Valley Emperor

For Li Xuan, launching the imperial examinations and recruiting those traditional scholars was a means of political propaganda, but it wasn't that there was an urgent need for these scholars to serve him as officials.

Many of the talents he needs are talents with modern scientific knowledge, but such talents cannot be recruited directly from today's society.

In this regard, Li Xuan envisaged three solutions. One is to teach these officers modern scientific knowledge in the process of training officers. Don't be surprised. If Li Xuan wants to build a real modern army, officers must have It is very difficult for people with modern scientific knowledge and ignorance to lead a modern army to fight.

This process has been implemented for almost two years since the era of the Guards, and although the level of science knowledge taught by Yuxuetang is still very low in the eyes of later generations, it is even inferior to elementary school students. The language is extremely advanced. At least these officers have been brainwashed with a lot of basic scientific knowledge, especially astronomy and geography related to combat, basic mathematics, geometry, physics and chemistry.

It is rude to say that the officers of the Great Tang Wang Division, especially the officers who have received a complete Imperial Academy education, are definitely the most outstanding comprehensive talents in this era.

Although these officers are used for combat, the officers will retire. After these retired officers are transferred to local places, they will be able to play a great role.

In addition to officer training, there is also Guozijian education!

According to the reform of Guozijian some time ago, the Tang Dynasty merged with Wenxuetang and Engineering College to become Guozijian, and it has two colleges: the College of Arts and the College of Science, as well as independent departments, such as the Department of Medicine and the Department of Agriculture.

This reform has made Guozijian quite different from the traditional Guozijian. It is more accurate to say that it is a comprehensive university, but it is a pity that in addition to traditional Chinese studies, the level of science is relatively poor.

Guozijian and Wuxuetang and Imperial Academy are both civil and military, and their educational models are naturally completely different. The students trained by Wuxuetang and Imperial Academy are all in the army, while the students trained by Guozijian will become officials in the future.

There is no way, if it is not attractive to be an official, there are not many scholars willing to apply for Guozijian.

On the one hand, the imperial examination was political propaganda, and on the other hand, it was also recruiting students for the Guozijian.

But in addition to cultivating modern talents through Wuxuetang, Imperial Academy and Guozijian, Li Xuan actually has another training channel, and the training of this channel is more comprehensive and even more effective, that is, those teenagers in the young army camp.

In the beginning, Li Xuan's plan was relatively simple, that is, to treat these young military camps as simple orphanages, provide some basic pre-education, and then send them to the martial arts school, the imperial school or the Imperial Academy when they are older.

But Li Xuan has changed his original thoughts recently, because he sometimes taught the science courses in this young army camp himself. Those students who had received prior exposure to traditional Confucianism were stronger.

Moreover, this trend is more obvious in teenagers between the ages of seven and ten. Children in this age group usually do not know the characters. Even if they do, they generally only read enlightenment books such as the Three Character Classic. form.

Therefore, their ability to accept new things is far stronger than that of teenagers or even twenties students who have already formed the three views.

Even a few children with excellent academic performance have already reached the level of the students in the Royal Academy. Well, there is a possibility, because the education level of the Imperial Academy and even the Guozijian is actually at most. It is equivalent to the elementary school stage of later generations, or even worse.

And because these children have been in contact with each other since childhood, and are taught by Li Xuan personally, it is reasonable that their learning progress is faster than that of Guozijian and Yuxuetang.

But this is faster, in fact, it is just the ordinary elementary school level of later generations.

However, even so, Li Xuan was overjoyed. For this reason, he specially changed the training method of the young army camp, and decided to select those children with excellent academic performance, and then Li Xuan continued to teach them personally.

In this era, no one has more profound scientific knowledge than Li Xuan!

As for other children with average academic performance, they will no longer continue to enter the Guozijian or the Imperial Academy, but continue to study in the junior military camp. Anyway, the Wuxuetang and the Guozijian cannot provide better education than the junior military camp.

And a new grade system was implemented in the infantry camp, from grade one to grade 12, and this grade division was completely divided by Li Xuan according to the primary school to high school of later generations, and this division was not based on age, but Based on knowledge level.

