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Of course, Yu Xiaotian not only carried out reforms in the imperial examination system. While reforming the scientific examination system, he also selected a large number of practical books, and ordered the Ministry of Industry to vigorously publish and print a large number of books.

Distributed to various places for students to purchase, read and study.

Over the years, while Yu Xiaotian was hiding in Fujian and Taiwan, he used various means to obtain many books on various subjects from the West, translated them, printed them, and supplied them to the schools and students he established in Taiwan and other places.

purpose.

Now Sun Yuanhua was brought back to the capital from Tamsui. In addition to the Six Ministries, an Ministry of Education was established. Sun Yuanhua was directly appointed as the first Minister of Education. He was independent from the Six Ministries and was responsible for education matters.

The original Imperial College in Beijing and the Imperial College in Nanjing were both placed under the Ministry of Education, specializing in cultivating useful students. The students in the original Imperial College were selected and retained, while the rest were sent back to their hometowns to study in Fujian and Taiwan.

The school has admitted a large number of young students to the Imperial College for further studies.

The subjects taught in the Imperial College have also undergone substantial restructuring, canceling a large number of things previously learned and re-opening many courses, including geometric algebra and some subjects in mechanics, chemistry, physics, and administration.

In subjects such as management, the things you learn are many times richer than those previously taught by the Imperial College.

As for the teachers, Sun Yuanhua was responsible for finding them. His three sons had profound attainments in many subjects, and all of them entered the Imperial College and were called professors.

In addition, some missionaries with solid academic foundations who had preached in various places in Taiwan were also specially allowed to move to the Imperial College to teach. They were specially allowed to be under supervision and, in addition to teaching, they were allowed to establish churches in the capital and Nanjing to preach.

They were also required not to promote their teachings to any students in the Imperial College, otherwise they would be expelled from China.

When the church heard the news, they were very happy because they had cooperated with Yu Xiaotian for a long time and found that Yu Xiaotian was not very opposed to their missionary work. He was considered a pro-religious member. Although he refused to join the religion, he was determined to do so.

No family members or soldiers are allowed to join the church, but they are allowed to preach locally to a certain extent. Although they have to be supervised and a lot of rules are set so that they cannot openly preach, this has made them quite satisfied.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he has become the Emperor of China. With the support of such a pro-religious emperor, they believe that missionary work in China will be smooth sailing in the future, so they will absolutely comply with Yu Xiaotian's request.

Not daring not to agree, he tried his best to recruit highly educated priests from Europe, came to China to preach, and taught part-time in the Imperial College, imparting all kinds of knowledge they had learned.

Yu Xiaotian even proposed to the church that he would send all the scholars who were considered heretical by the church to be persecuted and even prepared to be executed. He would also send them all to China so that Yu Xiaotian could open more places.

, for them to build churches and preach in exchange for scholars of these heretical doctrines. After these people come to China, they will be given generous treatment and sufficient funds will be provided for their research.

In particular, scholars who have made achievements in navigation, mechanics, astronomy, geography, chemistry, and medicine are welcome to come to China for further research. Yu Xiaotian specially allocated a large amount of funds in his private treasury. , handed over to the Ministry of Education for use by scholars who are willing to come to China to continue their research.

Of course, it is simply not enough to establish only two Imperial Colleges. The governance philosophy promoted by Yu Xiaotian is different from that of previous dynasties. Now, with the development of society, he will vigorously promote the refinement of various social divisions of labor. As society develops, The refinement of the division of labor will also significantly increase the demand for administrative managers. In the future, all walks of life will require a large number of professional talents.

This requires education first and cultivating more scholars. Instead of only a few people in society being able to read as in the past, we must gradually popularize education and improve the quality of all people so that more and more people can learn new knowledge. things until we finally achieve universal education.

Moreover, with the development of industry and commerce in the future, there will be an increasing demand for the number of skilled workers. Being all illiterate will definitely restrict development. If he wants to accelerate the industrial development process, he must have more workers in production. For production We know what technology is and why it is so. We cannot rely on him to exploit the golden finger and transplant the technology of future generations. Once he goes west one day, it is likely to cause the stagnation of industrial machinery technology.

Therefore, he needs more people to enter the research field, to ponder and explore, to study the knowledge of various disciplines, master the essence, and then learn to create. Only in this way can the Chinese nation always stand at the forefront of the world's science and technology field. , in order to always control the pulse of the world and become the world hegemon.

