The Rise of the European Emperor

What kind of existence are elementary school graduates? In modern times, primary school graduation and illiteracy are about the same. Not only that, but elementary school students are still despised groups. For example, those unscrupulous game propaganda in later generations are like "strengthening the head, rejecting the primary school students"... It can be seen that in modern times, primary school students are the objects of contempt.

However, what surprised Marin was that in this day and age, fresh graduates are so popular...

Marin's junior high school students only recruit 2,000 students. The other 4,000 primary school students are to be directly promoted to the society. There are generally two ways out for them - one is to be an apprentice to a craftsman, and the other is to enter a non-commissioned officer school, part-work and part-study.

What is the Sergeant School? It is a school for training the lowest-ranking junior officers. A non-commissioned officer is an existence whose status is lower than that of an officer, but higher than that of ordinary soldiers. Specifically in the army, in modern terms, it is the status of a squad leader and deputy squad leader. In this era, there are squad leaders and deputy squad leaders.

Generally speaking, in the ancient class society, civilians were the highest non-commissioned officers in the army, but it was almost impossible to be officers above non-commissioned officers. A non-commissioned officer is one level lower than the lowest-ranking officer, a second lieutenant, but this level is an insurmountable gap.

Even in later generations, it is difficult for a non-commissioned officer to be promoted to a second lieutenant. Second lieutenants and platoon leaders in the military are generally graduates of military academies. Ordinary soldiers want to level up, unless there is a war and make a contribution.

However, that is in modern times. In ancient times, warriors from civilian backgrounds, even if they made military exploits, they only obtained the status of non-commissioned officers and could not become true officers.

Of course, here in Marin, it does not care about the status of commoners and nobles. However, since becoming a great nobleman, Marin also has to abide by some rules. For example, if these students from civilian schools join the army, they can become non-commissioned officers at most, and cannot become officers at once, even the lowest-ranking officers. Otherwise, those officers will sacrifice their lives for you, and as a result, the offspring will be treated the same as civilians. Can people be happy?

But this is just a different start. Just like the games of later generations, the children of nobles are VIP players, and they start with a set of sophisticated equipment. And the children of the commoners don't even have a dog at the start...

Marin is ostensibly following the rules of the age - civilians can't start as officers. But in the future, Marin did not intend to abide by the rules of this era, but changed it to - civilians can also be promoted to officers through meritorious service. However, in a peaceful age, if there is no war, the non-commissioned officers are the end of the commoners...

In this way, Marin did this to give an explanation to those subordinates who followed him through life and death. Make them feel that it's good to be a noble.

But in fact, Marin feels that there are so many wars in this era, and there are basically no peaceful eras. Therefore, the children of the commoners have the opportunity to make merit and upgrade. Even if the war in Europe stopped, Marin could still send them to the Americas to fight the natives,

Or send it to Japan to fight Japanese pirates... In short, there are opportunities to upgrade...

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This is Marin's definition of a non-commissioned officer - a literate high-ranking soldier...

The non-commissioned officer school is very different from the ordinary school. The students of the non-commissioned officer school are not full-time, but take classes during the busy farming time. Once the busy farming season begins, all the students of the non-commissioned officer school have to go home to help. In other words, the students of the non-commissioned officer school are not full-time students, but must take care of labor. After all, those who were eliminated from elementary school were also thirteen or fourteen years old. In this era, it is possible to serve as an important labor force in the family.

Only during the slack season would Marin call them to school to learn cultural knowledge and military skills. When these children become adults, they can grow into high-quality low-level non-commissioned officers. Once the junior officers of the army are all educated and high-quality non-commissioned officers, then the North Sea army of Marin can transform into a powerful army like the Prussian army.

In Marin's view, the combat effectiveness of the army has a lot to do with the quality of the grass-roots officers. The German army is stronger than the French army because of the power of German Prussian education. Prussia was the first country in the world to implement compulsory education for all, but its purpose, to a large extent, was to improve the quality of its soldiers.

On the other hand, it is France. French high-ranking officers, of course, are highly educated and personable. But the French officers at the grassroots level were all barbaric and rude, and their quality was far worse than that of the Prussian lower-level officers. As a result, this led to the French army's combat effectiveness not keeping up with the German army. The Franco-Prussian War was a complete defeat for France. The country was also wiped out in World War II. Only in World War I, with the help of the British shit stick, did it withstand the German attack.

This kind of part-work-study non-commissioned officer school also has a three-year schooling system. At the end of 3 years, the children are almost 16 years old. But at the age of 16, it is still difficult to directly pull into the battlefield. All Marin decided to temporarily incorporate them into the militia force and only gather for training every winter. When they are 18 years old, they can be incorporated into the army as needed.

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This is what Marin planned. He planned to incorporate half of them into the non-commissioned officer academy, and then send outstanding junior officers to serve as instructors for them. At the same time, literate missionaries were sent to teach them to read and write, and at the same time brainwashed them.

However, plans have not kept pace with the changes. Because, just because of these 4,000 elementary school students, Beihai almost started fighting...

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How can it fight? It turned out that the great craftsmen in Beihai, in order to obtain excellent apprentices, resisted these primary school graduates who were eliminated...

