The group of them arranged for the dinner to be prepared and started to eat.
In the palace, a group of people arranged by Li Er continued to carry out the review and approval process.
Li Er took the test papers over and began to read them alone.
I have to admit that some people are talented in writing. Looking at this test paper, Li Er smiled slightly.
There are also some people who are not particularly satisfied with the writing style on the test paper, but relatively speaking, it barely catches their eyes.
Someone was sent to hand over all their information.
Although everyone comes from different places, the general situation is very different.
None of them had received any systematic education; most of them had attended private schools for a year or two at most.
The rest of the time is spent on self-study, or helping other wealthy people, taking care of the meals there, for free, hoping to browse through the collection of books.
Anyway, there are all kinds of situations, self-study or just a little bit of learning.
Under such conditions, such results were achieved.
That’s okay, but if there is systematic study, then what’s the big deal?
Li Er thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea came to him.
Then he called Kong Xian, and Kong Fuzi handed him the papers of these candidates and asked him to check them.
After reading it myself, I found that it is roughly the same as what His Majesty said was better and worse.
However, the abilities of this group of people are still far behind the abilities of my own students.
It's just that I don't know what it means for Your Majesty to let me read their papers?
After hearing Confucius' inquiry, Li Er told them the identity and background of their group.
He took the opportunity to express his thoughts.
After looking at their identities and backgrounds and then reading the submitted test papers, Kong Xian thought for a moment.
For a person who has no identity background and has not gone through systematic study, it is already quite good to reach such a level.
If they could go through systematic study, the potential of these people would not be inferior to that of his students!
"Well, these people's writing talents will definitely not be able to meet the conditions of high school.
But I decided to give these people a chance."
I wonder what your Majesty means by this opportunity?
"That day you said you would build an academy next to my wise brother's village.
I have already asked Changsun Wuji to go and deal with it.
By then your academy will also be built, in addition to your academy.
I am thinking about building another academy outside my city of Chang'an.
This time, you, Confucius, will be the dean of this college. You will arrange for all the potential candidates who failed this year to be admitted.
Let him conduct some systematic teaching.
These people have achieved such good results without systematic teaching.
After two years of training and study by Confucius and you, I believe they will be able to achieve good results in the next imperial examination."
Li Er decided to arrange this matter after careful consideration.
This group of people has no identity background. What they lack this time is such an opportunity.
If such opportunities can be given to these people, then these people will be the cornerstone of our Datang's future.
A person without any identity or background is still trained by the court. If such a person is not loyal to the court or himself, who else would he want to loyal to?
Of course, I planned this matter myself, and my success in planning it was also due to my meeting my wise brother.
I have made so much money by working with him. With enough money, I can prepare this academy with a big wave of my hand.
If the Ministry of Household Affairs was required to pay for the preparation of this academy, Li Er knew that he would definitely encounter strong opposition from the clan children.
So this time, I used my own money to build whatever I wanted and do whatever I wanted.
It has absolutely nothing to do with other people. In addition, you can then filter it all over the world.
All children from ordinary families who have some basic knowledge but are unable to study due to family reasons can be arranged to come here to study.
They don't need to pay, eliminating their worries.
Seeing the current situation, I also hope that students from all over the world who want to learn can be gathered together for teaching.
However, my current strength is limited and I simply cannot do it. I frowned when I thought about this.
"Your Majesty, if it comes to the construction of a college, I support your Majesty's approach with both hands. We can indeed open a college.
Arrange all the children from ordinary families who failed this year to study there."
Li Er nodded in agreement.
The college decided to build this college in Lantian County, which is only thirty or forty miles away from Chang'an City.
It is also very far away from Zhuangzi where my wise brother is. In this way, it is very convenient for both myself and my master to go wherever they go.
Arranging it in Chang'an City would be too eye-catching, so it's better to keep it low-key.
"Your Majesty's move will definitely cultivate a large number of talents for our Datang. I would like to congratulate Your Majesty in advance!"
Ha ha ha ha.
Li Er laughed heartily and waved his hands.
I also came up with these ideas when I saw the Master building an academy next to my virtuous brother.
