Wang Yuan looked at his eldest son. The child who once played with pandas was now the thirty-one-year-old King of Luzon.
Perhaps it is because of the harsh sun in Luzon that Wang Ce, who was already tanned, is now even darker. He has already grown two beards, but the beard under his chin has been shaved off, making him look mature and capable, and he has more Somewhat fierce and majestic.
"You are very good." Wang Yuan praised.
Wang Ce chuckled and said, "Father is too praised. My son was able to create a family business in Luzon only with the help of his father's fleet and disciples."
Wang Yuan shook his head: "My direct disciples mainly stay in the Ming Dynasty. Most of the physics disciples who work with you are students from industrial and commercial schools. It is commendable that you can make good use of them."
Thanks to the Ming Dynasty’s household registration system.
Children born in Lihu, Lehu, Jianghu, Zaohu, and Junhu households have basically no real future. Even children from Jianghu, Zaohu, and Junhu households, except the eldest son, can take part in the imperial examination. But those who can pass the exam are rare. Especially children from military households. If you want to take the imperial exam, you can do it, but your father must be from a household of at least 100 or more, otherwise you won't even be able to get enough education to study.
The industrial and commercial schools in Tianjin and Hangzhou not only exempt students from tuition fees, but also provide one lunch, regardless of their household registration or origin.
A large number of low-income and poor children were sent to industrial and commercial schools by their parents. Although they also studied the Four Books and Five Classics, they only dabbled in it, mainly studying mathematics and physics.
In this case, even if they are qualified for the imperial examination, they will definitely not pass it. They are all "students", but they are not recognized by the scholars of the Ming Dynasty. Coupled with the factor of household registration, these people like to stick together very much, and They all went overseas to make a living.
More than 70% of Luzon's cabinet and six ministers are physics disciples from humble backgrounds.
They had no sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty. After becoming officials in Luzon, they simply brought the whole family over. They especially liked to poach the Ming Dynasty, and they devoted themselves to immigration and expansion for a long time, and also changed Luzon's education system.
Primary schools in Luzon were headed by Ming students or scholars, who taught traditional elementary school and the Four Books.
Each grassroots teacher can recommend one student each year to be sent to a middle school in the city where he belongs. In the intermediate schools in the city, the teaching content is changed to mathematics and physics, and the teachers are all physics disciples. Tuition is not charged, and room and board expenses are also free. .
These middle school students trained by the state finance can graduate thousands of people every year, which is roughly equivalent to the junior high school level in later generations.
Before they even graduate, all parties have already begun to compete for people. Luzon’s government is scrambling for talent, various fleets are scrambling for talent, and even Luzon’s army and navy like to recruit these high school graduates. After joining the army, you can be promoted to an officer after two or three years of training.
Wang Ce also built a Yanzhou University, with only fifty students admitted each year. Those with outstanding academic performance were not allowed to enroll.
The academic system of Yanzhou University is five years, and it is strict in entry and exit. After five years of study but if they fail the exam, they will be directly issued a certificate of graduation, allowing them to make a living on their own. Only those who pass the exam can obtain a graduation certificate, and their status is similar to The Shujishi of the Ming Dynasty.
Even the graduates of Yanzhou University are extremely expensive, with a monthly salary of less than thirty taels, so there is no way they can be hired - there are only a few graduates every year.
Imperial examination system?
Sorry, Luzon doesn’t have that kind of thing.
A lot of officials in the Luzon court could not afford to study in the past, were not qualified for the imperial examination, or had failed the examination for many years. They did not have a good impression of the imperial examination system, and could even be said to hate it. In addition, Luzon had a small population, so they simply used
School graduation system.
The graduation examination for middle school students in each state is equivalent to the college entrance examination.
It's just that the competition is a bit fierce. Only 50 people can go to university every year. And the opportunity is only once, and they can't repeat it. If you don't get into Yanzhou University, you can only be hired by various parties, including being selected as a local official (civil servant).
Wang Yuan asked: "What is the population of Luzon?"
