Compulsory education in ancient times

Unexpectedly, the plan I mentioned casually would be adopted in this way. The cement worker seemed more excited than Tao Yanran, and he stood up quickly and said loudly: "I will definitely live up to my lord's entrustment!"

Tao Jianran nodded, and said to him: "I want to see the results within 10 days. You choose some people to help, and then everyone who participates will be rewarded!" Tao Jianran has nothing else now, but a lot of money!Since the north no longer needed food supplies, in just a few months, the income from Liuli Pavilion has been divided into Tao Jianran's hands, which has reached as much as [-] taels of silver!

Hearing that the participants were rewarded, everyone else turned to the cementer.Tao Yanran didn't stay to restrain them, and left after giving some instructions.

Fertilizers and water sources have been settled. Tao Jianran will use the fifteen days after the cotton field is set up to give ten farmers a comprehensive cotton planting training, and force-feed the knowledge of cotton planting exchanged by the system into the farmers' minds. inside!Although it can only be discussed on paper at the moment, it is better than a black eye.

Early the next morning, Tao Yanran went to the Zhizhou Mansion next door to look for Qiu Yu.

"Lord Qiu, is there any literate person in the mansion who is free now? It would be even better if he could draw." Since cotton planting is to be promoted, it is necessary to print some brochures with patterns.Tao Jianran is the kind who only knows how to draw stick figures, so he can't do this job.

When Qiu Yu heard this, his expression was a little strange.People who need to be literate can also understand that Tao Jian needs assistants, but he also needs to be able to draw?Could it be that seeing that cotton planting is no longer a problem, you want to recite poems and draw pictures for fun?

Qiu Yu was originally a very talented literati, but his long years of border work made him a strong man who doesn't care about trivial details, and even looks down on those literati who don't do practical things, so his tone is not as warm as before. , only said: "There are two, and the next official ordered people to find them."

Tao Jianran didn't notice such a small change in Qiu Yu, and asked Qiu Yu to take him to the place where the files were stored. He wanted to check the current material storage situation and various expenses in Yizhou.

I don't know if I don't look at it, but I was shocked when I saw it, this Yizhou is actually poorer than I imagined!

Last year was fairly smooth, but the average yield per mu in the state was only more than 100 shi.The tax collected can only cover a thin layer of the granaries of the yamen in various places. With such a small amount of supplies, Tao Jianran dare not act rashly!

On the contrary, the situation in the army is better. There have always been military salaries delivered by the imperial court. In addition, the exchange market was opened a year ago, and the taxes collected can basically offset half of the army's consumption.The army also continued the previous tradition, sending soldiers to take turns farming every day, trying to be self-sufficient.

Tao Jianran finally understood why Wang Junhao's [-] troops were still living in tents.Only [-]% of the army is veterans, and the rest are recruits. Now that the Huns may invade at any time, they must first train hard to improve the overall quality of the army.

It is already a waste of time to go to crop rotation during the period, so where is the time to build a house?

And the people in Yizhou are not like other places. They have no work to do during the slack season. They have to dig rivers, divert water for irrigation, and open up new farmland. The house is gone.

Knowing the basic situation of Yizhou, Tao Yanran sighed in his heart, the situation was more complicated than he thought.

When Tao Jianran came back to his senses from a pile of files, it was already past noon, and when he looked up, he saw two strange faces.

Of the two men in front of him, one still had a childish face, and looked like he was only 16 years old, while the other was weather-beaten, with gray temples, about 50 to [-] years old.

The two saw that Tao Yanran had finally noticed him, and the young man hurriedly said, "My lord, you have regained your senses, we have been waiting for you for a long time."

These words sounded like he was complaining, and the elder hurriedly tugged on his sleeve.

Tao Jianran was not as angry as the elders imagined, but smiled embarrassedly: "I kept you waiting for a long time, why don't we go have dinner together? Let's talk while eating."

"Hey, what an embarrassment." The young man pretended to evade, but his eyes were full of expectation.

Tao Jianran has been in the officialdom for two years, but he hasn't seen such an interesting temperament for a long time, and the smile on his face became more obvious: "Let's go, the cook in the house is from Ning'an, and come to taste the dishes from the south. "

Hearing this, the boy's eyes suddenly turned into star eyes.The older one had no expression on his face, no different from those political veterans.

Tao Jianran subconsciously got closer to the boy, and when the boy was happy, he poured out all his wealth.

It turned out that he was Qiu Yu's youngest son, named Qiu Qinye, and he was indeed 16 today.Since childhood, he followed his father and two elder brothers to read and write, and he also knew a little about painting.It's just that his temper is too jumpy, so Qiu Yu didn't let him pass the exam, and asked him to go through a few more years.