They have all been eliminated, why are they still called "excellent"? This is from the background of this era...

In this day and age, there are very few civilians who are literate. Generally speaking, the cultured are mainly nobles and priests. Of course, in addition to these two groups, there are some commoners who are also literate, they are craftsmen and merchants...

However, the literacy of these craftsmen and merchants is very limited, limited to the needs of daily life. Plus, they'll have a little elementary-level math.

So how did these artisans and merchants become literate? Here I have to mention a custom in ancient Europe - apprenticeship...

In this era, civilians generally do not have the opportunity to go to school. Except for a small number of common people and wealthy businessmen who spend a lot of money to send their children to school, there is only one way for most common people to literate - that is, to be an apprentice...

Ancient apprentices are completely different from modern apprentices. Young people who have just started working in modern times enter factories and are nominally apprentices, but they still enjoy apprenticeship wages and do not need to serve their masters as uncles. In ancient times, whether in China or Europe, apprentices were actually free labor recruited by artisans and merchants. Also, it's generally child labor...

In ancient Europe, apprenticeships generally lasted 7 years. In the past 7 years, the apprentices worked for the craftsmen and merchants as masters for free, and it was not bad to be able to manage meals. Some stingy masters don't even take care of meals.

However, the apprentices couldn't do anything either. Because the only chance for them to learn the craft is to be an apprentice. Within 7 years of being apprentices, they will not only learn the craftsmanship, but the masters will also teach them literacy and simple mathematical calculations. Generally, this calculation level does not exceed the third and fourth grades of primary school...

Even so, being able to learn crafts and simple cultural knowledge is a great blessing for ordinary children. After all, commoner children generally do not have the opportunity to go to school, and they can learn to read and write mostly from their masters.

However, those craftsmen and businessmen themselves are actually only half-educated, and they will not be very clever if they are handed over to their apprentices. Often, after seven years of apprenticeships, the educational level may not catch up with the level of the third grade of primary school.

And the batch of primary school graduates who were eliminated in Marin's hands may have a higher education level than most craftsmen...

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In this way, these craftsmen take these children who have graduated from elementary school back as apprentices, and they can directly skip the link of teaching them literacy and directly enter the link of skill teaching.

Of course, the craftsmen weren't so kind. The important reason why they want this batch of elementary school graduates is that the mathematics level of these elementary school students is higher than that of many craftsmen. Moreover, in the last semester of elementary school, the school also taught the basics of drawing...

In this way, the apprentices obtained by those craftsmen are not simple apprentices. Such apprentices not only have a good cultural foundation, but also have a certain drawing ability. Even their mathematical level surpasses that of many craftsmen and merchants themselves. In this way, it is very easy for craftsmen to get such apprentices. Some of the computational and drawing troubles can even be left to such advanced apprentices.

What? Are you afraid that these apprentices will learn the skills and leave? No...because these apprentices start out with apprenticeship contracts of up to 7 years. In these 7 years, the apprentices are equivalent to selling themselves to the master, and there is no freedom at all. Usually, the apprentices not only help the master with the work. Even, you need to help the master with housework. For example, helping the master to pour the urinal or something...

Even if the apprentice learns the technology, under the constraints of the contract, it is difficult to leave the self-reliance. For seven years, apprentices are free helpers to craftsmen. If you are more capable, you will be able to help craftsmen more. Also, it saves a lot of teaching time.

Therefore, for this batch of 4,000 primary school graduates, craftsmen and businessmen in Beihai, they are very jealous...

Not to mention this group of 4,000 primary school graduates, many of the 4,000 who were eliminated in the third grade of primary school two years ago were taken away (to save money, Beihai Guo Primary School is a 5-year system).

Of course, the children who were eliminated two years ago were not very capable. Otherwise, it will not be eliminated. But even those children who are not very good, after all, have the level of the third grade of primary school, which is much better than those apprentices who can't read big characters. At least, the teaching link can be omitted. You know, those craftsmen are also very troubled about how to teach apprentices literacy and numeracy. After all, they are not professional teachers. Moreover, its own level is also very limited.

The ones that were eliminated two years ago were all so easy to use, let alone the ones that were eliminated?

You must know that many of those who were eliminated two years ago had very poor grades. Many people have poor literacy and poor math. So, they were eliminated.

But even so, among the 4,000 people who are more prominent, in the eyes of many craftsmen, they are considered excellent apprentices.

And this batch of 4,000 people who were eliminated is even more powerful. After all, in the big elimination two years ago, these people were the winners. The worst among them is also more powerful than the top two years ago.

Obviously, this group of people who can survive until they graduate from primary school, and their educational level, including computing ability, is far superior to the group that was eliminated two years ago. What's more, they also learned the basics of drawing, which is ahead of this era (this is a textbook suitable for elementary school students that Marin edited and edited based on the "Engineering Drawing" he taught himself at work in his previous life).

It can be said that these elementary school graduates, in this era, are especially "high-achieving students". Therefore, as soon as they graduated, they caused the looting of those craftsmen. In order to snatch these "high-quality students" who graduated from elementary school, some high-ranking craftsmen did not hesitate to make trouble in front of Marin...