The infinite heavens start from the red building

Chapter 459 Official System
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Eleven official system
On the sixth day of March in the [-]th year of Xingwu, Wei Xu took Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun with him at Gongyuan in the capital, dressed in men's clothes, and sat in a private seat on the second floor of a hotel across the street, looking at the crowded crowd with great interest.

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and at the turn of spring and summer, the capital city is already bathed in a sea of ​​greenery and flowers. This is thanks to Wei Xu’s unswerving urban greening and transformation over the past ten years, because the former capital city, He really doesn't like it.

The feudal era was much worse than modern society or even modern society in all aspects, not only technical issues, but also a gap in concepts, such as urban construction, the capital of the Shun Dynasty did not know what "overall planning" was at all.

Not only in the Shun Dynasty, but in fact the whole feudal era was the same, plus the quality of the people, such as dumping garbage, dirty water, and even toilets in gutters, drains, and littering.

This is not bad. In the West at the same time, the toilet was not even formalized. Many so-called "nobles" defecated everywhere in their castles, so that many famous big cities in modern society were placed in the Middle Ages until the Middle Ages. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, it all stinks.

The ten-year-long continuous renovation, in fact, has no clever method. It is nothing more than widening the main road, building green belts, transforming shanty towns, using sticks and whips to forcibly improve the quality of residents, etc. In today's capital, the overall municipal level should be It is close to the modern small county.

"Brother Xu is finally kind enough to give those big headscarves a little thought." Shi Xiangyun said with a chuckle, "Ten years, ten years after the founding of the country and ten years of enthronement, the Great Xia Dynasty has not opened even a single examination room, all Officials only use graduates from Jinling School of Administration, and those civil servants don’t know what to expect.”

"Even my father is already very dissatisfied." Lin Daiyu said softly, "Fortunately, five years ago, when Brother Xu opened the entrance examination at Jinling School of Administration, he allowed scholars who had achieved fame and reputation in the past to participate with equivalent academic qualifications, otherwise the group of civil servants would have blown up gone."

"Brother Xu, why do we have to wait five years before letting go of Jinling School of Administration's social recruitment?" Shi Xiangyun asked curiously, "It is said that although those big headscarves are unreliable, as long as you give them a channel to take the exam and become an official, they will be in the public domain." Is it okay to fiddle with the content of the exam?"

"But in order to wait for the first batch of compulsory education students to graduate?" Lin Daiyu was obviously quicker to respond, "In this way, ordinary people in the past can participate in the recruitment examination together with those scholars and candidates, and give everyone a chance as much as possible?"

"That's right!" Wei Xu nodded, "I set the compulsory education period as five years, including three years of elementary school and two years of middle school. The former must be achieved by anyone, and the latter depends on the recruitment and training of the situation, but only those who graduate from middle school can Participate in imperial examinations.

According to the level of the textbook you wrote, as long as you graduated from primary school in three years, you could already be regarded as knowledgeable and educated in the feudal era, not to mention that this world is not a place that pays attention to science, and many compulsory knowledge in modern society are useless here. , You don't have to learn it at all. "

"Chinese, mathematics, technology, morality, plus politics, society, and ideology, which are compulsory in middle school, children who enter school at the age of ten can graduate at the age of 15. In addition to the three-year training of the School of Administration, they will become qualified first-level township officials.

It's just that if this happens, I'm afraid it will be difficult to handle in the future. "Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment and said, "This is also my father's suggestion. Now that the world is still waiting to be done, it is natural to use this method to train officials.

But when everything stabilizes in the future, there will be no need for so many officials. This training method can easily lead to redundant officials and staff problems similar to those in the Song Dynasty, which will bring great burden and trouble to the court. "

"So, I let go of the new imperial examination system." Wei Xu said with a smile, "I won't waste time on the specific measures. You have all been to modern times and should know how to recruit civil servants. It's just that I have added a little restriction here.

You must be 16 years old after graduating from middle school to participate, and the recruitment of towns, counties, prefectures, even provincial capitals, and imperial courts are different.

Those admitted are not directly awarded officials, but sent to the Jinling School of Administration for training. Generally, recruiters in prefectures, counties, and towns only need to train for half a year, while recruits in provincial cities and the imperial court need one year to ensure their working ability. "

"This—" Lin Daiyu frowned, "Is it too much?"

