For the Governor's Palace of Jinshan.
The threat from the bounty issued by the Governor-General of British Canada is not that great. Anyway, it is just a group of white adventurers, which is not much of a threat.
The key meaning is.
The war has begun!
When the news spread back to Zhongdu.
It was already winter in Zhongdu at this time.
Winter in Jiangnan is not as cold as in the north.
But it’s actually quite difficult.
"Your Majesty, here is the information about Lin Minghe, the governor of Jinshan. Have you read it? The British have already begun to take action, but now the trouble in the governor's palace of Jinshan is not just this. The scholar who is thousands of miles away and is willing to go to the New World to serve as an official is too big. not enough."
It was Peng Jun who spoke.
What worries him these days is sending officials to serve in the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast Asia, Australia, the New World and other places.
These places are wild places.
It was so unpopular with Ming officials.
Moreover, there are very few local intellectuals, many of whom are simply illiterate farmers.
There were too few officials, which troubled Ming Dynasty's right prime minister Peng Jun.
Zhu Daohua put down the book in his hand and looked at Zuo Prime Minister Gu Song on his side.
"Lao Gu, what do you think we should do about this? There are already four provinces in the Northeast: Liaoxi Province, Liaodong Province, Northern Liaoning Province, and Heilongjiang Province, plus the two governor-general offices of Xing'an Governor-General and Northern Xinjiang Governor-General and Kuye Island Development Company, there are two provinces in the northwest, Western Region Province and Mengxi Province, and there are several territories in Nanyang that need to be established as provinces. The territories in the New World are also expanding, and a lot of officials will be needed by then. These places are all In the wilderness, there are many officials needed, and there is currently a shortage of more than 6,000. In the future, at least tens of thousands of officials will be sent to serve in these places. Tell me, where can we get so many officials?"
"Your Majesty, tens of thousands of officials are not a small number. At that time, there were only tens of thousands of officials in the entire Tatar Qing Dynasty. I believe that relying on seconding officials from various provinces is not a long-term solution. We must find another way."
Of course, in the Ming Dynasty, there was no need to worry about finding people to serve as officials.
Now the Ming court is scraping together and finding no one.
Mainly because the officials now dispatched to these fringe areas are all recruited from the bureaucracy.
Those people already have official positions, and they are definitely not willing to go to a bitter and cold place thousands of miles away to be an official.
Even if there is an improvement in level, it is not very attractive.
Because the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were linked to local economic development and taxation.
What hope can there be in these wild places?
"Your Majesty, why not open an encore and recruit scholars who are willing to serve as officials in the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast Asia, and the New World." Peng Jun suggested.
He had already had this idea.
It's just that the number of people recruited for the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty has also dropped.
After all, this imperial examination is not a college entrance examination. If you pass the examination, you will either go to university or become an official.
Today, all parts of the Ming Dynasty, except for Shaanxi and Gansu, are still under military control, and Inner and Outer Mongolia, Western Region Province, and Tubo Province have not yet completed provincial-level establishment.
In other places, "constitutional government" has been implemented.
Except for the first provincial examination.
The number of admissions for officials every year has also become very limited and scarce.
In big provinces like Guangdong and Sichuan, the imperial examination is held only once every three years, and no more than a thousand people are selected each time - in today's Ming Dynasty, only scholars were selected. Officials must be appointed immediately, and most of the officials in various provinces are like carrots and pitfalls. There are quite a few vacancies every year, so it is difficult to apply for one.
If 50,000 official positions were allocated to the Han region at once, many officials and scholars would be happy to celebrate.
Even if you have to travel thousands of miles to be an official, there are definitely many people who are willing.
Emperor Zhu frowned and thought about it in his mind.
"Yes, we need to recruit some people to serve as officials in new territories, so we will open an Enke. But I think this Enke cannot be the same as the ordinary imperial examination. After all, officials in these places have a lot of things to take care of. We have to recruit some practical talents, let’s do this, 10% will be from the academic subjects, and the rest will be recruited from the five majors including martial arts, Mingfa, Mingshu, Tongwen, and engineering.”
Peng Jun's expression changed: "Your Majesty, only 10% of the literary talents are talented people. Isn't that too little?"
Most of the literary scholars were Confucian scholars.
Most of Wu Xiucai were students in military academies.
As for other subjects, they are dominated by students from new universities.
He knows it very well.
Those officials who have served as officials in the New World, Northeast China and other places will have extra points in their future promotions.
Suddenly, there was an influx of tens of thousands of fresh blood into the bureaucracy.
Moreover, the proportion of Confucian scholars has been greatly reduced.
this.
Zhu Daohua said coldly: "These bitter cold and barbaric places do not need talented officials, they need practical talents!"
Peng Jun frowned: "But it's impossible to recruit more than 30,000 Mingfa, Mingshu, Tongwen, and engineering students all at once, right? Does Ming Dynasty have so many practical talents?"
Zhu Daohua's face was as bright as iron, and he had no intention of giving in: "I don't plan to open Enke immediately, so I will announce it now. The exam will start next fall... Now many academies, colleges and universities have been opened in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, as well as schools that provide accelerated education. If you have more than a year to prepare for a scholar who wants to seek an official position, you can always learn a little bit about it, right?"
He added decisively: "Anyone who has a university diploma and passes this exam will be reused!"
Peng Jun and Gu Song were both enlightened now.
Zhu Daohua and Emperor Zhu are ready to promote new students. After Enke next year, I am afraid that a large number of university graduates will enter the officialdom.
A new force in Ming Dynasty officialdom is about to be formed!
However, Peng Jun and Gu Song, the leaders of the Hunan Party and the Guangdong Party respectively, had already seen this day.
How could they be unprepared?
So now in the Ming Dynasty.
There are also many universities that combine old and new universities jointly run by local wealthy families.
For example, Yuelu Academy in Hunan.
Cantonese Academy in Guangdong.
Liangjiang University in Shanghai.
They are all universities of similar nature.
The two civil servants of the Ming Dynasty looked at each other, and Peng Jun said: "Your Majesty, I have another suggestion. Since Enke is selecting officials for more than a dozen new provinces this time, it should not be limited to local restrictions, but The examination should be based on merit and should not be limited to the sixteen provinces. All people under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty who are under the age of 27 and have not violated the royal law and are not among those who will never be declared eternal can take the exam. The score determines whether you will be admitted or not.”
"This is what it should be."
Emperor Zhu thought for a moment and nodded, "That's it. This Enke exam will be handled by the Grand Scholar's Office and the Mission Department."
He thought for a moment and then said: "In addition, the officials admitted by Enke this time will also have to participate in a three-month military training. The place they are going to is not peaceful, so they need to master some military knowledge."
(End of chapter)
