Although it is a good thing that more and more people are eagerly participating in free literacy education, if the number of participants is too large, it will also put considerable pressure on the governnt.
After all, whether it is the simple schools needed for literacy education or the teachers who impart knowledge, they are all limited. Pri Minister Primó can only try his best to free up more places for literacy education and provide sufficient teachers for literacy education as much as possible.
Because literacy education only requires simple teaching of so commonly used Spanish language words as well as so historical and cultural common knowledge, simple scientific knowledge, and so on, as long as they have a high school education level or above, they can actually serve as teachers for literacy education.
Pri Minister Primó directly set his sights on those university students studying literature. Their knowledge reserve is absolutely sufficient, and teaching so relatively simple knowledge is naturally a piece of cake.
And these university students who have just entered university are also the easiest to fool. Just wave the banner of contributing to the country, and provide them with a free dinner along the way, and a lot of university students can be attracted to voluntarily join literacy education work.
Of course, the governnt cannot use these university students for free. As long as these university students are willing to serve as literacy education teachers in their spare ti, the governnt can provide them with wages at the level of the national average annual inco.
Although this money is not too much, for many university students, it is indeed a good way to create extra inco.
Although many of those who enter university are from wealthy families, there are also talented students from poor backgrounds.
Through this thod of creating extra inco, they can also ensure their tuition fees and stay in university to continue their studies.
Although Spain’s literacy education is being carried out vigorously, Carlo knows that the most successful period is only these few years ahead.
In these few years ahead, because there are a large number of illiterate children who would not generate much inco staying at ho, the public is naturally willing to send them to simple schools for free literacy education.
But after these relatively young children and teenagers all receive literacy education, those adults who are also illiterate may not accept free literacy education.
They all have jobs and need to keep working to earn inco to support their families. In their view, although free literacy education requires no paynt, it is also wasting the family’s labor.
For so families with relatively low inco, losing that little money earned may cause the entire family’s living standard to drop sharply.
However, Carlo is already satisfied with achieving such an effect.
According to Spain’s illiteracy rate of over 70%, there are at least 11 million people at illiterate level dostically. After several years of literacy education, the illiterate population can be reduced to below 8 million, that is, less than half of the total population.
Although there is still a certain gap compared to other European countries, compared to Spain a few years ago, there is undoubtedly great progress.
On January 25, 1871, just a few days after Carlo imrsed himself in the success of the popularization of literacy education, Cadillac brought Carlo even better news, that the mission to the United States has been completed.
The current United States is not yet the powerful world police of posterity, but just a weak country that has just ended the Civil War not long ago.
This is not that Carlo looks down on the United States, but that the current United States’ foundation is far inferior to European countries.
Although the current United States’ economy and industrial scale are at the level of great powers, if other factors are not considered and they truly fight, the United States would probably not be able to defeat Spain.
Spain’s weakness is relative. Compared to superpowers like Britain, France, and Germany, Spain is naturally relatively weak.
But compared to European small and dium-sized countries like Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal, Spain still possesses considerable advantages.
In the whole of Europe, except for Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria that can steadily surpass Spain, even Italy cannot steadily surpass Spain.
If Spain had not long-term used the wealth plundered from colonies on seeking pleasure, Spain at this ti would probably still be a powerful colonial empire.
Of course, if looking solely at the harvest obtained from the colonial aspect and the scale of existing colonies, Spain is still the world’s third colonial empire, second only to the two super great powers of Britain and France in the colonial aspect.
Although Spain’s colonies in Arica have one after another gained independence, Spain’s influence over these forr colonies still exists.
Currently, except for Britain, France, and Germany, which completely crush Spain in population, industry, economy, and military aspect, there are not many countries left that Carlo values.
The Russian Empire appears powerful, but like the forr Kingdom of Spain, it has decayed to the core.
Alexander II’s reforms seem to have given Russia a shot in the arm, but in fact, they only changed the surface and did not change the decayed foundation inside Russia.
History has long verified the success or failure of Alexander II’s reforms; the Russian Empire’s national fortune actually has less than 50 years left.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire appears powerful, but in fact, internal problems are innurable. The Austrian Empire turning into the Austro-Hungarian Empire actually already shows the internal problems of this country; Austrians can no longer obstruct Hungary’s rise, and how long this dual monarchy country can exist depends entirely on whether Hungarians are willing to continue staying under the empire’s rule.
