"Joyful event?"

"I just received a letter from Haizhou, the eighteenth sister was born, and she is a girl."

"Why is it a girl again?"

"My daughter is very good, and besides, I and Eighteen are both young, and I'm afraid that I won't have a chance to have a son? And my family is not patriarchal. ”

"By the way, your ancestors have a female official family."

Wu Haogu came to Su Dongpo's Youcheng Mansion with a smile today, because he had just received a letter from Haizhou. In the letter, Pan Qiaolian regretfully told Wu Haogu that she had given birth to another daughter...... In fact, the daughter is also very good, and the martial arts family does not have patriarchal customs.

However, Wu Haogu still experienced the frustration from Pan Qiaolian's letter. So he decided to end his stay in Kaifeng Mansion as soon as possible, so that he could go to Haizhou to meet his wife as soon as possible.

In addition, the first "northern grain transportation to the south" will soon begin, so he will rush to the Jiehe commercial market in September at the latest to preside over the grain transportation.

After drinking two sips of cold soup, Wu Haogu said to Su Dongpo: "Teacher, the student's affairs in Kaifeng Mansion are almost over, and I am ready to leave for Haizhou in a few days." ”

Wu Haogu's affairs in Kaifeng Mansion are mainly to handle weapons trading, although he doesn't know much about weapons, but he still has to do it himself. With a group of veterans who retired from the palace cavalry case that Zhou Yunqing invited for him, he went to the arsenal of the ordnance supervisor to select weapons that could be sold to the Koreans.

The first batch sent to Goryeo was relatively sophisticated equipment, which could equip about 50,000 cavalry.

At the same time, according to the will of Song Huizong, Wu Haogu also took people to the horse farm of Tiansi Prison in Mu Huogang, northwest of Kaifeng Prefecture, and picked 1,000 military horses and sold them to the Goryeo to form a cavalry - the horses sold to the Goryeo were of course not exactly the same as the horses selected by the Tiansi Prison. Among them, 60 mares, who were both tall and young, were detained by Wu Haogu and replaced with inferior horses purchased on the market in Kaifeng. Those mares were escorted by Zhou Yunqing in person, and they were sent to the Boundary Hippodrome with the three horses.

In this way, the Hippodrome now has 5 stallions and more than 100 mares, as well as more than 30 foals that have not yet grown. In addition, there are dozens of horse wharves and veterinarians collected from all over the country, as well as five separate horse farms.

As a stallion breeding base, such a scale is enough! This was followed by a long commitment and strict management of the bloodline and repeated inbreeding...... In fact, there is nothing difficult, they are all technologies that have been mastered very early.

After running a horse farm for two years, Wu Haogu already knew that the technology of raising horses in the Northern Song Dynasty was not backward. He also knew that the horse breeds of the Northern Song Dynasty were actually declining - there were far more good horses in the Taizong and Zhenzong dynasties than now! This shows that the technology of raising horses in the Central Plains is not bad, but the poor is breeding management!

Breeding management and large-scale stocking are actually two opposite routes, one is to pay attention to finesse; One is extensive management. The former requires small, private, small-scale, rigorous breeding on small scales, such as aristocratic estates. The latter is a large-scale breeding that pursues economies of scale.

It is simply an impossible task to raise 100,000 or 200,000 horses, to establish a genealogy for each horse, and to manage the "hooves" of so many horses......

Therefore, the more scientific method is to provide stallions for private manor horse farms, and large-scale stocking for national large horse farms. At the same time, large horse farms do not produce their own stallions, and all stallions are castrated to avoid population degradation.

In the Song Dynasty, because the middle and upper class scholars and doctors all went to the imperial examination, they no longer fought in the army, nor did they raise private soldiers, so naturally there was no need to raise war horses, and the folk horse breeders did not need to cultivate war horses for military purposes, and all the horses they raised were the horses needed for production, so the Song Dynasty had no source of high-quality stallions. War horses can only rely on the state-run horse administration, and the state-run horse administration does not care about breeding, so population degradation has become inevitable.

By the way, very few of the scholars and officials in charge of horse politics in the Northern Song Dynasty knew how to raise horses. Wu Haogu even heard about the fact that horse officials in the northwest let the mares of the horse farm seduce the wild horses in the mountains to crossbreed, and they were rewarded for this - is the quality of the horse farm stallion not as good as the wild horse? Wild horses evolved to adapt to the harsh conditions of survival in the wild, not to be easy for people to ride.

……

Hearing that Wu Haogu was leaving, Su Dongpo nodded and said, "Be careful on the road, don't rush too much...... Your little sister still has gifts for the eighteenth sister's mother and daughter, remember to bring them when you leave. ”

Wu Haogu got up and thanked Su Dongpo: "The student Dai Neizi thanked the teacher, the little teacher." ”

"What is this doing? It is appropriate for the master and apprentice to interact with each other. ”

Ordering Wu Haogu to sit down, Su Dongpo muttered: "Today, when discussing the reform of the Guozijian in the court, Cai Jing proposed to reform the imperial examination as well......"

