Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite NextPage

Chapter fifty-eight: thriving(1/2)

In February, the spring is coming, and everything is reviving. Green buds have emerged on the grass on the plain. Sheep of horses have been released from the horse farm and run on the plain with all their hearts.

On the school's fun, a large group of teenagers aged ten to fifteen were shouting horns and running in the morning. These teenagers were the first to enter the school after the Spring Festival.

Due to the lack of teaching staff, we can only educate teenagers aged 10 to 15. Those younger children will probably have to wait for a few years to go to school.

All schools are subject to military management, and all students stay in the school, running for half an hour every morning, and then starting classes.

In addition to pinyin and arithmetic, the content of the class was divided into vernacular and classical Chinese. The articles in vernacular were all written by Zhao Yan after thinking hard.

Each vernacular article has some intentions, some are inspirational, some are upholding justice, some are despising Han and annihilation, some are praised by martyrs, and some are taught to students to have a sense of national crisis.

Classical Chinese is just some selections, but it is not involved in depth and there are many other courses, so I don’t have time to talk about classical Chinese.

In addition, there are other courses, including geography, military, history, common sense, physics, chemistry, and etiquette.

This is a primary school curriculum, which is basically the literacy stage, indoctrinating national ideas, a sense of crisis, etiquette and quality while literacy.

And a small amount of physics and chemistry is involved to lay the foundation for further studies.

Quality education and etiquette education are two priorities before the exam.

Even if education was popularized in later generations, there were still so many rude and low-quality scumbags who shouted about quality education all day long, but it still had no effect.

To eradicate the bad roots of a nation, in-depth and thorough transformation is necessary, so etiquette classes are born, and quality education is something that teachers should always remind and pay attention to.

Although the two are different, they are also related.

Etiquette classes teach students what should be paid attention to in their daily behavior, but etiquette is not complicated and is only used to improve students' upbringing.

The upbringing of ordinary people is influenced by their parents, and there are also uneven parents of people in the world.

Quality is something that needs attention at all times. Zhao Yan also specifically stipulates various rules and regulations. For example, if a student has conflicts or fights, the cause of the fight should be found out and dealt with inappropriately. If the reasonable party does not take action first, it should not be punished.

In addition, students are encouraged to find a teacher if they have something to do. If the teacher encounters some trivial disturbances from the students, the teacher should deal with it in a timely manner.

When teachers in later generations encountered conflicts among students, they all beat twenty boards, regardless of whether they were right or not. When it comes to problems with students' reactions, such as being disturbed by a classmate, they have no actual actions.

Anyway, those teachers have plenty of time and don’t run around for that little thing.

Trivial things among students are easy to cause conflicts. The first thing that is corrupt is quality. Some students may have tasted the taste of class bullies and school bullies in school, and they can do anything in society.

Furthermore, if these trivial matters are not handled, students cannot study with peace of mind.

If students who have troubled other students, they will directly suspend classes and go home and work for a few days. This is the case with Western education system, and teachers intervene in student conflicts.

For students with bad circumstances, they must be severely punished and thus establish a quiet school where teachers can solve problems for students, while students will study seriously.

At the same time, in order to restrain the teacher's behavior, each school has set up an inspection team to supervise the teacher's behavior. Students can go to the inspection team to report the teacher's negligence.

Elementary school education is relatively strict because this is a stage of literacy and each subject has a grade exam.

Generally, after three years, if you pass the entrance examination, you will enter middle school and you will not pass the grade. The study after entering middle school is different from that in primary school. There are no more scores in the exam, but are rated, with four grades: A (excellent), B (good), C (passed), and D (failed).

You can graduate as long as you reach C level in each subject, which does not have much pressure on students. You can easily obtain a certificate of conformity and have a lot of room for learning choices.

The teacher should assist students in selecting major subjects, and then spend more time on these major subjects so that they can learn about their surnames.

Education and production methods are also average. The college entrance examination model where both the students are good at studying can only go to a good university is like a natural economy, which is unprofessional, extremely low-efficiency, and a very waste of production resources.

The model of admission to the school that only requires one or two subjects is a division of labor and complementary, similar to the commodity economy. In terms of production efficiency, the commodity economy is naturally higher than the natural economy, and the same is true in education.

After three years of high school, I went directly to college and then began to conduct academic research and invention.

In this era, humans did not have a lot of knowledge, and there were still a lot of undiscovered things, so it is normal to have a shorter learning system.

