Due to the previous expansion, Jian Xinzhai is now no less than a small town, and may even be larger than some county towns. After all, some of the county towns at this time only have one or two streets in total, and Jian Xinzhai is now no less than a small town. Xinzhai has almost become a satellite city of Yanjing.
Except for the servants of the Gao family who are stationed about 500 meters away, the people here mainly serve the school.
The word school has existed since ancient times, but Gao Pragmatic did not use it here. He used the more common "school".
The three major schools of Kyohwa Craftsman School, Kyohwa Medical School, and Kyohwa Mining School are gathered near Jianxinzhai, among which Kyohwa Craftsman School is the largest.
Jinghua Craftsman School, as the first school established by Gao Pragmatic, has now begun to be divided into departments. It currently has five major departments: Metallurgy Department, Carpentry Department, Shipbuilding Department, Military Industry Department and Accounting Department.
At the beginning, the Craftsman School was a real "craftsman school". Both teachers and students were basically craftsmen. It was nothing more than experienced old craftsmen teaching young craftsmen. Later, it gradually developed to admit the children of servants, and later Then began to recruit students from the children of refugees and poor people.
As a person of later generations, Gao Pragmatic has never worried about the abundance of talents, and he especially likes professional talents. Therefore, in his schools, except for the students of the Medical School who have a relatively solid cultural foundation, the "cultural courses" of other schools are Quite simple.
According to the current Ming Dynasty algorithm, it is enough to be at the Mengtong level, and the rest are all professional courses. But in fact, to put it bluntly, the level of the Ming Dynasty's Meng children, only in terms of "Chinese language and literature", was only higher than the Chinese level of those who graduated from high school in later generations.
Li Bai said that he "recited the Liujia at the age of five and observed hundreds of schools of thought at the age of ten." This is actually the basic level of Meng Tong. The Chinese language proficiency of later high school graduates may not have reached this level. Even what the Liujia is, I am afraid that few people know it. .
Therefore, although some people think that Gao pragmatically criticizes these schools for "not doing their jobs properly", he remains unwavering - it is enough for these students to be able to read and write. I don't expect them to take the imperial examination, and I have to let them read the Four Books and Five Classics. , can’t you teach them how to write Chinese essays?
Mengtong's level is completely enough to teach them other professional courses. With such a foundation, they can learn other things faster. You must know that as Jinghua Group becomes larger and larger, it needs more and more talents. It is impossible to recruit all these talents from outside. Even if they can be recruited, they are very pragmatic to Jinghua and Gao. The loyalty cannot be compared with these students.
Especially these later students, who are all children of refugees and poor people, were originally on the verge of starving to death at any time, but now their pragmatism can make them full, and after they are full, they can also learn a "craft", which will help them all in the future. Everyone can afford to marry a wife and raise children. This is not only a gift of upbringing, but also a gift of reinvention!
To be honest, if Gao Pragmatic hadn't wanted to avoid suspicion, he would have even wanted to build such a juvenile military academy. However, this move was too scary. Even if the people of the Ming Dynasty could not understand the power of the military academy, this move itself was too suicidal, so he He finally endured it, but he had always planned to advise Zhu Yijun at some point in the future to let him handle this matter himself.
At present, there are four streets near Xinzhai, and various populations gather here. It is said that there are as many as 50,000 or 60,000 people. Even Jingzhao Mansion has expressed concern. However, Gao Pragmatic's status was too special, and the Jingzhao Mansion's attention was eventually settled with praise.
Today's Jianxinzhai is even more crowded - in fact, it is a bit inappropriate to say Jianxinzhai now, because Jianxinzhai itself is close to the mountain, but now the expansion direction of Jianxinzhai is all the way east , have reached the plain area at the foot of the mountain, and the "crowds of people" above are also referring to the foot of the mountain.
However, the most noble group among the people who came today will indeed go up the mountain, because they themselves came by invitation.
No one in the capital would refuse Gao Jingshi's invitation, because no one would have trouble with money. As we all know, although Gao Jingshi is the world-famous Sixth No. 1 Scholar, before this honorary title, his two nicknames They are: Turning Stone into Gold and Ten Thousands of Households Becoming Buddhas.
