Under Zhu Xing's explanation, the three young Indians finally understood what Prince Zheng was.
A local lord with royal family background!
Moreover, this great lord even voluntarily gave up his territory just to come to the capital to study and take exams.
are you crazy?
The three of them followed curiously, only to see a group of teachers personally escorting King Zheng out.
Apparently, Prince Zheng had completed the admission procedures and was about to leave the school and return to his home. The emperor gifted a house in the middle of the capital specifically for Prince Zheng to study in. Living outside the school does not violate the school rules.
In fact, no one will care about violations...
Zhu Yuanzhang was very strict at that time, and Imperial College students had to take leave. If they took a long leave to go back to their hometown to visit relatives, a quota was also set. There was only a certain number of places allowed per month. If you exceeded the limit, you had to wait in line slowly.
As for now, more than 90% of the Imperial College students have never even been to the capital, let alone live on campus.
The principal didn't dare to let them all come because there were too many students and the classrooms and dormitories would explode.
The Imperial College in Beijing alone has tens of thousands of registered students, and only three to four hundred are long-term students. You can pay grain into the prison and donate 100 shi of grain to the court to become an Imperial College student.
After the school leaders sent Prince Zheng out, the supervisors quickly gathered around to pay their respects.
King Zheng, who was about to turn fifteen years old, bowed to everyone seriously and was polite and could not find anything to criticize.
"He is indeed a wise king!"
Watching King Zheng leave, the supervisors praised him one after another.
The next day, when there was no class, the principal suddenly called a meeting with all the students.
Yang Shen was no longer the principal, and returned to the Hanlin Academy to study Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Today, the Imperial College's sacrificial wine is Ouyang De. This person was one of Wang Yangming's early followers. After being admitted to the Jinshi, he studied physics and was appointed as the academic director of the Nanjing Imperial College.
, was promoted to the principal of the Imperial College in Beijing.
Ouyang De successively served as an official in the Imperial College in the north and the south. He had long been dissatisfied with the undisciplined academic style of the Imperial College. Wang Yuan proposed reforms that were in line with his wishes.
Seeing that the students had almost arrived, Ouyang De announced: "In compliance with the orders of Your Majesty, the Cabinet and the Ministry of Rites, today we will announce the reform strategy of the Imperial College——"
"Jujian students (Jiujian students) and Yinjiansheng (mengyin entering prison) usually do not need to go to prison to study, but they must report to the Imperial College every three years. Those who fail to report after the deadline will be expelled from the school. Those who are delayed due to Ding worry
exception."
"Sui Gongsheng (a scholar recommended by the local government) must come to the Imperial College to register within half a year. Those who fail to show up within the time limit will have their student status cancelled. Sui Gongsheng must study in the Imperial College on weekdays. Those who skip classes more than three times without reason will be expelled."
"Cancel the selection of tribute students (the routine encore of annual tribute), cancel the selection of regular students (who donate money and food and go to prison), cancel the selection of outstanding students (who have good calligraphy and good articles and go to prison). From now on, we will no longer select tribute and pay donations. Already
Selected tribute students must go to prison to study, and those who do not come within six months will have their academic status cancelled. Regular prison students and outstanding students, whether they come here or not, must abide by the rules and study after they come."
"Yisheng. Those who are the chieftain's children must come to the Imperial Academy to study. Those who fail to come after the deadline will be expelled and their fathers will be severely punished. Those who are sent by the state official to enroll will have an annual tuition fee of fifty yuan, accommodation fee of twenty yuan, and food at their own expense. Those who belong to the private school will be admitted.
If you are a student, the annual tuition fee is 100 yuan, accommodation fee is 50 yuan, and food and drinks are at your own expense."
"Restore Taizu's old system. You are not allowed to be absent from school for no reason. Those who return home to visit relatives must take leave."
Everyone is in awe, some are happy, some are upset.
The more than 300 people in front of me are very motivated at heart, otherwise they would not stay in school honestly. After all, there are still tens of thousands of students who will not come to Beijing.
