Wei Jiansu also smiled and said: "Actually, Pei Shangshu was overly worried. In the tenth year of Tianbao, when I was appointed as the Minister of Civil Affairs, I sent someone to conduct an investigation in Chang'an, 'Do you want your daughter to study and why?'
The scope of the survey mainly focused on the performance of the middle and lower classes. A total of more than 2,000 people were surveyed. As a result, 80% of the people said that if they had the opportunity, they would let their daughters study. When asked about the reasons, they all said the same. If a girl can read and write, she will marry better.
Well, this is the consensus of the people in Chang'an, and it is similar in other places.
We must not underestimate the people of the Tang Dynasty and let their daughters be maids and maids. That was the choice of the lowest class people. They would not do it even if they had the slightest conditions. Instead, they would send their daughters to learn embroidery from female workers and read some books by the way. What we are targeting
It’s not the people at the bottom, but the middle-class or lower-middle-class families. They want their children to make progress, so we will give them opportunities.”
After a pause, Wei Jiansu said to Li Dai again: "Your Majesty, I suggest that girls still have a five-year education system. In addition to reading and literacy, they should also be taught darning, clothing, embroidery, music, etc. This will be good for them. Their parents will definitely agree.
welcome."
Li Dai secretly appreciated it in his heart, no wonder his son wanted to retain Wei Jiansu, and compared with Pei Zunqing, the two people's knowledge was clearly superior.
Li Dai smiled and said: "Let's go eat first, and we'll continue chatting in the afternoon!"
In the afternoon, Li Dai came to the imperial study and met his son Li Ye. Li Ye quickly asked his father to sit down and asked Wei Gao to serve tea.
Li Ye smiled and asked: "How is it? Did you have a pleasant conversation with Zhengshitang?"
Li Dai smiled and waved his hand, "Education! Everyone is very concerned about it. Even Dugu Lie talked eloquently and introduced the preparations for the martial arts academy. Duan Xiushi also talked about his ordnance academy, which must be called firearms. He is completely familiar with firearms.
Fascinated.
Everyone was very interested. Even when the state schools started to be divided into subjects, everyone had little opinion. Only in terms of girls' enrollment, some people had different opinions. Pei Zunqing believed that girls were suitable for private teaching and not suitable for sitting together in the school. As a result,
Being ridiculed by Wei Jiansu at the wine table was a bit unpleasant, but most people agreed that girls should be admitted to school."
Li Ye smiled and asked, "What did Wei Xiangguo say?"
"He laughed at Pei Shangshu for not knowing the fireworks of the world, and always demanding ordinary people on the terms of the Pei family. Wei Xiangguo said that during the Tianbao period, there were many girls' schools in Chang'an, and there were fifty or sixty girls studying music together, all of whom were ordinary people.
People send their daughters to learn various skills. Wei suggested increasing the number of girls to attend school for five years, with three years studying and two years learning various skills. I think this plan is very good."
Li Ye nodded, "You can choose more places to conduct public opinion polls and be fully prepared!"
Li Dai pondered for a moment and said: "There are still two big problems that need to be solved!"
"Father, please tell me!"
Li Dai said slowly: "First of all, it is a financial issue. No one has said it clearly, but I can feel everyone's concerns. Now that the finances are sufficient, we can afford it, but what about the future?
Education is a century-old national policy. Once it is established, it will last for almost a hundred years. It is of great importance and we must consider it for a hundred years!"
Li Ye nodded, "Of course I have thought about this question repeatedly. Investment in education mainly involves investing heavily at the beginning, allocating land, and building new schools. Once it is put into operation, the expenses will stabilize, mainly including professors' salaries and consumables such as pens, ink, and paper.
, In fact, as long as the output is large, a small brush shop in Chang'an costs about 80 yuan to make a brush, but as far as I know, it only costs 10 yuan to make a pen in Huzhou. Why?
Because the small pen workshop in Chang'an can only produce about a hundred pens a day, and the pen factory in Huzhou can produce 10,000 pens a day. Of course we will buy Huzhou pens. If we buy a million pens at a time, it may only cost eight cents each, which will save money.
Come down?
The same is true for paper and ink. As long as they are manufactured on a large scale, the cost will be much lower."
Li Dai smiled happily and said, "Settling the accounts this way makes me feel much better!"
"What questions do you have, father?"
Li Dai thought for a while and then said: "Then there is the issue of dividing subjects into states. Everyone agrees, but they are worried about the lack of teachers."
The shortage of teachers is indeed a big problem. Li Ye pondered for a moment and said: "I think the idea of running a school should be expanded. For example, the Dugu family ran a shipbuilding school in Jincheng back then. It is still there now. The school is very successful and uses excellent craftsmen as teachers.
, the students he trained are scrambling for them everywhere.
Now Lanzhou has become the largest shipbuilding center in the northwest. It originated from this shipbuilding school. Therefore, the students trained by our state school do not necessarily go to Chang'an to continue studying engineering or agriculture. This is purely a skill, and after graduation, they will become a good
Craftsmen support their families, so I think we need to learn from the experience of the shipbuilding school in Jincheng. We can use excellent craftsmen to teach and apply what we have learned. Only then will the school be successful and the people will welcome it."
