A few days later, Lan Siqi, the head of the Central Committee, presented the compulsory education plan to Liu Juntao, and Liu Juntao was still very satisfied with this plan.

Lan Siqi is not a "loser" background, this compulsory education program combines the current situation of private school education in various parts of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and it can be said to be a detailed nine-year compulsory education in the Ming Dynasty.

(3 years each for elementary, secondary and tertiary education, a total of 9 years)

Of course, in order to realize this nine-year compulsory education plan, a total of 102 primary schools (one in each county), 12 middle schools, and four universities (three in Jinan Fucheng and one in Yushan Town) need to be built in the six prefectures of Shandong.

The construction funds have been calculated by the Central Department, and at least 4.2 million taels or more are needed!

And that's not even counting the cost of so many schools, and the expenses required to run these schools!

If you count them all, it is estimated that Shandong Town will spend about five million taels a year!

However, Liu Juntao did not hesitate at all, directly approved the implementation, and ordered Tang Yu, Minister of Commerce, to immediately mobilize money and grain, and at least complete the construction of these schools before the winter of next year, and recruit the necessary gentlemen and logistics personnel in place during the period!

At the same time, the military academies in these schools were placed under the supervision of the Military Recruitment Department, and the rest of the ordinary schools were all placed under the control of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Liu Juntao set up a new department in the Ministry of Civil Affairs: the Department of Education.

This department is in charge of all civil schools, and is responsible for the external propaganda of Shandong Town, guiding the people everywhere to turn their backs and persuade people to do good.

The name of the Si Cheng of the Department of Education and Culture is Guo Changjing, the nephew of Guo Yongzhong, the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who is clever and very talented, and has been working under Guo Yongzhong for three years, and is deeply appreciated by Xu Fa, the director of the Department of Household Registration.

The generations of the Guo family are sorted according to "Yongchang harmony, benevolence, love and neighborliness", Guo Yongzhong happens to be the "Yong" generation, and Guo Changjing is the "Chang" generation.

Of course, when Liu Juntao decided to appoint Guo Changjing as the secretary of education, Liu Zi'an and Lan Siqi both reminded Liu Juntao behind their backs, and they were both worried that Guo Yongzhong's faction was too powerful.

After all, in the shogunate at this time, the people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce were all people from the original Yushan Collection, and they were all Guo Yongzhong's old men.

Even Zhang Baigui, the director of the Military Department's Armament Department, also has a very good relationship with Guo Yongzhong, and he was originally an old man from Yushanji.

But Liu Juntao insists on appointing people on the basis of merit, no matter which faction it is, as long as he has the ability, he should be reused.

Of course, for Liu Zi'an and Lan Siqi's reminders, Liu Juntao also kept it in mind, after all, no matter which force it is, as long as it develops, it will definitely divide into different factions, Liu Juntao does not oppose or dislike this, as long as the factions do not fight with each other and endless internal friction!

As for healthy competition, Liu Juntao even raised his hands in favor.

The order for the establishment of the Department of Education and Education of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has been signed, and the Central Department has also issued a written message.

After that, Liu Juntao took Guo Muying and his two sons to leave the city of Jinan, and went to Yushan Town under the protection of five hundred heavily armored iron horsemen and five hundred elite bird guns.

This time, Liu Juntao returned to Yushan Town with his wife and children, one was to go back to see the villagers, and the other was also to take a look at the situation along the way, and inspect the soldiers and industries along the way, as well as the various undertakings in Yushan Town.

Before Liu Juntao left the capital city of Jinan, he asked Hu Dexing, the deputy commander-in-chief, to temporarily manage the affairs of the shogunate.

Liu Juntao and his entourage traveled all the way west from Jinan Fucheng to Pingyin County in Yanzhou Prefecture within a few days.

Along the way, although Guo Muying's mother and son accompanied them, they did not delay too much, and the three of them did not feel too tired.

At this time, the official roads between the prefectures and counties in Shandong have all been led by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and repaired by the Ministry of Commerce.

