New Shun 1730

He dared to think about using Jiangsu students to improve his political achievements and win the emperor's favor, mainly because he felt that Jiangsu students had little room for rebellion.

Like other provinces, they were really afraid of offending students, so that scholars would join the rebels.

At that time, it would be a big trouble.

Jiangsu does not have to worry about this problem.

Most of the people in Yangzhou will rebel.

For example, the salt workers, but on the one hand, they can absorb some of them to Haizhou; on the other hand, rebellion will not be a big deal. If they really want to turn over, they will just kill them, which is also simple.

Now that Liu Yu has made such a big reform, once the reform of Huainan salt households is completed, the northern Jiangsu and Huainan regions of Jiangsu, which are the easiest and most likely to rebel and the most affected by the famine, will have no room for rebellion.

The court is not afraid of scholars rebelling.

What the court is afraid of is that someone will rebel and scholars will participate in it.

However, Jiangsu is like this, close to the sea and within the range of gunboats, without the threat of the canal, and about to solve the problem of the salt households in northern Jiangsu, and there are crazy immigrants to Southeast Asia every year, and the flood of the Huaihe River has been solved. The remaining people who can't survive will not be able to rebel.

In this case, why not make some reforms?

At least, this Fenzhai education can be carried out.

This can also be regarded as some of Lin Min's political ambitions. He still agrees with some reflections on the late Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, he would not support the salt policy reform in the court, and the direction of the reform is still Wang Fuzhi's sales marketization plan.

And the student problem is indeed a big problem.

Dashun is not a barbarian, and it is not going to do some extreme suppression or even use knives. The students still continue the state of the late Ming Dynasty and have great power in the local area.

It is also necessary to appropriately reduce the number of privileged students.

Only by reducing and creating divisions among the students can those truly privileged students stand on the side of the court instead of representing local forces.

Otherwise, if all students have privileges and cannot be promoted, they will definitely form cliques and factions in the local area, and the local area will be constrained in every way.

This time, it is just right to use both kindness and force. This time, when preparing the examination papers, these students will be humiliated first.

He already had a basic outline in his mind, and discussed it with his staff. The staff basically disagreed with Lin Min's idea.

"Master wants to set up separate teaching, which is quite difficult."

"Out of curiosity, we have also tried to learn those practical knowledge. Astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics, and many other things need to be obtained from the so-called general education of the Duke of Elementary School before we can continue to learn."

"After learning, one cannot take the imperial examination or become an official. One can be a clerk, an employee, a translator, or a surveyor and accountant."

"The monthly income is not too much. This is only attractive to the children of the poor. Anyone who has some money at home still hopes to learn some serious knowledge and books and articles."

"For example, if the Duke of Xingguo wants to go to Huainan, Some reclamation companies run agricultural schools specifically for the future concept of cotton and grain seeds. "

"As the saying goes, a gentleman is not a tool. These industries are really lowly and despised by gentlemen."

"Even if some people think that cultivating grain and cotton seeds is not a lowly industry for gentlemen, if you can enter the school as a student, you will have to be 20 years old. By then, it will be too late to go to the separate hall to study; secondly, you have to start from scratch to learn the general knowledge and principles of practical science. How can you catch up with those people who have studied practical science since childhood for the sake of "a meal at noon and two pounds of meat for solving geometry problems"? "

Speaking of this, the staff had to admit something.

Practical science, or miscellaneous science, has been made quite complicated by Liu Yu in the past 20 years. Even if you start learning from the age of six or seven, you have to work hard to really understand it. And many of them are purely means to exhaust people, such as endlessly solving arithmetic problems and reciting some strange general knowledge. In terms of the effort required, this is no less than reading scriptures since childhood.

What the staff meant was that it would be too late to implement separate education in the official school after the Tongsheng exam.

But if those who studied miscellaneous and practical subjects could also pass the separate exams and get the status of a student, I'm afraid that not only Jiangsu, but all the students in the country would boycott the exams in protest.

The court already has a Wude Palace to learn those messy things, and now even students can pass these messy studies. If you, Dashun, don't want to be the emperor, we will find someone else to be the emperor.

Then, the staff said, "If we start some classes that mix practical knowledge from a young age... Do we have to take these practical knowledge tests for the examinations for the scholar, the juren, and the jinshi? If not, who would be willing to learn?"

"So, even if the official school has separate education, the young 17 or 18-year-olds and the old 40 or 50-year-olds are required to compete with those who have learned practical knowledge since childhood?"

"They are inferior to others in formal knowledge and practical knowledge, and they only have a superficial understanding. What's the use?"

"It's better not to change it, and the court will spend money to support them."

Lin Min was really troubled by this problem.

Now that Liu Yu has done this, there is a serious split in knowledge.

