Chapter 15 Schools

In fact, the philosophy that Carnello talked about really bothered the bishop of Macao for a long time.

If a barbarian has the strongest army in the world, the strongest ships and the most dangerous cannons, is that person civilized or barbaric?

Bishop Carneiro had no answer, and no one could know the answer, he only knew that in the future, merchant ships entering Macao would need to be subjected to stricter scrutiny, and neither he nor Chen Mu wanted to see such a scene happen again.

In his annual report to the Pope and Lisbon via the Church of the Mirrors, Bishop Carneiro wrote: The Ming Empire is becoming more dangerous, and on the coast of Xiangshan, new warships are slipping into the sea every day, and although the missionary business is still difficult here, there is still hope, at least it is not stopped, but it must obey the laws of the Ming Empire.

The scourge of trafficking in the people did not last long in Haojing, the criminals and the crew and sailors were all killed in the municipal square, and Chen Mu did not anger others, but ordered the Xiangshan Thousand Households to relocate two hundred households to Haojing, so as to strengthen the garrison and investigation in Haojing.

In addition to the Ordnance Bureau, Chen Mu also has a place to go - the Guangdong Navy Martial Arts Hall.

After Lu Bo and Yu Dayou learned the news of his landing in Haojing, they immediately sent someone to call him, hoping that he could go to the Navy Lecture Hall.

The first batch of students in Jiangwutang is approaching the exam, but these hairy children have recently been obsessed with reading extracurricular books, and they are holding Guangcheng's newly printed "Nanyang Biography", "Lin Laihai Battle Record", "Xinming Zhiwei" and other market scripts all day long, and they can't even take care of their knowledge.

In this situation, regardless of whether it was Lu Bo or Yu Dayou, they were not very confident about their teaching talents, so they specially asked Chen Mu to come and see the students of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall.

Are they not at ease?

Chen Mu is still not at ease!

The school system is two and a half years, and the textbooks of various subjects have been changed two or three times in the past two and a half years alone.

In other words, no matter how well they learn, the first phase of students is not as good as the second phase, and the second phase is not as good as the third phase, all these changes are coming too fast, and Chen Mu doesn't know how.

Chen Mu didn't wear an official uniform, and when he entered the lecture hall, he was specially asked to change into a student's armor, even if it was just an ordinary student of the lecture hall, it was better than the general flag outside the hundred households, they had a standard red robe, and engraved the front and rear breastplates and arm binding armor skirts of the navy lecture hall.

Some time ago, the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau also specially gave them a standard martial arts knife and an engraved martial arts handcuff, but that was a graduation gift prepared by Chen Mu for them, and it was not yet time to send it to them.

Walking through the lecture hall, looking at the various artillery guns in the artillery shed on the school field and the students practicing in between, and the students of the first phase of the class in the classroom in the distance teaching the second phase of the students, Chen Mu could not be more satisfied than at this moment.

"Chen Shuai, the old man thinks that the teaching of students in various sciences should be changed slightly."

Lu Bo's mountain chief's mansion is in the mountain behind the lecture hall, since he served as the mountain chief, he moved his family to the hall, this time invited Chen Mu, the attendant prepared tea and dried plums and other snacks, Lu Bo said: "In the past two years, the textbooks of various subjects have been changed many times, and the students have learned hard, just like the spear formation learned in the first year is flat, and the second year has to step on the spear tail array. ”

"The foreign map has also been changing, becoming more and more refined, and the sea chart is becoming more and more comprehensive, and the old man thinks that the students who will enter the martial arts hall in the future can start from Taoism first, and then go to academics."

"Dao and art?"

This Chen Mu can barely understand, the Tao is the general outline theory, and the technique is the specific application, he asked: "It's like learning fortifications first and then distinguishing between wood and cement, first learning surveying and mapping and then understanding foreign maps?" ”

"Yes, the old man discussed it with Yu Shuai and thought it was very good, but I still have to ask Chen Shuai what he meant, after all, most of these dolls will graduate in the future, and most of them will go to Chen Shuai's command to listen to them."

In fact, where these students will go in the future, Lu Bo has always considered this, the first choice is naturally Chen Mu's Nanyang Military Mansion, in addition to this, you can also go to the Xuanfu Army Lecture Hall to study, he and Xu Jie have had exchanges for this, and after each batch of students graduate, they can choose some of the outstanding students who are ready to stay and teach.

Of course, even so, the veterans of the lecture hall are indispensable, and they will have to hold on for at least another three years, and after a one-year study tour, these people will have to be inserted into various places where the troops are used as generals for two years, and they can only return to the lecture hall to teach after they have combat experience.

"In addition, Mr. Xu's translation of the Xiyi Naval Soldier Book sent by Chen Shuai before has also been used as a supplementary textbook, and the old man thinks that the Xiyi compilation has its own uniqueness, concise and straightforward words, and it is easier for ordinary soldiers to learn, which is similar to Chen Shuaiqi's military manual."

Chen Mu nodded and said: "What Gong Lu said is that the Western countries are also thousands of years old, they are far away from me, and the language and customs are different, and there are many wars in the countries, as if there were hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it is inevitable that there will not be such a person as fond of studying as Mozi Gongyi." ”

In fact, there are still things that Chen Mu didn't say, since the unification, the people and officials perform their duties, the responsibility of the officials is too heavy, and the people's dependence on the officials is too heavy.

Lu Bo was just the head of his chin, and did not follow Chen Mu's words, now that the Ming Dynasty is in the school dispute, he doesn't want to talk about this, he smiled and said: "Some time ago, the old man and Xuanfu Xu Shanchang sent a letter, he was very interested in the large-scale and unified teaching method of the martial arts hall, and planned to wait for someone to succeed the mountain chief in the future and return to Songjiang Mansion to build a lecture academy. ”

The military attachΓ©'s lecture hall is a military academy; The lecture academy that Xu Jie wants to run...... University?

It's not an exaggeration to say that it's a university, it's just not the kind of university in Chen Mu's impression.

"Old Xu Ge, this is what you want to be famous, right?"

Chen Mu shook his head with a smile, and he said: "The elder of Xu Ge is the head of the Xuanfu Mountain, and the younger generation knows everything about running the school, and there is nothing to say about it. However, according to the following superficial opinion, what Daming lacks is not one or several universities. ”

"It is a primary school, a primary school that can teach the people to read and write, understand arithmetic, know moral rules, and know a little about geography, physics, and nature."

Just like Zhang Juzheng's understanding of Chen Mu, Chen Mu is more anxious for quick success than anyone else, more radical than anyone else, Xu Jie's want to run a Confucianism in different disciplines, which is definitely a great thing, it can bring dozens or even hundreds of senior imperial talents who know how to govern politics, know the art of war, understand art, know astronomy and understand geography, and are all proficient in music and literature.

But most of them will enter the officialdom, Oriental classical education, the vast majority of those educated are conservative managers, Chen Mu hopes to see pioneers from all walks of life.

"As Lu Gong said, learn the Tao first, then academic, and the Tao is all the best." Chen Mu's eyes were shining, and he said: "Primary school is the Tao, university is the art, the younger generation thinks that he can send a message to Xu Ge Lao to see if he is interested in this matter that has been passed down for centuries." ”