The villages in Yixiali have been paved with stone roads, and the thatched houses have been torn down and rebuilt into brick houses. The entire Yixiali is completely different from what it was before Zeng Mu took office.
Now that Zeng Mu is no longer in Yixiali, the person responsible for the daily affairs of Yixiali is an original indigenous guardian of Yixiali.
Li Yan looked at a two-story building with great interest and asked, "What is this place?"
Jiang Zhong was an indigenous guardian. Because of his diligence, he was temporarily responsible for managing the daily affairs of Yixiali when Zeng Mu was away.
King Jianning came without any notice, and only the day before he suddenly informed Jiang Zhong that he wanted to visit Yixiali.
Jiang Zhong was in a hurry, just cleaning up the village, and then waited for King Jianning's motorcade.
Jiang Zhong carefully welcomed King Jianning into Yixiali, but the prince in charge of Longyou was less pretentious than the county magistrates Jiang Zhong had seen, and only asked Jiang Zhong some questions from time to time.
Jiang Zhong immediately said: "Your Highness, this is a school."
"School?"
Li Yan looked at this two-story building. There was a small sports ground in front of the building. He didn't expect that a school could be set up in this Yixiali?
Many villages along the way have study classes, but they are only literacy classes, which are just a thatched house, some tables, chairs and a blackboard. Players use their leisure time to teach simple things.
But this was the first time Li Yan had seen a school as large as Yixiali after seeing so many villages.
"Who is responsible for teaching on weekdays?" Li Yan asked.
Jiang Zhong said: "It's Master Xu."
Master Xu? Yang Yan, who was among the entourage, was very confused. He had been in Longyou for a while. Those who could be called masters should be well-educated scholars, but he had never heard of a prominent family named Xu in Longyou.
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Although the Tang Dynasty learned lessons from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, in order to break the academic problem among wealthy families, it established the Imperial College in Chang'an and also built schools across the country.
However, Taixue in the two capitals can only accommodate outstanding students from all over the country, and students from the two capitals alone occupy most of the places in Taixue.
Since the Wu and Zhou Dynasties, local schools have been continuously abandoned by local officials.
Therefore, today in Longyou, family schools and clan schools are still prevalent, while official schools are in a state of decline.
There is nothing that can be done about this. With the continuous deterioration of land annexation, local finances are gradually unable to bear the social functions of running schools and other expensive social functions, which gradually leads to the abandonment of government schools.
This is the situation in Longyou today. Except for the family schools of a few big families, the children of ordinary well-off families have no way to enter the school.
Yang Yan was able to serve as an official in Hexi Jiedu Mansion because the Yang family was a prominent family in Wuwei.
Jiang Zhong replied: "Master Xu is the master invited by Chief Zeng, and he is also a former soldier of His Highness."
Now Li Yan understood that the chief of this post was really a clever person. He actually hired a player to teach the people in the territory.
After a while, Xu Lei came out of the school and saluted Li Yan.
Li Yan nodded slightly and led everyone into the school.
There were desks and chairs in the square classroom, and blackboards hung on the walls. It was similar to the school in Li Yan's impression.
Xu Lei has already written half of the blackboard. It seems that he just interrupted the teaching and ran out.
Li Yan said to Xu Lei: "Master Xu, please continue with the class. I, the king, can just listen from the side."
As if Xu Lei had been ordered to take an open class by the principal, he went back to continue the class nervously.
But he soon relaxed. Isn't it just an open class? As an excellent teacher, I have countless classes in a month!
Xu Lei resumed his lecture, while Li Yan pulled up a bench at the back of the classroom and sat down.
Yang Yan and others who were accompanying him also sat on benches and listened to Master Xu's lectures.
Today this is a Chinese class, which is taught to children who have just turned seven years old in Yixia. It is also a course that teaches children literacy.
Yang Yan watched Xu Lei's lecture with great interest. Teaching young children to read is called enlightenment. This is the most important stage in a child's learning process.
When Yang Yan started to teach, the Yang family specially invited a famous teacher, a retired civil servant from the Hexi Jiedushi Mansion, to teach the Yang family's children.
If you don’t have a good foundation at the beginning, you will have to spend more time to make up for the basics in your future studies.
Master Xu enlightened more than twenty children at once, which was not an easy task.
I only saw Xu Lei writing rows of Chinese characters on the blackboard.
"When people are born, they are inherently good. Their natures are similar, but their habits are far apart."
These twelve short words shocked Yang Yan's heart.
It is a group of three words, and it is catchy to read. Sure enough, Xu Lei recited it once and asked the children below to read it, and they all remembered it quickly.
This three-character short sentence uses commonly used Chinese characters, but the twelve characters have a clear meaning. It raises an educational question: why are all people initially good, but when everyone grows up? Will it look different?
"If you don't teach, your nature will change. The most important thing to teach is to be specialized."
This sentence explains the problem of the previous twelve words, why children who are both inherently good-natured are different when they grow up. That is because of education.
