Chapter 270 Zhou Yanru No Longer Worry About Money!
"In fact, the weather in the north is similar to that in the south when the weather is warm, but the warm weather is too short, and the existing rice seeds do not last long enough in cold weather. As long as we find rice seeds with a shorter growth period, we can solve this problem.
question. Of course, we can also think of other ways to solve this problem, such as raising seedlings in greenhouses and moving them to the fields when the weather warms up. Can’t the factory area be made of glass? Use glass as windows to make bright greenhouses.
This problem can also be solved. Double rows of breeding racks can be made in the greenhouse, so that nearly twice as many rice seeds can be cultivated in one greenhouse." Zhu Youjian continued to talk to Song Yingxing about how to overcome the unfavorable environment for rice cultivation in the north.
, using greenhouses to raise seedlings and breed seeds is a better idea. It can not only improve efficiency, but also increase land utilization. In field breeding, isolation zones need to be built, but greenhouses do not need to be so troublesome.
"Your Majesty's thoughts and ideas have given me a sense of enlightenment. If rice suitable for growing in cold areas can be cultivated, the situation of the country will be greatly changed. I have a question, Your Majesty, there is indeed a suitable rice in the Huanglong Mansion area."
A place to grow rice?”
"Yes! The water network in that area is crisscrossed, and it is also a huge plain. As long as the rice seeds grown in the wild in the north of Miyun can be cultivated, Huanglong should be able to grow them. Not to mention the current Liaodong area.
Let's do this. The imperial court will open a university specializing in agriculture. Mr. Song will serve as the president concurrently. It will train officials specializing in agriculture and conduct research on agriculture at the same time. I set up a university not only to train talents, but also to serve the country.
Storing talents is also a place to store skills for the country and dare to be the first in the world." He caught a sheep and tried to pull out its wool. Zhu Youjian, a top talent with many specialties and abilities, like Lao Songtou, was used a bit harshly.
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After having a serious discussion with Song Yingxing, Zhu Youjian was still unfinished, so he simply called Zhou Yanru to clarify the matter of establishing the Agricultural University and several other universities' changes in their educational thinking while the iron was hot.
"Taishi, this year the College of Science and Engineering of Taixue will be directly split into the Ming University of Arts and Sciences and the Ming University of Technology, and then a Ming Agricultural University will be established. At the same time, the school will be renamed the Ming Military University, plus the previous Ming University of Science and Technology.
Normal University, a total of five universities. All college students are divided into three categories: junior college students, undergraduate students and doctoral students. The academic duration of junior college students is tentatively one year and will be changed to three years after enrollment is formalized. Undergraduate students are tentatively scheduled to be two years.
It is four years, and the duration of doctoral studies is temporarily set at three years, which will be changed to six years after formalization. The funding of universities is jointly borne by the imperial court and the palace. It is tentatively determined that the annual funding allocated by the imperial court for each university is one hundred thousand taels of silver dollars.
Can you afford it now?"
"One hundred thousand taels a year? The tax collected by the court this year is more than three million taels. It is feasible to squeeze in more than 300,000 taels. The court should be able to afford it next year. But with so many universities, is there a shortage of students?
How many? Not counting the general school, the imperial court currently recruits more than 6,000 students every year. If we open another agricultural university, the number of students will be 7,000 or 8,000. In the long run, it may be difficult to have so many positions to arrange them."
I thought Zhou Yanru would be struggling with money issues, but instead he was struggling with the issue of employment. It seems that this old boy has no worries about money now.
Lao Zhou really doesn't worry about money anymore. The year-end financial calculations have been completed. The grain tax collected this year is about 1.4 million taels of silver dollars. The factory area, palace, palace and other industries pay it to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The tax amounted to more than 1.1 million taels, and the Customs Department also performed very well. The tax collected was more than 900,000 taels. In addition, the industrial and mining taxes and commercial taxes collected from other places amounted to 200,000 to 300,000 taels.
