In April of the seventh year of Xingqian, when the spring flowers were blooming, as usual, by the small lake in the Royal Park, a group of young men in student shirts were talking about something. These young people are not just students of Qinghe Academy, the cloisonné school emblem they wear on their chests indicates their identity, they sit on the ground, or drink, or write poems, all like the scholars and literati of the old days, enjoying the spring light in the garden here.

And when these students write poems, the richly dressed maids around them will laugh and cheer for them, and serve them a glass of wine, in fact, their identities are all prostitutes, and there are even many Persian maids who are very different in appearance from the Han people, but these eye-catching Hu maids can always attract the interest of men, for these students

"Bachelor of the Academy!"

All you need to do is wear that badge, and when you enter the brothel, you will be treated well. There, they were rightfully regarded as the best scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and in the future, they would either become doctors or ministers, and they were unusual young people.

Of course, only a very small group of people will become such figures. However, this does not prevent them from being sought after by prostitutes like the new science and technology scholars in the old days, although at this time, whether it is the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, where famous prostitutes used to gather, or the Huayuanfang in Zhongdu, there are only foreign prostitutes such as Annan maids, Korean maids, Siamese maids, and Persian maids, but it does not prevent these women who were bought from foreign lands when they were young and trained to be trained into women who are both beautiful and artistic. These women, just like those women on the banks of the Qinhuai River back then, chased after the young scholars, attracted their attention with their talents, and finally gained freedom.

Perhaps, even if Zhu Mingzhong, who was bent on turning Qinghe Academy into a university and bent on using new education to change China, did not expect that these young bachelors would be like the scholars in Nanjing back then, and they would also indulge in women's sex, which seems to be inevitable for young people who are in their youth.

However, the fact that a bachelor's degree in a university is now generally accepted by society and is considered to be "no different from a jinshi" seems to be in line with Zhu Mingzhong's earliest thoughts. Over the past seven years, he has invested tens of millions of dollars in transforming China through education. After the abolition of the thousand-year-old imperial examination, a large number of libraries were built throughout the country as a compromise, and a number of academies were planned in Beijing, Nanjing, Wuchang, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Kunming, and in the future, Xi'an. Those colleges will become universities with Daming characteristics and cultivate a large number of outstanding college students for Daming. Of course, at this stage all this is planned,

Now for Daming, what really matters is the establishment of tens of thousands of social schools equivalent to primary schools, as well as the education of county schools and government schools equivalent to middle schools, which is the most basic national education, and as for higher education with academies as the core, it still takes time to improve. But even so, after seven years, or ten years of hard work from Qinghe Academy, the Ming Dynasty has basically built the framework of modern higher education.

It's just a framework, after all, "ten years of trees, a hundred years of people", the time it takes to train a college student is even more time than that of ZTE in the Ming Dynasty. According to the educational process of later generations, a college student needs to study at least six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, three years of high school, and three or four years of college. It takes a full sixteen years to produce a college graduate.

As for whether it is qualified or not, it needs to go through further selection.

Although the scientific knowledge of this era is far less than that of the 21st century, hundreds of years later, and the curriculum from social studies to seowon is relatively simple, the process cannot be shortened too much, six years of social studies, two years of county studies, two years of government studies, and two to three years of seowons, which also takes 12 or 13 years to train a college student.

However, after the abolition of the imperial examination, a large number of young scholars equivalent to secondary education, after a year of preparatory study, made up for the shortcomings in arithmetic and other aspects, so that the Ming Dynasty cultivated the first batch of college students in the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time.

In fact, the first batch of college students trained by Qinghe Academy were students in the academy that year, and many of the students could not reach the level of middle school students outside of Chinese studies. Even so, after the initial screening, more than hundreds of people graduated.

In those years, the students who graduated from Qinghe Academy had a promising future, some of them were aspiring to be officials, some of them became soldiers, and of course, some of them became the first batch of scientists in the real sense of the Ming Dynasty.

Most of them originally just thought that one day they would be able to become officials and officials, but they didn't expect that in just a few years, the world would have undergone earth-shaking changes.

It is also in the past few years that those students who have been reused out of the academy have laid the foundation for Daming's current emphasis on practical learning. It's just that, after a decade of hard work, the number of college students is now becoming saturated to a certain extent.

However, it seems that no one has seen this, but not everyone has not seen it, when these students who have just entered the school are rarely indulged here in the name of going to Qingqing.

"That's how I entered the academy."

Zhao Yuzhen, who was a little drunk, looked at the classmates around him, but suddenly fell silent. They both went to the same preparatory school.

Lin Boqin waited for his next step, and when he saw that he didn't speak, he asked,

"How do you say that? Why did you get into the academy like this? ”

"Nothing. I mean, even if you go to the academy and become a bachelor, it's not a big deal. ”

Although anyone can run a college, it is not so simple to get the qualification of awarding a "bachelor's degree" given by His Majesty. To a certain extent, the bachelor is at least equivalent to the tribute students of the past.

Although this tribute student did not have a public meal, and even had to pay for food and lodging out of his own pocket, this did not prevent people from taking a bachelor as a jinshi, after all, this is the most important channel to become an official.

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

"That's what I thought."

Zhao Yuzhen looked at the classmates who were already a little drunk around him, and then said to his friend.

"I, like you, want to change myself through studying in the academy, after all, "there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book". ”

"It's the same for everyone."

Lin Boqin replied, throughout the ages, isn't it for this reason that people have studied for this reason?

That's what almost everyone who reads for thousands of years. Even in the Xingqian period, nearly ten years after the abolition of the imperial examination, the scholars of course also had this ambition, without the slightest suspicion or a little discount. In any case, when I came to Zhongdu, I wanted to "learn literature and martial arts, and goods with the emperor's family".

