1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3741

There was actually precedent for foreign students to take the Hai Han imperial examinations and gain the opportunity to enter officialdom.

The most famous example in this regard is that the brothers Zhu Zi'an and Zhu Ziwu, descendants of King Mingde, participated in the provincial examinations held by Hai Han in Hangzhou and Jinzhou respectively in 1655, and were recruited by the Hai Han government with their excellent results.

Now, one of the brothers serves as the second-in-command of the Special Liaison Office with the Ming Dynasty in Hangzhou, and the other serves as a military attaché of the Hai Han army in Liaodong region.

The purpose of Hai Han's arrangement itself is to show the world that since the descendants of the Ming Dynasty's Zhu family can serve as officials in Hai Han, then other people who want to serve Hai Han will certainly not face any obstacles due to their family background.

As long as one is willing to be loyal to the Executive Committee and has extraordinary abilities, one can take the imperial examination held by Hai Han and strive for the opportunity to become an official.

The example of the Zhu brothers indeed served as an excellent demonstration effect. After that, it attracted a large number of Ming Dynasty scholars to join them. Among them, there were indeed some talented and ambitious people who were employed by the Hai Han government.

Now the Executive Committee hopes to promote this approach, not just to the Ming Dynasty, but to expand the scope to all countries that have close relations with Hai Han.

Hainan Island was chosen as the implementation site because it is the area where overseas students from various countries are most concentrated.

Danzhou in the north of Hainan Island is full of cultural and educational institutions, with a high level of teaching in all majors, from poetry, calligraphy and painting to vocational training. Sanya in the south is home to many high-level colleges that train civil and military officials and high-end talents on Hainan Island, and students sent abroad by various countries often study in Sanya.

Of course, many of these foreign students came here just to get a diploma and use it to find a good job back home, but there were also some outstanding talents who came here because they admired Hai Han and wanted to learn some real skills to govern the country and bring peace to the world.

If Hai Han could retain these talents and use them for its own benefit, it would be an additional resource for Hai Han. Moreover, these foreign students would not be too averse to being assigned to overseas posts, and their acceptance would be much higher than that of Hai Han's own officials. They would be most suitable to be assigned to various overseas colonies as local officials.

The several measures announced by Shi Diwen at the commemorative event are more or less related to the current overseas expansion activities, but the actual impact of these measures remains to be further observed.

The fastest responders were those who had more information. After the event, many people took the initiative to find Shi Diwen and asked him about the specific operation of appointing officials in overseas colonies.

After talking with several people, Shi Diwen realized that it was not just his speech that worked, but it was also possible that the meeting at He Xi's house had leaked the news. The promise he made to Ma Yu and others had spread within a certain range, so that other people also hoped to get the same treatment for their own children.

This is not a difficult problem for Shi Diwen. There are many vacancies in various overseas colonies. The special operations division alone has opened up several ports in the Indian Ocean. It is estimated that in the next few years, it will need to recruit thousands of officials to complete the construction of various government offices. It is very easy to arrange some people in now.

However, Shi Diwen had already proposed corresponding exchange conditions to Ma Yu and others, so naturally they had to be treated equally and those who acted upon hearing the news could not get any advantage.

All those who want their children to enter the government overseas must first have them undergo a preliminary qualification review to prove that they have the cultural qualities required by the government and are willing to accept the arrangement of serving overseas. Passing these reviews only qualifies them to be on the candidate list. The specific appointment depends on how much the parents can pay for them.

Ma Yu and others were able to obtain Shi Diwen's promise, but it was not in exchange for empty words. They needed to use the business resources they had and cooperate with the official overseas colonization operations in order to get an ideal official position for their children.

During this process, Shi Diwen discovered that these time travelers who stayed in Sanya for retirement seemed to have one thing in common, that is, the number of children they gave birth to was far greater than the average.

The number of children of senior officials currently serving in various departments is usually not too many, less than five is a common level. This may be due to their personal energy limitations, as they are busy dealing with state affairs most of the time and do not have that much time and energy to breed children.

Although these time travelers who stayed in Sanya did not achieve such dazzling career success, their ability to have many children was obviously quite impressive. A family with seven or eight children was considered average, and there were also many who had more than ten.

The one who had the most children actually married more than ten wives and concubines and gave birth to more than thirty children. Now he has more than twenty grandchildren.

Spending too much energy on breeding offspring naturally prevents such people from achieving greater success in their careers.

Of course, some people would say that the emperor has three thousand beauties in his harem and has given birth to a large number of princes and princesses, but he has also been governing the world, hasn’t he?

But the problem is that the emperor has all the resources in the world to support him, and during his reign there are rarely any competitors who directly threaten his position.

But the situation is different for time travelers. In addition to personal ability, they also need recognition from other partners if they want to move up. No one will be willing to vote for a person who is obsessed with breeding offspring and let him become the leader of a country.

From Shi Diwen's perspective, unless there is a special reason, he would definitely not give some important positions to someone who has dozens of people at home to take care of.

Therefore, within the time-travel group, an individual's career achievements are often inversely proportional to the number of children he has. For example, this old man who is obsessed with getting married and having children has not held a government position for many years and only relies on the bonus of his identity from participating in the time-travel operation to make a living.

Of course, now that their descendants have grown up, the old guys still have to shoulder the responsibilities of their fathers and find a good way out for them, so they come to Shi Diwen for help.

As for this group that can't offer any exchange conditions, the only help Shi Diwen can give is to provide some relatively basic positions. Whether they can move up in the future depends on their own luck.

In just one generation, the time travelers who came to this time and space together have already shown obvious class differentiation. Although they are both second-generation time travelers, their starting points are already very different.

Shi Diwen's two sons, one is in charge of the military power of an important place like Nanjing, and the other is in charge of the political affairs of the East China Sea region. However, the second generation of rich people in Sanya still need their parents to come forward to fight for an opportunity to enter the officialdom. The difference is so great that Shi Diwen can't help but sigh.