I want to be emperor

Chapter 551

In August of the seventh year of Chengshun, Songjiang Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River.

A few young scholars were drinking tea and discussing poetry in a teahouse. When they were talking about their excitement, they heard someone shouting outside: "Jinzhou Great Victory, Master Wang was captured in Jinzhou, Huang Taiji was burned to death by my Master Wang!"

When these young people saw it, they immediately got up again and again and went to the window to look out. They saw a ten-year-old boy waving a newspaper in his hand, and continued to shout loudly about the great victory of Jinzhou and the death of Huang Taiji. , Dorgon died, and more than [-] troops were killed in one day.

Immediately, many people came forward to sell newspapers.

Several young scholars in the teahouse on the second floor also rushed downstairs, one of them stepped forward, and in front of him, the newsboys were already busy collecting money and handing newspapers to those mostly wearing robes.

It's just that although he was busy and flustered, the little newsboy had a smile on his face.

Today's newspapers are so easy to sell, this is the fifth time he has sold newspapers today, the previous four times, the bags full of newspapers were sold out in a short time, and now the fifth bag of newspapers is also sold at a very high price. Empty fast.

It didn't take long for the big cloth bag on the newsboy's waist to be empty of paper, and the report with joy on his face didn't stop, and he ran away on his tattered straw sandals.

He had to go to the newspaper station to get newspapers again. According to today's situation, the newspapers he sold in one day were worth as much as the previous half month.

While running, he was still thinking in his little head, this Huang Taiji is really a good person!

As soon as I shouted the news that this person died, many people came to buy newspapers immediately!
Today, he has to work harder and speed up. While it's still early, there are still some newspapers in the newspaper station that sell more. In this way, maybe in just one day, he can save enough money for his mother's medicine for this month.

In this way, he can use the money he makes from selling newspapers to buy more food. If there is a little more money, he will sell a white flour sugar bag to his sister.

Thinking of sweet bread, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva!

Last year, an uncle who worked in the Shanghai Naval Shipyard came to their house as a guest and brought a few large buns. These white flour buns were filled with brown sugar filling. When he bit into them, he felt sweet in his heart. At that time He split half of it too, and after just one bite he was 100% sure that it was definitely the best thing he had ever eaten.

It was much tastier than the hairy crabs he caught.

Hairy crabs are not tasty, and if you eat too much, you will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea. Only children from poor families like him will catch hairy crabs and eat them.

How can there be sweet bread delicious, but he only took one bite at that time, and gave the rest to his sister.

His sister is still young and needs to grow up, so he, as an older brother, will naturally give her the delicious food!

Thinking of white flour sweet bread, the newsboy couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and he walked faster. He wanted to rush to the return station as soon as possible to get a batch of newspapers and continue to sell them. Today's newspapers are particularly good, although the adults at the station It is said that there are more newspapers today than usual, but if I arrive late, I am afraid they will be gone.

If I can buy more newspapers today, maybe I can buy two buns for myself, one for him and my sister.

No, my sister eats one and a half, and he eats half.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but lighten his steps, with a smile on his face.

On the other side, a four-wheeled carriage carrying goods was galloping towards the street. The two horses pulling the carriage went crazy for some reason, and they ran while pulling the half-empty carriage. Stopped, and at the same time shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way..."

In the next second, the little newsboy rushed out from the corner... Immediately afterwards, his small body was knocked out by the speeding carriage.

The carriage that hit people continued to run wildly for a while, and then stopped. At this moment, the young coachman who drove the carriage turned pale in a hurry.

The young coachman was stunned for a long time, then got out of the car and walked back, wanting to check on the little newsboy, at this time he heard what the onlookers said: dead!

"Killed someone..."

After taking two steps, the young coachman's legs went limp and he collapsed to the ground...

It's over... It's over, he just found this driving job, and he found it only after getting rid of his relatives. He still wanted to take the wages and send them home to his younger brother for tuition.

I didn't expect to encounter such an accident after working for half a month!

All of a sudden, he felt that his life had become gloomy!

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On the other side of the street, several young scholars were reading the newspapers they had just bought.

This is a Dachu Mansion Newspaper. The first six pages are the national edition, and the seventh to No.16 pages are the provincial editions. According to the relevant rules of the Mansion Newspaper Department, the Dachu Mansion Newspaper is uniformly edited and edited by the Mansion Newspaper Department of the Ministry of Ethics and Education. Publishing and distribution, and the post office is responsible for sample transportation.

The National Edition is directly edited and written by the Dibao Department of the Ministry of Ethics and Education. The main content is all kinds of major issues announced to the public, especially various policies. Every article in it is of great importance, such as holding a meeting, interviewing someone, and so on.

