Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

"Your Majesty, haven't you congratulated you on the birth of a prince?" Eugene, as the leader of the crowd, stood up and said to Alfonso just after the meeting. The other ministers are Interior Minister José, Finance Minister Chávez, Foreign Minister Trini, Public and Social Affairs Minister Elena, who is now dedicated to transportation and national life after simplification, Industry Minister Miguel, and Culture and Education Minister Rais.

Alfonso was naturally in high spirits during happy events, so he also started chatting with them about the problems of children in China. What is the most important thing in life as a child? Many people will have different answers. For example, Eugene now has a very unique view.

"I think that if what our children need most is food and clothing, it must be food and clothing. Although the empire has continued to prosper in recent years, not to say that 100% of the children of the empire have fallen out of the scope of food and clothing, but there is still such a problem A small number of people are still worried about this, and children are the hope of the future of the empire. What the empire needs most now is to solve the problem of food and clothing. And now the government’s tax expenditure has a surplus of nearly 100 million US dollars every year, so the government decided to start next year. Vigorously purchasing food to help poor families will greatly reduce children’s food and clothing problems.”

"What the Prime Minister said is good," Interior Minister Jose said with excitement. He is a politician, but he is also a philanthropist. When His Majesty the King first talked about establishing a charity in the empire, many people were not optimistic about it, but he donated 500,000 US dollars in the name of his family without saying a word. Although their family is a prominent figure in Spain. For a top family, 500,000 US dollars is not a small amount. After all, Spain’s current GDP is only about 5 billion US dollars. With their family’s total assets of less than 50 million US dollars, they donated so much. No wonder it caused Spain’s The huge sensation even earned him the title of a great philanthropist.

"There are now more than five domestic charities with a scale of more than one million U.S. dollars. The largest European charity foundation managed by His Majesty himself now has a scale of 20 million U.S. dollars, and the remaining Madrid Foundation and Barcelona Foundation The Association, Seville Foundation, and Valencia Foundation respectively received US$9.1 million, US$8.3 million, US$7.5 million, and US$5.8 million. If our major foundations unite to carry out the same social charity activities, then it will It is far more effective than doing it one by one, after all, it will cause a stronger response from society."

Others also agreed, and Alfonso would naturally not object to such a suggestion. I remember that the first time I proposed establishing a charity was last year. I should have had this idea earlier. However, after all, the Spanish economy was not yet mature at the time. Under such circumstances, too many activities were carried out to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. It's a bit too much and not enough. It was only last year that he began to make such suggestions. The first thing is that he directly raised 10 million US dollars from the royal treasury as charity funds donated by the royal family. He understood how popular it was to be the first person to eat crabs, so he hosted a large number of nobles in the empire for a state banquet that day. So under his leadership, he raised more than 100,000 yuan in one night. Five million dollars. Of course, in order to avoid suspicion, he directly requested the famous Spanish charity activist named Rhodes who attended the banquet that night to be the manager of the Royal Charity Fund. As for the other companies, several major local families jointly find agents to represent them. This is the basic political system of Spain.

"By the way, Your Majesty, how will the prince plan to teach in the future?" Lais attaches great importance to this issue. In the eyes of her and several others, the prince's appearance is of course the most gratifying thing. Most of them are members of the family. Origin, or being the spokesperson of major nobles or financial groups, all these things naturally need to be sorted out clearly, and any attitude the prince will treat them in the future will be related to the vital interests of their family. Therefore, they are more concerned about the prince's education than anyone else. ….

"Education problem?" Alfonso really didn't think about this problem. He even said that he hadn't reacted yet and thought about the difference between the prince's education and that of ordinary people. Yes, children's education in Europe is divided into classes. The hierarchical system here is not as strict as usual. Royal children have special education courses, and aristocratic children also have a special education system. If the bourgeoisie has enough weight, they can also study in academies for aristocratic children. The rest are academies for the rich and It's an ordinary college. This is very clear. In fact, this has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can inspire people even more. People in the upper class will rush forward desperately because they feel they are superior and do not want to be caught up, while those behind them will try their best to catch up. It is just like playing a game. Low-level people People always yearn for a high-level position of existence, which generates motivation, which is centripetal force.

