Recently, with the publication in the newspapers of advertisements for the civil service examinations issued by the various ministries of the Provisional Political Axe, tens of thousands of scholars who thought they had learned from themselves poured into Jiangning City in an endless stream, bringing a fresh sense of interest to the newly recovered thousand-year-old capital.

Among these scholars are white-haired old men, young people who are not as weak as the crown, rich children who are fat and light, and who call slaves and servants, and poor people who carry bookcases and old cloth clothes alone. They walked on the street, in and out of the anti-travel wine shop, each with a square scarf just purchased from the clothing shop on their heads, dressed in a scholar's Han clothes, and full of poems and clouds, so that the people in Jinling City really had a sense of seeing the prestige of the Han officials!

For the tens of thousands of scholars gathered in Jiangning, they did not know what kind of test questions they were going to face, but these people could still see from the newspapers what the "ruling party" liked. There was a story in the newspaper.

Although the handsome man is very busy, after all, that person is from a Jinshi, so he can't be seen. When the marshal saw the jinshi, he asked, "What are your specialties?" Jinshi replied truthfully: "I can write well, I can teach, and I can write poetry." Unexpectedly, the marshal said contemptuously: "It's just a book slave trick, there are a lot of people like me under me, and I know that I can chew words and have no interest." ”

Although he had some knowledge in economics, he felt that it was not enough, so he did not mention it. Afterwards, the Jinshi asked the commander's subordinates, and learned that the commander was most in need of diplomatic and economic talents at this time, so the Jinshi found books on this subject and studied hard day and night in the spirit of hanging his head and thorning the strands, and felt that he had almost mastered it, so he asked to see the commander again.

The handsome met and mocked: "It's better to write poetry, right?" Jin Shi replied: "Shi Bei San, I am impressed, I am studying the knowledge of diplomacy and finance." As he spoke, he talked endlessly about current affairs and talked about diplomacy and economic knowledge, which was very insightful. These are exactly what the marshal urgently needs, and the marshal was pleasantly surprised, and immediately hired Na Jinshi as a financial consultant.

Although this story does not mention who the marshal is, nor does it mention who the Jinshi is, and may even be made up out of thin air, but it reminds the nearly 20,000 scholars who gathered in Jiangning who tried to "leap into the dragon gate and follow the dragon gong" have bought new books in this area of economics, diplomacy, law, military affairs, etc., and those who can't afford it don't matter.

Economics, Diplomacy, Administration, Taxation, Dialect, Engineering, Justice...... Although the name of the first "open science and scholar" examination of this ruling axe is different from that of the imperial court, after all, in the past few years, the imperial court has also opened special departments such as "economic special department" and "diplomatic special department", so naturally it did not cause side thoughts.

Those scholars who came from all over the country to seek a position in the new dynasty and take the body of a dragon from the dragon, as soon as they arrived in Jiangning, they first weighed themselves, and then according to this detailed subject, they chose the examination subjects they thought they were good at, and then they went into the library and the teaching institute set up in the former Jiangnan Gongyuan, and began to review the new learning.

Scholars with all kinds of ideas and dreams of all kinds will only have a headache for the new learning, some have learned, some have never heard of, no matter what they think, many of them have vaguely guessed that this may be their last chance, the members of the ruling axe are unheard of, even the most ignorant people know that it may be a change of eternity, which is being staged when the new dynasty has not been built and the old dynasty has not collapsed.

In front of the former Jiangsu School Administration and the current ruling axe education department, Jiaoyang was at the head, and hundreds of scholars in Confucian clothes knelt solemnly in front of the door. The breeze blew their crowns, the streamers fluttered, and the sun scorched their bodies as if they were hitting the statues. There was a makeshift tent next to it, and under a huge black iron pot, firewood was blazing. Next to the stove is a table with a large bowl of porridge and various small snacks.

In front of the kneeling lifters, Cai Yuanpei, who was the Minister of Education, shouted loudly to them.

"This civil servant recruitment examination is by no means an examination, just a recruitment examination for public servants, all of which are new propositions, law, medicine, agriculture, engineering, you have not learned, but you can be handsome and gracious, and you can sign up for the study in the Gong Academy!"

The staff of the Ministry of Education brought over a tray with a large bowl of porridge and small snacks in their hands. Cai Yuanpei picked up a bowl of porridge and sent it to an old man.

"I said you're old, just eat and drink! Hunger strike is not the solution! ”

The old man did not move, but shouted hoarsely.

