After listening to Chongzhen's decision on the status of the official textbook of the "Annotations on the Four Books, Chapters and Sentences", most of the officials in the palace finally relaxed a little.

As long as the emperor did not beat Zhu Wengong's matter to death with a stick, they did not feel that it was an unacceptable thing to temporarily stop the "Annotations on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" as a book for scientific research.

In the past few decades, it has been the most beneficial period for science to be shaken in the Ming ideological circles, and the emergence of scholars such as He Xinyin and Li Zhen has set off a trend of reflection on the ideas of science among scholars.

As the orthodox ideology that has ruled the number of Chinese scholars for hundreds of years, the first line of science will naturally not be willing to be driven down from the altar by these currents of thought. Against these scholars who spread anti-Taoism, the means of cracking down and brutally persecuting them were adopted.

He Xinyin was beaten to death by officials who believed in science, while Li Zhen was falsely imprisoned and finally committed suicide. The popular trend of reflection on science has finally declined.

And those Taoist gentlemen who believe in science, although they won the victory of ideological debate on the surface, but the believers of He Xinyin and Li Zhen did not give up their reflective stance on science.

The brutal persecution of dissidents by these disciples also led them to fear that when the emperor arbitrarily banned the status of Lixue, those followers of Li Zhen, who were dissatisfied with Lixue, would take advantage of the situation and retaliate against the Lixue lineage.

The emperor's decision to suspend the status of the textbook of the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences was, in the eyes of most officials, more like a way to suppress the controversy and temporarily ease the contradictions.

Although there were still some extreme conservative officials who were hoarsely opposed to Chongzhen's opinion, after confirming that only a small number of people were still insisting, Zhu Youzhen continued without hesitation.

In addition, the imperial examination was originally an examination ceremony for the imperial court to select talents to assist the king in governing the country.

However, although the Jinshi in the middle of the year were well written, some of them did not even know which dynasties existed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and some of them could not even distinguish the location of Shenyang and Liaoyang.

As for the people who do not distinguish between grains and grains, how can they govern the world for the imperial court with such knowledge? Edifying the peoples?

It is just that the imperial examination cannot select real talents, and what is even more contemptible is that there is constant fraud in the imperial examination, and some chief examiners simply regard the examination room as a money field, and as long as they give money, they can get the middle, and they do not take the sacred mission given to him by the imperial court seriously.

I believe that the method and content of this imperial examination are going to change a little now, and the personal preferences of some examiners cannot be used as the standard for evaluating talents. ”

Qian Qianyi's face was a little hot, and he subconsciously shrank back a small step, for fear of being noticed. In his ears, the emperor talked about fraud in the scientific field, and he vaguely put him in, after all, he had a criminal record.

Whether it is Huang Liji or the Donglin Party, they are unwilling for Chongzhen to continue to talk about the fraud case in the scientific field, they would rather the emperor bring the topic back to the disadvantages of the imperial examination. After all, at this point, the butts on both sides are not very clean.

Just like when the eunuch party served as the chief examiner, most of the people who could be selected were relatives and friends of the eunuch party officials, and when the Donglin party members served as the chief examiner, they were naturally the protégés of the party members. Both sides are already familiar with this kind of thing.

Huang Liji hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, today's examinations have mostly become a word game for candidates to cater to the examiner.

On the contrary, even if the content of the essay is new, the essay that does not meet the examiner's mind will not have a bright future at all.

It is based on today's imperial examination, not for the imperial court, but for the examiners to accept protégés. In the long run, the view of the gateway between the DPRK and China has become more and more intense, and the real scholars have been exiled from the court. ”

As Huang Liji spoke out in support of the emperor, Xu Guangqi, Guo Yunhou, Shi Fenglai and other cabinet ministers also responded in favor of the emperor.

Zhang Ruitu and Qian Qianyi, who were still hesitating before, saw this situation and reluctantly spoke out in favor of the emperor's proposition.

Although Liu Zongzhou, Han Yi, Yuan Keli and others did not directly oppose it, they all asked Chongzhen to explain how to adjust the content of the imperial examination and the method of examination. I want to know Chongzhen's thoughts on the adjustment of the imperial examination, and then deny it.

After the leaders of these officials finished expressing their opinions, Zhu Youzhen thought about it and said: "I think that first of all, we should start to change from the academy examination, and first of all, we must add the content of Chinese history and geography.

In terms of history, the "Concise History of China" is used as the examination book, and in the field of geography, the "Daming Geography Elementary Textbook" compiled by Yenching University is used as the basis for the examination.

