Finally, when Li Tai thought that he should send someone to look for Du Chuke on Songshan Road, Du Chuke came to the Agricultural University. This finally made Li Tai breathe a sigh of relief, at least no one was lost.
What Du Chuke didn't expect was that he had just settled down on the second day after he came to report, and he was pulled over by Li Tai for a meeting.
When Du Chuke came to the room, Yan Qinli replaced Li Tailai to receive all the section chiefs and took their seats one after another.
Each person's seat also has the nameplate of the six section chiefs, as well as their respective names. Li Tai's identity is the mountain chief, and Ma Zhou's identity is the acting agricultural section chief. In addition to being responsible for the daily management and coordination of the six sections,
He also works part-time in agricultural affairs.
Du Chuke also sat down on his own seat, and each seat had its own meal.
Li Tai was the first to speak: "It is my great fortune to have all the wise people teaching in the Agricultural University I founded, and it is also a blessing for the Tang Dynasty. On behalf of the Agricultural University, I would like to express my gratitude to you all for coming."
After Li Tai said politely, Li Chunfeng and Lu Cai showed a bit of embarrassment. Yan Qinli, Du Chuke and Liu Shenwei looked at Li Tai calmly, while Ma Zhou watched everyone's reactions with a half-smile.
Everyone politely complimented each other and got to know each other. Soon Li Tai came up with his plan and said:
“When I founded an agricultural school, my goal was to make sure that no one would starve to death or freeze to death in the world.
This is my original intention in establishing the school, so the purpose of cultivating agricultural students is not to become officials who are superior to others, but to be master farmers who are willing to work in the fields.
In today's meeting, I hope I can convey my thoughts to you. If you have any questions, I will try my best to answer them.
I hope you can understand my ambition, and I hope you can help me!"
Li Tai was extremely candid in front of everyone at this moment.
Li Tai did not want to hide his purpose. Today's meeting was to unify everyone's thoughts and convey his will.
I don't care what their real purpose is, but as long as I'm in this agricultural school, I must execute it according to my own will.
There is no need for Li Tai to hide, because what he wants to do is not some cunning plot, but to form a political force of his own.
Even if this power needs to be maintained by interests in the end, it must be condensed under Li Tai's ideals at the beginning.
Li Tai believes that with his own abilities, there will definitely be no shortage of people driven by interests in the future, but if he wants to establish his own political power, he must have a political ambition to unite everyone.
This can be a slogan shouted, but it must not be a loose sand that is purely based on interests from the beginning.
Because groups that are brought together by interests will inevitably disintegrate by greater interests.
But when faced with huge benefits, a group formed by dreams will at least defiantly shout "More money!"
For Li Tai, this is enough.
Li Tai does not need them to be loyal and unyielding for him, and Li Tai never expects people of this era to really understand him.
Li Tai just needs that when they are faced with two equal interests, they will choose themselves because of their dreams.
And this is the first program of our political group, that is, we represent the interests of the overwhelming majority of farmers.
Of course, Li Tai would not seek death by saying this, but his actions must be based on this purpose.
"If we only need to specialize in farming, why do we need to set up arts, mathematics, medicine, calligraphy and music?"
At this time, Yan Qinli spoke with a somewhat upright voice.
This made everyone else present feel a bit stunned. They did not expect that the first person to ask this question would be Yan Qinli.
Because Yan Qinli was the literature director of the Yue Prince's Palace, he was also the first section chief appointed by Li Tai after he accepted the Agricultural University.
So everyone present thought that Yan Qinli was Li Tai's man, but no one expected that Yan Qinli was not.
In fact, Li Tai understood that Yan Qinli was never anyone's person, he only did what he thought was right.
It was as if he was rejected by Confucianism. Yan Qinli became his teacher and still educated him conscientiously without any prejudice.
Therefore, when faced with Yan Qinli’s inquiry, Li Tai also fearlessly said: “Because there are few literati in the world who speak out for farmers!
Confucian students, no matter how poor their families are, still have land and houses. What they say or say is either for the sake of a wealthy family, or for the powerful, or at the worst, for the landowners with hundreds of acres of fertile land.
But are there any scholars who really speak out for the tenants at the bottom who have to rent even farmland from the landlord?!
Are there any scholars who have become refugees in a blink of an eye because of natural disasters and man-made disasters?!
