The lotus-picking girl exchanged souls with Li Shiyuan, the son of the Minister of Civil Affairs, and entered the Imperial College, the highest academic institution in the dynasty, where he met a graduate of the Imperial College who silenced him:
The unpredictable Mr. Lan kept him on pins and needles every moment. The cold Master Leng who competed with him everywhere made him shudder. He is forced to take poison every day, is a wild and cruel cat master with nine lives, and there is an astonishing secret hidden behind these prison guards. Even Li Shiyuan, the owner of this body, is burdened with secrets that cannot be told. A big conspiracy in the Imperial College kicked off with a fire.
Nai He: Everyone has a fatal wound...
Just because: The human heart is like a flower that cannot help but fall in the wind...
The Imperial College was the highest institution of learning in ancient China and an institution for cultivating bureaucrats.
(Its status is higher than today's Peking University and Tsinghua University, because it is the only top university in the country run by the government. After graduation, supervisors in the Ming Dynasty could become officials without taking the imperial examination.)
Ps: Modern university life is too boring, so I am very curious about the life of college students in ancient China in the Ming and early Ming Dynasties.
If you were born in the early Ming Dynasty, if you were recommended by the school and passed the Hanlin Academy examination, you could become a prison student. Once you entered the prison, you did not have to pay tuition. The state provided food and accommodation, and subsidies were given every New Year and holidays. If you marry a wife, you will be given money to support your wife and your family will be exempted from corvee service. If you are not married yet, you will also be given a sum of money to get a wife. After graduation, you will be assigned a job, and you don't have to run around to submit resumes. Your money career will be brilliant, and you can at best become a small official. If you still want to climb up, then take the postgraduate entrance examination! (In the imperial examination), once you win the top prize, you will win the jackpot. There is smoke rising from the ancestral graves! Of course, the chance is one in 10,000. There is no shortage of literary and artistic talents. There is also a requirement for the number of letters in the eight-part essay selection process, just to hinder you. You passed five levels and killed six generals, and took the palace examination. Even the final boss, the emperor, was impressed by you and appointed you as the number one scholar. Congratulations! If your parents give you a good look like a jade tree facing the wind, you will be even happier! Just go home and sleep until dawn, waiting to become the Prince Consort O(∩_∩)O ha!
In the early Ming Dynasty, because our founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was jealous and all the founding heroes were killed, so many seats needed to be filled, so the Imperial College trained bureaucrats for the royal family. At that time, the employment situation of college students was good, but after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the threshold for prison students to enter prisons became lower. Eunuchs, royal guards, etc. Disrupted the imperial court, and the Imperial College also suffered a tragedy.