King of German Mercenaries

Therefore, Marin decided to jointly open five aristocratic schools with the church in five cities across the country—Aurich, Emden, Lyle, Norden and Den Burg, to cultivate the military literacy of the children of nobles and soldiers from an early age. and ability. As for the children of the merchants, although they were in the same school, Marin decided to set up a separate class so that they would not be mixed with the children of the nobles.

Because it is inevitable that the children of merchants have the habit of philistines. If it infects the children of nobles and soldiers, it is very bad. Therefore, Marin only set up a separate class for the children of the merchants, and even planned to set up a separate branch campus. Although they were nominally students of the noble school, Marin did not intend to let them have too much contact with the children of nobles and soldiers.

And, considering there are 10,000 regular troops in the country, it would be too scary if their children and brothers were eligible to go to school. Therefore, in the end, Marin only allowed the children of officers with the rank of squad leader and above to enter the noble school. At the same time, the sons or brothers of previously killed soldiers are also eligible to enter the school. In this way, the number of aristocratic schools is prevented from overwhelming. Otherwise, the family members of 10,000 soldiers will come to school, and that number is much larger than the population of Aurich... And the number of officers is very limited. There are only 400 teams and 40 companies in total in the Marin army of 10,000. In terms of logistics, the total number of officers is only a few hundred. Among them, many young officers do not yet have children, or their brothers are adults and do not meet the school age (the school admits students with strict regulations). In this way, 5 schools can still accommodate.

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As for the children of serfs, Marin very much hopes to make use of them. However, it is too challenging the social rules to let the children of serfs receive the same education as the children of nobles. After all, in the eyes of the nobles, the life of serfs is like a mustard, and cannot be compared with them... If Marin forcibly puts the children of the serfs into the noble school, it will cause a strong backlash from the nobles...

In the end, Marin came up with a compromise—that is, to set up a separate artisan school, in the name of cultivating serf artisans, to set up a school to train the children of serfs.

In the artisan school, students mainly study the Bible, mathematics and artisan basics. At the same time, there is also simple military training. Of course, this kind of military training was used to train soldiers, and the serf children did not learn the knowledge of military command.

In the third grade of elementary school, Marin would weed out most of the serf students who were not good at school, and let them go home to farm or find their own way. The few remaining people are smart children left behind by passing the exam. Then, at the secondary level, these people are taught subjects like physics, chemistry, etc. Of course, it was not the complete middle school physics and chemistry that Marin had learned in his previous life, but the abridged version of physics and chemistry based on religious background, so as not to conflict with church teachings.

When they have finished their middle school knowledge, the best group of people who have learned will enter the university that Marin will open in the future, continue their studies, and hand them over to Ada to train them and strive to become scientists. The others, all became apprentice craftsmen and trained in the direction of senior technicians.

Marin established a craftsman school to train craftsmen, and most people would not have any objections. Because, although craftsmen are richer than ordinary people, their social status is not high. And, most importantly, cultivating serfs into craftsmen did not violate the interests of the aristocratic class. So, no one will object.

As for the opposition from the original artisans and handicraft guilds, would Marin care about them? He dared to massacre even the nobles, not to mention the people of the handicraft guild? If anyone dares to jump out, he doesn't mind the butcher's knife getting bloodied again...

In fact, Marin wasn't very satisfied with those great craftsmen. These people are the main force of the European bourgeoisie in this era, and they are also the people who most love to rebel.

The craftsmen trained by the Marin School, from the day they entered the school, signed a lifetime contract with the Hoffman royal family in Marin, prohibiting them from leaving. Therefore, they are considered Marin's lifelong subordinates, and they are unlikely to leave or leak secrets.

Moreover, their identities are also considered as serf artisans, under the full control of Marin. Such people would not oppose the lord at every turn like those citizen craftsmen. Moreover, Marin will add brainwashing classes in the school since he was a child, and teach them to be loyal to the lord every day... When they grow up, they will be as fanatical and loyal as the ancestors of the dynasty. If they see members of the Hoffman family, maybe I will be moved to tears...

When they grow up and become the main force of technology, Marin will gradually let them replace the easily rebellious bourgeoisie and make these people the main force in the city. In this way, the stability of the city will be greatly improved...

Thinking of this, Marin smiled happily...

After that, Marin signed a document to open 5 noble schools in 5 cities, and at the same time, 20 humble artisan schools were opened in rural areas to train and select engineering talents from the people...

First of all, Marin will arrange the engineering team to build the school building. The five aristocratic schools in the city must all be beautifully built houses, and the facilities must be good. As for the teacher, I will definitely invite good ones.

As for the 20 artisan schools in the countryside, you need to order them casually, as long as there is a shelter from the wind and rain. After all, the children of serfs were not very demanding. It would be good to give them the opportunity to read and read. Moreover, this can also save a lot of money for Marin. As for the teachers of the artisan school, Marin plans to send some literate artisans to serve as teachers. Wait until the conditions are available in the future, and then let professional teachers teach...

At the same time, in order not to challenge the social order, Marin's school temporarily only accepts boys, not girls. After all, according to Catholic teachings, women are only made out of a man's rib, so they have no status. If Marin's school admits girls, there may be an uproar around the world, making him the target of everyone's attack.

