From the current point of view, the problems in the administration and education of the Ming Dynasty do not arise in the examination process, but in the process before the examination.
Basic education has not been done well, and the revolutionary fire has not been rooted in the hearts of schoolchildren. Only relying on the two highest institutions of education, the Political and Legal School and the Cadre School, is obviously not enough to pass on the revolutionary will.
After learning from the painful experience, Su Yonglin decided to carry out drastic reforms on education issues and invested considerable energy in it.
He hopes to cultivate more idealists. Even if idealists are constantly eliminated after entering the real society, there will always be idealists who can persist.
A country founded by idealists needs more idealists to maintain and build it.
The reality is certainly cruel, but without the successors of idealists, the reality would be cruel and even tragic.
The most important core point of the reform is the financial issue.
At the education conference, Su Yonglin moved the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs out of the decision-making process of education issues, requiring the Ministry of Finance to set up a certain scale of education expenditures each year and record separate policies, just like it does the military.
The expenditure of this fund does not require the Ministry of Finance to interfere with how to use it. The school department is responsible for the management and use of this education fund. Only the Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance has the authority to review.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs only needs to submit population data to support the school department in the enrollment of school-age children. The Ministry of Civil Affairs does not need to interfere with other matters.
After building the superstructure, Su Yonglin determined the goals and importance of educational work through educational meetings one after another.
"Education is to cultivate the builders and guardians of Ming Dynasty, not to cultivate superior men. I heard that there is a saying among the students in Zhongdu that scores are our heaven. I also heard some education Workers have discussed that current education does not focus on academics, but only on scores.
In order to make students more adaptable to the atmosphere of the imperial examination, after they came out of the Mongolian School, in prefecture schools and even county schools, students began to be widely arranged to take mock imperial examinations. Some places once every six months, and some places once every three months. , some places even once a month.
Although the students trained in this way are very capable in the imperial examinations and can continuously produce high-scoring candidates in the imperial examinations, does this have any profound significance for the revolutionary cause? When we engage in revolutionary work, are we doing it on examination papers? "
It was not long after the Great Purge ended, and Su Yonglin's majestic power brought a profound psychological shadow to everyone. Therefore, when Su Yonglin raised major dissatisfaction with the education work, almost no one dared to raise any objections.
Only Yelujin gave Su Yonglin some opinions of his own from a practical perspective.
"Chairman, it's not that we haven't considered whether there are some disadvantages in these issues, but as far as selection is concerned, we can't find a better way than using test papers for the time being. The anonymous test papers are really... very... fair."
Su Yonglin certainly agreed with what Yelujin said.
"I have never said that I object to the selection method of paper examinations, but I think that we cannot use paper examinations alone to decide everything. We are selecting officials who govern the country, and some of the qualities officials need cannot be tested in the paper.
In addition, I pay more attention to incorporating enough internships in the production process into the education process, so that all students who are studying will know the difficulty of production from the very beginning, and how difficult it is for the common people to support a full-time scholar.
The problem now is that many school children do not know how rare it is to be able to read and write, and they do not study hard with awe and gratitude.
They have not deeply understood that the reason why they can study for free is because of the revolution and struggle in which their predecessors risked their lives. If they don't even know these, then what we will cultivate can only be bureaucrats. "
Su Yonglin took out a list and slapped it on his desk.
“In this rectification operation, among the officials selected by the imperial examination in the second year of Hongwu, there were more than 70 criminals, and among the officials selected in the fifth year of Hongwu, there were more than 50 criminals.
What makes me even more angry is that among the officials selected in the eighth year of Hongwu, there were more than 30 criminals. The interrogating officials examined their revolutionary theoretical level and found that they were in a mess and basically knew nothing.
Can they become promoters of revolutionary causes in the future? No, they can only become traditional old bureaucrats and become our enemies. Cultivate our enemies from our own schools? This is too ridiculous. "
So Yelujin couldn't say anything else.
Seeing that everyone had no objections, Su Yonglin nodded.
"In short, the first step for our work is to sort out the number and location of schools across the country, as well as the number of students, number of teachers, teaching environment and content, etc. I plan to spend about a year inspecting the situation of schools across the country. .
Then, based on this actual situation, we make overall arrangements for the teaching work in schools across the country, including how to learn and what to learn, and conduct thorough overall planning. Then, based on the actual local environment and industry, we make reasonable arrangements for students to participate in production and understand production. . "
Su Yonglin handed over the task of conducting a nationwide inspection of teaching work to Yelujin.
"Shang Shu Yelu is fully responsible for this teaching inspection. All the manpower of the entire school department is invested in it. If there is insufficient manpower, you can apply for assistance from me. I will give you the cabinet personnel to help assist in the investigation. In short, within one year at the latest, I want to see a detailed report."
Yelujin stood up and saluted Su Yonglin.
"Here."
Su Yonglin has promoted the work of talent training and is preparing to carry out a certain degree of major reform. However, it is difficult to see results in the short term. In the future, rounds of talent adjustments and optimizations will be required.
This is very difficult and hard, but the only thing worth celebrating is——
Su Yonglin is still very young.
As of now, the strategic reserve work required to initiate a war is obviously more straightforward.
The more important strategic storage work is in Hexi Province, Sichuan Province and Guangxi Province. These three provinces are respectively responsible for the logistics and transportation of the three battles of Western Liao, Dali and South Vietnam. Task.
As of now, there is no doubt that Hexi Province has the best reserves.
Since the fall of Xixia, in the past four or five years, there have been no large-scale wars in Hexi Province, only small-scale security wars, and in the past two years, there has been no unrest at all.
The Ming Dynasty's rule in the local area was very stable. Zhou Lin, the top leader of Hexi Province, successfully promoted various policies here, causing the local area to enter a virtuous cycle of development.
A large number of Dangxiang people, Khitan people, Qiang people and other ethnic groups live very harmoniously here. Everyone plows fields, grazes cattle, does business, and studies. They are all enjoying the rare peace. Social contradictions are extremely high. Great détente.
Zhou Lin also implemented various policies to benefit the people here in accordance with the requirements of the central government, built large-scale transportation roads and water conservancy projects, used livestock manure to build large-scale composting plants, and built the two agricultural treasure lands of Ningxia Plain and Hetao Plain very well.
In the past three years, agricultural production in the Hetao Plain and the Ningxia Plain has been very successful, with bumper harvests year after year, and a considerable amount of grain reserves have been accumulated for the Western Liaoning War. Su Yonglin commended Zhou Lin and the entire administrative team of Hexi Province twice in a row, and expressed his gratitude to them. Satisfied with the work.
Hexi Province has done a pretty good job in economic and political preparations. As for military preparations, Jiang Liangping and the Sixth Corps under his command have also done a pretty good job.
With the assistance of a considerable number of mature officers and political cadres in the Second Corps, about six years after Hongwu, the formation of the Sixth Corps was basically completed, the army was established, and various military trainings were carried out simultaneously.
When the Sixth Corps held a military competition in May of the ninth year of Hongwu, professional military personnel from the Privy Council and the General Staff Headquarters went to inspect and gave quite good evaluations.
The military observation group believes that the military quality of the Sixth Corps has reached the overall average level of the Ming Army. Whether it can become a main battle corps cannot be achieved by military training. It needs to undergo real war training to achieve it.
