Uchiha Takashi hadn't expected the crackdown to be so effective; he had anticipated it would take one or two years to stabilize society.
To his surprise, the Uchiha clan members gave him a huge surprise; they managed to completely stabilize society in less than a month.
This also shows that these villagers and troublemakers are all bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong!
If you treat them kindly, they won't be grateful; instead, they'll think you're weak and easily bullied. No wonder they can breed troublemakers like those in Konoha later on.
So it's all hereditary. You can't be nice to these kinds of people! You have to strike hard and let them know who's in charge!
They must understand why the Uchiha has the surname Uchiha!
So, just because the Uchiha don't show their power, they think they're just Red Eye?
Ahem, I digress. Since the results have been so good, and society has been forcibly brought under control, it's time to put the first official examination in the Land of Light on the agenda.
It's time to put forward national policy and implement middle school and college entrance examinations. After all, these exams, though written into the Ministry of Education's regulations, have never actually been conducted in practice.
Does this thing even work? How exactly do you use it? So far, there's absolutely no experience with it. Right now, society has stabilized, making it a good opportunity to officially conduct the middle and high school entrance exams.
Moreover, the conditions are much better now. Universities have been established for two years now. After all, this was ancient times, and there wasn't as much knowledge as in modern times, so in two years, the knowledge points can be almost completely learned.
It's a good time to take advantage of the middle and high school entrance exams to see how well these students are doing, test their learning outcomes, and also to select talent.
While the Uchiha Nara Clan, with its brilliant intellect, provided them with no immediate shortage of administrative personnel, this was limited to the capital city.
The Uchiha territory is now more than ten times larger than before, and its population has increased tenfold. The Nara Clan alone is simply not enough to support it.
In some places, even commoner Uchiha members are being used as administrative staff. This shows just how desperately the Uchiha is for manpower; even Uchiha are being relegated to these positions. The manpower shortage is truly precipitous.
In the past, it wouldn't have mattered, since the Uchiha was the ones who did it anyway. But now, with the Nara Clan involved, things are different.
There's a saying that goes, "It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality." This has been true ever since the Nara Clan, with their external brains and highly capable administrators, came into being.
Uchiha Takashi really didn't want to go back to the Uchiha's incredibly slow administrative model. He originally thought those days of extremely slow administrative efficiency were gone forever, but who knew they could actually return to reality?
Over the past two years, Uchiha Takashi has almost worked himself to death. With his subordinates not being very capable, wasn't he, the ruler, the one who was busy doing all the work?
Every day after get off work, I go home and collapse into bed. My sleep quality is like a high school student's—don't get me wrong, not at night, but during morning self-study.
The so-called middle and high school entrance examinations are actually used to select talent; in essence, they are used to select talent for the Uchiha to govern the country.
However, things are different now than in later generations. There are many different job positions available now, and the required knowledge is also completely different. Therefore, after the college entrance examination, students need to choose a major to be qualified for each position.
Things are different now. There aren't as many complicated jobs or bizarre knowledge points, and majors have already been classified in high school.
The high school entrance exam is like a test of your talent, to see if you have the ability to govern a country, whether you can study well, and whether you know how to study.
Therefore, the main purpose of the middle school entrance exam is to filter out useless people. Only the useful and talented will be able to continue their studies in high school to govern the country. As for those who don't pass the exam... well, they should honestly go home and farm, or use their middle school knowledge to do something useful.
Although there aren't that many jobs available now, many new professions have emerged under Uchiha Takashi's rule, and these professions are currently in dire need of people with only a junior high school education.
The college entrance examination is the most important and crucial selection process for core talent. The main purpose of the Uchiha Takashi's college entrance examination was to select talented individuals for official positions, which can be understood as the imperial examination system's provincial examination.
The ancient imperial examinations were divided into four parts. The first was the preliminary examination, for which participants were called "tongsheng" (童生), who were usually self-taught at home or had some formal education in a school. Age was irrelevant. Anyone who took this exam was called a "tongsheng," and if they passed, they were called "xiucai" (秀才).
To draw an analogy, it's equivalent to the entrance exam for junior high school held by Uchiha Takashi.
The second type of imperial examination was called the provincial examination, which was taken by scholars who had passed the county-level examination. Those who passed were called "Juren" (举人), and in ancient times, reaching the Juren level basically guaranteed one a chance to become an official.
This corresponds to Uchiha Takashi's middle school entrance exam, except that unlike the imperial examination, a graduate of this exam cannot become an official; they can only work in emerging professions or state-owned enterprises.
The third examination in the imperial examination system was called the metropolitan examination. Participants were called "juren" (举人), and those who passed were called "gongshi" (贡士).
Uchiha Takashi's college entrance exam was similar to this; if you passed, you could become an official, but only a minor local official, not a high-ranking official in the capital.
Above the national college entrance examination, Uchiha Takashi also established a large-scale examination held in the capital city, which was equivalent to the fourth level of the imperial examination, the Palace Examination.
Those who passed were called Jinshi, and only those who passed this major examination could stay in the capital and become high-ranking officials. As for those who failed, they were sent back to their hometowns to serve as local officials; the country did not support idlers.
Then, based on their scores in this large-scale examination and their areas of expertise, they were assigned official positions in various departments within the capital.
This is the combined system of the imperial examination and modern college entrance examination currently implemented by the Uchiha Takashi. Note that in this system, Ninja Academy students can participate in the college entrance examination simultaneously.
If ordinary schools implement nine years of compulsory education, then Ninja Academy implement twelve years of compulsory education, covering everything from elementary school to high school and even the college entrance examination.
However, unlike civilian Ninja Academy academies do not allow students who take the entrance exam (ninja exam) to pursue new professions, regardless of whether they pass.
Ninjas only have two choices: either become officials in the capital or serve in the military there, unless specifically assigned to a local post by their organization, i. e., the government. Otherwise, these are their only two options.
After all, ninjas are valuable combat personnel; in this extraordinary world, using ninjas as local officials is far too extravagant.
The Uchiha already lacked its own army, and even had to rely on civilian samurai to make up the numbers. How could Uchiha Takashi possibly agree to appoint these ninjas as regional officials?
Therefore, these are all necessary rules; only by establishing these rules can we avoid getting anxious.