Chapter 1242 Results Announced
By a small river outside the candidate's dormitory, a bearded man was washing his face with river water.
"Senior, your temper is still so hot."
The bearded man turned around and saw another bearded man who was slightly shorter. He glanced at it and said with some contempt.
"You've become a wanted criminal, how dare you come here?"
"Senior, don't say that. If I am a wanted criminal, aren't you a spy?
After all, why did Prussian officials come to the Austrian Empire to take the civil service examination? No matter how you explain it, it doesn't make sense, right? "
The shorter bearded man paused and continued.
"Although I was a wanted criminal in Prussia, I was not wanted here, and they didn't even bother to ban my books."
"The Austrians are too arrogant and they will regret it. Your book is far more threatening than the garbage they banned."
said the bearded man with a scar on his face.
"I just think you're complimenting me, senior."
"Don't get carried away. What are you doing here? They can tolerate your books, but they may not be able to tolerate your people.
You have to think clearly, the Austrians like to capture people and send them to Africa to exchange things with the cannibals. "
"They won't like me because I have so little meat and I'm so thick. But senior, you have a strong back and a strong body, so you should be more careful."
"Don't interrupt, what are you doing here?"
"Like you, come and see what you are capable of."
The bearded man with the scar on his face laughed.
"sit."
Then he took out a cigar from his pocket.
"Mexican cigar, would you like one?"
The shorter bearded man did not refuse, took it and smelled it and said immediately.
"It's a good thing, but it's not cheap."
“It’s not cheap. I bought it in the department store of the Austrian royal family. It’s now on sale for 10 Groschen.
But even without the discount, it’s five groschen cheaper than Berlin. "
The bearded man with scars on his face looked a little lonely.
PS: The Groschen here is not the Prussian Groschen silver coin, but refers to the copper coin used in Austria.
1 florin = 30 groschen.
"The speed of the Austrian Empire's development is indeed astonishing, especially since they can continuously plunder overseas colonies, just like the ancestors of the Habsburg family did."
"Prussia also needs land under the sun."
In fact, Franz also reimbursed a certain percentage of the candidates' fares. The reason why it was not all was because he was afraid that someone would have evil intentions.
Even though Franz was careful, he still could not avoid the proliferation of ticket scalpers, and it was unavoidable that railway operations would suffer losses in the short term.
Soon the results of the first civil service examination in the Austrian Empire were announced.
The results were astonishing. Each subject scored 100 points, 60 points was considered a pass, and a total score of more than 300 points would qualify for official appointment.
However, the passing rate of this year’s candidates is shockingly low, with an average of three candidates failing in the exam.
The leader of this class, Moore Hudson, only had 388 points, and the talented boy who Franz had high hopes for actually had zero points in two subjects, and was also found to have ultra-nationalist tendencies.
The 2-10 people in this session were all awarded mayor-level official positions. This made Moore Hudson very excited, but he never imagined that he would be appointed as a high-ranking official in Galicia.
Although he was not the governor as previously rumored, the leap from an idle aristocrat without an official to the governor of a province was still a staggering leap.
The separation of military and political affairs is the general trend. Franz will gradually eliminate the governors in the country, and Galicia will be the first.
Nine of the top ten in this session were nobles. After interviews and background checks, 2,582 of the 3,321 people admitted were of noble origin.
This was an unprecedented victory for the nobles, who immediately became staunch supporters of the examination system.
Some of the nobles felt that this was a kind of compensation from the emperor to them. Sure enough, they still had a certain weight in the emperor's heart.
In fact, Franz did not cheat, and the test questions he designed were even very disadvantageous to the nobles.
However, universal education in the Austrian Empire had just begun, and the nobles had controlled education for thousands of years.
Moreover, the two sides are simply incomparable in terms of resources and vision, and civilian officials will not be able to become mainstream in the short term.
As for the number of officials recruited, this first term was just an attempt, and the Austrian Empire was really short of officials at this time.
This is the sequelae of the civil war. As we all know, we can conquer the world immediately, but we cannot rule the world immediately. Franz also cannot control the country with the help of the army.
75% of those admitted in one exam are nobles. Can the people accept it? Even a fair exam
If it had been a year ago, Franz would have been swallowed up by this storm, and some people would have made a big fuss about it and called for reform, and then there would have been an outbreak of more violent social unrest and dissatisfaction.
Now even if the Austrian Imperial Government announces this result, it will not cause widespread dissatisfaction and unrest.
However, it will still be used by those who are interested, especially some foreign forces. Franz does not want to give them this opportunity to cause trouble for himself.
So Franz directly announced that all admitted candidates would be granted noble status.
In addition, the Austrian Imperial Government only announced the list and results, and the appointment letter was mailed to the candidates' homes through the post office.
At this time, the Austrian Empire had a very high rate of duplicate names, and not every noble used middle names such as "von", "de", "di", and "da". Some great nobles even disdained to add such modifications to their names.
Even if someone wanted to trace the origin, it would be very difficult to count the list of thousands of people one by one, and it would be even more difficult to distinguish which ones were nobles and which ones were civilians.
Of course, this is only for ordinary civilians and small nobles. For those great nobles, they naturally have their own channels.
In fact, in addition to the large number of nobles, there is another problem in this exam, that is, there are many foreigners.
Since the Austrian Empire did not prohibit foreigners from serving as officials in the country, some unsuccessful or arrogant small nobles in the German and Italian states would be willing to come to Austria to try their luck.
In addition, there were French and even Arabs this time.
However, these Arabs were not from the Ottoman Empire or Oman, an ally of the Austrian Empire, but from Tripoli.
The rule of the Karamanli family in Tripoli was not popular and not solid.
Hamed Karamanli has been influenced by European culture for a long time. He has completely regarded himself as a European. He believes that he is carrying out a mission of enlightenment in Tripoli.
However, in the eyes of the locals, Hamed Karamanli is destroying traditions and making Tripoli worse.
All this stems from Hamed Karamanli's poor imitation. He also wants to monopolize like Franz, but he is unwilling to give benefits to the people.
Hamed Karamanli monopolizes agriculture and animal husbandry, which are closely related to people's livelihood, but the profit is pitifully small, resulting in the people's misery.