The reform of Guozijian is the most important government affairs led by Su Dongpo after he came to power, Su Dongpo and Wuhao Gudu want to reform Guozijian according to the model of Yuntai Xuegong - needless to say, the reformed Guozijian is the fourth millennium university Kaifeng University in China after Lianyungang Huaihai University, Tianjin University and Nankai University in the future!

The steps of the reform of Guozijian this time were very small, but the three schools under Guozijian (not counting primary schools) were turned into two schools such as Guozixue and Taixue, and the independent martial arts were abolished, and at the same time, on the basis of the original curriculum of Guozixue and Taixue, a total of seven courses were added, such as "Tianli Theory", "Positivistic Theory", fencing, horse riding, archery, arithmetic and military science (a military science was added when it was originally proposed). In addition, the three-rounding method has been reformed, reducing the number of students and the proportion of cullings.

When discussing the future of students after graduation, Cai Jing put forward a proposal to reform the imperial examination system to create opportunities for students in Guozijian and Yuntai Academy.

"Did Cai Jing say how to reform?"

When it comes to the reform of the imperial examination, Wu Haogu is frowning. That's a tough question! There was once in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the imperial examination was directly abolished and the school was changed, but it was changed back in the last years of the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty. In the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination system was successfully abolished, but it was not long before the Manchus themselves abolished it...... That's a reversal of a province!

Wu Haogu said: "The matter of the imperial examination, after so many years of examination, everyone has long been used to it, and it is not easy to change." And I don't know what about the students of Yuntai Academy...... It's better to do this, you can cancel the martial arts, and at the same time score the left and right rankings in the Jinshi test.

The left list only examines the scriptures and meanings of the articles; The right list needs to be allowed to be written and martial, and in addition to the meaning of the article, it is necessary to test the bow horse, military science and arithmetic.

In addition, the right list does not need to be examined, and the students of the Guozijian School, the Yuntai School Palace, and the students recommended by officials above the seventh grade can take the exam. ”

"How do you divide the quota?"

"Naturally, there are more on the left list and less on the right list." Wu Haogu said, "The number of scholars on the right list is half of that on the left list, but the left and right lists are all the same jinshi, regardless of whether they are superior or inferior." This should convince the public. ”

Now there are five or six hundred Wen Jinshi on the first list, and according to half of this number, there are at least two hundred and fifty Jinshi on the right list.

The number seems to be much less, but there will be a lot fewer candidates on the right list. By the time of the next imperial examination (if you don't change the yuan, it will be the six-year rite examination of the Yasukuni in Jianzhong), the graduates of Guozijian and Yuntai Xuegong will be at most three or four hundred a year, plus the candidates recommended by officials, if you can have six hundred, you will reach the sky, and two hundred and fifty people will be selected from six hundred, and the doctoral group, Jiehe Business City and Tianya Town can still absorb some of them. The future is much better!

"So where does the right list Jinshi go to be an official?" Su Dongpo asked, "The future is the same as Zuobang?" ”

"The right list of Jinshi Yunwen Yunwu, you can be a civil official, or you can go to serve as an officer of the government soldiers."

Wu Hao had already thought about it, and the right list of Jinshi was actually trained according to the standards of officers, and of course they had to take over the "Volunteer Soldiers".

In addition, don't cut off their way to being civil servants. Because the tradition of emphasizing literature over military force in the Great Song Dynasty will not change for a while, the right list of jinshi can become the sand for military attachés to be mixed into the civilian group.

"In addition," Wu Haogu said, "we should also gradually reform the method of taking officials and scholars and establish a school of martial arts."

For example, painting, calligraphy, astronomy, medicine, law, music, veterinary, agriculture, construction, iron smelting, weapons, mining, transshipment, shipbuilding, and so on are all practical sciences, and they should all be trained by specialized colleges and hired as officials by examination. ”

The civil officials of the Northern Song Dynasty were somewhat similar to the administrative appointees of later democracies, which were elected (not necessarily elected, but could also be appointed by the elected leader or political party), while the military attachés, sorcerers, and officials were the administrative officials.

An administrative officer may not understand business, but he must be assisted by a business-savvy officer in order to do things well.

If the administrative officer does not understand, and the administrative officer is fooling things, then it is strange that things can be done well.

"This is another dozen academies!" Su Dongpo counted, "Da Lang, we have so many teachers available?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "Why do we have to open it ourselves?" We can encourage private schools. If you want to calculate carefully, there are more than a dozen academies, dozens or hundreds are possible, how can we all come by ourselves?

And the students of these trick academies are not necessarily officials, where do you not want talents from all walks of life? ”

Su Dongpo shook his head, "But where are the people willing to run this kind of trick academy?" ”

"There is always a way," Wu Haogu smiled, "and there is no hurry, you can promote it slowly." But...... It is best to establish a law and give certain rewards, so that there are rules to follow in running private schools. ”

"That's what I said," Su Dongpo thought for a while, "Then you can draft a piece of music now, and then help the teacher change it, and submit it tomorrow." ”

"Good!" Wu Haogu nodded, "It's called "Begging for the Quasi-Folk Trick Academy". ”

"Okay," Su Dong ramped, "for the teacher, hand over another piece of music to open the left and right list of Jinshi, so it's almost done." ”