Fu Song

Chapter 655 Education
Kui Wen Fen Wu.

Both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard.

Now the military affairs of the Jiangning court are basically in the hands of Xiao Cheng, the first assistant. It is precisely because he has grasped the handle of the sword, and this sword handle is extremely powerful in front-line combat, invincible and invincible, so Xiao Cheng Cheng's voice in the court was particularly loud, so loud that other people's voices were dispensable at all.

And this is also because of the current situation facing Song Dynasty.

The people of the Liao Kingdom may attack aggressively anytime and anywhere, and force is used to preserve the country. Only when the country and the country are preserved can we talk about other things.

But when the situation was stabilized, the importance of the document became prominent again.

The culture and education in the south of the Yangtze River is prosperous, and the Jinshi produced in the Liangjiang area and the Fujian and Zhejiang areas have crushed other areas for a long time in the past.

For a certain period of time, the imperial examinations at the imperial court even deliberately suppressed the Southern Juren, such as severely cracking down on some southern scholars who went to some culturally and educationally underdeveloped areas to borrow references from their households. Once they were found out, they would be severely punished. .

To put it bluntly, that is to say, the imperial court does not want to see the officials under its own family, and all of them are from the south.

The protection and influence between regions have existed since ancient times.

Soldiers are relied on to fight wars, but literati are still needed to govern the country and govern the government.

After Xiao Cheng stabilized the situation, he would naturally not give up on this.

After the Jiangning Stone City was determined as the temporary capital, education has always been in the hands of the Jiangnan faction.

No way, people really have a solid foundation in this area.

Even if Mr. Cen jumps back and forth, he can't change this fact.

In the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of private schools prevailed, while government schools were actually languishing.

The best students and the best teachers are concentrated in private schools.

Rich people not only vigorously cultivate their own children from childhood, but also go out to support some poor children.

Anyone who finds a talented seedling from a poor family will naturally poach him away since childhood.

After accumulating for such a long time, a huge invisible network began to form.

When the imperial court introduced the imperial examination system, it originally wanted to open an upward channel for the lower class, and the original intention was naturally excellent.

But over time, this channel is still controlled by rich people and the children of officials and eunuchs.

How many poor families can afford to read books since childhood?
Pen, ink, paper and inkstone are really a big expense for ordinary people.

In order to gather people's hearts and stabilize the situation, the imperial court held the first scientific expedition under the auspices of the new imperial court in the first year of establishing the capital Jiangning Mansion.

At that time, Xiao Cheng was still busy scheming against the Liao people and the puppet Zhao and puppet Qi, so naturally he couldn't take care of this.

But now, he finally freed his hand.

The education system of the Song Dynasty is actually quite complete.

Under the Guozijian, six specialized schools were set up, teaching law, mathematics, calligraphy, painting, martial arts, and medicine, which can be regarded as a relatively complete education system.

It's just that after the court's strategy of suppressing martial arts and emphasizing literature was finalized, the lineage of calligraphy became the best in the world, leaving other disciplines far behind.

Han Qi, who used to be the chief assistant of the Great Song Dynasty, said that Donghuamen is a good man, which pushed this trend to the peak, and other disciplines basically fell into a slump.

At that time, people were busy reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and learning poetry and songs, hoping to use these things to compete for a Donghuamen roll call, to win a glorious lintel, to seal their wives and sons, and everything else is naturally inferior. .

Whether it is law, mathematics, or medicine, it is also dismissed as "craftsmanship".

Let alone martial arts.

Before Tokyo was breached, the Guozijian martial arts professors at that time were a group of old scholars, and there were more than a hundred students in the name of martial arts, but in fact, there were only ten or twenty people who often attended the lectures. The Seven Books of the Classics include Sun Tzu, Wu Zi, Wei Liaozi, Huang Shi Gong's Three Strategies, Jiang Tai Gong's Six Teachings, Tang and Li Wen Du, etc.

Speaking of which, these books are naturally excellent.

Books are dead after all.

So what if you can memorize these military books fluently?

If you can't use it flexibly and combine it with the actual situation on the battlefield, the more you read the book, the more harmful it will be.

