"Huguang is located in the upper reaches, and it is necessary to rush north and south. Wuchang and Baling are all commercial ports. The Westernization Affairs is becoming more and more prosperous, and the overall situation is being driven, and talents are cultivated. It seems that they cannot be slowed down." It is the season when spring flowers are blooming. In a beautiful peach garden on the bank of the Yangtze River, Huang Bochao, the owner of the Yudachang cloth shop, was sitting and drinking with his old friend Zhang Shaozong.

"Brother Xinmu, you are boasting about yourself. Yudachang Business Academy has been held for ten years, with great talent and outstanding results. Xinmu doesn't say anything, but he must be extremely proud in his heart." Zhang Shaozong looked up at Huang Bochao who was passionate and said jokingly.

He and Huang Bochao are basically in love with each other. They are very interested in each other and have a close relationship, so they speak casually. The Yudachang Business Academy they mentioned just now was founded nine years ago and was organized by Huang Bochao. They fought to cultivate business talents for society and reverse the long-term disadvantage in trade with the Eastern Kingdoms.

In those chaotic years nine years ago, it was really an unprecedented move to establish a business school. Huang Bochao was under great pressure for this. The plaque of the college was smashed, the gate was thrown into pieces, and he was pointed at the nose and scolded by others were all trivial matters. What made him feel the most sad was that students in the college could not withstand the pressure from time to time to withdraw from school.

Fortunately, the wheels of the times are rolling forward, which no one can stop them. Nine years have passed, and the current environment has undergone a lot of changes. The conservatives near Yueyang may be tired, or they may know that they can't beat Huang Bochao, but in the end they gave up their attacks on Yu Dachang Business School and adopted an attitude of ignoring or even not cooperating, which made Huang Bochao and Yu Dachang Business School slightly improve the situation.

During these nine years, Yudachang Business School has trained more than 100 qualified business talents. After graduation, most of these people entered Yudachang Fabric and Yudachang Spinning Mill (established by Huang Bochao and Zhang Shaozong). A small number of them went to other business banks. Even a student with some background and fame and fortune came directly to Dashun’s Ministry of Revenue after graduation, which was a very sensation.

According to a private investigation by the East Coast intelligence officials active in Yueyang Prefecture, the level of previous graduates of Yudachang Business School is pretty good. They may not be as good as that of Yantai College’s business graduates in terms of knowledge, but they are quite traditional Chinese wisdom and are well versed in the secrets of doing business in mainland China. They are still very competitive. After Huang Bochao used them, he gradually expanded his business to many other cities in recent years, such as Shatou City, Wuchang, Jiujiang, Changsha, Hengyang, Chongqing and other places. They all sent people to set up local locations to open up markets, and there was no feeling that there was no shortage of talents, which made many people look at them with admiration.

You should know that traditional business families generally cultivate their own business talents, such as smart and clever among the candidates and nephews, such as focusing on cultivating potential employees (store shops), etc., adopting the model of using the old to lead the new and master-apprentice teaching, the cycle is often very long, and teachers like to hide it, the growth rate of talents is relatively slow and the number is very limited. However, it is different for schools to teach publicly. In terms of the speed and number of talents, it is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of the former, and the efficiency is more than a little bit higher, and it is completely subversive.

After seeing the efficient talent training model of Yudachang Business School, other businessmen began to follow suit. Some of them succeeded and obtained a large number of urgently needed talents, while others failed under the counterattack of conservative forces. But whether it was successful or failed, at least this trend was effectively driven, and subtle changes occurred in both the inside and outside of society.

Nowadays, not only merchants, but also the upper class of the Dashun court were deeply moved by the lack of talents, and the impulse to run large-scale education became stronger. Taking the Changsha Guns and Cannon Bureau as an example, because of frequent wars, the Li Shun court always wanted to expand production. But in a feudal court, it was not easy to expand production in factories. I won’t talk about the equipment for making guns and cannons. The lack of talent alone is very fatal. People who can design, operate and repair machines are not ordinary people, and you can’t just catch a farmer from the ground. In today’s increasingly popular mechanized production, illiterate craftsmen are no longer popular. Instead, workers who are proficient in literature, know arithmetic, and understand mechanical principles have higher skills requirements, and the difficulty of training is getting greater and greater, which puts higher requirements on the education level of a society.

Many people have fantasized that China is vast and has many skilled craftsmen. As long as you put forward an idea, I can create it for you soon. Maybe, but how many such people are there? He knows, will others do it? Can you design it yourself and update and iterate the products? Furthermore, large-scale industrial production is a qualitative difference between traditional manual production. Operating machine tools, repairing machines, designing production lines and even operating management, the talents required are massive, far from what you can maintain by one or two skilled craftsmen. The traditional method of cultivating talents in the master-apprentice system is no longer suitable for this production model. You must reform the education model and create a brand new model that can quickly cultivate talents on a large scale. Obviously, school education is the most suitable!

Changsha Guns and Cannon Bureau imitated the East Bank to open a mechanical college run by the bureau, which has trained a lot of talents. But now it has encountered a bottleneck, that is, the number of qualified students is seriously insufficient. To put it bluntly, people who can read, write, arithmetic, and have some basic scientific knowledge or mechanical principles are seriously insufficient. After thinking about it, this is still due to the shortcomings of basic education. In other words, since childhood, there are too few people who have learned this type of modern knowledge, which has led to the Changsha Guns and Cannon Bureau not even find enough students to find students. After all, it is still the pot of basic education, otherwise, why do you think the East Bank is full and spends astronomical money to popularize primary school education, and why do you also spend a lot of money to open night schools to popularize more scientific knowledge for corporate workers?

