After summoning the new military weapon supervisor Xiao Dan, he rewarded him with his position as a fourth-rank supervisor, and asked him to do two things clearly and cost-effectively: the first one is relatively easy to create a durable and reliable subway cannon. The Divine Machinery Administration has developed four usable cannons before, and the recent metallurgical technology is expected to improve, so this matter is already visible; the second one is more difficult, to create a rifled grenade gun. Xue Chongxun drew a schematic diagram and suggested that Xiao Dan use iron to forge the barrel, but this thing is unprecedented, and Xue Chongxun himself doesn't know much about it. He feels it is difficult to succeed, otherwise he will not use a fourth-rank official position as a bargaining chip.

If Xiao Dan really wanted to let his weapons enter the hot era, he would probably not be stingy. It is only the early 8th century AD. The overall technical level of human beings was already very backward. Before, there was no formal application of gunpowder. However, Xue Chongxun developed coke and cement, and even artillery. After the successful attempt, he gave him confidence and felt that it was possible to make great progress in certain fields.

The advantage of developing technology is that it only requires money and resources, and it will not involve too much. In the 19th century, some countries that used hot weapons were still serfs. What else should I worry about when the Jin Dynasty had a mature feudal system? In contrast, Xue Chongxun seemed more cautious when innovating orders and rules. Although the current imperial examinations were only improvements, they had to consider a lot.

Xue Chongxun wanted to do the imperial examination system according to his own wishes, but after weighing the pros and cons, he decided to use conservative reform rules: the ministers advocated it, and then the emperor "approved" and "supported".

Scholars with political ambitions and ideals will have their own understanding and ideas about the world, and then realize it by being an official. Even the romantic Li Bai also clarified the ideal of retiring after the Uzumaki, but he was not good at governing in a convenient way. Therefore, in many cases, the country had to carry out a new policy, and the process was as follows: after a group of ministers with the same idea took power, an important minister made a claim for argumentation, and then received the support of the emperor, and then began to implement it.

Xue Chongxun planned to do this, finding a minister to preside over the imperial examination reform. In this way, if the reform is unfavorable, it is nominally a mistake in political views of some ministers, and it has nothing to do with the Dajin regime. The responsibility can be carried by some ministers, and there is room for buffering and recovery. If the emperor personally presided over it, it would be impossible for the Jin court itself to fail, at least in theory. For example, a series of wrong imperial edicts issued by Wang Mang in the "Biography of Wang Mang" that Xue Chongxun read, led to economic collapse, and the angry world's goal was directly aimed at the Xin Dynasty regime, thinking that it was not as good as Liu Han.

The most important ministers in the court today are nothing more than the cabinet. Ten people from the two yamen of the Zhengshi Hall, one is Xue Chongxun's confidant, and the other is two generations of veterans with sufficient reputation and power. If the six people in the Zhengshi Hall were selected, they could only be Zhang Shuo. His father's position was very low before. Zhang Shuo was born as a Jinshi in the imperial examination and had first-class literary talent and ability, and he also liked to write books. There were four people in the cabinet, Du Xian was good at fighting and had a slightly inferior literary talent; Wang Changling seemed to be not very supportive of the new imperial examination; Zhang Jiuling and Su Jin were more suitable, and had similar qualifications, but Su Jin had the first meritorious contribution.

After weighing the pros and cons, Xue Chongxun felt that it would be easier to let Su Jin host. He was at least dedicated to supporting Xue Chongxun and would not go back and forth to Zhou Xuan when doing specific things, which would be more beneficial to Xue Chongxun realizing his ideas.

However, although the cabinet bachelor participated in military confidentiality, his rank was only a fifth-rank, and Su Jin was no exception. It seemed that he was not serious to ask a fifth-rank official to preside over the innovation of the world's scientific research. Therefore, Xue Chongxun had to make a lot of preparations before starting his business.

Before this, he affirmed Du Xian's contribution to the capture of Yingzhou. At that time, the considerations not only included the military weight of the Northeast and the prevention of Huhua in Hebei, but also laid the theoretical foundation for Du Xian's promotion.

Soon Xue Chongxun issued an order to resign Du Xian as the honorary military officer of the Sixteen Guards of the Southern Yai and be promoted to the second-rank prince Shaobao of the Eastern Palace. As for Xue Chongxun, it was not important, the prince Shaobao of the prince was a false title and had no need to do anything. It was not as if nothing had to do nothing. It was to improve Du Xian's grade. He was a bureaucrat who was in a fifth-rank bachelor's real power and was entitled to the second-rank rank, and was himself improving the status of a cabinet bachelor.

With the reason for the contribution of opening up the territory, it is understandable that Du Xian upgraded it; among the cabinet bachelors, there was a second-rank person. At that time, Su Jin proposed the imperial examination reform, and Xue Chongxun could naturally mention Su Jin to the second-rank. Moreover, Su Jin himself had the merit of supporting him, and no one would criticize him for being promoted to the second-rank. Otherwise, can you say that someone supported him wrongly?

After Xue Chongxun designed the steps, he began to conceive the framework for the new imperial examination. The imperial examination system gradually developed to mature through the continuous changes of the Song and Ming dynasties. No one except Xue Chongxun could come up with a reasonable solution out of thin air. This matter has to be considered by Xue Chongxun himself.

