In the fourth year of the Chu calendar, on the sixth, seventh, and eighth days of the first month of June, the state of Chu began the enrollment examination of thirty designated experimental universities.

Unlike the imperial examination, those who pass the examination are qualified to enter the school, so the participants are younger.

And in addition to Yanwutang, other universities do not restrict their origins, and the registration qualifications are easy to get, as long as you pass the test of the township or county school, so it is very popular with poor families and even "real civilians"!

Some civilians who are not even considered poor, but just rely on practical work, or continue to develop dividends, have the courage to try to join special parts and workshops such as the wasteland army, and then become the "rich" among the ordinary people.

Among the more than a dozen universities, there are colleges with a complete range of categories, such as Jinling University, Poyang University, which is biased towards agriculture, very practical and down-to-earth, and Qu'a University, which is an encouraging professional college that is biased towards navigation skills......

It can also be seen from the composition of the application that most of the wealthy families are sent out to give birth to children, and most of their minds are spent on management majors; Most of the children of the family are in the middle of the profession; The disciples of the poor sect are relatively evenly distributed; The wealthy are mainly in various practical majors......

Among them, the children of the family are more like they came to buy teaching materials, with the intention of learning back and arming them into their own families.

Bai Tu is not surprised by this, and he does not think that this is very practical, after all...... The majors of the college are placed here, and anyone can learn them.

If you want to really have the convenience of inheritance, you must also learn deep enough, this to that extent, it is also a good thing for the Chu State, anyway, the government-run university will always be open to everyone.

The choice of the wealthy is also very easy to guess, many of these wealthy families are talking about "trenches", which is more than many families, especially after the rise of trade in the Chu State, the wealthy families who are heavy on business and heavy industry have borrowed the east wind, but most of the "investment" of the family is on the land, and the results are much worse.

However, in terms of political status, some pure "trench" wealthy families are even inferior to some promising poor families......

First, it needs management knowledge to become bigger, and secondly, it needs to ...... It is also the wealthy who are striving for a higher political status, and the management class is also the most useful in the imperial examination!

As for the Hanmen, there are generally some political statuses, local officials such as Taishou who have been in the family several generations ago, or distant relatives of some families, but most of them lack inheritance, and they flock to Chu at this time, hoping to absorb all the knowledge they can absorb.

And the ordinary rich ......

After all, most of the "mud legs" who were despised not long ago are very pragmatic.

Considering this situation, Bai Tu has also started to plan with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites after reading the big data statistics of the academic examination, and further increase the development of "craftsmanship".

As the name suggests, it is a place to learn the ability of craftsmen - in contrast, although Nanyang University, where Huang Yueying is the honorary president, also offers a major in institutional science, and Poyang University also offers a major in agricultural science, but these are more about teaching principles, and the original intention is to encourage innovation and design.

In the art of craftsmanship, it is completely practical, so that students can learn to use common tools and operate those bulky real qi machines, that is, they can become competent for more technical workshop positions, even if they do not know all the words, and do not delay teaching.

In fact, there are already experimental crafts in the establishment, mainly the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites are jointly responsible, and the Ministry of Rites is only responsible for the procedures and preparations for the "start-up", and the content is summarized by the Ministry of Industry.

In contrast, there is no need for conditions such as learning exams, as long as you pay money, you can go - Chu State can't take out more money to subsidize craftsman learning.

However, when it comes to the benefits of craftsmanship, it can be connected with private workshops and official workshops, and specialized talents can be cultivated in a targeted manner...... That is, the tuition fee, there are also official or private offices to pay in advance, and then sign a three-year, five-year, or even ten-year contract.

This move actually attracted a lot of criticism, but the pressure was not too great.

After all, in today's era, craftsmen often have a "heritage", otherwise there would be no such sayings as "passing on men but not women", "church apprentices starve to death of masters", and now it has suddenly become completely open, and only accept some restraints to learn the content, there must be some folk craftsmen who are dissatisfied, but ......

Bai Tu now wants to bear the pressure of the old scholars, it is simple, there are a large number of supporters who are willing to open their eyes for Bai Xue, what pressure can be caused by the craftsman who is not high in status?

