After the joint examination in late February, the entire Tang Empire returned to a peaceful period. Although there will be palace examinations after the joint examinations, there are basically no failed candidates in the palace examinations. It is basically just a re-ranking. In addition,
In recent years, the Tang Dynasty only paid average attention to the palace examination.
Most of the time, the imperial examination is just a formality, so in the minds of many people, the spring imperial examination is basically over.
Among the many scholars, except for the candidates who passed the general examination, others have also begun to make their own plans.
Some are preparing to return to their hometowns and prepare to take the provincial examinations next year, so that the competition will be smaller, while others are preparing to apply for Imperial College or Jinling University, and some simply stay in Jinling and wait for next year's examinations.
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Of course, it was inevitable that he would be completely disappointed with the imperial examination, and prepare to return to his hometown to become a gentry, and honestly bring harm to the village.
Therefore, during the period after the examination ended, Imperial College, Jinling University, and normal schools in various places also began to get busy.
It is different from the autumn admission in later generations. Because of the existence of the traditional imperial examination, the admission season for universities in the Tang Dynasty and even other primary and secondary schools is in the spring.
Most of the enrollment work for primary schools and middle schools starts after the Spring Festival, while for preparatory schools, normal schools, and universities, it starts in late February, that is, after the general examination.
However, spring happens to be the time for spring plowing, so schools will have spring vacation shortly after the start of school.
Because of the busy farming season, primary schools in various places basically have farming holidays. However, depending on the climate, the time is not uniform. For example, southern provinces, especially the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, can grow two crops of rice, and their rainy season comes early.
The spring plowing time is also early, so the spring break is also relatively early. At the same time, in the summer, there will be a summer break, and in the fall, there will be an autumn break like other places.
In other places, rice and wheat are basically grown for one season, so the holidays are different from Lingnan.
Basically, school holidays in various places vary according to local conditions, and there is no unified statement.
But spring break and autumn break are basically both available, but the time is not the same.
Why should we give students a holiday? It's very simple. The students in schools everywhere are local teenagers, and not every one of these students comes from a wealthy family. Most of them are ordinary people, at most they are small landlord families.
When you are busy farming, you need to go home to help.
On weekdays, they can go to school to study, but during the busy farming season, if these teenagers do not go home to help, their families' farm work will be affected.
However, there are exceptions, and that is the Royal Institute of Technology of Tang Dynasty and Youjun Camp. They never have any kind of holidays.
Let’s not talk about Datang Institute of Technology. This thing is not a pure school at all, but more like an official comprehensive research institute. Every student in it has an official status. To put it bluntly, every student in it is
Now that you are an official, you still have to take a vacation? This was not a good thing in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was the same as the traditional dynasty. Except for the short holidays of a few days during traditional festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival, officials had to work at other times. The possibility of taking a long leave was very low unless you no longer wanted to work.
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It is actually very difficult for officials to go home, otherwise the term "official travel" would not have appeared.
It is very common that after working as an official for more than ten years, I have never returned to my hometown once.
Generally, when you return to your hometown, there are generally three situations: Dingyou, becoming an official, and being dismissed.
For officials, apart from old age and becoming official, the other two are not good things.
As for the Youjun camp, because the students there are all orphans and don't even have families, there is no need to talk about busy farming. In fact, after these students in the Youjun camp enter the Youjun camp, they basically have nothing to do with farm work.
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The only thing they have to do is study and train!
These orphans who have been in the military camp since they were young spend every day in study and training. Among them, the geniuses with excellent academic performance will continue to skip grades, and finally be promoted to the Royal Institute of Technology.
But these geniuses are always in the minority, and most of them end up in the military or politics.
When they were in the military camp, they were already divided into classes according to their personal qualities and hobbies. Those in the science class often ended up entering the Royal Institute of Technology, those in the military class entered the Royal Academy, and those in the literature class went directly into politics.
These young military camp students who have done nothing but study and train since childhood. To be honest, they can’t even do farm work. Why are you giving them a holiday during the busy farming season?
But the talents cultivated by this system are the top talents of this era in Li Xuan's mind!
Talents trained through other external channels, even students from the Imperial Academy, Imperial Academy, etc., these people still bear too many traces of this era, and they cannot be changed even if they want to.
But the students in the Young Army Camp are orphans, and they were basically recruited before they were ten years old. Their worldview has not yet been fully formed, and the education in the Young Army Camp is closed. All education systems, to be honest,
Li Xuan all copied the teachings of later generations, which was completely different from schools outside.
Therefore, the knowledge of the students who come out of the Young Military Camp far exceeds that of ordinary people outside.
Even if their level is placed in later generations, most of them are at the level of primary school students, but can a modern person at the level of a primary school student be the same as an indigenous person?
no the same!
What a huge difference!
