When the National Defense Force was founded, it was a military-civilian mixture that integrated military operations and civilian production. In addition to the field troops, which were purely military troops, the garrison troops, reserve militia, battalion schools, logistics departments, military hospitals and other departments were in charge of meeting the needs of the troops.
In addition to its professional functions, it also performs civil functions.
After the separation of military and political affairs, the previous mixed state of military and civil affairs needs to be changed.
Clarifying the functions of military generals and government officials is the first step in the separation of military and political affairs. Separating the battalion school from the army and transforming it into a military academy for military officers is the second step in the separation of military and political affairs.
Education is the foundation for the development of a nation and a country. There are no examples in the world of countries that have become strong without paying attention to education.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Rio Grande do Sul was in a state of ruin. Li Mingyuan invested the limited funds and resources he had in several important industrial projects, delaying the popularization of basic education and the establishment of public schools.
As the past two years have passed, preliminary progress has been made in steel mining, smelting, weapons processing and other industrial fields, and the teaching team of restricted education exhibitions has also found suitable candidates due to the arrival of batches of voluntary immigrant Chinese businessmen. It can be said that the current Nanli
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Military matters come first, then civil affairs. With powerful enemies around the corner, Rio Grande do Sul's education system preparations are also adjusted in order according to the needs of national security. Therefore, in the planned education, the Sixth Army Officers School is the optimal level.
, public basic schools are at the next level.
The 6th Army Military Academy is under the management of the General Staff Headquarters. The instructors and students of the school are all active military personnel, while the basic public schools are managed by the Ministry of Education in the government.
It has been a year since the establishment of government administrative agencies such as the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, but the opportunities to actually perform corresponding responsibilities are very limited.
The Deputy Minister of Finance is Sun Bin. However, after Sun Bin went to Nanyang as a mission, Liu Pu has been taking over the Ministry of Finance concurrently. Although the Deputy Minister of Education has been selected, the education work in Rio Grande do Sul has not been carried out, so
Zhao Yan, Vice Minister of Education, only wears his name, but is actually busy with other tasks.
"The educational content of the Sixth Army Officers' School must be in line with the current military education in the West. I will find ways to solve problems such as the school's lack of military instructors. The first thing now is to set up the framework of the Sixth Army Officers' School.
Liu Pu, since you still hold the position of Chief of Staff, you will be responsible for the preparation of the Sixth Army Officers School. Before I return from Paraguay, I will try my best to solve the problem of the first batch of trainees of the Sixth Army Officers School."
"There are more than 100 outstanding graduates from the Suiying Academy, and our subordinates recommended that they be trained as the first batch of military academy cadets."
"Inspect them together with candidates from other military units. Those who are capable will be promoted and those who are weak will be demoted. Do not give them more preferential treatment."
"I understand."
"Zhao Yan, you are the deputy minister of education in charge of education. How many schools do you think should be built?"
After ending the topic of the military academy, Li Mingyuan turned to Zhao Yan and asked.
"Your Highness, Rio Grande do Sul currently has five counties: Xinjing, Hexi, Yong'an, Changning, Hetao (Pelotas), Xing'an (Pasu Fundu) and one county, plus the counties that will be established soon.
In the counties of Invia and Floriano, there are a total of eight county towns. According to the official's opinion, although the number of scholars in Rio Grande do Sul has increased a lot, it still does not meet the standards for establishing schools in every settlement.
Therefore, it is more in line with the domestic situation to first concentrate on the scholars among the new immigrants and set up a junior school in each county."
"Liu Pu, how many Chinese under the age of 18 are there in Rio Grande do Sul now?"
There are no Chinese children of school age in Rio Grande do Sul, so Li Mingyuan set the target group of the school to be young Chinese under the age of 18.
"There are 3,000 Chinese people over 14 and under 16 years old, and 20,000 Chinese people over 16 and under 18 years old."
Liu Pu asked the staff around him and replied.
"Eight junior schools, each of which teaches only 400 students out of 500."
Li Mingyuan murmured softly, frowning and saying, "No, there are more than 20,000 Chinese under the age of 18, and 400 student places are too few.
Zhao Yan, think of a way to double the number of schools to reach the standard of enrolling one thousand students, can you do it?"
"Your Highness, a junior school is equipped with ten lecturers. On average, one lecturer teaches fifty students. However, in an ordinary private school, there are twenty students in one school. If there are more, there are only forty students. One lecturer teaches five students.
