The bookstore's plan is progressing steadily as Li Tai expected.
After a day of self-study thinking, those students who left decided to stay and continue to set up a bookstore.
Li Tai himself was not sure whether Li Tai's words infected them.
But what Li Tai can be sure of is that most students definitely go back and think carefully and find that the only way to truly develop their own knowledge is to open a bookstore.
Others either compete with people in their own system for agricultural officials or with people with the Ming Jing Jinshi subjects.
The former is still possible, but the latter should go back to the place to take the exam slowly and get the qualification to come to Chang'an to take the exam first.
Let me reiterate that these people are from good families, not from aristocratic families, nor from common people's landlords.
For these families, they can do it for a child to study for three or four years, but as long as it is not an ordinary family with a particularly gambler or long-term vision, it is really difficult to support a child to continue studying.
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It may not be that their short-sightedness forced these children to choose jobs that could be cashed out immediately, but that their families could not afford to always support a labor force that was not a productive job, especially learning itself is a very expensive thing.
Therefore, when you go to the bookstore, you can not only earn your own living expenses, but also give yourself the capital to continue studying. Especially this job seems to be a very decent job, and these students are still quite happy.
It’s like a librarian, although in Li Tai’s opinion, this profession is either the first choice for fishing or exclusive to big shots.
But for most students, they want to become librarians because this profession is both decent and can help them continue their studies. Therefore, the competition for librarians is still quite fierce in school.
However, a large number of positions in the Agricultural Institution, including librarians, can only be students or teachers in the Agricultural Institution. If you do not have a formal identity in the school, you cannot work in the school.
This is also the reason why Chen Kai entered the bookstore. He was originally a librarian, but with the time to graduate, either he successfully stayed at school and became a teacher assistant, or his planting project was valued by the campus, otherwise his librarian would have ended.
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This time when Chen Kai entered the bookstore, he was quite active, and Li Tai hoped that he could perform well.
To be honest, the development of the bookstore must have been unfavorable at the beginning, because the literacy rate of the Tang Dynasty was really worrying.
The mainstream customers of my bookstore at the beginning must have been students trained by Confucianism. Even if they would not resist books from agricultural institutions, it would definitely be unrealistic to say that they wanted to make them agree with the knowledge in it.
And Li Tai’s customers are not them, but the same thing, Li Tai’s goal is farmers and good families.
Besides the enlightened people, the most important thing is the students who left the agricultural institution.
That’s right, Li Tai didn’t simply want to sell books and make money or anything else. The function of the bookstore is to become a contact point for students from agricultural institutions.
The Tang Dynasty was not modern, and there were not many things that could be used for entertainment, at least for the lower class or good families.
It is enough to use words for people to enjoy themselves, especially for good families who are literate but have difficulty changing their destiny. Their own bimonthly and magazines are spiritual food specially prepared for them.
With their graduation certificate, they will enjoy a 20% discount.
If these students who leave school really only regard the school as a school after leaving, and then they will forget it. Even the half-monthly and magazines with school information are not sold, then Li Tai will not force it.
But these students from agricultural institutions who come to buy semi-monthly and monthly magazines with their graduation certificates will naturally become Li Tai's core backbone at the grassroots level.
What Li Tai needs now is to cultivate them more and more, and to cultivate them to have monthly, bimonthly, magazines and other books.
If you need the people at the bottom to learn to read, you must start with these people.
To be honest, Li Tai understands that he will definitely invest a lot in the early stage, and it is normal for him to gain nothing in the past few years.
But as the number of students in agricultural institutions gradually increases, the entire market will definitely become larger and larger.
Especially farmers actually find ways to increase their production or wealth from these monthly and bimonthly magazines, which can arouse subjective initiative. Even if they can't understand the words, they will take the initiative to buy one of these monthly bimonthly magazines.
After school, they will ask them to translate the words on them, and the bookstore will gain a foothold.
