1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 12: Competition among Elite Schools
Provincial Admissions Office.

In the blink of an eye, we have reached the final critical link of the recruitment work, the filing of candidates' files, and the final check and confirmation stage of the list of recruited candidates of each school.

Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwestern University...

Teachers from the admissions offices of several prestigious schools in the province have all gathered here at the same time, all for the same purpose.

That is to do everything possible.

Take Lu Yifan, the top scorer in mathematics, physics, chemistry and English.

Strive to further your studies in your own school.

"Director Qin, we can't let an excellent candidate like Lu Yifan be snatched away by other provinces and cities so easily!"

"That's right. With Lu Yifan's academic performance, he will definitely be a top talent in scientific research after graduation. If our province doesn't work hard to retain such a talent, wouldn't it be a waste of money for outsiders? Our Xi'an Jiaotong University is very suitable for the further study and training of such a talent..."

"How dare you, a teacher from Xi'an Jiaotong University, tell such a joke, as if our Xi'an University of Technology doesn't have the conditions and resources..."

"Jiaotong University and Gongda University, stop arguing. We need to explain the matter to Director Qin first. We are not just fighting for our own school. We are fighting for the future development of colleges and universities in Qinxi Province. When the college entrance examination is fully resumed in the future, whether outstanding candidates from all over the country can stay in our local colleges for further studies depends on the quality of the first few classes of students. One move will affect the whole body!"

"So, in my opinion, it's not just Lu Yifan who is the candidate. We should try every possible way to retain the top 100 students in the province in this college entrance examination, and not let them be snatched away by Jingcheng and Lushang at every turn..."

Everyone was talking at once and arguing non-stop.

Qin Dongmin's brain was about to explode from the noise.

He couldn't help but feel a little regretful, regretting that he was too talkative and loved to show off.

If I had known that when I returned from the investigation in Longyan Commune, Fu County that day, I would never have told these guys in the circle about the fact that Lu Yifan, the provincial top scorer, easily scored full marks in four subjects in 40 minutes.

Even if it means exposure.

That should be done after the college entrance examination recruitment work is completed.

"What are you guys arguing with me for?"

Qin Dongmin was frantic, trying to explain, "The most important principle to be upheld in the college entrance examination recruitment work is fairness, justice and openness, and everything is based on the candidates' declared wishes. Besides, if we really follow your words, other brother provinces and cities will do the same thing, and they will not allow their own excellent students to come to our Qinxi Province colleges and universities. What will you do then?"

"Director Qin, but Lu Yifan is different. He got full marks in math, physics, chemistry and English!"

"That's right. This person might be a top-notch researcher that only appears once every ten years. Our colleges and universities in our province really need such an outstanding talent to be a leader, and thus completely activate the competitiveness of our colleges and universities in our province..."

"Yes, Director Qin, let's make a special arrangement for this occasion. We will give Comrade Lu Yifan the best and most relaxed study treatment, so that he can stay in our province without any worries..."

"That's right, as long as we can keep the person here, we can make an exception for any treatment standard..."

"In short, we must not let those guys in Beijing get away with it!!!"

"Right! We must not let those guys in Beijing get away with it!!!"

"I agree. Otherwise, those guys will get the advantage for nothing and then come back to laugh at our colleges and universities for not being able to retain talent. That's really infuriating!!!"

dong dong dong...

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Two dusty cadres came into Qin Dongmin's office.

"This is the office of Director Qin Dongmin of the Qinxi Provincial Admissions Office, right? Hello, I'm the admissions teacher from Yan University in Beijing..."

"I'm an admissions teacher from Huaqing University in Beijing..."

Just walked in.

The two cadres quickly looked around the room and immediately rushed to introduce themselves. Great, talking about Cao Cao, what's wrong with Cao Cao? !
I heard the two people's introductions, which sounded a bit boastful and arrogant.

A group of admissions officers from the province's colleges and universities all had fierce eyes and unfriendly expressions as they stared at the two people who had just entered the room.

We are discussing how to guard against you!
You guys are so good, you reacted so quickly and came here to kill us directly!

Damn it, you guys in Beijing are so great! !

The atmosphere in the office was already tense. If things got out of hand, a group of intellectuals and cultural figures might start a fight, which would be a disaster.

Qin Dongmin had to bite the bullet and quickly stood up, walked out from his desk, and greeted the two admissions teachers from Beijing University. "Thank you for your hard work, teachers. I am Qin Dongmin, and welcome you."

The three of them smiled awkwardly and shook hands with each other.

The others, however, kept their faces tense and their eyes sharp as knives.

The atmosphere on the scene was extremely cold.

"Director Qin, who are these people...?"

"Oh, let me introduce you two. They are both admissions teachers from famous universities in our province. This is Teacher Yan from Northwestern Polytechnical University, this is Teacher He from Northwestern University, and this is Teacher Liu from Xi'an Jiaotong University..."

The two admissions teachers from Yanda and Tsinghua University are also very quick-witted.

Seeing how their colleagues viewed them as enemies, it was easy to guess that most of them were competing for students, which led to irreconcilable competition.

In fact, I was on the way to Qinxi Province by train.

After the two of them met and knew each other's intentions, they squeezed and fought against each other all the way.

But no one can suppress anyone else.

So they could only rush to the local area first and act according to the situation.

"Director Qin, teachers, it seems that everyone has the same goal, which is to strive to recruit the top scholar of our Qinxi Province to their own colleges and universities. Great minds think alike, and we are all working together for the four modernizations of our motherland. We have the same idea!"

The admissions teacher at Yanda University is obviously more eloquent.

After realizing that the competition was unprecedentedly fierce, they immediately took the initiative to persuade many of their peers to give up their products.

All in all, the appearance of these two people is an extremely unusual signal in this era.

After all, right now, it is only the first round of enrollment after the country restored the college entrance examination system, and there are many complicated issues to deal with.

It's so special that he traveled thousands of miles just to compete for an outstanding student!
This is absolutely unprecedented behavior!
In fact, the appearance of these two people in the capital should be blamed on Qin Dongmin.

A few days ago, after going to Longyan Commune in Fu County to investigate the so-called college entrance examination exam leak case, he was so amazed by the excellence of the candidate Lu Yifan that he couldn't help but praise Lu Yifan to the sky when reporting the situation to his superiors.

The province and the capital were summarizing the relevant situations and making a report.

Naturally, he also grasped the extraordinary performance of this year's top scorer in the college entrance examination in Qinxi Province.

Furthermore, when the news reached the ears of the teachers in the admissions offices of Yan University and Tsinghua University, they immediately rushed thousands of miles to be the first to win the top spot in the college entrance examination in Qinxi Province.

The truth is, when the country first restored the college entrance examination system, talented people were hard to come by and were a scarce species in an absolute sense.

I heard that Qinxi Province has a student named Lu Yifan who scored full marks in four subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry and English.

Yanda and Tsinghua University, who wouldn't want to recruit people directly to highlight their own school's extraordinary and top-notch status among their domestic peers...

(End of this chapter)