The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 461 Development Education
To improve the literacy rate of the common people, the biggest problem is the lack of teachers.

After so many years of development, it is difficult to say in other states, but the people in Jingzhou are basically able to support a child to study for a few years. If there is such a chance, I believe that many people will let their children learn knowledge even if they sell everything.

In this era, knowledge is monopolized in the hands of wealthy families, and they will never become private school teachers just to earn that little money, because as long as you have knowledge, you will not have to worry about making a living at all, and even being an official is very easy. Can't you be a prefect, a county magistrate, or a small official?
Many literati in later generations became tutors in private schools in order to support their families. That’s because after the knowledge monopoly was broken, there were too many scholars. Most of the scholars in this era are from good backgrounds. Can make a lot of money, who would waste time to earn the little money of ordinary people?

Of course, it's not that no one accepts apprentices to teach, but they run top-level aristocratic private schools. Not only are the tuition fees expensive, but also depends on your status. If you don't have a good background, even rich people don't accept it.

For example, Liu Bei, Liu Deran, and Gongsun Zan studied under the great scholar Lu Zhi. Liu Bei, who was poor when he was a child, relied entirely on Liu Deran's father to support him. Although Liu Bei was poor, he was born in the Han Dynasty.Gongsun Zan was born in an aristocratic family. Although his biological mother was not well-born and the family did not find him a good job, Gongsun Zan was very handsome.

There are also big celebrities such as Guan Ning and Sima Hui who also opened private schools, but who are their students?

In order to solve this problem, Zhang Wu introduced two policies.

The first policy is to improve the official school system.Jingzhou Zhouxue was upgraded to Jiangnan Taixue, presiding over the educational activities of the four Jiangnan prefectures.Vigorously develop local government schools, all states, counties, and counties must set up schools, and principals and teachers are included in the official system and given certain levels.

The person in charge of government schools above the state level is Jijiu, and the rest are called principals. For principals and teachers with outstanding achievements, the Chuhou Mansion will give priority to promotion.He is engaged in the education industry, with high grades, good remuneration, and quick promotion. As soon as the news came out, many people came here admiringly.

Local government schools give priority to recruiting the children of soldiers from the Chu army, and county schools mainly recruit children aged six to ten. Children are also free from tuition.

In fact, in terms of the construction of the official school system, Cao Cao in the north has long implemented a series of measures, setting up special personnel at the local level to recruit and teach, and even the Taixue, which had been abolished for many years, was brought up again.Although the scale of the official school established by Cao Cao was small, it played a role in opening up the atmosphere.

Zhang Wu wants to expand the scale of official schools and form a complete system, and further expand the scale of enrollment, especially to increase the proportion of children from ordinary people enrolled, so as to achieve the purpose of improving the literacy rate of ordinary people.

The children of these common people do not require them to be able to recite poems, compose prose and write articles, as long as they can read and write, and then they can use annotated books for self-study.

Although their learning effect is not as good as those of family education from big families or aristocratic private schools run by famous celebrities, there are so many of them that there will always be some who are talented and smart and can become talented through self-study.When there are more people like this, and Zhang Wu secretly supports them, they will be able to compete with wealthy students.

The second policy is to encourage scholars to open private schools, especially in rural areas, and recruit children from common people's families for enlightenment teaching.

All students who have run private schools in the village for five years, after being verified by the local education management department, can be recommended to be teachers in local government schools, or recommended to the local government to become an official directly.

This can also be regarded as a way for students from poor families to become officials, because the current system of selecting officials is still a nomination system. Under this system, students from wealthy families must have an advantage.

It's not that Zhang Wu doesn't want to take the imperial examination, it's because the conditions are immature. There are still many scholars in the world who come from wealthy families. Although there are also students from poor families, they still don't have an advantage in the competition with wealthy students. After all, they have no worries about food and clothing since they were young. , The elders in the family are also highly educated and well-connected.

Zhang Wu is 100% sure that even if he holds the imperial examination, he can still guarantee a fair competition opportunity for poor or ordinary students. I am afraid that rich students will account for [-] out of [-] of the final admissions. What is the point of that? mean?It can only be laughed at, unless Zhang Wu rigidly stipulates that the wealthy students and the poor students will be admitted in half, but that will have greater dangers and hidden dangers.

The world has not yet been unified, and Zhang Wu still needs the support of his family. Regardless of his high position and power, if he wants to be an enemy of the whole world, he still wants to die. Back then, Wang Mang was more powerful than Zhang Wu, but he was still held by the position. Liu Xiu, the son of noodles, was defeated.

In Zhang Wu's plan, holding the imperial examination is inevitable, but the road has to be taken step by step, and if the steps are too big, it will be a mess.The first step is to break the aristocratic family's monopoly on knowledge, and the second step is to increase the number of poor and ordinary students.

After the above two steps are completed, when the time is right, Zhang Wu will implement the imperial examination system, so as to finally break the monopoly of the aristocratic family on politics, so as to ensure the long-term stability of the country and ensure that the new dynasty he established will not be controlled by the aristocratic family. that power.

As soon as this policy came out, the vast number of poor students were really excited. This is really a pie in the sky. It is really worth it to get a chance to become an official after spending five years.

Due to the rapid economic development of Jingzhou in recent years, many children of small families and even ordinary children who have made money through business have the opportunity to study, so the number of students from poor families in Jingzhou has increased rapidly.After these people gained knowledge, they began to want to be officials, but there were only a few official positions, and the students from aristocratic families were not enough. Even if Zhang Wu secretly helped them, the general environment would still be difficult to change.

The power to recommend talents is actually still in the hands of those people. Although it is impossible to directly recommend their own children, and they dare not collude with each other to recommend people who obviously do not meet the requirements, as long as it is a matter of personal decision, there must be many ways.Not to mention in this era, even after more than 800 years, those national or provincial exams still have secret operations.

Now that this policy is in place, give them a little hope. Although it will take five years, if they compete with wealthy students, they may not have a chance in ten years; although it is impossible to have a higher position, that is also identity change.

And those wealthy students are not very interested in this policy, because they have backgrounds and connections, and they can use their family connections to get out of office early. Generally, they are not willing to waste these five years. It is better to enter the officialdom early if they have these five years. Accumulate qualifications.Besides, they had to go to the countryside, and the students recruited were all common people's children, and the ordinary wealthy children were not willing to suffer that kind of hardship.

Moreover, the general said that whoever dares to use power for personal gain in this kind of matter, and fails to truthfully verify the situation of the students going to the countryside to open private schools and make recommendations, will be severely punished.

(End of this chapter)