0p0 Chapter 386 General Exchange Conference
Chapter 386 General Exchange Conference
After the results of the imperial examination were announced, a total of 33 students from the three provincial capitals of Liuzhou, Lanzhou and Qingzhou made the list, accounting for more than 30% of the total number of admissions!
After the palace examination, the newly-appointed scholars from the three states once again refreshed their rankings: there was one third place in the first class, eleven second-class Jinshi, and as many as twenty-one third-class Jinshi!
The imperial court had been closely following the developments in the three states. If the court officials had been able to remain calm during the last imperial examination, they were all furious after seeing the statistical results this time.
The students from the three states performed above their level and achieved a good result. They might have deceived themselves and said it was a coincidence. However, this time the students from the three states achieved even better results.
What does this result mean? It means that they achieved such excellent results not by luck, but by their own strong strength.
However, such a result is hard to accept. After all, the territory of Great Chu is vast, with a total of 63 states of various sizes. On average, each state only has one or two Jinshi quotas each time, and some states may not even produce a Jinshi for decades.
Liuzhou, Lanzhou and Qingzhou were places where it was difficult for any candidate to pass the imperial examination and become a Jinshi for decades.
However, it has only been a short time since then, and the candidates from these three states have taken up 30% of the admission quota in the imperial examination! And judging from the current situation, this phenomenon will probably become more serious in the next imperial examination. How will the students from other states and the local aristocratic families feel about this?
Since Her Royal Highness the Princess took office, the Three States have never stopped. If other things were limited to the internal turmoil of the Three States, it would be fine, but the training of students in the Imperial Examination Academy has already had an impact on the entire Great Chu, affecting the interests of many networks, and offending more than just one or two people!
No matter how capable Her Royal Highness the Princess is, she has offended so many people at once, and she will probably be targeted by everyone in the future.
Many officials in the court were very grateful for the Princess' past achievements and began to worry about Lin Chuyi sincerely.
At this moment, Lin Chuyi, who was thousands of miles away, had no idea that someone in the court would be so worried about her. However, as early as when she founded the Imperial Examination Academy, she had already anticipated various situations that might be encountered in the future and made sufficient preparations in advance.
The final result of this imperial examination was completely within her expectations. When she received the good news from Kyoto, she immediately ordered people to list the names of the newly promoted Jinshi and fellow Jinshi candidates one by one, and then post them on the notice boards of various government offices.
Not only that, Lin Chuyi also paid out of his own pocket to publish this good news in Lanzhou Weekly, Qingzhou Weekly and Liuzhou Weekly under the name of Wanjuanshu.
Along with this news, the newspaper also published the great news that agricultural taxes and commercial taxes in the three states will be reduced by half next year, in order to celebrate this joyous moment with the people.
At the same time, Lin Chuyi also sent out invitations to heroes in the name of the Imperial Examination Academy, inviting scholars from all over the world to come to the Imperial Examination Academy to participate in the first all-subject exchange conference held two months later, to learn from each other and make progress together.
After the news spread, students from all over the country who were curious about the Imperial Examination Academy and wanted to make further progress on the road to the imperial examination set off and rushed to the three provincial capitals of Lanzhou, Qingzhou and Liuzhou.
This move by the Imperial Examination Academy was unexpected, but the aristocratic families from all over the country and the various forces in Kyoto were already interested in learning more about the Imperial Examination Academy, so they took this opportunity to arrange for the scholars they had trained to go to the three states to find out what was going on.
Everyone knows that the eldest princess' fiefdom is not rich. Even in the eyes of many scholars, the three states are labeled as "poor" and "backward".
Even though they knew that Her Royal Highness the Princess had carried out drastic reforms and renovations in the three states after taking office, they still did not believe that these three states could undergo such earth-shaking changes in just a few years.
However, when they traveled thousands of miles to the Three States with their luggage full of expectations, they were surprised to find that their previous ideas were completely wrong.
The first thing that caught their eyes was the brand new concrete walls and the extremely hard concrete ground, which was far from what they had imagined.
After entering the main city of the Three States, they were even more shocked. There were crowds of people everywhere, everyone had a smile on their face, and they were chatting and laughing with each other.
There was not a single ragged beggar on the street, not even a person with patched clothes.
Looking at the shops, the windows of every household have been replaced with bright and clear glass windows, and the display cabinets in the shops are also made of glass.
In this way, customers can clearly see the goods displayed in the cabinet without having to take out the items.
The small vendors that were originally scattered everywhere have now been gathered together and moved to the market for unified management. The roadside stalls that were once bustling with all kinds of snacks and goods have now disappeared without a trace. Without the obstruction of the stalls on both sides, the entire road has suddenly become spacious, bright, and exceptionally clean and tidy.
The secret to keeping the roads so clean is that a public trash can is cleverly placed every 100 meters on the streets in the main urban area.
These trash cans not only make it convenient for citizens to dispose of garbage at any time, but more importantly, they cultivate everyone's awareness of protecting the environment.
In addition, there is a public toilet with a reasonable design and complete facilities every 500 meters to meet people's physiological needs.
In this way, uncivilized behaviors such as littering and urinating and defecating in public can be eliminated from the source.
There is no doubt that the smooth progress of all this is inseparable from the active cooperation of the local people. They have shown a high sense of collective honor and cooperation, giving the city a brand new look.
From the moment they stepped through the city gates to the various scenes they witnessed after entering the city, they were completely different from the stereotypes these foreign scholars had about the three state capitals. What they saw completely overturned their previous perceptions.
After they finally accepted everything they saw and visited the Imperial Examination Academy that they had been thinking about all the way, their inherent thinking was refreshed again.
It turns out that students in the Imperial Examination Academy not only need to carry out regular academic studies, but also have to be exposed to and learn so much knowledge in other fields!
The tour guides arranged by the Imperial Examination Academy led groups of students from other places to visit the Imperial Examination Academy, and then led them to the temporary guest rooms to check in.
After completing the check-in procedures, the tour guide will distribute an exchange student badge with their name engraved on it to each foreign student, and tell them that as long as they wear the exchange student badge, they will be able to freely attend various courses in the Imperial Examination College as exchange students before the full-subject exchange conference officially begins.
These readers who came from all over the country originally came here to attend the general exchange conference. They were all excited to hear the news.
After packing their luggage, they couldn't wait to put on their exchange student badges and headed to the classes that interested them the most, ready to audit the courses that they were curious about.
With such layout and arrangements, the Imperial Examination Academy not only successfully met the needs and curiosity of scholars who came from afar, but also effectively avoided management chaos caused by too many foreign students before the official opening of the all-subject exchange conference.
In a blink of an eye, the grand opening day of the general practice exchange conference arrived.
It is worth mentioning that this general exchange conference was initiated by the eldest princess herself, and it was also an important event fully funded by the eldest princess's residence. The competition items of this exchange conference covered various subject knowledge in vocational colleges and imperial examination colleges.