Chapter 671 The world is shaking again: free land distribution
Although Li Xuan does not intend to change the imperial examination model now, the two imperial examination models, Jinshi Examination and Doctoral Examination, will be important methods for selecting officials in the Tang Dynasty for many years to come.
But Li Xuan can decide what content will be tested in the imperial examination!
However, if we want to truly promote the content of the imperial examination on a large scale, we must have a large number of qualified candidates. We cannot just say that just a few people understand basic physics and chemistry, and then all the test questions will be science content!
In addition to the imperial examination, there is another important reason why Li Xuan wants to promote modern education, that is, the development of Datang today requires more high-quality talents.
But today's training model that only relies on private schools, private academies, and official schools is destined to be unsatisfactory. He needs a more efficient education system.
For this reason, Li Xuan has decided to increase the scale of youth academies in various places. The reason why the number of juvenile students is increased and the Youth Military Camp is not included is because the Youth Military Camp has been continuously expanding its scale and is limited by student sources.
It’s impossible to expand too big!
In the second half of last year, Li Xuan approved the establishment of Guangzhou Youjun Camp and Ganzhou Youjun Camp. In the first half of this year, Li Xuan approved the establishment of Shaoyang Youjun Camp, Guiyang Youjun Camp, and Ganzhou Youjun Camp.
Up to now, these military camps, which are directly under the royal management and only recruit orphans, have expanded to eight. Seven of them are branches of the military camps responsible for low-end education, and one is responsible for both middle and high schools.
Zhaoqing General Camp.
There are already more than 2,000 orphans in school!
Among them, only the main camp of Zhaoqing Youjun Camp has more than 600 students!
But Young Military Camp is not an ordinary academy after all. Its students are limited to orphans, and students from ordinary families are not accepted.
In the juvenile military camp, tuition is waived and even food and drink are free. This is basically equivalent to the royal family adopting them and providing education. The cost required is actually not a small amount, and it cannot be expanded without limit.
Therefore, students from ordinary families are not accepted.
The positioning of Youjunying is quite special. The first thing is to cultivate talents who are loyal to the royal family and the emperor. These people are all orphans. For them, Youjunying is their home, and Emperor Li Xuan is their father. As long as they
If done properly, Li Xuan will be able to obtain a large number of 'adopted sons' in the future.
And the students in these small military camps will become officials, military officers, and scientists in the future, and they will all be social elites. With the support of such a group of people, Li Tang's country will be more stable.
However, juvenile military camps cannot replace general education, so juvenile academies in various places must continue to develop, and they must continue to be opened on a large scale!
In mid-July, Li Xuan issued an imperial edict to the world. In order to solve the problem of poor people everywhere being unable to study, he required every government under the Tang Dynasty to prepare at least one juvenile college.
At the same time, the academic system of the juvenile college has been expanded, ranging from grades one to six. At the same time, certain age restrictions have been imposed on students, and students aged over eight and under sixteen are recruited.
Three new colleges of higher learning were established in Wuzhou, Guangzhou, and Guiyang, with academic systems ranging from seventh to twelfth grade.
This is basically the system of the fire cadet camp. It is not only copied in terms of the academic system, but also basically refers to the cadet camp in other aspects. For example, those with excellent learning ability can be promoted to senior grades in advance after passing the assessment.
However, due to the shortage of educational resources, in order to expand the source of students and take care of the children of the poor, young students and colleges and universities provide free tuition, so the requirements for students are also quite high. Students who cannot upgrade for a long time will be dissuaded. I don’t want to dissuade them.
It's okay to withdraw, but then you need to pay tuition, and the tuition is not low.
However, Li Xuan still did not directly grant honors to these graduates, because this would break the current balance of imperial examinations!
If you want to win fame, you have to take the imperial examination!
After all, he, Li Xuan, can't give all these new generation students a name, even if they are scholars, he can't give them randomly.
Because under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, even scholars were qualified to be officials!
In response to Li Xuan's policy of promoting education, the Ministry of Industry also instructed many factories under its command to prepare to establish a school dedicated to cultivating technical talents. The school was also established in Zhaoqing, with engineers from those factories serving as part-time teachers.
Students are recruited from all over the world, and as long as they pass the assessment, they can enroll for free.
After completing your studies, you can join major factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and become a technician. The schooling period is only one year.
This is actually a technical school that trains middle and lower-level technical personnel, not senior engineers. These personnel are trained by the School of Science in the Imperial College.
Although it is said that many people in the Faculty of Science went to take the imperial examination, in fact, in the end, many people in the doctoral program will work in the Ministry of Industry and become technocrats.
Moreover, the number of students admitted to the doctoral program is actually not very large now, only about 80 a year. However, there are hundreds of students in the School of Science, and people continue to apply for it every year. With so many students, there is always a need to find
A way out.
If you can't be an official, you can still be an engineer!
And if you are good at being an engineer, you can still become an official!
