Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 873 Use your gold to buy your talents
In order to popularize compulsory education in an all-round way, building more normal colleges has become a crucial part.

A large number of teachers is the basis for achieving this goal, and the new generation of teachers must be clearly distinguished from the teachers in the current school. Both the teaching materials and the teaching methods must be similar to the form and content of the primary and middle schools of later generations. This more advanced The education system will cultivate a large number of various types of talents needed by society.

Now many free schools have been set up in many places in Ming Dynasty to enroll local school-age children to study and read. However, the textbooks used in these schools are nothing more than primary reading materials such as Hundred Surnames, Thousand-Character Classics, and Three-Character Classics. In order to eliminate illiteracy, this is contrary to Zhu Youjian's idea of ​​cultivating a large number of practical talents throughout the country, although he knows that it takes a hundred years to cultivate talents.

The root cause of this phenomenon is that the Ming Dynasty lacked unified textbooks and advanced teaching staff.

Most of the current teaching teachers are mainly old students who have tried and failed. They themselves seriously lack the reserve of knowledge other than classics. In addition, there is no suitable teaching material. Can you expect them to teach mathematics and science to students?
Fortunately, with the influx of more talents from Europe to Daming in the past few years, a more advanced education system is also being established.

The first teacher-training college on Chinese territory is already under preparation. Next year, that is, the 24th year of Chongzhen, when the caravan of Ming Dynasty sailed to Europe returns safely, the sign of Beijing Normal University will also hang up.

Although compared with Ming Dynasty, Europe is far behind in most fields, but in the field of education, the system established by the Europeans is very close to the modern education system of later generations. There are four levels: primary school, middle school, senior high school, and university. It is already sound, and the talents of each echelon are also well-equipped, which is what the Chinese civilization lacks.

In view of this, under the instruction of Zhu Youjian, Honglu Temple has already reached a consensus with the Dutch side, entrusting the East India Company to hire a large number of school teachers and managers at all levels from Europe to Daming, so as to lay the foundation of Daming’s teacher education .

At present, the economies of European countries are not developed, and the living environment and living conditions are not comparable to those of Daming. The living standards of many nobles are not as good as those of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, and even the quality of life of most of the middle class in Daming To be high, so don't mention those teachers who are engaged in education.

The agreement reached between Honglu Temple and the East India Company specifically stipulates that all teachers who are willing to come to Daming to settle down, as long as they sign the agreement, each of them will receive ten Daming gold coins on the spot as a settlement allowance, and this is only the first time. strip.

With the continuous growth of China-Europe trade volume, and the example of the Ming Navy formation severely injuring the British Navy, the reputation of the Ming Empire has gradually become louder in Europe, and the well-cast Ming gold and silver coins have also become hard currency in the European market. recognized by European countries.

What is the concept of ten Daming gold coins?

To put it simply, these ten gold coins are enough for an ordinary family of four in Europe to live carefree for three years.

That said, it's a lot of money.

And it is a huge sum of money that can be easily obtained.

After receiving these ten gold coins, whether the signer wants to give some of the profits to his parents and brothers before leaving Europe, or directly bring all of them to Daming, it is his personal wish.

In the advertisements posted by the East India Company in various European countries, the conditions of the Ming Dynasty's preferential treatment for Ming voters are listed one by one.

Article [-], sign a contract and receive gold coins.

Second, after arriving in Daming, each signatory will be allocated a fully furnished house. The specific area depends on the number of family members, but the per capita living area will definitely be much larger than the signatory's current residence.

Article [-], the Ming government will consider the personal ability and position of the signer.The specific performance determines their monthly salary, but the lowest one will be two to three times their current monthly income. There will be bonuses of varying amounts before the end of each semester, and all salaries will be received during the holidays.

Those who have outstanding contributions and are widely recognized will be awarded huge bonuses, the specific amount will depend on the size of their contributions, up to hundreds of gold coins.

Article [-]: Those who sign the contract voluntarily renounce their original nationality and become citizens of Ming Dynasty from then on, enjoying all the benefits of Ming Dynasty and being protected by the laws of Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty will respect the private rights of every citizen and protect their private rights from being illegally violated by others.

After the advertisement of the East India Company appeared, the company's offices in various cities soon welcomed a large number of consultants.

For a while, the popularity of the East India Company also rose rapidly, and many businessmen and entrepreneurs from various European countries also came to seek trade cooperation with the East India Company. They all smiled when they heard the news.

Most of these consultations came with a dubious attitude. After all, such generous and unusual conditions were unprecedented in Europe.

Many people know very little about Daming, a mysterious country in the far east. Although they are extremely envious of the dazzling gold coins, most people still have complicated mentality when they think of going across thousands of miles to live in a strange country.

While most people were watching, some education practitioners who were impoverished due to many reasons decisively signed the contract on the spot, and then, amidst the buzzing of the onlookers, took over the package with Sandalwood box of ten gold coins.

When the signers opened the lid of the box, the heavy gold coins came into view, and the onlookers all gasped in amazement.

The signers were either trembling with excitement, or burst into high spirits for a moment, or laughed out loud in ecstasy, or collapsed to the ground in ecstasy, all kinds of scenes cannot be described one by one.

Looking at the lucky ones who left with the gold coins, most of the doubts in the hearts of the onlookers were swept away. In the following days, the number of signers increased exponentially, and every signer received the gold coins. Three days later, no matter whether they are with a family or alone, they will be taken to the ports of various countries by the staff arranged by the East India Company for unified resettlement. After the number of people reaches a certain number, they will board the merchant ship carrying the goods and sail to Daming.

After these talents arrive in Daming safely, the East India Company will receive five gold coins per head from the senior officials of the Ming court.

The raw material for casting these gold coins is the five tons of gold that Liu Guoneng and Zheng Zhibao snatched back from England, and most of these scattered gold coins will be earned back to China by Daming with various commodities.

(End of this chapter)