The big man has a living father

Chapter 106 New-Style Education

In fact, Liu Che didn’t like sweet food very much. He was a carnivore through and through.

But today I enjoyed eating this cake very much.

So much so that everyone who saw it thought that Liu Che loved eating cake very much.

The reputation of cream cake spread quickly.

Many people even paid to ask the prince's guards and the princess's maids how cream cakes were made.

Princess Wei Chang had already asked Bu Qiang to tell all the other maids that all the maids in the princess's mansion knew how to make the cake, and when someone asked about it, they would just tell them how it was made.

Soon, all the nobles in Chang'an City knew how to make cream cake.

But the question is, how to make white sugar, light cream and agar powder?
Since you asked sincerely, the ranch will kindly tell you to buy it at the ranch’s direct store.

Wannian County.

Mr. Lu was in high spirits.

Just half a year ago, Mr. Lu was a teacher who could only teach and did not know anything else. He had only three or two students, was poor and destitute, and had not eaten meat for three years.

Half a year later, Mr. Lu became the principal of the largest private school in Chang'an, with hundreds of students!
What an exaggerated scale this is?
Although it is still far from the 3,000 disciples of Confucius, it is remarkable in this era.

"In the past, Wen Weng of Chengdu founded the Wen Weng Stone Chamber, which was extremely famous. How can he compare to me now? Hahahaha!"

About twenty years ago, Wen Weng, an honest official in Shu County, submitted a petition to establish a government school.

The so-called "Xunli" means the honest and upright officials in later generations.

Chengdu was originally one of the five capitals of the Han Dynasty. It has a vast fertile plain, the Tianfu Plain, and a huge grain production in the south. It does not have the miasma problem found in other parts of the south, so it has a large population, abundant resources, and a rich life.

In addition to Wen Weng's many years of governance, the expansion of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, and measures such as arresting bandits, the per capita wealth of Shu County exceeded that of the capital Chang'an and the commercial Luoyang.

With so much money and no projects to spend money on, what should we do with the extra money and grain? Will they just rot in the warehouse?
So Wen Weng submitted a memorial to Emperor Jing, proposing to establish an official school to train scholars.

This is also the first non-national official school in the world's history, or in other words, the world's first middle school.

Relying on the prosperity of Chengdu, Wenweng Stone Chamber became very famous. In history, even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, when people wanted to resume their studies, they chose Wenweng Stone Chamber first.

In this era, the reputation of Wen Weng's Stone Chamber and Wen Weng's reputation were also very scary.

You should know that when the Imperial College was established in Chang'an a few years ago and the Five Classics doctoral program was set up, scholars were selected from all over the country.

A total of fifty doctoral students were selected.

What happened? Fifteen of the fifty people were students of Wen Weng's Stone Chamber.

Wen Weng Shishi's family, or rather Wen Weng's disciples, occupied 30% of the places in the entire Imperial College!

So even in Chang'an, when people mentioned the word "education", they would first mention Weng.

And today, Mr. Lu feels that if he persists, he will surpass Mr. Wen within ten years.

First of all, Chang'an is the capital, while Chengdu is only one of the five capitals, a second-tier big city.

Secondly, the number of my students is greater than that of the people in Shishi.

As time goes by, talents will surely surpass those in Wen Weng Stone Chamber.

Lu Gong stroked his beard with satisfaction and said: "He Wenweng was famous all over the world at the age of sixty, and I, Lu Gong, am still famous at the age of fifty."

Even more so, if the pressure from Chang'an County is great enough, and the financial backers behind the scenes give more money, the scale of his Lu Gong School will continue to expand, and maybe in three to five years he will be able to surpass Wen Weng's achievements!

The more he thought about it, the happier Mr. Lu became, and he burst into laughter.

Someone passing by saw Lu Gong and wondered, "Why are you laughing so happily?"

The corners of Lu Gong's mouth curled up: "I thought of something happy."

Passersby also sighed: "Yes, Chang'an has a flourishing learning atmosphere, and scholars have successors. It is indeed worth celebrating."

Lu Gong laughed: "Really? You think so too?"

Passerby: "Yes, the academic atmosphere in Chang'an County is prosperous."

Lord Lu didn't hear the word "county" and thought it was referring to the flourishing learning atmosphere in Chang'an, so he laughed out loud again: "My contribution is not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning, hahahaha!"

Passersby frowned and thought: What does it have to do with you? Why are you being modest? Is it your turn to be modest?

crazy.

In fact, Mr. Lu’s arrogance is not without reason. Logically speaking, the vigorous academic atmosphere that passers-by talk about is exactly what the schools in Wannian County are like today.

According to statistics from more than ten years ago, the national population was almost 30 million.

By now, it is about 40 million.

There are about 400,000 people in the country who are literate and can read articles other than "Cangjie Pian" without any difficulty.

In other words, excluding the students in elementary schools, there were about 400,000 real scholars.

Although most of the elementary school students were taught by Confucianists, a large number of them were taught by Legalists who followed the Huang-Lao school of thought.

Subsequently, about 150,000 people followed the Confucian path.

That is to say, there is one scholar for every 100 people, and one Confucian disciple for every 300 people.

What is the current situation in Wannian County?
With a population of 100,000, because it is the capital city, near the north gate, almost every family is from a good family, so the literacy rate is much higher than the national average, with about a half a dozen people out of every 100 being able to read.

However, in the past two months, a large number of children from Wannian County have been enrolled in the school because of the financial sponsor who paid for the opening of the school.