By then, the bookstore could even teach ordinary people to read and spread agricultural ideas based on these bimonthly and monthly magazines as simple primary school textbooks.
The most important thing is that because the cost of trial and error is too low, people dare not try and error, and they seem short-sighted.
But when they really gain from the knowledge of monthly and bimonthly magazines, they will also become the biggest supporter of themselves.
So, although Li Tai has a great future for the bookstore, Li Tai knows more clearly that if he needs to subsidize his food for two or three years, he will definitely get benefits from the fourth year. Then the layout of the bookstore is his own
If you want to have a real harvest, it will be ten or even twenty years later.
Before that, I at most used the bookstore as a contact base with graduates from agricultural institutions.
For example, help some students with moral character but in real difficulties at home, such as those who are recruited to go to war for the army, so they cannot take care of their own students, such as those who are bullied by local wealthy families but have nowhere to seek justice.
In short, agricultural institutions will become their strongest backing, and Li Tai can also reasonably cultivate his own support.
For Li Tai, fame is always the weakest point, especially as the crown prince, Li Chengqian was born to inherit Li Shimin's fame and Confucian support. In this regard, it can be said that Confucianism is the strongest in fame.
I don’t want to surpass Li Chengqian in this regard, but at least I must be qualified to compete with him.
Therefore, I have to gain fame, but the fame I need is different from Li Chengqian's.
"Let's do it first!" Li Tai looked at this scene, and the bookstore's chess piece fell down and took a look.
In Li Tai's opinion, even if Li Chengqian sent someone to keep an eye on him, could he really guess his intention?
This silent layout of moistening things, and when they really come into play, it is time to fight Li Chengqian head-on.
What Li Tai didn't know was that his silent layout for moistening things actually fell into the eyes of those who were interested.
Because there are several teachers who are in the agricultural institution that are in line with students, Chu Suiliang is practicing calligraphy in the dormitory at this moment.
His characters give people a sense that the weight of flesh and blood is balanced, and it is both rigid and soft, clear and elegant, handsome and elegant, with both strength and beauty. The bones and rhyme tend to be one, but the spirit is particularly compelling. At least Li Tai's character is
I don’t have the qualifications to take it out to make a background with him.
"Brother Deng Shan, he has been writing continuously. No wonder he can write so well. It seems that he already has the courage of everyone!" Liu Rengui praised.
Chu Suiliang smiled proudly and changed the topic: "Brother Zhengze has been back so early. How many students have signed up for the bookstore?"
Liu Rengui also understood that Chu Suiliang paid more attention to the bookstore that had just emerged in the school compared to his evaluation of his calligraphy.
"A lot of them. I basically went back and thought for a night, but decided to continue to go to the bookstore!" Liu Rengui shrugged and said,
"At least a few liberal arts students I know agree to go to the bookstore.
What's wrong? Is there any problem with this? The bookstore only buys and sells stories to introduce the knowledge of agricultural institutions to farmers.
It’s very consistent with the actions of King Yue!”
"It is precisely because of the actions of King Yue that it makes people feel something is wrong!"
Chu Suiliang sighed, "You are not in Chang'an, I don't know that we have this King of Yue, but we are not an ordinary prince!"
Liu Rengui sighed: "I have also heard of the wiseness of King Yue, like killing locusts to rescue disasters, like gathering disaster victims, like building Gaoling...
To be honest, if I hadn't come to Gaoling in person, I wouldn't have believed that this place was just a ruin three years ago."
"Haha!" Chu Suiliang said, "In the early Zhenguan period, when the saint ascended the throne, the King of Yue spoke rude to Kong Yingda and insulted Confucianism. If the saint had not directly asked him to leave the palace and open the palace to suppress the momentum of public opinion, the King of Yue was criticized by thousands of people, and was afraid that
Already..."
Chu Suiliang said a little while here, knowing that he couldn't say what he next said.
Chu Suiliang took a deep breath and continued, "A eight-year-old child, in such a situation, unyieldingly seized every opportunity to become the priest of the current agricultural institution, and was also a famous official in the court.
