Chapter 230 Education Reform Act (II)
After meeting with Eder, Minister Florica returned to the Ministry of Education and immediately began to carry out reforms. Many incompetent people have been transferred out of key positions, and departmental responsibilities have been broken down in detail.
The main one was the promulgation of a new Romanian education law, in which the education of school-age children was made mandatory. Every Romanian child is required to receive an education, and parents of school-age children who do not receive education are subject to fines. If the child is still denied education, he will be sentenced to imprisonment for up to three years.
At the same time, the Ministry of Education began to expand the enrollment of secondary schools, and now there are 897,500 primary and secondary school students in Romania and 41,700 respectively, which is 21.5 primary school students in order for one to continue their studies, which is much lower than the common 1 in 10 primary school students in various countries to enter secondary school. Even in the Balkans it is not outstanding.
This has a lot to do with the fact that Romania had spent a lot of government money on the military, and now Eder intends to correct this mistake (mainly because he has money to invest in education). So now Romania is investing heavily to make up for its previous mistakes.
Of course, in addition to compulsory education and expanded enrollment, the Ministry of Education has established a nationwide charity to support students in need, called the Project Hope Bursary Fund (don't ask who gets it). The fund also receives donations nationwide and has offices in all major cities of Romania. And to reassure the public, Project Hope will also be subject to royal oversight, and its accounts will be checked every year.
On the second day of Project Hope, Queen Sophie Marie donated a huge amount of 100 million lei to it on behalf of the royal family. This led to a lot of coverage in the Romanian media, and some people called Queen Sophie Marie the Messiah of Romania. Other aristocrats and wealthy people also heard the news and gave generously, which then led the Romanian people to donate as well. In its first month, Project Hope received a total of 194.3 million lei.
This surprised education officials, who all talked about the importance that the people now attach to education. It's just that Minister Florica saw very clearly that at this time, the royal family brought up a trend, if the annual donation can reach one-fifth of the current total amount after deducting this month, then he should be secretly happy. A year later, it turned out that Minister Florica was right. At that time, Project Hope deducted this month's donation, and only received 28,819,647 lei in this year.
Of course, the Romanian royal family will not only donate, and then Eder announced in the name of the king that the royal family will build one of the best comprehensive universities in the country in Galati. There will be a fee waiver for students who enter this university, and for some students who are really in difficulty, the school will completely waive the fee after the inspection is confirmed. However, the construction of the university has only just begun, and it will take two years before it can be enrolled.
This made the middle school students who are still studying also have a lot of discussions, and they plan to try it when they apply for the school.
With the royal family's two successive big moves in education, the Romanian people have felt the benevolence of the royal family. For a time, the prestige of the royal family reached its peak, and the people of the whole country said that God had sent them a wise monarch. Eder was pleased with the attitude of the people, but he knew that gratitude had a time-sensitive feeling, and that it might be the same people who would depose the royal family in the future.
Minister Florica did more than that, and then the Ministry of Education ordered the preparation of new textbooks, with a focus on history texts, on the grounds that the textbooks were in reverie. In the process of writing, the editors, who had been instructed by Minister Florica, made drastic changes to the humiliating process of the Romanians at the hands of other alien dominations throughout history, and added several short stories to the students to further impress them.
One of the most impressive is Michia's notepad, which is the everyday life of a girl named Michia who lived in the 13th century and writes on a wooden board. This wooden board records the girl's short life, and from the earliest records, historians know that this Michia was written from the age of 16, and it is recorded that it was daily life at the time, and even a companion girl was thrown to feed the body to the wolf because she was angry, which made later generations of Romanians feel humiliated.
It is concluded by saying that the Hung Lords were going to sell them for new girls, and that they were going to fight, and if they succeeded, she would come back to get the plank, and it was clear that Michia had not succeeded, because her beloved plank had not been recorded again.
It's a pity that the facts about the brutality of the Hungarian aristocracy are made up, but the Hungarians have behaved much better in history, but not as compelling as this story. Of course, the story of Michia was also written by Minister Florica just by the editors. As to why he did this, it is up to King Eder to be asked.
In fact, Eder only mentioned to Minister Florica that he needed to write more about the Hungarian rule. But I didn't expect these editors to write such a tearful story, but that's what Edel wanted to see.
He now needed the Romanian populace to become increasingly hostile to his Hungarians, because his main target for the next few years would be Hungary after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Moreover, Hungary and Romania have always been feuding in the original time and space, and the main reason is still territorial disputes. In this life, Eder thought that he should get more benefits from Hungary, so he didn't care about making enemies with Hungary.
Besides, the Kingdom of Hungary has not oppressed the ethnic minorities less, and now the various ethnic minorities are being oppressed by them unspeakably. Even the other ethnic groups of the regions of Krisana, Banat, and Maramures, which were close to Transnesia after World War I, preferred to join Romania rather than stay in Hungary, which could have been voted on at that time. Moreover, after the dissolution, even the Germans in the above-mentioned regions were in favor of joining Romania. This shows how much Hungary has failed on the issue of minorities.
As soon as the new history textbook was published, it caused a lot of controversy. Some people say that this is too miserable to write about Romanians, and they are completely unacceptable. Or do people say that many of these textbooks have not been confirmed, so how can they make a conclusive conclusion?
But all this remarks were irrelevant to Minister Florica, who was in charge of the preparation. What he needed now was for every Romanian student to read about the humiliation in this book, so as to use public opinion to inspire them to think that only a strong country could guarantee that they would not be in danger.
However, judging from the results after a few years, Minister Florica's purpose was achieved.