This court discussion has been going on for a long time.

In the end, the cabinet decided to establish a Jingshi Normal School in Beijing in accordance with the will of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen.

The purpose of the establishment of the Beijing Normal School is naturally to train a group of teachers who can undertake the tasks of new-style education and teaching.

These teachers need to be good at arithmetic, familiar with the basic knowledge of various natural sciences, or familiar with money and economics.

Nowadays, such people are considered to be one of the few talents in the Ming Dynasty.

And many of them hold important positions in the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry and other official offices.

Therefore, the first thing the cabinet needs to do is to transfer these talents from various government offices.

Fortunately, there were Daming Industrial School, Daming Army Military School, and Daming Shipbuilding School.

These three universities have trained many people who are familiar with algorithmic economics and know the theoretical basis of natural science.

Based on the three schools, as well as some officials and students from the Daming Academy of Sciences, the Daming Academy of Engineering, the Daming Ordnance Institute, and the Ministry of Households, the cabinet prepared the leadership and teacher group of the Beijing Normal School.

The Jingshi Normal School is based on the in-service apprentices and craftsmen of the Daming Ordnance Institute, as well as some of the inmates of Guozijian as the first batch of students.

These people will be the first batch of students of the Jingshi Normal School.

The total number of these students is about 10,000.

And will be in the Daming Jingshi Normal School for three years of academic training.

After graduation, he will stay in Beijing or decentralize the local provinces to serve as a teaching official of the new school.

At the same time, the cabinet adhered to Zhu Youzhen's will to encourage provincial governors to set up a number of new-style schools on their own.

The local governor raised his own teachers and searched for students according to the instructions of the imperial court.

In addition, the scale and enthusiasm for the establishment of new schools will be regarded as the most important assessment for local officials.

For a time, new-style schools in various provinces sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

In some places, there are new schools, but only the bookkeeper teaches students how to calculate accounts.

Some are Feng Shui masters who teach students how to look at geography Feng Shui.

Most of the new schools have been turned into vocational training institutions by local officials.

But Zhu Youzhen did not stop it, isn't the new-style school just to cultivate useful students, after all, vocational training is also one of the purposes of the new-style school.

In Beijing, Song Yingxing, Fang Yizhi and other talents at the forefront of science and technology in the Ming Dynasty are still compiling textbooks for all subjects and levels, especially those involving Gewu, chemistry, arithmetic, biology, geography, etc.

These knowledge points need to be sorted out and revised according to their previous experimental laws and the sacred knowledge provided by Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Finally, four months later, the first batch of special textbooks for students of various disciplines in the natural sciences and social sciences of the Ming Dynasty was released, and the first batch of students of the Beijing Normal School had just been enrolled, and the Beijing Normal School was able to successfully carry out his new education.

Next, they have to arrange the annual teaching plan and teaching objectives of each level of the school.

Three years later, the first batch of students trained by the new education successfully graduated, and the cabinet sent them to other provinces and even prefectures and counties to serve as teaching officials at various levels according to the results of the graduation examinations.

Five years later, the new education reform of Daming has begun to take shape and system.

Each county has a new type of primary school, which, like the county school, is open to all social school students.

There are three grades in the primary school in each county, and those who are selected for excellence after graduating from the third year will be promoted to the higher school, and the higher school will also be set up for three years, and those who are excellent in the examination after graduating from the third year can enter the university hall.

Following the emergence of the Jingshi Normal School, in the third year, Daming established the Jingshi University Hall.

At the same time, four normal schools have been set up in Nanjing, Shenyang, Chongqing and Xi'an.

In addition, in addition to the original Daming Industrial School, Daming Shipbuilding School, Daming Army Military School, in Nanjing, Songjiang, Baoding, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuchang, Kunming, Taiyuan, Baoding, Suzhou, Yangzhou 12 places set up a number of comprehensive university halls, under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites.

These four normal schools, the Jingshi Normal School, the Jingshi University Hall and the comprehensive university halls in the twelve places are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, and the right attendant of the School of Sacrificial Wine and Rites is awarded.

These colleges and universities can directly select students as lifters or even jinshi, and the number of places is not limited, but there are corresponding standards, and the specific standards are decided by the colleges and universities themselves and submitted to the Ministry of Rites for approval.

The most important of these are the five colleges and universities of Beijing Normal University, Daming Industrial School, Daming Shipbuilding School, Daming Army Military School, and Jingshi Normal School.

Song Yingxing, a cabinet minister and secretary of the Ministry of Industry, personally served as the sacrificial wine, Fang Yizhi, who had the highest achievement in sacred learning, served as the leader of the sacred sciences, which was equivalent to the leader of science in later generations, and Zhang Dai, who had the highest literary achievements, served as the leader of literature in later generations.

The scale of the faculty is the strongest in the whole Ming Dynasty, and the students are also the top students selected from the provincial colleges and universities.

Daming Industrial School is a strong industrial foundation backed by the Daming Ordnance Institute, Tang Ruowang, Sun Heding, Sun Hedou and other top experts in the field of Daming industry, and many teachers are already academicians of the Daming Academy of Engineering, so it is the core base of Daming in the field of applied science.

The Daming Ship Master School is responsible for naval training and shipbuilding, and is unrivaled in the ocean.

The Ming Army Military Academy is the highest military academy in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the middle and high-level generals in the Generalissimo's Mansion are from the school and its predecessor, the Huai'an Lecture Hall.

The Jingshi Normal School is a representative of the normal field, and Zhu Youzhen transferred Wang Fuzhi from the Generalissimo's Mansion to the Jingshi Normal School, which also makes the Jingshi Normal School very different from traditional colleges such as Guozijian.

Guozijian has already existed in name only, not to mention that Beijing Guozijian was destroyed in the war, and Nanjing Guozijian is even more decayed, and now it is just a temporary place for students to study for the exam.

As soon as the officials of the Guozijian became vacant, Zhu Youzhen did not allow the cabinet to appoint and dismiss them again, so that some prisoners who wanted to seek official positions by entering the Guozijian had to give up their entry into the Guozijian and transfer to the examination and be selected for the new-style school.

After all, many teachers in the new-style school, especially the university hall, are high-ranking officials of the imperial court and even favored ministers of His Majesty.

Not only that, Zhu Youzhen also began to reduce the number of jinshi and lifting people in the subjects from the 25th year of Chongzhen, and ordered the county schools and even Guozijian to cut the number of places by half on the grounds of insufficient financial resources.

This will undoubtedly make fewer and fewer people become officials through the imperial examinations, and the goal of gradually abolishing the imperial examinations will be achieved.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also stipulated that the students, lifters, and scholars of the new-style school are different from those who take the imperial examination, and there is no tax exemption, only subsidies, that is to say, the scholars and officials who have passed the new-style education do not have the privileges of the traditional gentry.

In this way, the expansion of the gentry class could be avoided.

But it is precisely because of this that although Zhu Youzhen reduced the number of scholars in the imperial examination to only 100 people every three years, there are still many people who choose to take the road of the imperial examination first, but fortunately, Zhu Youzhen has limited the number of times he can participate in the county school, so that many Mongolian children can only choose to enter the new school once they fail to participate in the county school twice.

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