Not long ago, Shandong expanded its army, and as for how much, the imperial court did not know anything about it. The spies sent to Shandong by the imperial court Jinyi Wei were often detected.

This made Sun Chuanting a little suspicious that there was anyone among the Jinyiwei who was bought by Zhao Yan, but the Jinyiwei did not belong to his interference.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting sent his own spies to Shandong to spy on the military situation.

As a result, after losing most of the spies, Sun Chuanting really obtained some useful military information. The spies entered Shandong by disguising themselves as businessmen, and the results were unusually smooth, basically not receiving much interrogation, at this time Shandong attaches great importance to business, and businessmen from all over the world are welcome, and it is better to be able to engage in business activities in Shandong for a long time.

The reason why Sun Chuanting's spies were able to evade the defense line of the Ministry of Intelligence was mainly because the Ministry of Intelligence did not get information, and the Ministry of Intelligence was mainly to guard against the spying of Jinyiwei, so there was an inside line in Jinyiwei, and most of Jinyiwei's movements could be insightful, but Sun Chuanting was not in this range.

In addition, the spies sent by Sun Chuanting did not have a system of superiors and subordinates, and they did not know each other, although they were caught by the Ministry of Intelligence in the process of spying, but there were still fish that slipped through the net.

The information that these slippery fish sent back to Sun Chuanting was not too much, but it was very useful to Sun Chuanting.

As far as the current strength of the Shandong Army is concerned, no specific figures have been found, but the spies have inquired that the Shandong Army had a large-scale recruitment at the beginning of the year.

Taking the village as an example, the spies visited hundreds of villages in the form of hawkers, and about 1/5 of the young and strong people in the average village in the three western provinces joined the army. And the number of troops in the eastern three provinces even reached 2/5.

You must know that Shandong's agricultural population is very large, and Sun Chuanting calculated through the taxes paid by the three eastern prefectures the year before last that there are at least one million young and strong people in the eastern three prefectures engaged in agricultural production.

According to this speculation, the number of Shandong troops has expanded to at least 500,000, while the imperial court only has 100,000, and the strength of Shandong is five times that of the imperial court.

At the same time, the young people in each village will regularly carry out drills, which do not need spies to investigate, and can be learned from the mouths of those Shandong instructors who have been transferred.

In other words, in the event of an emergency, Zhao Yan can arm hundreds of thousands of young men into the battlefield at any time.

Originally, the imperial court trained 100,000 new troops, plus 50,000 Xuan soldiers and horses, which could form a 150,000 army, but Lu Xiangsheng suddenly went to Tufan.

This made Sun Chuanting have to pay attention to Shandong.

Lu Xiangsheng ignored the dispute between the royal family and Zhao Yan, he must have seen something, after all, the relationship between Lu Xiangsheng and Zhao Yan is very close.

This look really frightened Sun Chuanting, with Zhao Yan's current strength, he is fully capable of carrying out the Ding Revolution, but he is obsessed with territory expansion.

Moreover, after years of fighting, Shandong's production has been destroyed, but it has become bigger and stronger, which makes Sun Chuanting have to sigh at Zhao Yan's toughness.

is indeed a prosperous monarch.

It's just that Jun En is mighty, and Sun Chuanting has taken a different choice from Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng chose to escape, go to the Western Regions to expand his territory, and do what he likes to do.

It's just that once the fight starts, how should this battle be fought? But it was sad for Sun Chuanting, once the two sides fought, the royal family had no possibility of winning at all.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting believed that maintaining the constitution was the best way to protect the imperial family, provided that the emperor could settle down, and once the emperor was restless, there would be no way to talk about constitutionalism.

Sun Chuanting wrote a letter to Lu Xiangsheng to discuss the current situation. As a result, Lu Xiangsheng's reply was unsolvable, and the current situation was irreversible.

Lu Xiangsheng saw Chongzhen's fierce soldiers and horses, and he looked ambitious, so he completely left it alone, and under Chongzhen's unwillingness, there was no way to talk about constitutionalism.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng can be regarded as having completely seen through the gap in strength between the two sides, this is a war that Chongzhen is destined to win.

Shandong's system is so strict that it is simply impeccable, and it is basically ineffective to deal with Zhao Yan by ordinary means, just like luring Shandong generals to defect, there is no possibility of success at all, the form of the Shandong army is an unusual army, and the soldiers of the entire Shandong army only obey Zhao Yan's orders.

