The major central cities, headed by Jinling Mansion, gave the first "power" to the academic examination candidates under the jurisdiction of other princes.
What is used is not swords, guns 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 try 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 people.
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.
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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 Madam Cai, Liu Cong, mother and son understood the righteousness and offered their country to Chu, 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 some people don't like the former... after all.
In the history without the White Rabbit Effect, Liu Ba was Cao Cao's biggest fan. When Liu Bei took away the Jingzhou team, Liu Ba surrendered to Cao Cao. Later, after Liu Bei occupied Jingnan, Liu Ba couldn't 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 thirteen years old, defected to the north alone. At that time, the Han Dynasty had not yet taken back the Xu County area, so Liu Ba thus
Entered the Wei Dynasty.
Liu Ba is now only seventeen years old. Among the foreign candidates, he is relatively young - most of the local candidates in Chu State are between fifteen and twenty years old, but the foreign candidates are a bit older.
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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 30 pilot universities in the entire Chu State can enroll a total of 10,000 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 38,000 people participated in the academic examination!
From other princes, more than 300 people came from Wei State 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 privately
There are also thousands of people who came to Chu alone.
If there are no accidents among the 1,500 people, the admission rate should be more than 1,000. It is not that the Chu State court gave them any preferential treatment, but... after all, if they are not sure, they will not come all the way and have to cross the border.
Register at the border and verify your identity before you can take the academic exam!
The only ones who received preferential treatment were the dozens of people specially sent by the governor-general 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 selecting smart and witty people from the groups that have returned home, and sending them to Chu for education.
The proportion of Wuxi and Shanyue people living in urban and rural areas continues to increase, and now exceeds 80%. There are very few people staying in the mountains and forests, and the number continues to decrease. However... the literacy rate and the level of craftsmanship mastered are still too backward.
If there is a real competition, how can these Mengtong who were still in the Neolithic Age a few years ago be opponents? Now basically those who can read and write Chinese characters and have more flexible minds have 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 included in the support plan one after another. However... after all, there are only more than 10 million people now, and not every "corner" is inhabited by people. Basically, the ones in the corners are the previous Han culture, all
Very few Shanyue and Wuxi people are accepted.
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 38,000 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 70,000 to 100,000 in five years.
In terms of the productivity of the "Zhenqi Era", Chu State's literacy rate and reading and writing rate 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 30% - this refers to people who are only "literate", that is, people who can understand common words and can write a limited number of characters, including their own names.
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 common information, while others can understand diaries.
Newspapers, some can understand the script, and some can understand the real article...
When it comes to folk newspapers in Chu State, they try to be in the vernacular.
In theory, most craftsmen's studies only require this level of "literacy" to complete their studies.
Among them, those who truly master the "reading and writing skills" account for about one-fifth of the literate population, that is, between 80 and 1 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 due to the Mongolian studies that started in the Jiangjunfu era - Baituke is still a person with the Mongolian master buff. Since the Jiangjunfu era, he has been guiding the development of Mongolian studies. After the establishment of the Chu State, he was even included in the list.
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 10%, and only 10% of them actually mastered reading and writing skills.
About 10%.
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 were no Chu State, the current population of Jingyang and Yangzhou should not exceed 200,000 people with literacy skills. However, Chu State has five
Times this.
In other words, among the "talented people" who have mastered reading and writing skills, 70% are civilians who should not have had this opportunity in the first place, and the remaining 10% are due to the immigration of wealthy families from other places - the literacy rate and reading and writing skills of these people are poor.
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 19th century, the male literacy rate was about half and the female literacy rate was about a quarter - note the word "literate".
If we only count the literacy and reading and writing rates of the population under the age of twenty, 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, there were many Chu students from other places in the large inns arranged. These Chu students were, firstly, to explore the background of the Chu candidates, and secondly, 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 the salted plums my mother has picked and try them."
"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 mentioning this to an outsider? Your mother is sick and I didn't give you a hen!"
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Most of the students in Chu State 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 "strike in the face" seems... to be more powerful than "a show of force"!