Chapter 1301
Shocking Confidence
Chapter 1301 Shocking Confidence
In fact, Liu Shang also knew that some Ming officials who worked in Qiongzhou Island had already surrendered to Haihan. Will.Aftershock, who managed the hard labor camp in Shilu, was also a member of the Gongmen of Yacheng.To put it this way, it seems reasonable that the official in charge of Danzhou's cultural and educational undertakings is the former magistrate of Danzhou.
How many former Ming officials are currently serving in the official institutions of Haihan, Liu Shang has not grasped a relatively accurate figure, but judging from the current situation, since even civil and military officials at the level of Zhizhou and General Being retained by Haihan, it is conceivable that a large proportion of Daming's entire bureaucratic system in Qiongzhou Island should have defected to the new owner in recent years.
But Liu Shang didn't seem to have any better way to vent other than cursing a few traitors secretly in his heart.These ex-Ming officials have already changed their appearances, serving their new masters obediently, how can they remember the goodness of their old masters.Although people like Yan Mingjun have no real power in their hands, they are still doing well in the local area. The famous Liu Shang stared at Yan Mingjun who was talking, but he didn't listen to what he was saying.
What Yan Mingjun reported to the inspection team was the operating status of local educational institutions in the past year, as well as the current composition of local vocational training disciplines.The Haihan executive committee attaches great importance to many private educational institutions in Danzhou. Basically, it reviews the majors offered by each academies every year, and regulates the direction of running schools, so as to ensure that the students trained by the local academies can just meet their needs. Haihan's development needs.
The vocational training system established by Haihan is not available in Ming Dynasty. Through this method, Haihan has acquired thousands of professional students in just a few years, and these people adapt much faster after taking up the job. For Hai Han, it can be regarded as a very useful immediate combat force.
As for the lucky ones who can really enter higher-level institutions of higher learning to learn more professional skills and become entry-level disciples of time travelers, there are really very few of them.In a place like Danzhou, it is considered pretty good if ten or eight can be screened out in a year.
The symposium lasted until noon, and then Zhang Xin hosted a banquet for the arrival of the inspection team. This was also a reception banquet that they officially attended a few days after they arrived in Danzhou.However, the guests invited by Zhang Xin were far more than just the inspection team. Representatives from various countries who participated in the local arms exhibition after the military exercise were also invited. We did it together.
Liu Shang has also gradually adapted to Haihan's banquet culture, and he can handle this kind of occasion with ease.When a big person comes to toast, he will immediately stand up with the others to deal with it, so as not to be at a loss.
During the banquet, Liu Shang paid a little attention and found some interesting phenomena.For example, the envoys from Portugal and the Netherlands are obviously from the West, but they would not sit at the same table to eat, and Annan and Champa, who are neighbors to each other, are in a similar situation. They don’t even look at each other. Up and down.Although these people were very polite in front of Haihan officials, it was obvious that they were not in harmony with each other, and they even seemed to be fighting openly and secretly.
"This may be an opportunity that can be used in the future." Liu Shang secretly turned this thought in his heart.These trading partners or military allies of Haihan are not monolithic, and there will definitely be conflicts and conflicts in their respective interests, but how to use these suspicions to stir up their hostility towards Haihan, Liu Shangyi can't think of any feasible way for a while.After all, Haihan has a lot of prestige, and these countries are afraid of Haihan's force, so they may not dare to take any unreasonable actions.
After the luncheon, take a break, and the afternoon arrangement is to visit the local academies.However, because many foreign guests stayed in Danzhou, Zhang Xin didn't have time to accompany him in person, so he entrusted this task to Yan Mingjun.Of course, there is another brother in the inspection team who is very familiar with the local situation in Danzhou, and that is Zhang Qianzhi, whom Liu Shang is very afraid of.
Zhang Qianzhi lurked in Danzhou Zhongming Academy for a long time as a student, and finally captured a group of conspirators headed by Huang Zixing.After that, Zhang Qianzhi served as the director of security affairs in the Qiongbei area for a long time, and spent a lot of time in Danzhou. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a half-landlord.
