Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 366: A New Force in the Court

For Jinshan Governor's Mansion.

The reward order from the British and Canadian Governor's Office is not a big threat. It is a group of white adventurers anyway, and the threat is not great.

The key meaning is that.

The war has begun!

When the news came back to Zhongdu.

At this time, China has entered winter.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is not as cold as in the north.

But it's actually quite difficult.

"Your Majesty, the brochure of Jinshan Governor Lin Minghe is here, can you read it? The British have already started to take action, but now the troubles of the Jinshan Governor's Mansion are not the only ones. This is a scholar who is willing to go to the New World to be an official after traveling thousands of miles away. not enough."

It was Peng Jun who spoke.

These days, nothing worries him more than sending officials to serve in the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the New World.

These places are wild places.

It was too unpopular with Ming officials.

Moreover, there are very few local intellectuals, and many of them are simply illiterate farmers.

There are too few officials, and Peng Jun, the right prime minister of Ming Dynasty, is very troubled.

Zhu Daohua put down the booklet in his hand, and looked at Gu Song, the prime minister of the left.

"Old Gu, what do you think we can do? Northeast China now has four provinces, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Liaobei, and Heilongjiang, plus the Xing'an Governor's Mansion and Beijiang Governor's Mansion and Kuye Island Development Company, there are two provinces of Xiyu Province and Mengxi Province in the Northwest, and several provinces in Nanyang that need to be established. The territory of the New World is also expanding, and many officials will be needed at that time. These places are all In the barren land, the number of officials needed is large, and there is a gap of more than 6000. In the future, at least tens of thousands of officials will be sent to these places to serve. Tell me, where can we get so many officials?"

"Your Majesty, tens of thousands of officials is not a small number. At that time, there were only tens of thousands of officials in the whole country of Daqing. I think that relying on seconding officials from various provinces is not a long-term solution after all, and we have to find another way."

In Daming, of course, there is no need to worry about finding someone to be an official.

Now the Ming court can't find anyone through patchwork.

The main reason is that the officials dispatched to these marginal areas are all recruited from the bureaucracy.

Those people have already been officials, and they are definitely not willing to go to a bitter cold place thousands of miles away to be officials.

Even if there is an improvement in the level, it is not very attractive.

Because the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were linked to local economic development and taxation.

What oil and water can these barren lands have?
"Your Majesty, why don't you open Enke and recruit scholars who are willing to serve as officials in the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast Asia, and the New World?" Peng Jun suggested.

He had already had this idea.

It's just that the number of people recruited for imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty has also dropped.

After all, this imperial examination is not a college entrance examination. If you pass the exam, you will not go to university or become an official.

Nowadays, in all parts of Ming Dynasty, except Shaanxi and Gansu, which are still under military control for the time being, Inner Mongolia, Western Region Province, and Tubo Province have not yet completed the provincial-level establishment.

In other places, "constitutional government" has already been implemented.

Except for the first provincial exam.

Every year, the number of admissions for officials has also become very limited and scarce.

In big provinces like Guangdong and Sichuan, the imperial examinations are held only once every three years, and each time no more than a thousand scholars are recruited—the current Daming has selected scholars here.Officials must be appointed immediately, and most of the officials in the provinces are one carrot and one hole.There are quite a few vacancies opened every year, so it is difficult to apply for an official.

If [-] official positions are allocated to the Han area at once, I am afraid that many official fans and scholars will celebrate with each other.

Even if you want to travel thousands of miles to become an official, there must be many people who are willing.

Emperor Zhu frowned, thinking about it.

"That's right, to recruit some people to serve as officials in the new territories, then open an Enke, but I don't think this Enke should be the same as ordinary imperial examinations, after all, officials in these places have a lot to manage. It is necessary to recruit some practical talents, so let’s say that the scholar department takes up [-]%, and the rest is recruited from the five subjects of martial arts, Mingfa, Mingsu, Tongwen, and engineering.”

Peng Jun's face changed: "Your Majesty, Wen Xiucai only accounts for [-]%, isn't it too little?"

Wen Xiucai are mostly Confucian scholars.

And Wu Xiucai is mostly a student of the military academy.

As for the other subjects, they are all the students of the new universities.

He is very clear.

Those officials who have experience as officials in the New World, Northeast and other places will have bonus points in future promotions.

All of a sudden, tens of thousands of fresh blood from the bureaucracy poured in.

Moreover, the proportion of Confucian scholars has been greatly reduced.

This.
Zhu Daohua said coldly: "These bitter cold and wild places don't need talented officials, what they need are practical talents!"

Peng Jun frowned: "But it's unlikely to recruit more than 3 students who understand law, calculation, Tongwen, and engineering at once? Daming has so many practical talents?"

Zhu Daohua's face was as iron as iron, and he had no intention of giving in at all: "I don't plan to open Enke immediately, and announce it now. The exam will be held next autumn...Now there are many academies, colleges and universities in various places in Ming Dynasty, as well as schools that provide accelerated education. It took more than a year for scholars who want to apply for an official to prepare, and they can always learn a little bit of superficiality, right?"

He resolutely added another sentence: "Anyone who has a university diploma and passes this Enke exam must be reused!"

Both Peng Jun and Gu Song were clear-eyed.

Zhu Daohua, Emperor Zhu, is ready to let go of the selection of new students. After Enke next year, I am afraid that a large number of college graduates will enter the officialdom.

A new force in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is about to form!
However, Peng Jun and Gu Song, the leaders of the Hunan Party and the Guangdong Party respectively, have already seen this day.

How could they be so unprepared?

So now in Daming China.

There are also quite a few universities that combine the old and the new that are jointly run by the local wealthy families.

For example, Yuelu Academy in Hunan.

Cantonese Academy in Guangdong.

Liangjiang University in Shanghai.

They are all universities of a similar nature.

The two civil servants of the Ming Dynasty looked at each other, and Peng Jun said: "Your Majesty, I have another suggestion. Since Enke is selecting officials for more than a dozen new provinces this time, it should not be restricted by local restrictions, but The meritocracy should not be limited to the sixteen provinces. All the people under the age of 27 in the land under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, who have not violated the king's law, and are not listed in the list of never saying forever, can take the exam. Admission is determined by the score."

"This is what it should be."

Emperor Zhu thought for a moment, then nodded, "Let's do it this way. This time, the Enke Examination will be handled by the University Scholars Office and the Propaganda Department."

He thought for a while, and then said: "In addition, the officials recruited by Enke this time will also participate in a three-month military training. The place they are going to is not peaceful, so they need to master some military knowledge."

(End of this chapter)