"Oh, by the way, the emperor, after thinking about it recently, it seems that the time is ripe for that matter." Liu Hong gradually put down his chopsticks and said solemnly.

"Oh? Brother Liu can figure it out, this matter is not trivial, if it is announced, the courtiers will inevitably oppose it to the death, no less than a battle of swords. Zhu Cihong immediately knew what Liu Hongjian was talking about.

What else can happen, although there are tigers and wolves outside the customs now, they don't dare to act rashly in a short time, although Nanyang is chaotic, it is not chaotic in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court has met the field tax again, and the people have no worries about food and clothing, and all parts of the country are peaceful.

If you talk about the real things in the hearts of the two, there is only one way to the imperial examination.

As early as when Uncle Chongzhen was there, Liu Hong gradually analyzed the inappropriateness of the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, and said that the reason why the uncle fell into a situation of fighting alone was not all the scholars who were making trouble.

And all of these scholars climbed up through the imperial examination, and herein lies the problem.

In the past 100 years, more than 200 leaders have been selected from all over the country every three years for the imperial examination.

Although there are some far-sighted people among them, it has to be said that a considerable number of them are actually not beneficial to the country.

Uncle Chongzhen was angry that these courtiers didn't do anything, and they would only join forces to oppose him, but at that time, there were internal and external troubles, and there were fires everywhere and needed rescue, and the two of them couldn't take care of it.

Although he mentioned it again in the next two years, he was always delayed because of this and that, until Chongzhen was on his deathbed, and he still talked to Zhu Cihong that when the time was ripe, he would definitely reform the imperial examination.

Chongzhen's idea is very simple, the selection should be real talents, not rotten Confucians who can only do some sour poems.

Zhu Cihong's idea is simpler, his father must be right, since Brother Liu is a human being, he has made such a great contribution to the Ming Dynasty, what he thinks and thinks must be for the Ming Dynasty, and he must be right.

So, he just needs to take the advice.

It's just that the imperial examination system is not the Beijing camp reform, the imperial examination has been implemented for a thousand years now, and the imperial examination system has long been engraved in the hearts of all the people in the world, and scholars take the imperial examination as their goal.

If you really want to take the imperial examination, you will inevitably face the anger of the world's scholars.

"We are just reforming, not canceling, besides, if the emperor really orders the cancellation of the imperial examination, the minister will be the first to refuse." Liu Hong said in a deep voice.

In the long run, the imperial examination system is really the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, so to speak, in terms of the system of taking officials, the Chinese nation far surpasses the West for more than 1,000 years.

The princely general Xiangning is a kind of questioning of the upper class by the poor people, and the imperial examination system is the upward channel of the common people.

This upward channel is too important, even now, Liu Hongjian did not tell a lie, if Zhu Cihong really canceled the imperial examination in a fit of anger, he would be the first to stand up against it.

It's just that the development of the imperial examination to the present is really a bit deformed.

The imperial examination began in the Sui Dynasty, perfected in the Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, the content of the test has changed greatly, and there are more than 50 kinds of subjects often set in the Tang Dynasty, such as Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, and Ming Calculation.

In the two Song Dynasty, he gradually preferred poetry, articles and the Ming Sutra, and the Ming Sutra was, to put it bluntly, an endorsement.

Open any of the Four Books and Five Classics, turn a page at will, cover the other words and only miss one line, and then let the next few words of this line be completed, and then pick a sentence at random and let the candidate explain the meaning.

Later, the old Zhao family also realized the problem, and also carried out a reform for the imperial examination, canceling the endorsement and poetry, only taking the current political questions and answers, putting forward the idea of current affairs and then giving solutions, and finally picking a sentence from the four books and five classics to write an essay for the exam.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the two founding emperors of the old Zhu family suffered a loss of ignorance, which made the imperial examination return to the era of endorsement.

The Ming Dynasty was the heyday of the imperial examination system, and the imperial examination system was also the most stringent.

Bagu is a masterpiece of the Ming Dynasty, which began in the Ming Dynasty and was abolished at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Baguwen was really an official at that time who had nothing to do to make trouble for future generations, and if you think about it, you have worked so hard to climb to a high position for ten years, so you naturally want future generations to know how difficult it is and how difficult the imperial examination is.

And Baguwen is the best way to show off your own talents.

The so-called eight-strand essay refers to the eight parts of the article, and there is a fixed format when writing the essay for the imperial examination, which is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting the lecture, entering the question, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and bundle stock, and the title is all from the original text in the Four Books and Five Classics.

The eight-strand text should speak in the tone of Confucius and Mencius, and the four pairs of sons should fight against each other, and the length of the sentence, the complexity and simplicity of the words, the pitch of the voice, and even the number of words are strictly limited.

To say that the flowers of the motherland don't like to hear it, if the college entrance examination is compared to hell, then the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty must be the eighteenth layer.

If the college entrance examination is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, then the imperial examination is a tightrope.

Here's the problem, there's an egg for taking these tests!

You are a great man who writes four and six, will you be able to fight?

You're a thief, do you know how to make egg fried rice?

His hands are not touched by the spring water, Confucius said, Mencius said, and he didn't even know what he was wearing and how he used it in his hands.

The problem is not entirely here, if the imperial examination is to be reformed, the Baguwen is not a big deal, after all, it is only a matter of article format, and the biggest problem is the content.

The Four Books and Five Classics of the Imperial Examination are all classics of Confucianism, not that Confucianism is bad, but Confucianism is actually no problem at all, and it is also a leader among the hundred schools, which is indeed beneficial to the ruling class to a certain extent.

However, in the long run, focusing only on Confucianism will outweigh the losses, and ancient China has reached its peak in the development of science and technology since the Song Dynasty and then began to decline.

Confucianism focuses on self-cultivation, Qi family and governance, but this is only for the superstructure, and industrial development needs Mohist engineering, Legalist law, need, need for farmer's agriculture, and more importantly, need soldiers, vertical and horizontal families......

Without any of them, this society would be unsound, and even if the imperial court governed the country with Confucianism, it should not abandon so many categories.

If those in power for thousands of years do not suppress too much, the Chinese nation will certainly not become a nation that does not pay attention to statistical summarization, as later generations said.

Confucianism doesn't have to carry this pot, Confucianism has to carry it.

"This is a thousand-year-old custom, how could I cancel the imperial examination, but Brother Liu thinks, where should this imperial examination be changed?" Zhu Cihong knew that Liu Hongjian was joking, but as a person in the bureau, he really didn't know how to change the imperial examination.