But in this way, Liu Shang couldn't help but clenched his toes. As long as Zhang Qianzhi was within a few meters of him, the feeling of being watched by wild beasts never disappeared.He is still not sure whether this is the vigilance caused by Zhang Qianzhi monitoring him, or the nervousness caused by his guilty conscience.Fortunately, Zhang Qianzhi's work station is in Qiongbei, and Liu Shang knows that as long as he persists for a few more days, he should be able to completely get rid of this demon.
Yan Mingjun led the inspection team to visit, of course, well-known local educational institutions such as Bailu Academy and Jonesey Academy.Liu Shang was distracted during the morning symposium, and didn't listen to Yan Mingjun's speech at all. It wasn't until after entering the academy that he suddenly realized that the environment of the academy in Danzhou was very different from the one he knew.
The Danzhou Academy trains not only scholars who can only write poems, poems, and stereotyped essays, but a variety of vocational training. For example, the navigator, bosun and First officer and other key positions, while students majoring in finance and trade will work in state-owned commercial institutions, banks, and even the Ministry of Commerce after graduation.The textbooks used in these majors are all provided by the Ministry of Education, and the teachers have received special training, and some lecturers are even professionals who have been practicing for many years.
The detailed occupational division here is enough to amaze Liu Shang. Even the agricultural technology subject that focuses on farming is subdivided into multiple subjects such as food crops, economic crops, and deep processing of agricultural and forestry products.The study hours vary according to the degree of difficulty of the majors. Some crash courses are only a few dozen days long, while some difficult majors may take several years to learn.
As for those old masters who can only teach a subset of classics and history, although the academy will still support them, they basically do not arrange much teaching content. Apart from teaching literacy classes, the rest are almost free time arranged by themselves up.It doesn't matter if they want to study knowledge, write calligraphy or paint, even if they take their own disciples to travel abroad, the academy doesn't have too many restrictions on them.
In the words of Mayor Zhang Xin, it doesn't cost a lot of money to raise these old masters, and the culture still needs someone to pass it on.Even if cultural activities such as reciting poems, writing and painting are not productive, the state is still willing to allocate special funds to let these "cultural people" do what they want to do.Of course, the premise is to obey the management of the government, and don't engage in illegal activities like Huang Zixing from Zhongming Academy.
For Liu Shang, Haihan's education system is undoubtedly very novel. Haihan people do not need to pass the imperial examinations to complete the recruitment of professionals, but are recommended by these vocational education institutions. For students, it is enough to pass the review of professional institutions.This means that many ordinary people who have not read the Four Books and Five Classics also have the opportunity to enter the bureaucratic system of Haihan by mastering professional skills.Although the vast majority of them are only "officials" rather than "officials", as long as they enter this system, it is equivalent to gaining an upward channel.In the future, no matter whether it is to join the Youth League or strive for opportunities for further study, there will always be the possibility of changing from an official to an official.
However, Liu Shang also noticed that these private educational institutions do not have majors related to steam engines. According to reports, this major has not yet been granted permission to private institutions, and relevant courses can only be studied in government-run colleges in Sanya.This made Liu Shang a little disappointed. If there is a private academy here that can get in touch with the steam engine, then he can try to arrange people to come here to study.
After visiting around, Liu Shang found that these majors in the local academies are basically very practical subjects. Students often have roughly determined their future employment direction when they enter school, and even some majors have already determined their employment direction when they enter school. The relevant agreement has been signed with the employer.
For a large number of ordinary students with average family conditions, this kind of enrollment and employment path undoubtedly saves a lot of time and avoids the possibility of detours.Compared with those scholars who have been taking the imperial examinations for several years and decades but have not been able to obtain official titles, obtaining a job with stable income and room for advancement through vocational training is the only way for ordinary people. It is the safest path of life.
