Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 373
"Little brother, what do you do at home?"

Queen Luo stepped forward and asked.

"My father runs a restaurant." The little guy is honest. Looking at his figure, he has a big head and a thick neck. He really feels that he is the owner of the family who is not short of food and drink.

Immediately afterwards, Queen Luo asked the boy again, and asked about their family situation one by one.

Those who are officials, those who work in commercial firms, those who work as managers in factories, as well as the children of soldiers, and even a few children of workers.

It seems that some high-income skilled workers are already able to afford the tuition fees for their children to go to elementary school.

In fact, primary schools in Daming are not very expensive.

After all, Ming Dynasty had education subsidies. Apart from fighting wars, what Emperor Zhu cared most about was brainwashing... er, education.

Therefore, the tuition fees of new-style primary schools in Ming Dynasty vary from place to place, but even in Shanghai, one can go to a new-style primary school with a tuition fee of ten yuan a year—this is cheaper than private schools in the imperial examination era.

But even for ten bucks.

There are also quite a few people who can hardly afford it easily-the Ming Dynasty did not have compulsory education, and most of the people at the bottom would not let half-children who could already help with work go to school.

A half-child eats a poor old man.

Let a boy go to school, the price paid is not just ten dollars a year's tuition.

It also includes feeding a full-time juvenile who may eat more than an adult.

In fact, Emperor Zhu also wanted to implement compulsory education as soon as possible.

But there is no way.

If you want the low-level people to send their children to study, at least the tuition should be free, right?

Otherwise, if the tuition is not free, and people are forced to send their children to school, won't this cause public resentment?

But now the Ming Dynasty does not have the conditions for free compulsory education-mainly because there are not enough teachers.

There are already quite a few people who have learned new learning, but the proportion relative to the total population is still very low.

Therefore, there are even fewer people who can act as teachers of new learning.

Things are rare.

The salaries of teachers in new-style primary schools are very high.

An elementary school teacher needs an annual salary of 500 yuan a year.

This is higher than most of the eighth-rank and ninth-rank sesame officials.

Daming can quickly expand the number of primary schools, but it is useless to find so many teachers.

Walked forward for a while.

Suddenly there was a long queue in front of them, and they didn't know what they were buying.

Is there any bargain?

This time it was Emperor Zhu who went to check the situation in person.

"Brother, what are you doing up front?"

Emperor Zhu asked a man in a Confucian robe.

The man was a little displeased at first, because Emperor Zhu looked quite young, and he was already an old scholar over 30 years old. It was somewhat disrespectful to be called little brother.

But when he turned his head and saw Emperor Zhu's attire, especially the pistol and sword on his waist, and also saw the temperament of a superior person cultivated by the other party for a long time, he didn't dare to get angry immediately, but respectfully cupped his hands and said: "The front includes the New China Academy."

"New Chinese Academy?"

Emperor Zhu turned his head and looked forward.

"This academy, it's not easy to take the exam, right?"

"Yeah, it's too difficult." The scholar shook his head when he heard the words, as if he had been told what was on his mind, he began to talk more: "Now in this new China, the test is ten times more difficult. There was no need to take the test in the first two years. , know a few words, and be willing to pay the tuition fee, but now it’s not possible, they only recruit 2 people a year, and most of them are training craftsmen, the subjects we scholars study, only have 3000 quotas.”

In fact, 3000 people is not a lot.

However, there are at least one million scholars in China who are over [-] years old, or who have no confidence in being a scholar.

But there are not many schools that can provide them with vocational education.

After all, not everyone has the potential to be a pickpocket—in fact, being a pickpocket is also a talent.

So now even for the technical school exam, millions of troops have to cross the single-plank bridge.

"Since there are so many people to learn, why not recruit more students?"

The more you recruit, the more you earn.

"No sir." The scholar smiled wryly.

"Now the number of students in these schools is probably [-] to [-]. Sir, there must be at least one or two thousand. You have to have real skills. Otherwise, why are you willing to pay such expensive tuition?"

Emperor Zhu nodded.

There was a smile on his face.

In the past, these poor scholars were studying the Four Books and Five Classics in the countryside, and then hoped that they would be the first in the dynasty and shine on the lintel.

But now he has to go out to technical school to make a living.

This is in modern terms.

In the past, there was a group of smart guys who could not contribute to society at all. These laborers were "silent laborers" and were useless at all.

And now?

These scholars who can write and count come out to do things, and the Ming Dynasty can also get a group of relatively smart talents to promote the development of the entire society.

This is of course a good thing for the Ming Empire.

Just when Emperor Zhu paid a private visit to Shanghai in his micro-service.

Another place in Shanghai.

Wu Wanghai, a remnant of the former Qing Dynasty who was deliberately plotting to overthrow his reactionary rule, was talking to the principal Sun Wen and others in the office of the Shanghai Branch of Lanxiang Academy.

With them, there are several young people who either wear Confucian robes or foreign clothes.

They're all in their 20s.

I don't know if it's a student of the academy or a teacher.

But talk about democracy, but shut up about republic.

On the contrary, it has the attitude of young Yan Ge young generals of later generations.

"Zhong Shan, I see. There are still not many republicans in China. Suddenly, we have to let a group of people go out and study abroad. It is good for us to see the outside world and study directly in other people's schools. The development of Lanxiang is also beneficial."

Wu Wanghai looked at several people and said.

Sun Wen frowned slightly, and said, "Where can I go? There are several big countries now, Britain is a monarchy, the Holy Roman Empire is also a monarchy, that Russia is even a country of serfdom, and France, I heard that Napoleon is ready to proclaim himself emperor. "

Sun Wen sighed.

It seems that relying on democracy, republic, etc., it really can't afford to fool many people into opposing Emperor Zhu's rule.

"Why can't you go? You can go to Britain or France. Although Britain is a monarchy, the concept of democracy and republic is more profound than ours. Otherwise, how could France become a republic? It is also good to send some people out to accept a little outside thinking."

Of course Wu Wanghai knew.

In the East, there is no concept of a republic, and the monarchy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

But in the West, the West in this era, in Wu Wanghai's view, belongs to the time when "people's hearts are floating",

Let a group of young people from Ming Dynasty experience it, maybe there will be some gains.

(End of this chapter)