I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Cheng Shijie actually didn't know what happened in Liaodong.Although Cheng Shijie left Chibi City on a warship, when he passed by Chongming Island, the Shen family led the people of Chongming to hold a grand welcome ceremony.Shen Boyun's eldest son, Shen Qidong, 28 years old, welcomed Cheng Shijie.

Of course, Cheng Shijie did not stay at the Princess Chongming Mansion arranged by Shen Qidong, but went directly to Chongming Academy. It was not until then that Sun Kewang knew that Cheng Shijie's hand had been inserted into the mouth of the Yangtze River. There were Cheng Shijie's men in Wusongkou, Chongming Island, and Changxing Island.

Compared with Chongming Island, Chibi City is not enough.

Accompanied by Shen Qidong, Cheng Shijie visited Chongming Academy, which was funded and established by the Shen family headed by Shen Boyun.After more than a year of construction, it was finally put into normal use.

It's just that when Cheng Shijie visited Chongming Academy, he discovered a serious problem. The problem is not that the school building is not good enough, nor is the school not big enough.Chongming Academy as a whole is dominated by Huizhou gray and white buildings, adopting a garden-like structure, covering an area of ​​at least [-] to [-] mu.

Chongming Academy still recruits students in the way of Mengsheng and Tongsheng. The so-called Mengsheng is the enrollment of Mengsheng. There are a total of 160 students, and all of them are boys, but there are 45 Tongsheng. Has 26 students.Among them, there are 100 teachers in total, and more than [-] servants, handymen, and cooks.

Speaking of which, the dean of the college is quite famous, this is Liu Zongzhou, the former governor of Shuntian Prefecture.There is nothing to say about Liu Zongzhou's knowledge, but he was born in the Donglin Party. His sect is known as the "Jishan School" in the world.

If it was in the era when Cheng Shijie did not appear, the Donglin Party was indeed in full swing, but with the appearance of Cheng Shijie, Jiannu was pressed to the ground and rubbed against the ground, especially after the Battle of Baliwan. Compared with Cheng Shijie, the Donglin Party members seemed incompetent .This made Emperor Chongzhen suspicious of the Donglin party members. Emperor Chongzhen was anxious to seek treatment, and he was always haunted by talents, salaries, bandits, and border troubles. He hoped that the officials could come up with some effective and specific measures.

However, Liu Zongzhou thinks that these are the techniques of criminal names, which are close to utilitarianism, and the owner should be based on benevolence and righteousness.Due to disagreements, he served as governor of Shuntian Prefecture for only one year, and then returned to his hometown due to illness, and established a "witness society" with Tao Shuangling to gather comrades to give lectures.

Liu Zongzhou became the dean of Chongming Academy because he was too stubborn and decided to break up with the Donglin Party and refused to participate in Donglin Party's poetry meetings, societies, and literary meetings.

Hearing Shen Qidong's introduction, Cheng Shijie frowned.

Isn't the teacher-student ratio in Chongming Academy too exaggerated?If servants, servants and cooks are included in the teaching staff, it means that the ratio of teaching staff to students is almost one to two.

"Why are so few students admitted?"

"Too many students will bring a lot of pressure to the school, and will also increase the workload of the teachers, thereby reducing the requirements for students and lowering the value of students as a whole!"

From Shen Qi's point of view, why are the talents of the Ming Dynasty not as precious as those in the Tang and Song Dynasties?

The Tang Dynasty inherited the imperial examination system of the Sui Dynasty. According to historical records, during the more than [-] years of the Tang Dynasty, only six people passed the scholar examination.

Later, it was found that the exam for scholar was too difficult, and no one took the exam, so the students who passed the county school examination were called scholars. Especially after the Song Dynasty, they would go everywhere, and there were as many scholars as dogs.As long as there are more talents, they are completely worthless.

"What we want to implement is elite education, not civilian education. Some people from civilian families should be engaged in civilian jobs."

In Shen Qidong's view, what Cheng Shijie did was actually a depreciation of culture.

"You are wrong. We are not going to implement elite education or civilian education. I need to get enough talents in a short period of time, so as to meet the needs of Liaodong, Dayuan, and Luzon for talents!"

"Marshal, earning too many students at one time will not help Chongming Academy become the best institution of higher learning in the world. The reason why Donglin Academy is sought after by the whole world is because the number of students in Donglin Academy is limited, and Donglin Academy has the largest number of students. It can only accommodate two to three hundred people, if there are thousands of people in Donglin Academy, the students in Donglin Academy will be worthless!"

