Although the future candidates of NTU graduates are, in principle, the same level and principle as the candidates for promotion.

But a discerning person with officialdom insight can still see the subtle differences.

After all, looking at the current meaning of the imperial court, the graduates of Nanjing University in the future, because they are mainly science and engineering, will independently pull out a line for them to vacate.

For example, the financial officer who focuses on the household department needs a strong mathematical foundation, or the technocrat of the ministry also has a hard requirement of practical ability.

Therefore, if the number of graduates of Nanjing University is small in the next few years, then the pressure of queuing for the award shortage will not be so intense, and it may be symbolic that you can become an official after a while.

This is equivalent to nominally equivalent to the treatment of lifting people, but in fact, the benefits can be similar to those of Jinshi.

Unless the number of science and engineering graduates skyrockets in the future, and there is also a depreciation of academic qualifications, then the number of years required for the absence of real jobs will be longer and longer.

Then everyone has to take the follow-up selection equivalent to Jinshi. Of course, in Nanjing University, the follow-up exam is not called Jinshi Branch, but is called Postgraduate Entrance Examination - this is not far-fetched, but in this era, after graduating from Nanjing University, if you continue to be admitted to further study, you can indeed directly become a "researcher" of Daming Academy of Sciences.

In the future, the "researcher of the Academy of Sciences" will be equivalent to the waiting list and other real shortage of jinshi, and before being conferred an administrative position, they can also enjoy the seven grades and engage in research work in the Academy of Sciences. If you excel in the Academy of Sciences, you will become an "academician".

Therefore, the graduation of NTU is equivalent to the graduation or promotion of Guozi Jian students, the researcher is equivalent to the alternate jinshi, and the academician is equivalent to Hanlin.

Of course, these are all later stories, anyway, the tragic situation of "depreciation of academic qualifications" will definitely not happen to the newly established "old three" of Nanjing University, and they must have a bright future for everyone.

It will be at least ten years, eight years, or even more before it will be devalued.

And what is more worthy of concern at the moment is actually the fate of the hundreds of talents and prisoners who had previously spread rumors about the imperial court's policies.

There is no doubt that these people have been punished by the imperial court according to law, and those who should be removed from their fame will be removed from their fame, and those who should be renaturalized to work in the factory will be renamed. Let others learn a lesson, and don't judge the policies of the imperial court that have not yet settled in the future.

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The final disposition of the imperial court was soon officially issued, and the scholars in Nanjing City and the surrounding prefectures saw the results as soon as possible.

According to the final statistics, there are a total of two Jinshi who have not yet been awarded official positions and who have just passed the entrance examination, as well as 14 juren, 233 Xiucai, and 96 Guozi prisoners, who are involved in the crime of vainly criticizing the government and spreading rumors and rumors.

From the perspective of the composition of the personnel, there are not too many local people in Yingtianfu, accounting for only a few dozen. On the contrary, there are more people from Jiangxi and Zhejiang, and there are more than 100 people involved in the case-

Perhaps this was also the war at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which did not affect Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces, and the surrounding areas of Nanzhili were cleaned by Duoduo's thief army, and the scholars were hit hard.

Therefore, the "old forces" that are now holding on to their inadequacies and refusing to let go are mostly in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, and naturally there are more people who jump out in the end, and there is no problem of deliberately suppressing a certain place.

When Shilin first saw this situation, he couldn't help but be a little uproar when he saw that the imperial court had committed another big case, and he had lost the fame of hundreds of people just by "being convicted for his words".

Some impulsive scholars almost wanted to overturn the case again, and some people privately said that this incident might be an arbitrary decision made by the cadres when the Son of Heaven was young and in a hurry to achieve success after he became pro-government. Maybe the regent and the Cabinet Ministry didn't support it at first.

However, in the face of severe punishment just now, there are not many people who dare to openly proclaim it. And just a few days later, as the imperial court released other rumors, these objections were completely suppressed.

The imperial court didn't say anything else, but just asked the governments around Nanjing and even in the northern provinces of Jiangxi and Zhejiang to focus on publicizing two points: This incident can definitely not be regarded as "being convicted for words", but only because of "rumors and slander", and the nature is completely different.

If you have your own political opinions, you suggest that the imperial court will not offend people with your words, but if you fabricate the laws that the imperial court has not implemented, and you have to "seek the enemy in the void" and "shoot the target in the void", then you will be severely punished.

The interpretation of the details of this policy was quickly grasped by those who had a heart, and then those who had energy and brains were all happy:

The court used this trick wonderfully! Vicious! He didn't say that he didn't let people speak freely and express their opinions. But the only thing is not to let people talk about things that have not yet been decided by the imperial court and are still in the decision-making process.

Of course, if what you discussed was done by the imperial court in the end, then it was not "rumor-mongering", as long as it was not rumor-mongering, it was not a big problem.

But if a troll said something like "so-and-so's maladministration must not be allowed to pass, it must not be done, it was done by a tyrant", and finally found that the court did not do so. Then this is the void asking for enemies to pour dirty water on the imperial court.

