Chapter 156 Industrialization of Education
"With all due respect, although mathematics is good, it is difficult to promote it on the right path of the imperial examination, I'm afraid, Your Majesty! This is related to the future of hundreds of thousands of students in the world, and Your Majesty wants to promote it, difficult, difficult, difficult! Speaking of Xingtou, Xu Guangqi poured a basin of cold water on Yang Reform's head.
Yang Reform had long known that this kind of thing would happen, and said: "I have already considered this matter, and I am currently only preparing to promote it in these three major classes, the Jinshi Class, the Inner Book Hall and the New Army Academy, these three places, first avoid this imperial examination, if you think about it, it is not a big problem." "When it comes to promoting this matter, Yang Reform is also gloomy, this imperial examination is not about mathematics, so the idea of promoting mathematics is good, and it is quite difficult to do it.
For this, Xu Guangqi has no good way, sitting there thinking for a long time, Yang Reform also sat there in a daze, Xu Guangqi is thinking about things, Yang Reform is waiting for Xu Guangqi to think of something, on this issue, Yang Reform can be said to be at a loss, he is not very familiar with the Ming Dynasty, and he can't figure out the historical allusions and historical origins here, so he can only wait for the older Ming Dynasty to figure out his own way.
After thinking for a long time, Xu Guangqi stopped his action of stroking his beard again and again. said: "The old minister wants to ask Your Majesty, Your Majesty's Jinshi class, but is it in the Guozijian?" ”
Belch! This, Yang Reform is still not sure whether he wants to "expropriate" a batch of houses, as a teaching place for this Jinshi class, or rather, vacate a school there as a school for the Jinshi class, although the Jinshi has been released, but there is no place to study at all.
"I'm not afraid of Master Xu's jokes, I haven't chosen this place yet, Master Xu thinks this country is big enough? Can it accommodate hundreds of people? ”
"Hehehe, Your Majesty is joking, how can this country prison only accommodate these 100 students, in its heyday, it used to accommodate thousands, tens of thousands of students, how can it be compared to hundreds of people?" Xu Guangqi saw that the emperor was so "cute", so he smiled and explained to the emperor the glorious history of this country.
"Thousands? Master Xu isn't lying to me, is he? Why is it that in my impression, the number of people in this country has never been much, I have always thought that there are only a hundred or ten, dozens of people, how can there be thousands or tens of thousands? "Yang Reform is also stupid, isn't this Guozijian a place for those ministers and the children of meritorious heroes to study? How can this number be a lot, in the eyes of Yang Reform, there are one or two hundred people, and it can be regarded as a large-scale school. Now Xu Guangqi told himself that in his heyday, there were thousands or tens of thousands of students, which is comparable to the number of some second- and third-rate universities in the 21st century. Yang Reform is really stupid, in the Ming Dynasty, is there still such a "super-scale" university?
"Alas! Your Majesty is not wrong, now, the Guozijian is drowning, and what Your Majesty said is not bad, and there are only 100 people studying in the Guozijian, which is far less than the grand occasion in the past. Xu Guangqi sighed.
"Ahh Why are there only 100 people? Didn't Master Xu say that there are tens of thousands of people? "Yang Reform is dizzy, this Central University of the Ming Dynasty is less reliable than the Pheasant University in the future, and the number of students enrolled can drop from tens of thousands of people to 100 at once, this thing, the enrollment rate is even more unreliable than the Pheasant University in the future! It almost went out of business.
"Alas...... At the beginning, the imperial examination was not perfect, and both the imperial examination and the tribute examination were on the right path, so there were many people who entered the country's sub-prison, and later, the treasury gradually became weak, and the expenditure gradually became ,...... The homes of ordinary people can also be imprisoned with silver, so that the number of students in the Guozijian is overflowing, the number is huge, the quality is poor, and gradually it is unusable, and later, it is also the imperial examination that is gradually flourishing, and the Guozijian is gradually declining...... "Speaking of this allusion to the Ming Dynasty, this Xu Guangqi is also a door Qing, and explained the history of Yang Reform all the way.
"Master Xu is saying that the treasury has no silver, so he uses this country to collect money? As a result, the standard of the country's eunuchs is getting worse and worse? Later declined? Master Xu said. This country eunuch, who used to pay money to the common people, can also study? "Yang Reform seems to be listening to the book of heaven, listening to Xu Guangqi's story. The country has no money, so it sells the place of the national eunuch, and after paying the money, you can study. This is completely the Ming Dynasty's version of "education industrialization", and Yang Reform had to scold "I rely on" in his heart. Who said that the people of the DPRK are pedantic and have caught up with the advanced education model of the 21 st century.
"It is precisely that the imperial court cannot make ends meet, so it has to open this national prison to collect money, so that this national prison is gradually overflowing, and finally declines,...... can't be blamed for this, this later, the imperial examination became stricter, the imperial examination became more and more prosperous, and the imperial court did not need to send talents from the Guozijian, and the Guozijian naturally declined. It's a pity, tens of thousands of people are studying, but it's a grand event! ......" Xu Guangqi couldn't stop sighing when he talked about the history of this country's eunuch, what a glorious thing it is for tens of thousands of people to learn. It can be said to be a great historical feat and wonder in this culture and education. It's a pity that it's gone. Speaking of this, I couldn't help but sigh.
"How much can the Guozijian pay? The imperial court is so poor? Yang Gai was very curious about this Ming Dynasty version of "education industrialization", and decided to ask, how much silver can be obtained from the "education industrialization" of the Ming Dynasty. A big deal? As the emperor, he lacks money to put "printing money", and it is not bad to make a fortune in this "education industrialization".
"Lao Chen flipped through the previous copywriting, and I didn't see how many, when it was less, it was only tens of thousands of taels, and when it was more, there were hundreds of thousands, or even as many as 200,000 taels." Xu Guangqi is really a living dictionary, and soon reported the data in this historical record, this thing, if no one tells Yang Reform, it is up to Yang Reform to check it himself, God knows that if it is necessary to find out that year and month, the power of this living dictionary will be reflected.
Hundreds of thousands of taels? I rely on it, this "education industrialization" really has a way to make money, and Yang Reform is very moved. This is just a few thousand people studying in Guozijian every year, and they can get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, so if he opens a university town of 30,000 or 40,000 people, wouldn't he be able to get millions of taels of silver? This is really a miracle in cultural and educational undertakings, with the scale of these 30,000 or 40,000 university towns, it is estimated that for a long time, it is a feat that can be proud of the world, no one has ever seen before, and no one has come after! You must know that at this time, the population of those "big cities" in the West, such as Paris, was only a few tens of thousands.
Yang Reform, who is obsessed with money, has almost forgotten what he came here for, and has forgotten Xu Guangqi's intention to talk to him about Guozijian, and he has been thinking about "planning" and "industrialization of education". fantasized that he would also engage in a feat in cultural and educational undertakings, a political achievement project, a university town, and 50,000 or 60,000 people would go to the university town to study. This is a green and pollution-free industry! It is a great historical feat to promote the cause of culture and education! It is necessary to go down in history and be praised later, this university town has been built, how much GDP and how much employment it has to drive! How much money to make! I forgot why I came here in the first place.
(To be continued)