Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 355 The First Five-Year Plan
The convening of the Congress of the Republic has attracted much attention in almost all counties.This is a new attempt of the Ming Dynasty in governing politics, and it embodies the attitude of Emperor Zhu Cixuan of the Ming Dynasty who truly puts the people first and loves the people like his son. The various information to be disclosed online is still very shocking to Chinese people who are very concerned about current affairs in their bones.

As early as when Emperor Guangfu ascended the throne, he personally published an article "What is the task that Ming Dynasty should complete" in "Daming Daily", in which he wrote: "...we have completed the restoration of the country, driven the Tartars out of the Central Plains, and reported The blood feud of millions of compatriots. But this is just what I should do as a descendant of the Ming royal family and as a representative of protecting Chinese civilization. When I was sitting in the Taiping Palace in Shuntian Prefecture and thinking alone, I never Dare to forget, recovering China is by no means my achievement as the emperor of Ming Dynasty, but the foundation and beginning of my achievements. What we should really do is how to build our country, benefit the people of Li, make Ming powerful and prosperous, and no longer be insulted by foreigners. Even put an end to such things as turmoil caused by the rise and fall of dynasties. Then the answer is very simple, as long as the people live and work in peace and contentment, and their material and spiritual needs are met, then we can achieve this seemingly impossible task.”

Wave after wave of public opinion preparations by Bai Mingxiu, and a group of enlightenment thinkers such as Ma En and Wang Fuzhi constantly tempering new ideas, all of which laid a solid foundation for Bai Mingxiu's subsequent development.The common people and even traditional intellectuals are beginning to realize the problem.Nanming was able to recover because it had mastered advanced productive forces. By mastering advanced productive forces, it would be able to have more adequate logistical supplies and powerful weapons and equipment.The necessary condition for mastering advanced productive forces is advanced technology, all of which come from the learning and dissemination of knowledge, as well as from industrial practice.

Once the methodology is clarified, relying on Daming's huge literati class, it will soon be able to keep up with the situation.

In recent days, newspapers are basically snapped up by people flocking to them as soon as they are delivered to newsstands.Many people don't even know how to read, but newspapers are very cheap for just a few cents each. I don't know who started spreading them. Newspapers of such important events are valuable for collection. If they are passed down in the future, they can be sold for money.In addition, children in every household now basically go to school. Even if you can’t understand it, someone in your family can.

At the Shanghai Library, librarian Zhou Congwen shook his head as he watched the newsstands being looted outside.He doesn't buy newspapers by himself now, because the library has to subscribe to all kinds of newspapers, and he reads newspapers directly in the library.

Today's "Da Ming Daily" is thicker, printing a lot of content about the First Five-Year Plan.Zhou Congwen was very interested in this, and hurriedly spread out the newspaper to read it carefully.

"Xiao Zhou, here you are." At this time, a rather luxuriously dressed young man came over and patted the table in front of Zhou Congwen.

As soon as Zhou Congwen looked at the person, he said, "Mr. Zhu, the two books on machinery you borrowed are about to expire, but you want to return them?"

The person who came was Zhu Yongrong from the Zhu family's clan. After settling in Shanghai, Zhu Yongrong's business has been doing well. The leather bags and shoes made by his Jiangnan leather factory are selling well in the north and even overseas.He is also not a stable temperament, thinking about opening up some business.This idea basically masters any craft and can make money in industrialized production.Zhu Yongrong felt that he was not very capable, and he succeeded in two entrepreneurial ventures in Australia and Shanghai, which did not make him self-confident and complacent, but made Zhu Yongrong more aware of the importance of knowledge.

Ever since, Zhu Yongrong came to the Shanghai Library every now and then.There are hundreds of thousands of books of various kinds here. Zhu Yongrong is not interested in those subsets of classics and history, but is particularly interested in the sorted out engineering and science things.Half of these books are Chinese classical scientific and technological works collected by Bai Mingxiu, and the other half are books that Bai Mingxiu got out of the system.These books may not necessarily be ahead of the times, but they are very good in summary, and there are many categories.

Zhu Yongrong became acquainted with Zhou Congwen, the librarian here, and sometimes begged Zhou Congwen to give him a few more days to return the books.Zhu Yongrong was already busy, so he didn't have so much time to read.

Zhou Congwen said: "Mr. Zhu, you are also a rich man, wouldn't it be good to hire someone to copy books for you?"

Zhu Yongrong smiled and said: "I heard that someone in Guangzhou is researching some copying technology, but it will not be difficult to copy a large number of contents in the future. Haha, I will ask someone to copy the books for me, but it is more convenient to hold the books by myself. It feels like it was hand-copied and then bound, but it doesn’t look like it.”

Seeing Zhou Congwen reading the newspaper, Zhu Yongrong asked, "What's the matter, reading the newspaper. It is said that the Shuntian Prefecture is holding a meeting of the House of the Republic to announce the content of the 'First Five-Year Plan', but there is?"

"Yes, it will be briefly announced in the newspapers today, tomorrow and the next three days. There are so many contents. Think about it. Putting it into practice is something that has never happened in all dynasties."

Zhu Yongrong said: "Naturally, look at our current emperor, I dare say that there is probably no emperor in the past and present that can compare to ours."

Zhou Congwen said: "The content of the economy is said to be subject to deliberation. Today's releases are mostly related to culture, education and miscellaneous items. The government offices of prefectures, counties and townships have to put compulsory education as the top priority. The newspaper said that local enrollment The rate will be directly related to the evaluation of officials. The previous tax reduction measures for children in the family have been completely fixed. In the future, whoever has a school-age child who does not study will have to pay heavy taxes. "

Zhu Yongrong frowned and said, "It's not a good thing. The children of rural farmers will have to work as laborers when they grow up. If they are sent to school, it means that the family has lost a laborer."

"Not necessarily. The primary and secondary schools established in various prefectures and counties, and the boarding system, have to be responsible for students' three meals a day. This actually reduces the burden on poor families. Moreover, it is now only mandatory that schoolchildren must complete three meals a day. Primary school at the beginning of the year, high school for two years, and entering school at the age of seven, then the graduation from high school is 12 years old. Even if the farmers do not want their children to continue their studies, they can go home and farm. This means that poor families lose a share of money to raise their children , When the children are older, they will be able to contribute instead. The newspaper said that elementary school graduates whose grades rank in the top 30% are required to continue their studies with financial support from the provincial education bureau if their families are not well-off.

Zhu Yongrong was surprised: "How much money will the court spend to raise these children?"

Zhou Congwen said: "That's not all. In the Five-Year Plan, the rural areas are also required to use rural cooperatives as a unit to organize a large-scale literacy campaign, so that all people in Ming Dynasty can read and write, and get rid of the hat of illiteracy."

(End of this chapter)