Today's morning meeting will change the fate of many people.
Emperor Wude first announced that the Three Law Divisions would be stationed in local areas, and then promulgated an advanced version of the examination law, targeting local officials and local gentry!
With this combination of punches, the place will no longer be dominated by gentry clans, the court will further strengthen the centralization of power, and the emperor's power and will will also radiate to the entire world, including the countryside!
But, this is not enough!
Zhu Gaoxu gave Xie Jin, the Minister of Academic Affairs, a look.
The most talented scholar of the Ming Dynasty, the arrogant scholar who should have been buried in the snow and frozen into popsicles by Ji Gang, finally emerged from his cocoon after all kinds of hardships and became an undisputed upstart in the court.
It's just that he had been busy with the restructuring of official schools and the construction of academies, so he rarely spoke out in the court.
But this time, Xie Jin was no longer silent. He wanted to cooperate with His Majesty the Emperor and give the local gentry a fatal blow!
"Your Majesty, I have a script!"
Xie Jin knelt down and shouted loudly, instantly attracting the attention of all the courtiers.
Jie Jin Jie Gongbao, he suddenly spoke at this time, what do you want to do?
For this Jie Jin, all the gentry in the court looked down upon him, and the vast majority of them disdained and despised him.
After all, Jie Jin was expelled from his family by the Xie family, and he was completely reduced to a lonely ghost.
Furthermore, as the Minister of Academic Affairs, Xie Jin has been committed to promoting the new learning, which is not tolerated by Cheng and Zhu Jinshen. There is no room for relaxation between the two sides.
Even though Xie Jin is now a minister of the Academy of Sciences and an important minister of the Wude court, looking down on him means looking down on him, and being hostile means being hostile.
But no matter how hostile they are, the ministers have to admit that Jie Jin is hard to shake.
After all, he, the Minister of Academic Affairs, was a close confidant of Emperor Wude, and all the new students in the world were led by him.
After so many years of development, and with the strong support of the Wude court, the new learning had already replaced Cheng Zhu and became the first official doctrine of the Ming Dynasty.
One can imagine what a huge force this is!
Now when Jie Jin opened his mouth, all the ministers were trembling.
Only to see the dignified place opened his mouth, and the target of the attack was directly at the imperial examination system.
"Your Majesty, I have been inspecting local areas for many years and feel deeply that the abilities of officials are shallow. The Ming Dynasty must establish a new talent training mechanism. The current imperial examination method can no longer meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty and is in urgent need of reform!"
As soon as these words came out, the officials were in an uproar!
Reform the imperial examination system? !
Jie Jin, you are so cruel!
Why can the gentry in the court be so confident that they dare to pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor?
Isn’t it because they have the imperial examination as a way to replenish their reserve force, which can ensure that the inheritance will not be cut off!
Regardless of whether they are the founders of the country or the nobles of Jingnan, they will eventually be lost to everyone. Either they will be abolished due to crimes or their inheritance will be cut off. This is the real reason why military generals can never defeat civil servants!
Because the title of military commander can only be obtained by meritorious service, but a dynasty cannot always be at war. Most of the time is peaceful and prosperous, so the generals will naturally have no place to use their skills, and there is no way to obtain military merit and hunt for the title!
But civil servants and gentry are different. They only need to study hard and take the imperial examination to become officials and become gentry!
Precisely because of the existence of the imperial examination system, it is guaranteed that the Ming Dynasty will always have gentry and gentry!
Even though Emperor Wude is now frantically suppressing the gentry and gentry at all costs, they are not at all panicked, or in other words, they still have confidence in their hearts.
It's just that God has no eyesight, and the former Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi died young, leaving the Wude Emperor to sit on the dragon throne in vain.
Now that they are being crazily suppressed by Emperor Wude, since the gentry and gentry cannot resist, they can just endure and give in for the time being.
When Emperor Wude left Hexi and the next emperor sat on the throne, it would not be too late for them to come back and compete with the new emperor!
Because civil servants and gentry can afford to wait!
Backed by the imperial examination system, they are not afraid at all!
I can't wait for that day, I still have a nephew!
Generation after generation of scholars passed the imperial examination and became officials in the court, and they could definitely survive this dark time.
Thinking about how cruel and unkind Emperor Hongwu was back then, didn’t the civil servants and gentry still survive the same?
As soon as Emperor Jianwen came to power, he brought order to the chaos, suppressed the generals and nobles, and supported the civil servants and gentry.
Such a large Jianwen world can be said to be a prosperous age of civil servants and gentry!
Isn’t it the same thing now?
Emperor Wude was cruel and cruel, and tried every means to suppress the gentry and the gentry.
What else could they do? They couldn't really gather a crowd to rebel, right?
Then just be patient and give in for the time being!
When Emperor Wude dies and the new emperor takes the throne, they can also make a comeback!
But the premise is that the imperial examination system will always exist and will not fall into the hands of the royal family!
It is precisely Xie Jin who wants to attack the imperial examination system now and openly proposes to reform the examination system!
This Jie Jin is so damned!
"Jie Aiqing, tell me what you have to say, I'm listening!"
Zhu Gaoxu nodded with a smile and glanced at the audience coldly.
Xie Jin smiled knowingly and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, today's imperial examinations are too rigid and rigid. They just follow the script and have no new ideas. Scholars only need to study the Four Books and Five Classics and memorize them, and they can pass the imperial examinations." Enter the court and become an official!"
"Although during the Yongle period, His Majesty reformed the imperial examination system, the content of the examination did not change much. The Four Books and Five Classics still occupied the main position. Only a small number of scholars chose to switch to new studies!"
"As a result, even if those scholars pass the imperial examination, they will only be nerds. They don't even know the basic common sense of life. How can they talk about running a good place as officials in the court?"
"Moreover, the starting point of the new Jinshi was too high. He had no political experience at all, so he was appointed as a county magistrate. He couldn't even understand basic account books. He was manipulated by the local gentry and clans and was thrown into disgrace. It’s a disgrace to the imperial court!”
"What's more, they colluded with the local gentry and ran rampant, oppressing the people and plundering the people's wealth, and became a cancer of the Ming Dynasty!"
I have to admit that what Xie Jin said was a bit extreme and somewhat overgeneralizing.
But Zhu Gaoxu wanted this result.
If he didn't make the problem serious, how could he take the opportunity to get angry?
"Therefore, I request your Majesty to issue an edict to reform the imperial examination system. The content will all be based on the New Learning, supplemented by the Four Books and Five Classics. Especially the practical learning in the New Learning, such as science, mathematics, etc., must be the main content of the imperial examination. , the Four Books and Five Classics can be supplemented!”
"The scholars will learn whatever the imperial court tests. Only in this way can we get rid of the current shortcomings of the imperial examination!"
"In addition, new Jinshi cannot be directly transferred to the chief official of a county. They are sent to the outside as assistant officers and second officers to study with the chief officer for several years, starting from the lowest level, and then accumulating experience step by step to develop their abilities and pass the assessment of the Ministry of Personnel. Only after passing can you become the chief officer!"
"also……"
Xie Jin spoke so eloquently that the scalps of the ministers went numb.
So poisonous!
This Jie Jin is so poisonous!
In this way, the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty completely served the new learning!
Moreover, Xie Jin's move was obviously to cooperate with Emperor Wude's two new policies just now and to suppress the local gentry as much as possible!
This monarch and his ministers have already planned it, and they are just waiting here!
