are content with their fate."

Emperor Jing suddenly realized and frowned, "Are you trying to say that the difference in household registration is the same as the caste system?!"

"That's outrageous! My Great Jing has the imperial examination system, and any commoner can be promoted through the imperial examination. Moreover, people who read and understand reason take the rise and fall of the world as their own responsibility. How can it be compared to a laughable Tianzhu?"