For example, this time, at the beginning, those who spread rumors said that "the imperial court intends to abolish the imperial examination in the future", and that "the imperial court will allow those who have not passed the old imperial examination to directly enter Nanjing University in the future", but in the end both points were falsified.

The imperial court did not intend to abolish the imperial examinations, and the qualifications for the entrance examination of NTU were to be qualified for talent and fame, and the value of the old-fashioned education received by the current vested interests would not be in vain. If you want to change your career to science, you must at least have the ability to show off your talents, and this threshold will get rid of many people who are partial to the subject.

Seeing that the imperial court is still doing an authentic job in this regard, most of the benefits that the scholar class wants to get are still preserved, who wants to be the first bird? Then I had to let those hundreds of guys who were used as guns voluntarily be unlucky.

The hand of the imperial court can be regarded as dividing and disintegrating the scholars, only for those who are not clear and jump out first, and only change a little bit at a time, touch less interests, cut the meat with a blunt knife, and boil the frogs in warm water for most of the remaining opposition.

But the scholars are the most selfish group, and after thinking about this truth, who still burns themselves to dig wells for others.

And once this cognitive inertia is formed, the imperial court will be able to quietly release rumors every time in the future, such as only three points of reform are required, but five points of rumors are released.

Then wait for someone to spray, once two of the five points are sprayed fiercely, then withdraw those two points, and finally when the official plan is announced, there are no two points, only three points, and then backhand the person who sprays these two points in the void and arrests the meritorious name.

For example, Zhu Shuren plans to use both Chinese and European mathematics and physics lecturers to teach at the university (but European lecturers need to be accompanied by translators and learn Chinese slowly). A grace period can be given, but it will not be allowed to be taught in a foreign language all the time. ）

After all, there are great mathematicians like Newton Leibniz, and there is no need to use them in vain, of course, they must be given the opportunity to teach in person. Although Newton's level of teaching may seem rubbish, the insight is also good.

And such a move would certainly be opposed, because how could the Confucian scholar class give up its monopoly on the right of academic interpretation? Even if they can accept the new learning, they must also hope that their own people will teach them, just like how can the business of the Guozijian be held by a person without merit? Since students should at least show their talents and fame, teachers must have a bottom line of fame.

Of course, Zhu Shuren has to suppress this kind of resistance. So he used the above-mentioned fishing techniques to kill a batch of rotten people who sprayed the most ferociously.

If it didn't take a few times, the fiercest opposition to the new school would have been almost tossed.

What's more, Zhu Shuren is actually the founder of the country, and he defeated the whole world by force, how could the rotten Confucianism really hinder him.

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Therefore, after more than a month of repeated discussions, the matter of running Nanjing University can be regarded as completely decided, including the follow-up school scale, site selection, initial subject setting, and faculty selection conditions, which have also been discussed.

At the beginning, it was suggested that the site of the school should be selected in the city of Nanjing, especially in the southwest corner of the city, by the Qinhuai River outside the city wall, adjacent to the Confucius Temple and Guozijian.

But Zhu Shuren directly rejected the idea. He knew what kind of filth and dirt were around the Qinhuai River, and how many of the Guozi prisoners were now sincere in learning. Especially those inmates who spend money to donate, all of them are very rich, and they visit the kilns around the Confucius Temple every day.

In the future, the science and engineering students of NTU will definitely be relatively less wealthy than the liberal arts students of Guozijian, and throw them into this big dye vat to dip and dye and compare, so that they are psychologically unbalanced, how can they devote themselves to learning?

Therefore, Zhu Shuren said, "The times have changed, and now it is the age of science, and in front of the cannon, all beings on the city wall are equal." In the future, Guguo will not take the risk of mountains and streams, the land in Nanjing is narrow, and the new school does not need to be located in the city, and there is no need to care about the protection of the city wall".

After it was decided to enclose land outside the city, some people suggested that a school should be set up in Jiangning Town, because in the southwest suburbs of Nanjing, there are already a large number of research institutes, museums, heavy industry factories and mines, which are very suitable for science and engineering.

However, Zhu Shuren once again denied it, explaining the difference between "basic science and applied technology" with other important ministers of the DPRK and China. In the final analysis, the Daming Academy of Sciences and the factories, mines, and research institutes in Jiangning and Ma'anshan are still diligent and able to make up for their shortcomings and promote scientific and technological progress by hard work and trial and error, and lack the ideological basis for using theory to guide practice.

Therefore, what is needed to conduct basic theoretical research is a relatively clean environment. Do not be disturbed by the noise of the industry. The Academy of Sciences and major research institutes have their own positioning, and there is no need for Nanjing University to join in the fun.

Therefore, in the final calculation, Nanjing University was set up on the other side of the suburbs of Nanjing, and after crossing the Zijin Mountain, it was requisitioned for construction in the gentle hilly area of Xianhe Mountain in the eastern suburbs of the city.

