The news that the entrance examination of Jinling Women's University was very difficult soon spread throughout the three towns of Wuhan!
The parents and family members of the more than 300 girls who had passed the preliminary examination suddenly became a little uneasy. Some of them had some connections and went through various channels to get a copy of Princess Nessa's exam papers. At first glance, everyone was dumbfounded.
This is too difficult and too deep!
Many test questions cannot be answered by girls' high school graduates, and they can all be used to test students who are too young!
But you said it was difficult, but everyone answered it. Three exams scored 100 points, one exam scored 85 points, and the four papers scored 385 points! It is said that I got 85 points in martial arts, 95 points in music, and 60 points in the interview, for a total of 625 points (total score 660)!
Those girls and their parents who had ideas about the position of the Crown Princess were both worried and happy!
I'm worried because I'm afraid of failing the test... This time, one test will determine my life! There is no re-study, and there is no way to earn gold by studying abroad. If you fail in the exam, you will be in trouble for life!
As for the luck, it's because Princess Nesa doesn't participate in the competition for the Crown Princess, and she has already been booked by the Crown Prince's father.
However, without Princess Nissa participating in the competition, others did not dare to take it lightly. Just ten days before the official start of the women's college exams, Wuhan Taixue students suddenly became very popular, and were hired as supplementary teachers by prominent people with daughters.
The old textbooks from the Army Martial Arts Hall are also very popular, and anyone with a way wants to get them to hold the Buddha's feet for their daughter who is taking the exam - but except for the young ladies from the general family who have heard about it since childhood and are very familiar with military affairs, no one else can read it. Got it! The most you can do is have a good memory and memorize all the books, which is better than not knowing anything at all!
Just when the parents of more than 300 candidates were extremely busy because of the sudden increase in the difficulty of the exam, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty issued an edict, appointing Fu Wang Zhu Cibing as the left secretary of the Jinling Female University, and Pan Shuchen, the governor of the East Factory, as the female university. Dayou Siye, and ordered two people to be responsible for presiding over the re-examination for women's university entrance,
At the same time, Zhu Cihong also announced the time and examination subjects of the "College Entrance Examination" through an edict.
This time the "College Entrance Examination" will be divided into a written test and an interview. The written test will start on the morning of May 15th, the 20th year of Hongxing, and end on the afternoon of May 17th. Among them, Confucianism, that is, philosophy, will be tested in the morning of the 15th; arithmetic will be tested in the afternoon of the 15th; French will be tested in the morning of the 16th; Physics will be tested in the afternoon of the 16th; and martial arts will be tested throughout the day on the 17th. From the 18th to the end of the month, there will be interviews - Zhu Cixiang will interview all the girls who have passed the re-examination and are qualified to become the Zhu family's wives. Candidates who are not qualified to become the Zhu family's daughter-in-law (surnamed Zhu or non-Ming people) also need to participate in the interview, but instead of being interviewed by Zhu Cixiang personally, Zhu Cibing is responsible for the interview.
In other words, this time the "College Entrance Examination" does not test military studies, but only martial arts.
The test scores for each subject have also been announced. Confucianism, arithmetic, French, inquiry, martial arts, and interviews are all scored out of 100, and the total score is 600!
The number of students admitted to the first class of Jinling Women's University was also announced at the same time. No more, no less, only 200 students will be admitted. They will be divided into four classes and all will go to Jinling Women's University in Yingtianfu. The school will provide accommodation and allow students to attend school as day students.
The academic system of the Women's University was also announced in the edict. The academic system is four years, and students are allowed to continue their studies after getting married...
As for the questions for the four exams of Confucianism, Arithmetic, French, and Quwu, they were all set by Emperor Zhu himself. If you have the ability, just guess!
Finally, Emperor Zhu also announced in this edict that all candidates who are citizens of the Ming Dynasty, are not named Zhu, and are not cousins of the prince, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, will have the opportunity to pass this exam and become the crown prince and concubine of the Ming Dynasty - as long as she can Ranked first!
The imperial edict regarding the admissions examination of Jinling Women's University was a public edict, that is, it was publicly published in newspapers and "reported to the world."
The enrollment matter of Jinling Women's University has actually been going on for a long time, but it has never been "reported to the world". The decree has only been sent to the few women's schools in various places and to Ying Tianxungui. Moreover, he did not explicitly say that "one exam will determine your life," nor did he publicly say that the leader of the women's college entrance examination will be the princess.
