In the fifteenth year of Tianfa, Li Laiheng ordered the five provinces of Shandong, Susong, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangxi to open shipping training institutes to reserve backbones for the Maritime Investment Promotion Bureau and Nanyang Yanping Company.
In February of the 16th year of Tianfa, due to financial difficulties in some provinces, they were unable to operate so many types of schools and training centers. The emperor ordered Gansu, Guizhou, Guangxi and other provinces with financial difficulties to close all kinds of schools and training centers.
Instead, all these institutions were merged into comprehensive four-level official schools at the county, state, prefectural, and provincial levels.
In July of the 16th year of Tianfa, when an admonishing official inspected the local area, he found that the shipping administration training institute in Zhejiang Province was full of collusion between government and businessmen. Local maritime merchants used the training institute as a channel to buy ships from the Maritime Investment Promotion Bureau and bring in private interests for themselves.
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Li Laiheng took the opportunity to issue an edict to abolish all kinds of government-run schools, schools, and teaching institutes across the country. They were all modeled on the old system of Gansu, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces and merged into official official schools at the county, state, prefecture, and provincial levels.
Li Laiheng not only slowly established a complete four-level vocational education system in the local area by using the method of boiling frogs in warm water, but also took advantage of the party disputes in the court to convert many local academies into state-owned institutions.
In October of the 16th year of Tianfa, some ministers believed that official schools that provided vocational education were all entitled to imperial funding, but academies that trained scholars did not receive imperial funding. Isn't this insulting to the gentlemen?
So Li Laiheng immediately ordered the government-run academies to be fully funded by the imperial court, thereby sending officials to directly manage the administrative work of the government-run academies.
When it comes to the promotion of lower-level officials, Li Laiheng has tried his best to stay within the scope of his abilities, often promoting graduates from various government schools and government-run academies beyond the previous level.
There are even many people who have been promoted to the fifth or sixth rank of court officials in a few years without taking the imperial examination and having no meritorious service.
Some gentry also slowly came back to their senses.
This time they did not mobilize the public opinion of scholars all over the world to embarrass the emperor as they did in the past. On the contrary, most of the gentry who discovered that the emperor intended to reuse graduates of official schools and government-run academies immediately chose not to let their own children attend.
Instead of taking the imperial examination, he went to a government school.
After all, the imperial examination reform a few years ago directly endangered the key interests of most people when most people were unprepared.
The current reform measures of boiling frogs in warm water can allow some people to prepare slowly first.
Most of the gentry who noticed the emperor's intentions did not express their thoughts to the public. Instead, they seized the opportunity and quickly arranged for their children to attend official schools in order to catch up with this wave of career advancement.
The different direct and indirect methods of reform measures directly resulted in greatly different levels of acceptance by people all over the world.
Twenty-five years after the arrival of Tianfa, among the officials below the sixth rank, the ratio of graduates from various official schools and scholars from the imperial examinations has reached about two to three.
Among senior officials below the third rank and above the sixth rank, the ratio of official school graduates to imperial examination scholars reached a ratio of about one to three.
Moreover, since most of the scholars who came from a formal background in Kejia lacked experience in complex administrative details, it was impossible for them to compete with government school graduates for many professional positions.
Under such circumstances, some knowledgeable people finally began to call for new content such as mathematics and geography to be added to the imperial examination! Otherwise, academicians will not be able to compete with graduates from government schools in the court!
In the 27th year of Tianfa, the imperial court added a special economic examination in addition to the institutional examination.
The special economic examination is a subject specially designed for the selection of personnel with "knowledge of current economic affairs". It is held by the emperor's edict and requires personnel recommended by ministries, dean officials, and provincial managers, governors, and academic officials to participate in the examination.
In order to encourage scholars to learn various professional administrative knowledge about economic and current affairs, Li Laiheng set the admission threshold for the examination very low. Of the 180 people who took the examination, as many as 127 were admitted.
In fact, most of those who passed the exam were mediocre people. But after all, they were the first to pioneer a new trend, so the court paid special attention to it.
In the twenty-eighth year of Tianfa, in order to solve the problem that there were too many Jinshi in the Imperial Examination and it was difficult to compete with officials who were graduates of government schools, the imperial court decided to set up a Jinshi Hall in the capital.
All Jinshis who are awarded the first grade of compilation and editing by Hongwen Academy, as well as those who pass the second grade, must first enter the Jinshi Hall of the capital to study practical learning, "to understand the overall situation of the world, and to study names of punishments, geography, and
, all eight political matters, including financial management, agriculture, industry, and business, can all know their essentials."
On September 12, the twenty-eighth year of Tianfa, the Jingshi Jinshi Hall officially opened, allowing new Jinshi to enroll, and ordering the Imperial Academy students to attend during their free time.
The "List of Mergers and Changes in the Regulations of the Jinshi Hall" presented to the Political Affairs Hall stipulates:
"The Jinshi Hall was specially established by decree to cultivate talents who are already in official positions, with a view to revitalizing practical learning and cultivating talents. New Jinshi scholars who use Hongwen Academy to compile, compile and write Chinese books are invited to study in the library.
The students are divided into two classes: the inner class lives in the library and studies, and the outer class goes to the library to listen to lectures and write essays. Zhongshu has free time from his duties. As the inner class, students who live in the library and study. Those who are willing to live in the library and study in the branch will still handle it as usual. They are willing to work in the library.
Those who are on duty at the Yamen will attend lectures as outsiders.
If the situation is poor, the government will consult with those who stay in the office and do not need to listen to the lectures. For example, if Hongwen, Zhongshu, due to lack of energy, would like to return to the outside class to listen to the lectures, he should do as he pleases.
As for new Jinshi who serve as teachers and chief academic affairs officials in the school, they will be managed by the province, and the Jiedu will be reported in advance. If they are qualified after the three-year period, they will be processed together with the students of the school.
If the Jinshi of the previous two subjects have Hongwen, subordinates, and Zhongshu who voluntarily join the library, they can submit a petition to the official of the Yamen Hall for submission. After inspection by the Wenyu Academy, all those who can be accepted will be paid. After graduation, they will be processed together with the new Jinshi this time.
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Jinshi Hall is divided into two semesters every year. The first semester starts in the first month of the year and lasts until the Xiaoxiao Festival. The second semester starts in July and ends at the end of the year.
The subjects are divided into eleven subjects: History, Geography, Education, Criminal Science, Qiangu, Zongheng, Military Affairs, Agricultural Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Business Administration, Gezhi. Arithmetic, and track and field are elective subjects. It depends on whether you are used to it or not.
In order to standardize teaching, it is stipulated that if students do not abide by school rules or follow teaching lessons, a minor demerit will be recorded, and a serious demerit will be recorded as a major demerit. In serious cases, an order will be filed for immediate handling, and the student will be returned to the original Yamen at any time for inspection. Management and teaching staff
Absence from work is also not allowed.
In order to supervise and encourage the students of the Jinshi Hall, at the end of each semester, officials from the Wenyuyuan will work with the Jinshi Hall to supervise the students to take the test in different subjects. The results are calculated by averaging the usual scores and test scores. Those who pass will get a passing certificate. After three years of graduation, the imperial examination will be held.
Ministers will be sent to hold graduation exams together with officials from the Imperial Academy, but those who have studied for less than six semesters or have received a passing certificate less than three times will not be allowed to take the exam.