When a prince and two princesses were welcomed in the Chinese Palace, the third imperial examination of the empire was also officially held.

Since 1856, when the Dengji Enke was held, Lin Zhe had no intention of the traditional three-year course, and Lin Zhe, who was trying to recruit more scholars to join him, held the imperial examination every year.

At the same time, the method and content of each imperial examination have changed.

For example, during the first imperial examination, only the content of the examination was changed, and the model was basically modeled after the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

At present, the third imperial examination has carried out a large-scale reform of the model, of which there are three major changes, the first is the abolition of the traditional student examination and the township examination, and the imperial examination has been changed to two stages: the provincial examination and the general examination.

At the same time, the Ming and Qing dynasties abolished the names of children, students, lifters, and jinshi!

Secondly, candidates have higher academic requirements, all candidates who want to participate in the provincial examination, must have a primary secondary school degree or above, and those with excellent results in the provincial examination can get the quota to participate in the examination, and at the same time, they can arrange to work in various prefectures and counties according to their personal wishes, and serve as grassroots clerks in prefectures and counties.

Anyone who wants to participate in the examination, one is to participate in the provincial examination to obtain the quota of students, in addition to the graduates of higher secondary school or above, to participate in the examination, can be assigned to various departments to serve as public office, of course, this starting point is much higher than the provincial examination of students, generally the section chief starts.

The reason why there are academic requirements for candidates is to a large extent to promote a new education system.

At present, the empire has established a complete education system of county primary schools, government middle schools, provincial higher high schools, and imperial universities based on the traditional county schools and government schools.

What we need to do now is to better promote, for example, after graduating from the prefectural middle school, if you are willing, you can go to the prefecture and county to apply for a job as a clerk below the level of clerk. Once students of provincial high schools have graduated, they can directly obtain basic public service assignments below the provincial level without examination.

For example, once a student of Imperial University graduates, he or she can directly go to the Organization Department to sign up for a public position, and the treatment is generally directly arranged to be trained in important departments according to the individual's graduation results.

However, the current system is still relatively chaotic, and there is no talk of completely abolishing the old imperial examination. This is also a helpless thing, the imperial examination has a history of thousands of years in China, and it is deeply rooted in people's hearts, if Lin Zhe says that he will directly abolish the imperial examination, it is estimated that it will cause a large-scale backlash, so Lin Zhe adopted a step-by-step promotion model, first to engage in the traditional model of the imperial examination, and add the content of new disciplines.

Then there was a gradual change in the model of the imperial examination, so that the imperial examination evolved into a model similar to that of the civil service examination in later generations. This can be seen from the fact that those who pass the general examination and the provincial examination can serve as basic public positions such as section members, which is to prevent students from taking the high school entrance examination to directly serve as county magistrates and other senior executives, and at the same time, it is also to further expand the number of admissions.

After all, if the students of the middle school entrance examination were directly arranged by the traditional Qipin County Order or occupations of the same status, the empire would not have so many official positions for them, but if they were only arranged to serve as grassroots clerks, then even if there were tens of thousands of more people every year, they could be consumed.

While gradually changing the mode of imperial examinations, it is also to further promote the new education system, so that people can gradually form the concept of studying step by step. From the county primary school to the provincial secondary school, and then to the provincial high school. And then to the Imperial University, step by step, it will be able to train basically qualified modern scientific talents.

For education reform, Lin Zhe has always been more concerned and cautious, so he did not say that the imperial examination would be abolished outright, and then he would make a big deal about the modern school system. He took a cyclical and gradual approach, gradually replacing the traditional education system with a new one.

The third imperial examination after the Chinese Empire entered its third year was also held in this context, of course, if according to Lin Zhe's idea, the third imperial examination was directly positioned as a national civil service examination.

Hence the special edict. It is required that the number of students admitted to this subject should be appropriately increased, indicating that the number of candidates admitted to the examination should exceed 1,000, and the provincial examination of each province should increase the number of students according to the vacancies of existing civil servants in each province, for example, the number of students admitted in Jiangsu Province this year is expected to reach 1,500.

However, it is worth noting that the vast majority of the 1,500 people admitted are qualified, and those who can be assigned to various prefectures and counties to serve as grass-roots clerks are not all qualified to participate in the examination as well as the people of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and those who can have the qualifications to participate in the examination are basically only the top hundred.

After all, two or three years ago, when the first imperial examination was held, many students had never been exposed to new disciplines, but after two or three years, new disciplines have become compulsory subjects for students, and the level of basic science knowledge in China has been improved to a certain extent.

By the end of the examination in September, a total of 1,008 students had been admitted.

