Qiming 1158

Chapter 627 Regulations for Special Talents Examination
In the guilt form for Su Yonglin, Kong Zheng fully admitted his mistakes.

He fully admitted that he had made mistakes because of his lack of political experience, and admitted that his lax control had caused the emperor's troubles, so he pleaded with the emperor and implored the emperor to give him a light sentence for the sake of his hard work.

Looking at the memorial table written by Kong Zheng, Zhou Jiang's face was filled with emotion.

"Is this okay? Take the initiative to confess and take all the guilt. It's obviously not our fault. It's those people who made their own decisions, but we have to admit it. Isn't it too much?"

"You, I think you don't understand at all."

Kong Zheng shook his head and said, "We know that we are innocent, and Your Majesty also knows that we are innocent, but who outsiders would think that we are innocent? Is it good for us to forcibly argue? Since we have made a mistake, it is better to admit it and beg for mercy. Your Majesty also So let's go down the steps and give us a way to live."

"That's it."

Zhou Jiang sighed.

"You just learn, we are facing an emperor who is different from any emperor in the past. As his close minister, there is always something to learn. If you don't learn anything, you don't grow up, you want to gain glory and wealth. , it’s too beautiful to think, by the way, come with me, you and I also go to the table to ask for guilt, indicating that we are not strict, so take the initiative to ask for guilt.”

Zhou Jiang thought for a while, then nodded, and wrote a confession form with Kong Zheng.

The two did not call Yelujin in a tacit agreement, and handed over the two people's performance forms.

Sure enough, Su Yonglin's punishment to Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang was only five months' salary, two months more than Zhao Zuoliang's punishment.

Kong Zheng's cronies were not dealt with, except for those who were dismissed, that is, Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang, who were fined for five months' salaries.

Yelujin didn't hand in the guilt form, but he didn't have any guilt himself.

When many people expressed their opposition to Su Yonglin's reform plan before, he clearly stood by Su Yonglin's side and did not deal with Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang. This was something everyone knew, so he had no need to apologize.

The storm just passed.

The Shandong-based scholar group was completely unaware of their embarrassing situation and weak strength in the new dynasty, and hastily launched a self-righteous struggle.

In Su Yonglin's view, the meaning of this struggle is really very small. If it wasn't for Zhao Zuoliang to earn a little political capital and accumulate a little political prestige, he wouldn't care about those idiots asking for trouble, and just Get down on the ground for those guys and let them know the power of the Emperor's Iron Fist.

First, they have no military power, second, financial power, and third, personnel power, and none of the powers that can lead the political situation. How short-sighted they dare to rashly launch a political offensive?

In other words, they have just entered the state and have not yet clearly recognized the essence of political struggle.

However, Su Yonglin was already very gentle towards them now.

These guys dared to fight the emperor's core interests with a little manpower and material resources. If it wasn't for the fact that the new dynasty was just established and foreign enemies were all around, they shouldn't kill people, Su Yonglin would have thought of killing them as an example.

The old Zhao family treats scholars well and does not kill people, but I am not the old Zhao family.

My surname is not Zhao.

The old Zhao family didn't have the confidence to start killing people, and I was different.

This world was conquered by Su Yonglin and his followers with the Ming army, and they were taken back from the golden man with one heart.

It was taken back by absolute force.

If there is no confidence in this, what is the confidence?

The imperial examination reform plan and the education reform plan became the first two reform plans Su Yonglin came up with after he became emperor, which fully demonstrated Su Yonglin's emphasis on education and examination issues.

After the two plans were initially confirmed, a consensus was reached within the imperial court.

So Su Yonglin took the lead in announcing the new imperial examination reform plan.

He made public the concept of selecting scholars from the four subjects of arts, science, law and engineering, saying that since the first imperial examination in March of the second year of Hongwu, scholars have been selected according to this concept.

