my steam dam

Chapter 154 is a good seedling who reads, follow me into the factory and screw it!
Huai'an Mansion, Zhili, Qinghe County, Ming Dynasty.

Qinghe is a very old county town.

Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, it has been the territory of Xing State, and then it belongs to Wei State, Jin State, and Zhao State.

In the Qin Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Julu County.

The famous Battle of Julu back then took place here.

It is also a land with a glorious history.

Of course, a rich history usually means perfect development.

After thousands of years of development, the land in Qinghe County has long been reclaimed by Chinese ancestors.

As long as the land can be used as arable land, it has been reclaimed into good farmland.

Even in places where farming is not possible, mulberry trees are all planted.

All the peasant households in Qinghe County cultivated land to raise silkworms, and also raised some chickens and ducks for the livelihood of the people.

On weekdays, everyone's life is still passable.

After all, Mingjun is ruling the world now, as long as the ordinary people in Shengdou work diligently and abide by the law, their days will always be better.

Qinghe belongs to the central branch of Zhili, and has various policy support, and the central government pays more attention to it, and officials do not dare to commit corruption.

It can also be regarded as a pure land where the government is clean and the people are harmonious.

In the morning when the sun rises to the top of the mountain, on the field ridge outside Qinghe County.

A group of farmers holding hoes were chatting while looking at the winter wheat that had just been planted in front of them.

"I hope this year's wheat harvest will be better. Next year, my eldest son will go to the primary school entrance examination. If he passes the entrance examination, the follow-up expenses will be quite a lot. We are all waiting for the harvest in the field to support it!"

A nearly 30-year-old, well-developed muscular farmer in his prime shook his head and sighed: "Since the great sages of the farm family came up with golden fertilizer, one mu of land can be harvested half a stone more grain. It's amazing." ah."

"No wonder the ancestors said that there is a golden house in the book. This person who reads and understands culture is amazing."

"You still have to let your baby study. Don't be like me, stuck in the fields all your life, knowing nothing."

Squatting on the ridge of the field, Zhang Niu, who was only in his early twenties, held a piece of dog's tail grass in his mouth, and said with a sneer: "Lao Li, with your five or six acres of land, do you still expect your children to study?"

"The Li family in Hehua Village has [-] acres of land. They have no worries about food and clothing, and they have meat for every meal."

"Even so, it is a bit tight to provide for the two sons to study. Recently, I heard that they want to sell [-] acres of land to raise enough money for their eldest son to study at Yingtianfu Engineering College."

"Old Li, I didn't say that you have [-]% of the financial resources of Yuan Li and other family members?"

The farmer called Lao Li didn't take it seriously: "Mr. Li's son is going to study in a higher education institution directly under the Ministry of Rites. After he graduates, he can participate in the internal recruitment of the Ministry of Industry!"

"If this person is selected by the Ministry of Industry, he will be an official!"

"I don't dare to expect my baby to reach this level."

"But for enlightenment and elementary school, you can still let the baby try by gnashing your teeth!"

"As long as you can graduate from elementary school, you are a child!"

"With Tongsheng's diploma, you can work as a worker in a factory in Huai'an Prefecture!"

"I heard from relatives in Huai'an Mansion that even the apprentices in the machinery manufacturing factory in Huai'an Mansion get two taels of silver a month, and they can even get three or four taels of silver when they become full-time technicians!"

"If you can manage things, it will be even more amazing. You can get ten taels a month!"

"It's more profitable than planing in the ground!"

"If you want to enter a factory, you must graduate from elementary school!"

Old Li Yangyang said proudly: "I specially asked my relatives to invite a second-level technician from Huai'an Machinery Manufacturing Factory to meet Dawa!"

"The technician said that my eldest child is a good young man who is good at studying. After he learns, he can go to the factory to make screws with him!"

Although I don't know what a screw is.

But the other farmers around had expressions of envy on their faces.

"Okay, Lao Li, your Li family is about to send out!"

"Your tiger head, since I was a child, I thought he was smart, but my vision is still very accurate!"

"If Hutou can enter the factory in the future, it will be a good start!"

Everyone praised Hutou, the eldest son of Lao Li's family.

In Daming, being a worker is an enviable job!
Although he used to be a scholar, farmer, businessman, and worker, he ranked third.

However, after the steam engine technology was ignited, Daming's industry achieved great development, and various machines relying on steam engines to provide kinetic energy came into being.

But if you want to produce these machines, you need manpower!

And it can't be a poor person who doesn't know a single character. It has to be a "student" who can at least read and break characters, and understand the truth, and the efficiency will be high!

In Huaxia, no matter what it is, as long as it can be linked to "reading", it means being tall!
After all, scholars represent people with ability!

After Emperor Hongwu conquered the world, he reformed the imperial examination system with the assistance of the Mohist giants of the previous generation.

Although being an official still needs to pass the imperial examination to become an official.

But the imperial examinations were refined.

Over the past 20 years, Daming has established an intermediate college in every prefecture across the country, and one to three primary schools in each county.

Enlightenment private schools are blooming everywhere!
According to the latest imperial examination system.

As long as the enlightenment is completed, the common people of the Ming Dynasty can take the entrance examination for primary schools. Every government-run primary school enrolls fifty students every year!

From the age of eight to 11, all students can take the exam four times. As long as they pass the exam, they will be awarded a Tongsheng diploma after six years of passing the exam.

With a Tongsheng diploma, you can enter various machinery manufacturing factories in Daming and be an honorable worker!

You can also choose to go on to further study.

