At the same time, the Ministry of Education directly changed the former prefectural school into a middle school and the county school into an elementary school, and the teaching content was not only the previous classics, but also taught various subjects of Gewu.

The students are not rejected, and even take the initiative to study for the sake of the fame of the imperial examination, but the problem is that there are no teachers who teach the subjects of Gewu, and today's students are holding books to study by themselves.

Therefore, for the current Chinese Empire, the promotion of new education is not a big problem in terms of system, public acceptance or even funding, the only problem is the problem of teachers!

At present, the Ministry of Education has no good solution to the problem of serious shortage of teachers, after all, this gap is not dozens of hundreds, but tens of millions of people, just imagine, after the new education reform, every prefecture has a middle school, every county has a primary school, which is the demand for teachers is tens of thousands.

So the Ministry of Education's idea is, on the one hand, it is ready to hire successful students to teach in the future, but this takes too long, even if the various subjects promoted by the Chinese Empire are relatively basic modern scientific knowledge, but how can you study for two or three years to barely pass the test, and this is still in the case of qualified teachers, if it is self-study, it is more difficult to say how much time it will take.

In order to solve the problem of teachers as soon as possible, the Ministry of Education has come up with the method of 'normal schools', which are modeled on the subjects of the three existing higher schools. However, instead of learning all subjects, students only specialize in one subject. In order to shorten the length of education and reduce the cost of education. Cultivating the largest number of specialist talents in a short period of time.

The difference between this normal school and the higher school is that the higher school, as a preparatory course for the university, has a relatively long duration of three years, and almost all subjects are studied during these three years. In the case of Shanghai High School, for example, most of the subjects in the school are required to be compulsory.

Including classics, history, policy, arithmetic, physics, chemistry, geography, nature, geometry, English.

At the same time, in addition to the compulsory English, students are also required to take a second foreign language from French, German, Russian, and Spanish. It's very simple, the skills are not as good as people!

If the scientific level of contemporary China in all aspects is thrown off Western countries, then these students definitely don't need to learn any English, but the reality is not so, not only that, on the contrary, China is now hundreds of years behind the West in scientific knowledge, if you want to catch up, there is no other way than to take the foreign as a teacher!

If you want to learn from other people, you have to cater to other people's requirements!

After all, there are not even a few qualified teachers in China. In the newly established Imperial University, in addition to the traditional subjects, the other subjects are all foreigners, most of whom are British and American. Although there is a special translator in the class, it is best to know English if you really want to learn anything from these teachers. And you have to write some homework in English, otherwise the teacher can't understand how to correct it?

So if you want to learn something. This English is a must-pass!

And you need to take a second foreign language, because contemporary China has more and more opportunities to deal with other countries. It is not only with Britain and the United States, but also with France, Germany, and Russia, and students can also have one more choice when they study abroad in the future.

In fact, the academic system of these three high schools is basically based on the academic system of the early class of the Army Military Academy, and it has been slightly weakened a lot.

All of them have at least two or more foreign languages, and these carefully selected army ladies will become reserve talents for the military to compete for hegemony in East Asia in the future.

The goal of these three high schools is actually similar to that of the Imperial University and the Army and Navy Officers' Academies, that is, to train elite talents, and the output can only be calculated in the dozens, or hundreds.

As for normal schools, the Ministry of Education is counting on normal schools to be able to train thousands or even tens of thousands of qualified teachers in a short period of time, so the school system is reduced again and again.

The basic academic system is two years less than the three years of higher secondary school, only one semester, and each person does not need to take more than ten subjects at the same time as students in higher secondary school, they only need to take one compulsory subject, and they can choose at will.

According to the idea of the group of old scholars in the Ministry of Education, it will take me more than ten years to govern the Four Books and Five Classics, and if we divide them according to the current subjects, we will have to take more than a dozen subjects, and if we only learn one of them, we will have enough time to work hard.

In this way, even if it is a middle-class talent, it should be no problem to spend a year learning one of the subjects in the Gewu, without seeking to understand it very much, but it should be no problem to understand one or two roughly.

And if it is only a little clear, it is enough to solve the doubts of students in county primary schools and government middle schools.

In this way, the birth of the normal school, but after the normal school was determined, it still encountered an old problem, that is, it was difficult to find teachers.

The normal school is not an imperial university, nor is it a high school, although some of the subjects can be taught by foreigners, but absolutely not all subjects can be taught by foreigners, this is mainly due to the foreign language level of the students.

Higher secondary schools have special English learning, and English teaching is often in the second and third years, students can learn English for one to two years, and then accept English teaching, as for two years of learning you still can't understand what the foreign teacher is talking about, then I'm sorry, you better drop out of school quickly, don't waste time, a large group of people outside are waiting to come in.

Higher secondary schools only need elite students, and ordinary students should not be embarrassed.

However, the normal school is different, its teaching object is not to say that thousands of people are selected from the pride of the sky, on the contrary, they are only some students with medium qualifications, plus the school period is only one year, obviously it is impossible to learn English first and then study other subjects.