In major factories under the Ministry of Industry, many engineers have high grades, and their grades are not low.
The Tang Dynasty planned to establish a large-scale juvenile college and a college of higher learning. This incident also caused a certain amount of turmoil, but compared with the influence of the Chaobao, it was not as good as it was.
Junior colleges and colleges are just schools. Although the academic system is a bit weird and the content of the studies is relatively complicated, it is always a good thing to run a school, and it is free. At the same time, it does not say that it will directly grant honors. Those scholars and gentry cannot object, right?
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Therefore, unlike the major commotion caused by the publication of the Chao Bao, although the establishment of juvenile academies in various states also aroused some discussion, no one paid much attention to it soon.
As for the Chao Bao, as the first issue of the Datang Chao Bao was printed and distributed in various places, it soon spread throughout the entire Tang Dynasty, and almost every article published on it could arouse a lot of discussion.
Among them, the most important thing is the tax exemption for land reclamation!
Not only ordinary people are beginning to work hard to reclaim wasteland, but even some wealthy landowners and gentry are also preparing to organize manpower to reclaim wasteland.
This is a tax benefit, a rare benefit in Datang!
In the past, if you stole a little tax, you would immediately attract the tax officials or even the tax inspection team, who would be punished by thousands of dollars. In the light case, you would be fined. In the case of serious cases, you would be jailed or even have your family confiscated and your family exterminated.
But now, there is an honest and fair tax-free discount. How can you miss this good thing?
Ever since, this summer, almost the entire Tang Dynasty was discussing land reclamation!
And Li Xuan was afraid that this summer would not be hot enough, so he added fuel to the fire this summer by announcing the 'rent-to-purchase order' in the second issue of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper!
The rent-to-purchase order announced that landless farmers can purchase a certain amount of official land after registering and applying locally!
Farmers who are renting government land can also apply to purchase government land as long as their families have no land.
It is not news that official land can be purchased, because a large amount of official land was previously leased to landless farmers, and it is also possible to purchase official land privately.
The important thing is that when purchasing land, you can choose to pay in installments. The annual installment can be paid directly with the output of the current year, and the share paid each year is similar to the annual rent of official land. After ten years of continuous installment payment, this
Fenguan land is owned by farmers.
Although after choosing to pay in installments, the total price of paying land rent for ten consecutive years will definitely be much higher than that of the Tian family, but the account cannot be calculated like this. First of all, most farmers cannot come up with the money.
Land is purchased, and no landlord would be so foolish as to let farmers rent instead of purchasing.
At the same time, the number of annual installments is actually the same as the land rent on the market. That is to say, if farmers rent other private land, after ten years of renting, the land will still belong to others, but if they rent government land, after ten years, the land will belong to them.
Yes.
Ten years later, the land will be directly owned by the farmers, and landless farmers will be able to become landed farmers. This is a huge benefit to many landless farmers.
The farmers in ancient times were obsessed with the land beyond the imagination of later generations. In order to get a share of the land, countless poor children now have to join the army even if they break their heads.
But now the standards for joining the army are getting higher and higher. If your physical condition is not up to par, it will be difficult to enlist.
Therefore, Li Xuan is now planning to purchase official land in installments to further stimulate the farmers and make them support the Tang Dynasty even more. Anyway, the official land is left alone, so it is better to take it out.
As for saying that official land is not enough?
Impossible!
Before the Tang Dynasty occupied Guizhou and Guangxi, at least half of the land in these places was concentrated in the hands of the clan and gentry. After the Tang Dynasty came, the clan's land was naturally confiscated, and a small part became the imperial family owned by the royal family.
village, and most of it became official land directly under the management of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Then the Tang Dynasty was particularly fond of confiscating families and exterminating clans, and all the land obtained by confiscating families was included in the official land managed by the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition, some official lands originally owned by the local officials of the Ming Dynasty, so the current Tang Dynasty
Here, the Ministry of Agriculture was actually the largest landowner, owning nearly 15% of the cultivated land under the entire Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty and the continuous extermination of families and genocide, the total number of official fields is still increasing.
More importantly, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, all land that was not privately owned was official land. However, development was still relatively low these days. There was a large amount of unowned land in the wilderness, and who owned these lands?
?Of course it belongs to the government!
In the past, most of these official lands were directly leased to landless farmers for cultivation, and a small part was used to distribute to soldiers!
Now, it has been added to the rent-to-purchase order and is ready to be sold to landless farmers in installments!
In this way, although on the surface the Tang Dynasty will lose a lot of official land, what does the Tang Dynasty want with so much official land? Li Xuan does not expect to make much money from these lands. What he needs is to support more people on these lands.
A larger population contributed more taxes and soldiers to the Tang Dynasty.
This is the value of land to rulers!
As soon as the rent-to-purchase order came out, because of its installment payment model, it was almost equal to free land allocation. The impact caused by this was no less than the previous tax exemption for land reclamation, and it instantly ignited public opinion all over the world!