At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 1452 One thousand three hundred and sixty two

Today, gentry bureaucrats have become a thing of the past, and imperial examination bureaucrats are becoming the main force of government officials.

Although there were still many officials from the Chaju era who served as senior officials in the Wei imperial government, as a whole, the gentry no longer had the possibility of dominating imperial politics.

Can't even sustain existence.

Because there are very few pure scholar families that still exist, most of them were completely destroyed in the tide of the times at the turn of the Han and Wei Dynasties and in the political storms in the early days of the founding of the Wei Empire.

At the time, the most popular scholar families, the Yuan family, Xun family, Yang family, Ma family, Chen family, etc., were either destroyed by the entire family, or were beaten and disabled, and became a dog of His Majesty the Emperor Wei.

They no longer have the capital and rights to bargain.

Today, the imperial examination bureaucrats have taken full power and began to occupy the political resources that originally belonged to the gentry officials on a large scale, occupying basically all the middle and lower-level positions, and pre-determined the future.

Scholars have failed.

After grasping all the educational resources through this social revolution, Guo Peng ordered the spread of education to the whole country, and set up schools and schools in the capitals of states and counties.

Academic downshifting is in full swing.

It is said that Guo Peng's next plan is to set up a school in each county, further sinking education, and provide a free lunch, free books, pens and ink, so as to allow more students to receive education.

Even if it's just to read, even if you can't receive real education and go on the road of imperial examination, just read and read, that's good.

To read, you can't be blind. You must be able to learn the most basic reading and writing. Even if you have no money and no opportunity to receive school education, you can buy a book and teach yourself, that's good.

Guo Peng wanted to eradicate the illiteracy of the Wei Empire, which was Guo Peng's initial expectation.

Now, Guo Peng has thrown off redundant government and military affairs, and now he only wants to put all his remaining energy on the education level, put forward higher requirements, and improve the education system even more.

While improving basic education and eradicating illiteracy, new subjects are added to cultivate the light of hope for the future.

He didn't know if all he had done would bear fruit, just as he wasn't sure if sending his sons outside the Wei Empire would succeed in opening up a world of position.

But he can't stop doing it because of these risks.

Things are over there, hope is over there, there is no one hundred percent sure thing in the world, only the choice of doing or not doing.

He chooses to do it.

At the enlarged meeting held by the Ministry of Education, Guo Peng directly announced the addition of a compulsory subject in the imperial examination—Gewu Xue.

Many people don't know what Gewuxue is, and they don't know why the emperor added the compulsory content of the imperial examination.

"Your Majesty, there are already a lot of content in the imperial examinations. Taking the students of the Etherology as an example, their leisure time has been greatly reduced for their studies. If it continues to increase, not only will there be problems with time allocation, but the students may also complain."

Yuan Si, who had been up and down several times, was very desperate for the fact that Guo Peng was going to do something again.

You have abdicated, so can't you be your own emperor?

Does it have to torture us?

People in the world can't stand being tormented by you.

And you, the new emperor, really have no objections?

Yuan Si didn't dare to ask such a question, but Guo Peng said it right away.

"Have complaints? Yes, give up your student status, leave Taixue, and give up the imperial examinations. From then on, you can relax and don't have to study anymore. Who wants to? Leave Taixue immediately, I welcome it."

"Taixue's faculty is limited, and I'm still worried that the pressure on the teachers is too great. It's good to have fewer people to reduce the pressure on the teachers."

"This is what the emperor promised me. Afterwards, until my death, I will preside over the work of the department, and the emperor cannot interfere. You must obey my orders and make no mistakes!"

"No time to study? Why don't you shorten the time for some courses? The Five Classics are almost the same. In the past, there were no punctuation and no interpretation, so teachers had to teach them, but now they don't need it!"

"Pass me an order to reduce the teaching time and the number of assessments of the Five Classics! Make time to study Gewuxue! Make no mistakes!"

As soon as Guo Peng said a few words, the academic officials felt that they were walking on the frozen river in winter, and suddenly they stepped on the ice layer and fell into the ice hole, and their whole body was bitingly cold.

Did you get it wrong?

Didn't the old emperor abdicate and cease to be emperor?

Why did you come to work in the Department of Management again?

In this way, Yuan Si would just...

Everyone looked at Yuan Si.

Sure enough, the expression on Yuan Si's face was the same as that of witnessing a relative's funeral.

It's not difficult for everyone to imagine Yuan Si's mood at this moment, because their moods are actually similar, both desperate and painful.

His Majesty the Supreme Emperor really gave them such a big surprise that they were almost speechless.

It takes a while for them to accept this reality in their hearts.

Accept the fact that Guo Peng handed over all his powers but only retained the power of the Supervision Department.

The academic department has become the last bastion of the Supreme Emperor, an absolute bastion that even the emperor will not intervene.

When they finally accepted this reality, they found that there were more realities that they needed to accept.

For example, the content of [Gewu Xue] mentioned by Guo Peng just now.

Now that there are a lot of content in the imperial examination, the traditional five classics education has been greatly reduced in teaching time, and those teachers who grew up with scripture education have found it difficult to accept criticism.

As a result, Guo Peng wanted to further reduce the time spent on Pentateuch education.

Is this the momentum to completely suppress the traditional Confucian Five Classics education?

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed Baijia, no ruler has publicly declared that he would suppress Confucianism education.

There is no other reason. Dong Zhongshu's reformed Confucianism is very suitable for ruling and is very in line with the interests of the ruling class. Otherwise, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not be a fool.

On the surface, he used Confucianism to flaunt his orthodoxy and legitimacy, but in private he used the legalist method, using power to control the officials, using hegemony to expand externally, and promoting the glory of Han culture.

