On the second day of the assessment, Chen Qing personally went to the Liuzhou Academy. Chen Qing attached great importance to this assessment. With the opening of the Dragon Palace drawing ever closer, version 2.0 was inevitable. After the Spiritual Energy Revival, Jiangnan had to seize the opportunity to enter a period of rapid development in order to catch up with the lurking demons whose strength had increased dramatically, and to avoid being torn apart by natural disasters!
Chen Qing was well aware that the things he would face in the future would become increasingly terrifying, so he had to do his best to stabilize the foundation. The quality of the students in this academy would be an important part of promoting the stability of the divine kingdom in the future.
Each ancient realm has different professions. The Dragon Palace mainly features array masters and rune masters. There will be many more ancient realms released in version 2.0, and more and more complex professions will appear. If an individual can seize the opportunity, their strength will soar, and they can almost surpass the current top masters in a short period of time.
The Dragon Palace class is geared towards construction, which aligns perfectly with the divine kingdom they aspire to build. To ensure they keep pace with the latest version updates, a strong pool of talented individuals is essential.
According to Chen Ying's statistics, after this selection, more than 3,000 young men from various prefectures participated in the assessment, while more than 300 people from the capital, Fang Family, and Northern Wasteland families participated.
Chen Qing anticipates recruiting a thousand people, which is the current limit the academy can accommodate. Training excellent 2.0 warlocks requires a large amount of resources. Although the entire Jiangnan is developing rapidly, it is still very difficult to raise prospective warlocks beyond the current version. A thousand new recruits is the limit!
Therefore, we must do our best to carefully select and retain talented individuals, as these are the key to the future advancement of our divine kingdom.
" Lord Chen has arrived?"
At the entrance, several teachers were chatting together. When they saw Chen Qing coming, they quickly stepped forward and bowed.
All the scholars admitted to the Liuzhou Academy are learned and not pedantic. They have long been suppressed and ostracized by the pedantic scholars, but now they have become the top scholars in Jiangnan, and their lives have undergone earth-shattering changes.
They all showed great respect to Chen Qing, who had given them a second chance at life.
" Lord Chen, you've arrived so early?"
The one who asked the question was Master Yang. Chen Qing looked at him and smiled gently, " Master Yang, you're up quite early too."
Of all the teachers, Master Yang is the one that Chen Qing pays the most attention to. His identity remains a mystery to this day, but the key thing is that his memories seem to be sealed off, like a time bomb. He was not originally suitable to be placed in the academy, but Chen Qing did not impose any restrictions on him.
There are many teachers in the academy who can teach, and many who can replace Master Yang, but there is one thing: if he really is the former Mr. Five Poisons, Chen Qing would never dare to let him go.
The problem is that this guy can't be killed, because if Chen Qing tries to make a move, something hidden on the other person seems to surface. Chen Qing Chen Qing n't quite put his finger on what it is, but he's not really willing to make a move right now.
"How did it go? Did the registration go smoothly?" Chen Qing asked, looking at the teachers.
"It went very smoothly." Several teachers stroked their beards, their faces beaming with smiles.
This year's promising students were all carefully selected from across the seven continents, making for an exceptionally high-caliber pool. They had reviewed exam papers from various regions, and many of the students possessed remarkable talent.
"However, the distribution of applicants among the academies is quite unbalanced," one of the teachers complained. "The officials of various prefectures are now overwhelmingly favoring disciples of the Xuanhuang and Tiandi academies, while most of the children with aptitude for divination are from merchant or artisan families. These people are more profit-driven and focus on immediate gains, resulting in the number of applicants for the Xuanhuang and Tiandi academies being almost three times that of the Tiandi academies. In particular, the Heaven Academy has fewer than two hundred applicants from Jiangnan, most of whom are from aristocratic families and have impure motives."
Chen Qing smiled upon hearing this. The sorcerers of the Xuanhuang Academy are closer to people's lives. Whether it is a medical sorcerer who can cure all diseases, a feng Earth Vein sorcerer who can find good locations for farmers, or a creation sorcerer from the Mystic Academy who can build all kinds of buildings with great business opportunities, they are all the most popular people among local officials. The people can directly benefit from them, so they are naturally more popular.
The Heaven Academy, with its high-level magical arrays, is always too far removed from ordinary people. Only a few families of sorcerers can understand its value, so most of those who apply to the Heaven Academy are children of sorcerer families.
"That's not a bad thing either," Chen Qing said with a smile. "The number of spellcasters needed is already small, and the children of spellcaster families generally have higher talent in meditation than ordinary children. As long as it's not monopolized, there shouldn't be any major problems."
Others nodded slightly, but some raised a question, "Sir, Neo-Confucianism is very popular in Jiangnan. In the past year, many local aristocratic families in Jiangnan have gained a much stronger foundation in Neo-Confucianism than their counterparts in the capital and the north through excellent education. In terms of competitiveness, they are on a completely different level. But wouldn't it be unfair to lower the difficulty of the exams for the children of aristocratic families outside the region, which is why the local children who were originally studying hard are doing so?"
This is also the most controversial point right now, leading to dissatisfaction among many local students with the system, including many tutors.
