The surprise of the intellectuals of the old days was not over, and there were special girls' schools in several provincial towns to admit school-age girls, but the girls' schools were far away in Guangzhou, and students could only go home during the summer and winter vacations.

When the first girls' school in Guangzhou was enrolled, an area was demarcated, and every family with school-age girls went to the door and asked if they were willing to let their daughters go to the girls' school.

Although it is not a son but a daughter who enters school to read and write, it is a pity for the people, but the people have not given up this opportunity, the daughter who marries out is the water that is spilled, and the son is the most important, but if the daughter can marry a good family after reading and reading, she can also give her brother or younger brother some help, and it will not cost much money anyway.

The students of the first girls' school have not yet graduated, and the people who are seeking relatives are about to break through the threshold of their families, and all the middle- and upper-class families have come to ask for marriage, but they have not agreed, they still think that their daughters can marry the senior officials of the People's Army, this is what Mrs. Dadu said, Mrs. Dadu said that her daughter has this qualification, and she must have this qualification.

Several new girls' schools were built in Guangzhou City, and students were recruited together in the five provincial capitals of the People's Army's ruled area, and the families who had obtained opportunities in Guangzhou City, as soon as the officials of the Education Department came to the door to say a few words, they immediately agreed, for fear that the other party would not want their own daughters slowly, but they had heard how popular the girls who had studied in girls' schools before.

The enrollment work in the four provincial capitals of Nanning, Fuzhou, Nanchang and Wuchang is also very smooth, these ordinary people do not know the situation in Guangzhou, but they believe in the People's Army, and after a little thought, they understand the benefits of their daughter's entry into school to read and write, and almost no family is willing to give up this opportunity.

The intellectuals of the old era in the four provincial towns were full of discussion about the admission of girls to schools, and many elderly people stubbornly believed that women should not go to schools.

Well-informed people knew about the Canton City Girls' School, that the principal and teachers of the girls' school were the wives of the Grand Governor and other high-ranking members of the People's Army, and that the students of the girls' school were very popular.

Some people believe that the main purpose of the Metropolitan Governor's establishment of girls' schools was to give women who entered the school to officers and officials in the People's Army as a gift.

Originally, these women from low-income families could basically only marry men from the same low-level families, but now after entering a girls' school, they can marry officers or officials of the People's Army, and their fate has changed dramatically.

In fact, for young literati scholars, they like young and beautiful women, and they prefer talented women who are good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

It's just that they are intellectuals of the old era who still have a little loyalty to the Ming court in their hearts, and in their eyes, everything the People's Army has done is wrong, and they have to criticize it.

Most of the intellectuals who were no longer loyal to the Ming court had already tried to integrate into the people's army system, and in the past they wanted to become officials of the Ming court but could not, but now the people's army is an official, and it is relatively easy to become an official of the people's army, even if the initial position is relatively low, but they believe in their own ability and will definitely be able to become a big official.

……

When the students of Guangzhou University and Guangzhou No. 1 Girls' School graduated, Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya, as principals, gave a speech respectively.

At the girls' school, Hu Xiaoya told the students that the meaning of a woman is not only to be a husband and raise children, but also to do more, that her husband is an officer or official of the People's Army, that they take care of the household at home, that they do not distract him, and that they can even help him take care of the family property and even run the family property himself.

They are graduates of girls' schools, and they have learned a lot of things in school, how many people can read and write in the land of China, and they can read and do arithmetic, not much worse than men, and even better than most men, what they lack is experience.

"Who said women are inferior to men!"

Hu Xiaoya took Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying and other examples to let her students not become the kind of cowardly women who are beaten and scolded, don't treat themselves as a vase, and become a virtuous helper to their husbands no matter how bad they are.

At Guangzhou University, Fang Nan once again talked to the graduating students about the importance of knowledge, only by knowing more knowledge, can you explore those unknown things, make more contributions to the people, and even be praised by future generations.

Fang Nan's take the steam engine as an example, the emergence of the steam engine is an important progress in science and technology, with the steam engine, we will soon be able to produce all kinds of cheap goods, even if the people's income does not increase, they can afford to buy these cheap goods, and bring changes to the lives of the people.

Agricultural students can research seeds for crops that yield higher yields, and people can harvest more food without increasing the amount of land they can plant.

A few simple examples make the hearts of the graduating students become hot again, they used to know the importance of learning and scientific research, and now under the words of the president, their emotions completely exploded, they are graduates of Guangzhou University, they are very important, they will bring a lot of changes to the world!

At the same time, the graduating students also remember the other words of the principal, learning is endless, and even after graduation, they will continue to learn new knowledge and continue to explore the unknown.

Finally, the students have graduated, and the first batch of graduates of Guangzhou University no longer has the concept of winter vacation, some of them will go to various research institutes to become researchers, some will stay in the school as teachers, and at the same time will become supernumerary staff of the research institute.

The various research institutes established by the People's Army were not far from the city of Guangzhou, such as the one in Foshan, although there were no trains, and only by taking special horse-drawn carriages on the railroad roads, people could be quickly transported from Guangzhou to Foshan.

The students have graduated, they will enter various positions to contribute their strength, more than a month later, a new batch of students will enter the school, the number of new batch of students will be more, a few years later, they will bring more changes to the land of China.

Among them, the model test of the steam engine ship project team has ended, and the next step is to build a real steam engine ship, and they have completed the design of the steam engine ship before graduation, the steam engine ship designed on the drawing is a very small ship, but it is many times larger than the model.

Fang Nan has approved the funding, and then the steam engine ship project team will settle in a shipyard and go all out to build the world's first steam engine ship.