Or the three-level general plan that I finally set up is too radical, and I must stop it, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable, not only bad for the country, but also very bad for the children who have been trained. "
"This … I don’t understand"
Xin Qiji whispered, "What do you think? It’s not a bad thing to let young people and school-age children read Chinese characters, is it You often say that educating the country’s roots is not what you want? "
"It’s not a bad thing to be healthy, but everything in this world is linked with the country, and we should consider Youan together. I should have told you about the defeat of Zhang Yuanhe Song Jun, a senior official of Xixia. Do you remember?"
"Remember"
"Zhang Yuan was a Song Dynasty scholar or an Imperial Examiner. Why did he betray Song State and turn to Li Yuanhao?"
"Of course, it’s the … the …"
Xin Qiji paused and looked at Su Yonglin with a little consternation before he finished.
Ten years of general education, Pu Su Yonglin stopped Zhang Yuan from defecting …
Xin Qiji’s rapid brain rotation linked these things together and reached a conclusion that surprised him very much.
Chapter 1276 National demand is not enough
Xin Qiji is a wise man. He understood Su Yonglin’s meaning with a little inspiration. Su Yonglin has no doubt about this.
"You mean …"
Su Yonglin sighed.
"I didn’t directly deny this plan without doing any homework. I found the population growth data given by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and asked Ge to make a population growth forecast and an education growth forecast for me.
Finally, it took a month to make a detailed calculation. According to the general plan of the Ministry of Education and the estimated population growth rate of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I saw a very valuable calculation
The plan of the Ministry of Education is based on the plan I set before. The imperial court has invested a lot of money and spent a lot of effort to set up three levels of institutions of higher learning in counties, States and provinces respectively.
School-age children enter school at the age of about five or six, and after less than three years of study in each level of institutions of higher learning, they are selected and assessed at different levels of institutions of higher learning, and finally stand out from provincial institutions of higher learning.
This is my future plan and the basis of their plan. If this plan is carried out completely, about 200 thousand senior talents will graduate from provincial and provincial schools every year on average in about ten years.
In fifteen years or so, this number will rise to 300 thousand, and in twenty years, this number will reach 500 thousand, and then this number will exceed 700 thousand and finally exceed 1 million
Youan, let me ask you something. Every year, 1 million high-level talents with rich knowledge will graduate from school. What does the imperial court intend them to do? Become an official? Join the army? Doing business? Work?
Can these businesses together bear 1 million labor demand every year? If they can’t, these people will go home to plow and farm, and no other business can afford the labor demand of 1 million a year.
We have spent so much effort and money to teach so many important specialized knowledge, and finally we have trained people. As a result, there is nothing to do to make them go home to farm. Can you feel the great gap? "
Xin Qiji was silent in the face of Su Yonglin’s question.
He had to admit that what Su Yonglin said was very reasonable.
A person began to study at the age of five or six, and after less than nine years of education, he mastered a very rich knowledge. However, the whole person’s thinking is different from that when he was young, and he has been able to see the world and know that the world is vast and he is small.
Then the government told him that you had learned something and went back to farming.
This feeling …
I can say it’s not very pleasant.
Put yourself in Xin Qiji’s shoes. If a man with rich knowledge like himself can go home to farm, even without these years’ experience, he will probably have the idea that his ambition is hard to pay and he will report to the country.
"So Zhang Yuan he …"
Su Yonglin nodded.
"He didn’t pass the imperial examination in Song Dynasty. He didn’t have his way to make a living and he didn’t want to accept his fate. He turned to Xixia and then brought good luck to Song Dynasty. Song Junchen was shocked and finally created a palace examination that didn’t abandon the rules of candidates to avoid similar things from happening again.
What about after? What happened afterwards? Later, it happened that Song Ting never got rid of the redundant officials and spent a lot of money in Song Dynasty, which led to the establishment of too many meaningful positions and processes in the court.
Song Guogen doesn’t need to train so many reserve officials. It can’t be consumed, and it can make them meaningless. I have considered these situations when I established them. "
Xin Qiji has understood what Su Yonglin said and recognized that what he said is right.