Moreover, the treatment of the Shandong army is so generous that the imperial court can't do it, it's not a matter of money, there are many factors to consider.

For example, the logistics supply of the Shandong army cannot be done by the imperial court. Once the Shandong army defects, the loss of Shandong's supplies will inevitably lead to a great decline in combat effectiveness. After all, the imperial court could not make shells, and even military rations were not to the taste of Shandong soldiers.

At the same time, the weapons of the Shandong army are constantly being updated, and the combat effectiveness is constantly improving, and no general is stupid enough to leave this group with unlimited prospects.

Sun Chuanting didn't know anything about a lot.

…… In Beijing, the Supreme Court's trial of Jin Shang was basically over.

In this trial, a total of 39 people were sentenced to death, and more than 2,000 people were sentenced to life imprisonment to more than three years in prison.

Those who accompanied the death sentence were the principal offenders, while those sentenced to life imprisonment were the main family members of the principal offenders, while those who were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison had no circumstances but were related to the cause.

It's not necessary to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and after ten or eight years, after coming out, there is basically nothing, and normal people will not think of any revenge.

After all, they committed the crime, and revenge against Zhao Yan must think about the consequences that need to be suffered, and the less the sentence, the more distant the relationship between the main culprit, where will they take revenge on Zhao Yan when they come out.

Zhao Yan also wanted to kill, and it was almost enough to cut the main culprit.

After the trial, the main culprit was immediately escorted to the execution ground to be executed, and he appeared in the newspaper on the same day, and the newspaper comments rarely expressed support for Jin Shang.

The era of Jin Shang is over.

The wealth of the Jin merchants flowed into Zhao Yan's pocket, and next year he could overhaul the railway and engage in education.

…… In the scorching summer, the first semester of the school in Shandong also ended, and the school gave students a month of summer vacation.

At the same time, nearly 50,000 students have graduated from primary school.

Shandong's school system is three years of primary school, and the graduating students are relatively weak in writing skills, but it is enough for them to become primary school teachers.

The age of more than 50,000 students is relatively large, these students are Chongzhen eight years of enrollment, Chongzhen eight years, the education of Denglai Erfu is only popularized to 12 ~ 16 years old, but the scale is also relatively large, reaching more than 50,000 people.

More than 50,000 students rushed to Zhaojiabao from all over the country to attend the graduation ceremony.

On the square of Zhaojiabao, Zhao Yan and the high-level executives of Shandong who could be present attended the graduation ceremony, which was very grand.

Zhao Yan looked at the energetic teenagers below, and was very excited.

Finally surviving the most difficult stage, with the addition of these new forces, everything will be much easier in the future.

On this day, under the call of Zhao Yan, nearly 30,000 graduates chose to enter the Normal College.

Although they have only completed primary school, the age to be a teacher is enough, and primary school is not a difficult thing to teach, the textbooks used by teachers are explained in detail, and the graduating students are all good grades, as long as they study at the teacher training college.

The more than 30,000 primary school graduates became teachers much easier than the literati who received a Confucian education, unlike those who had to read the same amount of primary school knowledge before learning how to teach.

As long as these primary school graduates know how to teach, they can go straight to work.

…… Zhang Wen was one of many students who chose to enter the Teachers' College, he is now eighteen years old, and by the age of fifteen his father had decided to let him go out to learn some trade, whether it was an apprenticeship in the Ordnance Bureau, or a plasterer, or a shipwright.

But at this time, it happened to meet the school enrollment, he was recruited into the school to study, the school is said to be the best place for Zhang Wen since he was a child, he doesn't have to work in the school, the school is responsible for food and clothing, and there is not much pocket money.

After three years of study, Zhang Wen's grades were good, and his ideological and quality performance was also passed, so he graduated successfully and was not repeated.

Originally, Zhang Wen planned to continue to study in middle school, knowledge in Shandong represents wealth, because knowledge itself can create wealth, this kind of knowledge is also different from the traditional Confucian knowledge, Shandong pays attention to knowledge, more practical surname, in terms of writing only requires the ability to express words.

However, this graduation ceremony changed Zhang Wen's choice.

The general said that they were fortunate to be in time for the implementation of compulsory education in Denglai Erfu, but for the Han people, more children were unfortunate because they could not go to school.

