After Lin Yanchao denied the views of the Ministry of Rites in his heart, the suggestion made by the other party was also opposed by other officials.

A thirty-year-old student said, "I dare to ask this adult, a Confucian boy who has been studying for a year, but he can finish college, and the four books such as the Doctrine of the Mean, I'm afraid he can only write his own name, and it's not impossible to just write a thousand-character essay."

The officials thought to themselves that this was justified. A scholar-in-law, a scholar-in-law, did not say that he would take the imperial examination, from ignoring a word without any foundation to completing the Thousand Character Classics, the enlightenment books such as the Three Character Classics, at least how many years can they read, recite and write. What is the use of a year of hard work?

The teaching time is so short that most Confucian children just read a few words in a hurry, and it is of little use.

The Ministry of Rites Wailang said, "It can be done for two or three years."

The staff member shook his head and said, "There is no more than a tree in a year's plan; no more than a tree in a ten-year plan; no more than a tree in a lifetime's plan. I still know that I have not read enough for a lifetime, let alone two or three years, and two or three years will make Confucian children get close to sages and wise men and hear the ways of the previous kings?"

This person gave the interview to the official, which made many officials present nodded.

The officials continued: "Even if you say that 30,000 to 50,000 Confucian children are trained every year, then I ask you, all counties in the world have established Yixue. Since the Yixue is established by the government, the salary of the Mengshi is also paid by the government. The cost of the pen, ink and paper used by the Confucian children must be borne by the government. It is easy to say about the rich county, but what about the poor county? Where does this money come from? Is the local government levy the people's taxes? Or is it allocated by the imperial court?"

When it comes to the word "money", the officials present sighed. During the Longqing year, the court's finances were deficits every year. After Zhang Juzheng's reform in recent years, this has been better. But if the central government gives money to the local government to establish a charity school, 80% of them were corrupt and misappropriated by local officials.

As for the local governments who raise money to run charity schools themselves, they must have agreed, because there is an extra way to make money.

For example, in Houguan County where Lin Yanchao is located, every expenditure of the yamen is assigned to local guilds and various names. What is the yamen? For example, the test paper money for the county trial, tea cake money, oil candles used in the yamen, and charcoal fires, all of which are cleverly asked the people for money. If you have another ritual, the name of the charity silver will definitely increase the burden on the people.

The official waiter made a quibble: "You can also ask local officials to entrust Haoyou, good people to support the affairs of righteous education. This is beneficial to cultural and educational affairs. There must be rich people who donate money enthusiastically, and there is no expense for the court."

After saying this, the officials were even more disappointed. In the past, during natural disasters, the imperial court used up all the measures to get local officials to pay for the disaster victims. Now let them pay for this kind-hearted scholarship?

The doctor of the Ministry of Rites, who originally held the view of expanding enrollment, couldn't stand it: "Even if you can run the uprising school, a hundred people in a county can enter the charity school. It is free to study, so how can you prevent local Haoyou Family from taking advantage of the loopholes, and instead make the poor children who can't afford to study be rejected outside the door."

"And even if the local government runs an uprising school, how can the imperial court supervise the inspection? This is another difficulty."

Lin Yanchao was listening to the officials' opposition to this national education strategy, but was not disappointed, but took it for granted.

These court officials are not just a corpse. They all understand the matters when dealing with many matters. Before, Lin Yanchao only felt that the opinions raised by this Ministry of Rites were somewhat inconsistent with what he saw, but after these officials criticized them, he truly felt that it was really too difficult to implement national education.

The implementation of enrollment is elite education, and the national education is national education.

Since ancient times, China has always been the route of elite education, but the reason is that education is a very expensive thing. After taking the imperial examination, you will know that a poor family often has the power of the family. It is only through hard work that several generations have cultivated a full-time scholar.

This was the case in the Ming Dynasty, which was the whole country that attached great importance to the imperial examinations, let alone before the Ming Dynasty?

Because education is so difficult, the country has always been a strategy of elite education, rather than a method of taking advantage of rain and dew, such as national education.

But this does not mean that national education is not good, but that it is too difficult to implement. But as a time traveler, Lin Yanchao knew that this was the country's path to prosperity.

Under the Reformation of Martin Luther, the West first proposed the idea of ​​compulsory education. However, in terms of European countries, the first to set the precedent for national education, was the Kingdom of Prussia.

The idea of ​​attaching importance to education is not only among the people, but also rooted in the upper class.

For example, after Napoleon defeated Prussia, King William I of Prussia faced a huge war reparation of 1500 million francs. Instead, he gritted his teeth and tightened his belt to live, he took out the last little money of the country and used the royal palace as a university building to establish Humboldt University in Berlin.

What rewards Prussia for this university is that since its founding, twenty-nine Nobel Prize winners have emerged.

With no hardship, no hardship, and the whole country slept with firewood and tasted gall, Prussia emerged from the shadow of failure. In the French-Prussian War decades later, he defeated France and unified Germany.

After defeating France, Prussian Marshal Moltke did not attribute the iron-blooded Prussian army. Instead, he said that Germany's victory had long been decided on the podium of elementary school teachers.

The reason why Moltke said this is that Prussia is the country that attaches the most importance to national education in Europe, and no one is there. Before unifying Germany, the enrollment rate of children of appropriate age in Prussia reached an astonishing 97%. This data can still be proud of all countries in this life!

In today's court discussion, one policy is to establish charity schools across the country, and the other policy is to expand enrollment of students.

The two debates were still controversial, and Lin Yanchao knew after hearing this, if he did not interfere in this court discussion, the policy of expanding enrollment personnel might be passed. As for the establishment of charity schools across the country, as long as the officials are not mentally damaged, they will basically not support it.

Of course, there is another argument that Ma Yushi, who also opposed the establishment of the charity school and the expansion of enrollment of students. He believed that the court's policy has been well-consistent since his ancestors, so don't change it rashly. Lin Yanchao is fair to say that this is the best result, of course this is the case when he has not yet expressed his suggestions.

The officials discussed for a while, and Pan Sheng saw that the time was almost done, and it was time to report the conclusions of the court to the court.

So Pan Sheng and Zhang Siwei chatted for a few words, and then said to Lin Yanchao: "Lin Zhongyun, if there is nothing else, we will be ready to vote."

Pan Sheng and Zhang Siwei thought Lin Yanchao was still as modest as before, and he listened with politeness.

But Lin Yanchao said: "Since he is a master of the sect, the subordinates do have a little superficial opinion."

Pan Sheng and Zhang Siwei were both stunned. Is Lin Yanchao going back on his word? He didn’t say anything before, but why did he break his promise now?
Chapter completed!