Chapter five hundred and forty-one die to engage in steam engine
For Li Xuan, holding the imperial examination and recruiting traditional scholars was a means of political propaganda. It was not that he really needed these scholars to serve as officials for him.
Many of the talents he needs are talents with modern scientific knowledge, but such talents cannot be recruited directly from today's society.
In this regard, Li Xuan envisioned three solutions. One is to teach modern scientific knowledge to these officers in the process of training officers. Don't be surprised. If Li Xuan wants to build a truly modern army, the officers must possess
It is difficult for an illiterate person without knowledge of modern science to lead a modern army in combat.
This process has been implemented for almost two years since the era of the Guards. Although the level of science knowledge taught in the Royal Academy is still very low in the eyes of later generations, even worse than that of primary school students, for this era
The language is extremely advanced. At least these officers have been brainwashed and indoctrinated with a large amount of basic scientific knowledge, especially astronomy and geography related to combat, basic mathematics, geometry, physics and chemistry.
To put it bluntly, the officers in the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty, especially those who have received a complete education from the Royal Academy, are definitely the most outstanding comprehensive talents in this era.
Although these officers are used for combat, they will retire. After these retired officers are transferred to local areas, they will be able to play a great role.
In addition to officer training, there is also Imperial College education!
According to the reform of the Imperial College some time ago, the Tang Dynasty, the Wen Tang Dynasty, and the Engineering School merged to form the Imperial College, which consists of two major colleges: the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science, as well as independent departments, such as the Department of Medicine and the Department of Agriculture.
This reform has made the Imperial College completely different from the traditional Imperial College. It is said to be an Imperial College, but it is more accurate to say it is a comprehensive university. Unfortunately, apart from traditional Chinese studies, the level of science is relatively poor.
The Imperial Academy, the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy were both civil and military schools, and their educational models were naturally completely different. The students trained by the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Academy would all join the military, while the students trained by the Imperial Academy would all be officials in the future.
There is no way. If being an official is not an attraction, not many scholars would be willing to apply for the Imperial College.
On the one hand, this imperial examination was for political propaganda, and on the other hand, it was also for recruiting students for the Imperial College.
But in addition to cultivating modern talents through the Martial Arts Academy, the Royal Academy and the Imperial Academy, Li Xuan actually has another training channel, and the training in this channel is more comprehensive and even more effective, and that is the young men in the Young Military Camp.
At the beginning, Li Xuan's plan was relatively simple, that is, to simply use these military camps as orphanages, provide some basic early education, and then send them to martial arts schools, imperial schools, or Imperial College when they are older.
But recently, Li Xuan has changed his original idea, because the science courses in this young military camp are sometimes taught by him personally. In the process, he found that these teenagers have a stronger ability to accept New Year's knowledge, at least than
Those students who have received traditional Confucian views in advance are stronger.
Moreover, this trend is more obvious among teenagers between the ages of seven and ten. Children of this age group usually do not know how to read. Even if they do, they have generally only read enlightenment books such as the Three Character Classic, and their three views have not yet been fully understood.
form.
Therefore, their ability to accept new things is far stronger than those students in their teens or even twenties who have matured their three views.
Even the science level of several children with relatively excellent academic performance has reached the level of the students of the Imperial Academy. Well, this possibility is possible, because the educational level of the Imperial Academy and even the Imperial Academy is actually at best
It is equivalent to the elementary school stage in later generations, or even worse.
Because these children have been exposed to learning since childhood and have been personally taught by Li Xuan, it is reasonable that their learning progress is faster than that of the Imperial Academy and Imperial Academy.
But this one is faster, and is actually just the level of an ordinary elementary school in later generations.
However, even so, Li Xuan was overjoyed. For this reason, he specially changed the training method of the young military camp, and decided to select those children with excellent academic performance, and then Li Xuan continued to teach them personally.
In this era, no one has more profound scientific knowledge than Li Xuan!
As for other children with average academic performance, they will no longer continue to enter the Imperial Academy or the Royal Academy, but will continue to study in the Young Army Camp. Anyway, the Wu Academy and Imperial Academy cannot provide better education than the Young Army Camp.
And implemented a brand new grade system in the young military camp, divided into grades one to 12, and this grade distinction was completely made by Li Xuan according to the primary school to high school in later generations, and this distinction was not based on age, but on the basis of age.
Based on academic level.
