Zai Tian actually opposed the concept of "loyalty to the emperor" in education. If he really wanted to add, what he most wanted was to add the concept of "democracy" and "freedom". But he also knew that if he proposed it like this, this policy would probably not be implemented because no one dared to implement it. This is a problem of a great era, and it cannot be changed by one or two people saying a word. At this time, he saw that everyone agreed and then stopped insisting, "Then let's do it like this. However, the concept of loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, courage, and faith proposed just now is very good. I will change it again, remove the word "righteousness" and add the word "wisdom" to loyalty, courage, benevolence, wisdom, and faith. The Qing Dynasty cannot be without national defense, so the martial arts school must be set up. These five words will be used as the program of the martial arts school in the future."

Of course, everyone has no objection to this point. Someone even said: "A warrior's way is to destroy it in the word "Yi". The former heaven and earth association, the red flower association, and the current Xiaodao Association all started with the word "Yi". And the good generals of ancient and modern times, such as Li Jing, Wang Shouren, etc., including Zeng Gong of our dynasty, were all named after the world's establishment. Now the emperor exchanged the word "Zhi" as a great good!"

Although these sentences are suspected of flattering, they are very skillful. Indeed, since ancient times, those who have rebelled and rebelled have only used ghosts and gods, religion and brotherly loyalty. Especially Song Jiang and Tian Hu of the Northern Song Dynasty, they have taken loyalty as their foundation. Looking at the ancient and modern times, famous generals have all first literary wisdom and then martial arts. With their courage alone, they can only be called "savage generals", not "famous generals".

After everyone reached an agreement on the outline, they began to discuss some details.

"Emperor, our Qing Dynasty has 18 provinces in the country, including four generals, Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Uliyasutai, two ministers in Tibet and Xining, and Inner Mongolia League Banner. Now, Xinjiang and Taiwan Province are established. There are more than 1,300 counties, more than 60 million households, and nearly 40 million people. If each county has schools, it is probably impossible to provide financial or manpower."

Wang Wenshao refers to the matter of setting new-style primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools stipulated by the Education Act. It is back to the issue of "money".

Zai Tian smiled bitterly and pointed at Wang Wenshao with his finger: "You..." and then said: "The court is indeed unable to spend more money on education now, but this is only a temporary problem. In time, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty will surely flourish, and the financial situation of the court will be getting better and better. At that time, more money will be spent on education investment. What we are now drafting is an educational program document, so we must naturally look at it for a long time. Therefore, I proposed not only to run primary schools, but also middle schools, and colleges in the future!"

Everyone sang praises in time: "Long live the wise emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Zai Tian waved his hand disapprovingly and continued: "Of course, the current situation must be considered. Now new primary schools have begun to be launched. We must first use limited funds to provide basic education, and at least ensure that it is launched in Zhi, Shandong, Jin, Henan, Anhui, Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei and coastal provinces. Next year, our goal is to reach 100 new primary schools to solve the enrollment problem of 10,000 teenagers of appropriate age; by the 16th year of Guangxu, the entire Qing Dynasty would reach 50,000 teenagers to study in new schools."

Fifty thousand people!

Everyone was shocked by the emperor's big moves. Wang Wenshao's first idea was where the money came from. 50,000 students, each with twenty taels of silver a year, which is one million taels!

"You don't have to worry about money. At least today, there is no need to worry about the money for the next two years. I just said that the national strength of the Qing Dynasty will surely flourish, and the financial situation of the court will inevitably improve. Two years later, I believe that it is still okay to spend 1 million taels of silver every year to invest in education."

Zai Tian then said: "In addition to basic primary schools, you also need to vigorously develop junior college education. Now the court is preparing to vigorously develop coastal defense, railways and other businesses, and will open more shipyards and iron plants, and need to produce more ships and machinery. In the future, there will be a big gap in talents in this area. In addition, there are light industry, textiles, silk reeling, printing and dyeing, etc. The junior college education mainly aims at these potential employers to cultivate specialized talents and then deliver them to the society."

Kang Youwei and others seemed to understand the emperor's words, but the reason why they were valued by the emperor was naturally their own advantages. It doesn't matter if they don't understand it now. The important thing is to remember the emperor's words firmly and slowly experience and digest them after they go back.

"Quality education can be divided into two parts. One is to conduct short-term training for social needs, mainly to train some technical workers. They do not need to learn too systematically, they can read and arithmetic, and the focus is to train manual operations. For the training of these people, because they can become skilled workers as soon as they leave the school gate, there will definitely be many factories in the future, so this part of the school will charge fees."

Wang Wenshao finally heard that the money had returned, and he felt relieved.

"A junior college can also be called vocational education. The fees come from two aspects. One is the tuition fees paid by students, but this part of the money cannot be too much. After all, those apprentices cannot spend so much money, at most they charge an registration fee or room and board fee. The main source of expenses is those factories. Factory owners need to invest in training apprentices and skilled workers, while apprentices need to sign long-term service contracts with the factory."

Speaking of this, everyone understands it, "That is, it is equivalent to those apprentices of those craftsmen in the city?"