However, the school spirit is loose, and those who are motivated are gradually slacking off. They are used to being carefree and do not want to be controlled for a while.
Ouyang De also said: "From now on, the Imperial College Supervisor will take an exam every three years. Those who are willing to serve as local officials can sign up to take the exam, and only those who top the list will be released. The Imperial College Supervisor's exam must be in Taige style, and the name of the test paper must be anonymized."
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As soon as this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar and immediately cheered.
Students from the Imperial College can become officials. Most of them are sent to other places to work as teachers, while a small number are retained in the capital as low-ranking miscellaneous officials, or even as low-ranking miscellaneous officials.
In the past, if you wanted to be assigned official positions, you had to either have connections or give money. From now on, you can only rely on test scores.
Students in school, no matter how playful they are, will always work harder than those who don't go to school. If they can become officials based only on their grades, their hopes will be even greater, and it will be a blessing from heaven.
Ouyang De continued: "Every year in the annual exam, the top three will be awarded 10 yuan, the fourth to tenth will be awarded 5 yuan, and the next ten will be awarded 1 yuan. This is a scholarship."
The students were even more happy. If you want a scholarship, you must take the exam. Those who don't come to school will definitely not be able to take the exam. They can only appear among the more than 300 people like them.
Ouyang De also said: "The subjects taught in the Imperial College have also been revised. The Four Books and Five Classics are still the main subjects, and "Shuo Yuan", Ling, Wu She, and imperial imperial edicts are still secondary subjects. The "Nine Chapters" are abolished, and the Huihui characters are abolished.
"Mathematics" has been added as a minor subject. Those who fail the annual examination will have to pay for their own meals, and the Imperial College will no longer provide free meals."
This is a reform related to students, and the reforms related to teachers have not been announced to the public.
In the Imperial College, there is a person who serves as a wine minister, equivalent to the principal; there is a secretary, who is equivalent to the dean of academic affairs; there is a supervisor, who is equivalent to the director of the student affairs office; and there is a cook, who is responsible for providing food and drinks for teachers and students.
The other high-ranking officials are all lecturers, including Ph.D.s, teaching assistants, academics, and graduates.
Doctors mainly teach the Five Classics and are equivalent to graduate tutors. Other teaching assistants are just professional course teachers.
After the reform, students will be evaluated based on their annual examination results and their performance will be evaluated every three years. They will then be promoted to academic, academic, and teaching assistants in order, up to a doctorate.
Ph.D.s are also evaluated for their performance every three years. The more Jinshi students they bring out, the more likely they are to be sent out. The Ph.D. with the best performance will definitely be sent to the county magistrate; the Ph.D. with the second or third performance can only work as a local miscellaneous officer.
As an official, it might be better to stay in the Imperial College and teach.
As soon as this regulation came out, Dr. Li Jing and Dr. Chun Qiu immediately complained, because there were the least number of students who treated these two classics.
Dr. Shijing was so happy that he couldn't find him, because in the annual Jinshi list, the number of Shijing scholars was the largest, and he was almost certain to be sent out to be a county magistrate.
The Doctor of the Five Classics in the Imperial College was only from the eighth rank, and suddenly he was promoted to the seventh rank as a county magistrate. It was like smoke rising from the ancestral graves.
Ouyang De said with a smile: "From now on, the Imperial College will have three Doctors of Book of Songs, two Doctors of Shangshu, two Doctors of I Ching, one Doctor of Spring and Autumn Period, and one Doctor of Rites."
The doctor of the Book of Songs was dumbfounded for a moment. There were indeed many scholars in the Book of Songs, but they were going to be divided into three!
On that day, two teaching assistants who were working on the Book of Songs were promoted to doctors of the Book of Songs, and one person each was promoted to Shangshu and Yi Jing.
The students they brought were first classified according to their textbooks, and then randomly divided into groups by drawing lots.
