In the spring of the ninth year of Gansheng, when the fleet of the Ming American Company set out on its way back, Gansheng Emperor left the palace again.

However, this time I left the palace not just for a tour in a condom, but also for the power of the train!

After three years, the train from Pukou to Kaifeng finally built the Huai River. It was only about two hundred miles away from the railway construction. On the other side of the Yellow River, the railway had already crossed the entire northern Zhili, from Shanhaiguan all the way north to at least outside the pass. However, due to the limited technology, there was no bridge built on the Yellow River, and pedestrians and cargo were still transferred by ships.

Not to mention the Yellow River Bridge, or even the Huaihe Bridge, the Ming Dynasty engineers racked their brains to build it. "When the Yellow River Bridge is built, it will be more than ten or twenty years, and it will probably be put on the agenda."

Sitting in the train, Zhu Guoqiang was thinking silently.

Compared with railway construction, building bridges is undoubtedly more difficult, especially building bridges on big rivers. The difficulty is simply unimaginable. Even if there are millions of books on engineering and technology collected in the imperial palace, there are many books on iron bridge construction technology, but in the short term, it is just to think about it. After all, technology needs to be accumulated.

In the past decade, Zhu Guoqiang has already helped the surviving family in Jinan. He was almost equivalent to a large "young children studying in the United States" training center for the Ming Dynasty. Most of the first batch of engineers and naval technical officers in the Ming Dynasty came from there. So far, they are still absorbing and digesting engineering technology from the first half of the 19th century.

As for more advanced technologies, there is no need to promote them, nor does it have a practical foundation in practical theory and technology, there are still too few talents.

Even though it was the ninth year of Gansheng in the North and South Imperial College where the number of students was becoming increasingly university, Zhu Guoqiang always felt that the talents were still not enough.

“Are we supposed to establish modern primary and secondary education institutions?”

Zhu Ziqiang said to himself.

To a certain extent, the Ming Dynasty is almost similar to the late Qing Dynasty, especially in education. In addition to the imperial examinations, a number of new schools aimed at serving the Westernization Movement were built. Folk education is still Confucian Neo-Confucian education.

The same is true in the Ming Dynasty today, but what is adaptable is that the Imperial College is becoming increasingly college-oriented. In addition to the traditional private acquaintance, folk education also has official schools. For example, the Imperial College in the central government is established in Nanjing and Peiping. They are almost equivalent to universities in later generations, and county schools in prefectures are basically equivalent to higher and middle schools, and social schools established in neighborhoods and villages. They are basically still in the old education system.

Like in the past, the people of the Ming Dynasty, both men and women, can receive social education. The enrollment age of social education students is generally under the age of fifteen. There is no need to pass the exam when enrolling. The enrollment amount is not unlimited. Anyone who wishes to study can enter. After the students enter, they will take care of all the expenses themselves. However, whether in this era or the past, the cost is extremely low. After all, they do not have textbooks, and they often only practice calligraphy on the sand table. Most of the social education teachers are hired by the officials from the public. These social education teachers hired by the officials are respected as "teacher training" by students, while the official calls them "scholars". Many times, they are scholars who fail to pass the exams in the village.

In the past, the status of social teachers was not high because social teachers did not have official titles, no salary or other economic subsidies. However, after the second year of Gansheng, the transfer of grain from grain in the north lost its meaning. In the annual 50,000 stones of grain per year, the annual grain was stored and abolished. The officials in the court could not stand up, and many officials advocated abolishment. After all, it was a heavy burden for the people, especially the people of Southern Zhili.

Faced with the debate between the government and the public, Zhu Guoqiang finally proposed to exchange grain for silver for education, partly for the construction of Imperial College, county schools and social schools, and partly for the training of teachers as salary to encourage them to teach and educate people.

"The only thing that lays the unbreakable foundation of a country lies in people, and the only thing that expects talents to continue for thousands of years is the only thing that truly lies in education! The grain should be used for silver for education, so that the talents of the Ming Dynasty will continue for thousands of years."

Facing His Majesty's decision, although the officials had different expressions, they did not dare to object, because this matter involved hundreds of thousands of scholars. Those scholars who failed the exam had no official positions, but they were fellow scholars. If they opposed it, they would probably be criticized by their fellow scholars to death.

Such a matter of cutting off the wealth of "friends" will not only cause harm to themselves, but even their descendants will also suffer. What if that colleague passes the Jinshi exam and becomes their superior?

As a result, millions of stones of grain turned into an education fund. All county teachers and social teachers in the world were grateful for their gratitude and recited the "Education Imperial Noun" of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism every day.

Anyway, in a word, what was the use of millions of stones of grain back then? Zhu Guoqiang didn't know, but in the past seven years, these millions of stones of grain back then had bought the hearts of poor scholars in the world, and by the way, the hearts of the people in the world. If your children can study, it is affected by the emperor's wealth. Is it something that people do if they are not loyal to the emperor and patriotism?

Look, the people of the Ming Dynasty were so easy to satisfy.

In fact, throughout the ages, the Chinese people have never had too many requirements. They are just their wives and children. As for the rest, it is not important, and they also know how to be grateful.

"Maybe, children in sociology should be allowed to receive some modern knowledge."

Closed his eyes, Zhu Guoqiang thought silently.

"Every family can learn from the city, and every family can learn from the family can learn from the school."

The Ming Dynasty may still be a certain distance from this now, but it will be almost the same for more than ten years. However, those "primary schools" are still traditional. Although they also learn arithmetic, they are just basic arithmetic. Also, when the Ming Dynasty has already made great strides into the steam era, it is impossible to know nothing about the steam engine!

But who will teach them?

Thinking of this, Zhu Guoqiang felt that he was too big. In the final analysis, he was still a talent!

There are insufficient engineering talents and educational talents, and these are not something that can be pulled out.

Yes, everything has to be done step by step.

"I'm so anxious that I can't eat hot tofu!"

As he muttered this, Zhu Guoqiang lazily stretched his waist on the soft chair in the car, and then thought with satisfaction.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has been ahead of other countries for a century and a half, what else can I worry about?
Chapter completed!