Take the mall to Datang

In the Lantian Hou Mansion, Guo Shouyi, the magistrate of Lantian County, visited today.

"It's much more convenient to travel by train between the two places, and it can save nearly half of the travel time. It would be even better if the train can lead to Chang'an City." Guo Shouyi smiled.

Yuan Shanxin said that it was because the operation of the train during the public office exempted you from the fare, otherwise you would be willing to spend [-] yuan to take the train. Anyway, he thought that the monthly salary of the Lantian county magistrate would not believe it. .

"Magistrate Guo is quite imaginative, maybe this kind of idea will be realized in the future." Yuan Shan said.

"Yuan Pushe, I'm here today to bother you about Lantian Qianhang," Guo Shouyi said.

"What's the matter with Qian Xing, but it doesn't matter." Yuan Shan said.

"Many people in Lantian County wanted to deposit their money in the money bank, but they were all rejected by the money bank. The common people petitioned and hoped that the lower officials would resolve this matter, so they came to ask Yuan Pushe if it was feasible." Guo Shouyi said.

"Things are a good thing, but for the time being, the money bank does not plan to handle deposits for people other than the employees of the chamber of commerce. If you want to have the services of the money bank, you must have a deposit amount that reaches a certain standard and apply for a long-term storage period. You can only handle this business after becoming an employee of the chamber of commerce and working for one full year." Yuan Shan explained.

Guo Shouyi was also helpless after hearing this.

"County Guo Magistrate is doing his duty. I will ask Lantian Qianxing to post a statement at the gate of the county government office, as an explanation to the people." Yuan Shan said.

"It has to be like this," Guo Shouyi said.

"Magistrate Guo, there is one more thing. The infrastructure fund of Lantian County can be deposited in the money bank to collect interest first, which is more cost-effective than depositing it separately." Yuan Shan said.

The sub-funds of the construction and development fund come from vegetable greenhouses, melon and fruit planting, and part of the profit reserves extracted from commercial development projects in the county. It is the same as the construction fund of Xinfeng County. It is regarded as a share of the county government. However, the money must be used for construction and cannot be reflected. Now when there is no construction, this part of the money can be placed in the money bank to collect interest.

"This is a good thing, but according to the regulations of the money bank, there is a period of time for depositing the money. What if the county is engaged in construction?" Guo Shouyi asked.

"You can rest assured that the construction fund can be used as a separate business of the money bank in the future. Anyone including Xinfeng County can deposit money in the money bank and calculate the interest on time according to the deposit and withdrawal amount. Once it is needed, it can be submitted at any time. Apply for the allocation of this part of the funds, so that not only can the interest income be guaranteed, but also the use of the construction fund can be further regulated." Yuan Shan said.

Neither Guo Shouyi of Lantian County nor Zhang Baojun of Xinfeng County can reflect the construction fund, so this does not conflict with the interests of the two of them at all. In addition, the use of regulations is a good thing, and it was proposed by Yuan Pushe Yes, how could they object.

As for Yuanshan, the calculation of the amount of construction funds is managed and settled by the people in the Ministry of Economic Development. Putting the business of this part of the construction fund into the money bank and managing it together can save a lot of time and workload. In addition, it is also to prevent the handlers in the economic and development department from making any crooked brains.

After all, it is construction funds. As long as there is a project, the money can be raised. Although the county magistrate needs to approve it, and the Ministry of Finance and Economics approves it, but using the project to defraud the fund only needs a very good project plan. After the project is implemented, it is possible. Exploitation from downstream.

Yuan Shan also has to do some things to prevent problems before they happen.

"In this case, the subordinates should support it," Guo Shouyi said.

After Guo Shouyi returned to the county government that day, Lantian Money Bank posted a statement about the personal storage business.

The people were not very literate, so the yamen immediately sent someone to interpret the notice for everyone.

After Qian Xing made a statement, the people lost their temper. Many of the people who wanted to save money were hired workers in vegetable greenhouses. Their main purpose was to make something new. They really didn't have any ideas about anything else.

In fact, there is a reason for not expanding the business. The lack of manpower is still the biggest problem of the Ministry of Economic Development. In order to solve this problem, Yuan Shan immediately called the core staff to start preparations for the school.

A few days later, the site of the school was finalized, and an unused building in the Lantian Economic Development Zone was occupied. The five-storey building was built according to the pattern of an office building before, and it could accommodate thousands of people.

This place will become a talent training base for the Ministry of Economic Development in the future. The first batch of students recruited will be trained full-time for Qian Xing, and the main teaching content will be arithmetic.

For this purpose, the Ministry of Economic Development deployed [-] very amazing staff members as teachers.

The requirements for recruiting students are very strict, and the preferential conditions are also very prominent. Not to mention food and lodging, the future employment is all written in the contract. Here, it is not about family background, but about hard work. Future development depends on one's own efforts.

After the school opened, the news was spread through the Datang tabloid of Zhuangyuan Bookstore. Today’s tabloids are not only sold in Chang’an, there will also be tabloids sold in Luoyang the next day.

Including the two capitals, the surrounding area has some influence.

After hearing about this, the people in Lantian County all thought of sending their children to study. Just like the previous medical admissions, those students who will work in the medical center after one year have a promising future. It is more demanding to cultivate talents, and it also attracts a large number of students.

Enrolling students starts with the IQ test, and the elimination rate is quite high, but even so, many people send their children here. In the early stage, they were all from near Chang'an, and in the later stage, they all came from Luoyang, and even Zhengzhou, Shangzhou, and Xingzhou. , people from Fengzhou and other places have it.

