Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

2nd October 1659

Akhand Bharatiya Empire, Imperial Capital Bengaluru

Kavya stared at Vijay with bated breath and anticipation. 'So, what do you think?' She wanted to ask, but she didn't have to, as her expression told everything that Vijay wanted to know.

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Looking at his beautiful wife like this, he felt a little amused. "It's very good, Kavya. You have improved a lot from the first volume. This second volume of the Bahubali Saga is much more refined than the first one, but..." Unexpectedly, his smile slowly disappeared and turned serious. "I want to know something," he asked.

Kavya was taken aback. "What is it?" Her ears perked up, thinking that it was some important question about the novel.

But what she heard next left her confused and dumbfounded.

"Can you tell me why Kattappa killed Mahendra Bahubali?" Vijay's face was serious as he pointed to the last passage in the novel. "The cliffhanger you left is really ruthless, you know."

"I don't know about other people, but I definitely felt like slapping the author a few times."

"If it wasn't you who wrote the book, maybe I would have actually done it."

Vijay joked, but his eyes did not look like he was joking. Vijay Naturally knew why Kattappa killed Mahendra, but thinking about the experience of watching this part in his previous life and waiting a few years to get the answer, he couldn't help but clench his fist in annoyance. At that time, he really wanted to beat Jakkanna up.

Kavya smiled. This was the response she wanted. She knew that her ending would annoy a lot of people, but she felt like she couldn't find a better ending for the second volume. She opened her mouth to reply but suddenly remembered something, and her face turned red. She bent her head shyly. "Why don't you still do it?" she said in a voice like a mosquito.

Vijay, who was in a daze, was woken up. "Ah, what? Wife, did you say something?" He looked clueless.

Kavya got annoyed by this, and her shyness was replaced with anger. "I'm saying, aren't you a big man? Why do you still hesitate to slap the author?" She put her hands on her waist, looking like an angry tigress.

Vijay was stunned, but he smiled.

"Kya!"

The angry tigress suddenly let out a scream and transformed into a docile kitten.

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Raghavendra Bhat was traveling in a carriage to the Royal Palace, and he had a lot of things on his mind. Primarily, he was worried whether His Majesty would agree with his proposal.

He kept playing with his thumbs, his way of relieving some stress.

"What can I do for you, Minister?" Ganesh asked, curious because he didn't remember Minister Raghavendra making an appointment today.

Raghavendra was clumsily holding a few large documents in his hands. Seeing this, Ganesh ordered his assistant to help the minister out. Losing the load, Raghavendra felt much better. "Thank you, Ganesh," he said as he wiped the sweat from his brows.

"I have something to discuss with His Majesty, which is quite urgent. Could you please inform His Majesty?" he asked with a sincere expression.

Ganesh thought for a while and nodded. "His Majesty is not in the palace yet, but I will contact him for you," he said reassuringly.

"Thank you very much." Raghavendra was relieved. He was soon directed towards the waiting area in the palace.

Ganesh's message through the Arka Drishti communication channel did not take long. Vijay, who was in the Shaurya Royal Palace, was soon informed that the Minister of Education wanted to see him.

Vijay looked at Kavya, who was sleeping soundly, out of the corner of his eye. He smiled proudly. "Reply that I'm coming," he said.

Raghavendra Bhat, who received the reply from His Majesty, was very happy. He quickly took back the documents from the emperor's office and started to make the final revisions and rearrange the documents.

The time taken to travell between the Shaurya Royal Palace and Simhasana Bhavana wasn't too long. The Simhasana Bhavana was in the centre of the city, right next to the parliament building, while the Shaurya Royal Palace, the private property of the royal family, was on the outskirts of Bengaluru City, nearly 35 kilometres from the city centre. Vijay's reason for constructing his personal palace so far away from the city was his preparation for the rapid expansion of Bengaluru City.

In his past life, he knew how quickly the city of Bengaluru expanded in size, so he knew that in this life, as the imperial capital, the size would only increase further and not decrease. Thus, he took prior precautions. Hence, despite the distance being 35 kilometres, Vijay had a private road laid down between the Shaurya Royal Palace and the Simhasana Bhavana, so it didn't really take too long. With four Rajavanshi horses running at a moderate speed of 45 kilometres per hour, by the time Raghavendra got prepared, Vijay was already within the premises of the Simhasana Bhavana.

"Dear Minister, His Majesty will meet with you now," Ganesh said.

Raghavendra Bhat immediately felt happy. "Very good, very good," he said excitedly as he got up and followed Ganesh to meet His Majesty.

However, to his surprise, instead of going to the conference room, he was taken to the main office. It wasn't that he had never been in the imperial office, but the number of times he had been there could be counted on one hand.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live," Raghavendra immediately greeted.

Vijay nodded and gestured for him to sit down.

"So, what happened, Raghavendra? You called for me out of nowhere," Vijay looked curious.

Raghavendra handed over a few documents to Vijay. As Vijay took the documents with curiosity, opened them and read, he was taken aback to discover that these documents contained statistics on the year-on-year growth of students studying in universities. There was even data about the growth in demand for talents who were graduates of universities.

Vijay vaguely understood what Raghavendra Bhat wanted to convey, but he wanted to hear the full story. He looked at Raghavendra Bhat intently, waiting for him to speak.

Raghavendra Bhat had a concerned look on his face , "Your Majesty, almost 6 to 7 years ago, the total number of graduates coming from all the BITs was only a few thousand people. But, this number rapidly snowballed over the course of 6 years and reached a staggering 150,000 graduates per year, with the most contributing college, the Bharatiya Institute of Technology Hoysala alone, contributing 16,000 graduates to the empire."

