Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 507 Countdown to the Academic Examination

In the fourth year of Chu Li, on the sixth, seventh and eighth day of June, Chu State began the admissions examination for thirty designated experimental universities.

Unlike the imperial examination, the final passer of the academic examination is qualified for admission, so the participants are younger.

Besides Yanwutang, other universities do not restrict background, and the qualifications for registration are easy to obtain, as long as you pass the test in the township or county school, so it is very popular with poor families and even "real civilians"!

Some people who are not even poor families, just relying on hard work, or continuing to develop dividends, have the courage to try to join special departments and workshops such as the wasteland army, and then become "rich households" among ordinary people. Also because some families have no need for too young labor force, they allow their children to attend county schools and are eligible to take exams.

Among the more than a dozen universities, there are Jinling University, which has a complete range of categories, Poyang University, which is biased towards agriculture, is very practical and down-to-earth, and Qu'a University, which is biased towards sailing skills, encourages professional colleges school……

It can also be seen from the composition of the exams that most of the wealthy families send young children, and most of their thoughts are spent on management majors; The households are mainly based on various practical majors...

Among them, the children of aristocratic families are more likely to come here to buy teaching materials, with the intention of taking the knowledge back and arming it for their own family.

Bai Tu was not surprised by this, and he didn't think it was very practical. After all... the majors of the college are here, and anyone can learn them.

If you want to really have the convenience of inheritance, you must study deeply enough. To that extent, it is also a good thing for Chu State. Anyway, government-run universities will always be open to everyone.

The choice of wealthy families is also easy to guess. Many of these wealthy families are talking about "trench", surpassing many aristocratic families, especially after the rise of Chu's trade, the wealthy families that are heavy on business and heavy industry have borrowed the wind, but most of the aristocratic families " "Investment" is all in land, and the results are much worse.

However, in terms of political status, some wealthy families who are purely "trench" are even inferior to some promising and humble families...

Firstly, to grow bigger, management knowledge is needed. Secondly...it is also the wealthy families striving for a higher political status, and management is also the most useful in the imperial examination!
As for the poor families, they generally had some political status, had local officials such as prefects in their families several generations ago, or were distant relatives of some aristocratic families, but most of them lacked inheritance. At this time, they flocked to Chu, hoping to absorb all the knowledge they could.

And ordinary wealthy households...

After all, most people who were despised as "mud-legged people" not long ago are very pragmatic.

Considering this situation, Bai Tu also started to plan with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites after reading the big data statistics of the school exam to further increase the development of "craftsmanship".

As the name suggests, it is also a place to learn the ability of craftsmen. In contrast, although Nanyang University, where Huang Yueying is the honorary president, also offers a major in institutional studies, and Poyang University also offers a major in agricultural science, but these are more about teaching principles , the original intention is to encourage innovation and design.

In craftsmanship, it is completely practical, allowing students to learn to use common tools and operate those bulky Qi machines, which means they become qualified for more technical workshop positions, even if they do not know all the words. , and does not delay teaching.

In fact, there are already experimental craftsmanship schools being opened, which are mainly jointly managed by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites is only responsible for the procedures and preparations for "starting", and the content is summarized by the Ministry of Industry.

In contrast, craftsmanship does not require academic examinations and other conditions, and can be admitted as long as you pay money - Chu State cannot afford more money to subsidize craftsmanship.

However, when it comes to the benefits of craftsmanship, it is completely possible to connect with private workshops and official workshops to train specialized talents. Naturally, this part of "study"...that is, tuition fees are also paid in advance by official workshops or private workshops, and then a three-year contract is signed. , five-year lease, or even ten-year lease is enough.

This move actually attracted a lot of criticism, but the pressure was not too great.

After all, in today's era, craftsmen often have "inheritance", otherwise there would be no such sayings as "passing on the male rather than the female" or "teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death". Now it has suddenly become completely open and only There must be some folk craftsmen who are dissatisfied with the content that can be learned with a few simple repairs, but...

It's easy for Bai Tu to withstand the pressure from the conservative gentry. There are a large number of fans who are willing to support Bai Xue. What kind of pressure can the craftsmen with low status create?
What's more, most of the truly top craftsmen are in the Ministry of Industry - Doctors from the Ministry of Industry, who are the same as fourth-rank officials in the Chu State's official system, and even a few are working on medium to large, giant Qi machines, and several other important projects. , the artisans who have made great contributions have all been sealed as marquises...

