Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1035

"Zhan Tianyou's construction of the Prairie Railway has completed the laying of the section from Guihua City to Beijing, and is planning to build the railway section from Guihua City to Lanzhouwei. The railway construction committee has positioned the second phase of the Prairie Railway, and the third phase will start Lanzhou Wei to Urumqi." Said the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Although Chu Yun often forgets the progress of some things because he has to pay attention to too many things, the Ministry of Industry is always paying attention to the situation of the railway construction. The investment in railway construction is huge, and it costs a lot of manpower and material resources.

The Prairie Railway divided into three phases can be regarded as a huge railway project.This seemingly "luxury" railway cannot immediately bring tangible benefits, but if such a railway exists in the future, the Mongolian grasslands, the Western Regions, the Central Plains, and North China will be firmly bound together.The roar of steam locomotives will announce the complete end of the era of nomadism, cavalry can no longer come and go on the prairie like the wind, and infantry riding on steam locomotives and carrying muskets will be invincible along the railway.

Regarding Zhan Tianyou's construction of the railway, Chu Yun didn't say much, but nodded after confirming the progress.The best way to support him is to ensure that the Prairie Railroad has a steady stream of financial input.

"How is the reform of the school system under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education?" Chu Yun asked again.

"The reform of the school system is underway, and the Academy of Sciences has completed the division of teachers and students. In the future, the Academy of Sciences will become the highest scientific research institution, and the following departments will be split into a comprehensive hall and a dozen functional halls, including the University of Geosciences, Agricultural universities, industrial universities, etc. Each province and government should set up corresponding middle school schools and primary school private schools, and set the minimum number of secondary school schools and primary school private schools according to the population size and wealth level, and local parents who cannot complete it will face assessment In addition to the separation of the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences, the Liaodong Academy of Sciences was officially renamed the Liaodong University Hall, and the Nanjing Academy of Sciences was renamed the Nanjing University Hall." The newly appointed Minister of Education said.

In an instant, there were three comprehensive colleges and more than a dozen functional colleges, and Chu Yun himself felt like a dream.These colleges are not schools specializing in the study of the Four Books and Five Classics, but to cultivate talents who are proficient in astronomy and geography, metallurgy and water conservancy, advanced mathematics, and aerodynamics. The number of people in each college ranges from hundreds to thousands, and each of them Their talents may far exceed those of their predecessors, after all, they stand on the shoulders of giants and look up to a higher and farther level.

Moreover, the production of talents on such a large scale was too scary in the mid-17th century, when a university in the modern sense had not yet been formed.

Chu Yun thought of how terrifying it would be for China to produce tens of thousands of talents trained under the modern education system with his efforts. After several generations of accumulation... he will not be struggling alone in the future, and accept the new education Those who come out will also try their best to maintain the worldview they understand.

"Both Liaodong University Hall and Nanjing University Hall have been renamed. I don't know what name should be given to the University Hall in Beijing?" the Minister of Education asked.

"Just call it the Imperial University Hall." Chu Yun has never paid much attention to the matter of naming, sometimes it is very simple and rude.

"For different colleges, the government is responsible for allocating land to them, preferably in different parts of the capital, so as to facilitate targeted teaching. Each college formulates school-running funds according to the number of students and the nature of teaching, and the expenses are made up by the Ministry of Households. For example, industrial A university requires a lot of machines, and the funds are naturally higher than that of a normal university." The Minister of Education looked at the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Hubu Shangshu smiled wryly.The Ministry of Finance is in charge of the empire's money bag, no matter which department has to find them, it is not easy for a logistics department.

"In addition to approving funds according to the quota, the Ministry of Education will also need to check the indicators of different colleges to cultivate talents and increase or decrease funds as appropriate. Different colleges should also be given a certain degree of freedom to conduct self-management and free competition." Chu Yun slightly reminded.

"Yes. There is another problem. At present, only Liaodong, Nanjing, and Beijing have university halls. Students from other provinces may feel dissatisfied and complain." The Minister of Education said.

"That's something that can't be helped. Many things can't be done perfectly. We don't have so many scientists and teachers assigned to each province, and we can't ensure that the number of students enrolled in each place is exactly the same. Some provinces have a larger population. Many, some provinces, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, have a large number of literate scholars, and some newly included provinces, such as Nanyang Province, do not even have many people who can speak Chinese... In order to concentrate our efforts on major tasks, we can only wrong a group of people .” Chu Yun said.

It’s not that he doesn’t want a college in every province, it’s just that the objective conditions are too difficult. If there weren’t a large number of scientists summoned, and there were a group of students like Dayuer, Li Lu, and Li Yizhu in southern Liaoning. After several years of growth, he was able to stand alone, and even the current dozen or so colleges could not be established.

"However, they don't need to be so depressed. They will have what they should have sooner or later. It's just a matter of time." Chu Yun said.

"The Ministry of Criminal Justice... is about to start the trial of the case of burning the textile factory in Suzhou City. The presiding agency is the Suzhou court, which is supervised by the prefect and the chief soldier." The minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice talked about the case that had been noisy for several months.

After the Labor Law and the Trade Union Law came out, the Ministry of Criminal Justice saw that the businessmen in the Jiangnan area represented by Suzhou City did not react violently, so they were ready to thoroughly understand this series of things.

"The law cannot be violated. This is the supreme principle. It's just that the heavy punishment for this matter may chill the hearts of many textile workers. How to decide depends on the Suzhou court." Chu Yun didn't want to interfere in this matter, but wanted to It depends on what the court system will come out with.

"The election of the Craftsmen's Union in Suzhou City is also going on...but we are worried that someone will manipulate it maliciously. After all, the people are ignorant and are likely to be taken advantage of..." an official from the Ministry of Industry said.

The labor union is supervised by the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry is most worried about someone manipulating elections.

"If someone reports it, we will use manpower to check it, and the operator of the black box will be sentenced to heavy punishment or even death." Chu Yun said.

There is no perfect system in the world, Chu Yun can only take one step at a time.

The rebellion in the two places and the turmoil in Suzhou City delayed his plan to enter Japan, and he also wanted to resolve internal affairs as soon as possible so that he could spare energy and financial resources to launch a foreign war.

"Can the Fallen Allied Forces hold on?" Chu Yun thought of the civil war in Japan, and asked the people in the staff department.

The allied forces must not be defeated before he makes a move.

(End of this chapter)