Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 850, the turmoil subsides

Along with the general strike in the Beijing-Tianjin area, Emperor Hongzhi and the court quickly responded.

First of all, he affirmed the new-style schools, expressed that he would not close or prohibit the opening of new-style schools, and believed that the new-style schools are an important place and channel for ordinary children to seek knowledge and truth, acquire knowledge, realize life leaps, and establish correct thoughts and concepts.

The emperor loves the people like this, and the imperial court also cares about the education of poor children in the folk. It affirms and supports the new schools to teach and educate children for free.

In the future, the son of Ming Dynasty will also spend a lot of millions of taels of silver to open new schools every year to promote the development of education in the Ming Dynasty, so that more poor children can have the opportunity to go to school, have the opportunity to read and write, and strive for a better life in the future. One day, there were no illiterate people in Da Ming.

The affirmation and support of the new school by the emperor and the imperial court instantly won the approval of the people in Beijing and Tianjin. As soon as the news spread, countless people knelt down to the location of the imperial palace and shouted long live.

At the same time, everyone quickly returned to their posts. Factories, workshops, commercial firms, sea ships, etc. also quickly started to operate again. Everyone was full of energy, praised the present day, and was full of affirmation for the court princes.

However, this caused great dissatisfaction among the Confucian school. The scholars of the Imperial College and the candidates who came to take the exam were very dissatisfied with this. The emperor and the court not only failed to close these new schools according to their requirements, but even affirmed them. And support, and even vigorously promote new schools.

Doesn't this completely ignore their voices?
But soon, Emperor Hongzhi and the court gave them another date to eat.

First of all, it affirms the importance of Confucianism, and believes that all dynasties have governed the country with Confucianism, and the Ming Dynasty will not change its course because of this, and will always and continue to strengthen the idea of ​​​​ruling the country with Confucianism.

Therefore, the selection and recruitment of officials after the Ming Dynasty will continue the traditional imperial examination system, and there will be no fluctuations. All students who graduate from new schools will not be able to participate in the imperial examination.

This is official affirmation and support, and the meaning is very simple.

That is to tell these people of Confucianism that the emperor and the court need you and know your importance. After that, the selection and employment of officials will still follow the previous system, and students in new schools will not participate in the imperial examination.

To put it simply, new-style schools are to be promoted, but they are for the purpose of teaching the children of ordinary people to read and write. The requirements should not be too high, as long as they can read and write and master some skills.

To really govern the country and assist the king, you still need Confucian people, because you read the Four Books and Five Classics, you learn the true meaning of the philosophers, you understand etiquette, justice, shame, the way of the monarch and ministers, and you are better than the students from the new school. , the emperor needs you, and the governance of Daming needs you.

Such affirmations and regulations finally calmed down the Confucianists.

Um, um, yes, we Confucian scholars must be taller than ordinary people, the emperor and the court cannot do without us, and the governance of Ming Dynasty cannot do without us.

Without us, how would Ming be governed?

How should the emperor govern the country?

We read the Four Books and Five Classics and the true meaning of the philosophers, we understand the way of the monarch and his ministers, we know the past and the present, how can those who study in new schools can compare.

That's how it should be. Students from these new-style schools cannot be allowed to take the imperial examination. It is more suitable for us Confucian students to become officials and assist the king.

The purpose of opening a new-style school is to enable ordinary children to be able to read and write, and to master some explanations of skills, which is also acceptable to them.

No matter what, everyone has the right to education. It is good for poor children to read some books and know some characters. They can know some thoughts of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and some loyalty, filial piety and righteousness. This is also helpful for them to manage Ming Dynasty .

It calmed the anger of Confucianism, gave Confucianism affirmation, and guaranteed the status of Confucianism.

In addition, in the end, the imperial court also said that in the future, it will allocate millions of taels of silver every year to build and maintain the opening and operation of traditional private schools and academies, so that more children can learn the true meaning of Confucianism.

In this way, the people of Confucianism can be regarded as completely calmed down.

It has been affirmed and guaranteed, and supported and developed. What is there to be dissatisfied with? Only a very small number of sour and rotten scholars are still persevering in writing letters to Emperor Hongzhi.

It is hoped that the new schools will be shut down, or these new schools will be turned into traditional private schools and academies to teach the Four Books and Five Classics and the true meaning of the philosophers.

But this was quickly met with strong opposition from others.

It is already very difficult to take the imperial examination. Thirty young Jinshi and fifty old Mingjing are enough to explain the difficulty of the imperial examination, just like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.

Fortunately for you, there is still the conversion of these new-style schools into traditional private schools and academies. By then, the number of people taking the imperial examination will increase tenfold, hundredfold, and thousandfold.