At the same time, the school will be divided into men and women, and men and women will be separated. In the primary and middle school stages, there will be no contact between the two parties except for some activities. Only when they go to college, male and female students will not attend classes in different schools.

This is not only because of the conservative reasons of this era, but also good for education to separate boys and girls. First of all, there will be no messy relationships, and then studies have shown that class division between boys and girls can help improve students' grades.

When a classroom is full of classmates with the same surname, you will naturally not have any messy thoughts and focus more, which will also help improve students' competitive awareness.

It is not that there are no stubborn literati who have opposed such an educational system. It is a disgrace to say that vernacular Chinese is a shameful person, and such an educational method is unprecedented, and it was directly driven out by Song Wenyuan.

Song Wenyuan may not have very high talent, but what is important is artificial integrity and strongly support Zhao Yan's vernacular and educational system, so he became the minister of the Ministry of Education. I don't know how many literati who work under Zhao Yan feels jealous.

The Ministry of Education and Normal School under the presidency of Song Wenyuan fully support the educational methods formulated by Zhao Yan, and no objection is allowed.

Anyway, there were many down-and-out scholars in the Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, the court was basically occupied by literati from industrial and commercial backgrounds. Those poor literati, unless they were admitted to Jinshi, would not have the opportunity to become officials even if they were juren. Juren had to bribe them as officials, but those poor children had no money, so they could not become officials. Those who were rich in industrial and commercial schools would easily become officials after being admitted to Juren.

Therefore, there are many scholars from all over the country, let alone scholars. Since Zhao Yan was promoted to General Longhu, more and more literati have joined him. However, at this time, Zhao Yan was no longer so lacking literati. It is impossible for him to be promoted to a leading department in this group like Zhang Buyun and Liu Heng who first joined him.

Even if you object to vernacular Chinese, it is useless. There are so many scholars who love to do it but don’t want to do it. There is no shortage of one, and there is no shortage of one! Most of the literati who agreed to stay as teachers are from poor backgrounds and come to Zhao Yan to find something to do.

Working under Zhao Yan, the benefits are very good. Two taels of silver per month and one stone of rice and wheat are the basic treatment of literati. If you have the ability to be promoted, the treatment will be better, so literati flock in.

In terms of salary, the salary of those senior personnel is still inferior to that of first- and second-rank officials in the court. Although Zhao Yan's idea is to raise integrity with high salaries, it is obvious that under the high pressure of anti-corruption efforts, this strategy cannot be used for the time being.

However, the salary of lower-level officials is much higher than that of lower-level officials in the officialdom, and life is generally fine.

For those senior personnel, they usually don’t need that much money. What to do to support the whole family is just an excuse for corruption. The cost of high-ranking officials is higher than that of lower-level officials?

Those who really have more money are the soldiers and generals. Once they make contributions, they will definitely be rewarded. In addition, there are also dividends to be divided into bandit suppression.

The share obtained by a general is generally 1.5 to 3 times that of a soldier, and the maximum cannot exceed 3 times. This is a sure death.

In addition, those who are engaged in scientific research are called craftsmen, and those who are educated are the "scientists" in the Academy of Sciences. Their income is even higher than that of soldiers and generals. If they invent new technologies and new things are meritorious and can be rewarded, and they don't have to be divided equally like the army.

Zhao Yan's way of distributing interests is to break out the interests of senior personnel and distribute them to lower-level personnel. The income of those senior personnel is not very high, but when they are in the situation of gold-fighting, their complaints are not high. The main reason is that Zhao Yan sets an example.

Zhao Yan earned very little money for himself. Although he usually eats and drinks exquisitely, he is not luxurious, and he is not very interested in luxury goods.

Almost all the money is used to develop, so although Zhao Yan's senior civil and military officials have no money, they can live a peaceful life and are convinced of this distribution of benefits.

This is the principle of not worrying about poverty but unevenness, and the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. If the upper beam is straight and there is a role model, the lower beam will not be crooked.

If the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is required to be straight, the lower beam will naturally not be convinced.

For a group that does not have much gap between the rich and the poor, the trend of comparison is naturally not high, and everyone can keep their duties. Just follow the supreme path that Zhao Yan has drawn for them.

The officers and soldiers of Qingdao garrison and the officers and soldiers of the offshore fleet were given a reward in less than a few days. Ninety thousand taels were given to them, and the other 10,000 taels were returned to the First Fleet.

