While the imperial examinations held every three years were being held in the capital, the primary school affiliated with the Beijing Machinery Factory was also conducting an examination that was completely different from this era.
Jingcheng Machinery Factory Affiliated Primary School, an affiliated primary school directly affiliated with Jingcheng Machinery Factory, mainly recruits children of employees of Jingcheng Machinery Factory, as well as children from several communities near Jingcheng Machinery Factory... because it is a primary school directly affiliated with Jingcheng Machinery Factory.
, so the teaching content and so on are naturally different from traditional Ming private schools and academies.
From the very beginning, the students trained by the Primary School Affiliated to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory were not trained to take the imperial examination. This fact has been informed to each child's parents from the day they entered school.
If you want your children to pass the imperial examinations, and if you want your children to be successful in the future and become high-ranking officials, then don't send them here, because there is a lot of knowledge and content taught here, and the Four Books and Five Classics are only a very small part of it.
It’s just a very small part of the Chinese language class.
The imperial examinations are all based on the Four Books and Five Classics, so there is no way for children to take the imperial examinations if they are sent here to study. It is simply impossible to become a high official.
There are many schools similar to the Primary School Affiliated to the Jingcheng Machinery Factory, such as the Primary School Affiliated to the Miyun Iron Works, the Primary School Affiliated to the Tianjin Cement Plant, Xishan Primary School, Jingcheng Primary School, Tianjin Primary School, the Primary School Affiliated to the Tianjin Shipyard, etc.
These schools all have one characteristic, that is, they are all schools invested and built by Liu Jin, and many of them are primary schools affiliated with various industries under his command.
At the same time, these schools all adopted the teaching textbooks and contents formulated by Liu Jin, instead of studying the Four Books and Five Classics, and adopted educational models and teaching contents similar to those of later generations.
The purpose is naturally very simple, that is, to cultivate talents in various industries and fields, especially talents in science and technology, because Liu Jin clearly knows that this will be the development trend and trend of history in the future.
It is impossible to change the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system all at once. Not to mention Liu Jin himself was a low-key person, even if Emperor Hongzhi wanted to abolish the imperial examination, it was impossible.
The imperial examination has been maintained in this land for thousands of years and is deeply rooted in this soil. Almost everything is based on the imperial examination.
If you want to abolish the imperial examination, it will take a long time and a long process.
But Liu Jin couldn't wait that long. He had many industries under his command, and the Ming Dynasty was getting bigger and bigger. Naturally, it needed more advanced productivity and production tools, so that the Ming Dynasty could truly become stronger.
So after much thought, Liu Jin came up with the idea of establishing some affiliated primary schools to recruit children from ordinary families and give them free education.
In these schools, the Four Books and Five Classics are not taught, but the educational models and systems of later generations are adopted to teach basic knowledge and content, thereby slowly changing the existing Confucian monopoly on education.
Cultivating various talents for the industries under his command is also cultivating scientific and technological talents for Ming Dynasty and promoting the development of Ming Dynasty in various fields.
Of course, in this era, the purpose of studying is to become an official, and studying is very expensive. If you can't take the imperial examination, it will be difficult to attract people to send their children to study.
Therefore, Liu Jin also provides free education here. The children are sent to study, and Liu Jin pays for all expenses, and there is also a lunch.
In addition, if you study in an affiliated primary school and are successful in your studies, you can work in Liu Jin's industry and be given priority for recruitment. In addition, if you have excellent grades, you can also enter a higher-level middle school to learn deeper knowledge and content. Once you can start from
If you graduate from high school and enter Liu Jin's industry, you can directly enjoy high-level treatment.
Through such a series of measures, the primary schools opened by Liu Jin are also overcrowded, and there are still many families willing to send their children to study.
There is no money, free study, and food to eat. If you study well, you can also work in Liu Jin's industry. Such a good thing is simply a great blessing for ordinary ordinary people's families.
Fantasy. So not only the children of employees from various industries under his command came in, but many people who knew the news also sent people in through connections. Being an official was too far for ordinary people.
Being able to work in Liu Jin's industry is also a good job.
Xixi Fantasy Novel Network 7huan.com Xixi. You must know that in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, the average monthly salary of all employees in these industries under Liu Jin had exceeded six taels of silver. If you include year-end bonuses and the like
, this treatment is very generous.
Among them, skilled workers and masters who understand technology and can read will have higher incomes.
Take the Tianjin Shipyard as an example. The masters of the Tianjin Shipyard are divided into many levels. Even the lowest-level shipbuilder's monthly salary is more than ten taels of silver. Taking into account performance, rewards and the like, the annual income is more than two hundred taels of silver.