Popular education is the only way to enter an industrial society! If it is popularized well, the number of reserve workers, engineers and scientists will continue to rise, and the industry will develop well; if it is not popularized well, the number of reserve workers, engineers will be seriously insufficient, and there is no way to talk about the R&D and innovation capabilities, and the industrialization process will be stumbling and eating raw food. From ancient times to the present, there has never been a chance that the industry can make rapid progress without popularizing education!

Last year, Huang Bochao founded a new Yudachang Textile College in Linxiang, recruiting more than 80 students. As a result, after a year, it was not satisfactory. The teachers invited to teach generally reported that it was very difficult to teach. The students' basic knowledge was too poor and they did not understand basic mechanical principles, mechanics, and mathematics. This resulted in the teaching process being half the result with twice the effort.

After hearing this, Huang Bochao carefully compared Yudachang Business School and finally found the difference. That is, the admission threshold for the Business School is actually not high. As long as you know literacy, you can know basic arithmetic, and understand the worldly style. The remaining skills of doing business, the principles of business, etc., are not that difficult to learn even for people without foundation. But the Textile School is different. This is dealing with machines. It is far from enough to know literacy, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You also have to understand a variety of knowledge, including physics and chemistry, and the requirements of mathematics are much higher than those of the Business School. It is impossible for a person with no foundation to suddenly encounter these relatively high-level knowledge.

Huang Bochao only came back to the point and understood the importance of basic education. He once wanted to write to the court, but thought that his own people were slight, they had no fame, nor were they appointed officials in the court, and they didn't even have a channel to write to the court. So he asked the prefect of Yueyang and asked him to help write to the court, exploring the prosecution of the court, and the result was like a muddy cow entering the sea, without any further information.

In fact, it cannot be blamed on the prefect. Although the debate in the domestic ideological circle has become increasingly fierce, the conservative group is still very strong. They are very unsightly at the behavior of some royal literati "misinterpreting" saints and redefining Confucian classics, and have been fiercely criticizing them for many years. In addition, the rural areas are mostly controlled by such conservatives, and the new school will not be able to seize the dominance of public opinion for a while. Therefore, the prefect of Yueyang really dare not cause trouble at this critical moment, and rashly writes to the court for some new education.

In a lack of choice, Huang Bochao discussed with his partner Zhang Shaozong and decided to join forces with some like-minded people to pay for the opening of new primary schools and recruit young children for study. Children from rich families will definitely not come to such schools. After all, the current Dashun court mainly relies on the Four Books and Five Classics to recruit scholars. If you learn physics, chemistry, machinery, etc., it is a waste of life. Therefore, these primary schools can basically only recruit children from poor families. Parents of these children have never thought that letting their children get fame and become high-ranking officials. It is enough to let their children learn how to make a living. In this case, the tuition fees for primary school students are naturally unavailable. This basically means that running schools will cause huge losses, and they can only rely on private subsidies for the runners, which are not affordable by ordinary people.

Huang Bochao's yarn mill and cloth shop business have been pretty good in recent years, and he has saved a lot of cash. Although he was extorted by the court because of constant wars, the money for running a few primary schools is still a drop in his mind. However, relying on him alone to run schools is still a drop in the bucket for the entire Dashun country, even if some friends pay for funding. If you really want to cultivate talents on a large scale and inject sufficient reserve energy into Dashun's industrialization, it still depends on the national financial investment, but this is not difficult.

"Education is the first priority for self-improvement. My brother knows the situation now, so how can I be proud of it? The business school is not bad, but this weaving school is really worried. Just one of the two major courses in dyeing, dyeing, chemistry, and bleaching and dyeing requires you to understand all kinds of knowledge. I searched all over the house and couldn't find a few qualified students. I was discouraged when I thought about it." Huang Bochao smiled bitterly and waved his hand and said, "I opened the Yu Dachang Primary School, which completely copied the charters of Ningbo Primary Schools.

Assist children with natural intelligence, enlightening matters, cultivating virtues, and allowing them to learn reading scriptures, arithmetic, history, geography, nature, drawing, gymnastics, and self-cultivation. Once they graduate, they can open a middle school to teach ethics, scriptures, articles, foreign languages, history, geography, mathematics, mathematics, mathematics, physics and chemistry, legal system, drawing, and gymnastics. After graduating from middle school, they can only enter the business school and weaving school, and their studies are of great use. The money spent in the meantime is really unthinkable."

Zhang Shaozong was also silent when he heard this. It was actually a thankless thing to run education in Dashun. Private education and a new school were incredible risks. The court only knew how to donate classes and had no intention of investing money on it. Relying on the sole dependent on these businessmen, even if they were covered in iron, how many nails could they make?

At this time, Zhang Shaozong envied Ningbo and Denglai people. He lived there for many years, was familiar with various situations, and his children also went to school in Dinghai. In his opinion, the Eastern Kingdom court was really generous in primary education. He invested a lot of money every year and forced children of appropriate age to enter school. This effort to cultivate talents is really arrogant.

Perhaps, the various military victories of the Eastern people were already destined on the podium of primary school teachers! When will I get to this point?
Chapter completed!