Liu Shang actually knew that some Ming officials who had served on Qiongzhou Island had already been demoted to Haihan, such as the local official Luo Shengdongluo, who had met in Yinggehai County before, and was a general in Yacheng Water Village before. And the aftershocks of Shilu's management of the hard labor camp used to be a public in Yacheng. To put it this way, it seems reasonable that the official in charge of Danzhou's cultural and educational undertakings is the former governor of Danzhou.

At present, Liu Shang has not grasped a more accurate number of how many former Ming officials are serving in the official institutions of Haihan, but from the current situation, since even the civil and military officials at the level of Zhizhou and General have been retained by Haihan, it is conceivable that the entire bureaucratic system of Daming in Qiongzhou Island should have a large proportion of personnel who have defected to the new owner in recent years.

But apart from Liu Shang secretly scolding a few traitors in his heart, there seems to be no better way to vent. These former Ming officials have already changed their appearances and served the new owner well, where will they remember the good of the old master. Although people like Yan Mingjun have no real power in their hands, they are still thriving in the local area, and the famous Liu Shang stared at Yan Mingjun who was talking, but he didn't listen to what he was saying.

Yan Mingjun reported to the inspection team on the operation of local educational institutions in the past year, as well as the current composition of local vocational training disciplines. The Haihan Executive Committee attaches great importance to many private educational institutions in Danzhou, and basically audits the majors offered by each college every year, and regulates and controls the direction of running the school, so as to ensure that the students cultivated by the local colleges can meet the needs of Haihan's development.

In this way, Haihan has obtained thousands of professional trainees in just a few years, and these people can adapt to the job at a much faster speed than those who have no foundation, which can be regarded as a very useful combat force for Haihan.

As for the lucky ones who can really enter a higher-level institution to learn more professional skills and become an introductory disciple of the Traverser, there are really very few. In a place like Danzhou, it is very good to be able to screen out ten or eight a year.

The symposium lasted until noon, and then Zhang Xin held a banquet to welcome the arrival of the inspection team, which was also a reception banquet that they officially participated in a few days after their arrival in Danzhou. However, Zhang Xin's guests were far more than the inspection group, and the representatives of various countries who participated in the arms exhibition and sale in the local area after the military exercise were also invited to the banquet anyway.

Liu Shang also gradually adapted to the banquet culture of Haihan, and he was able to cope with this kind of occasion easily. When a big man comes to toast, he will immediately get up with the others to deal with it, so that he will not be at a loss.

During the banquet, Liu Shang paid a little attention and found some interesting phenomena. For example, the envoys of Portugal and the Netherlands were obviously from the West, but they would not sit at the same table to eat, and the same was true of Annam and Champa, which were neighbors of each other, and they would not even look at each other. Although these people are very polite in front of the Haihan officials, it is obvious that they are not so harmonious with each other, and even have a little bit of open and secret fighting.

This may be an opportunity to take advantage of in the future. Liu Shang secretly turned this thought in his heart. These trading partners or military allies of Haihan are not monolithic, and there will definitely be contradictions and conflicts in their respective interests, but how to use these suspicions to provoke their hostility towards Haihan, Liu Shang couldn't think of any feasible way for a while. After all, the Haihan has a lot of power, and these countries are afraid of the Haihan force, and they may not dare to make any unwarranted moves.

After luncheon, we will take a short break and visit a local college in the afternoon. However, because there were many foreign guests staying in Danzhou, Zhang Xin did not have time to accompany him personally, so he handed over this errand to Yan Mingjun to be responsible. Of course, there is also an old man in the inspection team who is very familiar with the local situation in Danzhou, that is, Zhang Qianzhi, who Liu Shang is very afraid of.

Zhang Qianzhi lurked in Danzhou Zhongming Academy for a long time as a student, and finally captured a group of rebels led by Huang Zixing. After that, Zhang Qianzhi served as the security director of the northern Qiongbei region for a long time, and he stayed in Danzhou for a long time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is half a landlord.

But in this way, Liu Shang couldn't help but even grasp his toes, as long as Zhang Qianzhi was within a few feet of him, this feeling of being targeted by a beast never disappeared. He still can't be sure whether this is Zhang Qianzhi's alertness caused by monitoring himself, or whether it is purely a nervousness caused by his own weak heart. Fortunately, Zhang Qianzhi's work station is in Qiongbei, and Liu Shang knows that as long as he persists for a few more days, he should be able to completely get rid of this demon.

Yan Mingjun took the inspection team to visit, and naturally it was local well-known educational institutions such as Bailu Academy and Qiongxi Academy. Liu Shang was distracted at the morning symposium, and he didn't listen to Yan Mingjun's speech at that time, until he entered the academy, and suddenly found that the academy in Danzhou was very different from the academy environment in his cognition.

The training in Danzhou Academy is not only a scholar who can only write poems and songs, but mainly a variety of vocational training, such as navigation students are employed in key positions such as navigators, boatswain, and first mates on ships, while students majoring in finance and trade will enter state-owned commercial institutions, banks, and even the Ministry of Commerce after graduation. The teaching materials used in these majors are provided by the Ministry of Education, and the teachers have received special training, and some of the lecturers have been professionals for many years.

The detailed division of occupation here is enough to make Liu Shang feel amazed, even the agricultural technology discipline based on farming, and the following are also subdivided into multiple disciplines such as grain crops, cash crops, and deep processing of agricultural and forestry products. The duration of the course varies according to the degree of difficulty of the major, some crash courses are only a few dozen days, and some difficult majors may require several years of study.

As for those old masters who can only teach a subset of scriptures and history, although the academy will still support them, there is basically not much teaching content, except for teaching literacy classes and literacy classes, the rest are almost all free time arranged by themselves. Whether they want to study knowledge, they want to write and paint, even if they take their disciples to travel, the academy does not have much restrictions on them.