When Liu Shang was young, he also went to an academy to systematically study the Four Books and Five Classics, and was a scholar who had participated in the provincial examination. He was also relatively clear about the promotion path of the Ming scholars.Thousands of troops crowded the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, and only a handful of people could cross it.Haihan's vocational training system has given hope to more people and lowered the barriers to entering the bureaucratic system to a very low level.
Of course, Liu Shang also understands that the current situation is due to the fact that the country was just established and there are not many talents available, so he has to lower the threshold for recruiting talents. Even if he pretends to be a storyteller, he will be actively recruited by the state agency. The degree of thirst for talent.When Haihan Kingdom develops for a few more years and the talent pool gradually increases, the threshold for becoming an official may increase year by year.This kind of practice is not uncommon in history. People with a discerning eye can clearly see the current situation of Haihan, and of course they will sharpen their heads to fight for the many opportunities in the first few years of the founding of the country.
If it wasn't for Liu Shang's special status, the courtesies Hai Han gave would indeed be enough for him to stay and work hard.A storyteller who hangs out in restaurants and teahouses, how can he be compared with his current status as a state official, if he were someone else, he would have burnt incense to the eight generations of ancestors.
As Liu Shang followed the team, he pondered some messy thoughts in his mind.Although he came here with the mission of overthrowing Haihan, after seeing the prosperity and prosperity of this emerging country here, and the scene of a well-organized government and harmonious people, he couldn't help but have some doubts about the task he shouldered—with the outstanding governing ability of the Haihan people And a stable political system, how can we snatch its ruling power with only some means that cannot be put on the table?
The more he saw this road, the more Liu Shang understood that the rise of this group of Hai Han people in the South China Sea was not due to luck, and their governing ability was far better than that of the local government in the south of Ming Dynasty.Now, if they want to stir up the regime that has already taken root in the local area, they must either count on internal strife at its top, or they can only count on natural disasters.It seems unrealistic to take back Qiongzhou Island and deport the Haihan people by force.
These private academies are basically public educational institutions, and there are no secrets at all. Liu Shang was not interested in watching, and he listened to what Yan Mingjun and others said along the way. Probably, they didn't have the energy to concentrate on collecting intelligence as they did in the previous stations.
It wasn't until returning to the residence at night that Liu Shangjing came down to reflect on the harvest of the day, only to realize that his mind was really distracted during the visit today.Thinking about it carefully, this should also have a great relationship with watching the Haihan military exercise three days ago.He believed that it would be impossible for any of his colleagues to remain indifferent after seeing the many advanced weapons displayed by Haihan. Facing such a highly armed Haihan army, no one would be willing to act as an opponent on the battlefield. their opponents.At least Liu Shang had completely given up the idea of retaking Qiongzhou Island by force after watching the military exercise.
If possible, Liu Shang really wants his superiors, his superiors, and those big figures in the capital to come here to see for themselves, so that they can confirm with their own eyes that the so-called "South China Sea barbarians" have been created in the south. What a situation.If you don't come here to witness it with your own eyes, those big figures above will probably continue to argue endlessly over whether they should "appease" or "kill" the Haihan people who occupy the magpie nest and Jiuzhan.Liu Shang believes that after they come here to see the real situation of Haihan Kingdom, they will give up these unrealistic ideas-with the strength of Haihan Kingdom today, can they still obey Daming's "consolation"?Still afraid of "suppression"?
The southern government is cautious and pretends to be blind to Haihan's expansion over the years, half of the reason is because they have taken enough benefits from the Haihan people, and the other half is probably because they don't want to create a reason for the Haihan people to go to war.Once a war breaks out, the speed at which the southern coastal area loses territory will probably be equated with the speed at which the Haihan Army marched.
These thoughts floated around in Liu Shang's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became.He knew that as an intelligence officer lurking behind enemy lines, it was extremely inappropriate to feel depressed, but right now it seemed that there was really nothing he could do to regain his confidence.Perhaps it was an irreparable mistake to take over this errand at the beginning.
