"There is a happy event?"

"I just received a letter from Haizhou. Sister Eighteenth is born and she is a daughter."

"Why is it another daughter?"

"My daughter is pretty good. Besides, Shiba and I are young, so I am afraid I won't have a chance to have a son? And my family doesn't value boys over girls."

"By the way, your ancestors have a female official family."

Wu Haogu came to Su Dongpo's Right Prime Minister's Mansion with a smile today because he had just received a letter from Haizhou. In the letter, Pan Qiaolian told Wu Haogu regretfully that she had given birth to another daughter... In fact, the daughter is also very good, and the Wu family does not have the custom of favoring boys over girls.

However, Wu Haogu still felt depressed from Pan Qiaolian's letter. So he decided to end his stay in Kaifeng Prefecture as soon as possible and go to Haizhou to meet his wife early.

In addition, the first "grain transportation in the north and south" will begin soon, so he will rush to Jiehe Commercial City by September at the latest to preside over the grain transportation.

After drinking two sips of cold soup, Wu Haogu said to Su Dongpo: "Teacher, the students' affairs in Kaifeng Prefecture are almost finished. We are going to set off for Haizhou in a few days."

Wu Haogu's main job in Kaifeng Prefecture was to organize weapons transactions. Although he didn't know much about weapons, he still had to do it himself. He brought a group of old soldiers who retired from the cavalry case in front of the palace that Zhou Yunqing invited for him to go to the warehouse of the military weapon prison to select weapons that could be sold to the Koreans.

The first batch of those sent to Goryeo were all relatively well-established equipment, which could be equipped with about 50,000 infantry and cavalry.

At the same time, Wu Haogu also took people to the horse farm in Tiansijian in Mutugang, northwest of Kaifeng Prefecture, according to the will of Song Huizong, Wu Haogu, took 1,000 military horses to sell them to the horses that the Koreans formed cavalry and sold to the Koreans. Of course, it was not exactly the same as the horses picked out by Tiansijian. Among them, 60 tall and young mares were detained by Wu Haogu and replaced by inferior horses purchased on Kaifeng market. The mares were escorted by Zhou Yunqing in person and sent to the Jiehima farm with the three A San horses.

In this way, there are now 5 stallions and more than 100 mares, and more than 30 ponies that have not grown up. There are also dozens of horses and veterinarians collected from all over Wu Haogu from all over the country, as well as five separate horse farms.

As a stallion breeding base, this scale is enough! The next thing is long-lasting investment, strict bloodline management and repeated in-kin mating... In fact, there is nothing difficult, they are all techniques that have been mastered very early.

After running a horse farm for two years, Wu Haogu already knew that the horse breeding skills in the Northern Song Dynasty were not backward. He also knew that the horse breeds in the Northern Song Dynasty were actually in decline, and there were far more good horses in the Zhenzong Dynasty than now! This shows that the horse breeding skills in the Central Plains are not bad, but the breeding management is the poor!

Breeding management and large-scale stocking are actually two opposite routes. One is to pay attention to fineness and the other is extensive management. The former requires a small private horse farm, such as a noble manor, which conducts small-scale and strict breeding. The latter is to pursue large-scale feeding that pursues scale effect.

To raise 100,000 horses and 200,000 horses, to establish a family tree for each horse, and to manage the "hoofs" of so many horses, that is a task that is simply impossible to complete...

Therefore, the more scientific method is to provide stallions with private estates and large national horse farms to stock on a large scale. At the same time, large horse farms do not produce stallions themselves, and all stallions will be castrated to avoid population degeneration.

In the Song Dynasty, since the middle and upper-level scholars and officials took the imperial examinations and no longer joined the army to fight or raise private military departments, they naturally did not need to raise war horses. The people's horse farmers did not need to cultivate war horses for military purposes. They raised horses needed for production, so the Song Dynasty had no source of high-quality stallions. War horses could only rely on state-owned horse governments, and state-owned horse governments did not care about breeding, so population degradation became inevitable.

By the way, few literati and officials in charge of horse politics in the Northern Song Dynasty knew how to raise horses. Wu Haogu even heard people talk about some horse politics officials in the northwest who asked the horse horse horse horse horses to seduce the mares in the mountains to cross wild horses. They also received commendations for this. Are the quality of stallions in the horse farms not as good as wild horses? Wild horses evolved to adapt to the arduous living conditions in the wild, not to evolve to facilitate people to ride.

...

When Su Dongpo heard that Wu Haogu was leaving, he nodded and said, "Be careful on the road, don't hurry too hard... Your little master's wife has a gift to give to the 18th sister and daughter. Remember to bring it with you when you leave."

Wu Haogu stood up and thanked Su Dongpo: "The student thanked his mentor for his mentor and his little wife for his son."

"What is this? The exchange between master and apprentice is the right thing to do."

After ordering Wu Haogu to sit down, Su Dongpo pondered: "When today was discussing the reform of the Imperial College in the court, Cai Jing proposed to reform the imperial examinations together..."