What's more, most of the really top craftsmen are in the Ministry of Industry - Doctors of the Ministry of Industry, the fourth-grade officials in the same official system of the Chu State, and even a few craftsmen who have made great contributions in medium and large-scale and giant real qi machines, as well as several other important projects, have been made marquis......

For these top craftsmen, the promotion of status is not a star, although it is only a few guannehou who have not sealed the eup, but it is already encouraging enough...... These people must be of the same mind as the Chu State!

Moreover, the workshop owners themselves are increasingly in need of craftsmen with some knowledge, so that the middle craftsmen have also gained a lot of benefits in this regard.

In contrast, not only did the craftsmen ignore their voices, not to mention that the craftsmen were originally a group that benefited a lot after the rise of the workshop, and it was impossible to dislike the King of Chu on a large scale.

And soon these middle and low-level craftsmen found that because of the sharp increase in demand, the demand for teachers in craftsmen is also very large, and many of them have become "really fragrant" - although it is necessary to announce these semi-monopoly knowledge that can produce practical benefits to a large number of students, but ...... They give so much!

Originally, the "study examination" in Chu State was planned to be assessed within the time limit by the university, but because of the improvement of Chu State's own national strength and transportation convenience, and in order to further promote the new system, Bai Tu and the Ministry of Rites finally decided to conduct the study examination with the "Tao" as the unit.

This is also beyond some people's expectations, but it is the same as the original propaganda of Chu State - the study examination only assesses the basic knowledge, and has nothing to do with the major to be applied for!

As long as the university in the same way, the assessment content is the same, and all the roads are divided into four subjects - white science, literary theory, arithmetic and name discrimination.

Needless to say, the content of the compulsory test, and arithmetic are also as the name suggests.

The literary theory mainly assesses the ability to read and write, and the name debate ...... Derived from famous scholars and debaters, it is actually the so-called "logic" of later generations.

The four subjects have the same weighting, and all take a 100-point system.

After the examination, apply for specific universities and disciplines, and then those with higher scores will be preferred.

Because the academic examination of each province is on the sixth, seventh and eighth days of the first month of June, for candidates, they can only choose one of them for the academic examination, and ...... If the target university is in another province, you need to go to the corresponding province to take the academic examination, and you cannot recruit students across the "road", and you can only apply for which university you can apply for if you take the academic examination in which way.

This limitation is also limited by the speed of information transmission, and there is no way to do it.

After all, in terms of radio, it is only the guidance that the underlying principle is applicable - because of the lack of talent accumulation, as long as it is not the scientific and technological direction that Pang Tong is personally responsible for, the speed of progress is very limited.

Especially in order not to deviate, the research projects of the Ministry of Industry and the "hard disk knowledge" only play a guiding role and point out the direction.

The four subjects are two and a half years in advance, and the Ministry of Rites has already announced them, except for Bai Xue, there are no clear knowledge points, after all, ...... It's not a set of educational processes that come out in the first place!

Anyway, it's a 100-point system, and the ranking is used as the assessment standard, so as long as there are some questions from easy to difficult.

At the same time, during the study examination, many candidates from non-Chu nationality also poured into the prefectures of various provinces.

This was promised to the other princes beforehand, and the content of the examination was the same, but for the sake of supervision, foreign candidates had to take the examination in each of the designated states, and generally in the most developed cities......

Nearly half of them came to Jinling, which made Jinling a good student, and also made the candidates from outside look long.

For the state of Chu, Jinling is also the largest window for external display - it is in the most prosperous city to receive foreign candidates, and part of it is for this consideration.

After all......

When the state of Chu included the study of Chu (bai) in the examination list, the other princes were very dissatisfied, and even Liu Xie wanted to announce that he would use the Han law to prohibit anyone from going to the state of Chu to study and take the exam.

It's just that in the end, it was stopped by Liu Ai and others, and it was only symbolically forbidden to spread the heresy of Chu in the Han Dynasty - it was not allowed to spread, but many people went to the test...... Well, anyway, it's okay to learn if it's not just right!

