In Wang Shouren's mansion in the capital, Wang Shouren has now become the chief minister of the cabinet, which can be regarded as realizing his father's long-cherished wish.
Wang Hua is so happy.
After struggling all his life, he managed to get a job as a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Nanjing, and it was already impossible to go any further.
He is now over 70 years old, and his health is completely broken. Even if he is promoted and put into important positions, he is no longer competent.
Fortunately, his son Wang Shouren is very promising.
He is the number one scholar, and his son is also the second. The talent and fame of father and son have already spread throughout the Ming Dynasty. In terms of officialdom, he has reached the level of minister, and his son Wang Shouren has become the chief minister of the cabinet.
Throughout China's thousands of years of history, we can't find a few pairs of fathers and sons who have achieved such achievements. What's more important is that their success today depends entirely on their own talents and abilities.
In the palace, the Wang family sat together happily, with smiles on their faces. Wang Hua, who was in his seventies, was even more happy to drink several glasses of wine.
"Father, you should drink less. You are not in good health and you are getting older now."
Wang Shouren looked at Wang Hua who drank several glasses of wine and quickly advised him.
This time he got his wish, he became the chief minister of the cabinet, and he was very happy.
Wang Shouren was not excited about this. It didn't really matter whether he took it or not. Although there were differences between the second assistant in the cabinet and the first assistant in the cabinet, he was already a very human minister. Whether he made further progress or not was not very important.
"I'm happy, so naturally I want to drink a few more drinks."
"You and my father and son can be regarded as a legend for the ages. In the thousands of years of history of China, there are not many fathers and sons like us."
Wang Hua happily drank another glass of wine.
"Father, just drink less."
The second son Wang Shojian also hurriedly advised him. He was already seventy-seven years old, and he was still drinking one cup after another. If something happened, his brothers would be in misery. If Ding You returns home and observes the filial piety for three years, he will
Brother Wang Shouren, the chief minister of the cabinet, has only been in office for one day and has to give up, which is very depressing and painful.
"Yes, father, drink less."
The third son Wang Shouwen also followed suit.
Being an official is not an easy task. Not only do you have to be in good health, but your parents must also be in good health. Otherwise, you will be like Liu Jin. When you are comfortable as the chief minister of the cabinet, you have to return to the army all of a sudden.
Ding You, his hometown, kept his filial piety for three years.
After three years, the day lilies will be cold. Where will there be room for you?
My father, Wang Hua, is very happy, but don't drink too much.
"Haha, I'm so happy. Your brother is going to be successful. As a father, I am naturally happy."
"When I return to my hometown from now on, I can return to my hometown with pride and be famous for generations to come."
Wang Hua was in a very good mood and very happy.
The persuasion of several sons was of no use. I drank several glasses of wine in a row, and my appetite was also very good this time. Everything I ate tasted particularly delicious, and I ate more food than usual.
Brothers Wang Shouren, Wang Shoujian and Wang Shouwen also shook their heads helplessly to see how happy he was.
In fact, the Wang family itself is not short of the chief minister of the cabinet. Wang Shouren himself is already a very popular minister, and he also has a great say in the government and the public.
One is to expand the number of places for the imperial examination, because the current competition in the imperial examination is too fierce.
Although the old school seems to have developed differently compared to the new school, in fact, the Ming Dynasty became more powerful and the lives of the people in the Ming Dynasty became richer. There are more people studying the old school than before.
Many times.
There are more people studying the old school, but the number of places for the imperial examination has not changed or expanded much.
Taking the imperial examination in the 33rd year of Hongzhi as an example, more than 20,000 people came to the capital to take the examination, but there were only more than 500 places. The competitive pressure was very, very high.
As for the provincial examinations, although the situation in each province is different, without exception, they are all very difficult and the competition pressure is very high.
There are often only more than 100 places in a province's provincial examination, and some with a small population may even have only a few dozen. However, each province has thousands of talents participating in the provincial examination, and the competitive pressure is really too great.
If you want to pass the examination and then become a Jinshi, the probability is extremely low.
If you don't pass the examination and get the Jinshi, there is little point in studying the old school. You will be a poor scholar until you grow old, just like Wen Zhengming.
Xinxue is relatively better here. Although there are a lot of people in Xinxue, the employment for Xinxue is very wide. Those who can read can study and go to university to do research, and those who can't read can study technology and become workers.
Yes, we are all children of ordinary people anyway, and we study to learn useful knowledge so that we can find jobs in the future.
Therefore, although people who are newly educated say that they are not qualified to be officials, they often live a good life in society. Business firms, factories, shipping companies, the military, etc. all like these people who are newly educated.
Because the knowledge and content they learned are very useful and can adapt to the needs of the times.
This makes the people of the old school very dissatisfied. Why is it that it is difficult for us to pass the imperial examinations after working so hard, and we are not popular if we want to do other things, but the heresies you have studied in the new school are not popular in college.
Popular, why?
Of course, this is still secondary. The most important thing is that Confucian people feel that the status of Confucianism has been greatly impacted and affected. From a dominant family to the current situation where the old and new factions are fighting against each other, will the Confucian sect weaken in the future?
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A long time ago, I thought about suppressing the new learning and reviving Confucianism. However, before Liu Jin was here, everyone could not defeat Liu Jin. Now that Liu Jin is gone, the sour and rotten Confucian scholars have begun to make trouble again.
It is not only necessary to revitalize the Confucian sect, but also to gain more say in the court and promote more old-school Confucian students.
However, the minister's suggestions were obviously inconsistent. On the one hand, the imperial examination papers were very long and he wanted the emperor to expand the number of places for the imperial examination. On the other hand, he said that the new schools should be turned into Confucian academies so that more people would learn traditional
Confucianism, doesn’t this increase the pressure and competition in the imperial examination in disguise?
In addition, they did not consider whether the imperial court needed so many officials. It was easy to increase the quota, but it would be difficult to reduce it in the future. What's more, increasing the quota meant having corresponding official positions. They did not consider this carefully before standing still.
