At the beginning of September, the capital city of Qingzhou.

After some turmoil, the situation of the Qingzhou prefect's yamen and the Yidu county yamen was also known to Liu Yan, and the officials of the two yamen were vacant a lot, but Wang Congyi had no good way, and he could not make up for it in a short time.

"Strength, in the final analysis, is still to fight for talents!"

Liu Yan sat in the study and sighed, and had an idea: build a school!

"The civil officials and military generals in my Qinglai Town must be trained in a unified manner, and they must be distinguished from the way of educating people in the imperial court. I'm going to build a new school! ”

Liu Yan made up his mind and began to implement it as far as he could.

Five days later, Liu Yan summoned a group of his subordinates to the General Military Mansion to discuss matters, and all battalions of the New Army commanded envoys and commanders, and Wang Weizhen, Tian Huixu, Zhang Lei, Yue Ming, Zhao Min, Bao Xuezhen, Song Gongming, and other civilian and military officials gathered together.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Liu Yan said to everyone: "This turmoil is enough to show the corruption of local officials, in order to prevent the subordinate officials and generals of Qinglai Town from doing the same, this town has decided: Establish a new academy in all prefectures and counties of Qinglai Town!" ”

After all, the construction of official schools and the education of the people are the responsibility of the imperial court, and the Ministry of Rites should be responsible.

Wang Weizhen hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Zongzhen, is this necessary?" We are a military town, just training soldiers, suppressing bandits, and defending one side for the imperial court, we can't even teach and educate people for the imperial court, right? ”

Liu Yan immediately asked: "Isn't teaching and educating people for the sake of strengthening the army?" ”

"The academies mentioned in this town are not those that only teach the Four Books and the Five Classics and the writings of the sages. The seowon to be established in this town is divided into two categories! ”

"One is the Military Academy, which specializes in teaching military matters, and the town has decided to establish two. One is set up in the capital city of Qingzhou, named Qinglai Town Yanwutang, which is specially designed to train generals and aspiring soldiers at all levels of our Qinglai Town New Army; The other is set up in Jimo Yingcheng, called Qinglai Town Military Academy, this academy is dedicated to facing people with lofty ideals all over the world, teaching knowledge such as arranging troops, as well as military building, praising painting and so on, everything related to the military is knowledge, will be taught here. ”

"All students who have successfully graduated from the Qinglai Town Sergeant Academy must go to the battalions of the Qinglai Town New Army for two years, and after the two years are over, they can enter the Qinglai Town Yanwu Hall for further study, and after completing their studies, they can take up corresponding official positions in the various departments of the Qinglai Town New Army according to their specific talents!"

Hearing this, everyone agreed very much.

At this time, everyone still has the idea that thousands of troops are easy to obtain, and a general is hard to find, once Liu Yan's idea is implemented, it can allow Qinglai Town to obtain a steady stream of generals, although it cannot be compared with those famous generals, but Qinglai Town can rely on these two military academies to obtain a large number of high-quality grassroots generals!

At this time, everyone present was a smart person, and after Liu Yan finished speaking, they all saw this, so they all actively agreed.

"These two academies are all under the jurisdiction of Commander Tian, and the instructors and gentlemen required by the academies will be the generals and capable soldiers of the various armies for the time being, and after a few years, they will be filled by the outstanding graduates of the two academies!"

The commander Tian Huixu immediately received the order, with a smile on his face, as if he had made a fortune.

Then, Liu Yan said: "In addition, the town is also preparing to establish a compulsory education system in Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Prefecture, and establish a primary school in each county seat, and the county's literate men under the age of 20 and over 10 years old can sign up for admission. ”

"In each prefecture, two secondary schools should be established, and all students who have completed three years of primary school and graduated successfully can enter the secondary school in the prefecture where they live; One of the secondary schools continued to teach practical subjects such as astronomy, geography, arithmetic, history, and current politics, but they were much more esoteric than those taught in primary schools. In the other school, agriculture, business, and engineering are taught. ”

Liu Yan paused and continued: "These students who have graduated from primary school are free to choose two types of middle schools for further study. ”

"In the end, the town is ready to establish two universities in Qingzhou Fucheng, which is commonly known as the academy, which is still a practical study that teaches astronomy, geography, arithmetic, history, current politics, etc., and a teacher of agriculture, business, engineering and other knowledge, plus the Qinglai Town Military Academy, we will have three universities in Jinan at that time!"

At this time, Wang Weizhen said: "I'm afraid that the way to the imperial examination is still the first choice of the people, and when the time comes, we will spend a lot of money and build many schools, but no one will come to learn!" ”

Liu Yan smiled and said, "Don't worry! Our schools not only do not have to pay any fees for admission, but also include food and accommodation, whether it is primary school, middle school or university, as long as they graduate successfully, they can arrange livelihoods in our Qingzhou capital city and Qinglai Town according to their personal ability and talents, even if they join the new army, as long as they have a primary school, middle school or university graduation certificate, they can be given priority admission, and then our schools must be rushing! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Min said with a smile: "Zongzhen is right, after all, the scholars who can take the road of the imperial examination are a minority, and most of the children of most families do not have this way. Therefore, these schools of ours are still very attractive to ordinary children! ”

Song Gongming said: "This move of the head town is really meaningful! In this way, in a few years, all the talents we need in Qinglai Town can be cultivated by ourselves, and we no longer have to worry about lack of manpower! ”

When everyone heard this, they all admired Liu Yan, and at the same time, everyone also had some understanding in their hearts that Liu Yan was ready to put aside the imperial court and cultivate the talents he needed. It stands to reason that this is very taboo, everyone present is Liu Yan's absolute confidant, and everyone only cares about whether Liu Yan's measures can be implemented, as for whether it is taboo or not, everyone doesn't care.

