At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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.

After all, the army is still a world where the strong are respected. The stronger the army, the higher the status.

As for the future road of strong military training, after the enemies around the Wei Empire were wiped out, Guo Peng felt that it was necessary to send these troops out to assist in the battle in the new territory opened up by his sons, and by the way accumulated Practical experience.

Round after round of replacement, round after round of dispatch, such a model may be feasible in the future.

This will be discussed with Guo Jin later. The army still needs actual combat experience. No matter how well-trained, no actual combat experience is enough.

After inspecting the ten model counties around Luoyang, Guo Peng is generally satisfied and can see the future in these ten counties.

So he left Luoyang with peace of mind, embarked on the journey west, crossed the abandoned Hangu Pass, passed through Tongguan, and entered the Guanzhong area.

The last time he came to the Guanzhong area was when he was attacking the Liangzhou warlord group, and it was also the penultimate battle fought by Guo Peng himself as a military commander.

Later came the Battle of Hanzhong, and then the Battle of Xianbei. Since then, Guo Peng has never fought on the battlefield again.

Guo Peng hasn't been to the Guanzhong area for a long time. A rough calculation shows that it must be more than ten years.

In order to "revenge" the tragic death of Liu Xie, Guo Peng led the army to push eight hundred miles to occupy Guanzhong, wipe out the third generation of Liangzhou central government, and destroy the Liangzhou warlord group.

He basically destroyed everything that could be destroyed within the Liangzhou military group, and saved the dilapidated Guanzhong from death.

Guanzhong at that time was really miserable.

Since Dong Zhuo moved westward to Chang'an, Guanzhong has not had a good time for several years.

He was devastated by Dong Zhuo, by Li Jue and Guo Si, by Zhang Ji and Duan Yan, and then he was ravaged by the war between Guo Peng and the Liangzhou Allied Army. In addition, Dong Zhuo randomly cast small money to disrupt the economic order, and the production and economy in Guanzhong collapsed completely. .

In the end, tens of millions of people in Guanzhong were wiped out. They either fled to Liangzhou, or fled to Hanzhong, Yizhou, or took refuge in Jingzhou, or were killed or starved to death.

When Guo Peng occupied Guanzhong, the total population was less than one million. In order to restore the production and economy of Guanzhong, Guo Peng abolished Dong Zhuo's small coins and recast them into standard five baht coins to stabilize the economy.

They also immigrated on a large scale from the Kanto area, transferred the population from the population-rich areas of the Kanto states to fill the vacancies in the Guanzhong population, and sent grassroots officials to Guanzhong to set up farms to resume production.

In this way, Guan Zhong was pulled back from the dying situation.

Without Guo Peng's blood transfusion policy, Guanzhong would become the second Liangzhou, dilapidated and withered.

Chapter 1511 One thousand four hundred and fifty one Mao Jie's commercial reform

Today, more than ten years have passed, and the production and economy in Guanzhong have already recovered.

Even better than before, far beyond the state before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Fertile fields, criss-crossing traffic, thousands of villages and farms are densely populated, filling up the land in Guanzhong, and traders from Wei State and foreign traders drive the prosperity of the cities, restaurants and hotels along the road.

The farms provided food, fruits and vegetables to the city, and the city fed back money and goods to the farms. The businessmen and merchants drove economic exchanges and development, revitalizing the economy of Guanzhong.

The people who migrated from the Kanto states also settled down on the land of Guanzhong, multiplied and became a new generation of Guanzhong people. They worked hard and lived hard on this land.

Due to climate change, the land in Guanzhong did not have the warmth of the Western Han Dynasty, and the hydrological conditions have also changed. It is impossible to reproduce the grand occasion of peach blossoms blooming around Chang'an in the eight rivers.

Under the invasion of the Little Ice River, the agricultural potential of the entire Guanzhong Plain has been greatly reduced, and it is impossible to restore it to the level of the Land of Abundance back then.

The agricultural output value of Yongzhou was also surpassed by Yizhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou and Jingzhou and other eastern and southern states in one fell swoop, losing the possibility of becoming a political, military and economic center again.

The gradual eastward relocation of China's political center since the Eastern Han Dynasty was actually inevitable.

Of course, Chang'an is not without opportunities. If Chang'an wants to return to the grand occasion of the year, it has to wait for the next warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It's just that the warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was more like a reflection of the land in Guanzhong in a sense.

