Early September, Qingzhou Fucheng.
After some turmoil, Liu Yan also learned about the situation of the Qingzhou Prefectural Government and the Yidu County Government. There were many vacancies in the officials of the two Yamen, but Wang Congyi had no good way to fill them in a short time. Manpower is available.
"Strength, in the final analysis, still depends on talent!"
Liu Yan sat in his study and sighed, and an idea came to his mind: build a school!
"The civil servants and military generals in Qinglai Town must be trained in a unified way, and they must be different from the imperial court's way of educating people. I want to build a new school!"
Liu Yan made up his mind and started implementing it as soon as possible.
Five days later, Liu Yan summoned all his subordinates to the General Military Mansion for discussion. Each battalion of the New Army had envoys and envoys, including Wang Wenzhen, Tian Huixu, Zhang Lei, Yue Ming, Zhao Min, Bao Xuezhen, Song Gongming, etc. All civil and military officials gathered together.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Liu Yan said to everyone: "This turmoil is enough to show the corruption of local officials. In order to prevent our subordinate officials and military generals in Qinglai Town from doing the same, we have decided to: , the county builds a new type of academy!”
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. After all, the establishment of official schools and the education of the people were the responsibility of the imperial court and should be handled by the Ministry of Rites. Qinglai Town was just a local military town. If we vigorously build the so-called new-style academies, it is inevitable that there will be overthrows. Not only that, but also making the DPRK look askance at me.
Wang Wenzhen hesitated for a moment, and then said: "General Town, is this necessary? We are a military town. We only train troops, suppress bandits, and defend one side for the imperial court. We can't even teach and educate people for the imperial court, right? ?”
Liu Yan immediately asked: "Isn't teaching and educating people to strengthen the army?"
"The academies this town is talking about are not the academies now that only teach the Four Books, Five Classics, and articles of sages. The academies this town plans to establish are divided into two categories!"
"The first type is the Military Academy, which specializes in teaching military matters. This town has decided to establish two. One is set up in Qingzhou Fucheng, called Qinglai Town Yanwu Hall, and is specially designed to teach generals and aspiring military officers at all levels of our new army in Qinglai Town. To train officers and soldiers; another one was established in Jimo Yingcheng, called Qinglai Town Military Academy. This academy is specially designed for aspiring people from all over the world, teaching knowledge such as troop formation and formation, as well as the knowledge of military equipment building and praise painting. Wait, any knowledge related to the military will be taught here."
"All students who successfully graduate from the Qinglai Town Sergeant Academy will have to go to the new army battalions in Qinglai Town for two years. After the two-year period, they can enter the Qinglai Town Martial Arts Hall for further training. After completing their studies, they will According to their specific talents, they can take up corresponding official positions in various departments of the New Army in Qinglai Town!"
After hearing this, everyone agreed very much.
At this time, everyone still has the idea that thousands of troops are easy to obtain but one general is hard to find. Once Liu Yan's idea is implemented, Qinglai Town will be able to obtain a steady stream of generals. Although they cannot be compared with those famous generals, they can Qinglai Town can rely on these two military academies to obtain a large number of high-quality grassroots generals!
Everyone here was a smart person at this time. After Liu Yan finished speaking, they all saw this, so they all actively agreed.
"Both academies are under the jurisdiction of Commander Tian. The instructors and teachers needed by the academies will be temporarily filled by generals and capable soldiers from each army. After a few years, they will be filled by outstanding graduates from the two academies! "
The commander, Tian Huixu, immediately accepted the order with a smile on his face, as if he had made a fortune.
Then, Liu Yan said: "In addition, this town is also preparing to establish a compulsory education system in Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture, and build a primary school in each county. All literate boys under the age of twenty and over ten in the county will You can enroll in the school. In addition to teaching everyone literacy and moral principles, the school will also teach astronomy, geography, arithmetic, history, current affairs, etc. They are all practical studies and the schooling period lasts three years!"
“In every prefecture, two middle schools must be established. All students who have completed three years of primary school and successfully graduated can enter the middle school in the prefecture; one of the middle schools will continue to teach astronomy, geography, arithmetic, history, and current affairs. Practical learning, however, is much more profound than what is taught in primary schools; the other middle school teaches agriculture, business, engineering and other subjects."
Liu Yan paused and continued: "These students who have graduated from primary school can freely choose two types of middle schools for further studies."
"Finally, this town plans to establish two universities in Qingzhou Fucheng, also known as academies. One will still teach practical studies such as astronomy, geography, arithmetic, history, and current politics, and the other will teach agriculture, business, engineering, etc. , plus Qinglai Town Military Academy, we will have three universities in Jinan by then!"
At this time, Wang Wenzhen said: "I'm afraid that the imperial examination will still be the first choice of the people. We will spend a lot of money and build many schools, but no one will come to study!"
Liu Yan said with a smile: "Don't worry! Not only do we not have to pay any fees for admission to our schools, the schools also provide food and accommodation. Whether it is primary school, middle school or university, as long as you graduate successfully, you can apply for admission according to your personal abilities and talents. We arrange livelihoods in various places in Qingzhou Fucheng and Qinglai Town. Even if you join the New Army, as long as you have a diploma from primary school, middle school or university, you will be given priority in admission. When the time comes, these schools of ours will definitely be flocking to you!"
Hearing this, Zhao Min said with a smile: "The mayor is right. After all, there are only a few scholars who can take the imperial examination. Children from most families do not have this path. The children of these ordinary families are all in the imperial examination." After a few years in private school, I know a few words and then work as a helper here and there, but I won’t make any progress all year round. Therefore, these schools of ours are still very attractive to children from ordinary families!”
