A few days later, Zhu Qingyan happily became his personal teacher at the request of Louis XV. The reason why he was a private teacher rather than a formally hired court teacher was Zhu Qingyan's special request. After all, as a native of the Ming Dynasty, he was another woman. Zhu Qingyan was really not suitable to become Louis XV's court teacher directly, and the identity of a private teacher was more convenient.

As for Dong Hua, he is the government counselor of the Ming Embassy, ​​and his identity is even more inappropriate to hold this position. However, for Louis XV, this is nothing. Anyway, Zhu Qingyan is satisfied that he can become her personal teacher.

As Louis XV's personal teacher, Louis XV gave Zhu Qingyan the right to enter and exit the Louvre and Versailles freely. Louis had no high requirements for Zhu Qingyan's personal teacher position, and he just hoped that Zhu Qingyan could explain some of the situations about the Ming Dynasty in his spare time.

These explanations include but are not limited to politics, culture, military, science and other aspects. Anything that Louis XV is interested in can be said. In many cases, Louis XV listened with relish and discussed the contents of Zhu Qingyan.

The deeper he had contact with the Ming Dynasty, the more he felt Louis XV. He felt that everything in the Ming Dynasty was so perfect, but France was so backward in comparison.

The romance and sensibility of the French are well-known in this world. Louis XV is also the same as the young monarch. In addition, the mystery of the East and the completely different from the Western system, which is extremely attractive to Louis XV.

At the beginning, Louis XV was interested in everything, but gradually his attention was focused on the Ming Dynasty imperial examination system. Compared with Western civilization, the imperial examination system of Eastern civilization was original. Although the imperial examination system of Eastern was spread to the West a hundred years ago, many scholars praised and praised the research of the Eastern imperial examination system.

However, this is still basically within the scope of scholars' research. Monarchs of various countries have only heard of this system. Now Western countries adopt aristocratic hereditary system, monarchal gift system, or implement personal liberal detention and party weight distribution system.

This method of appointment of officials has strong nepotism and structural flaws, which leads to insufficient capacity of government members or serious government corruption.

In addition, this system will also cause long-term control of the aristocratic class, which will affect the king's rule over the country and policy implementation. Just like France today, except for the two major forces of religion and aristocracy, the king's rights are far from as big as imagined. The government is stagnant, many officials are in vain, the state machinery is not functioning well, and the conflicts between the nobles and the people are sharp.

Louis XV has already noticed these problems. The reason why he wanted to understand the Eastern political system was to change these situations. After further understanding the Eastern imperial examination system, an idea arose in Louis XV's mind.

On this day, in the Palace of Versailles, in Louis XV's small living room, Zhu Qingyan had just finished some details about the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system with Louis XV. Louis XV held his cheek with his right hand, with thought in his eyes, and he didn't speak for a long time.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty..." After sitting quietly for a while, Zhu Qingyan couldn't help but remind him softly.

"Oh... I'm so sorry, I'm rude." Louis XV came back to his senses and said very apologetically.

"Your Majesty, let's stop here today's class. The situation of the imperial examination has been almost done. Next time I plan to talk about the division of positions of Ming officials. If Your Majesty has no objection, I will explain it to Your Majesty according to this content in the next class."

"Yes." Louis XV nodded. Seeing Zhu Qingyan nodding slightly at him and was about to get up, suddenly Louis XV sat upright and said to Zhu Qingyan: "Please wait for a while."

"Your Majesty, what do you don't understand when you explained just now? Or do you have anything else to ask?"

"No, madam, you said very well. I want to ask a question from my wife. Is it OK?"

"Of course." Zhu Qingyan sat back and nodded with a smile.

Louis XV did not speak immediately, but frowned slightly, and then asked tentatively: "Madam, the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty was refreshing. In my opinion, the imperial examination system is the wisdom of the Eastern Empire and the most fair and reasonable selection system in the world."

Zhu Qingyan was amused in his heart. In fact, the imperial examination system is far from as beautiful as Louis XV said. It has been nearly a thousand years since the establishment of the imperial examination system during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Although the imperial examination system has gradually become the main system for selecting officials in dynasties in history, the imperial examination system also has its drawbacks.

These disadvantages are the clearest for the Ming people, but they cannot feel them for Westerners who have just come into contact with Eastern civilization. They only see the advanced and fairness of the imperial examination system, but do not see the limitations and other problems of the imperial examination system. But, after all, the imperial examination system is still advanced for today's Western countries. At least it gives civilians a ladder to the upper level and brings a certain degree of fairness.

It is precisely because of the problem with the imperial examination system that Zhu Yicheng made a series of changes to the previous imperial examination system after his restoration. This change includes adding other subjects except the Jinshi exam, thereby expanding the targets of the original imperial examination system.

Now, after more than ten years of reform and improvement, the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system has formed another model that is not the same as the original imperial examination system. In addition, Zhu Yicheng has made up for the lack of talent recruitment in the imperial examination system by establishing the Royal Academy of Sciences, establishing the Royal Academy and other local colleges, thus making the Ming Dynasty's talent selection system change from the initial single imperial examination system to the dual system of imperial examination and colleges.

Of course, when Zhu Qingyan explained to Louis XV, she naturally would not say so in detail. She focused on explaining the original model of the imperial examination system, and blurred the Ming Academy of Sciences and the Academy. Louis XV naturally would not know about this. Just one imperial examination system made him feel deeply.
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