First of all, the content of the scientific examination depends on which talent Xue Chongxun valued. In his ideas, three aspects: etiquette, strategy, and technology application are the most useful. The former is to lay the foundation for the Changgang of heaven, earth, kingdom, parents, teachers, and maintain the basic order of Xue Chongxun's own rule. Before he could formulate an accepted order, the original foundation could not be destroyed. Moreover, he asked himself that he had not reached the state of weakening his power, and he could not figure out what motivation people who already had absolute power had to promote "democracy|government"; the latter was unprecedented, because the ancients did not realize the role of technology.

In other aspects of culture such as poetry, songs, and essays, Xue Chongxun felt that there was no need to take the exam at all, and it could develop in the officialdom. Because at this time, everyone had to use these things to show their taste when interacting with each other. This is popular. Can you not be able to sing popular songs in modern exams? As for moral character... As long as you have no experience of committing crimes, it is difficult to distinguish. Xue Chongxun did not think that the literati and moral literati in the court were so noble that they were very noble. It is difficult for people who were too noble to get into those positions.

After deciding the importance, Xue Chongxun began to try to design rules. The imperial examination system since the Sui and Tang Dynasties was chaotic, such as more than fifty subjects, and the examination was not a sufficient condition to stand out. Although the examination system had many disadvantages, fairness was obviously much better than the system of the Tang Dynasty; the system that Xue Chongxun intended to learn from was not a set of the Tang Dynasty and the Wuzhou period. In fact, after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, these things were still operating according to the inertia of the former Tang Dynasty. What he wanted to learn from was the third-level examination of the Ming Dynasty, institutionalized and standardized in terms of rules... The Ming Dynasty system was the most mature rule for the development of feudal centralized power; as for the last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, it could only be a successful example of the young people enslaved most Han people, which was even more powerful than Genghis Khan, but after copying the system, China and the barbarians were combined, and the tiger could not become a type of dog.

For the third level of the imperial examination, you need to obtain student qualifications before entering the imperial examination. Qualified students are all called scholars.

The qualification examination is three steps, which basically changed slightly after copying the Ming Dynasty. The three steps were carried out from low to high administrative levels. The Jin Dynasty continued the local administrative divisions on the eve of the collapse of the Li Tang Dynasty on the eve of the collapse of the Li Tang Dynasty. In addition, there is also the "Tao" level that actually does not belong to the administrative level. There is no institutional yamen in the world. Only the central government has appointed the censor to supervise local governance. However, the government yamen can be set up in the interview to form a third-level examination.

The first step is that as long as the three generations of people, scholars, farmers, workers, merchants, and military officials who are under the jurisdiction of the Jin Dynasty can participate in the record of the subject (the scope is wider than that of the Ming Dynasty). The county magistrates of various places presided over a very simple introductory examination, mainly taking the exam for reading, writing, arithmetic, that is, people with a clean wealth, literacy and normal IQ can get started; the second step is that the governors of each state arrange for officials to conduct the state examination. Taking this exam requires several scholars in the county to guarantee their wealth innocence. The first time, because there is no new system, the only step is to cancel this step. The content of the exam is similar to the first step. The key is to read, read, read, have a little brain, and then confirm that they are from a good citizen;

The above are all exams every year, which is relatively easy. The last step is the college entrance examination held by various academic government offices. The ones that pass the provincial schools in each prefecture (the prefecture capital does not have a county) and pass the county schools. They become scholars and are qualified to enter the imperial examination. The content of this exam is also the key to Xue Chongxun's innovation. Three exams, three contents: classics (reading traditional classics), strategy questions, and mathematics.

The content does not have poetry and essays. In fact, even the last poetry and essay exam in the Ming Dynasty was not that important, and it was better than nothing. But after Xue Chongxun changed to mathematics, it would not be unimportant, because mathematics itself is easy to judge right or wrong, and the answer is standard. If you don’t know how to do it, you will definitely not pass it if you don’t pass the exam. It is simple to operate. Xue Chongxun just needs to set the questions himself, and then give the answer to the examiner and review the test papers according to the review. Even if the examiner himself has not read "Mathematics" himself, he can still review the results as long as he has learned the rules of Arabic numerals.

Xue Chongxun's idea is that as long as he is a scholar who enters the imperial examination, he has a foundation in all aspects. These selected scholars have a foundation in mathematics, and in the future, Xue Chongxun will find someone if he wants to set up other science research departments in the Hanlin Academy. Even if people without ambitions in this area, it will not affect their specialization in strategy and questions. There is no harm in treating mathematics as a training of thinking in the past.

In addition, in order to reform the fair system of the imperial examination, it is stipulated that the clerk must copy the answer sheet and seal it with his name before the examination of the qualification examination begins. All examinations do not need to use a fixed pattern to make articles (except mathematics), and a word range is stipulated to be free to play.

Those who have obtained student qualifications and their families are exempt from labor service and no longer need to be ordered to repair rivers, fortifications, palaces, and military rations. Excellent talents who need to further advance in studying in the prefecture-xue County School can receive financial subsidies for the state treasury, but they still pay taxes. People who are poor and innocent can't pay much tax, and the whole family is exempted from the burden of levying the ranks. Xue Chongxun's idea was to prevent the local owners and big businessmen from returning to financial difficulties in the later period.
Chapter completed!