On February 24, the second batch of middle school students from Fanjiazhuang Middle School graduated.
Li Zhi's Fanjiazhuang Middle School was established in August of the 14th year of Chongzhen's reign, and its enrollment targets were those who passed the test among primary school graduates.
Middle school students receive three years of education in school and learn basic knowledge of Chinese, mathematics, history, geography, physics and chemistry. Of course, the learning of these knowledge is basic quality education, as long as students have a general understanding. And in middle school, the real knowledge
What I attach great importance to and use half of the class time to inculcate is the "Public Morality" class.
The education of public morality is regarded as the only center in middle school education, ensuring that students receiving secondary education know what public morality is, how to practice public morality, and how to be an official with public morality.
Public morality is the difference between Li Zhi's students and Confucian intellectuals. Confucianism only talks about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. In Li Zhi's eyes, these are repayments of kindness and private virtues. Li Zhi believes that an official who only understands private morality is definitely not a good official.
Officials. Only when they understand public morality, understand public morality, and carve the idea of public morality into their bones can they be a good official who makes decisions for the people.
The first batch of middle school students graduated in August of the 17th year of Chongzhen and were assigned to various departments in Tianjin and Shandong. As advanced elements who have received public moral education, these middle school students will be employed in grassroots positions for a period of time.
Gradually promoted, he became the backbone or even the leader of various institutions such as courts, tax bureaus and police stations.
Some students who excel in public ethics courses are even directly assigned to be trained in prominent positions such as assistant judges in courts and assistant inspectors in police stations.
Because the first batch of middle school students were assigned to serve as officials in government departments, with good salaries and decent jobs, and they were taken seriously in the department and had a bright future, the common people suddenly looked at the middle school in a different light. Today, Fanjiazhuang Middle School has been nicknamed "Hanlin" by the common people.
hospital".
Compared with those who graduate from elementary school and can only work as workers, the jobs for middle school graduates are more respectable and promising. Even some Confucian scholars who have not received elementary education, aged 20 or 30, are clamoring to enter middle school for further studies.
Li Zhi welcomed Confucian students who were willing to accept ideological reform. Therefore, the second batch of middle school students, that is, the number of middle school students enrolled in the spring of Chongzhen's 15th year, suddenly expanded three times, with the number reaching 2,000. This second batch of graduates
will provide strong support to various newly established institutions across Shandong.
Now Fanjiazhuang Middle School implements a full boarding system. There are two batches of students every year. Students are directly recruited from various primary schools in Tianjin and Shandong. It can train 4,000 graduates a year. I believe that it will not be long before graduates who understand and adhere to the concept of public ethics will be
Will take up positions in various government departments to improve the ethics and discipline of government departments.
The current staff in government departments have not received public ethics education. These people will have to enter middle schools to receive three years of public ethics education and reinvent themselves before returning to work in government departments.
Li Zhi specially attended the graduation ceremony of these two batches of students. Not only did he attend the graduation ceremony, Li Zhi also delivered a speech to 300 outstanding graduates in the school auditorium.
"You are outstanding graduates of Fanjiazhuang Middle School. This time you will be assigned to various prefectures, states, and counties for training and training. From now on, you will be the president of the court, police chief, tax director and even the local governor of Li Zhi. But I hope that you will work hard every day.
What you remember is not that I, Li Zhi, promoted and trained you. What I hope you will always remember is your sense of public morality."
"Private virtues are certainly desirable, and you should naturally repay whoever gives you benefits. The so-called loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness of Confucian private virtues are all desirable. But when we say that private virtues are desirable, that is under the condition that it does not affect public morality. If it is for the sake of private virtues
If public morality is ignored, private morality is no longer moral! Instead, it becomes a shameful exchange of interests."
"In Tianjin and Shandong, I, Li Zhi, will never allow things that harm public rights and interests for the sake of favors! You must always remember that you work in government departments to benefit society as a whole."
"If there is a conflict between private morality and public morality, you should stick to public morality without hesitation. For example, if you are an official and a benevolent person who provides you with money comes to ask you to do something, you should put the interests of society first and refuse without hesitation.
Your benefactor."
"If the leader who promotes you is a corrupt official who uses power for personal gain, or an upright official who is desperately trying to deliver social benefits to his hometown, you should stand up and report such leaders and report them for harming social interests."
Looking at the graduates in the audience, Li Zhi said seriously: "You are all the best students, and you will soon move to leadership positions in the future. Our Discipline Inspection Committee supervises officials every day. I don't want to see the training of Fanjiazhuang Middle School
Any of the students who came out were dismissed by the Discipline Inspection Commission for lack of public morality."
The students below were a little nervous after what Li Zhi said. They all sat upright and did not dare to comment.
After a long time, seeing that Li Zhi stopped talking, the students started to applaud violently.
Li Zhi finally made a concluding speech: "Some people say that only by cultivating a new interest class can the results of the reform be stabilized. I agree with this view. You students who understand public ethics are the new interest groups I have cultivated. You are human beings."
The person is an official, with monthly money and social status that are envied by the common people."
"But the existence of your new interest class is fundamentally different from the previous selfish interest classes. Your existence is not to suck blood from other members of society, but to suppress those scofflaws who have no public morality. It is to serve the general society.
Maximizing interests is to make the people rich and the country strong."
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On the third day of March, Li Zhi came to the dry fields on the outskirts of Tianjin to test the new machine he invented - a seed drill.
The seed drill is a machine that appeared in the West in the 18th century. When the seed drill is operating, the seeding wheel is driven by the walking wheel to rotate. The seeds are discharged from the seed cup in the seed box into the seed pipe according to the required seeding amount, and pass through the trencher.
Fall into the opened trench, and then the seeds will be covered and compacted by the soil-covering suppression device.
The seed drill is the automatic seed drill of later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, a similar seed drill was also called a columbine cart. However, the Ming Dynasty's columbine cart was relatively simple and was far from as complete and labor-saving as the seed drill.
In fact, no matter how sophisticated the machine is, it is always "mechanical". When using a drill to sow seeds, it is definitely not done properly without using human power. However, a drill drill is dozens or hundreds of times more efficient than manual sowing, and can allow one person to sow seeds.
Farmland that he could never imagine before.
In the Ming Dynasty, due to the saturated population and the scarcity of land, there was no need for seed drills. In Europe, where the New World was discovered, the cultivated land area was almost unlimited, and the need for seed drills was extremely urgent. Therefore, the columbine was invented.
For more than a thousand years, China has never improved its columbine to the technical level of a seed drill.
However, Li Zhi had a need for seed drills, because Li Zhi would soon send troops to Liaodong. After conquering the Northeast, the vast black soil was sparsely populated, which was where seed drills showed their talents.