This section of the official road from Jinan Fucheng to Pingyin County not only doubled the road surface, but also paved with cement throughout the whole process, realizing the hardening of the road surface, and pedestrians no longer have to worry about the difficult and muddy road in rainy and snowy weather.

To this end, the Ministry of Commerce has allocated more than 3.9 million taels of silver and 950,000 stone of grain in six batches, and with the continuation of the follow-up project, the Ministry of Commerce is still constantly allocating money and grain.

At present, the income of many industries of the Ministry of Commerce has increased dramatically, and the annual fees paid by merchants and gentry in various places have also increased year by year, so that the Ministry of Commerce can fully bear such huge expenses and have a surplus.

It didn't take long for Liu Juntao and his party to leave Pingyin County and head towards Huakou Town.

When everyone arrived at an intersection, two local young men hired by the Ministry of Civil Affairs were directing pedestrians.

I saw that both of them were waving a small flag, one of them was red, and the other was green.

This is similar to the traffic lights in later generations, when pedestrians see the red flag raised, they wait at the intersection, let the pedestrians in the other two directions go first, and wait until the green flag is raised before continuing to move forward.

At the same time, Guo Muying also found that most of the pedestrians coming and going were on the right, which seemed to be the rule set by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Although these rules are a little strange in Guo Muying's opinion, the crowd on the official road is much smoother than before, and the crowds in the east-west and north-south directions do not disturb each other, and the entire official road is extremely neat.

"What a long insight!"

Guo Muying said to Liu Juntao with a smile: "These things that my husband has done are all good things for the benefit of the country and the people, and they will definitely be famous all over the world!" ”

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Can you become famous all over the world just by doing such a small thing?" ”

"That's not the case!"

Guo Muying pointed to a carriage passing by and said, "Look! I guess this system not only allows the Ministry of Civil Affairs to have a part of the income from the sale of license plates, but also uses the license plates to trace once the owners of these carriages hit people or are involved in lawsuits. Husband, am I right? ”

"Haha!"

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Madam is really smart, that's right!" ”

"If this is not enough to be famous in the world, then who else can?"

As he was talking, everyone rushed to Huakou Town, and it was getting late that day, so everyone stayed in the drunken fairy restaurant in the town, and they could rush to Yushan Town tomorrow morning.

At this time, Liu Juntao also learned that Yan Shenggong had sent Mr. Shan to come and was already waiting in Yushan Town.

The next morning, Liu Juntao and his entourage set off early and arrived in Yushan Town not long after.

Yushan Town suddenly boiled, and almost all the people in the town poured into the streets to greet Liu Juntao.

At this time, Yushan Town can already be described as a big city, full of three- or five-storey people's residences, and even seven- and eight-story houses abound, which shows the wealth of the people of Yushan Town.

Liu Juntao was originally in the courtyard of Yushan Town, and at this time there was a special care, Liu Juntao first settled Guo Muying's mother and son, and then took over Mr. Shan, who had been waiting for two days.

After meeting, the two also exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Liu Juntao asked, "Mr. is here, what is the matter?" ”

Mr. Shan said with a smile: "Zongzhen, there is actually nothing big about it this time, it's just that Yan Shenggong heard that Zongzhen is back, so he asked me to come over to visit." ”

"Haha!"

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "Yan Shenggong is too polite, with our friendship, we don't need to be polite." ”

"Not really!"

Mr. Shan said: "The town is now famous all over the world, the deeds of the town in Beijing have spread all over Shandong, Nanzhili, and the entire provinces south of the Yangtze River, it can be said that everyone knows, now the town is already the same celebrity as the big man in the DPRK, the town has such a reputation, Yan Shenggong is naturally more important!" ”

Liu Juntao was a little surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect the news of the Ming Dynasty to spread so quickly, and then Mr. Shan said that now there are big families in various places who are entrusting people to give gifts, just to want to have a relationship with Shandong Town and Yushan Town.

It is precisely because of this that Yan Shenggong has made a lot of money recently!

Mr. Shan's words were also full of gratitude to Liu Juntao.