Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 892
The Royal Institute of Technology has been established for 12 years, and the Teachers College affiliated to it was also independent as early as 20 years ago in Chongzhen. The first batch of [-] normal students who graduated were distributed to various places, and opened their own schools in schools with various conditions. coaching career.

The first batch of normal students can be regarded as the first batch of teachers in the true sense of Chinese history.

These teachers are all talents in basic mathematics, physics, astronomy and other science subjects. The schools they teach are selected after strict screening by the Ministry of Rites. The students are all teenagers between the ages of 12 and 16, and they have a certain foundation in mathematics and science. , the level is equivalent to the level of senior primary schools in later generations, and they will learn the science content and knowledge of junior and senior high schools in later generations from the new teachers.

At Zhu Youjian's request, the Teachers College did not offer liberal arts for the time being, but only cultivated talents in science and engineering.

It's not that he looks down on liberal arts, but that he believes that liberal arts has no effect on the development of Daming's science and technology.

For more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty has had enough scholars and talents. Under the guidance of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of liberal arts students, the Ming Dynasty gradually weakened and eventually perished.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty will need more talents in science and engineering. In terms of humanities, there are precious cultural heritage left by the ancestors for thousands of years, which is enough for the society to absorb nutrition.

Besides, the Chinese nation has not lacked extreme enthusiasm for literary and artistic methods and ideas since ancient times. Discouraging the liberal arts does not mean restricting it. As long as there are no restrictions, a large number of liberal arts talents will naturally emerge. Deliberately cultivate.

Since it is necessary to guide the whole society to form an atmosphere of advocating pragmatism, science is the only way.

Only hard work can rejuvenate the country, and empty talk will only harm the country.

Everyone sits and discusses, when the enemy comes in, will they listen to you beeping?

The current scale of teacher training colleges is still relatively small, and the number of educational talents introduced is not too large, so the number of normal students trained is relatively rare.

It is a long-term guideline for normal colleges and even polytechnic colleges to introduce excellent overseas talents while cultivating local high-quality talents.

It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to grow people.

Every great undertaking will not be achieved overnight, perseverance is the way to success, thoughts and methods that are eager for success will be strictly prohibited.

After the social economy develops to a certain level in the future, when the material conditions of the vast majority of the people are fully satisfied, liberal arts students will enter the stage of history, and they will provide the society with the spiritual level that everyone needs in various ways. nutrient.

Judging from the current social structure of the Ming Dynasty, various art forms such as folk art, juggling, storytelling, allegro, singing and dancing are sufficient to meet the spiritual needs of the vast majority of the people. In the foreseeable future, these forms are sufficient to meet social needs.

Cang Lin knows the etiquette in reality, and knows honor and disgrace when she has enough food and clothing.

Spiritual pursuit must be established on a material basis, and the situation of having fun while suffering can only be said to be a helpless act, and benevolence, righteousness and morality must also be established on the basis of having no worries about food and clothing.

Selfish desires are an innate nature of human beings, and even saints are unavoidable. Therefore, it is the last word to develop productive forces first and let the people become rich.

Since the establishment of the Royal Institute of Technology, it has made certain achievements in various aspects, but most of these achievements are only in theory. Due to the limitations of various conditions, it is not yet possible to transform some of the technologies into practical applications. Among them, the steam engine is the most typical representative.

The steam engine was first developed by a physicist named Dennis Papen of the Royal Institute of Technology. After half a year of hard work by the skilled craftsmen who will be the supervisor, the world's first steam engine finally came out in the 24th year of Chongzhen.

After hearing the news, Zhu Youjian went to the scene to see it in person, but the result disappointed him greatly.

Although this huge machine can operate normally after converting coal into heat energy, due to such factors as separate condenser, heat insulation layer outside the cylinder, oil-lubricated pistons, planetary gears, parallel-moving connecting rod mechanism, centrifugal adjustment, etc. Many key components, such as the speed controller, throttle valve, and pressure gauge, have not yet been invented, so the structure of this first steam engine is very simple, and its function is only the most basic pumping, and the pumping depth does not exceed six meters.

From the current point of view, this huge machine still has to go through countless modifications before it can be put into practical use. It will take many years to drive the ship forward.

Despite his disappointment, Zhu Youjian still issued a decree to reward all the personnel involved in the project. Dennis Papen received a huge bonus of [-] silver coins, and other personnel received bonuses of varying amounts according to their contributions.

As long as they are creative inventions and breakthroughs in the field of science and technology, they will be rewarded heavily.

This is the rule established by Zhu You. The Royal Institute of Technology has also issued bonuses before, but the amount is not as large as this time. After the news came out, everyone was shocked by it. Make major breakthroughs in your field of expertise.

This result also pleased Zhu Youjian who knew the news.

He also specifically ordered Yousi to spread the award-winning event to Europe, maximize the advertising effect, and strive to attract more overseas talents to Daming.

In the 26th year of Chongzhen, the 25-year-old prince Zhu Cihong bid farewell to his parents, wife and children after several years of government affairs. Next, set foot on the journey to Laiwu County, Tai'an Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture.

Zhu Cihong, whose pseudonym was Zhu Changsheng, was appointed by the Ministry of Officials to serve as the magistrate of Laiwu County for a term of five years.

This is also the result of Zhu Youjian's deliberate arrangement.

Although the prince said that after many years of experience, his vision and knowledge are much higher than those of his peers, but Zhu Youjian feels that the prince still needs to personally participate in local governance in order to truly understand the difficulties of governing.

As a people-friendly official in charge of the government, in today's changing official style, many things can only be done personally so as not to make mistakes in decision-making, and to experience the hardships of the people. These five years of training are enough to make the prince truly mature. .

Since the eldest grandson of the emperor is only two years old, he can't bear to travel long distances at such a young age, so the princess and the two children stay in the capital for the time being. During this period, the princess will go to Laiwu to visit relatives.

In order to fully protect the safety of the prince, the small banner of Jinyiwei who lived in Laiwu was also changed to a hundred households in advance, and the number of troops was increased to 100. Jinyiwei even instructed Li Ruolian to secretly send [-] Tiqi to Laiwu. Various identities are mixed in the city, guarding Zhu Cihong's safety day and night.

(End of this chapter)