Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

“We must speed up the implementation of compulsory education in the city!”

In the political hall! Lu Dafang said urgently.

The doctors expanded the branch of the Imperial Medical Bureau and provided free medical school education, which aroused the popularity of the people and made all the scholar-bureaucrats lose face.

According to Fan Zheng's plan for compulsory education, the first step was compulsory education for the whole city, the second step was compulsory education nationwide, and the third step was to implement free compulsory education nationwide, which brought the cultural governance of the Song Dynasty to its peak.

However, doctors have now promoted free education, but the first step of the Confucian plan, compulsory education in the city, has not yet started.

"Don't be impatient, Xianggong Lu. There are many cities in the Song Dynasty, and it took doctors three years to build hospitals throughout the Song Dynasty. Compulsory education in the city has just begun. Currently, it is only implemented in Kaifeng. I'll wait until the end of the road!" Zhang Dun said solemnly.

Although the new party and the old party are incompatible, they are of the same lineage as scholar-bureaucrats. When it comes to promoting compulsory education in the city, the new party and the old party have the same position.

"Of course, the doctor's ship is small and easy to turn around. There are not many schools needed. In addition, the doctor itself can make a profit. Even if it is free, the doctor can still provide it! We can only rely on the education national debt to survive!" Yang Wei said helplessly .

In this regard, doctors do have an advantage over Confucians, and doctors have major hospitals all over the cities of the Song Dynasty, so employment is not a problem at all.

"That's right! Have the national bonds that Fan Zheng promised to issue been in place?" Lu Dafang suddenly asked.

Cai Jing nodded and said: "The first batch of education national debt worth millions of dollars has all been underwritten by the Royal Bank. Now it has arrived at the Ministry of Accounts, and the Imperial College can take it at will."

"Okay! Pass the order, the Imperial College will speed up the promotion of compulsory education in the city with the four capitals of the Song Dynasty as the center." Lu Dafang ordered.

At present, in the four capitals of the Song Dynasty, doctors and Confucians are competing with each other, accelerating the construction of colleges, and doctors and Confucians are beginning to consciously compete for talents!

Confucianism has the advantage of being an official, and doctors have the advantage of being free. It can be said that the two have their own merits, and it is difficult to distinguish them.

"I am reporting to the officials that compulsory education in the city is very popular among the people, but they have encountered a problem, that is, there are no teachers!" Zhang Yong, a doctor of the Imperial Academy, said helplessly.

With the support of huge amounts of money, the city-wide compulsory education in other three capitals was quickly promoted, but problems soon emerged.

With financial support, there is no shortage of school buildings or students for compulsory education in the city. Only Confucius encountered difficulties.

"No wife?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but look at Fan Zheng standing aside.

We must know that Fan Zheng proposed to his father to promote compulsory education in Kaifeng City, but it was a great success, and there was no lack of masters at all.

Fan Zheng spread his hands and said: "For the record, when my father promoted compulsory education, he also encountered a shortage of concubines. Therefore, my father recruited the candidates who came to Beijing to take the exam as concubines. In this way, these candidates could have a good job. In order to make a living, these people can also reduce the time wasted traveling to their hometowns and prepare for exams in Beijing."

All the officials couldn't help but twitch, no wonder there is no shortage of masters in Kaifeng City. The people who come to Beijing to take the exam are the best masters in the world, and there are many of them. Coupled with the local wives, Kaifeng City not only has no shortage of wives, but also the competition is quite fierce.

"In this case, why don't the other three capitals adopt the Kaifeng method?" Zhao Xu asked.

Zhang Yong smiled bitterly and said: "The officials don't know. The reason why Kaifeng City does not lack masters is because many Kaifeng City is the best place in the world. The salary of masters is relatively high. In addition, many candidates from far away places are unwilling to do so." I am wasting time traveling back and forth, so I am willing to stay in Kaifeng as a concubine. However, the other three capitals are not places for palace examinations, and there are very few candidates who are willing to be a concubine."

Lu Dafang frowned and said: "Although the other three capitals are not the place for the palace examination, they are the place for the college examination. If they can't recruit candidates at all, how can they not recruit scholars?"

Zhang Yong spread his hands and said: "There are indeed scholars who come to Sanjing to participate in the college examination. However, the scholars are all from the same house. The time required to travel is not much, and the cost of staying in Sanjing is quite high. It is not worth the gain."

"Then they need Master's job even more." Zhang Dun frowned.

Zhang Yong nodded and said: "That's true. Being a master can indeed make a living, but being a master also requires teaching and educating people. In this way, a lot of time will be wasted, which is not conducive to candidates' preparation for the exam. So... ….”

Fan Zheng added: "So they would rather go home and support themselves than stay in Sanjing as concubines and wait for the college examination."

All the officials in the court nodded empathetically. Taking the imperial examination is a matter of thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge. If you are a little negligent, you will fall behind. If it were them, they would not be willing to delay the imperial examination by being a master.

"Then what should we do?" A group of scholar-officials frowned.

The compulsory education in the city is the merit of a group of scholar-bureaucrats and civil servants, but now it has just begun and its biggest shortcomings have been exposed.

"Fan Taicheng, do you have any good prescriptions?" Zhao Xu habitually asked Fan Zheng for advice.

Fan Zheng said loudly: "It is very simple to recruit a master. You all know this method in your heart, but you are not willing to use it!"

"Oh! This happened!" Zhao Xu said in confusion.

All the officials also fell silent.

Cai Bian was a good old man and said helplessly: "The method mentioned by Fan Taicheng must be to recruit young people if there are not enough scholars. If there are not enough children, just those who can read."

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, Sanjing is the important place in our Song Dynasty. There are many literate people. I think it is more than enough to find Tong Sheng as my wife."

Yang Wei was the first to object: "Although this method can recruit enough masters, it is of mixed quality. Education in the whole city is a century-old plan of the Song Dynasty, so how can it be just a waste of time?"

Other officials also nodded. This is what they are worried about. If compulsory education is promoted throughout the city, the gap among masters will be even greater. Lowering the standards is nothing more than drinking poison to quench thirst!

Lu Dafang added: "The implementation of compulsory education in the whole city in the three capitals has encountered such difficulties. In the future, if compulsory education is extended to all cities in the Song Dynasty, or even to the entire Song Dynasty, I am afraid that the masters needed will be astronomical. How can numbers be solved so lightly?”

Fan Zheng raised his eyebrows and said, "So, you want to let scholars and juren serve as masters?"

All the officials couldn't help but feel a little surprised when they were guessed.

Among the four capitals of the Song Dynasty, many of the concubines in Kaifeng City were promoted to be concubines, and the lowest was a scholar, while in the other three capitals, children were concubines. The difference was so vast that it naturally made the other three capitals dissatisfied.

Fan Zheng chuckled and said: "If you want to raise people and scholars to serve as masters, there are ways, but I'm afraid you don't dare to use them!"

"Teaching the way of saints and promoting education for all is a century-old plan of the Song Dynasty. As long as the people of the world can accept the way of saints, even if it is evil, I will follow it!" Lu Dafang said impassionedly.

In Lu Dafang's view, promoting education for all is the greatest honor for a scholar. As the prime minister of the dynasty, he would naturally not let go of this golden opportunity.

"That's easy! According to court records, in our imperial examination, the average age for passing the imperial examination was twenty-nine years old, and the average age for passing the imperial examination was about thirty-four years old. In other words, once a person passes the age of three At the age of fifteen, his talents and knowledge are already fixed, and it is almost impossible to make further progress." Fan Zheng said seriously.