For those who are poor, in order to have a stable job in the future - compared to thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge to take the imperial examination, learning some practical knowledge to become an accountant, a translator, a sailor, etc., the chances are better. And the key is that they also provide meals. Liu Yu and a group of emerging businessmen invest a lot of money every year in practical education - those from poor families generally choose special practical primary schools.

And anyone with a little money at home would definitely want to gain a privileged status. Isn't it for this that they go to private schools, hire teachers, go to family schools, and study until they are 16 or 17 years old to take the county exam?

Moreover, the staff has actually said it very tactfully: Even if the official school has separate education, it is not easy to find a job. People who really need practical students, such as those who need to learn agronomy and grow cotton in the reclamation company, are they crazy not to recruit students from professional practical schools instead of these half-baked students from the official school?

To have this kind of separate education in the official school is actually to cultivate a large number of half-baked people, which is actually useless.

Pretending to be a reform, but in fact it is meaningless and just a formality.

And the purpose of formality must be for the sake of form, and this form will not achieve any political achievements and is completely useless.

In this case, why change it?

The staff member said, "Nowadays, there are hundreds of elementary schools of various types in southern Jiangsu. Of course, very few can enter middle schools."

"But originally, children between the ages of six or seven and thirteen or fourteen can't do any farm work. Why not go to the elementary school to make a living? The Duke and those new merchants don't invest much every year, but they can still afford to provide breakfast and lunch for four or five hundred schools."

"Two cents for a talc plaster pen, three or five cents for a large bluestone slab, and a piece of rag to wipe off the pen marks. It doesn't cost much."

"If you can enter a middle school at the age of thirteen or fourteen, it will be like a student with a stipend of silver and rice, and you can still get silver and rice to supplement your family expenses every month."

"In the past, when the Duke was training troops in Dengzhou, he took in many orphans and passed on their knowledge. One person passed on a hundred, and a hundred passed on ten thousand. The Duke also understood the benefits of industry and commerce. In the past twenty years, the number of children in practical schools has increased. Thousands of times longer. "

"Besides, people are only one in a hundred or one in a thousand, as the Duke said. As long as everyone can go to school, there is no difference between the rich and the poor."

"He doesn't teach heretical knowledge. On the contrary, he also learns three characters and thousands of articles, and recites several chapters of the Analects. The rest of the knowledge is not heretical at all, but just some peas, sails, functions, etc."

"Master, you might as well think about it. Even if it is witch doctors, musicians, and craftsmen, they are all skilled. Then how can these practical knowledge be compared with those who have been learning since the age of five or six when they enter the official school at the age of seventeen or eighteen?"

"Master, you can't let private schools, clan schools, etc. add these knowledge, right? Not to mention where the teachers come from, just say that there are county exams and even provincial exams. If not, who would be willing to study in private schools and clan schools?"

Speaking of this, the staff finally talked about the key point of this branch education.

"Master, when Yan Xizhai was planning to teach in different schools, arithmetic was limited to those, geometry was only one book, and geography was at most maps, so he thought it was not too late to learn it in official schools."

"But Yan Xizhai passed away and Xingguo Gong was born. Now arithmetic requires calculating the trajectory of the moon, geography requires learning the measurement of longitude and latitude geometry, astronomy requires learning gravity, and chemistry requires understanding smelting proportions... Even those practical and intelligent people in the Beijing Academy of Sciences can only choose one to learn. It's too late to learn it at the age of seventeen or eighteen."

"Don't talk about the articles in the monthly magazine "Gewu" last year. We can't understand them at all. We can recognize all the words, but they are like heavenly books when they are connected together."

"Just talk about the people who surveyed and mapped the land when Xingguo Gong reclaimed wasteland in Huainan this time. They are only seventeen or eighteen years old, but their skills are so advanced that I can't understand them at all. . "

"Therefore, the idea of ​​dividing the official school into halls is really impossible."

"Besides, the Yan and Li schools, which were divided into halls for common learning, imitated the model of Confucius teaching his disciples, but now have also declined. There are almost no people in the northern school, and only Mianzhuang is left in the southern school. Why? There are too many things to learn, which is extremely difficult, and they have exhausted their hearts and minds. "

"Mei Xunzhai once said to me: my family has been learning for three generations, but now they are not as good as twenty-year-olds in mathematics. When asked about his family education, he said that he had been a farmhand in Dengzhou for generations, started in the school, and entered the Academy of Sciences at the age of 16. Before he was 20, he had already seen the door to differential calculus and integral calculus. "

"Mei Xunzhai's family education is like this, and he still lamented that he was old, let alone those who divided the halls halfway through their studies? "

"Even if he learned, this time the emperor issued an edict to select mathematical talents to calculate the lunar distance and star chart. Can these students be competent? "

"Therefore, if you want to change, dividing the halls is not a good method. It cannot be used. "