Although the other princes were not as fierce as Liu Xie, most of them were also very dissatisfied, after all, they just wanted to prostitute the techniques of the Chu State for nothing, and did not want the subjects under their rule to learn the new set of learning of the Chu State.

However...... The initiative in this matter is in the hands of Chu State after all!

Anyway, I'll take the exam, do you like to learn or not......

The end result was that many other candidates under the rule of the princes also learned Chu studies.

Of course, most of them are dialectical in their hearts, after all, those who can come all the way to Chu to study and take the exam are basically the right children of wealthy families from other places, and they will not delay their true thoughts by reciting them a few more times.

At this time, if the Chu State you see is a city that is shabby and the people of Chu are hungry, then it is useless to blow Chu Xue into the sky!

Opposite......

If it can have the effect of detonating the three views in the first impression, then Chu Xue will naturally infiltrate into the depths of their hearts in the future.

The right children of the family are all involved in their own interests and have a natural position.

However, in Chinese culture, there has always been no shortage of "people with lofty ideals" who jumped out of their own positions and stood on the side of the historical process.

After all, Chinese civilization is very emotional, which is also common in the Chu State, especially ...... After the ties of the clan system were deliberately weakened.

At this time, Jinling, which was displayed in front of the candidates under the rule of other princes, broke everyone's perception as soon as it came up - the last time there was a capital without walls was in the Stone Age, right?

Therefore, the state of Chu prefers to use "city" to shine, after all, after there is no city wall, there is really no feeling of "pool".

Because the workshop area outside the city is too large, Jinling has already demolished the city wall, and as the capital of the Chu State, cement roads have been popularized.

The main road with eight troikas running in parallel and pedestrian areas on both sides, and only allowing rail carriages to travel on the tracks, takes the location of the original city wall as the "first ring", and a total of three rings of fast lanes have been built, and the fourth ring of the outer ring is being repaired......

For foreign candidates, it is actually a "dangerous" place.

In order to prevent the occurrence of heart-stopping things such as car accidents for foreign candidates, the Ministry of Rites also specially organized guides.

According to the impression of the Han people, Chang'an at its peak could be claimed to have a population of one million - when Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, he forcibly relocated millions of people into the customs.

However, in terms of the area of Luoyang City, whether it is millions or millions, it cannot be just the population within the city walls, otherwise it will not fit ...... Rather, it should be the population of the whole of Luoyang, and even Henan County, including those other cities and villages.

Considering that Luoyang is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there must be a huge floating population, and it is not impossible to increase it by two or three times.

When You Heng first arrived at the General's Mansion, Jinling was only a "novelty" and wealthy, and its population was far from reaching the density of Luoyang City, the peak.

And yet now......

In Jinling Prefecture alone, the registered population exceeds 500,000, and the permanent population in the Fourth Ring Road exceeds 1 million.

A large number of workshops have attracted Chu people who are dedicated to this place, and these people now often live in "Jinling".

Since the second ring road in Jinling, all the houses have been planned by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the mansions that can be built by themselves are often very expensive, and they are as expensive as ...... It is completely possible to subsidize ordinary houses in the official workshop.

Most of the buying and selling of private houses took place between the workshop and the imperial court, and most of the private workshops and official houses would arrange a place for the laborers to live.

The concentration of the six departments on Jinling is even a little weak, but Bai Tu is not surprised.

After all, from the perspective of industrialization, London at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries had already reached a million urban population, and the total population of Britain at that time was about the same as that of the current Chu State.

At this time, the medium-sized real gas engine has been applied, and the operation of the large-scale real gas engine has also been prepared, which is basically equivalent to the stall of the internal combustion engine, even if the development and accumulation of other aspects are weaker, and the concentration of local urban population is completely comparable to the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The neat and excessively flat and sturdy ground, the perfect drainage structure, the rows of houses and workshops, and the unimaginably lively market, the most important thing is ...... Compared with the "civilians" in his impression, he can even use the mental state of "radiant", the per capita groom and the official of the groom, and the clothes that are too "gorgeous" for the commoners.

Formed the best "dismount"!