For these top craftsmen, the improvement in status is not just a small improvement. Although they are just a few Guanneihou who do not have a feudal city, it is already inspiring enough... These people must be of the same mind as the Chu State!
Moreover, the workshop owners themselves increasingly need craftsmen with some knowledge, so that the middle-level craftsmen also get a lot of benefits in this regard.

In comparison, not only were the voices of craftsmen ignored, but craftsmen were originally a group that benefited greatly from the rise of workshops, and it was impossible to resent the King of Chu on a large scale.

And soon these middle and lower-level craftsmen discovered that due to the sharp increase in demand, the demand for teachers in craftsmanship is also great, and many of them are already "really fragrant" - although these semi-monopoly knowledge that can produce practical benefits must be transferred to a large number of people. The students announced it, but... they gave too much!

The original "study exam" in the state of Chu was planned to be based on the university as a unit, and each of them was assessed within a time limit. However, due to the improvement of the national strength of the state of Chu itself, the improvement of transportation convenience, and in order to further promote the new system, Bai Tu and the Ministry of Rites It was finally decided to conduct the academic examination based on "Tao".

This was also beyond the expectations of some people, but it was the same as the original propaganda of Chu State - the academic examination only assessed basic knowledge and had nothing to do with the major to be applied for!

Regardless of whether you apply for management, institutional studies, or agricultural subjects, you will not see the corresponding content in the assessment. As long as you are in the same university, the assessment content is the same, and all the courses are divided into four subjects-white studies, literature Theory, arithmetic and name discrimination.

Needless to say, white learning is a compulsory test, and arithmetic is just as the name suggests.

Literary theory mainly tests reading and writing skills, and famous debate... derived from famous writers and debaters, is actually what later generations called "logic".

The proportions of the four subjects are the same, and they are all calculated on a hundred-point scale.

After taking the exam, register for specific universities and disciplines, and those with higher scores will be given priority.

Because the academic exams for each discipline are held on the sixth, seventh, and eighth day of June, candidates can only choose one of them to take the academic exam, and...if the target university is in another discipline, you need to go to the corresponding university. There is no way to enroll students across the "Tao" when conducting academic examinations. You can only apply for the university in whichever channel you take the academic examination.

This limitation is also limited by the speed of information transmission, and there is nothing we can do about it.

After all, in terms of radio, we are only guiding the discovery of the underlying principles. Due to the lack of talent accumulation, as long as Pang Tong is not assigned to personally take charge of the scientific and technological direction, the speed of progress is very limited.

Especially in order not to go astray, today's research projects of the Ministry of Industry and "hard disk knowledge" only serve as a guide and point out the direction.

The fourth subject is two and a half years in advance, and the Ministry of Rites has already announced that there is no clear knowledge point except for Bai Xue. After all... everyone did not come out of a set education process!
Anyway, it is a [-]-point system, and the ranking is used as the assessment standard, so it is enough to ask some questions from easy to difficult.

At the same time, during the academic examination period, many candidates with non-Chu nationality also poured into various governorates and prefectures.

This is what Baitu promised to other princes before. The content of the exam is the same, but for the convenience of supervision, foreign candidates must take the exam in each designated state, usually the most developed city...

Nearly half of them came to Jinling, which made Jinling very lively, and also made the foreign candidates have long eyes.

For the state of Chu, Jinling is also the largest display window to the outside world—it is in the most prosperous city to receive foreign candidates, and part of it is for this aspect.

after all……

When Chu State included Chu (bai) studies in the examination list, the other princes were very dissatisfied, and even Liu Xie wanted to announce that the Han law would be used to prohibit anyone from going to Chu State to study for examinations.

But in the end, Liu Ai and others stopped him and gave up. It was only a symbolic ban on spreading the Chu heresy in the Han Dynasty. It was not allowed to spread, but many people took the exam... Well, anyway, it is enough to study without integrity!
Although other princes were not as fierce as Liu Xie, most of them were also very dissatisfied. After all, they just wanted to use Chu's technology for free, and did not want the subjects under their rule to learn Chu's new learning.

However...the initiative in this matter lies with Chu State after all!

Anyway, I can take the exam, do you like to study or not...

The end result was that many candidates under the rule of other princes also learned Chu studies.

