Chapter 25: Beginning 1
86_86695 Wang Shuhui's modern job is a university teacher. From kindergarten days until graduate school. Wang Shuhui's more than 20 years of life are not long or short, all of which have been spent on campus. It can be said that whether he is a student or a teacher, Wang Shuhui can be regarded as experienced.
Wang Shuhui clearly knew that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were two things he had to face. The first is that he wants to carry out a cross-era, which can be said to be a completely impossible change at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The second is that to carry out such a change, it is completely impossible for him alone, even if he has a golden finger to cross the door.
If you are simply engaged in smuggling in time and space, or be a warlord in a secession area, or even bigger, be an emperor. A modern person, with the golden finger of the door, can almost do it. But to carry out a social change, or to put it more directly, to launch a completely new reform in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, not only in China since ancient times, but even in this time and space, the whole world has not been reformed. He can't do it alone.
Wang Shuhui's reform at the end of the Ming Dynasty required two conditions. One is the support of the broad masses of the people. Wang Shuhui himself is from the grassroots, and it is not difficult to do this with the spiritual and material advantages brought by the golden finger. The second is a resolute leadership for reform. This is quite difficult.
Although Wang Shuhui felt that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty and the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there would not be much difference in the survival and ideological conditions of the common people, who accounted for 99 percent of society. However, unlike in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, because of the invasion of foreign powers, the intellectuals at the end of the Qing Dynasty generally had the idea and consciousness of the need for reform. The intellectual class at the end of the Ming Dynasty was pure, with a head like granite, and was completely instilled by Cheng Zhu Lixue into a feudal scholar like two hundred and five. Expecting them to be able to open their minds and accept new and advanced ideas, Wang Shuhui feels that the possibility is zero.
You must know that China in the last years of the Qing Dynasty was like a fat pig in the world, and anyone could go up and kick a few feet. The dignity of the Celestial Empire was wantonly trampled on by all kinds of barbarians and pirates. As long as you are a Chinese with a little knowledge, you know that the stiff things of the old-fashioned Cheng Zhu Lixue are no longer working.
The situation in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was completely different. As far as the present is concerned, although the Ming army was defeated by the Houjin in Liaodong, and the Tielingwei was also captured by the Houjin, the Ming government is collecting Liao's salary all over the world. However, the famous Wanli Three Great Expeditions in the late Ming Dynasty have just ended. In the eyes of the current Chinese, especially those who read books, Houjin is nothing more than a backward and ignorant barbarian like the Uko, Tatar, and Southwest Tusi. Although the Ming army has suffered a slight setback at present, it is only a temporary trouble.
Moreover, in Wang Shuhui's view, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty carried out a terrible massacre after entering the customs, as long as the upper echelons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty continued to use the literati class and continued to respect Cheng Zhu Lixue's system, then it was impossible to expect this group of feudal literati with their heads full of rice fields to accept Wang Shuhui's reform theory.
In this case, Wang Shuhui's biggest problem is none other than the lack of cadres. There were no reform comrades who could understand Wang Shuhui and agree with Wang Shuhui's theory. After careful consideration, Wang Shuhui decided to carry out education work at the end of the Ming Dynasty and return to his old profession.
His requirements are really not very high, as long as he can train about 10,000 primary school students, and then train thousands of junior high school students among these 10,000 people.
With thousands of junior high school students, Wang Shuhui is confident that he will have a perfect education and let them accept his own ideas and theories. Let them be the backbone of his reforms at the end of the Ming Dynasty. With the help of these people, he was even able to establish a complete system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was nothing in modern times, but in ancient times, it was a huge iron and steel complex on the scale of the Hanyang Iron Works in the late Qing Dynasty.
Wang Shuhui is not only preparing to establish a school to cultivate talents, but also preparing to carry out cultural popularization education in the troops, factories, and farms he will establish in the future.
In order to build an advanced, civilized, and reformist community, this group must be highly intellectualized. This high degree of knowledge not only refers to the level of knowledge, but also refers to the breadth of knowledge popularization.
Of course, if Wang Shuhui's plan can be successful, it can really cultivate tens of thousands of primary school students and thousands of junior high school students. From a purely natural science point of view, the level of knowledge of his group is not only higher than that of the literati of the late Ming Dynasty, but also higher than that of most scientists in Europe today.
Although Wang Shuhui has such ideas and plans, no one is impossible. Fortunately, there were more than 30 children among the first batch of refugees recruited by Wang Shuhui. Wang Shuhui decided to start with these children and carry out practical teaching work.
Of the thirty or so children, the oldest is seventeen years old this year, and the youngest is thirteen years old. In fact, they have all passed the stage of enlightenment education. In terms of age, such an old child should at least be a junior high school student in modern society.
