Qiming 1158

Chapter 1276 The needs of the Ming Kingdom are not enough
Xin Qiji is a smart person. With a little bit of advice, he understood what Su Yonglin meant, and Su Yonglin had no doubts about it.

"what do you mean……"

Su Yonglin sighed.

"I didn't directly reject the plan without doing any homework. I found the population growth data given by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and asked the Cabinet to give me a population growth forecast and an increase in the number of educated people.

In the end, the cabinet took a month to make detailed calculations. According to the popularization plan proposed by the academic department, combined with the population growth rate of Ming Dynasty estimated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I saw a very valuable calculation.

This plan of the school was implemented on the basis of the plan I set before. The imperial court invested a lot of money and spent a lot of effort to set up three levels of schools in the county, state and province.

School-age children enter Kaimeng at the age of five or six. After at least three years of study in each level of institution, they are selected and assessed by various institutions of higher education, and finally stand out from the provincial institutions.

This is the future plan I set, and it is also the basis of their plan. If this plan is fully implemented, then after about ten years, there will be an average of more than 20 senior talents from provincial-level schools every year. graduate.

In about 15 years, this number will rise to 30. After 20 years, this number will reach 50. After that, this number will exceed 70, 80, and finally exceed 100 million.

Youan, let me ask you, every year, 100 million high-level talents with rich knowledge will graduate from the school. What does the imperial court plan to let them do?Become an official?join the army?business?work?

Together, these businesses can bear the work needs of 100 million people every year?If not, these people will have to go home and farm the fields. Except for farming, there is no other industry that can meet the work demands of 100 million people every year.

We spent so much effort and money, imparting so much important and specialized knowledge, and finally cultivated people. As a result, there is nothing to do, so we can only let them go home to farm. You can feel this great sense of gap. for a moment? "

Facing Su Yonglin's question, Xin Qiji was silent.

He had to admit that what Su Yonglin said made sense.

A person starts learning at the age of five or six. After at least nine years of education, he has mastered a very rich knowledge, and his whole thinking is completely different from his childhood. He can already open his eyes to see the world, and know the vastness of the world and his own. Small.

Then the government told him, "Okay, you have learned something, go home and farm."

This feeling...

Let's just say it wasn't very pleasant.

Put yourself in the shoes and think about it, if Xin Qiji had such a wealth of knowledge that he could only go home and farm, even if he didn't have all these years of experience, he would probably have the idea that his ambitions would be hard to pay, and he would have no way to serve the country, right?
"So, Zhang Yuan he..."

Su Yonglin nodded.

"He couldn't pass the imperial examinations of the Song country, he had no other way to make a living, and he was unwilling to accept his fate, so he turned around and joined Xixia, and then brought a good defeat to the Song country. Song Junchen was collectively shocked, and finally created a palace examination. Do not violate the rules of the candidates and avoid similar things from happening again.

Then?What happened after that?After that, there were redundant officials that the Song court never solved, which cost Song a lot of money and caused the court to add too many meaningless positions and processes.

Song Guo doesn't need to train so many reserve officials at all, it can't be used up, it can't be used up, it can only make them useless and exhausted, so these situations, I have taken into account when establishing Daming inside. "

Xin Qiji already understood what Su Yonglin said, and thought he was right, so he had nothing to say.

Su Yonglin suddenly laughed as if he had thought of something.

"Right now, with so many students with rich knowledge, what can they do? What are they willing to do? Take Song's imperial examinations, for example, how many students are studying hard, but the people the court needs are always there. so many.

Thousands of people compete for hundreds of places every three years, and how many people spend a lot of money for one place. Is it useful?Having said that, I really feel that the feudal rulers are quite forward-looking.

They know that they can't get so many officials, and they know that they can't support so many people, so they don't develop education and engage in ignorance of the people, so that they can rule for a longer time.