There are many craftsmen in society who use the "apprenticeship system" to teach and guide. Primary apprentices and masters have signed contracts ranging from years to decade. During this period, apprentices eat and live at the master's house, learn craftsmanship from the master, but at the same time they also help the master's house. Moreover, after they become master, a large part of the money they earn within a few years must be handed over to the master as their original tuition fee.

Zai Tian nodded: "Yes, that's the idea. There are great questions in the market. This junior college just changes the one-to-one or one-to-many apprenticeship system to 'many-to-many'. All factories can invest or participate in the school, and graduated students can also work in any factory. The school is both a talent training institution and a labor transfer institution. Moreover, with the endorsement of the court, it can also make the apprentices and factories trust each other more, which is conducive to enrollment and management."

Everyone suddenly realized and couldn't help but praise them in their hearts - Gao! It's really Gao! The Holy Emperor knew everything and even this kind of market custom can evolve into the new policy of the court, which really makes us admire!

Wang Wenshao's official position was several stories higher than Kang Youwei and the others, and the news he received was naturally completely different. At this time, he thought of the accounts that each student had calculated with the emperor's expenses, and he shivered for no reason. No wonder he heard that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Palace had cut off another group of heads two days ago. Because the emperor was so familiar with the market, no one would have tried to make trouble in these daily purchases. Fortunately, he was well-read and well-educated by Confucius and Mencius for many years, so he would not have been greedy for students. Otherwise, after the small account was settled just now, he would not have put himself in again?

Zai Tian was very excited and did not pay attention to the inner activities of the people below. He was still talking about himself. "The training of skilled workers required by the factory is only part of the junior college. In addition, we must cultivate professional talents in all aspects for the future technological development of the Qing Dynasty. The training of this kind of talent must be systematic and has a deep knowledge reserve and must pass relevant examinations before entering the school. Of course, the cost after admission is also borne by the court."

A stone that Wang Wenshao had just put down was raised to his chest again.

"Of course, because such junior colleges involve deep knowledge, it is impossible to spread them on a large scale. There are only a few schools in each province. And because such schools have high requirements for students, they can only wait for the first batch of new primary schools to graduate after five years, so they can be temporarily suspended."

Wang Wenshao lifted the stone and put it down again.

Zai Tian continued: "In addition, because the imperial court has opened new primary schools, it will inevitably reduce its investment in Imperial College and traditional academies. Moreover, those conservative old masters may also open private schools and academies on their own, and collect students to compete with the imperial court..."

Wang Wenshao has gone to some places in the past two years to start new education, and he has a deep understanding of this. "Now, most gentry mainly builds private schools and academies, but because they all raise funds themselves, the children they collect are children of their clans, and they all have to charge a certain fee. So I think that there should be no big conflict with our primary school on the issue of student source."

Zai Tian agreed: "That's right, but we must also find ways to use these private schools and academies to make up for the lack of investment in the court."

Wang Wenshao immediately bowed and said, "Please tell me."

Zai Tian said: "Since the court has clarified the future direction of education to build new schools, then the original old-style academies and private schools need to provide certain guidance. For those scholars who study in private schools and academies, the purpose of entering the school is nothing more than the imperial examination."

Many young people standing in the hall have a deep understanding of this.

Zai Tian said: "In this case, as long as the imperial examination is properly adjusted, the court will naturally lead everyone's interest in running schools to new learning. At least some Western subjects will be added to teaching. This year is the year of the competition, and I am preparing to issue an order. From this year, all students in the child examination need to add mathematics and natural subjects to pass before they can become students; and those who have completed their studies in five years of elementary school and pass the examination will also be students. Second, the provincial examination, the imperial examination and other examinations will be added in turn to the subjects such as Ming law, Ming calculation, Economics, and Investigation. Students can choose any of the subjects, and only those who pass the examination can be scholars or juren. At the same time, in the future, students who pass the examination will pass the provincial examination and will be juren."

After Guangxu finished speaking, everyone lowered their heads and kept silent.

There is no doubt that the difficulty of exams for traditional academies has increased. In addition, the court will cancel financial subsidies for traditional academies year by year and switch to new learning to give financial subsidies to new learning, which will inevitably prompt everyone to yearn for new learning.

But such drastic changes will directly involve millions of scholars across the country, which can be said to have a single impact on the whole body. I have no idea what kind of ups and whether this policy will cause and whether it can be effectively promoted and implemented.

Zai Tian and others slightly digested what they said before and continued: "Not only that, because education requires the support of local officials at all levels, the court will also make some new regulations on the selection, examination, appointment, removal, promotion and transfer of officials in the future. In addition to the assessment of law, economy, and strategy, it is also necessary to assess the achievements of officials at all levels in education. Those who fail the qualification will be demoted or even revoked. Of course, all assessments will be completed by the Ministry of Personnel, and you only provide relevant assessment materials."

As the emperor spoke, one bombshell after another was thrown out, and everyone fell one after another. Now everyone understood what a huge project they were going to face. It seemed to be just education, but it involved all aspects such as people's livelihood, imperial examinations, justice, diplomacy, administration, finance and even military. No wonder they would receive the honor of not paying homage to you. This is really a beheading job - they are going to face the entire Chinese scholar-official class. If it were not for success and fame and reputation in history, it would be devilish for thousands of years and would never be reborn!
Chapter completed!