Chapter 1288 The reason for teaching two techniques and Western learning (6,000-word chapter)
"Yes, I am willing. Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me such a good job." Claviyo said quickly. He was also in the capital when the Five Cities Academy was established, because although the officials had no choice but to find a sufficient reason for this matter,
The remonstrance stopped, but the commotion was so loud that even the official in charge of the school talked about it with others, so of course he knew about this school.
In his opinion, Wucheng Academy is a school very close to Italian universities. Although it is not divided into subjects like Italian universities, so each student has to learn a lot more, the organizational form is very similar. He initially
He suspected that an Italian came to the Ming Dynasty and served the Ming Dynasty, but the result of repeated inquiries was that he was the first European to come to the Ming Dynasty in these years, and no Italian had ever come.
The students taught in this school are all aristocratic children of the Ming Dynasty, and there are even a few royal children who were separately distinguished in the Ming Dynasty. Even if he does not want to stay in the Ming Dynasty now, he can teach the nobles of the Ming Dynasty and become one of their teachers.
Not only was it something to be proud of, but it would also be a source of capital when he returned to Castile in the future, so he hurriedly agreed.
Hearing Claviyo's urgent answer, Yunxi smiled and said, "In that case, I will appoint you as one of the teachers in the Western Studies class of Wucheng Academy."
"One of the gentlemen? Your Majesty, could it be that you also appointed someone else as the gentleman of this course?" Hearing this, Claviyo asked.
"Of course."
"Dear Your Majesty, please forgive my presumption. Could it be that another European mission came to Ming Dynasty recently?"
"No."
"Then who is the other teacher of Western Studies you appointed?"
"Tianfang believers." Yunxi said with a smile: "In the Ming Dynasty, not only Europe is considered the West, but what you call Central Asia and West Asia is also the West to the people of the Ming Dynasty."
Yunxi decided to open a 'Western Learning Course' after the new school year starts next year, a course dedicated to introducing the history, culture, and religion of Western countries. Of course, it was not just because Claviyo and his attendants came. Although Claviyo's entourage also came
He has the status of a knight or a knight's squire, but the European nobles of this era were all ignorant. It is not uncommon for people in the knight class not to know how to read. Even the great nobles of some countries do not know how to read. These of Clavillo
Attendant, it would be good if you could remember the sermons often spoken by the local priest. The gentleman who comes to teach Western learning will probably turn this class into an exchange meeting on Eastern and Western fighting skills. Of course, in line with the concept of not wasting human resources, I allow
He would ask them to compete with masters in the army and bodyguards respectively, and learn the fighting skills from Western battlefields and private competitions.
Therefore, although there are many people in Klavyo's group, there is only Klavyo who can contribute to teach the history and culture of Western countries. Most of the teachers in this course will come from the Tenbang Theological Seminary in Samarkand.
mullah.
As early as the end of the Battle of Yiwu last year, Shang Bing pursued the remnants of the Timur Khanate's troops and captured the vicinity of Lake Balkhash, but in fact he sent troops with the purpose of occupying Samarkand and ruling Central Asia.
He was instructed: "After the city of Samarkand is captured, as long as the mullahs of the seminary in the city do not hinder the soldiers and disobey your orders, they will not suffer any harm."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Shang Bing did not understand this order at the time, but he still agreed. Therefore, after he captured the city of Samarkand, he immediately sent soldiers to surround the seminary in the city and killed all the mullahs who dared to leave.
, gathered the remaining people and sent them back to the capital of Ming Dynasty, and will arrive in early August.
Yunxi was extremely happy when he learned the news. Both the Christian Theological Seminary and the Tianfang Theological Seminary were similar in organizational form, and derived from the law school, the medical school, the liberal arts college, etc., and later these four oldest categories were
The academy evolved into the modern education system, including middle schools and universities. The aristocratic schools in later Western countries started from middle schools instead of elementary schools, which is also related to the education system at this time.
Yunxi plans to establish a modern education system, and has already established a five-city school based on the modern middle schools in Western countries. But after all, he was not a person from the education system in his previous life. He only relied on the memory of his more than ten years of schooling, and because he had to adapt to
The actual situation at this time made the school that was finally established completely different. Yunxi had always been afraid that the system he designed would go wrong, and he was in urgent need of professionals to guide him. Therefore, although these professionals were Tianfang believers, it was possible to preach to the students.
He couldn't care less about the Tianfang teaching mullah.
At the same time, Yunxi also wanted to set up a course named simply "Western Learning Course" and let these Tianfang Sect mullahs teach it. Although the Timurid Khanate had been eliminated, part of its territory was occupied by Shang Bing, and another part was occupied by the White Horde Khan.
