Chen Yuan bound himself to the sky screen System and brought the founding emperors of countless dynasties to watch the modern Gaokao.
Qin Shi Huang thought later generations’ methods of selecting talent could be nothing special. But when he saw a million students sitting the exam on the same day, he realized this was no ordinary test: it was a crossroads shaping the destinies of a nation’s youth.
Li Shimin had thought the imperial examinations were the ideal system for a golden age. Then he saw the Gaokao, university applications, Project 985 and Project 211, and Double First-Class universities, and discovered that later generations selected talent with astonishing precision, down to each student’s major, city, and future career.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw poor students changing their fates through education, his eyes reddened. Fan Jin watched the score-checking scene, where some people erupted in joy while others crumbled, and fell silent.
Computer science at Tsinghua, aerospace engineering at Beihang, an eight-year clinical medicine program, English at a regular undergraduate college, electromechanics at a vocational college, CNC machining, excavators, cranes…
When the founding emperors saw that the young people of later generations did more than study the classics: they could build rockets, write code, perform surgery, operate steel behemoths, and make machines work on their own, the rulers of every dynasty were utterly stunned!
But when the sky screen continued showing how each dynasty ended, Qin Shi Huang urgently asked whether Great Qin would last for thousands of generations. Chen Yuan could only sigh and say:
“Ancestor Dragon, you’d better not watch. I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle it.”
The next second, Great Qin fell in its second generation.
The people of the Han dynasty had just burst out laughing when Chen Yuan turned around and opened The Final Chapter of the Great Han.
From then on, the emperors of every dynasty were collectively devastated.