"That's not right, is it?" Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have discovered something wrong, "Emperor, you said that you want to let the children of the nobles go to school, and recruit civilians when they become bigger in the future?" This dynasty is Tian Shelang, and the matter of ascending to Tianzi Hall at dusk...... It can start from the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it has entered the hearts of the people all over the world since the Song Dynasty! If I'm not mistaken, this dynasty hasn't opened a department for several years, right? ”

"My father remembered wrong," Zhu Cihong shook his head with a smile, "This dynasty has opened a department every year, but there is no Jinshi department, and it is just a matter of promoting people to enter the office." ”

What he said was not entirely true, in fact, there was nothing to promote people. It was just a low-level bureaucratic examination, and this kind of official recruitment examination was selected by the officials of the imperial court, and the provincial and prefecture (prefecture) levels were responsible for the selection of the bureaucracy - the Ming bureaucracy under Zhu Cihong was obviously different from the past, and it had undergone great changes. The most notable of these is the disappearance of the bureaucratic system of health centers, which has long since ceased to function, and the expansion of the central ministries and local provincial governments (prefectures) and county (prefectures) and other government offices.

At present, the central government has six departments, and the local provincial and government (prefecture) levels have set up six departments, and the six departments correspond to the six departments, and there is also a certain vertical management relationship.

And the officials in the six ministries and the officials in the six departments have the power to select officials! And their method of selecting officials is mainly exams!

Official, you still have to take the test!

But whether you go to the official department or go to the official exam, you can only get a petty official from the ninth grade at most, if you don't do very well in the exam, and you want to enter the office, then you can only strive to be a non-mainstream official.

And no matter what the officials, they are not so easy to do, they have to be assessed every year, and there are quotas for promotions and demotions, and even reductions - this kind of last elimination path is of course hated!

But in the process of fighting for hegemony in troubled times, no one can achieve internal harmony. Competing for hegemony in troubled times is itself a kind of "survival of the fittest", and it is natural for the capable to go up and the incompetent to go down. If you can't do that, you're dead.

Of course, Zhu Cihong's "last elimination" was unfair from the beginning, there is a bottom line for a "partner" like a hero who overcame difficulties, and he will not be cut down if he is "eliminated", and if he is demoted to a certain extent, he will be put on an idle errand, even if he doesn't do anything, he will not be demoted again.

For the courtiers who do not have the number of "overcoming difficulties", then there is no bottom, and the Ming Dynasty does not have their shares! So every year, a small number of people are reduced to ordinary people! This official, it's really not easy to be a good person!

But it is precisely because some people have been cut off that it is not too difficult to get an official (many positions are vacated), but the difficulty is only to rise.

"Since there is a person to enter the office," Emperor Chongzhen frowned, "then this noble academy ......" he suddenly paused, "I know, the emperor still doesn't believe in the southeast scholars!" ”

......

In the back garden of a mansion on the bank of the Qinhuai River, in a pavilion where you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Qinhuai, several scholars in Taoist robes and scarves are sitting separately, drinking tea and talking at the same time.

"Emperor Guangwu is the master of Zhongxing, creating a foundation, sweeping the world, indispensable to Hebei Haojie and Nanyang Haoqiang, take care of Haoqiang, Haojie, regard them as henchmen, it is also human nature."

"But what about the people who read the world? Since ancient times, the world has relied on heroes and heroes, and it is scholars who have ruled the world! However, Emperor Guangwu wanted the children of Haoqiang and Haojie to be too students, blocking the motivated people of the world! ”

"Yes, since Emperor Guangwu ascended the throne, the imperial examination has been suspended, and the fame of the people is gone, and even Xiucai is no longer available...... If a scholar wants to become a scholar, he can only take the test as a small official, and then slowly stumble! ”

"Fortunately, the Northern and Western Dynasties did not hold imperial examinations, otherwise the scholars would have returned to the Second Dynasty, and the book would have been ......."

"What do you say? Today we are talking about the history of the Han Dynasty, how can there be any dynasty? ”

These scholars were originally studying the "history of the Han Dynasty", talking about the gains and losses of reusing Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haojie after Guangwu Zhongxing...... However, one of them, a scholar in his forties, who was called "Miyuki", was out of his mouth for a while, and when he mentioned "this dynasty", someone immediately interrupted him.

