Xu Mochen also knows that investment in education is inevitable and invisible.
Unlike other inputs, it can have a roughly clear output.
This is the reason why there were not many scholars in the farming era.
In the end, Xu Mochen agreed with everyone and selected more than 90,000 children from poor families.
After the imperial examination, he will also hold an enke, and then there will also be descendants of the gentry joining in.
If put together in this way, the basic number of teachers is almost enough.
"Nowadays, Daqian's domestic grain and other output is not absolutely sufficient, and labor and education have to be reversed in one fell swoop," Xu Mochen said about his plan. "The acceptance level among the people must be very small.
So I think that with the county as the main unit and down to the villages and towns, if there are five or six teachers in one place, the scale will be enough."
As for large counties and prefectures, they need more people.
Shen Zhining also agreed: "I checked the information of Blue Star Huaxia. The literacy campaign back then also started from a local level.
We cannot force all ordinary people to participate, we can only mobilize them in the name of the government."
Xu Mochen has also been exposed to the history of that era, and indeed there is still resistance.
In some villages and towns, people do farm work during the day and go to study with kerosene lamps at night.
Since there is no foundation for enlightenment, some older children are actually unable to accept it.
"Other industries are not prosperous in Daqian at present," Zhao Lingbo also suggested. "I believe that your Majesty should gradually encourage people to engage in other industries."
This was something that no one would have dared to think about a few years ago. At that time, the country had just been unified, and except for farming and a small amount of handicrafts and commerce, it was basically in a depression.
But now, Xu Mochen is qualified to develop diversified industries.
Especially with the availability of electricity resources, the flexibility to rise is very high.
However, these cannot be accomplished overnight. Xu Mochen explained that Qizhou, Ningzhou, Danzhou in the south, and Lanzhou in his own hands will start first.
If some people are rich, then they can help everyone become rich.
In late April, the imperial court announced the results of the national unified teacher recruitment examination.
The enrollment number, which is close to 100,000, still caused an uproar.
The first is the courtiers. For them, it is not difficult to find out the test results.
But when they saw the test papers of the people selected by Xu Mochen, they all laughed.
That’s it? Is this the teacher your Majesty wants to reuse?
Can I tell the truth, they are all useless materials.
Asking them to engage in education and teach others will definitely mislead the children.
He is very patient and worthy of being Your Majesty. He is truly a famous king through the ages!
Let’s shoulder the future of Daqian.
Secondly, there are the children of the gentry. After some examination papers were copied anonymously, they were also circulated in their hands.
Is this also called selecting talents? It’s really an insult to culture.
Hunjun, Hunjun, if I hadn’t been assisted by loyal ministers, I would have been hopeless!
Then there are the children from poor families who were selected, and they were happy but also worried.
I already knew what level I was at, but I didn’t expect that His Majesty would admit me despite such poor test results.
I'm afraid this Daqian is really going to perish!
Xu Mochen didn't care about this for the time being, because in May, the imperial examination finally ushered in the capital.
The scale of this imperial examination is unprecedented. According to statistics from the Ministry of Rites, there are about 30,000 people.
Xu Mochen knows the history of Blue Star, and this number is about the same as the current era.
It's just that among these 30,000 people, 90% are immortal cultivators, and the rest are gentry students.
During this period, the Ministry of Rites worked overtime and set up many exam locations.
It doesn't matter if you are a mortal student, but if you are a cultivator of immortals, special arrangements will be made.
Everyone has magical powers, but who knows if they will go crazy when they don’t know how to do it.
There are also cheating, plagiarism, etc. that need to be considered.
Xu Mochen visited one of the examination rooms. A shielding formation was set up around the examination room.
In this formation, the use of spiritual consciousness and spiritual energy is restricted. After entering, the cultivators are basically the same as ordinary people.
Of course, if they really rioted collectively, they would be able to break through the formation.
Therefore, in every examination room, some of the people responsible for maintaining order are immortal cultivators sent by the Mo League.
Once an abnormality is discovered, intervene immediately.
In addition, the Ministry of Rites notified the Ministry of War and mobilized the military and horse divisions of the five cities to impose martial law on the capital.
The exam lasts for nine days and nine nights in total, and all students must stay in designated rooms to solve the problem of eating, drinking, and defecation.
For those who cultivate immortality, this is not a problem at all, so in fact, the main focus of the Ministry of Rites is on the gentry students.
Although everyone now knows that gentry students have been stripped of their literary qualities, and participating in the imperial examination is just soy sauce.
After the exam, review all the test papers within three days and select part of them.
In the past, there were not many places for admission, but this time, according to the demand for officials calculated by the Ministry of Personnel, the total number of admissions is planned to be more than 3,000.
These are still officials within the establishment, plus additional admissions from non-establishment, the number reported by the Ministry of Rites is about 10,000.
Not all of these people stayed in the capital to supplement the lack of officials in the court.
Most of them have some experience in various departments, and then they will be transferred to the states and counties in Daqian to join the newly added government departments.
Therefore, the top admissions are actually about three to four hundred people.
According to the process given by the Ministry of Rites, these three to four hundred people are going to take part in the imperial examination, select the top scholar, the second overall pick, etc.
This was the main process in the past.
This year, an additional item has been added.
That is, after the results of the Imperial Examination, all the thousands of top students admitted to the Imperial Academy will visit the Imperial College to show that the country attaches great importance to civility.
Xu Mochen has no objection to this. Anyway, it is estimated that the students in this establishment should all be immortal cultivators.
Even if there are gentry students occasionally mixed in, Xu Mochen estimates that the Ministry of Rites has the means to deal with it.
Simply put, the last carnival belongs to those who cultivate immortality.
Xu Mochen acquiesced in this result and used it in exchange for the promotion of modern education he wanted.
From then on, he and the immortal cultivators parted ways in their thoughts on the prosperity of literature and art.
May has entered May, and soon the day for the imperial examination will begin.
On this day, Xu Mochen held a long-awaited court meeting very early.
It’s just that this court meeting did not discuss any major military matters.
Xu Mochen was sitting on the throne. He waved his hand and Tang Derun brought over a brocade box.
This brocade box is imprinted with Xu Mochen's own spiritual thoughts and is shielded by formations.
Immortal cultivators cannot easily spy on the content.
At this time, all students should enter the examination room, which is a closed state.
And it was time for Xu Mochen to open the brocade box himself and take out the test questions.
He raised his chin slightly. Tang Derun opened the box in front of all the ministers and took out a scroll. Written inside were the questions for this imperial examination.
Seeing this, the chamberlain took a deep breath and shouted: "The first national imperial examination in Daqian has begun!"