Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 841, different education
While the three-yearly imperial examinations are being held bustlingly in the capital, the primary school attached to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory is also conducting a completely different examination from this era.

The Primary School Affiliated to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory, a primary school affiliated directly to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory, mainly recruits children of employees of the Jingcheng Machinery Factory and children from several communities near the Jingcheng Machinery Factory.

Because it is a primary school directly under the Jingcheng Machinery Factory, the teaching content and so on are naturally different from the traditional private schools and academies of the Ming Dynasty.

From the very beginning, the primary school affiliated to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory did not train students for the imperial examination. This has been told to their parents since the day each child entered school.

If you want your child to rely on the imperial examination, if you want your child to become a high-ranking official in the future, then don’t send it here, because there is a lot of knowledge and content taught here, and the Four Books and Five Classics are only a small part of it. It is only a small part of the Mandarin class.

The imperial examinations are all the four books and five classics, so there is no way for children to take the imperial examinations when they are sent here to study, and it is impossible to become a high official.

There are many schools similar to the Primary School Affiliated to Jingcheng Machinery Factory, such as the Primary School Affiliated to Miyun Iron Works, the Primary School Affiliated to Tianjin Cement Plant, Xishan Primary School, Jingcheng Primary School, Tianjin Primary School, Tianjin Shipyard Primary School, etc.

These schools have a characteristic, that is, they are all schools invested and built by Liu Jin, and many of them are primary schools affiliated to various industries under his command.

At the same time, these schools still use the teaching textbooks and content formulated by Liu Jin, do not study the Four Books and Five Classics, and adopt an educational model and teaching content similar to those of later generations.

Its purpose is naturally very simple, that is to cultivate talents in various industries and fields, especially talents in science and technology, because Liu Jin clearly knows that this is the trend and trend of future historical development.

It is impossible to change the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system all at once, not to mention Liu Jin himself who is soft-spoken, and it is impossible for Emperor Hongzhi to abolish the imperial examination system.

The imperial examination has been maintained in this land for thousands of years, and it is deeply rooted in this soil. Almost everything is based on the imperial examination.

It will take a long time and a long process to abolish the imperial examinations.

But Liu Jin can't wait that long. There are many industries under his command, and this Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger. Naturally, it needs more advanced productivity and production tools, so that Daming can truly become stronger.

So after much deliberation, Liu Jin came up with such a method, first set up some affiliated primary schools, recruit children from ordinary families, and study for them for free.

In these schools, the Four Books and Five Classics are not taught, but the education model and system of later generations are adopted to teach basic knowledge and content, so as to gradually change the existing situation of Confucianism monopolizing education.

Cultivating various talents for the industries under his command is also cultivating scientific and technological talents for Daming and promoting the development of various fields of Daming.

Of course, in this era, studying is for the purpose of being an official, and reading is very costly. If you can't take the imperial examination, it is difficult to attract people to send their children to study.

So Liu Jin also provided free education here. The children were sent to study, and Liu Jin paid for all the expenses, and there was still a lunch to eat.

In addition, if you are successful in your studies in the affiliated elementary school, you can enter the industry under Liu Jin's command to work and be hired first. In addition, if you have excellent grades, you can also enter a higher-level middle school to learn deeper knowledge and content. After graduating from middle school, entering Liu Jin's industry can directly enjoy high-level treatment.

Through such a series of measures, the primary schools where Liu Jin operates are also overcrowded, and there are still many families willing to send their children to study.

No money, free study, and food, read a good book, and you can work in the industry under Liu Jin's command. Such a good thing is a great thing for ordinary families.

So not only the children of employees from various industries under his command come in, but many people who know the news also send people in through their connections. Being an official is too far for ordinary people.

It is also a good job to be able to work in the industry under Liu Jin's command.

You must know that in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, the average monthly salary of all employees in these industries under Liu Jin's command has exceeded six taels of silver. If you count the year-end bonus and the like, the treatment is very generous.

Among them, skilled workers who understand technology and can read and write, masters, etc., have higher incomes.

Taking Tianjin Shipyard as an example, the masters of Tianjin Shipyard are divided into many levels. Even the lowest-level shipbuilder, the moon ring is more than ten taels of silver, and the annual income exceeds two hundred taels of silver, including performance and rewards.

Such a high income is an absolute high salary in this era. As for management and senior masters, the income is even more impressive.

