Chapter 1301: Destroying Confidence

In fact, Liu Shang also knew that some Ming officials who had previously served on Qiongzhou Island had been demoted to the Han Dynasty. For example, the local official Luo Sheng and Director Dongluo whom he had met in Yinggehai County before were the counselors of Yacheng Water Village.

General. And Yuzhen, who managed the hard labor camp in Shilu, was also a member of the public family of Yacheng in the past. To put it this way, the official in charge of Danzhou's cultural and educational affairs was the former Danzhou magistrate, which seems very reasonable.

At present, Liu Shang does not have a relatively accurate number of how many former Ming officials serve in Haihan's official institutions. However, judging from what is known so far, since even civil and military officials at the level of governor and general are not

Being retained by Haihan, it is conceivable that a large proportion of Ming Dynasty's entire bureaucracy in Qiongzhou Island should have defected to the new owner in recent years.

But Liu Shang seemed to have no better way to vent his anger besides cursing a few traitors secretly in his heart. These former Ming officials had already changed their appearance and served their new boss obediently. How could they still remember the old boss?

Good. Although people like Yan Mingjun have no real power in their hands, they are still very popular in the local area. Liu Shang, the famous man, stared at Yan Mingjun who was talking, but did not listen to what he was saying.

In the ears.

What Yan Mingjun reported to the inspection team was the operating conditions of local educational institutions in the past year, as well as the current composition of local vocational training disciplines. The Haihan Executive Committee attaches great importance to many private educational institutions in Danzhou, and basically conducts inspections every year

The majors offered by each college will be reviewed and the direction of education will be regulated to ensure that the students trained by local colleges can exactly meet the needs of Haihan's development.

The vocational training system established by Haihan is something that Ming Dynasty does not have. In this way, Haihan has obtained thousands of professional trainees in just a few years. These people adapt much faster after taking up their posts.

It can be regarded as a very useful immediate combat force for Haihan by overcoming the hired workers with no foundation.

As for the lucky ones who can actually enter a higher-level institution to learn more professional skills and become entry-level disciples of time travellers, they are really very few. In a place like Danzhou, ten eight-year-olds can be screened out every year.

Even one is pretty good.

The symposium lasted until noon, and then Zhang Xin hosted a banquet to entertain the arrival of the inspection team. This was also the reception banquet they officially attended a few days after arriving in Danzhou. However, the guests Zhang Xin invited were far more than the inspection team. After the military exercise,

Representatives from various countries who participated in the local arms exhibition were also invited together - they had to have a banquet anyway, and Zhang Xin, as a local governor, was too busy, so he simply organized it together.

Liu Shang also gradually adapted to Haihan's banquet culture, and he was able to handle such occasions with ease. When a big shot came over to propose a toast, he would immediately get up and respond with the others, so that he would not be at a loss.

During the dinner, Liu Shang paid a little attention and discovered some interesting phenomena. For example, the Portuguese and Dutch envoys were obviously from the West, but they would not sit at the same table to eat, while Annan and Zhan were neighbors.

The two countries in Chengdu are in a similar situation. They don't even look at each other. Although these people are very polite in front of Haihan officials, it is obvious that they are not so harmonious with each other, and they even have a bit of open and covert fighting.

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"This may be an opportunity that can be exploited in the future." Liu Shang secretly turned around this idea in his mind. These trading partners or military allies of Haihan are not monolithic, and there will definitely be contradictions and conflicts in their respective interests. But how to use these rifts

To provoke their hostility towards Haihan, Liu Shang could not think of any feasible way for a while. After all, Haihan had great prestige, and these countries were afraid of Haihan's force, so they might not dare to do anything unreasonable.

After a short break after the luncheon, the afternoon plan was to visit a local academy. However, because there were many foreign guests staying in Danzhou, Zhang Xin did not have time to accompany him in person, so he handed over this errand to Yan Mingjun. Of course.

Well, there is also a man in the inspection team who is very familiar with the local situation in Danzhou, and that is Zhang Qianzhi, who Liu Shang is very afraid of.

