The right prime minister Zhang Shangying was the one who forgot his righteousness when he saw profit.

Zhang Shangying took a sip of tea, glanced at Su Che who did not say a word, and said with a smile: "Although it is useless to drive border provocations, it is always good to earn millions a year. Three Buddha Qi Straits collected more than one million a year, and the people of the Central Plains could pay less taxes by one million a year. It is always a good thing, right? Ziyou, what do you think?"

Su Che smiled and said, "If there is a million yuan in annual income, it will be a meritorious... but this million yuan can be handed over to the Ministry of Revenue or Taifu Temple."

Now the income of the coastal Maritime Control Department is not paid to the treasury and Taifu Temple, and is used to support the Dujunji and the three major military schools. If the income suddenly increases by one million, the Dujunji and the three major military schools will not be used up.

"That's natural." Zhang Shangying smiled.

Ji Yi is Zhang Dun's grandson-in-law, and Zhang Dun cultivated Zhang Shangying. So Zhang Shangying now has to protect Ji Yi, so that no one can be charged with arbitrarily provoking the border.

Su Che knew of the relationship between Zhang Shangying and Ji Yi. He was unwilling to tear off the face with Zhang Shangying for Ji Yi's border quarrel. Zhang Shangying is a famous villain. As a result, he was not afraid to scold him. No one else dared to scold him!

Moreover, Su Che is playing a big game now. There is really no need to engage in political disputes with Zhang Shangying when the chess game is not completed because of a small matter.

Su Che's big chess is of course a reform that will profoundly change China's education and official selection mechanism!

That’s right, Su Che is going to take the imperial examination this time!

The scholars of the Song Dynasty were still very thoughtful, which was different from the scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties who were more rigid in their minds. On the one hand, they were still looking for truth for Confucianism, and on the other hand, they were also trying to reform the drawbacks in the current system.

The imperial examination system was considered to have great flaws as early as when Wang Anshi reformed. The talents he obtained were not capable of doing practical things. No matter how good the "simplification" was, it would be said that these crooked Jinshi would be chanted badly.

When Wang Anshi wanted to reform the imperial examination, Su Che certainly opposed it. At that time, he was a cadre of the old party, and of course he opposed the new learning and new policies.

He felt even more extreme about Wang Anshi's idea of ​​changing the imperial examination to the Imperial College to the Imperial College.

But luck made people so hard that the Confucian Confucians of the Song Dynasty actually appeared as an alien like Wu Haogu! As an official and a military officer, he was named the empirical school!

Moreover, the theory of the empirical school just answers the questions of the predecessors of the Spring and Autumn Period, including Confucius, how to seek the Tao? How to investigate things?

With such academic attainments, no one can deny the status of Wu Haogu's great Confucianism. If it was the Qing Dynasty now, Neo-Confucianism might be able to use Neo-Confucianism to fight Wu Haogu's empirical school (at least thirty years in history). However, the era in which Su Che was in was the era when Confucian scholars found their own answers (answering the questions of the sages and filling the Confucian worldview). Neo-Confucianism and Mind Studies both originated in this era! The empirical school of Wu Haogu answered questions better than Neo-Confucianism and Mind Studies.

However, even though he knew that Wu Haogu had given the most correct answer, Su Che could not become a supporter of Wu Haogu and the empirical school like his brother.

The reason is very simple, that is, the empirical school is shaking the feudal order of the Song Dynasty! The Song Dynasty was a country governed by the emperor and scholars. Although the business was prosperous, its foundation was still the small peasant economy. The characteristic of the small peasant economy was self-sufficiency and scattered. The dependence on commercial circulation was far lower than that on land.

Therefore, under this economic model, national stability, class stability and local balance can also be maintained. The country only needs to do a good job in disaster relief, light taxes, weak labor service and imperial examinations to achieve long-term stability.

However, the empirical knowledge is a kind of "high cost" and "high profit". In particular, the study of studying things and nature has become a tool to stimulate the development of big business and big industry.

Jiehe Xianjiu (white wine), Jiehe mud, Jiehe hippo, Jiehe iron, Jiehe boat, Jiehe brick, Jiehe dye, Jiehe printing, Jiehe water conservancy hammer, Jiehe gunpowder... and the building that is built higher and higher! Various technologies are emerging one after another, and behind the emergence of each technology, there is the shadow of the empirical school, and most of them can be used by merchants.

Therefore, the empirical school is making the industry and commerce in the Song Dynasty richer and richer! The wealth of the world is rapidly flowing into the money bags of the big workers and commerce!

What's even more excessive is that the three major military academies controlled by the empirical school and the Jinshi subject on the right list have become the ladder for the children of industry and business to get involved in military and political affairs.

The high tuition fees of empirical school schools, and most of them are concentrated in large cities and cities, have made it difficult for the vast majority of rural scholars and officials to benefit from the empirical school, and will also become victims of the development of the empirical school. If they lose their support, the foundation of the rule of the Song Dynasty will be shaken.

As the left prime minister, Su Che saw the consequences of the uncontrolled wild growth of the empirical school than anyone else.

