"The more knowledge, the more reactionary it is," says from the perspective of the ruling class. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info If you are an emperor, would you like to rule a group of Wen Hao, or a group of them? And now that we are the ruling class, this question is before us, and we must think clearly. "After completing the negotiations with the Jinhe Empire, Hong Tao has made the Great Song Dynasty his own country. Politics, economy, agriculture, national defense, urban construction, and transportation construction can all be carried out in imitation of the model of the Jinhe Empire, and there is no need to think about it separately, but there is only one thing he can't decide, that is, education, to be precise, universal education.

What's wrong with universal education? With the assistance of the Jinhe Empire, there is definitely no shortage of teachers, and I dare not say that every village has a public primary school, at least a few in each county is no problem. Money or anything is not a problem, after Hong Tao crossed over, he rarely worried about money. Even without the support of the Golden River Empire, as long as he was willing to give up his face and walk around the southern coastal cities, the donations from the maritime merchants would be enough to build a primary school. If there are rich people and people, is universal education still a big problem?

In Hong Tao's view, how to position the investment in education of the Great Song Empire is a very delicate and important big problem. Is universal education as much as possible? Is literacy for all the cleaner the better? The answer is probably uncertain.

Education is the foundation of the nation, and this definition is certainly correct. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, as the founder of German unification, the leader of the Prussian army, and the chief of the General Staff, Mao Qi said that the victory of Prussia was decided as early as the podium of the elementary school teacher.

The background of this sentence is the rise of Germany, when Prussia was still paying a huge amount of reparations to Napoleon, but every year it spent a lot of money on the construction of domestic schools, from primary school to university. They have positioned their future strategy on national quality education, and the Germans have always adhered to this policy, which has also benefited Germany for a long time and become the birthplace of the world's second scientific and technological revolution. It can be said that Germany has truly achieved "no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education".

But education is also a beast, a definition that sounds a bit unreasonable, but in fact there are countless examples of being devoured by this beast, including China itself. The issue is complicated to say, and at this point, the question of education is no longer simply an educational issue, but a political one.

Any country that wants to enter industrialization must first have an educational foundation that matches the process of industrialization. Because there are not enough educated workers and intellectuals, industrialization is just an empty slogan. Farmers, fishermen, herders, and hunters, let alone scientists, cannot be expected to be industrial workers and engineers.

But at the level of government rule, it is not necessarily a good thing that education is too universal. Why? Because the stupider the people, the better they rule, and this thing is true, and it applies in any political system.

Far away, let's look at modern history. The Beiyang government was not careless in education, and under the harsh conditions of that time, it also followed the example of Prussia and increased its investment in education, and it was still very successful, educating one or two million primary school students and tens of thousands of international students. But what about the result? It was these primary school students and international students who became the backbone of the later overthrow of the Beiyang regime. In the following decades, most of the people who were active in the political arena and the revolutionary camp were intellectuals educated by the Beiyang government.

Looking at the former Soviet Union, its education system cannot be said to be the first in the world, but also among the top three. While higher education in Western countries was still charging high tuition fees, universities in the former Soviet Union were not only free, but also subsidized. The main thing is that these universities are open to all citizens, and as long as you can pass the exam, you can study regardless of your family background.

At the time of the founding of the Soviet Union, there were only about 200,000 people in the country with higher and secondary education. By 1984, however, the total number of people with higher and secondary education in the Soviet Union had increased by more than 170 times to more than 50 million. At that time, the population of the Soviet Union was only about 200 million, and if the population with primary education was added, there was basically no illiteracy in the entire Soviet Union, and this was also an important factor in the rapid growth of the Soviet Union.

But who hated the government the most in the period before the collapse of the Soviet Union? Like the Beiyang government, it is those intellectuals who have been educated by the government, and it was these people who promoted the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

Why did it turn out this way? The reason is simple, the more highly educated a person is, the less likely his brain is to be fooled. They can analyze the state of government on their own, and once they feel that it is unreasonable, the intellectuals will not go against the grain like uneducated people, they always want to change the irrational phenomenon, and they have many methods. As the saying goes, the more knowledge, the more reactionary!

At present, to be precise, the Great Song Dynasty was still an agricultural country, no matter how developed the coastal trade and handicraft industry were, how strong the budding capitalism was, and no matter how obvious the rudiments of the commercial society in the big cities were. Generally speaking, the mode of thinking of the whole people is still stuck in an agrarian society.

