When Li Yu returned to his residence in Dongchang Hutong, Fengling immediately said to him: "Sir, the heroine came here this morning."
"Woman?" Li Yu asked.
"That's the Bicheng heroine," Fengling said, "I'm also well-informed, but it's really rare to see such a heroic and beautiful girl."
Zhao Qian rushed out and said: "Sir, Fengling also lent her your horse. I can't persuade her! How can such a precious Sanhe horse be lent to a strange woman casually!"
Fengling wanted to drive him away: "What do you know? Your head is like a lump!"
When Li Yu looked at the stable, the famous horse was indeed missing.
Li Yu asked: "Why did Miss Bicheng borrow the horse?"
Zhao Qian rushed to say: "That little lady actually said that you don't know how to ride a horse, sir. It would be a waste to leave it here. It would be too troublesome for her to run back and forth. She said she would ride back in the afternoon."
Fengling slapped her away: "You called me, little lady?! Get out of here and wash the car!"
Zhao Qian stuck out his tongue and was very unconvinced: "It's not okay to slander you! In my opinion, your riding skills are at least at the level of a general! Why do you say that you can't ride a horse?"
Lu Bicheng chuckled: "Didn't you say that you are like a turtle biting a bastard?"
Western missionaries understood that the imperial examination was useless. Ding Weiliang, Timothy Richard and others had suggested to the Qing court several times to adopt a Western education model, but the Qing court did not adopt it.
Lu Bicheng nodded: "What you said makes sense to me. Although your level of Chinese studies is poor, your insights are so high, it's really unpredictable."
In 1888, there was only one rural examination in arithmetic, but only one candidate was admitted.
Li Yu said: "Mr. Yan, please come in quickly."
"That's fine. I'm always afraid that readers will complain," Lu Bicheng said. "I've always wondered why your Chinese studies are so bad. Have you never attended a private school since you were a child?"
Yan Fansun said: "Six years ago, when I was studying politics in Guizhou, I hoped that the imperial court could reform the imperial examination system, so I proposed to set up a special economic subject in addition to the traditional imperial examination to recruit people who knew diplomacy, style, and law.
He is a person who is engaged in manufacturing and arithmetic. The imperial court did adopt it, but it was delayed until this year before the subject was opened."
Li Yu asked: "Economic Special Section? What is this?"
Li Yu had no choice but to say: "People's energy is always limited. I studied completely according to the model of the Western School, so the content of Chinese studies is a little less."
In fact, Li Yu thought about this poem when he just traveled through time. A time traveler seems to be just like a passerby.
"If translated, it would be like vernacular poetry." Li Yu actually wanted to talk about modern poetry, but it seemed a bit out of date.
Lu Bicheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Give it to me?"
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Yan Fansun also knew Lu Bicheng. When he saw her, he said: "She turns out to be a famous talented woman from Beijing and Tianjin. She is really a talented woman and a beautiful woman."
After Li Yu returned to Beijing, he really wanted to visit the university hall, but the campus was too small, and he was really afraid that if he met Gu Hongming, another exchange of words would inevitably happen.
Lu Bicheng asked: "What genre is this?"
Li Yu quickly shook his head: "Forget it, how many people can accept this form? If it is really posted, I'm afraid Mr. Gu will use it to criticize me severely."
In the afternoon, Lu Bicheng actually rode the Sanhe horse over.
Yan Fansun said quickly: "Sorry, sorry! But what I said is correct. She is indeed a scientific giant and a talented woman in the literary world."
Li Yu said: "Come in and sit down. I bought a newspaper from Shanghai. According to the Times, the last two parts of Star Wars are quite popular now."
Lu Bicheng wondered: "Poems written by foreigners?"
My dada's horseshoe is a beautiful mistake
I am not a returnee, I am a passerby.”
The newspaper is in English, but Lu Bicheng can also understand it.
Lu Bicheng was very worried: "As the first graduate of the university, you must know how to respect your teachers. Even if you disagree with Mr. Gu, you should not be so angry with him. If he really sues you to the court
, it’s not like you can get by just by laughing and joking.”
The imperial court also adopted Yan Fansun's suggestion, but the imperial court's idea was to hold the exam only once every ten or twenty years. After all, it was called Enke, and it was not a permanent exam every three years like the imperial examination.
Therefore, Western learning, or the modern education system, and the imperial examination can be said to be completely incompatible.
Li Yu came out and said, "Mr. Yan is here to make your humble house shine."
Fengling came over and said, "The heroine is very good at riding horses, let her teach you."
Li Yu pointed at them and said: "Although I can't write poetry, I learned how to write foreign poetry when I studied Western learning."
"Actually, vernacular poetry is also very good." Li Yu said.
Li Yu could see that Lu Bicheng was just very worried, so he said, "I don't think Mr. Gu will be so petty. He is a well-educated person. How can he be angry over a trivial matter."
Li Yu said awkwardly: "We will talk about this later."
This was not only the first Western scholar in modern China, but also the only practical result of the imperial examination reform during the entire Westernization Movement.
"I..." Lu Bicheng paused again before saying, "Okay, then I'll accept it."
