The major central cities led by Jinling Mansion gave the candidates for the academic examination under the jurisdiction of other princes the first way to "get off the horse".

It is not a sword, a sword, a halberd, but prosperity and heroism.

The bustling is the city, and the heroic is the spirit of Chu Min......

Because of the "prophet" function of hard disks, major central cities are trying their best to avoid the problem of stingy layout at the beginning of planning.

For example, the world's major central cities in later generations are often the first to develop, and they are the fastest to become obsolete - after all, at the beginning of the establishment of the city, the layout did not expect that there would be dozens of times the population influx and so many vehicles in the future.

For example, the first subway, which appeared in London in the first half of the 19th century, actually ...... If it weren't for the fact that the road was too congested in the first place, there would have been no need to work so hard to build the subway so early!

For example, urban drainage facilities, security facilities, and workshop sewage facilities were added in a timely manner across the era at the beginning of the design, which can be regarded as saving a lot of "tuition".

The waterworks or something, for the time being, can't be repaired, the large-scale real gas machine is still a scarce resource, and it can't free up more "hands" to repair more livelihood projects, but ...... But there are easy alternatives.

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"Huh? What is it? Where does the water come from? Liu Ba looked curiously at a teenager on the side of the road, who was pedaling his foot, causing water to gush out of the water pipe in front of him.

Yes, although there is no real waterworks in Jinling today, iron and cement water pipes have been laid within the Third Ring Road to divert water from the upstream river, and then water pipes and manual pumps have been installed in various settlements and workshops.

In residential areas, an average of three households have a water pump pipe, which can pump water by themselves, while in the workshop area, even some workshops that use a lot of water and are not close to water themselves will install small real gas pumps.

It is already common in Jinling, but ...... To outsiders, it looks a bit of a novelty!

Cao Pi on the side was a little worried about Liu Ba's embarrassment, so he pulled him aside and explained a few words in a whisper.

Liu Ba is actually a native of Jingzhou, and he has not been in Jingzhou before, but when Mrs. Cai and Liu Cong's mother and son understood the righteousness and dedicated the state of Chu, Liu Ba went north very rarely to vote for Cao Cao.

After all, the king of Chu is not a Chu coin, the latter is liked by everyone, and the former is ...... After all, there are still people who don't like it.

In the history of the absence of the White Rabbit effect, Liu Ba was Cao Cao's iron fan, when Liu Bei took away the Jingzhou team, Liu Ba voted for Cao, and later after Liu Bei occupied Jingnan, Liu Ba because he could not return to the north, in order to avoid Liu Bei, he also lived in exile in Jiaozhou for a while, and later joined Shu Han under the recommendation of Zhuge Liang.

And now in the world of Chengji, Liu Ba is more "resolute", when Jingzhou voted for Chu, Liu Ba, who was only thirteen years old, went to the north alone, when the Han court had not recovered the area of Xu County, Liu Ba entered Wei.

The current Liu Ba is only seventeen years old, and among the foreign candidates, he is relatively young - most of the local candidates in Chu are concentrated in fifteen to twenty years old, but the foreign candidates are all older.

After all, for the local candidates in Chu State, this opportunity is very ordinary, every year, unless there are several roads and they have to apply for the exam for a long distance, otherwise the cost of accommodation is not so exaggerated, and for foreign candidates, this is an opportunity to understand the skills of Chu State, and the sense of mission and cost are greater, so they are more sure of people.

The first batch of 30 universities in the entire Chu State this year can enroll a total of 10,000 students - compared to modern universities, the scale is a bit of a copycat, but it is ...... After all, this is just the beginning.

However, in the entire Chu State, there are more than 38,000 people participating in the study examination!

The princes of other parties, Wei alone came more than 300 people, counting the other Han court princes, as well as Liaodong and Jiaozhou students, a total of nearly 500 people, these are only sent by the officials, as for those who came to Chu alone in private, there are also thousands of people.

If there is no accident among the 1,500 people, the admission rate should be more than 1,000 people, not because the Chu court gave them any preferential treatment, but because ...... After all, if you are not sure, you will not come all the way, and you will have to register and verify your identity across the border before you can take the exam!

The only people who have preferential treatment are the dozens of people sent by the Bozhou and Yizhou Governors' Mansions, as well as dozens of people from the Wuxi Department and the Shanyue Department.

In recent years, Yizhou and Bozhou have also sent a lot of children to various county schools in Jinling and Huiji, and these children can be said to have "experienced great changes" - they were still in the Neolithic Age when they were children, and they had to learn the knowledge of the Iron Age when they were young, and they would strive to master the skills of the True Qi Age when they were young, and then return to their hometowns for construction!

Yizhou and Bozhou have also been in the groups that have already returned to their hearts, selecting smart and witty people and sending them to Chu for education.

The proportion of Wuxi people and Shanyue people living in urban and rural areas has been increasing, and now it is more than eighty percent, and there are very few people left in the mountains and forests, and they continue to decrease, but ...... The literacy rate and the level of craftsmanship mastered are still too backward.