"We are not against new learning, but Confucianism has been inherited for thousands of years, for the blood and soul of my Han people, the ruling axe to restore the Han Dynasty, and the people rejoice, but we can't abolish my Han learning!"

Lao Juzi's righteousness was strict, so that Cai Yuanpei replied helplessly.

"No one said they wanted to scrap the old school!"

But the old man no longer paid attention to him, originally they thought this was a "new dynasty examination", but once they came here, they almost didn't faint to death, and all the subjects ordered were new learning, and it was rumored that the ruling axe would replace the "imperial examination" with the "civil service examination", which was not originally going to go back to the house The lifters knelt in front of the Ministry of Education, which should be the former Guozijian.

Cai Yuanpei, who was a little helpless, brought the porridge to another face.

"I said you're old, can you take the lead in eating something?"

The move was also motionless.

Cai Yuanpei ran to the front of the team with a bowl and shouted loudly.

"I say, how stubborn are you? I, I assure you, the handsome will not just leave you alone! After the civil service examination, the imperial examination will not be examined, there must be a saying! Furthermore, if this examination is a bachelor's degree, how can it be a reason to enter the examination without lifting a child? ”

With that, he lifted the bowl forward.

"Just take a bite! I beg you! ”

But in front of him, it seems that he is no longer a living person, but a thousand-year-old imperial examination tombstone. His words are very good, but he knows that for this imperial examination, the marshal has already made a decision to "abolish it without abolishing it", and it can be abolished if he does not open the department.

Finally, in Cai Yuanpei's "If this examination is for the opening of the department, then there is no such thing as a child who can also enter the examination!" Under the explanation, this group of old men who knelt in front of the Ministry of Education and went on a hunger strike in disbelief picked up the porridge bowl.

Seeing that they began to eat, Cai Yuanpei breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally got this over......"

As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, a staff member of the Ministry of Education brought over a newspaper, and after whispering a few words in Cai Yuanpei's ear, his face changed.

"All back?"

Chen Moran, who was sitting in the study, looked at Cai Yuanpei with a smile, those lifters had been on hunger strike for two days, and an hour ago, there was news that the lifters had been persuaded by Cai Yuanpei to disperse, as the ruling of the temporary political axe, he didn't even give a face to those people.

"All back!"

While speaking, Cai Yuanpei looked at the book in the handsome hand.

Put down the "Chinese Teaching Skills Training (Junior Elementary Accelerated Course)", which is one of the first set of standard teacher teaching materials, although there is a plagiarism of the teacher teaching materials, but it is a teacher teaching materials developed by the Commercial Press in two years by hiring more than a dozen German education experts.

Seeing Cai Yuanpei staring at the book in his hand, Chen Moran handed it over.

"How? Heqing, what do you think of this set of teaching materials! ”

After he had flipped through a few pages, he asked with some urgency, and in addition to those experts, he even had some personal opinions on the compilation of this textbook.

"Dashuai, your invention of this pinyin and standard Chinese can be described as a great achievement!"

Cai Yuanpei first praised a sentence, although he felt a little annoyed with this textbook, but the Chinese pinyin and standard pronunciation are very beneficial, this official pinyin has been implemented as early as the Whampoa Military Academy, and even now when compiling university textbooks, it is also used to mark the textbook. This kind of Latin pinyin is far more convenient and easy to learn than the conjunctive alphabet, and it only takes two months to eradicate illiteracy in the Liberation Army, and illiterate soldiers can recognize and write nearly 1,000 commonly used words.

And his inventor is Chen Dashuai in front of him, if it weren't for someone in the newspaper jokingly called "King James Pinyin" or "Royal Pinyin", he really didn't know, this "Chinese Pinyin", which was shocked at first sight, was actually Chen Moran's invention.

"When I was abroad, I often met some Cantonese Fujianese, they don't know official language, everyone uses English, so it is really unreasonable for Chinese to use foreign language when they meet abroad. Therefore, after the recovery, the first major event is that the whole country is in unison! It's not ...... That's it! ”

When Chen Moran was laughing, Cai Yuanpei nodded from time to time, and now after taking up the post of temporary political axe education minister, he contacted people from all walks of life, and the biggest problem he encountered was "different languages of the Chinese people", but this standard Chinese language solved the problem.

