Chapter 432: Test-taker (3rd update, today’s update)

Civil servant!

As early as 1863, in order to cope with the needs of the growing population and municipal management, Nanhua began to draw on the civil service reform plan that had just been implemented in the UK and implemented a completely open civil service examination. Civil servants were recruited through open civil service examinations. In fact, China was already familiar with this. After all, China had long begun to rely on examinations to select officials. This is the imperial examination system.

Nanhua borrowed some elements of the British civil service examination on the basis of the imperial examination system, rather than selecting and employing people based on the eight-part essay in the imperial examination.

Unlike the imperial examination system for selecting officials, "civil servants" are, to a certain extent, the selection of clerks. If you want to be an official, you must first be a "clerk."

It was also from that time that "civil servant" became the only way for ordinary South Chinese to enter the officialdom. Countless South Chinese dreamed of "being on the list of successful candidates" and bringing honor to their family and becoming successful in the future.

After all, for Chinese people, being an official is the best shortcut to success. At least this has been the education system in China for thousands of years: studying is for the purpose of becoming an official.

As long as you become an official, it is natural for you to rise to prominence. In Nanhua, there is no imperial examination. You can only enter the officialdom by applying for the civil service examination.

Therefore, every time the civil service recruitment attracts many people to apply. However, it is not easy to become a civil servant. The requirements in the past were very high - not only must you be proficient in at least one foreign language, but you must also receive education in a specialized school - a specialized school is a kind of university, and is a school used by companies to train specialized personnel.

Nanhua does not recognize scholars or juren, it only recognizes Nanhua’s own “academic qualifications”. For immigrants, if they want to succeed, the easiest shortcut is to “do questions”!

Like all immigrants, when Feng Haodong first came to Nanhua, he worked in a factory. However, after studying in a private school for several years, he was not satisfied with the salary of more than ten yuan a month. Instead, he studied in night school, learning foreign languages, mathematics, geography and other knowledge. After three years, he finally passed the high school examination, which was just a test of academic ability, and obtained a high school diploma.

Like all those who passed the exam, he entered the accounting school and became a company employee after graduation. Although there is only one letter difference between employee and staff, the income and benefits are very different. As an employee, he can apply for a single-family house after marriage, while employees can only apply for a unit building. As for income, it is much higher than that of ordinary employees.

But even so, Feng Haodong still hopes to become a civil servant. After all, civil servants are... officials!

official!

Be an official!

This is the ultimate dream of a scholar.

Because of this, he has been working hard to prepare for the civil service examination over the past year.

Sitting at his desk, Feng Haodong once again looked at the recruitment information in the Nanyuan Daily. There were a lot of books on his desk. Nanhua's civil servants did not specify textbooks or exam outlines, which made it difficult to study.

According to Zhu Xianhai's requirements, the exam content covers multiple fields such as mathematics, foreign languages, history, geography, biology, etc., basically covering all the logic, calculation, nature and scientific common sense content learned in middle school.

In Zhu Xianhai's view, whether it is the designated textbooks or the establishment of the examination syllabus, it is essentially another form of "eight-part essay", so he borrowed the examination plan from the British civil service reform plan. Because the examination content is too complicated, for many years, Nanhua's civil service examination has basically eliminated nearly half of the candidates after the initial test.

When entering the main examination stage, the examination subjects are divided into nine, and the content is more complex and specific. In addition to the examination of the content of the selected professional subjects, it also involves more specific and detailed international relations, economic management, public governance, science and technology, as well as history and culture, moral cultivation, etc. In addition, you must pass at least one foreign language qualification test in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. After the main examination is over, it is the interview.

Moreover, candidates can only take the exam six times in their lifetime. If they fail all six times, they will not be eligible to take the exam again. For this reason, no one will take the exam easily without being well prepared.

Although it is difficult, for those South Chinese people who come from China and have no background, the civil service examination is the best upward channel for them to change their destiny.

Do the questions!

As long as you do well in the questions, you will definitely be able to change your destiny!

In Nanhua, this is extremely fair and just. Nanhua will never treat any test-taker unfairly, nor will it take away the positions of test-takers just because of someone's background.

Everything in Nanhua ultimately comes down to fairness, nothing else.

The first is fairness, the second is still fairness, and the third still must be fairness.

If this most basic fairness is gone, is there any meaning to fairness?

Like many people, Feng Haodong also chose to "do questions". Although he was greatly shocked when he first came to Nanhua, he originally thought that with the status of a student, he could easily pass the "High School Academic Aptitude Test", enter a specialized school, and get a well-paid job in a company. As a result, all kinds of unprecedented knowledge such as foreign languages, mathematics, geography, and natural history directly stunned him. Fortunately, he adapted quickly and was extremely smart, so he passed the high school entrance examination after only three years of study.

