I want to be emperor

Chapter 578
The imperial examinations and educational reforms of the Great Chu Empire were carried out almost simultaneously.

In terms of education, the Great Chu Empire has begun to implement large-scale government-run education, striving to set up a three-year government-run elementary school in every town, a three-year high school in every county, and then every prefecture There must be a middle school, and every province must have a senior high school.

These are the minimum requirements. In fact, in places with a large population and better economic conditions, more schools can be established.

For example, Jiangnan Province has a large population and a relatively good reading atmosphere. Therefore, if you say that there is only one three-year high school in a county, this is far from enough.

Taking Suzhou Prefecture in Jiangnan Province as an example, each of its subordinate counties has more than five primary schools. At the same time, there are three junior high schools in Suzhou Prefecture. In addition, there is a senior high school directly under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture.

Similar situations also occur in other places with larger populations and better economies.

After several years of deliberation and pilot reforms, the Great Chu Empire has now fully launched a new education system.

There are already many professional four-year universities.

Although these new schools are still very immature, and the teachers in them are not very good, they are finally off to a good start.

Not only government-run schools, but also more non-governmental schools that have been audited and run according to the new school system.

The imperial examination system was also reformed at the same time as the new education system.

Because when the Great Chu Empire promoted the new education system, it also simultaneously promoted the unified college entrance examination, high school entrance examination system, and academic qualification system.

For example, the previous four-school joint examination was the college entrance examination system implemented by the Great Chu Empire. In the eight years of Chengshun, the four-school joint examination will become the seventeen-school joint examination.

Many four-year colleges and three-year teacher training colleges in the Great Chu Empire will also start enrolling students this year, together with the original four schools, they will form a seventeen-school joint examination.

And by the ninth year of Chengshun, there will be more than 40 colleges and universities participating in the joint entrance examination.

With the unification of the high school and college entrance examinations and the initial formation of the new education system, the comprehensive reform of the imperial examinations and the replacement of academic qualifications with academic qualifications have become natural.

For this reason, the Great Chu Empire had carried out small-scale imperial examination reforms before.

Of course, this kind of reform does not mean abolishing the imperial examination directly, but moving the imperial examination closer to the civil service examination.

For example, at that time, the college examination was turned into an examination for recruiting officials at the county and township levels, the township examination was turned into an examination for recruiting officials at the provincial and prefectural levels, and the general examination was directly turned into an examination for recruiting new officials from various institutions in Gyeonggi Province.

These measures have been pretty good in the past few years, but next year, the Great Chu Empire is preparing to fully roll out and complete the final imperial examination reform.

According to the proposed reform plan of the imperial examination, in the future, after passing the imperial examination of the Great Chu Empire, he will be directly admitted as an official.

In the new imperial examinations, there are still divisional examinations, rural examinations, and general examinations.

Examinations at all levels are not affiliated with each other, regardless of high or low,

The examinations at all levels are only used to distinguish the working institutions after passing the examination.

Those who passed the college entrance examination were assigned to the grass-roots yamen of the county and town; those who passed the rural examination were assigned to the yamen directly under the provincial and prefectural governments;

But all the pilot candidates are only awarded the ninth grade, and they have to start from the lowest level. Of course, there is still a big difference in the speed of promotion in the future.

The college examination is limited to candidates from the local government, the rural examination is limited to candidates from the province, and the general examination is only available to candidates from all over the country.

The job assignment after passing the exam is to avoid relatives and distribute in different places. In principle, those who take the mid-term examination of the upper courtyard are assigned across prefectures; those who take the mid-level examination of the township examination are assigned across provinces;

For the mid-term candidates, because the place of work is Gyeonggi, the principle of remote distribution is not adopted, but they are not allowed to be in the same department as close relatives.

To apply for the new imperial examination, a new academic qualification is required.

For the time being, the college examination requires an elementary school degree.

The provincial examination requires a high school diploma.

Exam, college degree is required.

With the continuous development of education, the corresponding academic requirements will continue to increase.

Considering that there are still a group of famous scholars among the people, this group of famous scholars will also be awarded with different academic qualifications. Ordinary students will be awarded a junior high school degree, shanshan students will be awarded a senior high school degree, and Juren will be awarded a junior college degree.

These people are only limited to the students admitted by the Great Chu Empire between the first year of Chengshun and the eighth year of Chengshun, not including the students admitted by the former Ming Dynasty.

In addition, nine years after Chengshun, the new imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire will no longer award the old-style honors, but the old-style honors can still be used.

Well, basically there is only a title left.

In this regard, folk scholars will not have any opinions. After all, fame is nothing special in the Great Chu Empire. As for not kneeling before seeing officials, kneeling rituals have been abolished on a large scale in the Great Chu Empire.

And the real role of fame is to be able to take part in higher-level imperial examinations, and then become an official, but this was in the Ming Dynasty... and in the Great Chu Empire... Basically, as long as you pass the exam, you can be a scholar. He became an official directly, even though he was only a small staff member from the ninth rank.

Only some ambitious scholars, even after passing the examination as a scholar, did not go to become officials, but continued to apply for the provincial examination, and finally the national examination, just to reach the sky in one step.