For Chen Moran, this is just an excuse, after all, one of the reasons for getting that pinyin in the first place was that when he was eradicating illiteracy in the Guangfu Army, the fact that it was difficult to learn and remember the several sounds of that word was there, and finally he used the computer to type out such a "Chinese pinyin", but this phonetic pronunciation was according to his spoken language.

"Since the First Sino-Japanese War, many people of insight have been studying, why we have always been bullied by the great powers, it is because their ships are strong, why are their ships strong and their guns are strong, because they are scientifically developed, why can they be scientifically developed? Because their culture and education are popular, why can their culture and education be popular? Because their Latin alphabet is easy to write, easy to recognize and easy to learn, they can popularize education and culture, and look at our Chinese characters in turn? It is precisely because it is difficult to write, recognize, and remember, so our culture cannot be popularized, and science cannot be developed if culture is not popularized. The conclusion is very simple, we want to enrich the country and strengthen the people is to popularize cultural education, and the popularization of cultural education we encounter Chinese characters is the most difficult in the world, the most difficult, can not popularize culture, can not popularize culture can not be rich and strong soldiers, so, to rely on this pinyin, with pinyin, we only need to learn to read the pronunciation, and then according to the dictionary, according to the pinyin check can recognize the new words! In this way, our culture will be popularized! ”

After saying a series of reasons, Chen Moran once again affirmed the role of pinyin.

For the marshal mentioned the role of pinyin, Cai Yuanpei did not deny it, after all, the effect is there, just look at the effectiveness of the literacy education promoted by the divisions of the Guangfu Army in addition to training, you can know that this pinyin is an important surname for the popularization of education, but Cai Yuanpei is not here today to talk about this pinyin, let alone the kind of compliment when the newspaper mentions this "King James Pinyin", but for another thing, a boiling thing in various provinces of Guangfu.

"Marshal, Yuan Pei is here today, what he did ......"

As he spoke, Cai Yuanpei pushed a document in front of Chen Moran, glanced at the enrollment advertisement of Jiangning Normal Accelerated School, and looked at Cai Yuanpei's unhappy expression, Chen Moran just smiled slightly.

"The rise and fall of a country lies in education; The plan of education lies in the teachers. Teachers are an important factor in promoting social progress. The quantity and quality of teachers depend on whether teacher education is developed or not, so the first priority of Zhuguang Province is not only to implement political reform, but also to establish their own accelerated teacher training courses! ”

"As the marshal said, the rise and fall of a country lies in education; The plan of education lies in the teachers. As a teacher, he is not only responsible for educating students, but also responsible for the rise and fall of the country. ”

Cai Yuanpei borrowed Chen Moran's words and retorted slightly, in fact, he came here precisely for the "accelerated teacher" that was categorically promulgated without greeting the marshal or even without the consent of the Ministry of Education.

The accelerated normal is just the first promulgation of the junior high school, that is, all provinces are shocked, even in the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education was established, and the first government affairs arranged by the marshal were the first to speed up the school system, and the second was to promote education.

Just when the Ministry of Education was fighting over the school system, in the end, it was the big boss in front of him who made the decision and set a "new school system of three years for junior high school, two years for senior primary school, and three years for junior high school." But before they could give this method of speeding up education, the Provisional Political Axe first promulgated the "Regulations on Temporary Political Axe Accelerated Teachers", and even allocated as much as 15 million yuan for the counties to promote and run accelerated teachers.

The people of the Ministry of Education did not even know about this regulation until they saw the advertisements in the newspapers, and at this time, the governors of Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, and Guangdong had already begun to post notices on the enrollment and treatment of accelerated teachers after receiving the telegram from the ruling axe.

In addition to shock, there is more anger, so that many officials in the Ministry of Education say that "the marshal intends to educate by military law", and Cai Yuanpei came here to get an explanation from the marshal, an explanation of why the Ministry of Education put aside the arbitrary and arbitrary explanation, compared with the angry questioning of others, Cai Yuanpei is undoubtedly calmer.

"How can teachers say that they can achieve quick success, and wouldn't quick success be a mistake for people's children?"

Staring at Cai Yuanpei, Chen Moran asked rhetorically, and before he could speak, Chen Moran continued.

"The Ministry of Education has established an eight-year school system, with compulsory education for children between the ages of 6 and 14, and has divided the country into ten university districts, ten public universities, and 4,256 secondary schools. For an average population of 600, a primary school is established. A teacher training school was established to train teachers. In order to hope that from now on, those who expect from the ordinary people will make there be no households in the city who do not learn, and there will be no people who do not learn! How many teachers are needed for these 750,000 primary schools alone? ”

With a rhetorical question, Chen Moran kicked the question to Cai Yuanpei, who had just finished dealing with the "hunger strike" in front of the Ministry of Education.

