Chapter 130 Official Opening of the Park
If you want to strengthen the country and enrich the people and to break the cycle of chaos that has been in place for thousands of years, you must significantly increase your productivity and enter industrial civilization from agricultural civilization. The emergence of industrial civilization originated from the first productivity change brought by machines.
Various machines are manufactured in batches, originating from the development of science and technology, and the systematic origin of science, originating from the discovery of various theorems and laws, and originating from the fact that people have reached a sufficient level of understanding of the world. At its source, these cognitions are derived from the efforts of various scholars who have mastered knowledge.
The development of science is accidental, but inevitable. Many accidental discoveries are combined and integrated into each other, forming the cornerstone of the scientific cognition world.
Just so happened that Fu Xuechen, a time traveler, carries these cornerstones in his mind. Later scientists gradually built high-rise buildings above these cornerstones. Fu Xuechen only learned a little bit of the details of some aspects.
However, as early as in junior high school, she had mastered the modern scientific knowledge that Western scholars in her previous life took two or three centuries to gradually improve, such as Newton's three laws, Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, mathematics, geography, etc.
It is naturally the fastest and most convenient to build a factory directly and create various production machines that can change the world. But now Fu Xuechen is only twelve or thirteen years old, and he is still a girl who is not that convenient to go out to do things, so it is extremely unrealistic to build a factory.
So how could she start to build a school first? She starts teaching from a child, selects the best among them, and cultivates scientific talents who can stand alone in the future? Even if she can only build a girl's school at the beginning, what does it matter? Female scientists and female doctors can also appear among women.
A person's energy is limited. If a person goes to build a factory and build a machine, if something happens in the middle and the person is gone, science means that the seeds will die before they sprout.
What if we don’t rush to build a factory first, but instead focus on educating first? One person can teach dozens of scientific knowledge in five or six years, and the level of scientific knowledge is about the same as that of scientists in the seventeenth century. If these dozens of people are dispersed and teach one or two classes of students, in another five or six years, the same talents will become hundreds of people.
It takes ten years to obtain hundreds of talents who have mastered the basic science of science, and then go out to set up factories separately, invent and manufacture machines in batches. Isn’t this much more efficient than spending ten years building factories everywhere?
"Yes!" Princess Zhiling nodded. From today on, she is ten years old and she is unwilling to go to the first grade under nine years old.
Princess Zhiling laughed: "Of course! I must be unable to do without the help of you two! Sister Xuechen is also one, so I will choose a few more suitable helpers. Let's work together to get this student union together!"
Fu Xuechen shook his head and smiled: "Of course not! Confucius' disciples all want to take the imperial examination. We girls mainly know literacy, not necessarily to learn the Confucian classics, let alone not take the imperial examination. Even if we want to worship, we should worship Cangjie! What's more, what we have learned is quite complicated. If we worship Confucius, should we worship the ancestor of art, painting, music, weaver girl, and Yi Yin?"
After entering the classroom, the three of them were still sitting in the same row of seats, two of them read on the left and right, protecting Princess Zhiling. Fortunately, the other twenty girls in the same class were also valuable. The worst adults in the family were all uncles. Several of them were even sloppy and could even get a little kinship with the princess, so no one paid too much attention to the princess.
"Me, can I join?" Xia Qinglian quickly raised his hand quietly.
Therefore, Fu Xuechen decided to focus his future efforts on education, and when the scientific power was still very weak, he tried not to touch the powerful Confucian education system, not to dig out the seeds of Confucian study, but to focus his attention on women and poor orphans.
"If one day in the future, the school accidentally recruits a bad gentleman who is hypocritical but actually has bad morals and bullies certain students privately, our student union can uphold justice for the wronged students!" Princess Zhiling couldn't help but pinch her fists. These were the things Fu Xuechen taught her.
"I heard that the academies of Imperial College, the whole academies gather in the morning of the 15th day of the month to worship Confucius." Princess Zhiling asked with some envy: "Sister Xuechen, are we really not worshipping?"
The person in charge of all kinds of chores was an old eunuch from the Interior Department transferred from the palace. His surname was Li, who was in his forties. He was in charge of all other chores except his husband. He also contacted the police in the school and outside the school.
On campus, Fu Xuechen completed the registration and payment early and found the fifth-grade student classroom he should be in. It was located on the first floor of the most closest bookstore in Jinghua Garden, one, two, three, and four, and the second of the four classrooms.
Cui Xiaoyue looked at Princess Zhiling in shock.
