With the steam engine, many other things became easier.

For example, the steam locomotive solves the crucial problem of power source, and there is a soul from the afterlife to describe its general shape, and the difficulty is greatly reduced.

This is the advantage of Yan Lingzai, although he is not a professional science and engineering, but many things know at least one appearance, and these alone can make the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments take a lot of detours and avoid climbing the wrong science and technology tree.

After half a year, the steam locomotive was successfully introduced, and now the rails have been laid and everything is ready.

After the simple ceremony, the steam locomotive followed a long iron dragon from Ningbo to Shaoxing, which would be the first railway in the world by the Jiangsu-Zhejiang military government, nay.

Yan Ling stood on the high platform, watching the steam engine spray thick smoke, and running into the distance with his long body, its speed was much faster than the traditional horse-drawn cart and donkey cart, etc., and he couldn't help but applaud lightly.

The steam engine is a cross-era invention, and the steam locomotive will also cause great changes in the field of transportation.

With it, the transportation of troops and food, etc., will be extremely fast.

The workers below let out bursts of cheers, and the engineers were already clapping their hands red, and now they were excited to witness this historic scene.

"All those who participate in this project will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver each, 1,000 taels for each engineer, and the position will be promoted by one level, and the chief engineer will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver!" He turned around and said that he never hesitated to reward those who had merit, and this was also an encouragement.

At the same time, he also ordered the coordination of various ministries to prepare for the rollout of the entire railway.

It's going to be a big project, and it's going to cause people discomfort, because it's so big.

In some places, steam engines have been introduced, but they are usually placed in workshops, and they are loud. If you want to put a steel monster whistling through the wilderness, it will almost certainly cause panic among the people, and when the time comes, some people may say that Yue Wang Yan Quan knows witchcraft, and what kind of remarks such as disturbing the ancestral tomb in the later Manchu Dynasty will come out.

This requires a lot of advocacy and education.

In addition, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be some greedy people who will dig down the rails and sleepers for their own use, so security and other things must also be done.

It is estimated that it will take several years to fully roll out in the area ruled by the current Jiangsu-Zhejiang military government.

He handed over all this to Huang Zhipeng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and asked him to coordinate with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of the Army, and the Propaganda Department to act together.

"Don't worry, Lord Shousuke, I will live up to my trust."

Huang Zhipeng responded with confidence.

He is a craftsman educated in the family's school, and then he has come to this day step by step, both in theory and in practice, Yan Ling is also relieved to hand it over to him.

Subsequently, Yan Ling called the Ministry of Education's Shangshu, which, like the Propaganda Department, was a newly established department.

After occupying various prefectures and counties, in addition to arranging for government agencies at all levels to be stationed and troops stationed in the local areas as soon as possible, the most important thing for him was to set up schools. Some of them renovated private schools and academies from the local area, and some directly built them, and sent teachers of various subjects.

After all, education is the plan of a strong country, and universal education is the top priority.

The military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province mandated that all students must enter school at the age of seven, and go through six years of first-stage private school education and another three years of second-stage school education before they can be officially employed.

Of course, in the circumstances, many people were faced with the situation of not being able to afford their families and lacking a labor force, for which the government would also provide subsidies to these families.

At this time, most people were illiterate, and they regarded the scholars as 'Wenqu stars descending to earth', and their children could read and not go hungry, and they were actually very happy. Even if a few families were unwilling, the government forced them to pay subsidies, and finally sent the children to private schools.

However, scholars generally do not want to see this. If the sons of the bitter haha's people can be officials in the imperial examination like them, then who will serve the old men?

However, Yan Ling doesn't care about this, in his government, as long as there are capable people, there are ladders to rise.

And at this time, there are not only male babies in the school, but also female babies.

Can women hold up half the sky, in some open areas such as Jiangnan, because of the impact of the factory, the handicraft industry has been scattered early, in fact, there are already many women working in the factory, and they are not very resistant to these.

However, there are also some areas that are very opposed, and Yan Ling does not dare to force it, for fear of causing some radical situations, he also took a step back, and temporarily set up boys' and girls' schools in some areas, so that some old scholars can barely accept it.

On the whole, the situation is good, and it is conceivable what kind of prosperous era will emerge under the rule of the military government in the future.

Looking at the whole world, the only one who had the courage and ability to do so at that time was the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments. After all, this alone is a huge expense, and even the most powerful empires would not dare to play like this.

"The main problem right now is that there aren't so many teachers."

The Ministry of Education's Shangshu says:

"The rest is also going well, the funding is sufficient, the enthusiasm is also high, private schools have actually been established in various places, and most people have said that they will enroll their children in school, and the problem now is that there are not so many teachers."

There are only so many students taught in the university, first half of them went to Tiangong Academy, the rest were to serve as officials in various places, and some of them had to be selected to serve as teachers, where did there be so many people.

Yan Ling was also helpless:

"In this way, you go to find Confucian students from all over the country, find some unwilling, and don't have such a strong Confucian concept, build a crash course, renovate it for a few months, and teach the language should be no problem, and then select volunteers from the Luzon Governor's Palace, and say that they are willing to come here, and the salary is good."

Such a move should also alleviate some of the shortage.

In fact, the knowledge reserve of Confucianism is absolutely sufficient, mainly because they are worried that they will mix some old concepts in their lectures, so they cannot use it directly with confidence, otherwise there will be no fewer people.

Shang Shu nodded and wrote it down.

"In addition, the university is based on the city, and each city has one."

Yan Ling also instructed that there are still too few universities to stably provide enough talents for the government.

In a few years, when the number of educated people increases, his army will also change its previous strategy of recruiting young and strong people, and instead select from literate people.

Manpower is still too scarce.

(End of chapter)