There are many families in Xinlingfang, but there are only a few shops facing the street. As in later generations, the front houses are naturally the most valuable, and most of the people doing business are these families.
But in Ye An's eyes, it is different. Who said that only shops facing the street can be used as shops? He has seen too many people who open their shops in the community, and now all he has to do is to open every shop in Xinlingfang.
Every household has been developed, so he took a leave of absence from Liu E in the past few days and devoted himself to the construction of Xinlingfang.
Anyway, the negotiation with the Liao Dynasty envoy has come to an end. It is no problem to have Yan Shu in charge. Neither Liu E nor the Manchu civil and military officials can understand his behavior of "resigning" early.
Although the Song Dynasty spent an extra 100,000 yuan this year, it still regained its face, and from now on, new things will be dumped to the Liao Dynasty in the trade market with the Liao Dynasty every year.
The officials of the Song Dynasty did not know what dumping was, but they roughly understood what it meant if they understood it literally. These courtiers were looked down upon. Although they did not understand the principles of economics, their political sensitivity to economics was very unique.
Otherwise, they would not agree to Ye An doing this.
How much money did the Song Dynasty make from the Khitans and Dangxiang people every year through the stadium? Most of the courtiers knew it, but they never revealed it.
In their view, merchants were a despicable profession. Although they did not reach the level of extreme contempt of later generations, they still despised them in terms of etiquette and ideology.
It is said that the Song Dynasty realized the opening up, and merchants could also become officials. In fact, the sons of merchants could obtain academic titles, and merchants themselves had almost no possibility of becoming scholar-bureaucrats.
Even in such an open and tolerant dynasty, becoming a scholar-official was an extremely demanding matter. Farmers could become scholars. They were originally second only to scholars, but it was still very difficult to cross the class ladder.
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Anyone who is smart will calculate the cost. Reading takes time, and time is the cost, not to mention sacrificing the labor force of a family. Who among ordinary people would be willing to do this?
This is a gamble for them, a bet that their children can stand out and gain fame. Why do scholars who have spent ten years in poverty have to go to great lengths to gain fame?
Because scholars carry the heavy burden and growing expectations of the entire family, and they don’t even dare to fail!
In the year before the competition, how many people cried with joy because they were named on the gold list? How many people drowned themselves by the nameless river? History books will not tell you how many people died in this fierce competition, they will only list those
The high-ranking officials and dignitaries of Liyue Longmen held it up high as a "golden sign" of the emperor's benevolence and education!
The land of China is very magical. Every once in a while, it can always breed an astonishing number of reading seeds. However, this is not because of the emperor's enlightenment, but because of the stability of the country.
In fact, apart from encouraging people to study, the emperor did not do much that was conducive to the development of education. Even if he paid attention to it, he only focused on the people in the capital and the scholars in the capital.
Except for the rare children from poor families who can leap over the dragon gate, most children from ordinary people and farmers have no chance. Compared with them, children from official families have more time, richer material life, and books.
And the knowledge in books is not an expensive thing for them. They usually hear the conversations of adults in the family and the imparting of experience is beyond the reach of most ordinary people's homes.
What do the children of farmers use to compare themselves with others? Diligence is the only word. This is why there are people in the examination room who have been grinding through the talent list for ten years. It is also why there are those who are only in their teens and can reach high school. of genius.
There are no child prodigies. The Little Emperor’s companion was a man named Cai Boqi, who was the real child prodigy. This was attributed to the brilliance of the “Tong Zi Ke” in the Song Dynasty.
In order to join the class of scholar-bureaucrats and understand the imperial examination system of this era, Ye Anke read a lot, especially about the imperial examination system. Later, when he was in Zishantang, he accidentally saw a child who was several years younger than Zhao Zhen. , only to find out from Lan Jizong that he was a child prodigy who entered the officialdom in the boy's department, Cai Boqi. Only then did Ye An know that in the past dynasties, boys could enter the officialdom!
