Zhu Cihong discussed with Li Yan of the Ministry of Education for nearly an hour, and finally determined the model of the Ming Dynasty's education reform.

Since mid-September, when the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing was appointed to supervise the construction of schools, a construction tide has been set off in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and Zhu Cihong has supervised the construction of 10,000 primary schools, 2,000 middle schools, and more than 100 universities in the form of work-for-relief, spending millions of taels of silver.

Cash-for-work refers to a form of support in which the government invests in the construction of infrastructure projects and replaces relief with migrant work, so that the poor people in the disaster-stricken areas can participate in labor and receive remuneration, thus replacing direct relief.

At present, the largest number of people in the Ming Dynasty are the victims and the poor, and such a large-scale construction has solved the survival problem of nearly one million victims and poor people in a short period of time.

With so many schools, it is natural to need a large number of gentlemen, with an average of more than a dozen gentlemen per primary school, and at least a hundred thousand people engaged in education.

There are too many idle talents and lifters in the Ming Dynasty, and it is best to let them teach, and now Zhu Cihong has canceled the privilege of tax exemption for the gentry, and one by one the scholars can only starve to death if they don't work, teaching and educating people is the most decent job, and the scholars who fail to make the list are basically willing to do it.

Zhu Cihong roughly calculated the investment in education: the annual salary of the husband is about more than 4 million years of silver, plus the printing of books, education consumption, a total of at least 6 million taels of silver per year, plus the construction of the school, that is, the first year will cost about 10 million taels of silver.

Zhu Cihong was reluctant to give up so much money for a while, but thinking about it, he could educate so many people, control more than 100,000 readers, and feed more than 100,000 families and millions of people, and the money was worth it!

There are a total of 1,427 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River account for about half, and Zhu Cihong has set up at least 10 primary schools in each county, which has penetrated into all parts of the country and implemented the education of the whole people.

Zhu Cihong promulgated the "Indoctrination Decree", which introduced six years of free compulsory education, and all boys between the ages of six and those under the age of ten must enter the local primary school to receive education.

If a parent disobeys and allows his child to continue working at home, it is a crime, and the local government must hold someone accountable in accordance with the law, and the head of the household must be arrested and dragged to a labor camp.

During this period, reading was a luxury, and now the imperial court provides free schools and gentlemen to let their children study, as long as it is a normal person, it will not refuse, as soon as the "Indoctrination Decree" came out, it immediately aroused the support of the people everywhere, and everyone was talking about the wisdom of the crown prince.

During this time, the landlords and businessmen were making a lot of noise, so that some people suddenly figured out, no wonder the crown prince wanted to collect taxes from the landlords and merchants, it turned out to be to study for our poor children, and the collection was good!

Originally, the scholars under the imperial examination system, from the beginning of their studies to the enrollment of the department and the first official, it took more than ten years, but generally took decades and tens, so long, the family spent a lot of money, and even the wealthy family would become poor because of the support for studying.

The hard work of the family, the family, the gentry spend money and carefully cultivate, once the high school official, the heart must be thinking of the family and the family, for the official after the public fat and private things are repeatedly banned, many people are thinking about how to make money back to the capital, some of the students who have not been in the exam for more than ten years even have the idea of revenge on the society, such as the strategist Niu Jinxing and others in the rogue.

In view of these problems, Zhu Cihong carried out a reform in the content of primary school education, and in addition to the previous literacy and hyphenation, enlightenment readings such as "Hundred Family Names", "Three Character Classics", and "Thousand Character Texts", it is also necessary to learn Tang and Song poems.

Tang poems and Song lyrics are mainly based on military patriotic education, such as Wang Changling's "From the Army": Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass from afar, the yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken; Another example is Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang" and so on.

Through these poems, let the schoolchildren know from an early age that they can use military force to defend the country, pacify the world, fulfill their own moral obligations, and realize their own moral values.

Tongmeng education is the foundation of personality cultivation, especially pay attention to etiquette, requiring students to be filial to their parents, respect their brothers, and implement the classical etiquette system.

However, it is not easy to train an active toddler to be knowledgeable, and talents are like trees, which must be raised for ten years before they can be used.

In addition to being knowledgeable and reasonable, Zhu Cihong's reformed education also required schoolchildren to master arithmetic, astronomy and geography and other scientific knowledge, and cultivate talents interested in science from an early age.

In addition to the six years of compulsory primary education, those who excel in their studies can also go to secondary school for three years of free education, but only 20 percent of schoolchildren can go from primary school to government-run secondary schools, where they receive a deeper education, plus a firearm drill to teach.

The rest can choose to repeat their studies, or they can choose a technical school, spend money to learn technology, and work in various industries after graduation.

The graduation certificate is not issued casually, but it is necessary to go through a very strict examination, and the total score can be passed before you can get the primary school graduation certificate.

Those who fail need to spend their own money to repeat their studies, and the county that has failed for three consecutive years has been notified and named, and notices have been posted at the entrance of each village listing the household registration of the failed people's families, so that their families cannot raise their heads and taste the bitterness and pain caused by not working hard.

After graduating from a national high school, you can enter a national university, or free education, and this wave has to brush down 90% of the people, that is, from only about 2% of the people can go from elementary school to university.

The university is a place where elites gather, including military, political and legal education, agriculture, medicine, industry and commerce, science and engineering, teacher training and other colleges, and students are engaged in the highest and most professional education.

Under the new education of the Ming Dynasty, the gold content of middle school graduation and college graduation is very high, after graduating from middle school, it is a show, after graduating from college, it is a lift, and the middle school and university graduation package is distributed.

Xiucai and Juren are only statuses, and have no privileges, and only have the qualifications to be officials and engage in government work.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty was generally enlightened at the age of seven or eight, and then studied hard for decades in the cold window, and passed the imperial examination from Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren, Gongshi, and Jinshi step by step.

If you can enter the Shi and the first before the age of 30, it is even more amazing, like Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing, Li Dongyang, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others, in their teens, in their twenties, they all achieved the first assistant of the cabinet.

These are people with superior qualifications, seventy or eighty-year-old children with poor qualifications can be seen everywhere, one of the four sons of Jinling is outstandingly talented, and he can compose poems at the age of ten, but he is only in his thirties, and he still has to take the six arts of the gentleman he is familiar with, otherwise he will have to hit the street.

Entering school at the age of six, entering middle school at the age of twelve, and graduating from middle school at the age of fifteen, you can take the new-style provincial examination to join the local government and become a formal official, or you can take the national examination to enter the imperial court to start as a small official.

Outstanding cadets who graduate from universities have a greater chance, and after graduating from military universities, they can directly become low-level officers, or they can become praise paintings in the army, and other types of departments are assigned according to their majors.

Zhu Cihong is not worried about the problem of the flood of college students in the future, as long as the number of national universities is guaranteed, and the quality is strictly controlled, even if the number of private universities continues to increase in the future, the impact will not be great.

Popularization of education can sweep away the folk elites, so that they will not have the ability to resent and rebel among the people, and the successive dynasties have rebelled against thieves, and there is no reading person to join the climate at all, just like Li Zicheng, now there is not even a decent scholar around, and he can only hide in Tibet like a lost dog.

In the future, one chapter will be updated at noon every day, and the second chapter will be updated in the afternoon, or two chapters will be updated in a row, lest someone always say that I am delaying less and more in the early morning, and I can't explain it 10,000 times, and the two changes that I asked for leave the day before yesterday will make up.

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