Lu Zhenfei and other five cabinet elders were discussing a major matter in the check-in room—increasing the number of admissions for prefecture schools, prefecture schools, and county schools.
Today, it is imperative to enroll more students in prefectures, prefectures, and county schools, and the reason is very simple. As of this year, more than 40,000 students have been admitted to the Nanjing Imperial College in four phases and have become Imperial College students.
This resulted in vacancies for Linshan students in various prefectural schools, prefectural schools and county schools.
The Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to literature and education, and has always attached great importance to imperial examinations. Therefore, after the vacancies of Linshan students in prefectural schools, prefectural schools, and county schools continued to be vacant, prefects, prefectures, and county magistrates from all over the country wrote to the court one after another, requesting to increase the proportion of scholars admitted, because
The number of talents cultivated by this prefecture, this state and this county is also one of the achievements of local parents.
Liu Lishun said: "It is imperative to add more students to prefectural schools, state schools and county schools. Otherwise, the number of students in each prefecture, state and county will not be enough to recruit students for the fifth phase of the Imperial College."
There are not enough scholars to recruit students to the Imperial College. This is of course an exaggeration.
Because the number of scholars in the Ming Dynasty actually had a quota.
Linshansheng students ranged from 20 to 30 in each county. There were more than 1,400 counties in the Ming Dynasty, so the number of Linshanshengs was about 37,000, and about 100,000 including Zengguangsheng and epiphysics.
However, after the fall of the north, the number of scholars dropped sharply, but there were still 60,000 to 70,000 students.
Moreover, after the Nanjing Imperial College recruits students from prefecture schools, prefecture schools, and county schools, each county will immediately start county examinations, and each prefecture will also start prefectural examinations, followed by provincial college examinations, and the vacant Linshan students will soon be added to Guangzhou students.
The epiphytes are supplemented, so the number of living members in the Ming Dynasty is basically constant and will not decrease.
Because the scholar has a huge group of children to support him.
Before the students are exhausted, the scholars cannot be exhausted.
The academic administrators of each province, the prefects of each prefecture, the prefects of each state, and the county magistrates are clamoring to recruit more students. Firstly, they want their own political performance to look good, and secondly, the promotion rate of the students who take the imperial examination is too high.
There are 60,000 to 70,000 people, 10,000 are admitted, and almost one in six is admitted.
This was so different from the previous admissions rates for scholar, civil servant, and Jinshi examinations that Liu Lishun even felt a sense of dissatisfaction. How could the examination be so easy?
Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of scholars in the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as Liu Lishun finished speaking, Wu Linzheng said: "I also think that the government schools, prefecture schools and county schools must increase their enrollment, and the scale must be expanded to more than three times the current size, that is, 200,000 people."
"200,000 scholar positions?" Zhang Shenyan lost his voice, "The number of children in the country is only 600,000!"
"What's the difficulty in this matter?" Meng Zhaoxiang also said, "Scholars can be recruited, and children can also be recruited. There is no shortage of scholars in the Ming Dynasty. If the recruitment is liberalized, there will be 6 million children."
Zhang Shenyan said angrily: "Yes, if the recruitment is liberalized, there will indeed be 6 million children, not to mention 200,000 scholar posts, but such a large-scale recruitment of children and scholars, pen, ink, paper, space and labor will all cost money
, if all the scholars are given rice according to the grain diet, and each person is paid six buckets of rice per month, 200,000 people will be 1.44 million stone rice per year. According to the current rice price in Nanjing, that is 2.16 million. Please tell me about this amount of money
Where did it come from?”
Lu Zhenfei frowned and said, "How can everyone be a Linshan student?"
Zhang Shenyan said: "Even if 70% is reduced, it will still cost 650,000 yuan. Taking into account the cost of writing, paper, space and labor required for the exam, 1 million may still not be enough."
When money was mentioned, Liu Lishun, Wu Linzheng and Meng Zhaoxiang immediately fell silent.
Now that the Ministry of Accounts has begun to borrow money to survive, how can it get so much spare money?
Lu Zhenfei sighed and said: "The development of culture and education has been faced with numerous difficulties since ancient times."
Originally, if it were easy to establish culture and education, why would scholars be unable to spread their talents all over the world?
The five pavilion elders were speechless. At this moment, rapid footsteps suddenly sounded outside the duty room.
Immediately, Wang Yingxiong, the General Secretary, rushed in excitedly holding a Tang newspaper and shouted urgently: "Five elders, a great victory, a great victory in the capital! The new army of the Ming Dynasty defeated more than 400,000 Jiannu slaves in the battle of Bali Bridge.
Great army! Great things are coming together!"
"So, we won the battle?" Lu Zhenfei was stunned for a moment, looking a little confused.
Zhang Shenyan was already in tears at this time. While wiping away his tears, he said: "The capital has finally been restored."
Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and Liu Lishun were filled with emotion. They recalled how frightened they were when they fled the capital with the Holy Master. It seemed like it was just yesterday. Unexpectedly, the capital was restored today, as if it was a lifetime ago!
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An alley in Daping Street.
Qian Qianyi picked up his baggage from the sewage, shook his head and sighed: "It's an insult to politeness, it's really an insult to politeness."
A fat woman immediately walked out of the door holding a signboard, put her hands on her hips and cursed: "Bah, you still think you are the current pavilion boss? You can't even afford a bunkhouse for two cents a night, really."
Shame on you!"
