"Article 10: Within the next five years, every county in Zhao State must have at least one college and one library. Basic education will be fully popularized in the Hetao area, and each township will have at least one junior college to teach children literacy and arithmetic."
Zhao Kuo said.
Education must be popularized in the Hetao area. This is Zhao's promise to the people, and it is also compensation for the people to leave their hometown and go thousands of miles away to cultivate farmland.
As for other places, Zhao State can only spread to counties at most.
On the one hand, it is to differentiate it from the Hetao area. If it is popularized in all areas, it will be very unfair to the people who have moved to the Hetao area, and the so-called compensation cannot be considered compensation.
After all, what is compensation that everyone has?
On the other hand, the current productivity level does not allow it, and the number of teachers is seriously insufficient.
After all, literate scholars in this era were rare talents. Zhao Kuo ordered officials from all over the country to register at the academy and teach them when they had nothing to do. He also invited literate country gentlemen from all over the country, but it was still not enough.
But after five years, when the first batch of students graduates, the best of them can be sent to schools in various places for two years of training, and basic education can be truly universalized.
Of course, the premise is that grain production increases again, otherwise it will still be difficult to really popularize it. If you don’t have enough to eat, talking about education is very luxurious.
"Your Majesty is benevolent." Everyone bowed and saluted, saying with sincerity.
Fundamentally speaking, universal education touches the roots of the aristocracy, making it impossible for the aristocracy to monopolize knowledge as before, and giving common people the opportunity to compete with the aristocracy.
Although the chance of this is very, very small. With equal talent, or even slightly higher talent, it is impossible for children trained in ordinary education to compete with children trained in aristocratic education.
But twenty or fifty years later, there will always be one or two geniuses who can break through the many shackles and compete on the same stage as the nobles.
Rationally speaking, they don't want to see such a scene. But emotionally speaking, they expect to see such a prosperous age.
This is also the reason why they admire Zhao Kuo from the bottom of their hearts.
Everyone knows that universal education is impossible and may even be unrewarding, but Zhao Kuo still does it.
Zhao Kuo saw everyone's reaction in his eyes. Except for a few, most people were calm and did not get angry or opposed because the common people might threaten the nobles in the future.
"After all, the nobles of this era have not been completely corrupted." Zhao Kuo sighed. He saw the pride in everyone's eyes. They were willing to give Mud Legs this opportunity, and they were confident that they would not be surpassed by Mud Legs.
"In addition to the monthly salary, teachers in the college will be awarded a first-class title after three years of teaching, a second-class title after ten years of teaching, and a third-class title after fifteen years of teaching," Zhao Kuo said.
Although many celebrities have stated that they do not want a salary, for most people, a salary and a title are the most practical. After all, they have to support their families.
"Article 11, govern the country according to law. The new law is being compiled and is expected to be completed in the second half of next year. It includes agricultural law, commercial law, construction law, children's law, etc. After the compilation is completed, it will be tried out in Taiyuan County. If within two years
If there are no obvious problems, it will be implemented nationwide." Zhao Kuo continued.
Zhao Kuo didn't know whether everyone would applaud the new law after it came out, or whether everyone would oppose it like the Qin law, so he decided to try it out in Taiyuan first, and then promote it nationwide if there were no problems.
No one raised any objections. Ever since the torture cauldron was built hundreds of years ago, the era in which officials could not be punished by punishment has passed.
To this day, the punishment tripod is still standing in the Zhao Guo Ancestral Temple...
"Article 12: Build water conservancy projects, dredge rivers, and strengthen river embankments." Zhao Kuo said.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many rivers and lakes in the north. There were also many large lakes, rivers, Heishui River, Zhangshui River, etc.
Fenshui, Hutuoshui and many other large rivers.
The Yellow River, in particular, has nurtured Chinese civilization and destroyed it many times over the past thousands of years. It can be called the first disaster in China. It overflows when it is said to flood. People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait suffer from it and suffer unspeakably.
As for the three neighboring countries of Zhao, Qi and Wei, which are adjacent to the river, everyone sweeps the snow in front of their house, regardless of the frost on their tiles.
Because the terrain of Zhao and Wei is higher and the terrain of Qi is lower, once the river floods, most of the water flows to Qi, and the disaster in Qi is much worse than that of Zhao and Wei.
So Qi State built a long embankment twenty-five miles away from the river. From then on, "the river reached Qi Di in the east and reached Zhao and Wei in the west." The water overflowed into the territories of Zhao and Wei.
How could Zhao and Wei be happy, so they also built a long embankment twenty-five miles away from the river. After that, the three countries no longer had to worry about the river flooding for a long time.
After the river water rises, it usually recedes when it reaches the embankment. The river mud left behind is very fertile. Many people go to the river to open up wasteland and cultivate fields. After a long time without water damage, they start to build houses and gather into villages.
After the flood came, the village was submerged, and everyone rebuilt the embankment a little further away from the city, which was just enough to block the flood. So, the embankment that was originally twenty-five miles away from the river began to move toward the river little by little...
Now the dam is only more than a mile close to the river, and only a few miles away...
However, the river flows through the Loess Plateau, carrying a large amount of sediment. Although soil erosion was not serious during the Warring States Period and the river water was much clearer than later, the sediment content of the Yellow River was also far higher than that of other rivers. As time went by, the river bed became higher and higher, and the two banks swirled
The room is getting smaller and smaller, and one day when there is a flood, the flood will break the embankment.
So in the twenty-seventh year of King Zhao Huiwen, the river burst its banks and flooded, causing countless casualties in Zhao...
If it were in the past, the State of Zhao could just strengthen its own dikes and not have to worry about the life and death of the State of Qi. But now the west of Jishui belongs to the State of Zhao. No matter where the river breaks its embankments, it will be the State of Zhao that is flooded...
"Gongsun Long is responsible for reinforcing the river embankments. As for the river courses in other regions, it is the responsibility of the county guards and county magistrates in each region. This matter is not urgent and will be carried out after various regions stabilize." Zhao Kuo said.
Even if the Zhao State does not have a water conservancy master, there will still be no problem in simply strengthening the river embankments and dredging the river channels. However, within a year or two after the reform, the Zhao State needs to move from chaos to stability, and everyone has many affairs to deal with, so it is difficult to mobilize
manpower.
Therefore, except for strengthening the embankments of the Yellow River, Zhao Kuo did not have any time requirements for other areas, as long as they could be completed within five years.
As for the flooding of the Yellow River, although there is a saying that it is better to block it than to dredge it, Zhao Kuo really has no intention of dredging the river... This is not a job for humans. Ordinary people will be gone after a wave... Relatively speaking,
Or is it easier to build a dike?
And as long as it's wide, tall and long enough, theoretically, it can still block floods.
If it really doesn’t work, how about flooding Wei?