Doing the test... Feng Haodong felt that he was quite good at it. In fact, who would not be good at taking the imperial examination?

Ever since the Song Dynasty began to use imperial examinations to evaluate talent, over the past thousands of years, how many capable and capable officials in China did not become so through taking imperial examinations?

Well, that means the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty didn't have to do the test. They could become Manchu officials just by virtue of their bloodline of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

But this is not the case in Nanhua, everyone needs to do the exercises.

Although Nanhua's exams are very fair, there are many restrictions, including age, number of exams, and subject categories.

Without being fully prepared, Feng Haodong still didn't dare to apply for the civil service examination. After all, there are only five chances in a lifetime.

But what should we do when faced with a civil service examination that has no unified textbooks, no examination outlines and is completely like a fog? Even reviewing will make me confused.

You can only read the book over and over again, read as much as possible, and practice as many questions as possible.

But there must be a range!

Mathematics, foreign languages, history, geography, biology, international relations, economic management, public governance, science and technology...

You have to learn all of these! Because the scope involved is too broad, it is difficult to prepare for the exam in a targeted manner, so you can only learn as much as you can.

What’s even worse is that only a mere one or two hundred civil servants are recruited every year!

But there were thousands of people who signed up!

Who doesn’t want to be an official?

Just when he was in despair, this civil servant recruitment notice gave Feng Haodong hope.

"This is a godsend! I thought it would be difficult for me to enter the official career in this lifetime, but I never thought that this opportunity is right in front of me!"

Therefore, Feng Haodong and Yuan Tianxi signed up for the exam directly, and the registration fee was a full two silver dollar coupons!

After signing up and paying the registration fee, Yuan Tianxi said with emotion:

"Haodong, when I first came to Nanhua, I always felt that everything here was awkward, but what about the reality? If I stayed in Tangshan, even if I wanted to get a job through the imperial examination, what would it matter? Wouldn't I still be a slave and kowtow to everyone I saw? If I didn't kowtow, I wouldn't be a slave and become an official. That would be wishful thinking. But it's different here in Nanhua. Everything is new. As long as you have talent, there will definitely be a place for you to use your talents. Even if you can't pass the civil service exam and become an official, you can still pass the exam with your knowledge, enter a specialized school, and become an employee of a company."

"Brother Yuan is right. Nanhua is indeed different from Tangshan in every way, and there are many opportunities. If you can pass the civil service exam this time, you will definitely have a bright future with your intelligence and talent."

"Haodong, thank you for your praise. Right now, I have to pass the civil service exam. This is a rare opportunity, so I must not miss it!"

Yuan Tianxi said again.

"It's just that the powers and responsibilities of this Land Reform Committee are still unclear. I heard that it is a newly established organization, and the civil servants recruited by Nanhua are all clerks. I don't know what their future prospects will be. It really makes people feel a little bit at a loss! Besides, there is only half a month to prepare, which is really too tight!"

Time is running out!

Why is time so tight?

Because Sun Wenshan doesn’t have time to waste!

As Argentina's provinces successively surrendered, implementing land reform became the top priority of all tasks.

If you want to implement reforms, you need people.

These people need to be able to speak Spanish, be familiar with government affairs, and know how to manage the local area, so new civil servants must be recruited. Unlike the previous recruitment of about 200 civil servants each year, this time the committee recruited 812 at once. In fact, this is only the first batch. In order to complete the entire land reform plan, at least 2,000 civil servants need to be recruited.

Such a large-scale recruitment attracted many people to apply.

For any South China person, being able to enter the civil service system means not only that they no longer have to worry about their livelihood, but also that they are on the road to becoming a "winner in life". After all, civil servants receive generous salaries, with new employees generally receiving salaries ranging from 60 to 75 yuan per month.

In addition, there are many other items such as various transportation subsidies, children's subsidies, food subsidies or subsidies for difficult areas, and you can also get a very generous pension after retirement.

Not only are their salaries much higher than those of ordinary people, but civil servants also have very good benefits, including free medical care and housing that matches their rank. When they reach a certain level, they even have government-sponsored nannies and cooks to take care of their daily lives.

The reason for the generous treatment is that... Nanhua's civil servants were first implemented in Shanxi, namely Araucania and later occupied Chile. In other words, they were the ruling class there, and they ruled those areas as conquerors.

As conquerors in the occupied areas, how could they not be well paid? After all, the dangers they would face in the occupied areas were unimaginable to the outside world...

(End of this chapter)