(End of this chapter)
In fact, Liu Shang also knew that some Ming officials who worked in Qiongzhou Island had already surrendered to Haihan. Will.Aftershock, who managed the hard labor camp in Shilu, was also a member of the Gongmen of Yacheng.To put it this way, it seems reasonable that the official in charge of Danzhou's cultural and educational undertakings is the former magistrate of Danzhou.
How many former Ming officials are currently serving in the official institutions of Haihan, Liu Shang has not grasped a relatively accurate figure, but judging from the current situation, since even civil and military officials at the level of Zhizhou and General Being retained by Haihan, it is conceivable that a large proportion of Daming's entire bureaucratic system in Qiongzhou Island should have defected to the new owner in recent years.
But Liu Shang didn't seem to have any better way to vent other than cursing a few traitors secretly in his heart.These ex-Ming officials have already changed their appearances, serving their new masters obediently, how can they remember the goodness of their old masters.Although people like Yan Mingjun have no real power in their hands, they are still doing well in the local area. The famous Liu Shang stared at Yan Mingjun who was talking, but he didn't listen to what he was saying.
What Yan Mingjun reported to the inspection team was the operating status of local educational institutions in the past year, as well as the current composition of local vocational training disciplines.The Haihan executive committee attaches great importance to many private educational institutions in Danzhou. Basically, it reviews the majors offered by each academies every year, and regulates the direction of running schools, so as to ensure that the students trained by the local academies can just meet their needs. Haihan's development needs.
The vocational training system established by Haihan is not available in Ming Dynasty. Through this method, Haihan has acquired thousands of professional students in just a few years, and these people adapt much faster after taking up the job. For Hai Han, it can be regarded as a very useful immediate combat force.
As for the lucky ones who can really enter higher-level institutions of higher learning to learn more professional skills and become entry-level disciples of time travelers, there are really very few of them.In a place like Danzhou, it is considered pretty good if ten or eight can be screened out in a year.
The symposium lasted until noon, and then Zhang Xin hosted a banquet for the arrival of the inspection team. This was also a reception banquet that they officially attended a few days after they arrived in Danzhou.However, the guests invited by Zhang Xin were far more than just the inspection team. Representatives from various countries who participated in the local arms exhibition after the military exercise were also invited. We did it together.
Liu Shang has also gradually adapted to Haihan's banquet culture, and he can handle this kind of occasion with ease.When a big person comes to toast, he will immediately stand up with the others to deal with it, so as not to be at a loss.
During the banquet, Liu Shang paid a little attention and found some interesting phenomena.For example, the envoys from Portugal and the Netherlands are obviously from the West, but they would not sit at the same table to eat, and Annan and Champa, who are neighbors to each other, are in a similar situation. They don’t even look at each other. Up and down.Although these people were very polite in front of Haihan officials, it was obvious that they were not in harmony with each other, and they even seemed to be fighting openly and secretly.
"This may be an opportunity that can be used in the future." Liu Shang secretly turned this thought in his heart.These trading partners or military allies of Haihan are not monolithic, and there will definitely be conflicts and conflicts in their respective interests, but how to use these suspicions to stir up their hostility towards Haihan, Liu Shangyi can't think of any feasible way for a while.After all, Haihan has a lot of prestige, and these countries are afraid of Haihan's force, so they may not dare to take any unreasonable actions.
After the luncheon, take a break, and the afternoon arrangement is to visit the local academies.However, because many foreign guests stayed in Danzhou, Zhang Xin didn't have time to accompany him in person, so he entrusted this task to Yan Mingjun.Of course, there is another brother in the inspection team who is very familiar with the local situation in Danzhou, and that is Zhang Qianzhi, whom Liu Shang is very afraid of.
Zhang Qianzhi lurked in Danzhou Zhongming Academy for a long time as a student, and finally captured a group of conspirators headed by Huang Zixing.After that, Zhang Qianzhi served as the director of security affairs in the Qiongbei area for a long time, and spent a lot of time in Danzhou. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a half-landlord.
