Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2275 Life ([-])

"Huguang is located in the upper reaches of the north and the south. Both Wuchang and Baling are treaty ports. The foreign affairs are becoming more and more prosperous, which affects the overall situation and cultivates talents. It seems that there is no delay." In the Peach Garden, Huang Bochao, the proprietor of Yu Dachang Cloth, is sitting and drinking with his old friend Zhang Shaozong.

"Brother Xinmu, you are bragging. The Yudachang Business School has been in operation for ten years. The talents are exciting and the results are outstanding. Xinmu doesn't say a word, but he must be very proud of it." Zhang Shaozong looked up and was impassioned Huang Bochao said jokingly.

He and Huang Bochao are basically good friends of the whole family, and they are also very similar in interests, so they can be called close friends, so they talk very casually.The Yu Dachang Business School they just mentioned was founded nine years ago and was organized by Huang Bochao.

In those chaotic years nine years ago, establishing a business school was truly an unprecedented move, and Huang Bochao was under great pressure for this.The plaque of the college was smashed, the gate was thrown with dung, and I was pointed at and scolded. It was a trivial matter. What made him sad the most was that there were students in the college who couldn't bear the pressure and dropped out from time to time.

Fortunately, the wheels of the times are rolling forward, and no one can stop it.Nine years have passed in a flash, and the current environment has undergone many changes.The old-fashioned elements near Yueyang may be tired, or they may know that Huang Bochao cannot be defeated, so they finally gave up their criticism of Yu Dachang Business School and adopted an attitude of indifference and even non-cooperation, which made Huang Bochao and The situation of Yu Dachang Business School has improved slightly.

In the past nine years, Yu Dachang Business School has trained more than 100 qualified business talents.After graduation, most of these people worked in Yudachang Cloth Co., Ltd. and Yudachang Spinning Mill (jointly established by Huang Bochao and Zhang Shaozong). The household department of Dashun was an instant sensation.

According to private investigations by East Coast intelligence officials who are active in Yueyang Mansion, the level of previous graduates of Yu Dachang Business School is not bad.They may not be as knowledgeable as the business graduates of Yantai University, but they have traditional Chinese wisdom and are well versed in the secrets of doing business in mainland China, so they are still very competitive.After using them, Huang Bochao gradually expanded his business to many other cities in the past few years, such as Shatou City, Wuchang, Jiujiang, Changsha, Hengyang, Chongqing and other places, and he sent his own people to set up stores in the local area to open up the market , There is no feeling that there is not enough talent, which makes many people look at it with admiration.

You must know that traditional business families generally cultivate business talents by themselves, such as selecting the smartest from the younger generation, such as focusing on cultivating potential employees (shop assistants), etc. The model, the cycle is often very long, and teachers like to hide it, the growth rate of talents is relatively slow, and the number is also very limited.But the school’s public teaching is different. In terms of the speed and quantity of cultivating talents, it is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of the former. The efficiency has increased by more than a little, which is completely subversive.

After seeing the high-efficiency talent training model of Yu Dachang Business School, other businessmen also began to follow suit. Some of them succeeded and acquired a large number of urgently needed talents, while others failed under the counterattack of conservative forces. .But regardless of success or failure, at least this trend has been effectively driven, and subtle changes have taken place at both the inner and outer levels of society.

Now not only businessmen, but even the upper echelons of the Dashun court are deeply aware of the lack of talents, and the urge to organize education is becoming stronger and stronger.Take the Changsha Gun Bureau as an example. Because of the frequent wars, the Li Shun court has always wanted to expand its production.But in a feudal imperial court, it was not an easy task to expand the factory's production. Let alone the equipment for making guns, the shortage of talents alone was terrible.People who can design, operate and maintain machines are not ordinary people. You can't just grab a farmer from the field.Today, when mechanized production is becoming more and more popular, illiterate craftsmen are no longer popular, and they are replaced by workers who are literate, arithmetic, and mechanical. The requirements for skills are getting higher and higher, and the difficulty of training is getting bigger and bigger. This puts forward higher requirements for the education level of a society.

Many people have imagined that China has a vast land and abundant resources, and there are many skilled craftsmen. As long as you propose an idea, I can quickly create it for you.Perhaps, but how many such people are there?He will, will others too?Can you design by yourself and update and iterate products?Furthermore, there is a qualitative difference between large-scale industrial production and traditional manual production. The number of talents required to operate machine tools, maintain machines, design production lines, and even manage operations is huge, and it is far from what you can maintain with just one or two skilled craftsmen.The traditional master-apprentice training method is no longer suitable for this production model. You must reform the education model and create a brand-new model that can quickly train talents on a large scale.Obviously, school education is the most suitable!

The Changsha Gun Bureau imitated the East Bank and opened a mechanical college run by the bureau, which trained a lot of talents.But now we have encountered a bottleneck again, that is, there is a serious shortage of qualified students. To put it bluntly, there is a serious shortage of people who can read, write, do arithmetic, and understand a little basic scientific knowledge or mechanical principles.After thinking about it, this is still rooted in the lack of basic education.In other words, there are too few people who have been exposed to and learned this kind of modern knowledge since they were young, which has led to the lack of students for the Changsha Gun Bureau.After all, it is still the pot of basic education—otherwise, why do you think that the local people on the east coast are full of food and spend astronomical amounts of money to popularize primary education, and why they also spend a lot of money to open night schools and provide enterprises What about popularizing more scientific knowledge among workers?