At the graduation ceremony that day, the general said in a sonorous voice: "We are not short of money in Shandong, even if it costs a lot of money, we must save it by tightening our belts, so that every child can go to school." But we don't have people, we don't have teachers, and the nation needs you. ”

This sentence instantly infected him and made him choose to go to the Teachers College.

At the same time, the general also promised that after becoming primary school teachers, they still have the right to receive compulsory education, and if conditions do not allow, the Ministry of Education will send them self-study materials every month, and at the same time, it will also open night schools as much as possible, and they can also choose to study during the holidays. If possible, they can choose to go to secondary school and university.

In terms of treatment, the monthly salary has been increased to three taels of silver per month, one stone of rice and wheat, and one tael of silver per month, which is already the same as that of a first-class soldier.

They can continue their studies by reading self-study materials, attending night classes, studying in the summer, and after passing the secondary school leaving exam, they can choose to enter a university or choose to become a secondary school teacher.

The monthly salary of a middle school teacher reaches five taels per month, and one stone of rice and wheat is comparable to the military salary of a non-commissioned officer.

This kind of self-study is relatively simple, only one or two subjects need to be studied by oneself, and the test papers of the exam are also issued separately, only one or two subjects are examined.

For example, if a primary school teacher chooses to study Chinese, he will only take the Chinese test, and after becoming a secondary school teacher, he will only teach Chinese.

After all, the current education method in Shandong is to concentrate students, and each primary school has at least four or five thousand people, and the school's resources can also be built in a centralized manner, which is not only perfect, but also of better quality.

Such a good treatment has a great attraction for Zhang Wen, after all, he is eighteen years old, and he is not a small person, he must have a little income to start a family, and this is also a sacred career.

So, immediately after the graduation ceremony, he went to sign up.

…… Zhao Yan is very satisfied with the results of the registration, more than 30,000 students have entered the Normal College, and next year's teachers will not be a problem.

In the past, there was a shortage of qualified personnel, and according to his development model, he inevitably needed a large number of educated personnel, not only for the military, but also for scientific research, but also for administrative management.

In addition to the official use, those factories and the like also need talents.

As long as these 30,000 students successfully leave the teachers' college, the size of education will be doubled, and more graduates will be born next year.

Education has entered a snowball stage, and this snowball will get bigger and bigger, and eventually popularize primary education.

At the same time, Zhao Yan improved the treatment of teachers, education is a sacred profession, and there should not be too many profit-seeking factors in it.

But this is a requirement for the upper echelons, not for teachers. The upper echelons should be willing to spend money, so that teachers do not worry about money, so that they can maintain their principles in some choices, instead of letting them lose their principles for money because they are not rich.

When primary education is universalized, secondary education can be universalized, and when secondary education is universalized, compulsory education can be increased and university education can be universalized.

There is still a long way to go in education.

However, according to the development of this situation, the personnel provided in the future will be enough for Zhao Yan's needs, and it will also be able to supply personnel with universal education and culture to the people.

"The Ministry of Education should compile the self-study textbooks for middle schools as soon as possible, and the explanations should be detailed, but as concise and easy to understand as possible." Zhao Yan said to Song Yingxing.

"My subordinates understand." Song Yingxing nodded.

"For subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, in addition to standard self-study textbooks, each knowledge point can be taken out separately to compile a book as detailed as possible, and then printed and distributed." Zhao Yan continued to explain the details, and Song Yingxing ran back to the Ministry of Education for a meeting.

According to the program issued by Zhao Yan, the Ministry of Education decided to comprehensively compile self-study textbooks, from primary school to middle school, as well as at the university level.

Self-study textbooks are divided into two types: standard textbooks and detailed textbooks, self-study first read the standard textbooks, if you still don't understand, go to the detailed textbooks.

But even if it is a standard textbook, it is more detailed, not only with detailed text explanations, but also with illustrations, and the detailed textbook is as detailed as possible.

Both standard and detailed textbooks will be sold in bookstores, and the price will be kept to a minimum. At the same time, the standard teaching materials will also be distributed free of charge to teachers, soldiers, and officials.

Zhao Yan hopes that more people, not only the next generation, but also the current generation, can improve their cultural knowledge through self-study.

Knowledge can change a person's life many times.

(To be continued)