Chapter 1167: The Son of Heaven's Call: Industrialization (Chapter 4)
Regarding the hundreds of technical schools mentioned by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, Li Xuan felt that their steps were a bit too big, and it was easy for them to get ahead of themselves.
If one hundred technical schools were divided into several years and implemented over many years, there would naturally be no problem. However, they are eager for quick success and the plan they proposed is to complete the program within five years. They thought that these technical schools were ordinary elementary schools.
How can it be so easy to complete the plan within five years?
In order to prevent the technical school plan from turning into a super face-saving project and ultimately failing, Li Xuan decided to suppress it. The number of 100 technical schools remained unchanged, but the implementation time of the plan could be extended to ten years.
Moreover, the first three years are the time to lay the foundation. First, ten or eight schools will be established as pilots. After successful experience in running schools is found out, they can be promoted on a large scale.
In response to Li Xuan's instructions, the officials of the Ministry of Rites actually sighed a little. For them, if this plan is completed within five years, it will have a completely different effect than if it is completed within ten years.
The most obvious one is funding!
Opening 100 schools in five years will allow them to obtain more funds, but if it becomes ten years, the corresponding funds will not be so much.
However, they had to listen to the words of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, whether they were willing to listen or not, so the Ministry of Rites changed their plan. We will talk about hundreds of schools later. We will build five technical schools as a pilot this year.
To be honest, they don't know much about how to run a technical school. The funding is pretty good. It's basically enough to support a part from the central government and a part from the local government. However, it's not easy to manage the teaching staff.
Because the courses in technical schools are different from those in ordinary normal schools and universities. The latter is more theoretical, while the former is more practical.
The talents trained are all different, and the courses are naturally different.
The talents trained by technical colleges are mainly for various technical talents needed for the development of industrialization, such as those who can operate machines, repair machines, general accounting, etc. These are currently urgently needed by the industrial and commercial circles of the empire, but they are usually very difficult.
It is difficult to recruit technical talents.
At present, the entire empire does not have such technical talents, but they are very limited, and they are all schools run by companies themselves.
For example, Zhaoqing Machinery Company has opened a Zhaoqing Machinery School, which mainly trains technical talents in the mechanical direction. However, this school does not recruit students from outside. It trains employees within Zhaoqing Machinery Company and cooperative enterprises.
Mainly, it is said to be a school, but in fact it is more like an employee training school.
Over at Dangtu, several heavyweight defense-related companies directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, such as Jiangnan Weapons Company and Jiangnan Steel Company, also jointly set up a training school. Each company directly dispatched senior technical personnel to teach, and the students were all of the same color.
Corporate employees.
In addition, Jiangnan Textile Company of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and several private textile companies also jointly funded the establishment of a textile industry training school in Shanghai. Its nature is similar to that of Zhaoqing Mechanical School. It focuses on internal training and does not recruit external students.
student.
Ordinary people who want to apply for the exam can’t!
However, although this type of internal training school run by an enterprise does not admit external students, its curriculum and teaching staff are similar to those of a standard technical school.
The Ministry of Rites wanted to prepare for the establishment of technical schools on a large scale, so it immediately sent officials to inspect and learn from these few technical training schools, which were the only ones in the country.
They first completed the inspection of Dangtu Technical Training School, and then they did not make much changes. They directly imitated its academic system and planned to open a Chengtian Technical School first. However, the courses established were inferior to those of internal training organized by companies.
There are many more schools, and the source of students adopts an extremely flexible hybrid model.
The courses include mechanics, maintenance, accounting, trade, foreign languages, administrative management and other talents needed by ordinary enterprises, as well as chefs, gardening and other miscellaneous courses. There are more than twenty courses in total.
The curriculum is simple, but teachers are more difficult to find. But for a government-run technical school, if you want to find such technical teachers, you naturally have to ask the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises for help. There are a large number of companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
Technical personnel in the enterprise can come and act as lecturers.
The teacher has also solved it, and the rest are the students.
Students are divided into two parts, one part recruits students directly from outside, and the other part accepts trainees from major companies.
In order to successfully run this first government-run technical school, the Ministry of Rites also gritted its teeth and provided a lot of financial support. The local finance of Chengtian Prefecture was also bleeding, providing initial funding for running the school. In addition, the official also provided
Several idle houses were opened up and used as school buildings.
The establishment of Chengtian Technical School did not cause too big a stir nationwide. After all, it was just a school. Relatively speaking, its influence was far less than the large-scale universal primary education that was implemented this year.
In the eleventh year of Xuanping, the Ministry of Rites received millions of taels of funding. These funds were special funds used to popularize primary education nationwide.