Therefore, among the folks of the Great Chu Empire, there are actually remnants of fame, but there are not many scholars who are not officials, but even if there are not many, the Ministry of Rites and Education of the Great Chu Empire still considered them and made proper arrangements, not only keeping They are given their fame, and they are awarded different academic qualifications according to their fame. If they want to take the imperial examination in the future, they will not be able to sign up...

This series of imperial examination reform measures, the Great Chu Empire began to pilot and brew in the past few years, and now, it is finally time to fully implement them.

In late November of the eighth year of Chengshun, the latest issue of the Dachu Empire Mansion Newspaper officially announced the reform of the new imperial examination system. The students learned.

The issuance of the new imperial examination naturally caused quite a stir, and there were voices of opposition, but it was not too big, at least it did not cause too much disturbance.

Because... no matter how it is changed, the core of the imperial examination remains unchanged, and that is to select talents for the country.

The reason why the imperial examination reform in the late Qing Dynasty failed so much was because the imperial examination was directly abolished, but there was no corresponding civil service examination to keep up. The subsequent selection of officials was mainly based on study tours... Well, that is, selection from overseas students, and then It's just donations, recommendations or something.

At that time, if an ordinary young man wanted to be an official, he could only go to study abroad... So in just a few years in the late Qing Dynasty, tens of thousands of students went abroad to study, and most of them went to Japan because it was cheaper to study in Japan In Japan, most of these people turned into revolutionaries in the end...

The imperial examination reform in the late Qing Dynasty was a typical failure case of self-lifting a stone and shooting itself in the foot.

If you make young scholars unable to become officials, don't they have to play rebellion...

As for the imperial examination reform of the Great Chu Empire, although the external form has changed, the main changes are the system and the content of the examination, but the core point of selecting talents for the country remains unchanged.

As long as the core things remain unchanged, in fact, scholars will complain at most, but they will still adapt to the changes obediently.

As long as you can be an official, you can say anything!

Therefore, although the implementation of the new imperial examinations in the Great Chu Empire caused some disturbances, these disturbances were within the control range and did not cause too much negative reaction.

Of course, it is not without impact, the actual impact is quite large, the most obvious is that the number of people applying for various primary and secondary schools suddenly increased.

In the past, many people, especially those who had already achieved success in education, were self-taught at home, and after finishing their studies, they went to take the imperial examination to become an official.

But now, if you want to take the imperial examination, you must have a degree...

Ever since, in order to be able to participate in the new imperial examinations, they had to apply for these schools, at least with a high school diploma.

And this is what the Ministry of Rites and Education hopes to see. What they want is for more students to experience a complete new education, instead of just hiding and reading the Four Books and Five Classics as in the past.

The new education reforms of the Great Chu Empire caused waves that almost occupied the last one or two months of the Great Chu Empire's eight years of Chengshun.

It was not until nine years after Chengshun that this kind of discussion gradually subsided, and people began to get used to it and went to new-style schools to study in accordance with the requirements of the new-style imperial examination.

When Luo Zhixue saw that the number of enrollments in government-run middle schools and even elementary schools had increased significantly this spring, he smiled slightly. This is a good thing.

A few more years, and this new education system will be considered complete.

After putting down the report from the Ministry of Rites and Education, Luo Zhixue picked it up again. It was still the Ministry of Rites and Education, but it was the report from the Department of Feudal Affairs.

The power of the Ministry of Etiquette and Education is still quite large in the Great Chu Empire. It is in charge of education, etiquette, publicity, and at the same time it is in charge of feudal affairs.

That's why people from the Ministry of Ethics and Education have just finished talking about education, and then talk about diplomatic issues...

The report sent by the Secretary of the Feudal Affairs is still the negotiation situation of the Heshuo Special Department in the plateau area and some local chieftains.

According to the report of the Department of Feudal Affairs, they have reached a consensus with the Heshuo Special Department, and the general direction has basically been negotiated, and now all they need to talk about are some small details.

The general direction of the negotiations between the two parties is no different from the previously finalized plan. The main thing is that the Heshuo Special Department accepts the canonization of the Great Chu Empire, becomes a vassal state of the Great Chu Empire, and fully accepts the guidance of the Great Chu Empire politically and militarily. After sending troops to the Western Regions with the Great Chu Empire and seizing the pastures of the Zhungeer tribe, the Heshuotehou Kingdom moved to the Zhungeer pastures.

Before sending troops to Zhungeer, the Heshuo Special Department temporarily moved to the Qinghai area, that is, the pastures of the Tumed Qinghai Department for grazing, and cooperated with the Great Chu Empire to fully take over Khamba and the snow area.

At the same time, the two parties are married, and the Heshuo Special Department will send several prostitutes to the Dachu Palace.

Well, there is only a unilateral marriage, and there is no such thing as the royal family of the Great Chu Empire marrying a daughter to the Heshuo Tebu... On the one hand, there are no princesses of the right age in the Great Chu Empire, and on the other hand, Luo Zhixue is crazy. Marry your daughter to a foreign race... And Nima is a strange foreign race where father died, son stepmother, brother died brother step-sister-in-law.

Besides, it’s just a so-called marriage now. With the appetite of the Great Chu Empire, it’s another matter if the Heshuo Special Department can exist for a few years. As long as they are subdued now, there will be ways and time for them to fully integrate into the Great Chu Empire in the future. Just like Monan Mongolia.

(End of this chapter)