Kingdom, Blue Horde Khanate and other countries were occupied, and the rest were controlled by the remnants of the Timur Khanate. However, in the future, the enemies faced by the Ming Dynasty soldiers must be mainly Tianfang believers, supplemented by Cross believers. Even if there are other enemies, it does not matter
It’s important. It’s said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles. If you want to deal with them more smoothly, you must understand their historical and cultural characteristics.
In addition, even if monotheistic religions have many shortcomings, they can become the largest and second largest religion in the world, and they will still have great influence in the world six hundred years later. They must also have advantages.
Naturally, I also hope to learn from their advantages. Therefore, Yunxi decided to open this course.
However, he originally hesitated about when to offer this course. He felt that it was a bit early to offer this course in the second grade, which is equivalent to the second grade of junior high school in later generations. However, after repeated consideration, he felt that it was better to test it first, and if it was really not suitable
Besides, although this is a bit sorry for the first batch of students, they are meant to be guinea pigs, and they should have a similar awareness.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Claviyo agreed. Of course he didn't know what Yunxi was thinking just now, and he couldn't even predict what would happen after he went to teach at Wucheng Academy. Although he was not happy to have to attend classes with Tianfang believers,
But he would not refuse this job that was both honorable and capital-generating.
After saying this, Yunxi had nothing more to say to him, and made him retreat after a few casual chats.
After Claviyo withdrew, Yunxi was about to stretch his body when he heard Wang Xi say: "Guan family, I remember, don't you remember that the government family is not willing to spread advanced technologies such as papermaking and movable type printing? Even His Majesty canonized
There are no craftsmen who know the art of movable type printing in all the vassal states, so why are they willing to hand it over to him?"
"You're right." Because Wang Xi was too close to Wang Xi, Yunxi didn't take him seriously and replied, "I really don't want these two skills to be spread to other people."
"But if I don't allow his followers to learn, won't his followers be able to learn? Compared with engraving printing, movable type printing is not much improved. The principle is very simple. He only needs to go to the bookstore to see movable type printing and return to Castile.
We can study it later. So I’m just following the trend.”
"As for advanced papermaking technology," after saying this, he glanced sideways at the other eunuchs in the room, and Lu Yi immediately led them out of the palace obediently.
"The reason why I want to hand over the advanced papermaking technology to Clavijo is because the West already has papermaking technology at this time. Although papermaking is less efficient, it is still papermaking. Europeans are not stupid. They will improve themselves. Sooner or later
The improvement will be the same as the Ming Dynasty’s papermaking technology.”
"Furthermore, the only paper made in European countries is hemp paper. I will ask the craftsmen to give them only the advanced papermaking technology of making hemp paper, so that they will not randomly learn papermaking technology in the Ming Dynasty and use straw paper and other papermaking techniques.
Learn how to make paper."
Yunxi's move is very insidious. Historically, European countries could only make hemp paper. Although the technical level of this papermaking technology has been raised to a very high level, they have never used other materials to make paper, making hemp paper
The raw materials were exhausted in Europe, and for a period of time there was almost no paper available in Europe. It took a lot of effort to steal other papermaking techniques from the Qing Dynasty so that people would not regard waste paper as a treasure.
After Claviyo and others left the Ming Dynasty, he would immediately take measures to make most of the folk craftsmen only make hemp paper, and slowly concentrate other papermaking skills on craftsmen under the royal family or nobles. 'You just wait for high prices.
Buy paper from Daming.'
In fact, he had a similar purpose when he promised to teach movable type printing to Clavijo's followers. The technical level of movable type printing in the Ming Dynasty was not high at this time, and Gutenberg and others independently discovered movable type as early as 140 to 1440 AD.
Printing, so there is nothing wrong with letting Europeans learn this craft. On the contrary, it may mislead them and make them go astray in the study of movable type printing. How could he not do such a thing that has no harm but may be beneficial?
Do?
After saying this, Yunxi turned his head and glanced at the engraving. He saw that although it was past noon, it was not yet midnight, and there was still time for a nap. He said to Wang Xi: "You have been with me for a while, here.
I don’t need you to serve me anymore, go and have a rest.”
"It is the duty of a slave to serve the officials," Wang Xi said immediately.
"Yes, I know you are willing to be by my side. But now you are the great eunuch in charge of the entire palace, no longer the little eunuch who follows me. There are many things in the palace that are arranged by you, so you have to ensure that you rest.
There was enough time. I also had times when I slept less and worked more. In the end, I was not energetic, and I almost answered the memorial while half asleep and half awake. When I saw it later, I couldn’t believe that I answered it myself.”