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If the bookstore is a trivial matter, do you need him to come here to encourage him in person?”
"You can see clearly!" Liu Rengui felt thoughtful when he heard Chu Suiliang's words. It was indeed Li Tai's performance that everyone had always done. Although everyone could not understand what Li Tai's operation was, no one dared to be a little bitch.
Look at Li Tai's actions.
However, Liu Rengui thought for a while and said, "But what are the benefits of opening a bookstore? It spreads the reputation of the agricultural institution, spreads the reputation of King Yue himself, or gives the liberal arts students of the agricultural institution a place to eat? I can't understand, tell me?"
"You think I'm smarter than you, what you can't figure out, I'd love to know something!"
Chu Suiliang continued, "I just think it is different in the past, except for giving the Liberal Arts students a place to settle down.
King Yue must have his purpose in establishing a bookstore, but I can't see this purpose!"
"Then do we want to learn?" Liu Rengui asked when he heard Chu Suiliang's words.
After all, the main purpose of these people coming here is to study and then go to the Jiangnan Kai Branch.
So I was naturally very concerned about Li Tai's actions. Now that Li Tai made such an operation, Chu Suiliang was puzzled!
"Study, although I don't know what King Yue is going to do, what are the problems we have when we learn it!"
Chu Suiliang said calmly,
"The students from these agricultural institutions have only studied for four years, and for us, they are just the level of elementary school.
Whoever reads the manuscripts they wrote is afraid that they will only entertain themselves, but we can allow better talents to write more handsome articles and even comment on Confucian celebrities!
Although I don’t know what King Yue does, I’m just doing it stronger and better than King Yue!”
"Are you planning to oppose King Yue?" Liu Rengui couldn't help but frown when he heard Chu Suiliang's words.
Chu Suiliang said: "Britain is better than blue, and ice water makes it colder than water.
The saint asked us to learn from the King of Yue’s agricultural institution. Isn’t it just to surpass the agricultural institution in the future?
Otherwise, it would be better to increase investment in agricultural institutions and cultivate more canal transport talents, so why bother to come here?”
"You can understand the holy will!" Liu Rengui said, "Then you say that King Yue is extremely capable, why should a saint check and balance King Yue!"
"Of course it's for the prince..." Chu Suiliang said here, immediately shut his mouth and said,
"The heart of a saint is beyond your opinion.
However, I believe that if we cannot do better than King Yue, then there is how to demonstrate our talents.
I must write down this matter in the bookstore first, and maybe I will use it in the future.”
Liu Rengui looked at Chu Suiliang and planned to learn it first.
Although Chu Suiliang felt that there must be some problems here, since Chu Suiliang did not listen to the reminder, then forget it.
To be honest, compared to Chu Suiliang, who is from a noble family, has been with Chu Liang since he was a child, his vision is far-sighted and he can see many things more clearly than himself.
But Liu Rengui came from the bottom and had considerable sympathy for the people at the bottom, especially the good families at the bottom.
Therefore, he felt that the Agricultural University was a great addition to the farmers who had always been at the bottom of the country.
The more I stayed in this agricultural institution, the more I felt that Liu Rengui was quite fulfilling to learn here.
Many novel underlying ideas and many clever farming techniques can all appear here.
Although the peasants and people do not know how to govern the country, they also have unexpected creativity, especially when it comes to farming.
To be honest, Liu Rengui could see that as long as all the people sent by the court were willing to put down their posture and study, they basically grew up, especially the four people in their dormitory, so this is indeed a very good institution.
But unfortunately, the foundation of this school is still not enough. Whether it is teachers, students, especially academic precipitation, many things that are difficult for ordinary people are almost understandable for themselves and others.
Everyone has not graduated yet, but they are just waiting for the first wave of wheat harvest.
But after the bumper harvest, if nothing else is done, it will definitely be inevitable to leave this agricultural institution and establish a Jiangnan branch.