Chapter 577: Cultural Popularization

Soon after, Chao Sheng, Zhuge Mou and Bailihe walked in one after another, standing in front of Yang Lin's case. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info obviously, the three of them are much more important in Yang Lin's heart, as soon as he walked in, Yang Lin said with a smile: "Hehe, okay, you each find a place to sit, you don't have to stand~!" ”

Hearing this, Chao Sheng and Zhuge Mou, who had followed Yang Lin for the longest time, did not hesitate, walked straight to the side and sat down, while Bailihe hesitated, and finally found a seat and sat down.

Yang Lin did not sit there with a shelf anymore, but stood up, paced, walked between the three of them, back and forth, and said loudly: "The three of you are in charge of the national defense, education, and official appointment and dismissal of the Great Guangzhou Dynasty. The last official in charge of the imperial court is responsible for the management of the imperial court, which involves whether the imperial court can function normally. ”

The three of them did not answer, but listened carefully, sitting upright, very solemn, although Yang Lin said very relaxed and approachable, they still had a sense of awe.

Yang Lin walked to the bookcase, turned around suddenly, stopped there, faced the three of them, and said sonorously: "I called you over this time, I just want to launch a policy to popularize national cultural education and eliminate illiteracy. However, given the vast size of the dynasty and the large number of people, it will be difficult to implement this policy. ”

"Therefore, I am going to start from two aspects, one is the official system, and the other is the big army. Of course, since they can become officials of our Great Guang Dynasty, it already shows that their education level is already very high, and at least there is no problem in reading and hyphenating. ”

"However, my requirements are not limited to this, but have a higher standard, that is, every official must be familiar with the laws and regulations of my Great Guang Dynasty, and must be familiar with them, especially some common laws and regulations related to the people's livelihood, as an official of my Great Guang Dynasty, they must be familiar with it, and it must also be used as a standard to assess whether they are qualified as officials."

The three of them all nodded, agreeing very much, and understood Yang Lin's intention, that is, to let officials understand the law, so that they could restrain their words and deeds and not do things that violated the law and discipline. And the most important point is that the laws of the Great Guang Dynasty clearly stipulate that knowing the law and breaking the law will increase the crime by one degree!

Immediately afterwards, Yang Lin said: "So far, not counting the militia organizations we have established in some villages, there are three major armies in the Daguang Dynasty, namely the Army Kongtong Army and the Qilin Army, and the Navy Thunder. Combined, the three are nearly a million people. Among them, the cultural popularity of the Kongtong Army is the highest, more than seventy percent of the soldiers can read and write, followed by the Thunder and Qilin Army, the cultural penetration rate of the two, one is sixty percent, and the other is forty percent. ”

Of course, these cannot be blamed on the commander of the army, but for historical reasons. Like the Kongtong Army, the reason why the cultural popularization rate is so high is because it is the earliest army I established, which includes almost all my efforts, and the starting point is very high. ”

Although the soldiers of the Thunder and Qilin Army have excellent military qualities, the composition is extremely mixed, including fleeing victims, pirates and hooligans who are rampant in the township, and so on, which can be said to be uneven in members. In addition, the Northern Expedition and the overthrow of the Qing court in the north greatly increased the number of illiterate personnel in the army. ”

"Therefore, I plan to focus on improving the cultural quality of the military, and in addition to combat and training, I will also provide opportunities for learning, set up libraries and classrooms in various stations, and create a learning condition for them."

Between the words, Yang Lin was quite high-spirited and pointed out the taste of the country, and when he paced again, step by step, he was so sonorous and steady, containing a certain rhythm, and the more he talked, the more excited he became.

"Moreover, every year when the militia is trained, they are also taught to read and write, not only to teach them how to operate firearms and improve their military literacy. In this way, our various policy notices will be posted, and the local people will not be ignorant because they do not know how to read. ”

"Also, things like whistleblower letters, I don't think those people will find someone to write for them until they have to. If they could write themselves, things would be very different, and there would be much less arrogance in selecting people's congress deputies, and they would be more bold in writing anonymous letters, so that they would not be worried about revealing themselves because others knew about it, and there would be less danger brought about by others writing on their behalf. ”

After a pause, Yang Lin looked straight at Chao Sheng and said solemnly: "Commander Chao, you are the Minister of National Defense, and you have the title of Vice Chairman of the Military Commission. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! After the meeting, I went to draft the specific details, find out the bottom line, and formulate corresponding plans according to the different situations of each army, so that they could learn more knowledge without delaying the training of soldiers. Chao Sheng immediately stood up, his body tense.

As if thinking of something, Yang Lin added: "By the way, in the army, there are many literate and literate people, and they can adopt a policy of helping each other and rewarding them. ”

"This method is good, Your Majesty, with rewards and benefits, those soldiers can have enthusiasm, and they are more willing to know and recognize words." Chao Sheng's eyes lit up, his face turned red, and he agreed.

"Okay, that's basically it, how to operate it, Commander Chao, it's up to you!" Yang Lin nodded and said with great hope.

