Zhu Youxiao smiled after seeing the minutes of the cabinet meeting.
He was very satisfied with Sun Chengzong's performance.
He had understood the people's psychology and knew what methods to use to get the people to accept good policies.
He had become a pragmatic leader.
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And the original Donglin people like Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, etc. have slowly shed their usual habit of making lies and ignoring facts, and have become capable officials who can stand alone.
In the original history, these two men had died in prison, but now they were honored as ministers.
They worked hard for the Ming Dynasty's agriculture and water conservancy, and were highly praised by ministers and people alike.
It can be seen that the emperor's preferences are easy for officials to know, and they have a guiding role in the entire officialdom.
For example, Emperor Jiajing was superstitious about Taoism, so Yan Song, the prime minister of Qingci, was highly regarded, and all ministers came to write Qingci.
Now that Zhu Youxiao wants officials to do practical things, it will be easy for the officials to change from being passionate about current affairs to being pragmatic and promising.
Therefore, it is very reasonable to say that what is good above will be good below.
And the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, which tells the essence of the matter.
The number of officials in the Ming Dynasty is increasing rapidly.
After students from the Civil Service School and the Accounting School entered government offices at all levels for internship, those with outstanding performance were quickly promoted to emerging departments such as the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Taxation Department, and banks. middle.
Of course, this is far from enough.
The Capital University has added a new management school to train junior officials.
The imperial examination was still held normally, but the number of participants was greatly reduced.
The hundreds of Jinshi places a year are indeed too small compared to the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of candidates.
What's more, after graduating from the academy, you can also become an official.
For example, the highest student in the first phase of the Official Academy is already a fourth-grade official.
Well, this is considered a senior official, and this promotion speed may not be achieved even by the first-level imperial examination.
Of course, the format of the imperial examination has also been reformed.
In the past, the examination was based on eight-legged essays, which focused on antithesis, and the writing format was extremely important.
But now the imperial examination is divided into two parts, one is arithmetic, and the other is policy theory.
You can't fake arithmetic, and the answer is unique, which also prevents favoritism and fraud, and it accounts for half of the score.
A policy review is generally a discussion of a specific thing, and it needs to be meaningful.
Empty words will not get high marks.
You must get 30 points or above in arithmetic and a total score of 50 points to see his strategy.
The grading of policy papers adopts the form of one preliminary reading, two repeated readings, and three random readings.
Once any evidence of favoritism and malpractice is discovered, the examiner will be deprived of his official position, his family property will be confiscated, and he will never be allowed to enter the officialdom again.
Candidates are permanently disqualified from taking the exam and must be rehabilitated in a labor camp for three years.
The Ministry of Education organizes local school teachers to write and mark the test papers for each township examination.
In the examination, the emperor himself set the questions.
It was not until the night before the examination that the emperor drafted the questions, and then the clerk copied them and announced them in the examination room the next day.
This greatly reduces the possibility of question leaks and ensures the relative authenticity of test scores.
The imperial examination was a policy essay, with questions asked by the emperor on the spot.
They were generally about his views on the current situation of the Ming Dynasty and were open-ended questions.
The tributes answered on the spot, and the cabinet ministers reviewed the papers on the spot.
The emperor reviewed them and then ranked them.
Although there are fewer people taking the Jinshi examination, in fact those who can pass the imperial examination among thousands of troops are extremely smart people, so Zhu Youxiao still has great hopes for them, and also selected some from them Very good talents should be trained in government offices at all levels, waiting for them to shine brightly.
However, students from various vassal states showed little interest in school, but they were particularly fond of the imperial examination.
Especially in South Vietnam, in the imperial examination in the 11th year of the Apocalypse, a South Vietnamese student got the second place in high school.
The Ming Dynasty directly appointed this South Vietnamese student as the censor of Guangxi Province, and rewarded his family with a large amount of money and items, which shocked the entire South Vietnam. .
Soon there was a craze for learning in South Vietnam.
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Local Chinese books in South Vietnam were sold out, which made the book sellers make a lot of money.
Zhu Youxiao believes that the imperial examination still plays a great role, especially in spreading Chinese culture.
Now the Chinese education in South Vietnam, Xinzhou, and Bo Ni is proceeding extremely smoothly.
Chinese has become a noble language in the local area.
Local languages are severely suppressed.
Japan and North Korea have always been areas where Chinese characters are widely used, but now the status of Chinese characters has been further improved.
Particularly in North Korea, originally only Chinese and Chinese characters were used in the upper echelons, and the lower class people were basically illiterate.
Now with the export of labor, the exchanges between Ming Dynasty and North Korea have become more frequent, which has caused a large number of lower class people to begin to recognize Chinese and speak Chinese as a standard.
Rong, the Korean proverb itself has become a symbol of low status.
Regarding this situation, the monarchs and ministers of Ming Dynasty were happy to hear about it.
In particular, a group of officials headed by Sun Chengzong always believed that only Chinese characters were the most beautiful writing and Chinese was the most beautiful language.
It was the goal of every Confucian disciple to make all the people of the vassal country speak Chinese and write Chinese characters.
And his loyal supporter, Minister of Education Yang He, arranged for a large number of students to travel to various vassal states of the Ming Dynasty for Chinese education.
In order to spread Chinese language and Chinese characters in the vassal country where most people were illiterate, with the approval of Zhu Youxiao, Yang He took the lead and organized the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy to simplify Chinese characters.
The simplification of Chinese characters itself is a process that has been ongoing since the birth of Chinese characters.
In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the name simplified characters first appeared, also known as broken characters, vulgar characters, etc.
It's just that it has never been officially recognized.
Yang He and others first collected some commonly used simplified characters since the Song and Yuan Dynasties and made a list of commonly used simplified characters.
There are three principles when selecting characters: the principle of describing without writing; choosing simplified characters that are more popular in society and adopting them first; if the strokes of the original characters are very simple, no longer seek simplicity.
The commonly used simplified character list was first applied to the vassal country, and the results were very good.
The difficulty of writing characters that everyone has always criticized has been greatly improved here.
After the report was approved by the emperor, it began to be implemented in domestic schools in the tenth year of the Apocalypse.
In his memorial to the emperor, Yang He proudly pointed out that according to the current development trend, Nam script in South Vietnam and proverb in Korean should completely disappear in less than fifty years, while Luzon, Bo Ni, and Myanmar Most of Siam has no writing, only language, which is suitable for the introduction of Chinese characters.
It can be expected that within a hundred years, these vassal states will be no different from the domestic ones
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