On February 24, the second batch of middle school students from Fanjiazhuang Middle School graduated. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhi's Fanjiazhuang Middle School was established in August of the 14th year of Chongzhen, and the enrollment target was those who passed the grades among the primary school graduates.

Secondary school students receive three years of schooling and learn basic knowledge of Chinese, mathematics, history, geography, physics and chemistry. Of course, the learning of these knowledge is basic quality education, as long as students understand a general idea. What is really valued in middle school, and what is repeatedly instilled with half of the class time, is the "Public Morality" class.

The education of public morality is regarded as the only center of secondary education, to ensure that students who receive secondary education know what public morality is, how to practice public morality, and how to be an official with public morality.

Public morality is what distinguishes Li Zhi's students from Confucian intellectuals. Confucianism only talks about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and in Li Zhi's eyes, these are all retribution and private virtues. Li Zhi believes that an official who only understands private morality is definitely not a good official. Only by understanding public morality, understanding public morality, and carving the idea of public morality into the bones, can we be a good official who is the master of the people.

The first batch of middle school students graduated from Chongzhen in August of the 17th year and were assigned to various departments in Tianjin and Shandong. As advanced elements who have received public ethics education, these middle school students will be gradually promoted in the future after training in grassroots posts for a period of time, and will become the backbone and even leaders of various institutions such as courts, tax bureaus, and police stations.

Some students who excel in public ethics courses are even directly assigned to the courtroom as an assistant judge and an assistant inspector in the police station.

Because the first batch of middle school students were assigned to work as clerks in the government department, with good salaries and decent jobs, and they were valued in the department and had a bright future, the common people suddenly looked at the middle school differently. Today, Fanjiazhuang Middle School has been nicknamed "Hanlin Academy" by the common people.

Compared to those who can only work as workers after graduating from primary school, the jobs of secondary school graduates are much more decent and promising. Even some Confucian students who had not received primary education, in their twenties and thirties, clamored for further study in secondary schools.

Li Zhi welcomed Confucian scholars who were willing to accept ideological transformation. Therefore, the second batch of middle school students, that is, the number of middle school students enrolled in the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, suddenly tripled, reaching 2,000 people. This second batch of graduates will provide strong support to various newly established institutions in various parts of Shandong.

At present, Fanjiazhuang Middle School implements a full boarding system, with two batches of students every year, and students are directly enrolled from various primary schools in Tianjin and Shandong, which can train 4,000 graduates a year. It is believed that it will not be long before graduates who understand and adhere to the concept of public ethics will take up positions in various government departments to improve the conduct and discipline of government departments.

The existing clerks in government departments have not received moral education. In the future, these people will also enter secondary school to receive three years of public ethics education, and then return to work in the government department.

Li Zhi specially attended the graduation ceremony of these two batches of students. Not only did he attend the graduation ceremony, but he also gave a speech to 300 outstanding graduates in the school's auditorium.

"You are outstanding graduates of Fanjiazhuang Middle School, and this time you will be assigned to various prefectures, prefectures, and counties for training and training. From now on, you will be the president of the court, the chief of the police, the chief of the tax bureau, and even the local governor. But what I want you to remember every day is not that I, Li Zhi, promoted and cultivated you. What I want you to always remember is a sense of public morality. ”

"Private virtue is desirable, but whoever gives you benefits, you should naturally reciprocate. The so-called loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness of Confucian private virtues are all desirable. However, to say that private morality is desirable is under the condition that it does not affect public morality. If public morality is ignored for the sake of private morality, then private morality is no longer moral! Instead, it turned into a shameful exchange of interests. ”

"In Tianjin and Shandong, I, Li Zhi, will never allow anything that harms the rights and interests of the public for the sake of human interests! You always have to remember that you are working in government for the benefit of society as a whole. ”

"If there is a conflict between private morality and public morality, you should not hesitate to insist on public morality. For example, if you become an official and a great benevolent person who pays for you comes to ask you to do something, you should put the interests of society above and refuse your benefactor without hesitation. ”

"If the leader who promoted you is a corrupt official who uses his power for personal gain, or a clean official who desperately transfers social benefits to his hometown, you should stand up and report such leaders and report their harm to social interests."

Looking at the graduates in the stands, Li Zhi said solemnly: "You are all the best students, and you will soon move towards leadership positions in the future." Our Disciplinary Committee monitors officers on a daily basis. I don't want to see any of the students trained by Fanjiazhuang Middle School being pulled down by the Commission for Discipline Inspection because of their lack of public morality. ”

The students below were a little nervous by Li Zhi's words, and they sat upright one by one, not daring to discuss.

After a long time, seeing that Li Zhi no longer spoke, the students applauded violently.

Li Zhi concluded by concluding his remarks: "Some people say that only by cultivating a new interest class can the results of reform be stabilized, and I agree with this view. Those of you who understand public morality are the new interest groups that I have cultivated. You are a superior person, an official, and you have the monthly money and social status that the people envy. ”

"But the existence of your new interest class is fundamentally different from the selfish interest class of the past. You do not exist to suck blood from the rest of society, but to suppress those who have no public morality. It is to maximize the overall interests of the society and to make the people rich and the country strong. ”

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On the third day of March, Li Zhi went to a dry field on the outskirts of Tianjin to test a new machine he had invented, the seed drill.

The seed drill is a machine that appeared in the West in the eighteenth century. When the seed drill is operating, the seed wheel is driven to rotate by the walking wheel, and the seeds are discharged into the seed pipe from the seed cup in the seed box according to the required sowing amount, and fall into the open trench through the furrow opener, and then the seeds are covered and compacted by the soil covering and pressing device.

The seed drill is the automatic seeding machine of later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, a similar seeder was also known as a cocoon car. However, Daming's cocoon car is relatively simple, far less perfect and labor-saving than the seed drill.

In fact, no matter how delicate a machine is, it is always "mechanical". The use of seed drills for sowing seeds must not have been properly planted using manpower. But the seed drill is dozens or hundreds of times more efficient than manual seeding, allowing a man to sow land that he could not have imagined before.

In Daming, because of the saturation of the population and the scarcity of land, there is no demand for seed drills. In Europe, where the New World was discovered, the area of arable land was almost unlimited, and the need for seed drills was extremely urgent. Therefore, China, which invented the cocoon car for more than 1,000 years, has never improved the cocoon to the technical level of the seed seeder.

However, Li Zhi had a demand for seed drills, because Li Zhi would soon send troops to Liaodong. After laying the Northeast China, the vast black soil is vast and sparsely populated, which is the place where the seed drill can show its talents.