Are there any scholars who really speak out in order to let Tian Shelang ascend to the Emperor's Hall?!"
Everyone present was stunned when they heard Li Tai's words. Even Yan Qinli, who had prepared a lot of words, was suddenly speechless.
They didn't expect that Li Tai, a high-ranking royal nobleman, would suddenly ask such a down-to-earth yet direct question.
Ma Zhou sighed, he didn't know why the Yue King in front of him was so sympathetic to the people at the bottom.
But as Li Tai said, individual scholars may care about the people at the bottom, but as long as their own interests are involved, no one will take the people at the bottom seriously.
From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, who cares about the people at the bottom!
“The farmers at the bottom support us all.
They have the heaviest taxes and the heaviest corvee, but in the end they may not even have enough food for the winter.
Even if they are in trouble, they don't even have a channel to speak out.
Eventually this predicament turned into a desperate situation, and that’s when they broke out!”
After Li Tai said this, he took a deep breath,
“Therefore, people who graduate from our agricultural colleges must become people who speak out for farmers.
The people at the lowest level cannot support a scholar who stands as a peasant, so I will support him;
The people at the lowest level have no way to let their voices be heard by the court, so I will build this channel;
The people at the bottom cannot guarantee the benefits they deserve, so I will find a way to safeguard their interests!"
Li Tai looked at Yan Qinli and asked sincerely: "So our agricultural students must be proficient in these six subjects.
They may even be asked to learn more in the future, because only they can speak out for the farmers at the bottom."
Hearing Yan Qinli's words at this moment, everyone present could not help but remain silent. They praised Li Tai's ideals and were shocked by Li Tai's ideals.
They did not expect that Li Tai would position his agricultural school in this way.
This gave them a feeling of being chosen. At least Ma Zhou and Li Chunfeng were very appreciative of Li Tai's words, and Liu Shenwei couldn't help clenching his fists.
Lu Cai was both excited and hesitant at the same time. He was somewhat willing to stay in an agricultural school, but he had some expectations for his scientific examination results. He even thought about what he would do if he accidentally won the Jinshi.
When Yan Qinli heard Li Tai's words, his eyes couldn't help but become a little confused.
He is an orthodox scholar of Confucianism, so when Li Tai said that Confucianism never spoke on behalf of farmers, it spoke on behalf of aristocratic families and powerful people, he seemed to realize this.
No matter how loudly Confucian students plead for the people, in the end the people of Confucianism are never farmers, but the class of scholars.
Du Chuke, on the other hand, touched his beard at this moment, and he looked even more interesting at the King of Yue in front of him.
Strictly speaking, Du Chuke is the only politician among the six people here, and his goal is to become a politician.
Therefore, Du Chuke discovered that if Li Tai could really build scholars who could speak out for farmers, then losing the support of Confucianism would not seem so important.
Because Li Tai has his own political power and a political group that he built by himself.
Du Chuke wanted to take another look. Anyway, Li Shimin's eldest son was only nine years old. He had time to observe the court, and he also had time to slowly observe Li Tai.
When Li Tai proposed to build such a force, a very important point was that since the Qin and Han Dynasties, to be precise since the Western Han Dynasty, there has been a situation where imperial power did not go to the countryside.
If you want to control feudal society in the future, or even want to transform feudal society, then you must start to build a force that can take root at the grassroots level.
Because only with the existence of this force can one's own policies be truly conveyed to the lower levels.
We will not let our policies, which are originally intended to benefit the country and benefit the people, become an excuse to exploit the people when they are actually implemented at the grassroots level.
And this kind of power that takes root at the grassroots level is really difficult to build. It not only requires a suitable entry point and enough money, but more importantly, it takes time to develop your own power at the grassroots level.
Let them be able to resist the landlord class's counterattack, at least until they send a large army to suppress the rebellion, instead of spreading directly across the country like wildfire.
Of course, it was impossible for Li Tai to say this. This was not because he was sincere, but because he was really stupid if he said it.
After all, even if Li Shimin is afraid, he may not be relieved that Li Tai has become the spokesperson of such a force!
"I am extremely grateful to have a heart-to-heart talk with you all today. At least from today on, our Gaoling Agricultural University has been officially established!" Li Tai looked at everyone with a big smile and said, "Of course, the specific tasks of each subject in the future.