Although Liu Zongzhou was born in Confucianism, he considered issues more from the perspective of fame.Anyway, from Liu Zongzhou's point of view, Cheng Shijie is willing to pay for the school, and he never dictates to the college. Is there any better investor than Cheng Shijie?
"Mr. Niantai, we do not intend to monopolize knowledge, but to promote and popularize knowledge. There is not much difference between a teacher teaching two students at a time and fifty or sixty students at a time. Donglin Academy exists. It has been established for hundreds of years, as early as the first year of Zhenghe (1111) in the Song Dynasty!"

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly: "This coach is not Gu Xiancheng. Gu Xiancheng has enough reputation to be able to respond to everyone. This coach and Gu Xiancheng have different foundations. What's more, my purpose is different from his. If the teachers are concerned about increasing the workload If you have an opinion, then raise the salaries of the teachers."

Liu Zongzhou has his own ideas. He wants to build a school that is more famous than Donglin Academy. While running the school, he plans to invite his disciples, as well as some Jiangnan heroes, to study in Chongming Academy. After studying for a while, he will participate Next year's provincial examination and the next year's general examination.

The method adopted by Liu Zongzhou is actually the same as that of Hengshui High School in the later generations. He selects top students from all over the province, and then tries his best to study the questions, so as to select the best among the best, which instantly made Chongming Academy famous.

You know, although the imperial examinations in this era are not less difficult than those of later generations, the problem is that the scope of the questions is far less than that of later generations. How huge and complex is the question bank of later generations?For people like Liu Zongzhou, even if they do three questions a day, it is enough to do thousands of questions and make Chongming Academy famous, but it is not a big problem.

As the saying goes, the ass determines the head, and the head determines thinking.

Cheng Shijie and Liu Zongzhou considered issues in different dimensions, so the two naturally had obvious differences.However, teaching without discrimination, expanding the scope of students, and selecting more good seedlings is also what Liu Zongzhou is willing to see.

"Marshal, if we recruit more students, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money!"

"I have plenty of silver. When I return to Liaodong, I will specially approve 10 taels of silver to Chongming Academy to improve the teaching quality of Chongming Academy!"

As we all know, Cheng Shijie was generous enough to his subordinates, with high salaries and good benefits. In a short period of time, a large number of middle-income middle classes emerged in Liaodong.

Of course, Cheng Shijie is not a philanthropist either. The reason why he gives a higher salary is that Cheng Shijie has higher requirements for his subordinates.Apart from Ning Haijun, the soldiers with the highest income are the Guan Ning Army, but the problem is that the income of the officers and men of Guan Ning Army is not enough for the soldiers of Ning Haijun.

Of course, the treatment of Ning Haijun is the best, and it is also the unit with the most combat effectiveness in the whole world. It does not mean that combat effectiveness and treatment are directly equated, but because treatment is also part of combat effectiveness.

Corruption among officials in Daming is relatively serious, and no one can compare to it except the Manchus. However, the salaries of officials in Liaodong, as well as teachers and craftsmen in Liaodong, are several times those in the Central Plains of Ming Dynasty.Welfare is even more meticulous, from food to clothing, housing, and daily life, there is an arrangement system.

This was derived by Cheng Shijie according to the system of Hansteel Group. The employees of Hansteel Group had already enjoyed medical insurance when the country did not implement universal medical insurance.There are also poor employees in Hansteel Group, but there will never be a situation where there is no money for treatment when they are sick.

Just like Cheng Jiayue's condition, that was another situation. Hangang Group Workers' General Hospital didn't have this technology, and couldn't find a source of heart.

Cheng Shijie's high remuneration is not for people to lie in their positions and enjoy the blessings, but for doing things.Therefore, high benefits and high salary are not easy to get. Only by making contributions that match the salary and benefits can you get it with peace of mind.

When Cheng Shijie left Chongming Island, he began to formulate the "Draft of Liaodong Compulsory Education". The draft nominated by Cheng Shijie will first be sent to the Liaodong Management Committee for discussion, and generally will not be blocked.

This issue of compulsory education is slightly different from the compulsory education of later generations.Primary schools adopt a five-year system, middle schools adopt a four-year system, and universities adopt a three-year system.In Daming, there is no need to hand over so much useless knowledge. Do you think it is necessary for a primary school student to learn English?

What nonsense logic, learning English is to connect with the world, more than 90.00% of people have no chance to go abroad or meet foreigners in their whole life.For example, the author, who lived to be 39 years old, has never had any contact with any foreigner. We don’t have that level, so here comes the question, is there any use for learning so much English and memorizing so many words?

Compulsory education in Liaodong is only five years, that is to say, primary school is compulsory education, whether to go to junior high school, it is all voluntary, as the saying goes, don't persuade others to be kind without others suffering.

Although there are many factories in Liaodong at this stage, the problem is that not everyone has the opportunity to be a worker, and not everyone can apply what they have learned. Even if they make a comeback in the future, that is the future.

