(This chapter is an encouragement to study, explaining the importance of studying hard and working)
In February of the 11th year of Xuanping, it was the annual general examination. If it had been a few years earlier, Jinling City would have been particularly lively at this time every year, because scholars from all over the country would take part in the examination.
However, since the Tang Empire reformed the examination and implemented a separate examination system for each province, fewer scholars went to Jinling City to take the examination.
At present, basically only scholars who are particularly confident in themselves will travel all the way to Jinling City to participate in the national examination. However, scholars who are not confident enough, or are unable to go to Jinling due to other factors,
They often choose to take the provincial examinations themselves.
This can also be said to have greatly eased the difficulty for ordinary scholars to participate in the examination. After all, the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty was different from that of traditional dynasties. It was held every year. This also resulted in scholars either living in Jinling all year round.
To participate in the examination in the city, or to frequently travel between hometown and Jinling City, this is obviously a huge burden, which consumes a lot of money, time and energy.
Nowadays, you can take the examination in the provincial capitals, which is also a great benefit for most scholars.
Of course, some scholars who are confident in themselves, or who originally studied in Jinling City, will still choose to take the examination in Jinling City.
The imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty did not strictly stipulate what kind of scholars could take the capital examination and what kind of scholars could only take the provincial capital examination. Instead, it chose a non-interference attitude. Scholars could freely choose to take the exam in their own provinces.
Take the exam or come to Jinling City to take the exam.
Of course, although the difficulty of the questions in the two examinations is the same, the competition is different. The scholars who participated in the examinations in Jinling City were all very confident in themselves. At the same time, the examinations were divided according to the examination
With the implementation of the system, the empire also reduced the number of people admitted to the Jinling City Examination accordingly.
A few years ago, the total number of admissions for Jinling City's Jinshi and PhD examinations could reach a thousand. However, now in the eleventh year of Xuanping, the planned number of admissions has dropped to 500, a direct drop.
half.
However, nationwide, the number of students admitted to the two majors is expected to hit a new peak again. Combined, the provincial test centers and the Jinling City test center are expected to admit 5,000 people.
Most of these new scholars and doctors will work in grassroots positions, thus gradually changing the reason why low-level officials in the current officialdom of the Tang Empire are of low quality.
Over time, Li Xuan plans to further expand the number of admissions, because in the future, except for talents who require special skills such as judicial agencies and patrolmen, as well as ordinary hired staff without grades, such as grooms, chefs, etc., other imperial officials with grades must
Selected after passing the imperial examination.
Finally, a personnel system combining imperial officials and ordinary employees was formed.
In fact, Li Xuan originally planned to make all public employees selected through the imperial examination, but found that this was not realistic, because it was obviously impossible for people who studied at Imperial College to accept becoming a government official.
The groom's, and this is also a huge waste of talent.
Therefore, Li Xuancai implemented the current model of combining officials and employees.
Naturally, this policy was not messed up by Li Xuan, but was based on the civil service system of later generations. Why does the word temporary workers appear frequently in many media reports in later generations? It is because there is really such a thing in public institutions.
There are many temporary workers who work for government agencies in the name of contract workers, dispatch workers, etc., and they are the type without establishment.
Li Xuan felt that the public service system of later generations was quite good. It could effectively control salary expenditures, and when trouble was found, people could be fired directly to quell public anger.
In fact, this system has been used in China for thousands of years. In the past, it was divided into officials. In later generations, it was divided into establishment and temporary workers. In the Tang Empire, it was divided into officials and employees.
Although the details of the operation are different, they are essentially the same and there are no big changes.
How else to put it, in fact, China's political system has not changed for thousands of years. The family and the world, the imperial examination system, the official system, etc. were the same thousands of years ago and are the same now.
The Tang Dynasty was no exception.
Li Xuan is not a saint, and he is even less willing to take unnecessary risks. Since these things have been proven to be practical for thousands of years, Li Xuan naturally cannot afford to throw them away and then build a new set of messy things by himself.
In that case, who knows whether it will cause any big trouble.
Learn from history and focus on practicality!
This is Li Xuan's philosophy of governing the country in recent years, so when many policies are implemented, most of them are in line with this philosophy.
The same is true for the reform of the imperial examination system. Today, in the eleventh year of Xuanping, the reform of the imperial examination system has come to an end. The rest is just patchwork. Li Xuan does not intend to carry out any large-scale changes.
