Eight hundred and fortieth chapters Zhengde borrows soldiers
Although the officials of the Ministry of Rites were lazy and directly copied the army's military expansion model and changed it from one to another, this was currently the best way for the Tang Dynasty to prepare a new university.
For today's Tang Dynasty, the biggest problem in promoting new education is not the opposition of the scholars. In fact, although the scholars opposed it in the early stage, they are already dead now because of the content of the examinations in the imperial examination and the content of the new subjects.
More and more, it is extremely difficult for scholars to learn by themselves.
In the past two years, graduates of the Imperial College have almost dominated the list, which naturally dissatisfied many people. On the one hand, they scolded the students of the Imperial College for being shameless, and on the other hand, they wanted to enter the Imperial College.
Some people began to open their own academies to teach these new subjects.
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty promotes government-run schools, which is a good thing for the scholars who currently study only to become officials.
In addition, although the funding problem is also big, it is not insurmountable, because many government-run schools were directly reformed from county schools and government schools in the Ming Dynasty. The school buildings are ready-made, and the required daily funds are because
The tuition fee will not be too large, and the local county, government and other yamen will also provide certain financial subsidies.
These days, the gentry are quite active in running schools and donate more funds.
The biggest problem is the teachers!
The two subjects of Chinese studies and arithmetic are pretty good, but when middle schools start to teach physics, chemistry and other subjects, there are obviously not enough teachers.
If you can still find some teachers for subjects in middle schools and even preparatory schools, it is very difficult to find teachers at the university level.
Nowadays, in the entire Tang Dynasty, almost all the science and engineering talents who can teach relatively advanced contents are at the Royal Institute of Technology, and more importantly, the people there are all self-taught.
The academic system of the Royal Institute of Technology is very special. They adopt self-study and self-teaching, and they also shoulder the task of scientific research. They use senior students to teach junior students, and senior students basically have to rely on self-study.
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In terms of the modern education level of future generations, even the few senior students at the Royal Institute of Technology who are regarded as treasures by Li Xuan are only equivalent to the level of high school students. Most students are at most junior high school students.
s level.
Of course, even high school students and junior high school students are capable of crushing the world in this era.
But these people have very heavy study and research and development tasks. Although occasionally seventh-grade students go to the Imperial College to attend classes, it is still far from enough to meet the huge demand.
The Ministry of Rites split the Imperial College into two, and planned to build a new university next to the Royal Institute of Technology, with the idea of ​​continuing to allow students from the Royal Institute of Technology to give part-time lectures.
Therefore, Li Xuan did not embarrass the officials of the Ministry of Rites too much and directly approved their plan. After the Imperial College was divided into two, the Imperial College was renamed Imperial College, and the separated part was established as Jinlingcheng University.
But this is also an inspiration to Li Xuan. It is too difficult to organize a comprehensive university. There is an urgent shortage of teachers. Not only the universities are short of teachers, but those preparatory colleges and middle schools are also short of teachers. So Li Xuan is planning to organize a group of specialized teachers.
Teachers College.
Specializing in training teachers of new subjects!
Li Xuan's idea is that these normal schools do not train generalists, but only specialists!
It is enough that you only need to study one of the subjects, be roughly proficient in it, and be able to teach students according to the textbook.
In this way, it can greatly reduce the learning burden of students and shorten the academic system. It normally takes three years to train an ordinary preparatory student, but Li Xuan only plans to spend one year to train a normal student!
Two days after conquering Yangzhou, Li Xuan officially issued an imperial edict requiring all provinces to open normal schools to specially train teachers.
Jinling City, as the emperor's foothold and the city with the most favorable conditions for running schools, was naturally the first to respond!
It took almost only three days for Jinling Normal University to be officially established and began to enroll students extensively, and the first batch of enrollment was 300 people!
However, in order to ensure that the normal school graduates will eventually become teachers instead of taking the imperial examination again, this time there are clear requirements for enrollment, that is, before enrolling, they must sign an agreement, and one year after graduation, they need to go to
Serve as a teacher for several years in various middle schools and preparatory schools designated by the Education Department of the Ministry of Rites.
You need to work as a teacher for at least three consecutive years. Tuition is free during the normal school period. After working as a teacher for three years, you can be qualified to apply for Imperial College or Jinling University or directly take the general examination.
You must know that not everyone can be admitted to the Imperial College now, and not everyone can be admitted. Today's Imperial College of the Tang Dynasty has clear requirements for students who want to apply for the school: they must have the title of Juren of the Tang Dynasty.
, or graduated from preparatory schools in various places.
Needless to say, the examination also requires meritorious service.
Of course, not everyone is required to enroll in Jinling Normal School. They must have the reputation of being a scholar of the Tang Dynasty or graduate from a middle school.
The continuous reform of the education and imperial examination systems is what Li Xuan has been doing, and in the foreseeable future, Li Xuan will continue to reform in the next few years.
Using a method of boiling frogs in warm water, it completely changed the traditional education and imperial examination system in China.
