In the early autumn of 1897, East Asia Seris, the county seat of Dongtai, Huaibei.

On the banks of the Shi Nai'an River, less than a mile away from the county government building, the original tranquility of the local area was shattered half a year ago by the roar of more than 1,000 construction teams and a large number of mechanical vehicles......

In just a few months, the riverbank, which had been a wasteland, was replaced by a beautiful complex of buildings. Almost in the blink of an eye, a beautiful school with several teaching buildings, canteens, and dormitories has been built here.

This school is the third public primary school in Dongtai that the local government started to build at the request of the superiors! It was born with thousands of primary and secondary schools distributed throughout the country, and thanks to the contribution of the confiscated assets of the former Qing Dynasty, Mr. Ouyang Geng of the Ministry of Education was able to spend a lot of gold and silver on the national education map to build the education cause of the republic in his mind.

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The time came to the day of August 30th, and when the sun had just risen, the school gate of Dongtai No. 3 Public Primary School was already crowded with waiting crowds.

Nearly 1,000 parents and parents brought their young children to the front of this school, and at this time, everyone, including these parents and children, grew up and looked at this beautiful school in front of them, which was still very strange to all of them.

"Parents of children, please come here to get your children's respective enrollment registration forms, please be sure to fill them out as required!"

There is a temporary registration office in front of the school gate, and several people who look like teachers are greeting many parents.

Learned people are respected everywhere, especially in China, where young parents and their children consciously line up.

Thanks to the various propaganda methods in the country over the past few years, the most basic etiquette such as queuing, traffic rules, and no spitting have been widely accepted throughout the country in Seris, and anyone on the street who does not drive on the right or even without the traffic police coming forward will be ridiculed by everyone.

"These masters are a little young, but the private school is very big, you can see how tall these houses are."

"You don't understand this, this is not called a private school, these are public schools built by the government for our children."

"What is a public school?"

"You don't even know about public schools? I'm telling you that public schools are ......"

"I heard that here, dolls don't have to pay to go to school."

“……”

After all, it is a county town, and some parents in the queue immediately chatted with acquaintances, lamenting that life has become better, and at the same time, they are even more grateful that the children of ordinary people can still get free education.

Some parents who come alone are in a hurry because they are alone with several children, and they are even more embarrassed when they encounter naughty children, and at this time, a few young people will come out to take care of the children for the parents - these are all intern graduates of Nanyang Normal College who have come to help.

At the registration office, a local worker named Dai Xinhua carefully took a registration form and took his son Dai Xiaohu to fill it out carefully.

"Dai Xiaohu... Jiangsu Province... Dongtai County, Huai'an Prefecture... No. 37 Shaoxing Street... Originally from Xiamen, Fujian... Age 6 years old... Father Dai Xinhua... Mother Li Min ......"

Because he had previously attended night school in his own oil mill, Dai Xinhua's two handwritings were still crooked, but they were finally filled in.

It doesn't matter if some of the parents in the crowd are illiterate, many of the interns around will come in due course to help them fill out the registration form.

After filling out the form, Dai Xinhua, who was honest, immediately handed in the form with his son Huzi.

"Take this number plate and go over there...... Promise...... If you see it, just over there, hey, yes, I'll go over there and take your son to take the school uniform according to the size, well, this is all bought by the government, I don't want you to pay for it...... Come, the next ......"

After receiving the number plate handed by the teacher in front of him, Dai Xinhua took the child Xiaohu to walk towards the school along the direction of the parents in front of him.

When you look around, you can see a row of desks at the front, and many teachers are measuring the height of the children who arrive first.

"Son, you are blessed, the school will give you new clothes!"

"Oh! Oh! I have new clothes to wear! ”

"Oh! New clothes! ”

"Oh! Oh! I have new clothes to wear! ”

"Oh! Oh! ”

Many of the children brought by the parents next to him jumped up as happily as the tiger after seeing the scene in front of them.

After waiting in line again for a while, Dai Xinhua handed the sign he had just received to a young girl in the back, who hugged Xiaohu and asked him to stand up, and then used a soft ruler to measure the size of each place.