"This autumn, the Jinling School of Administration will no longer enroll new students, and there will be no more in the future. The future responsibilities of this school will be the induction training for government personnel and intermediate and even advanced promotion classes for promoted personnel.

Governments at all levels give fixed establishments, which must be tested every time they enter. Recruitment can only be carried out when there is a vacant establishment. The recruitment of personnel by any level of government must be reported to the higher-level government for approval. Even if there is a certain amount of redundant staff, it can be controlled within within a reasonable range. "Wei Xu explained with a smile.

"No wonder those bandanas show their rare full support." Shi Xiangyun curled his lips in disdain and snorted, "As long as they are given the opportunity to become officials, they don't care who they kneel down to and shout long live." "Don't forget. Now, Brother Xu allows them to apply equally according to their past achievements." Lin Daiyu said with a smile, "General students also have certain standards, such as a clean family background, no crime in the third generation, etc., and they must graduate from middle school.

It is also required to support teaching time, one year at the township level, followed by two years at the county seat, and three years at the prefecture level, and superimposed calculations are allowed, but those who have achieved fame in the past are not limited to this limit. Scholars can participate in the county seat recruitment examination. limit. "

"That's because in the past ten years, all the big headscarves who are interested in the imperial court have almost completed the time requirements for teaching support." Shi Xiangyun couldn't help laughing, "I just don't know, when they see the exam questions, what will they be?" What kind of expression."

"Ten years, I gave them ten years, but the vast majority of them are still worthless." Wei Xu sneered, "Except for a few people who have changed and studied according to our standards, they will apply for the Jinling School of Administration. People still only recognize the Four Books and Five Classics.

Even if they were asked to teach, the vast majority of them only taught people to read and write, so that we barely managed to provide all the township primary schools and county middle schools with math teachers until this year, and other subjects can only be taught by themselves from textbooks.

Such a so-called 'talent' is useless to keep?Let them continue to write poems after taking office, and then give up all the power of local administration to the clan, gentry, and aristocratic families?So what are my reforms? "

"Speaking of brother Xu's reform, in fact, thanks to the construction of the cement avenue and the sound transmission circle, any order from the imperial court can be issued to the township government in the first time; It quickly spread to the imperial court in the capital.

However, reforms below the township level may take some time, because our traffic improvement only reaches the township level, and the villages below may not be able to achieve complete connectivity within 20 years. " Lin Daiyu said worriedly.

"It's okay, we have plenty of time." Wei Xu was not in a hurry about this.

It took nearly 50 years for Red China to barely achieve the 'roads to every village'. It was about ten years later that the telephone or effective communication was fully rolled out in the countryside. If these two things were to be achieved in feudal society, only will be more difficult.

It doesn't matter, for the immortal Wei family, what they need most is time, even if Wei Xu himself is tired and bored, his sons and grandchildren can pass it on unswervingly, and they will do it sooner or later.

"When the roads in various places are smooth and the quality of the people improves, this group of big turbans will really realize why brother Xu must insist on promoting these two policies." Shi Xiangyun looked at the excited candidates below, "Unfortunately, these people I’m afraid I’ll never understand.”

"They don't need it. It doesn't matter what is destined to be eliminated by history. After this time, I can also deal with the group of civil servants in the court hall." Wei Xu glanced lightly and said, "After all, I I have given them a chance, but they are useless!"

"Pfft—" The two girls had heard this stalk before, and they gave him a sanitation ball angrily.

"By the way, I remember Brother Xu also mentioned that the tenure system should be implemented for officials at all levels." Shi Xiangyun suddenly thought of a question, "Most court officials have been working for a long enough time, why haven't they been implemented yet?"

"It will start soon." Wei Xu said with a smile, "Although we have replaced most of the officials, most people still take it for granted that being an official is for life, and I am afraid that they will not be able to educate them in a short time. .

However, ordinary people can slow down a bit. Officials have already been able to carry out. Our absolute position is completely stable. There is no such big resistance to implementing this policy. Not only officials at all levels, but also the army. "

"Brother Xu, do we need to add the military retirement system and compulsory military service?" Lin Daiyu asked softly, "After all, this is also an advanced system that has matured in modern society."

"That's right." Wei Xu nodded in satisfaction, "After these two things are completely pushed away, we will be truly foolproof!"

(End of this chapter)