First of all, the content of the joint letter, Aunt Yuzu told me that most of them, the long-term or semi-long-term workers of the temple house, do cleaning and sewing and other work, only a few of them have the ability to work part-time as a part-time preschool teacher, and the formal school-age children are almost only taught by Teacher Huiyin, and now although there is one more teacher Cuixiang, she is destined not to serve for a long time - these employees of the temple house and some other women from poor families have joined forces to write a joint letter to the presbyterian church, requesting the establishment of a village financial institution similar to a foundation, It is used to solve the problem of education costs for all school-age children from poor families. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It sounds simple and straightforward, and the proposal is a good thing that the Presbyterian Council is unlikely to reject, so why ask the shrine maiden to give them support? Help the Witch earn Faction Opinion in the People? Apparently there is no need for this.

Therefore, there must be something troublesome, so that the "middle and lower" women in the people have to ask the Hakurei shrine maiden to come forward.

Has the Council of Elders become unapproachable and difficult to speak? I still remember the spiritual outlook of the people I saw when I visited Teacher Huiyin nearly a hundred years ago, and the whole person at that time could be described as natural and simple and desireless—of course, referring to the political atmosphere, and the desires of being a biological individual could not be avoided no matter what.

In short, the presbyterian church was nothing more than a by-product of a fraternity, and the elders of large families, small families, and even ordinary families, who were either highly respected or simply elderly, sometimes got together to chat, play chess, and relieve each other's boredom, and the most serious thing was to discuss the problem of arable irrigation and come up with a good or bad idea, and such an elders' meeting would be more appropriate to be an unthemed salon of the elderly.

How did it evolve into the rigid political organization it is today?

I think most of the reason is due to the explosive growth of the population, and I have been aware of this before, but in the decades since I came to Gensokyo, it has become more and more common for outsiders to strayed into Gensokyo and settle in Gensokyo, which directly leads to a part of the population growth, and on the other hand, the growth is due to the influx of agricultural technology from outside.

However, the total amount of land directly controlled by the people is actually limited, and the part that goes deep into the wild mountains and forests is not to mention the difficulty of clearing the wasteland, and the work of expelling many wild beasts and little monsters whose IQ is not comparable to that of a three-year-old child is not something that people can afford, not to mention that there seems to be an ancient precept that people must not be overly pioneered. When the population problem was never put on the table, everyone felt that the biggest problem faced by the people was the vast land and the lack of labor, but in today's situation, the people have to start to make detailed plans for land management, so the Council of Elders is naturally promoted to the highest authority in the people, so as to rationally distribute the limited land resources.

The above is the general background, Aunt Yuzu is not so detailed, most of the information is my own understanding, and the next is a description of the issues mentioned in the joint letter.

Why should the matter of sponsoring students from poor families go to school in a temple house to petition the Presbyterian Church separately? In the past, although we did not pay for many children's schooling all day long from the presbyterian church to allocate funds, but this is a clear fact, there are many children in the people, and there are not many families that can let half-grown children go to the temple house to study, but there are also a lot, and Huiyin himself does not have any other channels of income, and it is impossible to solve the problem of food and textbooks for all the children of poor families, which can contribute to today's situation, among which there must be factors such as the sponsorship of the presbyterian church to play a decisive role.

But today, Aunt Yuzu and others told me that the Presbyterian Church had terminated this livelihood policy a few months ago, which lasted for a short but decades of life, so what is the reason why the Presbyterian Church is no longer responsible for sponsoring the growing number of children who need to support the family?

I thought that there is still no scene of a large number of dropout children to this day, presumably Teacher Huiyin is struggling to support, but obviously she can't last long, what she doesn't have is nothing, food is grown, not thought of, not to mention the ability to make something out of nothing, not to mention Teacher Huiyin, Sister Zi may not necessarily have, according to Aunt Yuzu, many families are already considering letting their children drop out of school to help the family farm or do some other chores to subsidize the family.

Aunt Yuzu and the aunts in the room were struggling to afford the cost of their sons or daughters going to school, and although many were planning to back down, at least the helpers standing in front of me were still working hard to keep their children in school for a few more years.

"This ......," I had to ask, "why do you suddenly seem to have so many poor families?" And listen to what you say, as if many of these families have no husbands? So the labor force is short and can barely support children? ”

"Well, that's one of the biggest reasons for today's situation." Aunt Yuzu sighed and continued to explain the situation to me.

As mentioned earlier, in the past 100 years, many of the lost people from outside have chosen to settle in Gensokyo, and during a certain period of time more than ten years ago - during this time there was no Hakurei shrine maiden sitting at the shrine, which means that it was a blank period before Reimu took office - a large number of lost people have been flowing into the outside world one after another, because there is no Borei shrine maiden to send them back to the outside world, so everyone can only choose to settle in the human world, these people intermarry with the natives in the people and have children, the original intention to settle in Gensokyo should be quite stable, but after a few years, Reimu was propelled to the position of Hakurei shrine maiden.

So, there was a wave of leaving the countryside in the world, and many men or women who temporarily took root in the people but already had families in the outside world first secretly petitioned Reimu to leave Gensokyo, Reimu seemed to be too lazy to think about it and agreed, and then many outsiders who were unwilling to stay in this quaint village also left Gensokyo through Reimu, which directly led to many families becoming single-parent families, among which the big family and small family that married their daughters to outside men or included outside women as daughters-in-law in the clan are unknown. They saw it as a great shame and, in anger, severed ties with the daughter of the family who had lost her husband or the son of the family who had lost his wife, which was the case in many poor families, and the wives who had lost their husbands were the majority.

Aunt Yuzu's husband is also one of the people who left, but Aunt Yuzu herself is not from a big family, and her parents' land property can only be inherited as an only daughter and there is no family interference, so she is actually a less urgent party in a poor family. Other families who have been isolated from their families receive little help from their families, with the result that the number of single-parent families without land has multiplied almost overnight.

A direct consequence of that period was the fact that the elders in the Presbyterian Church were divided of varying severity due to their inconsistent attitudes towards outsiders - apparently the elders were in the majority hostile to outsiders - and I think this was one of the reasons why the funding policy was halted.

The bigger reason, of course, is that population growth has not been reduced by that wave of exodus, but has steadily increased over the course of the decade.

In addition to those poor single-parent families who are isolated by the family, more non-only daughters from ordinary families who do not have the support of large families get a few acres of thin land because of their foreign husbands, once the husband abandons his wife and children, those fields are either reclaimed by the elders and redistributed to families with sufficient labor, or they are bought by large families or small families at a low price, which is the more important reason for the explosion of poor families. Her current predicament is just that she is not very well received by her parents, not to the extent that she is isolated by her family.

Finally, because there was no written rule that the children of poor families must be sponsored to go to school, this policy was more based on a simple and simple habit in the early days, so the elders of many families in the presbyterian church who had been insulted by outsiders united to persuade the rest of the elders to stop their patronage of the "wild seeds" - it can be said that the children of the other poor families suffered from the fish in the pond.

It wasn't until a few months ago that the long-vacillating proposal was finally voted on, not only because of the simple and crude refusal to sponsor wild seeds, nor because of the change of members of the Presbyterian Church in the past ten years, but also because of the need to free up funds to repair water conservancy projects that had fallen into disrepair for many years and to organize small-scale reclamation of mountains and forests, as well as other projects that were not urgent but did require improvement, including walls, hospitals, drainage facilities, power supply networks, etc.

After listening to this, I think that with the little public revenue that the Council of Elders is in charge of, which is not a tax, there are so many livelihood projects to consider, and it is indeed not enough to take care of that little bit of funding for poor students.