Qiming 1158

Chapter 623 Maybe, This Is The Emperor

Kong Zheng smiled bitterly to himself, clearly realizing the powerlessness of himself and his colleagues in this matter.

He has no power at all to stop Su Yonglin from promoting the reform of the imperial examination. Su Yonglin's willingness to tell him about this beforehand is considered to be respecting their right to know. Otherwise, it is not impossible to change to a more domineering way.

Who can stop Su Yonglin from doing whatever he wants?

God?
No, he is not a prince, he is a human emperor, and there is no need to honor the gods.

Su Yonglin, who is invincible with an army, is the most powerful person in the world.

After thinking about this, Kong Zheng didn't want to say anything, so the reform plan went on like that.

The Ministry of Rites officially accepted this plan, and decided to conduct some research on this reform plan, and discussed the method of admission for the engineering, science, and law courses proposed by the emperor.

And this requires a large number of professionals to help - the existing staff of the Ministry of Rites can only negotiate the standards of the liberal arts exam, because this is their expertise, and they have absolutely no idea about things like engineering, science, and law. know what to do.

Only rely on professionals.

Who are the professionals?

Su Yonglin will provide them with professionals——

Due to the reform of selecting scholars by division, the original scientific research department of the Ministry of Rites was understaffed and needed to be expanded. Su Yonglin planned to reorganize the scientific research department according to the direction of the four working groups of arts, science, law and engineering.

So Su Yonglin instructed Liu Yongzhen, the newly appointed Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and Deputy Director of the Central Organization Department of the Renaissance Society, to start placing staff on the Department of Rites and Scientific Research.

In addition to the professionals who originally worked in the Ministry of Industry, the Three Laws Division and other departments, there are also some newly developed young Fuxing members who have also been placed in the Ministry of Rites Science Examination Division under various names to be responsible for the preparations for the imperial examinations. , In this way, there will be "abundant talents" in the Department of Rites and Examinations for a while.

In response to this situation, Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang could only stare blankly as they watched the Ministry of Personnel put people into the Ministry of Rites and expand the staffing of the Division of Scientific Exploration little by little, and none of them belonged to their faction.

They originally thought of introducing a large number of relevant people from their side through the imperial examinations to increase the voice of Shandong officials. Now it seems that they may not even be able to keep their only voice.

When Zhou Jiang was discussing this matter with Kong Zheng in private, he repeatedly lamented that Su Yonglin's excessive power was unprecedented. He never thought that the emperor could be so domineering.

But Kong Zheng saw it very clearly.

"Zi Chang, we haven't seen it before, it doesn't mean that such a person doesn't exist. Perhaps, this is the founding emperor who swept the world and declared himself emperor. Now I understand why the ancients respected the Son of Heaven and ruled, a founding emperor. It means so much to the world.”

Zhou Jiang was silent after hearing this.

After that, Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang seemed powerless and could only help Su Yonglin as Su Yonglin's assistants, and could not raise any objections.

While Su Yonglin is promoting the reform of the division and selection of scholars in the imperial examinations, he also has to do something about education.

According to him, since it has been decided to divide the subjects and select scholars, then education must keep up with it, and education cannot be neglected, and only the imperial examinations will be conducted, and sooner or later something will happen.

Therefore, Su Yonglin also decided to start from the central Guozijian, according to the reform of the division of the imperial examination, to reform the current education model, and to cultivate talents from the four directions of arts, science, law and engineering according to the direction of the imperial examination.

Then, at the education reform meeting on the ninth day of October, Su Yonglin put forward a request for the change of teaching materials.

Of course, he did not completely shake off the old gentry, but made some concessions.

The liberal arts textbooks can keep the old textbooks to the maximum extent, such as the old Five Classics, temporarily add "Xunzi", and use this as the scope of the questions, so that the existing scholars can take the liberal arts exam to the greatest extent. Blind eyes.

Of course, Su Yonglin suggested that Hongwu's second-year imperial examination should be taken as the Chinese subject examination, and the questions from "Xunzi" should not be less than [-]%.

Kong Zheng knew that this was the emperor's greatest concession. If he didn't accept this, the emperor could increase the number of questions in "Xunzi" to [-]% in minutes. At that time, everyone would be really confused.