Such a high income is definitely a high salary in this era. As for management and senior masters, the income is even more impressive.
The employees of the shipyard all know it, and their relatives and friends naturally know it too, so there are many people who want to enter the primary school affiliated with Tianjin Shipyard.
The Tianjin Shipyard Affiliated Primary School, which originally planned to enroll only 500 students, enrolled more than 1,000 students. For this reason, it had to expand the school and apply for more funds.
But fortunately, Liu Jin is very generous about this. Basically, Liu Jin has said that children who are willing to come to study will be accepted as much as possible. If the budget is not enough, they can add more. If there are not enough teachers, they can build more. If there are not enough teachers, they can hire more.
In short, as long as you are willing to study, you should accept it. It is really difficult for people in this era to study. Liu Jin has a lot of money but no place to spend it. It is better to spend it on education than anywhere else.
For this reason, not only did his property have affiliated primary schools, Liu Jin also established many free schools in various places such as Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu, Ryukyu, etc. Every year, millions of taels of silver were spent on these.
Liu Jin was responsible for all such large expenditures, and he was still happy to do so. He also built more primary schools and middle schools in various parts of the Ming Dynasty... This point made many rotten scholars who originally wanted to point their fingers at Liu Jin.
They had to keep their mouths shut. In any case, Liu Jin was teaching and educating people, even though the content of the Four Books and Five Classics was too little, which made them very unhappy.
But it's no secret that more children can receive education. This is an indisputable fact.
What they can do is keep suggesting to Liu Jin that the traditional Four Books and Five Classics education should be strengthened and not teach too many heresy and the like.
But Liu Jin didn't care about them. I built the school with my own money and taught whatever I wanted. Didn't you see that Emperor Hongzhi praised this very much?
The students taught by the schools I run will not take the imperial examinations, nor will they take away the jobs of your Confucian disciples, and even beep like a hammer.
Xixi Miaobiku miaobiku.com Xixi. Confucianism, Confucianism, has become rotten to the core. It seriously constrains thought and innovation. I even want to break it. You even said that you want to strengthen the Four Books and Five Classics in my school.
education.
If there is a hammer that can be used by reading the Four Books and Five Classics, will it be able to refine better steel, build better ships, or be of great use to the governance of the country?
It's just a few books. Generation after generation, people have read it again and again, and studied it again and again, but they haven't found any profound talents or achievements. I don't know how many people have been killed.
So Liu Jin was too lazy to offend them.
In the past, these corrupt Confucians would definitely have ridiculed Liu Jin to death, but Liu Jin also vigorously promoted Confucianism externally, such as making vassal states and provinces newly incorporated into the Ming Dynasty forcefully promote Confucianism.
This made the Confucian people very satisfied and felt that Liu Jin was still okay. This allowed Confucianism to spread wider and spread to more places.
Therefore, the corrupt Confucians in the Ming Dynasty were also very conflicted about Liu Jin. They said he was good, but the elementary school he built himself did not pay attention to Confucian education, and they said he was bad. Externally, he tried his best to promote Confucian thought and education.
In short, it is very contradictory. I can only turn a blind eye to Liu Jin's alternative education in the Ming Dynasty half primary school. Anyway, it will not become the mainstream. As long as the imperial examination still tests the Four Books and Five Classics, no one can shake their Confucian status.
As for the primary schools and middle schools run by Liu Jin, in Liu Jin's words, they are all used to cultivate his own technical talents.
Miaobiku. For example, if this shipyard builds ships better, faster, more ships, and more types of ships, it will definitely not be possible to use the Four Books and Five Classics.
This requires involving mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy and other related fields. Without these reserves, shipbuilding will definitely not work.
Another example is building bridges and paving roads. It is still not possible to rely on the Four Books and Five Classics. We still have to rely on what they call heresy.
As long as the status of Confucianism is not shaken, everything else is easy to discuss. As long as the officials of the imperial court still pass the traditional imperial examination to obtain scholars, there is no need to worry too much about anything else.
The Ming Dynasty can become stronger and stronger, and these side theories are still very useful.
At the Jingcheng Machinery Factory Affiliated Primary School, which occupies an extremely large area, the exam for primary school to junior high school is in progress. Primary school to junior high school, this is an extremely critical point.
Unlike later generations, Liu Jin compressed the content and time of teaching in this era. There were only elementary schools and middle schools, basic things in elementary schools, and more in-depth things in middle schools, but compared with the education of later generations, they were all basic things.
But Liu Jin feels that as long as these basic things can be learned and used well, it will be enough for the Ming Dynasty to continue to become stronger in this era. Anyway, many things have not been researched yet, and it is not good to show them out. Let the people of this era do it on their own.