Tongzi Ke was originally one of the special subjects for selecting officials in the Han Dynasty. It is recorded in the "Book of Han" that "when the Han Dynasty was prosperous, Xiao He Caolu also wrote his method, saying: Taishi tested the students who could write more than 9,000 words. , then you can become a historian; you also take the six-level test, and the one who does the best in the class is regarded as the minister of censorship and the history of history."
The Eastern Han Dynasty stipulates that children between the ages of 12 and 16, those who can "emotionally understand the classics" can be selected into the boy's department, and young and talented people will worship the boy and be awarded official positions.
After the Tang Dynasty, there was a special imperial examination for boys. In the Tang Dynasty, those who could read the classics under the age of ten could obtain meritorious titles. In the Song Dynasty, it was stipulated that anyone under the age of fifteen who could read the classics and compose poems could take the exam, and those who passed the exam would be given birth certificates. By official position.
There were many prodigies in the Song Dynasty. Yang Yi, Song Shou, and Yan Shu were all famous as child prodigies in the Song Dynasty when they were young, and almost every one of them achieved admirable achievements and status.
The same goes for Cai Boyi. The main reason why he is not famous is because he is young and has a lot of ideas. Maybe it is because of his birth, or because he was taught too much by his family. In short, the courtiers are quite dissatisfied with this child prodigy. , thinking that he was too flattering to the emperor.
But what evil intentions can a nine-year-old child have? In Ye An's eyes, he is just a rough jade who has not been guided well.
Of course, more people were praised to such an extent. In the ninth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Cai Boyi took the boy's examination. During the imperial examination, Song Zhenzong saw that he was clever and immediately gave him a poem. He was also given a Jinshi background and was awarded the title of Secretary. As the official official position, he was ordered to serve as the companion of Zhao Zhen, who was still the prince, in the East Palace.
This move immediately brought a talented child to the pinnacle of his life. Ye An knew without thinking that the biggest possibility was not that he would be abandoned like Zhongyong, but that he would be praised so highly that Emperor Zhenzong didn't even know that he was a child. He killed a child prodigy.
Courtiers don't like to rise to the top in one step. This is determined by the system. Why can you reach the level that others can reach in several years or even more than ten years at a young age after everyone has been grinding through it for ten years?
Later, Ye An also paid attention to this child and found that he was just a child. He should have a relatively high IQ, a photographic memory, and quick thinking.
Such children are outstanding if they are guided well, but if they are not guided well, they will be like Cai Boqi now. Not only are they not welcome, but they also show off themselves by being good at maneuvering, and even protect themselves.
But such child prodigies are in the minority after all, and ordinary people are still thinking about how to become well-off, and they simply don't focus on training their children to become officials.
In Ye An's eyes, the education system of the Song Dynasty and even previous dynasties was wrong and distorted. Only when the people were rich would they have more experience to focus on the important matter of crossing classes.
The lack of a basic education system is still a major shortcoming. Everyone knows that education should start from children, but what about money? Even the wealthy Song Dynasty could only focus on places such as the Imperial College and Imperial College for training high-end talents.
, private schools and academies for basic education still rely on the support of the people themselves or businessmen.
Xinlingfang in front of us is the best example. Xinlingfang is not a small place, but it doesn't even have a private school, let alone children studying there.
It is impossible for those wealthy families to open their education to ordinary people, so the first thing to do is to make these families rich, and then consider the issue of education.
Otherwise, even if you open your own academy, the children in Xinlingfang will still have to go home and work, so how can they have time to concentrate on studying?
Thinking of this, Ye An truly felt that children in future generations would be happy, and books and knowledge were "treasures" that they could reach out and pick up.
The idea of a commercial street has been conceived in his mind for a long time, and now it has reached the stage where it can be piloted. Widow Zhang's wine business has been able to attract a considerable number of customers, and once Cui Da's wood shop is officially opened, it will also be able to attract a lot of customers.
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As for Qin Mumu, she has already prepared to gather the ladies from various families in Xinlingfang to open a ready-made clothing shop, which is one of the few shops in Tokyo.