If you really want to compare, how can these Mengtongs, who were still in the Neolithic Age a few years ago, be opponents? Now those who can basically read and write Chinese characters and have a more active brain have been called......

Now is not the time to talk about fairness, and it is the purpose of the Chu State to increase and balance the development speed of various places as much as possible.

Uneven development will lay huge hidden dangers and even reverse the progress of urbanization.

In order to better promote integration, a total of hundreds of special candidates will basically be admitted - all of them are in the majors required by the local area, and ...... There is no need to sign a special agreement to understand that after graduation, they must return to their hometown for construction, otherwise they will be disliked.

As for other remote places, they will also be included in the support plan one after another, but ...... After all, there are only more than 10 million people now, and not every "corner" is inhabited.

Directly selecting elites among them and teaching Chu Xue can also be regarded as an excellent means of assimilation.

If calculated in this way, the acceptance rate of the 38,000 candidates in Chu is about a quarter......

However, considering that the universities are also being improved and are still in the five-year program, the total number of students in the university will reach 70,000 to 100,000 in five years, including the new universities that will be opened in the future.

In terms of the productivity of the "True Qi Era", the literacy rate and literacy rate of Chu State were low, but in terms of the end of the Han Dynasty, Chu State's "literacy" was already terrifying.

Because of the process of urbanization, the literacy rate of Chu is close to 30% - this refers to only "literacy", that is, people who can read commonly used words and can write a limited number of words, including their own name.

Many so-called wealthy households, butchers, merchants, grassroots generals, etc., are actually at this level, and there are also great differences within this level - some can only understand account books and common information, some can read Di Bao, some can read scripts, and some can understand real articles......

In the face of the people's newspapers, Chu tried to be in the vernacular.

Theoretically, most craftsmen only need this level of "literacy" to complete their studies.

Among them, about one-fifth of those who actually have the ability to read and write, that is, 80 to 1 million people......

Although the next 10 years will be an explosion in literacy and literacy, the current number of universities and the large number of crafts that will be offered will be enough to meet the demand.

This is still due to the Mengxue that started from the era of the General's Mansion - Bai Tuke is still a person with the Buff of the Grandmaster of Mengxue, since the era of the General's Mansion, he has been guiding the development of Mengxue, and after the establishment of the Chu State, it was included in the assessment indicators of local officials.

Ten years ago, because the degree of urbanization was lower, the significance of ordinary farmers achieving "basic literacy" was even less, and the literacy rate of the Han people was less than 10%, and only about 10% of them really mastered the ability to read and write.

Now under the other princes......

The proportion is actually a little larger, after all, the literate ones are basically still literate and passed on to future generations, and the illiterate ones have died a lot, all thanks to the decrease in the denominator!

However, there is only the state of Chu, which belongs to the real explosive growth, after all, in terms of proportion, if there is no state of Chu, the population of the two states of Jingyang now, in terms of the ability to read and write, should not exceed 200,000, but the state of Chu is five times as much.

In other words, among the "talents" who have mastered the ability to read and write, seventy percent are civilians who should not have been able to do so, and one percent are due to the migration of wealthy families from other places - the literacy rate and literacy mastery rate of these people are extremely high, which will increase the proportion.

Among the commoners, the part of people who have mastered the ability to read and write is basically concentrated in the age of thirteen to twenty, or even ...... A quarter are women!

In France at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literacy rate was about half for men and about a quarter for women – "literacy", note.

If only the literacy rate and literacy rate of the population under the age of twenty are calculated, the state of Chu is actually not inferior.

It's just that on the whole, it's a lot weaker, after all, the foundation is weak!

But even so, it has also had a great impact on these foreign candidates......

At the beginning, because in the large inn arranged, there were many Chu students from other places, these candidates from outside Chu came to explore the bottom of the Chu candidates, and secondly, to expand interpersonal relationships, and most of them took the initiative to communicate.

However, I don't know if I don't communicate, but this exchange found that many of these Chu State students are ......

"You're from Yingchuan? I know, my father said, you have a lot of readers! ”

"Oh, my mother's salted plums, you can take them and taste them."

"My name is Wang Jin, the gold of gold...... Rich gold, not a rebellious yellow scarf, the word harvest, what is your name? ”

"Don't talk to him! Don't look at his bumper harvest, his family is a profiteer, and last time he built a wall for my house, he used second-hand bricks to ......"

"Are you interesting? Why do you mention these to outsiders? Your mother is sick, didn't I send you an old hen! ”

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Most of the beings of the Chu State are very enthusiastic, but such unnutritious and rustic dialogues account for the vast majority!

At the beginning, these young talents from outside Chu secretly despised them, but as they met more and more students from the Chu State, the hearts of these young talents from outside Chu became more and more heavy......

This "slap in the face" seems to be ...... More powerful than "dismounting"!