Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 422

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After the court meeting, the next day, the Daming Daily used its front page headlines to report that the imperial court would hold a big exam, and announced the rules of the big exam.

This big exam is different from the previous ones in that anyone who is a scholar under the age of 40 can take the exam.

For this exam, the Emperor Wanli will personally write the questions, and all the exam questions will be unified throughout the country.

Most importantly, this big exam will select more than a thousand officials.

"Why can't we fill in the gap?"

"Why do we have to make up the exam?"

"Why can't you be older than 40 years old?"

Immediately after the Da Ming Daily reported about the big exam, those who had passed the imperial exam but didn't have an alternate official started to make noise.

Ming Dynasty will hold a general examination every three years. However, because there are too many people on the list, many people are still waiting for the Ministry of Officials to release their officials.

There are still so many people who have not been replaced, and now Emperor Wanli is going to take the big exam again, and he will be replaced after the exam. How can this not make the alternate officials anxious and angry.

"Long Live Lord, many alternate officials are kneeling outside the gate of the palace, wanting to ask Long Live Lord to give an explanation."

In Qianqing Palace, an old eunuch reported to Emperor Wanli.

"Let them kneel down. North Korea and Japan disliked them when they lacked officials. Let them wait now." Emperor Wanli said to the old eunuch.

Although there are many alternate officials in the capital, they used to have a chance.

When Japan and North Korea were defeated, there were many opportunities.

Even when King Wu became a vassal, there were many official positions in the state of Wu for them to choose from. However, they thought that Japan, North Korea, and Tiwan Island were barren lands, as if going there was allotment.

This is also the reason why Emperor Wanli is willing to re-examine and select talents without using them.

Emperor Wanli didn't take the anger of the alternate officials seriously.

He hid in the Qianqing Palace and gave orders, and these alternate officials could not see him.

"Tell them, if they want to be appointed officials, they will take the exam again if they are capable. As long as they pass the exam, I will grant them official posts." Emperor Wanli said to the old eunuch.

"By the way, this is an article I wrote, and let the Great Ming Daily publish it nationwide tomorrow." Emperor Wanli took out a copy and handed it to another eunuch beside him and said.

"This imperial decree is passed on to Zhen Dongbo." After the previous eunuch left, Emperor Wanli wrote another imperial edict and handed it to another eunuch.

At this time, Emperor Wanli had more than a dozen eunuchs on duty. These people mainly ran errands for him, delivered official documents and imperial edicts, and so on.

The imperial edict given to Zhang Qingfeng by Emperor Wanli was naturally to ask him to train another [-] soldiers and horses.

If you want to change, the barrel of a gun is the most important guarantee.

For the reform, it is still in the preparation stage, so more troops need to be trained. If another 20 troops are trained, Zhang Qingfeng will have almost [-] troops under his command.

To raise an army of 20 firearms, 1000 million taels of silver a year is enough.

This amount of money is only one-fifth of the annual profit for the royal firm.

In April 1620, Emperor Wanli published an article in Daming Daily.

Once the article was published, it immediately stirred up waves among the people.

In the article, Emperor Wanli clarified the purpose of this big exam, which is to select useful officials.

The selection of questions this time is different from the previous ones in that this exam will increase the knowledge of many other categories.

The first is mathematics. As an official, if he can't count, he doesn't know the acres of fields, and he doesn't know the amount of food, he will be easily fooled by his subordinates. Such an official is unqualified.

In addition to arithmetic, there is history.

As an official of the Ming Dynasty, one must have a solid understanding of history. If one does not understand history, how can one learn from history.

In addition to history, there is also geography.

Daming officials must clearly understand the geographical location of Daming and the distribution of various forces around it.

Besides geography, there is science.

The Royal Fleet defeated the majestic Japan, then defeated the European colonists in Southeast Asia, and finally took down North Korea.

The reason why the Royal Fleet is so powerful is all because of natural science.

As an official of the Ming Dynasty, although proficiency is not required, one must have a certain understanding of natural science.

In addition to natural science, the most important thing is Confucianism.

As an official of the Ming Dynasty, one must have courtesy, justice, integrity and shame. If there is no courtesy, justice, integrity and shame, one is not worthy of being an official of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the previous imperial examinations, the content of the exam this time has canceled policy theory and stereotyped essays, and most of them are other miscellaneous subjects.

The content of such an examination naturally does not meet the wishes of traditional scholars. Once the news spreads, scholars from all over the world will create an uproar.

However, it's going to be troublesome, but Emperor Wanli's decision will not change, so the only ones who need to change are the scholars of Ming Dynasty.

Immediately after Emperor Wanli's article was published, all kinds of miscellaneous books in many bookstores were swept away.

Among them, the natural science books printed by the Royal Printing House are the most popular.

Books on natural science, such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc., have been printed after Zhang Qingfeng founded the printing factory, mainly to promote science.

But readers don't like to buy such books at all, they prefer the Four Books and Five Classics.

This time, Emperor Wanli called for the natural science exam, and all the natural science books printed by the printing factory were sold out immediately.

In addition to natural science, there are also books printed by the Royal Printing House such as World Geography, Eulerian Geometry, and Basic Mathematics, and almost all of them are sold out.

In June 1620 AD, the national entrance examination finally began.

This time, at least hundreds of thousands of scholars took part in the entrance exam.

It took more than a month for the results of the first joint entrance examination to be counted, and more than half of them were passed.

The second joint exam is two months after the completion of the first joint exam.

This joint examination was conducted in the capitals of each province. With the assistance of the efficient operation network of the Royal Commercial Bank, the joint examination went very smoothly.

After this joint exam, at least 2 people passed the exam, and the most exaggerated thing is that in Shuntian Prefecture alone, more than 5000 people passed the second round of the exam.

If someone inquires a little bit, it is not difficult to find that most of these scholars who passed the joint entrance examination are from Daming University of Technology.

After passing the second joint exam, the third major exam will be held six months later.

In other words, there are still at least six months for all the scholars who pass to learn the knowledge categories that Emperor Wanli stipulates to take the exam.

As a result, the search for books on miscellaneous studies has once again sprung up in various places.

Even if the Royal Printing Factory keeps printing all kinds of books, it still can't meet the needs of scholars.

Sure enough, in the past, not all scholars liked the Four Books and Five Classics, but because the Four Books and Five Classics could make people become officials.

Now that the books that can make people become officials have become books on natural science, history, mathematics, geography, etc., these books have been snapped up by all scholars immediately.

This big exam, no matter what, made the scholars of Ming Dynasty delve into other miscellaneous knowledge besides the Four Books and Five Classics.

Especially the knowledge of physical chemistry and world geography, Zhang Qingfeng believes that as long as people are interested in this area, there will be more and more talents in Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)