"How is the preparations for the Peking University? Will the school start as scheduled in February next year?" Liu Jun asked the new Academician Secretary.

The Academic Affairs Department is a newly established institution, separated from the original Ministry of Rites, and is in charge of national education. The first task after the establishment of the Academic Affairs Department was to prepare for the Imperial University.

The Imperial College was the Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty. But it was not entirely the Imperial College. The Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty was also used in previous dynasties and was the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty. Not only were there Beijing Imperial College and Nanjing Imperial College, which was divided into South Imperial College. The Imperial College was once huge in scale and had many students. At the most, the number of people exceeded ten thousand.

However, by the late Ming Dynasty, it was no longer the grand occasion.

When the Han Dynasty was established, all officials also requested to establish the Imperial College. However, Liu Jun did not agree. The Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty studied the Four and Five Classics, and also had a complete collection of habits and principles, laws, orders, numbers and other contents. But overall, Liu Jun was not satisfied with the teaching methods of the Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty.

As the highest institution of learning in the court, Liu Jun hopes that this school will teach the real talents needed by the country, rather than a group of classics and historical masters. There are too many people like that, and the country does not need to spend more effort to cultivate a group of people. On the contrary, the court now urgently needs some real grassroots officials and officials.

Like the past dynasties, the Ming Dynasty only cared about officials, not officials. Officials were officials, but officials were aristocratic families. Many officials entered the imperial examinations, but they studied the Four and Five Classics for decades, studied the old papers for many years, and only knew about eight-legged essays, and knew nothing about common affairs. Therefore, before taking office, they had to hire many teachers. When they arrived, they actually left the real political affairs to the teachers.

What is the purpose of such an official?

Liu Jun hopes that court officials can be more responsible and more active in doing things, rather than just a group of people who occupy a position and do not know anything.

That's why he reformed the imperial examination, but that was not enough.

Liu Jun would never directly dismiss those new Jinshi who passed the imperial examinations. That would be irresponsible to the court and irresponsible to the local people.

Liu Jun wanted to ask these Jinshi to renovate them. They would conduct professional training before taking office at the Beijing University. They had to go through an internship in the yamen before they could be given official positions.

However, even if Liu Jun increased his admission rate for the imperial examination, he had three thousand scholars and six hundred Jinshi in three years, this number of people was far from enough for the empire that is now popular.

Moreover, Liu Jun also had a plan to plan to take the officials in the future, at least the officials who were selected by the court from the imperial examination and then trained the scholars.

He took the post of an official from those local family members.

It is difficult to change the local officialdom if it cannot break the current situation where officials have inherited from generation to generation.

This year is the first imperial examination. Therefore, Liu Jun is also very generous in registering 5,000 scholars who failed the provincial examination at one time. After the exam, Liu Jun also plans to admit more than 2,000 scholars who failed the imperial examination. At that time, he will all be sent to the Peking University for further study.

The first batch of new school in the Jingshi University will welcome 8,000 students. After two years of study, all of these 8,000 people will go to various departments in the capital to work as officials for one year, and then to the local area to work as officials for one year.

After two years of study and two years of internship, he was formally appointed as an official.

The Jinshi will start with the county magistrate and the chief clerk, and will not directly become the top magistrate. Those juren will start with the township chief, town mayor, and county magistrate.

It turned out that during the Ming Dynasty, there were only four official officials in a county, and even the clerks were just in the market.

However, Liu Jun has now included county statute officials within the scope of rank officials, and the six officials in each county are also included in the official system. In addition, the county courts, county police branches, county academic affairs branches, county tax branches and other institutions have been added, and the heads of various departments are also considered low-level officials.

Incorporating all officials into the national official system and breaking the strict boundaries of officials in the past. Liu Jun believes that it is extremely necessary.

The Han Dynasty was also below the county level, and it will officially establish townships across the country to bring the national management level to the next level. Breaking the past tradition of imperial power not falling below the county level, the court will take charge of the township level in the future.

Therefore, the dispatched officials at this township level must naturally be included in the jurisdiction of the court, rather than rural electoral autonomy or something.