After all, this is all thanks to you. When the time comes, we will need to arrange a large number of personnel to teach.
I have to trouble you, Confucius.
Kong Xian shook his head.
"Your Majesty's words are wrong. My ancestors said that there is no distinction between education and distinction.
My greatest wish in life is to pass on the knowledge of this life.
Now that there is a college, my plan can be implemented."
"In this case, there will be a master of labor."
After Confucius left, Li Er called other ministers to arrange the matter.
As for going to Lantian County for construction, you can handle the money yourself.
If they are short of money, they can just come to us and we will allocate it.
Today, I lack everything except money.
Thinking of this, Li Er couldn't help laughing.
This study is free for two years. These two years are personally funded by themselves, so that they can study without worries.
Take the next two imperial examinations.
If they succeed in these two imperial examinations, they will be assigned their respective positions.
If he fails all the imperial examinations in the past two years, he is definitely not good at studying, so he might as well go back to his hometown and farm.
I really hope that one day, all civilian students in the entire Tang Dynasty can enter the school regardless of their status.
But, alas.
That's all, it's a bit sad to think about those things now. Let's wait until the imperial examination is officially over.
As everyone waited anxiously, time passed day by day.
All the test papers there have been reviewed and approved, and they are divided into grades 3, 6, and 9 based on excellent, average, and very poor.
Li Er personally checked these excellent test papers and answered them after seeing them. They were indeed quite good and he smiled with satisfaction.
After reading the average writing, this talent is indeed inadequate compared to it.
When I see the worst ones again, I really want to curse them, they are nonsense.
If the imperial examination had not just been held this time, I would not have been able to conduct the initial screening of talents.
Such nonsense will never be allowed to enter the court to take the imperial examination. It is really embarrassing.
In order to make this imperial examination fair and impartial, the next morning, in the court hall, I took all the previous papers and opened them for comparison under the watchful eyes of everyone.
The personnel on the side will register and enter the information.
The names of all the people were mentioned one by one. When they heard those familiar names, the clan members on the side smiled slightly.
Look, this is the imperial examination, although there is no recommendation system to recommend talents.
But when it comes to the imperial examination, our own people can crush everyone.
And what kind of identity those people are, Li Er can also know through their names.
In this scientific examination, there were more than 1,000 people in total, and more than 100 people were selected for the list.
Among the more than 100 people, everyone's name and place of origin were told again.
The more Li Er listened, the more bleak his heart became.
There are more than 100 people, more than 80 of whom are members of their clan, and only 20 of them are civilian disciples.
And most of these 20 civilian disciples are in the Central Plains area.
Although these people are ordinary people, everyone has received a good education due to their family background.
The remaining two or three do not have any identity background and are completely self-taught.
At the same time, among these 100 people, the descendants of the clan ranked first.
Those 20 people are basically at the bottom of the 100 people.
Although Li Er was not satisfied with such a result, he was helpless.
After all, this imperial examination was carried out strictly in accordance with the strongest set of procedures, from the selection of talents to the final review and approval at the end of the imperial examination.
No one cheated with me at all, although the results I wanted were not particularly satisfactory.
But in the final analysis, I also arranged for more than 20 people to come.
Without this imperial examination system, these 20 or so people would never have had the opportunity to enter the imperial court in this life.
And he did give them such an opportunity, and these people were the cornerstones Li Er recruited.
With people like them, he believed that there would still be a large number of talents for him to use when the imperial examination system came into effect next year.
"My dear friends, if anyone has any objections to the judgment of the imperial examination results, you can come forward and read the examination papers yourself and check them in person.
If no one has any objections, someone will come and convey my wishes and arrange for people to do statistics.
Post a copy of the excerpts from this scientific expedition outside Chang'an City for everyone to see."
"It's Your Majesty."
If something happens, continue to play, if nothing happens, retreat.
Now that there was nothing else to do, as Li Er's close personal officer withdrew from the court, the ministers shouted, "Send off your majesty respectfully."
Li Er got up and left the court and came to Tai Chi Hall. This chapter has been completed!