Almost each of the 1,500 officers and soldiers received a reward of more than 40 taels, and Yan Shiliang also received a reward of 130 taels and was promoted to the garrison of Qingdao.

On that day, Yan Shiliang and his soldiers gathered money to set up a table to celebrate the victory of Qingdao's defensive battle.

...The weather has recovered, and more than a dozen fishing boats have sailed out of Qingdao Port. The fishermen are muttering words, praying that today is a good weather.

On a fishing boat, a thriving boy was wearing the line between the sea and the sky. The boy glanced at his grandfather who was about to hook and asked, "Grandpa, we didn't catch much yesterday, where did the fish go?"

"Hey, silly boy, it's just beginning of spring! What can I catch? Usually, the fish from the south are coming in just two days." The old man on the fishing boat smiled.

"Oh!" The boy was a little confused.

"In the future, I will study hard when I go to sea with my grandfather. I didn't want you to go to sea, but the general has built a large fishing boat for us, so that we can go further to catch fish. There is a bright future!" The old man said with his eyes shining.

"What's good about it? The general wants us to pay 80% of the fishing tax!" the young man muttered.

"You know what's the matter!" The old man immediately taught a lesson: "Even if you collect 80% of the fishing tax, your grandfather, I have been fishing for decades, but I have never seen anyone dare to fish in the distance. The fish in the sea have become energetic. The general builds such a big boat for us, and it is not difficult to catch him a few thousand pounds a day. If you catch 1,000 pounds a day, you can still leave two hundred pounds. Even if you eat it yourself, you will be able to suffocate you. Besides, this boat doesn't cost money? You will be happy if you confiscate 90% of it."

"Oh!" The boy thought that it seemed to make sense, so he nodded and stopped obsessing with this question. The boy asked, "Grandpa, can we catch fish today?"

"I don't know either, but Yusun has been there for the past few days." The old man stroked his beard and thought: "It's not very cold this year, maybe those fish will go north in advance."

At this time, a black wave suddenly appeared on the bottom of the sea not far away, and under the dawn, some golden colors were emitted from time to time.

"Hey! Grandpa, look." The boy shouted at the strange place.

"It's a cucumber, ready to cast a net." The old man was excited, and the grandson and the grandson immediately began to prepare to cast a net, and with a puff, he drew the net into the sea.

After a while, a net of small yellow croakers was pulled up.

"This big boat is good. I used to want to come here to catch fish, and I had to be worried." The old man sighed. He had been fishing almost very close to the coast in his life. Although he had ventured several times in the distance, it was very dangerous to come so far. The boat could sink at any time. The old man had not taken the risk to come so far for more than ten years.

"Ha! There are so many fish!" The boy shouted excitedly.

"Haha! Let's go catch other fish." The old man suddenly pulled the sail cable and stopped fishing.

"Grandpa, why don't you catch so many fish?" the young man asked in confusion.

"These cucumbers are not very valuable. Let's go and catch more valuable ones. Since the cucumbers are all here, the mackerel and hairtail will definitely come too." The old man said, directing the young man to drive further into the sea.

The fishing boats they drove were more than a dozen 60-ton North American schooners built by the shipyard last year. The sailing rate of such ships was astonishingly high. A 50-ton fishing boat was so busy that two people were busy.

A 60-ton fishing boat is basically not afraid of ordinary wind and waves, and there is no danger of driving further away.

After driving for nearly half an hour, suddenly, the grandson and grandson saw a rippling silver light in the distance. The old man said happily: "It's a hairtail, prepare the hook quickly."

The boy focused and threw the prepared hook off the boat.

"Grandpa, there is no bait on these fish hooks, how can fish get hooked?"

"You'll know when you wait and see." The old man looked confident, and at this time, the floats floating on the water began to shake.

"It's hooked, it's hooked, grandpa, let's pull the hook up!" the young man shouted happily.

"Wait a little longer, don't be so anxious, just spend another stick of incense!" the old man said calmly.

"What should I do if I run away?"

"The hairtail fish is so greedy that it will not let go when it bites, and it will not run away."

The time for a stick of incense passed quickly. As the old man said, the two of them turned the gallows at the stern of the boat with great effort.

"It's so heavy! I can't even turn anymore." The young man muttered, but looked at the sea with his eyes intently, and the hook was gradually pulled up.
To be continued...
Prev Index    Favorite NextPage