Chapter 223: Enrollment and Opening
After inspecting the college, seven days passed in the blink of an eye......
During these seven days, the matter of recruiting students from Gewu Academy became the hottest topic after the locust plague.
Regardless of whether it is in a teahouse or a green building in the vegetable market, the generous treatment of the Enlightenment College and the Agricultural College is so generous that people are speechless, and the cooking training courses, driving training courses, and traditional Chinese medicine training courses will not be able to re-learn, and after the completion of the study, the news of package distribution and good treatment will soon spread around Chang'an City at a very fast speed.
Under Li Anran's arrangement, this kind of spread is not like the previous gossip that chased after the wind and shadows, and it was purely spread by people's word of mouth. But the day after the inspection, a palm-sized book began to be sold around Chang'an City and several surrounding counties by children of all sizes for two cents.
The contents of these pamphlets are information about the enrollment of the two major colleges and three training classes in Gewu Academy, as well as announcements and school rules. In addition to the textual content, the pamphlet also printed several clear pictures of the interior of the college, and the scenery was deliberately selected to make this book-like prospectus-like Dongdong seem to be a tourist brochure.
Don't look at these pamphlets to sell for a penny, but the straight paper, clear handwriting, and those pictures that seem to be copied from reality, not to mention a penny, even if they are sold for ten cents or 100 cents, some people are willing to get a copy and put it at home as a collection. So, when these pamphlets were launched on the market, they suddenly became in a strange state of short supply.
To say that Li Anran's net worth in the Tang Dynasty time and space. It is not an exaggeration to say that the rich rival the country. 100,000 pamphlets are just a few hundred thousand pamphlets, and they don't cost much money in the printing industry of modern time and space. What can be done in the form of sale rather than in the form of gifts, the main concern is that no one will cherish the things that are sent away, and it is easy to cause waste.
And the price of two pennies will not make those poor people feel unaffordable. It will not let these people living at the bottom of society not take pamphlets seriously, and do things like tearing them off and wiping their buttocks.
In fact, Li Anran has good intentions when he thinks so, but in fact, no one will do this or dare to do this.
The printing technology of the Tang Dynasty was still very backward, and the legendary movable type printing technology was only invented in the Northern Song Dynasty. This also leads to the fact that the books on the market are not cheap, not to mention that there are still pictures in the booklet that are said to have been ingested directly from reality by immortals with great mana and then sealed on. Who dares to mess around.
With the supply of brochures outstripping supply. The enrollment points set up in Chang'an City and surrounding counties soon ushered in a surging crowd. No way, who let the pamphlet say that it doesn't matter if you can't afford the high tuition fees, as long as you are willing to sign a ten-year employment agreement with the college, you can enter for free. Of course. The premise is that you meet the other requirements.
For this kind of condition, which is similar to selling oneself for ten years. No one cares about ordinary people who want their children to have a chance to get ahead. After all, it was not easy to find a job with good pay these days. Not to mention ten years, after figuring out what the package assignment means, and the work treatment after the assignment. Even if you sign it for a lifetime, some people are willing.
Not to mention that although the enrollment this time is in the name of Gewu Academy, it is still guaranteed by the Datang official. In addition, Li Anran ran around in order to seek disasters before, which can be regarded as showing off his "mana", after learning that Gewu Academy was opened by pure Yang Zhenren to educate the people, those ordinary people who have been favored are even more enthusiastic.
It is precisely because of this reaction that the first batch of enrollment for the two colleges and three training courses was fully booked before even a day was asked. Considering the talents cultivated by the academy, there will be problems in terms of loyalty. But as long as you don't come into contact with your own core plan, you can still use this, and the people recruited this time are mainly ordinary people and children from poor families.
After each eligible person registers, a special person will visit the other person's home. to make sure that they are not being impersonated, and to understand the student's family background. If the family is really poor or has any difficulties, the college will also provide a bursary fund for the student's family to improve their life and solve their difficulties.
At the beginning of this initiative, many people thought it was just a gimmick, but after each family and household got the help of this bursary fund, not to mention other aspects, just in terms of fame, Gewu Academy soon surpassed those private academies. Invisibly, it has aroused some dissatisfaction.
As for those people from wealthy families, although Li Anran did not refuse, he also said ugly things in front. That is, since you are coming, you have to abide by the rules of the academy. What kind of shelf, talk about the history and other behaviors, all put away. If there is a violation of the school rules, it doesn't matter which prince's child you are, or which official's subordinate, you will be severely punished.
Not to mention, for such a regulation, Li Shimin, as the king of a country, doesn't know if Lu Dao actually gave enough support out of wanting to break the situation that the family tail is too big to fall. Each teacher was given a ring ruler, although it was not explicitly stated, but the meaning was clearly that if someone made trouble, the rhythm of teaching me a hard lesson.
made Li Anran speechless, it's all like this, but he still can't stop those wealthy families and eunuchs from sending the children of each family or the people to be cultivated to the academy through formal channels or through various channels. Even the royal side did not fall, although the prince and the princess did not come, they still sent a group of people who met the requirements.
Considering that the current faculty of the academy is still relatively weak, after the completion of the first enrollment of Gewu Academy, Li Anran has no intention of expanding the number of enrollments. It doesn't matter which high-ranking official you sent it, or which wealthy person you are, they will all be rejected by the next term of the next meeting.
As for those ordinary people, although Li Anran also did not let go in terms of enrollment, he gave another chance. Anyone who can become a household of the Cottage, or someone in the family who works in the property of the Cottage, will have a priority qualification to enter the academy. Of course, this qualification does not affect the normal admissions process.
After waiting for the seven-day period to pass, Gewu Academy ushered in the official opening day.
With the previous rush caused by recruitment, as early as before dawn, many people gathered towards the academy from all directions.
Considering that the opening of the academy and the opening of the commercial store are two different things, there is no need for too lively scenes. Therefore, Li Anran arranged a large number of people in advance, and set up a triple line of defense between the commercial street and the academy to prevent too many irrelevant people from entering and causing trouble to the opening ceremony of the academy, and at the same time to avoid people with bad intentions from mixing in.
Those who are really able to participate in the opening ceremony can bring one family member into the museum, except for those who are invited. If a large number of people come, such as parents or brothers, they will be arranged in a venue for observers, although they still cannot allow everyone to participate in the opening ceremony.
In order to maximize the effect of the opening of the academy, Li Anran also deliberately spent some time learning how to set up radio stations in modern time and space, and also found a domestic manufacturer to order a batch of antique radios. In addition to the live broadcast of the opening ceremony, Chang'an Radio Station was also established.
For this reason, a few big girls and daughters-in-law with sweet voices and clear words were specially selected from the villa, and after some preliminary training, they were used as announcers. Since Datang does not yet have Mandarin, it can only temporarily use the most widely circulated language in Chang'an as the special language for broadcasting, and as for those outsiders who can't understand it, they can only find a translator.
As time passed, when the opening time was approaching, not to mention the playground inside the academy, even the auditorium prepared outside the "defense line" was already crowded with people. And what makes those old talents who also open the academy for a living extremely hot is that in addition to a large number of dignitaries and nobles who came to participate in the opening ceremony of Gewu Academy, even the current saints have come.
It's just that they didn't know that Li Anran, who was the real boss of the academy, only showed his face before the ceremony began, and then disappeared completely on the grounds that the sect had a major matter to deal with...... (To be continued......)