"I estimate that at least one million teachers are needed, according to the normal regulations formulated by the Ministry of Education, it takes three years for primary teachers and four years for higher teachers, and all normal students need to be recruited from secondary schools!"

After a moment of silence, Chen Moran took out a ten-year education plan from the file box.

"Well, in 10 years, we can train a million teachers, build 100,000 primary schools, 20 million primary school students, 10,000 middle schools, 5 million middle school students, and so on...... But the question now is do we have time? ”

The marshal's rhetorical question only made Cai Yuanpei speechless for a while, and only replied after a few seconds.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty did not promote new education, although the seven provinces of the Liberation are all provinces with new schools, but there are only 5,367 schools of all kinds, with 218765 students, and the old bachelors are obviously not suitable for new scholars, after all, what they have learned is not what they are learning today!"

"Hmmm! There are about 100,000 junior high school students! With 1,000 middle schools in the seven provinces, at least 30,000 middle school students need to study for three or four years to train enough middle school teachers! ”

As he spoke, Chen Moran flipped through the academic system documents on the table that seemed to be determined by the Ministry of Education.

"Based on primary schools, vigorously popularize national education, well, this is absolutely correct, "a hundred years of people", primary education is the cornerstone of the entire education building, let's first look at the content of junior primary schools, Chinese knowledge, arithmetic, self-cultivation, physical education, music, art, to the high age, only to add geography, physics, foreign languages, Heqing, this handsome just want to ask, those talents, jinshi, can they teach Chinese knowledge, arithmetic, self-cultivation, sports, music, art! ”

"This ......"

Cai Yuanpei squeaked but did not speak, those Xiucai can naturally teach vernacular Chinese and simple arithmetic, as for self-cultivation, music, and art.

"Ben Shuai thinks that what he learned in the three years of junior high school, except for sports, it should be no problem for other rural talents to receive the training of the normal crash course!"

Chen Moran looked a little proud when he said that, "Running this crash course for teachers is to solve the shortage of teachers encountered in the popularization of early education, and second, to solve the livelihood of scholars, and third, it is for social stability!" Although the imperial examination is definitely going to be abolished, the thousand-year-old imperial examination system has created a huge "gentry class" in society, and there is an elite class with the gentry as the main body. They come from all levels of society, and after systematic and profound traditional cultural education, they live in urban and rural areas, deeply rooted in the people, and serve as role models.

After the abolition of the imperial examination system, there was no longer a stable gentry class in rural China. Under the new school system, students studying in the city basically seek employment and settle in the city after graduation, and even bury in the city after death, which means that the cycle of the entire society has been suspended to a considerable extent, and the abolition of the imperial examination will inevitably bring about a sudden rupture of the original way of forming the social elite, which will lead to the disappearance of traditional cohesion, and then cause social shocks that the commander does not want to see, and even chaos in the countryside, and the weakening of the state's control over the countryside.

Therefore, Ben Shuai should be used as a teacher and leave them in the countryside! When the responsibility of educating the people is carried out, the new gentry in the countryside can be promoted to replace the old gentry who went to the city to seek industry! ”

(Historically, after the abolition of the imperial examination, as a large number of gentry and literati poured into the cities for profit and survival, there was no longer a stable gentry class in rural China to act as the organizer and regulator of rural cultural life and social and ecological environment, and at the same time, due to the lack of regeneration mechanism in rural areas, the rural cultural ecology continued to degrade and hollow out.) Against this backdrop, there has been a change in the power structure at the grassroots level in the countryside. "Traditional village leaders are constantly being replaced by profit-making brokers, whom the villagers call 'tyrants, 'scoundrels' or 'bullies'. These people are everywhere and have a very bad impact. …… After entering the Republic of China, with the involution of state power, local tyrants and inferior gentry took the opportunity to steal various public offices and became the mainstream of rural power. Therefore, in this speechless assumption of replacing the old gentry class with a new class of teachers in the countryside to maintain the state's control over the countryside, I hope that everyone can understand that instead of spending more money to raise a group of lowest-level officials, it is better to spend money to raise some teachers! Ask for a monthly pass, and read it! ）

(To be continued)