Fu Xuechen didn't know any peers and didn't see Chen Wei. After recognizing the classroom, he left here. There were many girls around him looking for and visiting the classroom. It would not be too late to meet classmates when they officially go to school tomorrow, so there was no need to worry.
Princess Zhiling recalled a little and said, "For example, organize activities from time to time, such as literary gatherings, poetry gatherings, chess gatherings, piano gatherings, calligraphy and painting gatherings, or have some lottery competitions, and occasionally organize some small donations to bring warmth to the orphans in Yangjianyuan not far away."
Cui Xiaoyue was curious when she heard this: "Student Union? Be the master of the family? What exactly are you doing?"
After the first class, the teacher left, and a little noise suddenly broke out in the classroom. On the day of registration, everyone came in, but no one guessed the correct use of the dark green wooden board on the wall.
"The key is that the student union can discuss our own demands with the gentlemen on behalf of all students, and can also protect ourselves and not be completely bound by the rules of respecting teachers and respecting the truth."
This day of the Chinese lunar calendar is almost the end of August and the beginning of September in later generations, which is also the beginning of all schools. The midsummer has just passed and the weather is very suitable.
Fu Xuechen stepped forward and gently patted Princess Zhiling with the ball fan in his hand.
Princess Zhiling and her two companions were studying Cui Xiaoyue, and Xia Qinglian was assigned to the same classroom. Xia Qinglian was younger, only nine years old, and should have been assigned to the first grade. Fortunately, she could be ten years old at the end of the year and was a princess to study. She was lucky enough to be assigned to the second grade and continued to be a classmate for the princess.
Xia Qinglian agreed in a low voice: "It's very likely! Didn't your highness say that the idea of building a girl's school was made by Sister Xue Chen? She had such an idea, so it wouldn't be surprising to get these things out?"
Si Ye and Yoonzuo were nominally just a deputy who did a chore for Yoonji Jijiu. Because he needed to attend classes in Mingde Hall, he did not appear. However, Yoonjiu Jijiu finally showed up. This was a young man under twenty years old, full of books. Fu Xuechen felt that this prince was very suitable for wearing gold-rimmed glasses, which was very gentle and scum.
Princess Zhiling smiled and said, "Sister Xuechen is indeed a very idea! She also suggested that I come forward and select several capable students from this campus to form a student union to be the masters of our students!"
However, now girls' schools are invented, and the teaching system has not been improved. There is no question of assessment and admission. At present, they can only distinguish levels based on age. Those who need to be redirected or upgraded must wait for the end of the semester before reading.
Cui Xiaoyue also looked at Princess Zhiling in anticipation, and her expression was also ready to move.
Qingwei Camp also came. They were responsible for patrolling the walls outside the school to prevent people from secretly climbing into the wall. However, the exterior wall of Jinghua Garden is very high, taller than ordinary wealthy families. There are no tall trees outside the walls for climbing. Most people should not climb into the walls. If they don’t encounter such skilled gangsters, the safety of the girls’ school is still very guaranteed.
The first day was used to relocate the female gentlemen into Jinghuayuan and to familiarize themselves with the environment for the students. Therefore, girls were not prohibited from walking around randomly on campus. There were only female guards and eunuchs on duty outside the second gate to watch, and men over seven years of age were not allowed to get in.
The purpose of the morning meeting is very simple, which is to read the purpose and significance of the emperor's school to all the girls, praise the benevolence and achievements of His Majesty the Emperor, and then briefly introduce the current priest of the girls' school, the third prince Yoonji, and the female gentlemen, so that everyone can have an impression of the gentlemen, and they usually know how to meet and see the gentlemen.
When she walked back to the front bookstore, she happened to meet Princess Zhiling who came out of the classroom. She was wearing a simple summer skirt and a simple headdress. The little palace maid who was accompanying her also changed into the palace maid's outfit, which looked no different from the little maid from other families. If she met someone she was unfamiliar, she would not recognize the princess in front of her.
Only the knowledge mastered by one or two people is simply a secret recipe. It spreads to more than a dozen people and dozens of people, but it is still not enough to see it. Only when it spreads to hundreds and more than a few thousand people, the new knowledge system of science has the opportunity to survive and grow and grow. Only when more and more people learn and cultivate more and more talents can they bring about industrial changes.
Eunuch transferred from the palace to a row of tables and chairs in the second gate to deal with the female students who received admission notices from each family. According to the classes and classrooms that had been assigned to them in advance, they would give them corresponding student certificates, tell them which classroom they should go to to report to, and also charge their tuition fees.
