Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

Qin Yunhe had originally planned to let his daughter get married after the entrance examination in two years, but it seems that this matter will most likely be postponed again.

After the New Year, Qin Yunhe immediately went to Jiangning to take up his post as the Education Commissioner.

The county examination will be held in February, and the prefectural examination will be held soon after that. As soon as Qin Yunhe took office, he began to urge the prefectures, counties and districts to prepare for the county and prefectural examinations.

Then he inspected the counties and prefectural schools under Jiangning.

During the inspection, Qin Yunhe also paid special attention to community schools in various places.

Jiangning is prosperous, and prosperous places pay more attention to the education of their children, so there are many academies and schools here, and even more clan schools and private schools.

It is a community school, and it is much more organized than the previous Henan Dao one. In addition to elementary education, it also teaches practical content such as mathematics and agronomy.

Common people who could not afford to attend private schools were also willing to send their children to community schools during the slack season. Although they might not necessarily pass the imperial examinations and become officials, they could at least acquire some skills.

The only shortcoming is that the teachers in the community schools are of varying moral character and ability, and many of them are incompetent.

Also, what is taught focuses on etiquette and encouraging farming, but is insufficient in classics and policy essays. If one wants to take the imperial examination and become an official, one naturally needs to study under another teacher.

In fact, compared with community schools in other places, Jiangning has done a very good job, which is probably due to the hard work of the governor and governor-general.

While Qin Yunhe was touring official schools in various places, he was also thinking about how to make the community school in Jiangning more complete.

If community schools are to truly flourish, it is necessary to allow students who enroll to gain access to officialdom through community schools.

Then the threshold for recruiting teachers in community schools should be raised again - this is also one of the suggestions for promoting community schools issued by the court. However, how to raise this threshold and how to impress learned people to be willing to join community schools as teachers is a problem.

It is naturally inconvenient for the teachers of the community schools in the entire Jiangning Road to adopt the method of Fu Qingyun in Nanping County and send generous gifts one by one to invite scholars to enroll and teach.

Moreover, Jiangning is a wealthy place, and those scholars may not lack for etiquette.

Qin Yunhe's idea was that perhaps, while promising them a generous monthly salary, they could also give priority to students who had taught for a certain number of years to be admitted to the Imperial Academy.

Another thing is that perhaps outstanding community school students can be allowed to become county students without taking the exam. In this way, community schools can attract more children to enroll and encourage community school students to work hard.

Of course, all of these must be discussed with the governor before they can be implemented.

Another problem is the teaching method of the community school teachers.

Nowadays, each community school teacher has his own way of teaching. We should unify the standards, teaching content and course arrangement.

In addition, the teachers in the community school should guide students patiently.

This is to prevent students from regarding going to school and studying as hard labor, and seeing their teachers as seeing criminal officials or enemies, and avoiding them as much as possible.

Only in this way can the children understand the teacher's painstaking efforts.

During his inspection tour, Qin Yunhe wrote down his ideas and opinions one by one and discussed them with the governor, who also agreed with Qin Yunhe's ideas. He also ordered people to formulate detailed regulations based on these, and to inform the prefectures, counties and other local officials to implement them according to the regulations.

After all, Jiangning had always had a flourishing literary culture, and the people admired studying hard and entering officialdom, so as soon as the regulations were released, professors and students from the community school flocked to it.

By the second year, community schools in various places had grown to a certain scale. When Your Majesty learned of this, he issued a special order to praise them.

Qin Yunhe also began to preside over the academy examinations in various places.

The prosperity of literature in Jiangning is unmatched by any other place, and the students selected are all excellent, so Qin Yunhe naturally praised them a lot.

Even among those who failed, many of them were talented, so Qin Yunhe never forgot to encourage them further.

It is a good thing that so many people are competing with each other. The only problem is that the number of people admitted from various places is limited. Even if you have decent talent, you may not be admitted in Jiangning. So some people started to have bad ideas.

"Alas——" Qin Yunhe sighed, feeling helpless.