In addition, the examinations of the Township Examination, the General Examination and the Palace Examination are divided into two parts, one part is the evaluation standard by the examiner's opinion, that is, the original examination content. The other part is based on the content of the official textbooks, including the Four Books and the Five Classics, history, geography, and other miscellaneous studies.

The former is a subjective question and accounts for 40 points; The latter is an objective question and accounts for 60 points. Combined, the perfect score is 100 points. In the future, the imperial court will judge the merits of the scholars, and prevent some people from using the imperial examination to suppress academic dissident candidates or engage in personal fraud. ”

Chongzhen's words suddenly silenced some officials who wanted to object, "A Concise History Reader of China" is Qian Qianyi's new work, this historical reading book is contrary to Qian Qianyi's past historiography, Han and Song dynasties, and pay attention to the study of letters.

Not only is the book written in the vernacular to make it understandable to everyone in the market, but it is also written from left to right, punctuated sentences, and illustrated with engravings.

It doesn't look like a rigorous academic classic, but rather like a popular book in the city. The content of the book is also contrary to the previous way in which the author used his own opinion to delete facts and prove his own opinion.

Qian Qianyi's new work basically adopts a more neutral stance to describe the change of dynasties. Although it is also mixed with Chongzhen's political views, it has greatly weakened the personal feeling, and it is difficult for ordinary people to perceive the author's personal position.

Because of the events that took place over such a long period of time, in a book of more than 300 pages, this book naturally does not have much depth, but it is very suitable for beginners to study history. After all, Qian Qianyi's academic skills are there, and there are still quite few errors in his books.

As for the "Daming Geography Elementary Textbook" compiled by Yenching University, it is a textbook used to teach primary school students, and the content in it is also very simple.

Compared with the Four Books and Five Classics, these two books basically belong to the level of thousand-character texts, and whether it is Liu Zongzhou or others, they can't think of any reason to oppose it for a while, and the content similar to Mengxue has been added to the imperial examination.

Although they were tempted to use the content of the two books as too shallow, they would discourage Chongzhen from adding them to the content of the imperial examination. However, Chongzhen had already said before that many Jinshi did not even have basic knowledge of history and geography, which made them a little speechless.

Moreover, some low-ranking officials did not feel that there was anything wrong with the inclusion of these two books in the content of the imperial examination. After all, Qian Qianyi is not only a historian, but also a member of the Donglin Party, and it is not a bad thing that his works have entered the examination.

As for the "Ming Geography Elementary Textbook", although it was edited by those new school scholars of Yenching University, what is the harm of this kind of textbook used in primary schools, and there is no new learning in it.

With few objections, Chongzhen's proposal for the reform of the imperial examination was finally approved by the majority. The members of the cabinet were all in favor, and even Zhang Ruitu, who was inclined to southern officials at the beginning of the imperial theory, did not want to become a dissident in the eyes of the emperor, and chose to approve.

After seeing that the conflict between Xinxue and Lixue had finally eased, Lu Chengyuan, Qian Shisheng, Qian Yuanyu and other officials were also relieved, and they quickly pulled back the topic of the court meeting and admonished Chongzhen one after another.

It is hoped that the emperor will suspend the reform of the local government system, and let the inner government stop interfering in the economic production of the people, and not compete with the people for profit, so as to make the economy of the people active.

Chongzhen, who had basically understood the attitude of most of the officials in the hall, was not as relaxed as he had just been.

He coldly reprimanded these officials: "At the beginning of the year, together with the cabinet, I issued an order: the military is strictly forbidden to interfere in local administration and the central government, but local civil officials and civil officials are never allowed to interfere in military affairs.

Are you still not officials of the Ming Dynasty, do you know what a court decree is? Can you take care of the construction of local governors and armed forces? ”

Lu Chengyuan, Qian Shisheng, and Qian Yuanyu couldn't help but look at each other, seeing that Chongzhen was angry at these low-level officials, Yuan Keli and several other Donglin leaders had to stand up and defend them.

After listening to the arguments of several officials, Zhu Youzhen spoke again: "The construction of the Southwest Governor's Mansion and the Ming Armed Forces are all secrets of the imperial court.

In order to prevent it from being stolen by the enemy, I do not plan to discuss this matter at the court meeting, and I will discuss it at the national meeting.

As for the establishment of the Governor's District, I have asked His Excellency to make inquiries to the governors, gentry, and representatives of the common people. Whether or not to set it up and how to set it up will be said when the time comes, so you don't have to worry about it now.

As for the government's intervention in the private economy, the market was depressed, and the private wealth was looted by the palace.

I just want to ask you, what data do you have that these things have happened, or are happening?

Have you investigated whether the annual income of the residents of Beijing has decreased or increased compared with a year ago and a year later? ”