Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 665 The Way of Development
Of course, the educational reform proposed by Fan Ning was unanimously approved by the Council of Presbyterians. Fan Ning immediately put forward his own proposal, that is, five to ten years old for elementary school, and county school for ten to 16 years old.

At present, the county schools in Wucheng, Yuecheng, and Songcheng have all been changed to professional technology learning, including business, agronomy, medicine, machinery, mining, printing, smelting, casting, papermaking, shipbuilding, textile, brewing, architecture, ceramics, etc. The courses are different in each county. Students can choose a major according to their own interests. In addition, each student also needs to learn martial arts and language.

The Chamber of Commerce is responsible for recruiting high-level craftsmen from Song Dynasty to be teachers in Beidao.

Once the reform decision was announced, it was immediately warmly welcomed by the people of Beidao. Not only students actively signed up, but many adults also wanted to participate in the audition.

Many local craftsmen came to the podium, like Fan Tieniu, although he has little knowledge, but he is an out-and-out agricultural soil expert with extremely rich practical experience. Popular with adults.

But the most popular majors are commerce and machinery. In commerce, Mingren and Mingli take turns to attend classes. In machinery, steam engines strongly attract students. Two steam engine craftsmen who follow the ship will teach the principles of steam engines and how to manufacture and repair them.

The education reform in the North Island even shocked the South Island. Gao Zunfu personally came to the North Island to learn the experience. The teachers in the South Island are not enough, and even many students from the South Island also come to the North Island to study. These are all later.

Fan Ning stayed with her grandmother for a few more days. Grandmother Yang lived with her third uncle's family. She was already 80 years old and deaf and deaf, but she was in good health and occasionally went out by boat to relax.

The arrival of her grandson made Yang very happy. Of course, she liked a pair of great-grandsons more. Taking advantage of people's unpreparedness, she secretly gave the great-grandson Fan Jing the tens of pennies she had saved, and asked him to buy candy. As for the great-granddaughter Fan Zhen'er got a basket of eggs.

Time passed quickly, Fan Ning stayed in Beidao for nearly a month in a blink of an eye, and the time to return gradually approached.

In the last few days, Fan Ning and his son and daughter rode on Tiannan Ranch. Of course, Jianmeizi and his apprentice were also with them. Tiannan Ranch is located in the north of Yuecheng County and west of Beidao. It is high in the middle and low in the surroundings, that is, the central part is mountainous, while the surrounding coasts are distributed with large fertile plains.

Tiannan Ranch has 15 hectares of land. It currently raises [-] horses, [-] cattle, and [-] sheep. This is just the beginning, and it will develop rapidly soon.

"Jing'er, let's ride a horse together! We're leaving early tomorrow morning, so let's ride a horse again today." Fan Ning shouted to his son from afar.

Fan Jing is 12 years old this year. He looks a lot like his mother, Zhu Pei.

Fan Jing got up and said, "Daddy, my thigh hurts so badly that I can't even walk, so I won't ride."

Fan Zhen'er beside Fan Ning curled her lips and said, "It's really worthless, after only riding a horse for two days, it's not enough."

"Ah Zhen, don't say that about your brother."

Fan Ning didn't force his son, and said with a smile, "Then take a good rest."

He pulled the rein and galloped away with his daughter into the distance. Fan Zhen'er was very good at riding and had a bold personality. He laughed loudly in the vast grassland under the blue sky and white clouds.

At this time, Jian Meizi sat next to Fan Jing and said with a smile, "Why doesn't Jing Er go riding with Daddy?"

Fan Jing was a little embarrassed and said: "I don't want to ride with that crazy girl, she will play tricks on me."

After a pause, Fan Jing said again: "Actually, I don't like horseback riding. I like to sit by the boat window drinking tea and reading books. That's my favorite."

Jian Meizi smiled slightly, "Do you know why your father brought you here?"

Fan Jing pondered for a while and said: "Daddy told me that I will be the king of Beidao in the future. Daddy hopes that I can be familiar with this place and like it."

"Then do you like it?"

Fan Jingjing nodded, "I like the tranquility and simplicity here, like a paradise. Unfortunately, there are too few books. Next time I come, I will definitely bring a boat full of books."

Jian Meizi couldn't help laughing, "I guess you will be king in the future, so you don't care about things."

"That's what Daddy meant. In the future, I will only be a symbolic king. The specific matters will be decided by the elders and implemented by state and county officials."

Jian Meizi sighed softly, "Your father is a smart man, very smart, and he has been smart since he was a child."

"Auntie, will you come to Beidao in the future?"

