Qiming 1158

Chapter 624 They are no longer afraid of being caught to death

"Because the ancients put a lot of emphasis on meaning, morality, and articles, they didn't know much about the truth of everything in the world, and they didn't have much interest in understanding it. This makes me very regretful. In fact, in my opinion, the classics have been studied by predecessors. It's almost the same. If we continue to study, we can't study anything more innovative.

The reason why the classics are classics is that the principles in them can be used throughout the ancient and modern times, and they are important existences that we cannot abandon. It is precisely because of this that the content of the classics is no longer necessary for scholars to exhaust the classics and get to the bottom of it.

In contrast, there are subjects such as engineering, science and law. They still have a lot to do. If nothing else, it is said that the firearms that the army relies on very much when marching and fighting. The golden thief calls it thunder, so we also just shouted.

At first, the power of the thunderbolt was limited. Later, after many improvements by skilled craftsmen, the amount of gunpowder and the proportion of gunpowder composition were modified, and the effect of the thunderbolt explosion was continuously improved. So now, the thunderbolt has become an indispensable part of our army. The missing important main firearm.

The reason why our army can defeat the golden thief is without the great help of Zhentianlei, and can Zhentianlei be obtained by studying the classics?No, Zhentianlei was improved little by little by craftsmen who risked their lives.

This requires the input of a large number of engineering and science scholars, sufficient knowledge, and sufficient practice. These are not obtained by studying the classics, but they can fully enhance the military and national strength.

Therefore, I think that the focus of the imperial examinations and future educational reforms in the Ming Dynasty should be placed on these three subjects except liberal arts, and they should be fully developed and encouraged. "

Su Yonglin without hesitation put forward the focus of his future education reform at the State Council, which made the Shandong Department of Civil Affairs dizzy.

In addition to the Kaiyuan Department, the officials of the Yanyun Department and the Foreign Nationality Department also knew that they could not compete in a short period of time with the Shandong Han people who had been studying for hundreds of years in the examination of the Confucian classics.

Let them read the classics and write articles, and they will definitely be rolled to death.

But in the fields of engineering, science and law, in the fields that traditional Confucian scholars are not very good at, they have the possibility of overtaking in corners.

In terms of engineering, science and law, they will basically stand on the same starting line as Confucian scholars. If they get proper education, they can still have strong competitiveness in the future. No matter how many people take the imperial examinations in the future, they will also Don't be afraid of getting caught.

The emperor's imperial examination reform plan and education reform plan were aimed at this.

Use military power and their support to suppress the forces of the Shandong faction to a minimum, and cut off this possibility when the Shandong faction has not yet taken advantage of its traditional advantages to completely occupy the political advantage.

After Wanyanliang's riotous operation and the suppression of the Jin Dynasty's national policy, coupled with the impact of the Great Uprising of the Restoration Army led by Su Yonglin, the strength of the traditional Confucian literati in the Central Plains was destroyed in the Jin Dynasty and the stalls built in the early Ming Dynasty happened to be It is the lowest point in history since the Song Dynasty.

During this period, Su Yonglin's strength to unite also reached its peak.

So Su Yonglin united the Yanyun Department and the Foreign Nationality Department, taking the Yuan Cong Department as the basic plan, and passed the Education Reform Act and the Imperial Examination Reform Act with an overwhelming majority of support.

The specific details of these two bills still have many places for discussion, but the basic spirit will not change, that is, to dismiss the basic rules of the imperial examinations for the first subject of the Jinshike and the classics, and to re-establish the spirit of the division of the division. Introduce more teaching materials, train students to develop in various aspects, and open up the future of the country.

The most common ascending channel of the imperial examinations has been expanded from the original one to four, greatly expanding the capacity of the ascending channel and giving the lower-level society more ascending paths.

In addition, Su Yonglin also stipulated that the Ming Empire will also hold martial arts exams, and set up martial arts accordingly.

In this regard, the Song Dynasty after Wang Anshi's reform actually had a lot of experience to adopt.

