The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 552
After the Japanese invasion in the southeast is settled, Xie Shen can focus more on the promotion of internal affairs.

Land equalization and taxation reforms have achieved initial results, and it is urgent to improve the status of soldiers and craftsmen.

The former can be rewarded through military merit, and there are examples in previous dynasties, so it is relatively easy to implement.

The latter has absolutely no precedent, and it will be no easy task to convince these rotten scholars.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao firmly stood by Xie Shen's side and gave Xie Shen enough support.With Zhu Houzhao around, Xie Shen doesn't need to have so many scruples, and can let go of his hands and feet.

The School of Craftsmanship was formally established, and everything was modeled after the Guozijian, no matter the official level or the scale of the academy, it was no different from the Guozijian.

The only difference is that the doctorate of the School of Craftsmanship is not a great Confucian who is full of knowledge, but an experienced craftsman.

These craftsmen are either proficient in a craft, or have many wonderful ideas that can turn decay into magic.All in all, this broke everyone's inherent impression that the teacher is a Confucian scholar.

The students of the Craftsmanship Academy are all outstanding craftsmen, and they need to take an exam before entering the school. Only those who pass can enter the Craftsmanship Academy.

Like Guozijian, students attend classes on time every day, listen to the lectures of the Doctor of Craftsmanship, and take quizzes every once in a while, and those with the worst test scores will be persuaded to leave.

After three years, all students will take a big exam, and those who pass can be directly appointed officials.

Of course, most of the official positions conferred are from the Ministry of Industry or are related to the Ministry of Industry.

It is a great joy for these craftsmen to be an official.

These people have their own good things in specific fields, but it may not be applicable to relax and broaden.

And the Craftsmanship Academy obviously trains talents in batches, so so many graduates can't all be sent to general supervisors, right?

It would be a pity if they were assigned to other yamen and could not be used to their full potential.

Xie Shen handed over this matter to Gu Dingchen to push, because he wanted to investigate Gu Dingchen and see how capable he was.Secondly, I also want to take this opportunity to express an attitude to the officials of the Manchu Dynasty. Not only do I want to improve the status of craftsmen, but also Master Gu.

As for adding the artisan examination to the triennial imperial examination, although it was Xie Shen's wish, it was temporarily abandoned under the strong opposition of the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

Civil officials can allow Xie Shen to create a craftsmanship academy, because it is the status of the Imperial Academy.

The supervising students trained by the Guozijian have no status in the civil service system.

There are only a few traditional ways to become an official, one is the imperial examination.This is the broad road, the most correct road.

Regardless of whether it is a Jinshi or a Juren, everyone has the qualifications to be an official.Jinshi is an incumbent official, and he will be honored in the current period, and once he is admitted to the imperial examination, he will be awarded an official immediately.What Juren is doing is a term official, with deferred payment, and after winning the exam, you have to be a substitute. If you are lucky, you will be able to fill the vacancy in a year or two. If you are not lucky, you may not be able to become an official in three to five years.

The second is to sit in prison.

Supervisors who graduated from the Guozijian can also be awarded official positions.

There are also two types of supervisors. The first type of supervisors are older students from various counties.These students generally failed the provincial examination many times, and it would be a waste of time to continue the examination, so they chose to sit in prison and get a diploma instead.

Once the Imperial College graduates can also be assigned a job.Although the official position is far less good than that of the imperial examination background, it is at least an official.

There is a class distinction between officials and civilians.

The second type of supervisor is the son of a high-ranking official. For example, the son of a certain university student is ignorant and incompetent, so he must be useless in the imperial examination.

This high-ranking official will definitely graduate without any accidents, become a glorious Guozijian graduate, and go to work smoothly.

It's nothing. It's been the consensus of people for thousands of years that the father is a high-ranking official and the son is admitted to the imperial examination.

In addition to these two, the remaining one is an extremely shameless official position - Chuanfengguan.It is unreliable to listen to the name of this kind of official. In fact, His Majesty the Emperor was happy to issue the decree, skipping the legal procedure and directly appointing the official.

This kind of official is usually held by alchemists and actors, who are most despised and resisted by civil officials.

Regardless of how beautiful these officials are, once they fall out of favor, they will be counterattacked by the civil servants frantically, and the end will be extremely miserable.

Xie Shen strongly promotes the Craftsmanship Academy. After graduation, the status of the students is equivalent to the graduates of the Imperial College. Although it is legal, the status is not high, and they can only be second-class officials.

And if the craftsman examination is included in the imperial examination, wouldn't the craftsman who is admitted to the imperial examination be a "craftsman Jinshi"?In this way, wouldn't the craftsman be able to be a high-ranking official in a legitimate way?
This is of course what civil servants do not want to see.

Therefore, they allowed Xie Shen to establish a craftsman academy, but they did not allow Xie Shen to run a craftsman to enter the imperial examination.

The reason why Xie Shen insisted on elevating the status of craftsmen is that he saw the lack of creativity of civil servants.Many craftsmen are not only excellent craftsmen, but also have countless fantastic ideas. If they are properly guided, they may not be able to invent many epoch-making things.

The Ming Dynasty already had capital sprouts, why couldn't there be an industrial revolution?
Technology is the primary productive force, and only with technology can a country progress.

If Da Ming wants to change the fate of destruction, the only way out is to engage in science and technology.And all of this must be done by improving the identity of the craftsman.

Any reform contradictions are internal, and resistance also comes from within.

Xie Shen already knew this.But he didn't expect the resistance to be so great.

He Shilang really fell down, thousands of officials He Shilang stood up
In Xie Shen's view, it is very dangerous for the imperial court to be controlled only by Confucian scholars. These people are good at infighting and calculating, and they will naturally develop into the Donglin Party.

It is even more dangerous for the military to completely control the government. The literati will at most satirize the emperor, and the generals will rebel if they fail to do so.

Therefore, literati and generals must check and balance each other.

The military people in the Tang Dynasty were too prosperous, and only then did the vassals and towns separate themselves.The literati in the Song Dynasty were too strong, which led to the country's weakness.

Daming has a tendency to develop towards the Song Dynasty, so it needs to be corrected in time.

The most ideal state is to allow literati, warriors, and craftsmen to achieve a balanced state, and the country has multiple voices, so that it will not go astray.

But it is undoubtedly difficult to achieve.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

If a military general wants to rise, he needs to make continuous contributions, and this requires continuous wars.

The southeast has been stabilized for the time being, so we can only focus on the north and northwest.

As for craftsmen who want to improve their status, they must come up with convincing inventions.This is not something a soapy toothbrush can do, it has to be an innovative invention such as the flintlock gun.

It is obviously impossible to rely on the craftsman alone, which requires Xie Shen to secretly teach the opportunity.

(End of this chapter)