Xu Yuanzuo suspected that the Shen family in front of him was the family of Shen Tingyang later.

From the history of the late Ming Dynasty, it can be seen how powerful the Shen family is - it is hundreds of large sand boats, and the cost is about two thousand taels of silver, and the sailors of the Ming Dynasty may not have such strength. It can be seen that the private fleet can be compared to the American army.

Xu Yuanzuo can also deduce from this: At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Shen family's family property was between 500,000 and 600,000 taels, which was several times higher than now, but it was not a first-class wealthy family after all. On the one hand, this is because of the lack of support from the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, and it can also be seen that they did not go to the sea.

Now that I am standing at this node, and I am my mother's maiden family, how can I make sense if I don't pull it?

――It's definitely not just about using the Shen family!

Xu Yuanzuo settled down and said: "The junior brother has a safe strategy, and there is no need for the Shen family to take risks, at most ten years, he can have the strength to cross the sea and sail far." Although he didn't know how the Shen family solved the problem of the heir, since the Shen family did not fall, at least there was the potential to give it a try.

Shen Yujun also became serious and said, "You say." ”

"In the next few years, if your family was going to build ten ships, they will build two less, take out the silver, run seventy percent of the schools, and thirty percent recruit soldiers." Xu Yuanzuo said: "If the army is recruited all the year round, the newcomers will advance day by day, and the old ones will either stay as the head of the sect, or give him a piece of land and collect less rent." In this way, the people's hearts are becoming stronger, and the combat power is not retreating. ”

As a woman, Shen Yujun has thought about this problem for eight years.

The Shen family already had many Zhuangzi who adopted disabled soldiers, and they were not allowed to die of poverty without anything to rely on. This is also the reason why the Shen family's reputation in the local area is not bad. It's just that the Shen family is purely benevolent, and they don't think about the problem of people's hearts and combat power, and Xu Yuanzuo just explained it thoroughly.

"My family also donates money to county schools and social studies every year, but Chongming is an isolated island. I can't make a few moves, let alone Jinshi. Shen Yujun said distressedly.

The Chongming County Commander only needs to raise people to be appointed, which shows that the status is similar to that of Yunnan, Guizhou and Shanshan.

As for the Jinshi, there were only five Chongming Jinshi in the entire Ming Dynasty. The most recent one is Shi Yide, who has been on the list for 16 years in Zhengde, and it has been 48 years since then. And this Shi Yide will also be the last Jinshi of the Ming generation of Chongming - if history has not been deflected.

"What the younger brother is talking about is not Confucianism." Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile.

"What's that? Martial arts? Shen Yujun looked incredulous.

It was the Song people who officially incorporated military education into the national education system, but unfortunately they failed to adhere to it. Arrived at the national dynasty. In order to train and select generals, the Beijing Wei Martial Arts School was first set up in the north and south of Beijing, and the local Wei Martial Arts School and the Fuzhou County Martial Arts School were set up.

This is a formal national military education system, but the generals of the Ming Dynasty are still hereditary, supplemented by martial arts, and because the Manchu Qing Dynasty wants to leave the world with the impression that the Ming Dynasty is "weak", there are many obliterations of martial arts, so later generations know little about it.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Today's martial arts are too ambitious. ”

The imperial examination is produced by the school, so the martial arts examination is also learned by the martial arts. And the martial arts are all generals. First of all, it is required to test the military book and strategy, which is equivalent to a cultural course, and then to test the archery, horse, and long soldier firearms, which belongs to the professional course. In this way, the martial artists and martial artists who have come out all the way have also had more than ten years of hard work.

It is too inconsistent with Xu Yuanzuo's principle of "short frequency and fast".

"What I call running a school is the study of business and commerce." Xu Yuanzuo said: "Today's shipwrights and sailors are all inherited from their father's business and passed down from generation to generation. The boatman had a son. It is equivalent to having an apprentice who will pass on the skills and know-how of sailing to one person. There are two. then doubled. Three...... will pick a son to change to a side hustle. Doesn't my cousin think it's too slow to accumulate like this? ”

Of course, Shen Yujun is very familiar with this, her family is like this, and the whole world is not like this.

"You're saying that you should pick out some skilled boatmen and ask them to bring more apprentices?" Shen Yujun frowned slightly: "I'm afraid they won't." ”

Scholars monopolize culture, and there is still the principle of "education without class". It's not about hiding it.

The craftsman eats with his craft, for fear that the apprentices of the church will starve to death of the master, and he always has to hide the unique skill of pressing the bottom of the box with one hand.

What's more, the craft of eating is regarded as a treasure, and it is passed on to men but not women.

Sailing out of the port is not a job that can be done with the strength of a skill.

From mooring, rudder, sailing, and deck scrubbing. It is as large as measuring the speed of the ship by putting the knuckle board, identifying the direction by pulling the star, and reading the needle spectrum to identify the route...... There is science and technology in it.

Those small skills are skilled workers, and the boatmen do not pay attention to them, and are willing to teach them to newcomers. Newcomers work for a few more years, and they have some understanding, and naturally the better and easier they are.

As for measuring the speed of the ship, stargazing, and needle path, this all involves mathematics, astronomy, sea literature, mechanics, and cartography knowledge, which is a secret book accumulated and summarized by hundreds of years of phenomena.

A boatman who has mastered a needle can become a captain of fire on a ship, second only to the captain, and can make a fortune, and he wants to pass it on from generation to generation, and no one but his family can take this route.

How can you pass it on to outsiders?

"First of all, you can start with a mechanic who has no heirs." Xu Yuanzuo said: "These people are not obsessed, as long as they are humble and generous, they must be willing to bring more apprentices and be an ancestor like Lu Ban." ”

Shen Yujun bowed slightly: "This is very true." Once the skill spreads, there is no need for others to keep it private. It's just that if those who have completed their studies go to other homes, won't I make wedding dresses for others? ”

"My cousin is a little girl after all!" Xu Yuanzuo shook his head: "Treat him with courtesy, affection, and temptation, why did he go to another house?" In case I went, hehe...... I'm not going to let that happen anyway. ”

Shen Yujun thought about it carefully, and said secretly: The ship is easy to build, it is nothing more than silver to smash down. The difficulty lies in reliable boatmen and sailors. If Yuanzuo's cousin can do this, find some twelve or thirteen-year-old teenagers and train them for three years. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he put it on the ship and polished it for two years, which is just right.

"To be on the safe side, you can also start with the boatmen's children." Xu Yuanzuo thought for a while: "Mix the teenagers you found in it, just say that they teach for free, and they will definitely be happy to come." ”

It is a great act of kindness to set up a school to allow the children of poor shipwrights to study for free, even if the talent has not grown, the reputation has been reaped a lot.

The Shen family now has a family property of more than 100,000 taels, and it is not possible to fight for wealth with others, but it is a matter to raise dozens or hundreds of teenagers?

-- Even if each person is three taels of silver a year, and he raises a hundred, it is only three hundred taels a year. The feast for my grandfather's birthday was more expensive than this, and he came back with two truckloads of goods.

Shen Yujun thought about it carefully, made sure that it would not hurt the Shen family's roots, and finally nodded: "It is indeed a safe strategy, you can give it a try." ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled and said, "Wait for the good news." (To be continued......)

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