In the fourth year of the Chu calendar, on the sixth, seventh, and eighth day of the sixth lunar month, the State of Chu 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.
Moreover, except for Yanwutang, other universities do not restrict one’s background, and registration qualifications are easy to obtain. All you need to do is pass the test of the township or county school, so it is very popular with poor families and even "real civilians"!
Some civilians who are not even considered poor, but who have just relied on hard work or continued to develop dividends, have the courage to join special departments and workshops such as the land reclamation army, and then become "rich households" among ordinary people. At this time
Also because some families have no need for too young labor force, they allow their children to attend county schools and are eligible to apply.
Among the more than a dozen universities, there are Jinling University, a comprehensive institution, Poyang University, a very practical and down-to-earth institution that focuses on agriculture, and Qu'a University, an encouraging professional college that favors navigation skills.
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It can also be seen from the composition of the applicants that most of the wealthy families send out their young children, and most of their thoughts are spent on management majors; most of the children of aristocratic families are in side majors; the distribution of disciples from poor families is relatively even; and the rich
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 is not surprised by this, and he doesn't think it is very practical. After all...the majors of the college are here, and anyone can learn them.
If you want to really benefit from inheritance, you have to 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 more powerful than many aristocratic families in terms of "trenchment". Especially after the rise of trade in Chu State, the wealthy families that focused on commerce and industry borrowed more from the east wind. On the contrary, most of the aristocratic families "
"Investments" are all in land, and the results are much poorer.
However, in terms of political status, some wealthy families who are purely "trench" are even inferior to some promising and humble families...
Firstly, it is because it wants to grow bigger and needs management knowledge. Secondly... it is also because wealthy families are striving for a higher political status, and management is also the most useful in the imperial examination!
As for the poor families, they generally have some political status. Several generations ago, the family had local officials such as eunuchs, or some distant relatives from 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, after reading the big data statistics of the academic examination, Bai Tu has already started planning with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites to further increase the development of "craftsmanship".
As the name suggests, it is a place to learn the skills of craftsmen. In comparison, although Nanyang University, where Huang Yueying is the honorary president, also offers a mechanical science major, and Poyang University also offers an agricultural science major, these types of teachings teach more 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.
, without delaying teaching.
In fact, there are already experimental craftsmanship schools being established, 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 "opening", 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, the advantage of craftsmanship is that it can be connected with private workshops and official workshops to train specialized talents in a targeted way. Naturally, this part of the "bundle training"...that is, the tuition fee, can also be paid in advance by the official or private workshops, and then a three-year contract is signed. , a five-year lease or even a ten-year lease is sufficient.
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, only Some folk craftsmen must be dissatisfied with the content that can be learned through simple practice, but...
Now it is easy for Bai Tu to withstand the pressure from the conservative nobles. 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 and large-scale, giant Qi machines, and several other important projects. , the craftsmen who have achieved great achievements have all been made marquis...
For these top craftsmen, the improvement in status is not just a slight improvement. Although they are just a few Guannei Hous who do not have the seal of food, it is already inspiring enough... These people must be of the same mind as the Chu State!
Moreover, workshop owners themselves increasingly need craftsmen with some knowledge, so middle-level craftsmen have also received many 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, so it was impossible for them 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 was also great, and many of them were already "really good" - although it was necessary to transfer this semi-monopoly knowledge that could produce practical benefits to a large number of people. The students announced it, but...they gave too much!
The original "study examination" in Chu State was planned to be based on universities, and each assessment would be conducted within a time limit. However, due to the improvement of Chu State's own national strength and 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, organizational science, or agriculture, 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 subjects are divided into four subjects - white studies, liberal arts Theory, arithmetic and name discrimination.
Needless to say, it is a compulsory subject, 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 subjects, 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 province, they need to go to the corresponding university. 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, it is only the guidance that has discovered the application of the underlying principles - due to the lack of talent accumulation, as long as it is not a scientific and technological direction that Pang Tong can personally take charge of, the speed of progress is very limited.
Especially in order not to go astray, the current research projects of the Ministry of Industry and "hard disk knowledge" only serve as a guide and point out the direction.
The fourth subject was announced two and a half years in advance by the Ministry of Etiquette. Apart from Bai Xue, there were no clear knowledge points. After all... we did not come up with a set of educational procedures to begin with!
Anyway, it is a hundred-point system, and ranking is used as the assessment standard, so as long as some questions are given from easy to difficult.
At the same time, during the academic examination period, many candidates with non-Chu nationality also poured into the various governorates and prefectures.
This is what Bai Tu had promised to other princes before. The exam content is the same. However, for the convenience of supervision, foreign candidates must take the exam in each designated state, which is usually the most developed city...
Nearly half of them came to Jinling, which made the good students in Jinling lively and interesting, and also made the candidates from outside have a long-term view.
For Chu State, Jinling is also the largest external display window - they are all located in the most prosperous city to receive foreign candidates, partly for this consideration.
after all……
When Chu State included Chu (bai) studies in the examination list, other princes were very dissatisfied. Liu Xie even wanted to announce that Han law would be used to prohibit anyone from going to Chu State to study and take examinations.
But in the end, Liu Ai and others stopped them and gave up. It was only a symbolic ban on spreading the Chu heresy in the Han Dynasty - no spreading, 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 is ultimately in the hands of the Chu State!
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, when it comes to learning, most people view it dialectically. After all, those who come all the way to study in Chu are basically the children of powerful families from other places. Memorizing it several times will not affect 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 in the first impression, then Chuxue will naturally penetrate into their hearts.
The right children of wealthy families all have their own interests involved and are born with a 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 emotional, which is also very common in Chu State, especially... after the ties of clan system were deliberately weakened.
At this time, Jinling, which was displayed in front of the candidates under the rule of other princes, broke everyone's understanding at first sight - 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.
It is a main road with pedestrian areas on both sides that allows eight carriages to run in parallel. It is a track that only allows carriages to travel. Taking the original city wall location as the "first ring", a total of three express lanes have been built, and the fourth ring on the outer ring is being built.
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For foreign candidates, it is actually a "dangerous" place.
In order to prevent the occurrence of a heart-wrenching incident such as a series of car accidents among foreign candidates, the Ministry of Etiquette also specially organized guidance personnel.
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.
Central and rural populations.
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, the floating population must have been huge, 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...
The registered population of Jinling Prefecture alone exceeds 500,000, and the permanent population within the Fourth Ring Road exceeds 1 million. Including the floating population, the number exceeds 1.5 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 that can be built and laid out by themselves 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 departments were even a little bit 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 one million, and the total population of the UK at that time was similar to that of Chu State today.
At this time, the medium-sized Zhenqi machine has been applied, 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 local urban population is concentrated.
, it is also completely comparable to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The neat but overly flat and solid ground, the perfect drainage structure, the rows of houses and workshops, the unimaginably lively market, and the most important thing is... each of them can even compare with the "commoners" in his own impression.
With "radiance", the groom's mental state is comparable to that of the average groom, and his clothes are too "gorgeous" for common people.