Of course, whether they will take the civil service examination in the end is another matter, in fact, although 70% of the students who apply for the academy are with the intention of "learning to become a scholar and martial artist, and the goods are with the emperor's family". But in the end, after a few years of college education, they often make other choices, even going overseas.

"Because every year there are new bachelor's graduates."

Zhao Yuzhen said with some concern.

"Of course, there are more and more, there are more than 9,600 prisoners in Nanjing during the Yongle period, and now there are only so many in Sanjing Guozijian? However, there are more than 10,000 people, plus the academies across the country, there are at least 30,000 bachelors, about the same, more than 10,000 per year! ”

And there will be more in the future!

From the school's doctorate, Lin Boqin knew that the scale of the academy would only grow larger and larger in the future, and those specialized schools might also be merged by other colleges.

"Only when bachelors are very rare, as when His Majesty raised the army, is it possible to be sent to build bridges as soon as the bachelor of engineering graduates, and the bachelor of medicine can be the dean immediately, and this era will be gone forever."

The graduates of Qinghe Academy at that time were lucky, they would be reused as soon as they graduated, and those who studied medicine could even directly become the director of the hospital, and now they are only doctors.

"That's true, there's no way around it."

Lin Boqin nodded seriously.

In any era, people in the initial period are very advantageous, and in the past ten years, the changes that originated from the river have been unprecedented in thousands of years. In particular, the rise of industries centered on maritime trade and textiles has created an urgent need for specialized personnel and expertise throughout society.

It was also in this wave that a large number of Western studies were introduced into the academy, which also allowed the academy of Daming to cultivate practical talents accordingly, and based on this, the practical Western studies were further developed in Daming. And those specialized talents are naturally welcomed by the government, at least ordinary enterprises. Even if students are not officials, they can also get rich remuneration in enterprises, and all this is the reason for the rise of Shigakuin and vocational schools led by Cheonghe Academy.

But now, it seems, the situation is changing.

"Hey, we were born too late."

Lin Boqin sighed.

"But there should still be a chance, after all, although there are more and more bachelor's degrees, there is a lot of demand for all kinds of talents in the society, just like the railway you learned, this railway will definitely need a lot of people in the future, and the construction of the railway requires a lot of iron, iron smelting needs coal, iron ore is needed, which requires a large number of talents to explore the line, ironmaking, mining...... Anyway, I think that although we missed the good times, this bachelor will be needed at any time. ”

Zhao Yuzhen's answer made Zhao Yuzhen stunned, obviously his friend had also thought about this problem, and he had seriously considered this problem.

When he said this, Zhao Yuzhen, who was stunned, nodded and said.

"Let's hope so......"

However, although it seems that the mouth is suddenly opened, there is another problem in his heart, and the reason why he thinks about this problem is entirely because of the eldest brother's sentence "There are so many bachelors now, you have to think about what to do in the future".

Because of this, when an officer came to the school last week to recruit among the freshmen, Zhao Yuzhen was moved. Not only if he signed, he could enjoy the same treatment as the officer cadet of the military academy, but more importantly, as long as he passed the grades, he would be awarded the rank of warrant officer after graduation, and from then on, he would have no worries about food and clothing, and even after retirement, he could choose between land and retirement money.

Maybe he had already made a decision in his heart, but he didn't dare to reveal it on the surface. I always felt that if I told my friend, I would be a little sorry for him, after all, he made another choice.

Sometimes, in a person's life, he is always faced with a variety of choices and opportunities, and at this time, Zhao Yuzhen made another choice, he looked at the classmates who flirted with prostitutes, and couldn't help but sigh at this kind of youthful frivolity, of course, he was still hesitating for that choice in his heart.

After all, it's a lifelong choice.

"Hey, have you heard of it, if, if we want, we can go to the Chaotian Pavilion of the Nanyang Kingdoms and apply for funding, basically, as long as the students of the academy go over, there will be at least ten taels of silver a month for subsidies!"

Suddenly, Zhao Yuzhi heard his classmate say this.

The Nanyang countries also need bachelors, although they have established the academy, but still need a variety of talents, and the easiest way is to dig people from the Ming Dynasty, so they are also willing to sponsor the students of the academy to study, compared to the royal encouragement money, their hands are more generous, ten taels per month, not including tuition, such a pay of course needs to be rewarded, in return, they need to work in the sponsoring country after graduation, at least ten years of work. In fact, Zhuxia is to exchange funding for these young students to immigrate to Zhuxia.

"Yes, I heard that the students of Qinghe Academy can open up to 30 taels!"

For a while, people began to envy the classmates of Qinghe Academy, thirty taels, enough for an ordinary family to live for two years, and this is only their monthly income. In fact, not to mention thirty taels, it is ten taels of silver, which is enough for them to live a rather luxurious life in Zhongdu.

"Oh, it's too far, although Zhuxia is Huaxia, but after all, it's too far, although the world is big, there is a place that can compare to my Ming......"

The exclamation on the side made Zhao Yuzhen just smile bitterly in his heart.

After entering the academy, I realized that they could face so many choices, not only domestic choices, just like the scholars of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in addition to the Ming Dynasty, there were other choices.

"Actually, it's not bad to go to Nanyang Zhuxia. Ahead...... Isn't that what many people want to aspire to? ”

Lin Boqin said suddenly.

"Just like in the past, if you take the imperial examination, you don't have to go to other places to be an official in the end, Guangxi and Yunnan are all possible, and now you have to go to Heishui and Pingnan, since you can go to such a far place as an official, Nanyang, what is far away? Anyway, as long as you can get someone to the ground......"

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