The lively West Mountain is full of people, but the courtyard where Liu Jin lives seems to be quieter.

At this time, Sun Xin was holding a statistical data to report to Liu Jin.

"Childe, so far 1,500 people have signed up, of which 600 are people with military households, stove households, and artisan households, and 900 people are ordinary household registrations."

Sun Xin handed Liu Jin the data he counted, which was relatively primitive in statistics and analysis, but it was relatively advanced in this era.

"How many people have signed up?"

Liu Jin took the report and looked at it carefully, he originally thought that it would be almost the same as being able to illuminate 900 people, and maybe even worse, but he didn't expect that there would be 1,500 people who signed up, which was a bit beyond his imagination.

"Are they all old people who came here last year?"

"No, some of them are new this year, and they probably came to sign up after receiving the news."

"How many people are there?"

"There are about 100 of them, and most of the people who signed up are new this year."

"Kick out this part of the people, we don't have time to teach them some basic knowledge and content, we have to use old people."

Liu Jin thought about spending these people, and then said: "The remaining more than 1,400 are all concentrated. ”

"Well, a piece of land has been set aside on the eastern side of Xishan Mountain to set up a Xishan Maritime Academy, and they plus the 100 people brought over by Du Mingen are the first batch of trainees, and the survival of the fittest system will be implemented, and the unqualified ones will be eliminated, and only the qualified 1,000 people will be left."

"After a three-month study and training on the ocean, they should be about to leave for the Golden Continent in April."

The establishment of Xishan Maritime Academy is also a decision made by Liu Jin after careful consideration.

This trip to the Golden Continent requires a professional fleet, but also needs professional sailors, without advanced ships it is impossible to sail to the sea, and without professional sailors, it is also impossible to pursue wealth in the ocean and sea.

In this era, because of the long-term implementation of the policy of sea ban in the Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of talents in the sea, not only in shipbuilding, but also in qualified and professional sailors.

If you just rely on experience to train professional sailors, the speed is very slow, and many times experience is not reliable, or even wrong.

This requires the establishment of a professional maritime school to cultivate professional marine talents, through the school to carry out a systematic study, the ocean current, climate, global geography knowledge, astronomical knowledge, marine survival knowledge, ocean-going ship structure and so on for a systematic study.

Of course, this is the most ideal state, the reality is that there is not so much time for Liu Jin to systematically study these people, and these people are also adults, although after last year's training and study, they know some words, but in general, the plasticity is not too strong.

If you really want to cultivate qualified marine talents, what you need is to train them from an early age.

It is much better to carry out a certain amount of training than to have no training at all, Liu Jin will pass on some knowledge in the ocean to these people in later generations, and use the method of combining theory and practice in later generations, I believe that some results can always be obtained, in short, I don't understand anything and send it to the ocean stupidly.

Of course, the establishment of a professional maritime school can also be regarded as an experiment for Liu Jin, if he wants to make a difference in this era and change the fate of the descendants of Yan and Huang, Liu Jin needs to slowly lead this huge empire to the ocean and look at the world outside the Ming Dynasty.

In order to do all this, Liu Jin must cultivate countless like-minded people with him, and let more people enjoy the benefits in the process, obtain benefits, and become his supporters.

The Maritime College is just the beginning, and in the future, Liu Jin will build a series of colleges such as the School of Textiles, the School of Architecture, the School of Engineering, etc., to spread a lot of knowledge and cultivate countless talents.

In this era, all the right to speak and knowledge are in the hands of Confucian literati, and the development of Confucian thought has long been decayed and lost its vitality.

At this point, it is almost doomed that it will only slowly hinder the progress and development of society, because the ideas of society are imprisoned by rigidity, and any innovation and change will be regarded as heresy and as a kitkat art.

But it is just such a Confucian, such a literati and doctor, who has mastered everything in this era and has the right to speak in this era.

Liu Jin knows that now he is just making a small fuss, and it is all related to people's livelihood, so they can ignore it, but once he touches the interests of this Confucianism and these literati and doctors, he will definitely die without a place to be buried.

If you want to fight with these traditional forces, Liu Jin must cultivate a group of powerful new forces, so it is imperative to establish all kinds of schools, because schools are not only a place to spread knowledge, but also a place to spread ideas, and whoever masters this will have the right to speak and the future.

As long as more people learn new knowledge, use new knowledge to gain wealth and status, then there will be more people who will stand by Liu Jin's side in the future, and naturally and slowly lead this empire to another different path of development.

The area of Xishan is very large, it was originally the private imperial village of Emperor Hongzhi, this area is naturally not small, after all, it is the emperor's property, and there is a lot of land available for use.

Soon, on the eastern side of Xishan, with the continuous investment of a large number of manpower and material resources, a huge college was slowly built, which was different from the traditional academy, which did not teach the Four Books and Five Classics, nor was it called Zhuzi Baijia, but was a college specially used to impart professional marine knowledge.

Of course, now it's just a sign, and the sign of Xishan Maritime Academy has also not attracted anyone's attention, after all, it is just a place for a group of crew members who are about to sail away for training and training, and there is not much worth paying attention to.

But this Xishan Maritime Academy, it is destined to be a place written into history textbooks, from here there will be countless historical celebrities.