Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 646 Grading System
Just when the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River was unfolding, the capital thousands of miles away had already entered the busiest and busiest season of the year.

The major markets in the northern and southern cities are crowded with people, and there are all kinds of cries and yells one after another, mixed with the laughter and noise of children, the yelling and cursing of adults, the greetings of acquaintances, There was a lot of laughter, and the tempting aroma of various foods wafted in the air.

Almost everyone's faces are filled with smiles from the bottom of their hearts. Under the relaxed and natural demeanor, each face is so vivid, and they are no longer the frowning, anxious, or even insensitive expressions of years ago.

Regardless of adults or children, women or old men, they hold big bags and small bags in their arms, holding all kinds of goods or food they bought, or stop in front of the stalls of shops, or wander around slowly, See if there are any suitable supplies for your family. As long as you see what you need, you will try your best to squeeze through the crowd, as if you are afraid that it will be sold out when it is too late.

With Shengjun in power, these days are getting better and better. Everyone can really feel it from their daily food and clothing expenses, especially the artisans of the military supervisor and general bureau who have the most experience. .

Let’s take the residences of each family as an example. Let’s not talk about the streets and alleys paved with bluestone slabs after renovation.

In the past, most of the craftsmen lived in adobe houses. Only a few families with extra income could build blue brick houses, and the roofs were covered with black and gray tiles. But now?
The original adobe houses have long since disappeared. Over the past few years, as the money in hand has become more and more abundant, all the craftsman families have rebuilt the old houses, and they are all made of green bricks. It is made of all wood, and it has been on par with the mansions of those old men.

In the past, who didn't wear patched clothes for men, women and children?Whose children don't play in the street with bare feet and open-toed shoes in winter?
Footwear?

That is a thing that only rich families can enjoy. Poor families can't even afford to wear clothes. How can they have spare money to make a pair of socks?

In the past, who didn't everyone have disheveled faces, yellow and thin faces, numb eyes, and sad faces?
How many men have been single for a lifetime?Among the many craftsmen, how many can read and write?
What now?
Men, women, young and old, which one is not neatly dressed?Which one can't have two or three pairs of shoes?Who only wears one pair year-round?
More importantly, with enough food and clothing, children, even adults, can have the opportunity to read and write.

Under Zhu Youjian's instruction, Shuntian Mansion built two schools in places where craftsmen lived in groups, and all the students were children of military supervisors and craftsmen who would be in charge of the bureau.

Schools for the children of large state-owned enterprises in later generations appeared on the land of China ahead of schedule.

This is a decision Zhu Youjian made after careful consideration. He hopes that this move will bring more profound changes to Daming in the future.

Zhu Youjian has thought about a question more than once in his spare time: What is the reason why China, which has always been ahead of the whole world in all aspects, completely lags behind the Western world in a very short period of time?
In less than 100 years, the first industrial revolution blew the horn of the rise of the West, and various advanced tools were created, leaving the Qing Dynasty, which was still in traditional farming, far behind, and the distance was getting wider and wider. further away.

What were the people doing at that time?
The so-called elite class who can read and write are indulging in romance, burying their heads in the pile of old papers to find the truth.

Countless so-called learned masters wish to crush every word left by their ancestors, and then put it in their mouths to savor carefully, find out the self-righteous truth from it, and write it into a thick book to educate the world: how should you behave, You should behave in a dignified manner, if you deviate from your ancestors, you are deviant. Xiyi's tricks are all ingenious and obscene skills, you should cast aside and despise them. What our ancestors left behind is the best.

Listen to the words of the ancestors, you are right.

Another point is also very important.

The relationship between population and land.

Due to the sparse population, Western countries can only improve production efficiency by improving production tools under the condition of not being able to quickly obtain a large number of people. This progressive situation also makes related technologies continue to be pushed forward. , and relevant people have obtained huge benefits from it.

After realizing this, Western countries rushed to increase investment in science and technology, which made the gap between the East and the West widen until later generations could not surpass it.

Zhu Youjian does not deny that Confucianism can improve personal cultivation, but these knowledge can only be used for self-cultivation, not enough to govern the country.

But he also knows that it is impossible to change something that has been ingrained in the past 2000 years, especially those who have studied the scriptures since childhood. It is difficult for them to give up the Four Books and Five Classics and study science instead.

It's harder than killing them.

Although there will be a very small number of scholars who are not against those so-called ingenious prostitution because of their personal interests and hobbies, and even extreme ones will abandon the scriptures and specialize in these heresy.

However, such people are too few.

After much deliberation, Zhu Youjian decided to start with the craftsmen as a breakthrough point to slowly drive the change of the Ming system.

Aren't you proud of reading sage books?
Well, I will not stop you from reading, that is your personal freedom and choice.

Are you afraid that these craftsmen, whom you regard as humble households, will rob you of your jobs after they can read and write?
No, at least not now, in the future, you will know by then.

Artisans read and read to make more exquisite and novel things and then sell them to make money for the court, and then to support you self-righteous, pig-headed and dog-brained scholars.

So you should have no opinion, right?

This is how the artisan's children's school was set up.

This is just the beginning. Zhu Youjian's goal is to build the school into a technical school similar to later generations, then a technical college, and then a university of science and technology.

The people who govern the country should be selected from the universities of science and technology.

This is Zhu Youjian's layout, and it will take many years to achieve it.

You have to eat food one bite at a time. If you eat too fast, you will easily choke.

You have to walk step by step, if you are too big, you will scratch your head.

Eggy's sadness.

Of these two schools, one is for the children of craftsmen, and the other is for the craftsmen themselves.

The school where the artisans are located is actually more like a literacy class.

The children's school is where the hope lies.

Every craftsman under the age of 50 has to go to school every holiday. Each person must learn to read and write [-] Chinese characters within one year, and [-] Chinese characters and other professional symbols within three years. read and write.

Examinations are held at the end of each year, and all those who fail the examination will be downgraded by one grade.

Taking into account the different positions and technical abilities of craftsmen, Zhu Youjian set up a classification system for craftsmen and linked it to their monthly income.

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(End of this chapter)