Two hundred and twenty-one the ambition of education
However, Liu De's words would not make the giants present comfortable. ()
No matter which school of thought, one always thinks that one is a gentleman.
How can a gentleman be suspected?
How can a gentleman be supervised?
The obvious wariness and distrust of Liu De's words made many people feel very uncomfortable!
Only a few people, including Shen Gong and Zhang Hui, faced it calmly.
Zhang Huixi explained that Legalists like order, and they can accept sacrificing some personal interests for the sake of order.
Shen Gongze said that he was educated in Xunzi's thoughts, and Xunzi advocated that human nature is inherently evil, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
But that may not be the case for others.
"Your Highness..." A giant came out and said: "The Summer School has been shared by three generations. It is a place for teaching and educating people..." He lowered his head and said: "Your Highness, please think twice!"
Others said one after another: "Your Highness, please think twice!"
Liu De smiled slightly after hearing this.
What a good excuse!
Of course, Liu De believed that it was completely impossible for these giants to corruptly give the students that little money.
Liu De can guarantee this with his head!
Look at these people, each one is a giant in their own school.
In terms of character and moral cultivation, it is recognized by the world!
However, just because they are honest and not greedy does not mean that those who come after them will not do so, nor does it mean that their family members will not do so in the future!
The most important thing is that subsidies are distributed by the government and are distributed by teachers, which are two different things!
Therefore, there is no room for discussion on this issue.
If you don't accept Liu De's conditions, you can go it alone...
Academic freedom. Liu De can't control it, and he doesn't bother to control it. But if he wants to get financial subsidies, official support and recognition from the state, he has to obey the rules he has set!
Of course, you can't say it so bluntly, you have to be more tactful and give these giants a step down.
Liu De looked at everyone with a smile, raised his hand and said: "What the elders said, boy An Neng didn't take it into consideration. School is the place of education and the place of human ethics!"
Liu De said enthusiastically: "I will go to the meeting to report to my father. Please legislate. In the academy, civil servants will get off their horses, and military generals will dismount. Each academy will be given a certain amount of academic land to support the teachers and comfort the lonely. It will be based on the example of Marquis Che.
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This is a common method used by later generations of government schools. A government school in a certain place must have a number of fields to subsidize the teachers and poor students of the government school.
But Liu De made improvements on the basis of later generations of Xuedian.
These fields are given to a certain school, but the management and use rights do not belong to a specific person in the school. Instead, they serve as the food of Chehou, and every year during the harvest season, the income from these fields is allocated to the academy.
Therefore, these fields can be thousands of miles away from these schools.
This will prevent the school fields from being left open and become privately owned. Moreover, when the school is disobedient, the court can take it back if it wants.
It saves a lot of trouble and is much more convenient.
Coupled with the regulations in the school that civil servants should dismount and military generals should dismount, it gave all schools of thought a lot of face.
When the giants heard this, they immediately knew that Liu De was determined to make the students receive the subsidies themselves, otherwise, he would not pay them!
Literati usually encounter a hard nail and will automatically and consciously avoid it.
Moreover, if you think about it carefully, it seems that what His Highness Liu De said is very reasonable...
The subsidy issued by the court is obviously telling the students who is supporting them, and it is clearly explaining the way of a monarch and his ministers...
As ministers, how could they compete with the emperor for popularity?
Thinking this way, many people feel much better.
As a result, everyone avoided talking about the fact that students must receive subsidies themselves, and selectively ignored this point.
A lively discussion immediately began about how much academic land is needed to support an academy, and whether there is a hard standard.
Otherwise, if everyone is the same, then those with more disciples will be at a disadvantage, right?
You know, this is a school field!
Once it is decided, as long as the imperial court does not take it back, it can infuse the academy with blood from generation to generation. As long as it is used properly, it can ensure the prosperity of the school for thousands of years!
Zhang Hui was deeply touched by this.
When the Miscellaneous School and the Famous School merged into Legalism, didn't it mean that the inheritance of these two schools was almost cut off, and in order to continue, the only choice was to merge with Legalism?
At that time, if there was such a system that could guarantee their inheritance, would the miscellaneous and famous schools still be willing to merge with the Legalists?
"Based on my current humble opinion, I think it is appropriate for each person in the Zhuzi Academy to have one acre of academic land..." Liu De explained: "Every three years, the imperial court and local officials conduct an evaluation to determine the number of academic fields!
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One acre per person? That means, which sect has more students and disciples, which sect will have the upper hand?
