Reform is necessary, otherwise Li Xinchen does not want Bashu to drag its bloated body to conquer the world, and if many of the problems that have been exposed are not solved now, they will definitely become bigger and bigger in the future. When Li Xinchen really takes over the world, he may
It's too late.
Therefore, although Li Xingchen cannot carry out drastic reforms, some systems that are obviously lagging behind the times still need to be changed. But if you want to reform, you must have enough talents, especially those with enough experience and innovative ideas. This is the most important thing in Bashu now.
What is lacking. The civil servants in Bashu are already very busy now. Who has the time to think about how to reform, so Li Xingchen must need more people.
Xu Ling has always been straight to the point: "I heard that His Highness is planning to build a college?"
Li Xingchen nodded slightly: "Chengdu College is under preparation, and there will also be corresponding construction in Hanzhong and Bajun. This is the most important thing besides spring plowing."
"The preparations in Hanzhong are in full swing. I have already seen it." Xu Ling said lightly. He was coming to Chengdu from Xiangyang to Hanzhong. He also measured Li Xingchen's land along the way. "Your Highness is so anxious to see me.
This old man must be because of this incident."
"That's right." Li Xingchen did not mince words with Xu Ling, "I also asked Duke Xiaomu to take up the post of head of the Chengdu Academy to recruit talents and educate his children."
Xu Ling and Yao Cha were both a little surprised. They thought that Li Xingchen wanted Xu Ling to return to the court to take charge of education, but they did not expect that Li Xingchen only handed over the position of mountain chief to Xu Ling.
This made Yao Cha feel relieved, and at the same time he was disappointed with Xu Ling's temper. You must know that Xu Ling did not intend to hold any political position after retiring from old age and returning to his hometown. The position of mountain chief seemed to be appointed by the government, but the college
As he is above the government, the mountain chief is naturally not among the ranks of government officials.
Of course, there is also Xu Ling's little thought in this. If he directly held a position in Li Xingchen's court, I don't know how he would be written in the history books, but teaching and educating people is different. Throughout the ages, no one has ever criticized him.
A person who is dedicated to education.
Xu Ling said solemnly: "Take Chengdu College as an example. The college is a fledgling college. Not only does it lack teachers, but it has not yet begun to recruit students. If we start from elementary schools, it will take at least ten years to train qualified talents."
"Ten years is too long, and there is no need for us to start from scratch." Li Xingchen waved his hand, "We must conduct certain proficiency tests when enrolling students. This test should include "Cangjie Pian" and "Thousand-Character Essay"
In this way, they should be familiar with elementary school textbooks, familiar with poetry and songs, and even older students should be tested on their personal opinions on current affairs, economy, military and culture."
Xu Ling and Yao Cha looked at each other in surprise. They did not expect that Li Xingchen had already considered these aspects. However, judging from the actual situation of this era, many of them are obviously unrealistic. In troubled times, the reality of being able to read is
There are some children from aristocratic families. If Li Xingchen's recruitment method is followed, I am afraid that only children from aristocratic families can enter the academy to study.
Li Xingchen obviously took this into consideration: "So in the academy, we also need to add literacy courses for all people in the entire society, and send people out, instead of being limited to the academy. Now Bashu has become peaceful,
Moreover, it is the slack season for farming, so if we act quickly, we can implement this matter before spring plowing."
Xu Ling's eyes widened and he felt a rush of hot blood rushing to his chest.
Under the big trees, in the fields, and in the busy city, people are everywhere reading and literacy in their free time. What a spectacular and fascinating picture this is!
However, Xu Ling is not so naive that he doesn't care about anything. As a person who once traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the Yangtze River to collect poems, he knows very well that it is not just lack of money and war that inhibits folk learning and education, but also large-scale problems.
Part of the reason is that the current nine-level Zhongzheng system bureaucracy has limited the opportunities to "become generals and prime ministers" to aristocratic families and poor families. Ordinary people have no chance to stand out at all, so for them, taking the time to
Studying hard is better than thinking about how to cultivate the one-third of an acre of land under your feet.
Since Li Xingchen put forward such an idea, it means that he must have also considered how to solve this problem.
"Once the three colleges in Chengdu, Bajun and Hanzhong are successfully opened, the local governments will also open colleges. Students in the colleges in various places can get the opportunity to enter these three higher-level colleges through examinations and internships, and then the government
A sufficient number of talents will be selected from them every year." Li Xingchen said immediately.
In Li Xingchen's view, the imperial examination system should be a relatively fair talent selection system invented in ancient China. Even the examination system of later generations actually evolved from the imperial examination. There may be many unreasonable things in the imperial examination, but anyway
This is the most fair and impartial talent selection system.
Especially in the Tang and Song dynasties when the imperial examination system was not yet rigid, it can be said that this system made outstanding contributions to the emergence of talents in these two dynasties.
But at least at this stage, Li Xingchen does not have the ability to implement the imperial examination system step by step. His step-by-step progress is inseparable from the strong support of the southeastern gentry, the Bashu family and the Guanlong Group. If the imperial examination system is implemented rashly, it will undoubtedly
It will fundamentally challenge the existence of the family.
In fact, the imperial examination system was not a bad thing for aristocratic families at the beginning, because only aristocratic families could maintain the education of their children in troubled times. Therefore, when the imperial examination system was first implemented in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the ones that really stood out were actually the Guanlong family.
, a descendant of an old family group such as the Shandong Family.
But as the society gradually became peaceful, children from poor families and even ordinary people in Guizhou began to realize the importance of reading and learning. That was when the aristocratic family declined. After all, the aristocratic family had no way to guarantee that every generation would be outstanding geniuses, even in most cases.
Under such circumstances, the proportion of dandy people was relatively high, so "wealth cannot last more than three generations." By the end of the Tang Dynasty and after the Song Dynasty, the aristocratic families naturally faded out of history.
Li Xingchen would not be so naive as to think that people like Xu Ling and Yang Su could not see the clues in this, so everything had to be figured out slowly, and starting from the academy, first use this method to give the ordinary people below
A way for the common people to advance to the next level can naturally enhance the family's sense of crisis without causing too much resentment among them.
This is just like boiling a frog in warm water.
Of course Xu Ling understands the difficulty of the task assigned by Li Xingchen. Of course, if it is successfully completed, it will truly be immortal. (To be continued)