Therefore, the teachers in the normal school cannot all be foreigners. There must also be some Chinese teachers, and in contemporary China, all night long. Where are there enough talents to serve as lecturers in normal schools?

In addition to the Empire's naval and land armies, you really can't find a few!

It's not. The Ministry of Education simply set its sights on the military academies of the army and navy, hoping to dig out dozens of qualified teachers from them.

Nowadays, in the whole of China, except for the Royal Army Military Academy and the Royal Navy Military Academy, you can't find a few qualified modern science teachers in other places.

In particular, the Royal Army Military Academy, which has been held for many years, has developed a certain foundation, and its teaching content involves modern science in addition to traditional military content.

From the point of view of scientific knowledge, the group of officers in the Chinese Empire today is definitely the most top-notch group, and the instructors who can be selected to teach in the military academy. Most of them are the proud sons of heaven and the navy and the army, and the talents they focus on cultivating, you Jiang Daoquan wants to snatch these outstanding talents from the hands of the navy and the army, and get them out to serve as teachers in the civilian school, and a large group of sea and land generals can carry sabers to kill his family.

Not to mention that it is just a normal school, even if it is an imperial university and three high schools, there is no need to expect to be able to ask for any talents from the navy and army.

Not to mention that the military is unwilling, even Lin Zhe is unwilling, which can be known from his rejection of Jiang Daoquan's words: "The two military academies on land and sea are the foundation of the empire." Don't tamper! ”

The army is the foundation of the country, and the military academy is the cradle of officers, and its importance is far more than that of the imperial university or the reform of the new education system.

Although everyone says that education is the foundation of a strong country, for Lin Zhe now. The army is the foundation of the development and growth of the Chinese Empire, and other new educational standards, industrial and commercial development, etc., are secondary. It is attached to military development.

The contemporary Chinese Empire is undoubtedly 'military first'. Everything is in the service of the military, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Finance, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, etc., develop agriculture. Business, what is the purpose of putting away taxes? And not yet a war of unification to support the army.

Hearing that Lin Zhe rejected him without hesitation, Jiang Daoquan showed obvious disappointment, and couldn't help but lament in his heart: It is more difficult to run education than to ascend to the sky!

Seeing Jiang Daoquan's disappointed look, Lin Zhe was also a little unbearable, and immediately explained two more sentences: "The instructors in the Navy and Army Academy are all active officers of the Navy and Army, except for the foreigners who are hired from outside, and it is not good to transfer them to teach in the civilian school!" The normal school can hire more foreigners to teach! ”

Jiang Daoquan was also a little helpless about this fact, and immediately changed the topic: "In addition, the primary selection of students to study in England has now begun, and it is expected that about ten people will be selected from the Imperial University and three high schools!" ”

Lin Zhe said: "This matter can't be delayed for too long, it will change later, complete the selection as soon as possible, and select talents to go to Europe with students from the navy and army!" ”

The matter of studying abroad was not in the plan of Lin Zhe's Ministry of Education at first, but when Pan Lixuan, director of the Finance Department of the Palace Affairs Department, discussed with Xinde Foreign Company and others a month ago, he said that if Linde Machinery Factory was willing, it could send a few people to study in Europe to study machinery and other affairs.

Pan Lixuan didn't pay attention at first, so he selected a few young and promising technicians from Linde Machinery Factory, ready to follow the people of Xinde Foreign Company to England and learn machinery and other knowledge.

However, after Lin Zhe accidentally learned about it, he realized the opportunity to send a large number of students to Europe, and immediately asked Pan Lixuan to talk to Xinde Foreign Bank, saying that it was possible to increase the number of places to study abroad. The rapid rise of this foreign bank in recent years, and its assets have even surpassed Jardine Matheson to become the largest foreign bank in the Far East, and the relationship with the nascent Chinese Empire can be said to be very close, because their strategic partner is Lin's Bank, which is now the royal industry.

The rise of the Chinese Empire also made Xinde a lot of profits, and the Chinese Empire supported industry and commerce, and the development of industry is the need to import machinery, and Xingde Foreign Company almost acts as an agent for more than 80% of China's machinery import business.

So I readily agreed, anyway, for them to take people to Europe is a matter of convenience, as for the follow-up, it is none of their business.

Compared with Xinde Foreign Bank, he didn't care, but Lin Zhe attached great importance to it, and immediately ordered the Ministry of Education to select qualified international students, and at the same time, he also ordered the Military Training Department of the Command Department to select outstanding talents from the navy and the army, and they went to Europe to study in total.

When the British consul in Shanghai heard that the Chinese Empire was planning to send students to Britain, he raised his hand to welcome them, and they all covered the admission procedures.

Correspondingly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also sent a special diplomatic team to lead these students to Europe, and this diplomatic team is not only the leader of these students, but also the first official diplomatic delegation sent by China to Europe. (To be continued......)