Su Yonglin suddenly laughed as if he thought of something.
"As far as the eyes are concerned, what can they do with so many rich knowledge? What are you willing to do? Take the Song Imperial Examination as an example, how many students studied hard at a cold window, but there were always so many important people needed by the court.
Hundreds of thousands of people compete for hundreds of places every three years. How many people have won a place? Speaking of which, I really think the feudal rulers are very forward-looking
They know that they can’t get so many officials, and they know that they can’t support so many people. People don’t develop education and pursue the policy of ignorance, so that they can rule longer.
People who make such great efforts and painstaking efforts to learn knowledge and get it, but want to be illiterate, can do well in the general direction for the time being. Let’s think about how this person will face this reality from a personal point of view. Some people will accept their fate, but others will not accept it, such as Zhang Yuan. "
Looking into Su Yonglin’s eyes, Xin Qiji realized that it was a bit too simple to think about the problem.
"So it was the right decision for the old dynasty not to develop people’s education?"
"For them, yes."
Su Yonglin said, "Anyway, they want to better exploit and enjoy education without development. The more cattle and horses there are, the more people enjoy it, but for us, we must look at the problem from the root."
What is the reason for the redundancy of officials in Zhang Yuan? Just because the imperial court is in the whole country, it can’t give full play to so many readers with rich knowledge. The imperial court and the country can’t afford so many readers! "
“……”
Xin Qiji was silent for a while and nodded naively. "You said it was true, so many officials in the imperial court couldn’t afford it."
"Said the court is really a lack of talent? It is enough to say that talents are absolutely enough for an old dynasty, and their development situation is perfectly matched with the imperial examination system.
What will they do in the end if you let them educate and train so many readers but don’t give them a way out and let them complain? They will send this dynasty away for a new person. They are never stupid. They know what they want. "
Su Yonglin paused for a moment, took a deep breath and said, "And we need to know what we want. I never deny the importance of general education, but before that, we must prepare enough posts for talents so that they can give full play to their talents, otherwise Li Yuanhao will do harm to others."
Xin Qiji nodded heavily.
"I have fully understood your pains."
"We can’t be ignorant. We want everyone to master knowledge and give full play to their own value. However, at the present stage, we have trained enough talents. At this stage, we have been able to meet the current needs by popularizing education on a larger scale and maintaining illiteracy eradication.
If we want to develop education continuously, we need big countries to have enough talents to play their talents, but jobs are not born for no reason and need to be developed. This is what I always say: development is the last word. "
"But this situation is not normal? Can’t stop here? "
Xin Qiji said, "It is only a matter of time before popularization, isn’t it?"
"Of course, judging from the current situation, I am not fully sure that I can have so many educated talents in ten years."
Su Yonglin said with a wry smile, "Development is the last word, but it is also a particularly difficult thing. I try my best to promote it, but I am not fully sure that I can’t bury a pit for future generations."
Said Su Yonglin and took a few steps forward.
"I do have a plan. I invested so much money in firearms and firearms research, and many new things came out, such as coke and better quality steel.
Making firearms, coking, and making high-quality steel all require craftsmen, and many, many craftsmen are needed. Only when there is demand can we cultivate talents with confidence.
For example, engineering science has a strong place. After graduation, they will not worry that they have nothing to do and have to go back to their hometowns to cultivate their fields, resulting in a huge psychological gap and a big resentment at the end. "
Xin Qiji heard the words and thought for a while, and then sighed.
"It seems that some comrades think the problem is too simple …"
Su Yonglin smiled bitterly.
"What they mean is not bad, but people want to be based on the Millennium. Education, like agriculture, is the root of the country, not just the general development of education.
It is not difficult for college students to develop education. We can do it, but at the same time, we can’t give them jobs. We can’t let them study hard at a cold window for so many years and find out what they have learned.
That is not only a disappointment to their lives, but also to the educational status quo that the court invested a lot of money and resources and spent a lot of time to build it, and even more to the farmers who worked hard to plow the land and pay taxes to the court. "