In fact, he was not blindly opposed to the empirical school, and he knew that it was impossible to completely defeat such a correct school. However, he felt that he had to include the empirical school in the control of the court, and he could never develop barbaricly, and he could not combine the empirical school with the great Shang and the great workers and become an emerging force that could confront the literati...

The method Su Che used to deal with the empirical school was to reform the Biyong Academy and then carry out the imperial examination reform.

His specific approach was to turn the Biyong Academy into a semi-new academy that uses Neo-Confucianism as the basis and practical learning as the application, and cultivates practical talents. At the same time, the imperial examination was turned into an entrance examination to send students to the Biyong Academy.

In this way, the poor students in the world can not only protect their ladder to heaven, but also learn to practice practically and become the real pillar of the court in the future.

Thinking of this, Su Che picked up a memorial placed on the table and opened it in his hand.

"Cheng Tao Zili, the chief minister of the Imperial College and the Grand Secretary of the Biyong Academy, submitted a memorial to the Reform Academy. I wonder if you have read it?"

Of course, Tao Jiefu submitted this memorial based on Su Che's intention. The general meaning of the memorial was to reform the Biyong Academy again!

There are two key points of the reform, one is the reform of the enrollment method, which changed from the original local recommendation and local official school recommendation to the examination admission.

Another key point of reform is the reform of the academy curriculum, which changed from the original silence and martial arts (in fact, it has been no longer implemented), to Confucianism (Neo-Confucianism) as the basis and the study of practical application of the world. The so-called study of practical application of the world includes military science, mathematics, agriculture, water conservancy, financial management, law, etc.

However, those less practical studies, such as "Personal Theory", "Reason Theory", "Biology", etc., as well as mathematics, or too "simple" (martial arts) in military science, will not be taught.

In this way, the courses in Biyong Academy will be relatively simplified, and the required study time will be shortened from the original four years (including one year of preparatory course) to two years. It is also conducive to the elderly Jinshi mastering these practical and practical studies.

Tao Jiefu's memorials and the priests here have naturally read them. In fact, Su Che did not carry out reforms behind their backs, but had fully exchanged opinions with them.

This time the imperial examination and the reform of the Biyong Academy were not Su Che alone, but to defend the interests of scholars and stability of the world!

Zhang Shangying thought for a moment and said, "Tao Zili's suggestions are very good, and they are for the long-term stability of the world. But there is no place to enter the Biyong Academy. Will the wise men and officials from all over the country still assist the court in recruiting soldiers?"

Su Zhe said: "Are there any rural education, county education and prefecture education?" He held his beard, "The soldiers of the government should be based on the rural agreement. The rural education should not be replaced by officials. What is the difference between doing this and selling official positions and titles?"

Jiang Zhiqi, the head of the Privy Council, said: "You can use the quota of county schools and prefecture schools to exchange for the military soldiers. If it really doesn't work, you can give a few quota of exemption from the examination. You can also use the quota of exemption from the examination to encourage rural agreements and rural education. Any village where a village that makes a quota of exemption from the examination to the examination can be treated as exempt from the examination to the examination. "

The exemption of answers does not matter to academic masters, but it is still very valuable for most students who can only take the imperial examination by chance.

"Okay!" Su Che nodded, "This is a great idea!" He thought for a while, "Do you still have to keep the right-list Jinshi?"

The right-list Jinshi exam can be said to be an important position of the empirical school! Its value lies not only in how many empirical school students were from the empirical school exams in a year, but also in the ability to recruit a large number of "financial children" for the Yuntai Academy and Gezhi Academy.

With "caizi", Yuntai and Gezhi have enough financial resources to hire the best teachers, give students the best education, and invest some of the funds in research on matters.

If the Jinshi exam on the right list is stopped, then the Yuntai, the two academies will lose at least one million in a year!

"The right-list Jinshi..." Su Che thought, "It still needs to be retained, but it must also be reformed!"

It is of course good to cancel the right-ranking Jinshi, but Zhao Ji will definitely not agree.

"How to reform?" asked Deng Xunwu, the Minister of the Secretariat.

"Now military officers have three major military schools, why should they be on the right list of Jinshi?" Su Che said, "The right list of Jinshi should be set up for the wise officials!"

In the official discrimination chain in the Song Dynasty, civil officials were at the top, military officials were at the middle, and philosophers were at the bottom.

Su Zhe said: "The study of studying things in Yuntai Academy is actually for the genius officials! The courses in the Qingcheng Academy are also for the genius officials. Since this is the case, why not turn the right-list Jinshi into a genius Jinshi?"

"A Jinshi of the Skills?"

"This name is great!"

"That's what it should be!"

"It's still my husband's concern."

The two officials and ministers in the central hall of the Zhengshi Hall nodded and said that they were. The right-listed Jinshi became the cradle of the craftsman, which not only met Zhao Ji's need to open up an official career for the Qingcheng Academy students, but also changed the concept and demoted the right-listed Jinshi, which was originally equivalent to the left-listed Jinshi, to a craftsman who was worse than the martial artsman.
Chapter completed!