Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 208 The Daily Life of His Royal Highness ([-])
As the leader of Nanming, His Highness the Crown Prince is invulnerable and has almost no worries about assassins.In fact, so far, the Qing court has never planned an assassination incident against him. Bai Mingxiu has gradually built a very effective and powerful intelligence organization Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei has also made very strict security guarantees for his daily life. The Qing court seems to be incapable of doing things in this area and not very talented.

There may be another very critical factor, that is, Manchuria is really unpopular.The majority of the people succumbed to this barbaric dynasty, mainly because Daming had been destroyed and could not be helped.But the current Nanming can be regarded as a rival to the Manchu Qing, and he is full of momentum, winning successive victories. People who have a stand are not willing to be the lackeys of the Manchu Qing.

In such a situation, Bai Mingxiu often walked on the street with a few followers, not much different from ordinary people, and it was very safe.His overall working attitude and mode are completely different from those of the emperors of ancient dynasties.Although the emperors also had some things like going on trips or private visits in low clothes, for Bai Mingxiu, inspection work was almost a routine for him.

Most of the new officials and cadres in Nanming are not quite used to this new system, but obviously with the ear-to-mouth instruction of the Crown Prince Jianguo, coupled with a new set of rules, the efficiency of Nanming's work is still very high.

One of the main manifestations is the education system. Bai Mingxiu got up early today, and after having a simple breakfast, he went to visit Shanghai No. [-] Middle School as planned.This middle school has only been established for more than two months, and it has directly used a school facility in Shanghai New City rewarded by the system, which is enough to accommodate [-] teachers and students. Compared with those middle schools in later generations, it is nothing.

However, the damage at this time, the impact of Shanghai No. [-] Middle School on the people of the time was particularly huge.

Lu Weiming, who is only in his early 20s, is the new teacher of Shanghai No. [-] Middle School. He is a native of Songjiang. A person who is too good at writing stereotypes.

Lu Weiming originally wanted to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty, but when he passed the admission examination, he was assigned to Shanghai No. [-] Middle School and became a teacher.For this result, Lu Weiming was still a little disappointed, but the teacher qualifications of Shanghai No. All accommodation is provided by the school.

Lu Weiming was basically destitute before, and he had already lost his family fortune because of the imperial examination, but he never passed the exam, and even his livelihood was about to become a problem.Although he has not been able to become an official now, he still has a stable income after all, and he is also considered a member of the public family, which makes him very happy.

His attitude is still very serious. After taking over the job, he worked hard to learn new textbooks by himself. Although he didn't understand many things himself, and it was the first time he learned them, he still managed to master them.

Even as the first batch of basic education schools established as a municipality directly under the Central Government of Ming Dynasty, the conditions of Shanghai No. [-] Middle School are actually very limited.There is still a lack of textbooks here, and most of the teachers themselves cannot understand the knowledge of physical chemistry and chemistry well, so what they can do is basically to follow the textbook.

The prince was coming to inspect today, and the school confirmed that the prince would come to listen to Lu Weiming's class, which made Lu Weiming very nervous.Although he had read the lesson plan no less than a hundred times, he was still afraid of making a fool of himself in front of the prince.

In fact, the age of the prince is about the same as the age of the students he teaches.

The current basic education in Nanming consists of three years of elementary school, two years of high school, two years of junior high school, and two years of high school. It adds up to nine years, but it cannot be regarded as nine years of compulsory education.When Bai Mingxiu started to implement the new education system, he inevitably encountered many problems.The overall literacy rate in Ming Dynasty was very low, and the people were generally illiterate. Especially in the middle school stage, many students were still illiterate, so naturally they couldn't directly start learning such things as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history and land administration.Therefore, the school itself is also doing the work of supplementing the basics.

What is more important to Bai Mingxiu may be the literacy work for the whole people. The focus of literacy in rural areas is on rural cooperatives. It belongs to the night school model and has an incentive system. Take off the hat of illiteracy from the literacy class, and you can get some benefits including rent-free tax.

For school-age children and teenagers, Bai Mingxiu will not relax.It's just that his current ability is still limited and cannot be fully covered.Now he can only open basic education schools in some relatively large cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and even prefectures and counties. After the first batch of graduates can be trained in three to five years, he plans to use the mandatory two-year teaching Form, let educated young people go to the countryside to become teachers, and establish a number of township schools.

And now these seeds are basically coaxed and tricked into the school.Because these schools are basically boarding schools, and because parents do not charge any fees, many farmers agree to let their children go to schools in big cities simply to relieve the pressure on their families to raise their children.The dozens of primary and secondary schools that have been built in Shanghai basically follow the same routine.Students live in boarding houses and only go home once a month or two.But for teenagers who are already thirteen or fourteen years old, it is more difficult.Because they have basically become a semi-labor force, it is also a loss to the family after they are sent away.This specific work needs to be done by grassroots organizations.

Bai Mingxiu's visit to Shanghai No. [-] Middle School this time was also to check and accept the work he had spent a lot of money on.If he hadn't scoured Jiangnan to collect a lot of capital, it would be difficult for him to implement the current system.

On the other hand, in the past, the establishment of schools relied on donations from the gentry class, but now the government is taking the initiative to do this. However, Bai Mingxiu still did not let go of "private capital".For example, talk to a certain gentry and ask him to pay a sum of money to build a teaching building, and the building will be named after him.Donations to run schools will also give some tax incentives and so on.

After all, this matter has a good reputation, so even though it is frightened by a series of policies to suppress the landlord class implemented by the prince's supervisory country, there are still many gentry classes who actively donate money to run schools.

Education bureaus around the world have also begun to integrate some schools, private schools, and ethnic studies, turning them into schools that enjoy state financial allocations.Bai Mingxiu estimated in the report that after some basic education reforms, the Jiangnan area could accommodate hundreds of thousands of elementary and middle school students, which made him very pleased.

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