Of course, you can also apply for a job in some private factories with a diploma, and you are basically rushed to apply for it.

However, if you fail the exam four times, you can only study at home by yourself, or ask someone to teach you through other methods.

When you feel that you have learned enough, you can also take the primary school graduation exam of the year. As long as you pass the exam, you will also be awarded a diploma for children.

And those who have a Tongsheng diploma can take the entrance examination for the intermediate college in the house.

The same is to take 50 people a year.

And there is no age limit for intermediate colleges, anyone can take the exam at any age, as long as they pass the exam, they can enroll.

After graduating from the intermediate college, they will be awarded a diploma of scholar, and they can take the official examination, and then they can be an official.

Although the officials are small officials fighting for food, they still belong to the public family.

For the Six Caos and Six Divisions and other departments in counties, prefectures, and prefectures, the supplementary officials can only be selected from graduates of intermediate colleges, and cannot be recruited casually.

The status of Ming officials in this life is different from that of the previous life, and they are already part of the official system.

Not only the salary is given by the government, but also the normal accumulation of meritorious service and promotion, the highest can climb to the seventh-rank county magistrate.

Moreover, there is no saying that the descendants of officials are not allowed to participate in scientific examinations.

Therefore, graduating from an intermediate college is already half a foot in the officialdom. If you work hard, you will hopefully become an official of the eighth or ninth rank. After returning to your hometown, you will also be a country gentry.

It can allow an ordinary family to complete the class leap!
As for scholars, after graduating from an intermediate college, if they want to further their studies, or want to become a high-ranking official, they need to go to the senior college directly under the Ministry of Rites.

The difficulty is basically equivalent to taking the Jinshi exam!
At present, there are only eight high-level colleges in Ming Dynasty, each of which admits 50 students each year, but two of them are engineering, two are business, and two are ink.

After graduating from engineering and business, they all need to work in Daming's manufacturing industry.

Those who majored in engineering work as technical officials, and those who major in business manage factories and various state-owned enterprises.

There are many state-owned enterprises in the Ming Dynasty. Food, salt and iron, and various steam machines for civilian use are all state-owned, and they also need a large number of management officials.

As for the Mo Ke, they naturally joined the Mo Academy to carry out various scientific research work, mainly studying steam technology, and some natural sciences of astronomy and geography.

All the year round, the "scientists" of the Mo Academy have maintained a scale of 3000 to [-] people, all of whom have official status, and are often transferred to local officials to guide local officials in the popularization and application of steam technology.

There are only two high-level colleges that really take the route of civil affairs. They enroll a total of [-] students each year. After completing their studies, they can participate in the official selection examination of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

At the lowest level, it can also be awarded to a seventh-rank official!
The top three will directly enter the Hanlin Academy, starting with the sixth rank!

The treatment is almost the same as that of Jinshi in the old Song Dynasty.

It's just that, if you want to enter the advanced college to study, you not only need to be smart enough, but you also need to have a solid family background!
After all, going to a foreign country to study in a university, food, clothing, housing, transportation, and entertainment among students, the expenses are not small.

Those in industry, commerce, and ink are not bad. Basically, they run around every day, dealing with machines and businesses. They have practiced in advance, and the school also has subsidies.

But civil affairs subjects are no different from traditional students. They sit in the classroom and study every day, and have fun outside of class.

The imperial court did not provide any subsidies, but provided a dormitory for multiple people, but most of them relied on the civil affairs department, which were more "traditional".

Without a base of 50 taels of silver for a year, I'm afraid I won't be able to live comfortably in Yingtian Mansion.

If you want to train a student who graduated from the Higher School of Civil Affairs, from enlightenment to graduation, you may have to invest five or six hundred taels.

Ordinary people's homes cannot afford to be cultivated.

Lao Li never thought of raising his tiger head to this level.

Lao Li's family has been poor for dozens of generations, and they don't know a single character!
Being able to grit his teeth and spend a dozen or 20 taels to make Hutou finish elementary school and become a child student is already smoking from the ancestral grave!

As long as you become a child student, you can apply for a job in various government-run machinery factories with your diploma!
After entering the factory, even if it is just an apprentice screwing, he will have two taels of silver a month, and it will also include food and housing!
After completing the apprenticeship period, the wages doubled, and at least four taels a month can be earned!
After working hard for more than ten years, the family can build a brick house and buy more than ten or twenty mu of land. Then they will have no worries about food and clothing, and they can be called rich!

Then train the next generation to read and read. If they can be admitted to the intermediate college, then the old Li's family has the hope of completing the class transition and becoming the family of the country gentry!

These days, it's getting better and better!
The happy little days in the future are waving to Lao Li!
"When my son is finished learning, he can go to the factory to make screws. Then I will set up a few big tables in the village!"

"Everyone has to come!"

Lao Li was thinking about the happy days of the Li family in the future, his face was flushed, and he was very happy.

The other farmers also showed deep envy on their faces.

Those who have children at home have secretly made up their minds to send their children to enlightenment. If they can be admitted to primary school, they can enter the factory to make screws in the future, and then their family will turn around!
"Sorry-"

"Sorry-"

Just when everyone was feeling jealous or envious of Lao Li, and all kinds of small thoughts were flying in their hearts.

The sound of galloping horseshoes interrupted their chatting atmosphere.

All the farmers turned their heads to look at the distant horizon.

I saw an armored rider rushing towards the county town from a distance, shouting constantly:

"His Majesty issued an immigration reclamation order!"

"Registered immigrants, each family can be divided into [-] acres of fertile land!"

(End of this chapter)