Chapter III: Educational Reform
For the selection of immigrants, the Pengqiao thought about it, because of the agricultural thinking, most of the peasants were trapped in the field, and the landlord could not let the peasants move around, so most of the immigrants selected beggars and other people who could not survive, and it was even more impossible for the nobles to move to the island, they did not have any interest in managing the territory, the only thing they were interested in was to enjoy life, so the Pengyu also arranged a governor to manage the affairs of Natuna, and the first batch of immigrants temporarily found more than 100 people, and this group of people will be the vanguard to open up the Natuna Islands.
Although he said that as a young man in later generations, he should have some black technology, but in fact, he can neither make guns and cannons, nor lead troops to fight, so he crossed over to this country basically did not bring any advantages, the only thing is probably to know that Emperor Hongwu will be called emperor in Yingtianfu in 1368, and the Ming Empire will become one of the most powerful countries in the world.
As a Hindu country, Champa is a rigid class, if you want to break this situation, you have to start with education, emancipate the mind, because the aristocracy monopolizes knowledge, the development of science and technology has always been very slow, most of the scientific and technological products are to learn the imperial court, and now the Yuan court is divided, science and technology are stagnant, plus the country has to be established by scientific research, and backwardness will always be beaten.
Of course, universal education is not an easy task, the current action of universal education is done to cover the eyes of the aristocracy, and it is not carried out in the capital, but in the only two other provinces, Pandulanga, where the implementation is not easy to be discovered by the aristocracy, the population of Pandulanga in the last census is more than 11,800 people, about one-third of the population of the capital, and it is relatively easy to popularize, first of all, to eliminate illiteracy, so that people can read and write. At present, this operation has been going on for 2 months, but all this is not leaky, there are also the eyes and ears of the nobles in the court, and the old nobles of the previous court came to the door and opposed this matter, but they were fooled by the puffy and fooled, and their hands could not reach Panduranga, so they did it.
The following system Pengyu will also go to Wu State in person to make friends with him, and when the time comes, the country will be an empty nest, and if the nobles do not usurp power, the throne will be lost. Fortunately, since the ascension to the throne, many officials have been replaced, and Platier, who was in charge of immigration, and the governor who managed the Natuna Islands were all cronies cultivated by the Pengyu.
Moreover, the previous king, Cha and Budi, also died in the harassment of the Da Viet border, and when he left the country, he needed someone to deal with the government, that is, he wanted to support a person who was highly respected but ignored the government to temporarily manage the country for him. The old aristocrats who had opposed universal education before, they were stubborn and conservative, and then used them to contain each other, and they should be able to wait until the return of the system.
The time consumed on land was too long, and it was unsafe to pass through their enemy country, Da Yue, and it became a safer way to take the sea route, and the fleet could not be made public, in case the Khmer and Lancang people knew, the safety of the Cham became a big problem.
In a few days, he plans to go to Pandulanga to inspect the education situation in person, observe what can be improved, and decide to leave for Guangzhou next month.