So seeing that someone wanted to make an opinion, Kong Zheng immediately stood up and shouted to His Majesty Shengming, and opened the page.

Then Su Yonglin also asked the scholars of the liberal arts not only to study the Five Classics, but also to understand agriculture, because agriculture is the foundation of the country, and scholars of the liberal arts must have an understanding of agriculture.

Therefore, he added agricultural monographs such as "Qi Min Yaoshu" to the scholars of the liberal arts, requiring scholars of the liberal arts to have an understanding of agriculture while studying the Confucian classics. officially implemented in the examination.

Next is the science exam.

For the science examination, Su Yonglin delineated the textbooks for the Tang Dynasty imperial examinations, such as "Nine Chapter Laws", "Zhang Qiujian", "Xiahouyang", "Zhou Bi", "Five Classics Calculations" and so on.

Then, geography textbooks such as "Guanzi·Dimen" and "Shuijing Zhuo" were added, and finally the examination textbook "Mojing" was added.

However, any books that were designated as textbooks for the imperial examinations were bound to be published and circulated on a large scale. Therefore, some officials of the Ministry of Rites reacted violently to this point.

And Su Yonglin had long known that they would react violently, so he proposed a plan to revise the Mo Jing.

"The Department of Scientific Examinations of the Ministry of Rites has arranged for special personnel to revise the "Mo Jing", delete the content related to political affairs in the "Mo Jing", and use the revised "Mo Jing" as the science textbook for the imperial examination."

Su Yonglin's statement calmed the excitement of some officials of the Ministry of Rites.

But to be honest, Su Yonglin himself wasn't very impressed with the political ideology of the Mo family.

He appreciates Mozi and his contributions to natural science. Taking the Mojing as a breakthrough point, Su Yonglin has the confidence to pull up the discipline of physics and provide help for technological development from a theoretical level.

As for other aspects, forget it.

The Mohists are a school with leaders, theories, and organizations. They have a strong spirit of social practice. Mohists are hard-working and self-disciplined, and regard maintaining justice and morality as an obligatory responsibility. Most of the Mohists have Knowledge workers—

Isn't this his revival meeting?

Regardless of the depth of thought, the level of organization, or the concept, his Revival Society far surpassed the Mohist organization, so he did not need the Mohist political organization.

Science is followed by engineering textbooks. In fact, there have always been very few professional books in engineering. The main reason is that no ruler has ever taken science and technology as a major national event like Su Yonglin.

Therefore, the relevant engineering books can be found at present, only "Kaogongji", "Building French" and other books related to industry, handicrafts and construction.

In this regard, Su Yonglin proposed that this type of books should be included in the examination scope, and at the same time, new teaching materials should be compiled to record all the crystallization of the ancients' industrial technology as teaching materials.

The law examination is relatively more convenient. Although hundreds of schools have been dismissed since the Han Dynasty, no one will deny the importance of the law, so there are not many legal monographs in ancient times.

Su Yonglin designated representative legal works and legal provisions such as "Law Ching", "Tai Shi Lv", "Tang Lv Shu Yi", etc. for legal scholars to study and inherit.

This meeting preliminarily determined the scope of the examination questions for the second imperial examination in Hongwu five years, which was approved by Su Yonglin and recognized by most court officials.

As for the first session of Hongwu's second year, some flexible changes have to be made.

No way, the power division of the Ming court at this moment is not advantageous for Shandong officials who are experts in the old imperial examinations.

Officials from the three major factions of the Yuan Cong Department, the Yanyun Department and the Waizu Department are all very aware of the possible consequences of the old imperial examination. At a time when they still have enough power to speak, they cannot allow the old imperial examination to continue whenever possible. Push it forward.

Su Yonglin's plan to reform the imperial examinations just hit their itch, and it was of great significance to them, so they collectively joined forces to support Su Yonglin's reform plan in the courtroom.

The Shandong Department of Civil Affairs had a heart to oppose it, but the force was not strong enough.

They were really powerless and could only watch the Emperor Su Yonglin, who had the basics and political alliances, forcefully push forward the reform plan of the imperial examinations.

(End of this chapter)