Qiming 1158

Chapter 628 1 years is too long, I only fight for the day and night
After Su Yonglin established the General Affairs Bureau, he sent people to conduct a large-scale survey of the country's population.

The vast rural areas directly controlled by the Renaissance Society provided great data support for this population survey.

During this thorough investigation, Su Yonglin learned that in the Central Plains, people generally have a relatively strong demand for literacy.

Not only the production and living activities of the urban population need to be literate, but also the farmers living in the countryside.

In order to meet the needs of government tax collectors in daily life, farmers strive to fight for their due rights in tax collection and military service. Therefore, they also have a relatively strong demand for literacy and are unwilling to open their eyes and cheat others.

Therefore, some farmers will specially send their children aged five, six, six or seven years to local private schools to study for a year or two. When they know some commonly used words, they are not blind, and then drop out of school and return to work. .

In this way, the peasant family can also recognize some characters, and they can understand when the government posts the notices, so they will not be deceived.

But the farmers' efforts to provide their children with education have ended here. If you really want to talk about reading and writing, it requires a longer period of study and cannot be solved by one or two years of enlightenment education.

Longer-term education is not something that ordinary farmers can afford. It really requires a lot of investment. Generally, a family of several families with more than ten acres of land cannot support a full-time scholar.

Therefore, there are still very few [literate people] who truly master the ability to read and write across the country.

There is no way for the other three subjects, they must be able to read and write. Before the large-scale literacy efforts of the revival society are generally effective, the Jinshi of the other three subjects can only be selected from the 5.00% of the population.

But the technology is different.

A considerable number of craftsmen who have mastered technology these days are only literate but not literate. They do not have access to literacy and education, but they can master very delicate skills through the inheritance of master and apprentice and the accumulation of experience.

If the examination for special talents is not opened, this part of the non-literate population with sophisticated skills will inevitably be excluded, which is not conducive to the country's overall control of technology.

Su Yonglin attaches great importance to technology, and also knows that the current technology accumulation will have a significant impact on future technological breakthroughs and even the dawn of the industrial revolution.

Now we must make every effort to collect talents who have mastered technology, gather them together for technical summary, learn from each other, summarize experience, and at the same time let them have a culture, establish a scientific system, and finally realize the birth and development of physics, chemistry and other disciplines.

Therefore, Su Yonglin tried his best to come up with this [Special Talent Exam].

He will allow illiterate talents with really excellent skills to enter the Ministry of Industry, recruit the best technical talents in the world for the country, and increase the reserve of technical talents.

This news will continue to spread and ferment as the messengers of Zhongdu spread out, and soon, people in the nine administrative regions of the Ming Empire will know the news.

As for what they will think, whether they will come to Zhongdu to participate in this unique imperial examination, that is not up to Su Yonglin to decide.

The next thing Su Yonglin has to do is to continue to promote the reform, and pay attention to the questions of the first imperial examination, prepare the examination room and examination method of the first imperial examination, select examiners and so on.

Don't look at an exam, there is really a lot of manpower and material resources that need to be mobilized.

More importantly, there is also the martial arts exam, which is different from the civil exam. It also requires a large assessment venue and more preparation for the assessment. It requires a lot of manpower and material resources to prepare.

But in order to select the best talents, Su Yonglin is also at the expense of it. Anyway, he has a lot of gold and silver that he has pitted from the elites of the Jin Kingdom, which can be exchanged for money.

In this regard, he will not be stingy.

The divisions and the first imperial examination in Hongwu's second year have now been settled, and everything will be realized according to Su Yonglin's wishes, and Su Yonglin has achieved a complete victory.

But beyond that, there's a lot more to do.

For example, the resumption of grading examinations, and the reform of the educational system supporting the imperial examinations.

The question of the grading examination is a small problem. With the experience of grading examinations in the Song and Jin dynasties, Su Yonglin just added some steps and set up three levels of examinations at the county, state and provincial levels. For scholars, not much has changed.

When you arrive in the capital, you have to take two exams, which is not a big problem. As long as there are exams, everyone can always get used to it.

Of course, the central government is solely responsible for the overall arrangement of the imperial examinations, and for the local grading examinations, special officials from the Central Rites Department will dispatch academic officials from other places to take charge of the examinations, but education still has to be solved locally.

This requires the establishment of academic officials responsible for local education in the three administrative divisions of the county, the state capital and the province to implement the new educational reform measures.

This is also a practice in the Song and Jin dynasties. The Song Dynasty still made a great contribution to the development of culture, and it also made a lot of contributions in terms of education, so Su Yonglin can directly use the current system to make some improvements.

Su Yonglin promulgated supporting measures for the imperial examination in a subsequent decree.

Each province must set up a superintendent of education, which is specially responsible for education issues in the province, and its subordinate departments are located in the state capital and county. Enroll in reading.

These local admirals, academic and political departments will also be fully responsible for the implementation of the four subjects of arts, science, law and engineering education prescribed by Su Yonglin, and directly correspond to the four subjects of arts, science, law and engineering.

Regarding this grand education reform measure, at the joint meeting between the Ministry of Shangshu and the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Personnel held by Su Yonglin, several senior officials of the Ministry of Shangshu, Kong Zheng, Lin Jingchun and Liu Yongzhen did not look very good.

Su Yonglin's requirements are too many, and it is very difficult to implement them in practice. Although it is said that the original Jin Guo also had corresponding officials, but Su Yonglin's requirements are completely different from Jin Guo's requirements. Even if the original local academic officials are restored, they may not understand. What are the four subjects.

"Your Majesty, this minister thinks that it is very difficult to suddenly implement this policy, but the material resources are not bad. It is nothing more than giving money and people. As long as you can afford the money, there will be people. However, in terms of manpower, the number of officials who meet the requirements is too small, and the central government is still too small. Not enough, let alone place."

What Liu Yongzhen said was also an actual problem, which was not an exaggeration at all, so Su Yonglin was not angry.

"I know there are many problems, but there are also many things I want to do. 1 years is too long. I only seize the day and night. The things to be done are immediately put on the agenda, set a time schedule, and follow this process every moment do it.

Of course, I don't want you to do it all at once. I know where the problem is, so I mean to take it slowly, start with the Central Government Area first, and then go to the local area to get it done. .

Whether it’s three years, five years, or ten years, the first thing we need to know is that there are not many students. There are only so many people who can read and write, and the number of school-age students is so large. , How many school-age students are there?

Don't think that it is difficult to handle this matter with a wide range of land and a large number of people involved. Once it is divided, there will be hundreds of people in a county. How difficult is it?Therefore, first restore the academic and administrative office, erect the academic and administrative office, put up a shelf, and then slowly fill it with things. "

Su Yonglin began to explain how he did things.

Now the central government has decided to do this thing, and then promote the experiment in the central and directly-administered regions, accumulate enough experience and work officials, and finally promote it in various provinces.

He didn't expect to be able to achieve immediate results in one go. These things will take a long period of continuous promotion and accumulation before they can truly pass the country in the end.

Time, still time, fascinating and traumatic time.

This time, no one is arguing about what Su Yonglin wants to do [can it be done], but rather [how to do it].

Kong Zheng had just experienced the impeachment storm, so he didn't dare to speak.

The others probably have the same mentality as Kong Zheng. They are either Su Yonglin's die-hard supporters, or they know they can't be stopped from the very beginning, so it's better to lie down and enjoy.

Kong Zheng decided not to oppose Su Yonglin's reform measures at least for a period of time in the future, so as to gradually accumulate Su Yonglin's goodwill, hoping to return to the peak, and then...

It's time to take revenge on Huo Jianbai.

(End of this chapter)