Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 383
Coming out of the Taiping Palace, Bai Mingxiu rode on his golden buffalo horse and strolled along the streets of Shuntianfu.In the era when there were no real motor vehicles, the road was really for horses.The Daming Power Research Institute is already starting to trial-produce diesel engines and other engines. Maybe within 5 years, Bai Mingxiu will be able to see cars running on the streets of Suncheon.

Many scientific research and academic institutions, including the Daming Power Research Institute, are now established in Shuntianfu, which also makes Shuntianfu, a city without any economic foundation and emerging industrial industries, seem to have become a new academic institution. and research capital.All of this is also Bai Mingxiu's earliest idea. The overall environment of Shuntian is not the same as that of Jiangnan, Pearl River Delta and other places. It is not worth the loss to engage in things that are too industrial-intensive and industrially polluted here.Therefore, the heavy industry base designed by Bai Mingxiu is located around the prefectures and counties on the west coast of the Bohai Sea such as Yongping Prefecture (Tangshan), Tianjin Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture and Binzhou Prefecture (newly established, approximately equal to Binzhou, Dongying and Zibo in later generations). Convenience, the sea is connected to the railway, and there are necessary resource outputs for heavy industries such as coal mines, iron mines, and petroleum.

The three core industrial belts of Daming are the West Bohai Heavy Industrial Belt, the Yangtze River Delta Mixed Industrial Belt, and the Pearl River Delta Light Industrial Belt.The Daming Lizhengyuan and the Provincial Office have invested heavily in the three core industrial belts, making the industry in this area develop extremely rapidly.

After Bai Mingxiu returned to Suncheon, he also planned to inspect the construction and establishment of these industries, but today he went out for an event that ordinary people can hardly imagine - the college entrance examination.

As early as when Bai Mingxiu had just returned to Suncheon, "Daming Daily" published a news on the second page in a prominent place, introducing that His Majesty the Guangfu Emperor of Ming Dynasty was going to take the college entrance examination.And the headline on the day was that the Ming Dynasty will hold the higher education entrance examination for the first time, and the ten universities that have been established in the whole of the Ming Dynasty will officially admit new students through the college entrance examination.

The ten universities are Minghua University, Suncheon University, Daming University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yingtian University, Lingnan University, Shuncheon Normal University, North China University of Technology and Yongli University.

Half of the institutions of higher learning are located in Shuntian Prefecture, which directly established Shuntian as the academic capital of Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the ten local universities, Australia also has an Australian university and a Xitian Institute of Technology. Wu Min also established a Yangon University in Myanmar.

When the college entrance examination came out, in fact, many enlightened people were very puzzled.Because the imperial examination system has lasted for thousands of years, even if the Ming Dynasty had the new Guozijian system, it was still an imperial examination to obtain scholars, and Guozijian graduates also had to take exams.

All things are inferior, but reading is high. People naturally think that the ultimate way to study is to become an official.However, when the education system of the Ming Dynasty, including the emperor, personally spoke out and publicized the college entrance examination on a large scale, many people still didn't understand what was going on.

After such a long period of edification and enlightenment, many Ming people who pay attention to reading books and newspapers have already acquired two basic cognitions: the first is that "technology is the primary productive force", and the second is that "there is a specialization in technology".It was precisely because Daming had mastered advanced technology that he was able to create more food and strength, and forge stronger weapons, that he easily overthrew Man Qing.This is already a classic example of this concept, and it is widely accepted.Since it is recognized that technology is the primary productive force, it must be recognized that there are different disciplines and expertise in different fields. To master knowledge and technology, you must pass a higher level of education and unremitting research. .

So when the Ming Dynasty built one university after another and used the name of the university, many scholars found it difficult to accept it.After graduating from these universities, they do not directly lead to official careers, but instead flow to different disciplines such as engineering, mechanics, grammar, mathematics and science, and they have specializations in these fields.

It is also because people have the traditional concept of studying for the purpose of being an official, so the university was not very popular at the beginning of its appearance. Many people chose to go directly to the Imperial College, and the education required for some official positions is basically the highest. Just graduated from high school.

This phenomenon made Bai Mingxiu a little worried, so he wrote an article "On Talents" in Da Ming Daily.This article talks about what kind of talents Daming really needs.The article first mentioned the phenomenon that everyone wants to be an official, get rich and seek power by being an official.Then Bai Mingxiu described the future of Ming Dynasty. For the development of Ming Dynasty, more talents with scientific and technological knowledge are needed to explore the laws of nature and summarize natural science knowledge; more talents in social sciences are needed to summarize past historical experience, explore how to govern society and understand the world methodology and methods.For the development of the Ming Dynasty, there must be outstanding talents in various fields, and a society that only seeks money for officials will inevitably lead to stagnation of social development and slow development of science and technology, thus bringing another disaster similar to the Jiashen Change to Daming .Ming Dynasty must always keep in mind the people-oriented principle, put the well-being of the whole people first, and protect the interests of the country, the people, and the nation. To achieve all this, we must attach importance to education and technology.

The conclusion of the article is very clear. The Ming Dynasty needs talents from different disciplines and fields, who can learn from others’ strengths and specialize in digging deep.In the future, Daming will pay more attention to the status of talents in various disciplines. Their achievements in history and the recognition and treatment they have received will be stronger than officials.

This article by Bai Mingxiu was just an announcement to break with the old tradition, but what really shocked the whole people was His Majesty the Emperor himself announcing that he would take the college entrance examination and become a college student.

For this reason, Bai Mingxiu specially took the high school graduation exam and obtained a high school graduation certificate.In the era when the education system of the Ming Dynasty was first established, basically anyone with such academic ability and knowledge could take the exam at their own expense to obtain a degree, and it was not necessarily true that all of these schools were completed.However, this is at the level of primary and secondary education. At the university stage of higher education, one must complete the study and complete the credits to take the exam and graduation defense in order to obtain a diploma.

The people were shocked that the emperor still had to go to school. While obtaining a higher degree, they also discovered a key point - that is, the emperor was going to be admitted to a public university open to the public, so the emperor was very likely to be admitted to this university. What kind of experience is it for people from the university to become classmates, and to be classmates with the emperor?Maybe you can develop a friendship with the emperor, and you will be prosperous in the future!

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