In the General Military Mansion in the early morning, Li Zhi stretched and was about to get up when he heard Cui He say: "Husband, I'm pregnant again!"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, his brows were filled with joy, he pinched Cui He's face and said, "Our Cui He is really good. He gives birth to babies like eggs. Boji will lay one after another, and Boji will lay another one after another."
Cui He put the index fingers of both hands together and said hesitantly: "I'm not happy. It only took six years to give birth to two. When this one is finished, it will only take seven years to give birth to three."
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Isn't it great to have three children in seven years?"
Cui He tilted his head and said, "Some people can give birth to five in seven years!" As he spoke, Cui He pursed his lips and said, "It's because you are always going out to fight, otherwise we would definitely have five in our family.
The cubs are gone. Because you are always running around outside, our family is missing two cubs!"
As Cui He was talking, he started to cry. Li Zhi hurriedly went up to comfort Cui He, pinched Cui He's face and said, "Cui He doesn't cry. Cui He gave birth to three children in seven years, which is already great. Wait until Cui He has another seven years."
, with three more cubs, we will have six cubs, and the whole family will be lively."
Cui He blinked her eyes, sniffed, and forgot about crying. Seeing that Li Zhi loved her so much, she happily buried her face in Li Zhi's arms.
Suddenly, Cui He got up and said, "Next time you go to war, shall I go with you?"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "You can't bring women with you in the war."
Cui He pursed his lips and said, "You can't take it with you?"
Li Zhi nodded and said: "You can't take it with you!"
Cui He lowered his head helplessly, still nestling in Li Zhi's arms.
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On August 24, Li Zhi came to the newly built school in Fanjiazhuang to teach the "middle school students" studying here.
Starting from the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi built a school in Fanjiazhuang to provide universal compulsory education. Li Zhi allowed school-age children to attend classes during the day, while veterans of the Huben Division attended classes at night without charging tuition fees.
For children who attend school during the day, Li Zhi also provides a free lunch. People in Fanjiazhuang send their children to school to learn how to read. As for the veterans, scholars in this era have a special social status, and the training tasks for veterans are lighter.
Everyone is happy to go to school at night to read.
Now five years have passed and the school has continued to expand. The veterans and school-age children in Fanjiazhuang have received three years of literacy and arithmetic training. They are literate and can handle daily reading and calculations.
As a result, Fanjiazhuang became the city with the highest literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty. In other places, the status of scholars is very high, but the poor have no money to pay for education and cannot afford to go to school. Because all the people are studying, Fanjiazhuang has also become a place that people near Tianjin talk about.
Topic. People nearby said that as long as they followed Uncle Xing Guo, their children and grandchildren would become scholars.
Nowadays, these children and veterans have graduated from "elementary school" and have become the backbone of Fanjiazhuang. No matter what notices are issued by the government or what documents are issued by the army, these literate people need to read out the words and read them to other illiterate people.
Only then can Li Zhi’s spirit be conveyed to the grassroots.
However, Li Zhi has further plans for the school. Li Zhi wants to open a "middle school" in addition to the "elementary school" to cultivate administrative talents for his own career.
As Li Zhi's career expands, more and more administrative talents are needed. Some simple tasks, such as tax accounting, only require simple arithmetic knowledge and can be done by doing calculations from the tax yellow book and the fish scale atlas.
Such jobs can be recruited from primary school graduates in Fanjiazhuang. But some complex jobs, such as document processing, cannot be completed by primary school students who are only literate.
Primary school students cannot understand those long paragraphs of classical Chinese.
More importantly, the primary school students only learned literacy and arithmetic, and did not receive ideological and moral education, which could not meet Li Zhi's demand for talents. In Li Zhi's mind, his administrative team should be a team with an established culture.
, and have a team of moral character. Our own administrative staff must hold the bottom line in the face of various temptations and do things well for the people.
If the people under his command have no moral character, it may be fine at first, but over time there will be all kinds of favoritism, fraud, and fraud. Once such a situation occurs, it will distort Li Zhi's career and make all of Li Zhi's plans come to nothing.
Without moral education, it is very difficult to rely solely on supervision.
Therefore, moral education has become a very important matter.
Li Zhi wanted to lay a solid foundation in the education stage and cultivate qualified talents for his own career. Therefore, Li Zhi built a middle school to train children and veterans in knowledge, documents and the most important moral character based on primary school.
Not everyone can obtain the qualifications of a middle school student. Only 60% of primary school students with better academic performance are eligible to become middle school students. Middle school students are provided with the same benefits as primary school students, but the most important difference is that as long as they can study for three years,
After graduating from middle school, you will definitely be able to get a job in Fanjiazhuang's industry or in Li Zhi's administrative team.
In these days of war and chaos outside, Fanjiazhuang is a peaceful and blessed land like a paradise. And among the people in Fanjiazhuang, those who "have jobs" live the most decent lives. People heard that they can be "assigned jobs" after graduating from middle school, so every one of them takes care of their children.
Sent to Li Zhi's middle school to attend classes.
Especially those people who work as small traders in Fanjiazhuang usually envy the "employed" industrial workers in Fanjiazhuang. As long as their children are qualified to attend middle school, almost none of these traders will give up this opportunity.
August 24th was the first day of the middle school term. Li Zhi came to one of the classes and gave a lecture to a group of fourteen and five-year-old boys.
Li Zhi stood in the classroom and talked:
"You are middle school students. After you graduate, you will be the backbone of my command. You will work in various government offices, tax bureaus, and factories. What you do will directly determine the atmosphere of a place and the success or failure of a factory."
"Some of you, after several years of training at the grassroots level, will be promoted to assume leadership roles."
When the young people heard the prospects described by Li Zhi, their eyes lit up and they looked at Li Zhi longingly.
"Do you know what I value most when working under me, Li Zhi?"
Li Zhi looked at the confused teenagers and said loudly: "What I value most is morality."
"The virtue I am talking about is public morality, not private morality."
"In my eyes, what those Confucian scholars call filial piety is not moral. If others treat you well, you should repay others. If your parents raise you, you should provide for them in their old age. These are just basic means of cooperating with others. They are not moral.
.If you only have private morality and no public morality, you will do all kinds of disgusting things."
