The bustling Xishan is full of people, but the courtyard where Liu Jin lives seems relatively quiet.
At this time, Sun Xin was reporting to Liu Jin with a piece of statistical data.
"Sir, so far, 1,500 people have signed up, 600 of them are people with military household, kitchen household, and craftsman household registration, and 900 people have ordinary household registration."
Sun Xin handed Liu Jin the data he had compiled. The statistics and analysis were relatively primitive, but they were relatively advanced in this era.
"How many people signed up?"
Liu Jin took the report and read it carefully. He originally thought that 900 people could be photographed, which would be enough, or maybe even a little less. Unexpectedly, 1,500 people signed up, which was a bit beyond his imagination.
"Are they all old people who came last year?"
"No, some of them are new this year. They probably came to sign up after receiving the news."
"How many people are there in this group?"
"There are probably more than 100 of them, and those who signed up later are basically new arrivals this year."
"If we kick these people out, we won't have time to teach them some basic knowledge and content. We must use old people."
Liu Jin thought about spending these people, and then said: "Gather all the remaining 1,400 or so."
"Well, a special piece of land is set aside in the east of Xishan to establish a Xishan Maritime Academy. They plus the 100 people brought over by Du Mingen will be the first batch of students. A survival of the fittest system will be implemented. Those who fail will be eliminated.
Retain 1,000 qualified people."
"They will undergo three months of marine-specific study and training. By April, they should be leaving for the Golden Continent."
The establishment of Xishan Maritime Academy was also a decision Liu Jin made after careful consideration.
Going to the Golden Continent requires a professional fleet, and even more so, professional sailors. Without advanced ships, it is impossible to sail across the ocean, and without professional sailors, it is also impossible to pursue wealth in the ocean.
In this era, due to the long-term maritime ban policy implemented by the Ming Dynasty, there was a serious shortage of maritime talents. Not only shipbuilding talents were in short supply, but qualified and professional sailors were also in short supply.
If you only rely on experience to train professional sailors, the speed will be very slow, and in many cases the experience is unreliable or even wrong.
This requires the establishment of a professional maritime school to cultivate professional marine talents. Through the school, a systematic study is carried out on ocean currents, climate, global geographical knowledge, astronomical knowledge, ocean survival knowledge, ocean-going ship structure, etc.
A systematic study.
Of course, this is the most ideal situation. The reality is that there is not much time for Liu Jin to conduct systematic learning for these people. These people are also adults. Although after last year’s training and study, they have gotten to know some
words, but overall, the plasticity is not too strong.
If you really want to cultivate qualified marine talents, you need to train them from an early age. Now, at best, it can only be regarded as sharpening the skills before the battle.
Certain training is much better than no training at all. Liu Jin will impart some of the knowledge in the ocean to these people in later generations, and use the method of combining theory and practice in later generations. I believe that he will always be able to achieve some results. In short
He didn't know anything, so he stupidly sent a lot of things to the ocean.
Of course, the establishment of a professional maritime school was also an experiment for Liu Jin. If he wanted to make a difference in this era and change the destiny of the descendants of Yan and Huang, Liu Jin needed to slowly lead this huge empire to the ocean and look towards the Ming Dynasty.
The world outside.
To do all this, Liu Jin must cultivate countless like-minded people, and allow more people to enjoy and obtain benefits in the process, thereby becoming his supporters.
The Maritime College is just the beginning. In the future, Liu Jin will build a series of colleges such as Textile College, Architecture College, Engineering College, etc. to spread a large amount of knowledge and cultivate countless talents.
In this era, all the right to speak and knowledge are in the hands of Confucian scholars. This Confucian thought has long been decayed and lost its vitality. All scholars hold the Four Books and Five Classics handed down for thousands of years and memorize them.
It's not enough to be familiar with it, but you still have to memorize a mountain of annotations.
Having developed to this point, it is almost destined that it will only slowly hinder the progress and development of society, because society's thoughts are tightly imprisoned, and any innovation and change will be regarded as heresy and Kit Kat YIN art.
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But it is precisely this kind of Confucianism and such literati and officials who have mastered everything of this era and the right to speak in this era.
Liu Jin knew that he was just making a small fuss now, and it was all related to people's livelihood, so they could ignore it, but once he touched Confucianism, these scholars were the interests of the officials, and he would definitely die without a burial place.
If he wants to fight against these traditional forces, Liu Jin must cultivate a group of powerful new forces, so it is imperative to establish various schools, because schools are not only places to spread knowledge, they are
It is also a place to spread ideas. Whoever masters this will have the right to speak and the future.
If the Maritime College does well, Liu Jin will build more important professional colleges piecemeal. As long as more people learn new knowledge and use the new knowledge to gain wealth and status, then Liu Jin will stand on Liu Jin's side in the future.
There will be more people around Jin, which will naturally and slowly lead the empire to a different development path.
The area of Xishan is very large. It was originally a private imperial estate belonging to Emperor Hongzhi. The area is naturally not small. After all, it is the emperor's property and there is a lot of land available for use.
Soon, on the east side of Xishan, with the continuous investment of a lot of manpower and material resources, a huge academy was slowly built. This academy is different from traditional academies. It does not teach the Four Books and Five Classics, nor is it called the School of Scholars.
, is an academy dedicated to imparting professional marine knowledge.
Of course, now it is just a sign, the sign of Xishan Maritime Academy, which also did not attract anyone's attention. After all, it is just a training place for a group of crew members who are about to go on a voyage. There is nothing much worth paying attention to as a training place.
But this Xishan Maritime Academy is destined to be a place written into history textbooks, and countless historical celebrities will emerge from here.