Liu Yan smiled and said to Zhao Min: "Zhao Tongzhi wants to make a specific plan for compulsory education immediately, and the manpower and cost required must also be clear. ”

"Order!"

A few days later, the administrative officer Zhao Min submitted the compulsory education plan to Liu Yan, and Liu Yan was still very satisfied with the plan.

Zhao Min is worthy of being a scribe, and this compulsory education program combines the current situation of private school education in various parts of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and it can be said to be a detailed nine-year compulsory education in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, in order to realize this nine-year compulsory education plan, a total of 26 primary schools, four middle schools, and three universities need to be built in Qingzhou and Laizhou.

The construction funds have been calculated by Zhao Min, and at least 1.7 million taels or more are needed!

And that's not even counting the cost of so many schools, and the expenses required to run these schools!

If you count them all, it is estimated that Qinglai Town will cost about two million taels a year!

However, Liu Yan did not hesitate at all, directly approved the implementation, and ordered Yue Ming, the money and grain officer, and Song Gongming, the commercial officer, to immediately mobilize money and grain, and at least complete the construction of these schools before the winter of next year, and recruit the required gentlemen and logistics personnel in place during the period!

At the same time, the military academies in these schools were all placed under the command of Tian Huixu, the commander of the command, and the rest of the ordinary schools were all placed under the control of Zhao Min, the administrative officer.

After Liu Yan deployed these things, he ordered the commanders of each battalion of the New Army to report a list, and the talents in each battalion should be counted as soon as possible, as the first batch of students of the Qinglai Town Military Academy, these people will also be the backbone of Liu Yan's command in the future.

The next day, everyone dispersed and began to fully implement Liu Yan's deployment of the new school.

Liu Yan, accompanied by Miao Shao, began to inspect various places in Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion.

At this time, according to Liu Yan's unified deployment, the official roads between Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture were being renovated on a large scale, and all cement should be used for re-pouring.

This matter was led by the administrative officer Zhao Min, and the money and grain official Yue Ming contributed money and grain, and hired a large number of people and craftsmen to participate in the implementation, although there are still many local official roads under construction, but after two months of construction, most of them have now been completed.

This section of the official road from Jinan Fucheng to Jimo Yingcheng not only doubled the road surface, but also paved with cement throughout the whole process, realizing the hardening of the road surface, and pedestrians no longer have to worry about the difficult and muddy road in rainy and snowy weather.

For this reason, Yue Ming, the money and grain official, has allocated more than 1.9 million taels of silver and 550,000 stone grain in six batches, and with the continuation of the follow-up project, Yue Ming is still constantly allocating money and grain, which has almost exhausted the treasury under Liu Yan.

Fortunately, the income of many industries under Liu Yan's command has increased dramatically, and the annual fees paid by merchants and gentry everywhere are also increasing year by year, and a huge amount of money and grain is recorded every month, so that Qinglai Town can bear such huge expenses and have a surplus.

It didn't take long for Liu Yan and his entourage to leave Laizhou Mansion and head towards Jimo Camp City. m.

When everyone arrived at an intersection, two local young men hired by the local government were directing pedestrians.

I saw that both of them were waving a small flag, one of them was red, and the other was green.

This is similar to the traffic lights in later generations, when pedestrians see the red flag raised, they wait at the intersection, let the pedestrians in the other two directions go first, and wait until the green flag is raised before continuing to move forward.

At the same time, Miao Shao, who accompanied him, also found that most of the pedestrians were rushing on the right, which seemed to be the rules set by the local government according to Liu Yan's orders.

Although these rules seem a little strange to Miao Shao, the crowds on the official road are much smoother than before, and the crowds in the east-west and north-south directions do not disturb each other, and the entire official road is extremely neat.

"What a long insight!"

Miao Shao said to Liu Yan with a smile: "These things that adults do are all good things for the benefit of the country and the people, and they will definitely be famous all over the world!" ”

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Can you become famous all over the world just by doing such a little thing?" At least until these decrees are extended to the entire town of Tsing Rai! ”

Miao Shao smiled and agreed, and then said, "Look, adults! The new carriage must have been produced by the Qinglai Town Vehicle Factory, and the license plate on it was not used for registration, I guess, this system can not only allow Zhao Tongzhi to have a part of the income from the sale of license plates, but also once the owners of these carriages hit people, or are involved in lawsuits, they can also use the license plates to trace. My lord, am I right? ”

"Haha!"

Liu Yan smiled and said, "You kid is right, that's right!" ”

"My lord, let's go to Jimo Camp City for a few days."

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Who said that you are going to Jimo Camp City?" ”

Miao Shao was dumbfounded, and was about to speak, Liu Yan said: "Early tomorrow morning, you will go to Jimo Yingcheng by yourself to discuss the marriage with the girl's family, and I will take someone back to Qingzhou Mansion City first." In a few days, I will go to the Qinglai Town Military Academy to give a lecture, and this is the first batch of students, so I can't be sloppy. ”

"When this town is done with this, we will give your boy a wedding!"

Miao Shao was dumbfounded.

Some people died, but not completely......