Chapter 255 Joining the army is equal to going to school
In addition, the Tang Dynasty military usually directly arranges jobs for retired non-commissioned officers who have reached the end of their service years. The job arrangements usually include relatively decent jobs, mainly serving as local security patrols, low-level civil servants, etc.
Even for ordinary soldiers, the military will provide them with secondary education during their service. After passing the exam, they can obtain an officially recognized secondary school diploma.
It will also organize vocational training for soldiers so that they can get better employment after they retire.
As for why middle school education is provided, it is because when Datang recruits recruits, the minimum educational requirement is to graduate from primary school!
The primary school enrollment rate in the Tang Dynasty is very high. The enrollment rate of the younger generation of boys can basically reach more than 95%, and more than 80% of teenagers can successfully graduate from primary school.
Not to mention joining the army, even if you are recruiting ordinary workers in a factory, you are still required to have a primary school diploma.
Therefore, the cultural courses of the military provide secondary education.
As for going further, you can also apply for several youth military academies within the military. These are preparatory-level high schools, but very few can get into them.
These vocational training and junior middle school courses are very attractive to many children from poor families, because for them, joining the army is equivalent to going to middle school. Although it is a bit harder, after the four-year service period is over, they will
I can go home with a high school diploma.
This is equivalent to saving expensive tuition fees in disguise!
In today's Datang, it is very easy for you to go to primary school, and the tuition is very cheap. Even ordinary peasant families can send their children to primary school.
But after middle school, tuition becomes very expensive.
Generally speaking, joining the army in today's Tang Empire is still very attractive, especially for poor children.
Joining the army not only reduces the burden on the family, allows one to have enough food to eat, and exercises oneself, but also provides opportunities for education. If you can become a non-commissioned officer and retire after serving as a non-commissioned officer for a few years, you can be directly assigned to work as a patrolman in various places.
, I have been eating royal food for the rest of my life.
Joining the army is still the easiest way for poor people in the Tang Dynasty to get ahead.
As for studying, if you are a genius, it is naturally the best way. You can get scholarships all the way to school, and finally go to university and become a master.
But for ordinary people, studying is actually more difficult, because the reason why geniuses are geniuses is because they are few in number.
If you are not a genius, it will be difficult to get a scholarship.
Studying at one's own expense, even if a middle-class family wants to support their children in middle school, will find it difficult.
By the time they reach preparatory school, it will be difficult for the middle class to support their children's education with their current year's income, and they must save money many years in advance.
When you wait until college, it will be even harder!
A year's tuition at Jinling University costs more than 300 Tangyuan, textbooks and other expenses cost tens of Tangyuan, and accommodation and living expenses also cost tens of Tangyuan. At the end of the year, less than 500 Tangyuan is unsustainable.
You have to prepare at least 2,000 Tang Yuan to enable your children to finish college.
This is equivalent to the income of an ordinary middle-class family with two incomes for ten years!
Of course, if you are good enough, you can also apply for a tuition loan. This thing seems to have low interest rates, but even if you earn a good income after working, it will still take many years to pay it off.
As for why higher education in Datang is so expensive...
It is caused by many reasons, one of which cannot be ignored, that is, more than half of all college students in Datang are students with full scholarships, and at least 30% are students with half scholarships, and only 100% are students with half scholarships.
Twenty percent are for self-funded students.
How should I put it, Datang's higher education model is not prepared for ordinary people, but for those geniuses who can get scholarships.
As for those self-funded students, they not only need to bear the cost of their own education, but actually they also have to bear the cost of the education of those gifted students.
The education problem in Datang was a social problem, and when it was reflected on the military side, it made the educational opportunities provided by the military even more precious.
Even many children from middle-class families will let their children join the military, if for no other reason than to save middle school tuition. If they are lucky enough, they may even be admitted to the Youth Military Academy.
The situation of the Datang military is special. They have adopted many other methods to reduce personnel salaries and other expenses, but the military expenditure of the Datang military is still huge.
The army, navy and Guards combined have a military expenditure of more than 100 million a year.
Even now, the military is still crying about poverty every day, insisting on growing vegetables and raising pigs to support itself, and practicing artillery and marksmanship to save ammunition.
It can be seen that the Tang army actually lived a very hard life.
At this time, if you ask the Tang Army to build a large-scale mechanized force, they will not be able to do it: they have no money!
Establishing a mechanized mixed brigade is already very difficult for the Army. It is estimated that it is impossible to expand the mechanized force in the future.
And this is not good news for Qixiang Automobile Company.
The current military orders are very important to Qixiang Automobile Company, although the private market is opening up and expanding.
But all in all it's still quite difficult.
The main products of Qixiang Automobile Company are Qixiang brand two-wheeled vehicles and three-wheeled vehicles modified from two-wheeled vehicles.
The price of the civilian version ranges from 1,500 Tang Yuan to 3,000 Tang Yuan, which seems to be much cheaper than those Zhongyuan cars priced at 4,000 Tang Yuan and the Xihu brand cars starting at 8,000 Tang Yuan.
But there are basically no older wealthy people who would order this kind of car. Those who order this kind of car are mainly young people of power, especially the younger generation who pursue new trends and enjoy excitement.
And these people are actually not many.
After all, it was started in the Tang Dynasty in the 1500s, and it is considered a serious luxury item in the consumer market.
Xihu brand cars, after all, have a pretentious quality, and the rich like to use them to show off their financial resources.
But a two-wheeled car? It doesn’t reflect the rich character!
As for three-wheeled vehicles, sales are even smaller.
Except for the military, few people are interested in this thing.
In addition, a very important point is that a large number of customers of those four-wheeled cars or trucks are corporate customers. For example, large companies purchase luxury cars to serve as facades, pick up and drop off distinguished guests, etc.
Manufacturing companies purchase trucks to transport goods.
But why do companies sell two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicles?
If you spend thousands of dollars on this thing, you might as well spend thousands more to buy a four-wheeled luxury car.