Sophia in January is still bathed in the embrace of winter, and the snowflakes are faintly visible, looming, as if the gods in the sky have inadvertently fallen to the mortal world.

Ferdinand walked out of the palace gates in the cold winter and went to the Bulgarian University to inspect it.

In this era, Bulgarian university students are synonymous with hard work, Ferdinand trained them as scientists, and the content to be studied is of course indispensable, and winter and summer vacations naturally do not exist.

The duration of all universities in Bulgaria is five years, and in just three years, they have to complete all the courses of future students, graduate students, and doctoral students, and the other two years are spent on internships.

I get up at 5:20 a.m. every morning, receive an hour of military training, wash up for ten minutes, and then start my morning class.

Classes end at half-past seven, then an hour for breakfast, followed by another one-and-a-half-hour class with half an hour between classes, and lunch begins at twelve o'clock at noon.

Meals are all the same, with classes starting at one o'clock and dinner starting at half-past four.

An hour of military training began at half past five, classes began again at seven o'clock, and school ended at half past ten, and before eleven o'clock it was necessary to finish washing and go to bed.

Well, they study all day long, there is only one day off per month, and all the holidays of the year do not add up to twenty days, this is the university life in Bulgaria.

No way, elite education is so strict, and this is also what Bulgarian educators made according to the training of the nobility with some modifications.

As a result, Bulgarian university students have become the most difficult university students in the world, but they have no reason to refuse, and universities in the whole country are the standard.

Even if it is a foreign student, except for a few geniuses, most of them are not as capable as locally trained college students, the facts are in front of them, who can blame this education model?

In addition to the heavy coursework, it is not easy to successfully graduate from university, and many professional graduation theses must be completed by themselves through experiments.

Otherwise, the tutor alone will not be able to pass the level, let alone fraud, everyone will be responsible for the authenticity of the thesis for life, and once a problem occurs, the graduation certificate will be recovered and heavily punished.

In this strict mode of education, there is also an unexpected gain, that is, Ferdinand has been king for so many years, and there has not been a single student demonstration!

The chaotic ideas of the outside world will disappear when they arrive at school, and they will not spread at all, and everyone is busy studying? Who would dare to be distracted and not want to graduate?

You must know that Bulgarian university students are now strictly selected, and even so, this graduation rate is still less than 50%, and the rest will naturally repeat the grade!

If you can't finish your studies after repeating a grade for three years, you can only go out to work and study at the same time, anyway, so far there is only one person who has obtained a graduation certificate after leaving school!

Of course, there is not a standard for everyone, geniuses can be an exception, if the ability is strong enough, you can take the graduation exam in advance, and it is also allowed to take leave to do research, and you can be exempted from the exam if you come up with great results.

The world war affected all walks of life in Bulgaria, but it did not affect schools, which were completely separated from each other.

Except for the occasional discussion with a few tutors and the newspapers ordered by the school, everyone almost forgot about the world war!

Ferdinand knew that young people in Form 2 were the most prone to rebellion. There must be many people who are dissatisfied with such a heavy workload now, why do they have to take so many classes, and foreign universities don't need them?

At this time, their senior brothers, or their mentors, will tell them, you are all the elite of Bulgaria, what is the elite?

Of course, the ability is stronger than others, since this is the case, it is natural that it cannot be treated according to the standards of ordinary people, and compared with the universities of ordinary people abroad, isn't it a shame?

And there are a lot of cases, the education of the children of the major old aristocrats in Europe, look at the high society is so strict, don't you want to be one of them?

In addition to these daily brainwashing, Ferdinand also visited several universities in Bulgaria almost every year, and of course, poured a bowl of chicken soup for the soul on these students.

Every time, after he went to inspect, the people below were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood!

The reality is in front of us, not to mention the treatment, and the status is still high, and now among the new nobles in Bulgaria, in addition to the army, there are the most scientific researchers.

Although in terms of the total number of people in the army, the proportion of people engaged in scientific research is high, almost reaching one-tenth of the total number!

Basically, as long as a big scientific research achievement comes out, someone will join the big family of the aristocracy, and the tangible benefits will become the driving force for everyone to engage in research and development!

This time was no exception, and despite the bitter cold, Ferdinand delivered an exciting speech.

Fortunately, the weather in Sofia is not too cold, and it is only a few degrees below zero today, and if it is minus twenty or thirty degrees in St. Petersburg, it is estimated that he will not be able to open his mouth.