The employees of the shipyard know it well, and their relatives and friends naturally know it too, so many people want to enter the primary school attached to Tianjin Shipyard.

The Primary School Affiliated to Tianjin Shipyard, which originally only planned to enroll [-] students, insisted on enrolling more than [-] students. For this reason, it had to expand the school and apply for more funds.

But fortunately, Liu Jin is very generous about this. Basically, Liu Jin has said that children who are willing to come to study, try to accept as much as possible. If the budget is not enough, you can add more, if you don’t have enough teachers, you can rebuild, and if you don’t have enough teachers, you can hire them.

In short, as long as you are willing to study, you have to accept it. It is too difficult for people in this era to study. Liu Jin has money and has nowhere to spend it. It is better to spend it on education than anywhere else.

For this reason, not only is there an affiliated primary school in the property under his command, but Liu Jin has also established many free schools in various places such as Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu, and Ryukyu. The money spent on these alone costs millions of taels of silver every year.

Such a large amount of expenditure was all borne by Liu Jin, and he was still enjoying it, and built more primary and secondary schools in various parts of Daming.

On this point, many rotten scholars who originally wanted to point at Liu Jin's nose and scold others had to keep their mouths shut. Anyway, Liu Jin is also teaching and educating people, although the content of the Four Books and Five Classics is really too little. Make them very upset.

However, it is an indisputable fact that more children can receive education.

What they can do is to keep suggesting to Liu Jin that the traditional Four Books and Five Classics education should be strengthened, and not teach too many heresy and so on.

But Liu Jinniao didn't care about them. The school I built with my own money can teach whatever I want. Didn't Emperor Hongzhi praise it?

The students taught by the schools I run will not take the imperial examinations, and will not steal the jobs of your Confucian children, and even beep a hammer.

Confucianism and Confucianism have been rotten to the root, seriously restricting thinking and innovation, and you want to break it. You even said that you want to strengthen the education of the Four Books and Five Classics in my school.

There is a hammer for reading the Four Books and Five Classics. Can it produce better steel, or can it build better ships, or is it of great use in governing the country?
It's just a few books. Generations after generations have read and read, drilled and drilled, but they haven't seen any world-class talents or achievements, and I don't know how many people have been killed.

So Liu Jin didn't bother to ignore them.

In the past, these corrupt Confucians would definitely kill Liu Jin, but Liu Jin vigorously promoted everything about Confucianism externally, such as making vassal states and provinces newly included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty compulsively promote everything about Confucianism.

This made the Confucianists very satisfied, and felt that Liu Jin was still good. This allowed Confucianism to spread more widely and spread to more places.

So these rotten Confucians in Daming are also very contradictory to Liu Jin, saying that he is good, the primary school he built does not pay attention to Confucian education, and saying that he is not good, and externally, he vigorously promotes Confucianism and education.

In short, it is very contradictory. For Liu Jin's alternative education in Daming Ban Primary School, he can only turn a blind eye to it, and it will not become the mainstream anyway.

As for the primary and secondary schools run by Liu Jin, in Liu Jin's words, they are all used to train their own technical talents.

For example, if the shipyard builds ships better, faster, more ships, and more types of ships, it will definitely not work to use the Four Books and Five Classics.

This needs to involve mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy and other related fields. Without these reserves, this shipbuilding will definitely not work.

Another example is to build bridges and pave roads. It is still not enough to rely on the Four Books and Five Classics, but to rely on what they call heresy.

As long as the status of Confucianism is not shaken, everything else is easy to talk about. As long as the officials of the imperial court still pass the traditional imperial examination to obtain scholars, there is nothing to worry about.

Daming can become stronger and stronger, these side ways are still very useful.

The elementary school affiliated to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory, which occupies a very large area, is undergoing the entrance examination for elementary school, and the transition from elementary school to middle school is an extremely critical point.

Unlike later generations, Liu Jin compressed the content and time of teaching in this era. There are only elementary and middle schools. Elementary schools have basic things, and middle schools have more in-depth things. But compared with the education of later generations, they are all basic things.

However, Liu Jin feels that as long as this basic thing can be learned and applied well, it is enough for Ming to continue to become stronger in this era. Anyway, many things have not been researched yet, and it is not very good to take them out. Let people of this era figure it out by themselves. It's better to study slowly.

　The status of Confucianism is too deep, it can only be shaken slowly~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)