All the important ministers of the court were forced by Qin Wei to stay overnight in the front hall of the imperial city. In the early morning of the next day, the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army and the six ministers left the imperial city holding the imperial edict and cabinet documents in their hands.
What followed was a flurry of excitement.
Starting from the Liubu Yamen, within an hour, all kinds of news spread throughout Kyoto, and spread to all directions in Kyoto at an unbelievable speed.
However, compared with the dissemination of news, the transmission of official documents from the imperial court was faster. Under Qin Wei's will, various post stations distributed official documents to all states, prefectures and counties at a speed of 800 miles.
In just five days, official documents on the promotion of the martial arts pavilion and tax reform were delivered to all prefectures and counties in Dali.
Faced with the sudden official document, all the government offices and county offices were in a state of panic again.
One by one, the prefects and county magistrates were sweating profusely as they looked at the official documents.
It's easy to say that the promotion of Yanwu Pavilion is as long as the court asks them to do it.
However, this tax reform has a huge impact. They don't know how much trouble it will cause once it is implemented.
However, Qin Wei's decree requires that all prefectures and counties must measure all the heaven and earth in the world within three months, which means that they only have three months. If they do not complete the three months, dismissal from office will be frivolous. If it is negative,
If you slack off in work, you will punish the three tribes.
"Your Majesty, why is this?"
"Does your Majesty want to force the people of the world to rebel?"
The first thought of many officials after seeing the official document was that Emperor Qin Wei was crazy.
However, the crazier things have just begun. Just when the prefects and county magistrates from various places were still hesitating, waist badges were delivered to them one after another.
Imperial City Secretary waist card!
This means that the Imperial City Department is already in place, and if anyone dares to violate the rules, they will be reported to His Majesty the Emperor.
Qin Wei was well aware of the passive and sabotaging practices of local governments, and he knew even more clearly that court officials were the biggest obstacle to tax reform, because all officials were tax-exempt privileged classes. If Qin Wei wanted to carry out tax reform, he must first subdue these officials.
The waist badge of the Imperial City Secretary is a whip, a whip used to drive officials away.
With the Imperial City Secretary's badge, prefects and county magistrates everywhere finally had to start measuring land.
But on the second day after the official document was issued, Qin Wei came to the Imperial College.
Accompanying him were the Confucian master Yan Zhen, the Confucian young master Wang Shouren, and the Imperial Academy's wine-offering minister Fu Chengyi.
After everyone greeted them, Qin Wei, accompanied by three people, visited Dali Imperial Academy.
Looking at the small groups of scholars in the Imperial Academy and the literary atmosphere behind them, Qin Wei felt very satisfied.
The scholars in Dali are not that kind of bookworms, nor are they a group of rotten scholars.
In Dali, scholars had two paths, one was to pass the imperial examination and become an official in the court, the other was to study Confucian classics painstakingly and become a Confucian cultivator.
In fact, in the Imperial College, Confucianism cultivators were more popular than officials, which may have been influenced by Yan Zhen.
"Fu Aiqing, how many students and professors are there currently in the Imperial College?"
Qin Wei looked at the towering library and asked casually.
"Your Majesty, there are currently more than 13,000 students in the Imperial College and more than 4,600 professors." Fu Chengyi said.
Qin Wei's expression moved slightly.
There are only more than 13,000 students, but there are 4,600 professors.
This may sound wrong, but in fact this is the real situation in the Imperial College.
There are few students because it is not easy to get into the Imperial College, and there are many professors because these professors are Confucian scholars.
Professors do not refer to university professors, but to faculty members in official schools, which are divided into doctorates, teaching assistants, direct lecturers, etc.
The grades are not exactly the same depending on the subjects taught. For example, a doctorate in Guozixue is from the fifth rank, a doctor from Taixue is from a sixth rank, a doctorate in law is from the eighth rank, and a doctorate in calligraphy and arithmetic is from the ninth rank.
Down.
In fact, professors are a large group in Dali. Starting from the Imperial College, there are more than 100,000 professors in various prefectural schools and county schools. These talents are the backbone of Dali Confucianism.
However, most of them only have a job and have no teaching tasks.
In other words, most professors only receive salary and do not work.
This is also the reason why the Imperial College has more than 4,000 professors.
Qin Wei was not dissatisfied with this, but with so many people not working, he felt it was a waste.
Qin Wei thought for a while and said: "The tax reform has begun. When the tax reform is completed, I plan to carry out the reform of the imperial examination and official education!"
"How does Your Majesty plan to reform?" Yan Zhen, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but ask.
He is now a little afraid of Qin Wei, His Majesty the Emperor, not because Qin Wei is so powerful, but because Qin Wei can cause trouble.
Just a short time after he took the throne, he had to carry out tax reform. This is really not something ordinary people can do.
Qin Wei smiled and said: "The reform of official schools can be divided into three steps. The first step is to send official schools to the countryside. Simply put, it means setting up official schools in every township, which is called rural schools. The rural schools do not teach Confucian classics.
It’s just enlightenment, focusing on the basics of reading, literacy and arithmetic.”
"The second step is to reform the county schools, based on Confucian classics, and add medicine, arithmetic, astronomy, geography and other subjects."
"The third step is the selection of officials and the reform of the imperial examination. From now on, the official ranks will be increased to twelve ranks, and all prefectural offices, county government clerks, and officers will all have ranks."
"The selection of officials is based on the imperial examination. All states, prefectures, and counties can conduct imperial examinations, and the assessment content is mainly based on specific positions."
Qin Wei has many ideas. The so-called reform of official education is literacy, but it is still too early to talk about literacy. Even if rural schools are spread all over Dali, it will be difficult to achieve 100% literacy.