People put so much effort and hard work to learn knowledge and skills, but in the end they have to do things that illiterate people can do well. Let’s leave the general direction aside, let’s put ourselves in a person’s shoes and think about it from a personal point of view. What will this person do? Face this reality?Some people will accept fate, not fake, but some people will not accept fate, such as Zhang Yuan. "

Looking into Su Yonglin's eyes, Xin Qiji realized that what he was thinking about was a little too simplistic.

"So, the old dynasty made the right decision not to develop education for all?"

"Yes to them."

Su Yonglin said: "Anyway, they only want to enjoy better exploitation, not to develop education, more cattle and horses, fewer high-class people, and more time to enjoy, but for us, we must start from a fundamental point of view. See the question above.

What is the root cause of Zhang Yuan's affairs, the redundant officials of the Song state?The fact is that the imperial court, and even the entire country, cannot afford so many scholars with rich knowledge to give full play to their talents. The imperial court and the country cannot afford to support so many scholars! "

"…………"

Xin Qiji was silent for a while, then nodded reluctantly in recognition: "You are indeed saying this, the court can't afford so many officials and can't afford it."

"So, is the court really lacking talents? There is no shortage of talents. A fallen scholar who takes refuge in Xixia can beat the Song army like that, which is enough to show that talents are absolutely sufficient for an old dynasty, and even overflowing. , their development status and the imperial examination system are completely matched.

You let them popularize education and raise so many scholars, but you don't give them a way out and make them blame others. In the end, what will they do?They will send this dynasty away and replace it with a new one, high class people are never stupid, they know what they want. "

Su Yonglin paused for a while, took a deep breath, and said, "And we need to know what we want. I have never denied the importance of popularizing education, but before that, we must prepare enough positions for talents for them You can use your talents, otherwise, you will make wedding dresses for Li Yuanhao and others, harming others and harming yourself."

Xin Qiji nodded solemnly.

"I fully understand your painstaking efforts."

"We can't fool the people. We want everyone to master knowledge and give full play to their own value. However, at the current stage, the talents we have trained are enough, and the larger-scale popularization and education will be maintained at the stage of eliminating illiteracy. It is enough to meet the current needs of Daming.

To continue to develop education, it is required that the Ming Dynasty can provide enough positions for talents to exert their talents, and positions are not born for no reason, but need to be provided by development. This is what I often say, development is the last word. "

"But this situation is not normal, right? Daming can't stop here, right?"

Xin Qiji said, "It will be a matter of time to popularize education, isn't it?"

"Certainly, just judging from the current situation, I'm not entirely sure that there will be enough jobs for so many educated people in ten years."

Su Yonglin smiled bitterly and said: "Development is the last word, but it is also a particularly difficult thing. I tried my best to promote it, but right now, I am not fully sure, and I cannot bury a hole for future generations."

With that said, Su Yonglin took a few steps forward.

"I had a clear plan, I invested so much money in firearms, firearms research came out, and many new things came out, such as coke, and better quality steel.

Manufacturing firearms, coking, and refining high-quality steel all require craftsmen, and many, many craftsmen are needed. This provides demand. Only when there is demand can we cultivate talents with confidence.

For example, engineering students have a useful place. After they graduate, they will not worry that they have nothing to do and have to return to their hometowns to cultivate the fields, resulting in a huge psychological gap, and finally resenting Daming. "

Xin Qiji heard the words, thought for a while, understood the reason, and sighed.

"It seems that some comrades think about the problem too simply..."

Su Yonglin smiled bitterly.

"Their original intentions are not bad, and they are even for the sake of people. Based on thousands of years, education, like agriculture, is the foundation of the country, but what the country needs to do is not only to popularize and develop education.

It is not difficult for Daming to develop education, we can do it, but at the same time, we have to provide them with jobs, we cannot let them study hard for so many years, and find that what they have learned is useless.

It is not only a disappointment to their lives, but also a disappointment to the current state of education that the imperial court has invested a lot of money, resources and time to build up, and it is also a disservice to the peasants who have worked tirelessly to cultivate their fields and pay taxes to the imperial court. to live up to. "

(End of this chapter)