Ten students is already the limit. If there are more students, it will be very difficult for the lecturer to teach."
In ancient private schools, each class had a limited number of students. Zhao Yan and Sun Bin were both poor scholars and had experienced private school teaching, so they had an intuitive understanding of the limit on the number of students in each class. Li Mingyuan was different from him.
When I was a child, I grew up in a rural area. When I was in high school, I was crowded into a classroom with 70 or 80 students. I subconsciously thought that one teacher could manage 70, 80 or even 100 students.
"When education is first launched in China, we have to find ways to overcome some difficulties."
Li Mingyuan comforted him softly and continued, "I understand the difficulty of a teacher teaching more than fifty students, but the situation in Rio Grande do Sul is a little different. The students attending the class are older, and their learning ability and discipline are much stronger than those of school-age children.
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You need to do more work for the teachers, so that they can understand the country's difficulties and work hard. Each teacher will be responsible for seventy students, and seven more junior schools will be added, bringing the total number of schools to fifteen."
Although Li Mingyuan spoke to Zhao Yan in a negotiating tone, he was not allowed to change the content of his words. Zhao Yan guessed the urgency in Li Mingyuan's heart, so he could only accept the task and at the same time seek more authorization from Li Mingyuan.
"Your Highness, most of the newly immigrated Chinese scholars choose to work as government officials. If we want to recruit a sufficient number of teachers, we need your Highness to authorize you to forcibly sign new immigrants. I hope your Highness will give you permission."
"Junior schools only teach students basic cultural knowledge. In order to increase the number of hundreds of students, they use coercive means to show that the teachers are inappropriate.
Zhao Yan, your request is a bit excessive."
Zhao Yan bit the bullet and finished speaking, but was immediately opposed by Liu Pu.
"Sir Liu, I also know that it is inappropriate to force immigrants to serve as teachers, but if I don't do this, I will indeed not be able to recruit the number of people requested by His Highness."
Liu Pu has always been Zhao Yan's immediate boss. Faced with Liu Pu's reprimand, Zhao Yan had no choice but to defend himself.
"Rio Grande do Sul has just received a wave of immigrants from overseas Chinese brothers. Forcing the new immigrants to sign a sign will have a bad impact on the reputation of Rio Grande do Sul. Forget it."
Li Mingyuan waved his hand to stop the dispute between the two, and said in a different tone, "The implementation of primary education is not just as simple as letting brothers read and write. The steel plants and gun factories outside Xinjing City, Hexi County and other places all need knowledgeable people.
It is operated by workers, and in addition to the Chinese apprentice workers selected in advance, some important workers need to be selected from qualified graduates from junior schools.
Today's world is dominated by science and technology. Which country values education and science and technology, which country can rise. Under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the continent was closed to the outside world. Even the Westernization Movement was just a pretense and could not truly make the country stronger. We
The National Defense Forces have worked hard to gain a place to stay, and they must catch up and learn Western science and technology. They cannot treat foreign science and technology as miraculous tricks as before, and only learn the superficial knowledge without learning the core."
"Your Majesty is short-sighted and has not appreciated His Highness's painstaking efforts. Please forgive me."
Liu Pu and Zhao Yan saw that Li Mingyuan looked worried and hurriedly bent down and saluted.
"It is human nature for capable and knowledgeable scholars to want to be officials but not to be teachers in Qingshui. It is not easy to recruit more than a hundred suitable teachers at one time."
Li Mingyuan held the two of them up. After thinking for a moment, his frown gradually relaxed, "I thought of a solution. It can stipulate that after a new teacher has taught for one year, he is eligible to apply for transfer to the government administrative department.
Moreover, the government will give priority to teachers who have good teaching performance when recruiting new officials."
"Teachers are qualified to be officials. In this way, there will definitely be more people who want to apply to be teachers." Zhao Yan agreed.
"The lack of teachers in the school is mainly due to the fact that there are too few scholars in Rio Grande do Sul. Your Majesty hopes that His Highness will increase the recruitment of scholars from Nanyang and the mainland to alleviate the shortage of domestic talents."
Liu Pu thought more about it than Zhao Yan. After listening to Li Mingyuan's words, he directly established the path.
"Sun Bin has done a good job in Nanyang. Let's leave this matter to him."