"However, Your Majesty, the demand for graduates in each state, according to my calculations, has already reached more than 50,000. We can no longer make do with these snowballs; we might need an avalanche of talent flowing into the society."

"I have enquired with the recruiters of various government departments. They are finding it harder and harder to recruit graduates from universities, as they simply cannot compete with what private companies offer to these graduates. The government may offer a good salary right off the bat, but in the current economic condition of the Bharatiya Empire, any private company is making a boatload of money. Due to graduates being rare, high-quality talents of the empire, businessmen are offering them stake incentives and other benefits."

"If it was not for the Jews and Romani temporarily filling the gap, I am afraid the government would run out of capable people to employ. But as you know, Your Majesty, too much of anything is never a good thing."

"If the ratio of Jews and Romani, who are immigrants from Europe, increases in our civil services, then it is unpredictable what could happen."

"Even though they are currently citizens of the Bharatiya Empire, they have grown up in the cruel world of Europe. After all, we can never guess what they would do when they have gained such power."

Raghavendra stopped briefly, looking at Vijay to see how he would react. Thankfully, it was not too extreme.

Vijay stroked his chin in contemplation. He thought that paying civil servants well would make government jobs more appealing, but it looked like private companies were still at an advantage when it came to recruiting top-end talents.

Vijay looked at the minister. "Raghavendra, you have a solution for this, don't you?" he asked.

Raghavendra was waiting for this. "Your Majesty, the solution is simple. Let the Ministry establish a few more BIT universities in every state. Only one university for a state is simply not enough.

"If the Ministry of Education could open up a few more universities, I am sure that I can triple the number of graduates coming out of universities in the empire." He knew that his solution was no different from a proposal to expand his power, so he looked nervous but was also filled with anticipation.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"No!" Sadly, the answer from His Majesty greatly disappointed him. However, knowing that being rejected was a possibility, his reaction was not too strong.

Vijay saw that the minister was disappointed, but he wouldn't change his decision. "Raghavendra, you do know that I always emphasize that the government should involve themselves as little as possible in things directly related to the public, don't you?"

Raghavendra Bhat nodded his head. In fact, not only him but all the ministers in the Cabinet knew this. Hence, the government directly does not build roads but contracts it to construction companies. Hence, whenever the government requires something, it is contracted to a private company. He knew that His Majesty wanted the government to be as small and efficient as possible but still thought that if he showed the seriousness of the current situation, His Majesty would agree to his request. Unfortunately, he was mistaken.

"So I could never agree to the Ministry of Education directly running more than one university in a state," Vijay firmly emphasized, not willing to budge an inch. "But you are right in one thing: we require more universities. Otherwise, as you said, it will cause us huge trouble."

Raghavendra raised his head and looked at Vijay with confusion, not understanding what His Majesty was implying.

"I will give you one month. Draft a bill that allows private individuals to open their own universities."

"Ah!", Raghavendra was immediately surprised. He felt a little indignant in his heart, but he knew that he could not change His Majesty's decision, so he agreed. "I will do it, Your Majesty," he said.

"Also, the syllabus for these universities will be selected by you. The range of what needs to be studied will still be controlled by the Ministry of Education, but the question papers, on the other hand, the universities will have the privilege to choose which question paper to adopt. The students of these universities are not kids; they can choose what to read and what to write. So, instead of there being a difference in the syllabus, it is better there be a difference in the question paper. "

" If they want to be treated in the same way a graduate from a BIT university is treated despite enrolling in a private university, then let him or her adopt the question paper prepared by the Ministry for these universities. However, if the goal is only to find a good job, then the student can choose question papers from any other university established by private individuals. The only caveat is that they are not allowed to choose the question paper of their own university."

"You can use the resources of the Ministry of Education to rank these universities, which produce the question papers, in tiers according to the quality of graduates they produce and the quality of the question paper."

"If they produce high-quality graduates and a very tough and detailed in-depth question paper that thoroughly investigates the depth of knowledge of the students, then the question paper could be considered tier one, which is the same tier as the BIT university. In fact, in the same bachelor's syllabus, if the knowledge is studied to even more depth, it could even be considered a tier prime university, with passing rates much lower than the BIT university and the talent more prominent. But if they produce graduates and question papers to test Students for their proficiency in reading, writing and some professional knowledge and nothing else, then they are a tier-four university."

"In this way, if a kid was not able to get into a BIT university due to some circumstances, he could still get a chance to rank up in society by taking up tier one or tier prime question papers. For a kid whose entire goal is to get a stable job, the tier four examination should not be too difficult to clear. These students, who are capable of joining the military right off the bat, should be very desirable to industrial enterprises that require a labor force with some knowledge of basic machinery. With this examination system, it should even the competition and divide the cake as fairly as possible according to the personal choice of the students."

"Apart from interviews, the type of question paper they choose and their ranking after the exam can also be one of the criteria for companies to employ graduates."

"In this way, not only will the top-level talents required for the empire be filled, but even the quality of employees in the middle and lower levels of companies will improve."

Raghavendra was stunned because, even though he could not directly run these universities, his power still expanded. Even though the Ministry of Education is a core ministry in the Cabinet, it is still not as important as finance, transportation, or communication, which are considered backbone ministries of the government. However, with the orders of His Majesty, he could see the influence of the Ministry of Education expanding rapidly. "I will complete the task, Your Majesty," he promised.

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