1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3213
On the second day of the arms exhibition, two huge display boards appeared on the booth of the North American region, with eye-catching slogans listing the various favorable treatment provided by the North American authorities for immigrants and recruits.

These two exhibition boards cost a lot of money to rush to work overnight, even much higher than the [-] leaflets printed before the exhibition, but Wang Anbang believes that this money must be spent, and it will definitely be worth it .

After all, there may only be such a good publicity opportunity as an arms exhibition during my return to China.

However, Wang Anbang soon discovered that there were quite a few people who came to consult immigration policies, but the number of people who came to learn about conscription was much less than yesterday.

Wang Anbang took a chance and went around the exhibition hall, and soon discovered the clue.

There are conscription offices set up in many areas in the exhibition hall, but the most lively one is the landlord Donghai District, with three floors inside and three floors outside, surrounded by at least hundreds of people.

If it weren't for the banner of the "Recruitment Office" in the air, others might think that there is some kind of strange thing on display.

Of course, this situation is not difficult to understand. Most of the people who come here to inquire about joining the army are from the surrounding areas of Hangzhou. Considering the distance from their hometown, they would of course be more willing to serve in the local army in the East China Sea region.

Although the North American region provides supporting services for recruits to relocate their families, how many people would move their whole family to a strange place on the other side of the ocean in order to serve as a soldier?In more cases, people who have the desire to immigrate themselves will consider the option of serving as a soldier after arriving in North America.

Wang Anbang is also helpless regarding the innate home field advantage of the East China Sea region. He knows that the gap is not just a few more display boards and a few more leaflets to catch up. Those who are interested in relocating to North America.

However, most of the people who came to see the exhibition were only interested in Haihan's armed forces themselves, and they were not interested in serving as a soldier or emigrating overseas.

Seeing the various powerful weapons and equipment of the Haihan Army with your own eyes, and learning about the glorious achievements of the Haihan Army in the past, so as to give yourself some chatter after dinner, this is the purpose of most people coming to this exhibition.

As far as the official is concerned, the significance of the arms exhibition is to subtly cultivate people's patriotic awareness and increase acceptance of the new dynasty through such activities.

As for the various armies in various regions taking this opportunity to promote conscription and immigration, it is just a free ride.How much you can gain from this exhibition is up to you.

During this period, the inspection itinerary of the members of the executive committee is also in full swing.According to their respective division of labor, each person has a corresponding itinerary.

As the official in charge of Haihan's science, education, culture and health affairs, Ning Qi's task is to inspect several academies, private schools, poetry and painting clubs, bookstores, printing workshops and other cultural institutions in the Hangzhou area.

The first academy Ning Qi visited was the famous Wansong Academy in Hangzhou.

Located on Phoenix Mountain on the south side of the West Lake, this academy was first built in the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenyuan period. It has a history of more than 800 years and can be said to be the most influential academy in Hangzhou.

Hundreds of teachers and students from Wansong Academy waited outside the academy gate for Ning Qi's arrival in advance.

Accompanying Ning Qi were several officials in charge of cultural and educational affairs from the East China Sea Region. After getting off the car, they introduced the person in charge of the academy and several well-known literati who were lecturers in the academy to Ning Qi.

Surrounded by everyone, Ning Qi entered the academy through the Yangsheng Gate.

The Wansong Academy occupies a large area, and it underwent four or five large-scale expansion projects during the Ming Dynasty alone.The previous local officials have attached great importance to this place. After all, Wansong Academy is based on the imperial examination as the training direction. Many literati who have gone out from here have become officials and have always had a certain influence in the court.

Su Sixiao, the dean of the academy, introduced the general layout of the academy to Ning Qi. The main building here follows the official school form of "left temple and right school". The main building on the left side of the central axis is the Confucius Hall for holding sacrificial activities. On the right is Mingdaotang, which is engaged in teaching activities.

Under the leadership of Su Sixiao and others, Ning Qi stepped into the Confucius Hall to visit.

There are not only portraits of Confucius alone in this hall, but also portraits of Fusheng Yanzi, Zongsheng Zengzi, Shusheng Zisi, and Yasheng Mencius.There are also five smaller portraits on the side wall, namely Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai, and Zhu Xi. According to Su Sixiao, these were the objects of worship added during the Wanli period.

Although Ning Qi was born as a literati, he didn't really have a good impression of traditional Confucianism and Cheng Zhu's theory. Seeing that Wansong Academy still enshrined these people on the altar, he couldn't help but feel a little displeased.

But Ning Qi didn't say anything, he just walked around the hall, and didn't specifically go up to pay homage to the ancestors enshrined in the Confucius Hall.The courtyard prepared joss sticks and various sacrificial vessels in advance, but none of them came in handy now.

Su Sixiao also couldn't figure out Ning Qi's pulse, seeing that he was not very interested in worshiping the sages, so he quickly took him to see the place where the academy gave lectures.

The Mingdao Hall for lectures is a separate compound. The hall of the main building is used for several classrooms for daily classes, and the wing rooms on the left and right sides are respectively Juren and Youyi two learning studios, each with several rooms. For self-study by teachers and students.

Ning Qi stepped into the classroom in the main hall, and seeing stacks of books on the desk, he casually flipped through a few books.This look made him see something wrong again.

"Hasn't the academy started teaching new courses yet?" Ning Qi asked with some displeasure.

Su Sixiao hastily bowed and replied: "My lord, the textbooks have already been sent to the academy, but the academy has no teachers to teach yet."

Compared with Hainan Island, where Haihan has been cultivating for many years, the cultural system in Hangzhou is obviously more traditional. Almost all educational institutions still follow the way of the Ming Dynasty, with the Four Books and Five Classics as the main teaching materials.

It's not that Shi Diwen had no intention of promoting the cultural and educational system of the Haihan style in the local area, but that the time he took over Hangzhou was too short, and it was difficult to immediately replace the regulations of the Ming Dynasty with a set of things from the Haihan.

Those masters who have devoted their whole lives to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism find it difficult to understand and accept the teaching content that Haihan wants to promote in a short period of time, and naturally they cannot pass it on to their students.

And if Haihan wants to replace these teachers, he also needs to invest a lot of manpower.From the current point of view, almost all the educational talents cultivated by Haihan are employed in the south, and the teacher resources in the East China Sea region have been insufficient for a long time, so the situation that Ning Qi saw will inevitably occur.

(End of this chapter)