Cheng Shijie plans to build at least one primary school in every town, and at least one middle school in every county. Universities mainly include Liaodong Medical College, Liaodong Agricultural College, Liaodong Engineering College, Ning Naval Army Academy, and Liaodong Naval Military Academy. As for the establishment of a world-famous school, there is still a long way to go to establish a world-renowned school like Oxford University (formally confirmed by an act passed in 1571, and its predecessor was the Catholic General School) Cambridge University.

Cheng Shijie is actually not qualified to pick and choose talents now, so as long as someone is willing to immigrate to Liaodong, Cheng Shijie will accept them all.

Of course, acceptance is accepted, but we will not start farming in Liaodong. The main reason is that the weather in the past few years has been really abnormal. Spring has come too late, and winter has come too late. The current Liaodong is different from the later generations. The later Liaodong also has four distinct seasons. However, there is no spring or autumn in Liaodong today.

It may only take a few days for the weather to go from minus ten degrees to minus twenty degrees, and then it will enter the hot summer. In summer, the temperature may drop suddenly overnight. After dawn, the whole world will be covered with ice and snow.

There are quite a few Ming people who have come to Liaodong in the past few years. The quality of these people must be mixed, including teachers from Liaodong schools, more than [-]% of elementary school teachers, and even some university teachers. It is said that their reputation is not very good.

Faced with these situations, Cheng Shijie never asked any questions, but since these people came to Liaodong, they must abide by the relevant regulations of Liaodong, otherwise Cheng Shijie would definitely not tolerate it. Don't even think that Cheng Shijie will be extrajudicial.

In Liaodong, there were not just one or two wealthy sons and gentry scholars who violated laws and disciplines. According to incomplete statistics, as many as two to three hundred cases were dealt with every year.

Chen Guodong took advantage of this, so Hu Liangan and Eunuch Hu were arrested. Of course, there was no abuse, but he was locked in a cell.

The Ming Dynasty itself had a separation of powers, with the announcement of the political envoys, the procuratorial envoys for punishment, and the command envoys. The procuratorial envoys for punishments were in charge of prisons and judiciary, and the judicial power of Ming Dynasty was also vertically managed.Now the high court in Liaodong is exercising the power of the procuratorate.

Even Queen Zhou couldn't say anything. Of course, everyone understood that a seemingly insignificant matter became the focus of the game between the imperial court and Liaodong.

Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang did not use their identities to forcefully put pressure on the Liaodong Management Committee, which is the governor's mansion at the imperial court, but took the prince and continued to walk around.

The development of Liaodong is still in a step-by-step manner. The cement road network centered on Jinzhou is still being extended, and the cement road project is being rolled out vigorously in sections. The requirement for cement roads proposed by the Liaodong Management Committee is three levels of coexistence, first of all state-level roads , it is two-way eight-lane, county-level cement roads have at least two-way four-lane, and town-level two-lane passage is subject to side by side.

Cement roads were basically built between the seven states of Liaodong, and the cement roads between counties were also a jaw-dropping project.

The cement road project has won the support of most people in Liaodong, because the benefits of cement roads are too obvious. The road surface is smooth and hard, and it will not be muddy even under heavy rain. You can run fast on it, and the most wonderful thing is that it is almost unbreakable for decades. After repairing it, you don’t need to worry about road construction in the future.

Such a project does not support, so what do they support?Merchants from other places, local military households and military families all have money to contribute, and they are able to contribute.Especially now, counties and towns are in their leisure time, and countless strong laborers are wielding hoes and shovels along the road, leveling the roadbed and compacting the ground, working in full swing.

In Zhenhai City, a huge phosphate fertilizer processing plant has also started construction.The plant will use the nearby high-quality phosphate rock from the Dabie Mountains to provide sufficient phosphate fertilizers for Liaodong.

To say that the biggest change in Liaodong is the emergence of a new type of machinery. At the beginning of Liaodong, hydraulic machinery was used, but the problem is that hydraulic machinery has a problem that is difficult to solve, that is, the climate in Liaodong is too cold. , There are at least four months of ice in a year, which means that hydraulic machinery cannot be used for nearly half a year.

Wang Zheng, who came to Liaodong, undertook the missionary work for religion, but the problem was that when he saw Liaodong, the only place in Ming Dynasty that did not restrict religion, and it was a place with tens of millions of people, Protestantism and Catholicism began to expand. Fierce competition.

Seeing the war between the Netherlands and Liaodong, the Protestants in Liaodong deliberately supported the Protestantism in Liaodong and established a business office in Liaodong. In this way, Wang Zheng, a Catholic missionary, was passive.Because the distance is too far, and the support that the Holy See can give him is limited.

In desperation, Wang Zheng had no choice but to show his skills. In the original history, Wang Zheng, a great scientist, once invented a steam boat called fire boat.

