Greece’s Roman Road

"Your Excellency, your request will be implemented," Banning said respectfully.

"I hope you can all accomplish something in Gang Kingdom." Constantine said goodbye to the two men earnestly.

Looking at the steamship that was moving away, Constantine stood at the pier for a long time.

"Your Excellency, it's time for us to go back," Schmidt reminded.

Constantine turned around and boarded the carriage, and the convoy drove slowly down the street.

Coming to the Prime Minister's residence, Constantine walked into the office of Prime Minister Terry Kupis.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I'm here this time to discuss with you the issue of compulsory education in Greece," Constantine said bluntly.

Trikupis stood up from the desk and guided Constantine to sit down.

"Need the cooperation of Parliament?" asked Prime Minister Terry Kupis, who was sitting on the reception sofa.

"Yes, you also know that in recent years, almost all European countries have implemented a compulsory education system."

"We, Greece, can't be pulled too far."

The compulsory education system originated in Prussia.

In the words of German Field Marshal Moltke: "The victory of Prussia was already decided on the podium of the primary school teachers"

Who could have imagined that as early as the early 19th century (probably the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty), a wall map of the Great Wall of China would be hung up in German elementary schools in nature classes, and their teachers would tell them what the Great Wall of China, thousands of miles away, looked like.

Prussian children will also learn about the different living conditions of people living on five continents.

After seeing the benefits of Germany's compulsory education system, Britain and France have also established compulsory education systems in the last two years.

The quality of German soldiers has been greatly improved through compulsory education, which is one of the foundations for Germany's strong combat effectiveness in a series of wars.

Greece itself has a sparse population. It is unimaginable if the population quality is also far behind that of European countries.

After all, contemporary competition is carried out by country, and the low quality of the population will be a huge shortcoming.

Therefore, the heavily indebted Greek government could not be counted on by Constantine. He directly received part of the Congo's fiscal revenue and also had compulsory education in Greece.

Compulsory education in Greece cannot be delayed.

The reason why Constantine established the Greek Education Foundation and believed that the education foundation that the government did not directly participate in could successfully implement compulsory education is very simple.

Implementing compulsory education in Europe is not as difficult as it is in Asian countries.

This is determined by the use of words by both parties.

Ideographic characters are used in Asia, and phonetic characters are used in Europe and the United States.

I am afraid that many people have shadows in the study of ideograms:

Teacher: "Copy these new words a hundred times"

Ideographic characters like Hanzi, because there is no direct connection between their pronunciation and meaning, can even be multi-syllable (multi-syllable) and one-syllable and multi-syllable.

Therefore, there are not many convenient ways to learn Chinese characters, only rote memorization.

Unlike phonetic characters, there is a connection between its pronunciation and characters. If students are familiar with dozens of basic letters (like abcde), each letter has a corresponding pronunciation. According to the pronunciation, proficient students can Pronunciation Spell out the word, or read it according to the word.

If you only consider the convenience of learning, phonetic writing has a huge advantage over ideographic writing.

Therefore, it is more convenient for European countries that use phonetic writing to implement compulsory education.

This is also the reason why so many countries in modern times have changed their characters into pinyin characters. The huge advantage of popularization and convenience is far behind that of ideographic characters.

"I need parliament to revise the obligatory teaching law to make it compulsory for school-age children to enter the school," Constantine said.

While Constantine's forthcoming compulsory education is free, that doesn't mean parents are willing to send their children to school.

The poorer the family, the more reluctant they are to send their children to school.

For example, a considerable number of families in rural Greece do not think that it is beneficial for a peasant's child to learn to read, especially a girl.

In their superficial cognition, they are illiterate, can't they still be able to farm?

It is also impossible for teachers in the school to persuade those short-sighted parents one by one, so it is necessary to revise the compulsory education law to enforce it.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I will inform the Council and let them put on the agenda to amend the law on compulsory education," Trikupis said happily.

As a reformist in the Greek government, Trikupis's progressive political position was also the reason why Constantine was willing to cooperate with him.

"Also, you should solve the land problem in Thessaly as soon as possible. The good land is used for sheep and horses, which is too wasteful," Constantine said.

The original Thessaly landlord and overseas wealthy businessman exchanged the land in his hand for the corresponding shares of the Greek Congo head office.

For this reason, Constantine gave up a considerable part of the shares.

"Let the local farmers get the land as soon as possible and put them into agricultural production," Constantine said.

"By the way, I have also learned about the raisin export issue mentioned by His Royal Highness a few days ago," Trikupis said.

"Compared to the French and Italians exporting finished wine, Greece can only export raisins as a raw material for winemaking"

"Compared to the price of finished wine, the profit of raisins is too low"

"So, I want to ask the duke for your opinion. Can you ask the royal family to support the wine industry in this country?" Trikupis asked in a low voice.

"The royal family supports the wine industry?" Constantine frowned and pondered the words of Trikupis.

"How does the royal family support it?"

"Can you let the royal court ~www.wuxiax.com~ collect and consume more Greek wines", Trikupis said.

After saying this, Trikupis carefully looked at Constantine's expression.

Hearing this, Constantine also understood the Prime Minister's plan. This is to use the stage of the royal family to advertise the wine of Greece's own country.

Among the Greek royal family, King George from Denmark and King Olga from Russia prefer French wines in their usual meals. For example, King George likes French red wine very much, and it is essential to accompany them with meals.

Therefore, there is a lot of French wine in the underground wine storage room of the Tatoi Palace. In addition to the purchases of the royal family, there are also many French wines received as gifts in the exchange of gifts.

Why is French wine so popular?

Is it because French wines have the best quality and taste?

That's not necessarily true. Whether it is Italy, Greece or other European countries, there may not be any better quality wines than French wines.

Without him, the fame would be even higher.

For example, the well-known stalk of "Lafite in 1982" is widely circulated.

As the traditional hegemon of the European continent, France has long been the economic and cultural center of Europe. This kind of soft power cannot be compared with other European countries.

So French wines naturally benefit a lot from the cultural advantages of France.

Trikupis wants the Greek royal family to support the country's wine industry, and to consume more domestic wine in daily life, so as to increase the popularity of Greece's own wine.

For example, when interacting with other European dignitaries, taking Greek wine as a gift.

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