In the words of Mayor Zhang Xin, it doesn't cost a lot of money to raise these old masters, and the culture still has to be inherited by someone after all. Even if cultural activities such as poetry and painting are not productive, the state is still willing to allocate special funds for these "cultural people" to do what they want. Of course, the premise is to obey the management of the government, and don't do some illegal things like Huang Zixing of Zhongming Academy in the past.

For Liu Shang, this kind of education system of Haihan is undoubtedly a very new thing, and the appointment of professionals by Haihan people does not need to pass the imperial examination and other layers of examinations to complete the recruitment, but by these vocational education institutions to recommend their own students, and it is enough for professional institutions to review and pass the test. This means that many ordinary people who have not read the Four Books and the Five Classics also have the opportunity to enter the bureaucratic system of Haihan by mastering professional skills. Although the vast majority of them are only "officials" rather than "officials", as long as they enter this system, it is equivalent to obtaining a channel to rise. In the future, whether it is to join the Youth League or to strive for the opportunity to study, there will always be the possibility of changing from an official to an official.

However, Liu Shang also noticed that these private educational institutions do not have steam engine-related majors, and it is reported that this kind of major is not open to private institutions for the time being, and can only study relevant courses in government colleges in Sanya. This made Liu Shang a little disappointed, if there is a private academy here that can access the steam engine, then he can try to arrange people to study here.

After visiting the area, Liu Shang found that these majors in the local colleges are basically very practical disciplines, and students often have roughly determined the future employment direction when they enter the school, and even some majors have signed relevant agreements with employers when they enter the school.

For a large number of ordinary students with average family conditions, such a path of admission and employment undoubtedly saves a lot of time and avoids the possibility of detours. Compared with those who have not been able to get fame and fame for several years and decades, it is the safest life route for ordinary people to obtain a job with a stable income and room for growth through vocational training.

When Liu Shang was young, he also entered the academy system to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and participated in the township examination, so he was also relatively clear about the promotion path of Ming scholars. Thousands of troops crowded the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, and only a very few people could pass it. This vocational training system of Haihan has given more people hope and lowered the threshold for entering the bureaucracy to a very low level.

Of course, Liu Shang also understands that the current situation is because a country has just been established, and there are not many talents available, so he has to lower the threshold for recruiting talents, and even he disguises himself as a storyteller who will be actively recruited by state organs, which shows Haihan's thirst for talents. After a few more years of development in Haihan Kingdom, the talent pool will gradually increase, and the threshold for entering the industry will probably increase year by year. This practice is not uncommon in history, and people with a discerning eye can see the current situation of Haihan, and of course they will sharpen their heads to strive for many opportunities in the first few years of the founding of the country.

If it weren't for Liu Shang's special status, these courtesies given by Haihan would indeed be enough for him to stay and work hard. How can the storyteller who mingles in the wine shop and teahouse be compared with his current status as a state official, and he would have burned high incense for the eight generations of ancestors a long time ago.

Liu Shang followed the team while pondering some messy thoughts in his heart. Although he came with the mission of subverting the Haihan, after coming here to really see the prosperity of this emerging country, the scene of political harmony and harmony, he couldn't help but have some doubts about the task he shouldered.

The more he watched along the way, the more Liu Shang realized that the rise of this group of Haihan people in the South China Sea was not due to luck, and their governing ability was far better than that of the local government in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Now, if you want to reactivate this regime that has taken root in the local area, you can either count on infighting at the top or natural disasters to come. It seems that it is not realistic to recapture Qiongzhou Island by force and expel the Haihan people from the country.

These private academies are basically open educational institutions, and there are no secrets to speak of, Liu Shang is not interested, and what Yan Mingjun and others said along the way, he also listened to it without a word, and he didn't have the strength to concentrate on collecting intelligence at the previous stops.

It wasn't until he returned to his residence in the evening that Liu Shangjing came down to reflect on the day's gains, and found that he was really distracted during the visit today. If you think about it carefully, this should also have a great deal to do with the Haihan military exercise that I watched three days ago. He believed that it would be impossible for any of his colleagues to remain indifferent after seeing the many advanced weapons displayed by the Haihan, and in the face of the Haihan army with such a high level of armament, no one would be willing to act as their opponent on the battlefield. At least after Liu Shang watched the military exercise, he had completely dispelled the idea of relying on force to recapture Qiongzhou Island.

If it is possible, Liu Shang really wants his boss, his boss's boss, and the big people in the capital to come here to see for themselves, so that they can confirm with their own eyes how much of a situation this so-called "South China Sea barbarian" has made in the south. If you don't come here to witness it with your own eyes, I'm afraid that the big people above will continue to argue about whether they should "appease" or "kill" the Haihan people who occupy the magpie's nest. Liu Shang believed that after they came here to see the real situation of the Haihan Kingdom, they would give up these unrealistic ideas, with the strength of the Haihan Kingdom today, could they still obey the "appeasement" of the Ming Dynasty?

The southern government was cautious and pretended to be blind to the Haihan's successive years of foreign expansion, half of the reason was because it had taken enough benefits from the Haihan, and the other half was probably because it didn't want to create a reason for the Haihan people to go to war. In the event of a war, the speed at which territory was lost along the southern coast would probably be equal to the speed at which the Haihan army marched.

These thoughts floated around in Liu Shang's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more frustrated he felt. He knew that this frustration was extremely inappropriate as an intelligence agent lurking behind enemy lines, but there really seemed to be nothing he could do to restore his confidence right now. Perhaps it was an irreparable mistake to take on this errand in the first place.