I am afraid that by that time, there will be no more than thirty young Jinshi and fifty old Mingjing. Some people may not even be able to pass the exam for a lifetime.

You must know that there are thousands of students in a new-style primary school, and some large primary schools even have two to three thousand students. There are dozens of new-style schools in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, and hundreds of thousands of students study there.

If all of them were turned into private schools and academies, even if the imperial court allocated ten times more places to Beizhili, it would probably turn into a hell mode.

The handling of the emperor and the court is very appropriate.

The students in the new-style schools are trained to master skills and to facilitate future work. The students trained in this private school and academy are to take the imperial examinations and become officials to assist the king in governing the country in the future.

Two routes, different directions, coexist with each other, which is very good.

Of course, it doesn't take much to become an official and assist the emperor. It is enough for them to come from the traditional big landlords, big gentry, and big bureaucratic families.

As for the general public, it is good to know some characters, read some books, and understand some principles, so that they can do things better. As for assisting the king and governing the world, forget it.

Things and turmoil gradually subsided, and the Beijing-Tianjin area once again returned to the hustle and bustle of the past. At the same time, the imperial examinations in the year of Renxu began soon.

Everyone's attention was quickly drawn to the imperial examinations. The three-yearly Ceremony of Ethics and Talents, a grand gathering of gifted scholars and beauties, always had endless stories to talk about.

What's more, this time, the imperial court has set up a new east list, which gathers candidates from the Nanyang provinces, Liaodong, grasslands, Western Regions, and Ming vassal states together.

This is the first three-list imperial examination in the history of Ming Dynasty, so everyone in Ming Dynasty, even at home and abroad, is paying attention to the situation of this imperial examination.

The appointment of Liu Jian as the chief examiner of the cabinet is enough to show that the court attaches great importance to this time, and the chief minister of the cabinet is directly asked to be the chief examiner. You must know that the general chief minister of the cabinet is the prince and grand master, and this is for the emperor to be a teacher. In the past, there were very few, very few people who came directly to be the examiner.

This time, Emperor Hongzhi asked Liu Jian to be the chief examiner, which is enough to show how much the emperor and the court attached importance to this imperial examination.

The imperial examination was held as scheduled, and the whole capital was discussing who would be the number one scholar this time.

Is it the talented Kang Hai from Shaanxi?
Or Sun Qing from Yuyao, Zhejiang, or Li Tingxiang from Henan?

For this reason, the gambling house in the capital has opened again. A total of ninety-nine candidates have been listed for everyone to come and bet on. Nanyang genius.

In short, with the start of the imperial examinations, the capital became very lively again.

However, there was only one place where it suddenly became very cold and cold, and there was no one there.

In the mansion of Wang Jia, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Wang Jia has not left, and has not returned to his hometown in the south of the Yangtze River for the elderly.

He is not reconciled.

He's only in his fifties, and he's strong enough to eat a whale. He's old enough to eat a whale.

He was waiting, waiting for Emperor Hongzhi to summon him again, waiting for Emperor Hongzhi to use him again. For this reason, he often went to the houses of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and even Zhang Mao.

The purpose is very simple, it is nothing more than to let them help to intercede with Emperor Hongzhi. Emperor Hongzhi has a soft ear and a good heart. As long as he talks about it, he still has the hope of being reinstated.

Moreover, after the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials became vacant, the cabinet also recommended it to Emperor Hongzhi several times, and Emperor Hongzhi dismissed them all.

In Wang Jia's view, Emperor Hongzhi was saving this position for himself, and waited for a suitable opportunity to use him again. Otherwise, what would he do with this position?
For this reason, Wang Jia was still waiting happily.

I just waited and waited, and suddenly I started to feel that the tea was getting cold. I used to have a lot of people visiting me every day, but these days, there was no one there, not even a shadow.

This made Wang Jia feel very strange.

However, the ministers above the court quickly understood one thing.

Wang Jia will definitely not be used again. This time the turmoil was caused by Wang Jia.

Moreover, as the first person to cause trouble, Wang Jia has now become the public enemy of the young and old in the capital. Didn't you see that Wang Jia's mansion can't even recruit people?
If Wang Jia is used again, the young and old in the capital will most likely be very dissatisfied.

Of course, the most important thing is that Emperor Hongzhi was dissatisfied with Wang Jia. He felt that Wang Jia was so sour and rotten that he was useless. Apart from his good writing, he was actually very poor at governing the country.

The reason why the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials is vacant is that it is reserved for Liu Jin. Liu Jin was already the servant of the Ministry of Households. It's time to add an official to Liu Jin.

　I wasted time going out today~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)