Of course, Ferdinand was not a man of self-inflicted guilt, in fact, this is also the time when he examines the results of teaching, at least the results of military training.

Bulgarian students have military training classes every day, rain or shine, and it is naturally not a problem to stand in the snow for a while, and if there are people who can't endure this little hardship, then there is a problem with school education!

In fact, this kind of thing has never happened, military training is a Bulgarian tradition, it has been since elementary school, and it has long been deeply rooted in everyone's bones.

Habit becomes nature, and it's already a part of their lives. If you find a group of people of all ages in the suburbs who consciously do physical training every day, don't be surprised, this is their lifestyle.

"Your Majesty, do you want to rest for a while?" The squire asked

Ferdinand waved his hand, smiled and said, "No, it's so cold, the students are all standing on the playground, it's not good if it freezes!" ”

The old teaching director next to him, Adolph Cole, was a little dissatisfied, and said confidently: "Your Majesty, you are too worried, even if they let them stand outside for a day, these young men are still alive!" ”

Ferdinand smiled and said, "Of course, just kidding, the Bulgarians can't be so vulnerable!" ”

Ferdinand still has a lot of respect for this retired old man, who single-handedly created the education system of Bulgarian universities, and now it is being promoted to the whole country.

To put it simply, it is a strict and rigid system of rules and regulations, and a flexible mechanism, which copies the German education model and deepens the processing in combination with reality, so that Bulgarian education has become a system of its own.

Perhaps Ferdinand himself did not realize that Bulgaria has gone further and further in military ~ national education, and has penetrated into every corner of the country, especially the quality of soldiers, which far exceeds that of other countries.

Even anywhere, pull up a militia unit, they can go directly to the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness will not be much lower than the main forces of the major powers now!

In fact, the world war has been going on until now, and if someone studies it carefully, they will find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, it is a bit like the Germans in the civil war!

The British royal family is from a German aristocracy, and there are also a number of German nobles in the United Kingdom; The same is true of the Russian Empire, where the tsarist family is also from the nobility of the German region, and there are naturally many German nobles in the country; Bulgaria is still the same, Ferdinand is also a nobleman from the German region, and there are still many German nobles in the country!

Even if everyone is inextricably linked, but no one has ever been soft-hearted, this is very "European", relatives to relatives, war to war!

Even if the war was so fierce, Ferdinand still held his titles in Germany and Austria, Wilhelm II still held the title of the English, and it was revoked without saying anything, and a strong king like Ferdinand still dared to walk his relatives in the open!

For example, when his uncle Franz Joseph I died, he still sent a representative to the funeral and expressed his condolences, and no one felt that there was anything wrong!

Of course, there are also weak ones, like George V just gave up his rights, he was pinched, and he was also deducted a hat of collusion with the Germans, if it weren't for the good business of the British royal family before, the royalists were very powerful, and they would have become a republic!

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Under the attention of everyone, Ferdinand slowly walked onto the podium and began a passionate speech: "Students, teachers, today's day, I don't seem to have chosen very well, the cold wind is biting!"

But this world is so cruel that it will not change by our will! But can a mere wind and snow bring us to our knees? ”

"Can't!" Everyone said in unison

Ferdinand continued: "The will of man cannot change the world, but the power of technology can!"

From the first day you entered the school, you have been told that knowledge changes destiny and knowledge changes the world!

I will not repeat it, the world war is coming to an end, and the focus of Bulgaria is going to return to domestic construction again. But that doesn't mean the world is at peace!

This brutal war also explains to us the nature of this world, the survival of the fittest!

Ordinary people will seem to have lost the Allies because the Germans did not have a reliable ally and would be amazed at the strength of the Germans!

But it seems to me that on the contrary, the defeat of the Allies is that the Germans are not strong enough, the only factor that they will fail is that they are not strong enough!

Don't pin your hopes on the outside world, only your own strength is really strong!

What about us? Bulgaria is not even comparable to the Germans, at most it can only be on a par with Austria-Hungary, so what are we counting?

What if it's not strong enough? This question is about to be asked to you, our generation is about to become a thing of the past, we have fulfilled the mission entrusted to us by the times, and the future of this country has been put in your hands.

What does the future hold for Bulgaria? It's up to you, are you ready to meet the mission given to you by the times? ”

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