Of course, most people view the return of learning in a dialectical way. After all, those who come all the way to study in Chu are basically the descendants of powerful families from other places. Memorizing it several times will not delay their true thoughts.

If what we see at this time in Chu State is that its cities are shabby and shabby, and its people are starved of food, then it will be useless to promote Chu learning to the heavens!

on the contrary……

If it can have the effect of detonating three views on the first impression, then Chu Xue will naturally penetrate into their hearts.

The descendants of the aristocratic family are all involved with their own interests and have a natural position.

However, in Chinese culture, there has always been no shortage of "people with lofty ideals" who jump out from their own positions and stand on the side of the historical process.

After all, Chinese civilization is very sentimental, which is also very common in Chu State, especially... after the ties of the clan system were intentionally weakened.

At this time, Jinling, which was displayed in front of the candidates under the rule of other princes, broke everyone's understanding from the very beginning - the last time there was a capital city without walls was in the Stone Age, right?

Therefore, Chu State prefers to use "city" to express its glory. After all, without city walls, there is really no "pool" feeling.

Because the workshop area outside the city is too large, Jinling has already demolished the city wall, and as the capital of Chu State, cement roads have become common.

However, a main road with eight carriages running parallel and pedestrian areas on both sides only allows track carriages to travel. Taking the location of the original city wall as the "first ring", a total of three express lanes have been built, and the fourth ring on the outer ring is being built. …

For foreign candidates, it is actually a "dangerous" place.

In order to prevent such heart-wrenching incidents as a series of car accidents among foreign candidates, the Ministry of Rites specially organized guides.

According to the impression of the Han people, Chang'an in its heyday could claim to have a population of one million - when Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, he forcibly moved millions of people into the customs.

However, considering the area of ​​Luoyang City, whether it is millions or millions, it cannot be just the population within the city walls, otherwise it would not be able to fit... but it should be the entire Luoyang, even Henan County, including other cities. population in central and rural areas.

Judging from the registered population, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, one county in Henan had indeed more than one million registered residents. Considering that Luoyang was the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there must be a huge floating population, and it is not impossible to have two or three times more.

When Mi Heng first arrived at the General's Mansion, Jinling was still "novel" and wealthy, and its population was far from the density of Luoyang City at its peak.

But now...

Jinling Prefecture alone has a registered population of more than 50, and the permanent population within the Fourth Ring Road exceeds 100 million. Counting the floating population, the number exceeds 150 million most of the year!
A large number of workshops have attracted Chu people who specialize in this area, and these people now often live in "Jinling".

Starting from the Second Ring Road in Jinling, all residential buildings have been planned by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the houses can be built and laid out by themselves. The prices are often very expensive, so expensive that... they can completely subsidize ordinary residential buildings to the government.

Most of the buying and selling of residential houses took place between the workshops and the court. Most private workshops and official workshops would provide living quarters for the laborers.

The six tribes were even a little disappointed with the gathering degree in Jinling, but Bai Tu was not surprised.

After all, from the perspective of industrialization level, London at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries had already reached an urban population of 100 million, and the total population of Britain at that time was similar to that of Chu State today.

At this time, the medium-sized Zhenqi machine has been put into use, and the operation of the large-scale Zhenqi machine is also under preparation. It is basically equivalent to the emergence of internal combustion engines, even if the development and accumulation in other aspects are weak and the concentration of local urban population , also completely comparable to the turn of the [-]th and [-]th centuries.

Neat but overly flat and solid ground, perfect drainage structure, rows of houses and workshops, unimaginably lively markets, and the most important thing is... each of them can even be compared with the "commoners" in his own impression. With a "radiant" mental state compared to the average groom official, and clothes that are too "gorgeous" for common people.

It forms the best "powerful display"!
　Dongdong: Hey, hey, he went to his new home again, and the computer "broke" again... I only coded four thousand words after I got home.

　　But the good news is that the problem with the new home computer has finally been found...

　　HDMI cable is so unfriendly...

　　The original monitor cable...

　　It must be plugged into the graphics card...

　　Because it is plugged into the host's HDMI port, Dongdong has called for maintenance twice...

　　One time 130, one time 120...

　　The first time was because the other party came to plug in the line, and Dongdong hadn't noticed the problem yet...

　　T_T
　　
　
(End of this chapter)