Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 124, Xishan Maritime Academy

The bustling Xishan is full of people, only the courtyard where Liu Jin lives is relatively quiet.

At this time, Sun Xin was reporting to Liu Jin with a statistical data.

"My lord, so far 1500 people have signed up, of which 600 are people with military, kitchen, and artisan household registrations, and 900 are ordinary household registrations."

Sun Xin passed the data he had calculated to Liu Jin. The statistics and analysis of this data were relatively primitive, but they were considered relatively advanced in this era.

"How many people signed up?"

Liu Jin took the report and read it carefully. He originally thought that 900 people could be photographed, and it might even be a little worse. He didn't expect that 1500 people signed up, which was a bit beyond his imagination.

"Are they all old people who came last year?"

"No, some of them are newcomers this year, and they probably signed up after receiving the news."

"How many people are there?"

"There are probably more than 100, and those who signed up later are basically newcomers this year."

"Kick these people out, we don't have time to teach them some basic knowledge and content, we must use old people."

Liu Jin thought about spending these people, and then said: "The remaining more than 1400 people are all gathered."

"Well, a piece of land is specially set aside on the east side of Xishan Mountain to set up a Xishan Maritime Academy. They and the 100 people brought by Du Mingen's side are the first batch of students. The system of survival of the fittest will be implemented. Keep 1000 qualified people.”

"A three-month special marine study and training will be carried out for them. By April, they should almost set off for the Golden Continent."

The establishment of Xishan Maritime Academy is also a decision made by Liu Jin after careful consideration.

Going to the Gold Island requires a professional fleet, and more importantly, professional sailors. Without advanced ships, ocean voyages are impossible. Without professional sailors, it is also impossible to pursue wealth in the ocean and sea.

In this era, due to the long-term maritime embargo policy of the Ming Dynasty, there is a shortage of marine talents, not only shipbuilding talents, but also qualified and professional sailors.

If you only rely on experience to train professional sailors, the speed is very slow, and in many cases experience is not reliable, or even wrong experience.

This requires the establishment of a professional maritime school to train professional marine talents. Through the school, a systematic study is carried out on ocean currents, climate, global geographical knowledge, astronomical knowledge, marine survival knowledge, ocean-going ship structure, etc. A systematic study.

Of course, this is the most ideal state. The reality is that there is not so much time for Liu Jin to study systematically for these people. These people are also adults. Words, but in general, the plasticity is not too strong.

If you really want to cultivate qualified marine talents, you need to cultivate them from an early age. Now, at best, you can only grind your guns in front of the battle, and you will shine when you are unhappy.

Some training is better than no training at all. Liu Jin imparts some knowledge of the ocean to these people in later generations, and adopts the method of combining theory and practice of later generations. I believe that some results can always be obtained. In short If you don't understand anything, you will send it to the ocean in a foolish way.

Of course, the establishment of a professional maritime school is also an experiment for Liu Jin. If he wants to make a difference in this era and change the fate of the descendants of Yan and Huang, Liu Jin needs to slowly lead this huge empire to the sea and look at Ming Dynasty. world outside.

To achieve all this, Liu Jin must cultivate countless like-minded people, and let more people enjoy and gain benefits in the process, so as to become his supporters.

The Maritime Academy is just the beginning. In the future, Liu Jin will build a series of colleges such as Textile College, Architecture College, Engineering College, etc., to spread a lot of knowledge and cultivate countless talents.

In this era, all discourse power and knowledge are in the hands of Confucian literati. This Confucian thought has long been decayed and lost its vitality. All scholars hold the Four Books and Five Classics handed down for thousands of years, recite It's not enough to memorize the melons, and you have to recite the mountain-like notes.

It has developed to this point, it is almost doomed that it will only slowly hinder the progress and development of the society, because the thoughts of the society are firmly imprisoned, any innovation and change will be regarded as heresy, as KitKat YIN art .

But it is precisely this kind of Confucianism, such literati and officials, who have mastered everything in this era and the right to speak in this era.

Liu Jin knew that now he was just making small noises, and they were all related to people's livelihood, so they could ignore them, but once he touched the interests of Confucianism and these literati, he would definitely die without a place to bury him.

To fight against these traditional forces, Liu Jin must cultivate a group of powerful new forces, so it is imperative to establish various schools, because schools are not only places to spread knowledge, they are also It is also a place to spread ideas. Whoever masters this will have the right to speak and the future.

If the Maritime Academy does well, Liu Jin will build up more important professional colleges sporadically. As long as more people learn new knowledge and use the new knowledge to gain wealth and status, then Liu Jin will stand in the future. There will be more people around Jin, and naturally this empire will gradually lead to a different development path.

The area of ​​Xishan is very large. It used to belong to the private Huangzhuang of Emperor Hongzhi. This area is naturally not small. After all, it is the emperor's property and there is a lot of land available for use.

Soon, on the east side of Xishan Mountain, with the continuous investment of a lot of manpower and material resources, a huge college was slowly built. This college is different from traditional academies. It does not teach the Four Books and Five Classics, nor is it called the School of Philosophy. , is a college dedicated to imparting professional marine knowledge.

Of course, there is only a sign hanging up now, and the sign of Xishan Maritime Academy also does not attract any attention. After all, it is only a place for training and training for a group of crew members who are about to sail, and there is not much to pay attention to.

But this Xishan Maritime Academy is destined to be a place written in history textbooks, and countless historical celebrities will emerge from here.

　Personally, I feel that Confucianism has completely changed after the development of the Song Dynasty.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)