The total tax revenue is about 3.5 million taels of silver dollars. In addition to repaying debts, all of this money is used for government expenses. The court does not bear the money for raising soldiers now, so it doesn't mean it has plenty of money?
This is still the situation this year, and next year Zhou Yanru also knows that it will not be difficult to raise four to five million taels in taxes according to the current trend! In such a good situation, why not get some money for education? Invest in education. Money is used to cultivate reserve forces for the imperial court, which is a good deal.
"If we only focus on Beizhili, there are indeed a lot of people. But if we look at the whole country, there are less than 10,000 college students a year, which is not much at all? So don't worry, Grand Master. The imperial court could not arrange positions for college students. Since the imperial court could provide so much money, the palace also allocated corresponding funds to support the establishment of universities. However, the way the palace provided money was different from that of the imperial court. Each university had to We will launch some research projects independently, and the palace will also release some research projects for universities to direct. After these projects are approved by the palace, they will receive corresponding financial support."
"Your Majesty, what does this mean? The old minister is a little confused."
"To put it simply, the money the imperial court spends on universities is to reserve talents for the country, while the money the palace spends on universities is to reserve skills for the country."
"In this way, wouldn't some subjects that don't involve a lot of work get no money from the palace?"
“You can also do projects in subjects that don’t involve a lot of work! For example, if a normal university compiles textbooks for primary and secondary schools, it can be a project. The history department can also apply for a project to compile Chinese and foreign history. Can the Chinese liberal arts department review, compile and publish ancient books be counted as a project? ?Natural science experiments that verify the principles of all things can also receive project funds. As long as you submit an application, I think it will be useful and receive corresponding funds."
"Good, Your Majesty, this is a great plan! In this way, real scholars can study with peace of mind in the university."
"The purpose of setting up a doctoral degree is to allow the university to retain a group of people who are interested in learning, so that they can study intensively, and then specialize in learning in the university. In the past, it was said that those who are good at learning will lead to officialdom. I think this is inappropriate. Why do people who are interested in learning become scholars? People who learn cannot specialize in learning. How many people in history have become real scholars when they were high-ranking officials? It is the best policy to allow educated people to gain dignity without becoming officials."
"I'm afraid that few of the sage kings in ancient times have your Majesty's insight. After hearing your Majesty's words, I feel that the revival of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner."
"Okay, we monarchs and ministers don't need such compliments. Let's talk about setting up an agricultural university. Historical dynasties have always said that agriculture is the foundation of the country, but most of them are just words. Who has taken practical actions? Opening an agricultural university It is my farewell place based on agriculture. There are three purposes for running the Agricultural University. The first is to cultivate a group of officials for the country who know farmers, are good at farmers, and have compassion for farmers. The second is to rely on the Agricultural University to sort out a batch of practical and useful farming experience and knowledge. knowledge, so that the country and the dynasty can manage agriculture with evidence and rules to consult; the third is to select and breed fine grain seeds, which provides the cornerstone for the country and dynasty to consolidate its foundation and open up new territories. Not to mention the distance, if we can breed seeds that are widely planted in Liaodong With the rice seeds, it will be easy for the country and Liao generals to do so."
"Long live, can we really breed rice seeds that are widely grown in Liaodong?"
"Didn't Mr. Xu in those days breed rice seeds that can be grown in Tianjin? Rice can be grown in Tianjin, and rice can be grown in Jin, Liaodong, and Fuzhou. In fact, the water conditions there are better than those in Tianjin. In fact, some efforts have been made to renovate them. Water conservancy can do this, let alone what will happen if more cold-resistant rice seeds are bred?"
Planting rice extensively in Liaodong? Zhou Yanru's old eyes became bright because of these words. If that place can promote high-yielding staple food rice, there is really great hope for restoring Liaoning.
Chapter 270 Zhou Yanru no longer worries about money!