Chapter 650: The Tide of the Times

"Your Highness, this is a considerable expense. Reading"

"This king naturally knows, but there is no room for slowness at the moment. We must adopt radical methods to popularize education and cultivate enough talents for Dasong in a short period of time." Zhao Xu said.

Scientific theories are ready-made, but someone has to move the theoretical things from books to reality.

Otherwise, everything is just a mirage, and in the end it is nothing.

Therefore, even if a large sum of money is taken out of the treasury, this matter must be done.

As long as Yanzhou's technology continues to break through, he can use Yanzhou's products to obtain wealth from all over the world.

If he is stingy with this little money, the future struggle with the West will cost countless times more money than the cost of education.

"Your Highness's courage is really the same as before." Liu Fu recalled that when the King of Yan had just recovered from his illness, he set a land tax of 10% in Yanzhou.

And this policy has continued to this day, winning the hearts of the people and making the prestige of the King of Yan irreplaceable.

He believes that the King of Yan's decision this time will not be wrong.

Although he felt sorry for the money, he was also very supportive of this matter.

Born in a poor family, he could naturally understand the sadness of poor children who wanted to study but could not afford it.

Once this policy is implemented, it will not add any burden to the people of Yanzhou.

At that time, they will certainly be happy to send their children to Gongshu.

Thinking of this, he was a little impatient, so he said: "Your Highness, I will go to prepare for this matter now."

"Wait a minute." Zhao Xu kept Liu Fu, "This is not enough. The most important thing is to let the people see the benefits of letting their children go to school. Therefore, it is necessary for the court to issue some more policies to promote education in Yanzhou."

"First, Gongshu must issue a certificate of completion. Without a certificate of completion, you are not allowed to participate in the official examination. Secondly, the recruitment of personnel in Yanzhou workshops must also meet corresponding requirements."

He divided Gongshu into seven levels, of which the first four levels are equivalent to contemporary primary education, and the last three levels are equivalent to junior high school education.

He did not plan to implement high school education in Gongshu.

Students who graduate from Gongshu can directly enter the Science and Technology School, the Government School, the Military School, the Medical School, and the Teacher School to be established by passing the exam.

The modern grade design is reasonable, but for him, it is only suitable for the modern times, not for the current Dasong.

First of all, Gongshu needs to master very few subjects. Before the fourth level, he only needs to take Chinese, mathematics and a comprehensive subject to popularize scientific phenomena, history, geography and other enlightenment knowledge.

Chemistry and physics will be added from the fifth to the seventh grade.

At this time, the knowledge they have mastered will meet the current technological needs.

In this way, Yanzhou can quickly cultivate more talents in line with this era.

After all, in ancient times, people could take the imperial examination at the age of fourteen.

Too many grades will only waste time and resources.

Of course, as technology advances, he will continue to make adjustments to Gongshu to adapt to the development of technology.

Therefore, Gongshu will issue a graduation certificate in the fourth grade and a graduation certificate in the seventh grade.

The graduation certificate for the fourth grade is just to eliminate illiteracy and enter the workshop as an ordinary craftsman.

The seventh-grade graduation book allows students to enter the workshop and then train them to be technical backbones.

If they still have the desire to study, a workshop school will be specially established at that time, and students from the science and technology school will come to give lectures.

"In addition, there is also a comprehensive improvement in the status and treatment of craftsmen in official workshops, and publicity to all employees through the Propaganda Department." Zhao Xu thought about it and continued.

Liu Fu secretly admired him when he heard it.

It must be said that all the policies issued by the King of Yan have grasped the key.

It is good that the people of Yanzhou support the King of Yan.

But sometimes, the people are also very realistic. They are generally not too interested in things that are not beneficial.

Now, the King of Yan has linked all walks of life with the graduation book of Gongshu.

If they don't want their children to face the loess and back to the sky all their lives, they can only change their fate through Gongshu education.

"High, really high." Liu Fu gave a thumbs up.

Zhao Xu was basically immune to Liu Fu's flattery. He said, "Okay, now you can go back and prepare."

In the next few days, Zhao Xu inspected other workshops, especially the weaving workshop.

This is the last link in the textile industry chain after spinning.

The loom currently used in the weaving workshop is the flying shuttle loom that was born around 1790.

The principle of the loom is very simple, just like the longitude and latitude lines on the map.

Just cross the longitude and latitude lines and the cloth will be born.

The characteristic of the flying shuttle loom is to use the flying shuttle to quickly intersperse between the warps to improve the efficiency of weaving.

So, its key structure is this flying shuttle.

The key structure of the flying shuttle is the spring inside, which is naturally not a problem for the current industrial level of Yanzhou.

In addition, the loom is a traditional handicraft of the craftsmen of Dasong.

The combination of the two successfully manufactured the flying shuttle loom.

With steam power, the first steam-powered weaving workshop in Yanzhou was born.

"How many rolls of cloth can each loom produce in a day?" Zhao Xu asked the weaving workshop manager who was accompanying him.

The manager of the weaving workshop was an old woman.

She had been on edge since Zhao Xu arrived at the weaving workshop. Hearing this, she stammered, "About 200 rolls of cloth can be woven in 12 hours."

Zhao Xu nodded. When the flying shuttle loom was first invented, it relied on manual threading of the shuttle. At that time, its efficiency was about twice that of an ordinary loom.

Later, after the transition to water power and then to steam power, its efficiency was further improved, and now it has reached about 1,500 to 600 times that of an ordinary loom.

In addition, the weaving workshop adopts a three-shift work method. People rest, but the machines do not rest, so the efficiency is even higher, reaching 200 times.

He roughly calculated that there are 500 looms in the weaving workshop.

The output of this day is 100,000 pieces, which can only be described as terrifying.

The quality of the cloth made by these machines is also very good. It won’t take long for these mechanically woven cloths to quickly destroy the traditional small peasant economy in Yanzhou.

And this is also one of his plans.

The small peasant economy firmly fixes the population on the land. This is caused by the feudal system based on agriculture for thousands of years.

Yanzhou already lacks labor. If this is not changed, the people will still live a life of men farming and women weaving, and no one will be willing to come to the workshop.

In this way, the development of industry will be restricted.

Although, destroying the small peasant economy is equivalent to changing their way of life, which is a bit cruel.

But this is the tide of the times. He can be merciful, but the Western countries will not be merciful to the Dasong people.

At that time, their comfortable life will be destroyed and they will suffer a disaster they have never experienced before.