This group of students will be enriched to the grassroots level of the central and provincial administrative agencies in the future, mainly at the level of section members, and the students assigned to the prefecture and county institutions will be promoted by one level and serve as deputy section chiefs and so on.

But in addition to these normal allocations, there are a small number of students who have given up public office and continue to apply for Imperial University, why?

Because the first batch of graduates of Imperial University officially graduated this year, although these graduates were also assigned the same as those who passed the examination, but the departments and ranks they were assigned were generally much higher, and any graduate would be assigned to the central department as a section chief.

It is said that the first among the graduates of the first Imperial University, that is, Wen Changlin, because of his excellent grades, after his resume was sent to the Organization Department, he was also competed by people from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Several other outstanding graduates were also competitive, and even companies were not to be left behind, and began to recruit these newly baked Imperial University graduates with high salaries.

You must know that before them, China was not without talents with modern scientific knowledge. For example, the graduates of the military academies of the navy and the army, these military cadets who have been systematically trained for several years actually surpass those graduates of the so-called imperial universities or graduates of higher schools in terms of scientific and cultural knowledge.

But these are all military cadets, and they graduated and went directly to the army. There will be no exile in the civil service or in society.

So now there are only less than 100 graduates of the Imperial University have become fragrant buns, and those who want to enter politics can basically start in a high position, although not everyone is rushed to ask for it from Wen Changlin's side, but most of them can start as section chiefs in the weight department to enter the career, just this step is less than those ordinary candidates in the provincial examination and the general examination have struggled for at least five or six years or even more than ten years.

If you want to engage in business, several large domestic enterprises will give generous treatment, for example, Linde Machinery Factory has recruited four graduates of Imperial University, all of whom are science-oriented talents, and the initial salary is directly comparable to the level of junior engineers. The monthly salary is as high as more than 100 yuan a month.

If you still want to continue your studies, you can get a place to study abroad at public expense through the assessment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, and then go to Europe and the United States to study, and return to China after three or four years of study.

This inaugural Imperial University graduate is so sought-after. It is no wonder that those students who passed the examination were willing to give up ordinary public office and then apply for the Imperial University.

It's just that the admissions of this imperial university are stricter than the entrance examination. This can be seen from the acceptance rate, there are more than 6,000 candidates for the examination, and 1,000 are finally admitted, which is about a 6 to 1 admission rate, but there are more than 4,000 candidates at Imperial University, and only more than 300 students are admitted in the end. The rate is only about 7.5 percent, and it is worth noting that basically the students who pass the examination are basically graduates of the three high schools, and very few students who apply directly can pass.

The entrance exam to Imperial University is much more difficult than the entrance exam!

In this way, people will find that they want to really get the best starting point for their careers. It is best to graduate from the Imperial University, and if you want to enter the Imperial University, you had better be admitted to a higher school first, and then study systematically for three years, otherwise you basically do not expect to be admitted.

If the provincial examination and the general examination in the imperial examination are to recruit tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of civil servants for the country, then the Imperial University is to train the hundreds of elites at the top of the empire!

There can be no comparison between the two!

Perhaps in a few years, there are three best choices for the younger generation of Chinese students:

The first is to apply for the Army Military Academy.

The second is to apply for the Naval Academy.

The third is to apply to Imperial University.

It can be seen that the status of today's Imperial University in the hearts of young students is far from being comparable to that of traditional Guozi, when I saw the scene of thousands of people flocking to apply for the Imperial University.

Lin Zhe knew that it was time to scale up higher education.

Nowadays, a huge empire, there is only one imperial university, only three high schools, which is obviously unable to meet the needs of students, you must know that there is a government middle school in a prefecture, and there will be hundreds or thousands of prefecture middle schools in the whole country, and when the time comes, their way to higher education is only a few high schools, which shows that the competition will be very fierce.

Now that the new education system has been initially formalized, after two or three years of reserves, it is also the initial accumulation of a small number of teacher resources, and it is time to expand higher education.

"The new university can be built in Shanghai, which is the most dynamic place in the empire after all, and the local finances are relatively good, so it can provide the predetermined local financial support for the new university, and it can also broaden the horizons of the students!"

Lin Zhe specially called Jiang Daoquan for the sake of higher education, you must know that Lin Zhe can't see him on weekdays, because this person is really a bit conservative and stubborn, basically a representative of the stubborn conservative faction in the heart, although such a person is also useful, so Lin Zhe has always kept him, but it doesn't mean that Lin Zhe likes to see him!

However, Jiang Daoquan obviously didn't have this awareness, and when he heard Lin Zhe say that he wanted to set up a new university, his eyes lit up! (To be continued......)