Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1079 Fighting for merit ([-])

He dared to think about using the students from Jiangsu to brush up his political achievements and win the favor of the emperor, mainly because he felt that the students from Jiangsu had no room for rebellion.

For example, in other provinces, they were really afraid of offending the students, so that the scholars went to join the rebels.

At that time, it will be a big trouble.

Jiangsu does not have to worry about this problem.

On the Yangzhou side, most likely they want to rebel.

For example, those salt workers, but they can absorb some of them to go to Haizhou; moreover, the rebellion is not a big deal, and it is easy to kill them if they really want to.

Now that Liu Yu’s reform is so big, once the Huainan Yanhu reform is completed, there will be no room for rebellion in northern Jiangsu and Huainan, the areas most likely to rebel in Jiangsu and most affected by the famine.

The imperial court was not afraid of rebellion by scholars.

What the imperial court was afraid of was that someone would rebel, and scholars would participate in it.

However, Jiangsu is like this, and it is close to the sea and within the range of gunboats, and there is no threat of canals, and it is about to solve the Yanhu population in northern Jiangsu. It also immigrates frantically to Nanyang every year, and solves the flood of the Huaihe River. The remaining people who cannot survive Man-made rebellion can't make a climate.

That being the case, why not make some reforms?
At least, this kind of fast education can be done.

This can be regarded as some of Lin Min's political ambitions. He still wants to agree with some of his reflections on the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, he would not support the reform of the salt administration in the court, and the direction of the reform is still Wang Fuzhi's sales marketization plan.

And the problem of students is indeed a big trouble.

Dashun is not a barbarian, who engages in some extreme suppression, even using knives.The students still continued the state of the late Ming Dynasty, and they had great influence in the local area.

It is also appropriate to reduce the number of privileged students.

Only by reducing and creating divisions among the students will those students who are truly privileged stand on the side of the court instead of representing local forces.

Otherwise, all students have privileges, and if they fail to get promoted, they will definitely form cliques at the local level, breaking their boots into a forest, and making the local government constrained everywhere.

This time, grace and power are also used together. This time, we will humiliate these students first.

He already had a basic idea in his mind, and he discussed with his staff, who basically didn't agree with Lin Min's idea.

"It's very difficult for the master to teach the division of fasting."

"Out of curiosity, I have also tried to learn those practical principles. Astronomy, geography, arithmetic and physics, many things need to be obtained from the so-called general education of the elementary school, so that they can continue to study in the future."

"And after studying, one can't take the imperial examination, and two can't be an official. Either as a petty official, or as an employee, or as a translator, or as a surveying and mapping accountant."

"The monthly income is not too much. This is only attractive to those poor children. But anyone who has some money in the family still hopes to learn some serious knowledge and books."

"For example, Xing Guogong wants to set up an agricultural school with those land reclamation companies in Huainan, specifically for the concept of cotton seeds and grain seeds in the future."

"As the saying goes, a gentleman is not a weapon. These industries are really cheap, and a gentleman despises them."

"And even if some people think that cultivating grain and cotton seeds is not a gentleman's lowly business, if they can enter school and become a student, they will have to enter their twenties. By then, it will be too late to study; Secondly, I have to learn the general knowledge and principles of practical learning from the beginning, how can I compare with those who have learned practical learning for the sake of "one meal at noon, learning to solve geometry problems and rewarding two catties of meat" since childhood?"

Speaking of this, the staff also had to admit something.

Practical learning, or miscellaneous learning, has been made quite complicated by Liu Yu in the past 20 years.Even if you start learning at the age of six or seven, if you can really understand it, you still have to put in a lot of effort.And many of them are purely torture methods, such as endlessly solving arithmetic problems and reciting some strange general knowledge. In terms of effort, this is no different from reading classics since childhood.

What the aides mean is that it is really too late to conduct separate education in government schools after the children's examination.

But if those who study miscellaneous and practical studies can also pass the sub-subject examinations and obtain the status of student members, I am afraid that not only Jiangsu, but students all over the country will stop taking the exams to protest.

The imperial court already has a Martial Virtue Palace to learn those messy things, and now even the students can pass these messy knowledge exams, then you Dashun don't want to be the emperor, let's find someone else to be.

Then, the staff said again: "If, since I was a child, I started some classes mixed with practical knowledge... Is it true that these practical knowledge are also tested for the examination of scholars, candidates, and Jinshi? If not, who will learn?"

"That's why, even if the government school conducts divided education, and enrolls the young [-] or [-] and the older [-] or [-], are they going to compete with those who have learned from elementary school?"

"The serious knowledge is inferior to others, and the practical knowledge is also inferior to others. They are all half-knowledgeable. What's the use?"

"Then it's better not to change it, and the court will spend money to support it."

Lin Min really had a headache about this question.

Now that Liu Yu has made such a move, there has been a serious division in learning.

