Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 508

The major central cities, headed by Jinling Prefecture, gave the first "power" to the academic examination candidates under the jurisdiction of other princes.

What is used is not swords, guns, swords and halberds, but prosperity and heroism.

What is prosperous is the city, what is heroic is the spirit of the people of Chu...

Because of the "prophetic" function of hard drives, major central cities are trying their best to avoid the problem of stingy layout at the beginning of their planning.

For example, the major central cities in the world in later generations are often the first to develop and the fastest to become obsolete - after all, when the city was first established, the layout did not expect that there would be an influx of dozens of times more people in the future, and there would be more cities. So many vehicles.

For example, the earliest subway appeared in London in the first half of the 19th century. In fact...if the roads were not initially built to be too congested, there would be no need to build the subway so early!

And things like urban drainage facilities, security facilities, and workshop sewage facilities were added in a timely manner at the beginning of the design, which saved a lot of "tuition money."

The water plant and the like cannot be repaired for the time being. Large-scale Qi machines are still a scarce resource, and more "hands" cannot be spared to repair more people's livelihood projects. However... there are simple substitutes.

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"Huh? What is this? Where does the water come from?" Liu Ba looked curiously at a young man on the roadside who was pedaling, causing water to gush out of the water pipe in front of him.

Yes, although there is no real water plant in Jinling now, within the third ring road, iron and cement water pipes are laid out to divert water from the upper reaches of the river. Later, water pipes were drawn out and manual water pumps were installed in various settlements and workshops. .

On average, three households in residential areas have one water pump pipe, which can be used to pump water by themselves. In workshop areas, even some workshops that use a lot of water and are not close to water will install small Zhenqi water pumps by themselves.

It is already very common in Jinling, but... to outsiders, it looks a bit novel!

Cao Pi on the side was a little worried that Liu Ba would be embarrassed, so he pulled him aside and explained a few words in a low voice.

Liu Ba was actually from Jingzhou and had never served as an official in Jingzhou before. However, when Mrs. Cai, Liu Cong, and their son understood their righteousness and dedicated themselves to Chu State, Liu Ba made a rare move to go north to join Cao Cao.

After all, the King of Chu is not the coin of Chu. Everyone likes the latter, but there are still some people who don't like the former...after all.

In the history without the White Rabbit Effect, Liu Ba was a big fan of Cao Cao. When Liu Bei took away the Jingzhou team, Liu Ba surrendered to Cao Cao. Later, after Liu Bei occupied Jingnan, Liu Ba was unable to return to the north and wanted to escape. Liu Bei was still in exile in Jiaozhou for a while, and later joined the Shu Han Dynasty on the recommendation of Zhuge Liang.

But now in Chengji World, Liu Ba is even more "resolute". When he surrendered to Chu in Jingzhou, Liu Ba, who was only 13 years old, defected to the north alone. At that time, the Han Dynasty had not yet taken back the Xu County area, and Liu Ba entered the country. Wei.

Liu Ba is now only 17 years old. Among the foreign candidates, he is relatively young - most of the local candidates in Chu State are between fifteen and 20 years old, but the foreign candidates are all older.

After all, for local candidates in Chu State, this opportunity is very common and available every year. Unless they are separated by several roads and have to apply long distance, the cost of food and accommodation is not that exaggerated. But for candidates from outside, this is The opportunity to understand Chu's skills has a greater sense of mission and cost, so those who come are more confident.

This year's first batch of [-] pilot universities in Chu State have a total enrollment of [-] students. Compared with modern universities, the scale is so small that it feels like a copycat, but...after all, it is only the initial stage.

However, in the entire Chu State, more than 8000 people took part in the academic examination!
From other princes, more than 300 people came from the Wei Kingdom alone. Counting other Han court princes, as well as students from Liaodong and Jiaozhou, there were nearly 500 people in total. These were only officially sent. As for those who came alone in private There were also thousands of people who came to Chu State.

If there are no accidents among the 500 people, the admission rate should be more than [-]. It is not that the Chu State court gave them any preferential treatment, but... after all, if you are not sure, you will not come all the way and cross the border. Register and verify your identity to take the exam!
The only ones who received preferential treatment were the dozens of people specially sent by the governor-general offices of Danzhou and Yizhou, and the dozens of people from the Wuxi and Shanyue tribes.

In recent years, Yizhou and Danzhou have also sent many children to schools in various counties in Jinling and Kuaiji. These children can be said to have "experienced great changes" - they were still in the Neolithic Age when they were children, and they have to learn about the Iron Age in their youth. Knowledge, strive to master the skills of the Qi era when you are young, and then return to your hometown to build!
Yizhou and Danzhou have also been choosing intelligent and witty people from among the group who have returned to their hearts, and sent them to the mainland of Chu for education.

The proportion of Wuxi people and Shanyue people living in cities and villages has been increasing, and now it has exceeded [-]%. There are very few people left in the mountains and forests, and they continue to decrease. However...the literacy rate and the level of craftsmanship they have mastered are still too backward.