What interested Fu Xuechen was that Zhu Jiuniang, a fifth-grade teacher of the Shuwen Class, was appointed as the teacher of the girls' school, which was a higher position than the teacher, and was almost the same as the director of the teaching in later generations.
Everyone thought that this wooden board was used to order paper to facilitate gentlemen to write on paper, but it turned out not! There was no paper pen and ink on the podium. The gentlemen took a small white chalk and completely replaced the function of paper pen and ink!
Princess Zhiling turned around and called out in surprise: "Sister Xuechen!"
After the morning meeting, the third prince Yoonji left Jinghua Garden. He would not come again without any major matters in the future. Zhu Jiuniang will lead the daily school affairs and discuss and decide with several teachers. If there is anything that cannot be decided, he will sue the sixth prince Yoonji and ask Yoonji to solve the problem.
With her hard work, the girls' school was built. I wonder if she could successfully take the next step she wanted in this girls' school in the future and then the next step, but now, she finally took the first step!
On July 22, the second year of Yuan'an, Darong Empire, Jinghua Garden officially opened.
Fu Xuechen thinks that it is not appropriate for girls' schools to divide classes according to age. When everyone is at home, their personal training courses are different. Some go to school early, some go to school late. It is very likely that some people are young but have a high level. It is no problem to go to the senior grade, but some are the opposite.
So it was similar to the school opening day in later generations. After the grand lion and dragon dance, firecrackers and other ceremonies, a group of female students who had already arrived in a car rushed into Jinghua Garden.
Princess Zhiling suddenly guessed: "Do you think this is Sister Xuechen's idea? She has been helping gentlemen fiddling with the new meaning of the classics in Jinghua Garden every day."
Fu Xuechen just said casually, just trying to dispel Princess Zhiling's idea of imitating the Confucian academy to worship Confucius, but Princess Zhiling was interesting to hear: setting up a flag to represent the Darong Empire?
Although the girls' school did not have any statue of Confucius and did not hold any ceremony to worship the Master, in the morning of the official opening of the next day, all the staff gathered in the square and held a brief morning meeting.
Princess Zhiling quickly shook her head: "Don't look at me! I don't know that there is such a thing in the world."
Then the crowd dispersed and went back to their classes to formally receive the education of the gentlemen.
Fu Xuechen looked at the classroom where Princess Zhiling had just walked out: "Are you going to the second grade?"
"There are too many ancestors that need to be worshipped, so I won't even worship them!" Fu Xuechen hoped that the girls' school teaching should be the first to get close to science, and that he would not be willing to respect Confucian Confucius. He refused to say: "Instead of respecting Confucius God, I think it is better to set up a flag in the square of the school gate to represent my Darong Empire, conduct a flag-raising ceremony, and teach students loyalty and patriotism."
Later, while introducing himself to the students, the teacher used chalk to write down his surname on the blackboard. Only then did the students realize that the huge dark green painted wooden board on the wall in front was a tool for writing?!
Their class is a book and text class. When the teacher who teaches book and text comes in, both parties will say hello as usual.
Cui Xiaoyue's eyes were shiny and she said admiringly: "I really don't know who thought it out. She can write it at any time and erase it at any time. There is no need to lay and waste paper or grind it ink. This saves a lot of effort!"
"At that time, I will do all the matters that come forward to negotiate with the gentlemen! Let Sister Xuechen be responsible for helping the stewardship school, Xiaoyue, you should be responsible for the collection and expenses of the student union! Qinglian, you should be responsible for supervising and managing the members of the student union!"
"Oh yes!" Princess Zhiling finally added: "Sister Xuechen also said that our students' union must have their own newspapers! Just like the imperial court has a mansion, it specifically reports some new things worth mentioning on campus and off campus, and can also publish excellent poems and essays written by students, one issue per month or one issue per half month."
After Cui Xiaoyue and Xia Qinglian were both civil officials, they became interested immediately when they heard this and quickly asked for details. They had held poetry and literary gatherings in their social circles before, and tried to publish poetry collections.
Unfortunately, the circle of noble girls is not big, and their poetry collection is not as good as that of Chen Zijin, one of the four famous socialites. They are so outstanding that they are just for self-entertainment! But now it is different. In the name of the student union, they can be well-known among the hundreds of students in the school. This is not much better than what poetry collections they publish in private?!
Several people discussed and were more interested in the student union and the publications that would be listed under the student union. They really wanted to take action immediately and put these ideas into reality.
Chapter completed!