The honest man looked at the test paper of the Ministry of Industry in a daze, while Jian Yong and Liu Ye had already nodded and smiled approvingly, and silently put the test paper of the Ministry of Industry aside......

In fact, the test paper of the Ministry of Engineering should be the highest grasp of Bai Tu except for the Criminal Department - the multiple-choice questions are mainly geometric operations, and occasionally some superficial practical chemistry questions, as well as ...... A large number of subjective questions are solved in various ways of simulating "difficult problems".

If you are an experienced blacksmith or carpenter, you should be able to answer some questions in your familiar field.

Pang Tong also reflected to Bai Tu that the Ministry of Industry is not suitable for using the "imperial examination" method to screen talents, and hopes to "downgrade" to the "academic examination" in the future.

Now the township school and county school in Chu State, the former is free for the school-age and has a little subsidy, and there is really no content, basically just enlightenment.

The latter is a combination of "township school recommendation" and "independent enrollment", and a certain amount of tuition needs to be paid, but there is a subsidy from the county rite department for those who are excellent - this is also the main function of the county-level department of the Ministry of Rites, "Rite Division", and the judging quota and evaluation criteria are supervised by the Ministry of Officials every year.

Among them, the students who are "recommended by the township school" are generally from the kind of door that can't be colder and are about to freeze to death - ordinary "poor people" also have their own conditions for enlightenment at home, and few go to the township to learn enlightenment!

Therefore, as long as there is a "township school recommendation", the county school must accept it unconditionally, and some children of the wealthy families of the poor family, in order to get close to the situation of the imperial court, will also send their own schoolchildren to the county school, and they also have a certain foundation, and the county school can accept it independently.

Although a certain amount of tuition is required, the household department has a subsidy based on the number of students in each county school, and at the same time, each county can also pay additional subsidies from the county household division, but the subsidy ratio involves the coordination between the county civil division, that is, the county order, and the county household division.

Bai Tu recently heard that there are several counties that are not suitable for opening a large number of workshops, and are taking the route of being proficient in running schools, so they rely on high-quality county schools to show their faces.

As for the county school, which is now called a "university", it is recruited through "academic examinations" and "recommendations from officials who have more than 1,000 stones".

Although there is the right to recommend, it is limited to the same standards as the imperial examination......

That is to say, even if the hairpin family wants to have a large number of children enter the university, most of them can only take the exam by themselves - after all, there are many young children of the Dashi clan, and a Qianshi official can't recommend a few every year, unless they are direct descendants and family descendants, they can't be ranked at all.

In terms of county learning, many Dashi people actually don't look down on it, and now they are more active, and most of them still want to send people to "learn from each other's strengths", and then update their home learning.

It's an old tradition that's been cultivated for hundreds of years, and it's not so easy to change perceptions.

It is true that there is still a long way to go for township and county schools to surpass "family studies".

However, in the case of universities, it is already of a different nature, and most of them belong to the real practical teaching, and have regional characteristics......

Where there are many papermaking workshops, there will be a lot of paper-related content in the county school - not to teach you the first-line pulp, but to involve various chemical fields.

Where there are many smelting workshops, the county school is mainly based on the principles of various metal smelting and the properties of metals; Where large-scale livelihood projects are located, the content of bridge design and water conservancy design will be taught; The agricultural areas cultivated by the group, such as Poyang University, are mainly based on farming knowledge, such as seedling raising, Shennong essence ratio knowledge, etc.

Of course, limited by the number of "professors", only the top part of the universities, the real "masters" in various fields, and basically all of them are "professors" sent by the Ministry of Engineering, as for most of the other such universities, they still follow the textbook and rely on talent.

On the contrary, universities that are proficient in account statistics, criminal law analysis, interpretation of scriptures and meanings, manpower planning, etc., and directly point to the subjects of the imperial examination, not only have richer teaching resources, but are also more popular......

After all, these are the easiest directions for "literati" to transform, and at first glance they are related to "out of office", with the emergence of the imperial examination, the academic examination has gradually been valued by the Chu State.

Pang Tong's meaning is to delegate the "supplements" of the Ministry of Industry to the academic examination or to the university, instead of mixing with the imperial examination, which is difficult for the imperial examination and the Ministry of Industry.

That is, the Ministry of Industry is placed in the position of "above the university", not just a department of the Chu court.

Bai Tu also understood what Pang Tong meant, and was discussing the matter with the Sixth Ministry......

However, after looking at the imperial examination papers at this time, Liu Yi asked with some embarrassment: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, my generals have always wanted to emulate Qiang Chu, but ...... The ministers were a little puzzled, I don't know if His Royal Highness the King of Chu is willing to deign to solve his doubts? ”

"If it's a matter of the imperial examination, but it's okay to ask! This move is beneficial for a thousand years, and if everyone can convince their own families, this king will also be happy to see it. "Bai Tu looks very righteous.

After that, Chu will definitely go around publicizing, and if there are also imperial examinations in the Central Plains and the north in the future, I believe that the students who enter the country will also leave a seed of gratitude in their hearts for Bai Tu.

"The imperial examination of the state of Chu seems to be ...... Pursuing talent too much, and rarely considering virtue, and even not restricting the identity of applicants, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is not worried, and the officialdom of Chu State will ...... in the future Is it out of shape? Liu Yi's tone was not sarcastic, but really didn't understand, and he kept thinking about his words.

"Mr. Liu only knows one thing, but I don't know the other, the imperial examination of my Chu State does promote education without class, but the reason why Chu State dares to let everyone apply for the examination is the credit of the Criminal Department, or the risk borne by the Criminal Department...... If it is really a person who has committed a traitor and has not been found guilty or wanted, and can still participate in the imperial examination, how can it be the fault of the imperial examination? It's the fault of the criminal department! If you don't have a criminal offense, why do you need a recommendation?

As for the Zhongju after entering the office, acting contrary to the "Chu Law" and the way of Chu officials, there are also officials who have their own visits, if they commit adultery and are not discovered, it is also the fault of the officials, not the fault of the imperial examination. The imperial examination itself is just a fair and just means of selection. Bai Tu explained at length.

In fact, it is also because the situation in Chu is different from other regions......

The Han Dynasty was very "humble" about civil crimes, because he conformed to the clan system and handed over the ruling power at the grassroots level to the clan itself, as long as it was not to the official, the clan ruled on its own "small matters".

That is, the imperial court does not know who the "bad guys" are at all.

So what to do when you need "good people"?

Naturally, it is to find verified "good people" to recommend other "good people", and this kind of reliance on the grassroots clan system is also in line with Confucian morality.

"Humility" is one of the principles of the law, and the "Chu Law" also talks about "modesty", but the reform of the criminal department is trying to take back the judicial power of the people, and no one is allowed to touch it.

Therefore, the situation of the Chu State is different, the Chu State does not want the good people to recommend each other, but to find out all the bad people......

Those who can wander outside, except for fugitives, are "good people", and if there are "bad people" who have escaped the eyes and ears of the imperial court, it means that there is something wrong with the work of the criminal department!

As for the fugitives...... With the household registration system following, it is not so easy to hide the identity of the fugitive in the Chu State.

The reason why Liu Yi asked this was also because Liaodong was fooled and lame by the "celebrities" before.