This is an article to encourage learning, and it is an excellent article to encourage learning!
Yang Yan also had a enlightenment, but at that time he read "Enlightenment Essentials". Although this is also an excellent enlightenment textbook. This enlightenment book has four characters and one sentence, but it is not like Master Xu. The enlightenment article is so subtle yet catchy.
After the students finished reading, Xu Lei distributed paper and pencils to the children, asking them to draw on the three-character classic on the grid.
Li Yan stood up and watched a child in the back row carefully copying and writing on the grid, feeling very satisfied.
Pencil is now a popular writing tool among the officials of Jianning King Bafu and Sanzhou Governor's Mansion.
The biggest advantage of this kind of tool is that it is not tiring to write, you can hold the pen and write for a long time, and your hands will not be stained by ink.
The General Administration of Salt and Iron where Yang Yan works often needs to calculate and fill in data, so a large number of forms are written in pencil.
Seeing these children's drawings in their red books, Yang Yan suddenly understood why Yixiali could be so prosperous and rated as the No. 1 Li in Shazhou.
The level of humanistic education alone far exceeds that of other villages.
Many children's pencil calligraphy was better than that of the clerks at the Salt and Iron Bureau. Yang Yan admired Master Xu's teaching ability even more.
Yang Yan is not one of those rotten literati. Of course, the more convenient a writing instrument is, the better.
Pencils also have shortcomings, but their writing speed is much faster than that of brushes. More importantly, they are easy to carry and can be used anytime and anywhere.
Now that Yang Yan is familiar with using pencils, he only uses a brush when drafting formal documents, and pencils are used for daily writing and calculation.
Letting children use pencils to learn calligraphy can save paper and make writing easier. This can also allow children from poor families to go to school.
I didn't expect that in a village like Yixiali, there would be a master like Xu Lei.
Next came the arithmetic class. Xu Lei taught a special symbol used by food merchants. This was also the Arabic numeral promoted by Jiang Lun at the General Administration of Salt and Iron.
Yang Yan was even more surprised now. These half-year-old children were actually quite good at mathematics. Not only were they proficient in addition, they even learned the multiplication table.
Li Yan greatly praised the schools in Yixiali and appointed Xu Lei as Shazhou's academic administrator on the spot, responsible for establishing more schools in Shazhou.
For Xu Lei, a sixth-test player, this is also an opportunity that comes from heaven.
As a sixth-test player, Xu Lei was not good at fighting, so he accepted the invitation from Zeng Mu, the head of Yixiali, and opened a school in Yixiali.
Xu Lei, who majored in education, offers two courses, Chinese and Mathematics, at the school. For Chinese, he uses the "Three Character Classic" to teach children literacy, while for Mathematics, he uses the arithmetic part of primary school mathematics textbooks to cultivate children's arithmetic abilities.
The children in Yixia also cherish the opportunity to learn. Several outstanding children such as Yun Niang have graduated from elementary school and were taken by Zeng Mu to work in the pharmaceutical factory laboratory in Liulinli.
Now Yun Niang can send 20 yuan to her family every month, which is more than Yun Niang's mother earns from carrying hot water in the Yixiali service area.
The last time Yun Niang went back to Yixiali to visit her relatives, she brought a lot of candy pills to the children at school.
The children gathered around Yun Niang and listened to her talk about life in the Willow Forest and the prosperous Gaochang City. These children strengthened their belief in learning.
In the past, ordinary people were unwilling to study and become literate because they could not pass the imperial examinations or become officials even if they studied.
As for ordinary positions in prefectures and counties, those are monopolized by powerful families and have nothing to do with ordinary people from poor families, let alone ordinary people who farm.
But things are different now. If you can learn to read, write and calculate, the workshops in Shazhou and Xizhou are rushing to get them. A month's salary is more than half a year of farming.
An outstanding student like Yun Niang was even taken to work in a pharmaceutical factory by Chief Zeng. It is said that her monthly salary is more than that of an ordinary official in the governor's office!
Nowadays, both the governor's office and the county government are recruiting more officials. As long as you can write and calculate, you can take the exam. If you pass the exam, you can become an official in the court.
There are two young students in the village next door. They relied on their own skills to become county officials and successfully received royal food.
All this encouraged the children to study hard. Li Yan was very satisfied with Xu Lei's teaching, so he recruited him to serve as Shazhou's academic administrator and be responsible for organizing several new schools in Shazhou.
Rectifying armaments, establishing education, and developing the economy, Yang Yan felt that King Jianning was even more unfathomable.
In the past, the area outside Guan was far less prosperous than the four counties in Hexi, but within half a year of King Jianning's rule, the wealth of Shazhou had surpassed that of Wuwei.
King Jianning has great ambitions, and Yang Yan's heart becomes hot.
If King Jianning can occupy the entire Longyou, he will have the capital to compete in the Central Plains in the future.
Yang Yan looked at King Jianning's young face and wondered if King Jianning could ascend the throne as emperor in the future, wouldn't he be a hero of Conglong?