But in this way, Liu Shang couldn't help but clenched his toes. As long as Zhang Qianzhi was within a few meters of him, the feeling of being watched by wild beasts never disappeared.He is still not sure whether this is the vigilance caused by Zhang Qianzhi monitoring him, or the nervousness caused by his guilty conscience.Fortunately, Zhang Qianzhi's work station is in Qiongbei, and Liu Shang knows that as long as he persists for a few more days, he should be able to completely get rid of this demon.
Yan Mingjun led the inspection team to visit, of course, well-known local educational institutions such as Bailu Academy and Jonesey Academy.Liu Shang was distracted during the morning symposium, and didn't listen to Yan Mingjun's speech at all. It wasn't until after entering the academy that he suddenly realized that the environment of the academy in Danzhou was very different from the one he knew.
The Danzhou Academy trains not only scholars who can only write poems, poems, and stereotyped essays, but a variety of vocational training. For example, the navigator, bosun and First officer and other key positions, while students majoring in finance and trade will work in state-owned commercial institutions, banks, and even the Ministry of Commerce after graduation.The textbooks used in these majors are all provided by the Ministry of Education, and the teachers have received special training, and some lecturers are even professionals who have been practicing for many years.
The detailed occupational division here is enough to amaze Liu Shang. Even the agricultural technology subject that focuses on farming is subdivided into multiple subjects such as food crops, economic crops, and deep processing of agricultural and forestry products.The study hours vary according to the degree of difficulty of the majors. Some crash courses are only a few dozen days long, while some difficult majors may take several years to learn.
As for those old masters who can only teach a subset of classics and history, although the academy will still support them, they basically do not arrange much teaching content. Apart from teaching literacy classes, the rest are almost free time arranged by themselves up.It doesn't matter if they want to study knowledge, write calligraphy or paint, even if they take their own disciples to travel abroad, the academy doesn't have too many restrictions on them.
In the words of Mayor Zhang Xin, it doesn't cost a lot of money to raise these old masters, and the culture still needs someone to pass it on.Even if cultural activities such as reciting poems, writing and painting are not productive, the state is still willing to allocate special funds to let these "cultural people" do what they want to do.Of course, the premise is to obey the management of the government, and don't engage in illegal activities like Huang Zixing from Zhongming Academy.
For Liu Shang, Haihan's education system is undoubtedly very novel. Haihan people do not need to pass the imperial examinations to complete the recruitment of professionals, but are recommended by these vocational education institutions. For students, it is enough to pass the review of professional institutions.This means that many ordinary people who have not read the Four Books and Five Classics also have the opportunity to enter the bureaucratic system of Haihan by mastering professional skills.Although the vast majority of them are only "officials" rather than "officials", as long as they enter this system, it is equivalent to gaining an upward channel.In the future, no matter whether it is to join the Youth League or strive for opportunities for further study, there will always be the possibility of changing from an official to an official.
However, Liu Shang also noticed that these private educational institutions do not have majors related to steam engines. According to reports, this major has not yet been granted permission to private institutions, and relevant courses can only be studied in government-run colleges in Sanya.This made Liu Shang a little disappointed. If there is a private academy here that can get in touch with the steam engine, then he can try to arrange people to come here to study.
After visiting around, Liu Shang found that these majors in the local academies are basically very practical subjects. Students often have roughly determined their future employment direction when they enter school, and even some majors have already determined their employment direction when they enter school. The relevant agreement has been signed with the employer.
For a large number of ordinary students with average family conditions, this kind of enrollment and employment path undoubtedly saves a lot of time and avoids the possibility of detours.Compared with those scholars who have been taking the imperial examinations for several years and decades but have not been able to obtain official titles, obtaining a job with stable income and room for advancement through vocational training is the only way for ordinary people. It is the safest path of life.
