Zhang Yuanfang became excited because of his extreme longing for the future, and even his dark and wrinkled cheeks turned dark.

Money is not a problem. This sentence is easy to say from Dong Liang, but it is very comfortable to hear it in Zhang Yuanfang's ears.

Schools in this era, including those in Europe at this time, were extremely short of funding.

The constant wars have caused various countries to invest major resources in the construction of the military, while the investment in education is pitiful.

In Europe, the main funding for those schools comes from donations from nobles and capitalists. Whether they can get donations depends on luck. There is no guarantee for such funding sources.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in addition to prefecture schools and county schools, general academies also relied on donations to survive.

Now that Dong Liang has unified them into official schools to provide protection, how can they be unhappy?

The happiest students were those students in private academies. They suddenly became members of the government schools and could enjoy free study.

With a thousand students, this would probably include all the young scholars in Dongfan Island.

Since it was a meeting, Dong Liang naturally wanted to listen to their voices.

However, most of the questions were raised by Zhao Guodong, and other people could only say some flattering words of praise.

Dong Liang also formulated a training plan with Zhang Yuanfang.

"A Letter to Chinese Compatriots" will be included in the teaching curriculum of the new school.

At the same time, the new school will also add some new content, such as arithmetic and science.

Dong Liang integrated physics, chemistry, and biology knowledge into science classes as compulsory courses for students in the new school.

At the same time, he also explained to those scholars that in the future, Chinese scholars would not only be able to be officials, but a large number of them would also be teachers.

Some people even want to do research and become engineers.

The Chinese government will integrate these positions into the official management system.

Even if you want to be a teacher, you still have good grades and may become an official.

This is equivalent to breaking down the barriers between different professions, giving readers more choices.

However, Dong Liang's time is relatively tight, and the Chinese government is currently extremely short of officials.

Zhang Yuanfang knows the situation of scholars on Dongfan Island very well.

He suggested that Dong Liang organize an Enke examination on Dongfan Island.

Dong Liang preferred to call it the official selection examination, but Zhang Yuanfang and others meant it was still called the imperial examination.

Just modify the content of the exam.

Dong Liang thought about it. The name of the imperial examination, the scientific examination, is actually a good one.

The initial imperial examination was not about stereotyped writing. As long as the content of the imperial examination is transformed into policy theory, mathematics, science, Chinese studies, etc. in the future, it will be fine.

The administrative ability test of the civil service examination in later generations is equivalent to a collection of mathematics, science and Chinese studies, and the application theory is the policy theory.

In addition, for some specialized positions such as magistrates, you can take the law test.

Speaking of this, Dong Liang suddenly remembered that his Chinese code had not been compiled yet.

When we were in Ryukyu, it didn't matter that the Chinese were small in size, but now the Chinese cover thousands of miles and have millions of subjects. Without a set of laws, how can we manage them?

So Dong Liang asked Zhang Yuanfang to recommend thirty students who were older and had certain social experience to work in the Headquarters. Dong Liang was going to start a crash course around him.

Give it to those who can take advantage of it.

In addition, an encore was immediately held for the entire Chinese ethnic group and two hundred reserve officials were recruited.

These people will not start working immediately, but will receive a half-year training and then go to some grassroots government departments to intern for half a year before they are officially appointed.

Today's meeting was full of useful information, and both the academy and the scholars gained a lot.

Dong Liang didn't know how knowledgeable Zhang Yuanfang was, and he didn't have much character as a scholar.

But his ability to do things is really strong.

He wrote down everything Dong Liang told him.

He immediately stepped into his role as the chief minister of Zhenhua University Hall.

Not long after Dong Liang returned to his mansion, Zhang Guodong moved over and even brought his own bedding.

According to him, as a daily servant, you have to stay with the head of state all the time.

Dong Liang agreed casually before, but he didn't expect Zhao Guodong to be so serious.

This role can be completely replaced by Yang Yingying.

He felt a little scared when he thought about a middle-aged greasy uncle who would follow him around every day and openly spy on his every move.

Of course, who told him to want thousands of gold to buy horse bones?

"Hui Fu, is there any news about Ah Fu?"

When Zhao Liewen returned to the mansion, he started sorting out the news he had accumulated throughout the day, and now he came over with the materials.

Dong Liang was most concerned about the news from Dong Xingfu.

"Führer, Captain Afu left the Kavalan Hall and headed south on February 7. It is said that an exploration team has disappeared. The reason why we did not get the news is because the correspondent from Kavalan to the chicken coop was crossing

He disappeared on the mountain road. Later, Chicken Coop saw the contact time and sent a liaison officer in reverse. Only then did he bring back the news."

It turns out that the roads in Taitung are indeed a problem.

Dong Liang knew that in later generations there would be a railway around the island.

In order to strengthen the rule over Dongfan Island, it is urgent to build a road around the island.

But now is not the time.

Building a grassroots ruling regime and land reform are the focus of current work.

"In this way, let Lin Ben give priority to sending a batch of equipment to Jilong and Kavalan, and then select 200 soldiers from the Yae Mountain garrison to go to Kavalan."

Although Kavalan Hall has a large population, it is mostly composed of Ban people.

After the land reform, these Ban people also supported Chinese rule, but Dong Liang had to balance the proportion of Han and Ban people in the local garrison.

This has nothing to do with trust or not, the main thing is to avoid possible emergencies.

"How about the Penghu Hall?"

The war currently going on is the naval attack on Penghu Hall.

Controlling Dongfan Island must not let go of Penghu Hall. Next, if the escort army wants to attack Zhangzhou, it cannot do without the Penghu Islands as a transfer station at sea.

The Penghu Islands are the largest outlying island of Dongpan Island. Geographically, they are located in the southeast of the Taiwan Strait, 44 kilometers away from Dongshi Township, Chiayi County, the closest place to Dongpan Island, and 44 kilometers away from Dongshi Township, Chiayi County, the closest place to Fujian Province, to the west.

Jiangwei is 140 kilometers away and is known as the "Key to the Southeast".

An old saying goes: If you want to seize Taiwan, you must first seize Penghu. The Penghu Islands are the throat of the Taiwan Strait and the gateway to Taiwan's main island. They have always been a battleground for military strategists in the southeastern sea.

Whether Zheng Chenggong fought against the Dutch and regained Taiwan, or Emperor Kangxi ordered Shi Lang to lead the Fujian navy to unify Taiwan, conquering Penghu was the first step.

Similarly, if the Guards wanted to counterattack the Manchus, they must first control Penghu.

In the fifth year of Yongzheng's reign, at the request of Gao Qizhuo, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the Penghu Office was established in Penghu, which was originally affiliated with Taiwan County, and was under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan government.

Guo You's main opponent in attacking here is the more than 1,000 naval divisions of the Taiwan Coast Defense Battalion.

Previously, most of the Taiwanese coastal defense battalion had been wiped out by the escort forces in the Battle of Fucheng.

This coastal defense battalion stationed here in Penghu was spared.

However, the news that the entire Dongfan Island was captured has already reached here.

Guo You thought that attacking Penghu Bay would be a tough battle.

Because Penghu Bay is surrounded by Penghu, Baisha, and Yuweng Islands, the port of the Qing army was located at Magong Port on Penghu Island.

The water conditions here are complex, making it difficult for the escort's large ships to move here.

To this end, Guo You specially gathered a group of old boat handlers to accompany the ship.
Chapter completed!