Liang Ming, who was in charge of school affairs, returned to Yuanlai Teahouse to report the recent enrollment situation to Yuan Shan, saying: "Yuan Pushe, the number of students has exceeded 1000 now, so I am afraid we need to increase the manpower."

"It's a good thing to recruit so many people in just a few days. Since this is the case, we will suspend the dispatch of Zhengzhou officials and deal with the matter of the talent school first." Yuan Shan.

Chapter 620 Education

The matter of the talent school soon alarmed the court, especially the representatives of officials who were suitable for Confucianism, expressed their opposition one after another, and there were more memorials to impeach Yuan Shan than before.

As an emperor, he was a little dissatisfied when he saw such a situation. Originally, Yuanshan advocated opening a school in the county to open up people's wisdom and let children read and write. , This has no effect on the Tang court, and it is a good thing for doctors to help the world and save people.

This time, another talent training school was opened, focusing on the subject of arithmetic. From the perspective of Confucianism, it is wrong not to follow Confucianism, and these trained talents will join the Ministry of Economics and Development in the future. To be honest, this It's a bit too much.

In the past, the Ministry of Economics and Development was developing rapidly and there was no talent available, so it dispatched personnel from the Imperial College. As the emperor, he also supported it very much. is a good way.

It's different now, Yuanshan started to recruit children from ordinary people's families, and at present, this group of students are basically all from poor families. Many ministers came out to oppose it, of course, because of their own family's interests.

Just like the Marquis hereditary system, they are all related to their own interests, so this time many people are on the opposite side of Yuan Shan.

The only ones who didn't know anything were the military officers.

On the court, Yuan Shan said conveniently: "I think that there is a specialization in the art industry, and I know what kind of talents are needed to adapt to the current work. I am very clear. If you dare to ask Confucian scholars if they can cure diseases and save people, how many are Confucian scholars?" A man who is proficient in arithmetic can be a bookkeeper."

"Your Majesty, all the people needed by the minister need people with relevant majors to take up the positions. The reason why the school is opened is because there are not so many talents available in the Tang Dynasty, and the business has to be done, and the business of the Ministry of Economics and Development has to be carried out. Go on, so I can only find another way, not to use this to make an enemy of anyone, please learn from your majesty." Yuan Shan said.

"Even so, do you think Datang really has no one you can employ?" Li Shimin said.

Yuan Shan's explanation is very reasonable, but the problem is, isn't this a slap in the face of Li Shimin? .

Yuan Shan said: "Your Majesty, there are no absolutes in the world. Maybe there are talents after all. After all, it is just an exception, and the number of people that I want to appoint is indeed a bit too much."

Li Shimin ignored Yuan Shan and asked, "Do you think it is possible to find so many talents for Yuan Shan to use?"

All the ministers stopped talking, and the civil servants knew very well that some time ago, the Ministry of Economics and Development had recruited away all the people from the Guozijian Arithmetic Department. Now there are not many people studying arithmetic in the Guozijian, and they are all freshmen.

"Why don't you talk anymore? Is there really no one available?" Li Shimin said slightly angrily.

To put it bluntly, Li Shimin is very embarrassed at this time. Think about a group of Confucian scholars who can't lift their hands or resist, can't medical skills, and aren't good at arithmetic. Apart from some poems and songs, they seem to be really good at human ethics and morality. None of them came in handy.

All the ministers saw Li Shimin's darkened face. The current situation is obvious. His Majesty the Emperor may be about to explode into a thunderous rage. Everyone thought that Yuanshan might be in trouble.

But they didn't see that Kong Yingda's face was darker than the Guozijian's sacrificial wine.

Because this matter seems to be said to be useless for Confucian scholars, it just so happens that these things mentioned by Yuan Shan are not possessed by Confucian scholars. Even if some Confucian scholars have studied arithmetic, they are not proficient enough. too much.

"Yuan Shan, since you have so many ways to cultivate talents, what do you think Datang should do if it wants to have more talents?" Li Shimin said calmly.

Everyone was surprised. They didn't expect that the emperor not only didn't lose his temper, but also asked Yuan Shan about it.

How did they know that from the perspective of the emperor, the most important thing is the art of manipulating people. Since they are capable people, why don't they use them? It is precisely because of this that during the Zhenguan period that Emperor Taizong was good at using talented people, the rule of Zhenguan emerged.

Hearing the emperor's question, Yuan Shan replied: "Education can be used as the direction of talent cultivation. Moral education can focus on ideological and moral education to improve quality, intellectual education, and open people's wisdom so that different people can learn different knowledge. Skills are used to serve the society and build the Tang Dynasty. Sports can increase physical fitness, exercise the mind, and enhance people's willpower. Aesthetic education can cultivate a positive attitude and establish correct concepts. Labor education can improve hands-on ability and positive thinking. The attitude of doing things, these five directions have no order, no emphasis, they all need to be cultivated together, and the methods of education are closely related."

"Besides, just like what I said just now, there are specializations in the art industry, and only by cultivating talents with professional skills can they develop better in various fields of the Tang Dynasty." Yuan Shan continued to wait.

"In addition, I think that the imperial examination should be held every year to select outstanding talents for the Tang Dynasty. There is no distinction between civil and military. We encourage the opening of schools to teach apprentices, and it is not limited to literature and martial arts. All skills are also worthy of respect." Yuan Shandao.