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Daqin Palace, Pujia Palace.

The spring curtain is half opened, the flying flocculent is stained with the painting corner, the east wind blows the bead curtain, and the smoke of the beast is dispersed.

The beauty is like jade, the palace dress is like a cloud, the eyes are shining, and the jade finger is slender and slender, and a section of the cloud in Wushan is lightly wiped.

Liu Ru is round and jade, beautiful as poetry, she likes to discuss knowledge, Qin Mu asked about the impact of the imperial examination system on the economy, these are exactly the topics she likes, so the whole person is full of energy, and the spring scene outside the curtain is blended together, more and more moving.

"Your Majesty, the maid thinks about it, the imperial examination system and the economy actually affect each other. The maid remembers that the economic base determines the superstructure. This sentence is now thought of, and it can be said to be reasonable. Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the socio-economic foundation was weak, and ordinary people could not afford to read. At that time, even if the imperial examination system was established, only some people from large families were eligible to participate, and it was actually difficult to break the original situation of the family holding official positions.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the social economy has made great progress, the people's livelihood is rich, and there are more people who can read books.

This is what His Majesty said that the economic base determines the superstructure, and in turn, the superstructure affects the economic development, which is inevitable.

The imperial examination system is undoubtedly a kind of superstructure, after the establishment of this system, the study, examination, and official integration into one, in the face of almost everyone open equal opportunities, which encourages a large number of people to actively enter the academy or private school to study, promote the development of educational institutions, and then lead to the vigorous development of the library, printing, paper, ink, pen and other industries.

In some places, the whole county makes pens, which is enough to make people's livelihood rich. Another example is the Hangzhou area of the Song Dynasty, there are thousands of printing workshops alone, and the number of practitioners is more than 100,000. It's a big deal, and that's just the immediate impact.

There are also many indirect influences, for example, many people are providing services for the college, for the students, for the library, printing, papermaking, ink, pen and other industries, the college wants to develop, it has to do a lot of livelihood, students in order to increase knowledge. To study abroad, this has driven the flow of many people and promoted the development of restaurants, inns and other industries.

Especially in the capital, in the year of the Ministry of Rites test, tens of thousands of scholars poured into the capital, and these people brought more or less entourage, and these people had to consume three meals a day. Even monasteries rent out meditation rooms, and if you calculate carefully, the triennial imperial examination will boost consumption. The boost to the economy is amazing.

The imperial examination system even promoted the development of foreign trade to a great extent, and people from various neighboring countries and even Western countries did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles to study. The exchange of people, the exchange of knowledge, and the exchange of missions between countries. The transportation, traffic and commodity trading that took place during this period had a good effect on foreign trade.

For example, in the trade between the dynasties and Korea, Japan and other countries, a very important commodity is classic books, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, celebrity calligraphy and painting, etc., the trade volume is very large, and there is a tendency to be in short supply."

Liu Ru said a lot in one breath, and there is something to say, there is no doubt that the imperial examination has been hyped so hot, and its impact on the social economy is also very huge.

Of course, there is a good side to this effect, and there is a bad side.

The imperial examination system was conducive to maintaining the stability and development of the small-scale peasant economy, and this system clarified the social hierarchy of the peasants and industrialists to a large extent. The main content of the examination is the Confucian classics, which makes the content of all scholars can only be based on these Confucian classics, which is equivalent to unifying the mind in disguise and imprisoning the mind.

For the sake of the title of the gold list, most readers are obsessed with the Confucian classics, and actively refuse to study the natural sciences that directly promote the development of productive forces. As a result, the knowledge structure of the whole society is simplified, and there are very few professional and practical talents.

In a word, the establishment of the imperial examination system is equivalent to the infinite elevation of the status of the Confucian classics, and other disciplines, almost all other disciplines are dismissed as "kitsch and prostitution".

Moreover, the imperial examination system constantly strengthened the concept of "Shinong Industry and Commerce", industry and commerce were regarded as the last class, and the development of commerce was restricted and discriminated against everywhere, not only scholars looked down on businessmen, but even businessmen themselves felt that they were inferior;

After most businessmen became rich, they did not think about how to expand the scale of production, but tried their best to change their identity, purchase land and property, and change from merchants to farmers, because only after becoming farmers could they have the opportunity to become scholars.

