At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Coastal people eat sea salt, while inland people eat well salt, mine salt, and lake salt.

Salt-producing areas have professional concentrated production salt-making factories, all of which have special departments in charge of production, and professionals are in charge of control. of.

Not to mention iron, it will not cause problems of lack of weight or low quality, so that people can't even turn the ground.

Moreover, in recent years, with the stabilization of production, technological innovation, and increase in output, the price of salt and iron monopoly has also been continuously reduced, which is much cheaper than when the people were squeezed out for the sake of unification.

This is also the determination that Guo made back then.

No matter how hard and tiring it is now, and the price paid, as long as we can reunify, regain peace, and people are still alive, then sooner or later, what we paid back then will be recouped.

Someone Guo said, and he did it. In the later period of his rule, he continued to reduce the burden on the common people, abolished the poll tax, divided it into mu, measured land, lowered the proportion of agricultural tax, and increased the scope of corresponding conditions for agricultural tax reduction and exemption, etc.

All in all, he has done all kinds of things that he can do. As a feudal emperor, he feels that the concession he has made to the interests of all people in the world is not small.

So this barbecue, he ate with peace of mind.

He was sitting on a small chair, flipping the skewered meat, and constantly applying oil and seasoning on it, while Guo Chengzhi, Cao Lan and other five people sat beside him, helping him skewer vegetables and meat.

Pork, mutton, donkey meat, horse meat, fish, chicken, etc. He sent people to buy a lot of what he could buy, and then processed and grilled it himself.

Others only need to help him skewer the skewers, and they can wait to eat.

The high temperature generated by the raging charcoal fire forced the aroma of fat from the meat, and the aroma around the grill was overflowing.

Guo Chengzhi was young, with a strong appetite, and his mouth watered when he smelled the fragrance.

The five women were not young, but they kept sucking their noses and swallowing their saliva, looking at the meat skewers in Guo Peng's hands with great anticipation.

Not to mention them, even the inner court eunuchs on the side suppressed their appetite, swallowing their saliva while secretly inhaling the aroma, they were so greedy.

But they dare not open their mouths to ask the Supreme Emperor for meat.

Guo Peng happily enjoyed the process of making delicious food, enjoying the moment of great spiritual relaxation, and felt that he had never lived so relaxed and happy.

After a while, the first batch of meat skewers were grilled. Guo Peng bit a bunch of chicken skewers in his mouth, and passed a large handful of the grilled meat to Cao Lan, asking Cao Lan to distribute it to others.

Cao Lan loved Guo Chengzhi so much that he gave half of it directly to him, and shared the remaining half with the four sisters.

As a result, everyone was divided into a few pitiful bunches.

However, Guo Peng's barbecue here is also very fast, and he will not starve anyone by handing them over one by one.

The five people ate delicious kebabs, laughing and laughing non-stop.

Guo Chengzhi was so hungry, he took the meat skewers and started to eat them, mouthful after skewer, as if he had been hungry for three days and nights without eating.

Watching him wolf down, Guo Peng couldn't help thinking of himself at the same age more than 30 years ago.

When receiving Lu Zhi's ghost-like education, I also ate like this.

It's like eating like a desperate person.

Lu Zhiyun Wen Yunwu, mount a horse and be able to rule the army, dismount a horse and herdsmen, he is a typical figure who is a general and a picture. He studied with him and was his student. Guo Peng not only studied but also practiced martial arts at that time. Prepare for battle later.

Lu Zhi treated Guo Peng mercilessly, and he had heavy and fixed tasks every day. Whenever he had time, he would stare at Guo Peng with a stick with a straight face, and when he saw dissatisfaction, he would directly slap him with a stick, and use the pain to make Guo Peng remember something. Where mistakes are made, what can't be done.

From studying with Lu Zhi at the age of 13 to becoming an official in the palace, Guo Peng was beaten countless times.

Of course, I deserved a lot of treatment, and I didn't eat less of what I should eat.

Chicken, mutton, donkey meat, even horse meat, and occasionally beef from somewhere—that is contraband, but as long as there is meat, Lu Zhi will try his best to find it for Guo Peng to eat, staring at him Eat big mouthfuls.

Lu Zhi pays great attention to nutritional supplements for Guo Peng, and personally formulates Guo Peng's recipes. Although they are enough to keep him full, the taste is not very good, but as long as there is something to eat, he will be very happy.

To be honest, at that time, when I was studying and training, I felt like I lost my soul. I didn't feel that I was a person at all, just like a machine without emotions.

Only when eating, the temperature of the food can make Guo Peng regain his sense of existence as a human being, so every time he eats, Guo Peng feels very happy.

But thanks to Lu Zhi's strict education, Guo Peng laid the capital for future hegemony.

He has personally led troops to fight and charged into battle for many years, relying on the foundation laid down at that time.