How can you expect those old scholars who have never seen a battlefield in their life to teach a qualified general in martial arts!
Of course, Xiao Cheng will carry out drastic reforms to the current education in Song Dynasty.

Such reforms will not work from the bottom up.

There is only one way to change from top to bottom.

If the college entrance examination is the baton of modern education, then the imperial examination is the baton of Song Dynasty education.

The first thing to be changed is naturally the six junior colleges under the Imperial College.

Those who can be admitted to one of the six colleges and become a student in the upper house are qualified to directly become officials.

This autumn's admissions to the Imperial College, everyone found out that the number of places in the six major colleges has changed drastically compared to previous years.

For the first time, the number of students enrolled in Calligraphy is much less than that of Law, Martial Arts, Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences.If this sign is not obvious enough, then the just-concluded Jinshi Examination for the third year of the Tiansong Dynasty is even more telling.

The paper was written by the first assistant Xiao Cheng himself.

I took the exam for two days.

On the first day, policy theory is considered, that is, thinking about major events in the world and proposing corresponding countermeasures.The topics are very broad, and candidates can pick up what they are good at. Of course, it is not easy to write content with practical things.However, the chief examiner of this level is Xiao Cheng, so what to write is very clear.

Do what you like.

The next day, the comprehensive test.This is a new thing, it didn't exist at all before.And the content on the big paper is varied, but there is no doubt that it is all practical, including law, arithmetic, geography and so on.

After the exam on the second day, more than [-]% of the candidates were pale.

According to the admission rules promulgated by the imperial court in advance, policy theory and synthesis each accounted for [-]%.

Candidates who thought that the comprehensive test was poetry, song and Fu, and the Four Books and Five Classics were completely exhausted.

Jiang Ning mourned all over the country.

The original favorites for Jinshi were basically wiped out.

Xiao Cheng is quite proud of this.

He believes that given the strong strength of education in the southeastern regions, they will inevitably adjust their educational policies quickly in the next few years. Calligraphy will only exist as a basic subject, while others in the Miscellaneous studies in the eyes of some people will soon occupy the mainstream in education.

And this is just the first step.

Next, Xiao Cheng also wants to include a series of students related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, such as agriculture, business, and machinery, into the discipline system of the Guozijian.

What is good at the top will be effective at the bottom.

When a channel for these subjects is set up in the Imperial College, the local government will pay attention to it, and more people who teach such skills can gain a higher status, and can make such technical schools like the current private schools. It has sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

If possible, Xiao Cheng hopes that most of the officials under his command come from people who have learned these practical skills.

Just like today's agronomy, it is definitely a prominent school in Jiangning.

Because petty officials are obsessed with agronomy, and they are all focused on cultivating better crop seeds and striding forward. Several doctors of agronomy who were not popular in Sinong Temple, now going in and out of the palace is like going in and out of their own backyard. Jealous, I don't know how many people are secretly studying this subject?
According to Xiao Cheng's knowledge, there are several big families in Jiangning who specially hired a lot of experienced and old farmers with high salaries to cultivate crops with higher yields in their own homes, hoping to make a big splash and show their faces in the eyes of small officials.

For such a result, Xiao Cheng is happy to see it succeed.

He even offered rewards for the excellent seeds of many crops.

Of course, it will take time for other subjects to succeed.

After all, craftsman, in the eyes of the people at that time, was not a commendatory term.

Business studies are even more controversial.

Even among Xiao Cheng's faction, there are different opinions.

In the reform of the Imperial College this time, Xiao Cheng's focus was still on martial arts.

Other disciplines are still in a tentative stage, the content of the exam has been changed, and the ratio of the number of people recruited has been changed, but martial arts has been truly incorporated into the actual operation.

Theory, of course, is to be learned.

But the actual operation is more important.

Yang Wanfu, the left servant of the Ministry of War, also served as the head of the martial arts.

As for the professors of martial arts, except for a small number of pedants who are proficient in the seven classics of martial arts, the rest are all from the army.

There are also quite a few senior generals, all of whom have temporary posts in the martial arts school. Every year, these people have to go to the martial arts school to give lectures for at least a week.

And this time the number of martial arts students recruited is also the largest.

Half come from the public admission examination, and the other half is recommended admission.

And those recommended for admission were all from the army.