If there was a real competition, how could these Mengtong, who were still in the Neolithic Age a few years ago, be opponents?Now basically everyone who can read and write Chinese characters and has a more flexible mind has been called...

Now is not the time to talk about fairness. It is Chu's goal to increase and balance the development speed of various places as much as possible.

Uneven development will create huge hidden dangers and even set back the progress of urbanization.

In order to better promote integration, these hundreds of special candidates are basically bound to enroll - the exams are all majors required by the local area, and... there is no need to sign a special agreement to understand that they must return to school after graduation. My hometown is under construction, otherwise I am afraid I will be rejected.

As for other remote places, they will also be gradually included in the support plan, but... after all, there is only a population of more than 1000 million now, and not every "corner" is inhabited by people. Basically, those in every corner are those who have accepted Chinese culture before. Very few Shanyue and Wuxi people.

Directly selecting elites among them and teaching Chu studies can be regarded as an excellent means of assimilation.

Calculated in this way, the admission rate of the [-] local candidates in Chu State is about one quarter...

However, considering that each university is also being improved and is still a five-year system, including new universities that will be opened in the future, the total number of students on campus will reach 10 to [-] in five years.

In terms of productivity in the "zhenqi era", the literacy and reading and writing rates of Chu State were low, but in terms of the late Han Dynasty, Chu State's "literacy" was already terrifying.

Due to the process of urbanization, the literacy rate in Chu State is close to [-]% - this refers to people who are only "literate", that is, people who can understand common words and write a limited number of characters, including their own name.

Many so-called wealthy households, butchers, businessmen, grassroots generals, etc. are actually at this level. There are also great differences within this level - some can only understand account books and commonly used information, and some can understand diaries. Newspapers, some can understand the script, some can understand the real article...

In the Chu State, when it comes to folk newspapers, they are written in vernacular as much as possible.

In theory, most craftsmen's studies only require this level of "literacy" to complete their studies.

Among them, those who truly master "reading and writing skills" account for about one-fifth of those who are literate, that is, between 100 and [-] million people...

Although the literacy rate and literacy rate will explode in the next ten years, the current number of universities and the large number of craftsmanship schools that will be opened will be enough to meet the demand.

This is still due to the Mengxue that started from the time of the General’s Mansion——Bai Tuke still has the master Buff of Mengxue. Since the time of the General’s Mansion, he has been guiding the development of Mengxue. Evaluation indicators for local officials.

If it were ten years ago, because the degree of urbanization was lower, it would mean less for ordinary farmers to achieve "basic literacy". The literacy rate of the Han people was less than [-]%, and only [-]% of them actually mastered reading and writing skills. About [-]%.

Now under the rule of other princes...

The ratio is actually a bit larger. After all, those who are literate are basically still literate and passing it on to their descendants, while many of those who are illiterate have died. It is all due to the reduction in the denominator that they are improving!

However, only Chu State has truly explosive growth. After all, in terms of proportion, if there is no Chu State, the current population of Jingyang and Yangzhou should not have more than 20 people with literacy skills. However, Chu State has five times the number. Here it is.

In other words, among the "talented people" who have mastered reading and writing skills, [-]% are civilians who should not have had this opportunity in the first place, and the remaining [-]% are due to the immigration of wealthy families from other places - the literacy rate and literacy skills of these people The rates are extremely high, which will increase the proportion.

As for the people born among civilians who have mastered reading and writing skills, they are basically concentrated between the ages of thirteen and twenty, and even... a quarter of them are women!
In France at the beginning of the [-]th century, the male literacy rate was about half and the female literacy rate was about a quarter - note the word "literate".

If we only calculate the literacy rate and literacy rate of the population under 20 years old, Chu State is actually not inferior.

But overall, it is much weaker, after all, the foundation is weak!

But even so, it has had a great impact on these foreign candidates...

At the beginning, because there were many Chu students from other places in the large inn arranged, these Chu students came here to find out the background of the Chu students, and secondly, they also wanted to expand their interpersonal relationships. , most of them take the initiative to communicate.

However, if you don’t communicate, you won’t know. Through this exchange, you will find that many of these students from the Chu State are...

"Are you from Yingchuan? I know, my father said, you have many scholars!"

"Here, take some of the salted plums my mother has picked."

"My name is Wang Jin, the gold of gold...the gold of wealth, not the yellow turban of rebellion, the word is harvest, what is your name?"

"Don't talk to him too much! Don't look at his good harvest. He is a profiteer at home. Last time he built a wall for my house, he used second-hand bricks..."

"Are you interested? Why are you bringing this up in front of outsiders? Your mother is sick and I didn't give you a hen!"

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Most of the students in the Chu Kingdom are very enthusiastic, but these kind of useless and rustic conversations account for the vast majority!
At the beginning, these young talents from outside Chu secretly despised them. However, as they met more and more students from Chu State, the hearts of these young talents from outside Chu became more and more heavy...

This "slap on the head" seems to be... more powerful than "a powerful attack"!

(End of this chapter)