I will also arrange it.”
"First of all, preschool!" Li Tai's eyes fell on Yan Qinli and Li Chunfeng, and Li Tai said:
“The college is divided into preschool classes and formal classes, and it may be necessary to add scientific research classes for further training in the future.
There are two tasks for preschool. One is basic literacy. All students need to learn "The Thousand Character Classic" and basic arithmetic, understand how to remember things, and know how to use an abacus.
Finally, only those who pass the exam can enter the official class!
The formal classes are divided into six subjects, agriculture, literature, mathematics, Chinese calligraphy, medicine and music.
Among them, agriculture is the main subject. After officially entering the agricultural subject, you need to cultivate one acre of land in the first year, and then it will be your own exclusive land. The graduation standard is to cultivate more than three liters of grain. If you fail to pass it within five years, you will not be graduated.
The remaining five subjects are affiliated subjects and are elective every year.
Liberal arts, mainly to accumulate crop experience for writing agricultural records, and editing and organizing agricultural works.
Mathematics, as the basis of tools, is responsible for measurement and constant calculation of data to find the optimal solution for agricultural planting.
Mo Ke is mainly responsible for the research, development and popularization of agricultural tools. In particular, it collects agricultural tools that may have been invented by the common people but have not yet spread, conduct experiments within our agricultural universities, and then promote them nationwide.
Leke hopes to try to compose more farmers' farming music to mobilize their enthusiasm for farming. We don't need spring and snow, we only need lower Liba people, and try to see whether music can increase grain production. All things have animism, and I believe the same is true for grains!
The last medical department..."
Li Tai couldn't help but slowly stopped when he said this, and everyone became quiet.
Because what Li Tai said before is at least related to agriculture. Even if it sounds unbelievable that music can increase food production, people in this era believe that everything is animistic, and music is the best way to communicate with living beings.
Good method!
But there is only medicine, which seems to be incompatible with agriculture no matter how you look at it.
So when a medical department suddenly appeared in an agricultural university, everyone thought it looked weird if it was placed here.
Liu Shenwei looked at Li Tai with a little uneasiness. To be honest, after listening to Li Tai's words, he really wanted to do something big.
Because Liu Shenwei really came from the bottom, not even the landlord class. He was originally a refugee during the turmoil of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He was lucky enough to be adopted by Sun Simiao and became his disciple. However, he still remembered the despair of starving to death.
But now I want to do something big, but I find that I can't do anything in agriculture. I only know medical skills.
“For the medical department, I want to establish a team of rural basic medical personnel who are both farmers and doctors. They can farm during busy periods and practice medicine during slack periods, or they can farm during the day and practice medicine at night.
They may even become officially designated traveling doctors to treat poor people all over the world.
They take root in the countryside and farmers, and help the most tired farmers at the grassroots level solve most of the most common diseases.
More importantly, they can use local materials to minimize farmers' difficulties.
Maybe they can't solve serious illnesses, but at least they can solve minor illnesses such as headaches and fever, so that people don't need to believe in Fu Shui to save people."
Li Tai slowly talked about his plan to Liu Shenwei, drew the blueprint in his mind, and continued:
“At the same time, I want to try to cultivate certain common medicinal materials on a large scale and use the medicinal materials as food for large-scale cultivation.
However, medicinal materials are naturally raised and gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Those raised artificially are definitely inferior to those raised in the wild.
Therefore, it is even more necessary for medical personnel to determine the properties of the medicine before it can be used by patients."
Hearing this, Liu Shenwei was a little surprised and understood what Li Tai meant, and said to Li Tai with great confidence,
"Please rest assured, King Yue. My master once took me to travel far and wide to treat the wounded. I know how to train him."
After Li Tai heard Liu Shenwei's words, he thought for a while and said,
"I don't know much about medical matters, so I asked Divine Doctor Liu to discuss with the old man whether he can help to sort out the medical system and quickly cultivate a batch of quick seedlings.
After these students graduate quickly, they can go directly to the grassroots level to work as medical doctors, allowing them to slowly accumulate experience at the grassroots level.
When they want to come back and study medicine again, there will be a suitable system to accommodate them so that they can become famous doctors."
"Please rest assured, King Yue, I will go back and ask the master!" Liu Shenwei said respectfully to Li Tai.