My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 311 Great Reform

When Zhu Yuanzhang received the reply letter in the Buddhist temple and saw a large number of projectors and chargers, he was overjoyed. He quickly opened the letter and read it in one breath.

He basically accepted all of Li Han's suggestions, and the proposal to set up a normal school specifically for training teachers was particularly eye-opening.

Such a brilliant idea, why didn't I think of it?

A teacher should be knowledgeable and have a good conduct. A teacher is one who sets an example, imparts knowledge and answers questions. The establishment of a normal school can train many teachers for the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time.

Before this, schools were about training students, but no one thought about training teachers.

Most of the teachers in the Ming Dynasty were scholars who failed to pass the imperial examination or even students without any official title. These people chose to teach and educate people after failing to pass the imperial examination for many years.

However, great scholars like Wu Daoxing are very rare and can only be found by chance.

The problem that arises in this case is a serious shortage of teachers.

The idea of ​​establishing a normal school can perfectly solve this problem.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to go a step further and set up a special normal college dedicated to training teachers.

As for the issue of movie fees, Li Han suggested that the court set up a special Film Bureau and establish corresponding film bureaus in each state capital to be responsible for the promotion, distribution and broadcast of movies, as well as to manage movie activities in rural areas.

Another role of the Film Bureau is to find venues for showing movies in various places. They move them from outdoors to inside the city to facilitate ticket sales.

Before the movie is shown, it should be promoted in newspapers, and people should be informed of the movie ticket prices. They can also buy the tickets together with the newspapers.

The ticket price should not be too high, it can be about the same price as a newspaper. At the same time, welfare activities can be launched, such as children can enter for free, senior citizens can enter at half price, etc.

Moreover, this is definitely a business that is sure to make a profit, because there is only one store in Ming Dynasty that sells movies, there is no other store, it is a 100% monopoly business!

Although he had no idea how to sell movie tickets, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that what Li Han said made sense, so he decided to follow Li Han's plan first.

At the court meeting the next day, as everyone expected, Zhu Yuanzhang announced the official start of education reform.

This is not an issue, but a complete order that cannot be refuted!

This time, although several old ministers stood up to express their opposition, not many people responded. Even if some ministers opposed it in their hearts, they knew that education reform was an inevitable trend. If they tried to stop it, it would be like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm, and they would surely be crushed to pieces!
Soon, the news that the court was going to set up three levels of new schools appeared in the newspapers, and for a while, the entire Yingtian Prefecture was in an uproar.

According to the newspaper, the new school will be established on a three-tier system consisting of primary school, secondary school and college.

All schools are official schools that provide new education. After graduating from elementary school, those who pass the test can enter middle school. After completing middle school, they can choose to take factory assessments and work in factories, or continue their studies and enter university.

Those who complete university studies and pass the assessment can serve as officials in the six ministries, or enter major research institutes as researchers to engage in research work.

And the researcher is an official of the eighth rank!
Even if you fail the assessment, you can still enter the factory and become a senior technician.

The Imperial Academy was officially renamed Imperial College of Science and Technology, becoming the first university in the Ming Dynasty! Li Min was also promoted from the chief priest of the academy to the first president of the university in the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as the news came out, people were immediately excited. What did this mean? It meant that students from poor families no longer had to study hard for more than ten years and work hard to take the imperial examinations, and sometimes they would not even pass them in their entire lives.

Nowadays, as long as you complete your studies well in school, you can become an official and eat the emperor's food!
Moreover, the school fees are not high, and ordinary families are fully capable of sending their children to school. However, compared with the tuition fees, people see it as a great opportunity to completely change their family background!

Many students of the Imperial College directly applied for the entrance examination to the Polytechnic University, if for no other reason than the reputation of the Imperial College was much more famous than that of the Imperial College.

In addition, what made many students and even private school teachers jealous was the establishment of Daming Normal University. Wu Daoxing, also known as Wu Daru, was officially appointed as the president of Daming Normal University.

Because the imperial court stipulated that all students graduating from normal universities would be directly arranged to become teachers in schools at all levels and would also be granted the official rank of eighth grade!

Many old teachers in private schools burst into tears immediately. They had taken the imperial examinations all their lives but had never passed them. Now, as long as they could study in a normal university for four years, they could immediately become an official.

This is something I never dared to dream of before!
As a result, many private school teachers simply stopped teaching and studied hard at home in order to pass the examinations for the Normal University.

As for what to do if there is no one to teach the children, many children will go to primary school anyway, and they don’t have much time to learn all that stuff.

This series of actions directly stunned the aristocratic literary circles. Your Majesty, this is going to uproot them!

The fact that university students can become officials in the six ministries if they pass the examination is the emperor's way of announcing to the world that imperial examinations are no longer the only way to become an official.

This also means that the officialdom, which was previously controlled by the literary world, will gradually be replaced by the Industrial Party.

However, the only thing that comforted them was that His Majesty retained the imperial examination system, and that college students could not directly enter the Dongge and Wenyuange to become university scholars. This seemed to be the last bit of face that His Majesty had reserved for them.

Smart people are keenly aware that the imperial examination will eventually be eliminated in the near future.

In this case, many literary families, with the mentality of "join if you can't beat them", enrolled some of their young children in primary schools, while the older ones no longer went to academies, but prepared for secondary school and university entrance exams.

At this moment, as the only two university presidents in the Ming Dynasty, they should have been busy with the establishment of the university, but at this moment, they were busy in the laboratory with a group of teachers from the University of Science and Technology.

In the laboratory, the video playing on the projector was paused, and Li Min was directing the teacher to do something strange. Wu Daoxing, who was standing by, didn't dare to make a sound, and kept talking in a low voice, and it was unclear whether he was talking to himself or to Li Min.

"Magnetic force can be converted into electricity, and electricity can be converted into magnetism. This electromagnetic effect is really elusive. Sir Li, do you think this thing can be successful?"

Li Min concentrated on comparing the textbook with the crude electromagnetic induction machine on the table, and said without raising his head: "Don't worry, Mr. Wu. The teacher in the video also said that as long as you make continuous cutting movements in the magnetic wire, you can generate current."

Since becoming fascinated with electricity, Li Min has been studying it day and night. During the day, he would be at the railway construction site, ordering people to divide and reorganize the prisoners and re-manage them according to the plan, while at night he would simply sleep in the laboratory with the textbooks in his arms.

Fortunately, the new prisoner management policy soon took effect, and the project was able to proceed as scheduled, and even at a much faster speed than before. This gave Li Min free time to study electromagnetic effects.

After Li Han sent the video, Li Min couldn't stop herself and is now assembling an electromagnetic sensor with Wu Daoxing and the teachers!
(End of this chapter)