According to statistics, more than 4,000 middle school students will graduate this year.

There were 426 people who signed up for the public examination, which was far lower than Yan Zheng's expectations.

He thought that under the traditional thinking of the official position, at least thirty percent of the students would want to take the public examination and become officials.

As a result, he was very pleased that with the rapid development of the economy and productive forces, and the huge incremental market, talents would not all flock to the ranks of officials.

Even if they enter the factory, they can earn the same salary as a cadre, and they do not have to worry about losing their jobs.

In this case, even if you go to the factory to learn technology after finishing elementary school, you will not necessarily have a worse life than a secondary school education.

This is the situation is very good, in the words of later generations, it is the popularization of new technologies, which has brought about rapid economic development and created huge growth points.

Steam engines and various machines were widely used, and new management models and systems were implemented, all of which allowed the factories in Dongqin to achieve absolute advantages in production capacity and production efficiency.

The huge external market also makes it impossible for goods to be unsalable.

Therefore, every penny and every profit is in pursuit of input and reproduction.

The entry of a large number of Ming merchants also allowed the industry of Eastern Qin to enter the prosperity of cooking oil.

All of this has made the industrialization of Eastern Qin not have the tragic situation of Daiying, which is also what Yan Zheng is most proud of.

He is an open-book exam, he can build a machine first, establish advanced production and management methods first, and have a huge external market in Daming.

This condition is 100 times better than that of the Belt of England, and the speed of development is much faster than that of the Belt of England during the Industrial Revolution.

The only problem is that the speed of talent training cannot keep up with the speed of development.

This is also why Yan Zheng wants to promote the tilt towards science and engineering, and in terms of publicity, he is also more biased towards psychological engineering.

In his view, it is enough to analyze and plan social problems, political problems, and economic problems, and top talents in China should obediently flow into science and engineering.

If you get the elites of the people to engage in politics like the imperial examination system, then it's still a fart!

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The middle school students performed very well, but Yan Zheng underestimated the reaction of the Ming scholars, this group of old scholars who were not even considered students in the Ming Dynasty, actually celebrated in tandem in the village!

With some insight, they described the civil service examination as the imperial examination of the Chinese National Imperial Examination, and treated the middle school students who were admitted to the civil service in the village as if they were the masters of the Jinshi.

Not only did they beat gongs and drums, but they also found donkeys and big red flowers to carry the new civil servants around the parade.

Comparisons between villages have also been stirred up, and they are all competing for the higher ranking of which village has more civil servants and whose village has a higher ranking.

This made the situation that Yan Zheng worked so hard to maintain be torn apart.

In hindsight, almost all the villages were involved!

He originally thought that the official position was suppressed, but he was instigated by a few corrupt Confucians, and he was actually instigated again.

Yan Zheng was furious and issued a notice: If there is another celebration of the civil service examination in each village, the whole village will be relocated to a new place, and anyone who will join forces will be sent to a labor camp for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and those who are serious will be sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of corrupting the state government.

He really envied Zhu Yuanzhang, if he had to set an example of abiding by the Constitution, he really wanted to cut down this group of "Kong Yiji" who had read a few scriptures.

After thinking about it carefully, Yan Zheng led the officials of the three courts to the first flat glass factory collectively.

There is nothing like the platform of Junshang, Yan Zheng just wants to make an appearance of attaching importance to industry and science and engineering, so that this group of people can see the situation clearly.

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"Your Excellency, in the past, flat glass was made using the blowing method and the mold method. An oblong glass bubble is blown and then slowly rolled to shape it, and finally a cylindrical glass cylinder is produced, and the ends are removed with a knife. It is also the artificial blowpipe spreading method mentioned by the gentleman.

This method is skillful, demanding and inefficient, and cannot meet the growing demand for flat glass. With the approval and approval of the king, we began to study the slab pouring method. After two months of verification, the technical ...... on the drawings was finally copied.

In the glass production workshop, Yan Zheng listened to the explanation of the factory director Ma Wu, surrounded by many officials.

He nodded as he listened, and was amazed at the glass factory.

When the factory was put into operation last month, he was too lazy to attend the ceremony, only to find out today that the scale of the glass factory is so large.

No wonder more than 20 tons of steel were used, and more than a dozen steam engines were used.

The so-called pouring method to make flat glass is actually a "French flat glass casting system". It is a 17th-century technology that was first put into production in France in 1688.

Until the 19th century, this method of production was still the mainstream of flat glass.

It is very different from the flat glass made by the artificial blowpipe spreading method. Not only is the size much larger, but the requirements for the workers' skills are also much lower.

The only drawback is that the initial investment is huge, and the construction of this factory cost 20,000 copper dollars. It is also the largest steel truss production structure that Yan Zheng has seen so far.

"Amazing!" Yan Zheng said with heartfelt emotion.

Ma Wu smiled, and led everyone to the melting furnace.

Yan Zheng wore a pair of blue glass glasses and looked at the soft liquid glass inside.

Under the operation of six shirtless workers, a lot of various raw materials were put into it, and soon the liquid glass became red.

"Junshang, this is also the best ratio we have experimented with, which can produce more uniform flat glass!"

Yan Zheng nodded, feeling the heat wave coming, and couldn't help but sigh at the strength of manpower.

This feeling is even stronger when you see the molten glass being poured onto the huge iron frame and then lowered on the smooth steel plate on top.

Until the steam engine roared, this table was slowly pushed into the annealing furnace, and one table weighed two tons!

After the visit, Yan Zheng felt a lot more relaxed, he understood the idea of official position, and he would never repeat the mistakes of the feudal dynasty in Eastern Qin.

Because the productive forces have reached a stage that is sufficient to change the relations of production, even if Yan Zheng leaves it alone, he will continue to develop in accordance with the objective law.

"This factory can produce 1,000 tons of flat glass per year?" Yan Zheng asked.

Ma Wu nodded and said, "It is estimated to reach 1,500 tons!" ”

"What about the cost?"

"Not one-fiftieth of a man!"

Yan Zheng smiled with satisfaction: "It seems that every household in the Chinese nation can install glass window sills!" ”

Ma Wu said smugly: "In our country, we can consume a maximum of seven or eight hundred tons, and we must export a few hundred tons to become successful!" ”

"Don't worry about exports, only what we can produce, as long as the cost goes down, there will be markets everywhere."

Ma Wu nodded, and said: "Not only that, the production of refractive telescopes has also made a lot of progress, and the talents of optical knowledge have also been greatly expanded!" Just wait for the graduation of this class of middle school graduates, our factory will be able to usher in a group of outstanding talents! ”

"Excellent! Very good! Yan Zheng applauded happily, and the accompanying officials also applauded.

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The next day, Huaxia Daily published an article "Guojun Yan Zheng led the officials of the Third Academy to visit the first plate glass factory, and affectionately pointed out: Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and go all over the world without fear".

The whole article is full of the monarch's ardent expectations for science and engineering, and between the lines is full of pride in the development of industry. It is also pointed out that the burden of the construction of Huaxia is on your shoulders.

The words are real and the feelings are rich, just like an elder, encouraging the younger generations to pass on the torch and create a career.

And in this issue of the newspaper, a short article called Kong Yiji was attached, signed by Yan Zheng.

The glass heart of the Ming scholar was shattered by this article in an instant.

But the smart ones were busy shutting up, they knew that this move really caused a huge disgust.

Although Dong Qin was not convicted for his words, it was easy to weave all kinds of crimes.

And the students who aspire to study science and engineering raised their eyebrows fiercely.

What about civil servants? The monarch attaches great importance to us talents, and we are the protégés of the monarch!

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