And in principle, all persons with registered permanent residence in the Ming Empire can apply for the imperial examinations of the Ming Empire as long as they pay their taxes on time and do not violate the law and leave a criminal record.

No referrals are required, and there are no status restrictions.

In addition, the imperial examinations were completely anonymous, inheriting this advantage of the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, the candidates selected from the four subjects of Arts, Science, Law and Engineering will be selected to become Jinshi in their respective subjects, and will become court officials in the future.

Scholars are only selected according to different specialties. The four disciplines of arts, science, law and engineering have the same status, and there is no difference. Therefore, there is no such thing as the status of the arts and sciences that should be higher than the other three.

Su Yonglin publicly stated that because the court's demand for professional talents has surged, and the Ming Empire was just established, there were not enough manpower and material resources to conduct the third-level examination, so Hongwu's second-year imperial examination was only held in Zhongdu, and one test was determined to win or lose.

Therefore, candidates who have expertise in these four items and who have confidence in themselves can prepare, and they can start to gather in Zhongdu to prepare for the exam in March next year.

At the same time as this news was announced, Su Yonglin also announced the scope of the exam questions for the four subjects, and made public the books needed for the exam.

Regardless of whether it is too late, read a few of these books, cramming or sharpening guns, as long as you don't cheat and pass the exam, the court will definitely accept it.

In addition, Su Yonglin also stipulated a special clause-special talent examination regulations.

This special talent examination provision is mainly used for engineering.

For those outstanding craftsmen who master exquisite techniques but are illiterate, they can also sign up for the imperial examinations for engineering, and have a special person in charge.

They can come up with their own skills to take the exam. Once they pass the exam and prove that they are useful to the country and the people, they can be awarded [Tongjinshi origin], awarded the official position of the Ministry of Industry, and appointed.

This provision is the first time since the beginning of the world.

The national exam actually allows illiterate people to participate. After the announcement of the news, it caused a lot of heated discussion among people.

It was a long time ago that people who were divided into subjects were selected, and the sudden recovery was enough to cause heated discussions. Now there are still new regulations that illiterate people can also participate in the imperial examinations.

This is really strange.

There has been a lot of public discussion about this, but the officials have been unexpectedly quiet about it.

It's no wonder that they were all scared by Su Yonglin's small test of the bull's knife.

The Shandong faction did not dare to speak out, and the other three factions would not speak out, so this matter was settled.

It is true that Su Yonglin's regulations are helpless.

The literate population is very rare these days, and the imperial examinations are aimed at the literate population, and the population of the entire Ming Dynasty exceeds 5000 million, and there are not a few people who can read a basket of big characters.

However, there are not many literate people who really have the ability to read and write.

After Su Yonglin's thorough investigation, he learned that this part of the literate population with the ability to read and write still accounted for only 5.00% of the total population of the Ming Dynasty.

This is all good.

The technology of printing and papermaking has matured these years, and the cost of literacy has been greatly reduced. It is no longer possible for gatekeepers to monopolize knowledge. This is one of the prerequisites.

The Song Dynasty attached more importance to schools and education than the rulers of the previous dynasties. The Jin Dynasty inherited the Song Dynasty, and it also developed a lot of local schools. There are many government-run schools in the local area, and ordinary people also have the possibility to receive education. This is a prerequisite. of two.

Ordinary people, out of the actual needs of production and life, will also take the initiative to seek ways to recognize some characters, and have the demand for literacy, so as not to be deceived by the government in taxation and military service. This is the third prerequisite.

Only when these three conditions are met can the number of people who are not blind will increase, and the literacy rate of the whole society will have a great leap. Compared with the previous Tang and Sui and previous dynasties, this is indeed a considerable improvement.

This is not a sign that the literate population has increased a lot.

Su Yonglin believes that the real definition of a literate population should be a population with the ability to read and write, not a semi-literate population who can recognize a few large characters and barely understand official announcements.

However, among all the literate population in the Ming Dynasty, such semi-literate people are the most.

(End of this chapter)