In June, it was time for the annual big test of the Chinese Empire.

Since the founding of the Chinese Empire, the country has launched a universal nine-year compulsory education program, and it has been ten years since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty in 3976 (1876).

The first batch of children who entered school that year have now graduated from junior high school and reached the age of 15 and have become legal citizens of the Chinese Empire. If you make a mistake after the age of fifteen, you will have to bear the relevant legal responsibility.

This is stipulated by Li Weiguo, and it is also formulated in response to the scope of general recognition of the current people. In later generations of China, only when they reach the age of 18 can they be considered adults and have legal responsibility. But in fact, it was formulated according to the national conditions at that time, when the Chinese people were enslaved by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and foreign powers for hundreds of years, and their education level was generally too low, and they did not understand what legal responsibility was, so they were only 18 years old and considered adults, which was related to the general IQ of the people at that time. In the 21st century, the crime rate of sixteen or seventeen-year-olds has exploded, and their IQ has already surpassed that of most adults, and even adults in their thirties and forties are beyond the reach of dust, so the adult standard of 18 years old has long been inapplicable.

For Li Weiguo, the Chinese Empire he established did not have a century-old shame, and the Chinese Empire, which gave priority to education, has generally improved the IQ of the people, especially the popularization of nine-year compulsory education, so that every citizen of the empire knows the concept of law. Therefore, it is impossible for the Chinese Empire to implement the 18-year-old adult rule, but according to the general IQ of the current imperial citizens, it is finally determined that 15 years old is considered an adult. In fact, this is also a common international regulation, and even in many European and American countries, the age of 12 is considered an adult, and he has to bear legal responsibility.

In this way, the citizens of the Chinese Empire who graduated from junior high school meant that they were adults, and when they took the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, once they cheated, they would bear legal responsibility.

The large-scale nine-year compulsory education system of the Chinese Empire ushered in a peak period of the high school entrance examination in the tenth year, and more than 10 million middle school students across the country took the high school entrance examination, which made the Ministry of Rites of the Chinese Empire very busy.

This is only for the students who took the high school entrance examination, and there are more than 30 million graduates who gave up the high school entrance examination and went directly into social work.

This is also the result of the first compulsory education in the Chinese Empire ten years ago, when many citizens of the Chinese Empire were illiterate and were forced to enter schools by the imperial government, and even grandfathers in their 40s took classes with their grandchildren.

Even so, there are too many students in the first batch to enjoy the nine-year compulsory education policy, 10 million, how scary!

However, it is only this batch, and the number of students taking the next high school entrance examination will drop significantly, not more than 6 million, and then decline year by year, until it returns to the normal level, that is, it is proportional to the birth rate, and then it will stabilize.

In order to meet this large-scale national high school entrance examination, Li Weiguo attached great importance to it, and selected teachers and outstanding students from various departments of the empire, high schools and universities in various state capitals, and temporarily sent them to middle schools in various places to carry out invigilation and marking work.

In the past, this kind of marking work was handled by the county masters, and there were only a few hundred people every year, but now it has exceeded 10 million all of a sudden, and those who have been county masters were suddenly scared to pee, but fortunately there is no need for the county master to approve the papers, otherwise they will not be tired to death!

"With more than 10 million candidates, how can the imperial court settle them?"

"Who knows, this level is the level of talent back then, and I'm afraid the court won't assign work!"

"Not allotted? What's the use of going to school? ”

"You don't understand this, why can't you be literate now? You have to use a machine to knit a sweater, how can you operate a machine if you don't have the culture! ”

"What's that, practice makes perfect, you can't practice more!"

"I'll go and practice more! Wait until you have practiced the Year of the Monkey! At most, a skilled master can be trained out of a hundred uneducated workers, and a lot of time has to be wasted practicing skills for him. And among a hundred educated workers, as long as they demonstrate to others once, they will basically be able to, and if you spend a little time training, you can train dozens of good hands, can you compare? ”

"No wonder the empire is developing so fast, this is the gap between culture and culture!"

Outside the high school entrance examination center, countless ordinary people gathered, all of whom are the parents and family members of the children, all looking forward to their children's good results in the exam.

