Chapter 164: Qingzhou Academy
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Listening to Wu Zhi's words, everyone was stunned, in their concept there are private schools and academies, but they are still very unfamiliar with the word "academy". γRan Library (7764)γ
"An academy is a academy, right?"
"If our chamber of commerce contributes to the establishment of a academy in Qingzhou, it will also be a beautiful thing for future generations."
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The first fire burned by the new president, the following gang of sycophants naturally have to spare no effort to pursue it, not to mention that the construction of the academy does have a lot of benefits, and it doesn't cost a lot of money, many of them have been honored and commended by the imperial court, and naturally they want to get closer to the cultural people.
"It's not about building a college, it's about building a college."
Wu Zhi raised his hands to silence everyone, and continued: "There are only literati in the academy, but the academy is different, in addition to the scholars studying scripture and history books in it, it will also teach students knowledge from all walks of life. β
Wu Zhi's words made all the businessmen present puzzled, the world reads books to hear the Tao and solve doubts, but the fundamental purpose is to gain fame and fame, enter the court to become an official, and the imperial examination is only a subset of scriptures and history, and they don't care about any knowledge in other industries.
In this way, even if the college teaches students knowledge in various industries, how can anyone be willing to learn?
"I don't know what courses Wu Zongshang plans to open in the academy?"
Although they are not very optimistic about Wu Zhi's idea, they also know that Wu Zhi is not a fool, and Wu Zhi must be able to think of the problems they can think of, and since Wu Zhi proposed to build an academy today, he must have his considerations, so everyone simply asked first.
"That's a good question!" Wu Zhi smiled and replied, "If Qingzhou College is completed, in addition to the most basic subset of economics and history subjects that must be examined in the imperial examination, we will also offer the Department of Accounting, Skillful Engineering, Astronomy, Geography, Medicine, Chemistry and Economics and Business. That's it for now. β
The tent is the mathematics of later generations, skillful work is basic physics, astronomy and geography needless to say, medicine is Chinese medicine on the surface, but in fact it is basic biology, about chemistry Wuzhi really can't think of what it was called in ancient times, so it is simply called chemistry, as for business, of course, it is to cultivate business management talents.
After listening to Wu Zhi's sub-discipline, everyone was shocked to grow their mouths, they couldn't imagine that Wu Zhi actually had such a mind and concept.
I am afraid that most officials or literati will scoff at these subjects outside the imperial examination that Wu Zhi envisioned, because in their opinion, except for literature and art, everything else in this world is a small skill of carving insects, and there is nothing to learn, only those who have no ambition or peddlers will learn those things......
But these businessmen are different, the most important thing for businessmen is practicality and efficiency, in their eyes a Confucian who has read poetry and books, far less charming than a professional technical talent, even if this technical talent is illiterate.
However, in the Great Song Dynasty, relatively speaking, people who are full of poetry and books can easily pull a cart, but if you want to find a person with specialized technology, it is a needle in a haystack...... These are the talents that are urgently needed by all merchants.
Commerce flourished in the Song Dynasty, but people in society mainly learned the knowledge to cope with the imperial examinations, and this extreme imbalance of talents was a common problem faced by the merchant group.
That's why everyone was so excited about Wu Zhi's idea, and they could even predict that once the academy really operated as it was said, it would be a huge boost to business.
However, after all, they are businessmen, and what they think about is naturally first and foremost interests, which is much shorter than Wu Zhi, and the significance of Wu Zhi's establishment of Qingzhou College is to change the entire Great Song Dynasty and the whole world!
β¦β¦ Except for Wu Zhi, who has a textbook and knows what a textbook means, no one else can think of it at all.
ββ¦β¦ What is Chemistry? β
When the businessmen were still immersed in reverie, Liu An weakly raised his hand and asked, those disciplines, with their literal meaning, they can understand seventy-seven-eighty-eight, but only chemistry, they really don't understand this.
Wu Zhi thought for a moment and replied: "Chemistry, it's alchemy and so on, today's officials are bent on the Tao, and we as ordinary people naturally have to meet ......."
Of course, the explanation is this, Song Huizong was obsessed with Taoism, and the people of the whole country knew that the imperial court also encouraged some alchemy behaviors of the people...... The establishment of the chemistry department is nominally alchemy, but in fact, it is still the simple chemistry knowledge of the 21st century.
Liu An nodded cautiously after hearing this, and then someone asked: "Since these subjects are to be taught, then there must be all kinds of talents in this area to teach, and it is not easy for these talents to get together, I don't know the ...... of General Wu Shang."
"Don't worry, I have already recruited all the people, of course, when the time comes, after the establishment of the college, you can also recommend specialized talents to teach." Wu Zhi smiled confidently.