And after the grade system was implemented, unified examinations were arranged for the teenagers in the young military camp. Those who failed the examination were all first-year students, and those who passed the examination were promoted to the second grade. Then the second-year students were tested again, and those who passed the examination were promoted to the third grade.
grade, and so on.
At present, among the more than 500 teenagers in the cub camp, one-third are still in the first grade, and another third are in the second grade. The higher the grade, the fewer the students. By the time they reach the sixth grade,
, there are only three people left.
After adopting the grade system, Li Xuan, in order to cultivate a sense of hierarchy and obedience in them from an early age (most of these students will join the army in the future), adopted a system in which senior students have teaching, management responsibilities and authority over junior students, and even junior students have
Teachers are all senior students, and those with superior academic performance will have various privileges and conveniences.
For example, the top three students in the lower grades and the top five students in the senior grades will be personally taught by Li Xuan, especially the three students in the sixth grade and the seven or eight students in the fifth grade. Li Xuan is personally responsible for teaching.
His original teacher was nothing more than a teaching assistant.
At the same time, in order to prevent outsiders from contaminating their three views, closed management is adopted.
Li Xuan actually managed the young military camp as a military school. His management model was strict and cruel, and there was no so-called humanity or democracy.
On the one hand, Li Xuan expected to obtain a large number of loyal officers who had received military and scientific education from an early age through the Young Military Camp. In fact, he also expected to obtain a group of real scientific talents from these teenagers.
They don't need to be very powerful, but as long as they reach the level of junior high school students in later generations, they are enough to play roles as R&D personnel, main engineers, etc. for this era.
For example, Li Xuan has dreamed of building a steam engine several times. The principle is very simple, and several senior students in the young military camp have already begun to think of ways to create experimental products.
And it achieved great success. A few students in the fifth and sixth grade directed a group of blacksmiths to build a boiler, and then directly used wood to boil water and used copper pipes to export the water vapor. The water vapor successfully drove the rotation of the impeller.
Although this device is only the simplest steam engine test device and is still 18,000 miles away from practical use, the success of the test has proved that the steam engine can indeed be used as a power source.
As for when a truly practical steam engine can be built to propel ships, pumps and other equipment, only God knows. Anyway, Li Xuan feels that this time will not be short, and it may be extremely long.
But this kind of thing cannot be rushed, just like the development of mirrors. The craftsmen have been working on it for so long and still haven't come up with it. But Li Xuan is not in a hurry. Just do it slowly. If it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years. If it doesn't work in two years, it will work.
In ten years, he didn’t believe it couldn’t be done, and he would die to do it.
He didn't want to build an atomic bomb, he just wanted to build the most primitive steam engine. He really didn't believe he couldn't build it after spending several years or even more than ten years.
The reform of the young military camp was also a small measure that Li Xuan carefully carried out in this era to carry out modern education for future generations. Because he was the only teacher and he was also very busy, it was destined to be impossible to carry out on a large scale and could only be carried out on a large scale.
We need to train a dozen or twenty people first, and we can't spend too much time on training. We can only select the best people with the strongest self-learning ability to train.
Li Xuan's purpose of training them is not to let them become scientists. Li Xuan just hopes to cultivate a batch of seeds, and then let these seeds serve as teachers to teach more people.
This is why senior students are used to teach junior students in the military camp.
Imperial Academy, Imperial College, and Young Military Camp, these are the three talent education methods currently adopted by Li Xuan. Each education method and even the target students are different.
The students in the Royal Academy are all active-duty officers, and the predecessors of these active-duty officers are the scholars who gave up their writing and joined the army.
The students of the Imperial College are ordinary students.
The students of these two groups are generally in their teens or even twenties when they enter school. In this era, they are all adults. They have already set their three views and their receptive ability is not strong, but they can be cultivated simply.
It can barely be used later.
The students in the Youjun camp are all orphans, and they are relatively young and have no family constraints. At the same time, their three views have not yet been formed. They are like a blank sheet of paper. Li Xuan'ai can be trained as he wants.
And this time, those who excel in arithmetic and miscellaneous studies in Enkoli will be added to study in the Imperial College.
But these people do not include Huang Zhiyuan.
As a traditional scholar, Huang Zhiyuan naturally has not had much contact with miscellaneous subjects, and even disdains contact with those miscellaneous subjects. He is barely able to do arithmetic, but his strengths are the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, and his scores in historical theory and policy theory are also considered good.
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After the results of the Xunzhou Prefectural Examination came out, Huang Zhiyuan ranked 58th on the list and became the first batch of new students in the Tang Dynasty.