Song Gongming said: "This move by the general town is really meaningful! In this way, in a few years, all the talents we need in Qinglai Town can be trained by ourselves, and we no longer have to worry about shortage of manpower!"
Everyone admired Liu Yan greatly when they heard this. At the same time, everyone also understood that Liu Yan was preparing to leave the court and cultivate the talents he needed. Logically speaking, this is very taboo. Everyone present is Liu Yan's absolute confidant. Everyone only cares about whether Liu Yan's measures can be implemented. As for whether it violates the taboo, everyone does not care.
Liu Yan smiled and said to Zhao Min: "Zhao Tongzhi must immediately make a specific plan for compulsory education, and the manpower and expenses required must also be clear. After the town reviews it, it will be handed over to the commander of Qianliang Guanyue to allocate funds, and strive to achieve success in the future." Construction will begin before winter this year!”
"Got the order!"
A few days later, political affairs officer Zhao Min presented the compulsory education plan to Liu Yan. Liu Yan was very satisfied with the plan.
Zhao Min was worthy of being a civil servant. This compulsory education plan combined the current situation of private school education in various parts of the Ming Dynasty at this time. It can be said to be a detailed Ming Dynasty version of nine-year compulsory education.
Of course, to realize this nine-year compulsory education plan in Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture, a total of 26 primary schools, four middle schools, and three universities need to be built.
According to Zhao Min's calculations, the construction funds need to be at least 1.7 million taels!
This does not include the fees required by so many schools and the expenses required to operate these schools!
If all are included, it is estimated that Qinglai Town will spend about two million taels per year!
However, Liu Yan did not hesitate at all and directly approved the implementation, and ordered the money and grain officer Yue Ming and the commercial officer Song Gongming to immediately mobilize money and food. At least these schools must be completed before the winter of next year. During this period, the required teachers and students must also be provided. Logistics staff are recruited in place!
At the same time, the military academies in these schools were placed under the control of the commander Tian Huixu, and the remaining ordinary schools were all placed under the control of the political officer Zhao Min.
After Liu Yan arranged these things, he ordered the commanders of each battalion of the New Army to submit a list of potential talents in each battalion as soon as possible. As the first batch of students of Qinglai Town Military Academy, these In the future, the generals will also be the backbone of Liu Yan's command.
The next day, everyone dispersed and began to fully implement Liu Yan's arrangements for the new school.
Liu Yan, accompanied by Miao Shao, began to inspect various places in Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture.
At this time, according to Liu Yan's unified deployment, the official roads between Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture were being renovated on a large scale, and all of them had to be recast with cement.
This matter was led by Zhao Min, the political officer, and Yue Ming, the money and grain officer, provided money and grain, and hired a large number of civilian workers and craftsmen to participate in the implementation. Although there are still many official roads under construction, after two months of construction, most of them have now been completed. It's completed.
The official road from Jinan Fucheng to Jimo Yingcheng has not only been doubled in width, but also paved with cement throughout to harden the road surface. Pedestrians no longer have to worry about the difficult and muddy road in rain and snow.
To this end, the money and grain officer Yue Ming has allocated more than 1.9 million taels of silver and 550,000 shi of grain in six batches. And as the follow-up projects continue, Yue Ming is still allocating money and grain. It has almost exhausted Liu Yan's treasury.
Fortunately, the income of many industries under Liu Yan's command has increased sharply, and the annual fees paid by merchants, gentry, etc. are also increasing year by year. Huge amounts of money and grain are recorded every month, which enables Qinglai Town to bear such huge expenses, and also There can be a surplus.
Not long after, Liu Yan and his party left Laizhou Mansion and headed towards Jimo Yingcheng. m.
When everyone arrived at an intersection, two local young men hired by the local government were directing the passers-by.
I saw that both of them were waving a small flag, one of them had a red flag, and the other had a green flag.
This is similar to the traffic lights of later generations. When pedestrians see the red flag raised, they wait at the intersection and let pedestrians in the other two directions go first. They will not continue until the green flag is raised.
At the same time, Miao Shao, who was accompanying him, also discovered that most of the pedestrians were driving on the right side. It seemed that this was a rule set by the local government based on Liu Yan's order.
Although these rules seemed a bit strange to Miao Shao, the flow of people on the official road was much smoother than before. The east-west and north-south flow of people did not disturb each other, and the entire official road was extremely neat.
“What a great experience!”
Miao Shao smiled and said to Liu Yan: "These things you have done are great deeds that benefit the country and the people. They will definitely become famous all over the world!"
Liu Yan said with a smile: "Can you become famous all over the world just by doing such a small thing? At least you have to wait until these decrees are extended to all parts of Qinglai Town!"
Miao Shao smiled and agreed, and then said: "Look, sir! That new-style carriage must have been produced by the Qinglai Town Vehicle Factory. Isn't the license plate on it used for registration? I guess, this system can not only let Zhao Tongzhi know where there are some The income from the sale of license plates, and once the owners of these carriages hit someone or are involved in a lawsuit, the license plates can also be used to trace them. Am I right, sir?"
"Ha ha!"
Liu Yan smiled and said: "You are right, that's exactly what you said!"
"Sir, let's go to Jimo Yingcheng to stay for a few days."
Liu Yan smiled and said, "Who said we were going to Jimo Yingcheng?"
Miao Shao was dumbfounded and was about to speak when Liu Yan said: "Tomorrow morning, go to Jimo Yingcheng by yourself and discuss the marriage with the girl's family. I will take people back to Qingzhou Fucheng first. I will go to Qinglai Town in a few days. Lectures at the Military Academy, these are the first batch of students, no carelessness is allowed."
"After this town is done with this, we will hold a wedding for your boy!"
Miao Shao was stunned.
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