Writing a chemistry textbook is undoubtedly a big project, and I have never written a textbook alone.

There are many disadvantages to this, such as the fact that it is easier to miss certain content, or not to find errors in it.

But Li Yuanji had no choice, he could only do this.

In addition, because of the long time that has passed, Rao is Li Yuanji, who has a good memory, cannot accurately recall the content of the original middle school chemistry textbook.

Not to mention that it was written according to the upper and lower volumes, and more problems were found along the way.

For example, many of the materials used in experiments are not available in this era, some of which Li Yuanji knows, but more of them are unknown to him.

For a person who only has a junior high school level and teaches himself high school knowledge, how high can you ask of him?

So, a month later, this set of chemistry textbooks was officially completed.

Why do you call him the Four Likes? Very simple.

This is based on some existing materials compiled by Li Yuanji, and some materials that are not available, or materials that he does not know, can only be eliminated from the textbook.

At this stage, these students can only use the existing knowledge, and then explore step by step, and discover those materials that they do not know.

It's a stupid way, but it's the only way, unless you can find a chemistry genius, or just copy all the textbooks about chemistry in the future.

Faced with this set of imperfect textbooks, Li Yuanji fell into deep thought.

In the end, a cautious decision was made.

Chemistry is not mathematics, mathematics can be learned by everyone, even if it is proficient, it is nothing more than to shine in a certain industry, or it can save more time and create more convenience for the people.

Although chemistry is the same, what is different is the essence of both.

A math master, even if he has some bad ideas, what can he do? Fake accounts? Or do you fool people?

But what about the chemistry masters? Once this kind of person has bad intentions, who dares to guarantee that they will not make some big news?

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February is the busiest month for the major colleges, and it is also the most stressful month.

Before the New Year's Day holiday, abnormal exams were organized in various places.

This exam is now the norm, and for most students, it's a regular final exam.

And for students who are about to end the semester, this is a preliminary examination before they take the imperial examination.

Every student who enters the academy has to go through this step, and no one can surpass it, unless they can refuse to participate in the scientific examination, but how many people who come here do not want to participate in the scientific examination?

The unified test papers are kept by the army, and all the test papers are escorted from Chang'an, which almost eliminates all the possibility of leaking questions.

And all candidates in every state capital have to take this test, which is a thorough test and an exam that determines the future of every student.

Because not everyone is qualified to enter Chang'an to take the exam, this examination is actually to fight for a qualification to enter Beijing to take the exam.

All students in a state capital take the exam at the same time, and then rank them by points, and the number of students who can take the exam in each state is almost fixed before that.

Therefore, if you want to be eligible to participate in the scientific examination, you can only ensure that the results of this preliminary examination are among the best, at least to ensure that you can be within the number of places.

Of course, this does not mean that those students who have not qualified for the scientific examination will just say goodbye.

The state capitals and county governments also need a large number of talents, and those who participate in the scientific examination will be regarded as the central officials of the imperial court after passing the examination, and these candidates who have not obtained the qualifications can take another examination in various places.

This is similar to the scientific examination, but the yamen they took were different, and they were admitted to each yamen of each state capital.

As for those who fail in both exams, then they can only do nothing, and if they have the conditions, they can repeat it, and then continue the exam next year.

But repetition is not free, but has to pay a relatively high tuition, and the school's subsidy or anything is gone, that is, repeating means self-paying.

In principle, there is no limit to repetition, but if the repetition time is too long, it will inevitably have a certain impact on the examination.

As a result, most candidates choose to abandon their studies or repeat them for just one year.

At the same time, in order to prevent the loss of talents, there is also certain policy support for these students who fail to make the list, such as after graduation, if they do not repeat, they can get the opportunity to take an exam every three years, and the repetition will be counted from the last exam time.

Although there is little hope, there is hope.

At this time, all the large and small academies were also divided into two batches, one was to prepare for the exam in Chang'an, and conduct surprise training in the last month.

In fact, it is the training that Cheng Zhijie did before, mainly to let the candidates have a number in their hearts, so as not to panic when they get it.

The other is to start training towards practical use, although from the academy to the yamen, there will not be too many requirements for them in the early stage, but the yamen is not a nursery school, and while training new people, it is natural to ensure that the work can be carried out smoothly.

Therefore, after the start of the New Year's Day, these students are actually within the assessment range of each yamen, and in the two months between the March exams, they will also be evaluated.