The five thousand scholars who have failed the exam in the country have passed the same study and internship, and who have actual work abilities, will become grassroots officials in thousands of towns across the country. Moreover, they have to start from the deputy towns of towns and improve step by step. At that time, they will rely entirely on their performance improvement.

Liu Jun believes that these township officials who have passed the imperial examination, received special training and study, and have internships in the central government and provincial government offices. They have practical experience will better manage the township level for the empire.

In the future, these township officials with extremely good basic experience can step by step to county level or even provincial level. Such officials who come from the grassroots level step by step will definitely be better than those old bureaucrats.

County and township officials and officials will be selected by the court in the future, and they will become officials. Officials will no longer be inherited from local generations and will no longer be local tyrants. This will be of great help to the government and the court. Although doing so will greatly increase the cost of the court's management, Liu Jun believes that this cost is worth it.

In the future, the highest institution of learning in the Central Han Dynasty would be the Peking University, and in the future it would even open some professional classes, such as the School of Law, Taxation, Customs College, etc. Such professional departments would be trained by professional officials, and experts would be managed by experts.

In his vision, all the officials of the Han Dynasty in the future will be selected from the imperial examination, but will no longer be the original imperial examination.

This year's imperial examination is the first step, and the second step of the Peking University is the second step.

"Your Majesty, the school building used by the Beijing Normal University is the original school building of the Beijian, which means that the teachers and textbooks have not been completed yet."

Originally, the Academic Affairs Department planned to directly use the teachers from the Imperial College, but Liu Jun rejected it. He could not directly use the teachers from the Imperial College, but he could pass the assessment and select the appropriate one to retain them.

"From the various departments in the capital, select a group of relatively excellent officials and officials, and use them as teachers."

"Use officials from the Gyeonggi Department as teachers?" The Academician was very surprised.

Liu Jun smiled, "What kind of students do we teach at the Peking University? They are all elected from the imperial examinations, all the officials and officials of the country's future. We don't need to teach the Four and Five Classics. The Four and Five Classics will only be elective courses in the Peking University in the future. What they major in is how to be a good official and how to be a good official. We cannot talk about the falsehood. We must teach them how to manage government affairs, how to write official documents, how to do things, etc.."

To achieve such a requirement, there is no need for officials to teach, so what kind of teaching is used?

"Your Majesty, what should I do with the former Imperial College student?"

When the Imperial College was at its peak, there were tens of thousands of people. Although it is no longer as large as it was before, there are still thousands of people. However, many of them donated to the prison, and many of them were children of officials in the past.

"In this way, an exam will be held. The content will be based on the imperial examination. Those who pass the score will also be entered into the Beijing University for those who fail the score. Where will the results come from?"

"In the future, donations of prisons are prohibited, and no children of noble officials are allowed to be stuffed into the capital. Those who can enter the capital must be selected through the imperial examinations, and every student is the future official of the empire."

"When the Beijing University gets on track, the Academic Affairs Department can take the exam and open another university in Luoyang, Jinling and Chang'an to cultivate outstanding imperial talents."

The Academician asked again, "Are these students entering the Capital University considered officials or officials?"

"During the study period, all students are just students and no official status. But each student can give subsidies, and there is also an internship salary during the internship. Those who have good grades and perform well during further studies can also receive scholarships and scholarships. In this way, there are 300 scholarships. Each year, each with ten yuan silver dollars per month. The scholarships are 800, each with five yuan silver dollars per month. The salary during the internship is half of the official salary of the position."

The Secretary of Academician quickly recorded Liu Jun's words without missing a word.

He was originally an official of the Ministry of Rites. He was also flattered to be elected as the third-rank minister of academic affairs this time.

Liu Jun attaches great importance to education. Although the Han Dynasty had more than one million people who participated in the Tongsheng Examination this time, the Han Dynasty had more than 200 million people, and more people were illiterate.

"There will be a change in the future. County schools cannot only be admitted after passing the exam for scholars." Liu Jun thought for a while and said that the official schools in the Ming Dynasty were linked to the imperial examinations. County schools were all scholars who passed the exam. In fact, county schools did not have any real teaching, and students did not need to stay in the official schools often. They just had to take a few important exams in the official schools. Most of the time, students studied in private colleges.

