After some discussion, Zhao Bing decided to formulate six principles of peace talks: neither humble nor arrogant, reasonable and beneficial, not surrender, not pay tribute, not cede land, and not be friendly. This is both an iron rule that must be followed and also a bottom line for peace talks. However, since it is for business negotiations, it must have a certain degree of flexibility. It is also a matter of giving in to the issue of not violating the principles. However, he asked the terms of peace talks to be formulated in detail and not afraid of cumbersomeness. In the negotiations with Liao and Jin, it was because of different understandings that led to unclear boundaries. The two sides had constant conflicts over this and gave people a handle, which suffered a considerable loss.

Zhao Bing repeatedly emphasized that we should not only care about face but not be introverted. We must not easily make people waves in order to demonstrate the style of a great country. This will not only bring adverse consequences to negotiations, but also harm descendants. You should know that there are too many such examples from ancient times to the present. Anyone who is good at it will be fine. Once you have a bad relationship, you will turn your back and refuse to recognize others. You will still be indescribable. Whoever lets you agree at the beginning, and if you want to get it back, you will often have to pay a greater price.

In addition, Zhao Bing asked that although he should pay attention to his image during negotiations, he should make arguing when he should make a critical move, and he should make arguing when he should make arguing. He could do it by overturning the table and smashing the bench, or even making trouble, but he should not make concessions easily. At this point, he must pay attention to equality and never be suppressed by his opponent in terms of momentum. He must give them a kick. In fact, he has taken some small advantage now, saying that both sides sent the right prime minister as the right envoy, while the Mongolian Yuan always regarded the right as the right, and they were half a square in their post.

However, it can also be seen from this that the Mongolian Yuan was urgent for peace talks, and of course the meaning of intimidation was not ruled out. After all, the battle to conquer Jiangnan was completed under the leadership of Boyan, and he accepted the surrender of the Song court, which gave the Mongolian Yuan a natural psychological advantage. Therefore, Zhao Bing decided to save the situation, so he had to be extremely tough first, otherwise his subordinates would be guilty and be suppressed by his opponent in terms of momentum, so where did he get the confidence during negotiations?

Since the founding of the Kingdom, the Song Dynasty has negotiated with Liao, Xixia, Jin and Mongolia, but each ended with losing power and humiliating the country. This time, the young emperor gave them a reassurance and never surrendered to Mongolia. He had made up his mind to fight but failed. The heroic spirit of daring to fight was enough to make them feel very moved. At this moment, the Song army has completed the expansion and training again, and the 300,000 troops along the river were waiting for the battle, which also gave them enough confidence, and no longer had to be nervous or the heroes to negotiate with the enemy country...

After discussing the military and peace talks in the southwest, it was already noon, but a few people had no intention of leaving. Zhao Bing thought about it and realized that there must be something else that had not finished, so he could only let them have a meal. He was not reluctant to leave the meal, but he couldn't sleep at noon. However, he did not sting, and ordered the kitchen to be well arranged and had good wine and food to entertain. The weather became hotter in the afternoon, so I moved to the cold pavilion to continue the meeting. Wang De had prepared ice basins and arranged herbal tea, sour plum soup and other items to relieve heat and relieve heat.

The autumn test will be held in two months. According to the rules, the court will send officials to instruct local prefectures to preside over the township examination. This is no different from the place where the butt was bigger than in Qiongzhou. The whole island heard it. The scholars are all thrilling to the Fucheng exam! Now the place is big, but there are no planes and high-speed rail. You have to issue notices in advance, but you can't even put them in Lin'an. You can only hold the preliminaries first, which is the provincial examination held by the provincial capital.

After the provincial examination, some of them will be eliminated first, and the rest will go to Lin'an to participate in the provincial examination and palace examination. In order to prevent anyone from cheating, the central government will send people to inspect. Some places are far away and take a lot of time on the road, so they have to set off in advance. The inspectors need the emperor to personally select and assign, so the imperial examination is a big project, which is much more lively than the current college entrance examination. So they want Zhao Bing to decide on his own, but the empress dowager has to send them back to ask when he goes back.

However, Zhao Bing felt that although the current imperial examination system was somewhat progressive than the previous dynasty, for example, in order to resist requests, the phenomenon of offering adopted a name-free system, sealing all possible cheating information such as the name, origin, etc., so that the examiner and the examiner could not know who each test paper was. Each imperial examination system requires a large amount of financial, material and manpower, which is set to be a big comparison every three years. In addition, some changes were made to the stylized articles and examination subjects. However, he still felt that it was not enough to achieve the purpose of selecting talents for the country.