Against the Yellow Turban Army, against the Xianbei people, against the Karasuma people, against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and finally face-to-face with Lu Bu, without the foundation laid at this time, he dared not even think about it.

Time has changed, more than 30 years and almost 40 years have passed, Lu Zhi has long passed away, and the world has changed again. The heroes of the late Han Dynasty are scattered like smoke, and the rest belongs to the prosperous age of the Wei Empire.

It was Guo himself who created the prosperity, and it was these young children who decided how long the prosperity would last.

Seeing Guo Chengzhi eating meat with big mouthfuls, Guo Peng was very happy.

Eat a little more, eat a little more, the more you eat, the stronger your appetite, the better your body will be.

The better my body, the longer my will can last.

Guo Peng roasted while eating, and after a while, he roasted one skewer after another, one after another, filling Guo Chengzhi and the five women's mouths with oil.

After all, women don't have much appetite. Although everyone is an old couple and there is nothing embarrassing, but if they can't eat, they can't eat.

In the end, Guo Peng couldn't eat anymore, and only Guo Chengzhi was left holding a whole bunch of meat skewers and kept eating.

"The barbecue made by my father is so delicious. My stomach is full, but I still want to eat it."

He talked while eating.

"Hahahahaha!"

Guo Peng couldn't stop laughing, and gave Guo Chengzhi more than a dozen meat skewers. Then, seeing that there were still some leftovers, he called over Mao Wen, the eunuch leader, and Qin Wu, the captain of the Imperial Army who followed him.

Guo Peng distributed the remaining meat skewers to the two of them, half of each, and asked them to eat it by themselves, and also shared some with his subordinates.

"The Supreme Emperor! This is the food baked by the Supreme Emperor, how dare the ministers overstep it?"

The two were taken aback and did not dare to ask for it.

"The reward for you is yours. Take it and share it. The amount is not much, which means, give it to a few heads."

Guo Peng waved his hand, and happily cut up the melons and fruits after the meal, and distributed them to the family members around him after cutting, so that they would get tired of eating.

"According to the order."

The two had no choice but to endure panic and joy, took the skewers baked by Guo Peng, and left.

After Guo Peng ate a few pieces of melon, he swayed comfortably on the recliner he brought.

There was the sound of the wind, the ethereal birdsong from the jungle not far away, the chirping of women close at hand, and the sound of Guo Chengzhi crunching and gnawing melons.

After abdicating, Guo Peng, who left the center of power, seemed to have entered a delicate situation.

In the Luoyang Palace, it seems to be living the life of an ordinary rich family.

All the conflicts in the past seem to have ended with Guo Peng's abdication and Guo Jin's ascension, and all disputes have come to an end, as if they never existed.

All the conflicts they had for the throne, for the situation of their children and for the future seemed to have disappeared.

When Guo Peng discussed with them and wanted to take them on a tour around the world away from Luoyang, their dull eyes suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance.

It was as if a stream of clear spring water was suddenly introduced into the long-dried pond, and it came alive. The lotus leaves in the pond opened again, and there were insects and frogs singing again, full of vitality.

Guo Peng wondered if this could be called their second life.

But as far as he saw, the women were sitting together, chirping and talking about things he couldn't understand at all, with great interest, as if suddenly they were 20 years younger and returned to that carefree time.

Is it possible to make up for them a little bit?

Chapter 1510 One thousand 450 If productivity does not increase, education is rootless duckweed

The journey is easy and pleasant, but Guo Peng's journey is not just a comfortable public trip, he also has to do things.

Everywhere he passed by, he would pay attention to observe the living conditions and spiritual outlook of the local people, find someone to inquire about the local customs and customs, and the biggest things that happened recently.

Guo Peng handed over all the Linzi camp to Guo Jin, but he did not keep these eyes and ears, so he is not very clear about the changes in the world recently.

Now, he can observe whether a place is being managed properly through his own listening and seeing. This method is much simpler than listening to reports from the secret agents of the Linzi camp.

The area around Luoyang, known as the Gyeonggi area, belongs to the emperor's feet, and has always received the most important attention.

Any new policy will be tested first in the Gyeonggi region, and then it will be extended to the whole country after the experiment, and it will be spread to all states, centered on the prefectures of each state, spread to the surrounding areas, and go hand in hand.

Therefore, Guo Peng’s requirement that counties below the county level set up county schools in the county seat was first promoted and tested in the ten counties around Luoyang.

So far, the concept of elementary school, middle school and university that Guo Peng envisioned has not been implemented.

The current school classification is not to divide the learning content and implement a step-by-step education model, but to share an educational task that Taixue cannot undertake.

Whether it is the central Taixue, or the state schools, the schools in each county, or the county schools in each county in the future, the learning content is the same, and there is no distinction between high and low learning content.

It is just to increase the number of people enrolled in school, expand the number of people enrolled in the school status, and further increase the number of people receiving education.

