Steel Dynasty - Chapter 702

[Chapter 701 The sword points at Goryeo]

With a bang, the plaque of Bowen College fell to the ground, and the plaque of Qingzhou University was officially hung on the door.

The four shining golden characters symbolize Xiao Ming’s vision, and the future of education in Dayu will be bright.

Because for him, his advantage is education, and education is the foundation for rejuvenating the country. With the technological crystal in hand, the technological explosion in the Great Yu Kingdom will be more fierce than that in the West.

In front of Qingzhou University, the two talked for a while about the reform of the imperial examination. In the end, the name of the imperial examination will continue to be retained, but the content of the examination has completely changed.

From now on, the titles of Scholar, Juren, and Jinshi will gradually become a thing of the past, and examinations will no longer be divided into provincial examinations, general examinations, and imperial examinations. Generally speaking, education in Dayu will move towards modernization.

“Your Majesty, now the military, politics, law, and medicine have been separated from Bowen College. Now only architecture, water conservancy, machinery, physics, chemistry, commerce and other subjects are left.”

This splitting of Bowen College was an order from Xiao Ming. The purpose is to formalize education. For him, Qingzhou University will be the first comprehensive university in the Chongqing Kingdom.

Military, medicine and political science are independent schools with strong professionalism and special talents.

“Well, this university is one thing, but you also have to keep an eye on the schools in various states and counties, especially the moral character of the teacher. As the saying goes, people are role models. If this teacher is a beast, how can he train me a group of people? Such a talented person.” Xiao Ming said as he walked towards Qingzhou University.

“What the emperor said is absolutely true. The lower official must strictly supervise these teachers to prevent them from misleading the children.” Chao Zhengwen said, “But the emperor, the lower official once proposed to establish a cultural and educational college to train teachers. I hope the emperor can agree. “

Chao Zhengwen’s current philosophy has become modern, and the liberal arts college he mentioned is similar to a modern normal college, dedicated to cultivating teachers.

Naturally, he had no objection to Xiao Ming, and Chao Zhengwen also knew that his real purpose was just to ask Xiao Ming for money.

This cultural and educational reform also requires money.

“I will discuss this matter with Pang Shoufu and try to squeeze out some money for you.” Xiao Ming could only say this.

There are many places where money is needed now, and they must be allocated in a unified manner, and he cannot just talk casually.

After saying this, the two continued to walk into the courtyard. Generally speaking, he was very satisfied with Chao Zhengwen’s reforms.

Nowadays, the division of subjects is becoming more and more detailed, which also means that Dayu has begun to catch up with the West in terms of talent training.

But for this, he has to personally participate in teaching and research.

Xiao Ming was overwhelmed when he thought of writing another book, and a slow writing tool like a brush was no longer suitable for him.

While inspecting Qingzhou University, he was thinking about manufacturing a fountain pen. With the current level of craftsmanship in Qingzhou, he could completely manufacture a fountain pen.

The only drawback is that he cannot make molten steel that can absorb water. Currently, he can only make a pen similar to a quill that can be dipped in ink to write a few words. After all, there is no rubber in Qingzhou now.

But when he thought of rubber, Xiao Ming’s mind came to him. This rubber was a strategic material in this era. From the present day until the Republic of China, rubber was a strategic resource for Western countries. Now he could not let go of this scarce resource.

After inspecting Qingzhou University for a while and explaining the upcoming cultural and educational reforms, Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun returned to the palace.

At this time, Song Guogong was also dragged to the East Market. In full view of the public, the yamen officials beat Song Guogong fifty times in front of the people.

Song Guogong’s buttocks were beaten to pieces after fifty spanks. When the last spank fell, he passed out.

After hearing the news, the people from the Duke’s Mansion burst into tears when they saw this, but under the supervision of Fiji and Pang Yukun, the beating was getting harder and harder.

After playing fifty pieces, Pang Yukun said: “The emperor has an order. Those who violate the law, whether they are ordinary people or relatives of the emperor, will be treated equally before the national law.”

Hearing this, the people nodded frequently.

Life in Qingzhou was originally very peaceful, but it has changed since the influx of royal family members and officials.

Some of them relied on their power and began to oppress the people. The people were angry and dared not speak out about this, so they were happy to hear that the Duke of Song was beaten.

After punishing Song Guogong, Pang Yukun and Fiji turned around and left. To them, Song Guogong brought it on himself this time. Xiao Ming was just trying to deal with these royal relatives and nobles, but Song Guogong bumped into him.

At the same time, the news that Song Guogong was beaten quickly spread among the royal family members of Qingzhou.

Song Guogong has always been their leader. Now that Song Guogong was beaten, they were naturally frightened.

In the eyes of outsiders, Xiao Ming beat Song Guogong to punish Song Guogong for beating Pang Yukun, but in their eyes, Xiao Ming was killing a chicken to show the monkeys, clearly telling them that whoever dares to cause trouble in the future will be the fate of Song Guogong. .

Many people had objections to the cancellation of royal offerings. They were preparing to discuss the matter with Song Guogong, but now that this incident suddenly appeared, they all became frightened.

To him, this Xiao Ming was different from any other prince. He had been demoted to Qingzhou since he was a child. Strictly speaking, he had no interaction with the royal family members of Chang’an.

And it’s still a joke on their part.

They didn’t help at all when Xiao Ming defeated the barbarians and the three kings. Speaking of them, they were just refugees. It could be said that Xiao Ming had no need to pay attention to them.

Although Xiao Ming inherited this country, it was simply conquered.

At this time, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu had returned to their residence. In the study, Xiao Ming faced the map on the wall and looked at Gao Li.

The most urgent thing after the reform is to find overseas markets, because after this popularization of industry, the goods in the six states will show explosive growth.

After these goods are satisfied domestically, they must be exported. Otherwise, the unsaleable goods will be like poison and kill the industrial system he established.

The essence of the problem is simple. If a businessman cannot make a profit by manufacturing goods, he cannot maintain the existence of his workshop. Even the official workshops of the imperial court will lose money and eventually become a drag if the goods are unsaleable.

It can be said that if there were no overseas colonies to provide Britain with a place to promote goods, capital would not be able to promote the British Industrial Revolution.

In the same way, if Xiao Ming cannot find a way out for his products, his industrial revolution will also be aborted.

Because of this, he set his sights on Korea, the first place he wanted to colonize. At the same time, this was also a strategy of killing two birds with one stone.

Once Goryeo surrenders, he will directly threaten the barbarians from the direction of Goryeo.

Will make up for it tomorrow and get it back.

(End of chapter)