Li Xuan also does not plan to make too many changes to the education system, which is closely related to the imperial examination. He feels that the current education system is quite good. At most, it will gradually popularize primary schools in the future and build more middle schools. As for
As for the university, he still plans to take the high-quality route and strictly control the number of college students, especially the number of liberal arts students.
Don’t expect the popularization of secondary and higher education in his lifetime. It’s not that it’s impossible, but Li Xuan doesn’t allow it!
In contrast, more schools in science and engineering that specialize in cultivating technical talents, that is, vocational and technical colleges, can be opened more, so that more technical talents can be provided for the industrialization of the empire.
But only in science and engineering!
As for liberal arts, especially history and Chinese majors, they must be strictly controlled.
Why? Because students in this major are quite harmful. If you give them official positions and let them blend into the upper class of society, then of course it will be good for you, good for me, and good for everyone!
But if the upper class is only that big, the space to accommodate talents is also limited. Those who cannot squeeze into the upper class will definitely be dissatisfied and spread their dissatisfaction, and finally incite the dissatisfaction of ordinary people to use it as a threat to achieve their own goals.
The goal of entering upper class society.
All in all, a lot of trouble!
This is also the reason why Li Xuan has always attached great importance to science and engineering education in recent years, neglecting or even suppressing liberal arts education!
In preparatory schools, scholarships are almost always given to students in science classes, and it is almost impossible for liberal arts students to get scholarships. When the Imperial College admits students, among the majors, the number of students admitted to majors such as Chinese and history is the smallest, and it is also the largest.
strict.
Why, students who apply for this major are all rushing to become officials. If they fail to become officials in the end, it is definitely a potential factor of instability.
If this is the case, it would be better to strictly limit the number of people from the beginning.
On the contrary, science and engineering are much better. Not only are the officialdom in need of such talents, but major enterprises also need such talents. They have a wide range of employment, and these people are all science and engineering talents, so they are not so harmful to the stability of society.
Universal education is actually a double-edged sword for a feudal dynasty or other similar centralized regimes, and it is a double-edged sword that has a great possibility of killing the regime itself.
Therefore, in the later generations of the United States, they never engaged in universal university education. Most students went to factories to serve dishes after high school, and a small number went to community colleges. This kind of university is actually useless.
Most of them still work in factories or serve dishes.
Only an elite few can go on to college.
And these very few elites who went to prestigious private schools are the backbone of American society!
Even in China, which is promoting the expansion of university enrollment in later generations, it is actually not a truly universal higher education. Ordinary people can take a pheasant junior college, a second- or third-rate undergraduate degree, just like American community colleges, which are useless after a few years of study.
After graduation, their abilities are not essentially different from those of middle school students who have not received higher education.
The real elite education is 985, and the admission ratio of this kind of school varies from province to province, but it is only a few percentage points!
This is why ordinary people can only earn three thousand a month after graduating from university, ride shared bicycles, rent private houses, have no girlfriends, and are still at the bottom of society even after being in their thirties and forties, while those students from prestigious schools are
It’s because you can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month, buy a house or a car, and have beautiful girls help you, and you can become a backbone of society in just a few years.
Because the vast majority of ordinary people, even the so-called college students, have never received real higher education. The vast majority of college students just attended a fake university...
Young people, if they want to become the backbone of society, become pseudo-scientists who defraud the country's scientific research funds, look at a room full of moldy banknotes and lament the sinister officialdom, deceive elementary school students with various games and diamonds in shopping malls, and confuse the bottom class with chicken soup for the soul.
People use various courses to drain their last coins...
Alas, no matter what messy dreams you have, just take the 985 exam first!
Otherwise, give up on those lofty dreams!
The word "elite" has nothing to do with you. You should just contribute to socialism honestly. Moving bricks is more suitable for you!
Now, Li Xuan is also preparing to build some vocational training schools, and together with the original normal schools, they will be turned into fake universities, so that ordinary students can at least satisfy the illusion of enjoying higher education.
As for the truly elite students, it is still the same as before, allowing them to attend preparatory schools in various provinces, and then apply for admission to formal universities such as the Imperial College, Jinling University, and Jiangnan University.
As for such formal universities, there are currently only eight in the entire empire, and Li Xuan does not plan to add too many in the short term. By then, there will only be a dozen or so at most.
Li Xuan wanted to set up a technical school, and the officials below naturally catered to his wishes. Just after the session, the Ministry of Rites submitted a development plan for setting up a technical school!
This plan is not small. It is to establish hundreds of technical schools and lay the foundation for a century-old plan!