After allocating the students, the nine doctors immediately took exams to select their top students. From then on, they cared about each other meticulously and wanted to teach them all their skills, because it was related to their own futures.
If you fail to pass any exam this year, it would be embarrassing, let alone performance.
Even though there were many supervisors and Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, most of them did not come to school to study. Because the teachers were too bad. Teachers are judges, and students are also judges. It is not clear who should teach whom knowledge, so it is better to find a good teacher by yourself.
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The academic style of the Imperial College has improved at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The three Indian youths have gradually integrated into the school, but their homework is a bit bad and they have to start from elementary school.
However, there is no tutor in the Imperial College...
If you compare elementary school to elementary school, then the Imperial College only has junior high school, high school and university courses.
The three grades of Guangye, Chongzhi and Zhengyi can be understood as the first, second and third grades of junior high school. The requirement is to be proficient in the Four Books.
Sincerity, there are two grades of Taoism, which can be understood as the first year of high school and the second year of high school, studying the Five Classics and history books.
The grade of Suixing can be understood as a university. You accumulate credits through examinations. Once you have completed the credits, you can graduate and then wait for the court to assign you a job.
The Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty did have a credit system. There was an examination once a month, and it was divided into liberal arts and science. The Four Books and Five Classics were science subjects, and official articles were liberal arts. Those who were excellent in liberal arts and science in each examination were given 1 point, those who were excellent in science and weak in literature were given half a point, and the rest had no points.
Those who score eight points in the cumulative examination in one year can graduate from the Imperial College and be qualified to be assigned as miscellaneous officials.
How can three Indian students study in the Imperial College if they can't even understand the Three Character Classic?
Fortunately, they had money, so they secretly provided money and asked teachers or classmates to start a small business for them in private.
It has to be said that although these three people are from Brahmin nobles, they work harder than most Imperial College students. They forget about food and sleep, study and practice calligraphy, and give themselves extra classes every night. Except for the holidays on the first and fifteenth day of junior high school, they all stay in the Imperial College to study hard.
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On this day, the three of them paid to bring food and read in the cafeteria while eating.
It's hard to use chopsticks, so I just use a spoon to scoop out the rice.
The Korean student studying at the next table pointed at them and said with a smile: "This barbarian actually used his fingers to grab food and eat it when he first arrived. This shows that he used to drink blood like hair."
"Hahaha!"
The students at the next table burst into laughter.
The three of them were furious. They knew this Korean because they were all classmates in Guangye Hall (the lowest grade).
Wei Di, who had changed his Chinese name, did not dare to offend the Han students, but he was not afraid of the North Korean student. He stood up and retorted: "This is a school, only about knowledge, regardless of origin. You are so powerful, why are you still studying in Guangye Hall?"
?It should be in Suxingtang (the highest grade)."
The North Korean student seemed to be insulted and defended: "I just entered school and haven't had time to take the exam yet. I will definitely be promoted to Chongzhi Hall when I wait for the next monthly exam!"
Wei Di said sarcastically: "We'll talk about it after you get promoted."
The North Korean student glanced at the book in front of Wei Di and suddenly laughed happily: "You are actually still reading "Little Four Books". This is an elementary school textbook in North Korea and only children a few years old can read it. I heard that you are from Tianzhu.
, I guess people in Tianzhu usually only recite Buddhist scriptures and don’t know what sages’ books are at all. Just don’t stay in the Imperial College. You can have a better future by shaving your hair and becoming a monk.”
"Kuang Kuang!"
The other two young Indians also stood up. Because they were reading the Vedas, it would be a great shame and humiliation for them to become monks.
The Indians faced off against the Koreans, and the two biggest internet trolls of later generations gathered together, making netizens all over the world tremble.
As the saying goes, the universe originated in Korea, and Korea originated in India!
Seeing the three Indians getting angry, another North Korean student also stood up, and the five international students instantly got into a fight.
Han students cheered and shouted, holding bowls in hand and coming over to watch the excitement. The Imperial Canteen was filled with a happy atmosphere.