After Su Yonglin established the General Affairs Bureau, he sent people to conduct a large-scale survey on the national population status.

The vast rural areas directly controlled by the Revival Society have provided great data support for this population survey.

During this survey, Su Yonglin learned that people generally have a strong need for literacy in the Central Plains.

Not only does the production and life actions of urban population require recognition of words, but also farmers living in rural areas.

For daily life and the needs of tax collectors in government, farmers try to win the rights they deserve in terms of taxation and service, so they also have a strong need for literacy and are unwilling to cheat people in vain.

Therefore, some farmers will also send children aged 5,6, and seven to a local private school for a year or two. When they know some common words, they will not be blind and then drop out of school and come back to have a childbirth.

In this way, the farmers can also recognize some words, and they can understand them when the government posts notices and will not be deceived.

But the efforts of farmers to provide for their children's study are over. If you really want to say reading and writing, it will take longer to study and cannot be solved by one or two years of enlightenment education.

And longer-term education is not something that ordinary farmers can afford, it really requires a lot of investment. Generally, farmers with a family of more than ten acres of land cannot support a full-time scholar.

Therefore, there are still very few [cultural people] who truly master literacy and writing skills across the country.

There is no way for the other three subjects, and they must be able to recognize words. Before the efforts of Revival to large-scale literacy have been achieved, the Jinshi in the other three subjects can only be selected from this five percent of the population.

But the technology is different.

A considerable number of craftsmen who master technology these days only understand technology but are illiterate. They have no channels to read and receive education, but can master very exquisite technologies through master-apprentice inheritance and experience accumulation.

If the special talent exam is not opened, this part of the non-literate population who masters exquisite technology will inevitably be excluded, which is not conducive to the country's overall control of technology.

Su Yonglin attaches great importance to technology and knows that current technology accumulation will have a significant impact on future technological breakthroughs and even the dawn of the industrial revolution.

Now we must do our best to collect talents who master technology, gather them together to summarize technology, learn from each other, summarize experience, and at the same time allow them to have culture, establish a scientific system, and ultimately realize the birth and development of disciplines such as physics and chemistry.

So Su Yonglin spent all his time to make this [Special Talent Examination].

He will allow illiterate talents but master truly excellent technology to enter the Ministry of Industry, recruit the best technical talents in the world for the country and increase the reserves of technical talents.

This news will continue to spread and ferment with the Zhongdu messenger. Soon, people from the nine administrative regions of the Ming Empire will know about this news.

As for what they would think, whether they would come to take this unique imperial examination, it was not something Su Yonglin could decide.

What Su Yonglin had to do next is to continue to promote reform, pay attention to the question setting of the first imperial examination, prepare for the examination room and examination methods of the first imperial examination, select examiners, etc.

Don’t look at an exam, there is really a lot of manpower and material resources required to mobilize.

More importantly, there is also the martial arts examination. Unlike the literary examination, it also requires a large amount of assessment venue and more assessment preparations, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources to prepare.

However, in order to select the best talents, Su Yonglin was willing to do anything. Anyway, he had a lot of gold and silver that had been pitted from the powerful and wealthy Jin Kingdom that could be exchanged for money.

He will not be stingy in this regard.

The first imperial examination for the second year of Hongwu was settled, and everything would be realized according to Su Yonglin's wishes, and Su Yonglin achieved complete victory.

But besides that, there are many things to do.

For example, the issue of restoring graded examinations is also the issue of reforming the education system that is in line with the imperial examinations.

The problem of the graded examination is a small problem. With the experience of the graded examinations in the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, Su Yonglin only added some steps and set up three levels of examinations in the local area, including county, prefecture and province. For scholars who took the imperial examinations, there was little change.

When you arrive in Beijing, you have to take two more exams, which is not a big problem. As long as there are exams, everyone will always get used to it.

Of course, the central government is fully responsible for the overall arrangement of the imperial examinations. Local grading examinations will also be specially selected by the Central Etiquette Department to recruit students from other places to take charge of the examinations, but education must still be resolved locally.

This requires the establishment of academic officials responsible for local education within the three administrative divisions of counties, prefectures and provinces, and implement new educational reform measures.

This is also a practice in the Song and Jin dynasties. The Song Dynasty made great contributions to cultural development. It also made a lot of contributions at the education level, so Su Yonglin could directly use the current system to make some improvements.

Su Yonglin issued supporting measures for the imperial examination in subsequent decrees.

Each province must set up an Admiral Education and Administration Department to be responsible for the education issues within the province. Its subordinate departments are located in prefectures and counties. Each Admiral Education and Administration Department has an official school institution to absorb local school-age children to study.

These local admirals, academic and administrative departments will also be fully responsible for implementing the four subjects of liberal arts, science, law and engineering stipulated by Su Yonglin, which directly corresponds to the four subjects of liberal arts, science, law and engineering to obtain students.

Regarding this grand educational reform measure, at the joint meeting of the Secretariat, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Personnel held by Su Yonglin, several senior officials of the Secretariat, Kong Zheng, Lin Jingchun and Liu Yongzhen were not very good.

Su Yonglin's requirements were too many, and it was very difficult to implement them. Although the Jin Dynasty had corresponding official settings, Su Yonglin's requirements were completely different from the Jin Dynasty's requirements. Even if the original local academic officials were restored, they might not know what it is to obtain a scholar in the four subjects.

"Your Majesty, I think it is very difficult to implement this strategy suddenly. It's okay to say that material resources are nothing more than paying money. As long as you can afford money, there will naturally be people. However, in terms of manpower, there are too few officials who meet the requirements, and the central government is not enough, let alone local governments."

What Liu Yongzhen said was also a practical problem, which is not an exaggeration at all, so Su Yonglin was not angry.

"I know there are many problems, but I also want to do a lot of things. Ten thousand years is too long. I have to seize the day and put what I want to do immediately on the agenda, set a schedule, and do it according to this process at every moment.

Of course, I don’t want you to complete it in one go. I know where the problem is difficult, so I mean to take it slowly, start from the central government area, wait until this part is done, and then go to the local area.

Whether it is three years, five years, or ten years, the first thing we need to know is that there are actually not many students. There are only so many people who are literate at the moment, and there are only so many students of appropriate age. How many students of appropriate age are there in various provinces, prefectures and counties?

Don’t think that the country has a wide range of territory and involves a large number of people, so this matter is difficult to deal with. Once you share it, there are only a few hundred people in a county. How difficult is it? So, first restore the position of the academic administration official, set up the shelf, and then slowly fill in it."

Su Yonglin began to explain his own way of doing things.

Now the central government has determined to do this, and then promote the experiment in the central government's direct jurisdiction, accumulate sufficient experience and officials, and finally promote it to various provinces.

He didn't expect to achieve immediate results. These things need to be continuously promoted and accumulated for a long time before they can finally be truly passed through the whole country.

Time, or time, a fascinating and heartbreaking time.

This time, no one argued about what Su Yonglin wanted to do [can it be done], but instead argued about what to do.

Kong Zheng had just experienced the impeachment storm and dared not speak, so he had to look at his nose and his heart, and said nothing, and let the emperor do whatever he wanted. Anyway, he knew that no one could stop what the emperor wanted to do.

Others probably have the same mentality as Kong Zheng, either they are either Su Yonglin's die-hard supporters, or they know they can't stop it from the beginning, so it's better to enjoy it lying down.

Kong Zheng decided not to oppose Su Yonglin's reform measures at least for the next period of time, so as to slowly accumulate Su Yonglin's favorable impression in order to return to the peak and then...

It's time to retaliate against Huo Jianbai.
Chapter completed!