The disadvantage is that sometimes the people at the bottom will become more dissatisfied with society, making the poor even poorer and the rich even richer. Thinking of this, Alfonso thought of another question.

"What is the main planning of our current education charter, especially elementary and intermediate textbooks? What is the weight of Spanish history?"

"This" Les didn't expect His Majesty to ask this question, the history of Spain? To be honest, she had paid attention to these textbooks before, and she had also proposed that Spanish history should be given more weight in education. After all, she could also observe words and emotions. She knew that Alfonso attached great importance to them. In the past, those Although those who specialize in education belong to both liberal and conservative people, they pay more attention to the prosperity of American education in the United States and military education in Germany, so in the end even she was convinced and stayed in history teaching. At the end of the day, it was said that today's society is actually more reliable, and this has been recognized by many parents. Naturally, Lais would not blame Alfonso entirely for her fault, but she did not deny her fault either. A minister who is responsible is the one admired by the rulers, and a minister who does not pretend to be a good person by trying to win people's hearts is more likely to be favored and reused by the rulers.

"Starting from the next semester, we should focus on historical education from primary schools, especially education on the glorious history of Spain. Even in higher education, we should also add historical education that is helpful for centripetal force."

"But..." Les hesitated.

"Nothing to worry about, just do it like this," Alfonso said righteously. He really didn't give Lais a chance to explain this. Because he is so familiar with the impact of national history education that he was absolutely surprised that he had not paid attention to this issue in the past. Oh my god, I actually forgot this most essential aspect of running a country. Education is the most basic and important foundation of a country. In the past, he only paid attention to college, but now he thinks about it. Children are the flowers and hope of the future of our motherland. Fortunately, there is still time to correct mistakes.

If there is an example of this, then it must be Huaxia, at least the Huaxia before Alfonso.

China is a country that attaches great importance to history, and this has not changed for thousands of years. History gives people a sense of belonging. No matter how China describes the past, the ending cannot be concealed. Any Chinese who comes into contact with China's history will be proud of its past glory. I will feel helpless and sad about the decline and misery. This is a very, very natural thing. Because this records the stories of our ancestors, you can't just watch with indifference like foreigners. In fact, the people of any country hope that their country will have a glorious history. Chinese history books will definitely talk about the Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, Turkey will definitely exaggerate the Ottoman Empire, and Iran will definitely talk about the power of the Persian Empire. Iraq may dream of hanging gardens. The British are the industrial revolution and the empire on which the sun never sets, and the Germans will definitely mention Prussia and Bismarck. Tsarist Russia will definitely mention Peter Alexander the Great. The United States has a short history, but it still vigorously promotes its history of pioneering and expansion. Washington and Lincoln must be mentioned. . . . . . ….

History is indeed very important to Alfonso. The country has the glory of the country, and the family has the glory of the family. If not, even if it is fake, it will still be glorious. Just think about the so-called country of Korea in later generations. The Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Shizhen, Confucius, Kongming, Mencius, etc. were all immigrated to China. This is their words. I don’t know how many people in the world believe this, but it’s OK if at least tens of millions of people in my country believe it. This became their glorious historical belief. They believe they were once powerful. Their ancestors conquered China with their culture. They are the descendants of the sages, and China is just a place taught by their sages.

History is really important. These so-called histories. Subtly telling the people, look, how awesome we were in the past, we should be even more awesome than before, otherwise we are not as good as the ancients, which is embarrassing. . . . . . This is why history classes need to exist in primary and secondary schools. Educational history courses in each country have obvious educational significance. The country needs to improve the people's ambition and patriotic enthusiasm. For a country to form a certain existence, it must have a certain degree of internal cohesion. Otherwise, it will be a mess, which is quite unfavorable for the rulers, whether it is a capitalist or a socialist country. This is the significance of history to all countries.

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