The concept of "everything is inferior, only reading is high" in the feudal era is still the lever and motivation in the hearts of the common people, and it will not change for a long time, especially in the current period when the Chinese Empire is eager for more talents, and going to school is the way out.

"Look, the military vehicle is coming!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and everyone turned around, and soon found two large military trucks whirring into the test center.

I saw a platoon of soldiers jumping down from the rear car, loaded with guns and ammunition, guarding the surroundings.

A few officers got out of the truck in front and entered the examination room with a few sealed boxes.

"What's going on? Why did the soldiers come over for the student exam? ”

Some people ask questions, and most people don't understand.

However, there were still capable people in the crowd, and soon someone said: "This year's high school examination questions were selected by His Majesty the Emperor himself from the question bank of the Ministry of Rites and Education, and before that, no one knew the content of the test questions." In order to prevent the leakage of the test questions, the imperial army personally escorted the test center to ensure that the test questions were distributed at the same time in all examination rooms within the empire according to the distance between the test centers, the first departure for the long distance, and the last departure for the nearest distance, so as to achieve a unified national examination. ”

"Wow, it's the first time I've heard of it, it's His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Yes, the empire's territory of more than 20 million square kilometers and tens of thousands of test centers can unify the test time and test question content, which is the real fairness!"

"That is, in the past, this kind of test questions were all written by the county master himself, and people with money and power can get the content of the test questions in advance, so that the poor scholars who have no money will be named Sun Shan."

"I also heard that the invigilators of this high school entrance examination are all high school and university teachers, and even the names of the candidates are sealed, I'm afraid it will be difficult to cheat!"

"You still dare to cheat? Do you know that the students of the high school entrance examination are all 15 years old, and they are already legal adults, and once they cheat, the imperial court will not show mercy at all. Do you think that when you were a primary school student in the past, cheating was just a scolding from the teacher? Cheating in the high school entrance examination is a jail sentence! ”

Only then did everyone understand that they were scared into a cold sweat, and a few parents hurriedly flashed people.

On this day, ordinary people all over the Chinese Empire are paying attention to the high school entrance examination.

In the imperial capital, there are also many citizens of the imperial capital around the middle school affiliated to the Lifan Academy, all anxiously waiting for their children to complete the middle school examination papers.

At this time, more than a dozen military vehicles arrived, and in addition to the military vehicles that came to deliver the exam questions, there were also hundreds of foreign youths who came down from the military vehicles.

As soon as they saw the white-faced and red-haired foreigners, the common people immediately began to discuss.

"What's going on? Why are there so many foreign devils? ”

"I don't know, but there seems to be a problem with the age of these foreign devils, some old and some young, the old ones are estimated to be forty or fifty years old, and the young ones are only seventeen or eighteen years old."

A bold citizen asked the vigilant soldiers, "Dare to ask Brother Jun, what are these foreigners doing?" ”

The soldier saw that it was a common man who asked him, and although he was not very happy to deal with it, he still replied politely: "It is a student from Europe and the United States who came to study in China, and the Li Fan Yuan asked them to take the imperial high school entrance examination, and only if they passed the high school entrance examination, they were allowed to come and study." ”

The crowd was in an uproar.

"What's the situation, foreigners still want to come to our Chinese Empire to study?"

"That's a novelty! Aren't foreigners awesome to bomb the sky, when did they become modest! ”

"It's not for our Imperial Divine Army to beat it!"

"Yes, if you are not modest, you will beat them out!"

Ha ha......

Everyone laughed, and when the soldier heard this, he was also very proud, so he took the initiative to say: "Let me tell you a piece of news, I heard that His Majesty the Emperor summoned the ministers of the Imperial Court, and stipulated that foreign devils who want to study in our empire must pass the Chinese level 4 and 6 exams set by the Ministry of Rites, primary school students must pass Chinese level 4, middle school students must pass Chinese level 6, I heard that there are Chinese level 8, Chinese level 10 or something. I heard the officials of the Imperial Court say in private that His Majesty appointed the person who wrote the question in the fourth and sixth level Chinese language test and tortured these foreign devils fiercely. ”

Poof......

The common people were immediately happy, especially those talents who had learned Baguwen and laughed heartily.

"Haha, it's funny, I actually let the foreign devils rely on Baguwen!"