But now is the eve of the Little Ice Age, the climate is gradually becoming colder and drier, the land in Guanzhong will continue to be silent, the agricultural output value will continue to decline, and the population carrying capacity will also continue to decrease.

Guanzhong in the future cannot accommodate the increasing population after production resumes, so Guo Peng has consciously moved more and more people in Guanzhong to the four counties in Hexi, the Western Regions, and Yizhou since the ninth year of Yande to alleviate the tension in Guanzhong. ground pressure.

The population of Guanzhong has always been controlled within a certain scale, and even has a decreasing trend.

Guo Peng did not intend to restore the population of the Guanzhong area to the number at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Even so, what Guo Peng saw was not dilapidated and dilapidated, but a grand scene of peace and prosperity.

The first to bear the brunt was Hongnong County, which was once completely destroyed.

In order to completely destroy the Han Empire and the Han Central Committee, Guo Peng single-handedly planned the destruction of Hongnong City and set fire to Hongnong City.

The soaring fire completely destroyed the centuries-old Hongnong City.

The current Hongnong City was rebuilt after the disaster. The current residents of Hongnong are basically the residents of Qingyan Erzhou who migrated later, and the old Hongnong people hardly exist.

After the disaster, Guo Peng appropriated funds to rebuild Hongnong City, making Hongnong City more magnificent and taller than before, and the city can accommodate more people.

At the beginning, the development of Hongnong County was mainly based on agricultural production. Later, after the opening of commercial routes in the Western Regions, Hongnong County enjoyed the dividends of the times, and began to develop commerce, develop hotels, restaurants, and adopt a development model that pays equal attention to agriculture and commerce.

The current Hongnong City has long lost the appearance of the past, neither the customs nor the people of the past.

The Hongnong Yang family who dominated Hongnong back then has long since become ashes, and the tycoons who divided Hongnong County no longer exist, and the world has already changed.

What Guo Peng saw was a thriving school.

This is true for Hongnong, and even more so for Chang'an.

As the accompanying capital of the Wei Empire in the legal sense, Chang'an could not be worse than Hongnong. At first glance, Chang'an feels more like the second Luoyang, but the permanent population is slightly smaller than Luoyang.

Today's Chang'an is no longer a political and military center, and has not developed as a political and military center, but has developed based on an important node of the Silk Road and an important commercial city.

A large number of people in Chang'an are floating population, but they stay in Chang'an for a long time.

Many big businessmen set up their headquarters in Chang'an, and they directly contact merchants from Anxi, Guishuang and other countries from the Western Regions, so Chang'an gathered a group of the richest businessmen in the entire Wei Empire.

With them there, it is impossible for Chang'an City not to be prosperous.

After Guo Peng arrived in Chang'an, he sent his entourage to the barracks outside Chang'an City, leaving only a few personal guards, and took Guo Chengzhi, Cao Lan and others into Chang'an City in vehicles.

The streets of Chang'an City are spacious, all stone-paved roads, very tidy and clean, and you can't smell the foul smell when you enter it, the air is very fresh and sweet.

There are a lot of people, but they are orderly. From time to time, you can see patrols armed with weapons defending the peace and stability of Chang'an City.

Hundreds of watchtowers are densely distributed, presenting a strange pattern of distribution, monitoring the interior of the city at all times, guarding against any possible unstable factors.

As an accompanying capital, the construction standards of Chang'an City are completely on par with Luoyang.

There are many people in the city, and not only Wei people, but also many Guishuang people, Anxi people, and even Romans who are dressed differently from Wei people in Chang'an city.

Everyone dresses and looks very different, but they can live in relative harmony here, just like Luoyang.

The buildings on both sides of the street are well-organized and tasteful, whether it is shops, public facilities, or official buildings, they are neatly arranged, not crowded, dirty or old, and can give people a refreshing feeling.

Walking on the streets of Chang'an City, facing the sunshine from the sky, listening to the cries of vendors along the street, one can feel inexplicably comfortable.

So Cao Lan looked at everything in Chang'an City and expressed her feelings.

"It's just that I often hear that the market in Chang'an City is prosperous, and things that can't be bought in Luoyang City can definitely be bought in Chang'an City. I also heard that Chang'an City has changed the restrictions on squares and cities, allowing shops to open outside the market. At that time, I was still thinking about Chang'an City. It must have been a chaotic place, but now it looks so neat and orderly."

"Prosperity can only be brought about by cleanliness and order, and the prosperity of the market has never been the main cause of prosperity."