"Yes, I will build a female Taoist temple in Beidao in the future and bring all the disciples here. My aunt also likes it very much. Like you, she likes the tranquility here."

Jian Meizi looked up at the blue sky and long white clouds in the sky. For a moment, her thoughts flew to the distant future.

Early the next morning, Fan Ning's family boarded a boat from Yuecheng, and the Nandao fleet arrived at Wucheng Port. After the two parties met, they set off and passed through Yuecheng Port. The main ship then docked to pick up Fanning's family.

The second uncle Fan Tiege and his wife and Ming Ren also went back together on Fan Ning's boat, and Ming Ren was responsible for recruiting a group of high-level talents to enrich teachers.

This time back, the fleet was almost empty, which disappointed Mingren a bit. Unlike the previous Kunzhou, which was rich in products, a large amount of gold, silver, grain, sulfur, wood, and horses were brought back to Song Dynasty.

This morning, Ming Ren and Fan Ning were sitting in front of the boat window drinking, Ming Ren looked at the bright and vast sea outside the window, sighed and said: "My biggest regret is that Bei Dao doesn't have a high-quality product that can be sold, just like Luzon The cream sugar and cotton from Baozhou, the spices and rubber from Baozhou cannot be sold to Dasong to make money. Song buys daily necessities, we have too many people to do everything by ourselves.”

Fan Ning took a sip of his wine and said with a smile: "Your Chamber of Commerce should be very profitable in Song Dynasty, enough to subsidize Bei Dao. Isn't business a good way to make money?"

Ming Ren shook his head, "Business is too vain, without a special product to support, I still don't know what to do."

"You invited me to drink today, you must have other intentions!"

Mingren quickly laughed and said, "We all said that we need your advice! Everyone is embarrassed, so let me speak."

Fan Ning smiled slightly and said, "Then I'll show you a few ways to make money."

Akihito was overjoyed, straightened his waist quickly, and listened attentively.

"The first way is tobacco, which is one of the four plants I brought with me when I came. After it is grown, I will teach you how to process it. This is something that can make a lot of money. Like tea, it will become a kind of Luzon is the most suitable place to grow tobacco, and the climate there is very suitable to grow high-quality tobacco. You should try to buy a few large farms in Luzon to grow tobacco and transport it back to the North Island for processing.”

"No problem. I bought Banga Island in Luzon Mansion from the King of Luzon with [-] bolts of silk and satin back then. There are documents to testify, and the court also approved it. The gold reserves on that island are very large. Luzon Mansion officials have found it. Several times, the imperial court wanted to take it back, so I simply replaced a few large farms in Luzon Island, specializing in growing tobacco."

"How to make it, I have already written a pamphlet and handed it to Uncle San. This must be kept secret. You go back and discuss with Uncle San how to do it."

Akihito nodded, "I understand."

Fan Ning continued: "The second way to get rich is to take the road of deep metal processing. For example, the high-quality iron ore produced in Beidao, you have to use the high-quality iron ore to smelt the best steel in the world. The price will be ten times that of ordinary pig iron. For example, in Nuame Island, for example, there is a kind of ore with huge reserves, that is, cupronickel. You can mine it and smelt it into cupronickel, and use it as currency to buy goods from Westerners. Westerners regard it as a treasure, more precious than silver You are a businessman, you should think deeper than me."

Ming Ren was fascinated by this, and Fan Ning laughed again: "The third way to get rich is machinery. Do everything possible to manufacture high-quality miniaturized steam engines, and then use them to manufacture farming machines, transport machines, and logging machines. , coal mining machines, etc., you can sell them at a high price, which is also a way to make money.”

In fact, Fan Ning very much hoped that steam trains could appear in North Island, but he didn't want to participate, but wanted clever craftsmen to invent them themselves.

Fan Ning thought for a while, took a piece of paper, drew a sketch of a train, and handed it to Ming Ren, "This is the transportation machine I imagined, using a steam engine, but I don't know how to build it. Let Mr. Zhu move his steam engine research institute to Beidao, I will tell him, and then do my best to research and build this steam engine transport vehicle."

Akihito nodded solemnly, "I will definitely not disappoint your expectations."

At this time, the siren sounded, 'Woo--' Nuamei Island has arrived.

Countless aborigines waved and cheered on the shore. The construction of the port city in the south of Nuamey Island has already begun. Ten thousand skilled Japanese laborers have extended their labor contracts for half a year at a high salary of [-] yuan per month. They will be here Build a city with a circumference of twenty miles and a port.

Fan Ning smiled and said, "Let's go to the island to have a look, stay for half a day and then set off!"

(End of this chapter)