Although the principle of the steam engine may be relatively unfamiliar to Ming people who do not have a modern scientific knowledge system, in fact, the British scientist Joseph Needham once put forward a famous thesis: steam engine = water row + bellows.He wanted to use this formula to explain that without the technological achievements of ancient China, the heart of the modern revolution in the West—the steam engine—could not have been invented.From the perspective of the key structure of the steam engine, the "bellows" solves the problem of double-acting valves, while the "water row" provides conversion equipment between linear motion and circular motion.

The "bellows" was invented in the Song Dynasty of our country, and then spread to the West. It was widely used in Europe in the 18th century, and the "water row" appeared in our country more than 1900 years ago. , my country's ancient advanced technology has laid the foundation for the invention of the steam engine.

Nan Huairen, a model of diligence and studious, not only actively studied Chinese astronomy, mathematics, and calendars, but was also interested in the popular steam engine at that time, and even invented the steam car.As the name suggests, the power of this car is "steam", which generates steam by heating the water in the container.Let the kinetic energy of the steam push the gear next to it, and the gear rotates to drive the axle located above the wheel.Eventually the wheels can roll forward.Strictly speaking, this is the world's first self-propelled car.

In 1672, in order to please the emperor, he gave this invention to Kangxi as a gift.However, this small steam locomotive did not attract more attention at the time, Kangxi just regarded it as a toy.

In order to gain the support of the Liaodong Management Committee, Wang Zheng came up with his own invention, which is a huge machine similar to a siege vehicle, with six wheels, the front two are steering wheels, and the back four are passive wheels.This car has no power and cannot drive automatically.

However, this car is a driving machine, which can also be said to be a simple version of a steam engine. In the middle is a huge large iron furnace with a boiler on top and a hearth on the bottom. After adding water, driven by steam, it will Drive the lever to reciprocate.

This machine can solve the problem of no water source and no power source in cold winter. This kind of huge machine was first used in the crushing of phosphate rock. Later, this machine was also used in cement production. used in road construction.

After using steam machinery, the production efficiency is much higher than that of hydraulic machinery. Coupled with the high grade of phosphate rock, at least [-] tons of phosphate fertilizer can be produced in a month.

You know, the six phosphate fertilizer plants in Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Haizhou, Guangning, and Liaoyang have a combined production capacity of less than [-] tons, and the output of the six phosphate fertilizer plants in Zhenhai City is three times that of the original six phosphate fertilizer plants. .

Now these six old phosphate fertilizer factories have decided to renovate. If it is successful, the monthly production capacity of the six phosphate fertilizer factories will reach [-] tons. There is still a certain gap to meet the needs of the entire Liaodong region, but this is already It is a very remarkable achievement.

With the success of this large water furnace, a series of changes have been triggered in Liaodong. The first is the foundry workshop of the steel factory. , all use hydraulic machinery to drive the ingot mold to rotate.

Now it is changed to a steam type, which saves energy compared with the original hydraulic power, and more importantly, it is convenient, more efficient, and lower labor costs.

Although the Liaodong Steel Plant did not exploit the iron ore in Anshan on a large scale, the main reason is that the iron ore in Maoshan has a higher grade and is easier to mine, especially for workers from North Korea, whose labor is lower than that in Liaodong.

With the drastic reduction of refugees in Liaodong and more and more factories being built, there has actually been a shortage of labor in Liaodong. After the grain was transported to the north from Luzon, the Liaodong Management Committee has even begun to consider reducing the area of ​​farmland and transfer certain military households to farmland. For engineering military households, let them become employees and workers.

The lack of labor has caused the wages of workers in Liaodong to increase exponentially, especially for heavy physical work, which has been raised to two or four taels of silver per month, which means that a worker can earn two to thirty taels of silver a year. This is not a skilled worker. If it is a skilled worker, the income is higher.

Everything in Liaodong was unfamiliar to Empress Zhou. A blast furnace can produce 16 tons, a day can produce 10,000 catties of sea salt, a textile machine can weave several bolts of cloth a day, and there is a one-time hoisting machine. From [-]+ catties of machinery.

Especially seeing this kind of mixer with a huge roar that can mix [-] to [-] jin of concrete at a time, Empress Zhou felt that her ears were going to be deafened, and Zhu Cihong's face turned pale with fright.

Cheng Shijie didn't know that in the two months since he left Liaodong, Liaodong had undergone earth-shaking changes, especially the appearance of the steam engine, which gave Liaodong the germ of an industrial revolution.

Of course, when Mr. Cheng heard that the prince was also scared by the steam engine and peed his pants, he was overjoyed, and now it's even.

However, Cheng Jialong was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean by fire engine?"

"Is it a machine that can be driven by burning coal?"

Cheng Jialong was in a hurry: "Take me to see it!"

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