Wang He saw this and asked, "Sir, is there another person who went to another place to take the exam by pretending to be a resident?"

Qin Yunhe nodded.

Recently, there have been several cases where students from Jiangning were caught taking household registration exams in other provinces. If such a thing happens, the local authorities must inform Jiangning.

Qin Yunhe naturally knew why they had to risk being discovered and punished to travel to other places to take the exam.

There are so many outstanding people here that if they take the exam in Jiangning, they may not even be admitted. However, when they go to other places, many of them can not only pass the exam to become a scholar, but some are even so outstanding that they can get second place or above in every annual exam.

Most of these students who went to other places to take exams under false pretenses had good grades, but it was a pity that they had wasted a lot of effort, and once they were discovered, they would not only lose their status, but they might even be punished.

If the chief official of a prefecture or county or the provincial education commissioner is more strict, the scholar who acts as a guarantor will also be implicated.

"It's a pity for this man. He had done well in the previous examination for the title of Scholar, and he got second place in this annual examination. But he was reported as a false candidate, and was stripped of his title just like that."

"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, we broke the rules."

In fact, according to the situation in Jiangning, Qin Yunhe has appropriately increased the number of candidates admitted to the county, prefecture, and academy examinations. However, such a number of places is probably still a drop in the bucket for the candidates.

Qin Yun had no way to deal with this matter. He could only inform people about the risks of students misusing examination records to prevent others from making mistakes in the future.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

After Qin Yunhe presided over the imperial examinations in various places, he began to arrange the provincial examinations.

The literary culture in Jiangning flourished, and cheating was also thriving, so Qin Yunhe was extremely cautious about the provincial examination.

While ordering people to repair and clean the Imperial Examination Hall in advance, they also conducted a careful inspection of the hall and ordered soldiers to guard it early, and no one was allowed to approach before the exam.

They were even more cautious about the test questions. Except for the deputy examiner, even the co-examiners did not know the content of the test questions in advance.

As for the deputy examiner, he had been staying in the Education Department since the day the questions were set and was not allowed to contact anyone except Qin Yun.

Therefore, only Qin Yunhe and the deputy examiner knew the question.

During the entrance inspection on the day of the exam, Qin Yunhe also required the officers conducting the inspection to be strict.

One is to be careful not to allow anyone to bring in paper or writing on it, and the other is to carefully check and confirm the identity of everyone entering.

When they officially entered the venue, Qin Yunhe had people patrolling from time to time to prevent anyone from cheating.

After that, when it came to sealing, copying, marking the papers, and even recording the final list, Qin Yunhe did not dare to slack off for fear of making any mistakes.

Only when everything was settled did Qin Yunhe breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, it was over.

This assignment was scheduled to end in October, but it was almost the end of September.

In the last few days, Qin Yunhe sorted out the assignment list of the inspectors in recent years and looked at the dates, finding that they had all been filled.

On the eighth day of October, Qin Yunhe packed his luggage and set off for Beijing.

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The "impersonation" in this chapter refers to the place of origin.

Then speaking of entering the Imperial College, let me explain it here.

Although the Imperial College became worse and worse due to the emergence of donations in the later period, in fact, in the early days, the students of the Imperial College were either the second generation of officials or outstanding students from all over the country, so the quality was very high and the treatment was also good.

In the early days, students really had to study in the Imperial Academy, where they were provided with food, accommodation and clothing. If they passed the exams, they could become officials, and they could be promoted to high positions.

In the later period, students of the Imperial Academy were looked down upon because donations were rampant and were easily given away. In addition, the quality of teachers in the Imperial Academy became worse and worse, and the treatment of students could not keep up. This was the reason why the Imperial Academy declined.

I saw someone say online that the students in the Imperial Academy donated money to get in, but that's not true. The joke about Kong Fang's students in Xiaolin Guangji is about donations, because this system is broken.

Our book is fictional, and the setting is that the students of the Imperial College are still valued, so the opportunity to be selected as a tribute is regarded as a reward.