When Liu Shang was young, he also went to an academy to systematically study the Four Books and Five Classics, and was a scholar who had participated in the provincial examination. He was also relatively clear about the promotion path of the Ming scholars.Thousands of troops crowded the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, and only a handful of people could cross it.Haihan's vocational training system has given hope to more people and lowered the barriers to entering the bureaucratic system to a very low level.
Of course, Liu Shang also understands that the current situation is due to the fact that the country was just established and there are not many talents available, so he has to lower the threshold for recruiting talents. Even if he pretends to be a storyteller, he will be actively recruited by the state agency. The degree of thirst for talent.When Haihan Kingdom develops for a few more years and the talent pool gradually increases, the threshold for becoming an official may increase year by year.This kind of practice is not uncommon in history. People with a discerning eye can clearly see the current situation of Haihan, and of course they will sharpen their heads to fight for the many opportunities in the first few years of the founding of the country.
If it wasn't for Liu Shang's special status, the courtesies Hai Han gave would indeed be enough for him to stay and work hard.A storyteller who hangs out in restaurants and teahouses, how can he be compared with his current status as a state official, if he were someone else, he would have burnt incense to the eight generations of ancestors.
As Liu Shang followed the team, he pondered some messy thoughts in his mind.Although he came here with the mission of overthrowing Haihan, after seeing the prosperity and prosperity of this emerging country here, and the scene of a well-organized government and harmonious people, he couldn't help but have some doubts about the task he shouldered—with the outstanding governing ability of the Haihan people And a stable political system, how can we snatch its ruling power with only some means that cannot be put on the table?
The more he saw this road, the more Liu Shang understood that the rise of this group of Hai Han people in the South China Sea was not due to luck, and their governing ability was far better than that of the local government in the south of Ming Dynasty.Now, if they want to stir up the regime that has already taken root in the local area, they must either count on internal strife at its top, or they can only count on natural disasters.It seems unrealistic to take back Qiongzhou Island and deport the Haihan people by force.
These private academies are basically public educational institutions, and there are no secrets at all. Liu Shang was not interested in watching, and he listened to what Yan Mingjun and others said along the way. Probably, they didn't have the energy to concentrate on collecting intelligence as they did in the previous stations.
It wasn't until returning to the residence at night that Liu Shangjing came down to reflect on the harvest of the day, only to realize that his mind was really distracted during the visit today.Thinking about it carefully, this should also have a great relationship with watching the Haihan military exercise three days ago.He believed that it would be impossible for any of his colleagues to remain indifferent after seeing the many advanced weapons displayed by Haihan. Facing such a highly armed Haihan army, no one would be willing to act as an opponent on the battlefield. their opponents.At least Liu Shang had completely given up the idea of retaking Qiongzhou Island by force after watching the military exercise.
If possible, Liu Shang really wants his superiors, his superiors, and those big figures in the capital to come here to see for themselves, so that they can confirm with their own eyes that the so-called "South China Sea barbarians" have been created in the south. What a situation.If you don't come here to witness it with your own eyes, those big figures above will probably continue to argue endlessly over whether they should "appease" or "kill" the Haihan people who occupy the magpie nest and Jiuzhan.Liu Shang believes that after they come here to see the real situation of Haihan Kingdom, they will give up these unrealistic ideas-with the strength of Haihan Kingdom today, can they still obey Daming's "consolation"?Still afraid of "suppression"?
The southern government is cautious and pretends to be blind to Haihan's expansion over the years, half of the reason is because they have taken enough benefits from the Haihan people, and the other half is probably because they don't want to create a reason for the Haihan people to go to war.Once a war breaks out, the speed at which the southern coastal area loses territory will probably be equated with the speed at which the Haihan Army marched.
These thoughts floated around in Liu Shang's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became.He knew that as an intelligence officer lurking behind enemy lines, it was extremely inappropriate to feel depressed, but right now it seemed that there was really nothing he could do to regain his confidence.Perhaps it was an irreparable mistake to take over this errand at the beginning.
(End of this chapter)