Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 455 The Difficulty of Obtaining Student and Juren Fame Has Decreased

Galileo's voltammetry experiment provided the possibility for the emergence of generators in the future, and the possibility of entering the electrical age on the basis of the steam age.

Of course, it is still too early to say these things. From the stage of mastering electricity in the laboratory to the stage of applying it to practice, there is still a long way to go during this period. It is not enough to rely on only one Galileo. Inspiration for more people.

Today's Ming Dynasty will still develop in the era of steam power for a long period of time, and the engineers of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Ordnance Department are still interested in the improvement of steam engines.

Because the winner of the last Ming Dynasty Supreme Science and Technology Award was the inventor of steam-powered chariots and steam-powered warships, it greatly promoted the interest of researchers in steam engines, not only for researchers but also for candidates The students of Jingshi University Hall or other technical schools are also more interested in steam dynamics.

As a result, Ming’s majors are divided into popular and unpopular majors. Popular ones such as Confucian classics, history, steam dynamics and medicine are flocked to by applicants, while unpopular ones such as mechanics, arithmetic and law are few. Most of the Ming students are like the students who volunteered for the college entrance examination in later generations. They don't know that some majors will turn popular and become unpopular after many years, and some will turn unpopular into popular after many years.

For example, traffic engineering, a new major just established in the Imperial University, although it is nominally managed by Minister Huo Weihua of the Ministry of Industry, which means that if you enter this major, you will become a student of the dignified minister, but there are still very few people applying for this major. The reason is very simple. In this era when there were only post stations and bus stations, the students of Daming thought that they could only become postmen after learning this.

As everyone knows, as soon as steam-powered locomotives appeared and the world's first railway began to be built in Daming, every student in traffic engineering became a favorite, and immediately became a railway official with a grade [-] or higher upon graduation.

Of course, this is something.

Sometimes, talents, like other commodities, will be regulated according to the laws of the market, and the relationship between supply and demand will also change from time to time.For example, due to the reform of Zhu Youxiao, the demand for professional officials in the Ming Dynasty increased, which led to more and more candidates who gave up the provincial or general examinations and directly went to Beijing to apply for the corresponding schools to directly seek official positions.

After all, for most talented candidates, it is impossible to go all the way to the examination and then to be named on the gold list. What's more, in order to encourage a large number of outstanding talents not to waste their energy on the road of imperial examinations, Zhu Youxiao adopts the method of low entry and high exit. The policy, that is, at the level of scholars and candidates, the admission rate has increased, and the number of students and candidates in each county has more than tenfold.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also stipulated that graduates from local schools or Jingshi Secondary Schools can directly become tribute supervisors, and graduates from Beijing Normal University can directly become Jujians. Book offices specially recruited by scientific research units are also directly awarded the background of students, and academics are from the background of juren.

As a result, in the entire Ming Dynasty, the number of students and candidates for fame increased sharply, not only the increase in students and candidates, because Zhu Youxiao only got the number of first- and second-level Jinshi, but expanded the number of top-three Jinshi to third-level. Hundreds, so if there are more students, candidates and top three Jinshi, their gold content will decrease, but the probability of becoming a top two Jinshi will be lower, and the difficulty of being named on the gold list will be higher.

It is especially difficult for poor students from poor families to make it to the end. After all, the cost here is not low. So, it is better to go directly to Beijing to seek official positions in royal scientific research institutions or corporate banks, or even local scientific research, enterprises, and banks. wait.After all, although the difficulty of being named on the gold list has increased a lot, the difficulty of being an official has decreased even more.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao also intends to strengthen the specialization and counterpartization of Ming officials, in order to lay the foundation for the civil service system for Ming officials in the future. As long as there are more specific officials, there will be more officials, especially the middle and lower levels. of officials support their own administrative reforms. After all, only through reforms can these huge middle- and lower-level officials have the hope of advancing to senior officials or even joining the cabinet as cabinet ministers.

I'm afraid that if the previous rules of not being allowed to enter the cabinet unless you are a Hanlin, and not being a high-ranking official unless you are a Jinshi are still followed, before Zhu Youxiao can say anything, there will already be a lot of complaints from officials, and there will even be negative responses. The hope of advancement, promotion only to see the background will only reduce the enthusiasm of a large number of low-level officials, prompting them to only know how to make money but not enterprising, which will intensify the corruption of officials.

When Zhu Youxiao took advantage of the trend to change the civil service system for officials of the Ming Dynasty and subdivide the major central government offices such as the six ministries, and subdivide the local government offices in the same way, the difficulty will be much less difficult.After all, there are more yamen of this kind of second-rank minister sitting in the hall, and there are more opportunities to be a high-ranking official.

Increased the difficulty of the admission of Jinshi in the examination, maintained the high threshold for the admission of first- and second-class Jinshi, and at the same time greatly relaxed the difficulty of becoming a student and raising a person. It also played a role in boosting the popularization and promotion of basic education. For a large number of ordinary people In other words, they are afraid that they will still be able to bear the educational costs of raising their children to the stage of being a student member or raising a person.

Therefore, before Zhu Youxue established a school department and began to carry out the pilot reform of universal education, a large number of students had already increased in the major private schools of social studies, and new social studies and academies in various places had sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The literati exiled by Zhu Youxiao to the west are gradually running out, and the demand for teachers is also increasing.

Not only teachers, but managers of all kinds of schools in various places and managers of newly established institutions in various places are in great demand. Because of the rapid economic development, the employment situation in Daming is very good, especially for those who have a certain knowledge base. demand, thus promoting the development of education in Daming.

Simple manual labor production can still use a large number of refugees and prisoners of war to make up for the development needs of Ming Dynasty, but a large number of technical and knowledge-based management talents can only be achieved through popular education, which is why Zhu Youxiao urgently wants to develop basic education. If he wants to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education in Daming, he can't just take into account the development of science and technology, and the cultivation of early talents must also keep up.

But now Daming is obviously out of touch in this respect. This is also the result of Zhu Youxiao's abuse of golden fingers, which has caused Daming's current technological development to far exceed the highest level of scientific and technological development that the knowledge accumulation of this era should be able to achieve. But now we can only vigorously develop education and catch up with the fastest speed.

Otherwise, it may still be caught up or even surpassed by Europa of the Renaissance. After all, almost everyone in Europa with a basic knowledge base is interested in natural science, and almost all of them are engaged in experimental science research. It's just a matter of cultivating a few official elites with the Four Books and Five Classics, even if they have golden fingers, it's useless.

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