Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 66 Education
Historically, Cao Cao conquered the world with soldiers, ruled the country with law, ruled the world with Taoism, and educated the people with Confucianism.

Among all the schools of thought, Cao Cao paid the most attention to Legalism. Facing such a powerful person as Cao Cao, Confucianists could only tolerate it temporarily.

After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi established the Wei Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and Confucianism rose again.

At this time, in various parts of Youzhou, after Cao Cao promoted him vigorously, Zhang Qingfeng's Wanhui Physics had basically formed an overwhelming advantage over various schools of thought in this remote state of Youzhou.

After getting in touch with Wanphysics, Cao Cao attached great importance to this Neo-Confucianism, because he found that Neo-Confucianism synthesized various theories in many aspects.

Zhang Qingfeng's Neo-Confucianism not only advocates the rule of law of the Legalists, but also the moral education of the Confucians. It also takes into account the liberalism of the Taoists, as well as the universal love, will of heaven, and frugality of the Mohists.

Mohists like to invent and create, but Wan Physicians like it more than Mohists.

In just a few years, Neo Confucianism made Youzhou's economic development surpass most of the states and counties in the Central Plains by virtue of various inventions and creations.

Now, Confucianism schools are being built all over Youzhou, as well as advanced propaganda tools such as paper books and quill pencils.

I believe that Neo-Confucianism will develop and grow in Youzhou in a few years. Now that it has the support of Cao Cao, there will be no need to worry about being attacked for at least ten years.

Not long after Cao Cao gave the reward, Yang Shen, the prefect of Yuyang, directly ordered that all children aged 12 to [-] in Yuyang counties must be sent to school for six years of compulsory education.

Those who excel in six years of compulsory education can also participate in six years of university education.

At the same time, in various workshops in Yuyang County, adults under the age of 30 also need to attend night schools organized by the Ministry of Education to learn how to read and write, otherwise they will be taxed heavily.

With the issuance of this decree, Yuyang suddenly opened the way of universal education one step ahead.

Compared with the wealth of Yuyang County, other counties and counties in Youzhou have not been able to achieve universal education. Li Bai only built a school in each county, but this is also very remarkable.

I believe that within ten years, Youzhou will be assimilated by Neo-Confucianism. By then, it may not be easy for anyone to suppress Neo-Confucianism in Youzhou.

Time to enter August.

Cao Cao stayed in Youzhou for two months, visited many workshops and factories, and expressed his admiration for the development of Youzhou.
The Quanzhou shipyard in particular opened Cao Cao's horizons. Cao Cao attached great importance to the thousands of boatmen and the large machinery used in shipbuilding. He also wanted to introduce these machinery to the shipyard in the south.

Cao Cao also admired the political system established by Li Bai in Yuyang, especially the process of arrest, interrogation, and sentencing by the Yamen Department and the court, which touched Cao Cao a lot.

He planned to learn from this model and find a pilot to try after returning to Yecheng.

At the beginning of August, a major event happened in Youzhou, that is, Zhang Qingfeng and Cai Wenji got married. Cao Cao and many officials and gentry in Youzhou became witnesses. The wedding was held for several days, and the people talked about it very much. .

In mid-August, Cao Cao finally decided to leave.

Back to Yecheng this time, Cao Cao took away from Youzhou a Youzhou navy with several gunboats and a 5000 Youzhou cavalry.

In addition to these, countless weapons and armor were taken away.

Of course, these are all mortgaged with the taxes paid by Youzhou. It is impossible for Youzhou to lose so much money in vain.

Originally, before Cao Cao came to Youzhou, he wanted to move the military factory back to Yecheng, but when he knew that the military factory could not be separated from other supporting factories in Yuyang City, he gave up this idea.

If he wants to move the military factory there, he needs to move all the military industry in Youzhou, which will cost too much.

First of all, it is necessary to set up a steelmaking plant in Yecheng. To set up a steelmaking plant in Yecheng, the supply of raw materials is a problem. If the transportation is too far away, the cost will be high.

After that, there will be machinery manufacturing factories, special metal smelting factories, tool factories, mold factories, etc., and countless supporting factories.

