My Daming New Empire

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Therefore, the selection of scholars by the imperial court should not be static or complacent, but should adapt to the needs.

Gu intends to use 20 years to completely change the current selection criteria, so that every scholar can become the humerus of the country, so that every scholar can become a useful person.

And all of this starts from you, from the future humerus of you Ming Dynasty.

Ladies and gentlemen, would you like to be alone?Let everyone in the Ming Dynasty have their own land and their homes.Let the people of Ming Dynasty have surplus food, let the people of Ming Dynasty eat meat every day.Let the people of Ming Dynasty have new clothes for everyone. "

These students are the most easily bewitched stage. Everyone has lofty ideals and the idea of ​​saving the country and benefiting the people.

Listening to Zhu Zhanji's words, they were all excited, and screamed with all their strength: "Yes!"

Even Hu Yan, a 60-year-old Confucian, was so excited that tears filled his eyes at this time. "I want to live to be 80 years old and see His Highness turn the world into what he said!"

Chapter 98 Goals

In the 21st century, an ordinary person receives more information in one day than ordinary people in this era receive in a year.

The window cities like Yingtianfu and Ningbo are better. In many villages, people work at sunrise and rest at sunset.Day after day, year after year.

The scope of their activities is limited to a county, without government documents, they can't go out even if they want to go out.

This is still a man, if it is a woman, from birth to death, they rarely travel fifty miles.

It is this backward ecological environment that has nurtured generations of ordinary people and formed the ancient country of China.

They are simple, they are hardworking, they are simple, even humble to the point of cowardice.

Even for the ruling class in this era, life is not much richer, and the information they receive is in the entire pure ecological environment.

So in this era, a good article can make people famous forever, and a good poem can last forever.

In the next few days, Zhu Zhanji's "Young China" spread at a speed beyond this era.

The palace newspaper published the article on the front page without changing a word, and quickly passed it down from level to level.

At the same time, other speeches by Zhu Zhanji were also published in the Di Bao.

In addition to Zhu Zhanji's speech, Jian Yi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Xia Yuanji, Minister of the Ministry of Households, and Lu Zhen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, all commented on Zhu Zhanji's speech.

Of course, this kind of comment is not critical. At any time, the ruler's speech will only be respected.

However, their comments also represent their attitudes.

Jian Yi's comments were relatively conservative. He only spoke highly of the intention of Zhu Zhanji's "Young China". He believed that His Royal Highness put the education of young people in the most important position.

However, Zhu Zhanji holds a conservative attitude towards the education reform and official selection reform that Zhu Zhanji wants to carry out.

This is not because he wants to oppose Zhu Zhanji's reform, but as the head of a hundred officials and the most important official department for the selection of officials by the country, he cannot be radical.

If even he, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, becomes radical, the selection of officials, a policy that affects the stability of Ming Dynasty, will easily get out of control.

The steps are too big, and it is easy to pull the eggs!

Therefore, as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he can only stabilize the situation and firmly control the balance between the emperor and the officials.

Xia Yuanji, Minister of the Household Department, was much more radical. In addition to greatly praising "Young China", he also carefully analyzed the positive significance of Zhu Zhanji's education reform and official selection reform.

He believes that the professionalization of officials will be an important step in promoting the development of Ming Dynasty, so that those incompetent officials with dead bodies will no longer have a foothold.

He is the Minister of the Household Department, and he is also the busiest official in the imperial court, and the Household Department is a pragmatic department. He is the most disgusted when encountering those officials who are only pragmatic and often make mistakes.

On the contrary, although Lu Zhen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, is a narrow-minded and capable person, his sitting position does not allow him to speak freely.

He personally agrees with the reform, but he cannot directly support Zhu Zhanji, but wants to pour cold water on the reform.

In his comments, he expressed his expectation for reform, but at the same time he hoped not to act too hastily.

Because Ming's education system and official selection mechanism are of great importance, they cannot be reformed hastily, but only step by step, taking one step at a time.

Now the Ministry of War is presided over by Huang Fu. He is a hardcore Taisun party, and of course he responded positively to Zhu Zhanji's speech.

He believes that the use of civil servants to preside over the Ministry of War cannot be changed, but all civil servants should be sent to the army to train for a few years, understand the operation of the lower levels, and then serve in the Ministry of War.

Moreover, he immediately made a decision to assign the officials below the fifth rank of the Ministry of War to the troops all over the country in turn to train for three years.

Gu Zuo of the Ministry of Criminal Justice put more pen and ink on Zhu Zhanji's "Young China". He spared no effort to advocate that Zhu Zhanji's article is majestic and profound, and will become a guide for the development of Ming Dynasty. bright light.

Regarding the reform of officials, he only said a few words. He believed that the professional training and selection of officials could greatly speed up the work efficiency of officials, and the Ministry of Punishment would fully support His Highness's reform ideas.

There is also the Ministry of Industry. They have always been Zhu Zhanji's most trusted department. Because of Zhu Zhanji's support, although their status is still at the end of the six departments, their scale is already the top of the six departments.

In today's imperial court, apart from the army and internal supervisors, the Ministry of Industry is already the third largest department.

They are the most supportive of the professionalization of officials, because if an official who does not understand technology arrives at the Ministry of Industry, I am afraid that he will not make any contribution and will only hinder his own work.

The chief officials of the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Department of General Affairs also made speeches on the Mansion Newspaper. Although they had some doubts about the education reform, they all strongly supported the professionalization of officials.

An architectural expert like Wu Zhong was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Punishments. In ten months, he did not even receive a death sentence.To put it nicely, he is kind-hearted, but to put it bluntly, he is confused.

Putting a layman in an inappropriate position will have a more serious impact on the court than a corrupt official.

Anyone can see the benefits of professionalizing officials, but why hasn't anyone done it before?One is the cost issue, and the other is that all officials study only Confucianism.

They all learn the same knowledge, and when they become an official, they act according to the rules based on their previous experience, so they don't care whether the official understands it or not.

Because the real things are not done by officials, but by petty officials.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty were not professional, but small officials were passed down from father to son, and professional ones could no longer be professional.

If Zhu Zhanji wants to professionalize officials, he must carry out educational reforms.And education is a century-old project. Even from now, it will be very difficult to popularize and promote this policy within 20 years.

Therefore, this group of officials can see very clearly that this matter will not have a great impact on them, because by that time, they may all have retired and returned to their hometowns.

This is also the main reason why no officials directly oppose it. If their rights and interests are directly touched, even if Zhu Zhanji is the grandson of Jian Guo, countless officials will oppose this policy.

Just when Zhu Zhanji's "Young China" caused a wave of excitement in Daming, hundreds of thousands of students across the country were aroused by this article.

Then, the entire Ming Dynasty was quickly attracted by the announcements from various places.

From the Hongwu period to the Yongle period, the number of students increased by more than ten times because of the prosperity of the country and the people's safety.

In the first year of Hongwu, there were only 2000 students who participated in the national examination, and almost all of them were awarded officials.

In the second year of Yongle, the number of students who participated in the examination exceeded 1, and because of the delay of the Battle of Jingnan, the number of students in the examination reached 930 that year, 62 people short of the 5000 [-] people.

Afterwards, the number of candidates for the annual examination increased repeatedly. The Daming Gongyuan in Yingtianfu built a total of [-] numbered rooms for students from all over the country to take the examination.

Moreover, Daming's scientific examination is not just one subject. After careful classification, there are a total of 51 classified examinations.