The ninth year of Yuanxing, May 6.
Another spring had come.
Ishikawa Province, the Provincial City.
Ishikawa University was officially established today and had begun accepting students!
Ishikawa Province bordered Feng Province. Since Feng Province already had Wu'an University, Ishikawa Province had failed to secure a university quota.
As a result, the children of Ishikawa Province's powerful families could only attend university in neighboring Feng Province.
Later, when the thirteenth university, Hongyi University, was established, its quota actually went to Feng Province again.
This infuriated the people of Ishikawa Province!
Later still, when they learned that Hongyi University intended to recruit large numbers of commoner students and children from humble families, the powerful families of Ishikawa Province secretly felt relieved.
That was a hot potato!
After the Mingxin Reform, the Great Blue Dynasty had abolished the imperial examinations and replaced them with the Twelve Universities, which recruited talented people for the nation.
Thus, the Twelve Universities represented a path to advancement, a promising future, and endless resources!
There were not enough places for the clans and powerful families from every region to divide among themselves, and now they even had to give part of the cake to commoners and children from humble families?
Contradictions, conflicts, and all kinds of suppression were inevitable.
As a pilot university, Hongyi University had indeed been feeling its way across the river by touching the stones, enduring many trials and tribulations.
Halfway through, it had even changed presidents, because its first president had been Xu Jing.
Among the commoner students and children from humble families who successfully graduated from Hongyi University's first class, two-thirds had disappeared compared with the number who had first enrolled!
Those who failed to graduate had either run into trouble during the brutal cultivation and trials, or suffered various accidents and