The initial plan is to double the annual enrollment number of existing government-run primary schools!
The specific measures are to build an additional primary school in each existing county. If no additional primary school is added, the scale of the original primary school can also be directly expanded. Whether to add the number of primary schools or expand the scale of the existing primary schools depends on the specific situation.
It varies from place to place.
In short, the core plan is to ensure that the annual enrollment number of government-run primary schools doubles that of last year!
The Ministry of Rites has been preparing for this huge plan for several years, and is waiting for the funds to be available for implementation. Therefore, starting from the first month of the eleventh year of Xuanping, the entire Ministry of Rites and all local yamen have been busy with this project.
Got up.
And it also caused a huge social impact!
The Tang Dynasty Daily published more than 20 articles on the expansion of primary education in the empire in the first month and February. The most important report was that in the second half of the first month, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan formally announced the plan at the imperial cabinet meeting.
The plan to expand the scale of primary education was discussed and approved.
The Holy Emperor instructed the capital and local government offices to run schools with the mentality of educating people for a century, strive to increase the literacy rate of the people, and lay a solid foundation for the industrialization process of the empire.
If ordinary people and even the educational community are concerned about basic education, then the industry and commerce, especially the industrial community, are particularly interested in a term raised by the Holy Emperor Li Xuan in this imperial cabinet meeting, that
It's 'industrialization'.
The word industry is not unfamiliar, but the three words industrialization seem a bit unfamiliar to many people. In recent years, although the empire has been promoting the development of industry and commerce and supporting the development of various industries, from the above
So far, there are only such attitudes and actions, but there is no clear political slogan.
And now, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan has clearly called out the three words "industrialization", and at the same time these three words appear in "laying a solid foundation for the industrialization process of the empire".
what does that mean?
This means that even basic education actually serves industrialization, which means that promoting industrialization will be the main policy of the empire for many years to come.
In an imperial country like the Tang Dynasty, no one could ignore the political slogan put forward by the Holy Emperor Li Xuan through the Tang Dynasty newspaper. Officials interpreted this term in detail, and the business community also interpreted this term in detail.
Subsequently, in March, the Tang Dynasty Daily once again reported as a headline that Li Xuan met with the management of several important enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. At the meeting, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan once again proposed the three concepts of industrialization.
The words clearly instruct all enterprises of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to actively innovate, work hard, contribute to the industrialization process of the empire, and set an example for all enterprises in the world!
When this report came out, almost the entire world could feel that the empire was about to launch a new round of industrialization!
The officials in those places all took the Tang Dynasty newspaper and held various internal yamen meetings to discuss how to develop industry.
Businessmen are also working hard, preparing funds to invest in the manufacturing industry, and taking advantage of this opportunity to make a big splash!
However, it is still just a matter of public opinion. In the first three months of the 11th year of Xuanping, the empire did not issue targeted policies and decrees for this purpose. All these changes did not occur until April.
In April, a number of government-run banks under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises announced a merger to form Datang Imperial Bank. Just looking at the name of this bank, you can tell that this bank is not simple.
Because then, the bank issued an announcement that in the next three years, it will provide special financial support for heavy industries, and it is expected that the industrial loans will exceed 10 million taels.
At the same time, the Royal Bank also announced that it will launch redirected loan funds specifically to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and the total amount is expected to reach 30 million taels of silver.
Although one of these two banks is a government bank directly affiliated with the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the other is a royal bank directly affiliated with the Royal Assets Division, it is undeniable that these two banks are actually typical policy banks.
A big move would be impossible if there was no official push behind it.
The special industrial support loan fund of 30 million taels is just the beginning!
In mid-April, the Jiangnan edition of the Tang Dynasty Daily published an article about Huo Shouqi, a Taoist from Jiangnan Province, who met with more than 100 representatives from Shanghai's industrial sector when he inspected the Shanghai Industrial Zone. At the meeting, he said that Jiangnan Province would actively respond to the Holy Emperor.
Called to promote the industrialization process in Jiangnan Province, and hoped that the industrial community in Jiangnan Province could cooperate.
Just after the meeting, Jiangnan Province announced that a total of three levels of finance would be jointly funded by the finance of Jiangnan Province, the finance of Songjiang Prefecture, and the finance of Shanghai Tershe County. It is expected to invest one million taels of silver to build the "Shanghai Second Industry" in Shanghai's special county.
District', preparing to build the second super-large industrial zone and create another miracle!
Faced with the fact that the three levels of finance of Jiangnan Province jointly invested one million taels of silver, and the Shanghai ad hoc county finance department independently invested 800,000 taels of silver to build the second industrial zone, officials in other places were envious and jealous after hearing this.