"Hmmm! It should be good, take it! Size D-120 school uniform, these are shoes, change them too, your son should wear them just right. ”

"Thank you!"

Dai Xinhua thanked him and was about to take the girl's wrapped school uniform and rubber-soled shoes, when the little tiger on the side had already grabbed the front and hugged him in his arms!

"Oh! I've got new clothes to wear, too! ”

"Hahahaha! ――”

"Hahahaha! ――”

"This kid! …… Thank you Auntie yet! ”

"Thank you...... Aunt! ”

In the midst of a good-natured laughter, Dai Xinhua blushed at his boy's behavior, laughed himself, and took Huzi's hand and walked home, his house was nearby, but there was no need for Huzi to live in school.

While walking, Dai Xinhua still kept wondering in his heart, how can he go to school without money, these clothes and shoes are still good in the world! It's all thanks to the Führer's policy...... Well, go home and make the child happy, this day is really getting better and better......

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Since Seris seized power on the mainland, Chen Zeyu has begun to build various primary and secondary education institutions throughout the country. Correspondingly, various education regulations have also been promulgated, nationwide, as long as it is a school-age child, regardless of male or female, the baby must be sent to the local school to complete compulsory education. To encourage parents to implement the policy, these public schools will also provide their children with a nutritious free lunch every day.

In addition to public schools, the government is also introducing various policies to encourage local investment in the construction of schools. For example, for donors, the school can appropriately give the naming rights of a part of the building or even the entire school, and the government will also reduce or exempt the parties from various industrial taxes. Because they have both face and lining, many local rich and gentry have rushed to donate money to the local government to build a large number of local schools.

In terms of educational resources, because Chen Zeyu's Nanyang Group has established a large number of educational institutions at all levels many years ago, many graduates have gone out of schools around the country over the years, which has virtually solved the demand for teachers for the huge primary and secondary schools in various parts of the Republic.

By the autumn of 1897, there were more than 50 public high schools and seven private high schools in all parts of the Republic, not counting the number of elementary schools being built everywhere. Of course, in the early days, there was still only one comprehensive higher education institution in Nanyang, and the remaining universities were still under intense construction.

In addition to the primary and secondary schools at all levels within the system, Seris has also established a variety of large-scale professional training schools throughout the country, including technical schools at all levels in industrial technology and military training, medical schools, and army and naval officer schools.

According to the report submitted by Mr. Ouyang Geng, Minister of Education, Chen Zeyu has reformulated the plan for the education system of the Republic, and from this year onwards, primary and secondary schools across the country will implement a new type of 532 system. The so-called 532 means that a seven-year-old child needs to start five years of primary education, followed by five years of secondary education. The first three years of the last five years of secondary education remain compulsory, i.e. the process of lower secondary education, while the last two years are upper secondary education, which is optional for students. Combined with the previous five years of primary education, which meant that every child of school age in the Republic had to undergo at least eight years of compulsory education, Chen Zeyu's government also waived all tuition fees for them at this stage.

Comparatively speaking, the Western European countries of this period had only just begun to popularize compulsory primary education, and before that, the major powers had at most popularized compulsory primary education. As for the secondary and university education that followed, it was completely dominated by the upper aristocracy and religious institutions, and in this respect, once the orientals found their way, they would never fall behind others.

Regarding the content of school teaching in the compulsory education stage, Chen Zeyu also personally gave instructions.

Unlike later Oriental education, the Republic planned a large number of physical and technical education courses for all students during this period. Thanks to this policy, students after graduation can find a satisfactory job with their good qualities and skills, even if they cannot go to high school or university in the future. In addition, all students will start learning English at the primary school level, and the school will be completely laissez-faire in this regard, and will not make any rigid requirements for students to learn at the same time.

In addition, as a result of the influence of the education system in Luzon in the South Seas, all schools in the Republic have also established their own strong societies at all levels. Under the idea of maintaining absolute loyalty to the leader, the patriotic atmosphere of advocating courage and unity has also been passed down in various school clubs.