Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1080 Fighting for merit (five)

The words of the staff can no longer be understood.

Reform, change, change, reform must have a purpose.

So, what is the purpose of making a fuss about issues such as students and imperial examinations?

If we say that the purpose is to select real, talented, practical, so-called eclectic talents.

Then, when it comes to county schools, it is meaningless to engage in divided education.

The average age of becoming a student member is seventeen, eighteen, or even twenty years old at the youngest.At this age, learn those disciplines that have been severely differentiated and specialized from scratch?What can we learn?
Therefore, the reform must not be carried out for the purpose of educating more comprehensive talents.Because that means changing the national imperial examination system and changing all private school education into school education.

Whoever dares to change like this will die.

And there is no money at all to make such a change. Now the government schools in the county accept students, and the education of the students in the middle school is either from private schools, ethnology, teachers hired by their own families, or education. Family learning, very few rely on righteous learning.

To change to a comprehensive school education, among other things, where will the money come from?Build less, so who can get in and who can't?

This is different from those practical free schools run by Liu Yu. In the free schools there, it is very clear from the first day of enrollment: you are all marginalized people, and you cannot be an official or take the imperial examination.

However, if it is implemented from the elementary school, the education model of the division of fasting, focusing on Confucian classics and pre-examination for students, is to take the imperial examination and become an official.

Besides, there is no shortage of talents in Dashun at this time, such as water control, engineering, architecture, civil engineering, ordnance, agronomy, metallurgy, navigation, surveying and mapping.

Since the reform must not be aimed at educating more comprehensive talents, then the division of fasting education should not be considered at all.

Then, the remaining purposes are nothing more than two.

One is to strengthen the centralization of power, weaken the control of hundreds of thousands of privileged students at the grassroots level, and completely solve the problems of political hooliganism and local influence of students that began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

One is to pretend that reforms have been carried out, so that the emperor thinks that a lot of effort has been made and great contributions have been made, but in fact nothing has changed.

If it is to pretend that some reforms have been carried out, and it is not for the purpose of better selecting talents, then in fact, it is all right to carry out this kind of divided education in official schools.

Let's take a form. At the age of 20 or 50, if you pass the entrance examination, you will be forced to learn something else every month.

It seems ironic to think so.

Lin Min sighed, and said, "I have seen the words of praise from Western countries for this dynasty compiled by Xingguogong."

"There is a priest named Trigg who said: The imperial examination system is the most perfect system in the world. The imperial examinations select the most perfect and all-round talents. It is necessary to examine whether the will of the candidates is weak and whether they are right. Punishment is too enthusiastic and harsh, and it is necessary to examine whether they are too tolerant but powerless, and whether they are careless in handling official duties, and whether they are extorting money from the people, and whether they are geniuses or mediocrities in governing..."

"The great French Confucian named Voltaire also said: If there is a country in the world whose people's right to life, reputation, and private property are protected by law, then this can only be the Chinese Empire... If any province When an official leaves office, if he is not praised by all the people, then this official will definitely be severely punished. The laws of the Chinese Empire are the only laws that cherish morality, private property, honor, and people's right to life. And this is different from theirs The system for selecting officials is closely related."

"However, Mr. Tinglin lamented the disadvantages of selecting talents, lamenting that the old and mature people spend their useful years in the yard; while the young and successful ones tend to look at the affairs of the world and the country, thinking that the reason for life That’s all for fame and fame. Therefore, the talents of the world are ruined, so that the soldiers will not become soldiers, the officials will not become officials, the soldiers will not become soldiers, and the generals will not become generals.

"The prosperity of Wenhua in the world is in Jiangnan. Half of the Wenhua in Jiangnan is in Jiangsu. I really want to make a difference in the selection of students so that I can really select talents for the country."

"Since it is said that the law of the county's credits and fasting is just a formality, that's all."

"I just think that the tens of thousands of students in Jiangsu Province, with the deepening of Xingguogong's reforms in the future, may become... like the clan of the previous dynasty, becoming a local harm and living waste."

"They exist, and we must find something for them to do, so that it is beneficial to the local area, the community, and the famous religion."

These last words are from the perspective of a Confucian scholar, considering the matter from a perspective that is difficult to explain clearly.

He can be a Jiedu envoy, so does he look down on those students who can't even pass the exam and can't get ahead after a lifetime?
I definitely look down on them in my heart. In a hierarchical society, education and status are despised, which is very serious.

But looking at the future fate of these students in Jiangsu from an unclear perspective, Lin Min felt that Liu Yu simply wanted to raise these students as pigs.

