Chapter 1263 Preparation for war requires education first
Chapter 1263: To prepare for war, you must first prepare for education (Second update, please subscribe)
Author: Xiaoyu’s Destiny
Chapter 1263: To prepare for war, you must first prepare for education (Second update, please subscribe)
"What the military means..."
After thinking for a while, Sun Hu said directly.
"The meaning of the military is very simple. Fighting a war is nothing more than a competition for guns and ammunition. This competition is about industrial production. After the war breaks out, the empire will definitely mobilize all factories to produce military products. This plan has been formulated as early as the Nanhua period.
, and the National Defense Mobilization Committee will revise it every two years."
The National Defense Mobilization Committee is a very special organization. There are both civilian officials and military officers in the committee. It is the only "mixed organization" in the Ming Dynasty. This organization was established in the Nanhua era when Emperor Zhu Da was forced to "survive".
An institution established under "pressure" belongs to neither the military nor the civil service. It is an independent institution that directly takes orders from the palace.
What are its responsibilities?
It is to formulate a national defense mobilization plan, conduct a thorough survey of the Ming Dynasty's population, industry and agriculture every two years to understand the empire's war potential, and formulate a corresponding mobilization plan.
Therefore, Sun Hu was not worried at all about military production and manpower mobilization.
"There has never been a country in the world that has prepared for a twenty-five-year war, and it is also a general war. Moreover, the weapons stockpiled by the imperial military are enough to arm 200 divisions, so there should be no problem with mobilization. The only problem is...
…”
After a pause, Sun Hu said.
"These are not real preparations for war!"
"General, what is true combat readiness?"
"Real war preparation does not necessarily involve military production, but the seemingly inconspicuous education!"
Sun Hu said.
"The original intention of general compulsory education in the Ming Dynasty was to provide a higher-quality labor force for industrialization. In the past 28 years, it was through universal education that human resources preparation for industrial upgrading was completed. Of course, universal education is also a preparation for war.
The most important part is that in war, we not only compete with industrial production machines, but also compete with manpower, and this manpower cannot be used at will."
After a pause, Sun Hu looked at Qian Degong and said,
"If Mr. Qian asks what preparations the military wants the government to make, then please ask the Executive Yuan to change the six-year compulsory education to nine years!"
Looking at the Imperial Prime Minister in front of him, Sun Hu, the Imperial Army General, explained.
"The six-year compulsory education currently implemented in the empire includes some military content in basic physical education courses, but the real military training still has to wait until junior high school. Half of the content of physical education in junior high school is military sports, and military training will be taught in high school.
Class. Although two or three months of intensive training based on primary school education is enough for qualified soldiers, once war breaks out, the empire will need millions of non-commissioned officers, and these non-commissioned officers must receive junior high school education.
It takes at least one and a half years to qualify as a non-commissioned officer, and at least two years for an officer. The reserve in this regard depends on the universalization of nine-year compulsory education. Now the pre-officer corps in imperial universities and expert colleges can provide enough officers.
Those who receive primary education are soldiers, but between soldiers and officers, a large number of non-commissioned officers are still needed. This gap exists in the current military system of the empire. My suggestion is to popularize junior high school education and establish it in technical schools.
Reservist reserve training to establish a reserve of non-commissioned officers..."
In fact, nine-year compulsory education is the most important supplementary opinion of the military to the imperial war preparation plan.
Of course, compared to other options, this suggestion can be said to be the most expensive and expensive.
"And this matter is not only related to future wars, but also related to the improvement of the overall quality of the people, which will last forever... If finances permit, please expand compulsory education to junior high schools and popularize nine-year compulsory education. Qian Xiang
Can this be achieved?"
Faced with this suggestion that would benefit the country and the people, Qian Degong did not answer immediately. He just thought about it silently in his heart.
As the prime minister of the empire, Qian Degong certainly couldn't make a decision at the first glance. The implementation of nine-year compulsory education was definitely a matter that benefited the country and the people, but many things could not be decided with just a few words. He was heartbroken.
Quickly calculate the expenses for implementing nine-year compulsory education.
Money is the key to everything.
While he was immersed in mental calculations, Sun Hu was not in a hurry. He just drank tea silently. After drinking tea for several minutes, Qian Degong slowly raised his head.
“Use all the proceeds from state-owned land to develop education!”
Sun Hu was speechless for a while.
As we all know, the empire's greatest financial gain is not tax revenue, but rent from state-owned land. The empire does not impose heavy taxes on private land, but the empire has almost 1.2 billion acres of state-owned land, and 25% of the output of that land is in the form of land rent.
, collected uniformly by the government.
How much money is this?
A total of more than 700 million yuan!
That is more than 100 million pounds. In the past few decades, the empire has relied on the rent of state-owned land for industrial investment, and the annual education funding of 150 million yuan has also been spent from there.
After a while of silence, Sun Hu put down the tea cup in his hand:
"Qian Xiang... how much does it cost?"
"According to what you said, to popularize nine-year compulsory education across the country, including the cost of establishing preparatory groups for technical schools, considering that a large number of new schools will be needed, and junior high schools have been expanded, high schools will definitely also be expanded. At the same time, universities
The same goes for infrastructure construction and personnel salaries, which are all money. The average annual cost in the first three years is about 400-500 million yuan."
"I actually want so much..."
Sun Hu suddenly felt incredible. He certainly understood what the numbers reported by Qian Degong meant.
"We have already opened many schools before. Have you considered this? We are not starting from scratch. We have built a lot of schools in the empire over the years..."
"Already deducted."
Qian Degong replied without mercy.
Seeing that Sun Hu didn't seem to believe it, Qian Degong picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and then explained seriously:
"I calculated it based on the imperial standard of an ordinary junior high school. The school is based on 300 students per school. The school building is a simple brick building, each room can accommodate 30 to 40 people. In towns, if conditions permit, it can be built with two floors.
In addition to classrooms, the building also needs a library and a laboratory, but each school must be equipped with a standard playground with a 400-meter track, plus a basketball court, and all the corresponding sports equipment.
Junior high schools can be set up in markets and allocated according to primary schools and population ratios. Each school is similar in size and requires similar facilities. Although the government can purchase in large quantities to reduce costs, there is also a lot of expenditure in this area.
Correspondingly, there is the expansion of high schools and universities. After all, as the foundation is expanded, the upper levels must also be expanded accordingly. This accounts for 35% of the total cost. After all, the higher the level, the greater the expenditure, and national defense education and military education also require a lot of resources.
The amount of funds is 500 million per year..."
After a pause, Qian Degong said.
"500 million may be considered too low. Even after the early construction is completed, the expenditure will not be less than 300 million!"
"This... popularizing nine-year compulsory education requires so many resources..."
Sun Hu frowned and said.
"300 million... is really a lot! If used to build dreadnoughts, it would be enough to build dozens of them!"