"That's right, these foreign devils want to steal our Chinese culture and torture them to death!"

Soon, the foreign students started the exam, and when they saw the Chinese test paper full of eight-strand texts, they were all frightened, and some fainted on the spot.

As a result, the first batch of international students who came to China were all unqualified and were all returned.

The governments of Europe and the United States are very speechless, which is clearly a deliberate manipulation of them, preventing European and American students from studying high technology in the Chinese Empire.

However, the Chinese Empire is too powerful, and all kinds of black technologies (black technologies in the nineteenth century) make European and American countries envious, jealous and hateful, and if you want to learn these black technologies from the Chinese Empire, you have to learn Chinese, and sending students to the Chinese Empire is the fastest way.

However, the cliffs of the Chinese Proficiency Test (CET-4 and CET-6) set by the Chinese Empire scared students in Europe and the United States.

But in the end, the European and American countries still held back, the more the Chinese Empire made it difficult for them, the more they were not allowed to go to the Chinese Empire to study, which meant that this path was correct, and if they wanted to learn the scientific and technological knowledge of the Chinese Empire, European and American countries could only increase their efforts to learn Chinese.

As a result, the governments of major powers, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the United States, have issued new education syllabuses, requiring their respective countries to offer Chinese courses from junior high school, and to list Chinese courses as the main subject, and it is a compulsory subject for further education.

Amid the complaints of the people of Europe and the United States, major colleges and universities have opened Chinese courses, especially students who want to study in the Chinese Empire, they must learn Bagu Wen, and they must pass the Chinese language test and the Chinese oral test.

The Times reported on the front page.

"English is the universal language of the world, French is the communication language of the European upper class, and now we have to add a modifier in front of English and French: once, because from this moment on, Chinese is the universal language of the world, and Chinese is the communication language of the European and American high society, we have to learn Chinese Chinese, because we want to surpass the Chinese Empire, this is a threshold that must be crossed."

The French daily newspaper Paris also published a commentator's article later, saying: "The Chinese Empire is too bullying, they don't take the Bagu Wen, but they force us to take the Bagu Wen." We can't even learn ordinary Chinese characters, and we have to learn the more esoteric Bagu Wen, which is simply a fantasy. However, no matter how hard and tired we are, we have to endure it, the Chinese Empire is too powerful, they have a monopoly on the world's automobile industry, a monopoly on the world's telecommunications industry, a monopoly on the world's medical industry, they have the hardest steel, the most powerful warships, the most ferocious artillery, everything that makes us envious and jealous, if we don't learn Baguwen, we will never get all this! ”

The media of various countries are the same, scolding the Chinese Empire for setting up Chinese language level 4 or 6 shamelessly, but in the back they are persuading their respective citizens to accept this reality.

In short, all countries understand that if they want to get those black technologies from the Chinese Empire, they must learn Chinese and study in the Chinese Empire, otherwise it is really not enough to rely on intelligence bureaus like MI5 to collect information.

The high school entrance examination in the Chinese Empire was soon over, and with it came the college entrance examination, followed by the graduation of college students.

Now is the time when the Chinese Empire is in ruins, and both high school graduates and college graduates can be assigned a good job.

Of course, it is also very easy for those junior high school graduates to find jobs, after all, the current population of the Chinese Empire has just recovered to 300 million people after ten years of development, but it governs more than 20 million square kilometers of land, and the seven major industrial bases in the local area have entered a period of rapid development.

Twenty years ago, the British Empire's industry was booming and labor was in short supply, and it was aggressively recruiting cheap labor from the Chinese Empire. Nowadays, the scale of the Chinese Empire's industry is far larger than that of the British Empire, and the shortage of labor can be imagined, and it is reasonable to recruit cheap labor from abroad.

The thoroughness of the culture and education of the Chinese Empire and the rapid rate of cultural popularization made the European and American countries extremely jealous.

Of course, European and American countries also hate it with a toothache, because the Chinese Empire was able to invest huge sums of money in popularizing education, and most of the money spent was plundered from European and American countries, such as war reparations, but the most important thing is the illegal banknote trade, which is the same as directly robbing the central bank vaults of various countries, which gives governments a headache, especially the United Kingdom. (To be continued.) )