This choice is actually quite normal. Because according to the inertia of history, the city of Nanjing in the later generations in parallel time and space has a total of three major areas of university towns, Xianlin and Jiangning in the south of the Yangtze River, and Pukou in the north of the Yangtze River.

And in this era, there was no bridge on the Yangtze River, and it was too inconvenient to cross the river, so Pukou must have been directly excluded. Jiangning has also served as a base for application technology and experimental trial and error, so NTU has no choice but to be placed in the "Xianlin University Town" in later generations.

It's just that when this place was in the Ming Dynasty, the place name was definitely not called "Xianlin", but was called "Xianhe Mountain" and "Crane Forest" respectively, which was the abbreviation of the merger of later generations.

Anyway, the hilly dry land outside the city is not valuable, Zhu Shuren waved his pen, and he didn't even need to requisition land, he directly allocated thousands of acres of land from the Huangzhuang of the Internal Affairs Office in Xianhe Mountain as the land for the first phase of the establishment of NTU.

The local environment is very quiet and wooded, and there are not many fields that have been cultivated. In the first phase of the university, the scale of the staff was not large, so Zhu Shuren instructed that there was no need to destroy the forest excessively, and that he could just choose a vacant land in the forest to build a house and run the school. Later, when the hilly dry land is full, consider more land enclosure or deforestation.

Zhu Shuren's decision was obviously influenced by the education of later generations. In his later life, he also traveled to Harvard and MIT, and those universities did not even have walls, and they built houses directly in the woods, and the environment was still a lot quieter.

The true value of a university lies in the masters, not in the edifice.

Considering that it takes time to build a house and supporting facilities, and it also takes time for the teaching team to run in and colleagues to get acquainted with each other, those "foreign teachers" also have to make up for Chinese first.

The imperial court finally set the official opening time of Nanjing University on three days after the Lantern Festival in the eighth year of Xiaokang, that is, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. And the last few months of the seven years of Xiaokang are used to do the above things, which can be regarded as the "college preparation period".

At the same time, the Ministry of Rites is also about to organize an additional "Nanjing University Entrance Examination" after this year's Autumn Festival, the township test is in September, and this entrance exam is placed in the tenth and a half of the lunar calendar, so that the Ministry of Rites can coordinate manpower.

After the exam, the list will be released at the end of October, and those who rank in the top hundreds can enter the first class of NTU. The reference qualification is that as long as there is a talent, a supervisor fame, or higher, you can come to the test.

However, the content of the exam only examines mathematics, physics and chemistry, plus a practical argument, and the topic selection is still biased towards engineering management and financial management, which can be regarded as a little intimacy and fig leaf for people who are used to writing Bagu essays.

However, the score of the essay only accounts for 30% of the total score, which is equivalent to the college entrance examination essay, so if the mathematics, physics and chemistry are too poor, it is impossible to be admitted only if the essay is well written. In addition, the liberal arts content of the remaining four books and five classics is completely absent.

Of course, the content setting of this examination subject makes many scholars who only study the Four Books and Five Classics unwilling, but I heard that this year's examination system is only a trial trial, and it will be gradually adjusted in the next few years.

And considering that this year was a surprise attack, although most people did not do well in math and did not study physics at all, so did others.

As a result, some people with active brains, after the imperial court announced the exam time, began to make up for mathematics frantically, striving to take advantage of the opportunity that no one else had to carry out surprise attacks.

"Hurry up and get ready to make up for the math! It's too late! It is said that the current examination qualification selection conditions of the imperial court are strictly required to have people who have shown talent and fame in order to take the exam!

However, Fang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry suggested at yesterday's meeting that in the future, 'ordinary employees who are already engaged in basic experimental work in the Academy of Sciences should also be granted reference qualifications.' If you are admitted, you can further your studies for a few years, and your professional title in the Academy of Sciences will also be improved in the future.

Those of us who read the Four Books and the Five Classics are really better than arithmetic and physics, and I am afraid that they are not as good as those craftsmen who do miscellaneous work in the Academy of Sciences. After this village, there will be no such shop! ”

Of course, the staff in the Daming Academy are not all researchers. There are many who are just craftsmen, but because they are good at research, doing experiments and tinkering with machinery, they are also left in the Academy of Sciences to do miscellaneous work.

Of course, these people don't even have the fame of Xiucai, and they don't have the opportunity to read through the Four Books and Five Classics, but if it is compared to mathematics and geometry, most of these people are much better than Xiucai.

So the Xiucai, who were still complaining and wanted to change careers, heard that Fang Yizhi fought for the rights and interests of ordinary experimenters and craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry system at the court meeting, and the regent temporarily rejected it, and gave the Xiucai a three-year time difference, and of course the Xiucai had to work hard to catch up.

The mathematics and physics textbooks in Nanjing were out of stock for a while, and people who wanted to take the exam began to brush up on the questions, and no one said anything nonsense.

(End of chapter)