So when this edict came out, of course the whole country was shocked!
The position of the Crown Princess can be "taken by the person with the highest points". Doesn't this mean that she will be the number one scholar? Now there are no men in the Ming Dynasty who can take the first prize - Zhu Cixiang changed the imperial examination to an official examination and no longer organizes "promotional" imperial examinations. Of course, there are no ministerial examinations, palace examinations and point champions that attract world attention.
Now there are three ways for officials (civilians) in the Ming Dynasty to come. One is that the ministries and provincial yamen organize official examinations on their own under the supervision of the Ministry of Personnel (the examination of the Ministry of Personnel is supervised by the Procuratorate); the other is that they are supervised by the Ministry of Rites of the Fifteenth Institute. There are 15 university graduates in the country who are exempted from taking exams and become officials (there are only 15 universities in the country, and the annual graduates earn about 1,500, which is very rare!); third, there are retired military attachés who have transferred to civil service (you must have graduated from the army and navy to transfer to civil service) ).
No matter which one you come from, it is not easy to get into the "Tianzitang" (an official who is qualified to participate in the imperial meeting). You must pass various tests, show political achievements, make fewer mistakes, and have a certain level of official luck. .....The good deeds of being the Heaven's Master in the morning and ascending to the Emperor's Hall in the evening no longer exist!
But now there is a story about being a student girl in the morning and a princess in the evening...can you not make people stunned?
While most of the subjects of the Ming Empire couldn't figure out what Emperor Zhu was planning, the future first-generation female college students of the Ming Dynasty had already arrived at the examination room accompanied by their families.
Ding Yuying was one of the few civilian girls who participated in this exam. On May 15th, just after the fourth watch, the sky was still dark, so she had already gotten up and took a typing test. Pan Shuchen handed it over to She took out a Kaiyuan bow and started practicing archery - she didn't know martial arts at first. She only learned archery from Pan Shuchen after living in Pan Shuchen's house in Dongchang Yamen, and also learned a set of exercises to strengthen her body. She also learned some boxing skills, simple sword skills, and a little bit of horsemanship (she could already ride a horse). In order to get more points in the martial arts exam, she got up every morning to practice for the past few months, rain or shine! Even if it's snowing heavily, she will practice hard. This fierceness is worthy of the nickname "Xiao Ding's skinning", but her father is picking off other people's skin, and she is picking off her own skin.
Pan Shuchen originally didn't think highly of this girl with no foundation, but he was moved by her hardworking spirit and thought of what he had experienced back then... He was a eunuch, so he could easily imagine the situation in his family. Got it! To be able to achieve today's status, of course he is also a ruthless person who is willing to endure hardships.
However, he also knows that martial arts training cannot be achieved quickly. The daughters of noble generals have to work hard for small jobs. How can Ding Yuying compete with others? It’s useless to train yourself to death for several months.
So he formulated a make-up lesson plan for Ding Yuying to make use of her strengths and avoid her weaknesses - she had to practice martial arts, otherwise she would get zero points. But you can't expect to get high scores in martial arts. You must put your limited experience where you can best score points.
For this reason, Pan Shuchen also hired a tutor from Wuhan Taixue to give Ding Yuying extra lessons. This gentleman also has real abilities. After some investigation, I found that Ding Yuying is good in mathematics and Confucianism, but her French is very poor - she went to a private girls' school, and it was also a private girls' school in Huguang. Her education level is very good. Very poor.
Ding Yuying is the number one academic in the school, so she is good at mathematics and Confucianism. There are still people who can teach these two subjects. If she is not good enough, she can still teach herself. But I’m not good at French... I don’t have a teacher to teach me, and I can’t teach myself. I don’t even have a radio these days, so how can I be good at it?
So this gentleman helped Ding Yuying with her French skills. After a few months, this little girl's French has reached the point where she can talk to French people!
When Ding Yuying finished practicing archery, the sky was already brightening. Pan Shuchen had also gotten up, washed and dressed neatly. He stood in the corridor with his hands behind his back. He looked at the little girl packing her bow and arrows and sighed softly - this girl is a piece of beautiful jade. ah! It's a pity that I don't have enough time to carve...