These children were all displaced by the drought that ran through Shanxi and Shaanxi in the 44th year of Wanli. From the forty-fourth year of Wanli to the present, the five-year life of the exile is a cruel baptism process. These little children are definitely not ordinary normal children who have grown up under the care and care of their families. Their five-year life as a homeless person has washed away the memories of their childhood, which came from poor families and did not have much happiness in themselves. It can be said that they are children who have matured in advance by the cruel reality.
Wang Shuhui hasn't done anything else these days. He led all the craftsmen and the third team of second-class family members to renovate the third courtyard of the Zhijiang Wang Farewell Garden. After a period of adaptation, these craftsmen and family members have become proficient in using the construction tools that Wang Shuhui brought from modern times, and can use cement as a construction adhesive very flexibly and changeably. Under the leadership of Wang Shuhui, the courtyard of the third entrance of the palace garden was renovated.
The structure of the palace garden, in addition to some decorative details, is actually a common courtyard building in later generations. The main room in the third courtyard was used as a classroom by Wang Shuhui.
The glass chalkboard installed in the classroom was a shock to the craftsmen and family members in charge of construction. But when they saw all kinds of novelties, they were not so surprised by things like installing windows made of large pieces of glass in the main house.
However, a few craftsmen are more sensitive. For example, the only first-class old craftsman in charge of the carpentry industry approached Wang Shuhui in private and expressed dissatisfaction with his lavish use of various types of nails. Only at this time did Wang Shuhui react to why the furniture of the ancients was so heavy and sturdy that it could be passed down for several generations before the modernization of the steel industry. It is in this detail that the importance of industrialization is expressed.
After the third entrance garden has been renovated, it looks like an elementary school of the Hope Project in later generations. In a large area of ancient buildings with flying eaves and arches, this area is not small, but in the whole palace garden, the main house is used as a classroom, and a full set of audio-visual equipment is installed in it. For this, Wang Shuhui stayed in modern society for two or three days, and studied various manuals for a whole day. Except for the tables and benches made by craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, the main house looks like a classroom in an ordinary elementary school in modern society.
The wings on both sides, one side serves as the children's dormitory, and the other side serves as the children's canteen, bathhouse, toilet, and real room. The toilet is simple, just dig a big hole, build a house on it, and lay twenty pits on the ground with prefabricated cement panels. However, the bathroom and shower room are not easy to get. In the end, there was no way, so we used groundwater directly to get water, and installed several foreign wells (piston pumps). There is no way to use the bathroom but to use a large pool of cement to heat the water in the basement of the pool, just like the Japanese family bathroom, which is a super large cement cauldron.
During the construction process, most of the family members didn't feel anything. However, a few second-class masters and all the craftsmen who had dug the well were particularly surprised by the foreign well. They really couldn't think of how the water pipes and the one-piece wells made of iron were made.
In the words of Li Fugui, a first-class blacksmith, iron pipes are nothing, and they can make them. However, the ability to make each iron pipe exactly the same thickness, and to screw it together with a screw, is a craft that even the great craftsmen in the palace may not be able to do. As for the one-piece well body of the foreign well, they felt completely incredible. After all, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the use of casting technology was extremely rare. Not to mention this industrial-grade casting technology.
They were quick to accept Wang Shuhui's knowledge of atmospheric pressure, and they were not very surprised. After all, in the Han Dynasty, China had the thirsty technology of using pressure to draw water. Although the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty did not necessarily know what thirsty wu was, they were still able to understand the relevant principles in the accumulation of daily work.
It took Wang Shuhui more than a week and nearly two weeks, leading more than 30 craftsmen and more than 40 second-class family members to work from morning to night to complete the renovation of the third courtyard. The construction process of this courtyard, which is full of epoch-making technology and equipment, made Wang Shuhui physically and mentally exhausted.
It's not that he's tired of work, but that in this tortuous construction process, he has to constantly explain various principles and processes to craftsmen who have no standardized education at all. This work made Wang Shuhui fall into despair several times. Just building a courtyard that is not too big makes Wang Shuhui feel exhausted, and the thought of the transformation and construction of the whole of China in the future can not make Wang Shuhui despair.
In the process of construction, Zhu Youzi's father and daughter both came to see. Zhu Youzi adhered to his usual style, and was very curious about the glass windows, wells, and bathrooms, and wanted Wang Shuhui to renovate the first two courtyards according to this model. Wang Shuhui happily agreed. Anyway, with this construction, the craftsmen are already able to independently renovate and install the relevant equipment.
Zhu Weiyan's request made Wang Shuhui have a headache, she actually wanted to take classes with those children