It belongs to those officers who have been battle-tested and have rich practical experience but lack theoretical experience.

The recruited students are long-term students who will study martial arts for at least three years, while the recommended officers are short-term classes, which are divided into senior officer training classes and intermediate officer training classes.

The other disciplines of the Imperial College are all located in Jiangning City, except for the martial arts school, which was built on the Yanziji of the Dajiang River outside the city.

Yanziji is connected to the river bank in the south, and the remaining three sides are surrounded by river water. The terrain is very steep. This place is not only an excellent place to enjoy the scenery of the Yangtze River, but also a very important military site for Jiangning City.

Zhang Ren once swam through Yanziji with his friends. At that time, there was still a troop stationed here.

A few years later, when I came here again, I found that the scenery had changed drastically.

The only connection to the south bank has been blocked by high walls and sentry towers. On the towers, guard soldiers with knives and guns stared down with piercing eyes.

These people are all from the Jiangning garrison.

Although the Jiangning garrison is also the army stationed in the capital, it is different from the joke-like Upper Fourth Army. This army is undoubtedly the best in combat effectiveness. It has repeatedly attacked and has never been defeated.

"Going in, wouldn't it be the same as being locked up?" Zhou Quan, who was leading the horse, looked at Yanziji on the lonely river, with a look of pain on his face.

"It's not necessarily true. If Zhou Tongzhi's water quality is good enough, he can swim out!" Zhang Ren laughed.

"Although I'm not a landlubber, I'm still powerless to play in the Yangtze River!" Zhou Quan shook his head and said, "When I want to stay here for three months, I get a splitting headache. Who can't fight a war? Learn a hammer?"

"Controlling, it is necessary to learn a little bit." Zhang Ren said: "In the past, you only led a battalion, and more often you led us to charge. You don't need to worry about the rest, but now you are in command of an army. You have to command at least [-] people, maybe you can reach [-] people, but you can stand alone, and at that time, everyone will follow your command."

Zhou Quan let out a heavy breath and said: "So, although being promoted is good, it's not all happiness!"

"I heard that all the veterans on the battlefield like Lu Shangshu, Yang Shilang, and Gao Shuai who came to give lessons to officers above command this time, you are blessed." Zhang Ren was a little envious.

Zhouquan put his mouth close to Zhang Ren's ear, and whispered: "Not only that, before leaving, General Wei also told me quietly that the chief assistant is also coming to give us lessons, and asked me to behave well and let us Shoufu can remember me!"

"If this becomes the first assistant student, he will be able to rise straight up in the sky!" Zhang Ren said enviously.

Zhou Quan flattened his mouth, "That's not necessarily the case. After all, we still have to rely on real skills. Like you, if it weren't for your good skills, you would be able to rise to this position suddenly? I climbed from a small soldier to It took eight years for the battalion general. One year for you. So, it’s better to study. If it wasn’t for this, I wouldn’t come even if I was killed!”

Zhang Ren laughed.

While talking, the two stood outside the towering and majestic gatehouse of Wuxue, and a pair of gold-plated couplets on both sides was written with flying dragons and phoenixes, which was very majestic.

If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter the sect.

Get promoted and get rich, find another way.

Horizontal batch: Defend the home and defend the country

Hearing Zhang Ren's background lightly, Zhou Quan couldn't help but said, "I am not greedy for life and fear of death, but I also want to get promoted and get rich!"

Zhang Ren laughed loudly, looked at a clerk walking by, poked him and said, "Keep your voice down, Zhizhi, this couplet was written by Shoufu himself, are you questioning Shoufu?"

Zhou Quan was taken aback, but his head was shaking like a shopkeeper's drum, "So it was written by Shoufu, so it is naturally excellent."

"Are you two here for school?" The clerk who walked up to the two of them asked, clasping his hands: "If yes, please show the proof of school enrollment. go elsewhere."

"Enroll!" Zhang Ren smiled and handed over the two's enrollment certificates.

After receiving the enrollment certificate, he glanced up and down the two of them several times, the clerk nodded, pointed to a few rows of rooms next to him, and said, "Since you are enrolling, please go there to complete the relevant procedures. Half a month before school officially starts!"

(End of this chapter)