His idea is to increase the literacy rate of all people in Dali to 30% within ten years, and to 80% within thirty years.
As for compulsory education, don’t think about it for the time being. We’ll see what happens later. After all, compulsory education costs too much. It not only requires money from the court, but also money from the people.
If people can't even afford pens, ink, paper and inkstones, how can we talk about compulsory education?
The imperial examination reform was established by Qin Wei based on the civil servant examination system in the previous life, and also included minor officials within the scope.
The petty officials are the foundation of the imperial court, the iron-clad yamen, and the smooth officials.
In a county government, the magistrate is the largest official, but it is the petty officials and government servants who really do things. They have direct contact with the people, and they represent the court in front of the people.
If you want to govern the world, you must get rid of the diseases of officials and subordinates.
Qin Wei's imperial examination was designed to solve this problem.
Of course, Qin Wei also understands that it is difficult to change this problem, but even if it changes just a little bit, it will be a great good thing for all the people of Dali.
After Yan Zhen heard what he said, she fell into confusion.
Is this okay?
It sounds good, but it seems difficult to do.
It is definitely a good thing to send government schools to the countryside, but it costs countless money to build so many rural schools, and even more money is needed to maintain so many rural schools.
"Your Majesty, governing a big country is like cooking small dishes! Everything should be done slowly and gradually," Yan Zhen said.
Qin Wei glanced at him and said, "It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. I plan to complete the reform of the official education within ten years, but I plan to start the reform of the imperial examination within three years."
"Three years is the time limit set by me. Three years of turmoil will be exchanged for a century of prosperity in Dali in the future. It is worth it."
"Even if the whole world rebels, I will create a bright future!"
Qin Wei had already made plans and inherited the throne legitimately, which saved him a lot of trouble. However, there were many internal shortcomings in Dali. Qin Wei planned to use all the saved manpower and material resources on Dali's reform.
Now he is not afraid of someone rebelling, and he is even eager for someone to rebel, so that he can clean up some of the dirt inside Dali.
Establish his imperial power during the reform. After the reform, the entire Dali will be his voice.
Once you say something, the world will follow.
He never thought about overthrowing Dali's feudal system. He just wanted to give ordinary people more opportunities to rise and take advantage of Dali's population advantage.
With a huge population base and a reasonable talent selection system, Dali will definitely have countless talented people.
It’s not that everyone is like a dragon, but that everyone has the opportunity to become a dragon.
With the Yitian chessboard, Qin Wei is not afraid that someone will be powerful enough to threaten him, so he naturally hopes that more powerful talents will emerge in Dali.
If Dali can have thousands of innate warriors in the future, what will the Qiongtian Sea Territory and the Dongfang Family have to fear?
Qin Wei's words made Yan Zhen and Fu Chengyi look at each other.
It's not like they haven't seen crazy emperors before. When the old emperor implemented the martial law, he was crazy enough. But compared with today's Qin Wei, the martial law is just a piece of cake.
Yan Zhen thought for a while and then looked at Wang Shouren next to her, but Wang Shouren didn't care at all what Qin Wei said.
The chess pieces are all Qin Wei's staunchest supporters. They are absolutely loyal to Qin Wei. They will make suggestions for Qin Wei, but they will not influence Qin Wei's decisions.
Wang Shouren could not understand Qin Wei's specific thoughts, but this did not prevent him from supporting Qin Wei.
Seeing Wang Shouren like this, Yan Zhen didn't know what to say for a while.
Wang Shouren was his most valued successor. In his opinion, the future of Dali Confucianism lay with Wang Shouren.
After pondering for a moment, Yan Zhen said: "I will fully support Your Majesty!"
Fu Chengyi next to him was filled with disbelief when he heard this.
The pros and cons are not important. What is important is that there are many unstable factors in Qin Wei's ideas. Based on his understanding of Yan Zhen, Yan Zhen is a person who does not like turmoil.
The current situation of Dali's Confucian cultivators is very good, better than that of warriors. Logically speaking, Yan Zhen has no reason to support Qin Wei's reforms.
But now Yan Zhen actually wants to fully support Qin Wei, which Fu Chengyi can't understand.
"With these words from Master, I feel relieved."
"Right now, I happen to have something that I need Master's support for." Qin Wei said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, just ask," Yan Zhen said.
Qin Wei raised his head and glanced at the clear sky, and said with a smile: "I need the Imperial College to prepare three thousand students who can serve as officials in the court."
"Uh! Your Majesty, why is this happening?" Yan Zhen asked in surprise.
"There is no shortage of blind people in this world. There must be many dirty people among the officials in various states, prefectures and counties. I really hope that after I kill them, the students of the Imperial College can take over and continue the reform of the court."
Qin Wei explained.
What goes up and what follows leads to deeds. Dali Chaotang currently still has a very strong dominance over the local area, but it is inevitable that some people will act against it.
Therefore, Qin Wei has prepared the butcher's knife and will never show mercy when it's time to kill.
But some things don't just involve killing people. After killing someone, someone still needs to do the follow-up work.
The Imperial College is the largest training base for Dali officials. Although the students from the Imperial College have no experience in being an official, they are simple and more useful than those old oilmen in the officialdom.
That's why Qin Wei thought that when he was short of people, he would ask students from the Imperial College to take over.
Of course, the students of the Imperial College will definitely not be able to hold important positions at first, such as county magistrates and magistrates, but they will still be able to serve as some secondary officials.
Yan Zhen nodded slightly and said, "I will personally arrange this matter."
"That's very good." Qin Wei nodded.
Yan Zhen is a sensible person, and he now understands that Qin Wei's power in Dali Chaotang is unstoppable.
You can say something and raise some dissatisfactions, but what should be done must be done according to Qin Wei's requirements.