Zhang Qianzhi lurked in Danzhou Zhongming Academy for a long time as a student, and finally captured a group of conspirators led by Huang Zixing. After that, Zhang Qianzhi served as the security director of Qiongbei area for a long time, and he stayed in Danzhou for a short period of time.

Young master, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is half a landlord.

However, Liu Shang couldn't help but tighten his toes. As long as Zhang Qianzhi was within a few feet of him, the feeling of being stared at by a wild beast never disappeared. He is still not sure what exactly this is.

Is it Zhang Qianzhi who is monitoring him, or is he just nervous because of his guilty conscience? Fortunately, Zhang Qianzhi’s work station is in Qiongbei, and Liu Shang knows that as long as he persists for a few more days, he should be able to get rid of this mentality completely.

Demonic.

Yan Mingjun took the inspection team to visit, naturally, well-known local educational institutions such as Bailu Academy and Qiongxi Academy. Liu Shang had been distracted during the morning symposium and did not pay much attention to the content of Yan Mingjun's speech at that time.

After entering the academy, I suddenly realized that the academy in Danzhou was very different from the academy environment I knew.

What Danzhou Academy trains is not just scholars who can only write poems, songs and eight-legged essays, but mainly various vocational trainings. For example, students majoring in navigation are destined to be navigators, bosuns and sailors on ships.

Key positions such as chief mate, while students majoring in finance and trade will work in state-owned commercial institutions, banks, and even the Ministry of Commerce and other units after graduation. The teaching materials used in these majors are uniformly provided by the Ministry of Education, and the teaching teachers

They have also received specialized training, and some of the instructors are even professionals who have been in the industry for many years.

The detailed occupational division of labor here is enough to amaze Liu Shang. Even the agricultural technology disciplines, which are mainly farming, are also subdivided into multiple disciplines such as food crops, cash crops, and deep processing of agricultural and forestry products. The hours of study are divided into majors and difficult ones.

The level of difficulty varies. Some crash courses only last a few dozen days, while some difficult majors may require several years of study.

As for those old masters who can only teach a subset of classics and history, although the academy will still support them, there is basically not much teaching content arranged. In addition to teaching literacy classes, the rest is almost all free time arranged by themselves.

No matter if they want to study knowledge, write or draw, or even take their direct disciples to travel abroad, the academy does not have many restrictions on them.

In the words of Mayor Zhang Xin, it doesn’t cost much to raise these old masters. After all, culture still needs someone to pass it on. Even if cultural activities such as reciting poems, writing and painting are not productive, the country is still willing to do so.

Allocate special funds to let these "cultural people" do what they want. Of course, the premise is that they must obey the management of the government and not engage in illegal activities like Huang Zixing of Zhongming Academy in the past.

For Liu Shang, Haihan's education system is undoubtedly a very new thing. The Haihan people do not need to go through various levels of examinations such as imperial examinations to recruit professionals. Instead, these vocational education institutions recommend their own talents.

It is enough for students to pass the review of professional institutions. This means that many ordinary people who have not read the Four Books and Five Classics also have the opportunity to enter the Haihan bureaucracy by mastering professional skills. Although most of them are just "

"Li" rather than "Official", but as long as you enter this system, it is equivalent to getting a way to rise. In the future, whether you join the Youth League or seek opportunities for further study, there will always be people who change from official to official.

The possibility exists.

However, Liu Shang also noticed that these private educational institutions did not have majors related to steam engines. According to reports, this major has not yet been opened to private institutions, and related courses can only be studied in government-run colleges in Sanya. This made Liu Shang a little bit a little bit worried

Disappointed. If there were private academies here with access to steam engines, we could try to arrange for people to come here to study.

After visiting around, Liu Shang found that these majors in local colleges are basically very practical subjects. Students often have roughly determined their future employment direction when they enroll, and some majors are even determined when they enroll.

Relevant agreements have been signed with the employer.

For a large number of ordinary students with average family conditions, this kind of admission and employment path will undoubtedly save a lot of time and avoid the possibility of detours. Compared with those who have taken the imperial examination for several years and decades and failed to obtain the

For scholars who have achieved fame and become officials, obtaining a job with stable income and room for advancement through receiving vocational training is the safest life path for ordinary people.