Wan Jia Sheng Buddha is talking about the "three hundred thousand taels of refugees" in Weihui, Henan. This was a good deed that was famous all over the world and made a great contribution to Gao Pragmatic's reputation.
But what the nobles value is not this, but the turning of stone into gold. So far, there has been no case of failure in the business that Gao Pragmatic has done. Even the shipbuilding business, which was so unreliable at first with huge investment, has now become a cornucopia - with the stabilization of the Ming Dynasty's policy of opening up the sea, ships have been There are more and more, and they are getting bigger, and because the ability of shipbuilding has declined significantly in the more than 100 years since the sea was banned, there is now a temporary shortage of production capacity.
In this case, Jinghua Shipyard, which is at the forefront and has the financial support of Jinghua Group, is certainly a treasure trove.
Unfortunately, it is not just others who are short of production capacity. Jinghua's own production capacity is not enough to fill such a large vacancy. In addition, Jinghua itself is also constantly building its fleet, so the external orders received are limited, probably only for its own ship orders. About one fifth.
This is also one of the reasons why Gao Pragmatic did not hesitate to build the second Jinghua Shipyard in Qinzhou Port: Anyway, the production capacity gap is very large, and it is difficult to build. Even if there are enough ships in a few years, the ships cannot be used by one shipyard. Even if it lasts for hundreds of years, it will need to be constantly repaired and replaced, so there is no need to worry about running out of work.
For the honorable guests who came today, according to the itinerary sent by Gao Yingshi before, the most important thing is to go to Jianxinzhai on the mountain in the afternoon, where Gao Yingshi will host a banquet to entertain them and "reminisce about the past" with them.
But in fact, their morning itinerary was to visit the Jinghua Craftsman School, and the main visiting point was the courtyard of the Shipbuilding Department.
Jinghua arranged for several experienced shipbuilders, as well as Gao Qi, who had just rushed back to the capital from Quanzhou to "report his work" to Gao Pragmatic, to do today's "official presentation".
The master craftsmen talked about shipbuilding, but according to high pragmatic requirements, the main thing was not to talk about how to make it, but to explain clearly to them the difficulty and cost of shipbuilding. This issue is very complicated, so I won’t go into details.
All in all, it is to let them understand one truth: in terms of technical level, the current shipbuilding industry in Ming Dynasty must be led by Beijing Huahua. At the same time, due to Gao Jinghua's influential relationship in Guangxi and Annan, Jinghua can obtain the best quality wood at the best price. Therefore, the ships manufactured by Jinghua are the best in terms of quality and price. Currently the first choice for Ming Dynasty ships.
Due to past experience, even if you have no concept of sea trade and have never considered getting involved in sea trade, you can still listen to it seriously - it doesn't matter whether you understand it or not. At the time, Lao Chengguo Gong and others did not understand soap, but This does not prevent them from making money through the soap in their hands.
So it doesn't matter whether you understand it or not. As long as you have the opportunity to ride on Jinghua's coattails, you will definitely make money. Of course, it is always good to listen to more introductions, especially since this sea-going ship seems to be complicated. It is divided into this class, that class, and this type and that type. In addition, it seems very expensive to install cannons on the ship, but it is not possible to install cannons. It seems quite dangerous... In this kind of situation, you still need to understand it clearly before you can decide whether to follow it and how to follow it.
"Jinghua has a certain free escort mechanism as a reward for certain ships that use Jinghua Private Port as a long-term berth." Gao Qi said with a smile to a group of distinguished people in the audience.
Someone immediately asked: "What kind of ships can enjoy Jinghua's free escort?"
"That's a good question!" Gao Qi said with a smile: "According to the new regulations of Boss Bijia this year, any ship that has signed a berthing agreement at any private port under the name of Jinghua for more than three years and has a remaining berth time of more than one year will be deported. You are allowed to enjoy Jinghua's free escort. However, please understand that this kind of escort does not mean that if you have a ship to sail, Jinghua will send a ship to accompany it, but that you can actively choose to adjust your ship's sailing time, route and destination. Come and align with my Jinghua fleet, so that you can travel with the Jinghua fleet and enjoy escort."
Others began to ask other questions, and Gao Qi answered them one by one.
And the nobles are slowly starting to feel the taste... It seems that Gao Longwen came to us today to discuss sea trade.
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