And after the implementation of the grade system, a unified examination was arranged for the teenagers in the infantry camp. Those who did not pass the examination were all first grade students. Those who passed the examination were promoted to the second grade, and then the second grade students were re-examined. Those who passed the test were promoted to the third grade. grade, and so on.

At present, among the more than 500 teenagers in the infantry camp, one-third are still in the first grade, and another third are in the second grade, and the more senior students are, the fewer students are in the sixth grade. , there are only three people left.

After adopting the grade system, Li Xuan, in order to cultivate their sense of rank and obedience from childhood (most of these students will join the army in the future), adopted the responsibility and power of the senior students to teach and manage the junior students, and even the junior students. Teachers are all held by senior students, and those with excellent academic performance will have various privileges and conveniences.

For example, the top three in the lower grades and the top five in the senior grades will be personally taught by Li Xuan, especially for the three students in the sixth grade and the seven or eight students in the fifth grade, Li Xuan is responsible for teaching them personally. The original teacher was at most a teaching assistant.

At the same time, in order to prevent outsiders from contaminating their three views, closed management is adopted.

Li Xuan actually managed the completion of the infant military camp as a military academy. His management model was strict and cruel, and there was no so-called humaneness or democracy.

On the one hand, Li Xuan is looking forward to getting a large number of military and scientifically educated officers through the young army camp, and is extremely loyal, but he is also looking forward to getting a group of real scientific talents from these teenagers.

They don't need to be so powerful, but as long as they reach the level of junior high school students in later generations, they are enough to play the roles of R&D personnel and major engineers in this era.

For example, Li Xuan has dreamed of making a steam engine several times. The principle is very simple. Several senior students in the young army camp have already started to think of ways to create experimental products.

And it achieved great success. Several students in the fifth and sixth grades instructed a group of blacksmiths to build a boiler, and then directly used wood to boil water, and used copper pipes to export the water vapor. The water vapor successfully promoted the rotation of the impeller.

Although this device is only the simplest steam engine test device, it is still 18,000 miles away from practical use, but the success of the test proves that the steam engine can indeed be used as a power source.

As for when a truly practical steam engine can be built to propel ships, water pumps and other equipment, only God knows. Anyway, Li Xuan feels that this time will not be short, and it may be extremely long.

But this kind of thing can't be rushed. It's like developing mirrors. Those craftsmen have been working on it for so long and they haven't come up with it. But Li Xuan is not in a hurry. In ten years, he doesn't believe that he can't do it, and he will do it to death.

He didn't want to build an atomic bomb, he just wanted to build the most primitive steam engine. It took him several years or even more than ten years to believe that he couldn't come up with it.

The reform of the infant military camp is also a small measure for Li Xuan to carefully carry out modern education for later generations in this era. Because the teacher is only himself, and he is very busy himself, it is destined to be impossible to carry out on a large scale. It is to train a dozen or twenty people first, and it can't take too much time to train. It can only choose the best group of people with the strongest self-learning ability.

Li Xuan's purpose in cultivating them is not to make them scientists or the like. Li Xuan just hopes to cultivate a batch of seeds, and then let these seeds serve as teachers and teach more people.

This is also the reason why senior students are used to teach junior students in the infantry camp.

Imperial Academy, Guozijian, and Young Military Camp, these are the three talent education methods Li Xuan currently adopts.

The students of the Royal Academy are all active duty officers, and in front of these active duty officers are the scholars who abandoned their pens and joined the army.

The students of Guozijian are ordinary students~www.wuxiax.com~ and the students of these two groups are generally in their teens or even twenties. In this era, they are adults. The concept is fixed, and the ability to accept it is not strong, but it can be barely used after a simple training.

The students in the young army camp are all orphans, and they are too young to have no family constraints. At the same time, the three views have not yet been formed. They are like a blank piece of paper.

And this time, those who excelled in math and miscellaneous studies in Encore will be supplemented to study in the Imperial College.

But these people do not include Huang Zhiyuan.

As a traditional scholar, Huang Zhiyuan has never had much contact with him, and even disdain to contact those miscellaneous studies. He is barely able to do math, but his strength is still the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, and his grades in historical theory and policy theory are also good. .

After the results of the Xunzhou government examination came out, Huang Zhiyuan ranked 58th on the list, becoming the first batch of new students of the Tang Dynasty.