The two great powers that can rise in the future, the United States and the island nation, actually pose limited threats to Spain. The reason the United States is powerful is not because it possesses vast industrial and economic strength, but because the United States crazily sucked Europe’s blood in two world wars and absorbed a large number of European technical talent.
Without these advanced technology and talent from Europe, even if the United States possesses vast industry and economy, in the eyes of Europeans, it would be nothing more than an upstart great power.
Since Carlo has now co to the era before the United States’ rise, it is naturally impossible to allow the United States’ rise as in history.
Moreover, this country, the United States, is not as powerful as it appears. Whether it is the racial conflict between black people and white people, the contradictions existing among a large number of immigrants, or the divisions between the Arican South and North, for a country whose history can be written in one book, they are really too fatal.
The United States’ Civil War is actually a microcosm of the dostic contradictions in the United States in this era. And the Civil War did not solve this contradiction, but rely suppressed it through military ans.
Unless the United States can quickly rise to beco a world hegemon-level country, making all immigrants’ sense of identity with the United States far stronger than their opposition to the United States governnt, perhaps it can suppress the contradictions and conflicts between certain groups dostically.
But if the United States cannot quickly beco one of the world’s top three super great powers, these dostic contradictions will continue to exist until they are dealt with or erupt.
Such problems are not only appearing in the United States, but also in those countries that beca independent from colonies and continuously absorb immigrant population.
If it is only immigrants from one country, the contradictions are actually not that many, nothing more than the contradictions between the colony and the suzerain.
But like the United States, continuously absorbing immigrants from the whole of Europe, even including a large number of immigrants from Asia and Africans who ca to the United States due to the black slave trade, that is really a grand drama.
The mission to the United States that Cadillac ntioned is naturally impossible to be befriending the United States governnt, and Carlo has no intention of befriending the United States governnt either.
Not to ntion anything else, last year’s Cuban Colony’s independence issue definitely had interference from Arican forces.
If Spain dostically had not quickly stabilized, and Carlo had not dispatched Marshal Serrano, who had served as Governor of Cuba, to personally lead the army to Cuba for suppression of rebellion, this independence war would probably continue for several years as in history, and deal a heavy blow to Spain’s economy.
It must be known that Spain’s annual fiscal revenue is only 300 million peseta, and historically suppressing the rebellion in Cuba cost 700 million peseta.
This ans that the Spanish Governnt needs to invest more than half of its fiscal revenue into military expenses every year to successfully suppress the Cuban people’s independence uprising.
And what did the Spanish Governnt gain? A Cuban Colony that desires independence even more and whose economy has been destroyed by more than half.
It is also because the current Spain needs to keep a low profile and focus on developnt, otherwise Carlo would have long found so trouble for the United States governnt.
The current Cuban Colony still belongs to Spain, and Aricans will definitely not give up their covetousness of the Cuban Colony.
Fortunately, the current United States does not yet have such powerful industrial and economic strength, the Spanish Governnt has not weakened, and the United States governnt does not have the guts to launch a war against Spain.
The historical United States also endured until 1898, and even beforehand expressed to the Spanish Governnt a request to spend 100 million US dollar to purchase the Cuban Colony.
Although it was nearly 30 years later, the US dollar at that ti was not cheap at all, roughly equivalent to 20 million Pound Sterling.
It must be known that 1898 was the pre-dreadnought era, that is, the battleship era. Building one of the most powerful main battleships at that ti only required a little over one million Pound Sterling.
The 20 million Pound Sterling that Aricans were willing to pay was enough for Spain at that ti to build a navy in the world’s top eight, which is enough to show that Aricans at that ti were still sowhat unconfident in their own strength and still attached so importance to Spain.
However, after the war broke out, the Spanish Governnt’s performance stunned the then unconfident United States, and also allowed the United States governnt, while seizing the Cuban Colony, to also snatch away Spain’s rare large colony, the Philippines, making the Spanish colonial empire thoroughly beco history.
After the Spanish-Arican War, Spain’s colonies were left only with a few relatively small regions in Africa. This also forced Spain to ultimately set its sights on Morocco and face the pressure from Britain and France head-on.
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