Each sample of the national edition is reviewed by the Minister of Rites and Education, and then submitted to the imperial court for approval. After the emperor approves, the sample will be printed and sent to the postal offices of each province together with official documents from various places through the postal department, and communicated with the provincial government. Printed together with the content of the edition, and finally distributed and sold through the postal service.

The provincial editions are edited by the offices of the Ministry of Public Affairs dispatched by the Mansion News Agency to each province. Generally, the first few pages contain current affairs news and policy trends in each province, while the latter pages contain some local business information and literary supplements.

All the contents of the provincial edition also need to be collected and edited by the offices of the newspapers and newspapers of the provinces, and the directors will conduct a preliminary review, and then they will be reviewed by the directors of the etiquette and education departments of the provinces before they can be printed and distributed.

At the same time, the provincial newspapers, including articles rejected by the directors of the Ministry of Ethics and Education of each province, will also be sent to Jinling City for follow-up review by the Ministry of Ethics and Education.

If something goes wrong with the article, not only the editors, but also the director of the Provincial Department of Ethics and Education, who is responsible for reviewing the article, will be responsible.

This means that reviewers need to be extremely politically aware.

If you don’t understand, it’s actually okay. You can refer to the content of the national edition. There is nothing wrong with doing public opinion work according to the above arguments.

If you insist on contradicting Gyeonggi, there is basically no end to it. Among the many provincial ethics officials who came to power in the early days, there were many of them. …Once this kind of person is discovered, they will basically be slapped to the end, and investigators from the Taxation Bureau, Patrol Bureau, and Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate will check you like a mad dog... If there is any problem, you can work in the mine for free Did not run away.

Da Chu Di Bao involves the issue of guiding public opinion. Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to this. Otherwise, he would not require the content of the national edition to be reviewed by himself before it can be published, and then the samples will be sent to various places for printing and distribution. ... In this way, there is actually no timeliness.

For this reason, the Dachu Dibao is not a daily or weekly magazine that people are familiar with, but a 25-day magazine, which is issued on the fifth, fifteenth, and [-]th of each month.

And this is only the release time in Jinling and nearby areas. In fact, because the samples are sent to other provinces and it takes time to print, the time when the newspapers are actually seen in various places is many days or even later than the printing time of the newspapers. Half a month and a month...

For example, in Gansu, where the distance is so far, the mansion newspaper on January [-]th can only be seen in February.

There is no timeliness at all!

But Luo Zhixue would rather not have any timeliness, but also ensure the correct guidance of public opinion.

For this reason, a lot of seemingly complicated and troublesome systems have been created.

The editing, review, printing and distribution of the Da Chu Mansion Newspaper have very detailed regulations, and multiple reviews are adopted, and the various departments are not affiliated with each other.

The bureaus of the newspapers and newspapers of each province are directly responsible for the bureaus of the newspapers and newspapers. They can decide what to publish, and the etiquette and education departments of each province can decide what not to publish...

To put it simply, the editors of the Mansion Newspaper Department write their own articles, and the Ethics and Education Department can approve the publication or refuse to publish them, but they cannot directly ask the editors to write any articles. The editors of the Mansion News Agency write whatever they like... If there is a problem, people will take responsibility on their own, and it has nothing to do with the Department of Ethics and Education of the province.

There is no subordinate relationship between the two. The Departments of Ethics and Education of each province have no jurisdiction over the provincial offices of the Dibao Department. Even the personnel in the offices of the Dibao Department in each province do not get their salaries from the provincial finances. , the establishment belongs to the staff of the Ministry of Rites and Education.

However, considering the timeliness of commercial information in some important port cities in particular, some port cities are also specially approved to issue an additional business supplement.

It is used to publish various business information, such as the signboard of a certain factory, a large amount of wood purchased in a certain place, a batch of hydraulic equipment arriving in a certain place, a batch of machine-made cotton cloth in a certain factory waiting to be negotiated, etc.

Then there is the price change of various goods, especially the price of bulk goods, which is mainly in some large commercial port cities.

In Songjiang Prefecture, there are personnel from the Dibao Office stationed there, who specially compiled a "Songjiang Prefecture Commercial Supplement" and issued a separate daily magazine.

In addition, there are several large cities such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Jinling, Hantian, etc., all of which are under the special responsibility of the staff of the Di Baodi Office.

Generally speaking, the Great Chu Empire took a few years to initially create an official newspaper system, which was used to promote policies and guide public opinion, and then also produced some commercial supplements by the way.

This kind of mansion newspaper is not the same as the newspaper system of later generations. The Dachu mansion newspaper is actually the public version of the traditional dynasty mansion newspaper...

In the future, Luo Zhixue will naturally reform the newspaper system slowly, and gradually evolve into the newspaper system of later generations, but now...it's unnecessary, and it's not easy to control, so just don't do it...