Universal education is the only way to enter an industrialized society!If the popularization is good, the number of backup workers, engineers, and scientists will continue to flow, and the industry will develop well; We had to stumble and eat raw rice.From ancient times to the present, there is no such thing as the advancement of industry without popularizing education!

Huang Bochao founded Yu Dachang Textile College in Linxiang last year, which enrolled more than 80 students.As a result, after one year, it was very unsatisfactory.The teachers who were invited to teach generally reported that it was very difficult to teach, and the basic knowledge of the students was too poor, and they did not understand the basic mechanical principles, mechanics knowledge, and mathematics skills, which led to the process of teaching with half the effort.

After Huang Bochao heard about it, he compared it carefully with Yudachang Business School, and finally found the difference.That is, the entry threshold for business schools is actually not high, as long as you can read, know basic arithmetic, and understand the world. The rest of the skills of doing business, the principles of doing business, etc., even those who have no foundation, can learn it. It's not that hard either.But Textile College is different. It deals with machines. Literacy, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are not enough. You also need to know a variety of knowledge including physics and chemistry. The requirements for mathematics are higher than those of business schools. Many, it is impossible for a person with no foundation to suddenly encounter such relatively advanced knowledge without being confused.

It was only at this time that Huang Bochao realized the importance of basic education.He once wanted to submit a letter to the court, but he thought that he was a soft-spoken person, and he had no fame, let alone an official of the court, and he didn't even have a channel to submit a letter.So I went to the magistrate of Yueyang and asked him to help write a letter to the court, expressing his interests and interests, but the result was like a muddy cow falling into the sea, and there was no more words.

In fact, it can't be blamed on him, the magistrate.Although the debate in the domestic ideological circles has become increasingly heated, the group of conservatives is still very strong. They are very disdainful of the behavior of some imperial literati who "distort" the quotations of saints and redefine Confucian classics, and have been fiercely criticizing them for many years.In addition, the rural areas are mostly controlled by such conservatives, and the new school faction will not be able to seize the dominance of public opinion for a while. Therefore, the prefect of Yueyang really dare not make trouble at this juncture, rashly submitting a letter to the court to engage in new education .

In desperation, Huang Bochao discussed with his partner Zhang Shaozong, and decided to unite some like-minded people to open a new-style primary school with their own money and recruit young children to study.Children from rich families would definitely not come to this kind of school. After all, the Dashun imperial court now mainly relies on the Four Books and Five Classics to select scholars. If you study physics, chemistry, mechanics, etc., it is a waste of life.Therefore, these primary schools can basically only enroll children from poor families. The parents of these children have never thought of letting their children get a job and become a high-ranking official. It is enough for them to be ecstatic if they can learn a way to make a living.Under such circumstances, the tuition fees for elementary school students are naturally out of the question, which basically means that running the school will generate huge losses, and it can only rely on the private subsidies of the running school itself, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Huang Bochao's spinning mill and cloth business have been doing well in the past few years, and he has accumulated a lot of cash on hand.Although he was extorted by the court a lot because of the continuous war, the money for running a few primary schools is still not difficult for him.However, relying on him alone to run the school is still a drop in the bucket for the entire Dashun Kingdom, even if some friends contribute money to support it.If we really want to cultivate talents on a large scale and inject sufficient backup energy into Dashun's industrialization, we still have to rely on the state's financial investment, but this is so difficult.

"The strategy for self-improvement is education first. My brother knows the current situation, so I can't be proud of it. The business school is okay, but this weaving school is really worrying. There is only one dyeing department, dyeing chemistry, dyeing and dyeing science. You need to know all kinds of knowledge for two professional courses, and my foolish brother has searched all over the house, but he can't find a few qualified students, so I'm discouraged when I think about it." Huang Bochao smiled bitterly, waved his hands and said: "The Yu Dachang Primary School I opened, all According to the regulations of the primary schools in Ningbo, it specializes in helping children with natural intelligence, enlightening things, and cultivating virtues, so that children can learn scripture reading, arithmetic, history, geography, nature, drawing, gymnastics, and self-cultivation. Once they graduate, they can open a middle school and specialize in Teaching ethics, classics, articles, foreign languages, history, geography, mathematics, natural history, physics and chemistry, legal system, drawing, gymnastics. After graduating from middle school, you can enter the business school and weaving school. , the money spent, I really can’t imagine.”

Zhang Shaozong was also silent when he heard the words.Running education in Dashun is actually a thankless task.Privately run education, and it is still a new type of school, the risks involved are even greater.The imperial court only knew about class donations, and had no intention of investing money in it. Merchants like them alone, even if they were covered in iron, how many nails could they drive?

At this time, Zhang Shaozong became envious of the people of Ningbo and Denglai.He has lived there for many years and is familiar with various situations, and his children are also studying in Dinghai.In his opinion, the imperial court of the Eastern Kingdom is really generous in primary education. It invests a large sum of money every year and compels school-age children to go to school. The intensity of training talents is really arrogant.

Perhaps, all the military victories of the Dongguo people were already doomed on the podium of the primary school teacher!Dashun, when will I be able to get to this point?

(End of this chapter)