While Tokugawa Ieyasu was sighing like this, the Ming army led by Ma Kisho continued to advance towards the Kyoto Imperial Palace after resting for many days.
The Kyoto Imperial Palace is naturally the seat of the emperor.
Japan has always regarded itself as the world, and it also has its own emperor.
Zhu Yijun naturally did not allow the Japanese to be so isolated, and considered the area where he lived to be the entire world, and he did not allow other royal families to exist in Japan.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun, in the name of etiquette as the country's greatest defense, had long asked Ma Gui not to spare the lives of any Japanese royal family.
As Zhu Yijun's trusted general, Ma Gui naturally carried out Zhu Yijun's decision to the letter. After capturing Kyoto, he let the Kyoto area become a river of blood, leaving no one from the royal family behind.
The emperor was even taken back to his country, waiting to be executed.
After Magui occupied Kyoto, he continued to advance towards Edo.
As the daimyo under Tokugawa Ieyasu retreated one after another, the main peace faction within the Tokugawa clan gradually gained the upper hand.
Especially after Sakai Tadashi and Sakai Ieji and other main war factions were killed by Date Masamune and Tokugawa Ieyasu himself, Tokugawa Ieyasu officially appointed Date Masamune as his envoy, came to see Magui on his knees, and asked Magui to take care of him. In order to save many living beings from suffering, accept their negotiations and stop the conquest first.
Ma Gui agreed to Date Masamune's request and reported the matter to Zhu Yijun.
Because Zhu Yijun had already granted him the power to make decisions on the spot, and clearly told him that if the Tokugawa clan and other daimyo were willing to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty through peaceful negotiations, they would accept them for peaceful negotiations.
anyway.
Ordinary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are also human beings.
Because according to the new etiquette, if soldiers can be prevented from risking their lives to death, naturally they cannot be allowed to risk their lives to death.
What's more, Ming Dynasty also hoped that Japan's population would suffer a sharp decline due to the war.
At present, Ming Dynasty has an absolute advantage over Japan in terms of technology and population.
The purpose of the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Japan was to expand the scale of the trade market with Japan and allow Japan to bring more benefits to the Ming Dynasty. It did not really want to completely eliminate the Japanese natives, especially the Japanese nobles, but just wanted to eliminate Japan's local civilization. To achieve the unification of civilization.
"As long as they are willing to accept Sinicization and the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they can accept their negotiations."
Zhu Yijun made such an announcement after receiving Ma Gui's memorial.
Wang Xijue therefore said: "Accepting these two points is not just a simple acceptance, it means giving up all the land, giving up all the subordinate retainers and slaves, and from now on they can only be a rich man. For them, , I’m afraid it’s hard to accept.”
"If you don't accept it, you'll have to kill him!"
Zhu Yijun said with a stern face, "The land that this dynasty has won through merit can only be given to those who have meritorious service!"
"As for their retainers and slaves, the reason why they are sacrificed is to prove that they are no longer nobles; since they are not even nobles, what qualifications do they have to own slaves?"
"Just give him the imperial approval."
After Zhu Yijun said that, he walked out of the hall and looked outside.
Wang Xijue and others here said yes.
"How is the construction of the Beijing-Beijing Railway going?"
Zhu Yijun then asked about the construction of the railway between the two Beijings.
Wang Xijue replied: "Construction has begun. A large number of trackers and waterworkers on the original river have become civilian laborers building the railway. But now there is a problem. Although we do not lack the civilian laborers who work hard, we are in short supply of skilled workers." , after all, railways require the participation of enough skilled people from steel smelting to forging to laying, etc. It does not mean that just lifting a few iron blocks can turn it into a railway."
Wang Xijue then added: "Therefore, Your Majesty, I and others believe that we should continue to increase our efforts to build new schools and cultivate craftsmen."
"We need to build more schools to cultivate technical talents."
"With the development of the Ming Dynasty, it no longer only needs talents who can be officials, but also requires a large number of technical talents of all kinds. It even needs a new mechanism for selecting talents!"
"The imperial examination system is only an examination system for selecting officials. It cannot select all talents."
"So the selection of talents must be thoroughly reformed to adapt to the changes in the new era!"
Zhu Yijun suddenly expressed his opinion on establishing a new examination system.
Shen Li, who was beside Wang Xijue, asked first, "What does your Majesty mean?"
Zhu Yijun looked back at Shen Li, then smiled:
"Officials should be elected by elected officials, and talents should be selected by talents!"
"In fact, the two have been confused since the emergence of the imperial examination system."
"At the beginning of the establishment of the imperial examination system, the emperor was not so much selecting talents as controlling talents through the imperial examination."
"That's why Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said, 'All the heroes in the world have come to my rescue.'"
"We should now keep the imperial examination as an examination for selecting officials, and establish another examination system as a system for selecting and identifying certain talents."
"In this way, talents can take part in the imperial examination to become officials, or they can directly obtain corresponding positions without taking the imperial examination."
After Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue, Shen Li and others: "What do you think?"
"Your Majesty, please make it clear."
All the ministers replied at this time.
"Simple!"
Zhu Yijun replied and said: "The imperial examination only retains the joint examination and the palace examination and is merged with the civil service examination. Those admitted in the joint examination can become officials. After the palace examination, they will still be awarded the status of Jinshi."
"The provincial examination was changed to the unified examination of higher education institutions, which can be referred to as the college entrance examination."
"All those who pass the college entrance examination will be granted the status of being promoted, and the promoted candidates can directly serve as officials, or they can directly seek employment in society without becoming officials."
"The college examination was changed to the unified examination for secondary schools, which can be referred to as the high school entrance examination."
"All those who pass the high school entrance examination are regarded as teaching staff. Students can directly enter higher education institutions and obtain the status of being promoted through the college entrance examination in the future."
"The county examination is the unified examination for elementary school, which can be referred to as the preliminary examination. All those who pass the preliminary examination will be taught as children."
"Children can directly enter secondary schools and obtain student status through the high school entrance examination in the future."
"Juren, Shengyuan, and Tongsheng will only be a kind of academic qualifications from now on, no longer a title. It only means that he is qualified in general knowledge and some professional knowledge at different levels."
"Of course, the country is now rich in financial resources, and in order to encourage people all over the world to study, it will still provide subsidies to scholars above students."
"All schools, whether old-style schools such as the Imperial College, prefectures and counties, or new-style schools such as the Ming Industrial School and the Ming Mining School, are divided into grades according to actual conditions."
"Social studies are all elementary schools, and the teaching content must be unified and become the same as the textbooks for the elementary classes of Xingming Academy! They must all change from old-style education to new-style education."
"In addition, a number of secondary schools will be established, and the teaching content should be unified to be the same as the teaching materials for the secondary classes of Xingming Academy."
"College schools are divided according to their circumstances. Common government-run academies that educate students in all subjects are called ordinary colleges. Those that only educate students in one type of knowledge, such as Daming Mining Academy, are vocational colleges."
"However, new schools such as the Ming Dynasty Research Institute, which focus on research and development, such as the Imperial Academy in the two capitals and the First Academy of Sciences, will be turned into university halls, specifically used as a place for scholars to study, and mainly to cultivate students' talents in a certain aspect."
Zhu Yijun came and said, "Just use this blueprint to do it."
"Your Majesty, if we do this, we may need to add many more teachers, especially non-Confucian teachers."
"I believe that it would be better to first add a number of normal schools, including colleges and universities."
Wang Xijue played at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "This should indeed be the first step. First, set up a number of normal schools."
Wang Xijue and others said yes.
"His Majesty!"
"In my humble opinion, this year's provincial examination should be changed to the college entrance examination, and the examinations should be divided into subjects. Those who took the Eight-part essay in the past can still take the Eight-legged essay, while graduates of other new schools can take exams in other subjects."
"In this way, we can first let a group of students with expertise become candidates, and then we can inspire people all over the world to specialize in their skills."
Shen Li said at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Shen Qing reminded me that in the early stage of the college entrance examination, it should be divided into subjects, and it will be divided into arts and sciences."
"Liberal subjects test classics, literature, arithmetic, history, geography, and other subjects related to the governance of people and the country. Science subjects also test literature and arithmetic, but there are other subjects that only need to test physics, chemistry, and the study of the principles of natural existence."
"yes!"
"Besides, the martial arts test should be cancelled."
"In the future, children with military status can pass the enlistment examinations in various military academies and become officers."
"Military children, including civilian children, can also become officers by first signing up to serve as soldiers and meritorious service. Among them, civilian children can also have their whole family join the military through meritorious service or sacrifice for the country!"
"Of course, after this change, the number of candidates will be expanded. The number of candidates will be determined according to the needs of each university hall. It must be tens of thousands, right?"
Zhu Yijun said and looked at Wang Xijue and others.
Wang Xijue, who was in charge of internal affairs, replied: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, if you do this, you will get tens of thousands!"
"After all, the country has a large population, and many new schools have been built over the years. However, in the future, with the rapid increase in the number of candidates, the court may not have the financial resources to provide subsidies."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "That's good. You don't have to worry about the subsidy. After a few years, you really can't afford it and you can cancel it. I don't believe that if you cancel the scholarship subsidy, people in the world will not be willing to take the examination."
"Your Majesty said so!"
After Zhu Yijun's decree to reform the examination system was issued, the whole country was naturally shocked.
Others are fine, but many Confucian scholars find it difficult to accept this.
Because this means that the emperor really no longer only respects Confucianism, and even the people who are elected can not be Confucian scholars, but people with other expertise!
On the day when the imperial edict was issued, the great Confucian scholar Qian Yiben came to Nandu, brought a group of his loyal followers and students, knelt outside the palace, and shouted: "Your Majesty, please do not give up the exclusive status of Confucianism!"
(End of chapter)