The person who interrupted him was Chen Zhenhui, a jinshi of Enke in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the son of Chen Yuting, the leader of the Donglin Party, and one of the four sons of the Fushe. At present, he is the head of the Tongbunkan of the Ministry of Worship and Worship, and is in charge of translating books and manuscripts from Western countries.

And he was interrupted by one of the four sons of the Restoration Society, named Fang Yizhi. He was a jinshi in Chongzhen's thirteenth year, and when the city of Beijing was broken, he fled with the three brothers Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cizhao, and Zhu Cihuan - he was the lecturer of Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cizhao, and of course he had to run away with the students. This run has been running for many years, and now he is the envoy of the Shuofang Military Festival.

The so-called envoy of the Duzhi Jinju Academy is the "director of the Beijing Office" of the feudal town, and his status in the Nanjing officialdom is special, so he is more daring to speak.

Mao Xiang, one of the four sons of the former Restoration Society, is also in this small building. Mao Xiang is also a jinshi in Chongzhen's eighteenth year - he has caught up with the last jinshi, and his official luck is not bad, and he is now the deputy secretary (vice principal) of Gezhijing Academy.

And Hou Fangyu, the other of the four sons, was not present, Hou Fangyu and the two of them were no longer all the way!

Because Hou Fangyu is a native of Henan, and his hometown Shangqiu was occupied by the Qing army, he belongs to the "empty-handed northerners", and his father Hou Sui is a hero of overcoming difficulties, and now he is the governor of Jiangnan. Hou Fangyu is of course the second generation of Xun and the northern generation, and of course his ass is on the side of the northerners. His official fortune is also incomparable to Chen Zhenhui and Mao Xiang, and now he is the deputy envoy of the river, and the deputy of Fang Yuegong, the governor of the river.

People like him are, of course, in favor of running schools and abolishing the imperial examination...... And these former members of the Fushe who are meeting in the mansion of Boqian Qianyi in Hot Springs, and the current backbone of the Nanren faction of the Donglin Party, are all opposed to the abolition of the imperial examination, and they all have some opinions on Zhu Cihong's school-running line.

Although the primary school has not yet opened, Chen Zhenhui and Mao Xiang are all in the circle of scholars and officials around Emperor Zhu, and of course they understand Emperor Zhu's mind - Emperor Zhu wants to cultivate elite primary school students.

The Gezhijing School, which was run from Nanjing Shixuetang, in a sense, is to train primary school teachers for this aristocratic primary school that has not yet opened - since the beginning of the second year of Hongxing, Gezhijing School has opened three new courses, one is "Primary School Mathematics", one is "Primary School French", and one is "Primary School Martial Arts". Isn't this the primary school textbook of the future? Moreover, the "Primary School Mathematics" was written by Zhu Cihong himself, which shows that Emperor Zhu attached great importance to primary education.

And the "Elementary School Martial Arts" is even more amazing, it is said to have been written by the candidate Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzheng, including swimming, rowing, driving, fencing, horseback riding, archery, firearms, military formations, and so on! This is clearly a high-cost aristocratic education, which is cultivating excellent students for Gezhijing Academy, Nanjing Jiangwu Hall and Shanghai Sailor Academy!

If you think about it carefully, will the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty form a promotion route of "aristocratic primary school - aristocratic middle school - Gezhi University, army lecture hall, and sailor school - middle and senior civil and military bureaucrats" in the future?

Once such a line is formed, what future will the scholars have in the future? Is it a lifetime to waste in the position of a small official?

Several of the children of the Fushe who cherished the world frowned, not knowing what to say, and their eyes were on Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Southerners Party in the current imperial court.

Although Qian Qianyi is an earl and a hero of overcoming difficulties, most of his disciples are scholars in cloth clothes - they say that they are cloth clothes, but they cannot be working people, but the so-called scholars and landlords.

Qian Qianyi just smiled faintly and was noncommittal: "How many people are there in Guangwuxun?" How many people are reading in the world? If you take a fair scholarship and take the exam with your ability, within ten years, Zhu Zigui of the Manchu Dynasty will be all scholars......"