Therefore, the imperial examination system has a huge inhibition on the development of industry and commerce. This kind of system can only promote the stability and development of the small-scale peasant economy, and it is a tight shackle to the capital economy and the industrial revolution that Qin Mu wants to promote.

Previously, Qin Mu built the Institute of Technology, established various scientific research institutions, set up the Royal Science Prize, and added courses in physics, chemistry, geometry, mathematics, etc., all in an attempt to reverse the strict distortion of the values and knowledge system of "Confucianism".

But if you think about it carefully, if you don't change the distortion of the entire social ideology of the imperial examination, I am afraid that all the previous efforts will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

There are still only a few people who are genuinely willing to learn other scientific knowledge, and most of the people who read books will still indulge in the pile of old papers, reciting the Confucian classics day after day, and all their youth and energy will be spent on the Confucian classics.

The whole society will still use the "gold list title" to measure a person's success and failure, and to measure his value and status. Most young men who are likely to be literate and literate will still put all their success or failure in life on the imperial examination.

Reforming the imperial examination system is the fundamental solution to the problem of the slow development of natural sciences and the distorted values of society.

However, the imperial examination system has evolved step by step from the Sui and Tang dynasties to today, and has formed a huge influence, and even a kind of inertia in the heart of the whole society. How easy is it to reform?

Qin Mu drank the fragrant tea brought by Liu Ru and thought carefully, Liu Ru said a lot before, she thought she was very reasonable, but she didn't see the emperor show a happy look because of this;

She was smart and immediately realized that it was definitely not easy for the emperor to ask her this question, and she was keenly aware that it was likely that there was another institutional change that would affect everyone and the entire society was brewing in the emperor's mind

Qin Mu thought about things, holding a pen in his hand, and dipped it in ink at random, Liu Ru thought that he had thought of something, so he hurriedly went up and spread out the paper and pressed the edge of the paper with a white jade paperweight.

Qin Mu didn't wait for her to press the edge of the paper, so he wrote a few lines casually:

Ten years of ditch god to be one,

Half a year is a thousand miles of sound dust.

sideburns like snow and hearts like death,

He is still the first person under Chang'an.

After writing this poem, most of it was written on a blank piece of paper, and Qin Mu didn't care, not even the ink, and wrote it in a smaller and scribbled font below:

At the beginning of the first day of mourning and weeping,

What is the desire for life's career?

Sideburns sprinkled with a sprig of cinnamon,

Tears and blood drip thousands of miles of books.

After writing, Qin Mu threw the pen into the lotus carp inkstone, and the vermilion ink in the inkstone splashed out, sprinkled between the lines of the poem little by little, like the blood and tears newly dropped by a fallen person, scarlet and dazzling.

Qin Mu felt a little tired, leaned back on the imperial chair and closed his eyes, rubbing his temples lightly. Liu Ru was a little uneasy in her heart, and hurriedly went up to help him massage her temples, "Your Majesty, you" She wanted to speak and stopped, Qin Mu had failed three times, Liu Ru thought that he remembered these old things. The pressure he felt in his heart back then may be the same as that of these two poems.

Qin Mu leaned his head into her arms, her breasts were soft, gentle and comfortable, Qin Mu couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief when she leaned on, and then asked casually: "If so, do you think the mentality of the person who wrote these two poems is normal?" ”

"This fallen person is roughly like this"

"Roughly? Hehe, you're right, but is this mentality normal? Is it really normal? What do you want to do in life? Is it difficult to reflect the value of life in other things except for the imperial examination? Can't you die if you can't be named on the gold list? What sideburns are like snow and the heart is like death, does this society only need officials, only politicians? This is a social mentality that has been distorted by Yan zhòng! ”

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PS: I personally believe that if we want the society to develop in the right direction, the most important thing is not military expansion, but the change of thinking, but to change the thinking of the whole society, the root cause of the problem should be to change the constraints of the imperial examination system, but this is very difficult. Originally, there was a deposit to ensure that the update time was normal, but now, a deposit has also run out, I will try my best to ensure that there are still two more, but tomorrow's update time may be uncertain, here is a first word, at the same time, in the face of such a professional scholar also needs to be cautious to face the big proposition, I want to write down, I need to die a lot of brain cells, I hope you encourage it more, monthly passes, subscriptions, rewards, every support you have, I am grateful, this is also my biggest motivation, thank you. (To be continued......)