"This is not to mention the gifts that must be given to the husband every year. For a child's birth, it costs two taels of silver a year. During festivals, the husband's birthday, etc., it requires a lot of filial piety."
If the teacher you worship is a Tongsheng, the children of the poor cannot afford to study. What's more, if the teacher is a scholar or a scholar, the training will be higher, and the etiquette and etiquette required will be richer.
Therefore, studying has become something that only the powerful and wealthy can do, but the children of the powerful and wealthy may not be willing to study hard, because their daily lives are already good enough, and learning is just the icing on the cake for them.
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Of course, there are still many people who can enter the school and are willing to study hard, but this is not the purpose of Laojijiu and Wei's consort.
Both of them are people who truly care about the youth of the world and hope that even poor people can go to school.
In this world, not all scholars are necessarily rotten. Some people really understand the knowledge left by their ancestors, instead of just understanding it and being self-righteous.
They don't have the saying "A strong young man will make a country strong", but this group of people understand that if their Qilin Kingdom wants to be prosperous and peaceful for a long time, they cannot just rely on the descendants raised by the noble families and wealthy households. Ordinary people are indispensable.
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If you want ordinary people to participate in state affairs and make suggestions for the country, you must study;
But the current reality is that seven out of ten ordinary people cannot afford to read at all.
Do you think these people can take it easy?
After seeing how cheap the paper made by Prince Xian's people was, they were all smart people and immediately thought that there were only two reasons why paper and pens could be sold so cheaply. One was to squeeze out the original paper makers and then
He is unique, and secondly, for the people of Prince Xian, making paper and pens is an extremely simple and inexpensive task.
So they all flocked to the homes of the leaders of their group, namely Lao Jijiu and Wei's consort.
Although the former seems to be more likely, based on their analysis of Prince Xian's behavior since he came to Beijing, the latter seems to be more likely.
After learning from Qi Bao'er that making paper and pens was not difficult for her people, Prince Consort Wei sighed: "It would be great if your workshop, Lord Xian, could be found everywhere."
Not only do students save a lot of money on paper and pens, but ordinary people can also buy some and take them home for their children to learn calligraphy.
If you don’t have enough money to be a teacher, you may be from the same village, neighbor, clan member, etc. There are always scholars among these people, so what’s the difficulty in being taught a few words?
In this way, you can at least learn some common words, and avoid being deceived and sold by others who don't even recognize the words on the deed.
They didn't force it, they just came to find out if Qibaoer was planning to open a workshop in other places. If so, could you tell them in advance so that they could explain to the people they knew there that they could find a way to get more people to work there?
People read and learn calligraphy.
It can be said to be quite selfless, and Qi Baoer was extremely touched.
At this time, Zhuo Wen came to complain, which gave Qi Bao'er an idea. Zhuo Wen and the others only had a few hundred people, and everyone knew different techniques. Naturally, it was impossible to open workshops all over the country, and let's keep the technology.
, which is not their original intention.
Why not simply teach the technology? If more people build it, won’t the price naturally come down?!
The lives of ordinary people will gradually improve.
Unexpectedly, no one came to her door even after the news about her was released for more than a month, not even one to inquire.
Qi Bao'er didn't care at first. Teaching people skills has always been done by those who want to learn. How can there be any reason to teach people who want to teach?!
Unexpectedly, not only did this matter seem to have been released, but more than a month later, many rumors that were unfavorable to Prince Xian's palace spread outside the capital.
Although they were all timid and did not dare to spread it on a large scale, it could still reach Qi Bao'er's ears. It was obvious that those rumors had spread far and wide.
Why does Prince Xian’s Mansion want to monopolize the business world in the name of imparting technology [There is no such term in this world, but the meaning is quite different];
Why does Prince Xian’s Mansion want to seize their property to support her Zhennan Army and Wuying Army?
Etc., etc., in short, the general meaning is that Qi Baoer's move to teach the technology for free is not a good intention in itself, but he not only wants to earn them a lot of money in return, but may even want to occupy their property.
The common people don't care about this, and because Qi Bao'er's prestige on the list has been getting higher and higher over the years, the common people are very suspicious of her, so these rumors don't have much influence among the common people.
But it’s different when it comes to merchants. While merchants value profits, they are also somewhat suspicious of others and try to push others away. Technology is such a precious thing in this world. Many people have skills in their hands but they still pass them down from male to female.
Not passing it on to young children shows that everyone attaches great importance to and takes precautions against technology;
But you said that you would teach them the technology for free, and the benefits were so great that hearing about papermaking and other businesses that are struggling to make money these days would make them weak.
After the initial excitement of gold falling from the sky passed, everyone started to look for it: How could such a good thing be possible in this world? Could it be that this wise prince had other purposes?
At this time, someone stood up, seemingly unintentionally but clearly pointing out the million Zhennan Army and the tens of thousands of Shadowless Army in the hands of Prince Xian. After that, they all 'realized' as if they were holding a pot for initiation. Good guy.
, turns out they want to use our money to raise troops.
This fool is so talented. If he doesn't learn, he doesn't dare to learn if he is designated not to learn.
Not only did they not dare to learn it themselves, they also informed the merchants they knew about these speculations. This spread spread even to the traveling merchants who were walking around the streets. They all knew that Prince Xian wanted to get money from the merchants.
The matter of raising soldiers.
When Qi Baoer learned this, he was really angry and funny, and gave up on the idea of teaching people skills for free.
But not everyone is so cute.
For example, Prince Consort Wei brought his classmates from Yong'an City to Prince Xian's Mansion to study, and then he and Qi Baoer opened a paper-making workshop and a pen-making workshop in Yong'an City.
There was also a merchant in Youcheng who heard the news and sent his eldest son to study. Prince Xian's palace did not intervene. After he completed his studies, he returned and built a workshop in Acropolis.
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There were quite a lot of people, partly because they believed that the virtuous prince who was so protective of the country would never be able to harm the people of Qilin Kingdom with such despicable behavior, and partly because they were almost desperate and came to fight.
The attitude of Prince Xian’s Mansion is that if you want to learn from me, I’ll teach you. If you don’t want to learn from me, don’t ask for it. This matter did not cause any waves in Prince Xian’s Mansion. On the contrary, more people in Beijing have been eyeing Prince Xian’s Mansion since then.
Everyone wants to see if those rumors are true.
Later, after Qi Baoer resigned, some people in Beijing speculated whether she would resign from the post of Minister of War just to take some time off and prepare to make money?
It's a bit darker. I guess she is preparing to strengthen her troops and do something?
Some censors even wrote to Jun Chenyuan. In view of previous experiences of impeachment of Qi Baoer, which had not gone well, these censors did not dare to resort to impeachment again, but gave advice.