Guo Peng only stipulated a minimum study period of five years, at least five years after enrollment to take the imperial examination, and the normal minimum age for applying for the imperial examination was also limited to [-] years old.

In such regulations, it is broken down what to learn in the first year, what to learn in the second year, and what to learn in the third year, fourth year, and fifth year.

It is very important for them to learn the content of classroom study and extracurricular practice, such as agriculture, astronomy and geography, world hydrology, etc., to practice and master while learning.

At present, most of the students in the schools come from Tuntian farms, and Guo Peng's literacy education campaign in the farms is the basis for all students to enter the school.

The only thing they have mastered before entering school is the skill of reading and writing.

On top of this, after at least five years of study, master the content of the imperial examination and then take the imperial examination. This is the limit of what the Wei Empire can do at present.

If the age is not in place, it is not impossible to take the imperial examination.

The imperial court also considered the emergence of some child prodigies. They were either smart or precocious. After five years of study, they had already achieved great success and could take the imperial examinations. Even if they were not old enough, there was nothing they could do.

The Faculty will prepare special exams for this type of students one month before the annual imperial examination. If they pass the imperial examination qualification exam prepared by the Faculty, even if they are not old enough, they can still take the official imperial examination.

The rules are very detailed and have a lot of content. Generally speaking, such restrictions and regulations have been made.

As for when the step-by-step education model will be achieved, Guo Peng feels that for now, he won't be able to see it in his lifetime. I don't know if Guo Jin can see it at that time.

However, he has personally written the specific vision and the next reform plan, and sealed it in the archives of the academic department. Only the emperor and the minister of the academic department have the right to view it, and no one else can watch it at will.

Right now, what he has to do is to promote the further sinking of education, further expand the base of educated people, and expand the number of schools. Only when all these conditions are met can the next step be possible.

There are enough schools, enough people who can read, and enough teachers, so that one day in the future, we can carry out step-by-step reforms on education based on this foundation, going up one level at a time, and passing the examination one by one. qualified personnel.

It is difficult to say whether people can adapt to this model, let alone whether there is so much money and so many teachers.

In the agricultural era, children were the most important labor of their parents. They were essentially no different from the means of production owned by their parents. In order to expand the scale and output of production, having more children became an objective demand, and they would have to have children without incentive policies.

When children grow up to eleven or twelve years old, or even eight or nine years old, they will start to work in the fields to help their parents.

If you don't help, you may not be able to afford it.

As the saying goes, half-children eat poor old people. At that time, there were no non-staple foods. When children grow up to puberty and grow up, they can especially eat it, and the male master who works in the fields can also eat it.

The whole family can eat three or five bowls of grain every day with their big mouths. Seeing that the grain is getting less and less every day, they will feel hungry if they don’t eat. Work in the fields together to share the production pressure of parents.

Let them go out of production to go to compulsory education, and then come back to open their mouths to eat, seeing that the food at home is getting less and less day by day, the parents really don't necessarily agree.

No matter how much they want their children to receive education to change their destiny, but before that, you must have a destiny to have a destiny, right?

If there is no food to eat, life is gone, what fate is there?

Eating is the primary problem that everyone has to face.

If productivity is not improved, and agricultural technology is not improved to the limit, education is like duckweed without roots, which will disappear when the wind blows, and cannot exist even if it is barely established.

For now, the situation that is being maintained now is already the best situation.

Through generous food savings, a free lunch is exchanged for parents' concession on children's education, so that more young children can go to school.

Even if you can't study for five years, even if you only study for one or two years, you can be regarded as educated people, not illiterate.

In this way, schools are set up to recruit students, call on everyone to take the imperial examination together, cultivate the custom of participating in the imperial examination to be an official, and consolidate the important position of the imperial examination.

So even if he dies, the imperial examination system cannot be shaken.

He inspected these ten counties, observed the county schools under construction, personally asked the county magistrate to submit a list of school-age children who did not go to school in the county, and set standards for the county magistrate to work on. If it cannot be done, wait. dismissed.

In addition to supervising such things, Guo Peng also issued some ideas and requirements for the establishment of a martial arts system in the Ministry of Education.

He asked the local government to establish local martial arts, establish contact with the central martial arts-Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, and establish a complete process for selecting students for martial arts.

Due to the objective difference in the number of officers and administrative officials, and the replacement is not so fast, the number of martial arts is not as much as that of literature.

Each county set up a martial arts school, focused on learning and selection, and regularly selected outstanding students to be sent to the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall for further study. Other martial arts students can also directly enter the army as grassroots officers after passing some selection examinations.

Because the number of people is relatively small, martial arts can carry out a step-by-step education model from the very beginning.

It is one thing to learn local martial arts, and another thing to learn central martial arts. After entering the army from different martial arts, the future prospects and promotion modes will also be different.