Chapter 45: The Radio Station
The Starting Point City School is composed of five rows of prefabricated houses, which are divided into lower grades and upper grades.
The lower classes are for illiterate children, and the upper classes provide literate students with subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, nature, physics, and history.
The electronic teaching is the traditional Chinese version that Wang Yue brought to Taiwan or Hong Kong from later generations, and the teaching content has been simply modified, and the teaching materials, books, and stationery are all modern products.
Because the electronic teaching of the enlightenment class is interspersed with a lot of animations and cartoons, it is very attractive to the children of the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Ni is one of them.
At first, these things were resolutely resisted by the local cultural people! The main resistance is to the content of the language, which is described as vulgar and unliterate, and bullshit is not. In addition, the school does not teach the Four Books and the Five Classics, which is considered to be a mistake for the children. There is also the horizontal writing of the text, which I don't know what to say. Writing without practicing calligraphy made these Confucian children feel distressed.
Wang Yue's treatment of these people was simple and rude, punished to build a city, only took care of food, did not issue points, and came back after figuring it out.
These teachers are paid much more than ordinary workers, and several of them come back within a few days.
There are also some people, although they do not agree with the teaching content imposed by Wang Yue, but they are particularly interested in mathematics, history, and physics.
The way of modern mathematics is much more simplified than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the application of Arabic numerals is even more praised by those who read the Ming Dynasty.
Physics is a new discipline for these people, and they can learn the laws and internal causes of the motion of all things. A lot of truths that I couldn't figure out before are now suddenly enlightened.
Wang Yue plans to join the chemistry course after a while, because chemical experiments are dangerous, so some experiments may have to be done by himself.
"Has the school been stable lately? Have all the teachers on the construction site returned? Wang Yue asked Xu Changping, the principal of the starting point school.
The reason why Xu Changping can be the principal is not how high his education is, but in fact, he is just a child. Those who have not been admitted to the examination for more than 20 years can imagine their knowledge.
However, this person has one of the biggest advantages, that is, he is enough for doglegs, and he can learn the use of those electrochemical equipment. This is exactly what Wang Yue needs, what is the use of learning the Four Books and Five Classics well? Even if it's a jinshi, it's useless, do you know Newton's laws?
Xu Changping smiled and said, "If you go back to the city lord, there are still a few old stubborns who haven't come back!" I really don't know the times. ”
"Well, don't overdo it! If he is older, you can arrange for him to do lighter work. If you say hello to the captain of those people, you will say that I said it. There are still too few people who read now, and if they die, it will be our loss. Time will prove that I am right, and the punishment of them is just a means, don't take it too seriously! Wang Yue commanded.
Xu Changping was filled with righteous indignation and said: "City Lord, you are just too merciful to them, so these people don't know what to do." They also don't want to think about who fed them and gave them a house to live in when they were dying of hunger. City Lord, you can give these children a chance to read, this is a merit! Why don't these people understand you? ”
Wang Yue smiled and said, "Hey, you're right!" These children are inherently poor, and without me, they would not have had the opportunity to read. The school we run is to teach people to read and write, and if you are literate, you can understand etiquette. Then we teach something else when we teach people to read, and we have said it in the past. Isn't it a good thing that we don't have the time to teach these children the content of the imperial examination, but we can improve their ability to earn a living in the future? You can use this to do their ideological work, and if they can change their minds, I will give you credit! ”
"Thank you City Lord for your trust!" Xu Changping arched his hand.
"After a while, I want to eradicate illiteracy in the whole city, and everyone will be required to be literate, and to be able to write simple letters from home and four arithmetic. So you should hurry up and find some teachers in this area, you don't need to be very knowledgeable, you can teach these things. New writing methods and large eating numbers must be taught. Wang Yue said to him.
Xu Changping was dumbfounded when he heard it, the whole city was literate and literate?
He said to himself: Oh my God! No one has done this since ancient times, what is the city lord going to do? Ambition is not small!
Wang Yue plans to popularize literacy and the four arithmetic to everyone who works for him, and if he learns well, he can continue to learn.
He was to divide the workers into eight classes, based on knowledge and skill. The higher the grade, the higher the base salary, thus increasing their motivation to learn.
Those who have completed literacy will enter technical schools, where they will learn some basic physics and chemistry knowledge as well as their professional knowledge, and reserve workers for the upcoming steel plants, cement plants, coking plants, and power plants. At the same time, agricultural workers, construction workers, and road construction workers are also trained.
After leaving school, Wang Yue came to the radio station again. That's right, it's the radio station.
In order to enrich the spare time life of the people in the city, and in order to firmly grasp the right to speak, Wang Yue got several sets of wireless broadcasting equipment.
Sixteen loudspeakers have been installed throughout the city, antennas are erected on water towers, and the signal is said to be transmitted over a distance of up to eight kilometers. In this environment without radio wave interference, it can be transmitted farther.
Wang Yue's long-term plan is to sell radios to the capital and all parts of the country, but this can only be implemented when local radios can be produced.
The broadcast room is filled with soundproofing material on all sides, and the rooms are separated by glass. Through the glass partition, you can see that the freshly baked announcer Su Ziyu is busy inside.
When he looked up and saw Wang Yue coming, Su Ziyu immediately put down the headset and was about to come out.
Wang Yue waved his hand, pushed open the glass door and walked into the broadcast studio and asked, "Why are you alone?" ”
Suzi Yulao County, a native of Chengguan Town. My father was once promoted, although he was not an official, he was also a noble figure in Lao County, and the entire Su family gradually developed because of Su's father.
As a result, the good days did not last long, and the year before last, the Tartars captured Lao County. That is, when you see someone, you kill, and when you see a woman, you rob. Seven or eight out of ten of the Su family's house were burned down, and dozens of people were left behind, leaving Su Ziyu and her mother to hide in the cellar to escape.
As soon as his father died, the family collapsed. The mother and daughter buried their relatives, wiped away their tears, sold what little house they had left, hired a few long-term laborers, and struggled to survive on some land. However, the house leak happened to be cloudy and rainy, and drought and insect plagues came one after another. Run, run! Su Ziyu followed her mother to the capital with the disaster victims, and then entered Wang Yue's starting point city.
Wang Yue recruited teachers for the school, which was a hundred taboos, both male and female. Su Ziyu has a poetic and bookish belly, and her appearance is sweet and lovely, Wang Yue ignored his mother's opposition, resolutely rescued him from a group of aunts and aunts in the laundry room, and stuffed him into the school. After setting up the broadcasting studio, Su Ziyu was brought in as an announcer, who called her a good voice.