On average, almost one in ten children is in school.

Thousands of children study in the schools. Children studying are common in Wannian County.

This is much higher than the previous ratio!
Almost five to ten times!
Isn’t it that the culture of learning has become popular?

But Mr. Lu had no idea why these children needed to study.

Is it just because someone sponsored the school that the tuition is lower, so you enrolled?
Lu Gong didn't know, but Shi Qing did. Whenever Shi Qing did something, no matter how big or small, he would always count or ask first.

So Shi Qing asked the child: "Why do you want to read and learn to read?"

Child: "My dad said that only if you can read can you understand the announcement of Chang'an County and make money."

The child also said: "Those who can read can make more money working in Chang'an County!"

The child also said: "My dad said that the people who scribe statistics at the coal mine and dock earn more than ten drivers."

The child also said: "It's too far to go to school in Chang'an County. My dad doesn't have time to send me to school, so I study here."

Shi Qing had always known what was going on and knew that these children came to school because of the influence of Chang'an County.

However, as a mature scholar and official, Shi Qing avoided talking about this and never mentioned it to his supporters or anyone who opened a school in Wannian County.

No matter where their motivation to go to school comes from, as long as Wannian County has trained them and can prove that Wannian County can collect taxes from them in the future, isn't that good enough?
You should know that Zhang Tang had recently collected taxes in Wannian County. No one evaded taxes and everyone paid taxes honestly.

At present, there are two kinds of taxes in the entire Wannian County, one is commercial tax and the other is vehicle and vessel tax. The commercial tax is relatively low, one-thirtieth. This was discussed by Shi Qing and Zhang Tang. Shi Qing still wanted Wannian County to develop its own business.

The vehicle and vessel tax is one-tenth.

One tenth of the profit from each trip will be handed over to the county.

No one resisted, no one refused to hand it over, and it did not affect the number of coachmen in Wannian County.

Therefore, Shi Qing felt that his approach would definitely work.

What’s the use of your Chang’an County’s fertile soil? All the roots underground are from my Wannian County. When the soil bears fruit, you will know that Wannian County has achieved great success.

But neither Shi Qing nor Lu Gong noticed the rapid development of the education industry in Chang'an County!
……

Time goes back to two months ago.

Huo Qubing selected three thousand of the most core soldiers, who were also the smartest and most spiritual group of people under his command.

After dividing them into many classes, they were taught to study the "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition".

Because the ballads were easy to understand and remember, almost everyone memorized all the texts except the last two in three days.

And among them there are about a hundred people who are the smartest, most gifted in languages, and most insightful.

It only took me a week to be able to find paper and read out the standard common pronunciation, and I also memorized almost all the simplified characters in the previous lessons.

These people are the best of the best, so they are naturally powerful, and they cannot show the power of "Children's Six Lessons Combined Edition".

But after another week, one thousand of the three thousand core soldiers had memorized all the characters and mastered the phonetic pronunciation.

As for the rest, although they did not fully learn to spell, because the people around them gradually mastered Mandarin pronunciation, they also learned Mandarin pronunciation.

At this time, the two-month accent unification campaign began.

Huo Hai taught Huo Qubing some educational methods and techniques, and then asked these one thousand or one hundred people to teach others!
The one hundred who learn first will become senior teachers, and the one thousand who learn later will become ordinary teachers.

They were responsible for teaching the 70,000 soldiers of all types stationed near Chang'an.

Including the Northern and Southern armies, local good families, and all professional soldiers in guard and garrison.

Because the most important thing in leading an army is to enforce discipline, so unifying the accent is also of great benefit to military management. After Huo Qubing reported this activity, Liu Che agreed directly.

But it's hard to imagine that everyone learns so quickly.

After just two months, among the 70,000 people in Chang'an City, except for a small number of less than 1% who found it difficult to learn no matter how much they were taught, the remaining 99% mastered the full set of pinyin in two months. Among them, the one who knew the least characters knew 210 characters, and the one who knew the most characters had mastered more than 800 characters.

In other words, those with the worst memory memorized more than three words on average every day.

Those who learn words the fastest have already mastered the entire "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition".

These are not children, after all, but adults with active minds and mature brains.

Many people do not realize that when they look back at the content of elementary school textbooks as adults, they can easily learn them completely without being taught, and that the six-grade curriculum combined takes less than a month.

I also didn't realize that at the age of 25, going back to seriously study high school knowledge is not as difficult as I thought when I was in high school.

The advantage before the age of 25 is a good memory, but the advantage after the age of 25 is that you learn quickly and well...

According to previous statistical standards, these 70,000 people would all be considered primary school children.

In fact, it is not much different from the level of elementary school graduation, it’s just that the content of study is different.

What’s more crucial is that during this period of time, one thousand and one hundred teachers truly completed super evolution.

While teaching, they also learned to write ordinary articles.

What they were studying were the last two articles at the end of the "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition".

Both articles were written by Huo Hai himself.

One is called "Diary".

An article called "On"

The diary is divided into three parts: daily writing, daily records and daily planning.

Daily writing is pure diary.

"October 31, the second year of Yuanshou, sunny."

Daily records are statistics in tables, which record what was done today, the content of each thing, and the specific numbers of each item.

Daily planning is planning what to do tomorrow.

Soon, one hundred of the most talented students developed a more reliable and standard format for writing "Diary", "Statistics" and "Lesson Plan" based on these three things.

Because everyone is a teacher, the summary is different for ordinary children, so we first developed three standardized items.

But "On" is quite special.

(End of this chapter)