As you may see, Downing is particularly fond of using market and commercial methods to solve problems. That's right, because this is the most efficient and cheap, and every executive order will increase the administrative cost, and the effect is not necessarily good, unless the order is to reduce the government's interference in people's livelihood. The reform of the Ministry of Rites also came to this set.

Ministry of Rites: Kaoji, Jia, Army, Guest, Fierce Five Rites; Manage the affairs of the national schools, the imperial examinations, and the affairs of the vassal and foreign countries. Forget about the good and the bad, the imperial examination and the school should be well organized. In the heyday of the Chinese population and higher education, there were five or six million college graduates every year, so that some experts predicted that if there was football in China's college entrance examination subjects, China would become the first football power within five years, and a large number of Chinese players would appear when Britain, France and Italy played the World Cup.

This is the charm of the "imperial examination". When all countries carry out compulsory education, they can only think of such an old-fashioned and inefficient method as building school schools, and our god-level thinkers will not take this road. The efficiency and quality of private educational institutions can beat public education. The question is how to get capital flowing into private schools.

Downing's solution was an education tax rebate system. All taxpayers, including farmers, artisans, merchants, and landlords, have a tax refund scheme. This program is applicable to primary education in advance, and has three main contents: mathematics based on four operations, national language with a literacy rate of 1,000 words, and foreign language with 1,000 words. Each one counts as one credit.

If the landlord hires a 3-credit farmer to 100 percent, the tax rebate can reach up to 50 percent, and the two credits and one credit are decreasing in turn, and the percentage is also decreasing. Employees of artisan workshops and merchants are also treated equally, and even guests of inns, all tenants of the month are three credits, and they can also get a tax refund, and if both employees and tenants are all three credits, they can get a tax refund of up to 75%. Even the clients of **** prostitutes have this kind of treatment, of course, ****, it is a luxury product, and it belongs to the key tax collection objects of the imperial court, and the amount of tax refund is not so high.

The great creators of history, these landlords and merchants, will look for employees with credits like madmen, but the teachers who teach these three sciences are orange "legendary" things. Therefore, it is only natural that the Grand Magus will once again cast forbidden magic, a kind of magic that instantly demolishes legendary equipment to "ordinary", to put it bluntly, it is very simple - standard textbook.

Great ancient civilizations already have a literacy rate of 20%, and the goal of the standard textbook is to make this 20% of the literate people understandable. There is also a good thing like a gramophone that must be used, and the lecture of the orange legend-level excellent lecturer must be recorded, so that the local tyrants who use the gramophone have one more learning method.

After these enlightenment knowledge is mastered by more and more people, private educational institutions will naturally grow like mushrooms after a rain. The imperial court did not need to pay a penny to see the explosive birth of Western-style schools in the entire Qing Dynasty.

Some people say that the 50% tax rebate of the imperial court is not a huge education expense? Maybe it's bigger than throwing money outright. That's not how the accounts are calculated. This 50% is not easy to achieve, or it is impossible. This is the upper limit of the theory, and when the people of the whole country have three credits, the imperial court should also raise the standard and continue to increase the number of subjects, at this time it is secondary education, chemistry, physics, biology, history, geography and other subjects are all mixed in, and then it is very possible to take 10 credits to get a 50% tax refund, anyway, it is insidious not to let the profiteers earn a 50% tax refund.

How often should such a credit test be taken? Is it once every three years, like the imperial examination? This is simply too inefficient. Annually? Guess again! Well, announce the answer, sit tight, the correct answer is: every day.

How is this possible? Will the officials of the Ministry of Rites be able to keep busy? Of course it can't be, if it weren't for the Great Magister's brain-level spells. Four operations, you can use a mechanical computer to solve the problem, have the ability to have unlimited sets of questions, use the 100% multiple-choice method for the exam, fill in with a 2B pencil, and then use the photoelectric conversion technology as the core of the automatic scoring machine qì, the same day of the exam, the next day you can know the score.

Of course, no matter how advanced the technology is, there must be enough space, invigilators and miscellaneous staff, so there will be a schedule after registration, and candidates must know it.

Of course, there will be defects in the examination of simple multiple-choice questions, especially in the national language, which can not see the candidate's ability to choose words and make sentences, so there must be a supplementary plan - a 100-point test paper, 80 points to pass, all candidates who have reached the 95 grade or above can choose to re-test, application questions, essay questions and other test questions only appear in the re-examination, and the top students who pass the re-examination will be printed with the word "excellent" on the primary education graduation certificate for the reference of employers, of which the largest employer is the Ministry of Officials. The imperial court will set aside a large number of positions for honor students, kicking off the prelude to the "bloodbath" officialdom.

Honors in foreign languages can enter the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen, mathematics students can enter the Ministry of Household Affairs and its subordinate institutions, and students with honors in Chinese language can enter institutions such as the Daqing News. Quan Yousheng is an alternate official with a noble status and unlimited potential. In the same way, this is only the beginning, and when everyone becomes more and more knowledgeable, only the top students in secondary education can be promoted.

The enthusiasm of the Japanese to learn from Europe is commendable, but they have gone too far, and the top brass said that they want to improve the Japanese race, so that Japanese men can marry European women, and Japanese women marry European men, and this plan has been published in mainstream European newspapers and is regarded as a laughing stock. The Qing Dynasty's education tax rebate program shocked the whole of Europe, especially since their Western study textbooks were written by reliable professors at the London International School.