"So you must go to rest immediately. I am also going to rest for a while. You don't have to wait here." Yunxi said.
"Then, my servant, please step aside now. I won't disturb the official family's rest." Wang Xi said with a smile and was about to step down.
"By the way," Yunxi suddenly remembered something again and said to him: "By the way, you can tell the eunuchs and guards to ask Princess Ningguo and Chen Ji to come to the Qing Palace at the beginning of the afternoon. I have something to tell them."
"Yes, official." Wang Xi agreed, turned around and left. Yunxi also went to take a rest.
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"Let us learn craftsmanship from the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty? No, I won't do it!" Such a cry rang out in the restaurant. Although others could not understand it because he was shouting in Castilian, it still caused dissatisfaction.
Shaofanguan officials and servants scolded: "What the hell are you calling at noon! It's disturbing people's dreams!"
"This is an order!" Claviyo looked at the people in front of him and said it again seriously.
"My master, if you order us to fight against the enemy, whether they are heretics or heretics, we will attack the enemy without hesitation; but learning crafts from humble craftsmen is an insult to us. I cannot accept it.
This order." A somewhat short man said.
"My master, my thoughts are the same as Rhett's." Someone else said. Then others followed suit.
"You don't know that in the Ming Dynasty, officials were selected from civilians, and the status of craftsmen was also very high. It is not as low as in our country. People with craftsman backgrounds can also be officials and manage many civilians.
.So asking them to learn craftsmanship from craftsmen is not an insult to you." Claviyo added.
"My master, when we were chatting with the officials of Fan Guan before, the officials of Fan Guan told us that although the possibility of civilians in the Ming Dynasty becoming officials was much higher than that of civilians in Castile, it was almost the same.
It has increased from one ten thousandth to one percent, but it is still very difficult; although there were craftsmen serving as officials in the Ming Dynasty, this was just a special case. Officials and rich people in the Ming Dynasty still discriminated against craftsmen." He was called Red.
The man said again. While speaking, he glanced at Claviyo as if he were looking at a deceiver, but his expression returned to his normal expression immediately.
Seeing that his attempt to fool them into voluntarily learning crafts from craftsmen failed, Claviyo thought for a while and decided not to play tricks. He said directly: "If anyone is willing to learn advanced papermaking and movable type printing from the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty,
After I return to Castile, half of all the money I get from selling Ming goods will be given to you."
Yes, Kraviyo’s decision was to seduce them with benefits. Now that he has no fiefdom, he can only use money to seduce them. But it turns out that this trick is very effective. After hearing Kraviyo’s words, several people breathed visibly
A bit thicker.
This is not a small reward, this is a big reward! They all know how valuable the goods of the Ming Dynasty are in Europe. Even a small bag of peppercorns can be exchanged for the same weight of gold! If you bring back a cart of peppercorns,
Maybe you can buy a viscount's fiefdom from a certain big noble! There's still some leftover! No one can stay calm when faced with such a large amount of money.
"My master, you must sign a contract with us before we can trust you." After a while, Rhett said. In Europe, upper-level nobles made promises to lower-level nobles, but there were many cases of them not acknowledging their promises after the passage of time. Although they
The situation is special, but it cannot be ignored.
"Okay." Claviyo agreed without hesitation, and immediately took out a pen and paper to write down what he promised, and signed his name.
Seeing that Kraviyo had signed the contract, Rhett and others no longer had any doubts and agreed: "We will learn the Seris language from you immediately, and when we can communicate smoothly with the people of the Ming Dynasty, we will learn the craftsmanship from the craftsmen."
"I guarantee you that in addition to the wealth I promised, what you will get when you return to Castile will be much more than this!" Clavijo said at last.
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"Guanjia, do you want to set up a Western studies class in Wucheng School?" Chen Ji said very surprised. On the other side, Princess Ningguo also looked at Yunxi in surprise.
"Not bad." Yunxi said very calmly.
"Officials, there is so much knowledge worth learning in Ming Dynasty, why do we want students to learn things from Western countries? What use is this to the students?"
"The so-called "three people walking together must have a teacher, choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones." This sentence comes from Han Changli's "Teacher's Theory", and I must have heard it. This saying is not only applicable to people.
between countries, and the same applies between countries.”
Speaking of this, Yunxi suddenly remembered what he said to himself after capturing Timur. He paused and continued: "Although the Western countries lag behind our Ming Dynasty, they can establish a country, and they have established a country for thousands of years. There must be
Director. I have talked with Klavyo and the generals of the Tamerlane Khanate who were captured in the Battle of Yiwu, and I think it does have merit. Therefore, I set up a Western Studies class in the Five Cities School."