The tax reform and tax rebate system in southern Jiangsu, from another perspective, is actually an attempt to turn students into dogs of the imperial court.

Under the previous preferential exemption system and privileges, the imperial court had conflicts with these gentry and students, and there was only one way to "get rid of fame".

There is no buffer between the two.

Local students, in fact, who really live on the little money sent by the court officials?Relying on land rent such as treachery and legal tax avoidance and labor avoidance under the preferential and exempt privilege system.

As for Liu Yu's reform in southern Jiangsu, the most disgusting part for students is the tax rebate system.

Not to mention the many interests of the gentry, who were severely suppressed, and finally achieved the loudest voice of the people in the Jiangnan area in the last years of the previous dynasty-the equalization of the land, not the equalization of the land, but the equalization of the land.

Just talking about the tax rebate system after the tax came up, in fact, there is a huge buffer space between the court and the students.

If you are obedient, give out dog food.

If you don't listen, you won't send it.

It's no longer the same as before, either listen to the students' noises, or get rid of their reputations with all their heart.Now there is an additional intermediate option of "no payment".

The money for nearly four new battleships a year was returned to the gentry students.It looks like a lot, but it's not.In the first year of Longqing, Guangsong Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, found more than 500 million mu of Huafen and Guiji fields.Adding in the expenses of government schools, granaries, tuition fees, etc., spending millions is really a big profit for the court.

And what can these students do?
In fact, nothing can be done.Liu Yu is really raising pigs, and even more than before.

In the past, the students had to look for food by themselves, no one cared, the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and they had to rely on their own ability to spend money with their privileges and exemptions.

Now, it was Liu Yu who set up a trough in front of them.

literacy rate?
Instead of relying on them, it depends on those poor scholars who can't pass the exam, plus new students, to make education in Yixue Primary School, because these people can accept the minimum wage.

Disaster relief?

It does not depend on them, but on the increasingly perfect system of grassroots civil servants.

Basic level management?

Rather than relying on them, relying on the Qingmiao Loan spread out after tax equalization, and the volunteer schools that have penetrated into the villages in the affluent southern Jiangsu area.

Although the school and the Youth Loan Bank cannot achieve comprehensive control at all.However, before going down to the county, it must be much stronger than before.

Of course, Liu Yu did this, looking at it clearly, or looking at it from the perspective of the moment, it was to highlight the "difference between a gentleman and a villain", "the difference between hard work", "making people envy the imperial examination to become a student", "Educate the people to learn more famous teachings".

However, in fact, this is specifically creating social divisions, creating social contradictions, and creating dissatisfaction among marginal and emerging classes.

But at this time, it is definitely not obvious, because the rapid economic development covers up these contradictions.But some seeds of hatred and perceived injustice have slowly been planted.

Lin Min would definitely not feel that Liu Yu was intentionally creating conflicts.On the contrary, giving preferential treatment to students and serious scholars is a sign of orthodoxy in the Celestial Dynasty.No preferential treatment, no privileges, there are a few who are willing to learn these things, and it is exhausting.

On the one hand, he looks down on these colleagues who can't even pass the exam with the attitude of a superior; From the perspective of an ambitious scholar-bureaucrat, I feel that the reflections of those great Confucians in the late Ming Dynasty are very reasonable, and that better talents should be selected; at the same time, they want to please the emperor's needs and demonstrate their ability to reform.

With this mixed and awkward mentality, Lin Min felt that if he didn't make a fuss, he would really be a clown.

As a reformist who shouted loudly in the court at the beginning, what has changed?Is the reform, including the salt administration, the same as the reform direction I clamored for at the beginning?
However, if he really has no face at all, or if he is really a pure bureaucrat, that would be really easy to say.

Engage in divided education and take a formality. Although it is useless, it is not pretending that something has changed.As long as the provincial examination is not taken, even if the education of other subjects is carried out in the county school, it is nothing more than forcing a group of students to study for a class.

Theoretically, maybe three or five out of a hundred people feel that they have opened the door to a new world.However, the problem is that the knowledge of this new world is really useless if there are two groups of more professional people.If this is used when everything is zero, it is useful; but it is not zero now. In essence, Dashun now has more professional scientific talents than Europe.

Therefore, the idea of ​​reforming the divisional education of the county schools and academies was directly rendered worthless by Liu Yu's practical learning system.

Seeing Lin Min's mood languishing, and feeling a little depressed, the staff still comforted him and said, "Master, there are some things that you should take care of."

"Originally, many reflections and assumptions at the end of the previous dynasty are actually not very useful at this time. How about the education of fasting?"

(End of this chapter)