Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 643

[Chapter 643 The Great Tide of the Times]

“Your Highness, this is not a small sum of money.”

“Of course I know it, but there is no room for slowing down at the moment. We must take a radical approach to popularize education and train enough talents for Da Song in a short period of time.” Zhao Xu said.

Scientific theories are ready-made, but someone has to move the things in the theory from books to reality.

Otherwise, everything will be nothing more than a mirror image, and nothing will happen in the end.

Therefore, even if a large sum of money is to be withdrawn from the treasury, this matter must be done.

As long as Yanzhou’s technology continues to break through, he can use Yanzhou’s products to obtain wealth from all over the world.

If you are stingy with this little money, the future struggle with Xitu will cost countless times more money than the cost of education.

“Your Highness’s courage is really the same as before.” Liu Fu recalled that when King Yan had just recovered from his illness, he set the land tax of Yanzhou to one out of ten.

And this policy has continued until now, winning the hearts of the people and making King Yan’s prestige irreplaceable.

He believed that King Yan’s decision this time would not be wrong.

Although he feels sorry for Yinzi, he strongly agrees with this matter.

Born in a poor family, he can naturally feel the sadness of the poor family who want to study but can’t afford it.

Once this policy is implemented, it will not add any burden to the people of Yanzhou.

At that time, they will definitely be happy to send their children to the public.

Thinking of this, he became a little impatient, so he said: “Your Highness, I will go and make arrangements for this matter.”

“Wait a minute.” Zhao Xu kept Liu Fu, “This is not enough, the most important thing is to let the people Seeing the benefits of letting children go to school, it is necessary for the imperial court to promulgate some policies to promote education in Yanzhou.”

“First of all, public servants must issue a certificate of completion. Without a certificate of completion, they are not allowed to participate in the official examination. Secondly, the recruiting personnel of Yanzhou Workshop must also be required accordingly.”

He divided public servants into seven levels, of which the first four levels are equivalent to contemporary elementary schools. Education, the last three levels are equivalent to junior high school education.

He is not going to implement high school education in public.

Students who have graduated from the public school can directly enter the Science and Technology School, Government Affairs School, Military School, and Medical School after passing the exam, as well as the teacher’s school to be established.

The modern grade design is reasonable, but for him, it is only suitable for the modern age, not for the current Dasong.

For one thing, there are very few subjects that public officials need to master. Before the fourth level, they only need to take Chinese, mathematics and a comprehensive subject to popularize enlightenment knowledge such as scientific phenomena, history, and geography.

Chemistry and physics are added in grades five through seven.

At this time, the knowledge they have mastered meets the current technological needs.

In this way, Yanzhou can quickly cultivate more talents in line with this era.

After all, in ancient times, one could take the imperial examination at the age of fourteen.

Doing too many grades is a waste of time and resources.

Of course, with the advancement of technology, he will continue to make adjustments to the public to adapt to the development of technology.

Therefore, the public will issue a graduation certificate in the fourth grade and a graduation certificate in the seventh grade.

The completion book for the fourth grade is just to eliminate illiteracy, and to enter the workshop as an ordinary craftsman.

The seventh-grade graduation book allows students to enter the workshop and train them to become technical backbones.

If they still have the desire to study, a special workshop will be established at that time, and students from the science and technology school will come to give lectures.

“In addition to this, there is an overall improvement in the status and treatment of craftsmen in government-run workshops, and publicize it to all employees through the Publicity Department.” Zhao Xu thought for a while and continued.

When Liu Fu heard this, he secretly admired it.

It has to be said that all of these policies issued by the King of Yan have grasped the key points.

It is good for the people of Yanzhou to support King Yan.

But sometimes, people are also very realistic, and they are generally not too interested in things that are not beneficial.

Now, the King of Yan has linked all walks of life to the public’s graduation certificate.

If they don’t want their children to face the loess and the sky all their lives, they can only change their destiny through public education.

“Tall, really tall.” Liu Fu gave a thumbs up.

Zhao Xu was basically immune to Liu Fu’s flattery, he said: “Okay, now you can go back to prepare.” In the

next few days, Zhao Xu inspected other workshops, especially the weaving workshop.

This is the last link in the textile industry chain after spinning.

The loom currently being used in the loom workshop is the shuttle loom that was born around 1790.

The principle of the loom is very simple, just like the latitude and longitude lines on the map.

Just arrange the warp and weft threads across each other, and the cloth is born.

The characteristic of the flying shuttle loom is to use the flying shuttle to quickly intersperse between the warps to improve the efficiency of weaving.

Therefore, its key structure is the shuttle.

The key structure of the flying shrink is the spring inside, which is naturally not a problem for the current industrial level of Yanzhou.

In addition, such things as looms are traditional handicrafts of Dasong craftsmen.

Combining the two, the flying shuttle loom was successfully manufactured.

Coupled with steam power, the first steam-powered weaving workshop in Yanzhou was born.

“How much cloth can each loom produce in a day?” Zhao Xu asked the head of the loom who was accompanying him.

The head of the weaving room is an old woman.

Since Zhao Xu arrived at the weaving workshop, she has been tense. Hearing the words, she stammered, “You can weave about 200 pieces of cloth in twelve hours.”

Zhao Xu nodded and started weaving When the loom was first born, it relied on manual shuttles, and its efficiency was about twice that of ordinary looms.

Later, through hydraulic power and then transition to steam power, its efficiency has been greatly improved, and now it has reached about 150 to 60 times that of ordinary looms.

In addition, the weaving workshop adopts a three-shift working method, people rest, but the machine does not rest, so the efficiency is even higher, reaching 200 times.

He roughly calculated that there were 500 looms in the weaving workshop.

The output of this day is 100,000 horses, which can only be described as horror.

The quality of the cloth produced by these machines is also very good. Before long, these machine-woven cloths will quickly destroy Yanzhou’s traditional small-scale peasant economy.

And this is also one of his plans.

The small peasant economy firmly fixed the population on the land, which was caused by the feudal system based on agriculture for thousands of years.

Yanzhou already lacks a labor force. If this is not changed, the common people will still live a life of men farming and women weaving, and no one wants to come to the workshop.

In this way, the development of industry will be restricted.

Although, destroying the small peasant economy is tantamount to changing their way of life, which is somewhat cruel.

But this is the tide of the times. He can be merciful, but the Western Turks will not be merciful to Dasong people.

At that time, their comfortable life will be destroyed, and they will suffer a disaster they have never experienced.

I was going to update the fourth chapter, but it failed. I was sure of everything, but I had a stomachache all afternoon, and I wanted to die.

Everyone’s complaints, snails also read it today, and the most common problem is the update problem. I’m sorry, the last time the article was revised, it was rejected, and the article is still being revised these days.

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Old book lovers should know that when Snail wrote Iron Dynasty, he suffered from a prostate problem due to sitting for a long time, and it has not healed until now. When writing this book, Snail has been writing standing up.

A few days ago, Snail’s feet suddenly swelled up. When I went for an examination, I found that I had varicose veins caused by standing for a long time, and I also found high uric acid.

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As for the plot, after two days of construction, the plot will quickly enter the war plot.

(end of this chapter)