Chapter 3213
On the second day of the arms exhibition, two large display boards appeared on the North American region's booth, with eye-catching slogans listing the various preferential treatment provided by the North American authorities to immigrants and recruits.
These two exhibition boards, which were rushed overnight, cost a lot of money, and the cost was even much higher than the two thousand flyers printed before the exhibition started. However, Wang Anbang believed that this money must be spent, and it would definitely be worth it. .
After all, such a good publicity opportunity as an arms exhibition may only come once during my return to China.
However, Wang Anbang soon discovered that there were indeed many people coming to inquire about immigration policies, but there were far fewer people coming to learn about military recruitment information than yesterday.
Wang Anbang took advantage of the opportunity and went to the exhibition hall to look around, and soon discovered the clues.
There are recruitment offices set up by many regions in the exhibition hall, but the most lively one is the landlord Donghai Region. There are three floors inside and three floors outside, and at least hundreds of people gathered around it.
If it weren't for the banner of the "Recruiting Office" hanging in the air, others might have thought that there was some extraordinary and strange thing on display there.
This situation is of course not difficult to understand. Most of the people who come here to inquire about joining the army are from the areas around Hangzhou. Considering the distance from their hometown, they will of course be more willing to join the local army in the Donghai Region.
Although the North American region provides supporting services for new recruits to relocate their entire family, how many people would move their whole family to a strange place on the other side of the ocean in order to serve as soldiers? More often than not, people who are willing to immigrate will consider choosing to serve as a soldier after arriving in North America.
Wang Anbang was helpless about the innate home field advantage of the Donghai Region. He knew that the gap could not be caught up by arranging more display boards or printing more flyers. If he wanted to recruit more soldiers, he could only catch up with them from Those interested in moving to North America.
However, most of the people who came to see the exhibition were only curious about Haihan's armed forces and were not interested in serving as soldiers or immigrating overseas.
See with your own eyes the various powerful weapons and equipment of the Haihan Army, and learn about the glorious achievements of the Haihan Army in the past, so as to give yourself something to talk about after dinner. This is the purpose of most people coming to this exhibition.
For the officials, the significance of the arms exhibition is to subtly cultivate the people's patriotic awareness and increase their acceptance of the new dynasty through such activities.
As for the various military units in various regions taking this opportunity to promote recruitment and immigration, they are just free rides. How much you can gain from this exhibition depends on your own abilities.
During this period, the inspection schedule of the executive committee members was also in full swing. According to their respective division of labor, everyone has corresponding itinerary arrangements.
As the official in charge of science, education, culture and health affairs in Haihan, Ning Qi's task is to inspect several academies, private schools, poetry and painting societies, as well as bookstores, printing shops and other cultural institutions in Hangzhou.
The first academy Ning Qi visited was the famous Wansong Academy in Hangzhou.
This academy, located on Fenghuang Mountain on the south side of West Lake, was founded during the Zhenyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. It has a history of more than 800 years and can be said to be the most influential academy in Hangzhou.
Hundreds of teachers and students from Wansong Academy were waiting outside the academy gate in advance for Ning Qi's arrival.
Accompanying Ning Qi were several officials in charge of cultural and educational affairs in the Donghai Region. After getting off the bus, they introduced the person in charge of the academy and several well-known literati who were lecturers at the academy to Ning Qi. Surrounded by everyone, Ning Qi walked through the Yangsheng Gate and entered the academy.
Wansong Academy covers a large area and has undergone four or five large-scale expansion projects during the Ming Dynasty alone. Successive local officials have attached great importance to this place. After all, Wansong Academy focuses on the imperial examination. Many literati who came out from here have become officials and have always had a certain influence in the court.
Su Sixiao, the dean of the academy, introduced the general layout of the academy to Ning Qi. The main building here follows the official school structure of "Temple on the left and learning on the right". The most important building on the left side of the central axis is the Confucius Hall, which is used for holding sacrificial activities. On the right is Mingdaotang, which is engaged in teaching activities.
Under the leadership of Su Sixiao and others, Ning Qi walked into the Confucius Hall to visit.
Confucius is not the only one enshrined in this hall, but there are also portraits of Fusheng Yanzi, Zongsheng Zengzi, Shushengzisi, and Yasheng Mencius. There are also five smaller portraits on the side walls, namely Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai, and Zhu Xi. According to Su Sixiao, these were the objects of sacrifice that were added during the Wanli period.
Although Ning Qi came from a literary background, he actually didn't have much favorable impressions of traditional Confucianism and Cheng-Zhu theory. Seeing that Wansong Academy still enshrined these people on the altar, he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.
However, Ning Qi didn't say anything. He just walked around the hall and didn't go out to pay homage to the ancestors enshrined in the Confucius Hall. The hospital had prepared incense, candles and various sacrificial vessels in advance, but none of them were used now.
Su Sixiao was also unsure of Ning Qi's pulse. Seeing that he had little interest in worshiping sages, he quickly took him to see where the academy lectures.
The Mingdao Hall where lectures are held is a separate compound. The main hall is used for several classrooms for daily classes. The side rooms on the left and right sides are Juren and Youyi, each with several rooms. For teachers and students to use for self-study.
Ning Qi walked into the classroom in the main hall and saw stacks of books on the desk, so he flipped through a few of them. This look made him see something wrong again.
"Haven't the academy started teaching new courses yet?" Ning Qi asked with some displeasure.
Su Sixiao quickly bowed and responded: "Sir, the textbooks have been sent to the academy, but there are no teachers in the academy to teach yet."
Compared with Hainan Island, where Haihan has been cultivating for many years, the cultural system in Hangzhou is obviously more traditional. Almost all educational institutions still follow the methods of the Ming Dynasty, using the Four Books and Five Classics as the main teaching materials.
This is not because Shi Diwen had no intention of promoting the Haihan-style cultural and educational system in the local area. It was just that the time he took over Hangzhou was too short, and it was difficult to immediately replace the regulations of the Ming Dynasty with Haihan's set of things.
Those masters who devoted their whole lives to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism found it difficult to understand and accept the teaching content that Haihan wanted to promote in a short period of time, and naturally they could not teach it to their students.
If Haihan wants to replace these teachers, he will also need to invest a lot of manpower. From the current point of view, almost all the educational talents trained by Haihan are employed in the south. The teacher resources in the Donghai Region have been insufficient for a long time, so the situation that Ning Qi saw will inevitably occur.
(End of chapter)