As a result, the various Confucian factions were immediately overjoyed.
In particular, Hu Wusheng and Ouyang Hebo were even more delighted.
Today, the two biggest leaders in the Confucian faction are the two of them!
But others were not dissatisfied either.
In particular, Zhang Fang, the giant of the Guliang faction who has been stepped on by the Gongyang faction, breathed a long sigh of relief. With this policy and benefits, Guliang Chunqiu should be able to breathe a sigh of relief and continue!
Liu De laughed in his heart.
One acre of school land per student seems like a lot.
But actually, it’s drizzling!
It’s not like the real land was given to the academy, it was just a fake one.
Liu De made a calculation in his mind.
At this time, the field tax was thirty to one, which meant that if one acre of land produced four kilos of corn, the field tax for one acre of land would be less than fifteen kilograms of corn...
Then, the Cuo Gao tax is 55 cents per 100 acres, which is less than 1 cent per acre on average!
Even if there were one million scholars in the world, the expenditure of the Han Dynasty government on academic fields would be only a few million dollars a year at most, which is just a drizzle! Even if subsidies for students are included, one million people would only spend one million dollars a year.
Ten million yuan plus ten million stone rice, it’s a trivial matter!
It was not even a fraction of Liu Che's expenses for the decisive battle in Mobei, and it was not even half of the reward that Mr. Cheap gave to the soldiers and civilians of Hedong this time.
You have to know that last year, the tax revenue of the central government of the Han Dynasty was nearly 400,000,000 yuan.
The annual cost of cultivating one million scholars only takes up one-fortieth of the central government's fiscal and tax revenue. It's a huge profit no matter how you calculate it!
Today, the world's population is at most 50 million.
Even Liu De felt that it was impossible for a million scholars to pop up all of a sudden!
One literate intellectual among fifty people?
It couldn’t even be done during the Republic of China!
The British Empire at the height of the Industrial Revolution couldn’t do it either!
If one million scholars could really enroll in school every year, then Liu De could consider launching an industrial revolution, colonizing the world, and exploiting the world.
One million intellectuals are born a year?
Ten years is ten million!
If you still can’t build a steam engine, can’t you build a sailing battleship?
In actual terms, according to Liu De's understanding, even 100,000 new students may not be eliminated, and 20,000 to 30,000 new students a year can burn incense and worship Buddha to reward the gods.
Liu De remembered a set of data very clearly.
In his previous life, Hu Wusheng taught in Lutai for nearly twenty years. A total of seven to eight thousand people attended his lectures...
Duke Shen opened his teachings in Lu. Although he only accepted elites, for nearly ten years, he only had more than a hundred formal disciples and three to four hundred registered disciples...
In today's world, it is obviously impossible for homesteaders to have the opportunity to study. They are too busy taking care of their own land...
You have to know that the average family nowadays is a standard one-husband-five-person-hundred-farm...
Only those families with small and medium-sized landowners and above, who have some savings at home and at least have cattle and iron tools to help with farming, have the spare money and leisure time to support their children in education and literacy.
With this condition, currently, in the world, there are three or four households out of every one hundred households, which is a very good result. If Daiguo, Youbeiping, Shangjun were so poor that even the emperor would be embarrassed to collect the ruminant tax.
In any place, it may be a miracle if there is only one household in a hundred!
"So, there is still a long way to go..." Liu De sighed in his heart.
Encouraging giants from hundreds of schools of thought to open monasteries for teaching is only the first step, the first step in laying the foundation.
After they have educated enough scholars and expanded the basis for examinations, Liu De can consider establishing one or several national universities to train elites from all walks of life.
In this way, it should be possible to educate one million people every year in about fifty years.
Then, the journey of the Han Dynasty is to the stars and the sea...
It's not like Liu De hasn't thought about going to university now.
But there is no one!
It is easy to build a university, but difficult to find teachers!
The hundreds of giants who are now famous are definitely not willing to condescend to work in a government educational institution. Even if they are willing, they may not be able to accept staying in the same school as other schools of thought.
At least, if the current Mohists and Confucians were put in the same room, they would definitely distinguish life and death first, and then talk about other things. (To be continued...)
ps: Hehe, it’s the fourth update~ Let’s wait for the next chapter to be scheduled for tomorrow morning~
By the way, I’m praying that Dian Niang’s system won’t have convulsions~ She had convulsions yesterday, Dian Dian Niang!