Li Yu scrawled a small poem on the paper:
"I traveled through Jiangnan
While the two were talking, someone came to visit.
However, after only one term, the subject of arithmetic quickly declined. After that, in every provincial examination, because there were too few candidates for the arithmetic subject, they took the Shuntian Provincial Examination instead, and the arithmetic subject existed in name only.
Li Yu almost stumbled because he pointed out so bluntly that he was poor in Chinese studies...
As early as decades ago, Wei Yuan had already pointed out that the imperial examination method for selecting talents was extremely useless. He even said that "the talents in the world are all used for a useless purpose, which is unprecedented in previous generations", criticizing the shortcomings of the stereotyped essay selection of scholars.
Li Yu often buys newspapers now. After all, there is no Internet, so he can only rely on this. The "Ta Kung Pao" in front of him also has several poems by Lu Bicheng, such as "Jiangcheng Plum Blossoms" and "Ding Fengbo".
Li Yu asked: "Enke? Imperial examination?"
After the Opium War, even Feng Guifen, who had won the top prize before, believed that the imperial examination system was established by the rulers "with the intention of destroying the world's talents, not to cultivate the world's talents."
Li Yu said: "Our culture is too long, and it is difficult to explain to foreigners. But in terms of art, I think the most difficult to explain is the best to explain to foreigners. This is what we advocate when creating art.
Artistic conception. Just like Chinese landscape paintings and foreign oil paintings, although there is a big difference, it cannot be said that we are artistically inferior. It’s just that the art of words involves too much underlying content, and it is indeed a bit difficult for foreigners to truly understand.”
Lu Bicheng asked: "Did foreign readers say anything? What's wrong with the choice of words and sentences?"
"It turns out it was for this matter," Li Yu said with a smile, "He is not the principal, so he would not be like this."
Nowadays, Collins Publishing House is making a lot of money, and the sales volume is really amazing. No one would have thought that a science fiction novel written by a scientist from China could be so popular in Europe and the United States.
Lu Bicheng blushed: "Mr. Yan, I am also a guest."
"So, it's still an imperial examination, so I'm afraid it has no use in selection, right?" Li Yu said.
Li Yu said: "That's why we should avoid it as much as possible and don't add extraneous details. If you think it's good, I'll give this poem to you."
Lu Bicheng savored it for a while and said: "Although it is very straightforward, the artistic conception is very long."
Lu Bicheng still found it hard to believe: "Even so, you have memorized ancient classics and failed in Confucian classics."
Enke opened it once during the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, and it was the Bo Xue Hong Ci Department at that time.
Yan Fansun said: "It doesn't matter. If I were just to drink tea, I wouldn't come to your place. I'm here to discuss the encore that the court will hold soon."
This person Li Yu had met before was Hu Weide, the ambassador to Russia.
Li Yu coughed lightly: "This equestrian skill needs to be practiced again..."
After Yan Fansun sat down, Li Yu asked Uncle Wang to give him more tea, and then said: "Mr. Yan, I'm sorry, I don't have any good tea, only ordinary green tea."
Lu Bicheng sighed: "I really don't know why you are so optimistic every time."
Li Yu said carelessly: "Yes, don't you like it?"
Now you want a female driver to teach you?
It’s so shameless!
Naturally, she didn't know that Li Yu was a time traveler. He only had this mentality after seeing through the times.
Li Yu said: "The novel is still a science fiction theme. You don't have to care too much about it. As long as you have enough imagination and can read it fluently, it is perfect. Besides, English literature is actually much less difficult than ours."
How can Li Yu pull off such an old face? He was also able to drive in his previous life. Now riding a horse can be compared to driving a car. At that time, female drivers were always ridiculed.
"Exactly," Yan Fansun said, "the imperial court has decreed that a special economic subject will be held soon. There is no limit to the number of candidates, and they can also be people who have already achieved fame. However, they need to be recommended by courtiers to participate."
"I finally met you. I heard from Master Yan that you made Mr. Gu very angry!" Lu Bicheng said, "You can't just ignore him after getting your diploma. If things get messed up, I'm afraid your certificate will be damaged."
Taken back.”
"Brother Shucai, I didn't disturb you, did I?" It was Yan Fansun who came.
"As far as the song in front of me is concerned, it is indeed quite good," Lu Bicheng said. "Do you want to publish it in Ta Kung Pao?"
The economic special subjects originally proposed by Yan Fansun were a compromise strategy.
The face that waits for the season is like the blooming and falling of lotus flowers
That is Zheng Chouyu's "Error".
It took ten years to think about recruiting a few people who knew Western learning. It is completely obvious that the Qing government's thinking still did not break away from the shackles of the imperial examination. It did not understand at all! It thought that just recruiting a few people who knew Western learning would be enough to cope with the current era.
Even for Enko, which only happens once every ten years, as the reform movement failed and the Economic Special Branch was not yet implemented, the Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup. In the process of repealing the new law, she stopped the Economic Special Branch on the grounds that it was "unfaithful".
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Including the decision to abolish the eight-part essay during the Reform Movement of 1898 was also rejected, and the eight-part essay was revived again.