Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 178 Native: Education

In the inventory and statistics work, we encountered the plight of a serious shortage of cadres.In fact, it is not that the Executive Committee and the Government Council only discovered this problem at this time. In fact, as early as the moment the country was established, the Ministry of Education proposed to establish a special school aimed at cultivating administrative cadres.

The executive committee approved the proposal at that time, and this political school named "Dayuhe Youth Cadre Specialized School" was established on the south bank of Dayu River in January 1634.The school has a three-year academic system, and it specializes in cultivating management cadres that are urgently needed by various departments. At the same time, it also provides short-term advanced training for current cadres above the village level, so as to improve the professional quality of such cadres and enable them to better understand the policies and intentions of the central government.

In the first half of this year, the first batch of cadres had graduated, and these young people were divided into various administrative departments, which greatly eased the shortage of manpower in various units.However, considering that the total population of the country has already exceeded the [-] mark, the number of this group of dozens of cadres can barely maintain the normal operation of various departments after being scattered.If another large-scale operation such as a national property inventory is carried out, this shortage of manpower will be exposed at once.

Fortunately, there will be a second batch of about thirty or forty cadres graduating next year, and the current predicament should be slightly alleviated by then.

The training of administrative cadres is like this, and the executive committee spares no effort in the training of technical personnel.At present, there is only one national scientific research institution, namely the Chinese Academy of Natural Sciences of the East Coast Republic.This research and teaching institution gathers many former middle school teachers and some researchers with expertise in certain fields. These people try their best to restore technology according to the needs of national development, and at the same time conduct teaching and exchanges, and cultivate some practical scientific talents. talent.

For example, Torricelli has made great progress in physics, Viviani has made great progress in mathematics, Viviani has made great progress in mathematics, ballistics and metallurgy, and they are currently technical experts in various fields.Moreover, in the long-term communication with them, the time-traveling people also admire their rigorous scientific attitude, meticulous logical thinking, and sparks of wisdom that flash from time to time.It can be said that if these people were not limited by the times, their achievements and personal abilities could blow out all the time-traveling colleagues in the Academy of Natural Sciences.

In addition to academic and theoretical research institutions such as the Academy of Natural Sciences, the East Coast Republic has also established a complete set of vocational education systems aimed at cultivating skilled workers and junior technicians. vocational school.

The teachers of these vocational schools are generally served by technicians or senior craftsmen from various factories, and sometimes experts from the Academy of Natural Sciences will also come to these factories to give lectures.The students are all the original skilled workers of the factory or newly recruited workers from outside. This kind of vocational education can be regarded as playing a huge role at this stage, because it has trained a large number of qualified industrial workers for the East Coast Republic.

Those who have outstanding performance or obvious talents among the workers will also have the opportunity to be recommended to the Academy of Natural Sciences for further study and further study. After returning, they can generally take up technical management positions.This method stimulated the workers' great enthusiasm for learning, and they began to seize all the time to enrich themselves. As a result, the quality of industrial workers in the East Coast Republic improved rapidly.Some technicians who are originally senior craftsmen often grow amazingly after going through a round of advanced studies.

For example, Pierre, a former Swiss blacksmith from the First Machinery Factory, relied on his superb craftsmanship and a certain understanding of steam engines and thermodynamics, and cooperated with Torricelli and a group of technicians to make it by hand, which lasted half a year. Time has produced the first boring machine with machining accuracy at the millimeter level.

This boring machine uses a special Barbarian-1 steam engine as power, which can be used to process gun barrels and steam engine cylinders.Compared with the manual boring machine used in the past, the accuracy and efficiency are many times stronger. Not only the efficiency of boring the gun barrel in the arsenal has been greatly improved, but the accuracy of the steam engine cylinder has also been greatly improved.

In the past, some steam engines made by the people were all processed by hand or some simple manpower and hydraulic machine tools.Not to mention the high cost, the precision of this component often does not meet the requirements for use.After all, the number of high-level craftsmen with good craftsmanship and high processing precision is very small, and it takes a long time for most ordinary craftsmen to reach the level of these high-level craftsmen.Moreover, the parts processed by each person are often different in shape and cannot be completely standardized. That is to say, many parts of the two steam engines cannot be interchanged, which further limits the promotion of steam engines.