"When a tiger falls on a plain, it is bullied by dogs; when a tiger falls on a plain, it is bullied by dogs. It is a pity."
"Who are you calling a dog?" The fat woman made a show of chasing after her, and Qian Qianyi was immediately frightened and ran away.
After running not far, he met a maid approaching him and handed a bundle in her arm to his hand. Qian Qianyi took it blankly and was a little unresponsive.
It was only when the maid reached the entrance of the alley that Qian Qianyi finally realized what he was doing.
"Madam? Madam, is that you? Madam!" Qian Yiyi rushed out and chased her.
When he chased him to the alley, he happened to see a carriage that had gone far away. Qian Qianyi chased forward like crazy, but he couldn't catch up. In the end, he fell to the ground, and both baggage fell on it.
On the ground.
Qian Yiyi was so painful that he was about to cry because both knees were broken.
At this moment, a newsboy ran past Taiping Street.
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, and if you sell newspapers, you will have a great victory in the capital! If you sell newspapers, you will have a great victory in the capital!"
"Our Ming Dynasty soldiers defeated 500,000 Jiannu troops in the battle of Baliqiao, a great victory in the capital!"
Hearing the cries, the officials, gentry, scholars, merchants and even peddlers passing by on the street gathered around the newsboy and rushed to buy newspapers.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Qian Qianyi felt disappointed.
A great victory in the capital?
It’s unreasonable!
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Daming Institute of Mathematics.
Pascal used a charcoal brush to write a line of words on the whiteboard:
When the integer n2 is used, the equation about, y, z, n yn = zn has no positive integer solution.
Dozens of students sitting in the classroom immediately took out their quills and copied down this line of text. These dozens of students were those who were selected from the first four batches of Guozi students and were talented in mathematics.
This class is equivalent to the mathematics graduate class taught by Pascal.
After four years of teaching, the students in this class have made great progress in mathematics.
"Students, today we are going to talk about this, Fermat's conjecture."
"Fermat's conjecture was put forward by the French mathematician Fermat after reading Arithmetic by Diophantus. So far, no counterexample has been found, so this is very likely to be a theorem."
"So today, we will try to verify it."
While he was talking, cheers like a mountain roaring and a tsunami suddenly sounded outside.
However, none of the students in this class were influenced by the outside world. They all just focused on listening to the lecture.
As the dean, professor and lecturer of mathematics, Pascal was not affected by the outside world. He used charcoal to write down another equation on the whiteboard: 3 y3 = z3.
Then start checking using the substitution method.
Just as we were doing our calculations here, a student from the Engineering College over there rushed in and shouted excitedly: "Stop going to class now, let's go to the streets to march. The capital is a great victory. The Ming Dynasty's new army has regained the capital, haha!"
"Go away." A student who was checking calculations yelled, "Don't disturb our class."
"What a bunch of nerds, they've been poisoned by mathematics!" The students from the Engineering College cursed contemptuously, turned around and ran away, and then there was a roar of cheers like a tsunami outside.
Pascal nodded happily, this is how you have to do mathematics.
If you don't devote yourself to it, you won't achieve anything.
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Outside Shangfangmen in the outer city of Nanjing, Shi Jiuke opened a new silk reeling factory.
The Shi family's silk weaving business is now getting bigger and bigger, and it seems to have become the largest silk manufacturer in the Ming Dynasty. This is also because the Shi family has strong connections, not just relying on the big tree of Xu Yingwei, but also the Zheng family as a strong support.
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It is not easy for others to get a loan from an industrial and commercial bank, but Shi Jiuke only wants a meal.
Of course, no matter how strong the Shi family's background is, they must abide by the laws and regulations. It is impossible for Zheng Zunqian to illegally lend money to the Shi family's silk weaving workshop.
Huang Zongxi's Inspection Section has been keeping an eye on it.
Just say that in this newly opened silk reeling factory, the Ministry of Internal Affairs still holds 70% of the shares.
The Shi family only has the right to operate the silk reeling factory, and it is impossible to hold a controlling stake.
However, the newly opened silk reeling factory is very different from the previous one.
In addition to the greater number of female workers and the larger scale of silk reeling, the biggest difference is the addition of two steam engines, which greatly improved the production efficiency of the silk reeling factory.
The shopkeeper in charge congratulated Shi Jiuke with a happy face.
"My boss, it is different to have a steam engine. Not only can the speed of silk production be faster, but the quality is also superior. I made a rough estimate, and I can save at least 20% of the cost."
"This is just the beginning." Shi Jiuke also looked forward to it.
"We are still not familiar enough with steam engines, and many processes are not yet mature enough. When the process level improves and workers become more skilled, the cost can be further reduced."
"Yes, what the owner said is absolutely true. The cost can definitely be reduced."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he also looked forward to it. As the silk reeling factory's profits improved, his year-end dividends would increase accordingly. He is expected to get a lot of money this year. With this money, he can build a big house.
It's a pity that I can only go back to my hometown to build a house, and I can't buy land in Nanjing.
If you can build a big house in Nanjing, you will make a lot of money.
Just as he was talking, a waiter suddenly came to report: "Sir, shopkeeper Zheng is here to visit."
"Brother Zheng? Why did he come to the upper gate?" Shi Jiuke had some accidents. Did something big happen? Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone directly to the upper gate to find him.
It’s Qingming Festival and I’ll go back to my hometown to visit the tomb. I can only guarantee two updates in these three days, sorry for that]