Many people come to Liuzhou to study these days, and most of the students taking the exam this time are the star pupils of these teachers. The thought that their students study hard day and night, only to be screened out because of this unfair system, makes them feel quite disgusted. After all, the purpose of exams is fairness. If this is corrupted, what is the purpose of the academy?
"It's naturally different," Chen Qing explained with a smile. He was well aware that this system would be questioned. Back in his previous life in Central China, there was considerable unfairness in the college entrance examinations in different regions. When weighing the pros and cons, it was really impossible to treat everyone equally.
For example, this recruitment exam for candidates from other regions is, to some extent, unfair to local candidates. Because of the tight schedule, candidates from other regions only need to take a basic skills test, while local candidates have to take a test that is much more difficult and advanced. The difference in difficulty is equivalent to the difference between the entrance exam for junior high school and the college entrance exam.
But there was no other way. He desperately needed to collect excellent family techniques. Once the spiritual energy erupted, there would be too many areas where many family techniques could be developed and utilized. Liuzhou Academy had virtually no reserves in this regard. If he didn't collect them as soon as possible, many magicians would be born once some hidden demons invaded. The price to pay for seizing techniques would be extremely high!
"Although the exams are more difficult for local students, they don't need to supplement their basic science knowledge after entering the academy and can immediately keep up with the courses. Moreover, we also offer preferential treatment to local students. In terms of the choice of inherited techniques, if a student has excellent grades, they can unconditionally choose one technique to inherit. On the other hand, students from other places need to exchange their family techniques. In this respect, they can't compare, can they?"
Some of the teachers hesitated, as it did seem like there were indeed preferential treatments, especially the ability to inherit a specialization in a technique without using a family technique. This was extremely friendly to ordinary local students, and it could be considered as Jiangnan Academy's care for local students.
"Moreover, this is only a temporary measure," Chen Qing added. "It's just because time is too tight that we're making this exception this year. Next year, if out-of-town candidates want to enter our Jiangnan Academy, they will have to have the same solid foundation in science as local candidates."
Upon hearing this, the other teachers' expressions softened slightly. If it was just a year of special treatment, they could barely accept it. These teachers were quite proud of themselves; they had more confidence in their students than in outsiders, even if they were given a year to teach them.
Seeing that no one objected, Chen Qing breathed a slight sigh of relief. However, he did not lie. Next year, the environment in various places will be very different from now. Chaos will break out. Many people thought that this year would be the most chaotic year in the Great Jin, but that was not the case. Compared with the time when spiritual energy exploded, the current chaos was nothing!
By then, the Jiangnan, with its stable environment, will be even more attractive to outsiders. At that time, no matter how demanding the admission requirements are, there will be people vying for them.
After chatting with the teachers for a while, Chen Qing went to the preparation area for the academy's examination. At this time, students from all over the country were already on high alert, making preparations for the exam. They were all in deep meditation, striving to be in the best mental state during the exam.
It must be said that in meditation, those from aristocratic families who have undergone years of meditation training have a far greater advantage than those from ordinary families. However, this is mainly a matter of talent, and as long as ordinary people have the talent, they can naturally catch up quickly.
However, among this group, there are still some supermodels who are not easily surpassed.
Chen Qing glanced at them and found that there were a few places with the best meditation aptitude. One was the descendants of the Nine Ministers of the capital's aristocratic families. The meditation accuracy of those disciples was more than five times that of others. In particular, several core disciples not only possessed excellent talent for inheriting techniques, but also managed to lower their pride and improve their basic knowledge of philosophy to the point where they could participate in the assessment in just one month. They truly deserved to be the outstanding talents carefully selected by the aristocratic families.
They are completely different from that good-for-nothing in Shen Yuan's family.
Comparatively speaking, the scions of northern aristocratic families are much weaker. Some of the core scions who occupy the quota have a terrible foundation in Neo-Confucianism and will most likely be eliminated. However, the excellent inheritance techniques they possess make Chen Qing somewhat envious. He wonders how to guide them so that they can stay in Jiangnan without causing resentment among the other scions who have passed the exam.
The people from the Northern Wolf Kingdom are very powerful, especially Murong Bingyun. If Chen Qing is not mistaken, he should have inherited the Ice Wolf Demon Brahma from the Northern Wolf Kingdom, which is the key to the arrival of a certain monster here. In his opinion, this thing is more valuable than Murong Yunji's Gale Spell Formula.
Finally, among the commoner disciples, the most outstanding was Yun Keke, who possessed the talent of Spirit Eye. With her Spirit Eye, she not only had exceptional talent in divination, but her meditation efficiency also far surpassed that of her peers, almost comparable to the disciples of the Nine Ministers. Although her accuracy was far inferior, given some time, she could still catch up with those monsters.
Overall, it boasts a wealth of talent.
But it's not very stable.
Those children driven by family interests are ultimately less innocent than those from ordinary families, and class divisions will inevitably emerge, potentially even leading to mutual hostility. How to manage this dynamic in the future is a complex issue.
In his previous life, Chen Qing was merely a high-ranking executive. To be honest, handling such a significant class conflict was quite a challenge for him. With that kind of ability, he would have become the vice president of Tencent long ago.
Ah, if only Wang Ye were here. That guy's political talent far surpasses mine. Speaking of which, where did he go?
Sorry for posting so late.