The reform of the Imperial College was the most important government affairs dominated by Su Dongpo after he came to power. It goes without saying that Su Dongpo and Wuhao Ancient Capital wanted to reform the Imperial College in accordance with the model of Yuntai Academy. The reformed Imperial College will be Kaifeng University, the fourth millennium university in China, second only to Huaihai University in Lianyungang, Tianjin University, and Nankai University in the future!

The reform of the Imperial College this time was very small, and it only turned the three schools (not counted as primary schools) under the Imperial College into two schools such as Imperial College and the Imperial College, abolished independent martial arts. At the same time, the "Theory of Heaven and the Imperial College" and "Personal Theory", a total of seven courses, including fencing, horse riding, archery, arithmetics and military science (the military science was added compared to the initially proposed). In addition, the three-split method was reformed, reducing the number of students and the proportion of elimination.

When discussing the issue of students' graduation prospects, Cai Jing proposed the suggestion of reforming the imperial examination system to create opportunities for students in the Imperial College and Yuntai Academy.

"Did Cai Jing say how to reform?"

When talking about the imperial examination reform, Wu Haogu frowned. This question is very irritating! Once in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, he directly abolished the imperial examination and changed it to schools to recruit scholars. As a result, it was changed back in the late Qing Dynasty. However, the imperial examination system was successfully abolished, but not long after the Qing Dynasty itself also abolished... That was one of the opposite provinces!

Wu Haogu said: "It's the matter of imperial examinations. After so many years of exams, everyone has been accustomed to it, and it's not easy to change. And I don't know how the students in Yuntai Academy are like now... It's better to cancel the martial arts examination and get the top scores in the Jinshi exam.

The left list only tests the meaning of the article; the right list requires the right list to be civil and military, and the archery, military and mathematical science are tested in addition to the meaning of the article.

In addition, there is no need to pass the test on the right list. You can take the exam by sacrificing your life in the Imperial College, Yuntai Academy, and recommended students from seventh ranks or above."

"How to divide the quota?"

"Of course, there are more left lists, less right lists." Wu Haogu said, "The number of scholars on the right list is half of the left list, but the left lists are the same Jinshi, regardless of the highest or lower. This should be able to convince the public."

There are now five or six hundred Jinshi on the list. According to half of this number, there are at least two hundred and fifty Jinshi on the right.

The number seems to be much smaller, but there will be many fewer candidates on the right-list Jinshi. By the next imperial examination (if the Yuan Dynasty is not changed, it will be the Ministry of Rites Examination in the Sixth Year of Jianzhong Jingguo), the maximum number of graduates in the Imperial College and Yuntai Academy will be three or four hundred. With the candidates recommended by officials, it will be as high as 600. Out of 600, 250 people will be selected, and the Doctoral Order, Jiehe Shang City and Tianya Town can absorb some of them. The future is much better!

"So where can I become an official at the Jinshi on the right?" Su Dongpo asked, "The future is the same as the left one?"

"The right-list Jinshi Yunwen and Wu can be a civil servant or an officer in the palace."

Wu Haogu had already thought about it. The Jinshi on the right was actually trained according to the standards of officers, so of course they had to take over the "voluntary military soldiers".

In addition, don’t cut off their way to becoming civil servants. Because the Song Dynasty’s tradition of emphasizing civil servants over military officials will not change for a while, the right-listed Jinshi can become the sands of military officers who are mixed with civil servants.

"In addition," Wu Haogu said, "we should also gradually reform the method of selecting scholars from philosophers and establish a philosopher school.

For example, painting, calligraphy, astronomy, medicine, law, music, veterinary medicine, agriculture, construction, iron smelting, weapons, mining, transportation, shipbuilding, etc. are all practical studies, and they should be educated by specialized colleges and be hired as officials through examinations."

Civil officials in the Northern Song Dynasty were somewhat similar to government-appointed officials in later democratic countries. This was elected officials (not necessarily elected, but also appointed by elected leaders or political parties), while military officers, craft officials and officials were affairs officials.

Government officials may not understand business, but they must be assisted by business-proficient business officials in order to get things done well.

If the government officials don’t understand and the affairs officials are fooling around, it would be strange if things can be done well.

"There are more than a dozen academies!" Su Dongpo counted, "Dalang, do we have so many teachers to use?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Why do we have to open our own schools? We can encourage private schools to run. If we have to make careful calculations, there are more than a dozen academies, dozens or hundreds of them are possible. How can we do it ourselves?

Moreover, the students of these Technological Academy may not be all officials. Where can I not have talents in all walks of life?"

Su Dongpo shook his head, "But where are the people willing to set up such a craft academy?"

"There are always methods," Wu Haogu smiled, "and there is no rush, you can promote it slowly. However... you have to ask for an order, it is best to establish a law and give a certain reward, so that there will be rules for private schools to follow."

"That's right," Su Dongpo thought for a while, "Then you can draft a memorial now, help me with the changes, and submit it tomorrow."

"Okay!" Wu Haogu nodded, "It's called "Quozhuan Private School of Arts and Scholars."
Chapter completed!