Now, in the Dachu Mansion newspaper that these young people read, the content on the national edition accounts for half of the content on the Northeast situation, and the core report is naturally related to the Jinzhou victory.

According to the usual practice, these core articles were written by the editor-in-chief of the Di Bao Division, focusing on the relevant situation of the Jinzhou Campaign.

The article said that in this battle, the kings of the Great Chu Empire wiped out more than [-] Dongcap troops, and killed the Dongcap puppet emperor Huang Taiji, and killed the Dongcap puppet princes Qierhalang, Dorgon and others. Numerous clans such as the generals of Bei Le and Bei Le's auxiliary states.

The results can be described as extremely brilliant!
It is also said that after this battle, the Great Chu Empire has fully recovered the Liaoxi Corridor and the surrounding areas of Jinzhou.

At the same time, it also reported the war in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula, saying that Fuzhou, Gaizhou and other places had been recovered.

All in all, the situation is very good, and there are a few small stories of specific battles interspersed in the middle, showing the bravery of the king's soldiers, etc. These young scholars who watched were all exclaimed.

Then he said that some of the frontline soldiers had already been awarded titles, and so on. Among them, Zuo Yingzhe, the commander of the Third Army, had received the imperial decree to return to Beijing to accept the award. It would not be long before the fifth Duke of the Empire would appear.

I can't wait to be the general who leads the army on the front line to kill the captives in the east, makes great achievements, and gains glory and wealth.

After reading the mansion newspaper repeatedly, one of the young men said, "Fighting on the battlefield and killing thieves for the country is the pursuit of my generation of scholars!"

Another person also echoed: "Yes, once you make military achievements on the front line, you can get the title at your fingertips!"

"The Northeast War, Uncle Gonghou won't say anything, but I'm afraid there will be hundreds more sons!"

"And I've also heard that those who do meritorious service on the front line will be promoted first, and the higher the military rank, the higher the grade will be when they change jobs in the future!"

"My wife's natal family has a cousin from far away. A few years ago, he applied for the military officer academy and joined the army. After several years of military service, he moved to the brigadier general. He just retired and changed jobs in the middle of the year. Where do you think he was assigned?"

Without waiting for other people to ask, he asked himself and answered: "I went directly to Jinling Gyeonggi, and if I get one point, I will be the top five rank, and it is still a position of real power!"

"This is much faster than taking the imperial examination!"

At this time, someone said: "It is indeed very good to take the road of being a military professional, but now this road is not easy to take. Whether it is the Army Officer Academy or the Naval Officer Academy, it is not easy to take the exam. It is much more difficult than the imperial examination. !"

"And the content of their exams is still new. In the past two months, I made a set of exam questions for the Army Military Academy's entrance exam last year. I tried to do some of them. I'm not afraid of your jokes. I can't even understand half of the questions. ..."

"Well, after all, we are still a few years late. If we had applied for the exam a few years earlier, it would have been easy for you and me to pass the exam, but now, it is difficult!"

"Last year, more than 4 people signed up for the entrance examination of the Army Military Academy in several sub-examination rooms, but in the end only more than 800 people were admitted, which is much more difficult than the Jinshi department."

"I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to enroll in the Military Academy this fall."

"Yeah, don't count on the Military Academy. The Jinshi course is difficult, and the liberal arts course is not easy. This year, I plan to try the mathematics course. The admission rate is higher, and I might not be able to pass the entrance examination."

"This is a way. The mathematics class was only offered last year. The main exams are mathematics and accounting. Brother Kong, you have a long history of education and have a good understanding of accounting. It is good to take the economics and economics test. And I heard that you passed the exam. After the economics department, it will be assigned to the tax and property yamen first, which is an excellent place to go!"

"Speaking of tax officials, don't take a look at that one!"

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At the same time, in the next seat separated by a curtain, four young people were also sitting together, and one of them, who was slightly older, said: "Brother Fang, didn't you pass the preliminary examination of the Military Academy a while ago? How confident are you in taking the formal exam this time?"

The young man surnamed Fang smiled wryly and said: "How can I be sure, I didn't pass the exam last year, and this year it will be even more difficult. You all know that our Jiangnan exam room is more difficult than other exam rooms. It doesn't matter whether it's the Jinshi department, the doctorate department, or the military academy. It's so difficult to pass the exam!"

A slightly older young man said: "It is difficult to take the exam. Entering the military officer school is a leap into the dragon's gate. Whether it is in the military all the way up, or changing careers to politics in the middle, it is excellent."
"Not to mention anything else, if you pass the exam, even if you have qualifications, you can get a captain and then change jobs. After changing jobs, you will at least be an eighth grade!"

"It's not like us who directly enter the official position from the hospital examination. This assignment is only the lowest level from the ninth rank. After more than a year, I can't even touch the shadow of the ninth rank staff!"