Moreover, only recruiting boys, not girls, can also save half of Marin's expenses...

As for the children of ordinary soldiers, Marin planned to send them to the artisan school for education, but in separate classes. Their tasks were different from those of serf children, and they focused on militarized education. After graduation, they will not become officers immediately, but because they have a certain military foundation, they can also be promoted to grass-roots officers if they make meritorious service. Of course, if some of them are interested in craftsmen, they can also apply to be transferred to the craftsman class...

However, while promoting education, Marin encountered a very troublesome problem - that is the problem of paper...

In this day and age, paper is very expensive. The current papermaking technology in Europe is still passed down from the Yuan Dynasty. The raw materials for papermaking are also rags, fishing nets, etc., which are equivalent to the level of Cai Lun's time...

However, materials such as rags and fishing nets are limited. Europeans are generally poor in this era, and even rags will be fully utilized by the poor. If a fishing net is broken, it will be repaired and repaired, and it will not be thrown away until it is completely broken.

Therefore, the raw materials for papermaking are actually quite difficult to obtain, which also makes the paper expensive. In the Qianlong period, that is, at the end of the 18th century, French missionaries stole a new paper-making technique in China and mailed them back to Paris, that the Europeans would have a greater breakthrough in paper-making technology and the cost would be reduced. a lot of.

At this time, European paper is expensive, 100 sheets of 16-kilometer paper, the price is as high as 1 gold coin (equivalent to 1.14 taels of silver). That is, a sheet of paper costs as much as 0.6 pfennig. Ordinary people work, only 2 pfennig a day, only enough to buy more than 3 sheets of paper...

A book needs dozens of sheets of paper at random, and a thicker one will exceed 100 sheets. If every child is given books and exercise books, as well as scratch paper, the cost is simply too high...

Marin thought about it for a while, and finally decided that in the noble school, each child was given a book, but instead of exercise books and scratch paper, each child was given a small blackboard. Teachers teach classes, but also use a large blackboard and write with chalk. The blackboard can be used repeatedly and the cost is low. The only trouble is that the teacher will be very tired if he has to correct the homework, because he is not flipping through the exercise books, but small blackboards...

As for the artisan school in the countryside, Marin decided to let several children share a book and also use a small blackboard for homework. Even, you can use a sand table that does not consume chalk... In short, how to save...

After all, there are a lot of children in the countryside, and even using chalk would be a huge expense...

Yue Fei can write on the sand, why can't these serf children? Writing on the sand table can be done by just looking for a branch, which is really convenient and low-cost...

Of course, these are all solutions that came up out of desperation. In the future, Marin still intends to use books fully. Before that happens, though, the cost of papermaking needs to be addressed…

Marin has read many time-travel novels, and he knows the technology of papermaking. The papermaking process is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in obtaining pulp. As long as there is pulp and papermaking process, any paper craftsman can easily solve it.

In this era, European artificial paper only used materials such as rags, fishing nets and hemp skins, which were hard to find and expensive. At the same time, the Chinese people used the method of putting bamboo or wood in a lime pond to rot into pulp, which took more than 100 days.

Marin naturally does not use the above two methods. He knows two modern methods of obtaining pulp—one is to use a machine to grind wood into fine fibers, and then cook it into pulp. However, Marin has no machinery, so naturally he will not use this method.

The other is chemical pulping, which is to chop or smash the wood into small pieces, put it into a sealed pressure container pot, and cook it hard with caustic soda or sodium sulfate (glauber's salt), so that one or two Cook the pulp within days. Unlike the ancient method used in Huaxia, it is a waste of time to soak the raw materials for more than 100 days.

There is no caustic soda and marin, but there is mirabilite. Because, there are many things in the Middle East, and most of them are picked up by the Arabs from the saline lakes in the desert. Soda ash can be found in some saline-alkali lakes, while mirabilite can be found in others...

As long as enough Glauber's salt is purchased, it is possible to produce large-scale chemical pulping and mass production of paper. Moreover, the paper produced by chemical pulping is of good quality and better than the paper produced by physical pulping.

However, there are many wastewaters with heavy pollution from chemical pulping. But what's the problem? Marin knows that North America is full of forests, and he just needs to get the paper mills to North America...

There are so many towering trees in North America, Marin plans to cut down the oak to make boats, and the cedar to make paper. In a word, make full use of the big trees in the virgin forests of North America... As for the polluted ones, who cares?

With a lot of cheap paper, Marin has the conditions to promote education for all. Moreover, he also intends to start a newspaper, as his mouthpiece, by the way to help himself brag...

The great development of science and technology in Europe actually happened only after the advent of advanced papermaking in the mid-19th century. Because paper is cheap, scientific and cultural knowledge will spread quickly, and more and more scientists will appear.

Mechanical pulping appeared in 1840, while chemical pulping appeared in 1851. After this, European technology, supported by a large number of books, began to take off. By the end of the 19th century, Europe had fully entered the era of industrialization.

Therefore, the development of papermaking is crucial to the development of human beings. Of course, before that, Marin let the students use the small blackboard and sand table. But first, Malin had to start a chalk factory and figure out how to make good quality chalk...