The results of this evaluation will largely determine whether they will be admitted in the future.

Although there may be some favoritism and malpractice in this, I have to admit that this kind of thing is unavoidable, on the one hand, we can only increase the intensity of supervision, on the other hand, this evaluation is actually not the most important, this is just a reference, and it will ultimately be decided by grades and interviews.

However, this year's situation is a little different, half a month ago, the imperial court issued an order, requiring the major academies to select qualified people among the students graduating this year and send them to Chang'an.

This has never happened since the establishment of the academy, but since it is an order of the imperial court, it is necessary to do it.

And for the academies, the benefits are not impossible, at least these people who are selected do not need to participate in the imperial examination, and their original places will naturally be given to others.

As for the other concerns, this one is completely overthinking.

The reason why the Four Great Academies are called the Four Great Academies is because the teaching strength here is the strongest and the students are the best.

The number of places in the imperial examination every year, but in the state capital where the four major academies are located, basically more than ninety percent of the places are monopolized by the four major academies.

But the problem is that the selection conditions are a bit too harsh.

Good grades, integrity, fast acceptance of new things, bold, careful, dare to put forward different opinions, strong practical ability.

To be honest, if it weren't for the order of the imperial court here, the major academies would even think that the emperor was choosing a son-in-law.

But they didn't dare to disobey the emperor's order, so they could only pick up the graduates over and over again, and then learn about the evaluation in many ways, and only after confirming that it was correct did they report the list.

However, the list was not immediately reported, but sent with the students, and unlike those students who rushed to take the exam, they had to go to the official post station, and there would also be troops to escort them, as for what they were asked to do, no one knew this.

Zhai Liang is one of them, in terms of grades, his grades in the academy are not good, and he even belongs to the type of crane tail.

But the tail of the crane is only relative, after all, the four academies are the four academies, and it is the same as the later generations of Tsinghua University and Peking University to randomly pull out a student and put his results in a high school in a small county, which is definitely among the best.

Anyway, according to this test, the students with the worst ranking in Luozhou College ranked 346 in the entire Luozhou Academy, and there were 320 graduates of Luozhou Academy, that is to say, in the entire Luozhou, out of more than 3,000 students in the same class, only 25 of them surpassed the students with the worst grades in Luozhou Academy.

Therefore, Zhai Liang's results are actually quite good.

Of course, the fundamental reason is because of the extremely harsh conditions in the order, otherwise, no matter how you choose, it is impossible to choose Zhai Liang, a guy ranked two hundred and five.

Moreover, out of the 320 graduates, only seven met all the requirements.

That's more embarrassing......

"Gong Chen, you said that if we only send seven people over, will Your Majesty have any opinions?" Jin Yu was full of black lines on his forehead, and asked with a sad brow.

Jin Yu is the vice president of Luozhou Academy, in charge of teaching, he used to be an old Confucian student, but his thinking changed relatively quickly, and he surrendered to Li Yuanji in time, so he mixed up with the position of vice president of Luozhou Academy, and Jin Yu was transferred from Chang'an, and he has lived in Chang'an for many years, and his connections are naturally in Chang'an.

Although Confucianism is now being suppressed, it is only the stubborn part that is suppressed, and Li Yuanji did not deliberately suppress those who can see the facts clearly.

Chen Gong's full name is Chen Junmei, who was also born in Confucianism, but he only held a position in the court in his early years, and then he has been idle at home, has a high reputation in Luozhou, and has also helped Qu Tutong and Duan Lun and others at the beginning, so he sat in the position of dean.

However, this dean is more of an idle position, and there is a vice president in charge of many things, and what he needs to do is to ensure that there is no chaos.

"But what's the rumor?" Chen Junmei knew that Jin Yu had some ways to hear the news that ordinary people couldn't hear, seeing him ask so melancholy, how could Chen Junmei not know that there was a secret in this?

Of course, even if Jin Yu didn't ask, he could know that there was a secret here, and the court directly issued an order, could this be a trivial matter?

Jin Yu nodded, he did inquire, but he didn't dare to spread the word about it, otherwise he would only be unlucky, so the only thing he could do was to nod his head and confirm.

"People are fine but not many, we are all in accordance with Your Majesty's order to select talents, as long as we do not fool Your Majesty, presumably Your Majesty will not blame us for waiting." Chen Junmei shook his head, although he didn't care about anything, he was also personally involved in this matter, and knew that the seven people selected were absolutely in line with the requirements.