"Brother Fang, you have to seize the opportunity and work hard to get in. In the past few months, you are the only one who has this opportunity. We... oh, it's too far away!"

Speaking of this, the older young people toasted and drank alone as if drinking to relieve their worries!
As for Fang Beitong, who was next to him, he didn't speak at this time, but he had already made up his mind in his heart that he must be admitted to the Army Academy this year.

In order to prepare for this year's Army Military Academy Entrance Examination, he has studied hard day and night for the past year, studying many new subjects, especially physics. , In the end, he lost his name to Sun Shan.

This year, he will never allow himself to fail again!
Otherwise, what face does he have to face his parents, wife and children who have supported him in studying hard for the imperial examinations for the past few years!
A few days later, Fang Beitong bid farewell to his family and went to Suzhou with a few friends to prepare for the Jiangnan District Entrance Examination of the Army Academy.

The entrance examinations for the two military academies, the Army Academy and the Naval Academy, are different from the imperial examinations.

The imperial examination system of the Great Chu Empire was actually similar to the traditional imperial examination system. In order to avoid excessive stimulation, Luo Zhixue created a mess of smoke.

The difference is that the so-called scholars who have passed the hospital examination already have the qualifications to be officials, but the assigned positions are generally not very good. They are often assigned to work in county and town yamen, and the rank is only the lowest from nine to nine. Taste.

Of course, you can also refuse the job assignment, and then continue to take the higher-level rural examination, but after you refuse, the allocation quota will be gone. If you want to, you can only apply for the college entrance examination next year.

After passing the provincial examination, the treatment will be better, and they will be awarded the ninth rank, and have the opportunity to be assigned to work in the yamen directly under the provinces and government.

As for the general examination and the palace examination, the difficulty is naturally higher. After passing the palace examination, even the lowest top three Jinshi can be awarded the seventh rank, the second rank is awarded the seventh rank, and the first rank is awarded the sixth rank. Work directly under the yamen or provincial yamen.

The starting point is very high and the future is great.

At present, Luo Zhixue has only changed the content of the imperial examination in the traditional imperial examination system, and added new learning to the Four Books and Five Classics. The so-called new learning refers to science subjects such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, and astronomy and geography.

At the same time, in addition to Jinshi subjects, science and engineering subjects, mathematics subjects, and law subjects were added.

Jinshi major examines various strategies and theories, which can be regarded as the direction of liberal arts, and the emphasis is on the level of articles.

For science and engineering, the main examiner is to examine various science and engineering content, such as physics, chemistry, etc., as long as the articles meet the standards.

Mathematics mainly relies on mathematics and financial knowledge. The empire needs a large number of related financial personnel. After all, the largest department in the empire is the tax department, and it is not enough to deal with taxes without knowing mathematics.

The legal department is naturally all kinds of laws and the like, and its main destinations are supervision, police patrol, legal affairs and other departments.

It doesn’t matter what you study or what you take the exam, the important thing is to be an official... So the impact of the reform of disciplines is not as great as Luo Zhixue expected. When I became an official, I naturally learned these subjects and applied for the exam.

And after passing the court examination, you can be assigned to work as an official. Naturally, because the imperial officials are integrated, a large number of low-level officials are needed, and there are a lot of positions that need manpower.

Therefore, the imperial examination system of the Great Chu Empire, in fact, the core things have not changed much, and it is similar to the traditional imperial examination.

However, the two military academies, the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Institute of Technology, the current four schools, are completely different from the traditional imperial examination system.

The things they learn are different, the content of the exams is also very different, and even the schooling system and exam system are completely different.

These four schools are all institutions of higher learning established by Luo Zhixue in accordance with the educational system of later generations. One trains army officers, one trains naval officers, one trains science and engineering talents, and the other trains civil servants.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue has high hopes. From the beginning of admission to the learning system, and then to the learning content, Luo Zhixue personally arranges it.

Luo Zhixue wants to use these four schools as the foundation, and then promote the entire new school system.

And this timetable will not be too slow. When the war in Northeast China is about the same and the first five-year plan is about the same, Luo Zhixue plans to reform the entire education system and establish a complete primary school-secondary school-preparatory school-university education system and implement a degree system.

As for the original imperial examinations... abolish the titles of the so-called scholars and Jinshi, let it return to the essence of selecting talents for the country, and completely reform it as an official selection examination. , If you like to take the provincial exam, take the provincial exam, and if you take the national exam, take the national exam.

But that is something to be done in the next few years. Now, it is just a trial and a pilot.

As for the recruiting work of the Military Academy of the Army, the Royal Academy of Technology, and the Imperial College, it is also a pilot experiment, especially the entrance exams of these schools are all centralized, which is actually Luo Zhixue's attempt. version of the college entrance examination!
Although there are only four schools enrolling students...but this is also a serious college entrance examination!
(End of this chapter)