When Liu Shang was young, he also went to the academy system to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and also took part in the provincial examination. He was also relatively clear about the promotion path of scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Thousands of troops crowded into the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, and only a few could get through.

A small number of people. The vocational training system of Haihan has given hope to more people and has lowered the threshold for entering the bureaucracy to a very low level.

Of course Liu Shang also understood that the current situation was because the country was just founded and there were not many talents available, so he had to lower the employment threshold to recruit talents. Even he pretending to be a storyteller would be actively recruited by the state agencies. This shows that Haihan is very interested in recruiting talents.

The level of thirst for talents. When Haihan Kingdom develops for a few more years and the talent reserve slowly increases, the threshold for becoming an official will probably increase year by year. This practice is not uncommon in history. People with a discerning eye can clearly see that Haihan

Given the current situation, we will certainly be keen to seize the many opportunities in the first few years of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

If it weren't for Liu Shang's special status, the courtesy given by Haihan would have been enough for him to stay and work hard. How could a storyteller who hung out in wine shops and teahouses be comparable to his current status as a national official?

I burned incense for my eight generations of ancestors.

As Liu Shang followed the team, he was pondering some random thoughts in his mind. Although he came with the mission of overthrowing Haihan, after coming here to truly see the prosperity of this emerging country, the government and the people, he couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

The task I shouldered gave rise to some doubts - with the Haihan people's excellent governance ability and stable political system, how can we seize their dominance with only some unspeakable means?

The more he saw along the way, the more Liu Shang understood that the rise of this group of Haihan people in the South China Sea was definitely not due to luck. Their ability to govern was far superior to the local officials in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Now he wants to stir up this group of people who have already taken root in the local area.

The regime must either expect internal strife among its top officials or natural disasters. It seems unrealistic to take back Qiongzhou Island by force and expel the Haihan people.

These private academies are basically public educational institutions, and there is no secret at all. Liu Shang looked at it with little interest. He also listened to what Yan Mingjun and others said along the way without saying a word.

Probably, I no longer have the energy to concentrate on collecting information as much as I did at the previous stops.

It wasn't until he returned to his residence in the evening that Liu Shangjing reflected on what he had gained during the day, and realized that he was really distracted during the visit today. Thinking about it carefully, this should also have a lot to do with observing the Haihan military exercise three days ago. He

I believe that any of my colleagues would not be indifferent after seeing the many advanced weapons displayed by Haihan. Faced with such a highly armed Haihan army, no one would be willing to serve as theirs on the battlefield.

opponent. At least Liu Shang had completely given up the idea of ​​relying on force to retake Qiongzhou Island after watching the military exercise.

If possible, Liu Shang really wants to let his boss, his boss's boss, and the big shots in the capital come here to see in person, so that they can confirm with their own eyes that the so-called "South China Sea Barbarians" have created something in the south.

What a huge situation. If you didn't come here to witness it with your own eyes, the big shots above would probably continue to argue over whether they should "appease" or "kill" the Haihan people who occupied Magpie Nest Jiu. Liu Shang believed that they came here to see the sea.

After learning about the true situation of the Han Kingdom, they will give up these unrealistic ideas - with the current strength of the Han Kingdom, can they still obey the "appeasement" of the Ming Dynasty? Will they still be afraid of "slaying"?

The southern government is cautious and has turned a blind eye to Haihan's overseas expansion in recent years. Half of the reason is because it has taken enough benefits from the Haihan people, and the other half is probably because they do not want to give the Haihan people a reason to start a war. Once a war breaks out, the South will

The speed of losing territory in coastal areas is probably equivalent to the speed of the Haihan Army's march.

These thoughts were floating around in Liu Shang's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became. He knew that as an intelligence agent lurking behind enemy lines, this kind of depressed mood was extremely inappropriate, but at the moment it seemed that there was really no

What can be done to regain his confidence? Maybe it was an irreversible mistake to take this job in the first place.
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