Wang Anshi's reforms made some improvements to martial arts and martial arts, and indeed cultivated a group of relatively excellent military talents. The supporting reform measures of the generals and the art of war brought a brief revival of the military in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty.

It is a pity that the results of this reform could not be maintained for a long time. Under the blessing of the country's overall policies and social customs, Song Jun was soon defeated.

Su Yonglin said that he wanted to learn from the excellent experience of his predecessors. The country should not only have literature, but also martial arts. The central government should not only have Guozijian, but also a special central military academy to train military talents.

Many dynasties either have martial arts without martial arts, or have martial arts without martial arts. The military relies entirely on the inheritance of generals and the occasional genius, and there is no stable inheritance.

This will greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

This is something Su Yonglin cannot tolerate.

Not to mention before the reunification, even after the future reunification, this unified country needs a strong army to maintain the unified situation. The decline of military power is fatal to a unified country.

He has no shortage of military talents now, and the military talents he grew up in the process of fighting the Jin Kingdom are enough for him to use for decades, but the Ming Kingdom will not only have so many decades.

Establishing martial arts and preparing for martial arts are important measures to maintain the military's professionalism and combat effectiveness.

Because the military is Su Yonglin's arrogant category, no one will object to how Su Yonglin wants to engage in martial arts and martial arts, so some of the content about martial arts and martial arts have been passed smoothly without any disturbance.

As a result, a series of reform measures, such as the establishment of the Central Military Academy, the selection of outstanding military academies from the civilian population and the army to study, and the acceptance of people with lofty ideals to participate in the martial arts exam, and the content of the martial arts exam, were successfully passed.

Su Yonglin allocated special funds, and a special person was responsible for the construction of a military academy directly under the central government around the location of the ancestral hall of the Martyrs in the northeast of Zhongducheng, which was specially responsible for training military talents.

Military issues are always easier to pass than cultural issues. No one dares to make irresponsible remarks about what Su Yonglin wants to do in the army.

Even if a military academy is established to train military talents and continuously elevate the status of military talents, no one has raised any objections.

Of course, this can be considered to be taking advantage of the Jin Kingdom. If such a thing is done in the Song Kingdom's homeland, I am afraid that it will be hindered a lot.

Jin Guo does not have a tradition of emphasizing civility over military affairs. Naturally, there will be no obstacles to carrying out military reforms on the land that Jin Guo once ruled, and no one will choose to hinder them.

However, in other respects, it was not so smooth.

Civil servants of the Shandong department can not care about martial arts and martial arts, but it has to be said that they have to care about the plan of selecting scholars by division.

When Su Yonglin announced this decision at the Great Court Meeting on October 27, it caused many civil servants from Shandong to protest.

On the first day of November in the first year of Hongwu, one month after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the protests began.

Some Shandong officials believe that Su Yonglin's actions are disrespectful to the saints, lowering the status of the saints, not conforming to the traditions of the ancients, and will bring huge uncertainty to the world.

The political declaration related to Su Yonglin's desire to be a human emperor and not a son of the emperor is widely spread all over the world, and they are very worried about the stability and continuity of the Ming Empire.

Although the previous dynasty had many shortcomings, can the centuries of Guozuo not prove the effectiveness of this strategy?

Some Shandong bureaucrats filed a petition to resign after protesting.

For example, Wu Zhongli, the priest of the Ministry of Rites, expressed his protest to Su Yonglin on the form, and then made a request to resign.

His colleagues Fu Huarong and Ding Yuan also expressed their protest to Su Yonglin and asked to resign.

Others protested by going on a hunger strike, trying to mobilize public opinion to subvert Su Yonglin's decision.

For example, Ge Xingxian, a 50-year-old Confucian and priest of the Ministry of Rites, told his family that he would go on a hunger strike to protest Su Yonglin's behavior.

"Your Majesty will not take it back for a day, and I will not eat for a day until I die!"

He decided to follow the example of the ancient sages and the famous counselors and hard bones in history, and pulled the high-speed carriage named Daming Empire, which was gradually out of control, back into the original track, so as to prevent the carriage from continuing to derail.

(End of this chapter)