"Get out of the way!" The yamen runner came to the announcement board in Suzhou City, pasted the notice with paint glue, and used both hands to sort out the foam notice.

Every time the government posts notices, many people from Suzhou City will gather to watch. Especially after the Jiuzhou Army promotes the new policy, new measures may be announced every few days.

"Young Master, you can tell us what the notice is about, what is the content on the notice?" Most of the residents of Suzhou City who were watching were not very literate, so they asked someone next to him who was obviously dressed as a scholar.

"Let me see... Starting this year, every October, the Jianghuai Prefectural Office and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Prefectural Office will hold the admission assessment of the Academy of Sciences in Nanjing. Those with the top ten provincial grades can enter the official preparatory class of the Academy of Sciences. Those who enter the official preparatory class will enjoy a salary of 20 taels of silver and scholarship allowance every year. It is considered to be divided into five to thirty taels of study in the Academy of Sciences. In addition, if you graduate from the official preparatory class, you will be regarded as a preparatory candidate for the magistrate, prefect, civil affairs officer, judicial officer, and prosecutor by the Jiuzhou Army. Once you graduate, you can successfully embark on your career..." The scholar stood in front of the announcement and read it from beginning to end. When he understood what the notice meant, his lips trembled.

Wow! The people of Suzhou City who were listening to the scholars' announcements with relish were in an uproar!

Isn’t this the preparatory candidate for the magistrate, prefect, civil affairs officer, law enforcement officer, and prosecutor? Isn’t this equivalent to reaching the top ten in the province in the Academy of Sciences’ admission assessment, and you can jump into the dragon gate in one exam!

If you participate in the imperial examination, you have to pass the county examination, government examination, provincial examination, imperial examination, palace examination and other links, and you also need to improve your reputation in the scholars in order to become a Jinshi and truly have a smooth career in your career. This measure of the Jiuzhou Army provides them with a possibility - it does not require ten years of hard study, no need to go through layers of assessment, no need to be a disciple of an adult, and you can reach the top with just one assessment!

The scholar felt his body trembling inexplicably, and even some illiterate Suzhou people around him made a sound of swallowing saliva. The temptation was so great...

"As long as you enter the Academy of Sciences, you will get a salary. It is really good news for us poor peasants!" A shabby scholar was even more excited when he saw the black and white words on the announcement.

A salary of twenty taels a year is enough for a well-off family to spend a year! As long as they can enter the official preparatory class, they can solve their family's livelihood problems and rise to a higher level.

"Not just that, there is also a saying later that even if the grades cannot rank in the top ten and enter the official preparatory class, as long as you pass the pass line, you will be qualified to enter the Academy of Sciences. Starting this year, the Academy of Sciences will set up a branch in Nanjing City to cultivate talents for the country and the country. Those who enter the Academy of Sciences may enter the official career, may also enter factories to become technical experts, and may also work in Far East Trading Company and engage in ocean trade. Their annual earnings are no less than officials..." said the scholar who read the announcement.

Everyone was even more uproared. In the past, I had to go to the imperial examinations and could only go on an official career. The road was very narrow. If there was no one in the court and he was trapped in a clique, he would be very likely to be depressed and unsuccessful all his life, and even the candidate officials would not be able to take the turn. The Academy of Sciences of the Jiuzhou Army also cultivated various talents, so that the channel for class improvement widened. The more diverse talents they trained, the more people passed the assessment, and the greater the hope of those who took the exam!

"Young Master, I don't know what the entrance examination needs to be assessed? I have a son who is in his early thirties this year and has been in the provincial examination three times and failed again and now he has nothing to do. Maybe he can try this." said an elderly Suzhou City resident.

The scholar himself wanted to read it, so he looked to the left: "This is the assessment content. One is about literature and history. Every year, the admission assessment department of the Academy of Sciences will excerpt dozens of articles from literary and historical classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics, Records of the Historian, and Zizhi Tongjian. It will be published in the first month of each year to evaluate the understanding of the excerpted articles, and the examiner will write an essay according to current affairs requirements."

"The second is Neo-Confucianism. This Neo-Confucianism is not Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but the science of science and engineering, which is subdivided into physics, chemistry, and biology."

"The third is arithmetic, examining the algorithms and simple applications of Arabic numerals."

"The fourth is legal theory, which examines the basic spirit and theory of the rule of law."

"These four sons are familiar with and mastered by students all over the world, and there is no longer any discussion. The other three sons have reduced the difficulty and those who are smart and diligent can pass the assessment after studying hard for a year. Applicants can go to the local government to receive textbooks, totaling four books, and the scope of the textbooks is the assessment content."

"Except for composition, a small number of legal principles require subjective judgment, the other answers are fixed and ranked by scores."

"Registration conditions, identify the text and literacy, men and women aged 16 and above are not allowed to apply. Registration only requires the fee for printing textbooks."

When the announcement was finished, the scholar breathed a deep breath.

The assessment of Jiuzhou Army is really simple and crude!

As long as you are literate, over 16 years old, regardless of gender, you can apply for the exam after studying four textbooks! Moreover, the answers to most exam contents are still fixed, so as to exclude the denial of a person's knowledge due to subjective reasons of the examiner! This has greatly reduced the cost of scholars participating in the exam.

"Why am I so unlucky? If I were born ten or twenty years later, I might have a chance. Unfortunately, I am in my thirties now and can't read a few words. Even if I want to take this exam, I can't do anything."

"Not it, I can only put my hope in the next generation."

Some people in Suzhou City who did not meet the application requirements said regretfully.

"What should I do? At the beginning, I only had to oppose the abolition of the eight-legged essay. It was one thing that we didn't think it was a new school. It was said that less than 300 people were in the first admission assessment held in Nanjing last year, and more than half of the people who took the exam were hired! Jiuzhou Army posted a notice to publicize it. This year, it would be crowded. If only I had prepared earlier!"

"Oh, the notice said it would take a year to study the new school. It's already May now, and there are only five months left before the admission assessment this year. Wouldn't we not be able to get into the Academy of Sciences next year?"

The scholars present were also more melancholy than the other. They all realized that they had realized too late. If they started studying the new study from now on, they would not be able to exert all their strength as soon as next year.

"Hahahahahahaha!" Gu Yanwu, who was in the crowd, also saw this notice and couldn't help but laugh. He, a group of new school students who were secretly studying new studies and were ashamed to discuss with the old school students, may have inexplicably become the biggest beneficiaries.
Chapter completed!