Immediately after, without waiting for Chao Sheng to react, Yang Lin looked sideways at Baili River: "Mr. Baili, after the basic laws and regulations of the Great Guang Dynasty are confirmed, you will draft an outline to see what legal knowledge our officials must have." Then, combined with our assessment test, when the annual official assessment, regardless of other results? Once you fail to pass the legal knowledge test, you will directly brush it down and appoint another official. ”

However, Bailihe was not as excited as Chao Sheng accepted the task, but hesitated for a moment, and still said: "Your Majesty, those officials have studied hard for ten years, just to become officials one day, and they are so easily dismissed from their official qualifications, is there some disregard for human feelings?" Should we give those officials who have not met the assessment a chance to take a make-up examination, so that they can become new people, become new officials, and benefit the people? ”

Yang Lin shook his head, and said resolutely and solemnly: "No, the officials themselves have great power, if there is no restraint and they don't understand the laws of the Great Guang Dynasty, once they cause harm, they will be harmed by thousands of people." ”

"Mr. Baili, you are very knowledgeable, familiar with ancient and modern history, and corrupt officials have been rampant in all dynasties, and there are many reasons why your salary is too low. However, the most important point is that they have no sense of crisis, and once they get carried away, they forget the serious consequences of violating the laws of the imperial court. ”

"In our Great Guang Dynasty, I Yang Lin dare not say anything else, the salary of officials is definitely the highest in all dynasties, as long as it is not raised by groups of maids, then the life of officials is absolutely happy, and there is no problem in feeding a family."

Bailihe showed a look of relief, understood Yang Lin's intentions, and then said: "Your Majesty, I understand, since officials are given high salaries, then they will have to undergo the most severe assessment. nip their knowledge of the law and break the law in the bud. At the same time, from a certain point of view, it is not a kind of protection for them. ”

Thinking of this, Bailihe didn't have so many worries, and said happily: "Your Majesty, after the meeting, I will discuss with my colleagues in the Ministry of Personnel that on the basis of the original assessment, increase the assessment of whether officials understand legal knowledge, as a necessary condition for whether officials are competent or not in the year." ”

Yang Lin didn't say anything more, and after a little bit, he looked at Zhuge Mou and said earnestly: "Mr. Zhuge , as the Minister of Education, your burden is much heavier, and because you are too busy during this time, you have forgotten to talk to you about some things." ”

Zhuge Mou couldn't bear it for a long time, his heart was itchy, in a month's time, he had the title of Minister of Education, but he had nothing to do, and he had already been idle birds, hearing this, he got up stubbornly, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, just hurry up and order, for more than a month, I basically have nothing to do, I am bored, I have been waiting for this day for a long time, you explain the task~!" ”

Yang Lin smiled slightly, and said heartily: "Mr. Zhuge , although you are full of scheming, the way of marching soldiers. However, I know that your ambition is not to pursue a military career, but to cultivate the world's talents, and I often hear Qu Kun talk about this. So, I'm transferring you out of the Navy to the post of Minister of Education. ”

After a pause, seeing Zhuge Mou nodding again and again, Yang Lin continued: "And your task is to establish large and small academies across the country, accept talents, and cultivate them. And all the academy masters must be certified by your Ministry of Education, those people are really talented and have the ability to educate children, and they can be regarded as teachers. ”

In an instant, Zhuge Mou understood, this was to make him the chief dean of all the academies under his command, responsible for testing those teachers and masters, this task was exactly what he wanted, and when he was about to agree, he saw Yang Lin's expression straight, waved his hand and said: "Mr. Zhuge Don't be in a hurry to set up any military orders to ensure the completion of the task or something, listen to what I say." ”

Immediately, Zhuge Mou closed his mouth and looked straight at Yang Lin, looking like he was listening and waiting. Seeing that the emperor said solemnly and matterlessly, the Baili River and Chao Sheng on the side were also attracted and waited attentively.

"The large and small academies I am talking about are not the traditional kind of private schools, nor are they like Yuelu Academy, which only teach a subset of scriptures and history. Instead, it is brand new, and the colleges are divided into small colleges, middle colleges, high colleges, and large colleges, and the duration of study is six years, three years, three years, and four years respectively. Ordinary students must complete the primary and secondary schools. And if you want to be an official in our Great Guangzhou Dynasty, you must have a degree from a big academy. ”

At this moment, Chao Sheng, Zhuge Mou and Bailihe were said to be blind, and they had some indigestion, but Yang Lin's narration continued.

"Of course, from the middle academy to the high academy, and from the high academy to the big academy, you must go through strict examinations, and after the results in each subject are excellent, you can go on to higher education and enter a higher college."

While speaking, Yang Lin came to his bookcase again, paused slightly, went over a document from the table, walked forward, and came to Zhuge Mou: "Mr. Zhuge , the various disciplines I am talking about do not refer to the traditional six arts, but to the Han classics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography and so on. ”

In the stunned eyes of the three of them, Yang Lin handed the document to Zhuge Mou: "Here, there are detailed descriptions of the specific introduction of these disciplines, how to open them, where to find the master and the things of the primary, middle, high and large academies, I won't tell them one by one, you can take it back and read it yourself." ”

"En, good~" Zhuge Mou took the document in a daze and subconsciously flipped through it.