"Little brother, what do you do at home?"

Empress Luo stepped forward and asked.

"My dad runs a restaurant." The little guy is also honest, looking at his figure, with a big head and a thick neck, he really feels that he is the master of eating and drinking in the family.

Immediately afterwards, Queen Luo asked the boys about the results and asked them about the situation in their family one by one.

Those who were officials, those who worked in commercial banks, those who worked in factories, and the children of soldiers, and even a few of them were children of workers.

It seems that some of the high-paid skilled workers can already afford the tuition fees of their children to go to primary school.

In fact, Daming's primary school is not very expensive.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has an education subsidy, and Emperor Zhu, in addition to fighting, is most concerned about brainwashing. Well, it's education.

Therefore, the tuition fee of Daming new-style primary school varies from place to place, but even in Shanghai, the tuition fee of ten yuan a year can go to a new-style primary school - which is cheaper than the private school in the previous imperial examination era.

But even ten dollars.

There are also a considerable number of people who are difficult to afford easily - the Ming Dynasty did not have compulsory education, and most of the people at the bottom would not let the half-grown children who were already able to help go to work to study.

Half the size eats the poor old man.

Letting a boy go to school costs more than just 10 dollars a year in tuition.

It also includes the need to support a teenager who is out of work and may eat more than an adult.

In fact, Emperor Zhu also wanted to implement compulsory education as soon as possible.

But it can't be helped.

If you want the people at the bottom to send their children to study, at the very least. Tuition has to be free, right?

Otherwise, the tuition fee is not free, and people will be forced to send their children to school, which will make the people resentful again.

But now the Ming Dynasty does not have the conditions for free compulsory education - mainly because there are not enough teachers.

Nowadays, there are many people who have learned new studies, but the proportion of them to the total population is still very low.

As a result, there are even fewer people who can act as new teachers.

Scarcity is expensive.

The salaries of teachers in the new elementary schools are very high.

An elementary school teacher needs an annual salary of 500 yuan a year.

This is higher than most of the eighth-grade and ninth-grade sesame officials.

Daming can quickly expand the number of primary schools, but it is useless to find so many teachers.

I walked forward a little further.

Suddenly, there was a long queue in front of me, and I didn't know what I was buying.

Is there some bargain?

This time, it was Emperor Zhu who went to check the situation in person.

"Little brother, what are you doing in front?"

Emperor Zhu grabbed a man in a Confucian robe and asked.

The man was a little disliked, because Emperor Zhu looked quite young, and he was already over thirty years old, so he was called a little brother, which was a little disrespectful.

But when he turned his head and saw Emperor Zhu's dress, especially the pistol and sword on his waist, and saw the temperament of a superior person that the other party had cultivated for a long time, he didn't dare to attack immediately, but respectfully arched his hand and said: "The front includes the New China Academy." ”

"New China Academy?"

Emperor Zhu turned his head to look ahead.

"This academy, it's not easy to take the exam, right?"

"yes, it's too hard." The scholar shook his head when he heard this, as if he had been told something in his heart, and he said more: "Now this new China, ten times more and more difficult to test, the first two years don't need to take the test at all, know a few words, just be willing to pay tuition, now it's not good, people only recruit 20,000 people a year, and most of them are training craftsmen, we only have a quota of 3,000 people for the subjects we read." ”

In fact, 3,000 is not a lot.

However, there are at least one million people in China who are over 30 years old, or who have little confidence in taking the exam.

But there are not many schools that can provide them with vocational education.

After all, not everyone has the potential to be a peeler - in fact, being able to be a good peeler is also a talent.

So now even when you take the technical school, it's a million-strong army that crosses the single-plank bridge.

"If there are so many people to learn, why not recruit more students?"

The more students enroll, the more money you earn.

"No, sir." The scholar smiled bitterly.

"Now the number of students in these schools is afraid that there are seventy or eighty thousand, and Mr. must have at least one or two thousand, so you have to have real skills, otherwise how can everyone be willing to pay such expensive tuition?"

Emperor Zhu nodded.

But there was a smile on his face.

In the past, these poor scholars were in the countryside holding the Four Books and Five Classics and reading hard, and then counting on the glory lintel or something.

And now he has to go out to a technical school to make a living.

This is in modern terms.

It used to be a bunch of brainy guys who were completely incapable of contributing to society, and these laborers were "silent laborers" who were useless at all.

And now?

These scholars who can write and calculate have come out to do things, and the Ming Dynasty can also get a group of relatively smart talents to promote the development of the whole society.

This is of course a good thing for the Ming Empire.

Just when Emperor Zhu Weifu visited Shanghai City privately.

Another place in Shanghai.

Wu Wanghai, a former Qing remnant who was bent on overthrowing his reactionary rule, was talking to the principal Sun Wen and others in the office of the Shanghai branch of Lanxiang Academy.

They were accompanied by several young men dressed in Confucian robes or dresses.

They all look like they're in their twenties.

I don't know if it's a student or a teacher at the academy.

But open your mouth to democracy, keep your mouth shut about republicanism.

It is very much the posture of the young generals of Yan Ge in later generations.

"Zhong Shan, I see. There are still not many republicans in the country, and we have to let a group of people go out and stay abroad. To see the outside world and go directly to other people's schools to study, which is also beneficial to the development of our Lanxiang. ”

Wu Wanghai looked at a few people and said.

Sun Wen frowned slightly and said, "Where can I go?" Now several big countries, Britain is a monarchy, the Holy Roman Empire is also a monarchy, that Russia is even a serfdom country, France I heard that Napoleon is ready to be emperor. ”

Sun Wen sighed.

It seems that relying on democracy, republicanism, or something, there are really not many people who can be fooled to oppose Emperor Zhu's rule.

"Why can't you go? Britain and France can all go, although Britain is a monarchy, but where are the people's concept of democracy and republicanism more profound than ours, otherwise how could France become a republic? It's also good to send some people out and accept a little outside thought."

Of course Wu Wanghai knows.

In the East, there is no concept of a republic, and the monarchy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

But in the West, the West of this era, in Wu Wanghai's view, belongs to the time when "people's hearts are floating".

Let a group of young people from the Ming Dynasty feel it, maybe there will be some gains.

(End of chapter)