Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 350, Running Schools and Banks

"This is a good way, and it can also make people send their children to school."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao nodded after thinking about it.

Liu Jin is indeed good at management, and many businesses with Liu Jin are booming. The key point is that Liu Jin knows how to use money to stimulate.

I don't talk about ideals with you, only talk about money, as long as you can achieve what level and what level, you can get what kind of treatment, which is naturally the favorite of skilled people.

For ordinary employees, Liu Jin's method is also very simple. How much money you get for living more makes it simple and straightforward for people to understand that if you pay, you will be rewarded.

Now if you want to attract the children of employees to study at the school, you still use the benefits to induce you, let you go to school for free, and include a lunch, you can become an apprentice after graduation, and you can also enter a craftsman school for further studies. After you come out, you will be a master. Isn't the monthly money of two silver coins not fragrant?
It must be delicious.

Especially for ordinary people, they don't expect their children to really be able to rely on the imperial examination to become a master, to have a good job, and to be able to earn money to support their families is enough.

"A primary school affiliated to the Miyun Iron Factory and a craftsman school affiliated to the Miyun Iron Factory will be built here at the Miyun Iron Works. The primary school teaches basic knowledge and content. The craftsman school can be regarded as a deep modeling school. For the time being, the employees in the iron factory will be brought in for training. .”

"The same is true for the Tianjin Cement Factory, Tianjin Shipyard, and Jingcheng Textile Factory. They have established corresponding primary schools and artisan schools. The elementary schools learn the basics, and the artisan schools learn deeper things. But for the time being, it is still only for the factories. Staff training."

Liu Jin said his plan. Now the total number of employees in many industries under his command is almost [-]. With so many employees, every household has children. Even if each family only sends one child to study, they can still cultivate children in the future. One hundred thousand seedlings came out.

Once these [-] seedlings can graduate from elementary school and receive a systematic education similar to that of future generations, then Ming's future will be worry-free.

Thinking of this, Liu Jin became even more excited. Once his plan can be completed, then Liu Jin feels that he has really made a contribution to this era.

Hundreds of thousands of people who graduated from elementary school in later generations will come out. No one knows how many talents will be born among them. What kind of steam engines, guns, trains, and even electrical appliances will be produced by then? No problem, there will be enough talent.

It's not like now, those who can read and write are all high-spirited scholars, with their eyes higher than the top, except for the four books and five classics, and those who are close to others, they are not diligent and indifferent, and their thinking is rigid. There is no way to promote the development of this era. progress.

As for the craftsmen who can promote the progress of the times, they are of humble origin, the lowest level of society, and have no social status. The inheritance of technology is passed down from father to son, master to apprentice, and word of mouth.

These craftsmen are basically uneducated and unable to read and write. They only rely on experience and the inheritance of their predecessors. It is difficult to make breakthroughs and innovations. The inheritance of technology is also extremely prone to faults and loss.

Therefore, craftsmen must master knowledge, and it must be the more comprehensive and systematic knowledge of later generations, not the current Four Books and Five Classics, Confucian classics and the like.

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable Liu Jin felt. It was necessary to cultivate a large team of artisans who had mastered systematic knowledge in various aspects, and then cultivate real scientists on the basis of the team of artisans.

"One hundred thousand people~"

"This investment and consumption will be huge."

"It's very difficult to get enough book knowledge for them. Money is not a problem. The key is that the printing technology of this era is not good enough. It needs to be improved. This printing technology improvement, This paper technology also needs to be improved, rice paper is too expensive, and the quality of other paper is too poor."

Soon, Liu Jin had a headache again. This plan is very good, very grand and vast, but it is really too difficult to complete this plan. Similar to the education methods and systems of later generations, it has many requirements .

"And this teacher, if you recruit existing scholars to teach, is there any reason for them to teach other things?"

Thinking of the teacher, Liu Jin got even more headaches. Scholars in this era are quite temperamental. It seems a little difficult to ask them to learn some knowledge and content that is not the Four Books and Five Classics, and then teach others.

Liu Jin estimated that at that time, he would only be able to keep throwing money at him. With a high salary, he would always be able to recruit some teachers. There are a lot of scholars who failed the imperial examination, and there are also many people who are interested in heresy. .

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, take it step by step."

Liu Jin comforted himself in his heart that this matter must be done, but he couldn't rush it, he took his time and took it step by step.

"Old Liu, how many schools are there? Does it cost a lot of money?"

