On August 2, 1888, the first entrance examination for Bulgarian University was grandly opened, marking the beginning of the history of the Bulgarian college entrance examination.
This college entrance examination lasted three days, and the content of the examination was varied, covering knowledge from all walks of life.
However, for admission, professional grades held the primary position, accounting for eighty percent of the total score.
If one’s professional grade was in the top three, they would be admitted even if they scored zero in other subjects.
Of course, the candidates did not know it yet, but after three days of testing, they were all like wilted eggplants, completely devoid of confidence.
Sofia seemed to have become noisy, with people complaining everywhere that the exam questions were too difficult, and many people were secretly regretting that they had accumulated too little knowledge in the past.
On August 15, the entrance to Bulgarian University was already crowded with people, all anxiously waiting for the final results.
On the other hand, they were happy not to worry about choosing a major, nor did they have to worry about choosing the wrong major and affecting their future development.
The school would choose the most suitable major for them, and placement was guaranteed.
As for hobbies, are they edible?
Sorry, this is the 19th century, and I have never heard of such a creature.
Ferdinand was very satisfied with the results of the recruitment.
Although there were many shortcomings, it was the first time after all, and overall it went smoothly; at least no one caused a scandal with cheating.
To commemorate his own school days, the start date of the semester was chosen by Ferdinand to be September 1st, a familiar date.
The opening began with a speech by Ferdinand, reviewing the history of Bulgaria…
(One hundred thousand words omitted; you can attend your own opening ceremony).
Amidst cheers, four hundred and thirty-six students stepped into the halls of the university.
Looking at the students in their prime, Ferdinand was filled with emotion; this was his future team.
Thinking of the dense class schedule, Ferdinand thought gloatingly: “Enjoy it!
Release your energy to your heart’s content now!
Tomorrow you will discover how terrifying it is to attend university!”
You should know that Bulgarian University now adopts closed, militarized management, with up to twelve classes a day, plus self-study time.
From getting up at 5:30 in the morning to finishing school at 10:30 at night, except for meal times and short breaks in between, everything had to be spent studying. You are reading on novelping . com, the official source.
This was a study plan formulated by Ferdinand with reference to his high school senior year schedule in his previous life.
Since it was the first time running a university and everyone lacked experience, they just followed it.
The management personnel were hired by the Ministry of Education at high salaries from the Berlin military academy, directly copying that set of management methods.
In this day and age, information transmission is inconvenient, and the spring breeze of democracy and freedom has not yet blown over.
Bulgaria is still relatively conservative, upholding the tradition that strict teachers produce excellent students, which was then adopted by respected educators.
Just after returning to the palace, Ferdinand received bad news—the peasant movement had begun.
Following the last tax increase, the Stambolov Cabinet made another blunder, passing a proposal in parliament—to restore the payment of tithes in kind.
If the last agricultural tax increase only harmed the interests of the poor and rich farmers, the landlord class could still compensate for the losses through land annexation.
Then the restoration of the tithe from the Ottoman era seriously hindered the development of agricultural capitalism.
To a large extent, it harmed the interests of the landlord class, but the most intense opposition came from the middle and small landlords, which meant that Government officials could carry out new plundering against them.
They started a peasant protest movement, which began to spread rapidly throughout Bulgaria.
What comforted Ferdinand was that they were mainly gathering and demonstrating now, and it had not yet evolved into a revolution.
This also strengthened his determination to topple the cabinet, but after all, the Stambolov Cabinet had contributed greatly to his ascension and had the merit of supporting him.
If Ferdinand wanted to dismiss the cabinet, he must have a convincing reason.
Historically, it lasted until 1894, when the Stambolov Cabinet had already incurred the wrath of heaven and people, and the original owner personally took action to dismiss the cabinet.
Before this, Stambolov had always held great power.
Although Ferdinand had adopted political means to divide Stambolov’s power to a certain extent and strengthen various ministries, he was unable to change the status quo of Stambolov controlling the cabinet.
Ferdinand had originally thought that he would have to wait for the next parliamentary election to successfully seize power.
He did not expect that due to his butterfly effect, the financial crisis of the Bulgarian Government had intensified.
In order to successfully complete the “Five-Year Plan”, the cabinet was becoming obsessed.
To raise funds, exorbitant taxes and levies emerged one after another.
Ferdinand knew that a police terror regime was about to take shape; in just one year, the Bulgarian police establishment had increased by fifty percent.
Stambolov also unauthorizedly formed a secret police force; more than three hundred people were discovered by the intelligence organization in Ferdinand’s hands, and of course, there was no shortage of personnel sent to infiltrate it.
If he didn’t make a move, that was fine, but once he did, it would surely be earth-shattering.
He was prepared to borrow a knife to kill, solving future enemies once and for all, which could be considered the last time he would use the Stambolov Cabinet.
“Your Highness, we have arranged everything, and the fish has entered the net!” said Vukhov (head of the intelligence organization).
Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction and said: “Then get ready to close the net!”
Michael impatiently knocked open the Prime Minister’s office and said: “Your Excellency, the Prime Minister, something terrible has happened!”
“Don’t worry, speak slowly, God is still watching, the sky won’t fall!” Stambolov said unhurriedly while drinking tea.
“Oh, damn it!
My Prime Minister, the sky is about to fall.
After hearing this news, I think you will no longer be in the mood to drink tea!” Michael said anxiously.
“Oh, what could make my Minister look so alarmed!
Let me guess, is it the Ottoman attacking, or is the Serbian scum causing trouble again?” Stambolov joked easily.
“Oh, God!
Mr.
Prime Minister, don’t you read the newspapers?
Our secret treaty with Britain and Austria-Hungary has been exposed, and now public opinion is calling for the Government to be killed!” Michael said angrily.
With a “bang”, Stambolov’s hand shook, and the teacup fell to the ground.
He exclaimed: “What?
How is this possible?
Isn’t this something only a few of us in the upper echelons know?”
“Yes, no more than five people on our side know the content of the secret treaty!
But now the secret treaty has been published in the newspaper, exactly the same, not even a punctuation mark has changed!” Michael said worriedly.
“Could it be that there is a problem on the British and Austria-Hungary side?
That shouldn’t be, they wouldn’t both leak the secret at the same time!
On our side, no more than ten people know about the secret treaty, and only a few of us in the cabinet know the content; even the Grand Duke doesn’t know the specific agreement, so who could have leaked it?” Stambolov said suspiciously.