Six years of pilot education experience in the Tyrolean region told Franz that in order to solve the problem of education, it is necessary to solve the economic problem, and the focus is on the food and clothing of ordinary people.

In fact, the vast majority of people in Innsbruck don't have to worry about not being able to eat, but people are always easy creatures, and there are always people who want to get something for nothing.

And this kind of person often has a loud voice, which makes it easy to mistake them for the mainstream. The best way to deal with such people is to deal with them strictly and quickly, otherwise it will become difficult to deal with once they gather a crowd.

Over time, churches and teachers have found that providing free food is doing more harm than good. Cases of embezzlement and deduction have abounded, and there has even been a case of 14 children in a school eating 25 tons of bread in a month.

That is, a student eats 1.78 tons of bread in a month. Even if there are no days off, I have to eat 60 pounds of bread at school twice a day, which is almost the same as the weight of children at that time.

It is also not advisable to limit the fixed amount of food, and students of the same height and weight will eat differently, one may be too hungry to walk, and the other may be enough to choke.

And the so-called moderate adjustment, that is, the practice of adding more meals to students who are more able to eat, is also undesirable. Because again, it's a question of fairness.

Moreover, judging from a large number of feedback, the low-level workers in charge of basic education generally feel that compulsory education for all is a waste of the country's limited resources.

As a later generation, of course, I know that the views of this group of people are wrong, but it is imperative to purposefully screen them in light of the background of the times and the special conditions of the Austrian Empire.

First of all, in order to popularize education and promote the German language as much as possible, it is necessary to have four years of compulsory education in primary school, and at the same time, in order to increase the quality of the population and select talents, the reward and punishment mechanism should be strengthened in the four years of secondary school, and the elimination of the last place should be combined with the selection of the best people.

What to do? Send money! That's right, it's what economists say is the most undesirable thing to do.

All primary schools in the Austrian Empire, excluding rest days and holidays, attended school for a total of 186 days a year. Every thirty days a subsidy of one florin in cash and one florin in anticipation is provided, so that a child can receive twelve florins in a year.

Among them, the expected banknotes are temporarily unusable and exchangeable, and they need to wait for the children to fully study for four years before they can be exchanged, and the four-year twenty-four florin banknotes are still unwilling to give up this kind of income for an ordinary family.

In this way, it can ensure that as many children as possible can complete primary school, and it can also reduce the occurrence of children and parents making trouble, and at the same time, it can also reduce gender discrimination and racial discrimination.

As for the so-called elimination of the last place in secondary schools and the selection of the best students, to put it simply, the outstanding students not only get free tuition but also receive bonuses, and the second-class students receive a small symbolic tuition fee to keep them the chance of a bright future.

Ordinary students need to pay the normal fee, and then some need to pay extra, and those who are really poor either pay high tuition fees or leave on their own, after all, the country's resources are limited.

The advantage of this approach is that poor students can be used to subsidize the top students and the normal functioning of the school, but this method is only applicable to secondary schools.

Too cruel for primary school students is not conducive to social peace and national integration, as for Austrian universities have always been engaged in elite education, the purpose is to select the best of the best, face the future, the market and society, not to train a group of problem-solvers.

Universities have special financial aid programs and financial aid contracts, and the part that is not part of basic education will not be discussed for the time being.

The wool always has to come out of the sheep, and the country has so many resources, but things still have to be done, and at this time, it is up to those "rich" to contribute.

In addition, there are more new students at the Royal Women's College than in previous years. This is a good sign, firstly, it proves that there has been a change in the perception of the importance of education, and secondly, Austrians are getting richer and richer, and it is also a good thing that the country is strong and the people are rich.

At this time, Austria's economy was much stronger than it was historically, so the steps could have been taken a little bigger. However, the regions where basic education is still carried out are still Netalenia and Chenla, and education in Africa and Transletania is still on hold.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as in the royal estates in Hungary, as well as in the royal territories of Vojvodina and Belgrade, where basic education should be started as soon as possible.

In addition, German (Austrian) adult education is available in several of Austria's most prosperous cities, mainly for the convenience of immigrants and migrant workers.

At the same time, the Flemish refugees who were willing to move to Austria played a great role in promoting Austria's overseas colonization.

Although most of them were farmers or fishermen, they were much more adventurous than the Austrians who lived inland.

In particular, there is a strong interest in going to Africa and Central America to become farmers, and the people are willing to have the support of relevant national policies.

Franz naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and he still had autonomy over Austria's overseas colonies. After all, at this time, Franz was equivalent to the colonial minister, and he was also the largest shareholder and CEO of the Austrian Imperial Overseas Development Company.

As a result, an Austrian version of the "Homestead Law" was born, of course, it is still nominally a measure to benefit the people, as long as you participate in overseas development, you can get shares, and the more land and mines you develop, the more shares and dividends you will get.

Although this is a naked white wolf with empty gloves in the eyes of the capitalists, it is still very attractive to ordinary people, especially those who grew up in Flemish listening to the legends of the East India Company.

Because Austrian shipping is booming again, even the navy has set up a transport company to take some private goods to solve its own financial problems.

This was understandable, because the navy was too expensive, and the Austrian army was too large to give too much money to the navy.

Friedrich's family is rich, but the annual investment of tens of millions of dollars is really unbearable.

Moreover, the Austrian navy has no tradition of robbery, and of course there is no place to rob, otherwise it can alleviate the dilemma a little.

Another advantage of the navy's maritime transportation is to prevent the maritime industry from overheating. Because capital is always blind, those businessmen can do anything to make money.

For example, hiring foreign ships, or even selling orders to foreigners, or buying scrapped ships directly from abroad for shipping.

They are so casually attacking Austria's own shipbuilding industry, which is relatively backward and relatively small, and if it suffers another blow, I am afraid that it will be further and further away from other powers.

At the same time, those who want to make quick money don't care about safety at all, and overloading and illegal operations are almost inevitable.

And once their nonsense happened, it was Austria's shipbuilding and shipping industry that paid the bill in the end.

Under the advantages of one and the other, this is a disguised enemy.

(End of chapter)