Chapter 327: The First Step of Popularizing Education
"I will go see the civil servants and ask them to help me think of a solution," Zhao Kuo said.
The civil servants on the other side are still working hard.
"Each township needs at least one road to connect milk factories in various places. Only in this way can dairy products be transported to Handan quickly. As a result, the road from Hetao to Handan is a bit narrow, and it needs to be widened at least twice.
The roads connecting Shangjinyang and Shangdang to Hetao and Handan are barely adequate. In addition, I think that in order to reduce delays on the road, express lanes for dairy products should be set up on the highway and tolls for dairy products should be cancelled."
Li Si is responsible for the development of cattle, wool, milk and goat milk products in Hetao, as well as transportation issues. Zhao State's roads are already the best in the world, but Li Si found through calculations that a mere trunk line is far from meeting Zhao State's needs.
"In addition to dairy products, tolls should also be abolished for fruits, and fast lanes should be established so that dates from Taiyuan, persimmons from Hebei, pears from Handan, and mulberries from Jixi can be delivered to all parts of Zhao and even other countries. Increase the income of fruit farmers,
Let everyone eat fresher fruits. This is the result of my calculation based on statistical data. As long as the fruits can be safely transported to neighboring counties, it will be enough to increase the income of fruit farmers by 50% to double."
Han Fei took out a piece of paper. I don't know when it started. Everyone likes to talk with data.
"That's okay. I will report it to your Majesty." Xunzi nodded, "Is there anything else?"
"The issue of education." Lu Zhonglian took out a stack of paper from under the table and handed it to Xunzi. "Each township builds a junior school. From June to August and October to December every year, all school-age children in the township attend.
The school provides basic education.”
"In addition, each county will build an intermediate college, and those who pass the examination can enter the intermediate college to study. Finally, each county will build a senior college, which is the same level as Handan College but smaller in scale. Basic education only teaches literacy and arithmetic. Intermediate
The academy allows everyone to accept more profound things. The advanced academy, like Handan Academy, teaches various schools of thought."
"Have you ever calculated how much it will cost? Many families may not even be able to afford pens, ink, paper and inkstones," Han Fei said.
"Are we only going to teach them until they are twelve years old?" Gongsun Long said with a frown. This was far different from his previous thoughts.
"If you can't afford pens, inks, paper and inkstones, you use tree branches to make pens and the earth to make paper. As long as you want to learn, you can always find a way. No matter how poor they are, can they still be poorer than I was? When I was young, I used to herd cattle for the nobles of Chu State every day.
I heard that the gentleman invited by the nobles in the school was teaching their children how to read, so I hid behind the window and eavesdropped. They were writing on the bamboo slips, and I was writing on the ground. Can't I still learn to read?"
Huang Shigong said in a deep voice, "We must take care of everyone as much as possible, but we must also admit that we cannot take care of everyone. From the age of six, we learn five words every day and six months every year. Six years is almost
Six thousand words, after six years, will be enough to read most books. In addition, we will also teach them arithmetic. After they learn it, it will definitely not be a problem to support themselves as a bookkeeper. And we will build a library in every county
If they want, they can study by themselves in the future."
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"Yes, we can't pave all the roads for them. What we have to do is guide them to the path of studying. But how to go and where they can go still depends on them. The vast majority of people in the middle will be
They will be eliminated, but their elimination is not meaningless, and there will continue to be people who will inherit their will in the future." Xunzi said.
"People are born unequal, and they have no right to complain, because complaining is useless. They are lucky, at least they still have this chance, although it is very slim. Real despair is completely unable to see hope, even if you work hard, there is nothing ahead of you.
It's still pitch black. Just like the rat in the toilet, no matter how hard you try, you can't surpass the rat in the granary," Li Si said.
"Any more questions?" Xunzi looked at Lu Zhonglian.
"These are not problems." Lu Zhonglian shook his head. "The main problem is teachers. The venue is easy to solve, the teaching materials can also be solved, and funds are not a problem, but where do so many teachers come from?"
In this era, literate scholars were a rarity. To put it bluntly, few of these families were short of money. Who would want to go to a remote country to teach a few snotty-nosed children?
"When recruiting scholars across the country, you don't need to be very knowledgeable, as long as you know literacy and arithmetic." Huang Shigong said.
"Even so, we can't recruit so many people." Lu Zhonglian shook his head.
"After teaching for a certain number of years, you will be rewarded with a title." Huang Shigong said.
"A reward for a title? You can't open this door." Han Fei frowned and said.
"It's just a reward for a low-level title. The nobles will look down on it, but the middle and lower classes will cherish this opportunity." Huang Shigong said. With the title as a reward, recruiting enough teachers will not be a problem.
"Have you finished processing it?" Zhao Kuo smiled and opened the door and walked in.
"Your Majesty, the plan will be completed in a few days. All that's left is to develop step by step." Xunzi said without raising his head as he wrote furiously.
Immigration, farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, horse administration, cattle and sheep disease prevention and control, roads, medical and health care, education, milk and goat milk, cow hair and wool product development, etc., all matters must be handled by them.
The key is that Zhao Kuo does nothing every day and only looks for trouble. When he has nothing to do, he takes Ben and Gai Nie to wander around outside. If he finds any problems, he will be handed over to them to deal with.
Is it difficult to find faults and solve them? What's more, the people who are finding faults are among the top few in the world. The people in Zhao Guo are already capable enough, but they can't keep up with Zhao Kuo's speed in finding problems.
"We will set off back to Dai County in three days. Anyone who has not finished processing by then can stay here and continue processing." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Even if I try my best, I will finish it within three days." Gongsun Long took a sip of tea to refresh his mind and continued to write and draw on the paper.
In front of him was a road map of various places, on which he needed to find the most suitable location for building a city. Because of this work, he had not slept for several days, and a lot of hair fell out.
Others also have a lot of information piled up in front of them. Some of them are not here, but have gone out for field inspections.
Xunzi reported to Zhao Kuo what everyone had just discussed.
"Thank you for your hard work. Just do as you say." Zhao Kuo said this without any apology on his face.
"Does your Majesty have anything else to do?"
"It's really something. I want to ask you if there is any way to catch the Sirius God?"