"I also value the students of Wucheng Academy very much and will not delay them." Yunxi emphasized at the end.
Yunxi's reasons are indeed reasonable, but Chen Ji is still unwilling to accept it. As he said at the beginning, learning from Western countries before they even learned much about the Ming Dynasty is putting the cart before the horse in his opinion. "Your Majesty,
I think that even if we want to learn knowledge about Western countries, we should not offer Western studies courses in the second grade. I think it is more appropriate to offer this course in the fifth or sixth grade,” he argued.
"What Aiqing said is right," Yunxi first affirmed Chen Ji's words, and then said: "I think that the students of the Five Cities Academy and the clans that will be moved to the west of the Royal Academy need to learn knowledge about Western countries.
,Ai Qing, do you think so?"
"Your Majesty is right."
"Then since Ai Qing thinks that the students of Wucheng Academy are too young to learn the knowledge of Western countries now, how about I open a Western studies course in the Royal Academy?"
"Officials, I think this is not appropriate." Chen Ji hesitated and said: "When this course was first established, both the professor and the students had no idea what to teach and what to learn in this course.
It is clear that offering this course in the first year will be very confusing and waste students' time."
"Although I have never taught the courses of the Royal Academy, I have heard about the curriculum. The children of the royal family in the Royal Academy already have extremely heavy academic workload. I feel it is inappropriate if I waste my time on this confusing course again."
"But a newly established course that has never been established before must have the problems mentioned by Ai Qing. If it is not set up in the Royal Academy, it is not set up in the Five City School, where else can it be set up? The Imperial Academy or the Martial Arts Hall? Does Ai Qing think it is possible?"
He is also very straightforward in his speech.
"This," it is absolutely impossible for the Imperial College and the Jiangwu Hall to set up this course. The memorials of officials' remonstrances can fill Yunxi's desk; even if Yunxi insists on setting up these two courses, but in the first year
The chaos will also provide new ammunition to the opposing officials, who will make more frantic remonstrances, and Yun He may not be able to sustain it.
When choosing one of the two schools to sacrifice, the Royal Academy and the Wucheng Academy, it can only be the Wucheng Academy. The students of the Royal Academy are more precious. Therefore, "I obey the imperial decree of the official family and prepare to establish the Western Studies Class."
Chen Ji finally agreed.
"Thank you, Chen Qing. But there is no need to rush this matter. It will not be established this school year. It will not be established until the school starts in early February next year. Chen Qing, if things are complicated and there is no time to rest during this period, please postpone this matter for a few days."
It's all right." Yunxi said again.
"Yes, the official family." Chen Ji felt warm in his heart and said.
"Second aunt, in addition to taking care of the girls' school, you should also pay more attention to the affairs of the Wucheng School. Don't put all the burden on Chen Qing." Yunxi said to Princess Ningguo on the side.
When Princess Ning Guo was about to speak, Chen Ji said first: "This has nothing to do with Her Royal Highness Princess Ning Guo. I thought that Her Highness had to manage the girls' school and also served as the vice-principal of the Five City School, so she was much busier than me.
Moreover, as a woman, Your Highness is not as convenient as a man to go out, so he has to take care of more things in the Five Cities School."
"I understand your good intentions. But as you are so busy, things may not be handled well. Moreover, although Princess Ningguo holds two positions, there are few things to do in the girls' school. It has been established for three or four years and the rules are already very complete. There is no need to
As troublesome as you are, you can just leave some things to her," Yunxi said.
"Yes, official." Chen Ji agreed again.
After that, Yunxi realized that he had nothing to tell them two, and when he was about to ask them to retreat, Chen Ji said: "Your Majesty, I have something to ask your Majesty for instructions."
"What's the matter?"
"Guan Jia, since the first inter-class Cuju and football games were held in April, the remaining two games have not yet been held. I wonder if your Majesty plans to hold them?" Chen Ji asked.
When Yunxi originally conceived the idea of establishing the Wucheng Academy, he planned to set up two classes. However, after moving all those who would inherit the title of prince and below from the Royal Academy to the Wucheng Academy, he found that the total number of students had reached fifty, so
It was decided to set up three classes, two classes with 17 people, and one class with 16 people. Because the rules set by Yunxi were that eleven people would play in each game, and up to six people could be replaced, so everyone in one class was mobilized.
.
The three classes will compete with each other to calculate the total score at the end of the year. Since this competition has just been established and the rules are incomplete, Yunxi decided to personally serve as the referee for the three games in the first year, so Chen Ji
Ask him for instructions.
"It's too hot now. The next competition will be held in September or early September. The third competition is scheduled for early October." Yunxi thought for a while and said. (To be continued)