In addition, the most important thing is the demand for talents. Except for Zhang Qingfeng's students, it is impossible for disciples of any other school to switch to industry.

In the end, Cao Cao still needs a great deal of academic education, otherwise his ideas will come to naught.

Under many difficult factors, Cao Cao finally had to give up the relocation of the Yuyang Military Factory.

However, he also arranged for some people to enter the Yuyang military factory, with the purpose of taking the military factory into his own hands.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't say anything about this. After all, the military factory was too special, and no one in power could let these things be in the hands of others.

After Cao Cao left Youzhou, Zhang Qingfeng's locomotive and steam engine drawings were also designed.

In the next period of time, Zhang Qingfeng probably will be busy producing large train steam engines.

But at the same time, another equally important matter was also put on Zhang Qingfeng's agenda.

Two years ago, Zhang Qingfeng asked people to start storing cotton linters, which is a short and dense layer of fiber that naturally grows on the skin of cotton seeds.

After Zhang Qingfeng told Li Bai about collecting linters, within two years, Li Bai had already collected enough linters.

Afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng found a few more students with good conduct and asked them to stay in the paper mill for two years.

Years later, Zhang Qingfeng called them again and opened a secret paper-making workshop.

This paper workshop will mainly produce cotton linter paper in the future.

Cotton linter paper is the main material of later generations of RMB.

In addition to papermaking, Zhang Qingfeng also secretly ran a printing workshop.

This printing workshop is very small, with only a few dozen workers, most of whom are students who followed Zhang Qingfeng from the Taihang Mountains.

Although this printing workshop is small, the printing technology inside is several generations more advanced than that of all the printing factories in Yuyang City.

The reason why Zhang Qingfeng established this printing workshop was mainly to print money.

That's right, printing money, Zhang Qingfeng is ready to issue banknotes.

In the Han Dynasty, the only coins were copper coins such as five baht coins, and gold and silver were only precious metals and not currency in circulation.

In the folk, because of the shortage of five baht coins, many people still trade in the form of barter, even Yuyang is no exception.

Copper coins are too heavy, and the amount is not enough. Small transactions are okay, but large transactions are very troublesome, which seriously restricts the economic development of Youzhou.

So Zhang Qingfeng decided to open a bank to issue large-value banknotes.

The banknotes will first be linked to the five-baht coins, which means that as long as you take the banknotes to the bank, you can exchange them for the corresponding copper coins.

In this way, various transactions will be much more convenient, and it can also promote the prosperity of the commercial economy.

In order to prevent banknotes from being counterfeited, Zhang Qingfeng also created many high-tech things.

For example, he used some chemically synthesized dyes for printing banknotes to ensure that others would not be able to get them out for a long time.

There is also a carving board for printing coins, which Zhang Qingfeng carved out of a hard alloy board.

In order to carve hard alloy plates, Zhang Qingfeng also specially designed a batch of special processing machines and knives, and then asked countless top engraving craftsmen to spend several months scrapping countless allegro plates before carving out a few sets of usable plates .

Now that all the conditions for issuing banknotes are ripe, Zhang Qingfeng decided to start printing banknotes.

Yuyang No.[-] Machinery Factory.

As the end of the month draws to a close, it's time to pay wages again.

"Have you heard, the higher ups are going to give us paper money." Someone said.

"Paper money? Can paper be used as money?" Someone asked.

"What paper money? That's paper money." A voice rang out from outside the crowd. Everyone looked and saw a young man walking over.

"Hello, Director." Immediately, everyone greeted the young man.

The young man nodded and explained to everyone: "The banknotes are issued by the governor. From now on, our factory will issue banknotes to everyone for wages."

"Director, can I buy things with this banknote?" Someone asked.

"Everyone can rest assured that this banknote can be used to buy goods in most shops in Youzhou, and it can also be used to pay taxes. The government has recognized it."

The young man said: "If you are not at ease, you can go to the money bank and exchange the banknotes into five baht. The money bank is next to Yuyang Restaurant, and it is easy to find."

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