After this year's joint examination, military camps across the country have also ushered in a new wave of graduations and admissions.
Many orphans recruited will officially enter the first grade in various military camps this year after undergoing a long or short preliminary training last year. Many sixth grade students will officially graduate this year, and some of them will
Some will enter the Royal Institute of Technology, some will enter the Royal Academy, and some will enter politics.
Speaking of which, one advantage they have over ordinary people is that they can join the army without passing the entrance examination of the Military Academy. You must know that every student in the Imperial Academy is basically an active-duty officer.
If you want to join politics, you don't need to take the imperial examination and you can join politics directly. Of course, their grades are generally relatively low, most of them are below the eighth grade.
But even so, these people still played a huge role in the science, military, and politics of the empire, and they also brought great influence.
Especially in science, students from the Young Military Camp account for more than 80% of the hundreds of teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology!
There is no way, because in this world, only the Young Military Camp currently has a complete education equivalent to grades one to six in later generations. Although other places have elementary schools, middle schools, preparatory courses and even universities in name, to be honest, even if
The science level of the Imperial College and Jinling University is actually not as good as the six-year education of Youjunying.
This is true even in the military. The students in the military class of the Young Military Camp have been studying military affairs since they were young. From childhood to adulthood, they have been learning how to fight. After arriving at the Royal Academy, after three years of complete study, from childhood to adulthood, they have learned how to fight.
He specializes in learning how to fight, and is completely different from other officers who became monks halfway, applied for martial arts schools when they were almost twenty years old, and finally entered the military!
Why is it different?
For an ordinary officer, in addition to his status as a soldier, he was probably a scholar before, and he knew some other life skills and so on, and he might even be proficient in them.
But an officer from a young military camp!
They know nothing but fighting!
The special education system of Youjunying created a special group of students in Youjunying, which then had an impact on almost the entire political, military, cultural and economic development of the Tang Dynasty. This kind of impact was what Li Xuan had always wanted to see.
If there were no students from the Young Military Camp, there would be no Royal Institute of Technology, and there would be no various inventions. Many things in Li Xuan's memory would not be replicated in this era, and the army would not have access to howitzers, flintlock guns, etc.
Steam engines and other such things are even missing.
However, in the early years, the students of Youjunying were mainly concentrated in the field of scientific research. Others, especially other officials in the court, had little feeling for them. However, in the past two years, after the students of Youjunying began to enter the military and political circles for the second term, they
It gradually attracted the attention of other officials.
Things are fine in the political world, but there are too many civil servants, and the total number of students in the military camp is only a few hundred, and most of them are low-level officials, so their influence is not great.
But in the military world, the influence of young military camp students is growing!
This can be seen from the situation of the Guards. At present, after graduating from the Royal Academy, most of the students in the Young Military Camp will enter the Guards to serve, and a small number will enter the Army. As for the Navy,
There are only a few students from the Young Military Camp.
This also led to more and more officers in the Guards coming from young military camps, and then temporarily occupying most of the positions.
From high-level positions such as chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the Guards to mid-to-high-level positions such as regiment commanders, deputy regimental commanders, staff officers, battalion commanders, and captains, students from the Young Military Battalion already account for more than half!
This is a pretty scary number.
This is the case with the Guards. At the same time, the Guards is small in size and has limited positions, so now some officers from young military camps are beginning to enter the army and navy to serve, and this has aroused the fear of many officers.
This is not because they are afraid of the risk of rebellion caused by their combination, but because these people threaten their position.
These officers who came from young military camps have been fighting since they were young and in college. They know nothing but fighting. Although military requires talent, after studying for so many years, even if they are commanding and fighting in a step-by-step manner, it is difficult to do it.
Not too bad.
What's more important is that these people are still young. The officers of the Tang Dynasty's army and navy are already young enough. Many of them are in their twenties and thirties, and there are not many who are over forty.
But among the students in these young military camps, the oldest is only in his early twenties, and the youngest is only fifteen or sixteen years old!
But more importantly...
These officers who came from young military camps are almost all school officers!
That's right, all officers who were born in the military camp will start as majors after entering active service!
Why, because they all entered the Imperial Academy first, and then entered active service after graduating from the Imperial Academy, and the students of the Imperial Academy will all be awarded the rank of major after graduation.
Imagine a group of school officers who are from a special group and are still very young. What role will they play when they grow up?
In response to this situation, Lieutenant General Lei Wan first wrote a book about the issue of young military camp officers, and then even Hao Bainian, who had never dared to participate in other affairs for fear of shocking his master and causing death, wrote a special article about it.
Feng Zhezi was given to Li Xuan, and he also talked about the issue of the young military camp officer.
The two military bosses took political risks and made secrets. Although the secrets were secret and not made public, this also shows the seriousness of the matter.
For a time, even Li Xuan himself had to re-examine his policy on the young military camp!