The biggest capital to promote this kind of reform was the official position in the Tang Dynasty.
As long as you want to be an official in the Tang Dynasty, then you have to study in accordance with the rules set by Li Xuan and participate in the imperial examination.
The scholars also deeply felt that the education reform of the Tang Dynasty was gradually deepening. Some people were naturally opposed to it, but their objections were not heard by others.
The Tang Dynasty Newspaper will not publish articles with opposing voices. The articles about education reform in the Datang Dynasty Newspaper are basically praising, and those old academics will complain in private, and outsiders will not be able to hear them.
Naturally, I let them talk.
But after all, these old academics still strongly support their young children to study in new-style schools!
Regardless of whether it's good or bad, if you go to school and you can become an official, that's the most important thing.
In the past few days, Li Xuan was busy with educational matters in the rear, and the army in Jiangbei was not idle either. After Hao Bainian led the third army to capture Yangzhou, he did not stay in Yangzhou for too long.
Instead, they continued northward and followed the canal all the way to Gaoyou. The more than 10,000 Ming troops in Gaoyou fled without resistance at all and fled north to Huai'an Prefecture.
The Third Army occupied Gaoyou without any blood and then continued to advance towards Huai'an.
At this time, the navy had also finished its rest, and the main fleet began to move north. They were preparing to seize the mouth of the Yellow River to cover the large number of transport fleets that could enter the Yellow River directly from the mouth of the Yellow River.
In order to ensure control of the canal, Yellow River, and Huaihe River basins and coordinate with the army's operations, the navy once again increased the size of the canal fleet.
The battle going north went smoothly, but things were still the same in Anqing and Huguang.
Although the Tang Dynasty was powerful, it did not have the ability to launch large-scale battles in two directions at the same time. The war in Jiangbei cost the Tang Dynasty a large amount of military expenditures and various ammunition supplies.
Therefore, after Li Xuan considered it, he postponed the Anqing offensive and prepared to wait until the Third Army captured the Huaihe and Yellow River basins.
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty did not take the initiative to attack, so the generals of the Ming army such as Yu Dayou and Zhang Yue were naturally relieved. With the attack capability of the Tang Army in Yangzhou, they were really not sure whether Anqing and Hanyang could hold on.
Now that the puppet Tang rebels are not coming to attack, they are naturally relieved.
Therefore, the armies of both sides in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River continued to stare across the Yangtze River with only small-scale reconnaissance operations, giving the appearance of a quiet war on the Western Front.
However, on the eastern front, the Ming army continued to suffer miserably!
Many days later, Emperor Zhengde, who was in the capital, finally received the battle report from the south!
When he saw Yangzhou fell and only 20,000 of the 100,000-strong army escaped, Emperor Zhengde's old body couldn't help but tremble, and he couldn't even hold the memorial.
Then he drove all the eunuchs and maids out of the palace, and sat alone on the huge dragon chair!
After half a day, he called people in, and then made several decrees in succession. The first was to provide compensation to Chen Linmao, who committed suicide and died in the city. Although Zhengde wanted to whip Chen Linmao to death ten thousand times in his heart, it was now a troubled time.
He needed to stabilize the court, and he still couldn't be mean to a minister like this who, despite losing the battle, had upheld his honor.
If you lose the battle, you will be punished. I am afraid that Emperor Zhengde will kill all the generals on the front line.
In addition, he planned to send important ministers to the Mongolian grassland to meet with Anda Khan to discuss borrowing troops. As long as he could borrow troops, tea, ironware, titles, etc. would not be a problem.
Of course, things like getting married and breaking the soil are still not allowed. Compared to some emperors who have no bottom line, Emperor Zhengde still has some moral integrity!
Wanting to borrow troops without splitting the soil or making peace sounds a bit ridiculous, but he believes that An Dahan is a smart man, and he naturally understands the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold!
If the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, any idiot can guess what the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty would do next: it would definitely go north to the grasslands to fight Anda Khan.
Because since ancient times, almost all the central dynasties that unified China could not tolerate the threat of the northern grasslands. When they were strong, they would always find ways to attack and weaken the power of the grasslands.
This was true during the Zhu Yuanzhang period when the Ming Dynasty was founded, and it was also true during the Zhu Di period. And even further back in the Song Dynasty, even after they regained their strength a little, they did not forget the Northern Expedition. Not to mention the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, they went north and west when they were strong!
Whenever China's unified dynasty becomes powerful, it will always launch foreign conquests!
The Tang Dynasty will not be an exception!
The Tatars and the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty were natural enemies. He believed that Anta Khan would not fail to see this!
As long as Anda Khan does not want to encounter the guns and artillery of the puppet Tang rebels in the grassland in the future, and eventually be driven out to the far west like other ancestors in the grassland, then he must send troops!
Of course, Anda Khan could also choose to surrender and kneel down to pray to the Puppet Tang Dynasty to give them a way to survive, but Zhengde believed that Anda Khan would not choose to surrender!