The imperial examinations in the early Song Dynasty basically inherited the Tang and Five Dynasties, and were still in two major systems: regular and regular subjects and systematic subjects. "Changcai" is a permanent subject, similar to today's open examinations such as the college entrance examination, and the national syllabus, content, time and specific procedures. In addition to the Jinshi subject, there are also various subjects, including Nine Classics, Five Classics, Kaiyuan Literature, Three Histories, Three Rites, Three Transmissions, Ming Jing, Ming Fa, Ming Zi and other subjects.

The so-called Nine Classics are nine Confucian classics defined by the Tang Dynasty. The Five Classics are five Confucian classics determined in the Western Han Dynasty. Kaiyuan Li is a large-scale ritual book compiled by the Tang Dynasty, and can also be regarded as a specialty examination for practical ritual studies. The Three Histories refer to "Records of the Grand Historian", the Two "Book of Han" and "Three Kingdoms", which can be understood as a specialty examination for history. The Three Lises refer to "Zhou Li", "Yi Li" and "Book of Rites" among the Thirteen Classics, which can be regarded as a specialty examination for ritual theory; the Three Transmissions refer to "Zuo Zhuan", "Gongyang Zhuan" and "Jingliang Zhuan", which can be regarded as a specialty examination for historical books of the Department of Classics. The Ming Classics refer to the unified examination for all classics, which can be regarded as a test for traditional classical philology, "Mingfa" is a legal examination, and "Mingzi" is a character examination.

The subject system is a small-scale examination personally presided over by the emperor. This form of examination originated from the Han Dynasty's shooting strategy. It was already very common in the Tang Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, some "regular" subjects were gradually formed, that is, the subject system questions that often repeated the examinations. Although the scope is not large, the qualifications of the candidates were very wide. Whether it is an incumbent official or a commoner, they can be recommended by the prime minister and important officials to take the examination. Those who have passed the Jinshi can also take the subject system examination.

The virtuous and honest steps set up by Taizu during the reign of Emperor Taizu can speak out loud and speak out loud. The classics are well-educated and profound, and the six subjects of idle officials can be understood in education. The virtuous and honest steps set up by Renzong can be spoken straightforward and sincere, and the six subjects of education are well-versed in education. These should be similar to the modern induction examination.

After all, Zhao Bing presided over the imperial examination twice. He found that the questions in the ancient imperial examination were surprisingly similar to those in modern times. It should be said that they had been passed down long ago. Moreover, the number of questions in the examination was quite large, and it was not as we imagined that you could gain fame by answering a paper in one paper. The examination of Jinshi requires "testing poems, fu, and judaism, and judaism, and judaism, ten posts of the Analects of Confucius, and ten articles on the meaning of the "Spring and Autumn Annals" or "The Book of Rites". Among them, poetry, fu, and judaism are the most important.

The so-called "post" is full of "post" and is like filling in the blanks and dictation of modern test papers. The examiner selects a page from the scriptures and extracts one line of it on the test paper. According to this line of text, the candidate must fill in the context related to it; the meaning of the ink is a simple question-and-answer question based on the meaning of the scriptures and comments; the strategy is to discuss, and the candidate expresses his opinions and proposes countermeasures based on the relevant meanings of the scriptures or political affairs raised by the examiner. The scope of the test is a wide range, including politics, education, production, management, etc.

These three items are not very important in the Jinshi exam, but are very important in the Mingjing exam, which is almost all of the exam. Otherwise, why can’t the Jinshi exam be worthy of the Mingjing exam? It’s because most of the Mingjing exams are memorized by rote, and they are not as good as the Jinshi exam. Because the number of questions in the exam is large, whether it is a provincial exam or a memorization, the students have to stay in the exam room for three or four days before they can finish all the content.

From the basic content of the exam, it can be seen that ancient students are similar to modern times, and they have not broken out of the shackles of exam-oriented education, and the disadvantages of "what you learn is not what you use, what you use is not what you learn" have not been solved. After the transition to the south, due to the narrow content of the exam, the examiner not only stipulated standard answers in order to distinguish the grades, but also set up various fixed procedures to limit them.