Liu Jun hoped to change this situation. Now the imperial court has set up a Beijing University and uniformly carried out pre-appointment training for those selected scholars. Then the original appearance of the official school will have no effect.

"In the future, the Academic Affairs Department will set up branches across the country, each province has academic affairs department, each prefecture has academic affairs bureau, and a county has academic affairs branch. All counties and townships must set up schools, but it is not the way the official school was in the past, and it will change. The court will set up primary schools in all townships across the country, which are divided into junior primary and junior primary, junior primary and junior primary, and junior primary and junior primary three years. Primary primary are free teaching and popular education. After the first and junior primary three years, those who are willing to continue their studies, those who have the conditions to study and have passed the grades will be promoted to senior primary.

The county government has a middle school, divided into junior high school and high school, each with three years.”

"Your Majesty, is there any difference between this elementary school and a middle school?"

"Of course there are differences. This junior high school is mainly about enlightenment, teaching students to know a certain amount of characters, and teaching simple arithmetics and paintings. In short, after graduating from junior high school in the third year, we do not require them to be admitted to a scholar, but they can at least recognize one or two thousand words, know some simple arithmetics, etc.."

This is an extremely low requirement, but most families do not have the conditions to send their children to private schools for admission, because they have to prepare paper and pen for their children and prepare teaching for teachers. Many children even have to help their families with their work, even five or six-year-olds have to do what they can.

But Liu Jun hopes that more children will not be blind for the rest of their lives.

In the first grade of junior high school, the court would set up elementary schools in each township, provide children's lunch, textbooks, paper and paper, and teachers. But only this is the only way to provide children. The children entered school at the age of five, and were only eight after the first grade of junior high school. In the past three years, they could not do much at home, but if they had the opportunity to study for three years, it would still be free, and even had a free lunch. Liu Jun believes that many families would like their children to study.

The cost of this three-year free education will be quite high, but Liu Jun believes it is worth it.

However, he could only try his best to persuade parents of children of appropriate age to send their children to junior high school and not force compulsory education. After all, this is the condition of this era, and three years of free education is the ultimate.

But if you have the conditions, you can also go to junior high school, junior high school, and even enter Jinling University, Luoyang University, Chang'an University, or even Peking University in the future.

When the conditions are right, the court does not even need to hold imperial examinations, but directly uses this school system to cultivate and select talents.

"Your Majesty attaches so much importance to cultivating people's wisdom and wiseness!"

"Ten years of trees and a hundred years of cultivation, education will benefit the present and the future. For every Han Empire, education should be their right, and the court should try its best to provide the people with the opportunity to receive education."

The Secretary of Academic Affairs was greatly moved. The emperor was indeed incomparable to ordinary people when he could say such words. As the king of a country, not only did he say these words, he also had to separate educational institutions and also had to spend a lot of money to launch three years of free education. This is not just a nice saying.

"Your Majesty, will the whole country implement three-year free education? If each township has a primary school, there will be thousands of townships across the country, and then tens of thousands of primary school teachers will need to be many school buildings. If each child is provided with free lunch, the expense will be even greater, not to mention that you have to prepare so many textbooks, paper, pens, etc."

"You don't have to worry about these things. No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education. This is the responsibility of the court. The court will try its best to meet the expenses of the Academic Affairs Department."

In fact, as long as the court can truly collect taxes, although there will be a lot of expenses in education, it can only be said to be a small amount of money in terms of expenditures in the army and other aspects. Moreover, Liu Jun has already issued a surcharge in education taxes in the current commercial tax.

If this part of the tax is given to the Academic Affairs Department, it will be quite a lot.

A great man needs a large number of talents to take off. And a person who doesn’t even know his words can be considered a talent, even a talent, and a talent that is greatly reduced.

If three years of free education can be truly promoted, even if a small number of people can complete these three years of free education, it can greatly change the future situation.

In the future, whether the army recruits non-commissioned officers or those workshops recruit technical talents, those who have received primary education for three years will become the best alternatives.

Education is the cornerstone of the country! Liu Jun sighed! (To be continued.)

ps: Thank you Li Yang Yue for taking a stick to travel around the world. Shan Qingying’s support, thank you!
Chapter completed!