Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 438 Good Guys and Bad Guys
The honest man looked at the examination paper from the Ministry of Industry and was in a daze, while Jian Yong and Liu Ye had already nodded, smiled approvingly, and silently put the examination paper aside...

In fact, the test papers of the Ministry of Engineering should be the ones that Baitu has the best grasp of besides the Ministry of Punishments - the multiple-choice questions are mainly geometric operations, with some superficial practical chemistry questions, and...a large number of subjective questions, which are all kinds of simulations. The solution to the “problem”.

If you are an experienced blacksmith or carpenter, you should be able to answer some questions in your familiar field.

Pang Tong also reported to Bai Tu that the Ministry of Industry was actually not suitable to use the "imperial examination" method to select talents, and hoped to be "downgraded" to the subsequent "academic examination".

Nowadays, among the township schools and county schools in Chu State, the former is free for those of the right age, with some subsidies. It does not have much content, and it is basically just for enlightenment.

The latter is a combination of "rural school recommendation" and "independent enrollment", which requires the payment of a certain amount of tuition. However, outstanding candidates are provided with subsidies from the county rites department - this is also the main function of the "rituals department", the county-level department of the Ministry of Rites, to judge quotas and evaluations. The standards are monitored by the Ministry of Civil Affairs every year.

Among them, the students "recommended by rural students" generally come from the kind of families that are extremely cold and are about to freeze to death - ordinary "poor families" also have the conditions to study at home, and few go to rural areas to study. !
Therefore, as long as there is a "recommendation from the township school", the county school must accept it unconditionally. In order to be close to the situation of the court, some children from poor families will also send their children to the county school. They also have a certain foundation, and the county school can accept them independently.

Although a certain amount of tuition is required, the Ministry of Household Affairs provides subsidies to schools in each county based on the number of students. At the same time, each county can also provide additional subsidies from the county household department, but the subsidy ratio involves the county residents' department, that is, the county magistrate. , the coordination with the county household secretary. Anyway, the "preaching and receiving work" of the county school is also related to the performance of the county magistrate and the county ritual secretary.

Bai Tu has recently heard that several counties that are not suitable for opening a large number of workshops are taking the route of being good at running schools and relying on high-quality county schools to gain points.

As for county schools, which are now known as "universities", admissions are made through "study examinations" and "recommendations from officials above Qianshi".

Although there is the right to recommend, it is limited to the same standards as the imperial examination...

In other words, even if the Haoying Family wants a large number of children to enter the university, most of them can only take the exam themselves - after all, there are many young children from the great gentry clan, and a Qianshi official cannot recommend a few every year, unless they are directly Descendants and direct family lines, otherwise they would not be ranked at all.

As for the county school, many noble gentry actually looked down upon it. Now they are more active. Most of them still want to send people to "learn from each other's strengths" and then update their own family schools.

This is an old tradition that has been cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is not easy to change the concept.

Indeed, there is still a long way to go before township and county schools can surpass “homeschooling.”

However, universities are of a different nature. Most of them are truly practical and have regional characteristics...

Where there are many papermaking workshops, county schools will have a lot of papermaking-related content - not teaching you the first-line pulping, but various chemical fields involved.

In places where there are many smelting workshops, county schools focus on various metal smelting principles and metal properties; in places where large-scale livelihood projects are located, bridge design and water conservancy design will be taught; in large agricultural areas cultivated by the group, such as Poyang University , which is mainly based on farming knowledge, such as seedling cultivation, Shennong essence ratio knowledge, etc.

Of course, due to the number of "professors", only some of the top universities have real "masters" in various fields, and they are basically "professors" sent by the Ministry of Industry. As for most other such universities, they still follow the script and rely entirely on talent.

On the contrary, universities that specialize in accounting statistics, criminal law analysis, interpretation of classics, manpower planning, etc., and focus on imperial examination subjects, not only have richer teaching resources, but are also more popular...

After all, these are the directions in which "literati" can easily transform, and they are related to "becoming an official" at first glance. With the emergence of imperial examinations, academic examinations have gradually been valued by the Chu State.

What Pang Tong meant was to decentralize the "replenishment" of the Ministry of Industry to the academic examination or to the university, instead of mixing it with the imperial examination, which would be difficult for the imperial examination and the Ministry of Industry.

That is to say, the Ministry of Industry was placed in a position "above the university" and not just a department of the Chu court.

Bai Tu also understood what Pang Tong meant and was discussing the matter with the Six Ministries...

However, after looking at the imperial examination papers, Liu Yi asked with some embarrassment: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, my general has always wanted to imitate Qiang Chu, but... the foreign minister is a little confused, I wonder if His Highness the King of Chu would deign to explain it. Confused?"

"If it's a matter of imperial examination, there's no harm in asking! This will be of great benefit to the future. If you can convince me, I will be happy to see it happen." Bai Tu looked very righteous.

After that, Chu State will definitely publicize it everywhere. If there are imperial examinations in the Central Plains and the North in the future, I believe that the students who will become officials will also leave the seeds of gratitude in their hearts for Bai Tu.

"The imperial examinations of Chu State seem to... pursue talents too much, with little regard for virtue, and do not even limit the identity of the candidates. Your Highness, the King of Chu, is not worried. Will the officialdom of Chu State be... out of shape in the future?" Liu Yi's tone It wasn't sarcasm, but it looked like he really didn't understand, and he was still thinking about his words.

"Mr. Liu only knows one thing and doesn't know the other. The imperial examination in our country of Chu does promote education without discrimination. However, the reason why the country of Chu dares to let everyone apply is because of the work of the Ministry of Punishment, or rather the Ministry of Punishment. The risk taken... If the person who really committed the crime was not found guilty or wanted, and could still take part in the imperial examination, how could it be the fault of the imperial examination? It should be the fault of the Ministry of Punishment! If there was no person who committed the crime , why do you need someone to recommend you?

As for those who act contrary to the "Laws of Chu" and the ways of Chu officials after passing the imperial examination, they will be investigated by the officials. If they commit adultery and are not discovered, it is also the fault of the officials, not the imperial examination. Pass.The imperial examination itself is just a fair and impartial selection method. "Bai Tu explained in a long way.

In fact, it is also because the situation in Chu State is different from other regions...

The Han Dynasty was very "modest" towards civilian crimes because it complied with the clan system and handed over the grassroots decision-making power to the clan itself. As long as it did not go to the official level, the clan could decide "some minor matters" on its own.

In other words, the court has no idea who the "bad guys" are.

So what do you do when you need a “good guy”?
Naturally, we need to find proven "good people" to recommend other "good people". This reliance on the grassroots clan system is also in line with Confucian ethics.

"Modest" is one of the principles of the law, and "Chu Code" also talks about "modesty". However, the reform of the Ministry of Punishments strives to get back the people's judicial power and does not allow anyone to interfere.

Therefore, the situation in Chu State is different. Chu State does not want good people to recommend each other, but to find all bad people...

Anyone who can wander outside, except for fugitives, is a "good guy". If there are "bad guys" who have escaped the eyes and ears of the court, it means there is something wrong with the work of the Ministry of Punishment!

As for fugitives... with the household registration system, it is not that easy to hide the identity of fugitives in Chu State.

The reason why it was Liu Yi who asked this was because Liaodong was deceived by "celebrities" before.

(End of this chapter)