Li Dai smiled happily and said: "This is my next goal. I want to go out for inspection and take your mother with me. The first step is to go to Lanzhou to inspect Jincheng Shipbuilding School, and then to Zhangye to inspect animal husbandry. Zhangye also has a government-run animal husbandry school.
, it is said that it is not bad. I want to have a look, and then go to the Central Plains, and then take a boat to Runzhou to learn about the agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River, and by the way, I will visit the place where I was the governor. It will take about a year."
Li Ye smiled and said: "My father also wants to prepare an organization in charge of educational reform. This organization will exist for a long time and will gradually replace the Imperial College."
Li Ye had always had objections to the Imperial College. When the Imperial College reformed and established engineering and agricultural studies, the Imperial College officials headed by Pei Mian, the Imperial College's Jijiujiu, were firmly opposed to it. In the end, Li Ye forcibly implemented it.
The conservative eunuchs of the Imperial Academy were not just Pei Min, but a group of them. They were full of prejudices against engineering. They were afraid that the dominance of Confucianism would not be guaranteed, so they tried every means to suppress the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture. Therefore, Li Yecai moved the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture in anger.
The Agricultural College became independent and was handed over to the Ministry of Industry and Sinong Temple for running the school, and was not under the supervision of the Imperial College.
Li Ye also decided to establish a department similar to the Education Committee of later generations, with his father in charge, and then transferred the energetic young people from the Imperial College to completely eliminate those corrupt scholars.
Li Dai nodded and said with a smile, "I have already thought about it. It will be called Governor Academy. I will also invite some old friends to participate, including Gao Shi, Li Bai and Du Fu."
Li Ye smiled and said: "I will transfer a few young and capable officials from the Imperial College to my father, and my father will take them out for inspection."
The three-day imperial examination was finally over. The major restaurants and brothels in Chang'an were crowded with relaxed scholars. No matter whether they did well or not, it was over. Besides, even if they failed to pass the imperial examination, there was still the Taixue admissions examination.
Woolen cloth!
Nowadays, the Taixue examination has become popular. After studying for five years, you go to work as a teaching assistant in various places. This is the first-class official. After working as a teaching assistant for five years, you are promoted to a professor. This is the ninth-rank official.
You can eventually become an official by studying Taixue. This prospect has attracted tens of millions of scholars, hundreds of thousands of scholars, basically half of them have applied for the Taixue admissions examination that will start the day after tomorrow, in literature, engineering, agriculture, mathematics, astronomy and geography, and shipbuilding.
There are more than a dozen subjects including navigation, medicine, law, foreign languages, etc., with a total enrollment of 3,000 people.
This is not something you can do on a temporary basis. Just relax today and continue taking the exam the day after tomorrow.
Everyone in the restaurant is talking about today's exam. Today is the last day of the imperial examination, and the exam is also the most difficult. There are strategies for the Jinshi exam, discussions on the Ming Jing exam, and mathematics for the imperial examination.
The countermeasure question is: 'If a country is small but does not feel humble, if it is small but does not fear the strong, if it is rude and insults its big neighbors, if it is greedy and ignorant, it will perish.'
The requirement is: 'The problem can be solved based on the situation in Liaodong or Nanzhao.'
This question is very difficult. If you only take the exam in Nanzhao, I don’t know how many candidates will be discredited at a glance. Fortunately, there is Liaodong, and everyone can write more or less.
In Wude Restaurant, a candidate said proudly to the people around him: "We got the last question right!"
There was an uproar in the restaurant, and the scholars asked one after another: "Where is Xiongtai from?"
"I am a scholar from Ezhou. Liu Daru, the academic advisor of our state, is very good. He has been studying the strategy questions over the years and found that the strategy questions are closely related to the actual facts. For example, last year's question, What is the benefit of unifying the world? It is peace.
The elimination of vassal towns was related to the unification of the Tang Dynasty.
This year we launched the Battle of Liaodong and the Battle of Nanzhao, but the trend of the Battle of Liaodong emerged last year, so we taught that the countermeasures for the edict were related to Liaodong, and we prepared a lot of information about Liaodong, so that it would be easier to write."
Everyone is extremely envious, look at other people's state schools, hey! Comparing people to others is so annoying!
Some scholars were dissatisfied and muttered: "Even if I give you the information, you may not be able to write it."
A young official eating here shook his head and said with a smile: "If you only write about Nanzhao and Liaodong in this question, you will definitely fail the exam!"
Everyone was puzzled and asked why?
The young official said calmly: "The question is to break the question from the Battle of Nanzhao or the Battle of Liaodong. What is meant by breaking the question is that it starts from the two battles here. This question actually does not require everyone to write about these two battles.
Instead, I ask everyone to use Legalist thinking to view the foreign policy of the Tang Dynasty. What should we do if Silla invades our Andong Protectorate? What should Japan do to us? It also treats Tubo, Nanzhao, and the nomadic peoples of the grassland.
, and even distant Anxi.
How should the Tang Dynasty protect its territory, with power, virtue, or softness?"
After the official finished speaking, he looked up to the sky and laughed, got up and left.
The scholars were dumbfounded and asked the shopkeeper who the official was.
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "That is Shi Wei Yingwu, the emperor's former general secretary and the current governor of Suzhou. He is the same Wei Suzhou who wrote, 'The spring tide brings rain and comes late, and there is no boat on the wild crossing.' It is estimated that he will have to go back to Beijing this time