Wang Ce replied: "The Luzon household registration system is modeled on the transfer registration law of Yinzhou. Han immigrants and their family members are all returned to the official register, with a total of more than 3.6 million people. Nanyang natives who recognize the government's rule are all transferred to the deputy register, and there are currently more than 800,000
As long as they learn Chinese and have been naturalized for five years and pass the examination, they can be transferred to the official list. The slaves captured by the government, including miners, road construction workers, lumberjacks, etc., are all transferred to the residual list, about 30 of them.
With more than 10,000, those who have performed meritorious service or completed their service period can be entered into the supplementary register."
The official list refers to citizens with complete identities, and among the 3.6 million citizens, there are only more than 700,000 true pure-blood Han people. The rest are either indigenous women or newborn mixed-race children.
After more than ten years of continuous immigration, there have been more than 1 million mixed descendants of Han and Chinese people in Luzon, most of whom speak the dialects of Guangdong, Guangxi, Wuyue and Qilu.
There are also countless indigenous people who are not included in any household registration registers and have almost no contact with the Luzon court. Most of these indigenous people live in remote mountains and small islands.
Wang Yuan smiled and asked: "What is the official language of Lu Song?"
Wang Ce smiled bitterly and said: "This matter is so noisy. It is because there are too many people from Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong in the Luzon court. I want to use the Ming Dynasty Mandarin as the Luzon Mandarin, but the court officials say that it is not easy to promote it because most of the immigrants
None of them speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin. They quarrel back and forth, and that’s it. Anyway, in the court, you must speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin, and in private you can do as they please."
Why does the Luzon court have to speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin? Because their king grew up in Beijing.
So what is the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty?
It’s Nanjing dialect, or Jianghuai Mandarin to be precise.
However, the pronunciation of Nanjing dialect in the Ming Dynasty is slightly different from that of Nanjing dialect hundreds of years later, and is closer to Southwest Mandarin. It was mainly popular in Jianghuai and Beijing. Even in the early Qing Dynasty, Beijingers mainly spoke Nanjing.
dialect, and later gradually incorporated Manchu characteristics (Beijing dialect is the product of Manchu aristocrats learning Jianghuai Mandarin).
The Guizhou Mandarin that Wang Yuan spoke when he was a child was very close to the Jianghuai Mandarin. Because there were a large number of foreign military households in Guizhou, the Jianghuai language became Guizhou Mandarin (with slight changes). After Wang Yuan came to Beijing, he only needed to change his accent and he could speak authentically.
The official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Yuan warned: "When you are overseas, you should pay more attention to speaking in the same language and writing in the same language. There are too many and too many dialects in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, which is not conducive to promotion. Take Zhejiang for example.
It is possible that there is a river across the country and we cannot communicate with each other. You are the ruler of Luzon, so the language you speak is Mandarin. People who do not know Mandarin cannot be governors of the state capital!"
"Father taught you that." Wang Ce was obedient.
The father and son chatted for a while, and Wang Yuan finally got to the point: "How many troops do you have?"
Wang Ce said: "There are more than 30,000 infantrymen, all of whom are elite soldiers. However, there are no organized cavalry. Luzon is mostly mountainous and forested, and there is no need for cavalry. As for the navy, it is both a business and an army. It does business and war in its free time.
For soldiers."
In the sixteenth century, it was impossible for a full-time navy to exist. It was a trinity of navy, merchants, and pirates. This thing was too expensive to maintain. The navy had to make extra money on its own. When encountering a lone ship, it might even turn into a pirate.
The navy of the Luzon Kingdom is actually the armed merchant ship of the Guangyuan Society. The commander and captain are both physics disciples.
Wang Yuan said: "Send me five thousand infantry, and also prepare artillery."
Wang Ce smiled and said, "It's just a word from my father."
Putting aside the question of filial piety or not, if Wang Yuan gave the order, he could take away half of Luzon's navy.
Although Zhu Zaiyi agreed to abolish the Jiangnan Guard Station and let Wang Yuan select 8,000 soldiers and their families. However, those guards soldiers could not fight at all. Wang Yuan could only find his son to recruit soldiers, and the remaining troops could be slowly retrained.
There is also an adopted son Wang Fang in the country of Gujarat, India.
Although Wang Fang already has an elite cavalry, there is a war going on there, so he cannot send it to Wang Yuan for the time being.