As for Qiu Qinye's two elder brothers, the older one has already passed the Juren exam, the younger one is also a scholar, both of them are studying in the capital, and she is the only one of her age in the family, and she has been driven into a madness.

The older one's surname is Li, first name is Qiong, and he is Li Tongpan's first cousin.After taking the imperial examination for so many years, he was just a scholar, but now he is working as a idler under Li Tongpan.

Tao Jianran was not surprised. In such a poor place in Yizhou, it is impossible for any poor students to come out. When it comes to literacy, it must be related to these officials. Otherwise, how would there be money and time to study and read? .

Thinking of this, Tao Jianran was also very sorry.Yizhou is so poor that even compulsory education is impossible, and people's livelihood must be improved first.

Tao Jianran didn't want to play tricks on them, and said during the meeting: "I invite you two this time, because I want you to help me draw the contents of this booklet into an easy-to-understand album, just like this one." A cotton planting manual was released, as well as a small picture book promoting retting.

"I've seen this picture album!" Qiu Qinye said excitedly. When Qiu Yu brought this kind of album home, he secretly sketched a few pictures out of curiosity, "I can draw this, and I will leave it on me!" It's just a few simple lines to outline the characters and actions, it's too simple!

Tao Jianran did not discourage his enthusiasm, but only reminded: "The only purpose of this booklet is to allow illiterate farmers to understand the content on it, so simplicity and easy-to-understand is the key point. How about this, you go back and try to draw It will take three days to paint this chapter of planting seeds, and I will see whoever paints the most understandable painting will be in charge of this album."

Qiu Qinye was very active in this kind of competitive competition, and quickly boasted: "No problem! After three days, it will definitely make your eyes shine!"

Li Qiong still didn't have much emotional ups and downs on the face, but she was also very excited in her heart.Even though it has been wasted for so long, Tao Jianran's appearance awakened the ambition and ambition deep in his heart.If Tao Jianran can take a fancy to him, this little Yizhou will never be able to trap him again in the future!

The three of them talked happily during the banquet, and the Minsheng Daily, far away in the capital, quietly had new changes.

The reason is that through continuous exploration and research by the newspaper office, Wang Wanning did not blindly respect Tao Jianran’s idea of ​​attracting farmers at first. She opened up the current affairs commentary section of Minsheng Daily into two sections. Gentlemen of Guozijian, please give a special lecture in the current affairs comment column!

Naturally, Wang Wanning asked for this resource from Wang Lingjun.Although Wang Lingjun was not stingy, but given his status and status, finding a gentleman from the Imperial College to write an article was a matter of one sentence.However, the first one to appear in the Minsheng Daily was not the Mr. Guozijian, but Murong Wenyu, Minister of Rites!

Wang Lingjun was only posting to the masters of the Guozijian, no one asked for lesson plans, but he didn't expect to attract Murong Wenyu.Since the servant of the Ministry of Rites has offered to deliver it to the door, why are they so reserved!

Needless to say, Murong Wenyu's literary talent is also top-notch in his sensitivity to political affairs.He took the [-] test questions of last year's imperial examination as an example, and explained how to answer these test questions.

After reading the manuscript delivered by Murong Wenyu himself, Wang Lingjun was filled with admiration, but he still slapped his thigh and said dissatisfiedly, "Yu, this is your fault."

Murong Wenyu was puzzled: "Brother Ling Jun, where did you say that?" He edited and scrapped dozens of drafts of this article before he published it. This is one of the rare high-quality articles in his life!

Wang Lingjun looked at Murong Wenyu sadly: "I gave you all the pine inkstones that His Majesty rewarded, why don't you advertise for our Minsheng Daily? Such a good article, at least let people know that it is our daily It was published!"

When Murong Wenyu heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched.Is the article written by myself painstakingly not as good as a sentence of advertisement? !Murong Wenyu sighed helplessly, asked someone to pass a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, picked up the pen and added a sentence at the end of the article, read more current affairs comments from Minsheng Daily, it can broaden your horizons, increase your political sensitivity, and make your article more meaningful Advertisement words like far-reaching.

Although it was added temporarily, it seems to echo each other with the previous text, and it is a seamless one.

Only then was Wang Lingjun satisfied, and asked his servants to bring the tribute from Qi Bohan, Jin Simo: "It's hard work, hard work, this is a tribute, and I just give it to you."

Murong Wenyu was flattered, even though his Murong family was a big family, the ink and inkstone that were tributed to the emperor could not be used by a junior like him, but which scholar would not love this!At this moment, the slightest bit of dissatisfaction with Wang Lingjun in my heart disappeared, and I was almost grateful!

And Wang Lingjun, after giving Qi Bohan to him and sending out all the things that urged him to study hard, he suddenly felt a sense of comfort, and even felt sympathy for Murong Wenyu as if he had met a confidant.