novelden Chapter 1013 So this is what it feels like to annoy or give others a headache!
Chapter 1013 So this is what it feels like to annoy or give others a headache!
Emperor Zhu stared blankly at Li Shanchang.
The more she looked, the more she saw the shadow of her own "good" son-in-law.
Let's offer some incentives first.
And then they'll cause us even more trouble.
Is this right?
This is fucking weird!
If we had known this would happen, we shouldn't have agreed to let Li Shanchang go to Ningyang County, and we certainly shouldn't have let him go to Liaodong!
Now look what's happened, Li Shanchang has also followed that scoundrel and become bad!
Li Shanchang didn't care what Emperor Zhu was thinking. He just frowned and said, "Whether it's a general university or a specialized university, these can be gradually separated from Dengzhou University."
"Based on the already dismantled Imperial College, this aspect is not a major problem."
"The real headache is actually the student enrollment."
"Having universities alone is not enough without enough students."
"Based on my observations at Dengzhou University, the content taught there is not something that students in community schools, county schools, or state schools can understand."
"The content originally taught at the prefectural school is not quite the same as that taught at Dengzhou University."
At this point, Li Shanchang's expression became even more distressed: "According to the Prince Consort, the students trained by the original county schools, state schools, and prefectural schools were all generalists who were more inclined to become officials, while the university had a stronger classification system."
“Students in physics, engineering, and medicine departments rarely study humanities or social sciences.”
"And students majoring in humanities and social sciences will generally not be involved in subjects such as physics and medicine."
"And the knowledge gained from these different majors is basically not related to how to become an official."
"The prince consort said that the art of being an official was actually taught in the county and prefectural schools."
Li Shanchang added a special statement: "The county schools and prefectural schools mentioned by the Prince Consort refer to Ningyang County School, Dengzhou Prefectural School, and the county schools of the ten counties under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Prefecture."
Emperor Zhu and Liu Bowen couldn't help but click their tongues in disapproval.
So, if you want to copy university assignments, you have to copy the assignments from the prefectural and county schools first.
But it doesn't matter. I've already copied all the homework from the community school, and even copied the textbook. Copying homework from the prefectural school or county school won't make much difference.
Just thinking about these things made Emperor Zhu's face darken even more.
Ministry of Rites!
If it weren't for those scoundrels in the Ministry of Rites, we could have copied the homework much faster!
Now look what's happened! We've slowed down our copying speed, and the progress of over a dozen universities in our Great Ming Dynasty has slowed down as well!
Even killing them all wouldn't quell our hatred!
By the way, rebuilding the Ministry of Rites is also a troublesome matter.
The personnel selected from the Ministry of Rites this time must not produce another case of a textbook-style problem.
While Emperor Zhu was preoccupied with the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, Li Shanchang continued, "Besides county schools, prefectural schools, and state schools, community schools are of paramount importance."
"According to the statistics from the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites, there are now 1,538 community schools in the Ming Dynasty, which basically ensures that there is one community school in every prefecture and county."
"However, Ningyang County, the ten counties under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Prefecture, and the twenty-five counties in the Yanyun area each have several community schools."
"Taking Ningyang County as an example, Ningyang County is divided into eight communities, and the county seat is divided into sixteen neighborhoods, so there are sixteen community schools. Among them, there is one community school for each of the eight outer communities, and one community school for every two neighborhoods in the sixteen inner neighborhoods."
"Dengzhou Prefecture's capital, Penglai, was basically similar to Ningyang County, with more than a dozen community schools."
"As people have been migrating to Ningyang and Dengzhou in recent years, the number of community schools in these eleven counties has been increasing year by year."
"Basically, community schools replaced charity schools, private schools, and clan schools, and these were gradually banned year by year."
Emperor Zhu hummed in agreement, then frowned.
The number of community schools in the Ming Dynasty has been increasing.
However, it is undeniable that a large number of free schools, private schools, and clan schools have always existed in the community.
There are not many free schools, so they can basically be disregarded.
Private schools were mostly run by scholars who failed the imperial examinations. This was their livelihood, and also the main way for ordinary people to study.
Clan schools, on the other hand, were established by local gentry, wealthy merchants, and other prominent figures.
Comparatively speaking, the knowledge taught in clan schools is more advanced than that taught in private schools.
Especially when it comes to the art of being an official, since many local gentry and scholars were educated and had even served as officials, clan schools clearly had an advantage over private schools.
In other words, private schools and clan schools gradually diverged without people realizing it. This was most evident in the essays required for the imperial examinations, and it is also the root of the saying "family learning leads to officialdom".
However, increasing the number of community schools and gradually banning private and clan schools means increasing expenditures on money and supplies—building community schools costs money, teachers' salaries also cost money, and the clothing, writing brushes, ink, paper, and meals for the children in community schools are an even greater expense.
Even if the Ming Dynasty did not rely on the national treasury to pay for the army's expenses, it would still be difficult to bear the cost of fully implementing community schools.
After all, the Ming Dynasty still needed to build roads and bridges, construct houses for the people, establish almshouses, orphanages, sanatoriums, and pharmacies for the benefit of the people; money was needed in all aspects...
In addition, there is an even more fatal problem with the full implementation of community schools, namely the teachers.
If a teacher's intentions are not pure, what kind of good students can he produce?
If we were to carefully select teachers... where in the Ming Dynasty would we find so many scholars who are devoted to the Ming?
Even if you brought all the scholars from Ningyang County and Dengzhou Prefecture together, it still wouldn't be enough!
The more Emperor Zhu thought about it, the more troubled he became. He couldn't help but sigh and say, "Let's gradually roll out the community schools. Let's try to have more community schools next year."
Running a school is no easy task, Emperor Zhu sighed.
Li Shanchang, however, felt much more at ease.
Understand the Prince Consort.
To become the prince consort.
Surpassing even the Prince Consort!
No wonder the prince consort always seems to want to cause trouble for those in power and the officials in the court.
It feels so good to annoy or give others a headache!
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While Emperor Zhu was having a small meeting with Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and others, Yang Shaofeng was also having a small meeting with a group of officials in the Court of State Ceremonial.
After all, the wedding of Heizhi Tangyuan was a joyous occasion, and many of the Ming Dynasty's vassal states would send envoys to offer their congratulations.
How to settle and entertain these envoys was the primary responsibility of the Court of State Ceremonial.
Yang Shaofeng, at least, still received the salary of the Vice Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial, so naturally he had to do his job well.
Of course, as the Vice Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial, he naturally had to think ahead about how to squeeze some profit out of these vassal states.