The current international college system is a world-famous education system, and its university department is even ranked among the top universities in the world, because the founder is a god-level scientist, you can see at a glance who is the professor who represents the most advanced productivity, from the faculty to the hardware, ideas, employment direction, all indicators are top, especially employment, a large number of graduates enter the Windsor consortium system, the world's crown. Nowadays, there are some high school graduates who are ambitious, idealistic, and visionary, and would rather attend the university department of the International Academy than go to a recognized top university such as Cambridge University. A school that originally only contributed talents to the Windsor consortium has become such a famous university, which can be said to be unintentionally planted in the willows.

In a place like the Qing Dynasty, where even modern primary education was not popularized, Tangning had no intention of vigorously developing higher education, and only prepared to establish three universities, all of which would be named "Great Qing National University", followed by the Shanghai Branch, the Beijing Normal Branch, and the Guangzhou Branch. Among them, the Shanghai branch is the most important, which shows his firm implementation of attaching importance to industry and suppressing bureaucratic policies.

What can we do without higher education? It's still - vocational education. Downing's approach to vocational education is to allow companies to recruit low-paid child laborers, as long as teenagers complete 3 credits can enter the factory to work, but there will be restrictions, 12 years old and younger, the working hours can not exceed two hours a day, and the remaining 6 hours are all used for learning, and the school is provided by various guilds. The 14-year-old works four hours, the 16-year-old works six hours, and the teenager does not work the same hours and pay as an adult until the age of 18.

What are the requirements for a guild with legal status? First: there is a certain amount of tax payment; Second, we need to build guild schools that are large enough to accommodate child labourers recruited by the entire industry. In fact, these child labourers are not forced child labourers, but students whose internships in the vocational education system are fully matched to what they have learned.

The way to check whether the graduates of the Guild School have achieved success is simple, to see if they can be employed in the member companies, and if their income is enough to pay income tax, it is even more remarkable, and the amount of tax paid by the graduates in three years represents the excellent course of the talents that the school has cultivated for the entire industry.

What are the indicators for the election of guild members? Whether the industry school is good or not is a very objective indicator, which is to cultivate talents for the entire industry. If you can't even run a guild school and want to get a seat in the Qing Chamber of Commerce, it will be difficult to climb to the sky.

Not to mention other industries, the Windsor Consortium's own industry needs a large number of professional talents, so Tang Ning instructed the leaders of various units to lead the creation of a number of schools: Metallurgical Association School, Electric Power Association School, Shipbuilding Association School, Publishing Industry Association School, Pharmaceutical Association School, Civil Engineering Association School, Banking Association School, Automobile Industry Association School, Furniture Industry Association School, Chemical Industry Association School...... The list goes on and on!

In order to train road police for the Daqing Railway Bureau, even Taishang specially instructed the Ministry of War to authorize the Railway Bureau to set up a police association school, and in order to train soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, a military association school was established. In short, in addition to making a big fuss in the Daqing News, it also selected some key industries to issue special invitation letters, asking them to raise funds to set up a trade union school, if there is no guild in that industry, then invite some industry bigwigs to ask them to come forward to form a guild, which is a promising real power organization.

These guild schools, which are closely at the forefront of the industry, are much more reliable than the subjects and textbooks that bureaucrats sit in their offices and plan by patting their heads and brains. All student majors are linked to jobs, and the dying and thriving occupations are as clear as the balance of supply in the market, which is really a magical system of vocational education.

This vocational education system also provides a quick way for workers who are dissatisfied with the status quo to change jobs, as long as you return to study and practice as a child laborer, you can transfer to your preferred occupation step by step, of course, this is not within the teaching obligation of the guild, so it may cost money.

In addition to education, the Ministry of Rites also has the task of formulating the law of etiquette, and the Qing Dynasty will implement three major reforms from now on:

1. Abolish the order of respect and inferiority of bureaucratic hierarchies, low-level officials are no longer forced to bow when they see high-ranking officials, and they can only bow when they see the emperor. Trespassing of buildings and clothing that represents the hierarchy is no longer a felony and is instead a small fine.

2. Braids are no longer compulsory, and no official may punish the people of the Qing Dynasty with hairstyles or clothing. For the convenience of action, soldiers and officials of the patrol room must have short hair, starting from the Shenji Battalion of the Gongwei Jing Division.

3. The binding of the feet of a female infant is an inhumane and unhealthy act, and the local officials immediately inform all the people that they must not do it again, and that the offender will have his tax rate increased. (If you are too tyrant and ****, you can break the law, but the tax rate will continue to rise until you are punished until you go bankrupt.) （http：//.）。 ）

Those people of the Qing Dynasty surnamed Windsor, who had grown up overseas, saw the announcement of the holy decree of the Daqing News, and almost instantly ran to the barber and shouted: "Boss, I am about to twist my braids, I am uncomfortable to death!" ”

The barber was startled: "You're crazy, you will kill your head without braids!" ”

The young man threw the newspaper in the barber's face: "Look, the emperor's decree encourages short hair!" ”

The barber picked up the newspaper and looked at it, and said cautiously, "It's better to take it slowly, in case it ......"

The young man said impatiently: "You have no jokes, less wordy, do you want to do it?" Don't **** find someone else! ”

Under the leadership of the Shenji Camp in the capital and the teenagers of Windsor, the young people who are bold and fat have cut their braids, especially the Han teenagers who have held back for hundreds of years, which has become a striking scene in the capital, and foreign ministers have praised China's reform as quite reliable, and it seems that the Chinese will not be so easy to recognize in the future.