If Hong Tao wants to make the Great Song Dynasty strong, he must transform it into an industrial country, which inevitably involves a problem, that is, education. Whether or not to carry out large-scale universal education is a dilemma facing Hong Tao.

To carry it out, it is necessary to completely turn the Great Song Dynasty into a capitalist system, because only capital can meet the needs of future intellectuals, not only in life, but also spiritually. Otherwise, these people who have been educated by themselves may be the new force that overthrows the Great Song Dynasty in the next few decades.

If it is not carried out, without a sufficient number of intellectuals and industrial workers, it is simply a fool's dream to let the Great Song Dynasty enter the era of industrialization. The Great Song Dynasty was not like the Jinhe Empire, its size was too large, and it could not occupy colonies everywhere like the rise of the Jinhe Empire, and spread the cost of its own country's development evenly on the colonial people.

Because part of the colonies that the Great Song Dynasty could find were occupied by the Jinhe Empire, the rest was estimated to have to be divided up with the Jinhe Empire. No matter what kind of relationship the Great Song Dynasty and the Jinhe Empire is, after all, they are still two countries now, and it is impossible for the Jinhe Empire to watch the Great Song Dynasty go out and grab territory everywhere and remain indifferent.

If the Great Song Dynasty really wants to do this, it will be to make trouble for himself, and he will provoke the Jinhe Empire one day. If you really want to get to that state, it's useless to call Hong Jinhe your father, the army of the Jinhe Empire has to make a comeback, and no one can stop it.

Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty can only develop by himself, and no one should provoke him in a short period of time, and try not to make the Jinhe Empire feel too threatened. After the internal and external injuries have been healed, and the various domestic forces have been effectively integrated, let's talk about the problem of wrestling with the Jinhe Empire. This thing is like the relationship between two large companies, if one is too strong and the other is too weak, then there is no possibility of negotiating conditions. The strong will eventually eat the weak, and they won't even use the way to acquire them, they will be crushed directly.

Hong Tao didn't want the Great Song Dynasty to become a vassal of the Jinhe Empire, even if he imagined that the best way for the two countries to develop was to merge, it had to be a real merger, a relatively equal integration, and one could not eat the other. It's a grand idea, and it's not easy to implement. Every step of the current plan will affect the future direction, and it is not possible to take a wrong step, and before each step is taken, we must not only look at the present, but also take a long-term view.

Nan thinks that no matter what happens in the future, educating the people is not a bad thing after all, as for the future...... Minami couldn't figure it out. Wen Nan really couldn't understand Hong Tao's thinking on the question of education, and he must not understand that this problem had not yet appeared in the thirteenth century.

"I can't think of it, so let's just don't think about it, let's just do what we love. These days, you have to sort out the matter of universal education, and my opinion is to first establish a new type of primary school in each county, with a duration of five years; Ten more large cities will be selected to establish ten intermediate schools, and the duration of education will also be five years; As for the senior schools, let's set up two first, one as the Imperial University and the other as the Imperial Military Academy. However, these are far waters, and they can't quench their thirst, and we can't always expect to recruit national management talents from the Jinhe Empire, so we have to get a temporary training class for training middle and low-level officials for the empire. Its mission is to provide the state with as many grassroots officials as possible in the shortest possible time. The students of this training course were selected from the Great Song Dynasty officials, Taixue students, original scholars, and the children of merchants in coastal cities. As long as they are young people who are willing to serve the country and have a certain cultural foundation, they can be recruited. ”

Hong Tao also couldn't figure out the problem of too far, the transformation of the Great Song Dynasty was also a new topic for him, and it was not at the same level as the previous establishment of the Jinhe Empire and the Spring Alliance, this time it was much more advanced. The first two attempts were to raise tall buildings on the ground and paint on white paper, and there were very few things to consider. This time it is to transform a huge empire, and changes need to be made everywhere, but it can't all be pushed all over again, and the thicker the foundation, the more difficult it will be.

"The children of merchants in coastal cities are fine, as long as you show a little bit of your intention to let the merchants enter the state management, I estimate that they can step on the gates of Lin'an City. The officials of the Great Song Dynasty are not too difficult, and there are also people who want to change among these people, but it is a bit troublesome for students and scholars. As you said, these people are vested interests, and the Great Song Dynasty is the only way for them to realize their ideals and ambitions, but your new policy has cut off their upward channel, and they will not be happy anyway, let alone contribute to the new policy, it would be good if they didn't come out and make trouble. Wennan mostly agrees with Hong Tao's education implementation plan, but has some objections to the group selected by Hong Tao.

(To be continued.) )