Because of the cloak of Confucianism, it appears gentle, reasonable, and polite, rather than simply aggression and seizure, so that people can't find an excuse to oppose it.

But someone Guo actually wants to change all this.

Confucianism is the best fig leaf for imperial hegemony, and it is also the best fig leaf for everyone to engage in various dirty transactions in private. Once it is ripped off, the consequences will be disastrous.

You can't walk the road by yourself and tear down the bridge to prevent us from walking. Can you really do this kind of thing like crossing the river and tearing down the bridge?

Originally, you used mathematics, agriculture, astronomy and geography to continuously squeeze the living space of the Five Classics, which has greatly reduced the existence of the Five Classics, but now you want to further compress it, this...

You really don't want this country to be peaceful for a long time, do you?

More importantly, they don't know what Gephysics is.

Gewu they know, from the Book of Rites, Gewu Zhizhi is an attitude and method of learning, which is highly respected by Confucian scholars, but isn't this Confucianism?

Where did Gephysics come from?

What is Gephysics?

You want to split Confucianism?

They are puzzled.

Guo Peng distributed the most basic textbooks on Gephysics, which he compiled with a little effort.

To be honest, after so many years, it is really difficult for someone Guo to compile a textbook that spans the ages.

There are really not many things he can remember, and he is not an expert in natural science, so his understanding of this area is very limited.

And he vaguely remembered that he was a liberal arts student, and he was not good at science.

If he really wanted to toss it on his own, he couldn't get anything out of it, just like a salted fish, it can't turn over without external help.

Mr. Guo does not have a deep reserve of natural science knowledge, but the good thing is that the wisdom of the ancients is actually very handy.

Scholars in ancient China stared at the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, studied the Four Books and Five Classics, and pushed themselves to the moral peak of "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires", but in the end they failed to beat the strong ship of foreigners sharp gun.

The foreigners used strong boats and guns to blast the Chinese off the moral peak, and occupied it by themselves, calling it the Beacon of Freedom.

This is a pity.

But what if the scholars in ancient China did not focus on the Four Books and Five Classics to engage in philosophy, but studied the "Mo Jing" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic"?

What kind of scene should that be?

There are no ifs in history, and no one knows where China will go, what kind of country it will become, and whether there will be a great unification. Of course, Guo does not know.

But he still has to do it.

Suppressing Confucianism is to suppress the thoughts of strange skills and obscenity, and suppressing Taoism is also to suppress the thought of scheming, and to make room for the development of science and technology to become orthodox. It does not mean that he has to give up the advantages of Confucianism.

Great unification must be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Order must also be maintained.

Not necessarily the others.

He wants to complete the transformation of Confucianism on the basis of the existing theories and on the basis of all the educational resources he has mastered, and transform a new Confucianism that can accommodate the development of science and technology.

By the way, we also need to reform the Mohist theory.

The content of these ancient natural science classics represented by "Mo Jing" is something that Guo remembers learning when he was receiving compulsory education, and it is still the basis of natural science for thousands of years.

It can be seen that the basic knowledge of natural science researched by scholars in ancient China is not outdated.

Once the foundation is established, it can be spread out, inherited, and carried forward to the future. After all, the flowers of natural science can bloom from the foundation.

It’s not that ancient Chinese scholars have nothing to learn, they have, but no one cares about it, no one learns it, and no one works hard to carry it forward.

These books appeared very early, hundreds of years earlier than Europeans, but no one studied them and no one developed them.

If you can't rely on these things to become an official, of course everyone doesn't care.

China has been a secular country since ancient times, very secular, scholars are very pragmatic-you can let me be an official, I will learn your skills, no, sorry for that.

I also want to have a meal!

I am hungry and have nothing to eat after learning these things.

It's as if Guo Peng included mathematics in the scope of examination questions in the imperial examination. There are not too many people who study mathematics now.

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After policy encouragement, new mathematical theories appear every year, and the number of books on mathematics has exploded in recent years.

There are some things that Mr. Guo himself doesn't quite understand. Many people discuss these mathematical problems enthusiastically, and study hard to improve their mathematical knowledge.

I think it won't be long before the first batch of real "mathematicians" on the land of China will be born.

Guo Peng even planned to establish a Royal Mathematical Society to consolidate and institutionalize the results of mathematical research.

Then the Royal Mathematics League is held every year, giving money and status rewards, so as to stimulate people's enthusiasm for studying mathematics and paying attention to mathematics.

To make people feel that doing such a thing can really gain benefits and gain fame and fortune, then people will naturally rush to climb the peak.

If you don't get fame and fortune, forget it.

Generating electricity for love is something only a few people with noble sentiments can do, and most people are just ordinary people.

What Guo Peng has to do is to unite these laymen.

He has no reserves of natural science knowledge, and he cannot build strong ships, guns and steam engines, but he has power, he has policies, and he has all the basic conditions.

Driven by power and policies, people who are eager to climb up will explode with great strength.

So Guo Peng knows that he doesn't need to rack his brains to write a natural science textbook that spans the ages, he can't do that.

He only needs to remove the philosophical thoughts and political ideas in the Mohist Classic, sort out the content of natural science, and then add the results of mathematical research over the years.

After rectifying and re-editing, plus those remaining things in my head that I will never forget in my life, it is a textbook of Gephysics that is enough to serve as the starting point of natural science.

With this textbook, include it in the compulsory examination of the imperial examination, stick to it, after 50 years, just wait and see!

After determining such a guiding ideology, Guo Peng personally directed a group of mathematics teachers to compile the "Mo Jing" a long time ago.

He ordered that the philosophical thoughts of Mozi and the political views of Mohism in the "Mo Jing" be completely removed, and only the knowledge of natural sciences should be retained——