If education is not valued, even if he is doing it in full swing now, it will definitely lead to a lack of stamina in the development of science and technology. Therefore, his current investment in education can be said to be doing something that will last a hundred years. Cultivate people in his lifetime. He has produced more and more scientific and technological talents. Even if one day he goes west, these people will be his greatest legacy to this nation.

Therefore, he would never be satisfied with just renovating two Imperial Colleges and building two new universities. Therefore, in terms of education, he began to implement new education methods in various provinces, with national investment, in the prefectures with better conditions in each province. A voluntary school was first established in a provincial-level place, where the state and local governments invested together to recruit students from poorer families. Of course, they also did not shy away from those disciples of noble families. As long as they passed the entrance examination, they would be admitted.

In terms of curriculum, the focus is on Chinese studies and mathematics at first, with some knowledge on natural sciences interspersed with it. The natural sciences also cover basic introductory knowledge on geography, astronomy, medicine, agriculture, water conservancy, physics, etc. The three-year academic system By five years, children between the ages of six and ten will be admitted to school.

This kind of free education is actually the predecessor of primary schools in later generations. It teaches simple knowledge and pays equal attention to arts and science. It will also not completely overthrow ancient Chinese cultural education. After all, China has accumulated too much essence in its thousands of years of splendid culture. Yu Xiaotian does not conflict with these things, and he never wants to destroy the splendid Chinese culture in his lifetime. After all, many Chinese humanistic concepts are quite good.

Of course, at the same time, we should vigorously promote science education to avoid the disadvantage that students will only learn rote books in the future, so that they can be exposed to a wider range of knowledge.

At the moment, he is unable to achieve universal education, but at least some more enlightened families, who are willing to send their children to school, can get the first step of compulsory education and enjoy the benefits of the education he promotes.

After all, reading in ancient times was basically monopolized by a higher class. Those who could read were basically the children of some wealthy families or official families. They had the financial resources and ability to enjoy the benefits of reading.

But the vast majority of ordinary people, because they have no financial resources, have to let their children work on the land from an early age. They have no time to educate their children, let alone the ability to let them study.

After all, due to the limitations of the printing industry in ancient times, the price of books was quite expensive. People without any savings could not even afford books. Many children from poor families had to go around saying good things and begging their grandfather to borrow them.

Only by reading the book and copying it by yourself can you have the opportunity to study. Therefore, most people rely on their own financial ability to support a child to study, let alone let the child get an education out of work. A family with a boy can still hope

The boys can help them work in the fields as early as possible to support the family.

Therefore, when promoting voluntary education in various prefectures, some families who are willing to send their children to school first have the right to receive education. As long as they are willing to send their children to school, then the state will bear all the food and accommodation, and education is free, and everyone can

The minimum amount of free books can be obtained, but the premise is that these families must be willing to let their children go out of labor and send them to free schools to receive education.

As for how this group of students will proceed to carry out deeper re-education after completing primary education in the future, that will happen in three to five years. There will be at least a buffer time of three to five years. By then, Yu Xiaotian believes that,

With his efforts, the national finance will have a greater improvement in time, and through the training of the Imperial College in the past few years, a group of higher-level scholars will be trained in advance to invest in the next step.

In intermediate education, he serves as a teacher to promote higher-level education.

Yu Xiaotian's approach also surprised many people. Now that Dazhong was newly established and it can be said that everything is still waiting for improvement, Yu Xiaotian made such a big move and spent a lot of money from the finance.

, invested so much huge sums of money to set up volunteer schools in various prefectures and recruit students from poor families all over the world.

This kind of behavior obviously requires a lot of courage. Although he advocated the implementation of the new imperial examination system, which has aroused opposition from scholars all over the world, his current establishment of free schools fully illustrates his need for talents from all over the world. Then

A sense of urgency to recruit talented people.

It is obvious that Yu Xiaotian was not satisfied with the way of selecting talents in previous dynasties, nor was he satisfied with what the current scholars have learned, so he sought the various talents he needed by changing the imperial examination system, and established free schools to teach them

The knowledge required by talents is needed to lay a solid foundation in advance for recruiting a large number of the talents he needs in the future.

(Thanks to brother Yizuuren for the tip!)

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