Galileo's voltammetry experiment provides the possibility of generators appearing in the future of the Ming Dynasty, and will also provide the possibility of entering the electrical age based on the steam era in the future.

Of course, it is too early to say this now. There is still a long way to go from the stage of mastering electricity in the laboratory to the stage of application to practice during this period. It is not possible to rely on Galileo alone, and this requires more inspiration.

Today's Ming Dynasty will still develop in the steam power era for a long time, and engineers from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Ordnance Department are still interested in the improvement of steam engines.

Because the winner of the last Ming Dynasty's highest science and technology award was the inventor of steam-powered tanks and steam-powered warships, it greatly promoted the interest of researchers in steam engines. Not only researchers, even students who applied to Peking University or other technical schools, are more interested in steam dynamics.

In this way, the majors of the Ming Dynasty also have a distinction between popular and unpopular, such as classics, history, steam dynamics and medicine. Applicants are interested in it, while unpopular such as mechanics, arithmetics, law, etc. are missing. Of course, the current Ming students are like students who fill out college entrance examination applications in later generations. They do not know that some majors will become popular again in many years, and some will become unpopular.

For example, the new major that was just created in the Beijing University of Technology, although the nominal management of the Minister of Works, Huo Weihua, who entered this major, became a disciple of the Minister of the Ministry of Works, but there were still very few people applying for this major. The reason was very simple. In this era when there were only post stations and bus stops, the students of the Ming Dynasty thought that they could only be postmen after learning this.

Little did they know that when the steam-powered locomotive appeared and the world's first railway began to be built in the Ming Dynasty, every student of the transportation project became a hot commodity, and as soon as they graduated, they became railway officials above the seventh rank.

Of course this is a later story.

Sometimes, talents, like other commodities, will follow market laws and the supply and demand relationship will change at all times. For example, due to the reform of Zhu Youjiao, the demand for professional officials in the Ming Dynasty has increased, which has led to more and more scholars giving up the provincial examination or going directly to Beijing to apply for the corresponding school to directly seek official positions.

After all, for most scholars and juren, it is impossible to make it to the imperial examination and then be the first to be the first. What's more, in order to encourage a large number of outstanding talents to not spend their energy on the road to the imperial examination, Zhu Youxiao adopted a policy of low entry and high entry, that is, in the level of scholars and juren, the admission rate increased, and the quota of students and juren in each county increased by more than ten times.

In addition, Zhu Youjiao also stipulated that graduates from local schools or secondary schools in the capital can directly become tribute prisons, and graduates from Peking University schools can directly become juren. The literati offices specially recruited by scientific research institutions such as the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Ordnance Department and the Hanlin Academy were also directly awarded the student origin, while scholars were juren.

This led to a sharp increase in the number of students and juren in the entire Ming Dynasty, not only the number of students and juren, because Zhu Youxiao only had the quota of one and two Jinshi, but also expanded the number of Jinshi in the third-tier and juren to 300. Therefore, the value of the students and juren and juren will decrease, but the probability of becoming a Jinshi in the first and second-tier and juren will be lower, and the difficulty of qualifying for the gold list will be higher.

Especially for poor students from poor families who are in difficult families, it is difficult to get to the end. After all, the cost here is not low. In this case, it is better to go directly to Beijing to seek official positions in royal scientific research institutions or corporate banks, or even local scientific research, enterprises, banks, etc. After all, although the difficulty of graduating on the list has increased a lot, the difficulty of becoming an official has been reduced even more.

Zhu Youxiao actually intends to strengthen the professionalization and counterpart of the Ming officials, in order to lay the foundation for the future selection of Ming officials. As long as there are more officials of various specificity, there will be more officials, especially middle and lower-level officials, to support themselves in administrative reforms. After all, only reforms can these huge middle and lower-level officials have the hope of advancing to senior officials or even joining the cabinet to become cabinet ministers.

I am afraid that if the rules that were not allowed to enter the cabinet unless he was a Hanlin, and not a Jinshi were not allowed to be a high-ranking official, without Zhu Youxiao's statement, there would be a large number of officials complaining and even negative responses. Once the court did not give a large number of middle and lower-level officials the hope of advancement, the promotion would only reduce the enthusiasm of a large number of lower-level officials, prompting them to only know how to make money but have no ambition, which would intensify the administration of officials.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao will take the opportunity to change the Ming Dynasty officials' appointment system and subdivided the major central yamen such as the Six Ministry again, and the local yamen will also be much less difficult. After all, there are more yamen such as the second-rank Shangshu who sit in the hall, and there will be more opportunities to become a high-ranking official to honor his ancestors.

It increases the difficulty of admitting Jinshi in the imperial examination, maintains the high threshold for admission to the first and second grade Jinshi, and at the same time, it relaxes the difficulty of becoming a student and a juren, which also promotes the popularization and promotion of basic education. For a large number of ordinary people, they are afraid that they can still bear the education cost of raising their children to the stage of student or juren.

Therefore, before Zhu Youzhai established a school and began to carry out pilot reforms for popular education, a large number of scholars had been added to the private schools of the people, and new social schools and academies in various places also emerged like mushrooms after a rain. The literati who exiled Zhu Youzhai to the west was gradually insufficient, and the demand for teachers was increasing.

Not only teachers, but also managers of various schools in various places, and managers of all kinds of newly built institutions in various places, there is a great demand. Because the rapid economic development has made the employment situation in the Ming Dynasty very good, especially for people with a certain knowledge base, which has promoted the development of education in the Ming Dynasty.

Simple manual labor production can even use a large number of refugees and prisoners of war to make up for the development of the Ming Dynasty, but a large number of technical and knowledge-based management talents can only be achieved through popular education. This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao urgently wants to develop basic education. If he wants to implement the strategy of promoting the country through science and education in the Ming Dynasty, he cannot only consider the development of science and technology, and the cultivation of early talents must also keep up.

But now the Ming Dynasty has obviously been seriously disconnected in this regard, which is also the consequence of Zhu Youxiao's abuse of gold fingers. The current technological development of the Ming Dynasty has far exceeded the highest level of technological development that the accumulation of knowledge in this era should have reached. Now, only education can be vigorously developed and chased at the fastest speed.

Otherwise, they may still be caught up or even surpassed by the Renaissance Europa. After all, almost all people with some knowledge base are interested in natural sciences, and almost all people are engaged in experimental science research. If the education at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty is still holding the Four Books and Five Classics to cultivate a few official elites, even if they have golden fingers, it will be useless.
Chapter completed!