Facing the ancient imperial examination, Zhao Bing had to smile bitterly. History is amazingly similar. As long as there is a hundred years of prosperity, any subject in the examination may become a complex and rigorous program. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the ritual had formed a classical style that was not called "eight-legged essays", but was very close to the eight-legged essays. The text not only had a slightly three-part structure, but was also "involved in opposition". In other words, before the eight-legged essays became popular, the classical style had already gone through a process similar to the eight-legged essays.

As for the criticism of the eight-legged essay, Zhao Bing's previous life, he would beat the education reforms every time, and the disadvantages were self-evident. From this, it is conceivable what the scholars who became bureaucrats were like, which caused the scholars who had real talents and scholars to be young and experienced, but there were many people who only planned for rice and millet. They claimed to be pure and innocent people, and they were full of the court and the country, but they were not good at governing the country and governing the country, and even ignorant, which caused a situation of "strong officials and weak officials", which helped the clerks and officials to open the door to facilitate private fraud, and officials were in a collusion and committed evil together.

On the other hand, Zhao Bing thought that the subject setting was too biased. The main subjects of the imperial examination were Ming Jing, Jin Shi, Ming Fa, Ming Zi, Ming Suan, etc., and there were also increases and decreases, such as Boxue Hong Ci, Translation, etc. Song Huizong was fond of calligraphy, so he got a calligraphy and painting subject. In the later stages, only Ming Jing and Jin Shi subjects were left, and the content they learned was mainly Confucian classics.

In Zhao Bing's opinion, it is okay for officials who have passed the imperial examination to be teachers, but they can teach children to recognize words and talk about the principles of being a human being. I guess they can't even teach mathematics. This also led to him having to send them all to the Imperial College for re-education after he opened a course in Qiongzhou, and some veterans told them how to be an official and how to govern the people. Otherwise, they would be able to be free to be sent directly, and they would probably have a few more people who didn't understand.

In addition, Zhao Bing believes that most of the talents selected for the imperial examination are developing in politics. To put it bluntly, it is to be an official and gain power. This is why scholars are all aiming to be a Jinshi, because those who pass the Jinshi future career is very optimistic and often can climb to the high position of prime minister. The future of the Mingjing is much more bumpy, and there are only a few people who can become high-ranking officials in the end. You can tell at a glance that even if you pass the exam, you will only be a small business official for life, and it is difficult to grasp power.

However, as a visitor to later generations, Zhao Bing had long known that for the development of society, it was not just that many officials needed to participate in management, but that it needed the promotion and innovation of science and technology. It was not possible to be promoted by reciting poems and writing a few articles. They did not know how to pave bridges and roads, did not know how to build water conservancy, dig canals and rivers, and could not create advanced machinery, but they needed special technical talents to do it. However, they were blocked by the current selection system.

To change this state, Zhao Bing understood that it was necessary to solve the problem from a system perspective, and the best way was to tilt towards some "small" disciplines. However, at the current stage of scientific development being very backward, we cannot expect to divide the subjects in detail like in later generations. However, he also hoped to add some basic disciplines to the imperial examinations, and select technical officials like Zu Chongzhi and Guo Shoujing.

Of course, Zhao Bing hoped to imitate the modern education system, select people with a certain cultural foundation from the many scholars, and then study in different categories, in order to cultivate the various talents needed, and then grant corresponding official positions by the state. However, it will be very difficult and unrealistic to make changes under current social concepts and conditions.

Especially now, Jiangnan has not opened a subject for more than ten years and has accumulated a large number of scholars. He suddenly changed the content and admission methods of the scientific examination. Those scholars who have studied classics and history for many years have done useless work, and it would be strange if they don’t cause trouble! However, Zhao Bing felt that no matter how difficult it was, he had to make changes. Some small categories of subjects should be added to this imperial examination, such as mathematics, which is the basic subject for all technological development. In addition, there is medicine. Although the Song Dynasty had already had a system for selecting and training medical students, it was not enough and should be raised to the national level, rather than being hosted by the Imperial Hospital.

There is no need to make reforms to the Imperial College. It should not be regarded as a school that trains officials, but should be established as a re-education institution to train those scholars who have passed the imperial examinations, and then re-study them according to their expertise before they can be appointed to officials, rather than being assigned to various places to be officials in a confused manner. This may not only bury real talents, but also create a group of mediocre officials.
Chapter completed!