Chapter 933 The Foundation of the Ming Dynasty (Third update, please subscribe)
The fate of a person will always change dramatically due to history. Even Emperor Zhu did not expect that the great master of Chinese studies would go astray and become a mechanical engineer in the Ming Dynasty. As for what kind of results this famous master will gain, it can only be left to the future. As for Tesla, no one knows how far he will go.
As for the former, Emperor Zhu didn't even know he existed. He didn't even know this master of Chinese studies was in the Ming Dynasty. But he was very concerned about the latter. After all, Tesla was almost the most famous inventor to some extent. Emperor Zhu was very much looking forward to what kind of results he could produce in the Ming Dynasty.
However, despite his concern, Emperor Zhu knew nothing about Tesla's application for funding from the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation. Concern... was just concern. Compared to paying attention to Tesla, he cared more about how many Ming Dynasty scientists the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation could incubate.
"Through the establishment and provision of grants, scholarships and fellowships, we will encourage basic scientific research and education, and through the reward and funding of scientific and technological personnel, we will promote academic exchanges, popularization of science, talent training and transfer of scientific and technological achievements, and promote the scientific and technological progress of the empire to meet the challenges of scientific and technological development and the requirements of the development of the empire's economy for scientific and technological progress."
This is the purpose of the Ming Empire Science and Technology Foundation. In the six years since its establishment, it has not only funded Ming's basic scientific education, but also funded tens of thousands of young scholars. It is through official funding that Ming's scientific and technological level has achieved rapid development.
"During the curriculum reform two years ago, the foundation provided a large amount of funding for more than 10,000 research groups and research projects, including the Physical Sciences Research Council, the Primary and Secondary School Mathematics Research Group, the Biological Sciences Curriculum Research Program, the Primary and Secondary School Chemistry Curriculum Research Program), the Imperial Science Education Research Program and other projects. Last year, the foundation provided 19.6 million yuan for projects such as basic research and education programs, of which 12 million yuan was used for basic research and 7.6 million yuan for education programs..."
In His Majesty's study, Jiang Hongwei, the vice president of the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation, reported to the emperor on the foundation's work over the past year.
These figures may seem insignificant, but on a global scale, they are absolutely astonishing. Nearly 20 million yuan is used to encourage and promote the development of science and technology. In this era, this expenditure is absolutely astronomical - the fiscal revenue of many small countries is not that much!
“It’s close to 20 million!”
Emperor Zhu nodded and said.
"However, the investment in education is still a little insufficient. Let's increase education by another 10% this year. After all, the future of the empire lies in education."
19.6 million!
4.3 million pounds!
At that time, the British government's fiscal revenue was only 85 million pounds, and the Ming Dynasty invested almost 5% of the British fiscal revenue in promoting science and technology. This shows the importance the Ming Dynasty attached to science.
However, the reason why the Ming Dynasty could come up with this money was entirely due to the income from state-owned farms - the income from hundreds of millions of acres of state-owned farms kept the Ming Dynasty's finances in a very loose state - there was plenty of money!
It was precisely because of the abundance of money that Emperor Zhu was able to continue spending money on education, industry, infrastructure, etc., and by spending money, he built the Ming Dynasty's status as a technological power.
To a certain extent, spending money is the best way. With sufficient funds, Ming Dynasty can hire scholars from all over the world to teach in Ming Dynasty's schools. With sufficient funds, Ming Dynasty's scholars can conduct research on many scientific research projects.
Spending money did change the backward situation of Ming Dynasty's science and technology to a great extent. Of course, this kind of "spending money" is compared with this era. How is the scientific research funding in this era guaranteed?
Except for universities that rely on official or unofficial funding, European and American countries rely on commercial funding or personal investment, which directly limits their inventions and innovations. Especially the latter, many scientists rely entirely on their own salaries to support their experiments.
Compared with European and American countries, the Ming Dynasty adopted a relatively mature "national support system" in the world, which allowed scholars to obtain sufficient funds for scientific research through official funding, which greatly promoted the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty.
To a certain extent, in the scientific arena, the Ming Dynasty was competing with the national team and the individual teams of Europe and the United States. Such a result was predictable. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also had the support of Emperor Zhu's golden finger.
Although the science and technology of the Ming Dynasty developed at a rapid pace through the support of various official channels, Emperor Zhu also had his own opinions on this.
"Education, we need to increase scientific education, especially the promotion of research programs in primary and secondary schools. We need to cultivate a large number of students with scientific and innovative spirits. Only in this way can the Ming Dynasty win the competition in the future. After all, the competition between countries and civilizations is essentially a competition of science. After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces. In the future competition, the party with backward science and technology is doomed to fail, and the party without innovative spirit will also fail. It is extremely necessary to increase investment in scientific education."
Jiang Hongwei agreed immediately.
"Your Majesty is right. I have always had an idea, but I don't know whether I should say it or not."
"you say."
"I think that in order to increase the excitement of secondary school students about science, a science competition could be held to encourage students to participate by offering prize money."
“Science Competition!”
Emperor Zhu's eyes lit up. Thinking of the competition in another world, he of course agreed.
"We can coordinate this with the Ministry of Education, and they can also join in."
After a pause, Empress Zhu said.
"This competition is held nationwide and all students can sign up to participate. In addition to providing a certain amount of prize money, it can also be linked to universities to encourage universities to provide full scholarships to winners."
University programs in the Ming Dynasty are basically free - but the so-called "free" is not truly "free", but free through scholarships provided by the universities. Among the students in universities in the Ming Dynasty, 75% of them can get scholarships of different levels. For college students in the Ming Dynasty, scholarships are their best opportunity to go to college.
For many people, a full scholarship means that their family does not need to bear any expenses for attending college. Such an award is naturally enough to attract many ordinary students to participate in the competition. In the end, the students get an education and the country gets talents...
(End of this chapter)
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