Businessmen traveling between Shangqiu and Biyang once again felt the difference in the atmosphere. The Song people were undoubtedly busy with another fight. Meng Wu, who had removed his armor last year, occasionally showed up, but it was obvious that Song Jun would not appear again.
Use him as your general.
The battle last year was really embarrassing.
In the past few months, the Song Dynasty has been the laughing stock of all the countries in the Central Plains.
Shangqiu's trade is extremely developed. Like most cities in the Song Dynasty, it has two official markets. In addition, Shangqiu also has a free market initiated by the private sector.
Therefore, there are many markets in Shangqiu, and there are five temporary mayors, four of whom have serious offices and are busy every day.
The remaining one should also report income and expenditure directly to the monarch during the daytime meeting.
A developed business environment will naturally have a relatively special academic environment, such as arithmetic. Shangqiu's arithmetic school is the most formal and strongest.
As long as it involves water conservancy projects, most of the countries in the Central Plains are willing to hire people who are good at arithmetic from the Song Dynasty.
In terms of earthwork calculation, personnel management, and engineering design, the Song Dynasty made many achievements.
The most successful artificial reservoirs on both sides of the Yellow River were located in the Song Dynasty. Although the scale was not very large, a small reservoir in a small valley could irrigate tens of thousands of acres of land without any problem.
Therefore, the land utilization rate of the Song State and the annual growth rate of high-quality cultivated land were higher than those of traditional large countries. For example, the Yan State in the northeast has always wanted to use the special valley terrain to build reservoirs, but two problems restricted the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State.
One is the lack of labor, and the other is that no one is proficient in calculations.
The State of Yan could not even imitate the State of Qi in enclosing swamps to increase farmland. Even a very simple project of dredging, draining and filling soil also involved calculations.
Among all the big countries, only the Yan State has very limited land and population growth. The labor required for reclamation every year is plundered from outside, especially the nomadic tribes in the north and south, in order to maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure throughout the year.
Therefore, when the Yan people went south to trade, they mainly went to the Song Dynasty. Firstly, the Song Dynasty had developed trade, and secondly, they could study in the cities of the Song Dynasty.
The academic environment in the city of Shangqiu is relatively tolerant. As long as Yan people are willing to pay, it is not difficult to learn some advanced arithmetic knowledge. What is difficult is how to be appreciated by the arithmetic masters of the Song Dynasty, and then enter the hall and then enter the house.
The locals from Jiangyin would be baffled when they see these grand events of studying, because they had never seen a real teaching model when they were illiterate.
When I was educated, I was completely taught by County Magistrate Li with a whip. The advantage of cramming education is that it is very efficient. No matter whether it is useful or not, I put it in first and then tell when I need to use it. Then spit it out and chew it for digestion.
It is then swallowed, digested, and finally absorbed.
Disgusting, but useful.
Of course, you can also refuse to be forced to study by County Magistrate Li, and the result will be that you are abandoned by Magistrate Li and die in the wilderness.
Li Jie was very enthusiastic, but also very ruthless. He only gave the illiterate people in "Baisha" one chance. Finally, most of the illiterate people knew what was going on, and most of them seized the only chance.
For those who were not caught, some graves were covered with grass and some had no graves at all.
Most of the people who were able to study in the Chu Kingdom were nobles, and the least wealthy ones had very, very rich families.
Ordinary wealth cannot support the study of Chu State. You must at least be one of the top three rich people in your hometown city before you can go abroad to learn advanced cultural knowledge in a powerful country in the Central Plains.
However, having money and status are only basic requirements. There is also an invisible basic quality, which is intelligence and excellent memory.
If you are not smart, you will not be able to quickly grasp the essentials of knowledge, and if you do not have a superior memory... you will not have many opportunities to remember the essentials of knowledge.
Among the countries in the Central Plains, the best schools often only teach once when recruiting students. There are no books or notes. The teacher talks once on the podium, keeping those who remember, and leaving those who can't remember.
Only with this, the vast majority of people have been screened out. These eliminated people are not without opportunities. They have another way to get a second chance of admission, and that is to travel.
In the process of traveling, you can find the seniors who have graduated from this school before, and then you can get the knowledge from the seniors, memorize it and write it down. After you are familiar with it, you can go to the second enrollment. At this time, you will be much better than the new student.
The topics the teacher taught may have been heard during my travels.
After completing the enrollment, you will have to pay a large amount of money, and the tuition will not be small. As for the daily pork, vegetables, poultry and eggs, you have to find a way to collect them, as well as housing, dormitories, clothing, travel, etc., and even some teachers’
Funeral expenses also have to be paid for together.
Fortunately, money is not a problem. People who can obtain student status never worry about money. On the contrary, people who are often short of money will become celebrities.
Because in the eyes of millionaires, it is simply touching that a household worth ten thousand yuan has to work and study to earn hundreds of yuan a month in living expenses in order to study...
In the subsequent study process, the school often conducts secondary screening, because the old people who can open the school have also worked as librarians, or they can enter the palace and serve the king without using the two ounces of meat in the crotch of the castrated pants.
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These old guys collect money and do things far less easily than Wu Dazai, because they have other pursuits, so selecting those talents who can understand their thoughts, knowledge and intentions is a matter of strong personal subjective will.
At this stage, the level of teachers who can transfer knowledge from basic knowledge to a certain specialization will also make a huge difference.
If after entering school, the person who taught basic skills was the second son of Doctor Qing's family, then at this time, it was probably Doctor Qing's brother or friend, who at least had wiped the butt of the county doctor in a certain county.
In other words, it was celebrities who imparted knowledge at this time.
For celebrities to impart knowledge, it is obviously impossible for the sky to be like a dome and the earth to be a pavilion. There must be a special lecture hall. But if you want to enter this lecture hall, you must be top-notch and outstanding.
There were only a few people who came to the hall.
And from among the candidates, one or two top elites are finally selected. Such people, without exception, have super strong memories and amazing understanding.
Only they will receive the most profound attention from the school, because only they are qualified to enter the library to read. Every scroll of bamboo slips and wooden slips in the school cannot be borrowed. If you want to copy, you can go to the library first, and then
Enter the house.
Such a complicated, difficult and painful study process is something that the illiterate people in Jiangyin City cannot understand. They think that the cramming education is very painful, and Li Jie's beating is very painful, but compared with the brutal killings of the top elites from various countries in the Central Plains,
It's just drizzle, pediatrician.
Therefore, when the caravan from Jiangyin City arrived in the Song Dynasty and had not yet arrived at Shangqiu, but only appeared in Xiacheng, it caused an amazing sensation. Even the large and elementary schools in Shangqiu were busy sending students to Xiacheng.
Everything started because a porter from Jiangyin City spoke up to Lao Tie from Biyangcheng, saying that a certain Xiacheng shop owner who sold things to Lao Tie from Biyangcheng was unreasonable.
The boss said why am I not authentic?
The porter said that you calculated the price incorrectly and that you charged too much.
The boss said that you, a country bumpkin, know how to settle accounts in a basket?
The porter picked up a branch, scratched it on the ground twice, and then said that your calculation was wrong. At the same time, the porter also took out a knife and said that if you don't refund the money, this matter will not be over...