The family is poor, in order to have a stable job in the future——Compared with thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge to take the imperial examination, the chances of learning some practical knowledge to be an accountant, a translator, or a crew member are higher anyway.And the key is to take care of the food. Liu Yu and a group of emerging businessmen invest a lot of money in practical education every year-these poor families usually choose special practical primary schools.

And anyone who has a little money at home must want to get a privileged status.Isn't it for this to go to a private school, hire a teacher, go to a family to study family studies, and take the county examination at the age of sixteen or seventeen?

Moreover, the aides have actually said it very euphemistically: Even if the government schools provide separate education, it is not easy to find a job.People really need practical students. For example, if a land reclamation company wants to learn agronomy and grow cotton, they are mentally ill. Instead of going to a professional practical school to recruit, they should recruit these half-baked people with official academic credits?
To carry out this kind of divided education in government schools is actually to cultivate a large number of half-baked people, which is actually useless.

It pretends to be a reform, but in fact it is meaningless at all, and it is really a mere formality.

And the purpose of mere formality must be for the sake of form, so this form will not achieve any political achievements, and it is useless at all.

That being the case, why change it?

The staff member said again: "Nowadays, there are no fewer than hundreds of practical primary schools in various places in southern Jiangsu. Of course, there are very few of them who can be promoted to secondary schools."

"But originally, children between the ages of six or seven and thirteen or fourteen can't do any farm work. Why don't you go to the elementary school to make a living? The Duke of the State and those new businessmen don't invest much every year, but only four to five hundred school meals Breakfast and lunch are still manageable.”

"Two pennies for a talc plaster pen, three to five pennies for a large bluestone slab, and a rag to wipe off the plaster marks. It doesn't cost much."

"At the age of thirteen or fourteen, if you can enter a middle school, it will be like a student with silver rice, and you can still get silver rice to supplement your family every month."

"In the past, when the Duke of the State was training troops in Dengzhou, he took in many orphans and passed on his knowledge. Once he passed it on to a hundred, and then a hundred thousand, the Duke also benefited from business and industry. In 20 years, the number of children who practiced learning increased by a thousand times."

"Besides, people's intelligence and stupidity, according to the words of the Duke of the State, are only one in a hundred or one in a thousand. As long as they can go to school, there is no difference between the poor and the rich."

"He doesn't teach heretical knowledge. On the contrary, he also learns three characters and thousands of texts, and also recites several chapters of the Analects. The rest of the knowledge is free from heresy, just peas, sails, functions and the like."

"Master, you might as well think about it, even if it is a generation of witch doctors and musicians, I am familiar with it. Then this kind of practical knowledge, I have entered the official school at the age of seventeen or eighteen, how can it compare with those who have been enlightened since the age of five or six? Someone who started to learn?"

"My lord can't let private schools, ethnology, etc., add these learnings, right? Not to mention where the teachers come from, just talk about the county exam, or even the provincial exam, do you take the exam? If you don't take the exam, whoever is willing to learn from the private school? ?”

Speaking of this, the staff finally talked about the key point of this fast education.

"My lord, when Yan Xizhai conceived of divided education, he didn't know much about arithmetic, only one book of geometry, and the most pictures of geography, so he thought that it would be too late for government school to learn again."

"But Yan Xizhai passed away, and Xingguo was born. Now arithmetic needs to calculate the orbit of the moon, geography needs to learn the calculation of longitude and latitude geometry, astronomy needs to know gravity, chemistry needs to know the ratio of smelting... These knowledge are those of the Beijing Academy of Sciences. People who are practical and intelligent can only choose one to learn. It will be too late to learn again on the [-]th or [-]th."

"Not to mention the articles in last year's "Gewu" monthly magazine, I can't understand them at all. I can recognize all the words, but they are connected together like a heavenly book."

"Just talk about the people who surveyed and mapped the land that Duke Xingguo found in Huainan this time. They are all only seventeen or eighteen years old, but the methods are so high that I can't understand them at all."

"That's why, the idea of ​​dividing the official school into a fast is really impossible."

"What's more, Yan and Li are one school, they divide their studies, and follow Confucius' model of teaching disciples. Now it has declined. There are few people in the northern school, and only Mianzhuang in the southern school. Why? I have learned too much, and it is extremely painful. , do your best.”

"Mei Xunzhai once said to me: "Three generations of family studies have studied mathematics, but now they are not as good as twenty-year-old young men. Asked about family studies, they said that generations of servants farmed in Dengzhou, started in the school, and entered the Academy of Sciences at sixteen. Has glimpsed the door of differential and integral."

"Mei Xunzhai's family study is like this, and he still thinks he is old, how can he become a scholar halfway through the study?"

"Just learn it. This time, the emperor issued an edict to select talents in arithmetic to calculate lunar distance and star charts. Are these students qualified for the job?"

"Yes, if you want to change it, dividing the fast is not a wonderful method. It cannot be used."

(End of this chapter)