Under such circumstances, limited to the level of processing technology, the steam engine developed by the East Coast Republic, which invested a lot of manpower and material resources, could not be put into practical use.

Fortunately, the problem has finally been initially resolved.The manufacture of high-precision steam boring machines has successfully solved the most critical cylinder processing problem of steam engines. Perhaps its processing accuracy is not as good as that of some skilled senior craftsmen, but the problem is that this thing can be mass-produced.Moreover, it can achieve millimeter-level machining accuracy, which is completely tolerable for the cylinder of the Barbarian-1 steam engine. Coupled with its super high efficiency and low cost, this makes the steam engine practical and popular. possible.

The First Machinery Factory has solved the production problem of high-precision boring machines, and now they have set their sights on the industrial master machine such as lathes, striving to produce this industrial master machine, which can be called a military weapon, as soon as possible after organizing large-scale research.

It can be said that the education and scientific research system on the east coast gave Torricelli, Pierre and others the opportunity to shine.If there is no east coast, maybe Torricelli is still running around for a living while taking time to conduct his own atmospheric pressure experiment, and Pierre may even be casting untechnical cannons for a certain lord day after day .After they arrived on the east coast, the highly industrialized atmosphere, rigorous technical requirements and comprehensive knowledge popularization made it possible for them to show their talents.In fact, this system and advanced productivity organization model are the core combat power of the East Coast Republic, not the kind of technology tree climbed, advanced equipment, how many enemies have been defeated with new tactics, etc. .

This system capable of self-development and self-evolution, as well as the advanced industrial organization model, are the core combat effectiveness and foundation of the East Coast Republic.

In addition to vocational education is compulsory primary education throughout the country.At present, there are six primary schools in the country, which are located in Chengguan Town, Dingyuan Township, Luochagang Township, Zhenhai Township, Xiayihebao and Pingan Township in Dongfang County, with more than 400 students; and the only junior high school—— Dongfang Junior High School is located in Chengguan Town, Dongfang County, with more than 100 students.

The Ministry of Education stipulates that all school-age children must receive compulsory primary education (up to the completion of junior high school), otherwise parents will be subject to financial penalties.Of course, if they send their children to school, they can receive part of the subsidy uniformly distributed by the Ministry of Education.The content of textbooks in primary and junior high schools is carefully selected, and basically contains some common sense content, as well as relatively superficial knowledge of physics, chemistry and mathematics.Students who come out of such an education system have a good foundation whether they enter factories or other institutions. After some vocational education and job training, they can easily be qualified for most of the current jobs.

Students with outstanding academic performance in junior high school will be recommended by the school to enter the senior high school sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences for study.The courses in senior high schools are more in-depth. Whether it is mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, or some courses such as politics and economics, the content is far beyond the research results of this era.Therefore, students entering high school must sign a strict confidentiality agreement. After graduation, they will immediately work in factories, governments or research institutions in the East Coast Republic. Their families are also the objects of close attention by agents of the National Intelligence Agency. .

In addition to these regular educational institutions, the East Coast Republic currently has a special educational institution that is independent of the entire educational system - the Executive Committee Guards Academy.As of today, the school has organized three phases of nearly a thousand students.Some of these students were orphans or street children brought back from France, some were local orphans or looted Charuya and Guarani children, and the rest were children sent by free folk parents in China.

The small Corps Fortress can no longer accommodate so many students. For this reason, the executive committee expanded it at the beginning of the year, making the castle able to accommodate three to 4000 people living at the same time.Nearly a thousand children were organized into more than a dozen companies, and they were constantly brainwashing, studying, training and working every week.They are used to obeying the orders of the instructors, relying on collective strength, and the ideas and values ​​instilled in them by the instructors. Perhaps after more than ten years, these members of the student corps who have grown up will become a formidable force. the power of.

Especially now that the relationship between the military and the executive committee is very delicate, this student corps, which is directly in the hands of the executive committee, has become the last card of the executive committee.

The above education systems have been established bit by bit through years of time and a lot of energy and material resources.And this will surely provide endless stamina and impetus for the development of the East Coast Republic of China, which is the most core connotation that distinguishes her from those so-called "civilized countries" in Europe.

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