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't know what Liu Jin was thinking about at this time, but what he was thinking about was money. It's true that Liu Jin can make money, and it's true that he has the ability, but the ability to spend money is also leveraged. Liu Jin has several million taels of silver, and he can spend seven or eighty eighty-eight for you within a few days.

"It will definitely cost some money, but it's a good thing to teach and educate people."

"Your Highness, you are the crown prince. You are the big boss of these industries. If you run a good thing like a school, then you can get a good reputation, Your Highness."

"What's more, Your Highness, do you think I will trade at a loss?"

Liu Jin replied with a smile.

"That's right, let's build it~ I have no objection."

Zhu Houzhao thought about it and nodded. He is a prince anyway, and it's time to improve his reputation. Moreover, Lao Liu is a ghost, a ghost, and he really doesn't seem like someone who will trade at a loss.

"Your Highness, besides running the school, I'm sure we have another big thing to do."

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao agreed, Liu Jin was also relieved. If he disagreed, he would have to pay for it himself.

Now that Zhu Houzhao agrees, it will be much easier to do it in the name of the factory, and everyone will bear it together. If there are any problems or risks, everyone has already carried them. Zhu Houzhao must hold this thigh tightly.

After thinking about it, Liu Jin was about to raise another matter.

"Another big thing?"

"Tell me?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he narrowed his small eyes, thought for a while and said.

"A bank~"

Liu Jin said directly.

"bank?"

"What is this?"

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't know what a bank was. The bank at this time was a bank, but the bank was too low-level, and the business and means of operation were too low.

Naturally, Liu Jin doesn't like this. What he wants to do is a bank, and it's not just an ordinary bank. Moreover, the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty wants to control the right to issue banknotes in its own hands.

Daming in this era issued its own banknotes - that is treasure banknotes.

Baochao is actually a continuation of the Song Dynasty. It was called Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty, Zhongtong Jiaochao in the Yuan Dynasty, and Baochao in the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, banknotes were very helpful in promoting economic development, facilitating the economy and trade in goods, but when it came to Lao Zhu’s house, Zhu Yuanzhang, a cowherd boy, didn’t know anything about numismatics, and he didn’t know the issue of banknotes Credit and reserves are required.

He just thinks that treasure notes are a good thing. The money printing machines are constantly running, and there are countless money printed with all their efforts, so that even half of the salaries of officials are issued with treasure notes.

People in later generations must know that once this banknote is issued indiscriminately, it will inevitably depreciate and reduce its purchasing power. If a large amount of banknotes are issued indiscriminately, it will become worthless.

The Ming court issued treasure notes indiscriminately. This treasure note has long since become indistinguishable from a piece of paper. Half of the salaries of court officials are still issued with treasure notes, which greatly reduces the already extremely low salary. It is also the reason why the corruption of officials in the Ming Dynasty was extremely serious.

Even Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, who is famous in history and virtuous, will also charge some embellishment fees from the people below, because the salary of the imperial court is too low, and he can't even eat enough, so what about governing the country? .

Liu Bowen, the famous founder of the Ming Dynasty, was almost starved to death. It is unbelievable to say it, but it is a real thing.

No one is willing to ask for precious banknotes now, but banknotes are an inevitable choice for historical development, so Liu Jin wants to occupy this field in advance and master the right to issue banknotes.

Mastering the right to issue banknotes, one is that it can facilitate the development of the economy and trade of the Ming Dynasty. With the budding and development of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the future will inevitably lead to the road of capital, and there will inevitably be a need for a kind of banknotes to come out slowly. instead of gold and silver.

In addition, Liu Jin also has selfish intentions. He has mastered the right to issue banknotes of Ming Dynasty. When Daming dominates the earth in the future, it can become a global currency. Once it becomes a global currency, he can learn from the shameless whiteheads of later generations. Eagle up.

As long as there is an economic problem, immediately start the printing press and let the world pay for them. Not to mention how cool it is, and you can also control the global economy and finance by the way. There are simply too many benefits.

"A bank, to put it simply, is a bank dedicated to managing money, but it is different from the current bank. We have more things to do..."

Liu Jin began to slowly explain to Zhu Houzhao the definition, responsibilities, and functions of banks. Banks are already quite common in Europe in this era, and they have also developed to a certain scale and level. But in Daming, everyone It is still at the stage of the bank, very primitive and backward, and the business is extremely simple.

　The bank must do this~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)