After the textbook was compiled, Wu Zhi selected the talents in the three major systems under his command to study first, and when the time came, some people could be qualified for the teaching task, not to mention that his textbook was at the level of junior high school in later generations, as long as he knew how to read and teach according to his aptitude.
Hearing that there were so many professionals under Wu Zhi's hands, everyone took a deep breath.
"It's just that it's a good thing to establish an academy to offer these subjects, but I'm afraid that no student will be willing to learn these......" Wang Gang said with a sad face at this time.
"Yes, we think these things are very useful, but in the eyes of most people, they are not doing their jobs, and they will not let their children go to the academy to learn this."
"Those craftsmen are passed down from generation to generation and don't need to go to the academy to study, and most of those who don't have craftsmanship are studying hard to take the imperial examination, or either farming or business, I'm afraid that the academy will be difficult to recruit people!"
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The worries of the merchants are not unreasonable, the ancients believed in the so-called "everything is inferior, only reading is high" This sentence is from the current Song Dynasty, and there is an emperor himself to advertise reading, and the copywriting of the advertisement can be called the strongest copywriting in history: the book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book has its own golden house. This sentence is what Song Zhenzong said in the previous dynasty.
This is an era of prosperity in culture and education, and I am afraid that after the establishment of Qingzhou College, those "partial" subjects will be ignored.
Therefore, although commerce was prosperous in this era, businessmen did not dare to have the bold idea of building an academy like Wu Zhi, not only because of their own narrow knowledge, but also because they knew that it would not work.
"You don't have to worry about that." Wu Zhi smiled and said confidently: "Although my Great Song Dynasty is prosperous in culture and education, it is not without some young people who are not interested in the imperial examination, as long as we give them rich prospects, then it is not difficult to recruit students, it depends on everyone's joint assistance!" β
"Our assistance?" Everyone was puzzled.
"Yes, it depends on the assistance of our Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce." Wu Zhi paused and continued: "After the establishment of the college, our chamber of commerce will come forward to directly book some specific subject talents for the college with high salaries, and after they complete their studies in the future, they can directly integrate into the relevant industries to work. In this way, as long as the students enter Qingzhou College to study those 'out-of-the-way' disciplines, it means that they will have a good job when they come out, so that they will not be able to recruit students. β
Wu Zhi's method came entirely from some colleges and universities in later generations, and those colleges recruited ignorant high school graduates under the banner of "package distribution, package employment, and package high salary". But unlike later generations, there is such a powerful organization as the Chamber of Commerce behind the Qingzhou College established by Wu Zhi, and the high salary of the package distribution package is true, and the ...... of later generations It is a man.
After listening to Wu Zhi's method, the eyes of all the merchants lit upβthe kind that sparkled.
"What a solution! With a reliable guarantee, there will definitely be students who will learn those subjects! β
The businessmen immediately started to talk about it, this was indeed a clever trick, and they were very impressed that Wu Zhi could come up with this.
"Then I will book a group of talents who manage the accounts, as well as those who operate!" Wang Gang said with a smile, he is engaged in tea trading, and this kind of talent has always been very lacking.
"I have booked a few bookkeepers, as well as a ...... of skilled engineering" said a boss in the textile industry.
"I want a ...... from the geography department," said the boss of the road and water conservancy industry who contracted government projects.
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After reaching an agreement with the businessmen of the Chamber of Commerce, Wu Zhi described the specific plan of Qingzhou College to the businessmen of the Chamber of Commerce.
For this kind of big move, everyone in the Chamber of Commerce also calculated in their hearts, if the academy was really built on such a large scale according to what Wu Zhi said, then it would be more than enough to concentrate all the students of private schools and academies in Qingzhou to the academy, which was easy for businessmen to do.
What's more, with such a large-scale college, the students around Qingzhou will definitely be able to absorb it, this model is just a kind of commercial operation that collects market resources, whether it is a private school or a college, it is necessary to charge tuition and miscellaneous fees, and the profit in it is big!
Therefore, even if Wu Zhi proposed that after the establishment of the college, there would be no tuition fees for the first three years, some far-sighted businessmen still actively responded to Wu Zhi's investment call, of course, Wu Zhi himself accounted for more than half of the shares, and the remaining ten percent of the dry shares were kept by the prefect Murong Yanda, and the remaining less than 40 percent of the shares were left to let the businessmen of the Chamber of Commerce invest in the carve.
However, those who occupy shares or do not occupy shares are just to pay for the construction of Qingzhou College, even if they can make profits in the college after three years, but Qingzhou College still belongs to the entire Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce in the final analysis, which Wu Zhi has reiterated many times.
Because of the initial development of the college, the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce played a decisive role.
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